Gravel Road - Magic Slim & The Teardrops

Advantages: Great diverse album
Disadvantages: some songs seem to b short(but still good)

...FIRST ALBUMS that are as alive with ideas and musical variety as the Coral’s 2002 debut come along all too rarely. The Mercury Prize-nominated CD suggested that the band were a law unto themselves, capable of sounding like a reggae-inflected Teardrop Explodes one minute and psychedelic moptops delivering carousing sea shanties the next. Though they claimed Oasis as an inspiration, the Coral firmly eschewed dadrock’s tiresome clichés. But there was concern about how they would fare over the long haul. Did they have the songwriting substance to last? Would they disappear down the road of Scouse obscurity previously trodden by their neighbours the Las and Shack? Could their self-professed musical “attention deficit disorder” be held in check long enough to develop a distinctive identity? It is hard to imagine... Read review

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Advantages: A Deciation to A Great Artist!
Disadvantages: You Decide...

...the trees, younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze. Country roads, take me home to the place I belong. West Virginia, mountain momma, take me home, country roads. All my memories gather round her, miner's lady, stranger to blue water. Dark and dusty, painted on the sky, misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye. Country roads, take me home to the place I belong. West Virginia, mountain momma, take me home, country roads. I hear her voice in the morning hour she calls me, the radio reminds me of my home far away. And driving down the road I get a feeling that I should have been home yesterday, yesterday. Country roads, take me home to the place I belong. West Virginia, mountain momma, take me home, country roads. Country roads, take me home to the place I belong. West Virginia, mountain momma, take me home, country... Read review

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Advantages: Phenomenal, yet sick Debut
Disadvantages: Some weaker moments as expected

...adored over sales and exposure. Unfortunately, that is the relative problem with the music industry when it comes to rap... this always happens... until 1999 when everything changed. Eminem, born Marshall Mathers, was a hip-hop fan since youth. In listening to his idols such as Nas, Biggie, Redman, Rakim, Outkast, Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap, N.W.A. and many more, he wanted to be like these artists, who never cared about selling out (at least not during this time), and only wanted to bring realness and respect to hip-hop music. After a troubled childhood, he finally got to record his first EP entitled Infinite and released it in 1996. Poor sales and lack of exposure plagued the otherwise worthy album and it never sold anything. Soon after he adapted a sort of changed style, creating an semi insane hip-hop alter-ego named Slim Shady... Read review

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