Golden Touch [Remastered] - Shabba Ranks

Advantages: SHABBA!
Disadvantages: i can't understand it sometimes

...This is one of the greatest love making songs of all time. It captures the mood of Jamica and the West Indies so well. The lyric of the chorus are pure beuty: Mr Loverman SHABBA! Shabba Ranks has one of the most famous deliverys in the reggea business. You might think i am lying but this truely is a classic track everybody will remeber this in 10 years and 20 years and 30 even 50 years time. If you aren't trying to hunt out your copy of it as we speak i am truely shocked! It is a shame Shabba Ranks ruined his career with out bursts about "batty boys" as he and Ali G so nicely put it. There is no need to discriminate against anyone and Shabba Ranks did this and payed the price. He now lives off royalites of this song.... Read review

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Advantages: Lyrics, great indie-pop, remastered and bonus tracks
Disadvantages: Not entirely justified for already firm Five fans

...When I put Whatever and Ever Amen in my cd player I get hit with nostalgia and happiness. I spent a good deal of high school listening to these records with Amen definitely ranking up there. The band, self-described as 'punk rock for pussies', accurately reference this in the opening track 'One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces' with incredibly aggressive piano playing and distorted bass. Folds' lyrics may see his tongue stuck firmly in his cheek for a good deal of the time, but his references are so cleverly ironic while being brutally honest they hit remarkably close to the heart. Obvious standouts on 'Amen' here are 'Song for the Dumped', radio hit 'Brick' and 'Kate' but there is not one weak track on the entire album. In fact after repeated listens I'm sure most will find the album-only tracks surprisingly stronger. 'Selfless... Read review

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Advantages: Great jazz tunes from the Golden Age
Disadvantages: None

...This is real jazz, from the real Golden Age of Jazz. It's got the pace, the rhythm, the fluid trumpet playing, the relentlessly enthusiastic, rolling piano playing and the clear diction of some excellent singing of vocalists who could not only hold a tune, but who could capture your heart and soul, too… There's musicians with such great names as Muggsy Spanier, Meade Lux Lewis, King Oliver and Sidney Bechet. You do not get musicians called Muggsy nowadays. I wonder why? As well as straight out jazz such as the Dippermouth blues, there's also the dreamy and melodic April in Paris from Charlie Parker. Some jazz aficionados reckon that Charlie Parker eventually sold out. Well, perhaps he did. But some of his earlier work still stands the test of time. Jack Teagarden is on this CD, with So Many Times, a rather nice, well... Read review

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