Essential, The - Alabama

Advantages: great songs
Disadvantages: none

...I am not a religious man (far from it) and am no follower of gospel music but having come across the blid boys of alabamas Spirit of the Century album I couldn't wait to get my hands on this one. THere is no doubt that this is another fine album full of wonderful vocals. As with Spirit of the century the blind boys have been teamed up with another great set of backing musicians, although I must admit i do miss Danny Thompsons excellent bass playing which was an outstanding feature of the previous album. There is a good range of songs on this album which show up the beauty of the singing and playing. Even if like me you would never normall consider a gospel album this is well worth buying and if you have never heard spirit of the century you MUST get that album tha treally is essential listening U GOTTA LOVE IT... Read review

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Advantages: Good incorporation of classic metal style.
Disadvantages: Too content to be nothing new.

...Last year's release from those southern-fried proponents of beer-chugging, bar-room-brawl metal Alabama Thunderpussy is probably the best they've ever done, emerging slightly higher in its repetitive, derivative, dead-horse sound than their earlier efforts that sounded pretty much the same. As mainstream metal divided in the early nineties, the absurdly overrated Pantera popularised their brand of angry and dirty Texan groove metal, essentially an off-shoot of eighties thrash that slowed things down and replaced its interesting guitars with some pinchy squeaks, and attracted a legion of loyal, obnoxious, angry fans as well as a crowd of imitators. While the best was Down, Pantera's own side-project-of-sorts, Virginia's Alabama Thunderpussy emerged as the best Pantera clone for ironing out that band's most irritating flaws. At least... Read review

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Advantages: good to chill out to
Disadvantages: not everyones cup of tea

...This album is really good... For someone who is into a lot of rock and metal etc. this is a really good chill out album. The songs are all really catchy, believe me you'll catch yourself singing it all the time. In my opinion this is Alabama3's best album although i was surprised it didn't get the hype i thought it would with the soprano's theme tune. You'll either love or hate this album, i let some of my friends listen to it as they were going to be a T in the park but they didn't appreciate it (but then again they mostly like pop and rap) I think good advice for this album would be to download a song such as "too sick to pray" or "woke up this morning" before you buy it. if you like these then i'm sure you would like the rest.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful