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Green Day

Advantages: early recordings
Disadvantages: none

This is Green Days earliest collection of recordings. I particularly love this offering because it showcases the early works of green day this was release in 1991 and then re-released. This album has 19 songs to offer my favorite song of this album is disappearing boy this album is a treasure to all Green Day fans and all fans of the early punk pop era. I thoroughly enjoy this album and the nostalgia that comes with this. However this album may not ...

apuremorninginsoho 11.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours - Green Day

Are You Ready For A Good Time..?

Advantages: Loud, bad and one of the last great albums of rock.
Disadvantages: Commericalism was knocking on the door and the light of rebellion was starting to die out..

From the sun kissed beaches of Oz, the Scottish bums turned surfer dudes returned to London to explode into our brains with the sweaty smell of good old rock and roll. From one loud album after another, AC/DC has become, undoubtedly, the Gods of British rock. Yet, after the death of wild vocalist Bon Scott in February 1980, there we many of us who thought that the end was nigh for the masters of rock. Acquiring the forty a day tones of Brain Johnson, ...
...new voice. With mop of fuzzy hair sprouting from under a flat cap, AC/DC found the image that they had, all this time represented - long haul truckers. From the days of Bon Scot, they had developed a style which when fans were drawn in, they became fans for life, although by the time the mid Eighties rolled around, it was the sons and daughters of the original followers who found the 'school boy stage outfit' fitted like a glove. For anyone who ...

sam1942 05.02.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Razor's Edge, The [Digipak] [Remastered] - AC/DC

Stay beautiful - forever

Advantages: One of the greatest albums ever
Disadvantages: Its took 10 years for most people to realise it

...On its first release, the Holy Bible was described by Sean as 'not the kind of album you would play at a party'. The Holy Bible was dark, deep, almost malignant evil, with lyrics of such power that they were sung through gritted angry teeth over a breathtaking rollercoaster ride of a soundtrack. It gets the respect it deserves with this edition, which is beautifully packaged and includes many new features, it's 3 discs including the much awaited ...
...exclusive DVD footage. The album shows the Manic Street Preachers at the peak of their powers, with scratchily metallic guitars, frantic drums and random samples, a glimpse of darkness and honesty which shone like a blackened beacon amongst a world of processed pop and meaningless lyrics. The lyrics are brutally honest, ranging from political correctness to the US gun law, to prostitution, concentration camps, the death of youth, slimming disorder ...

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Review of Holy Bible, The (10th Anniversary Edition/Remastered/Parental Advisory/+DVD) [Digipak] [PA] - Manic Street Preachers

Let's get ratty

Advantages: Superb thrash & punk throughout
Disadvantages: None

Brasil by Ratos De Porao is a true masterpiece, an ideal mix of punk, hardcore and thrash metal with even the nice occasional melodical touch thrown in for good measure, fast instrumental work and outstanding guitar solos to get your fingers moving (particularly on the track Law of Silence) to, to add to the idealistic guitar solos there is also some amazing bass lines and militant hammering drumming throughout. The vocals are spot on for the genre ...
...on how you look at it - it's either an abominal row from the word go or a classic album of thrash fused punk full of anger and energy. It's very hard to select a favourite track as the Brazilian outfit blast their way through regularly visited punk topics like politics, drug overdoses, alcoholism, law and order but some of the most enjoyable tracks are undoubtedly of a native theme - Brasil, Amazonia Never More and Land of Carnival. There are two ...

dangaroo 03.12.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Brasil [Digipak] - Ratos De Porao

A kiddies band they are not.

Advantages: You will have the tunes in your head all day.
Disadvantages: You will have the tunes in your head all day.

I bought this album on the back of the huge hit singles Barbie girl, but especially Doctor Jones. It is something about the light hearted nature of the tunes that sticks in your head, long after you have finished listening to it. I know they are seen as a cartoon band or a kids band because of the first single (Barbie Girl) and this is perhaps slightly justified. There is no moral message in any of their songs except to have fun really. Their obvious ...

RussellC 22.03.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Aqua - Asia