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Performer: Now That's What I Call Music!Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-11-13
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Soulja Boy - Crank That
- The Way I Are - Timbaland
- Lovestoned - Justin Timberlake
- Shut Up & Drive - Rihanna
- Wall To Wall - Chris Brown
- Beautiful Girls - Sean Kingston
- Can't Tell Me Nothing - Kanye West
- Make Me Better - Fabolous
- Bed - J. Holliday
- Cyclone - Baby Bash/T-Pain
- Big Girls Don't Cry - Fergie
- Who Knew? - Pink
- When I'm Gone - Avril Lavigne
- Pictures Of You - The Last Goodnight
- Hey There Delilah - Plain White T's
- Over You - Daughtry
- Rockstar - Nickelback
- Never Too Late - Three Days Grace
- First Time - Lifehouse
- I Don't Wanna Be In Love - Good Charlotte
Music reviews of NOW 26
Music Review: Quite a few outstanding songs with good variety
Rating: 4 Stars
When reviewing music, I ask myself a few questions; for a specific song:
1. Would I pay to download it from Amazon or iTunes?
2. If I got it free (e.g. as a gift), would I put it on my iPod? &
3. For a CD, I'd also ask: how many of the songs meet the above criteria? To me most CDs by a single artist only have 1 or 2 out of 12 songs or so that meet the criteria, making them not worth the money
I'd hope that a "Best of" or compilation CD would have a MUCH higher percentage of songs I'd buy or download otherwise. The prior Now, Vol. 23 didn't IMHO, but this one does. I'd have done 9 of the 20:
#2 The Way I Are is actually sung mostly by Keri Hilson who does a fab job of singing it. Lovely.
#4 Shut Up & Drive features Rihanna's fine singing voice with less of her over-repetition of lyrics than other; it's not beyond her range as other songs might be
#8 Beautiful Girls is really catchy--when it 1st came out, I searched the radio to hear it again & again--if the lyrics don't turn you off, it's fantastic! It was a challenge finding out the title at first--so I could download it. DJs aren't as crisp in describing songs they're playing as they used to be. They need to showcase the songs better.
#11 Big Girls Don't Cry has the same title as an old 4 Seasons song, but it's a totally different one. This song shows off Fergie's singing ability with less of a heavy rap sound. I like it a lot.
#12 Who Knew? Is the first song I ever downloaded. Whoever did the arrangement is a genius--reminds me of the fantastic arrangement of Gwen Stefani's "Sweet Escape" though the style here is quite different. Pink shows she has pipes, can really sing, can put feeling/meaning into a song, can subtly insert stylistic words/inflections, etc. It's one of my favs of all time. Fantastic IMHO. Deserves more recognition.
#13 When You're Gone is probably my favorite Avril Lavigne song--though in fairness, I haven't heard all that many of them. The one's I'd heard before didn't' impress me much, but this one does. Perhaps, I should check her out better.
#14 Hey There Delilah was played zillions of times on the radio, but I never tired of it for some reason. It's certainly a touching song in which one can identify with the singer & the supposed girlfriend listener. Deservedly a big hit. I'd already downloaded it before.
#17 Rockstar is another of Nickelback's fine songs--their singles tend to be great, but their albums often have a lot of totally different type songs--that I don't like as well as their terrific singles. This song reminds me of "Life's Been Good to Me" by the Eagles & "Cover of the Rolling Stone" by Dr. Hook. It's a riot IMHO. A really fun song with a good beat--a good foil to modern Macho & Gangsta types.
#19 First Time is yet another fantastic Lifehouse song--they've had quite a few. I'd downloaded it before. You can easily identify their sound/style when you hear it even if you haven't heard the song before.
To me, most of the other 11 songs were okay with only one or two I really didn't like at all. Also, 9 out of 20 is pretty good, esp. when these compilations try to cover many different tastes/genres. Probably worth 4 ? stars IMHO, but your taste will differ from mine: "different strokes for different folks.
p.s. I'm not big on rap music, as you can probably see, but I was very impressed with Kanye West at the Grammy awards--his acceptance speech was terrific!
Description of NOW 26
And the hits just keep coming! 2007 installment in this enormously popular series. This collection features 20 cuts from the likes of Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Avril Lavigne, Kanye West, Rihanna, Plain White T's, Fergie, Pink, Daughtry and many others. Capitol.General CDs
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