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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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"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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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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Of Whales and not so much of the woe if you please!

Advantages: see review
Disadvantages: none

Of Whales and Woe is Les Claypool's first proper solo album. His name may not be familiar to all as he is better known as Primus' frontman bassist extraordinaire. This album was released back in 2006 on his own record label Prawn Song. (It was recently re-released on vinyl as of November 2009.) Not so much of the wacky lyrics on this album but a far more accessable feel than his previous works. Nearly every track featured here is bass-driven in his ...
...check this out! The arrangements of the other instruments like saxophone sitar, guitar and drums, etc sit really well together without drowning anything out. The songs themselves are really catchy and you'll find yourself singing along too by the end of it. There is even one track on here, Iowan Girl, written specially for his wife with some of the most amazing bass playing I have ever heard. There isn't a bad track on here in my opinion. TRACK LISTING: ...

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My review of Radiohead´s OK Computer

Advantages: A great number of songs are good. Highly original.
Disadvantages: No all the songs are that great.

Radiohead does it again. Highly original record. Most songs last forever. The in and out bass line of "Airbag" is brilliant. I also like the way this song slowly unfolds, specially the brilliant guitar. You might be surprised to hear that I don´t care too much for "Paranoid Android" one of their most famous singles. I thought "Subterranean Homesick Alien" was great too. "Let Down" is also a super song that must be in your collection. "Karma Police" ...

Prophet777 24.12.2009 · Read full review
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