popular music: alternative rock - top sellers     popular music:       All I Intended to Be Emmylou Harris Nonesuch, 2008 Voice like an angel I think all these reviews about how this "isn't country" are ridiculous. What defines "country" in this day and age? This is MUSIC, sung with perhaps the purest, southern-tinged voice in all of music. The songs are simple, down-home arrangements, with a touch of ...             3 Doors Down 3 Doors Down Universal Records, 2008 BEAUTIFUL!!! What a work of art! They are great on this CD! Love the words! The lyrics in "Your Arms Feel Like Home" are just Beautiful! What a way to word how so many people feel but haven't been able to say it quite this way! This is a truly talented band and this is one of ...             Evil Urges My Morning Jacket Ato Records / Red, 2008 Brilliant Eclectic mesh of '70s-style alt-country-rock sung by the one of the best vocalists around, Jim James. Nearly every song is good (or great).             Weezer (Red Album) [Deluxe] Weezer Geffen Records, 2008 Weezer's Mixed Bag: not classic, but not bad The Red Album provides some solid songs with catchy riffs and great harmonies, but doesn't produce the cohesive listening experience of previous albums. However... Tunes like "Troublemaker", The Greatest Man...", "Dreamin'" and "The Angel and the One" are definitely ...             Indestructible Disturbed Warner Brothers, 2008 Freshening Up the Old To my ears, this album takes the best of late 80s/early 90s metal and infuses it with new life. There's hints of Justice-era Metallica, Rust-era Megadeth, Time-era Anthrax, Death Angel, Underdog, etc., but rather than coming off as derivative it sounds fresh and yet ...             Raising Sand Robert Plant, Alison Krauss Rounder, 2007 I love this album Okay, I love Alison Krauss. She is an exceptional artist, sometimes mesmerizing, always worth a listen Plant has come a long way. I saw an interview with him on Charlie Rose last year I think and he has aged well. I didn't know what to expect from this ...             Viva La Vida Coldplay Capitol, 2008 A Beatles-esque Transformation for Coldplay! Back in the mid-60's, the Beatles began a transformation from the pop sound of their first 4 albums to the psychedelic sound that made them the timeless legends they remain today. This album does the same for Coldplay. Truly innovative and successful bands need to push ...             Accelerate R.E.M. Warner Bros / Wea, 2008 Another winner! A success from the start. I especially enjoyed "Mr.Richards"... wonderful vocals. Anyone used to REMs typical Top Ten stuff will be pleasantly suprised.....             Narrow Stairs Death Cab for Cutie Atlantic, 2008 The Culmination I'm pretty sure I own every DCFC recording. In this album I can hear pieces of all the others, even "Chords", arranged in the perfect package. Ben's lovelorn lament turned out to be the perfect catalyst for the culmination of a lot of ideas they have shared with us ...             We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things Jason Mraz Atlantic, 2008 Mraz is new to me......What a great talent Over the years my musical interests have changed. I once was a country fan, then metal & hardrock, but as I've gotten a little older I have started to gravitate toward more melodic music. I was listening to the radio and heard "I'm Yours" and was blown away. Being a ...             Weezer (Red Album) Weezer Geffen Records, 2008 A Very Solid Release With a lead single of Pork and Beans, it was clear to me from the start that the Red Album had some major potential. After listening to it, I was truly satisfied with how well it delivered and think it is an album worth having for both the die-hard Weezer fan and ...             Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes Sub Pop, 2008 The best of 08? Okay... The year is only halfway over, but if I were a betting man, I would bet this is going to be the best album this year come December. Fleet Foxes is not the type of musical act I would normally listen to. I only purveyed this album because so many musical ...             Consolers Of The Lonely The Raconteurs Warner Brothers, 2008 Amazing - Like a Drug That Induces Stupor Just completing this album in the first week of March the band surprisingly unleashes it without any foreknowledge so that nobody, "the fans, the press, radio, etc., has an upperhand on anyone else regarding it's availability, reception, or perception," said Jack ...             In Rainbows Radiohead Ato Records / Red, 2008 In Rainbows is a Capstone to a Glorious Career Why does it seem that the serious artist that will be remembered far beyond their death were fairly miserable and penniless in the end? Is it the artist mentality? Is it the lack of commercialism? Is the disconnectedness from the everyday mundane world that sets ...             Juno Ellen Page, Michael Cera, ... Rhino Records, 2008 Great Expectations "Juno" is a quirky soundtrack for a quirky film. Oddly, one doesn't need the visuals to feast on the deliciousness of the Moldy Peaches. The soundtrack makes excellent ambient music (it's anti-folk),while at the same time the lyrics' strangeness holds your attention. ...          products you might be interested in   search for popular music accelerate, consolers, indestructible, intended, rainbows, raising randomly chosen book: Texas