Best Of Ray Stevens, The - Ray Stevens

Advantages: beautiful new country ballads
Disadvantages: Some may like there albums a lot more pop

...Style: Country Approach: Mainstream Released: 03/11/1997 Floyd Collin Wray aka Colin Raye, is an American country singer from Arkansas. He released his first album called "All I Can Be" back in 1991. After five prior album releases, Colin gives us his first greatest hits album. The album "Direct Hits" contains four previously unreleased tracks as well as eleven top five country hits, three of these reaching number one, with fourteen tracks on the album altogether. Song Listing 1. "Little Rock" #2 2. "I Think About You" #3 3. "Not That Different" #3 4. "That's My Story" #6 5."If I Were You" #4 6."One Boy, One Girl" #2 7."In This Life" #1 8. "My Kind of Girl" #1 9. "That Was a River" #4 10. "What the Heart Wants" #2 11. "The Gift" 12. "Open Arms" 13. "Little Red Rodeo" #3 14. "Love, Me" #1 * Tracks 10... Read review

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Advantages: Couple of good tracks
Disadvantages: Too much of a change. Not easy to listen to.

...Madonna Ciccone has been nicknamed the 'Queen of Pop', and is wll known for groundbreaking music releasing themes of music and religion onto the stage with controversy attached. Following the release of her 1994 album 'Bedtime Stories', Madonna took a break from recording music and concentrated on the film production of the musical 'Evita', in which she takes the lead. Following the birth of her first child Lourdes, Madonna wrote the bulk of the tracks on 'Ray of Light', her 1998 album. Its release heralded another 'new' Madonna. As a solo performer, she is constantly reinventing herself for fear of repeating herself within her music. This is evident in this album with the 'modern' sounds created by the majority of the tracks. There are 13 tracks in all, including the hit tracks 'Ray of Light', 'Frozen' and 'Nothing Really Matters... Read review

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Disadvantages: None

...Ray Of Light was released in 1998 and on the album are 6 tracks that reached the charts which are as follows: Substitute For Love, Ray Of Light, Nothing Really Matters, Frozen, The Power Of Good-Bye and Little Star. There are three tracks which I’m not to keen on which are Candy Perfume Girl and Shanti/Ashtangt and Mer Girl. The tracks Swim and Skin I found to be ok but I prefer the tracks Sky Fits Heaven and To Have And Not To Hold. Of course I love Nothing Really Matters, Ray Of Light, The Power Of Good-Bye and Frozen. Now I’ll move on to what each track means and what I thought of each track here goes hope you enjoy reading. Track1: Substitute For Love The song itself is about realising the mistake you have made by choosing fame over love. It’s also about changing your mind and wanting that... Read review

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