Best Of Prince Dixon, The - Prince Dixon

Advantages: amazing music
Disadvantages: none

...Track listing - Christopher Tracys Parade - New Position - I Wonder U - Under The Cherry Moon - Girls & Boys - Life Can Be So Nice - Venus De Milo - Mountains - Do U Lie? - Kiss - Anotherloverholenyohead - Sometime it Snows in April If only the film had been worthy of this soundtrack - Under The Cherry Moon the film was quite weak but this album stand as one of his best. Album opener sets the tone and is quite different to his previous album - the hippyish Around the World in a Day - the sound is quite tinny but as Prince produces and arranges as usual you know that it is intentional. The only way to describe it is the singles off the album - Kiss, Another...Mountains, Girls & Boys - almost everyone knows these and these are what the album sounds like - if that makes sense. It is hard to describe the musical style... Read review

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Advantages: A Return to form, Accessable
Disadvantages: Not much of a progression from his previous work

...The best thing about this album is that unlike every Prince album for the past decade or so it doesn't sound like Prince is trying to prove some point or other. Instead he is relaxing and doing what he does best, entertaining! The lyrics are his usual. Love, bragging and dippy philosophy! He also mentions the War On Terror but his take on it is to encourage fairly vague peace and love vibes and unlikely to offend one way or the other. The album recalls his eighties classics although it never quite reaches those peaks. Highlights include "Cinnamon Girl", the stately "A Million Days" and the funky title track. Although he has become a Jehovah's Witness he proves that being religious doesn't mean you cant be sexy. Especially on the track "On The Couch" Prince plays and produces everything himself and the album's main weakness is that he... Read review

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Advantages: Good recording quality, and professional performances all round.
Disadvantages: Pointless additional commerical tracks which bring the overall album quality down.

...The score for The Prince of Egypt is, for me, the best for any animated film since The Lion King. Dreamworks' first major animation outshone anything produced by Disney at the same time, and the CD goes some way to showing why that was. The orchestral cues are all written by Hans Zimmer and are of his usual excellent standard. The pieces written for the sequences where Moses meets God in the burning bush and for the crossing of the Red Sea are awe-inpsiring even when divorced from the on-screen action, and real emotion is conveyed in such tracks as 'Goodbye Brother' where the essentially wordless vocals are provided by Ofra Haza. But the big treat of the score is the sextet of songs written by Stephhen Schwartz. His musical style has evolved considerably since the days when he wrote the bpuncy scores... Read review

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