Good Life, The [SACD] - Monty Alexander

Advantages: Really funny
Disadvantages: Not for everyone

...The Bright Side of Life Every side of life has a bright side and between October 1969 and December 1974 the Monty Python team, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idol, Terry Jones and Michael Palin shared theirs with us. With classic scenes like 'The cheese shoppe!' and 'The dead parrot scene' (It's just resting) and films like 'The life of Brian' and 'The Holy Grail' (We are the knights that say Ni!) their rather silly brand of humour is forever part of our culture. Now in amidst all of this silliness, there were a number of silly songs, and these have all been brought together on the album 'Monty Python Sings'. Now you know that being Monty Python it is going to be an excessively happy album, and in some cases a little close to the line but its all just good Python fun, the music is always very apt for the scene... Read review

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Advantages: diversity, progression of Joel's vocals
Disadvantages: slightly more pop orientated

...Following the success of their first two albums ‘Good Charlotte’ and ‘The Young & The Hopeless’, Good Charlotte have a go at being ‘dark’ on us, supposedly going darker within their lyrics and heightening their overall sound. Now, being someone who loved their first two albums, I will honestly say that I would have loved this regardless, but it doesn’t mean that my opinion should be heard any less than a neutral. In fairness, Joel Madden’s quotes of this being a much darker record are not proven correct, with the same relative beat as was so evident on ‘The Young & The Hopeless’, yet with the success of that album what need is their to change things. In the case of ‘The Chronicles Of Life and Death’ there are to be two separate releases, one incorporating life art, whilst the other features death art. Apart from that one minimal... Read review

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Advantages: Totally different to what they usually do making it a forever classic
Disadvantages: If you don't like acoustic guitars, this ain't for you...

...Green Day are a very famous band to all large music fans. Most of their music is Punk Rock or Grunge but this steps out of line for the better. It starts off with a brilliant sounding guitar playing a chord slowly twice. Then the song really gets going and features a simple acoustic guitar riff and a set of chords that is very easy to play. It includes sets of string instruments and a vocalist that all mixes together very well. Most of Green Day's songs I like and when I saw this I knew that I had to get it. I loved the great sound straight from the start until the end when I decided to put the CD on repeat. Any fan of acoustical music should buy this. If you're put off by Green Day's other songs then bare in mind that this is quite different to what they usually do. This song, Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) is featured... Read review

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