The "millennium" in Rhino's Millennium Classic Rock Party collection really is just a way to tart up a basic collection of familiar album rock songs. Nothing about this disc says anything about the millennium -- it just summarizes the '70s. On that level, it's really quite good, since it contains 20 tracks that have come to define classic rock radio: "We Will Rock You," "More Than a Feeling," "Hot Blooded," "Aqualung," "No More Mr. Nice Guy," "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet," {&"S...   [ read more ]

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Maxinquaye was an unexpected hit in England, launching a wave of similar-sounding artists, who incorporated Tricky's innovations into safer pop territory. Tricky responded by travelling to Jamaica to record Pre-Millennium Tension, a nervy, claustrophobic record that thrives in its own paranoia. Scaling back the clattering hooks of Maxinquaye and slowing the beat down, Tricky has created a hallucinatory soundscape, where the rhythms, samples, and guitars intertwine into a crawling processi...   [ read more ]

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Sisters Karen and Shellie Poole, aka Alisha's Attic, dominated the airwaves of the late '90s with their brand of kooky melodic pop. Scoring a respectable eight Top 40 hits, they never troubled the Top Ten, but came agonizingly close several times with five of their singles charting between number 12 and number 14. The Collection includes all these hits for the first time, but released without the girls' consent, it's not exactly a labor of love. The problem with compiling a "best of" for an act...   [ read more ]

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