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Back To Bedlam. Bang goes my street-cred

Advantages: Some good songs
Disadvantages: All a bit samey

...- and his first album, Back To Bedlam - attracts opinions that are much more varied than the contents of the album itself. Personally, I think the album is ok - even bordering on good - but my main criticism of it would be the similarity of a lot of the songs. So much so that I find it impossible to give a track-by-track analysis and find enough to say about each song. Most people will be familiar with the album's signature track, You're Beautiful, ...
...the rest of the album: strummy acoustic guitars, simple pleasing harmonies, well-written meaningful lyrics and that little-bit-posh, little-bit-whiney, little-bit-nasal voice that wouldn't sound out of place narrating a Famous Five story. A few of the songs do stir me emotionally (especially Goodbye My Lover) and, on the whole, it is an album that I ocassionally enjoy listening to from start to finish. I would guess that this opinion is secretly ...

rabidbadger 05.10.2009 · Read full review
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The Beatles "1". the best of the best

Advantages: all the #1 hits of the beatles
Disadvantages: There are many more bealtes tracks that are fantastic that can be found on other albums

...it be". Track list 1. Love Me Do 2. From Me to You 3. She Loves You 4. I Want to Hold Your Hand 5. Can't Buy Me Love 6. A Hard Day's Night 7. I Feel Fine 8. Eight Days a Week 9. Ticket to Ride 10. Help! 11. Yesterday 12. Day Tripper 13. We Can Work It Out 14. Paperback Writer 15. Yellow Submarine 16. Eleanor Rigby 17. Penny Lane 18. All You Need Is Love 19. Hello Goodbye 20. Lady Madonna 21. Hey Jude 22. Get Back 23. The Ballad of John & Yoko 24. ...

zais 12.02.2009 · Read full review
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This really was the start of the British Indie Scene

Advantages: Strong Tracks, Good Lyrics, Original, Started the rebirth of modern Indie Music
Disadvantages: quality of the first album could not be repeated on their following albums

When Franz Ferdinand released Take Me Out in 2004, it immediately charted at #3 in the British charts and reached the top 20 in numerous European Charts and even managed to do what many of its musical predecessors had previously failed to do : crack the US top 20. Its catchy guitar riffs and beautifully-soft lyrics immediately made it seem that Joy Division and The Cure had returned in what seemed the start of the British Indie/Post Punk revival ...
...Lyrics and a good original Franz Ferdinand Tune 7.This Fire- Probably the most original/individual track on the album, this touches on a guy's lust for a woman that can`t be controlled. Legendary Chorus. 8.Darts of Pleasure- Probably my least favourite anthem on the album. It still has good lyrics but it is comparable to "Evil and a Heathen" on the proceeding album "You could have it so much better"as it gets better towards the end. The lyrics ...

krshls 29.07.2009 · Read full review
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Virtual Band? How Does That Work Then?

Advantages: Highly varied
Disadvantages: Inconsistent

The virtual band Gorillaz made their debut in 2001 when they dropped a self-entitled release. Headed by a band consisting of members: 2D, Noodle, Russel Hobbs and Murdoc Niccals, they bring together a range of musical influence into a giant mix with some Alternative Rock, Hip Hop, Electronica, amongst other things all thrown in together. 1. “Re-Hash” They get the album going with a track that immediately gives you a chance to feel just how complex ...
...Hip Hop production before it opens up a little more in order to bring in more Alternative Rock into the mix before later developing the sound a bit more towards the Electronica end of things. It is a gentle way to get things going and although I didn’t think much happened in it, it shouldn’t be classed as a weak opener. **Three Stars** 2. “5/4” This, a rather short one from them finds them adding a little more into what we know the act for as we ...

XICripZ 17.10.2009 · Read full review
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Wonderful soulful debut...

Advantages: It's real music
Disadvantages: It doesn't last long

...of the labels new signings Amos Lee and his eponymous first release by them on the 14th of March 2005. My first question was, what’s the connection to Norah Jones? Well firstly her bass player Lee Alexander has produced Amos’s first recording for the label and secondly Norah herself appears on the album playing keyboards and adding backing vocals to a couple of songs, in fact most of Norah’s band appear on this release. But I ...
...while waiting to make it Amos waited on tables tended bar and performed at “open - mike” nights. From the appearances singing and playing at the open nights he began to get a positive feedback on his performances so he took the plunge and made and released a 5 track E.P., this release made Amos one of the most talked about singers and emerging talents in the Philadelphia area this was according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, he went on ...

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