Rosemary Lane - Bert Jansch

Advantages: Good cross section of artist work
Disadvantages: not to everyones tastes

...A cracking album from one of the u.k top folk artists. This album shows a true cross section of work from Bert's repertoire. Personally, i like every track on the album and as a fellow musician Bert's arrangements are exceptionally good and complex! There are the traditional tracks like "Black waterside" (Led Zeplin used Bert's arrangement for one of their own tracks,) aswell as reading of "Nottamun Town" and the murder ballad "Bruton Town." If you like your english folk music then you can't go wrong with one of the best examples of folk guitar. This album is a mixture of self-penned songs, trad folk and examples of the tunes that were taken into his band The Pentangle. I have been a fan of Bert's for years and this album is one of the best examples of his career spanning the last 40 yrs.... Read review

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Advantages: Deep songs with both harsh and subtle complexeties
Disadvantages: Takes concentration to gain the most from it

...Pain of Salvation are a Swedish progressive metal band who were formed in 1991 by the brilliant Daniel Gildenlow who not only plays guitar on the LP but also provides the main vocals and composes all the music. Being progressive you can expect lots of key changes and strange time signatures but with a harder sound incorperating many other aspects of more modern metal. 'Remedy Lane' is the bands fourth album release which was written during a two month period in 2001 by Gildenlow and released to tremendous praise from the metal community when it finally reached the public in 2002. As are all of their albums 'Remedy Lane' is a concept piece but whereas some of their subjects tackle the bigger questions about God and war 'Remedy' is a much more introspective view dealing with topics such as love, loss and lust and is in large... Read review

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Advantages: Great dance and pop tracks - original sound
Disadvantages: High-pitched voices make it hard to singalong!

...I'd call it the RIGHT Lane! Tatu among the top-ten selling artists in Russia with over 1 million legitimate copies of their Russian album sold and an uncountable number of pirate versions. Famous all over the world for their controversial image, screen-lesbians Julia Volkova and Lena Katina scored a smash with this hit all over the globe. Created by psychologist Ivan Shapolov, the controversial duo base their image on a cleverly researched taboo - what could be better then teenage schoolgirls? Teenage lesbian schoolgirls! The song of the album are centred around the girls 'relationship' with each other. The songs? Not Gonna Get Us - Fast-paced song with a dancey beat based around the idea of the two girls running away to be together. The seperation of the two voices creates an exciting sound and it really gets my blood pumping... Read review

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