Guitar Forms [Remastered] - Kenny Burrell

Advantages: A Few Good Songs, Contains The Best Single Of Their Career
Disadvantages: Very Dark, Scary, Some Poor Songs

...comment based on what the Band were later to go on and achieve. "Join Hands" despite its many criticisms also happens to contain the finest Single that Siouxsie and the Banshees ever released. This Album was re-issued in a deluxe remastered version in 2005 along with several of their other early Albums. I own the original vinyl version of this Album and recently decided to add this CD version to my collection. At the end of 1979 during the sell out tour that accompanied the release of this Album, two of the original Band members, John McKay and Kenny Morris dramatically quit, leaving the remaining two members, Siouxsie and Steve Severin to reform with new members. In comparison to the debut Album "Join Hands" is a much darker Album. Musically the sound is similar to the their first Album but one of its main faults lies its production... Read review

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Advantages: It's David Bowie
Disadvantages: None

...In 1974 which was the year disco broke big, hitherto the preserve of the Latino and Gay communities, this genre of music had number 1's in the shape of the Hues Corporation with the track "Rock the Boat" and George McCrae with "Rock your Baby so disco was getting to be big business. During the Late Summer of 1974 while taking a break from the "Diamond Dogs" tour Bowie booked himself into the Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia ran by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff to record what would turn out to be one of the most influential albums of the 70's. Whenever Bowie switched on the radio while in the States he had been fed a diet of the international sound of Philadelphia, Bowie at the time was nuts on the sound of the 3 degrees and M.F.S.B. (which stands for Mother Father Sister Brother) there was even a rumour at the time that Bowie tried... Read review

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Advantages: Kenny Loggins, Mighty Wings, the Top Gun anthem, hurrah for the Eighties!
Disadvantages: The shoddy second half and the misleading CD cover, NO RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS?!

...notice? And if anyone can claim to be a king of the Eighties Music Scene, it’s Kenny Loggins. Many a soundtrack did he contribute to in this fluorescent decade, and who doesn’t remember his track ‘Footloose’? We begin with a dramatic keyboard intro, soon matched with Kenny’s oddly pronunciated vocals and what you can bet is one of those weird shaped electric guitars they had in 1986. Some frankly awful lyrics take us to the signature chorus (‘Highway to the danger zone, gonna take you right into the danger zone’) and through a tune overloaded with electric drums and synthesiser. They don’t make ‘em like this anymore! CHEESIEST LINE: “Revvin’ up your engine, listen to her howlin’ roar, metal under tension, beggin’ you to touch and go” – Learn... Read review

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