Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Parachutes is the debut album by English rock band Coldplay, released on July 10, 2000 in the UK and on November 7 in the U.S., making it the only Coldplay album to have a delayed release in America. Parachutes quickly shot to number one in the United Kingdom, staying in the top ten for thirty-three weeks. The album produced four hit singles: "Shiver", "Yellow", "Trouble", and "Don't Panic". In the United States, the album peaked at fifty-one on the Billboard 200, eventually selling over two million copies. Parachutes was placed #14 in Channel 4's 100 greatest albums of all time. In 2006 the album was placed #33 in NME's 100 greatest British albums. Still, Chris Martin said that Coldplay looks beyond Parachutes. "We know that's terrible music," he said, "and we always try to think about what we can do next." The song "Sparks" was featured in the movie "Wedding Crashers".Track listing:
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
The Sickness is Disturbed's first album. It was recorded in the winter of 1999 and released on March 7, 2000. Different to their later albums which are mixed in style, The Sickness consists primarily of Nu Metal tracks.Track listing:
The Diary of Alicia Keys is the second studio album from American R&B/soul singer and pianist Alicia Keys, released on December 2, 2003 in the United States (see 2003 in music). It went on to win the 2005 Grammy Award for "Best R&B Album". The album includes the hit singles "You Don't Know My Name" (produced by Kanye West), "If I Ain't Got You", "Diary" (featuring Tony! Toni! Toné!), and "Karma". Track listing:
Let Go is the first album by rock singer Avril Lavigne, released on June 4, 2002. It was highly successful, being certified platinum six times in the United States, seven times in Australia, and once in Japan.Track listing:
- Losing Grip
- Complicated
- Sk8er Boi
- I'm With You
- Mobile
- Unwanted
- Tomorrow
- Anything but Ordinary
- Things I'll Never Say
- My World
- Nobody's Fool
- Too Much to Ask
- Naked
Autobiography is the debut album by American pop rock singer Ashlee Simpson. Released in the United States by Geffen Records on July 20, 2004, the album debuted at number one on the charts, although critical reception was mixed. The album outsold In This Skin, the most successful album of Ashlee Simpson's sister, pop music singer Jessica Simpson, and went triple platinum. Three singles for the album were released: "Pieces of Me"—the first and best-selling single—which was a hit in several countries in mid to late 2004, as well as the follow-up singles "Shadow" and "La La". MTV highlighted the process of making the album in the reality series The Ashlee Simpson Show, which drew a large audience and served as an effective promotional vehicle for the album. In October 2004, the album became the subject of negative publicity when Simpson appeared to be lip syncing during a performance on the television show Saturday Night Live.Track listing:
- Autobiography
- Pieces of Me
- Shadow
- Lala
- Love Makes the World Go Round
- Better Off
- Love for Me
- Surrender
- Unreachable
- Nothing New
- Giving It All Away
- Undiscovered
Guilty is the third studio album by English boy band Blue, released in 2003 on Innocent Records.
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Unwritten is the debut album released by pop singer Natasha Bedingfield. It was released in the UK on September 6, 2004, where it debuted at #1, and in the U.S. on August 2, 2005, where it debuted at #26. The singles released from the album are "Single", "These Words", "Unwritten" and "I Bruise Easily".Track listing:
- These Words
- Single
- I'm a Bomb
- Unwritten
- I Bruise Easily
- If You're Gonna
- Silent Movie
- We're All Mad
- Frogs & Princes
- Drop Me in the Middle
- Wild Horses
Monday, February 26, 2007
X&Y is the third album by English rock band Coldplay, released in England on June 6, 2005 and in North America on June 7. Preceded by the successful single "Speed of Sound", which peaked at #2 in the UK and #8 in the U.S., the album debuted at the top of the UK album chart, moving 464,471 units in its first week, a success which put X&Y second in overall first week sales behind Be Here Now Oasis' third and their most eagerly awaited album. However X&Y became Coldplay's first U.S. chart-topper, selling 737,000 units in its first week of release. X&Y was the best-selling album worldwide in 2005, according to the IFPI; it shifted 8.3 million units during the year.Track listing:
Godsmack was the first major label album by the band Godsmack. The album was initially paid for by the band and released as All Wound Up, before being picked up by Republic Records. It was mastered at Sterling Sound in New York City. It featured a new song called "Someone in London" while the song "Goin' Down" was removed, but later appeared on Awake.Track listing:
Hot Fuss is the debut album by Las Vegas-based rock band The Killers, first released in 2004
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Stadium Arcadium is the Grammy award-winning, first double album (excluding Live in Hyde Park), and ninth studio album by alternative/funk rock band, the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was released in May of 2006. Over one million copies of the album were sold within the same month of release in Europe. The title has gone gold or platinum in 16 countries across Europe, and has sold over 6 million copies total worldwide to date, making it the best selling album of 2006. The album was nominated for seven Grammy Awards in 2007: Album of the Year, Best Short Form Music Video ("Dani California"), Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song ("Dani California"), Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal ("Dani California"), Best Boxed Set or Special Limited Edition Package, and Producer of the Year ("Rick Rubin"), all of which it won except for Album of the Year and Best Short Music Video. Stadium Arcadium has gone on to become the band's most nominated album of their 24-year career. Rolling Stone named Stadium Arcadium the second best album of 2006 and Billboard named it the 8th best album of the year.
Track listing:
- Dani California
- Desecration Smile
- Snow (Hey Oh)
- Tell Me Baby
- Charlie
- Hard To Concentrate
- 21st Century
- Stadium Arcadium
- Hump De Bump
- She Looks To Me
- Readymade
- She's Only 18
- If
- Slow Cheetah
- Made You Feel Better
- Torture Me
- Animal Bar
- Strip My Mind
- Especially In Michigan
- So Much I
- Storm In A Teacup
- Warlocks
- C'mon Girl
- We Believe
- Turn It Again
- Wet Sand
- Death Of A Martian
- Hey
Take a Look in the Mirror (2003) is the sixth album by the band Korn. It's also the last album with guitarist Brian "Head" Welch. Within its songs, "Did My Time" was featured previously in the O.S.T. for "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life", and "Right Now" was accompanied by a provocatory cartoon video drawn by Spike and Mike. In contrast to the more mellow overall sound of their previous album, Untouchables, Take A Look In The Mirror marks Korn's return to a raw, stripped-down sound of their earlier albums. The album features a reworking and re-recording of the track "Alive", the first song the band wrote which appeared only on the bands first demo up until this point. Also of note is the song "Play Me", which features rapper Nas and is the first Korn album since Follow the Leader to feature such. The album is followed by a long silence before a live cover of Metallica's "One" kicks in. The album was also released in a "clean" version. While the album sold over 1 million US units, it still remains the lowest selling Korn album.
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Back to Basics is the third full-length English studio album from American pop singer-songwriter Christina Aguilera. The album was released August 15, 2006 in the United States and Canada, on August 9, 2006 in Japan, and on August 12 in Australia. The album was released in Europe on several dates, starting at the 9th of August 2006, and ending on the 22nd of August 2006. It was leaked to the internet two weeks before the actual release date. The album features what Aguilera describes as "a throwback to the 20s, 30s, and 40s-style jazz, blues, and feel-good soul music, but with a modern twist."The album has sold over 3.4 million copies worldwide so far (with worldwide shipments of over 4 million). Her album has been nominated for the Best Pop Vocal Album Grammy Award, and the lead single from the album, "Ain't No Other Man", won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Grammy Award. The album, thus far, has yielded three commercial singles: "Ain't No Other Man", "Hurt", and "Candyman" and a Swedish promo only single for Slow Down Baby.Track listing:
- Intro (Back To Basics)
- Makes Me Wanna Pray (feat. Steve Winwood)
- Back In The Day
- Ain't No Other Man
- Understand
- Slow Down Baby
- Oh Mother
- F.U.S.S. (Interlude)
- On Our Way
- Without You
- Still Dirrty
- Here To Stay
- Thank You (Dedication To Fans...)
- Enter The Circus
- Welcome
- Candyman
- Nasty Naughty Boy
- I Got Trouble
- Hurt
- Mercy On Me
- Save Me From Myself
- The Right Man
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Mezmerize is the fourth album by System of a Down and the first half of the Mezmerize/Hypnotize double album. It was released on May 17, 2005, six months before Hypnotize. The album features guitarist Daron Malakian sharing most of the vocal work with vocalist Serj Tankian, splitting the vocals at least halfway on most of the tracks. This album also marks the shift to Malakian as the primary lyricist for the band. The album debuted at number one in the United States, Canada, and at least 10 other countries, [1] and has since been certified Platinum by the RIAA. It was also chosen as one of Amazon.com's Top 100 Editor's Picks of 2005.
Track listing:
- "Soldier Side - Intro" (Lyrics and Music By D. Malakian) – 1:03
- "B.Y.O.B." (Lyrics By D. Malakian and S. Tankian; Music By D. Malakian) – 4:15
- "Revenga" (Lyrics By D. Malakian and S. Tankian; Music By D. Malakian) – 3:50
- "Cigaro" (Lyrics By D. Malakian and S. Tankian; Music By D. Malakian) – 2:11
- "Radio/Video" (Lyrics and Music By D. Malakian) – 4:13
- "This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm On This Song" (Lyrics By D. Malakian and S. Tankian; Music By D. Malakian) – 2:08
- "Violent Pornography" (Lyrics and Music By D. Malakian) – 3:31
- "Question!" (Lyrics By S. Tankian; Music By S. Tankian and D. Malakian) – 3:20
- "Sad Statue" (Lyrics By D. Malakian and S. Tankian; Music By D. Malakian) – 3:27
- "Old School Hollywood" (Lyrics and Music By D. Malakian) – 2:58
- "Lost in Hollywood" (Lyrics By D. Malakian and S. Tankian; Music By D. Malakian) – 5:20
City of Evil is Avenged Sevenfold's third full-length album. It was released on June 7, 2005 by Warner Brothers. Unlike their previous albums, lead vocalist M. Shadows' screams are only heard in the background of a couple of songs. This, along with other changes in sound, mark City of Evil as a departure from the metalcore tropes of previous releases from the band. This new style has created controversy between fans, some call them sell outs while others say that they just wanted to move away from repetitive metalcore albums. The album was ranked number 63 on the October 2006 issue of Guitar World magazine's list of the 100 greatest guitar albums of all time.Track listing:
- Beast and the Harlot
- Burn It Down
- Blinded In Chains
- Bat Country
- Trashed And Scattered
- Seize the Day
- Sidewinder
- The Wicked End
- Strength Of The World
- Betrayed
- M.I.A
The Sweet Escape is the second solo album by American pop rock singer Gwen Stefani. It was released in various countries in early December 2006. The first single released from the album was lead track "Wind It Up", which Stefani premiered on her Harajuku Lovers Tour in 2005.The second sigle from the album "the Sweet Escape" feat Akon proved to be a big hit across the world and charting highly. Stefani confirmed that she did not intend to make a follow-up album to her 2004 debut solo album Love.Angel.Music.Baby., but had "a couple of amazing leftover tracks" from the latter album, so she decided to start a new record. It debuted at #1 on the Australian ARIA Urban Album Chart and at #15 on the ARIA Album Chart and went Gold in its first week. The album also charted at #26 on the UK Top 75 Album Chart. The Sweet Escape Tour is set to start in April 2007 and is expected to be a full-on World Tour.
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blink-182 was a Pop Punk band formed in 1992 by Mark Hoppus (vocals and bass), Tom DeLonge (vocals and guitar) and Scott Raynor (drums) in Poway, California, a northern suburb of San Diego. Originally, the band's official name was "Blink," however, the numerical three digit suffix was appended early in their career following an objection from an Irish band with the same name. Travis Barker replaced Raynor on drums in 1998, midway through a U.S. tour. The group went on indefinite hiatus in early 2005 and the possibility of a reunion has neither been officially confirmed nor denied. DeLonge went on to form Angels and Airwaves while Hoppus and Barker spawned +44.The band is known for its catchy, simple melodies and lyrical toilet humor. Songwriters Hoppus and DeLonge cite punk rock bands such as The Descendents and Screeching Weasel as their early influences, however, the band's songwriting and production was driven by a pop sensibility. Their last album featured more musical experimentation and lyrical sophistication than previous releases.
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Still Not Getting Any... is the second album by the Canadian Pop Punk band Simple Plan. It was released on October 26, 2004 Studio album by Simple Plan
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- Welcome To My Life
- Perfect World
- Thank You
- Me Against The World
- Crazy
- Jump
- Everytime
- Promise
- One
- Untitled
- Perfect (Live) (Japan Bonus Track)
Loose is the third album by Canadian pop singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado, released by Geffen Records on June 9, 2006 outside North America and on June 20, 2006 in Canada and the United States. Timbaland and his partner Danja produced the bulk of the album, which debuted high on charts across the world.
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Prison Break is an American television series that premiered on the Fox Network on August 29, 2005. The story revolves around a man who was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit and his brother's elaborate plan to help him escape his death sentence. Created by Paul Scheuring, the show is produced by Adelstein-Parouse Productions in association with Original Television and 20th Century Fox Television. The current executive producers are Paul Scheuring, Matt Olmstead, Dawn Parouse, Marty Adelstein, Neal Moritz and Brett Ratner. Its theme music is composed by Ramin Djawadi, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2006. The show is currently undergoing its second season, which premiered on August 21, 2006. Having planned two seasons worth of story beforehand, executive producer Paul Scheuring says, "With success comes questions about Season Three, so now we’re framing the first two seasons as chapter one of the ‘trilogy’."
The serialised story structure of Prison Break is attributed to the format of storytelling adapted by the writers as each episode covers a part of the escape plan, a similar format used by Lost and 24. The first season of Prison Break was primarily filmed at Joliet Prison which also contributed to the uniqueness of the show. Its success and recognition as a prison drama also revived interest in the genre. The show's official magazine, published by Titan Publishing, was launched on 21 November 2006.
The serialised story structure of Prison Break is attributed to the format of storytelling adapted by the writers as each episode covers a part of the escape plan, a similar format used by Lost and 24. The first season of Prison Break was primarily filmed at Joliet Prison which also contributed to the uniqueness of the show. Its success and recognition as a prison drama also revived interest in the genre. The show's official magazine, published by Titan Publishing, was launched on 21 November 2006.
Track listing:
- Prison Break - Opening Theme
- Papa Roach - Take Me
- This Is War
- Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
- Styles of Beyond - Nine Thou [Superstars Remix]
- Tito and Tarantula - After Dark
- A Perfect Circle - The Outsider
- Black Toast Music - Willing To Die
- Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance
- Shoji Meguro - Prison Break
- Emery - Studying Poitics
- X-Ray Dog - Here Comes The King
- Faf la Rage - Pas le Temps [Generique Fr]
- Alexi Murdoch - Orange Sky
- Massive Attack - Teardrop
- Johnny Cash - The Mercy Seat
- Ferry Corsten & Ramin Djawadi - Main Theme [Extended Version]
I'm Not Dead is the fourth album by pop singer P!nk, released in North America on April 4, 2006 (see 2006 in music); it was released a day earlier in most other territories. P!nk worked with producers billymann, Josh Abraham, Swedish hit maker Max Martin, and Luke Gottwald, Butch Walker and Mike Elizondo co-wrote the tracks, which range from the intrinsically personal to political. The album was originally titled "Long Way to Happy", after the song of the same name, but P!nk changed her mind because she thought I'm Not Dead made a stronger statement that this was a comeback album.
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The Dutchess (2006) is the solo debut album of American pop singer Fergie, a member of The Black Eyed Peas. The title is an intentional misspelling of the title "the Duchess of York," as Fergie (a derivate her last name "Ferguson") and Sarah Ferguson, the real Duchess of York, share a surname and nickname. will.i.am was an executive producer for the album. Ludacris, B-Real from Cypress Hill and Rita Marley all make guest appearances.[1] Fergie has made it clear in interviews that she will still be an active member in the Black Eyed Peas. The Dutchess debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 in the United States with sales of over 150,000. Released on July 18, 2006, "London Bridge" was The Dutchess' first single. Making one of the largest jumps in the Billboard Hot 100 chart's history, "London Bridge" reached the #1 spot for three consecutive weeks. The second single, "Fergalicious," was released on October 23, 2006 peaked at #2 on the Hot 100. The third single, "Glamorous," was released on January 28, 2007 and has so far peaked #9 on the Hot 100 making it her third top ten single in the U.S.
Track listing: - Fergalicious (feat. Will.I.Am)
- Clumsy
- All That I Got (The Make Up Song) feat. Will.I.Am
- London Bridge
- Pedestal
- Voodoo Doll
- Glamorous (feat. Ludacris)
- Here I Come
- Velvet
- Big Girls Don’t Cry
- Mary Jane Shoes (feat. Rita Marley & The I-Three’S)
- Losing My Ground
- Finally
- Ge Your Hands Up (feat. The Black Eyed Peas) (Bonus Track)
- Wake Up (Bonus Track)
- Paradise (Bonus Track)
FutureSex/LoveSounds is Justin Timberlake’s second solo studio album since *NSync disbanded in 2002. Academy Award winning rap group Three 6 Mafia are featured on the seventh track on the album called "Chop Me Up", along with another Timbaland appearance. Additionally, will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas is featured on the eighth track, "Damn Girl". Rap artist Snoop Dogg is featured on "Pose", the bonus track of the album. This particular song features a sample from the Justified single "Like I Love You".Track listing:
- Future Sex/Love Sound
- SexyBack
- Sexy Ladies
- My Love
- Love Stoned
- What Goes Around
- Chop Me Up
- Damn Girl
- Summer Love
- Until The End Of Time
- Losing My Way
- All Over Again (Another Song)
- Pose
A Public Affair is the fourth studio album by American pop singer Jessica Simpson. The album is Simpson's first effort following her divorce from Nick Lachey in early 2006. With only a month to go until the release of A Public Affair, Simpson switched the cover picture of the album. The first cover art for the album surfaced showing a sultry Simpson with her hair down, sporting a dress with the straps pulled down. However it was ultimately decided to go with more of a girl-next-door look. Simpson's representative Rob Shuter tells TMZ the final decision on a cover had not been made by the time one had to be provided to Simpson's record label, so the first cover option (of three choices they had) was given. That cover was ultimately not chosen, and Simpson went with the cover shown here. The new album cover has a casual-looking Simpson "with nothing but a t-shirt on," her hair pulled back and wearing a ring on her right index finger.
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PCD is the debut album by American music group The Pussycat Dolls, released by A&M Records on September 13, 2005 in the United States. It was among produced by Timbaland, Cee-Lo Green, will.i.am, and Rich Harrison, and incorporates a mixture of contemporary R&B originals, jazz-influenced tracks, and cover versions. The album was a critical and commercial success, and has gone on to sell over 7 million units worldwide. The album ended 2006 as the 28th Best Selling album in the United Kingdom, with sales of 536,340 copies and as the 16th Best Selling album in The Netherlands.
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