Best Of Finbar & Eddie Furey, The - Finbar Furey & Eddie Furey

Advantages: Relaxing story telling music with a bit of heart
Disadvantages: Too boring

...OK album, with a nice mix of different artist most of which i have never hear of before. As you can probably tell I'm not usually into this kind of music but being someone always looking to expand my musical horizons, I thought i would give it a go but was not too impressed. Most of the songs featured were not too impressive, many of which sounded very boring and generic for the genre. Track 15, Green Fields of France - Furey & Davey Arthur was probably one of the most impressive tracks on the album; this song featured delicately sung lyrics and an impressive story which i think is based on world war 2. Some of the other tracks were almost up to this standard but were too boring and didn't catch my attention.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Genuine lost masterpiece
Disadvantages: Taken so long to be re-released on CD

...When Darrly Way, Francis Monkman and Florian Pilkington-Miksa quit Curved Air, it left only founder Sonja Kristina (Linwood) and Phantasmagoria player Mike Wedgwood to soldier on. In doing so they picked Eddie Jobson on keyboards and violin, Kirby Gregory on guitar, Jim Russell on kit, with Mike on bass, vocals, acoustic guitar and percussion and Sonja on vocals and acoustic guitar. Sound simple? Well, for one thing, Eddie was only 17 years old, and neither Jim nor Kirby had left their teens. So we basically had a band with an average age of about 19 trying to fill the shoes of a band who were known to be some of the best musicians in the UK, if not the world. Air Cut. Not a dud note on the whole CD, playing at such a level that it takes your breath away and such a mix of music and styles that it dazzles. Is it Curved Air? Of COURSE... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: 2 great lost songs
Disadvantages: some songs are missing

...stepped back from the limelight. He said that he loved making music and writing songs but that was all he was - lead singer of a band and songwriter - he was not the new voice of a generation or Kurts successor. PJ would continue to make music but Eddie refused to be pushed the same way as Kurt. Songs such as Not For You and Corduroy off the Vitalogy album - their first release after Kurts suicide - speak of Eddies feelings on the subject and addresses the fans and the way they hand too much responsibility to their idols. You can see that progression with this greatest hits collection - the CD 1 Grunge Era songs give way to more introspective and angrier songs that follow the selection from their second album Vs. The main advantage of this collection on both CD 1 & 2 is that I believe Vitalogy contains some of their best songs but it is also... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful