Azure - King Curtis

Advantages: Enchanting vocals and beautiful lyrics
Disadvantages: Can be a little samey throughout

...The first of the Azure Ray collection, and my personal favourite. With wonderfully simplistic backing music from start to end, the concentration stays with Maria Taylor's ehchanting voice. The lyrics for most tracks aren't all that memerable and thought-provoking. In some cases it seems they are only sung to show of the beautiful vocals. The album is more of a backing album than a main focus. They are a fine band for this, but when it is heard too much, it does become increasingly boring. This brings up the other problem, with the songs all just sounding a little too familar. When it comes to the best songs, I believe they are found on the first half of the album. Rise in particular is incredible, and Sleep being utterly amazing. Displaced and Don't Make A Sound being worth a listen. However, Fever, is one of the more boring tracks... Read review

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Advantages: great cd
Disadvantages: noffin

...best album ever brought out some of the best songs ever on this cd its worth every penny its great. curtis i one of the best cd by 50 cent it includes tracks lyk i get money n my gun go off the good thing about this cd is the tracks are great and its a great cd but the bad thing about it some ov the tracks are really shit and it is a parental advisory the only bad thing about 50 cent music is all the swearin and rascist shit he puts in i dont think this cd is sutable for children unda about 12 the best song on this cd is i get money because i think it is the best rap ever its a great cd... Read review

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Advantages: Strong tracks - lots of sax - timeless
Disadvantages: One weak track in my opinion

...As a teenager all my friends were either into New Kids and Take That or at the other end of the spectrum Rave and Dance anthems. I was the lone teen who didn’t get enough pocket money to buy my own music and was quite happy listening to all my parents 60’s LP’s. Now and again though someone would come along and demand that I save all my pocket money, dinner money and go car washing for weeks to enable me to purchase a cassette of their music. Not many got this honour - in fact, until this man came along Michael Jackson was the lone hero gracing my walls. Enter the gravel voiced, saxophone playing, long haired skinny malinky that is Curtis Stigers. The first single that I remember hearing on the radio was I Wonder Why. To say I was blown away was the understatement of the century, after a month of hard saving I was finally... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful