Advantages: Hip Hop remixes are all bangers Disadvantages: Electronica tracks are terrible
"Call and Response" is a remix album from Maroon 5, released in 2008. It has them use material from their first two records, "Songs About Jane" and "It Won't Be Soon Before Long", and get both Hip Hop and Electronica producers and vocal performers to do what they can with the material, and interpret in the way which their genre sees fit. The Alternative Rock band, led by Adam Levine, give complete control to the guests.
1. "If I Never See Your Face Again" (feat. Cross and Swizz Beatz)
To get things going, you get a banger of a cut as Cross (who I hadn't heard of) does a rap, before Swizzy drops a classic cut (used in Missy Elliot's "Work It", Run-D.M.C.'s "Peter Piper" and World Class Wreckin' Cru's "Cabbage Patch", it is my favourite break of all time, and worked very well with the track which they used. Swizzy does more work that ...
Advantages: Marvelous videos Disadvantages: Not any interviews with the band apart from DVD ROM
I thought it was time I reviewed Duran Durans greatest on DVD.
This is a two disk set and also a region 0 that means it can play on any DVD player.
The packaging on this is very nice and quite simple, white box and when you open it up bars of colour on the inlay covers. The disks have no fancy pictures on but are nice silver disks with Greatest I or II on them.
As you put either of the disks on the menu has GREATEST and you can navigate through the letters on each disk that bring you into the menu of songs or features for that letter on each disks. Very clever.
All of the songs are the original music videos unless I state otherwise.
I shall take you through what is on it :
Disk 1
The letter R contains:
Planet Earth. This is one of their first videos on one of the earliest videos that was released and shown on top ...
Advantages: A danceable collection Disadvantages: One really naff track
This is my first album review so any criticisms or advice will be greatly appreciated.
I decided to review J to tha Lo – the Remixes, an album by Miss Big Butt herself, Jennifer Lopez, as it is one of the CD’s in our house that gets a lot of play time.
The album cover is a collection of pictures from her various musical videos.
J-Lo released this offering in March 2002, and the album offers remixed versions of many of her tracks, previously released as singles, or on her other albums. A con, to persuade us to part with more money? Well, see what you think.
The album is available from HMV priced at £16.99.
TRACK LISTING
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1. Love don’t cost a thing (RJ Schoolyard Mix)
2. Ain’t it funny (Remix feat. Ja Rule)
3. I’m gonna be alright (Trackmasters remix feat 50 Cent)
4. I’ ...
