October 14, 2006 Fall 2006 Review Roundup This week Jim and Greg will take a look at a whole slew of new fall releases including albums from the Scissor Sisters, the Hold Steady, The Decemberists and Janet Jackson. Music News YouTube made news again this week.

Founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen sold their video site to Google for $1.65 billion (in stock). To Jim and Greg, and many fans of the free-for-all nature of YouTube, this deal is one of many signaling the end of the Internet's Wild West era. YouTube was not simply a place to see videos, but also a place for music fans to seek out hard-to-find concert or discover new. Now, the fear is that the site will become corporatized and exist only for major-label artists to promote themselves.

And as we know, some“musicians”will just about anything. • name • name review Lily Allen Alright, Still This week, Jim and Greg wanted to review a whole bunch of new fall releases. The first is by British songstress Lily Allen. While her album Alright, Still is not yet out in the States, Allen is already receiving a lot of acclaim. Her grassroots success can be mostly attributed to her MySpace page, which allowed curious music fans to give her music a listen for free. So, while you cannot purchase Alright, Still in the States, Jim and Greg felt it deserved a proper review. Both critics highly recommend this album for its clever lyrics and unique reggae sound, but mostly for Allen's biting humor and breezy attitude.

As Jim explains, it's hard not to smile when you listen to a song like ' Smile.' This set of reviews gets kicked off with a double Buy It for Lily Allen.

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• artist • album review The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America Next up is the third release from New York rock group The Hold Steady. Boys and Girls in America continues the band's streak of ' bar band' music, but our hosts disagree about this record's big musical influences. Greg hears a lot of AC/DC and '70s hard rock in the songs, but Jim really only hears one thing: Bruce Springsteen. As Sound Opinions listeners know, for Jim, this is not good. He calls The Hold Steady's music“lousy,”and finds their blue-collar lyrics really put-upon.

Greg doesn't think that Jim is giving head songwriter Craig Finn enough credit. He finds his storytelling smart and very believable. Boys and Girls in America gets a Trash It from Jim and a Buy It from Greg. • place • genre • artist • album • genre • era • genre • name review The Scissor Sisters Ta-Dah Next up is the sophomore effort from The Scissor Sisters, Ta-Dah. It's a common misconception that this quintet hails from the U.K. While they have received most of their success across the pond, this gender-bending pop group actually hails from New York City. Scissor Sisters had hits the first time around with singles like ' Take Your Mama' and ' Comfortably Numb,' but the question was whether their schtick was too schticky to last.

Greg, for one, really enjoyed Ta-Dah. He thinks that the music is fun and upbeat and perfect for singles play on your iPod. But he thought Jake Shears' (get it? ) falsetto was difficult to take for an entire album and can only give Ta-Dah a Burn It. Jim liked the album a bit more than Greg.

He described it as an amalgam of the best glam, pop, and disco music that you would've heard on '70s AM radio. However, like Greg, he only recommends listeners Burn It.

• artist • place • track • track • name • genre • genre • genre • era • genre review Janet Jackson 20 Y.O. Janet Jackson ('Ms. Jackson if you're Nasty') has a new album out this week as well. Its title, 20 Y.O., comes from the number of years that have passed since Jackson's seminal hit Control.

Hum Paanch Ek Team Full Movie In Hindi Free Download. Janet is back with producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis as well as boyfriend Jermaine Dupri, and she uses the first track of this album to remind the listener of the tough topics she's covered in the past 20 years including,“racism, spousal abuse, empowering women.”Of course, 20 Y.O. Isn‘t really about any of these things. Rather, it’s only about one thing: sex.

Not that there is anything wrong with that, but Jim and Greg expected more creativity and more of a statement from a woman who was essentially demonized by many following the now-famous wardrobe malfunction of 2004. Boring production + boring lyrics + boring singing = a double Trash It for Ms. • artist • album • album • name • name • name review The Decemberists The Crane Wife Finally, we move to the literate, fantastic world of The Decemberists. Lead-singer Colin Meloy ( of our fair show) has always been wordy, but with lyrics like“affix your barbs and bayonets, the curlews carve their arabesques,”and song titles like ' The Island: Come & See/The Landlord's Daughter/You'll Not Feel The Drowning,' he is taking it to a new level. The Decemberists' new album, The Crane Wife, is based on a Japanese folk tale — but despite these lofty inspirations, both Jim and Greg love this album. Jim has never denied his fondness for epic prog rock, but commends Meloy for taking the genre into the present, without sacrificing the hooks. Sound Opinions can vouch for Jim's praise of this record; he beams every time he mentions it.

In the past, Greg has given the Decemberists (and Jim) a hard time for being too“twee.”But, he found this album to be the most ambitious of the band's career. He compares much of Meloy's writing to that of English bands like the Fairport Convention and explains that he is“developing into one of the most important songwriters of our time.”So this episode of Sound Opinions ends on a high note (literally, if you listen to Jim's sing-a-long). The Crane Wife gets two Buy Its.

Contrary to the image above, is still a band with five members. The fifth member is not Stuart Price, whose production work invigorates the band's third album. Though it was inspired by Jake's time in Berlin, and recorded in London, Night Work screams New York at it finest. For me, that city is the fifth Scissor Sister. The sound of the album is more classically Scissters than the (great) songs released so far, which bear a stronger imprint of Stuart Price. Night Work is bounds ahead of its sometimes neutered predecessor, Tah-Da. It's imbued with the band's foxy spirit.

Here is a track by track: Night Work, the song, is redolent of the album's most frequent sound: surging disco rock. There are crunchy geeeetars all over this album.

The chorus is in falsetto and the vibe reminds me of, strangely, ZZ Top's Legs. Whole New Way is rubbery funk, with Jake singing in that sort of 'cracked' voice he sometimes assumes. The line that leaps out from this song is: 'I think I need a rubber tonight.'

The chorus is very elastic and Cameo-esque and there's a superb, anthemic middle eight. Fire With Fire is understated and gorgeous.

When placed in context with the whole album, it is only 'sad disco' song, with Jake singing in his most pure, vulnerable voice. I adore this song and I think fans will eventually understand it. Any Which Way is a major standout. Funky disco - think Studio 54 in 1978.

Jake doing his Bee Gees vocals, with a chorus notable for a zigzagging bass sound (I guess that's what it is?). The highlight is the middle eight, a hilarious Ana Matronic monologue about taking her pantyhose out of their egg (a nice reference to retro Leggs hose) and fucking in front of.

I won't give that bit away. Nice cascading vocals in the final minute, along with stabbing synth strings, hooting and random Vincent Price-y laughter. Classic Scissor Sisters. Harder You Get, another highlight, is a rock moment. Again, Jake with the vocal affectations, which makes the lead single an anomaly. I love the southern fried rock sound of Harder You Get.

It's like 38 Special. If they were cruising men outside a 76 Truck Stop.

'What I really want to do tonight is toughen you up. Stop crying like a child, you got what you want.'

Some nice Velvet Underground doo doo doo doos mixed in. Totally BALLS OUT, this one. Running Out reminds me a lot of Ladyhawke, who sources some of the same sounds as Scissters. This is a party song, a tipsy singalong.

'We're running out of money, of love, of luck.' Not my favorite for its repetitive chorus, but very much classic Scissters. Something Like This reference robots, apropos for it's synthetic vocals. My reaction is somewhat indifferent, but I sense it could be a single thanks to an earworm chorus. Skin This Cat is Ana's short, sharp moment (it's 2:40). This reminds me a lot of Gary Numan's Cars, but with a breathy, sexiness. Really pleasing, this one, like a soundtrack to PacMen, circa 1982.

Skin Tight is a chugging mid-tempo, the second track with a strong Stuart Price influence. A sibling to Fire With Fire, it's less melancholy, but could also be a single. This plants Scissters firmly in 2010 - no retro references here - and it bleeds seamlessly into the next song.

Sex And Violence is a personal favorite, a slow burn with quieter vocals. 'I can't escape the need for sex and violence. Who's gonna make you cry? Driver Monitor Samsung Syncmaster 940nw Windows 7. ' Lyrically, I think this is one of the stronger tracks - very psychological. It has a nice buildup in the middle eight, though it never goes crazy (or, if you read that negatively, never totally lifts off). Sex And Violence SCREAMS for a mashup with Bronksi Beat's Smalltown Boy.

Night Life is a hyper 1982 pastiche - you could probably chant oh Mickey, you're so fine against the instrumental - but it has some nice drumming on the chorus. Invisible Light is the grand finale. An over-the top, 1970's style jean creamer. This is an immense, dramatic finale to the album and one of the top 5 finest Scissters moments. Night Work may not leap out immediately.

It ditches the Elton loving chart-reaching of Ta-Dah, which is welcome, and replaces that with a mood that is more sinewy, sleazy and tough, yet still very much pop. The melodies are here, but they are more subtle. And that's often a good sign an album won't wear out its groove too fast. Night Work is out June 28 and 29 worldwide. HOLY CRAPOLA THIS ALBUM FRIKKIN ROCKS.

That is all - what a grower though, miles and miles better than Ta-dah! Who else but the scissors could make an album that you could conceivably grind/lip synch all the way through - 'Music for sexual creatures to watch boys go by to' Insanity - and thankyou for the breakdown - you are spot on as usual Monsieur XO SCB x P.S. Sex and Violence is superb, and our mutual admiration for Fire with Fire is TOTALLY JUSTIFIED in context - this is one of their greatest songs - a gorgeous understated masterpiece (especially when it goes mental and all twangy and stuff.). I've got the CD now and played it quite a few times. Oddly, I find the most obviously Scissor Sisters tracks the least interesting!

I'm tired of the BeeGees-style tracks with all the sex references. I sound like an old prude now. Love Inivisible Light (as anyone should) and always liked Fire With Fire. Standout new tracks for me are, in order, Running Out (unlike you I think this is one of the best on the album, just loving the bass and other sounds on it), Skin Tight and Sex & Violence. This must mean I am a massive Stuart Price fan although his work with Madonna left me cold (maybe due to her low-temperature soul?). Good album though and their Glastonbury set was fantastic!