Drifting And Dreaming - Felix Mendelssohn & His Hawaiian Serenaders

Advantages: a classic album
Disadvantages: not to everyones taste

...Felix Da Housecat aka Felix Stallings Jr. is one of the most influential people in dance music and certainly one of the most talented. Music always played a huge role in his life. Growing up in Detroit in the 1970s, his father who was a saxophonist instilled a love of music in Felix, especially soul and funk like Stevie Wonder. During the 80s he started to develop a big interest for house music, listening to the pioneers of house music such as Farley "Jack Master" Funk made Felix start recording his own house music tracks at the age of 14! He was also in an R'n'B band and during his two years at university in America's Deep South he made some hiphop. He hated his days at college there and so he dropped out, returning home to his beloved Detroit. He studied Audio Engineering at Columbia College, which would prove to be invaluble in his... Read review

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Advantages: Some of Newman's best work
Disadvantages: The Jeff Lynne bits

...day All your bad dreams drift away." The third song of the album closes the first chapter of Newman's life with his father waking him up for his first day of school: "Son, if you fall behind you'll never get ahead" Packed off with his cowboy outfit and Roy Rogers lunch pail, Newman arrives only to hear the "sweet children's voices calling" out to him – "Four eyes!" It's a stunning conclusion to some of the rawest autobiography ever recorded. Simultaneously filled with warmth and misanthropic wit, Newman is exploring areas usually reserved for the most skilful of novelists. In fact, this opening triptych represents an artistic peak that Newman was unable to sustain. Nevertheless, the rest of the album contains a handful of songs that most writers would kill for. Something Special is a gorgeous love song stripped of Newman... Read review

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Advantages: Cool Cars, An exciting film
Disadvantages: Nothing like the first 2

...A film directed by Justin Linand written by Chris Morgan which was released in Summer 2006. Rated a PG for reckless and illegal behavior involving teens, violence, language and sexual content. This film runs for 104 minuetes which is not to long and enough time to have a really good story line The sequel to Fast and Furious and 2 Fast 2 Furious, al these films are about illegal streetracing and the car scene. The Fast And The Furious - Tokyo Drift is about a 17year old lad (Shaun) whos into cars, he gets into quite a lot of trouble everywhere he lives and him and his mother have to keep leaving town to stop Shaun from getting into more trouble. He ends up in a race with a rich lad and his girlfriend and ends up back facing leaving yet another town, his mother doesn't want to keep moving so sends him away to Tokyo to live... Read review

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