Baltimore Syndicate - Baltimore Syndicate

Advantages: A good combination of your typicall hip-hop, however with a more chilled approach to listeners
Disadvantages: If you like gangsta rap, e.g. 50 Cent, Ice Cube, etc... then this might not be the best for you

...taste The list of tracks: 1. Intro (feat. Irv Gotti, Chink Santana and Caddillac Tah) 2. Gangstafied (feat. Ja Rule, Caddillac Tah, Ronnie Bumps and Chink Santana) 3. Down 4 U (feat. Ja Rule, Ashanti, Vita and Charlie Baltimore) 4. No One Does It Better (feat. Charlie Baltimore and Ashanti) 5. It's Murder (feat. Chink Santana, D.O. and Caddillac Tah) 6. The Pledge (feat. Ashanti and Caddillac Tah) 7. Ride Wit Us (feat. Jody Mack, Black Child, 0-1, Merc, Ronnie Bumps, D.O. and Caddillac Tah) 8. O.G. (feat. Black Child) 9. The Rain (feat. Jody Mack, O-1 and Ja Rule) 10. Here We Come (feat. Vita, Irv Gotti and Ronnie Bumps) 11. We Still Don't Give Fuck (feat. Ronnie Bumps, D.O., Merc, Jody Mack, Rah, O-1, Charlie Baltimore, Caddillac Tah and Black Child) 12. 1 Hearse, 2 Suburbans (feat. Black Child, Ronnie Bumps and Merc) 13. Ain... Read review

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Advantages: Great songwriting, fantastic production
Disadvantages: Not popular enough!

...Stapleton are a band from Glasgow who not many are familiar with, but one which many more should know about! This album, which I first discovered in 2006 was one of my albums of the year, and I still listen to it constantly. Sounding melodic and soft at times, and driving and determined at others, this is the sound of a mature band with a very scottish flavour to them. This is the first album with the bands current incarnation - a 4 piece consisting of Al Paxton, Gordon Farquhar, Nico Weststeijn and Andrew Cook - and was recorded by indie rock legend J. Robbins in his Baltimore studio. The production is absolutely superb, and the song writing is tip top. I have seen it mentioned elsewhere but the fact that this album did not do better must be due to some kind of error in the labels marketing strategy - as it really surpasses much other... Read review

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Advantages: Song after song is memorable
Disadvantages: Might leave you feeling a tinsy bit down

...Tenuous link there . August and Everything After was made at a time where the biggest rock bands in the world were all hard rock acts, such as Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Stone Temple Pilots. With their cross between folk and alternative rock they created a niche for themselves and huge success followed. This album (one of the biggest sellers of the nineties in America) is driven by several tracks, the fabulous "Mr. Jones", an amazing song and one of the freshest and most original rock tracks of the last ten years; the soul gripping "Round Here", and "Anna Begins". Other tracks on the album like "Time and Time again", "A murder of one", "Ghost Train" and "Raining In Baltimore" all follow on seamlessly. It's a very slow and mellow album, which is a welcome change of pace from all the hardcore... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful