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Music News: NY Times: 'Rated R' 9th Best Album of the Year
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NY Times: 'Rated R' 9th Best Album of the Year
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1. STEVE LEHMAN OCTET “Travail, Transformation and Flow” (Pi) The year’s head-spinning jazz release came from the alto saxophonist Steve Lehman, who employed spectrum analysis as a compositional tool. That might have been a liability if the album weren’t such a breathtaking accomplishment, a blast of urban futurism at once hypnotic, kinetic and kaleidoscopic. And funky.
2. DIRTY PROJECTORS “Bitte Orca” (Domino) Dave Longstreth, the gangly mastermind behind this indefatigable Brooklyn indie-rock band, yelps about remaking the horizon on this album, a creative breakthrough. His inspired designs, and the diligent effort of three powerful female singers, makes that claim feel plausible, staggeringly so.
3. HENRY THREADGILL’S ZOOID “This Brings Us to, Volume I” (Pi) Spring loaded and sharp cornered, this long-awaited studio release from Mr. Threadgill, the august avant-garde multireedist and composer, suggests a mutant species of free jazz, wherein “free” and “jazz” are both hopelessly inexact terms. Zooid, a group as industrious as it is intuitive, makes his case with style.
4. VIJAY IYER TRIO “Historicity” (ACT) On his version of a cover album, the pianist Vijay Iyer scrambles and strengthens the elixirs, dashing off bold new prescriptions for the postmillennial piano trio. The drummer Marcus Gilmore and the bassist Stephan Crump lend more than support, though they do that too.
5. GRIZZLY BEAR “Veckatimest” (Warp) The sweetest harmonists in indie-rock are also among the shrewdest: this Brooklyn foursome made this album an enveloping experience, in ways both seductive and claustrophobic. With a guitar texture as nuanced as its vocal blend, it’s a study in haunted ambivalence.
6. FLY “Sky & Country” (ECM) For the jazz collective known as Fly — the tenor and soprano saxophonist Mark Turner, the bassist Larry Grenadier and the drummer Jeff Ballard — every gesture is a shift in the wind, every action a negotiation. But this standout album, its monument to a cohesive ideal, never feels rudderless or coy.
7. BRAD PAISLEY “American Saturday Night” (Arista Nashville) Country formalism meets pop literalism, with a few clanging duds but more than a few airtight contraptions. Mr. Paisley, earnest but mischievous, proves adept with cliché rather than afraid of it, and his thoughts on progress are even more welcome now than they were a year ago.
8. DARCY JAMES ARGUE’S SECRET SOCIETY “Infernal Machines” (New Amsterdam) A wickedly intelligent dispatch from the fading border between orchestral jazz and post-rock and classical minimalism, this impressive debut radiates self-assurance, and an almost chilling steadiness of conviction.
9. RIHANNA “Rated R” (Def Jam) Domestic abuse apparently gave Rihanna a motive and a narrative for her tough-as-nails fourth album. Beyond a few rueful ballads, most plainly “Stupid in Love,” she sounds armored and imperious. That’s not remotely a bad thing, and neither are the flashes of her Barbadian roots.
10. OUMOU SANGARé “Seya” (World Circuit/Nonesuch) Ms. Sangaré, the great Malian singer, is in radiant form throughout “Seya,” her first album in five years: decrying forced marriages, paying homage to her elders, marveling at her own success. Her exuberance is more than contagious; it’s entirely credible.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/ar.../20chinen.html
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 to Rated R and Brad Paisley.
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And also Russian Roulette was someones number one song of 09
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Yess!
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Never heard of any of them except Rihanna and Brad Paisley.
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BOWS 
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Rated R is a good album, but it doesn't really deserves that  we're not talking about Good Girl Gone Bad.
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Originally posted by Itsuky
Rated R is a good album, but it doesn't really deserves that we're not talking about Good Girl Gone Bad. |
Thank God! 
Rated R >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GGGB
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Thank God!
Rated R >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GGGB |
Are you serious?
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*handclaps and fingersnaps* 
**** dem haters! the album has grown on me a lot, i love it 
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Are you serious? |
Yes...but its just my opinion 
The thing about GGGB: Its just a VERY good dance-pop album...great singles etc.
But Rated R is a good old grower. Maybe first its a meh but when you`re ready for this its like
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!
Call me a perv but I think only "Hard" ***** on whole GGGB (minus Umbrella because its a instant classic!) 
Well... 
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Originally posted by Lily Gaga
Yes...but its just my opinion
The thing about GGGB: Its just a VERY good dance-pop album...great singles etc.
But Rated R is a good old grower. Maybe first its a meh but when you`re ready for this its like
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!
Call me a perv but I think only "Hard" ***** on whole GGGB (minus Umbrella because its a instant classic!)
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"Hard" is pure fire and all...but oh well, it's a matter of taste
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"Hard" is pure fire and all...but oh well, it's a matter of taste
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Exactly...just one more thing:
GGGB defined the sound of 06/07
But now its R`s time to shine
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Exactly...just one more thing:
GGGB defined the sound of 06/07
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I agree, tho I still prefer GGGB, it's her best era IMO. But I can't wait for her to own 2010
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Never heard of any of them except Rihanna and Brad Paisley.
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I've also heard of Grizzly Bear, but other than those three, nothing. What a weird list.
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I agree, tho I still prefer GGGB, it's her best era IMO. But I can't wait for her to own 2010 |
i understand you. to me GGGB is like more on the catchy-tunes side of music which produces hits after hits on the other hand Rated R is a type of album that is less likely to produce hits but as an album it is phenomenal.
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Originally posted by J@Rv$
i understand you. to me GGGB is like more on the catchy-tunes side of music which produces hits after hits on the other hand Rated R is a type of album that is less likely to produce hits but as an album it is phenomenal.
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exactly. gggb was more on the commercial side. there was NOT one bad song on gggb.
i am still pissed breakin dishes was not released as a single.
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Oh we have a new CRITICS FAVORITE. Bless.
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=/ Eh. She is just too much of a try hard when it comes to her music. That's why she bombed with Rated R. The album is mediocre and I'm glad the general public could at least see that.
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=/ Eh. She is just too much of a try hard when it comes to her music. That's why she bombed with Rated R. The album is mediocre and I'm glad the general public could at least see that.
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Except for the fact that it's on its way to Gold and still selling well in the both the states and the UK. Not to mention the fact that "Hard" is now scaling the charts.
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