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Yes and Cher have released new albums this week, joining Limp Bizkit and the American Heroes telethon soundtrack.
Catalog releases on CD include Alan Parsons' On Air and Doris Day's Sentimental Journey/Latin For Lovers.
Other new stuff getting attention is a tribute album to Jeff Lynne (yes, the ELO frontman) called Lynne Me Your Ears and the new albums from Creed, Smash Mouth and Ludacris.
Your old music cannot sustain you through a life, not if you're someone who listens to music every day, at every opportunity. You need input, because pop music is about freshness, about Nelly Furtado and the maddeningly memorable fourth track on a first album by a band you saw on a late-night TV show. And no, that fourth track is not as good as anything on Pet Sounds or Blonde on Blonde or What's Going On, but when was the last time you played Pet Sounds? - Songbook by Nick Hornby
Nothing on that list, but I already ordered Outkast's new album, Big Boi and Andre Present Outkast. It was released 12/4. I can't wait til it comes. Of course, in the mean time, I've already d/led several tracks from the album