Gordon Jacob - A Festival Of Music - Regimental Band Of The Coldstream Guards (The)

Advantages: Good Clean fun, with deep meaning lyrics
Disadvantages: None

...Barenaked Ladies got its start in 1988, when childhood friends Steven Page (vocals/guitar) and Ed Robertson (guitar) discovered they enjoyed singing together at summer camp. The idea for the band name (which the two were forced to defend repeatedly in the group's early years) came to them during a giggling fit at a Bob Dylan concert. After several months spent performing as opening act for a traveling comedy troupe, the duo recruited high school classmates (and brothers) Jim Creeggan (bass) and Andrew Creeggan (keyboards), and the foursome recorded a demo tape, titled Barenaked Lunch. A performance at the annual Buskers Festival in Waterloo, Ontario, led to an encounter with like-minded drummer Tyler Stewart, and the group was complete. Gordon, the band's first album proved a smash in Canada, but failed to generate much excitement... Read review

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Advantages: Remarkable music from one of the best live bands of all time
Disadvantages: I'm not keen on the first half of Elephant Talk, but that's a mere quibble

...My apologies, I know I’ve only just added my opinion on King Crimson’s Beat but I was standing in the shower and it occurred to me that I had to also write one on Absent Lovers, Live in Montreal. Please be patient with me because there is a reason for this. The decision was not made out of an attempt to ‘make up the numbers.’ King Crimson is notorious for making OK studio albums, and then being one of the most remarkable lives bands of all time. Someone once said that Crimson made the Red Hot Chilli Pepper sound like a 3rd league Camden indie guitar band. This is not a frivolous opinion. Having seen them live I can say that they have a remarkable power, everyone involved so totally focussed on their music and interplaying beautifully. Absent Lovers is a snapshot of the last two nights at the Montreal Jazz Festival... Read review

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Advantages: A decent uptempo band, good lyrics and pretty catchy music
Disadvantages: Won't appeal to anyone who isn't keen on the current Indie Rock scene

...If there is one thing that amazon is good at, it's recommending decent bands that I perhaps might not have heard of but end up loving. I took a gamble on this just before Reading festival last year and it certainly paid off. I'm always a little wary about buying based on the amazon recommends but so far I've not come across one yet that I haven't liked. The London 4 piece seem to have really sneaked onto the scene and then over a short space of time really developed a cult following, probably due to their appearance at Reading in 2005 and these amazon recommendations. They formed back in the early part of 2000 and decided to call themselves The Rakes because they were in fact as skinny as rakes. It's a bit of a tenuous way to name your band but it seems to have worked for them. It did take till 2005 for them to really make a name... Read review

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