Double Top - Junior Reid/Cornell Campbell

Advantages: Great all round cd for traditonal and modern pipe music.
Disadvantages: Not enough Tracks

...in his time as BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2005, Stuart has a CV that includes winning most of the top junior solo competitions, as well as being heard on the soundtrack of the latest Harry Potter film and recording with the rock band The Darkness. In 2005 Stuart also became the first graduate with the new BA Scottish Music - Piping degree from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Taught originally in Wallacestone Pipe Band and then by Pipe Major George Lumsden and Donald MacPherson, Stuart made rapid progress and by the age of thirteen was playing in grade one pipe bands, firstly with Torphichen and Bathgate and then with the famous MacNaughton's Vale of Atholl Pipe Band. He then went on to be a successful Pipe Major of The Royal Burgh of Stirling Pipe Band at the tender age of eighteen. He... Read review

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Advantages: Contrasting styles, consistent high quality
Disadvantages: Maybe one or two weaker tracks

...If the Sex Pistols were largely responsible for the explosion of punk in the UK around 1976, it was The Clash who gave it a lasting legacy and a meaning far beyond cheap controversy. Their eponymous debut album released in the year of punk, 1977, was arguably the greatest punk rock album. Even at that early stage the band showed ambition beyond most of their contemporaries, with a daring cover of Junior Murvin's "Police & Thieves" showing their interest in reggae. This aspect of the band's make up subsequently came to the fore with brilliant punk-reggae hybrids written by Joe Strummer and Mick Jones such as the single "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais" and "Safe European Home" from their otherwise disappointing second album Give 'Em Enough Rope(1978). Astoundingly what followed this album just a year later was an instant classic... Read review

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Advantages: A fabulous collection of ballads and dance songs!
Disadvantages: Not enough songs!

...I purchased this CD a few weeks ago when i found it on Amazon, as i was a huge fan of the juniors when they were around. The standout tracks for me on this album are; Automatic High, Puppy Love, Wherever You Are, Together, Anytime Anywhere and You Are The One. Automatic High and Anytime Anywhere are good songs to listen to in the summer and will get you dancing and singing along within minutes. Puppy Love, You Are The One, and Wherever You Are - these are all ballads which you could listen to whilst cuddled up with a loved one. Calvin really does justice, as he takes leads vocals in the cover of the Donny Osmond classic (Puppy Love). Together is a song about no matter how bad the world is or times get - when you're together with friends you're stong! All in all - i think this is a fabulous album! The juniors do it justice!... Read review

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