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Put this record on! ...the fire...

Advantages: Has a pretty front cover...
Disadvantages: Delivery isn't up to the standard it should be...

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! This is one of the most frustrating albums I have ever had to endure... It lives off the reputation of a couple of songs, and frankly, is a dissapointment, and this is coming from someone who didn't have high expectations to start with! It is a weird mixture of chilled out music, mixed with a couple of 'up-beat' tracks, mixed with fillers (Tracks just put there to make the album long enough to call and album). She regularly overstretches ...
...she just does not sing well enough to sing the songs she writes, a couple of her songs have excellent lyrics, but she just can't deliver them to make their full potential. Maybe she should switch to just writing songs and letting others deliver them properly. You may think I am being harsh, well maybe I am a little... There are a few good tracks on this album, ones I would recommend to download are Put Your Records On, Till it Happens to You and ...

turtlecircus 29.07.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae

Are you gonna go his way?

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Disadvantages: -

...singles and album cuts from Lenny Kravitz, an American singer-singwriter-musician who's big in the States but still mostly remembered over here for Are You Gonna Go My Way, a stonking hit single in 1993 and Fly Away, which reached no 1 with the help of a car ad (where have I heard that one before?) I personally don't know anyone who'd buy all his albums, but this CD hoovers up stuff from his first five releases and serves as a good introduction to ...
...at the time too, Lenny getting name-checked by heavyweights like Guns & Roses and Aerosmith. Let Love Rule itself is all rising horns (ooer missus) and massed choruses, whilst Mr Cab Driver has Kravitz dissing the man who "don't like dreads, he thinks we're all crooks". Anyone who's heard Kiss' "Firehouse" will recognise the bassline......it's a rip!! E-C-G-C-G....... selections from Mama Said (1991); It Ain't Over Till It's Over / Always On The ...

pinkmatchstick 10.08.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Lenny Kravitz Greatest Hits - Lenny Kravitz

What an amazing voice........

Advantages: so entertaining
Disadvantages: none

...search about her on internet. Mind Body And Soul is one of great vocal album, with modern blues and soul melody that brought by really young talented singer. This is a strong album and everyone have to listen to this. I do realy sure that Joss Stone would be one of the great woman singer ever with unique vocal in the future. She is the next Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston. I love Joss Stone. ...

trexaihlibedih 24.10.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Mind Body And Soul - Joss Stone

Stone me, this is good.

Advantages: Best British soul offering for some time.
Disadvantages: Not everones taste.

The Soul Sessions was Joss Stone's debut album. Released in 2003 when Joss was only just 17 years old. Incredible in itself for such a mature debut at such an early age, what seems even more stunning to me was that this soul inspired album is by a British artiste. I am having so much fun converting my CD's to itunes, listening to albums that have been neglected. The artwork both on the cover of the CD case and on the CD itself is pretty retro, ...
...the respected publication 'Mojo': "The soul sessions is a revelation". Many of the songs are not her own, being penned in the sixties by artistses such as Betty Wright, who agreed to work with Joss on this CD, another shock to me, American soul legends collaborating with a 16 year old English girl, wow, they must have seen her talent. Track 1. The Chokin' kind. What a fantastic opening track. Very slow, full of heart and soul, a little 'bluesy'. ...

paulhanton 14.06.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Soul Sessions, The - Joss Stone

All Back To '87

Advantages: Back to their early style; clever rapping; 15 tracks in 40 minutes
Disadvantages: Couple of stinkers

...by a white act: Licensed To Ill. It's mixture of big beats, rock samples and very clever lyrical interplay between the three band members (MCA, Mike D and Ad-Rock) ensured a winning, unique combination that would sell millions of records worldwide. The singles, released in 1987, from that album (Fight For Your Right To Party, No Sleep Til Brooklyn and She's Crafty) were catchy, heavy on the wit and guitar and made stealing VW badges from suburban ...
...a stolen election and 9/11 to do it but the Beastie Boys seem to have recaptured that old spirit on this new album - released last autumn, my favourite season - and it's to their credit that three men approaching 40 years old can still look and sound so fresh. To The 5 Boroughs features all the old trademarks of 1980s hip hop. There's scratching, crazy but soulful samples and the typical Beasties vocal interplay. First track and single, Ch Check ...

waynehorrigan 23.02.2005 · Read full review
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Review of To The 5 Boroughs [PA] - Beastie Boys