Kold Fuzion - Kode Six

Advantages: Set a precedent for future use of keyboards in rock music
Disadvantages: Mastered from tape which "whines" on occasion

...Wakeman isn't one to write 3-minute pop songs. Indeed, the longest track on the album runs for a total of 7mins 51 - virtually taking up the whole of the first side of the vinyl when it was originally released - and is completely instrumental. Widely acknowledged as one of his greatest releases, this was one of the first albums to feature the "modern" synthesizer in such diverse ways. The sleeve notes themselves claim that the album is "my personal conception of [the wives'] characters in relation to keyboard instruments". So, there you go. Wakeman had been the temperamental keyboard player for progressive rock sueprgroup Yes for a couple of years before trying out his talents on this, his debut album. So Six Wives. Six tracks. Each one about one of Henry VIII's six wives. It's a simple concept. And a concept it is - each... Read review

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Advantages: Totally mindblowing Instrumental and Vocal work
Disadvantages: None

...This album is Dream Theaters 6th Studio album and was released in the year of 2002. The album is set out into 2 discs. The first disc contains a lineup of 5 songs, the shortest being a total length of 6 minutes 46 and the longest being a total length of 13 minutes 52. The second disc consists of the title track of the album, "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence". This track is 42 minutes 04 seconds long but is broken up into 8 separate tracks to avoid having to rewind and fast forward. Here is a 'brief' description of each track on the album just to give an idea of what the album is like. Disc 1 1. The Glass Prison The Glass Prison is the heaviest track on the abum and one of the heaviest songs which Dream Theater have ever done. just to give you an idea of how heavy it is, the guitaring is played on a seven string guitar... Read review

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Advantages: A BREATH OF FRESH AND FURIOUS AIR
Disadvantages: BELOW THE RADAR AS YET!

...The word on the street that’s steadily taking Sonic Boom Six (SB6) skyways; is it just hype? Well, having their predominantly sample supported, punk fuelled ska sound featured on both BBC TV (Desi DNA) and radio (Radio 1 Lock Up sessions) and doing their thing at Glastonbury (bigging up the Love Music Hate Racism movement) is quite something for a band that haven’t really made any waves in the six intermittent years since their debut release, the 2001 ‘Same’ E.P. They’ve supported Mad Caddies, Flogging Molly and Hard-Fi as well as numerous other bands of a similar calibre. Taking all this into account, it’s sorely obvious that this, their debut LP ‘The Ruff Guide to Genre Terrorism’ released just under a year ago was vastly overlooked. Here is a band with as much diversity as you could ask for, with songs strong enough to entice even... Read review

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