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Advantages: Still more to come
Disadvantages: Not there yet

...result being the 1979 album Obscure Alternatives. The group had seen Talking Heads while they were away on tour and had been impressed with the intelligence of both the group’s music and their audience. It was an example they wanted to follow, and at the same time Japan were becoming attracted to traditional Eastern music. Obscure Alternatives exposed those interests for the first time, and to good effect. An air of Germanic austerity in some of ...
...further interesting counterpoint. Although the album was a significant step forward from Adolescent Sex, the group were less than enchanted with their producers and engineers and sought still to sort out their style properly. There was clearly major potential here, but it was still not yet being realised. ... Read review

Advantages: Great variety of musical styles and moods, quality songs
Disadvantages: Won't change the world

...a staggering 26 years, released Beautiful Future, their 9th studio album. They started out as part of the Scottish indie scene that gave us Jesus and Mary Chain, but left behind their jingle, jangle sound to take on a more rocky sound. They've been in and out of the charts over the years and have collaborated with various other artists (Kevin Shields from My Bloody Valentine, Barnie Sumner, Robert Plant, The Chemical Brothers to name but a few). ...
...how the years accelerate…). Beautiful Future is the most melodic I remember Primal Scream being and it's quite a bit more poppy. Five songs for the album were recorded with Bjorn Yttling [from Peter, Bjorn and John] at Atlantis Studios in Stockholm, which is where ABBA recorded 'Dancing Queen' and 'Knowing Me, Knowing You'. Perhaps some of the disco pop vibe wore off. In any case, it's definitely an easier listen than many of its predecessors. There ... Read review

Advantages: Probably their best
Disadvantages: Not everyones cup of tea

...most recent album is called Folie A Deux The Tracks The track listing of Folie A Deux Track 1- Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes The track starts off with Patrick singing over an Organ, it almost gives it a chilly sound, but then of course the heavy beats join in and the song becomes even greater. I adore Patricks voice, I have always found it to be something very unique and as he doesn't really look like a music star, he really makes the ...
...The CD Folie A Deux which pretty much means Madness shared by Two (thanks to google) is the new album from Fall Out Boy and as soon as I borrowed it off my friend I was enthralled by the picture on the front. This is a yellow almost teddy bear, with a big grizzly bear on its back, walking along on a red background. It's a very effective front cover; if you look very closely you can see a face within the yellow teddy bears mouth. A great cover. ... Read review

Advantages: some great rare hendrix tunes
Disadvantages: not as consistent as his real studio albums

South saturn delta is a collection of songs by Jimi hendrix featuring alternate takes of well known songs and several songs that didnt make any of his albums before his untimely death. the album contains the origins to more wll known songs such as 'angel' and a version of all along the watchtower in which hendrix plays bass after noel redding walked out on the session. You can hear Hendrix's first real foray into the world of Jazz with 'South saturn ...
...songs including 'midnight lightning', 'look over yonder' and 'here he comes'. there is an instrumental of 'pali gap' which featured in ill fated hippy film 'rainbow bridge' along with another excellent instrumental called 'midnight'. there is also a cover of bob dylans 'drifters escape' As you would expect this album features excellent guitar work throughout. this album gives a good sense of the different styles that he was capable of playing from ... Read review

Advantages: Truly unique voice and musical style
Disadvantages: The album lacks a little focus in terms of subjects

Want One is the third album release from Rufus Wainwright and it was my first introduction to him back in 2005. I had actually been given a free concert to see him so bought the album so I knew what I would be singing along too! As it turned out, it wasn't really a sing along concert! Rufus Wainwright is the son of Loudon Wainwright III, a famous American songwriter, folk singer, humorist (he was the resident singer with Jasper Carrot in the 1980's ...
...vocals. 8/10 12. Want - 5:11 A harp plays behind a guitar giving a very slow, soft feel to the music while he sings about who he 'wants' to be. Another track to please the die-hards. 7/10 13. 11:11 - 4:27 One of the weaker songs on the album which is a tribute to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and lyrics that are far too lazy "woke up this morning at 11;11/wasn't in Portland and I wasn't in heaven". 4/10 14. Dinner at Eight - 4:33 Written about ... Read review