Gold - Hank Williams

Advantages: Erm.............things can only get better!!!
Disadvantages: Many of the tracks are poor

...As I start this review I have to make it clear that I am a Robbie Williams fan. My better half and I saw him live in Paris last year and it was, undoubtedly, the finest 2 hours of live entertainment and showmanship that I have ever seen. He is, without question, the finest performer and "popstar" that the UK has produced in the last twenty years, building a career on musicality, pop songs and performance, which is why "Rudebox" seems to have been a genuinely bad idea!! It's a departure into electro-pop, hip-hop and rap that is as unwelcome as it is unconvincing, and I worry that Robbie is starting to sink with his demons again! It is backed up with unusual images of Robbie in tracksuits, staring at us with hip-hop "attitude". The Background Robbie Williams' meteoric rise to stardom with Take That, the apparent acrimony behind... Read review

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Advantages: It's the best Harry Potter score yet - deeper, darker and inspired!
Disadvantages: Where have the old themes gone??

...When Warner Bros announced that John Williams was to take on the composition of the score for “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” (“Sorcerer’s Stone” for any Americans reading) I knew they had made the right decision. I was studying Music at the time and, I will admit without shame, had discussed this at great length with a few other students beforehand. We agreed that it would ‘have’ to be John Williams – the King of Memorable/Cheesy/Inspirational film scores that most have ingrained in the back of their minds. Who could forget the menacing Imperial March as Darth Vader marched into the corridor in “A New Hope”? I think I spent half my childhood running around pretending to be Indiana Jones (accompanied by the famous theme, of course). I heard the score to the Philosopher’s Stone in fragments on the radio... Read review

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Advantages: Robbie is always amazing
Disadvantages: absolut nothing

...Rudebox is the last album of british pop singer Robbie Williams.The album is composed from 17 songs that space from the dub to music dance and to the electronics. There are pays to Madonna, Manu Chao and David Bowie and collaborations with William Orbit ("Louise" and "Summertime"), Lily Allen ("King of the Bongo..")e two with the Pet Shop Boys ("She' s Madonna" and "We' king the Pet Shop Boys"). The first single "Rudebox" is in style hip hop, and is exited the 4 september 2006. In spite of the strong critics of the press, it has caught up the first position in classifies in many countries in Europe and South America. The fifth single one more sold in the United World Chart has been. For how much it concerns to the single second, "Lovelight", exited 13 slid November, in pure style disc has been too it to concerns us of classifies... Read review

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