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Armed and extrememly good pop

Advantages: Brilliant snappy pop, great lyrics
Disadvantages: None

This album is full of classic songs, all of which still sound great today. The album itself is to my mind Costello's best, and the 1993 CD release has another 9 extra tracks - wow, any Costello fan should be well pleased with it. First track is "Acci ...

rsmith 19.02.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Armed Forces - Elvis Costello

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Messing about with your emotions and memories

Advantages: Some great songs
Disadvantages: A bit bland

The CD re-release game is an interesting thing. The remade and remodelled is all the rage and when them upstairs have finished messing about with the material, you can find your head similarly scrambled. You can find yourself screaming, “That’s not the ...

dave27 05.01.2001 · Read full review
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Boys and their toys

Advantages: A Sean Astin classic!!!
Disadvantages: Um...it's a Sean Astin classic...

Director: Daniel Petrie Jnr Screenplay: Daniel Petrie Jnr & David Koepp Cast: Sean Astin, Louis Gossett Jnr, Wil Wheaton, Keith Coogan, Andrew Divoff Synopsis: After his drug-dealing father is extradited to the US to stand trial, Luis Cali (Div ...

Crib79 08.10.2004 · Read full review
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Review of California - American Music Club

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Elvis Costello's My Aim Is True hits the target every time

Advantages: Great tunes, array of genres, cutting lyrics.
Disadvantages: None

Elvis Costello appeared seemingly out of nowhere producing this album. Despite the previous release of 'Less Than Zero' (one of the album's tracks) as a single, Costello had not acheived an real success prior to the album's release. He retained his day jo ...

Rustycakes 27.07.2009 · Read full review
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Meccanic Dancing

Advantages: Got some catchy tunes!!
Disadvantages: Got some forgettable ones too!!!

...Released the same year as their debut "White Music" Go 2 showed that XTC were capable of growing musically in a matter of months. The songs on this album are a lot more concise than on WM "Meccanic Dancing", "Battery Brides" and "Are you recieving me ...

stevethree 18.07.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Go 2 (Digitally Remastered/Limited Edition) - XTC

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