Mexican-American Border Music Vol.3 (Norteno & Tejano Accordion Pioneers) - Various Artists

Advantages: Bouncy, traditional scots music
Disadvantages: Quite hard to get hold of

...**What Is It?** The Celtic Collection vol. 3 is Ceilidh music. A celidh, by the way, is a dance with only scottish dancing. This CD has 12 tradtional songs so it would be great if your where hosting a Ceilidh or if you just love dancing! This is a one disk CD written by various artists. **Quality of Music?** It is great! It is very clear and you can hear the accordion espiecially well! There is no voice in this and only the main folk instruments accordion,fiddle and a little drums. It is very well recorded so you can put it as loud as you like or a softly as you like and you can still hear it clearly. **Cover Quality** Very nice. Has a celtic not around the edge as a border then a view of the ocean. Think it is Loch lomond but not sure? Anyway very nice picture and the back with the traclist is clear. It does lack color... Read review

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Advantages: Fairly diverse themes
Disadvantages: Can feel long

...Much of the music in this album is performed and recorded by Jim Johnston, so he can ready a rock rhythm as well as show a saxophone solo. Seems I've had to resort to the track-by-track review. My ratings are as follows: [*] - Nothing really catches the attention. [**] - Something grabs my attention. [***] - Gets me air-drumming, air-guitaring and singing along to the track. 1. The Undertaker; 5. Kane; 7. Gangrel / The Brood The three dark themes are decent, but it feels as if they linger for too long. [**] 2. Edge There's something somewhat strangely soothing about the female voice samples on echo and alternately panned left and right. The listener is kept on the edge by the instruments coming to life. [**] 3. X-Pac Similar to the D-Generation X theme, this song gets in-your-face with some slap-bass. "Who's gonna kick... Read review

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Advantages: Easy listening
Disadvantages: None.

...Music and Lyrcis; Not only a quality film but an even better soundtrack. Including songs created for the film performed by both Hugh Grant (who actually has a great singing voice!) and also Drew Barrymore who adds to the fun of the album. This album was created in order to demonstrate the songs from the hit film. The songs are upbeat, happy and just damn good fun. A classic example would be the song 'Pop! Goes my heart' if you've seen the film then listening to this soundtrack will without doubt make you want to shake that pop hip. Just like most of other of Grant's films this is indeed a romantic comedy however more so comedy. This is emphasised in some of the lyrics expressed. Such as from 'Don't write me off just yet', 'Now I need you; despite the fact that you've killed all my plants.' The songs on this album are fun... Read review

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