Do It Yourself (The Rise Of The Independent Music Industry) - Various Artists

Advantages: More fun than your average workout DVD
Disadvantages: Not that strenuous, some bits completely useless if you dont have a pole

..., at varying levels of sexiness and skill required! But no, the breakdown that is advertised is very misleading. I'll talk you through each bit... THE INTRODUCTION Nicky Taylor talking about how she's a dancer, and that the DVD will help you in various ways, to be more flexible, stronger, toned, sexy, have fun etc. At this point, (and at some other times too) Nicky repeats herself, i.e "the DVD will make you flexible, supple, toned and flexible". Oh dear. Have they even rehearsed?! THE WARM UP Pretty standard really. A few warm up moves, nothing too exciting... LEARN AEROBIC STRIPTEASE OK! Here comes the exciting bit! You'd think. And it is quite good. Nicky and her two background dancers go through the moves step by step, teaching a little bit at a time then putting each bit to music, before going through the whole thing again... Read review

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Advantages: emotive, personal
Disadvantages: -

...as an artist. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ‘The Rising’, released in 2002, is Springsteen’s answer to 9/11. Being a man that is as true an American as you could ever wish to meet, the tragic events of that day touched a chord with him, inspiring this masterpiece of a musical response. Being someone who has heard the majority of his work, yet isn’t able to recall titles and such, this is the first of his releases I found myself listening to and simply thinking ….wow. The passion for his homeland is there in every one of the 15 tracks, with titles such as ‘My City Of Ruins’ and ‘You’re Missing’, this is extremely personal to The Boss and he knows how to convey his message. Don’t expect rock god perfection with screeching guitar solos, because that’s not how Springsteen does things, and secondly, this is not the time nor the place... Read review

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Advantages: Inner meanings make the songs powerful and mysterious.
Disadvantages: Lack of new material makes the band less well known, and thus deprives people of glorious music such as this.

...made it even more so. With this new found blinding success the band members sort after a new sophistication, a new level of music was born yet again, and yep, you guessed it, the name was indeed changed once more. Matchbox 20 became Matchbox Twenty. Despite the barely noticeable difference, in my opinion, its touches like that that prove an artists worth, it shows care ha gone into what is being performed. Take a look at the covers of the two albums “Mad season” and “Yourself or someone like you” and you’ll notice the subtle name change. Anyway – Back to the point, with the new name being broadcast around the globe, a new album was needed to go with it, and Four years on from the debut album came “Mad Season”. (2000). Don’t be fooled, MB20 did have a helping hand to become as big... Read review

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