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Happy People/U Saved Me -
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| R. Kelly is arguably one of R&B's most productive minds in years and the Chicago native creates music at a pace that few artists in any genre could keep up with. "Happy People/U Saved Me" serves as Kelly's own personal "Best of Both Worlds"--highlighting both the singer's love for stepping (a Midwest-based dance craze) and need for salvation. "Happy People" is the more upbeat of the two discs with Kelly taking on the persona of the Weatherman, a DJ on the fictional LOVE radio station. The album's title track and lead single is a perfect introduction to its infectious sound. Similarly, the midtempo groove of "Red Carpet (Pause, Flash)" will have stepping experts and novices headed straight to the dance floor. While the recurring stepping theme quickly becomes repetitive, you can't help but groove all the way through. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for "U Saved Me." The message-heavy disc sacrifices Kelly's raw talent for melodrama. Songs like "I Surrender" and "Prayer Changes," while expressing a sincere sentiment about believing in something greater than yourself, are a little overwhelming. That said, this disc's title track is a rousing musical tale of overcoming obstacles with the help of God--complete with a rising choir. In the end, "Happy People/U Saved Me," like most double albums, has both its highs and lows. --Rashaun Hall
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J.R. Monterose -
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R.E.M. - When the Light is Mine... The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 Video Collection -
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| TRACKLISTING: 1. Wolves, Lower (Previously Unreleased) 2. Radio Free Europe (Edit - First time On DVD) 3. Talk About The Passion 4. Radio Free Europe (The Tube, 11.18.83, UK TV Show - Previously Unreleased) 5. Talk About The Passion (The Tube, 11.18.83, UK TV Show - Previously Unreleased) 6. So. Central Rain (I?m Sorry) - (First Time On DVD) 7. Left Of Reckoning (First Time On DVD) 8. Pretty Persuasion (The Old Grey Whistle Test, 11.20.84, UK TV - Previously Unreleased) 9. Can?t Get There From Here (First Time On DVD) 10. Driver 8 (First Time On DVD) 11. Life And How To Live It (First Time On DVD) 12. Feeling Gravity's Pull (First Time On DVD) 13. Can?t Get There From Here (The Tube, 10.25.85, UK TV - Previously Unreleased) 14. Fall On Me (First Time On DVD) 15. Swan Swan H (Athens, Ga ? Inside/Out) 16. The One I Love 17. It?s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) 18. Finest Worksong Extras: The Cutting Edge, October 1983 19. Broadcast Segment (Previously Unreleased) 20. Additional Interviews (Previously Unreleased) The Cutting Edge, June 1984 21. Edited Broadcast Segment (First Time On DVD) 22. Additional Interviews (First Time On DVD) 23. Driver 8 (First Time On DVD) 24. Wendell Gee (First Time On DVD) 25. (Don?t Go Back To) Rockville (First Time On DVD) 26. Time After Time (Annelise) (First Time On DVD) 27. Pageantry (Previously Unreleased) Hidden Tracks: Radio Free Europe Driver 8 (second take from Cutting Edge - Previously Unreleased)
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Automatic for the People -
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| Continuing to specialize in the art of curve-throwing, R.E.M. followed up its 1991 smash, Out of Time, with this fragile album of soft melodies and string arrangements. The sympathetic ballad "Everybody Hurts" must have prevented countless suicide attempts, while the Andy Kaufman tribute "Man on the Moon" (with Michael Stipe affecting an Elvis Presley imitation) and the rock-into-oblivion "Drive" are among the quartet's strongest hits. (The opening line, "Hey, kids, rock and roll," isn't so much a rallying cry as an expression of anxiety.) It takes a few listens for its charms to unfold, but Automatic is the gem between bigger hits Out of Time and Monster. --Steve Knopper
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Come on In -
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| Now, here's what you call a break from tradition. After bridging the gap between punk and blues on his collaboration with the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, A Ass Pocket of Whiskey, Mississippi bluesman R.L. Burnside ventures into the world of beats and grooves with Come On In, a series of remix projects with producer Tom Rothrock (Beck, Foo Fighters). The cynics among you may smell opportunism, but Rothrock is sensitive and respectful enough to Burnside's originals to do them proper justice. Even the 4/4 high hat and filtered sound effects of "Rollin' Tumblin'" sound appropriate to the music at hand. Though these treatments--largely instrumental--erase the most of the presence of Burnside's searing vocals, Burnside and Rothrock's adventurousness will win over most to their progressive-thinkin' boogie chillun'. --Justin Hampton
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Any Time Now -
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O.A.R.: Live from Madison Square Garden -
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Risen -
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Dead Letter Office -
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| While purists will insist on an undiluted copy of the band's 1982 Chronic Town EP, R.E.M. completists (and those who just like a lot of tracks for their money) will be grateful for the inclusion of 15 additional B-sides and curios on this 1987 compilation. Not surprisingly, the non-Chronic material is a mixed blessing: while R.E.M. were much beloved for being notorious cover-whores during those early Athens live shows, their reverent takes on Velvet Underground classics stand the test of time far better than their odes to Roger Miller and Aerosmith. But all that will be forgotten by the time Chronic Town's "Wolves, Lower" kicks in, signaling the official arrival of a band that forever changed the face of Southern rock. --Bill Forman
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Stories of a Stranger -
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| Stories of a Stranger is arguably the first real O.A.R. album. While their sound is unmistakable, it now pulls of a contradictory feat by opening itself to a broader range of influences through songs more tightly focused than any they've done previously. By far it takes the listener closer than any other album to the matchless experience of hearing O.A.R. live-with the audio tweaked to position the listener in a center seat, a few rows back from the stage. All the ingredients are in place: the in-the-pocket lock-up of bassist Benj Gershman and drummer Chris Culos, the soulful slash and simmer of Jerry DiPizzo's sax, guitar parts from Richard On that stretch from steamy rhythm licks to souring, tuneful leads.
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