Best Of The Nighthawks, The - Nighthawks (The)

Advantages: Witty, Comic, Husky, Waits Live - stories 'an all!
Disadvantages: None!

...Well this is a rare live album from Mr Waits - you can get this for just over a fiver these days which is a bargain - look how much you get for your money! Track Listing: (Opening Intro) Emotional Weather Report On a Foggy Night Eggs & Sausage (In a Cadillac With Susan Michelson) Better Off Without a Wife Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street) Warm Beer and Cold Women Putnam County Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission) Nobody Big Joe and Phantom 309 Spare Parts II and Closing "..with tornado watches issued shortly before noon Sunday, for the areas including, the western region of my mental health and the northern portions of my ability to deal rationally with my disconcerted precarious emotional situation" More Waits madness & lyrical genius with this live album. Listening to this album, makes you laugh... Read review

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Advantages: Smokie at their best
Disadvantages: Absolutely none

...,usually one would think that the original is always the best but on this album I have to disagree. Smokie not only maintain their classic sound with their trademark harmonies sounding powerfully beautiful,but each cover made me wonder....What if Smokie had to get these songs first??.The arrangement,mix and the Smokie touch left me in no doubt that Smokie are still able to rock and still have the ability to amaze. This is proven to me in tracks such as 'It Never Rains In Southern California",'Arms Of Mary' and 'Still The One' by Shania Twain.The Twain cover truly amazed me as it was turned from a truly romantic ballad into a true Smokie production.The harmonies again flawless against a fantastic musical arrangement.Fans of the original artists may decide either way if Smokie did these covers justice but for me they certainly did. I had... Read review

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Advantages: A compilation of great songs from a great musician
Disadvantages: Disadvantages?!

...When James Marshall Hendrix died in September 1970 at the age of just 27, the world lost a great, talented musician who was a definite icon and innovator in music...and here comes a "definitive" greatest hits album of Hendrix's work - "Experience Hendrix". Released in the UK in 1997, the two-disc edition includes one CD of twenty of Hendrix's releases from numerous years of work... "Purple Haze" - 2:52 "Fire" - 2:43 "The Wind Cries Mary" - 3:20 "Hey Joe" - 3:30 "All Along the Watchtower" - 3:59 "Stone Free" - 3:36 "Crosstown Traffic" - 2:19 "Manic Depression" - 3:42 "Little Wing" - 2:25 "If 6 Was 9" - 5:34 "Foxy Lady" - 3:19 "Bold As Love" - 4:11 "Castles Made of Sand" - 2:47 "Red House" - 3:50 "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" - 5:12 "Freedom" - 3:25 "Night Bird Flying" - 3:50 "Angel" - 4:22 "Dolly... Read review

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