Lie or Die

Springsteen reconvened the E Street Band for 11 new songs on Magic, noting that the album’s title refers to the “times when what’s true can be made to seem like a lie, and what’s a lie can be made to seem true.” Magic debuted at #1 on the Billboard album chart, and singles “Radio Nowhere” and “Girls in their Summer Clothes” each won Grammys for Best Rock Song.

Five disc (four CDs + DVD) box set from the German guitarist and his band, an official 'bootleg' release. Walk The Stage features four different live shows spread across a quartet of CDs (Live At The Hammersmith Odeon 1980, Live At Osaka First Show, September 10th, 1981, Live At Osaka Second Show, September 11th, 1981 and Live At The Reading Rock Festival, August 29th, 1982) plus one DVD: Live At The Hammersmith Odeon 1983…

Dream Theater finally released their first official live album, the double-disc Once in a LIVEtime (recorded June 1998 in Paris). Granted, the 1995 release A Change of Seasons contained a wealth of live material, but they were all cover songs, and 1994's Live at the Marquee was only available as a European import…

Hiroyuki Sawano is a Japanese composer and musician best known for his work on many anime, TV series, and movies.

Gustav Mahler - Nine Symphonies, Orchestral Songs, etc. - Sinopoli (2015) {17CDs Deutsche Grammophon}
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Classical / Romantic / Symphonic

My first reaction was to wonder whether we had not passed saturation-point for recordings of Mahler's Fifth Symphony. Over a dozen are currently available, of which any one of those mentioned above should satisfy the needs of even an insatiable Mahlerian. All are performances on insight, executed in majestic style, and several are available on CD. Now comes Sinopoli to add to the pile. Remembering colleagues' reviews of his London performances of Mahler, I put this recording on the turntable with misgivings. But I have to report that I now gladly make room for this remarkable performance alongside my other favourites. It does not displace them, but it complements them.
Part of the art of conducting seems to me to lie in the ability to make the listener attend afresh to familiar music, to reveal new or different facets. This is what Sinopoli does here, and whatever may go on in the concert hall (I have not heard him there), in the recording studio, judging by this release, the most certainly does not miss or misjudge the spirit of the music.

If you really liked 18 Til I Die, then at first you might be a little disappointed with this album, or make that a lot… that's how I felt. It just didn't have that same melodic edge or the songwriting as the previous one. But for some reason it really grew on me, to a point where I actually like this one more…

Bon Jovi is an American rock band formed in 1983 in Sayreville, New Jersey. It consists of singer Jon Bon Jovi, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, guitarist Phil X, and bassist Hugh McDonald. Original bassist Alec John Such quit the band in 1994, and longtime guitarist and co-songwriter Richie Sambora left in 2013. The band have been credited with "[bridging] the gap between heavy metal and pop with style and ease".

By the time 1988's Gringo rolled around, Journey had all but called it a day (until their reunion a decade or so later) and Gregg Rolie was going in a decidedly different direction than his tenure in either Journey or Santana. As "The Hands of Time" immediately makes evident, Rolie was shooting for the top of the pop charts, falling somewhere between Daryl Hall's "Dreamtime" and Don Johnson's "Heartbeat" on the musical landscape…