Skrillex ~ Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites

Skrillex's production quality is unmatched. Listen to this album in the highest quality you can find (~320 kbps) and with the best headphones/speakers you can find (for me it's the Ultimate Ears Triple Fi 10), and his production will really stand out. Skrillex is incredibly talented and utilizes a highly unique sound. Part of his talent is his ability to draw from all forms of music- Electro, Dubstep, Rap (see: Scatta), Pop (see: Lady Gaga remixes), and his metal (see: The Sadness will never end) background to form an amazing and intense sound. 


Skrillex ~ Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites Album buy from Amazon:


Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites EP [Explicit] [$5.99]
Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites Audio CD [$5.51]

Girls ~ Father, Son, Holy Ghost Album

The name of this San Francisco band pretty much consolidates every traditional pop song down to its root cause. 

The band takes pop roots and branches them out, sometimes elevating them to heavy-metal heights and acid-rock lengths, as on the sprawling "Die," which contains the lines, giddily voiced, "None of us is gonna be just fine / No, we're all going straight to hell tonight." 


Girls ~ Father, Son, Holy Ghost Album buy from Amazon:

Father, Son, Holy Ghost (Amazon MP3 Exclusive) [$5.00]
Father, Son, Holy Ghost Audio CD [$8.99]
Father, Son, Holy Ghost Vinyl [$22.55]

Alan Jackson ~ The Greatest Hits Collection

Alan's brand of traditional country, with just enough of a contemporary edge to appeal to a modern generation, provides a contrast with the prevailing pop country normally recorded by Nashville's major label singers. This collection contains all his big hits from the early part of his career.


Many of the songs are upbeat, happy songs but I was drawn to his music originally by Here in the real world, a sad song that Alan delivers superbly, which was the title track of his debut album.


Alan Jackson 'The Greatest Hits Collection' buy from Amazon:

The Greatest Hits Collection MP3 Album [$5.00]
The Greatest Hits Collection Audio CD [$10.79]

M83 ~ Hurry Up We're Dreaming Album

The style employed on "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming" feels like the front end of a burgeoning trend. Gonzalez has a keen sense for melody, which paired with his entrenched connection to ambient and techno sounds, creates something akin to hip-hop; a cut-and-paste form of new wave. "Dreaming," like M83's previous outings, is mostly a synth affair, but the band for the first time employs saxophone, acoustic guitar, flutes and strings to give the album a fuller flavor than, say, 2008's extroverted "Saturdays=Youth."


M83 'Hurry Up We're Dreaming' Album buy from Amazon:

Hurry Up We're Dreaming MP3 Album [$12.99]
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming Audio CD [$12.99]
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming Vinyl [$24.08]

Florence + The Machine ~ Lungs Album

Florence and the Machine is one of those little bands that seeps in under the pop radar, and becomes a sensation based on pure talent. And Florence Welch and Co. produce a solid debut, "Lungs," that blends delicate polished instrumentals and different genres -- there's little splatters of pop, punk and soul woven together, and cemented in place by Welch's lovely voice. 


Florence + The Machine ~ Lungs Album buy from Amazon:

Lungs MP3 Album [$5.99]
Lungs Audio CD [$10.00]
Lungs [Vinyl] [$18.99]

Steve Miller Band ~ Greatest Hits: 1974-1978

If I was Steve Miller, i would have been appalled with the way the record company edited down all of these great tracks. What the heck were you thinking Capitol? Every song is edited even the classics like "the joker" and "jet airliner". The best part of "jet airliner" is the awesome opening guiitar solo, well thanks to Capitol Records they edited most of it out.It sounds terrible. 
Don't waste your money on this highly edited album. 
If you want Steve Miller Band's greatest hits, I suggest you get 
Steve Miller Band "young Hearts"-the complete Greatest hits. 


Steve Miller Band ~ Greatest Hits: 1974-1978 Album buy from Amazon:

Greatest Hits: 1974-1978 MP3 Album [$5.00]
Greatest Hits 1974-78 Audio CD [$8.01]
Greatest Hits 1974-1978 Green Box [CD + Eco Bag] [$10.94]
The Steve Miller Band: Greatest Hits, 1974-78 [Vinyl] [$19.59]

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ~ Live Bullet

How can words convey the electricity swirling around southeast Michigan in 1975 when this lp was recorded at Cobo Hall in Detroit? At 12 I was still listening to AM and "bubblegum" music, but a friend let me borrow a copy of Seger's "Beautiful Loser" and I thought he was " a fox" (the lingo in those days). When the "Live Bullet" lp came out months later, both generations of my family.... parents, aunts, uncles, cousins....everybody had to hear it over and over. It helped that my cousin Debbie had tried to convince us 10 years earlier that Bobby would be a star someday and we hadn't believed her and now we were all eating humble pie (she should have made bets, she'd be rich now!)


Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ~ Live Bullet buy from Amazon:

Live Bullet (2011 Remaster) MP3 Album [$5.00]
Live Bullet Audio CD [$8.85]