Gospel According To Hank Williams, The - Hank Williams

Advantages: moving, insightful and beautiful songs. It's Captain Kirk
Disadvantages: Not everyone's up of tea

...There is already an excellent review of this CD c/o Champ666 who alas seems to have departed Ciao. Still, I thought I'd add my own slant on this fine album that is either a work of genius or utter tosh and even now, I'm not entirely sure which although based on the amount of play it gets around here, I'm leaning on the former. William Shatner, yes, he of Star Trek, dodgy wigs and hammy acting has finally reached that age where he no longer takes himself quite so seriously and this album shows. An epic work that is quite unlike anything else you're ever likely to hear unless you have a stash of very strange beat-poet albums I've not seen before. Shatner is no stranger to releasing albums and has been responsible for a few over the years, mostly pretty dire, it has to be said - badly read Shakespear through to bizarre covers. His... 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: 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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