Bested - Big Back Forty

Advantages: 42 tracks and many great ones in those
Disadvantages: a couple of weak tracks

...If you just want to buy one album this year, buy this one, it's brilliant ! I was looking for a compilation album that had all my favourite tracks on and this is the one, well worth the money. It is a double CD with a total of forty two tracks on ! Of course, there are some that I have to fast forward (Sisqo's Thong Song, for example !) but there are so many great tracks on here - Mel B, Mel C, Craig David's awesome 'Seven Days', the Big Brother theme, Five / Queen, Robbie Williams' 'Rock DJ', Kylie, Britney, Billie and many, many more. Highly recommended !... Read review

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Advantages: Disc 1
Disadvantages: Disc 2

...^^Summary^^ ‘Forty Licks’ is yet another collection of some of the ‘Rolling Stones’ hits. Disc 1 is packed full of the tracks that you’ve heard over and over again and is essential listening for anyone interested in guitar rock of the 60’s. Disc 2 is packed full of tracks you’ve never heard unless you are a hardcore Stones junkie. ^^Introduction^^ The Rolling Stones themselves need no introduction unless you’ve been on a reality TV show for forty years. This album is a compilation of forty of the Stones hits over forty years, I bought this for $12(Canadian) in Calgary. The CD has the Rolling Stones symbol of the big lips, in bright multicoloured glory. The insert has various pictures of the band in their heyday and a short narrative from someone on how great the Stones are. With forty songs to review I will have to be brief to keep... Read review

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Advantages: imaginative celtic rock.
Disadvantages: dont expect the Gary Moore of the blues days.

.... This is Celtic Rock in the style of Thin Lizzy or Big Country. The cover shows Moore in stereotypical rock pose and the reverse shows a women in a long cape on a windswept moor, no pun intended. Both images say something about the album, the first about the rock nature, the second about the imagary and story telling present. The album opens with the thumping drums of "Over the Hills and Far Away" a folk style song of honour and love rocked up into a power anthem. Moores voice screaming out above the weave of guitar riffs, and sounding better than ever before. Never known for having the best voice in rock, this album blows away any doubt about the mans vocal abilities. Irelands forty shades of green are celebrated in "Wild Frontier", complete with the troubles and the beauty and there is even a dedication to Phil Lynott in there. "I remember... Read review

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