Adam: (La) Filleule des Fées

Advantages: Talented songwriter with skills and a great voice
Disadvantages: Bit long?

...to be my favourite of all his albums. Adams describes it as him trying to recreate an oldies station in his own work. I think he downplays the work and originality evident in this album, but it definitely has that classic rock feel, as it bounces through the shimmery 'New York, New York' and the Stones-y 'Gonna make you love me'. 'Firecracker' boasts a mean harmonica, while 'Tina Toledo' goes all bluesy on you. There are also the haunting ballads that Adams' breaking falsetto seems built for, such as 'When the stars go blue'. Mixing in gospel and country flavours, this album is a work of thought and breadth that you rarely see in pop. And no one can do 'follow-me-into-depression' music better than Ryan. The ultimate song for that is 'La Cienega just smiled'. So simple, achingly beautiful. 'How could I know I'd feel so bad... Read review

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Advantages: A few really good tracks, some De La Soul tunes you have never heard before
Disadvantages: The album has no flow, a few weak remixes

...***Warning*** This review does contain some edited adult language and themes. The words have been changed but the meaning is plain. In the stacks of wax you can find the De La Mix: Remixes, Rarities & Classics, De La Soul's 2004 release on Tommy Boy/ Rhino. This is not so much a greatest hits as it is a revisiting in an alternate universe. Both commercial and critical successes are treated to a fresh dusting off, live performance or remix on this disk. Laying down the Knowledge For those of you that don't already know, De La Soul has been around since rap was just rap. Hip hop was just starting to take root as a music genre. There was just rap. When the boys from Long Island hit the scene there was the rap that played on the radio and the rap we listened to when our parents were out of ear shot. De La dropped 3 Feet High... Read review

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Advantages: A wonderful lyric based song
Disadvantages: most of the other songs on the album are crap

..."I never conquered, rarely came, tommorow holds such better days, days when i just feel alive, and i cant wait to get outside" Thats just part of the chorus of this masterpiece from Blink 182! Adam's song is a very sad song which is Track 7 on Enema of the State, an Album which saw Blink 182 come into the world as a very popular pop rock band. This song is the best song on the Album along with Going Away To College and a few others in this pop infested album. Adam's song is about a boy called Adam (naturally) who's teenage life is going wrong and everything is just a mess after he's split up with his girlfriend and he's contemplating suicide. The video for this song is pretty cool as it shows Blink 182 performing infront of a board full of pictures of happy memories with the camera zooming in on them and playing... Read review

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