Live At The Green Mill - Mike Jones Trio

Advantages: Classic tracks!
Disadvantages: Misleading title, some songs previously on eponymous

...imagination so much 5.: So Central Rain - From Reckoning, one of their finest pieces of work. First played on Letterman before it had a name, has energy in bukcet loads. 6.: Don't Go Back To Rockville - REM go country! Mike Mills song about a girl he once knew.... nowadays Mills sings it live too! 7.: Pretty Persuasion - Quick dual lead vocal song, not their most tuneful but you can sense the band enjoying themselves on this one. 8.: Green Grow The Rushes Oh - Starnge choice to go on here I thought, slow song with strong melody. Heavily un-commercial though 9.: Can't Get There From Here - Bass heavy rock song with Mills trademark vocals on the chorus. Great track 10.: Driver 8 - Classy opening riff gives way to dark sounding song. Recommended 11.: Fall On Me - An environmental protest song (and not the only one on this album) beautiful... Read review

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Advantages: good sound quality
Disadvantages: not enough

...The album, American Idiot, from Green Day is one of those albums where you think, “I need some proper drum solos, some electric guitar excellence and punk rock lyrics,” and so say yes I will put on American Idiot. It has all of those qualities. I believe it is their seventh album they have released but it still comes up beating the competition, and smelling of punk rock roses. There are thirteen tracks on this album American Idiot Jesus of Suburbia Holiday Boulevard of Broken Dreams Are we Waiting? Saint Jimmy Give me Novacaine She’s a Rebel Extraordinary Girl Letter Bomb Wake me up when September ends Homecoming Whatsername In the album there are the lyrics to the songs and no omitted words. But before I get into any trouble, it is an album that carries the “Warning explicit lyrics” logo so there is swearing. Green day are a trio from... Read review

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Advantages: Ground-breaking, brilliant first album
Disadvantages: Often indecipherable lyrics

...to be some kind of field or swamp. No lyrics, obviously – it wasn’t until 1998’s Up that REM consented to print the lyrics on the album sleeve. Just as a brief aside, some obscure REM facts for you: * In 1991 they played a secret gig at London’s Borderline Club under the name of Bingo Hand Job. * At a live gig in Buffalo, New York in 1984, they played a cover version of “Does Your Mother Know” by Abba. * An early (1974) project of then sixteen-year-olds Mike Mills and Bill Berry was a covers band called Shadowfax – which Lord of the Rings fans will recognise as the name of Gandalf’s horse. Anyway, back to the album. Standout tracks, for me, would include Radio Free Europe, Talk About the Passion and Perfect Circle – although all twelve have a lot to offer the listener. I don’t... Read review

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