5000 Volts Of Stax - Various Artists

Advantages: Well compiled collection
Disadvantages: Not all best tracks included

...quite as well as others but whose contribution to Soul is an important one. Possibly Taylor’s adaptability for singing in various styles from Soul, Funk, R&B and later Disco precluded his ability to make any one style his own, nevertheless the tracks included here and his biggest hit "Who's Making Love?" show off his vocal ability and his easy singing style to perfection. It is a bit strange however that two other of his tracks "I Had a Dream", "I've Got to Love Somebody's Baby" (both written by the team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter) are missing. No Stax compilation would be complete without some tracks by a legend of Blues guitar Albert King. ‘Born Under A Bad Sign’ the title track form the classic album of the same name in included on Disc 1 and it is a classic in every sense of the word being later covered by many other artist... Read review

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Advantages: Unusual tracks
Disadvantages: None

...I don't usually go out and buy compilations as I tend to find that I already have most of the tracks on other albums. This particular set was given to me as a Christmas present and I was very pleasantly surprised. There are a few well played tracks on here, in particular, those by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, The Staples Singers and Booker T but there are many others, some of which have not had airplay in a long time. Classics Stax artists such as Rufus and Carla Thomas, Albert King, Isaac Hayes, William Bell and the Bar-Kays appear alongside those who are less well known outside the circles of Stax afficionados - Linda Lyndell, Little Milton, Eddie Floyd and Johnnie Taylor being just a few. There are a total of 98 tracks on this set and I didn't find one that I wanted to skip. Stax and B&S fans will love this set. For those new... Read review

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Advantages: Has some good songs in it and has large and lavish sets.
Disadvantages: An odd movie, hard to get a grasp on and by many accounts too imaganitive.

...I will make this breif, The 5000 fingers of Dr. t is a kids film made in the 1950 by Dr. Suess [the same person who made the cat in th hat book collection and said such wise things as, "It is better to be three hours early than one minute too late."] However, when he woke up one morning and decided to make this movie somthing went wrong. The story begins when a young boy is recieving a piano lesson and then doses off to the ticking of the metroknome which is pherched atop the piano. He is then catapolted into a dream in which his piano teacher [D.r T] is attempting to make 500 children play one huge piano all at once. From here the plot deviates and goes down some pherhaps unsuitable paths i.e. the idea that Dr. T will marry his mother [a widow] and due to this be imprisioned for ever in his evil palace. Another black mark... Read review

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