Big Smiley Sun - Ezra

Advantages: Excellent album presentation and DVD recorded perfomances
Disadvantages: Bit of the same thing!

...4. Gone Daddy Gone 5. Smiley Faces 6. The Boogie Monster 7. Feng Shui 8. Just A Thought 9. Transformer 10. Who Cares 11. On Line 12. Necromancing 13. Storm Coming 14. The Last Time Disc Two - DVD Videos 1. Crazy 2. Gone Daddy Gone 3. Smiley Faces 4. Go Go Gadget Gospel Performances (From Channel 4 Special) 5. Crazy 6. Smiley Faces 7. Who Cares 8. Gone Daddy Gone Audio 9. Crazy [Live On Top Of The Pops] 10. Gone Daddy Gone [Live On Jools Holland] Release date: 13-11-2006 Label: WARNERS Overall my verdict is excellent album presentation, AVERAGE tracks for me! I think he is another great emerging talent from the U.S., but for some reason turning into a commercial artist can make you under-perform on the big stage even though he's already a millionaire... Read review

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Advantages: A peak in dance music.
Disadvantages: Not for those who like smiley faces and glow sticks.

...dance music's finest hour, Music for the Jilted Generation. The Prodigy's first album, "the Prodigy Experience", can be said to very much a product of its time i.e. the first outpourings of rave. Messy, slightly cheesy, but full of vibrance and energy. Jilted Generation however contained all the energy, without the happy smiley face. Right from the very start a aura of menace pervades the atmosphere. "Break and Enter" is superb, a sledgehammer of a song that captures you and never lets you go. The theme of smashing the system carries on throughout the album, most obviously in the collaboration with Pop Will Eat Itself, "Their Law", and its battlecry of "F*ck em, and Their Law". "No good" must be considered one of the best dance songs ever written, and certainly the most danceable. Its not all big beats and basslines though. "Heat (The... Read review

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Advantages: Uneasy Marriage of Titles
Disadvantages: Is this the same group

...toll. Delay after delay resulted in Smile being shelved. Brian's dream lay unfufilled for 34 years until it burst onto a slightly more mature (but the same!) public. It is still ahead of its time. The expectations that were raised by the possible release of Brian's masterpiece were turned on their head by the release of Smiley Smile. Its hard to believe that anything that contained versions of Good Vibrations and Heroes and Villains could have been considered anything other than a success. They had however been major hits just recently and had figured in at least one or two album releases. 1967 had turned pop culture on its head. The Monterey Pop Festival was a watershed in the change between good time music and an inward-looking, antimaterilistic culture, acid rock and other forms of "new" music which had bubbled under the surface had... Read review

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