Best Instrumental 60s Guitar - Various Artists

Advantages: Aparently it sounds very good to music critics.
Disadvantages: Mind-numbingly dull, vastly overrated.

...It's difficult to pinpoint exactly why 'The Hour Of Bewilderbeast' has received the high critical acclaim that it has. This is not a work of astonishing originality or extraordinary accomplishment, far from it. This album is very middle-of-the-road, unadventurous and unexciting. Many people have praised the album from its' genre-skipping nature but closer inspection reveals this to be neither as impressive nor as interesting as it might have been. His movement is not genre-defying leaps between polar opposites in the musical world, rather he stays firmly within the restrictions of what can best be described as largely acoustic, especially guitar-based sounds. However if a unifying link can be drawn between each track on this album it would be that they all sound very dated. Other artists have crossed genre barriers with far greater... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: Some great Songs
Disadvantages: Some terrible Songs

...As a proud owner of this album myself I can tell you that by buying it you will not be dissapointed. As an avid fan of 60's music myself, yet not from that era myself, i was as eager as anyone to get my hands on this product regardless! Personally I enjoyed tracks 3,7, and 9 best. Some of the good old classics! Admittedly the other ones may have been slightly poorly chosen, but I assume it was some poor uneducated survey collector somewhere who was asked to choose them. Regardless of this I think it is an excellent album. When the album itself was delivered to me it arrived promptly and in good condition, I am just saying this because i had concerns it may have had been bodged, fortunately I was mistaken .... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: everything !
Disadvantages: not enough tracks

...GREAT! all the best songs one one album i hate it when you buy a comelation cd and you only listen to a few tracks on the first c.d well not this one ! this have many many of the best 60's grooving tracks and i would reccomend this to anyone that it interested in that era, i have it pklaying in my car with the window down and the sun shining through ! however it could have more of the likes of the who and the kinks but apart form a few missing artists i cannot fault the quality also i havent seen this c.d in the generall high street shops and i must say its abrgain at the price and its allways good to have these classic songs on c.d and not have to dig out the record collection everytime you want to remember the old days.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful