100 Greatest Classics

Advantages: Heavy, rocky, dark and downright awesome album
Disadvantages: not enough people know it

...Recently there was a poll conducted by Metal Hammer and Classic Rock magazines to get a top 100 greatest albums of all time. Therapy? were not in it at all. Odd, very odd. This is the 1994 album from Irelands finest. No, not U2 but Therapy?. Consisting of Andy Cairns (vocals and guitar), Michael McKeegan (Bass) and Fyfe Ewing (drums), this band are still rocking (albeit without Ewing) to this day and I saw them live last year promoting their new ‘Shameless’ album. This rock album is not for the faint hearted. It is a very dark outing into the world of music and should not be untaken lightly. Putting on this album is like when Clarice is walking down the corridor to see Lecter in Silence of the Lambs. 14 tracks of pure insanity. Each one of these songs feels like some form of madness. This is a really heavy guitar... Read review

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Advantages: Beautiful, experimental sound
Disadvantages: Sometimes just becoming too bizarre

...Where can I start to review an album like this? Perhaps with a bit of information about the band. Radiohead are made up of: Thom Yorke (vocals) Jonny Greenwood (guitar) Colin Greenwood (bass) Ed O'Brien (guitar) Philip Selway (Drums) In 1993, they released their first album Pablo Honey, which was full of rock songs and showed they had potential, but wasn't actually that good. Next came The Bends in 1995, which was a huge step up, because they mixed their rock roots with some songs that were a bit slower, and in the process created some classic like Street Spirit and Just. The Bends was voted number 20 in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Albums. However, if that album was great, 1997's OK Computer was extraordinary. Each of the twelve songs on there is overflowing with originality and haunting beauty, and it remains one of the greatest... Read review

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Advantages: All The Best Hits
Disadvantages: No new songs

...This is all the best releases from the Gallagher brothers since they really shot to fame, includes classics like Cigarettes and Alcohol and Roll with it. It comes on two cds and features over 100 minutes of all the best tracks that Oasis have released, the title of the CD would have been more appropriate if they would have called it greatest hits, then again bands only do that when they have decided to call it a day, wonder if the Gallagher brothers are making a statement by bringing this album out, or more likely they probable brought it out to content with the Beatles realease of 1.... Read review

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Advantages: All the songs are classics, contains songs I didn't already have on loads of other compilations!
Disadvantages: Didn't include the No. 1 from the Channel 4 Top 100!

...This album was a spin-off from the Channel 4 show, the Top 100 No. 1 singles of all time, which I really enjoyed so I had to go out and buy the album! The album has some real classics, although strangely, the No.1 single in Channel 4's top 100 - Imagine by John Lennon - is not included! Perhaps they couldn't afford the copyright fees or whatever! That aside, there are some great songs! CD1 has the real all time classics, like Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, Procol Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale and Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water. CD2 has some more modern classics in the making, like Prodigy's Firestarter, Fat Boy Slim's Praise You and even something as recent as Spiller's Groovejet. I love just about every song on this album, and it is refreshing to see some titles on there which don't crop up on just about every... Read review

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Advantages: Classic songs
Disadvantages: None

...Greatest Hits III brings the trilogy of Greatest Hits albums to an end. It was long awaited, but it was definitely worth the wait. This is the first album to be produced by the group after the death of lead singer Freddie Mercury. Some of the songs on the album are from the Freddie Mercury tribute concert, so it includes songs with George Michael and David Bowie. It is definitely worth buying, if not only to just complete the trilogy. It is another classic by one of the most successful groups of all time and a fitting end to a great legacy.... Read review

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