Golden Greats - Patsy Cline

Advantages: It's Buddy Holly - Enough Said!
Disadvantages: Unfortunately, Buddy's guitar disappears behind the over dubbing

...Unfortunately after Buddy's death, his Manager, Norman Petty hired the Fireballs, who overdubbed much of the original guitar and music by Buddy & the Crickets. The result is that the original music is so far back in the mix, they might as well have not bothered! Buddy Holly was without doubt a musical genius, he was experiementing with elementary overdubbing before his untimely and tragic death. Therefore it is a great shame that Norman Petty treated his music this way. If you want to hear the real Buddy Holly, then there are available collections which have the original undubbed music on them, but you may have to shop around. Buddy's music is far too important and indeed, enjoyable to be treated this way, and you the listener deserve the real thing, rather than a heavily overdubbed version.... Read review

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Advantages: excellent role playing with great story
Disadvantages: none

...A great role playing game suitable for ages 10+, I think younger children may have difficulity with some of the challenges including de-coding the golden compass' symbols which is required to progress in the game. This game is taken from the movie & does include several movie clips, the graphics are good & the story easy to follow, it is easy to become all 3 playable characters Lyra, Pan & Iorek which is what you want from a role playing game. The main character is Lyra who from the comfort of her college in Oxford embarks on an epic adventure that takes her to the icy kingdoms of the north where her goal is to save the children who have been kidnapped by the gobblers because if she does not rescue them they undergo something more painful than death!!! As Lyra is a small child she is unable to accomplish this on her own so she... Read review

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Advantages: good to sit and watch with your kids
Disadvantages: not for all ages

...A fantastically thrilling film, ?The Golden Compass? with the prowling and flapping and slithering and fluttering. The animals, most of which are called daemons and are manifestations of the human soul, hover at the side of their people and near the story?s edge, where their coos and barks mix with the surrounding clatter and clangs. Sometimes an animal leaps forward in alarm, its fur raised in alarm, its feathers fluttering in flight. ?The Golden Compass?, a novel that was first published in Britain as ?northern Lights? written by Philip Pullman. It became a massive success with some obvious reasons: spooky villains, great storyline, and interesting characters. The main character is Lyra Belacque who embarks on the hero?s journey with her shape-shifting daemon, named Pantalaimon. Pantalaimon is a friendly daemon, yet he is... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful