Advantages: Great case, most songs are brill! Disadvantages: Some dissapointing - unheard of songs.
I thought half of NationalAnthems is very good! It says it in the title really, 'anthems' - songs people know. I thought that the first CD was really good. Theres lots of tracks on there (24 in total), so instead of many songs which 'drag on', they are all between 2 and 5 minutes. Half the songs are well known more 'commercial' songs and the other half are less known (to me). The seconds cd though was not as impressive, i hadnt heard many of the songs, but still there were some good ones! Overall the first cd keeps me interested throughout, but the second cd bored me at points, with a few good songs towards the end! All in all, a great cd! Well worth a buy! ...
Advantages: A great album Disadvantages: The odd track can 'sound the same'
Say hello to The Gaslight Anthem. Dare I suggest the majority of you haven?t heard of them?? Well, some might know them simply as the band that got Bruce Springsteen to join them on stage during their performance at Glastonbury this year. Well, this is their album ?The ?59 Sound?.
Released in 2008 on SideOneDummy Records, it?s a twelve-track album which instantly personifies the ?Americana? type of band. Big choruses, full of melodies and short instrumental interludes and breakdowns ? usually surrounding a glitzy guitar solo.
The opening track, ?Great Expectations?, is just that. Big glorious choruses and verses that contain muted guitar riffs and snare-infected drum loops. The reference to Bruce Springsteen early is clear to see in their music ? it?s genuine rock music. Listen to it on your stereo, and then imagine to loud and it ...
Advantages: Important film in film making history Disadvantages: Contraversial. I don't agree with the views of the film, a little too long
The Birth of a Nation is a black and white silent film from 1915. It?s not a film I had heard of before, and the reason I watched it was because it was on the film list for a course I am taking at university.
The film is based on a novel by Thomas Dixon called ?The Clansmen?. I had read up a little bit about the film before I started watching it so I wasn?t as surprised as I might have been about the content. The film was (and still is) controversial for promoting white supremacy, and I thought most of it was quite racist!
The film was regarded as a very important film in its day as it used many new filming techniques which hadn?t been seen before. This is one of the main reasons that it was chosen as part of my course. I found the film interesting as I had never seen anything like it before, although I understand why it is seen as ...
