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For Those Still Chasing the Rainbow...

Advantages: A good mixture of movie songs and Decca Recordings
Disadvantages: It is just another Garland compliation

...discs and 60 songs, "The essential Judy Garland" covers the 1930's and 40's. It's jammed packed with classics, written by classics, the Gershwins', Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Arlen and Freed, and Roger Edens. This three-disc compilation is great value for money; my boyfriend brought it for me from Play for about five pounds. It comes in a rather attractive, if not flimsy, slipcase and has a booklet inside with some "rarer" photographs in it. The ...
...tracklisting, which details the composers, when and where each track was recorded and where the song was taken from. Many of the songs are from films Judy starred in, but there is also a good mixture of tunes she recorded for Decca and Capitol. There are some great tracks on here and opening this box of delights is Judy's signature song "Over the rainbow". Containing the most beautiful, purest notes in the universe, nobody else should ever sing this ...

emmaewok 13.04.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Essential Judy Garland, The - Judy Garland

As spiritual as a Kellogg's Pop Tart

Advantages: Less than an hour long.
Disadvantages: Awful, awful, awful music.

My girlfriend's great, she really is. She has excellent taste in many things (boyfriends not least among them) but if there's one thing we'll never agree upon it's music. Although we both have very varied tastes, they never seem to coincide. Her CD collection consists of twangy Redneck folk, soundtracks from drippy chick-flick films she likes, dodgy compilations (ie NOW 1983) and, worst of all, this. Medwyn Goodall. I've selected this one CD, "Earth ...
...of M.G. CDs and I can't actually distinguish between them, so this will do as well as any of the others as a subject for this opinion. There are loads CDs by Medwyn Goodall (and similar artists), all sold mail order or in those funny smelling girly shops with crap hanging from the cielings and a loads of hideous "Grey Alien" merchandise. The Medwyn Goodall CDs have names like "The way of the Dolphin", "Medicine Woman" and "Priestess, the return ...

dogscoff 19.07.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Earth Healer - Medwyn Goodall

EXCALIBUR - A CUT ABOVE THE REST?

Advantages: Very mellow music great for relaxing to
Disadvantages: Not to everyone's taste

...very relaxing and inspirational. Excalibur is the third CD of a trilogy set and is purely instrumental with no actual lyrics. The first CD is Druid (see my review) and second is Merlin (see my previous review). The set is released on the New World Company label and is available in most new age shops or on their website www.newworldmusic.com and is also available on Amazon. The first track is "Caliburn" which is nearly 8 minutes long. This is a ...
...subtle percussion. It washes over you like a summer breeze particularly when the pan pipe comes in. Its actually a really good track for just sitting and thinking. Probably my favourite track on the album. The next track is "Uther & Igrayne" which is quite a long track at just over 10 minutes. Whilst it has some more dramatic deep drumming, it also features the pan pipes which keep it relaxed. Oddly, there are elements in the middle which are almost ...

aliree 27.10.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Excalibur - Medwyn Goodall

The Diva from Yorksha

Advantages: Soothing and uplifting tracks
Disadvantages: Many tracks in foreign languages

...CD ‘A Soprano Inspired’. I am not really into opera or classical music. So bear with me if this review appears a little naïve. I tend to avoid the 4-hour extravaganza TV specials, which show an opera in its entirety. A cleaning lady at my former workplace actually forked out £300 for a night at the opera in Covent Garden, London WC1. A work colleague actually gave up a career in computing to become a full-time opera singer. I do know ...
...started music lessons at school I honestly thought that we would be taught about the Beatles, Slade etc and learn songs from the current pop charts. Imagine my disappointment when we were introduced to the likes of Beethoven, Mozart, Strauss, Stravinsky, Sibelius, Holst, Brahms, Liszt, Handel, Mendelssohn etc. But one fact did sway me. Scientists have identified that brain waves consist of certain number sequences. Classical music also contains ...

mrpaella 26.05.2001 · Read full review
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Review of I Will Wait For You - Lesley Garrett

I just haven't met him yet!!

Advantages: Some of his own songs, some classics
Disadvantages: None

...Georgia On My Mind and Crazy Love to name but a few. In my opinion he does a good job with each song, putting his own spin on it but still keeping the same essence of each song which I like. The rest of the album is as follows: "Cry Me a River" "All of Me" "Georgia on My Mind" "Crazy Love" "Haven't Met You Yet" "All I Do Is Dream of You" "Hold On" "Heartache Tonight" "You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You" "Baby (You've Got What It Takes)" "At This ...

Spottydog11 09.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Crazy Love - Michael Buble