52nd Street Themes - Joe Lovano Nonet

Advantages: Consistant quality
Disadvantages: A couple of tracks let it down

...relationships which he knows aren't working out, because he knows that he is able to do things better than they currnetly do. I flet that using uch a metaphor made for a great concept of providing an escape to sample a better life with a man who is guaranteed to value the love more than the current partner does. I thinkl that this would have made for an amazing video, so it's a shame that it wasn't released as a single, because it certainly has the potential to do big things with such asn original theme, which has both fun and exciting elements. **Four Stars** "So Beautiful" I knew that at some point it would come; this is the ballard in the album. I just can't do with these songs as they just aren't designed for males to listen to at all. Joe didit better than most other R&B singers, but I still ws never going to get into it... Read review

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Advantages: Nice selection of tracks. Great for inspiring guitarists.
Disadvantages: Relatively small market niche.

...Along with the globally massive “surfing with the alien” this has to be one of Joe's more well known albums. It was also one of the first ones that I got my hands on. On his official website “www.satriani.com” there are links to where you can hear audio clips of his album. You can also hear clips from all his other albums including his live releases. I very much suggest listening to these to hear some of his other amazing work to, and to find out if you would like to purchase a certain CD or not. The Extremist was his 5th studio album released in 1992, so lets see how it shapes up.... ALL SONGS WRITTEN AND ARRANGED BY JOE SATRIANI PRODUCED AND MIXED BY ANDY JOHNS AND JOE SATRIANI ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION BY JOHN CUNIBERTI The track listings. 01 = Friends (3min28sec) - The opening of the album with a big drum... Read review

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Advantages: Street Life's spectacular lyricism is stellar like A STAR and IS BORN within each song.
Disadvantages: Filler songs with atrocious beats that make my ears HUNG in THESE hideous STREETS!

...to the hook where he rhymes for only two-bars. The Wu-Tang Clan artist, who I consider to be a supreme lyricist, has been traded in favour for Carlton Fisk who covers the second verse. Carlton Fisk fails lyrically, particularly with respect to double rhyming and a flurry of words that DON'T rhyme. This to me, exemplifies a pretty rubbish attempt at being a lyricist: [Carlton Fisk - 2nd verse] '....ni**az can't f*ck with P.L.O., for real all that sh*t sound slick, but let's be for real....' Owing to the mediocre lyrical display, including the AWFUL wordplay in the second verse, I am unable to rate A Star Is Born higher than 9/10. If Street Life selected Inspectah Deck to sword slash the second verse in Shaolin style, I would have respected this track entirely to rate it ++10/10. Rating... Read review

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