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Dance, Dance, Dance and dance some more!

Advantages: Fun, dancey, great disco
Disadvantages: Lyrically not great, might not be everyone's cup of tea

...follows: 1. Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) 2. Everybody Dance (12" mix) 3. Strike Up the Band 4. Chic Cheer 5. Le Freak 6. I Want Your Love 7. Good Times 8. My Feet Keep Dancing 9. My Forbidden Lover 10. Soup for One 11. Savoir Faire If you are interested in disco, but don't want to invest in just compilations, this is a good start. Where to begin describing this? Funky basslines, groovy guitar riffs (everyone knows 'Good ...
...(Hear Me Tonight)', you'll realise that riff is from 'Soup for One'. One thing that could be an advantage or a disadvantage is that all the songs are the full versions. This could be bad if you're dancing, because you're going to be tired by the end of the 8 minute 'Everybody Dance'! I love every song, but personally, I think the two weakest are 'Soup for One', and, particularly, 'Chic Cheer', because it just doesn't really go anywhere. Lyrically, ...

flimfan 04.10.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Dance Dance Dance (The Best Of Chic) - Chic

These Are The Good Times?

Advantages: Lots of variety
Disadvantages: Not all the tracks make an impact

Chic released “Risqué” in 1979 as their third album. It saw the New York based (primarily) Disco-playing band come up with material which found them getting into not only this type of work but addition to it, some much deeper styles such as Soul and Funk in order to get some appeal from listeners other than those who had been into earlier music from them. 1. “Good Times” The album begins with a single which was probably the most well-known work to ...
...which went on to act as the foundation to not only Hip Hop (going on to be sampled in “Rapper’s Delight” and many subsequent tunes from similar East Coasters), but also for the Rock world as it acted as a bridge in order to allow more of the Funk sounds to reach out to other fields (as was seen in Queen’s “Another One Bites The Dust”). **Five Stars** 2. “A Warm Summer Night” In a big change to what you got in the opening eight minutes of Funk, you ...

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Review of Risque - Chic

Rudolph The Funky-Soul Reindeer? It Gotsta Be Boosty, Baby

Advantages: The Funk
Disadvantages: Few songs sound 'Christmas'y'

...2006 and came as a Christmas album from Funk legend Bootsy Collins (known for his work as a bassist in The J.B.'s, Funkadelic, Parliamnet and Boosty Collins' Rubber Band). It finds him bringing his own P-Funk twist on a variety of Christmas hits in that style as well as Hip Hop and Soul as we get him producing and singing with guest appearances from Gary Shider, Fred Wesley, Bernie Worrell and Snoop Dogg. 1.“N-Yo-City” Starting the album we see that ...
...**Four Stars** 2.“Merry Christmas Baby” Here we find that we get a track that brings the Funk out in a way that you really wouldn't have ben able to anticipate (even with the introductory cut) as we see that here we have synth joining some live instrumental bass work from his brother Catfish Collins, and Boosty himself makes his first apparent on the record by coming to deliver a fly hook and half-developed verses that take you back to the times ...

XICripZ 09.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Christmas Is 4 Ever - Bootsy Collins

The Eminem Show - by Eminem

Advantages: Great quality music, lots of songs to suit your mood
Disadvantages: Couple of poor songs, controversial if you're not into this music

...Movie World of Reviews. The Eminem Show is probably the only album I feel I know well enough to write about, so here goes. Rap artist Eminem has been around for over a decade now. He burst into the hiphop/rap scene and created massive controversy and faced ridicule for being a white rapper, fighting against all the black artists such a P. Diddy, D12, Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Dr. Dre, just to name a few. He began his music life releasing The Slim Shady ...
...Slim Shady, another nickname. Eminem released The Eminem Show in 2002. It sold over a million copies very quickly, and was a bit more playful than his latest two albums (mentioned above). The Slim Shady/Marshall Mathers LPs were very serious, about guns, suicide, killing, how much he hates his mum and family and wants them dead (not nice..), and how he hated other artists. The Eminem Show's first released single was 'Without Me'. In the video of ...

Stephoohla 08.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Eminem Show, The (Parental Advisory) [PA] - Eminem

Christmas Rappin' (With Not Kurtis Blow)

Advantages: Lots of big tunes
Disadvantages: One average tune

...you tend to connect with Christmas time. **Four Stars** 3.“Dana Dane Is Coming To Town” - Dana Dane Here we get a funky jam that I really can't see any rooms for complaints in as we find that Dana Dane comes in with some storytelling rhymes that seem to take on all that Slick Rick was known for (even though he didn't debut as a solo artist until the year after this). He comes out with flows which have him telling a rather straight-forward tale that ...
...making good use of past Christmas song samples to help him as he does his thing. **Five Stars** 7.“He's Santa Claus” - Disco 4 Starting off with a little “Jingle Bells” (as just about ever other on this album up to this point) we see that we get a track that soon changes its direction as the cold beats come into effect and the rappers in the crew come to do their thing by all giving each other a chance to lay down their own stuff on the mic(rophone) ...

XICripZ 05.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Christmas Rap - Various Artists