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Who Knew?

Advantages: Amazing artist, 14 very strong tracks
Disadvantages: 2 weak bonus songs

...review on her best album I'm Not Dead. The Album This album is truly amazing, here is a track by track guide incase you want to know what you are buying. Track 1- Stupid Girls Pink has always been known for her "up yours" attitude, she never really seems to care about politics, or fame and doesn't get sucked in like every other singer does, and this song is all about that. A great start to an amazing album, but I usually do skip it, ...
...listen to the lyrics and I'm sure in some way it was a hit against her lifestyle. There are some great one liners in this song that really make you laugh, the tracks one of the weaker ones and I don't find it as good as a lot of the other's on the album but it's still got a brilliant chorus and great video. Memorable Lyrics: "Disaster is all around, a world of despair, your only concern, will it f**k up my hair" "They travel in packs of two or ...

DixieChick10 03.09.2008 · Read full review
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Review of I'm Not Dead [PA] - Pink

"Amy Macdonald This is your life"

Advantages: Good voice
Disadvantages: Too much Irish Folk

...became a suprise hit around this time last year when her debut album This is Life was one of the biggest sellers. The Scottish born Macdonald has had some people thinking she was Irish for due to her singing voice having a distinct Irish tone. Here is a little bit about her rise to stardom. She started writing and performing songs at the age of 15 around Glasgow and sent a demo cd away after an NME advert. She was then signed to the production company ...
...Released on 30 July 2007 This is the Life is one of those rare albums that took nearly six months to rise to the top of the album charts. The single that caused the huge rise in album sales was undoubtedly This is the life which was the single when the album finally went to number one. It has now sold over 1,600,000 copies worldwide 1.) Mr Rock & Roll This opens with some gentle guitar and then the drums kick in, This is a very irish sounding track ...

jcneil 12.12.2008 · Read full review
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Review of This Is The Life - Amy MacDonald

Inside In/Inside Out- Kooks

Advantages: Upbeat,tuneful rough garage hippie sound.Some strong songs on the album.
Disadvantages: They arent really the sort of band that make massive musical waves,although they are charming.

The Kooks are Luke Pritchard (vocals/guitar), Hugh Harris (guitar), Max Rafferty (bass), and Paul Garred (drums). The band are named after a David Bowie song, but this doesnt at all reflect their style. The band met while at Brighton Music College. Essentially they are a really low budget garage rock band, although they do sound rough around the edges, I believe this gives them their charm. Their influences are The Police, The Strokes and strangely ...
...the bands innocent sound. This album is their debit released in 2006 and contains Top 20 hit 'You Dont Love Me' and 'She Moves In Her Own Way' . And acclaim for tracks on this album doesnt end there: 'Naive' shot to number 5 by the spring of that year! Musically their sound is percussionistic, melodic and upbeat. I think they are like a really good university union band that have a really mellow hippie vibe about their songs (especially in 'She Moves ...

SpookyMoon 29.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Inside In/Inside Out - Kooks

Best New British Band for Years

Advantages: Original and easy to listen to.
Disadvantages: Might find the songs a bit same-ish.

Where to start with this album? Arctic Monkeys absolutely exploded onto the Indie scene with their refreshingly different style. This album made them suppermassive and it is essential for any collection. Even Noel Gallagher admits they have trangressed into part of youth culture! This album combines Alex Turner's ingenious lyrics with some awesome riffs. The song 'Fake Tales of San Francisco' is a good example of this, as it utilises a musically ...
...is their debut single 'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor', a song which has just about made it to cult classic status. This fast paced tune is a firm fans favourite and is what the Monkey's are all about. I would recommend this album to anybody into Indie Rock'n'Roll music, or anyone looking for something that bit different. Oh, and also for anyone that plays guitar, playing along with this album is thoroughly satisfying! ...

Cooky9000 01.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not [Digipak] - Arctic Monkeys

His Heaven....

Advantages: A collection dreams, fantasies and mood shifting pieces
Disadvantages: An acquired taste

...album from David Gilmour, landed on our shelves this year proving to his long standing fan base that this middle aged 'grumpy old man' can still make the grade by giving us music to dream, reflect and inspire by. The self composed 'On An Island' is a imaginative collection of instrumental and vocal pieces by the man who became the guitar and the voice behind Pink Floyd. Appearing, primarily back in the mid to late Sixties as one of a long list of ...
...book in which, is typed, on a very old typewriter, simple indications of the reflective artist within. Each page is 'stained' around the edges to create the impression of something old and well thumbed. The pages consist of lyrics to each track (where appropriate) edged by simple photographs and pencil drawings. No unlike the composition titled 'In His Own Write' by John Lennon. The layout is very much the same. It is, without a doubt, a sleeve that ...

sam1942 22.05.2006 · Read full review
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Review of On An Island - David Gilmour