Chrism - 2003 - New Sacrifice EP

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D'Arby, Terence Trent - 1987 - Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent d'Arby is a strong debut by this young singer, who wrote virtually every note, played a multitude of instruments, and claimed that this was the most important album since the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper. Hits included "If You Let Me Stay," "Dance Little Sister," "Sign Your Name," and the number one "Wishing Well." His first album is a curious mixture of old and new styles. Although the production is quite modern, d'Arby shows his roots in the work of older artists, borrowing a page or two from Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, while James Brown appears to have had the strongest influence on d'Arby's stage presence.

		1		If You All Get to Heaven	DArby	5:17
		2		If You Let Me Stay	DArby	3:14
		3		Wishing Well	DArby, Oliver	3:30
		4		I'll Never Turn My Back on You (Father's Words)	DArby	3:37
		5		Dance Little Sister	DArby	3:55
		6		Seven More Days	DArby	4:34
		7		Let's Go Forward	DArby	5:32
		8		Rain	DArby	2:58
		9		Sign Your Name	DArby	4:37
		10		As Yet Untitled	DArby	5:33
		11		Who's Lovin' You	Robinson	4:24

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Cube, Ice - 1990 - Amerikkka's Most Wanted

When Ice Cube split from N.W.A after the group's seminal Straight Outta Compton album changed the world forever, expectations were high, too high to ever be met by anyone but the most talented of artists, and at his most inspired. At the time Cube was just that. With AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted the rapper expanded upon Compton, making a more full-bodied album that helped boost the role of the individual in hip-hop. Save the dramatic intro where a mythical Ice Cube is fried in the electric chair, his debut is filled with eye-level views of the inner city that are always vivid, generally frightening, generally personal, and sometimes humorous in the gallows style. Ripping it quickly over a loop from George Clinton's "Atomic Dog," Cube asks the question that would be central to his early career, "Why there more niggas in the pen than in college?," while sticking with the mutual distrust and scare tactics N.W.A used to wipe away any hopes of reconciliation ("They all scared of the Ice Cube/And what I say what I portray and all that/And ain't even seen the gat"). "What I'm kicking to you won't get rotation/Nowhere in the nation" he spits on the classic "Turn Off the Radio," which when coupled with the intoxicating Bomb Squad production and Cube's cocksure delivery that's just below a shout, makes one think he's the only radio the inner city needs. The Bomb Squad's amazing work on the album proves they've been overly associated with Public Enemy, since their ability to adapt to AmeriKKKa's more violent and quick revolution is underappreciated. Their high point is the intense "Endangered Species," a "live by the trigger" song that offers "It's a shame, that niggas die young/But to the light side it don't matter none." This street knowledge venom with ultra fast funk works splendidly throughout the album, with every track hitting home, although the joyless "You Can't Fade Me" has alienated many a listener since kicking a possibly pregnant woman in the stomach is a very hard one to take. Just to be as confusing as the world he lives in, the supposedly misogynistic Cube introduces female protégé Yo-Yo with "It's a Man's World" before exiting with "The Bomb," a perfectly unforgiving and visceral closer. Save a couple Arsenio Hall disses, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted is a timeless, riveting exercise in anger, honesty, and the sociopolitical possibilities of hip-hop.

		1		Better off Dead	Holt, Ice Cube	1:03
		2		The Nigga Ya Love to Hate	Ice Cube, Sadler	3:13
		3		AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted	Ice Cube, Sadler, Shocklee	4:08
		4		What They Hittin' Foe?	Average White Band ...	1:22
Composed by: Average White Band, Ice Cube
		5		You Can't Fade Me/JD's Gaffilin'	Ice Cube, Sadler	5:12
		6		Once Upon a Time in the Projects	Ice Cube, Sir Jinx	3:41
		7		Turn Off the Radio	D., Ice Cube, Sadler, Shabazz	2:37
		8		Endangered Species (Tales From the Darkside)	D., Ice Cube, Sadler, Sir Jinx	3:21
		9		A Gangsta's Fairytale	Ice Cube, Sadler	3:16
		10		I'm Only Out for One Thang	Flavor Flav, Ice Cube ...	2:10
Composed by: Flavor Flav, Ice Cube, Sir Jinx, Wonder
		11		Get off My *** and Tell Yo ***** to Come Here	Ice Cube, Sadler	:56
		12		The Drive-By	Shocklee, Sir Jinx	1:01
		13		Rollin' Wit the Lench Mob	Ice Cube, Sadler	3:43
		14		Who's the Mack?	Ice Cube, JBs	4:35
		15		It's a Man's World	Ice Cube, Sir Jinx, Yo Yo	5:26
		16		The Bomb	Ice Cube, Sir Jinx	3:25

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Arco Iris - 1979 - Mañana Campestre

1. Mañana campestre
   
2. Vasudeva
   
3. El niño, la libertad y las palomas
   
4. Soy un pedazo de sol
   
5. Kukuriku
   
6. Abran los ojos
   
7. La savia verde
   
8. Detrás
   
9. Llegó el cambio
   
10. Sudamérica

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Bee Gees - 1971 - Trafalgar

The Bee Gees had entered the early '70s with a roaring success in the guise of "Lonely Days" and its accompanying album, which established their sound as a softer pop variant on the Moody Blues' brand of progressive rock. Trafalgar, which followed, carried the process further on what was their longest single LP release, clocking in at 47 minutes. The music all sounded meaningful, much of it displaying the same kind of faux-grandeur that the Moody Blues affected on their music of this era, the core group (playing pretty hard) acompanied by either Mellotron-generated orchestra or the real thing, with the group's soaring harmonies and Robin Gibb's quavaring lead vocals all over the place. As with 2 Years On's "Man for All Seasons," there was also one title ("Lion in Winter," featuring a startling falsetto performance) lifted from a recently popular film and play having to do with English history. It was all very beautifully produced and, propelled into record-store racks by the presence of "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart," the group's first No. 1 single, Trafalgar shipped very well initially. Nothing else on the record was remotely as memorable as the single, however, and its sales were limited. Trafalgar was also the handsomest and most elaborately designed of their albums, its cover reprinting Pocock's painting "The Battle of Trafalgar" and the interior gatefold containing a shot of the brothers enacting the scene of the death of Lord Nelson. It all imparted the sense of a concept album, though nothing in the music said so, except perhaps the finale, "Walking Back to Waterloo." Despite the hit single, the album showed the limits of the Bee Gees' talents as songwriters and of their appeal as album artists.

		1		How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?	Gibb, Gibb	3:58
		2		Israel	Gibb	3:44
		3		The Greatest Man in the World	Gibb	4:17
		4		It's Just the Way	Gibb	2:33
		5		Remembering	Gibb, Gibb	4:01
		6		Somebody Stop the Music	Gibb, Gibb	3:31
		7		Trafalgar	Gibb	3:53
		8		Don't Wanna Live Inside Myself	Gibb	5:24
		9		When Do I	Gibb, Gibb	3:57
		10		Dearest	Gibb, Gibb	3:52
		11		Lion in Winter	Gibb, Gibb	3:59
		12		Walking Back to Waterloo	Gibb, Gibb, Gibb	3:51

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