George Harrison (1943 - 2001) Best of 

"Something", "If I Need Someone", "Here Comes The Sun", "Taxman", "Think For Yourself", "For You Blue", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "My Sweet Lord", "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)", "You", "Bangladesh", "Dark Horse", "What Is Life"

    Bobby Blue Band, B.B. King - I Like to Live the Love 

         The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 

David Bowie - Hours The White Duke is truly back! And what a gorgeous homecoming it is. In Hours, he incorporates trip-hop, ambient, synth-pop, glam, and a couple other styles. David Bowie has indeed mastered the art of rejuvenalization and pushing the boundaries of musical genius to infinite dimensions. Another classic from an artist who is still essential.

Michelle Branch - Spirit Room   Enhanced. + 1 Bonus Track

"Everywhere", "You Get Me", "All You Wanted", "You Set Me Free"... 12 top songs from this rocking girl who plays their own instruments and loves very much Dylan, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, Cat Stevens and The Beatles. Michelle Branch: a name to remember.

 

Today's rock / grunge / hip-hop, etc.

 

  Buckcherry - Buckcherry
Ever wonder what happened to rock & roll? Buckcherry has the answer. Hard-edged rocking melodies and straight-out references to all the debauchery that you can stand.

                                Bush - Science of Things

                                Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - This Beautiful Life

                                Beastie Boys - Hallo Nasty

Classical

  The Bach Variations. A.Windham Hill Sampler
Performer: Steve Cardenas, Paul McCandless, et al.
Orchestra: Nightnoise, Modern Mandolin Quartet, et al.

            Ludwig van Beethoven - 9th Symphony

           Cecilia Bartoli - If You Love Me (Se tu m'ami) 18th-Century Italian Songs

Prog rock / International

          Captain Beefheart - The Dust Blows Forward  [BOX SET]

Take early Frank Zappa, take away the avant/classical and substitute it with blues, and that might give you a fair idea of what Captain Beefheart sounds like. Infinitely easier to listen to than transcribe. The band's "tightness" ranges from loose to completely free. Totally unique. Overwhelmingly imaginative. Superb lyrics. A fresh outlook on life, the universe and everything. Captain Beefheart himself (real name: Don van Vliet) is, according to my latest information, retired from music and living out west--the desert in Arizona, if I'm not mistaken.

          Boston: Third Stage

Bestsellers

   Jonathan Kellerman - Billy Straight

Kellerman isn't just an Edgar Award-winning thriller writer, he's a prominent child psychologist, and it shows in Billy Straight.
The hero is a 12-year-old runaway whose sharp mind and straitlaced moral sense make him fit to survive the lurid jungles of Hollywood. One night hiding in Griffith Park, Billy witnesses the butchering of Lisa Ramsey, the cokehead ex-wife of Cart Ramsey, a crummy actor-golfer once busted for pummeling Lisa. Did Cart knife Lisa, or was it his pathetic old football sidekick Greg Balch?

Gary Brodsky - The Art of Getting Even Do-it-youself justice manual

The cruelest ideas are the funniest. "Best thing since sliced bread."

                    The Boys on the Bus   by Timothy Crouse

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Best books of the 20th Century

   Michail BULGAKOV -  Master and Margarita

Black Snow
                            World Classics

 

              Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange