Alone And Together - Lol Coxhill

Advantages: Great songs, great playing
Disadvantages: vocals an acquired taste

...the legendary Canterbury jazz & psychedelic rock band Soft Machine. The first, "Joy Of A Toy", had been a natural extension of his work with the Softs, combining psychedelia and traces of Soul and Jazz with a love of the bizarre. The follow-up, "Shooting At The Moon" had been recorded with his new backing group, The Whole World, an aggregation stuffed with characters as fascinating and complex as their leader, such as soon-to-be-a-superstar Mike Oldfield, keyboardsman and orchestrator David Bedford and avant-garde saxist Lol Coxhill. The resulting album probably confused many of those who heard it, varying wildly from experimental squalling to tender ballads in the blink of an eye. Whatevershebrings..." wasn't as extreme as SATM had been, and although each song has a different mood and style, the album as a whole hangs together surprisingly well... Read review

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Advantages: Easy listening, fairly long album, good price
Disadvantages: None

..., and drags on a bit. Picks up pace but still takes a long time to finish. 12. Skin Feeling - This is actually one of the songs I don't like. But I think that's just my preference. 13. Together Alone - By far my favourite. I love the cultural rhythmic mantra stuff and this is wonderful; remidns me a bit of the Lion King. All in all the album is very very good. It's been out for quite some time and so finding at a cheap price would probably be very easy. I was very lucky because as said at the beginning, I didn't have a clue who they were, I'd never even heard their songs on the radio. But I'm so glad I bought this because it's great to listen to when you're trying to relax. Get one even if you're not sure you'll like it! Cos there's no doubt you probably will!... Read review

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Advantages: some catchy upbeat tunes
Disadvantages: not enough songs, to much rap

...what can i say akons not lonely anymore, lol, good album could do with some more songs on there, very catchy and upbeat only liked some of the songs on there, hes teamed up with alot of big stars since he first came out, (not out the closest that is) lol i mean my most favourite songs of all time is smack that and nobody wana see us together, brilliant, so basically for me id just download the songs seperatly that i like only, oviously il still keep this album but hardly listen to it anymore, if your loving rap then its definatly for you, as its not really my taste as only some of the songs do it for me, id suggest try before you buy.... Read review

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