Release Date: 2003-10-21, Audio CD, Double Play (Int600
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Advantages: All the best songs in one place Disadvantages: Not worthwhile for the aged-old fan
channels and maybe it does get the odd bit of 'extra' airtime. (E.g. "Close To Me" being on a BBC Three programme...it's name escapes me, but it may have been the 'Smoking Room'? Answers on a postcard...)
Their 'greatesthits' album, released in 2001 through Fiction Records and only done so on the basis that Smith could choose the tracks himself is 19 tracks that show a chronological tale of the band and their music through the years. (Although two of the tracks are brand new!)
Opening track "Boys Don't Cry" was released in June 1979, eight years before I was born. Yet with it's instantly recognisable guitar riff it's something that the countless bands since then that have idolised and 'taken influence' from the Cure could take the rest of time to improve on. I believe the saying is along the lines of put some monkeys in a room ...
Advantages: The timeless Sexual Healing Disadvantages: None!
The late MarvinGaye remains the most definitive male voices in Soul music. He truly was an utter genius and had such a creative and artistic flair and remains one of the key influences with todays new generation of wannabe Soul/R&B singers.
In October 1982, Marvin released his first (and his last) studio album for CBS Records, after fleeing from Motown Records in a bid, much like Diana Ross' exact reasons for escaping Motown, for wanting to exert total control over his career, an exercise he was most certainly capable of. The album would be the classic, Midnight Love, which though offered no social commentary or made any sort of profound political statement like much of his previous efforts had, it still stands as a compelling, solid production and a last triumph for the unbeatable legend of soul.
Marvin wrote all 8 songs ...
Advantages: An excellent collection from an excellent band Disadvantages: Just ten songs...
The comparison between Alice in Chains and other 'grunge' bands such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam is inevitable, but I will do my upmost to avoid it, as AIC are certainly on a more advanced level. Although Nirvana maybe have been the commerical success, more of the underground rewards went to AIC, with their even darker, heavier approach to the genre.
A greatesthits album is just what the band needed to showcase it's skills to the world inside one collection, but with just 10 tracks, it begs the questions as to why so few? I honestly don't know.
'Man In the Box' is the albums opening track, the only track from 1990 release 'Facelift', and it is certainly one of the most famous AIC tracks, and a definite favourite of mine. It's low, dark guitar riffs on top of vocals to match from Layne Staley define AIC, and is certainly a great way ...
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