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Back when he was 18, the self-taught pianist released Brown Sugar, a truly inspired disc that reawakened the ghost of Marvin Gaye in the name of good old-fashioned baby-let-me-put-you-on-a-pedestal-and-worship-you sensuality. Since then, a few heads, led by Maxwell...
Rarely does a movie soundtrack focus on a single artist. Simon and Garfunkel's work on The Graduate is one of the few that come to mind. Former Bostonian Aimee Mann takes on the task with nine tracks for Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia. Why Aimee Mann? According to his...
The album's haunting first single, "Save Me," ponders emotional rescue, with Mann begging to be liberated from "the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone." Mann's folk-pop provides an appropriate backdrop for her deep, probing lyrics. The soundtrack also contains two gems from...
"Working blue" is what stand-up comedians call using jokes based on sex. Robert Schimmel, however, doesn't just work blue, he lives blue. The diminutive Schimmel's third comedy album, Unprotected, is a recording of his HBO special, and continues the sex-based theme of his previous two albums...
What makes Unprotected's sex talk work is that it rises above the level of moronic frat-boy humour. It's not that the album is afraid of the scatological (Schimmel describes an exchange between his wife and himself: "Maybe you suffer from premature ejaculation." "Does it look like I...