#963 Amy Winehouse – Frank

Amy Winehouse was not an artist that I ever liked. I do not know much of her music, but I know more about her life. I know too much about her life. She was a mess. I do not understand why they let these drug addicts destroy themselves. Record companies are pure evil. Frank was […]

#906 Bebel Gilberto – Tanto Tempo

Bebel Gilberto is a Brazilian-American bossa nova singer. I hate this genre almost as much as I hate country music. Tanto Tempo her album on the list does not have much information, except that it was released in 2000. Overall, this is better than most albums of this genre. Her vocals are good. I think it […]

#670 Pixies – Bossanova

Another Pixies album? I think they made too many albums too close together. I get burnt out when an artist does that. Bossanova was their third album in three years and it is their third on the list. At first I was not enjoying this album, but that all changed on “All Over the World“. It […]

1001 Albums #41

Getz/Gilberto from American saxophonist Stan Getz and Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto is Bossa Nova Jazz from 1964. It is another collaboration from Stan Getz in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. If you read my review of Getz last album, then you know I hated it. I gave it a 2/10. It […]

1001 Albums #33

The Bossa Nova craze was fueled in the States in 1962 when the album Jazz Samba by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd was released. Getz toured Brazil in 1961 and brought back the “new trend” or “new wave” of jazz and samba fusion. If you do not like samba, jazz, or the horns, then I […]