Amnesty - Zoetrope

Advantages: In a good cause
Disadvantages: Too long

...'Instant Karma: the campaign to save Darfur' The latest charity effort in a good cause is actually a good record, for the most part, though it’s way too long. It's a John Lennon tribute album featuring a veritable array of the music world's most prominent talents and will raise funds for Amnesty International's work to address the catastrophe in Darfur, Sudan. Yoko Ono has granted rights to John Lennon's entire songbook to Amnesty International so that all the publishing revenue goes to the campaign. The album is a double CD release with classic John Lennon tracks reinterpreted by 27 artistes renowned artists. The Green Day cover of "Working class hero" is on here, and is about as good as you could want, their big guitars and simple approach suiting the song very well. On the whole, good bands do good covers while others walk... Read review

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Advantages: A couple of quite good tracks
Disadvantages: More very bad ones though

...Meat Loaf has come out with some great albums in his time, but it has to be said that this isn't one of them. The album is listenable to, but that is about as far as it goes. It lacks Jim Steinman's input (who brought use some of the great Meat Loaf songs like Bat Out of Hell), but strangely enough the only two songs by him are two of the worst on the album. A couple of the singles are quite good - 'Where the Rubber Meets the Road' and 'I'd Lie for You', but the others shouldn't be given house room. There are also a couple of songs that weren't released as singles which are pretty good, namely 'Amnesty is Granted' and the two ballads at the end - 'Martha' and 'Where Angels Sing'. My Advice would be listen to it (if you can borrow it from the library or a friend or something), as it is worth listening to a couple of times, but don... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Almost the first two albums on one disk
Disadvantages: Disjointed running order and missing tracks

...this was an original song. Since then he has release "Us", "Secret World Live", "Ovo" and "Ovo - The Millenium Show". The last album was commisioned for a concert performed within the Millenium Dome, so some good came of this. As well the album releases he also has produced two multimedia CDs "Eve" and XPLORA1 which basically allowed you to explore PGs "Real World" and it was a great piece of software, featuring videos from the "Us" album. Unfortunately I've not been able to get it to run on my PC with Windows Millenium on. The software is at home, I'm at work so I'll update this with the name when I get home. He is also a very active supporter of Amnesty International and has performed at many benefit concerts to support their cause, as well as sponsoring a program to get cameras out to oppressed parts of the world so that we could be informed... Read review

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