Welcome to another installment of Reissue Theory, where we reflect on well-known albums of the past and the reissues they could someday see. The more-or-less official start of the Christmas season has us revisiting a band behind a popular modern holiday song and the other music they released in their brief but notable run. "Bah humbug!/But that's too strong/'Cause it is my favorite holiday..." Those first lines kick off one of the most unabashedly fun Christmas power-pop carols of the past 30
Archives for November 26, 2010
Friday Feature: "Fantasia"
For reasons unknown to this writer, the animated output of The Walt Disney Company is not always seen as "high art." That one can see even the Disney films of the late 1980s and early 1990s and see merely crass commercialism is shocking. The hand-drawn features Disney's studio has been releasing since 1937 are absolute proof of "cartoons" as controlled works of art, an image Disney did everything he could to perpetuate. No more evident was Disney's commitment to art than with Fantasia, first
Speaking of Rhino, a Black Friday Sampler for Buyers
As anyone who's traveled the Rhino Web site today might have noticed, you will receive a free Rhino Handmade digital sampler with any purchase made on the Web site between today and Sunday. The track list is: Hey Jude - Wilson Pickett (from Funky Midnight Mover: The Studio Recordings 1961-1978) Porpoise Song - The Monkees (from Head: Deluxe Edition) Not Right (John Cale Mix) - The Stooges (from The Stooges: Collector's Edition) Fan Tan (Stereo Mix) - Jan & Dean (from Carnival of
Rhino to Get Warm and Tender for Percy Sledge in New Box Set (UPDATED 11/26)
Rhino Handmade's next big title is a box set devoted to Percy Sledge's tenure with Atlantic Records. Before he was the "King of Country Soul," Sledge was an Alabama-born former hospital worker, playing with a soul combo on weekends. In 1966 he signed to Atlantic, and, following a break-up with a longtime girlfriend, recorded a simple, heartfelt single, "When a Man Loves a Woman." The impassioned, off-the-cuff delivery (an entirely honest one - Sledge improvised the lyrics on the spot) helped
La La Land's Year-End Releases Are a Really Big Deal
It's not Hook, but La La Land Records has another title of John Williams' from the same part of the alphabet in their last batch, as well as several other hotly-requested titles from some of the most beloved composers of the modern age. A full rundown is after the jump!