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GIRLS OF THE EIGHTIES

Advantages: Great band
Disadvantages: None

...was mainly due to personality clashes within the band. In 1991 they made a compilation album "The Bangles Greatest Hits". I purchased this, and it is fantastic, it has all their best songs on it. I would highly recommend it, especially if you are a fan. ...

tallguy 12.08.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Greatest Hits - Bangles (The)

Perfect peroxide

Advantages: Beautiful vocals and ballads
Disadvantages: Too long

...Clem Burke) have returned with No Exit, a far better record than we had any right to expect. Maria and the swoonsome Under The Gun do justice to the group's illustrious past, while Double Take and Night Wind Sent are superior ballads like they just don't make anymore. The 50-something Debbie Harry doesn't sound a day over 25 are her vocals are a joy throughout. Granted, No Exit is about three songs to long and has its share of duff moments, but its ...

badcrumble 21.08.2001 · Read full review
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Review of No Exit - Blondie

Fossil Fuel(The XTC Singles Collection 1977-1992)

Advantages: more great singles than you could carry great price
Disadvantages: not enough recognition

Once the Great White Hope of pop,early promise and even Beatle comparisons should have set X.T.C. on the road to a Stadium near you ,alas it never quite happened ,though listening to this its hard to figure out why ,short sharp pop songs with instant melodies and intelligent and humorous lyrics ,all recorded in an everchanging array of style and form ,from the prickly punk of Statue of Liberty to the downright bizzare Making plans for Nigel,from ...
...terrace chant of 1,2,3,4,5on Senses working Overtime ,X.T.C were a band who kept on moving ,despite the set back of more flop s than hits . As time moved on their out put decreased but still included consistently brilliant singles ,which people of a certain age would no doubt have heard on the radio ,ardent fans of X.T.C will no doubt have all these track on the many classic albums the band put out in the 70,s and 80,s,but if youve never heard anything ...

terriano 09.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Fossil Fuel (The XTC Singles Collection 1977-1992) - XTC

Anyone for aural pleasure?

Advantages: Wonderful album!
Disadvantages: Was it really 20 odd years ago?

...unique as it’s an acoustic live album with Hynde sounding well a bit unlike Hynde, some what softer, less of the brashness, but none the less sounding rather good. Isle of View takes the Pretenders fan down memory lane accompanied by a string section and some very good acoustic sets. To be honest if you’ve never heard any thing by The Pretenders it might give you a misguided view of how they do sound on the majority of their work. This is not to ...
...to the test of a live acoustic set. One of the high lights of the album is perhaps their best known track the number one hit Brass in Pocket. Toned down some what but it still gets you singing along and you can hear the response it got from the live audience as well showing their appreciation. Sometimes a classic as boisterous sounding as Brass in Pocket is doesn’t sound as stunning with an acoustic set, thankfully this isn’t the case with Brass ...

The_Nursey 05.04.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Live At The Isle Of View - Pretenders (The)

In a Big Country Dreams Stay with You

Advantages: It's Big Country - Live and at their very best
Disadvantages: It's less than an hour long

Big Country - Without The Aid of a Safety Net Big Country was the first band I ever saw live. It took a lot of cajoling and persuasion before my parents allowed me to head down to Ingleston, just outside Edinburgh with my then-boyfriend and two friends. I was sixteen and I still vividly remember that adventure. And the gig itself. I was totally blown away. Live music was where it was at, I suddenly realised; the noise, the heat of the crowd, ...
...so to the album. Without The Aid of a Safety Net is, as you may have guessed, a live album, recorded in December 1993 at that most excellent of gigging venues, The Barrowlands in Glasgow. (If you have never been, you SO should - forget stadium venues, this is hot and sweaty and very atmospheric) The CD come with a short booklet with a black and white stills shot of each of the band members, the track listing and the production details, acknowledgements ...

carcraig 19.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Without The Aid Of A Safety Net (Live At Glasgow Barrowland 1993) - Big Country