Albanian Village Music (Recorded In Tirana In 1930) - Various Artists

Advantages: A few scarface film samples
Disadvantages: Nearly the whole thing

...Many people have been influenced by the scarface film and the rap genre has especially referenced to it man songs. This is now an official compilation of songs with money, power and respect themes. as you would imagine, all are rap. Put together in 2003, this def jam idea includes songs by Nas, Mobb Deep and Notorious BIG, some made especially for the album some old tracks that just fit. None appear in the film but there are samples and dialouge used from the picture. Tracks Its Mine - Mobb Deep & Nas. Scarface cues used as the sample in this one which was originally put t ogether in 99. A good relevant track to start the album Yeo - Cam'ron. Samples Rush Rush which is used in the film, rush rush get the yayo may be more familiar. best bit about the song is actually the sample with cam'rons raps not adding much but loads... Read review

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Advantages: Easy but not shallow reading, deeply chucklesome
Disadvantages: At the price, none

...A book that is tremendously annoying in the sense that as a music fan you wish you'd written it first. Giles Smith's comfortable, easy writing style takes you through his life with popular music; listening to it, buying it, obsessing over it, and finally attempting to play it in public for money. Along the way he goes through such pivotal moments as buying your first single (and lying about what it was years later), realising that Dark Side Of The Moon is rubbish, discovering that a music fan can't lose his virginity with the record player on, being compelled to buy everything Nik Kershaw records, failing to heed John Peel's warnings that it'll all end in tears, the revelation that Andy Partridge is a total genius, being big in Germany for about five minutes, having your bandmate break down and run off to become a gardener... Read review

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Advantages: hardcore at it's best
Disadvantages: just the odd weak song

...'ve heard by Thrice if you don't actually think you've heard anything by them, by flicking through the music channels for example. It's arguably the most radio-friendly song off the album, and although it is strong, tracks like 'Silhouette', 'Under A Killing Moon' or 'Artist In The Ambulance' are better tracks if you want to discover more on the band. But let me point out, the bridge on this track is one of the best I've heard in god knows long! And because of it's radio-friendly status, it's certainly the kind of song us guitarists/vocalists out there want to play! 'Paper Tigers' is one of the most hardcore tracks (is that grammatically presice?!) on the album, and not immediately for the faint hearted. Like with 'SATS', this isn't the best song to get into Thrice, for opposite reason this time around - there is less melody here produced by... Read review

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