Canadian rockers Barenaked Ladies are releasing a compilation of outtakes and rarities that, fortunately, more or less lives up to the title. Stop Us If You've Heard This One Before!, a counterpoint to last year's Hits from Yesterday and the Day Before, features 12 tracks, only two of which have ever seen the official light of day. (Those tracks are a remix of megahit "One Week" and "Yes, Yes, Yes," a bonus track on some versions of the band's 2003 album Everything to Everyone.) The remainder
Archives for April 2012
Review: John Williams, "Hook: Expanded Original Motion Picture Soundtrack"
After more than three years of planning, preparing and waiting, audiences finally have a chance to enjoy an expanded edition of John Williams' score to Steven Spielberg's 1991 cult classic Hook (La-La Land Records LLLCD 1211). The world had been "getting by," so to speak, with the Epic label's original 75-minute CD presentation - a generous offering, to be sure, but one that only sort of did the score justice. While critics remain divided to indifferent on the celluloid continuation of James M.