You’re making your list and we’ve made ours: tons of ideas for presents--even for those hardest to please. : From Elton to Boyz to Celine to Dylan, It’s an Album Bull Market
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Looking for gift ideas? The list of the most popular CDs is always a place to start. For a little guidance, Calendar’s pop staff surveyed 40 of the nation’s most popular or critically acclaimed albums.
*** 1/2 METALLICA, “Re-Load,” Elektra. Less a sequel to last year’s “Load” than a virtual repudiation of it. Gone are the gloss and harmonizing, replaced by the processional tempos and thickly textured riffs of the “black” album.
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Albums and other items in Gift Guide are rated on a scale of one star (poor), two stars (fair), three stars (good) and four stars (excellent).
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