1/12/2024 0 Comments Amazon music cds![]() These CD's were originally sold new for about $20. The prices I have seen online have been, I think, far to high (a function of someone trying to make a lot of profit). ![]() Each CD (except for The Great Composers) had 18 to 22 tracks. These CD'S were generally part of a multi-cd series (of up to 30 cd's): such as The Rock and Roll Era, Classic Rock, Sounds of the Seventies, Sounds of the 80's, Classic Country or The Great Composers. I am not referring to the CD's from Time-Life Music that were sold at retail during this period-I don't have experience with these. I am referring only to the "direct-to-consumer" CDs that one would have originally purchased by way of a TV commercial or a direct mail package etc. The Time-Life Music CD's, produced and sold in the 1990's, have mastering that sounds relatively natural and analog-like and are worth owning if you like the music on them. Its affirmations electrify the body, coursing through the veins like a life-saving shot of adrenaline: Consider the lines “Don’t even waste your time trying to compete with me/No one else in this world can think like me” on “Alien Superstar,” or, “It should cost a billion to look this good” on “Pure/Honey.” As the world burns, Renaissance invites us to remember what it’s like to feel good.Here and there this has been talked about. It does more than revere the dancefloor it bottles its joy, conviviality, and verve, all while transcending the condition of homage. But Renaissance eclipses Bey’s previous statements of hard-won self-love and romantic resilience. Over the years, Beyoncé’s music has served every function: It can lift a disheveled spirit, vault femme erotics, or treat the wounds of a devastating relationship. Each interpolation is potent and precise, yielding a DJ mix and history lesson all at once. There are tributes to ballroom DJs, producers, and drag queens Kevin Aviance and Kevin Jz Prodigy, as well as appearances from disco glitterati like Grace Jones and bounce music idol Big Freedia. Bey captures much of that here, citing her ancestors and contemporaries, sometimes leaving us longing for their actual presence. For many of us, the club is more than just a night out it’s a nexus of community, a financial ecosystem of survival, and most importantly, an obligatory pleasure practice. Listen/Buy: Rough Trade | Amazon | Apple Music | Spotify | Tidalīeyoncé owes the grandeur of her latest reinvention to her queer Black forebears, who fought hard for the refuge of this relief. Un Verano Sin Ti is a resplendent statement on the necessary endurance and conviviality of Caribbean life. “Puerto Rico está bien cabrón,” he repeats, almost like a call to action. ![]() The electronic bomba banger “El Apagón” addresses Puerto Rico’s colonial status, gentrification, and ongoing blackouts in an unrelenting yet restorative whirlwind. Whether he’s referencing his “baby gravy” on “Titi Me Preguntó,” or telling the story of a liberated Puerto Rican woman with Buscabulla on “Andrea,” UVST is a sprawling love letter that owns Boricua humor, swagger, and sharp social commentary. Un Verano Sin Ti marshals reggaeton, dembow, dream-pop, EDM, and mambo, leveraging sex-fueled perreo one moment, only to muse over better futures the next. Listen/Buy: Rough Trade | Amazon | Apple Music | Bandcamp | Spotify | Tidalīad Bunny’s appeal is as mythical as it is rare: The world’s biggest pop star-a musically inventive, charismatic critic who loves his island-releases the biggest pop album of the year, one that flawlessly effuses the sound and nostalgia of a beach day in the Caribbean. As her extraterrestrial character experiences love and temporality for the first time throughout the album, Dalt reopens the listener’s eyes and ears as well, welcoming the limitless possibilities of our next selves. “I bring you the view from nowhen.”Īt 41, Dalt has spent more than a decade on the fringes of electronic and experimental music, and ¡Ay! retains that outré streak even as it flirts with more approachable styles-its twilit mood evokes the prospect of latter-day Kate Bush taking the stage at Twin Peaks’ shadowy Roadhouse bar. The grounding sounds of clarinets, upright bass, and Dalt’s sensuous voice are juxtaposed with lyrics straight out of a jargony Star Trek adventure: “Tearing through my glandular data gates,” she sings in Spanish. It combines Dalt’s woozy takes on the music of her childhood-bolero, salsa, merengue, mambo-with an ambient sci-fi concept involving an alien entity whose body is made up of leftover flecks of skin accumulated within the earth’s hydrosphere. Colombian shapeshifter Lucrecia Dalt reminds us of our capacity to change on ¡Ay!, an album that warps time and tradition. So even when our brains tell us we couldn’t be more stagnant, on a molecular level, we’re still in a constant state of renewal. Human beings shed about 500 million skin cells every single day.
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