Englishman/Robin Hood - Barrington Levy

Advantages: Outstanding composition and scoring
Disadvantages: Bit rough around the edges in parts

...Robin Hood Prince of Thieves is a Warner Brothers film starring Kevin Costner as Robin of Locksley and Alan Rickman as an outstanding Sheriff of Nottingham. Also starring in the film are Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, but the show is stolen in the last few seconds by the arrival of Sean Connery as King Richard. This is a review of the score, so I won't describe the plot here apart from to mention that it contains some rather silly moments. The music was composed by Michael Kamen, who sadly died at the age of only 55 in November 2003. His death was a great loss to the music commuity at large, Kamen having worked with a huge variety of musicians, including Queen, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Metallica and Sting as well as his more classical works. For those of you who are interested in that kind of thing... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: a great story plus 2 bonus track's
Disadvantages: to short but then again it is an ep

...humour filled and easy to listen to there is'nt any violence in this cd ,the cd does has a parental advisery sticker tho because of the swearing. THE STORY OF THE WIZARD FROM THE HOOD ------------------------------------------------------------------- This is violent j's first solo ep / album and is the story of the wizard of the hood .BELOW IS THE STORY AROUND THE ALBUM AND BELOW THAT IS A RATEING OF EACH SONG The story start very similar to the wizard of oz but think instead of kanzas ''detroit'' and the little girl has been swaped with a pot smokeing clown called violent j,the intro start's of with a normal day with violent j he's smokeing a little something weed and the next thing he know's is there's a huge twister blowing everything in the street even the people away, it pick's up the house violent j's house and it start... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: great lyrics, great music, great voice
Disadvantages: lots of home-recordings

...Robbin' The Hood is the second instalment in the Sublime album trilogy. With 40oz. to Freedom released before and Self-Titled after this is the only other proper album release when the boys were still going. Unlike 40oz. and Sublime, Robbin' wasnt as widely recognised. It is normally thought of as the weakest album of the 3. This may be true, and in my opinion the other 2 do normally spring to mind before this one, but it's the real hidden gem of anyones CD collection. Its the kind of album that you'll play none stop for months when you buy it and then when it starts to gather dust you'll dig it out again and think 'wow! why the hell did I ever stop listening to that!'. However you rate this album, there are plenty of classics on it. From the heavier STP and All You Need to the more acoustic-based Greatest Hits and Pool Shark... Read review

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