Angel Dust (The Collected Highs) - Angelic Upstarts

Advantages: Will appeal to most tastes in music.
Disadvantages: equally as good as the other faith no more albums

...Angel Dust,Faith No More is yet another fine creation by artist/singer Mike Patton.Like other works by Mike Patton (Mr Bungle, Fantomas, Maldoror),Angel dust is different and unique like all the work that Mike Patton produces.Angel Dust is an album that will appeal to most tastes in alternative music.Unlike Mike Patton's other works, which do tend to be very extreme in sound and lyrics, Faith no more is relaxed in comparison to this. I particularly favour this album over other Faith No More albums because i do like every single track on the album, and it's not often that i can actually say that about any album.The tracks are all unique in their own way.Like some albums, tracks can sound similar, but Angel Dust is a unique album because of this.... Read review

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Advantages: Wonderful
Disadvantages: It is not given away for free.

...This album is a work of art. I had planned to talk a little about the best tracks on the cd… but that plan was foiled because I could not decide on only ‘five’ to write about. Each of the different tracks, somehow, manages to snuggle beautifully into the collective whole and, at the same time, have its own unique mood and flavour. The lyrics will make you think; sometimes they’ll make you want to bounce around and other times the words will take your mind to the Bad Place. Now, I will single out one track if only because it has no lyrics (Instrumentals are not unknown on Faith No More albums, after all). “Woodpeckers from Mars” is the only instrumental I have ever heard being played in a rock club. “Midnight Cowboy”, from Angel Dust, is perhaps better but Woodpeckers is all together more ‘hard’. Oh… by the way, I have been told... Read review

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Advantages: Great voice, great songs.
Disadvantages: Nothing really

...It's a shame that Dido needed the boost of Eminem's pulling power through the worthy 'Stan' to sell copies of this wonderful album. From the Faithless clan, Dido's first solo album is worth every penny. Chilled, smoky melodies for any time of day or night, 'No Angel' is a more subtle departure from producer Rollo's previous output. Lolling around in record bins for a while now, the album's first pull would have been fans of Faithless, Rollo's best and most famous enterprise. 'No Angel' actually makes an excellent companion piece to Faithless' 'Sunday 8pm' ('My Lover's Gone' is sampled on the fourth track, 'Postcards', and 'No Angel' just lacks the trip hop of Mazi Jazz's rapping and the housey hi-hats of the frankly shameful 'God Is A DJ'). 'No Angel' is perhaps as haunting as Rollo's latest solo album under the moniker 'Dusted', 'When... Read review

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