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Advantages: Value for money; comprehensive; uplifting; music for the soul!
Disadvantages: Could have been a 2 disc set!

If you're starting out as a George Benson fan or just being a completist, this is definitely the compilation to go for! Perfect for summer days and really uplifting for the winter nights. I had this album on constant replay when I was revising for my exams this year and judging by my results, something inspired me! Whether you want to freak out or chill out, this is the album for you. If you were a fan of Michael Jackson's 'Off the wall' or anything ...
...Johnson, 'Ai No Corrida' etc.) you're bound to love 'Give me the night' or 'Love x Love.' However, this album has much more to give! The compilation features George's most commercially successful recordings whilst at Warner from the dance-floor disco-edged fillers like 'Give Me The Night,' 'Turn Your Love Around' and 'Lady (Love Me)' to the seminal instrumental 'Breezin.' George is a master of jazz - best encapsulated on 'This Masquerade' and 'Nature ... Read review

Advantages: nice tunes
Disadvantages: some songs are to slow

Ne-yo has a very nice sing voice, so you would enjoy hearing him sing. He has 13 songs on this album and most of them are good songs. If you rreally enjoy listening to love songs this album is for you.He has a song on the album which is the number 3 song and it is called "so sick", this song was also his single for this album, that song has great lyrics and the tune is nice, the song is about a guy that is so sick of hearing love songs because the ...
...don't want to be reminded of her. Each song on this album is worth listening to and the album is worth buying, because it's great. 1.stay- well I don't like this song but it has a nice beat. 2. let me get this right- this song is alright great beat. 3. so sick- fantastic song Ilike everything about this song. 4.when you're mad- another fantastic song. 5.it just ain't right- nice tune but I don't really like. 6.mirror- another good beat, good ... Read review

Advantages: Mellow uplifting tracks
Disadvantages: Some unusual tracks which some might not like

I love music, but I can't say I'm all that good at describing it. I'll try my best here though. I recently starting listening to this album again, and I still love it as much as I did when it was released in 2005 . It's full of the type of music that inspires and uplifts whilst being mellow and relaxing. Simon rose to fame as part of the boy band Blue. He launched a solo career about a year after they split in 2004. Lee Ryan also released an album ...
...didn't expect all that much from Simon to be honest, sometimes when bands split the solo efforts are just a desperate effort to cling on to the fame etc. where talent is lacking. However, after hearing both his No.4 singles Lay Your Hands and No Worries and enjoying them both, I decided the album was worth a try. This album reached No. 7 in the charts and is double platinum. I have to say I was very glad I tried the album, there are a few tracks ... Read review

Advantages: A brilliant FUNKtastic load of songs that make you want to funk along
Disadvantages: TO be honest I love it.

This is a great album, I picked up on jamiroquai a bit late but as soon as i heard this album at a mates house I knew I had to get it! If you like things a little funky then this is the album for you, as a bassisit I just love the way the bass carries some of the songs along, It's lush!The way that Jamiroquai just give you a taste of a song at the beginning and then build it up to an amazing climax of such a mixture of feelings and stlyes, with ballad, ... Read review

Advantages: Five good tracks.
Disadvantages: Ten mediocre or weak tracks.

Mind, Body & Soul is Joss Stone's 2nd album. From reading a little about this album she apparently saw it more as 'hers' than the first album 'Soul sessions'. This is evident in the lyrics of the first song 'Right to be wrong' where she sings "I've got a right to be wrong, my mistakes will make me strong", and goes on to change that second line in one verse with "Gotta sing my own song". This is altogether a rather more mature offering than her ...
...certainly loved the use of vocals on the first album and the retro soul style. Anyway the notoriously difficult second album, does she cut it? Track 1. Right to be wrong. Lyrically great if you are 30 and been beholden to a record company for years, or a partner, but c'mon, she was one year on from a platinum selling CD, and moaning about stuff. I feel this is a self indulgent song with double meanings throughout. That being said, musically and ... Read review