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Surprisingly unknown to so many

Advantages: Tracks: Russian Hill; Joining A Fan Club; Ghost At Number One; Bye, Bye, Bye
Disadvantages: Track: Brighter Day

I was recommended this album by my brother-in-law as he knew that, at the time, I was listening to music by bands like the Beach Boys, Queen and Supertramp amongst others. It was a good recommendation. I loved the music and it's only recently that I bought a copy for myself. Jellyfish: The Band Jellyfish were an American band hailing from San Francisco at the start of the 1990s, playing indie rock / power pop music. During their brief existence, ...
...and 'Spilt Milk' is the follow-up album. The band broke up in 1994 due to 'creative differences' between the two founder members, Roger Joseph Manning Jr. and Andy Sturmer. Album Details Release Date: 1993 Band members: Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Andy Sturmer and Tim Smith. Additional guitarists: Jon Brion and Lyle Workman. Album Duration: 46 minutes (approx.) Cost (as at 31/07/2008): £7.98 (+postage & packaging) ...

tumblewheel 27.07.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Spilt Milk - Jellyfish

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The Alternative To Love? Great music!

Advantages: Consistently good songs, something likeable about every track
Disadvantages: Some lazy lyric-writing, hard to associate some tracks with their titles

...point I'm making is 'The Alternative To Love' is a record you can really enjoy listening to. There's a touching, earnest simplicity to the lyrics which adds something really nice to the music behind them, even if at first they seem a little...lazy. Album highlights include the aforementioned single, its follow-up 'Cold Hands (Warm Heart)' and 'What I'm Lookin For'. However, it's tricky to find a particularly weak song on the album as a whole. It's ...

bitterlemonade 11.10.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Alternative To Love, The - Brendan Benson

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"When these memories fade....."

Advantages: A splendid, old-style pop album
Disadvantages: None. Not in my eyes, anyway

We live in revisionist times. The term "r 'n' b" seems to have been wrenched away from multiple generations of venerable African-American combos permutating vocals, horns, guitar and piano; these days to serve the needs of an army of computerised-backbeat-supported Beyonce clones. Likewise pop; for me, this was always catchy songs played by guitar bands, but I reckoned without the march of Stock, Aitken and Waterman and their natural sons and heirs ...
...it's catchy of a fashion, but then again so is smallpox and that's why nobody's allowed it out of a test tube for years. Which brings me to a proper band. A band that ruined my university dissertation. As they were once rather embarrassingly introduced onstage at the old Wembley Stadium by Gary Davies, "a band who come from Pleasanton, California". Jellyfish. Jellyfish was built on the core of two self-confessed jazz snobs who met in high school; ...

greenierexyboy 02.11.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Bellybutton - Jellyfish

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Pop-Stars? More like Flop-Stars!

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Watered Down, Teenage, Stupid

I'm not giving Metro Station a bad review just because Trace Cyrus is Miley Cyrus's brother. The reason I am giving them a bad review is because the album they produced is just awful. It shouldn't even be called music. It is watered-down pop punk that doesn't really deserve much recognition. The lyrics are unimaginative and and are just cheesy to the point of being unbearably annoying. Unfortunatly, songs such as "Shake It" have wormed their way ...

bellatrix_lestrange 07.11.2009 · Read full review

Review of Metro Station - Metro Station

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Arkansas rockers produce immense album

Advantages: Original, Tuneful, Powerful
Disadvantages: Depressing

Evanescence are one of the bands in an obscure section of rock that action get media attention. This is unusual. The thing that definitely stood out to me on the album was Amy Lee's (vocalist) ability to use classic instruments to boost the originality. I will review this album, track-by-track. **Going Under** This song is one of the heavier tracks of the album. The tempo of this track is generally slow but it is still good. Lee's vocals in this ...
...at the same time. **Bring me to Life** This song is the one that launched Evanescence into the limelight. It was a #1 in Britain for four weeks which surprised a lot of people because of their genre. This chart postition was definitely well deserved as it is a powerful song. Lee's vocals are assisted by Paul Mccoy as an extra in the chorus. **Everybody's Fool** This song has a more mainstream feel to it than other songs on this album. The intro ...

bellatrix_lestrange 07.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Fallen - Evanescence

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