England - World Library Of Folk Music - Various Artists

Advantages: Relaxing story telling music with a bit of heart
Disadvantages: Too boring

...OK album, with a nice mix of different artist most of which i have never hear of before. As you can probably tell I'm not usually into this kind of music but being someone always looking to expand my musical horizons, I thought i would give it a go but was not too impressed. Most of the songs featured were not too impressive, many of which sounded very boring and generic for the genre. Track 15, Green Fields of France - Furey & Davey Arthur was probably one of the most impressive tracks on the album; this song featured delicately sung lyrics and an impressive story which i think is based on world war 2. Some of the other tracks were almost up to this standard but were too boring and didn't catch my attention.... Read review

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Advantages: its good if your into pop music
Disadvantages: its not good if your into any other type of music

...when i heard they were bringing yet another now compilation album i was gob smacked because i think its about time they stopped bringing them out .they are ok but when they are bringing this many out its just wasteing the buyers money.this one i found fairly decent concidering i prefer rock and indie music.you do actually get value for money with this product.i think they should stop bringing these now albums out because they are just full of the same crap everytime you listen to one.If you like your pop music fair enough go and buy it but its not my cup of tea at all.they should start mixing them up with rock music and other genres.they could call it now rock and so on for the other genres.... Read review

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Advantages: A rich tapestry of eccentricity and good, but obscure music
Disadvantages: A couple of weak tracks

...Cameron with a track from the "Kes" soundtrack. Early 60's jazz from Michael Garrick, more chunks from various soundtracks (eg "Blood On Satan's Claw"). I don't think there is a music track on here that is duff. The overall mood seems to be a combination of pastoral jazz and folk and experimental boundary pushing. And considering that some of this is basically just library music, that says a lot for the good quality of those old music libraries. It genuinely is rather good. Best track for me? "Negatives" by Basil Kirchin. Nostalgia: we've got excerpts from The Clangers soundtrack and also Bod. Yes, Bod. I can hear the brain cells firing up already in anticipation of that famous piccolo(?) sound we heard way back then. The Mike Sammes Singers also do their bit in this area, by giving us the Timex ad from the 60's (see my review of "Music... Read review

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