Bask - Simonson Kallman & Kennemark

Advantages: Intriguing to hear individual Beatle styles, great songs.
Disadvantages: Occasionally ramshackle.

...The cover has become the most famous design gimmick in rock history, famously aped in Spinal Tap (an all black over), the White Album, as it has become known, is at times ramshackle, untidy and occasionally very wierd (John). At other times you find yourself basking in beautiful melodies by Paul(Blackbird) and introspective lyrics by George(While my Guitar gently Weeps), to be suddenly awoken by a screaming rocker from John (Everybodys got Something to Hide). You'll find no constructed theme aka Abbey Road and Sgt Pepper here, but individual comments on their contemporary state of minds. Pauls voice reaches it's peak in Why Don't we Do It in the Road?, John gets seriously experimental in Revolution 9, George is really saying something here and Ringo, well he's basically Ringo. Timeless album.... Read review

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Advantages: Good for dancing and chilling out to.
Disadvantages:

...Cornershop started out as an inept indie-punk group, barely able to play their instruments and seemingly content to churn out one anti-fascist rant after another. Who'd have thought that they'd have gone on to become the critical darlings of 1997 with an album as polished and musically diverse as this? No doubt a certain majority bought this album on the strength of surprise hit remix of Brimful Of Asha. The original version is good but it's by no means the best track here. Check out the laidback duet It's Good To Be On The Road Back Home Again, the seriously funky Candyman, and the excellent foreign-langauge version of Norwegian Wood and you'll see what I mean. Whether Cornershop will top this (not that they care, I shouldn't think) remains to be seen, so grab a copy of this in the meantime and bask in those chilled-out grooves.... Read review

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Advantages: Some good numbers
Disadvantages: Mostly pap

...The most remarkable aspect of Culture Club’s rapid rise to fame was the trasnformation of the group’s lead singer, Boy george, from an emblem of London’s bizarre transsexual demi monde into an all round family favourite. His appeal rapidly took him from the style conscious pages of ID magazine to the cover of Woman. Previously, male pop artists with a penchant for cosmetics and female clothing appealed to a marginal, mainly student audience. their sexuality was regarded by others as deviant, an affront to middle class family life. But in 1983, Boy George, self confessed bisexual in lipstick and frocks, was basking in the sort of widespread affection reserved for the tame and unthreatening. The band’s drummer, Jon Moss, was for several years a lover of George’s. the rest of Culture Club were guitarist Roy hay and bass player Mikey... Read review

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