Pop

** Various artists, “Armageddon” soundtrack, Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax. Will the world end with Aerosmith melodramatically tugging at your heartstrings, a resurrected Journey’s wistful slush, Bob Seger’s chugging trucker number “Roll Me Away” and Jon Bon Jovi? Hope not. In that context, ZZ Top’s juke-joint blues on “La Grange” sounds positively arresting, and Shawn Colvin’s cozy version of World Party’s “When the Rainbow Comes” is, sadly, as close to heaven as you’ll ever get.

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