The holiday shopping season leaps toward full swing this week, which means the big guns are starting to roll out onto the battlefield. Take a look:
I somehow missed this when it was released a month ago in conjunction with the full-series DVD set, so imagine my surprise to go CD shopping yesterday afternoon and happen across a copy of The Best of Ally McBeal: The Songs of
Vonda Shepard, a solidly assembled compendium of musical highlights from the five-season run of Fox’s iconic dramedy (plus a previously unreleased track, “Something About You”). Included here: Shepard’s riveting duets with Indigo Girl Emily Saliers (“Baby Don’t You Break My Heart Slow”) and Robert Downey, Jr. (“Chances Are”), as well as those old chestnuts “Maryland” and “The Wildest Times of the World” and “Hooked on a Feeling,” and, of course, Ally’s rip-roarin’ theme song “Searchin’ My Soul,” which still makes you wanna get up and shake your ass some twelve years later. The Buzz still loves ya, gal.
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names dropped with reckless abandon: "Ally McBeal", "Dawson's Creek", A, Adam Lambert, Adam Schlesinger, Beyonce, Bon Jovi, Britney Spears, Chris Carrabba, Dashboard Confessional, David Gray, Emily Saliers, Filter, Fountains of Wayne, Indigo Girls, Jason Mraz, Jon Bon Jovi, Kathy Griffin, Kings of Leon, Richie Sambora, Robert Downey Jr., Sherry Ann, Snow Patrol, Switchfoot, The Killers, Tori Amos, Vonda Shepard
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I’m still positively reeling over CBS’ announcement today that they are yanking “Guiding Light” off the air after 72 continuous years, and I’ll have my thoughts on that news just as soon as I’ve fully gathered them. In the meantime, there’s another full slate of new releases to close out the month of March in high style, kids. Waste no time digging in:
I’m not sure whose ridiculous idea this was: that fabulous trumpeter extraordinaire Chris Botti schedules a two-night stand last fall at the world-famous Boston Symphony Hall, invites a who’s-who of his all-star pals — among them Sting, Josh Groban, and Aerosmith’s fearless leader Steven Tyler — to play along, and fails to include his gorgeous muse Paula Cole, with whom he has created so much terrific, passionately brilliant music over the past four years? (Worse yet, he invites that pitiful fourth-rate “American Idol” runner-up Katharine McPhee to take her place! Is he kidding me with this?!) I’m trying to hard not to pass judgment on Live in Boston before I’ve even heard a note of it, but what an unspeakable outrage is the setlist of this concert recording on the face of it! Color me physically offended by this blatant foolishness!
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names dropped with reckless abandon: "American Idol", "California Dreams", "Grey's Anatomy", "Guiding Light", Aerosmith, AJ Croce, Brad Paisley, Bria Valente, Cameron Mathison, Chris Botti, Chris Whitley, Clay Aiken, Cyndi Lauper, Dave Matthews Band, Diana Krall, Dolly Parton, Etta James, Filter, Finola Hughes, Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner, Gavin DeGraw, Gloria Estefan, INXS, Jeff Buckley, Jim Croce, John Parish, Josh Groban, Karen O, Katharine McPhee, Keith Urban, Kelly Ripa, Led Zeppelin, Maria Taylor, Michael Bolton, Paula Cole, Peter Bjorn & John, PJ Harvey, Prince, Rebecca Budig, Ryan Adams, Steven Tyler, Stevie Nicks, Sting, Susan Flannery, Susan Lucci, Suzie McNeil, the soaps, Toto, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
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