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The Prodigy - Their Law (The Singles)

Advantages: All of the Prodigys' best songs on one disc.
Disadvantages: Not enough songs on the disc

Genius. Utter Genius. The Prodigy return with their singles album to celebrate 15 years of heavy dance music with 15 of their best songs. The Prodigy have been a major name in the UK dance scene for many years. Out of the years that they have been together some of their most famous songs are "Firestarter", "Smack My Bitch Up", "Breathe", and "Voodoo People". These are all on this album. With "Firestarter" as the opening track on the album, you are sure to be up and dancing as soon as you put it on !! It truely was one of the last decent songs to get to number one in the twentieth century. Although it did not get alot of mainstream airplay before it was released. This just gave it a more anarchistic feel to a song which was already an anarchist. Next follows the slightly slower "Their Law" which is a drum and bass track with a rock ...

ngjvilla 17.10.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Their Law (The Singles 1990-2005) - Prodigy (The)

The Most Interesting Group of Singles you'll Meet

Advantages: Good compilation of The Smiths for someone wanting to get into the band, or someone with an interest in their music
Disadvantages: Some of their best material weren't released as singles, and so aren't on this album. Not as good as 'Very Best of the Smiths'

't long before the two were writing songs and their initial idea was to sell the songs they wrote, but instead (thankfully, and mostly due to Morrissey's aspirations of pop stardom (he had been in some unsuccessful bands like 'Wild Ram', who later called themselves 'Not Sensibles' then 'Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds' and finally 'The Nosebleeds') they recruited Mike Joyce to be their drummer and Andy Rourke to be their bassist. The name 'The Smiths' incidently was used as a backlash to contemporary eighties artists who to give themselves the most over the top names (who would do a thing like that) to disguise their musical inadequcies. The first single the new four-piece release was 'Hand in Glove' in May 1983, but it charted very poorly. Fortunately their luck changed six months later with one of their most famous songs 'This Charming Man ...

the_40_red_pirates_called_Roger 13.09.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Singles - Smiths (The)

'The bowler's Holding, the batsman's...oh never mind'

Advantages: A full-barrelled onslaught of witty pop
Disadvantages: That it's self-indulgent hardly needs saying

I don't know about you, but I'm the sort of person who will lay in bed at night, staring at the ceiling, and just before sliding into my slumbers will contemplate the great enigmas that beset mankind. Can we not all just live in peace, tolerance and understanding? Is there a God? Is this all there is, and after this comes merely an inky blackness? And most important of all, why has there never been an album of songs about cricket done by two Irish blokes? Well agonise about the latter no more, as Thomas Walsh and Neil Hannon have adopted the moniker of The Duckworth Lewis Method (the name given to the formula used to calculate by how many runs England would have lost a one-day international match if it hadn't been cut short by rain) and stepped into the breach. Or strode up to the crease. Or something...and provided a collection ...

greenierexyboy 22.09.2009 · Read full review
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