Belle Album, The [Remastered] - Al Green

Advantages: a wonderful return of an american master
Disadvantages: lyrics

..., the frightfully gifted prodigal son who, throughout mountains of PCP and cocaine, never came home. Stevie Wonder, the golden child who, through the power of his moog and his imagination, took the frenetic joy of the revival to Neptune. I Can't Stop, Green's first full-length secular album in 26 years, succeeds in both showing how powerful and real the myth of Al Green is and in showing how the myth can differ from the artist as well. It not only shows why he is considered as, arguably, the greatest soul artist of all time, but also the full range of the gifts that made him mythic in nature, as well as the deeply human element of his art that has compelled people to it for over three decades. Those looking for the master of controlled sensuality and nearly unbearable sexual tension that created hit after breathtaking hit in the '70s will leave... Read review

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Advantages: some great tunes, look into the past of a great band.
Disadvantages: sound quality, a few fillers.

...GREEN DAY - 1039/SMOOTHED OUT SLAPPY HOURS ------------------------------------------- Green Day have been one of my favourite bands for quite some time now, since I first heard 'Basket Case' and 'Longview', from 1994's 'Dookie' album. These singles really took Green Day to the top of the charts and into multi platinum sales, with Dookie being one of the highest selling albums in years. The band has released a total of 8 albums, two of these are best of collections. The band is probably most famous for its singles such as 'Basket Case', 'Time of your life' and 'Minority'. What a lot of people don't realize is that the band had been going for quite some years before the mainstream smash albums. In fact the band formed in the mid 80's, when teenage school friends Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt decided to form a band... Read review

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Advantages: Weezer - new and improved. Back at last.
Disadvantages: Not the longest album ever recorded.

...Weezer, where have they been? I remember them from back in the mid-nineties when everyone went mad for "Buddy Holly". And that's probably how, after five years away from the music scene, most people remember Weezer (the Buddy Holly guys). But now they're back with (almost) the original line up. Rivers Cuomo - the high singing frontman, Patrick Wilson on drums, Brian Bell on guitar and the new guy, Mikey Welsh replacing Matt Sharp on bass. So how ahs the music changed since the last release five years ago? Well in some respects it hasn't. Their music is still unmistakably Weezer. Yes you still get the occasional oooeeoow in the chorus (if you take those away it just wouldn't be Weezer would it?). But they have gone so much further since those days. The Green Album shows that they should never have been away for so long... Read review

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