Oro Salsero - Lalo Rodriguez

Advantages: Good tunes
Disadvantages: Looses the atmosphere of the original

...Bullitt is one of my favourite films and no small part of that is Lalo Schifrin’s jazz flavoured sound track. However it’s not a particularly straight form of jazz. My father is a large fan of jazz and yet couldn’t name any other artist who has produced music similar to Lalo’s sound track. The overall tone of the music is darker than ‘normal’ jazz, reflecting the less than cheery outlook of the movie. However, this is NOT the original sound track, oh no. There are quite a few Bullitt CD’s floating round and this one, released in May 2001 is somewhat obviously not the original original sound track. Instead it’s a re-recording supervised by Lalo and performed by the musical talents of the WDR orchestra, “Bullitt – Music recreated from and inspired by the motion picture”... Read review

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Advantages: Amazing melodies and profound beautiful lyrics
Disadvantages: Absolutely none

...Silvio Rodriguez is known in Latin America simply as Silvio. This alone goes to show the status he has reached in his beloved America Latina. "Cuba Classics" or "Canciones Urgentes" (Urgent Songs) is usually the album of his that you will find more readily in Britain. However, you can order most of them from amazon.co.uk. This one costs £11.99. **************************************** Silvio Rodriguez Dominguez is a Cuban; a Cuban of the Revolution. Many will find that a put off, sadly few people really understand the Cuban Revolution and only heed what the media say about it, but that is a different topic. I urge you to pay more attention to the artistic side of his though, for his melodic music is simply matchless and for those who understand Spanish, his lyrics are pure poetry... Read review

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Advantages: Contains the group's finest material
Disadvantages: buried amongst a load of filler and some of it's worst

...numerous reggae/ska influences numbers, and while I will applaud them for trying their hand at something different, it doesn't exactly work all that well. The title track has a nice drum-beat and organ sound going on, Coppers' calypso drums add a nice flavour to the anti-violence sing-a-long that's probably up there as one of Rancid's better tracks and Corason De Oro is a heartfelt love-song that actually works quite well. Most of the other tracks just fall into a sort of 'what the hell?' category that fans of Rancid will no doubt curse for their inventiveness, and everyone else will just not want to hear due to the nature of it as a half-baked reggae/ska/dub number played by a pop-punk band. What the hell 1998 is all about I don't know, it's oddly paced, lacks any form of catchy hook, and features some sort of ridiculous lyrics about... Read review

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