Thursday, August 26, 2004
While by no means do I approve of anyone duetting with Mark McGrath - honey, you can do so much better - it's quite possible that Shania Twain's Greatest Hits could be the pop event of the autumn. I mean, c'mon! Just look at that tracklisting. Wowza.
Speaking of pop moments, I still don't think that a better pure pop album has been released in the nearly 6 years since New Radicals' Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too. came out back in October of '98. Tracks like "Jehovah Made This Whole Joint For You" and the single "You Get What You Give" are appallingly hooky, stick-to-the-roof-of-your-head pop-soul a la Hall & Oates (who, in fact, subsequently covered the heartbreaker "Someday We'll Know") in the best of ways. Gregg Alexander - the solitary New Radical - has gone on to write and produce for the likes of Ronan Keating, but I ache for him to return to the world of recording. Brainwashed is easily one of my 5 most-played albums of the past half-decade, and will likely continue to get spun just as much over the next 5. It frankly doesn't get much better. A
Speaking of pop moments, I still don't think that a better pure pop album has been released in the nearly 6 years since New Radicals' Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too. came out back in October of '98. Tracks like "Jehovah Made This Whole Joint For You" and the single "You Get What You Give" are appallingly hooky, stick-to-the-roof-of-your-head pop-soul a la Hall & Oates (who, in fact, subsequently covered the heartbreaker "Someday We'll Know") in the best of ways. Gregg Alexander - the solitary New Radical - has gone on to write and produce for the likes of Ronan Keating, but I ache for him to return to the world of recording. Brainwashed is easily one of my 5 most-played albums of the past half-decade, and will likely continue to get spun just as much over the next 5. It frankly doesn't get much better. A
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