Our Guide to the Fall's Hottest Albums
Death Magnetic
MUSIC:Metallica's ninth studio album is, says frontman James Hetfield, named for "rock-and-roll martyrs." SEPT. 12
PRO: Out of group therapy, the venerable metalheads have teamed with superproducer Rick Rubin for the first time.
CON: There's something sad about grown zillionaires writing songs like "My Apocalypse."
Kelly Clarkson
MUSIC: The original American Idol issues her fourth album, as yet untitled. NOVEMBER
PRO: Clarkson has been working with One Republic's Ryan Tedder, and the producers from her debut, "Thankful." This could mean a sunny return to form after the gothic "My December."
CON: Clarkson is maturing—and might her husky voice be put to better use than top 40 fare?
Something Else
MUSIC: The third album of smooth songs from blue-eyed soul singer Robin Thicke. SEPT. 30
PRO: The album's first single, "Magic," is just that—all dance-floor disco delight.
CON: There are no guest appearances. Can he carry an entire album by himself?
The Renaissance
MUSIC:Q-Tip returns with a long-awaited official follow-up to 1999's "Amplified." NOV. 4
PRO: The cerebral former A Tribe Called Quest MC self-produced the CD, instilling it with a loose-limbed jazz and soul vibe.
CON: Hip-hop has moved on since Tribe's heyday. This album, however cool, may strike rap's younger fans as out of touch.
Only by the Night
MUSIC: The fourth album by the Tennessee quartet Kings of Leon. SEPT. 15
PRO: The album's first single, "Sex on Fire," is further indication of these Southern rockers' growing maturity.
CON: Did we mention the first single is titled "Sex on Fire"?
Thr33 Ringz
MUSIC:T-Pain's third studio album. NOV. 11
PRO: The record boasts high-octane cameos by Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes, Chris Brown and Kanye West.
CON: His signature digital-voice gimmick is beginning to sound played out.
Do You Know
MUSIC:
Jessica Simpson goes country. SEPT. 9
PRO: Singing country is easy, and Simpson's voice adapts well to the genre.
CON: But writing country is hard—and she wrote most of the album herself.
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Posted By: Krohn @ 10/09/2008 7:43:57 PM
Comment: They harassed her until she registered to vote six times!:
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Posted By: Krohn @ 10/08/2008 11:49:57 PM
Comment: "Not all Democrats agree with Mr. Frank that such policies are off-limits to criticism. Last week Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama said in a statement: 'Like a lot of my Democratic colleagues I was too slow to appreciate the recklessness of Fannie and Freddie. I defended their efforts to encourage affordable homeownership, when in retrospect, I should have heeded the concerns raised by their regulator in 2004. Frankly, I wish my Democratic colleagues would admit when it comes to Fannie and Freddie, we were wrong.'
"Mr. Davis is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus."
'Rank snobbery'
Camille Paglia, who supports Sen. Barack Obama, has nothing but scorn for the way the media has treated Sarah Palin.
"The mountain of rubbish poured out about Palin over the past month would rival Everest. What a disgrace for our jabbering army of liberal journalists and commentators, too many of whom behaved like snippy jackasses," Miss Paglia writes at www.salon.com.
"The bourgeois conventionalism and rank snobbery of these alleged humanitarians stank up the place. As for Palin's brutally edited interviews with Charlie Gibson and that viper, Katie Couric, don't we all know that the best bits ended up on the cutting-room floor? Something has gone seriously wrong with Democratic ideology, which seems to have become a candied set of holier-than-thou bromides attached like tutti-frutti to a quivering green Jell-O mold of adolescent sentimentality."
Posted By: Krohn @ 10/06/2008 6:06:59 PM
Comment: The Antichrist!:
When George Soros failed to obtain the election of his candidate, John Kerry, in 2004, he brooded for a while, even said he might get out of politics altogether, but he just couldn???t stop himself. He has stated publicly that he wishes to burst the ???bubble of American supremacy,??? because he says our preeminence in the world is a detriment to global ???equilibrium.??? So far, he has failed, but he keeps on trying.
And Mr. Soros has made no secret either of the fact that he sees the shortest way to effect political shake-ups, what he terms ???regime changes,??? is through very difficult economic conditions.
America has not yet felt the full force of Soros style economic shock treatment. But others have.
Soros made his first billion in 1992 by shorting the British pound with leveraged billions in financial bets, and became known as the man who broke the Bank of England. He broke it on the backs of hard-working British citizens who immediately saw their homes severely devalued and their life savings cut drastically in comparative worth almost overnight.
When the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 threatened to spread globally, George Soros was right in the thick of it. Soros was accused by the Malaysian Prime Minister of causing the collapse with his monetary machinations, and he was branded in Thailand as an ???economic war criminal??? who ???sucks the blood from the people.??? Right in the middle of this crisis, Soros dashed off his book, The Crisis of Global Capitalism, which demanded a ???third way??? toward economic stability.
Wake up, America, before it is too late!!!!