Carl Rocks - Carl Perkins

Advantages: Good relaxing album
Disadvantages: Not as hard as some would expect

..."At the end of the cliche" is the debut album from Carl Cox. Previously he has released many mix compilations and vinyl dance tracks. This album dispels cliche ridden preconceptions about what his music is all about. It is a much more relaxing slower paced album than his live DJ sets. The same excellence is there in his DJ'ing as in his producing, although the styles are quite different. The album is a very good chill-out album, but not what some people would expect from Carl Cox. It contains the two top 40 singles Phoebus Apollo and Sensual Sophis-ti-cat.... Read review

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Advantages: A great main theme
Disadvantages: see op.

...The Rock was another large, high-action Jerry Bruckheimer production, starring Sean Connery, Ed Harris and Nicholas Cage. It considers a disgruntled U.S. Army Colonel (Harris) who got fed up with the insensitivity of the American government towards U.S. troops lost in distant parts of the world. He gathers a team of his former men, steals some very nasty biological weapons and sets up base in the old prison of Alcatraz aka. "The Rock". Now they are threatening to launch the weapons on San Francisco unless they are paid a lot of money. The only people who can stop them is John Mason (Connery), an ex-inmate of Alcatraz who had previosuly managed escaped from there and a bioweapon-specialist (Cage) sent there to disarm the weapons. The result is quite an entertaining piece of action with Connery proving as charming and likeable as ever... Read review

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Advantages: Beautiful lyrics, smooth vocals
Disadvantages: Not as commercial as her previous releases which meant less people heard it

...I could never say that I have ever been a huge Sade fan. I will happily listen to her music if it happens to be on, but I would never deliberately go looking for one of her CD's. That was until she came back from a self imposed break of eight years, and released 'Lover's Rock', which was lapped up by her fans who had waited eagerly for her return, and there are few singers who would be able to manage that, especially without bowing down to the present day electronic pop that we hear so often. Sade co-wrote every track on the album, so they all have that personal touch. I don't know if it just came along at the right time for me, or whether I had matured enough to start and appreciate her talent, but whatever it was, this was certainly one of my best albums for 2000, which was also the year I became a mum, and this was the only CD which... Read review

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