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A Black & White Delight!!

Advantages: Well worth the money, can watch over and over again
Disadvantages: A little bit short on running time

A Black & White Delight!! I find there is nothing better on a miserable day than to settle down with the fire on to watch an old black & white movie! Now for those of you who are too young to remember, and that of course includes me (not!), before colour television was available all programmes were viewed in black and white. Not only were the old movies televised in black & white, but the original footage is in black & white, due to the lack of ...
...you see is nothing but black and white. However, that for me is the magic of those old movies, a captured period of time gone by… However, today, with all technology available to enhance the finished footage…….. Why would you then choose to film it in Black & White?? Make it look old? Give it some character? Who knows, but with this show, it really works!!! Roy Orbison (with friends) Black & White Night Music DVD ***The Show*** This show was ...

blackbeard 02.12.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Black And White Night - Roy Orbison

A good buy

Advantages: A good mixture of songs
Disadvantages: Some of the tracks are a bit short

This album contains a number of really good, original songs. One of my favourite is 'A Poem on the underground wall' Although it is only about someone grafitting a wall, it contains some beautiful lyrics. Quite a lot of the tracks on this album have lovely lyrics which are full of imagery. This includes 'the dangling conversation' 'Flowers never bend with the rainfall' and 'patterns' I think that all three of these are good, original songs with interesting ...
...songs is 'Cloudy' It sounds really dreamy (both the lyrics and the tune) and is quite a relaxing song to listen to. This album also contains a couple of fun songs like 'The 59th street bridge song' 'The Big bright green pleasure machine' and 'A simple desultry philippic'. The latter song is a bit strange, and towards the end of the song it sounds a bit as if the're stoned when the're singing it. ...

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Review of Parsley Sage Rosemary And Thyme [Remastered] - Simon & Garfunkel

Cheap Thrills? - Priceless

Advantages: Joplin at her best
Disadvantages: Bonus tracks...not the best

...vocals of Joplin herself… Cheap Thrills was the title finally settled on after "Dope, Sex and Cheap Thrills" was considered by the President of Columbia Records, Clive Davis, as a little too extreme. On its release in 1968, Cheap Thrills burst into the charts reaching No. 1 and going Gold within a couple of months. Although each album track contains great swathes of pure musical elation for me, the titles that require constant repeating to the ...
...as loud as Joplin's, and Cheap Thrills was hers, and BBHC's, greatest moment. Janis Joplin's voice, intensity, and distinctive look positioned her perfectly to become one of the most recognizable icons of the 1960s musical and social revolution. I believe that Joplin would have been modest to the rating afforded by Rolling Stone Magazine as 338 in the list of the 500 greatest albums of all time …whereas I argue that this is an outrage… makes it year ...

d1ceman 04.04.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Cheap Thrills [Remastered] - Big Brother & The Holding Company

I Know It's Over

Advantages: Great songs and great singing
Disadvantages: Still don't dig Eternal Life

...6 concerts in Jeff Buckley's Mystery White Boy tour make up this live album. My ratings are as follows: [*] - Nothing really catches the attention. [**] - Something grabs my attention. [***] - Gets me air-drumming, air-guitaring and singing along to the track. 1. Dream Brother Slow to start, and though in the buildup there is some laidback vocal improvisation, Jeff is having to squeeze hard for some of those falsetto notes. [**] 2. I Woke Up In A ...
...heavy, and the riffs dirty. [***] 3. Mojo Pin Solid but for the final bridge where Jeff slips into sheepish singing - however he does come on strongly for the finale. [**] 4. Lilac Wine As if Buckley has had too much to drink here, what with the guitar losing its way and his vocals being reduced to a croak at the end, though the improvisation in the singing is as strong as it is soulful. [***] 5. What Will You Say Similar to Dream Brother in that ...

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Review of Mystery White Boy - Jeff Buckley

X-Tina's X-Mas

Advantages: Lots of big tunes
Disadvantages: Final Dance track

“My Kind Of Christmas” came out in 2000 and was the first Christmas album for the Pop singer Christina Aguilera. Coming directly off her debut album, which was then re-recorded in Spanish, it was released prior to her “Stripped” years and so has her in a position where she was much more accessible to the 'family' market. Here she mixes traditional carols with well-covered Christmas classic and some of her own original ones. 1.“Christmas Time” We ...
...that I felt made a strong impression as it shows that here she is down to bring an album that reflects how her debut album sounded with the heavy R&B influence, but she ensured that it sounded as though it stuck to the main 'Christmas' themes. It was one of only two singles from the album, and I felt that it was a nice way to get it underway. **Four Starr** 2.“This Year” We see that she comes in with another fresh tune (a non-cover) here and she ...

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Review of My Kind Of Christmas [ECD] - Christina Aguilera