Rolling Stones
Some Girls Deluxe Edition
Rolling StonesUME
By David Chiu
Some Girls, the Stones’ 1978 album, ranks up there as being one of the band’s superlative efforts. At that point, the band was still soldiering on 16 years into their career–and rather then letting disco surpass them, the Stones incorporated that style into two of their most memorable songs from the record: “Miss You” and “Shattered”. Continue reading “CD Review: Rolling Stones”
Elvis Presley
Young Man with the Big Beat
RCA/Legacy
By David Chiu
Sometimes an artist’s career can be measured in the dominance he or she had in one year: Michael Jackson in 1983, Madonna in 1985 or Nirvana and Pearl Jam in 1992. But they can never measure up the phenomenal year that Elvis Presley had in 1956, which this new boxed set focuses on. Continue reading “CD Review: Elvis Presley”
The Beach Boys
The Smile Sessions
Capitol/EMI
By David Chiu
For Beach Boys fans, the Smile album has been well known and talked about as legend, but whose music was never issued or given the proper treatment for release. That was the case for 44 years until now with The Smile Sessions, which collects and arranges the innovative music that was abandoned from that era into one whole piece. Continue reading “CD Review: The Beach Boys”
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