Alain Kremski - Alain Kremski

Advantages: Lyrically sublime
Disadvantages: It's not a double album!

...-age to the dole-age There is but one concern I have just discovered : Some girls are bigger than others Some girls are bigger than others Some girl's mothers are bigger than Other girl's mothers" More amusing when you consider that the guy singing has more rumours about his possible homosexuality than a lot of other artists! ************ Cover/inlay ************ The cover photo is Alain Delon apparently, doesn't mean much to me, but I've a feeling that it means something! On the inside cover is a black and white photo of the band, I'm sure they looked cool at the time, but to me they just look like a bunch of mis-fits and at this point Morrissey's hair isn't too bad either! The first half of the inlay has lyrics printed pink on a greeny black, the second half being the opposite and another black and white photo being inside the back... Read review

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Advantages: Mer and My Sofa Get Reaquanted
Disadvantages: No Small Faces Covers

...Sessions, you play for the sake of music" - Josh Homme This CD contains Volume 9 "I see You Hearin' Me" and 10 "I Heart Disco" of the desert Sessions and features:- Polly Jean Harvey, Dean Ween (Ween), Alain Johannes (Eleven), Joshua Homme, Twiggy Ramirez (ex-Marilyn Manson), Chris Goss (Masters of Reality), Dave Catching (earthlings?, Mondo Generator), Joey Castillo (QOTSA), Josh Freese, Brian 'Big Hands' O'Connor, Troy Van Leeuwen and The Tuff Gentlemen. Volume 9 "I See You Hearin' Me" "Dead In Love" A wonderfully sleazy piece of hard rock with Josh's montonic croon swooping over the music. Moderately strange and spooky with a sense of urgency. "I Wanna Make It Wit Chu" A sweet bouncy piano driven tune with laid back funky guitars, and back ground vocals by Polly Jean Harvey. Incredibly catchy, slightly trippy, laid back... Read review

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Advantages: Some good tracks
Disadvantages: Too many misses

...After an excellent start with the self-titled first album, 1977’s Ha! Ha! Ha! was a sad disappointment, despite featuring a couple of outstanding tracks in the perplexing Man Who Dies Every Day and Hiroshima Mon Amour. The latter, named after the acclaimed 1959 film by Alain Resnais, was a subtle yet innovative blend of drum machine, keyboards, saxophone and John Foxx’s crooned vocal. It was also to be the last material issued by the original line up of Foxx, Chris Cross (bass), Warren Cann (drums), Billy Currie (keyboards and violin) and Stevie Shears (guitar). After the panning which faced Ha! Ha! Ha!, a disillusioned Shears left the group, to be replaced by Robin Simon. It has to be said though that there is good stuff here and the early Ultravox deserve to be better known than they are.... Read review

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