Once Bitten - Cobras (The)

Advantages: Very original, and their best work yet!
Disadvantages: None

...Awesome album! I thought this was much better than their first album. Amazing tracks to watch for being, "The City is at War", "Guilty pleasure" and "Kiss My Sass" Again, with collaborations with Gym class heroes, the cobras have pulled it off again! With an interesting mix of pop, rock and synth, this album is well worth picking up, whether you've heard of cobra starship before or not. Luckily, this album avoids the problem the first one suffered, where a lot of the tracks arre forgettable. Overall i rate this album 4 stars out of 5. If you liked the first album, then it's a must have. And if you've never even heard of them? Still a must have! Go out and get it, you won't regret it!... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

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...Sinead O'Connor has always been a name to conjure up many images, headstrong, controversial, blasphemous to some, and whilst these descriptions may in some ways be justified they do distract from the one thing that she probably wants to be known for, that is making beautiful, intelligent and thought provoking music. After spending time with bands such as In Tua Nua and Ton Ton Macoute she recorded a demo, with the aid of Waterboy Karl Wallinger, and on the strength of that was signed to Ensign records. The demo became the basis of her fantastic debut album, The Lion and The Cobra and the rest as they say is history. One of the most memorable images of O'Connor is her hair, or lack of it and it is a tribute to how serious she was to be accepted for her music alone that she deliberately projected, in her eyes, an unglamorous image to stop... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Some great songs and good versions
Disadvantages: Some definite also-rans

...Do we really need another album of cover versions from Quo? It's arguable. Some of them, it must be said, are pretty good. After all, they have tackled boogie and rock classics at various stages throughout their career, and nobody can argue with their takes this time round on "Roll Over Beethoven", "Claudette", "Good Golly Miss Molly", or the 70s numbers "Way Down", Graham Parker's "Crawling From The Wreckage", or the Bob Seger-popularised "Old Time Rock'n'Roll". But their "Hound Dog" doesn't really cut it for me, their pedestrian "Mony Mony" was a poor choice of single, and as for their effort at Ian Hunter's magnificent lip-curling "Once Bitten Twice Shy", it should really have been left in the can - whereas Ian snarls every word with venom, Francis Rossi sounds like he's just reading the verses off the sheet music. Some you win... Read review

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