Advantages: Nostalga, Ska, foot stomping. Disadvantages: Some dross amongst the diamonds.
I have been making some playlists on my ipod recently and added a Madness track (playlist was called Paul 16-18), then another, and before I knew it I thought I might as well buy the album. It works out cheaper on itunes to do that anyways.
Madness first hit the charts and radio as I was leaving school, or about to. Although they first formed around '76, I first heard of them in '78, I left school in '79. In case you don't remember, this was the line up:
Suggs - Vocals
Mike Barson - Keyboards
Chris Foreman - Guitar
Lee Thompson - Sax
Mark Bedford - Bass
Daniel Woodgate - Drums
Chas Smash - Vocals and resident dancer
Madness released their first single, entitled 'The Prince' in 1979 on 2 Tone records, who also signed The Specials and other bands in what was to become a real Ska revival. The song was a dedication to ...
Advantages: Better graphic and slightly improved game play. More cars and two new cities. Very similar to original, and that was a great game, so this must be good too Disadvantages: A little too like the original. Too much to pay for an add-on
Microsoft brought us the original Midtown Madness game a few years ago now, and it broke the mould for racing games. No more racing around in circles on race tracks, repeating the same manoeuvres lap after, midtown madness broke all the linear rules and allowed you to take your car wherever you felt like in the big city of Chicago as well as making it feel so real you were there. Now the classic game is back with all the great features of the original transferred into the cities of London and San Francisco.
OK so there is not that much difference between the original and this version, and at a full game price you do not get very many new features. In fact you hardly get any new features. The game engine has been slightly tweaked to handle better graphics, but all the old modes of play are there. There is one new added mode of play ...
Advantages: A beautiful film Disadvantages: A little long
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
1967
I remember going to the cinema in the 70?s to watch this film and loving it, Thomas Hardy had always been one of my favourite writers, and ?Far From the Madding Crowd? a close second favourite behind ?Tess of the D?Urbervilles?
The film was released in 1967 by MGM and directed by the same man who directed "Midnight Cowboy, John Schlesinger, another popular film at the time.
When I saw the DVD cheap on Amazon I decided to add it to my list to watch it again.
"Far from the Madding Crowd" is set around the 1860?s in the English countryside of ?Wessex? in a setting of chalk cliffs leading down to the sea, green countryside and small town manners and prejudices. The film stars Julie Christie as Bathsheba Everdene, the daughter of a poor widow, who cares for her wealthy uncle. When her ...
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