Friendship Next To Kin - Selwyn Lissack

Advantages: Nu-Skool Hi-Octane Hardcore AT ITS FINEST!
Disadvantages: Some parts of certain tracks have been edited down to suit playing time.

..., and if anyone can deliver the beatz as swiftly and penatrating as required, it's the Next Generation and Blatant Beats posse. This is the first commercial album promoting their much loved tracks in verious forms and remixes on the first CD such as Bang! - Break of Dawn and Shooting Star. The second CD sports their newer tracks upto cat. numbers NG025, NGLP015 and BB036 (12" cat numbers). At the time of the release of this album, half of these tracks were not available on 12" (but now they are! :-D) Personally I think CD2 hits you the most and anyone into modern commercial dance would understand as it sports some quality remakes.... Track 2: Fade - Start The Party (Pink - Get The Party Started RIP) Track 3: Double Dutch (Brisk) - Here Comes The Noise (DJ Sammy - Heaven RIP) Track 6: Brisk & Fade - Stay Here Forever (N-Trance - Forever... Read review

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Advantages: Very talented group
Disadvantages: Certain songs have high sexual content

...Next are probably better known for their 2 songs Too Close and Wifey. You know how it is you like a song but have no idea who sings it well that was me that why I had to buy the album. I liked Wifey which features on their second album entitled Welcome II Nextasy. I seem to buy most of my R&B albums in reverse order so I have just purchased the first album Rated Next which has the track Too Close. Next consists of three male men RL (very attractive see inside sleeve), Tweety and T-Low. I would class them on the same par as Ideal, 112, Jagged Edge, Jodeci and even Dru Hill as they all have the same mannerisms of American all male groups. i.e. sing about love and women with hardly any clothes on while showing of extremely toned bodies. The album contains 15 songs altogether, including the intro and 1 interlude. (There... Read review

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Advantages: Fantastic Lyrics, Good Songs
Disadvantages: Some Lyrics Are Quite Depressing

.... It would have been easy and safe to put out a collection of new tracks that were similar to those on Eden but instead we find something much more lively and dare I say it happier. When All's Well opens with a full brass band. There is a full Orchestra here not just the Saxophone and Acoustic Guitar that accompanies Tracey's voice on the tracks from Eden, and the vocals are loud and clear. This is a song that is sung right from the bottom of the stomach and in many ways it almost like a celebration. Tracey and Ben were now a couple, they had found a loving friendship in each other and this was being expressed in the new material that they were recording. Gone are the bitterweet lyrics of earlier songs, instead Tracey sings "When all's well my love is like cathedral bells" Ugly Little Dreams is a song that Tracey wrote about Frances... Read review

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