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Queen

Advantages: Includes the first 'hit' single 'Seven Seas of Rhye'
Disadvantages: Honestly cannot think of any!

May's guitar rips into the first of many searing machine gun like chords that ricochet through this eponymous debut album. 'Keep Yoursef Alive', the band's first single, gets you well into the stride of things. 'Doing all right' takes the pace down a few notches and shows that the band have quite a degree of light and shade (a fact which becomes more apparent after the first 3 albums). Freddie penned the last two tracks on side 1 of this album. I ...
...at himself from the titles? ('Great King Rat' and 'My Fairy King'). Side 2 opens up with one of their best tracks ever for energy. 'Liar', I would guess, must have been one of their most pleasurable tracks ever to play live as the whole band seem to go at it hammer and tongs. Again, just when you think you have them sussed, the pace drops off for the almost aetherial 'The Night comes Down', but, hold on, it's foot on the pedal time again with 'Modern ...

bigfluffybunny 17.10.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Queen (Limited Edition Replica Vinyl) [Remastered] - Queen

Therapy for Cardiac Arrest...and everything else!

Advantages: Fantastic quality music,good range of the artists musical talent, THE BEST ALBUM COVER OF ALL TIME!
Disadvantages: It isn't available on Hybrid SACD format as per Pink Floyd DSOTM, no CD TEXT on std release, otherwise none!

I first heard "Sheer Heart Attack" back in 1977, before I was starting to get into Queen big time. My then best friend had bought it the day before and popped it round. I only had an hour to check it out and...totally dismissed it! The only memorable thing for me at the time was the intro to "Brighton Rock" which sounded like a fairground. An that's the way it stayed for another six months.. Now the story continues when I saw it available at my ...
...that very day. So I borrowed it, took it home listened to it again, then again,and again. How stupid I felt. I was blown away-there was no going back. since then I've owned it on Vinyl, Japanese Viynl and then as a Japanese CD as a replica of the Vinyl release c/w lyrics and Japanese text. Now released again in Japan as part of a general re-release of all the Queen albums featuring ART (Abbey Road Technology) as another remastering exercise. From ...

peterkinxl5 10.04.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Sheer Heart Attack (Limited Edition Replica Vinyl) [Remastered] - Queen

The Comic Book Store Guy

Advantages: This
Disadvantages: That

This album is really one of the better albums out there. It sort of stinks as a whole that everybody doesn't love it. Everybody should try and obtain this CD. I hope everybody who buys CDs, will please go out and spend their good money on this one. This review used to be better. But I cannot write reviews for free. Come and see my wonderful reviews at Epinions. the web address is www.Epinions.com Look for Scapp70 Have a nice day everybody. ...
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Scapp70 13.07.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Jazz (Limited Edition Vinyl Replica) [Remastered] - Queen

I Know It's Over

Advantages: Great songs and great singing
Disadvantages: Still don't dig Eternal Life

...6 concerts in Jeff Buckley's Mystery White Boy tour make up this live album. 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. Dream Brother Slow to start, and though in the buildup there is some laidback vocal improvisation, Jeff is having to squeeze hard for some of those falsetto notes. [**] 2. I Woke Up In A ...
...heavy, and the riffs dirty. [***] 3. Mojo Pin Solid but for the final bridge where Jeff slips into sheepish singing - however he does come on strongly for the finale. [**] 4. Lilac Wine As if Buckley has had too much to drink here, what with the guitar losing its way and his vocals being reduced to a croak at the end, though the improvisation in the singing is as strong as it is soulful. [***] 5. What Will You Say Similar to Dream Brother in that ...

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Review of Mystery White Boy - Jeff Buckley

X-Tina's X-Mas

Advantages: Lots of big tunes
Disadvantages: Final Dance track

“My Kind Of Christmas” came out in 2000 and was the first Christmas album for the Pop singer Christina Aguilera. Coming directly off her debut album, which was then re-recorded in Spanish, it was released prior to her “Stripped” years and so has her in a position where she was much more accessible to the 'family' market. Here she mixes traditional carols with well-covered Christmas classic and some of her own original ones. 1.“Christmas Time” We ...
...that I felt made a strong impression as it shows that here she is down to bring an album that reflects how her debut album sounded with the heavy R&B influence, but she ensured that it sounded as though it stuck to the main 'Christmas' themes. It was one of only two singles from the album, and I felt that it was a nice way to get it underway. **Four Starr** 2.“This Year” We see that she comes in with another fresh tune (a non-cover) here and she ...

XICripZ 11.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of My Kind Of Christmas [ECD] - Christina Aguilera