Closer Than Skin - David Cross

Advantages: Great songs, great playing
Disadvantages: None

..."Street Legal" saw the advent of a new Dylan sound. With gospelly backing vocalists, Steve Douglas's saxes, David Mansfield's violin and mandolin and Billy Cross's lead guitar to the fore, His Bobness's songs were enriched with a style that made for an easier-on-the-ear listen than the 1975 classic "Blood On The Tracks", without smoothing out the rough edges. In some aspects, they're probably closer to soul than he had ever got before. Mighty fine songs they were too. It kicks off with the enigmatic, swirling, oddly infectious "Changing Of The Guard", with that memorable sax hook, followed by the slower, bluesy "New Pony". The waltz-time "No Time To Think" is the longest track, clocking in at over eight minutes yet never flagging for a moment. Following that comes one of the less inspiring numbers, "Baby Stop Crying", a rather... Read review

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Advantages: A great album you'll never get tired of.
Disadvantages: Your CD player doesnt see any other CD for weeks

..., is sung with great feeling Chester having a great voice capable of much more than the usual rock “I’ll shout as loud into the microphone as possible”, he really can hold a good tune. Mike also brings a lot of emotion into his rapping, I was quite surprised at this, thinking the two couldn’t really go together ….. Thanks for proving me wrong Mike. The track listing is as follows (with a little quote to give a sense of the feel of the song) 01 - Papercut “That face inside is watching you to / Right inside your skin” A great opening track, also released as a single, immediately giving you a good impression of what Linkin Park are all about. 02 - One Step Closer “Everything you say to me / Takes me one step closer to the edge / I’m about to break” 03 - With You I’ll copy the chorus for this, I think it needs to be said …… “ Its true / the way... Read review

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Advantages: Great feel-good album of catchy tunes
Disadvantages: Simplistic lyrics and lots of borrowed bits and pieces

...ginger hair)? 4.SOMEONE WATCHING OVER ME One of those songs that builds it's foundations on David's soulful vocals whilst the backing is stripped down piano (to begin with). The lyrics seem to be about nightmares or maybe a bad trip? Nice easy going song. One of those album tracks that will never get the recognition but feels like a big cozy blanket. 5.SECRETS Nice. Closer to The Coral than most of the other tracks on the album. I really admire the way the band build up a song. It's interesting stuff, especially when your forced to listen to someones Death Metal collection when they give you a lift. I don't know why but whenever I hear the saxaphone I am immediately transported back to childhood and the program 'Pigeon Street'. 6.HOW DOES IT FEEL I'm starting to come to the conclusion that this album has no fillers? This is another great... Read review

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