Hallelujah - Great Sacred Choruses

Hallelujah! No Pop Idol here!

Advantages: Upbeat, joyous and infectious
Disadvantages: Very hard to come by

London Boys" and committed career suicide by releasing an album guaranteed to upset theists, atheists and agnostics by mixing classic "sacred" gospel choruses with eurodisco beats. Even the usual pop star trick of dying to sell more records seems to have failed for Fuller and Ephraim as despite being killed in a tragic car accident in 1996 (along with Ephraim's wife and another DJ) as "Hallelujah Hits" did not chart. One of the other reasons I love this album is the joyous abandon demonstrated by Fuller, Ephraim and the choir as they belt out choruses that everyone knows. I have played this album (or portions thereof) to a number of people and they have all involuntarily sung along (including my wife!), carried away by the infectious rhythms and memorable lyrics. I often find my kids wandering the house singing snatches of these ...

ben-lloyd 14.09.2009 · Read full review
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An album most Sacred

Advantages: Sting at his sultry best
Disadvantages: None

sings, but he is a very proficient musician, and is able to play, the mandolin, guitar, piano, bass guitar, saxophone, flute and oboe, and that is not all. Putting the differences with the other Police members behind them, Sting invited Andy Summers to guest star on his 1987 album release ?Nothing Like the sun? and both members have joined Sting on stage at various times through his solo career. October 2003 saw the release of Sting?s latest album ?Sacred Love?, which can be purchased from CD Wow for £8.99, or from play.com for £7.99. The opening track ?Inside? begins with an echoing noise, and sounds slightly Oriental, before the introduction of an acoustic guitar, and Sting?s vocals. A slow song, which has the riff from ?All the Young Dudes? sandwiched into the middle, explores Sting?s ideals of what goes on within the human ...

Lizard_Lover 24.11.2003 · Read full review
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The Sacred Heart Church, Tibidabo, Barcelona

Advantages: Beautiful church, great views of Barcelona below.
Disadvantages: None

tram and the Funicular railway. I would recommend a visit to Tibidabo and the Sacred Heart Church to anyone visiting Barcelona. Later in the day on our trip, we were taken up Montjuic on the south of the city, and from here you had a great view of Tibidabo and the church in the distance rising above the city. Breathtaking! ...

JEFFJEN 20.07.2009 · Read full review
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