Difficult To Cure [Remastered] - Rainbow

Between a rock and a soft place

Advantages: It's better than Down To Earth
Disadvantages: but neither is it really good

Spotlight Kid and Midtown Tunnel Vision is a slower bluesy number. The former track is much better than the latter. Rounding off we have Difficult To Cure, another instrumental, which sees Blackmore taking Beethoven's Ninth and adding some electric guitar to it - again very nice if you like that kind of thing. I don't. As I've mentioned this is a pretty good example of early 80's rock - it's hard rock but going curly at the edges, as many older established bands were doing at the time. (for comparison: Foreigner "4", Blue Oyster Cult's "Fire Of Unknown Origin", even Status Quo's "Just Supposing"), whilst still not as good as Rising or Long Live Rock & Roll, it's a lot better than that pathetic stab at the pop metal market called "Down To Earth". Turner is a much better singer and holds a note better than his laughable ...

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The Cure - Faith

Advantages: Great Songs
Disadvantages: Second CD IS Not Very Good

In 1981 the Cure released their third Album ?Faith? following the release of their two previous Albums ?Three Imaginary Boys? and ?Seventeen Seconds? in 1979 and 1980 respectively. In 2005 this Album, originally released on vinyl was re-issued in a digitally re-mastered deluxe edition version. This is a two CD pack, which as well as containing all of the tracks on the original vinyl Album on Disc one, it also features a previously unreleased song on this first Disc called ?Carnage Visors? plus a non-Album single released around the same time called ?Charlotte Sometimes.? On Disc two. Disc two features alternative versions of some of these same tracks in either a live or demo form, as well as some previously unreleased songs that are all instrumentals. Some of these were later reworked into songs that resurfaced elsewhere. Disc ...

micksheff 12.05.2007 · Read full review
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The Cure - Seventeen Seconds

Advantages: Excellent Songs
Disadvantages: Bonus CD Has Some Obscure Tracks

?Seventeen Seconds? was the second Album released by the Punk/Goth band, The Cure. It was released in the April of 1980 although it did not probably make it into my vinyl record recollection until around five years later. Originally released on the Fiction record label this is the only Cure studio Album to feature Keyboard player Matthieu Hartley. In 2005 Fiction records teamed up with the Band?s current record label, Rhino and re-issued this Album to mark its 25th anniversary. This re-issued version has been digitally remastered and not only contains the original ten tracks that featured on this Album, it also comes with a second CD Disc that contains a further fifteen tracks of oddities and rarities that were recorded around the same time. Just in case this was not enough this new package also comes with a booklet that is packed ...

micksheff 30.04.2007 · Read full review
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