It looks and sounds spectacular, which is no small thing, it is jam-packed with special features-mini-documentaries, an outtake, film trailers, etc.-and it is a perfectly good opportunity to re-examine the film all these years later. The Beatles: Help! Blu-Ray (Capitol) While it seems oddly pointless to write about the quality of a movie most pop fans are already well familiar with, this latest, digitally restored version of the Beatles’ classic 1965 film Help! is still worth noting. Though nothing here may leap out as instant radio fodder, one serious listen is all it will take to convince you that the craft on display here is a pure art statement, not fashion statement, and we’ll likely be enjoying it for years. Creatively arranged, marvelously paced, wonderfully played and imaginatively sung, the album is way better than most normal people could have hoped for and certainly one of this year’s very best. India.Arie: SongVersation (Motown) My jaw is still dropping over the sheer artfulness and excellence of this, the fifth studio album by highly acclaimed singer/songwriter India.Arie–who has assembled a suite of wonderfully melodic, intelligent tunes that frankly sound as if they were plucked from the pages of one of those Greatest Albums Of All Time articles most of us see, page through, and then dutifully ignore.
Though technicalities would disqualify me from winning the Pulitzer Prize I certainly deserve, I’m proud to note I’ll be available on more mobile devices than ever before! And it won’t cost a thing! Starting this week, each and every one of my blog posts will be available absolutely free of charge to users of Samsung Galaxy smartphones!
Still, I’d like to take this opportunity to announce what may be the single biggest break this writer has ever received in his long career! Like most of us, I’m still getting over the news that singer Rihanna has taken to wearing a new hat-apparently some sort of veil is involved, and I’m assured it’s the height of fashion-and am trying to put my own puny life in perspective!
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