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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

Hole lotta sickness

Advantages: Like nothing you've heard before, psychedelic insanity
Disadvantages: Some will find this crude or just plain offensive

...I think you'll agree. Locust Abortion Technician is widely regarded as their greatest achievement, the point at which their mixture of shrieking guitar and frankly satanic vocals reached full fruition. Having not heard any of their other albums so far, I cannot really comment, but I can assure you that this is a classic album, so long as you have the stomach for it. It immediately wrongfoots the listener by kicking in with some dreamy synth, and ...
...about the meaning regret. If you've heard Orbital's track "Satan" then you'll know what's coming, for it was here that they lifted the by-now classic sample. The father explains, and then casually says "Oh, and by the way, if you see your Mom this weekend, would you be sure and tell her...SATAN!!! SATAN!!! SATAN!!!" The guitar riff from Black Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf" explodes into life, only speeded up and accompanied by some demonic laughter. This ...

MonkeyboyUK 23.04.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Locust Abortion Technician [Remastered] - Butthole Surfers

Hope despite the times...UPDATED

Advantages: Great live feel, excellent guitar playing, intriguing lyrics
Disadvantages: The enhanced "newer" version includes some not-as-good B-sides, but they're good freebies. Track listing on CD is wrong!

Lifes Rich Pageant emerged back in 1985 after the rather disappointing Fables of the Reconstruction, which REM drummer Bill Berry has often been quoted as hating. However, as often happens, after fallow periods come great discoveries, and Lifes Rich Pageant falls in here. REM are a band of many directions, and often fall somewhere within rock, pop, indie and alternative. This album lies mostly in the rock category partly due to the Don Gehman production, ...
...lines and strong vocals throughout (this album was the beginning of bringing Stipe's voice to the fore in the REM song). The album begins with the fantastic Begin The Begin, which Stipe refers to on the Tourfilm live video as a song of "personal and political activism". The song has great guitar lines and a clear chorus, fooling some listeners into thinking it is a straightforward song. However, being REM lines such as "A birdy in the hand for lifes ...

Pleb 03.08.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Life's Rich Pageant (Remastered) - R.E.M.

"The Pogues...Not For The Fainthearted"

Advantages: Makes you think
Disadvantages: some swearing

...of naval tradition, it's all Rum Sodomy and the Lash !', the album cover is very distinct, it copies a famous painting 'The Raft of the Medusa' (1816) a famous shipwreck off the coast of Africa, and depicts dying naked bodies, with the members of the band's faces cleverly superimposed on some of the bodies. The album was produced by the talented Elvis Costello, and is , in my opinion, awesome. *****THE BEST TRACKS***** The album opens with my favourite ...
...masterpiece, penned by Mcgowan himself, and he sings of the ancient Cuchulainn, who was a powerful leader from Irish mythology.He dreams of being attacked by powerful women with horsewhips and is subsequently taken ill, as a result of which he lies asleep in his sickbed for a year. "They took you out into the street and kicked you in the brains So you walked back in through a bolted door and did it all again At the sick bed of Cuchulainn we'll ...

Averilla 14.06.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Rum Sodomy And The Lash (Remastered & Expanded) - Pogues (The)

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 ...

kevduts 30.08.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Holy Bible, The (10th Anniversary Edition/Remastered/Parental Advisory/+DVD) [Digipak] [PA] - Manic Street Preachers