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Advantages: Hummable Ballads
Disadvantages: Too old fashioned for some

...be found at: http://home.uchicago.edu/~agalperi/procol%20harum.html#salty The tracks on my album are eclectic in their variety but there is the underlying theme of melancholy Gary Brooker (lead songwriter) made his trademark with the group. "Homburg" was released as a single in 1967 and did make it into the top 100 at one point. It is basicly a mournful ballad about failure, but before you stop reading (or turn the gas oven on) it does have a catchy melody and a typically obtuse chorus: "Your trouser cuffs are dirty and your shoes are laced up wrong You'd better take off your Homburg Coz your overcoat is too long" Listen to it twice and I bet you'll be singing along. "She wandered..." is much bouncier, though again odd in its content. Combining the idea of someone bringing "relief from all your suffering" with "she strapped me... Read review

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Advantages: Hummable Ballads
Disadvantages: Too old fashioned for some

...be found at: http://home.uchicago.edu/~agalperi/procol%20harum.html#salty The tracks on my album are eclectic in their variety but there is the underlying theme of melancholy Gary Brooker (lead songwriter) made his trademark with the group. "Homburg" was released as a single in 1967 and did make it into the top 100 at one point. It is basicly a mournful ballad about failure, but before you stop reading (or turn the gas oven on) it does have a catchy melody and a typically obtuse chorus: "Your trouser cuffs are dirty and your shoes are laced up wrong You'd better take off your Homburg Coz your overcoat is too long" Listen to it twice and I bet you'll be singing along. "She wandered..." is much bouncier, though again odd in its content. Combining the idea of someone bringing "relief from all your suffering" with "she strapped me... Read review

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Advantages: All the songs are classics, contains songs I didn't already have on loads of other compilations!
Disadvantages: Didn't include the No. 1 from the Channel 4 Top 100!

...This album was a spin-off from the Channel 4 show, the Top 100 No. 1 singles of all time, which I really enjoyed so I had to go out and buy the album! The album has some real classics, although strangely, the No.1 single in Channel 4's top 100 - Imagine by John Lennon - is not included! Perhaps they couldn't afford the copyright fees or whatever! That aside, there are some great songs! CD1 has the real all time classics, like Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, Procol Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale and Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water. CD2 has some more modern classics in the making, like Prodigy's Firestarter, Fat Boy Slim's Praise You and even something as recent as Spiller's Groovejet. I love just about every song on this album, and it is refreshing to see some titles on there which don't crop up on just about every... Read review

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Advantages: 3 monster CD's of some of the best prog rock bands ever, and CHEAP
Disadvantages: Alot of songs that you wont have heard and wont again

...- Colosseum Disc: 2 1. Here Comes The Flood - Peter Gabriel 2. Tubular Bells (Part 1) (Edit) - Mike Oldfield 3. Winter Wine - Caravan 4. May I? - Kevin Ayers & The Whole World 5. Sympathy - Rare Bird 6. A Salty Dog - Procol Harum 7. Mocking Bird - Barclay James Harvest 8. Which Way The Wind Blows - Anthony Phillips with Mike Rutherford & Phil Collins 9. Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake And Palmer 10. In Every Dream Home A Heartache - Roxy Music 11. 10538 Overture - Electric Light Orchestra 12. Mumps - Hatfield & The North Disc: 3 1. Peaches En Regalia - Frank Zappa 2. Rhayader (From The Snow Goose) - Camel 3. Pantagruel's Nativity - Gentle Giant 4. Germ Patrol - Egg 5. O Caroline - Matching Mole 6. Bedside Manners Are Extra - Greenslade 7. Meditation Of The Snake - Steve Hillage 8. Spectral Mornings - Steve Hackett 9. Ships In The Night - Be Bop Deluxe... Read review

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