Bathing Beauty/Here Come The Waves/This Gun For Hire - Various Artists

Advantages: Every Track's a Classic!
Disadvantages: None as such!

...Reeves finest recordings turn up here from the sassy Come And Get These Memories, the pop masterpiece Heat Wave (though I have to admit I actually prefer Diana Ross' version of it which was featured on The Supremes Sing Holland Dozier Holland album) and the rolling Dancing In The Streets. Just listening to the sheer volume and power of Reeves voice makes you appreciate her often over-looked vocal talents. Diana Ross had a much softer soprano which had soulful qualities, oozing heavy emotion and genuine feeling that showed subtle hints of a raw vulnreability in her vocal delivery and neatly surfboarded along Motowns complex musical arrangements. Many of their classics are here including the finest of their career with the raw, gritty Love Child and their breathtakingly beautiful ballad, Someday We'll Be Together. Holland Dozier Holland... Read review

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Advantages: Fast, energetic music
Disadvantages: None

..., it was one of the hired song writers on the album who is a respectful guitar player, but often writes some very strange lyrics! 9. Little by little This one starts with a gun shot and a good drum beat before the electric guitar enters. It is another one of those, 'Oh I am so sexy and on the top of the world' songs. It also has loads of leather and lace in it. I really like this one, despite another week chorus with a lot of 'ooh-ooh' in it. I give you three listens until you sing this song in the shower! "Black leather gloves and your lipstick shines Bright as moonlight glows My wildest rose cuts so fine and deep It hurts but never shows You're bad, you're so hardcore Pull me down here on the killing floor." "Little by little we cross the line..." 10. Die for you Swing back to another lovely ballad with a lovely guitar entry... Read review

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Advantages: A few good tracks
Disadvantages: The fact more people will pay money for this rubbish

...'s no reason to find creative progression on a G-Unit release. The Game's album The Documentary may have bucked that trend for a short period, but basically all there is on G-Unit albums are bland braggadocio attempts, generic gangsta threats, and laughable attempts to appeal to the opposite sex through materialism. It's also obvious that 50, admitting that he believes that artistic credibility doesn't pay the bills, would mainly keep doing what makes him richer - the continuance of pushing out thoughtless material. Those can be the only reasons why several tracks on here have him reciting uncreative lyrics and reusing several themes that have been in commercial rap for eons now. A generic track reppin' the hood ("In My Hood"). Check. Another track addressing the various tired beefs between 50 and other folks filled with thug bravado (the laughably... Read review

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