Lil Wayne - I Am Not A Human Being

New Music Tuesday is here! Here-ye, here-ye! I love new music Tuesday. It's always my favorite. Debuting new tuneage is so much fun - because I have no idea if I like something or not. Sure - it's also very fun to go back to old classics, but getting to the new stuff always feels like unwrapping a present at Christmas. A certain excitement comes along with it. Anyway - it's Weezy today. I think I've chronicled on the B Side before how Weezy is one of the hardest working rappers out there. He's the mixtape king in addition to dropping studio stuff usually every year. Now, he's slated to drop Tha Carter IV sometime in 2011 - and it sounds like he wanted a little something to bridge the gap between his last one and that. When 'Rebirth' came out earlier this year, it got very mixed reviews. I don't think that surprised anyone, as it was another Weezy experiment. This one is right there too. Seems to me he took a few more risks on this album too, which might yield some people to tune out. There once again isn't any signature Weezy flow and sick lyrics like he gave us with the phenomenal Tha Carter III. This album was also recorded prior to him going to prison for nine months. So as I understand it, Lil Wayne wasn't able to take part in any of the commercial production of this album. He had a lot of faith in his people to represent his tastes. And this oddly came out electronically two weeks ago - meaning they wanted to drive up the download sales and not the physical album ones. Odd move, not sure why you'd do that. Maybe it'll become more popular? Time will tell. Anyway - I think this is really close. My top track is one of the best rap songs I've heard in a while, and then the rest are all pretty good. If there were maybe two more outstanding tracks, this one would be right up there with his best of all time. But this new sound is really growing on me, and I fully expect Carter IV to be an awesome blend of new and old Weezy sound. I'm excited. Until then, check this one out. YOUNG MONEY!!

TRACK LISTING:
1. Gonorrhea
2. Hold Up
3. With You
4. I Am Not a Human Being
5. I'm Single
6. What's Wrong with Them
7. Right Above It
8. Popular
9. That Ain't Me
10. Bill Gates
11. YM Banger
12. YM Salute
13. I Don't Like the Look of It

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Top 3 Tracks:
1. Right Above It
2. Gonorrhea
3. I'm Single

FINAL RATING:
3.75 out of 5 stars

Jamiroquai - Synkronized

Techno Tuesday funks its way back to the B Side with Jamiroquai. Now, I know what you're thinking. B Side, are they really a techno band? I would tell you devoted followers first and foremost, thanks for the question. I really appreciate the feedback. And then I'd say, sure. They're as much dance as they are anything else. They technically get a label of 'funktronic' which doesn't really fit my narrow minded genre scheming. So techno it is!! And please, don't focus too much that I asked myself a question up there. I know I did, let it slide. =) Anyway, as many electronic artists - they're British. For some reason the genre is littered full of Brits. I guess the whole revolution never hit the states that hard. The other thing that's odd, I've noticed most people think Jamiroquai is one man - but it's a full band. 6 members today, and they've seen their share of transfers. They have seven studio albums out there today, first being way back in 1993 and the latest coming in '05. Another new one is slated to debut in just a couple weeks - early November. I can't say I'm too geared up to listen to it, as I've never been a huge fan of the tuneage. I think this record is a prime example. There are some fun tracks to toe tap to - but all in all, falls short of being anything super memorable. 10 tracks, maybe 2 are ones I'd actively want to hear over and over. Still worth checking out today if you need something to groove on, otherwise, go back to your favorite dance album ever. You'll enjoy that one way more.

TRACK LISTING:
1. Canned Heat
2. Planet Home
3. Black Capricorn Day
4. Soul Education
5. Falling
6. Destitute Illusions
7. Supersonic
8. Butterfly
9. Where Do We Go from Here?
10. King for a Day

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Top 3 Tracks:
1. Canned Heat
2. Planet Home
3. Destitute Illusions

FINAL RATING:
2.75 out of 5 stars

B Side Exclusive: Jasmine V - "All These Boys"

As most of you all know, I have been working with Sony and more specifically Epic Records on getting some of their new artists out there. Here is another one, Jasmine V dropping her debut single with Sony called, "All These Boys". This isn't commercially available until 10/19 - so don't expect to find it anywhere else! I'll drop links out for three different formats - so check it out in the one you desire most.

Big thanks to Epic for the new artists and check out Jasmine V B Siders!

(mov, QT Stream*)

(wma, WM Stream*)

(flv, FLV Stream)

Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory

Hello Monday. I actually feel rested and ready for you this week. Hooray! I'm so excited that I've decided to roll with one of my favorite mid 90's albums, Morning Glory by Oasis. What a fun album. When this dropped in 1995 - you couldn't walk out of your bedroom and into the kitchen for a bowl of cereal without hearing 'Wonderwall'. Crazy stuff. Although it was a great song, it was very much in too heavy of a rotation back in the day. Going into the history of the band, I'm sure most of you already know the story. Oasis is lead by the brothers Noah and Liam Gallagher - and they've had tensions since day one. There was a lot of publicized issues with this album even, as they fought over who'd sing lead on certain tracks. Pretty silly considering the huge success they knew they had. This album is 10 songs deep, and six of them saw pretty solid radio success. If 60% of your songs are good enough to get air play, you're cooking with gas. This is by far their best selling album in both the states and the UK. 14x platinum in the UK and 4x in the states. Huge numbers. Background and issues aside, this album is great. I can't think of anything wrong with it. Even the songs that aren't radio singles are still really good. If you haven't checked this out in full before, you're in for a treat. Pretty easy listen as the ten tracks are arranged beautifully. Top notch album and a great way to start your Monday morning.

TRACK LISTING:
1. Hello
2. Roll with It
3. Wonderwall
4. Don't Look Back in Anger
5. Hey Now!
6. Some Might Say
7. Cast No Shadow
8. She's Electric
9. Morning Glory
10. Champagne Supernova

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Top 3 Tracks:
1. Wonderwall
2. Champagne Supernova
3. Morning Glory

FINAL RATING:
4.75 out of 5 stars

Jesca Hoop - Hunting My Dress

I touched on this the other day with my Eels review, but I'm going to run the album past you guys. My impression during the show, was this lady was outstanding. My opinion hasn't changed all that much listening to all the tracks on this album. It's arranged very different, as her performance was simply herself strumming an acoustic guitar. That without question made her tracks better, because many of her lyrics are somewhat cold and haunting, which that set up makes you feel them better. (you know, as much as you can feel words...hard to explain that I guess). But the album here has the whole band, which is fine, but I think some of the impact of the lyrics might get lost in the fold. Regardless, Hoop grew up in rural Wyoming in a mormon family. She left the group and moved to California when she was old enough to leave. She was fairly blackballed by the family, and to this day it sounds like certain members won't talk to her. But after her telling the story and listening to her songs, she help her mom battle cancer and was there for her family during her passing, which meant a lot to everyone. This is her third studio release, and I'm excited to check out her other works. I enjoy this album very much, and would highly recommend you check her out. There is a Bonus EP that comes with the cd..I don't feel any of those tracks blew my mind as much as the regular album. So save yourself the couple bucks if it's an option. Otherwise, the 9 regular album tracks are quite good, and very memorable. Check it out, let me know what you think! Happy Friday!

TRACK LISTING:
1. Whispering Light
2. The Kingdom
3. Feast Of The Heart
4. Angel Mom
5. Four Dreams
6. Murder Of Birds
7. Bed Across The Sea
8. Tulip
9. Hunting My Dress
10. Enemy - Bonus EP
11. Inteligentacile 101 - Bonus EP
12. Silverscreen - Bonus EP
13. Wintersong - Bonus EP
14. My Boo - Bonus EP

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Top 3 Tracks:
1. Murder Of Birds
2. Four Dreams
3. Hunting My Dress

FINAL RATING:
4.25 out of 5 stars

David Allan Coe - Greatest Hits

Country day again on the B Side. I'm going to briefly vent some frustrations this morning. David Allan Coe is a suggestion from the box from follower janis! (and thank you very much for the suggestion!). Anyway, he's got literally six thousand records released, so for me to pick one, is basically just a shot in the dark. Well, all of this regular albums listed on the discography, don't show up for purchase..anywhere. And you'd think that's fairly rare, but it really isn't. With classic type artists, often the material they put out 20 years ago isn't available in the same format it was back then. So after running through multiple albums, and nothing matching to the "t" of what was put out decades ago, I'm just going with a greatest hits record. I probably won't ever do this again, barring some sort of odd duck reason, so yeah. Here it is. Even though I'm irritated by his discography - I'm going to remain objective. To the point where, I actually don't mind this. It's probably because it's a greatest hits - and I'm getting the cream of the crop, some of this is entertaining. The rest is totally palatable. You're still not going to like it if you aren't a country fan, but that's the case with all of the genre. After some quick research, this guy seems to be a total d-bag. Has an album completely related to racism and sexism. Something called X Rated Hits or something. Yeah, -1 for that. Get with the times sir - I know you're 71, but get with it.

TRACK LISTING:
1. Divers Do It Deeper
2. Longhaired Redneck
3. You Never Even Called Me By My Name
4. Willie, Waylon And Me
5. A Sad Country Song
6. Would You Be My Lady
7. Just To Prove My Love For You
8. Lately I've Been Thinking Too Much
9. Would You Lay With Me
10. Face To Face

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Top 3 Tracks:
1. You Never Even Called Me By My Name
2. Longhaired Redneck
3. Willie, Waylon And Me

FINAL RATING:
2.75 out of 5 stars

Rage Against The Machine - Battle Of Los Angeles

Seems like this is a day where I reviewed an album by a band months ago, and came back to another record today. Difference between this and Benny Fold, is this album is nothing new. I'm going to go ahead and say this, and please take offense to it. If you haven't heard this album by Rage, you're a little slow on the music uptake. Rage is in a word, amazing. Well, was amazing. RATM only dropped 4 albums in their short music lives, and all of them were outstanding. (Well maybe except 'Renegades' but that's a discussion for another day) These guys really pumped me up back in the day, and putting this on today - it still has that effect. This particular album came out in 1999 and is a solid 2x platinum. It has it's fair share of radio hits and then flat out face melting metal that wasn't heard by the masses. I'm not sure if this is my favorite, I think I go back and forth. There are at least 6 tracks on this album that I play as loud as possible when they come on in the car. True test of how great a band is. Anyway, I'm not going to get into any further detail on Rage. They're political, they're hard rock and they're no longer putting out music. They might be putting together another tour soon, and if they come to your area - you should definitely go. Worth your while every time. Instead, I'll let their music speak for them, and not me. Please listen to this today. Groove hard, and make Thursday turn into Friday.

TRACK LISTING:
1. Testify
2. Guerrilla Radio
3. Calm Like a Bomb
4. Mic Check
5. Sleep Now in the Fire
6. Born of a Broken Man
7. Born as Ghosts
8. Maria
9. Voice of the Voiceless
10. New Millennium Homes
11. Ashes in the Fall
12. War Within a Breath

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Top 3 Tracks:
1. Guerilla Radio
2. Testify
3. Ashes In The Fall

FINAL RATING:
4 out of 5 stars