Papa Wemba - Papa Wemba

Advantages: Fantastic DVD
Disadvantages: There ARE no disadvantages!

...California Dreamin' by the Mammas and the Papas. This is … what? Exactly? Just a music DVD from the 1960s? A seminal masterwork by some of the world's best ever musical geniuses? Having listened to this DVD and viewed it, all I can say is yes, I think it is probably a seminal masterwork by some of the world's best ever musicial geniuses.. I am in my late 40s, so I can remember the 1960s and I can remember the fantastic influence that the Mamas and the Papas had on music and on society in general. There songs are a combination of pathos, of love, of joy, are happiness of melancholy of… of life itself, I suppose. All the hits of the Mamas and the Papas are on this DVD. I Call Your Name, Dancing in the Street, Do You Believe in Magic Somebody Groovy Words of Love Creeque Alley Twelve-Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming... Read review

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Advantages: Sunny, catchy pop songs
Disadvantages: Mama Cass and John Phillips are no longer with us

...No home should be without a Mamas & Papas compilation album, and this is one of the most readily available. You should even be able to pick it up for around £5.00 or £6.00 at Sale time, which is, as they say, a snip. It not the most comprehensive collection (you'd need to get "Creeque Alley" for that), and it's a shame that "It's getting better" and "Make your own kind of music" are not on here. But then these songs were released as solo Mama Cass recordings, so there were possibly licensing difficulties? The Mamas and the Papas were an integral part of the US 60s scene. They seemed to hang out with everyone, they appeared at the big rock festivals, they had a good time, making good music along the way - it all sounds so effortless. "Dream a little dream of me", sounds as though it was a solo Mama Cass record, though it wasn... Read review

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Advantages: 12 fantastic tracks, one live Dead Cell track, and a Last Resort PC CD ROM video
Disadvantages: Songs are only really 3 or 4 minutes long

...Papa Roach burst onto the scene this year with the widely successful "Last Resort", thus helping to bring about the new musical era of Rock and all its sub-genres of the new millenium. Thanks to Limp Bizkit, Blink 182 and others revolutionalising the British market, there has been an influx of American bands coming to set up shop in the British charts. Bands like Papa Roach and Linkin Park have made their presence felt, and I am not doubting either of their abilities for a second. On the album Infest, Papa Roach give us such tunes as Last Resort, Betwen Angels and Insects, Dead Cell, Blood Brothers & Broken Home. Each of which have thus far impressed me for their brilliant soundings instrumentally, along with the fantastic vocals from Coby Dick. I firmly believe that Papa Roach are a band for the future, they sit as one... Read review

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