As a 10-year-old, Michael Jackson mimicked adult emotions, like most child performers. As a teenager, he was able to reach places most mature singers can’t touch. Jackson’s first four solo albums released from 1972 to 1975, between his 13th and 17th birthdays document his transition from boy wonder to precocious teen.
This triple-disc...
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(500) Days of Summer has won raves by subverting the clichs of romantic comedy, emphasizing love’s melancholy side and building to an ambiguous ending. The film’s well-curated soundtrack runs the gamut of romantic moods, from infatuation (Hall and Oates’ “You Make My Dreams”) to post-breakup wistfulness (Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bookends”).
It’s anchored by two Regina...
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After a decade of putting Hollywood glitz above his Memphis roots, Elvis Presley staged a musical comeback on TV in 1968 and then returned home for two extraordinary albums: From Elvis in Memphis and Back in Memphis.
The first was a classic, and the second wasn’t so shabby. Legacy compiles all of his 1969...
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Some bands are born into greatness, others grow into it. Radiohead fall into the second category, but as these rarity-filled collector’s editions show, they grew fast. The grungy, glammy Brit pop of Pablo Honey (1993) was a worthy debut, with the heroically self-loathing “Creep” and Thom Yorke’s slightly worrisome admission “I want to be...
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