Best Of Non-stop Dancing, The [Remastered] - James Last

Advantages: Indispensible 80's pop
Disadvantages: none

...Released originally in 1982 and remastered recently with the addition of 8 bonus tracks, this effectively sums up the 1st stage of Soft Cell's career and is better than any best of compilation on the market. The album highlights marc Almond's and Dave Ball's twin obsessions of good time disco dancing and seedy erotica merging them into a compelling blend. Musically the songs are driven by Dave Ball's synths which hammer repetative rythmns adding lighter flourishes to make you want to dance over which marc sings in a distinctive, sometimes off key, torch song style about normal life and soho perversions. The key song is obviously tainted love a monsster hit at the time , the album proper also contains the hit singles Bedsitter and Say hello wave goodbye whilst Torch and what are included in the bonus tracks - all unforgettable songs... Read review

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Advantages: Where Has Everybody Gone and The Living Daylights
Disadvantages: Lacks a bit in the middle

...This is a good Soundtrack, which includes the great songs, Koskov Escapes, Necros Attacks, Kara Meets Bond Ice Chase, Where Has Everybody Gone, If There Was A Man (End credits) and of course the title track The Living Daylights. This remastered edition now includes 9 bonus tracks that weren't on the orignal release but we're featured in the film. Which includes the Opening Sequence (including the gun barrel), and Alternat End Titles. This is one of my favourite James Bond soundtracks and one that I don't skip any tracks listening to, unlike most of the later David Arnold stuff. This was the last soundtrack that John Barry composed for a James Bond film and is certainly one of his best. And therefore should be in every Bond fans collection. You won't be disappointed as the not so good is outweighed by the great in this... Read review

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Advantages: James Brown before he went global
Disadvantages: Very dated, none of his big hits

...and DJs began sampling his funky grunts, soulful beats and brassy stabs. This acceptable theft ensured hip hop moved out of the ghetto and into the charts at the end of the 80's. This new-found commercial sound was, of course, supplied by much of James Brown's 60s and 70s output. OK, so this is a generalisation and I'm suggesting that James Brown virtually invented all black music of the last forty years (except reggae). He didn't, of course, but it's not that much of an exaggeration to cite Brown as an influence on every important black artist of the last 40 years: Prince, OutKast, Public Enemy, Sly Stone. WHAT'S THIS ALBUM ALL ABOUT ----------------------------------------------- It's a concert, recording in Harlem at the world famous Apollo on 24.10.1962. As a historical document it's fascinating. It's rated by "critics" as the best... Read review

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