Best Of The Platters Vol.1, The - Platters (The)

Advantages: great tracks with lots of memories
Disadvantages: Nothing we have not heard before

...I would like to start this review with afew facts about Dolly Parton for those who don't already know her and her work. Born: Dolly Rebecca Parton. Place: Sevierville, Tennessee. Date: 19 th January, 1946 She was 4th of twelve children and began performing at the age of 9, when she was appearing on the Cas Walker Show on WBIR- TV in Noxville , Tennessee. She recorded her first Album on a small label, Goldband at the age of 13 and also appeared at the Grand Ole Oprey in Nashville. She is an accomplished musician, playing Guitar, banjo, autoharp , piano and drums. Also a Grammy winning, Academy Award winner, Country Singer, Songwriter, Composer, Author , actress. Now to this album. This is a very good album, with many of her best known songs, and also some not so well known. Tracklist: I will always love you ( which... Read review

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Advantages: A good mix of songs
Disadvantages: Doesnt help you get through the housework

...A cd thats a couple of years old now but still fun to listen to. I mean this cd says its meant to help you through the housework but I personally dont think it really does,if anything it distracts you,because you just start singing along to all the great tracks this album has to offer, you get caught up in the music and completely lose track of what you were doing - maybe a good thing in a way :-) Housework vol 1 is a double album that has some cracking songs that you just dont seem to hear on the radio anymore such as The Beach Boys - Help Me Rhonda and Don McLeans - American Pie. The songs on this album just make you feel good and really help to lift your spirits,but I honestly think its marketed wrong,this is a feel good album for anyone just not people doing the housework.I dont think the title of the album really represents... Read review

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Advantages: Brilliant lyrics, exceptional guitar work from Marr
Disadvantages: Can be a bit melancholy

...The first of the two ‘Best Of’ albums by The Smiths features in my view some of their best tracks. In ‘How Soon Is Now’ they used one of the best guitar riffs in any pop song and typically of many Smiths songs the lyrics built over this exquisite sound appear completely disconnected from it. Other timeless classics include ‘Panic’ exhorting all to ‘Hang The DJ – because the music he plays means nothing to me and my life’ . The sublime ‘This Charming Man’ opens the album and stes the tone for some wonderful tracks which only the Smiths could have done. ‘What Difference Does It Make?’ is included full of sweeping ringing guitar and in similar vein ‘Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others’ and ‘Shoplifters Of The World Unite’ . The Smiths... Read review

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