Alan Freed's Rock & Roll Dance Party - Various Artists

Advantages: 2 discs of great tunes
Disadvantages: repition of songs.

...This is a great compilation album from the australian based electronic label which has bought us artists such as cut copy. 2 discs give you a mixed and unmixed selection of songs (some repitition on the same discs) the mixed disc is a well composed mix ideal for pre club drinking or in the car. the unmixed disc gives the listener chance to listen to the songs in their entirity. people may recognise some artists such as bloc party as their tracks feature with remixed and edited versions, but more importantly it gives the listener a chance to discover new artists. the album comprises of a mix of indie with a dance feel, and electro based dance-pop. if that sounds like your thing, go for this.... Read review

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Advantages: Good old dance tracks! Bringing back Old memories!
Disadvantages: Too commercial in some points!

...Wow this is neat. Ive always "digged" electronic music, since my uncle gave me an MC-303, but forget about that. All right, this CD is packed with all that good old school electronic "rock n roll" we all now. Maybe some of the tracks are a bit TOO commercial, like phats and small, and Wildchild, but really. We all miss these old classics, and this cd is actually awsome! You will sit back with tears in your eyes and remember some of your first moments when you fell a little in love, with dance music. Cause thats what this is all about. Its dance, and its old school - but it really doesnt matter cause every track on this cd rocks. I can only recommend this CD - i personally think its awsome!... Read review

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Advantages: Forty of the greatest Rock and Roll Songs Ever Written, and all orinals
Disadvantages: Lack of Sleeve Notes

...of Charles Edward Berry has gone walkabout so I’ll just have to play it by ear. Chuck Berry started in a three piece combo in the early fifties and came up with his trademark guitar intro (you know, Johnny B. Goode) , by adapting one of the piano riffs that his pianist was playing. When he started making rock and roll records he had to co credit Alan Freed (the DJ who allegedly coined the phrase Rock’n’Roll and applied it to music, it was in fact a euphemism , for , how can I put this genteelly, ah yes, making love), but back to Freed , he was a WHITE man) because Berry was BLACK and could not get a deal unless a WHITE man got a cut of the proceeds. This collection solely credits Berry with writing Maybelline so maybe justice has been done. Berry’s songs always tell a story, and usually clock in at less than three... Read review

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