Bass Hits - Peter Martin Weiss

Advantages: Loads of good poppy tunes on this one not so many ballads
Disadvantages: People probably wont take this album seriously

...After the first album "You Me and Us" I was kind of hoping for something better than an album full of slushy ballads, my wish came true. Martine has moved into many new directions on the amazing follow up "Wishing". Martine gives pop a kick in the teeth with "I'm Over You" which gave the Spicer's "Holler" a run for it's money, "Tonight" a classic R'n'B track with a funky bass line having us dancing till dawn, Martine declares tonight "she has something to say" and yeah she sure has, she can really sing and her adoring public are going love the rest in store on this long player. "Teardrops" do we need them? No way this offering seems like a song that could belong somewhere on a Celine album upbeat funky ballad appealing to yet another audience, "On The Radio" classic Donna Summer ditty has perfect single across it, Martine is back... Read review

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Advantages: The sound of a band on the edge of stardom
Disadvantages: rough edges and a lack of singles

...is much quicker, the tone rockier and Stipe's lyrics, although still oblique, can be heard. Some of the themes that still follow the band today begin to blossom on this album as politics (name checks of Martin Luther King and a song about Guatemala) and the environment (Cuyahoga was written about a terrible pollution incident in a river in the US). This remastered album also gathers up some rarities (Superman is a cover version that gave the band a hit while Toys in the Attic is an Aerosmith classic - REM often name checked Aerosmith and Pylon as influences in their early career but this was the first album where that seemed to make any sense!). As an album, I think it's a cracker - probably my joint favourite REM moment along with Automatic for the People - with consistently great songs and no fillers. However, what it did lack was the killer... Read review

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Advantages: Groundbreaking, Unique, Timeless
Disadvantages: Very Dark

...The music history of 1980 is dominated by the death of a great musical genius. If you didn't know that this review was of a Joy Division album you might be thinking Mr John Lennon, however I refer to a lesser known but in my opinion greater musical talent, one Ian Kevin Curtis. For on the 18th of May 1980, he took his own life by hanging. Born out of the post punk era, the band originally known as Warsaw first became known on the Manchester scene in 1976. They were signed to Tony Wilson's new record label Factory in 1977, and started to write their first album. The line up consisted of : Ian Curtis : Vocals Bernard Sumner : Guitar Peter Hook : Bass Stephen Morris : Drums I first became aware of Joy Division after first becoming a fan of New Order, not knowing what to expect I was quite... Read review

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