Make 'em Move (The Island Collection 1985-1990) - Sly & Robbie

Advantages: The excellent U.K Top 20 hit, Private Life
Disadvantages: The dated, album track, Bulls***

...In the late 1970's Grace Jones became something of a Disco Diva as she burst onto New Yorks club scenes with Disco hits such as I Need A Man and Do Or Die. However in 1980 following a new record deal with Island Records, home to various Reggae acts, Jones achieved further mainstream recognition with the superb Warm Leatherette album. Grace Jones shifted musical direction for the Warm Leatherette (1980) project, divulging into a diverse blend of sounds and styles ranging from Reggae, Rock, New Wave, Funk and Soul. The finished results were some of Jones most compelling recording work. This album was not least aided by the excellent production skills of Chris Blackwell and Alex Sadkin as well as the startling muscians behind her with Sly Dunbar on drums, Robbie Shakespeare on bass guirtars, Barry Reynolds and Michael Chung alternating... Read review

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Advantages: all tracks are brilliant, he experiments with different styles, the lyrics and melodies are incredible
Disadvantages: robbie's ego, same taste in music as my mum :oS

...Escapology would probably have to be my Desert Island CD. You know - the one cd you would take with you to listen to day in, day out if you were deserted on a remote island with nothing but the clothes on your back (and this robbie cd, of course) and no hope of ever returning home (i'm assuming that there is a cd player and fully functioning, 3-pin plug socket on this island. one would hope.). Well, yep. This is mine. I'll admit that, from the days of Take That, I've never liked Robbie Williams. At all. He's always been so...arrogant, full of himself, bigheaded. My mother, on the other hand, must have either been able to see past this (how?) or simply admire this about Robbie. Along with pretty much every other mother in the UK and beyond. Isn't it weird, that? The way that everyone's mum loves Robbie Williams. And Dido, she... Read review

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Advantages: lovely listening
Disadvantages: ?

...I first heard the band Altan in the 80’s at a festival somewhere; I saw them a few years ago in Hemel Hempstead. I have been listening to the CD Island Angel today. I like this Celtic folk rock, I find it calming and soothing the reels lively making me tap my fingers and want too dance. Altan are Mairead Mhaonaigh playing fiddle and vocals, Frankie Kennedy Flute, low whistle, backing vocals, Mark Kelly, guitar, backing vocals Ciaran Curran, Bazouki, bazouki guitar. Ciaran Tourish, Fiddle, backing vocals Daithi Sproule, guitar, backing vocals Guest musicians on Island Angel are Dermot Byrne Donal Lunny Tommy Hayes Steve Cooney Niel Martin Anna Ni Mhaonaigh This C D was recorded in Dublin in1993. Island angel has 13 tracks. The first one is three reels Tommy Peoples, The Windmill and Finian Mc Manus’s all... Read review

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