20 Famous Irish Ballads - Various Artists

Advantages: Some great classic listening!
Disadvantages: Brings back sad memories!

...Being a big fan of Rock Ballads, as soon as I heard this advertised I rushed out to buy, I even paid £15.99 at HMV for it, although I am sure you could buy cheaper elsewhere for instance play.com, Amazon.co.uk to name but a few, but I just couldn’t be bothered to shop around and I wanted to hear sooner rather than later. Power Ballads is a double CD compilation of 39 tracks by various artists. Ballads spanning over several decades (70’s, 80’s 90’s and 00’s) brought together on 2 fantastic CD’s by Virgin Music Group Ltd. Disc 1 information: Total play time 79.05 minutes Track 01 Hero, published by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp BMI/Arm Your Dillo Publishing Inc (SOCAN) and produced by Chad Kroeger (2002), you may remember this song and video from Spiderman, fantastically performed by Chad... Read review

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Advantages: Relaxing story telling music with a bit of heart
Disadvantages: Too boring

...OK album, with a nice mix of different artist most of which i have never hear of before. As you can probably tell I'm not usually into this kind of music but being someone always looking to expand my musical horizons, I thought i would give it a go but was not too impressed. Most of the songs featured were not too impressive, many of which sounded very boring and generic for the genre. Track 15, Green Fields of France - Furey & Davey Arthur was probably one of the most impressive tracks on the album; this song featured delicately sung lyrics and an impressive story which i think is based on world war 2. Some of the other tracks were almost up to this standard but were too boring and didn't catch my attention.... Read review

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Advantages: really good collection of favourites and classic oldies
Disadvantages: none that i have found

...Fantastic classic power ballad music, something to tempt everyone and tantalise all. included in the album are some real favourites from various iconic artists a real must have. I love it. This is another fabulous follow up to previous power ballad albums all along the same fantastic collections of classics and memorable hits all mixed up to reveal a wonderful collection. It goes well in any cd player , but its best played in the car on any journey real music to drive to and sing along with no-one will know go on go for it. If you are a ballad or rock ballad fan this collection is a must have go get and enjoy as much as i have. Go on you know you want to.!!!!!... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful