Cyclone - Baby Bash

Advantages: Sugar Sugar
Disadvantages: Every other track!

...of warmth and relief than the sound of this dire attempt at a rap record flying through the air and fittingly ending up in the skip, where it belonged. I have never heard such awful music, and it amazes me to this day that Baby Bash ever got the chance to make it. I will regret the day I bought this CD for the rest of my life, and I feel inclined to warn you not to do the same, you know, to give something back as repentance for my silly crime. If you like 'Sugar Sugar', buy it as a single. Take no notice ever again of the nonce that graces the cover of this CD. He is commiting fraud by bringing out a record of this quality and pricing it above 10p. I'm beating myself up now just thinking how I could have picked his smirking face off the shelf and not even look at what he called the album. 'Tha Smokin' Nephew'. This title reflects all the lyrics... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Good Quality Pop Album
Disadvantages: Gets a bit repatitive

...This is the debut album from the delightful Miss Spears and as pop music albums go it is pretty good! It contains her first two UK number 1's.in a collection of twelve songs, which range from very slick to the down right cheesy variety. So which one's are which? No matter what you think of Britney Spear's, you cannot deny the fact that the title track "Baby One More Time" is one of the greatest pop songs of all time. This was exactly the standard of song Britney needed to leave her mark in music’s history book and to make her stand out from her rivals. The song is so damn catchy, you cannot help yourself humming along to the tune if it gets played in the vicinity. I guess that if Abba were still active today, then this would be what they would be producing. Oh yeah, the video was pretty good too! The other tracks lifted from... Read review

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Advantages: Effortlessly cool, great tunes, danceable
Disadvantages: Too many cooks spoil the broth? A couple of weak links

...to record a solo album. And 'Love, Angel, Music, Baby' is the result. One could argue that as the face, voice and lyricist of No Doubt, why would she need to record an album on her own? What difference would it make? The answer is that it would make a huge difference, as this is too knowingly weird to be a No Doubt album, from the A-list collaborations to Stefani being trailed around wherever she goes by four Japanese 'Harajuku Girls'. First of all, let's just get past that abominable album title. It's apparently the name of Stefani's fashion label, so at least she's being consistent. Putting that to the back of our minds, let's concentrate on the music… The album takes in a variety of different styles, from breathtaking 80's pop, to unashamed bashes at hip-hop, retro, electro and balladry, all infused with the distinct sense of charismatic... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful