Album Of The Week
The Coast Album Of The Week
Every weekday on The More Music Morning Show, we'll be featuring tracks from our Album Of The Week - sometimes a classic album, sometimes a new release. And YOU get to choose the album we feature.
| This week's Album Of The Week, with 53% of the vote, is Carole King's Tapestry. Carole King was famous as a writer of girl group hits in the 1960s. In 1971, she became even more famous. That's the year Tapestry became one of the biggest selling LPs of all time. It's easy to hear why--the music is loose, earthy, LA session-pop. King is casual, intimate and tough; she covers all the emotional ground of the post-liberated woman with ease. She brings adult nuance to "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" and comes up with hits ("It's Too Late", "I Feel the Earth Move") whose white soul realism and maturity put her pop contemporaries to shame. |
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Which of these two albums to you want to be NEXT week's Album Of The Week?
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| The sound of Southern rock gets a facelift for the 1990s on Yourself or Someone Like You, the record that made Florida's Matchbox 20 a success story. Rob Thomas's charismatic and passionate vocal delivery carries this collection of captivating, personal-story songs, based on honest, heart-felt lyrics rich with cathartic emotion. The album sold more than twelve million copies in the U.S and was certified diamond, and has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide. Frank Torres, whose photo was on the cover of the album, sued Matchbox Twenty, claiming that the band had never sought his consent to use his photo on the album's cover. |
On Woodface, Neil Finn and the Australian-based trio Crowded House is joined by Finn's brother, Split Enz-meister Tim Finn, for an album that's filled with intelligence, grace, and humour, not to mention absolutely breathtaking vocal harmonies. The CD opens with "Chocolate Cake", a track that categorised Americans as fat and greedy and didn't exactly earn the band a top spot on U.S. airplay lists.....and moves on to the stunning "Its Only Natural" and "Fall at Your Feet". And of course "Weather With You". "Four Seasons in One Day" further demonstrates Neil Finn's ability to transform his deepest, most disturbed emotions into great songs. |
Album Of The Week - week 11
