Bewitched (The Polly Browne Story) - Browne, Polly

Advantages: Masterpiece of musical theatre
Disadvantages: Ending is little too "all lived happily ever after"

...stores. It was released on the Decca label on 14th February 2000. The opera tells the story of the murderering gangster, MacHeath aka Mac the Knife. Set in London's criminal underworld in the 1930s. It opens in Jonathan Peachum’s shop. Peachum runs a business clothing beggars and providing them with a location to beg in for a share in the profits. “A man who sees another man on a street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a Threepenny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police”. Mac leads his gang by terror. He bribes the police. A womeniser, he impregnates his lover Lucy (the daughter of the chief of police, Tiger Brown), he marries Peachum's daughter Polly, and he has a passionate relationship... Read review

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Advantages: It's by Nirvana
Disadvantages: It's their worst album

...A compelation of bits and pieces, some good bit's some not so good bits. The "new wave" vertion of Polly is cool, Molly's lips is rediculsy catchy - i always find it useful to sing this when trendy tossers insist on singing there songs at you as they find it deeply anoying. Been a son has an unusual story like eliment. On its own this would seem like a good album but compaired to the rest of nirvan's albums, well you can tell why these tracks wern't on any of the "proper" albums. If you are a die hard fan then you probobly have this already - if not then whay not? If you just like Nevermind then i wouldn't bother with this you'd be better of with In Utero... Read review

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Advantages: the music is nice and mellow, makes it nice to listen to at night
Disadvantages: none what I can think off...it is PJ after all!

...~ PJ Harvey – Is This Desire? ~ Is This Desire? is such a important album to me, it’s the very first album I ever purchased of Polly’s and if I hadn’t bought it then I wouldn’t be sitting here writing this. ITD? Is very very different in many ways to all of the other albums PJ has done. It’s an incredibly upsetting, unsettling, hard album to listen to. While writing this album Polly was going through a ‘bad’ time, whether it was a broken heart or a breakdown, it’s obvious on this record that it was something serious. PJ’s voice is full of hurt and sadness, you can hear it clouding her voice in some of the songs - darkness and gloom rears its head everywhere. Musically this is much more of an ‘electric sound’ (keyboards, no loud guitars, no loud drumming... Read review

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