Lark In The Morning, The (The Early Years) - Steeleye Span

One Misty Moisty Morning

Advantages: Great variety of songs, enough tracks to keep anybody occupied for some time.
Disadvantages: Slightly genre-specific, I suppose.

that the emphasis is a great deal more on the folk. Over the years, Steeleye Span have recorded an incredible number of songs, many of which have been traditional English folk-tunes. Some of these they have recorded faithfully to the original accepted renderings, but many they have altered with their inimitable electric edge. Further songs are American folk-tunes, while there are also a considerable number that the band wrote for themselves. The most famous of Steeleye Span's songs, however, is probably Gaudete, a monastic chant in Latin usually associated with Christmas albums. ('Gaudete' means 'Rejoice'; the line is 'Gaudete, Gaudete! Christus est nostus...' which means, 'Rejoice, rejoice, for Christ is born!') Gaudete is certainly a worthy song to buy the album for on its own, presided over as it is by Maddy Prior's pure ...

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Review of Spanning The Years - Steeleye Span

Would you like to retire 10 years early?

Advantages: Good advice, clear plain english, accessible to all
Disadvantages: none

Anyone who has read any of my reviews in the past will notice a clear personality defect emerging. I like the high life of top notch restaurants, but crave the security that being in charge of my financial destiny brings. Like the white stripes once wrote 'the two sides of my brain need to have a meeting'. And so it was Head 2 that I was wearing the day I picked up 'How to retire 10 years early'. I have to fly a fair bit for my job, not for much longer though, my pregnant stomach is becoming more and more noticeable and then my evil boss will no longer be able to send me away?ha-ha!!! Anyway I was at City airport in London, home of the apprentice reject, the blackberry addict and the if I talk loudly enough into my blue tooth someone will surely realise my importance deluded fools. Wandering amongst the bags and designer nit wits ...

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Review of How to Retire 10 Years Early - Martin Bamford

Kool's Gang And Their Great Hits (The Early Years)

Advantages: Bangers throughout
Disadvantages: Nothing specific

=The Act= Kool & The Gang a New Jersey-based Funk and Disco band, who often went into Soul and Jazz at times. The band found fame from the point when they dropped their debut in 1970, but it wasn?t really until later (by about their sixth album in 1973) when they really made an impact as the Funk sound had really formed itself and they were able to come up with material to act as anthems of the time. The height of success for them was in fact once they had watered-down the Funk later on as Kool led the band to more Disco-sounding by the eighties. Their last album came as recently as 2007. =The Album= This is a 1993 compilation release for Kool & The Gang. It was one of many which they brought, but in this case they chose to break down their material and rather than picking a few from over 20 years of music, they brought ...

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