61 Stone - Ska-Gal & The Hands Of Ra

Advantages: Lots of music on each CD
Disadvantages: Not great if you're not a true drum & bass fan

.... High Contrast - Racing green 8. Logistics - Together 9. Calibre - Highlander 10. Formatt - Altered states (rmx) 11. A-Sides - Exodus 12. Peshay - Move your body 13. Uncut - Chinese silk (Calibre rmx) 14. Trinity - Foxy lady 15. Simon Bassline Smith & Drumsound - Feel the sunset 16. Breakage - So vain 17. Commix - Herbie 18. Jahiem - Put that woman first (Calibre Vocal Mix) Disc: 2 (Mixed by Grooverider) 1. Dillinja - Feel my pain 2. Clipz - Cocoa 3. DJ SS - Stress related 4. Codename John - The pussy 5. Twisted individual - Cannibal lunch (Surge remix) 6. Keaton & Hive - Bring it on 7. Generation Dub - Puppet master 8. Zinc - Ska rmx 9. Codename John - Stone killa 10. DJ Friction & Nu Balance - Bogeyman 11. DJ SS - Anger management 12. Nightbreed - Pack of wolves 13. DJ Fresh - Tomb raider 14. Dynamite MC - Ride (Dillinja remix) 15... Read review

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Advantages: loud and pumping
Disadvantages: some boring tunes

.... Peshay - Move your body 13. Uncut - Chinese silk (Calibre rmx) 14. Trinity - Foxy lady 15. Simon Bassline Smith & Drumsound - Feel the sunset 16. Breakage - So vain 17. Commix - Herbie 18. Jahiem - Put that woman first (Calibre Vocal Mix) Disc: 2 (Mixed by Grooverider) 1. Dillinja - Feel my pain 2. Clipz - Cocoa 3. DJ SS - Stress related 4. Codename John - The pussy 5. Twisted individual - Cannibal lunch (Surge remix) 6. Keaton & Hive - Bring it on 7. Generation Dub - Puppet master 8. Zinc - Ska rmx 9. Codename John - Stone killa 10. DJ Friction & Nu Balance - Bogeyman 11. DJ SS - Anger management 12. Nightbreed - Pack of wolves 13. DJ Fresh - Tomb raider 14. Dynamite MC - Ride (Dillinja remix) 15. Drumsound & Bassline Smith - The Odyssey 16. Dred Bass - World of music (Twisted individual rmx) 17. Ebony Dubsters - Ra 18. Dillinja... Read review

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Advantages: Some extremely strong tracks present here, an excellent horn section.
Disadvantages: Less Ska based than their older albums.

.... 'New York, New York' on the other hand more or less sticks to the script of the Frank Sinatra original and is therefore an extremely uninspired and somewhat irritating copycat cover. 'Cheer Up' is an album that I would recommend to all fans of the Ska Punk genre as it is overall pretty impressive and the band possess a most fantastic horn section. Having said this, it is by no means the best album that the band have ever recorded and therefore if you've been put off delving further into the music of Reel Big Fish by this album then I would strongly suggest that you forget what you have heard here and give either their 'Turn The Radio Off' or 'Why Do They Rock So Hard' albums a listen. One major downside of this album is that if you listen to it too much then it will seriously start to get on your nerves and you will feel like throwing... Read review

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