Sing The Sixties (A 2CD Collection Featuring 40 Classic Tracks From The Sixties) - Foster & Allen

Advantages: Shows us what we are missing musically - superb music at all times
Disadvantages: none to be found

...ANTHEM ) 17) Amazing Grace / Nearer To My God To Thee . (COLABORATION WITH PAUL SIMON TO GIVE A SUPERB VERSION . OF THIS TRADITIONAL HYMN ) CD2 - Track Listing : 1) Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes . (PAUL SIMONS HIT WITH LBM ON BACKING VOCALS) 2) Mbube . ( A TRADITIONAL AFRICAN SONG , THAT WOULD LATER MORPH . INTO ‘WIMOWEH - THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT’ ) 3) Ebethlehema Yiyo Lenkosi ( In Bethlehem He Is King ) 4) Ain’t No Sunshine . (FEATURING DES’REE - A MASSIVE UK HIT ) 5) New York City 6) World In Union . (‘95 RUGBY WORLD CUP ANTHEM) 7) Nomathemba ( Mother of Hope) 8) Qed’usizi 9) Chain Gang . (LOU RAWLS FEATURING LBM SING THE DEFINITIVE VERSION OF . THIS SAM COOKE CLASSIC) 10) Khayelihle KhanaLami ( My Beautiful Home ) 11) Oh Happy Day . ( WITH THE HERITAGE GOSPEL CHOIR - GREAT VERSION) 12) Lifiklie Ivangeli... Read review

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Advantages: Good Classic Hip-Hop Songs
Disadvantages: None

...As most of you will know, Kiss, the popular radio station and music channel are always bringing out various artist Rap/Hip-Hop and also R'n'B collections. This Hip-Hop classics is one of Kiss's most recent presentations. With 2 discs, there are some great hip-hop classics thrown into this collection. Whether you are a hip-hop fan or not, you will know most, if not all of these hip-hop classics from the 90's and some even earlier. This collection is a 2 disc set, which has 19 songs on each disc. So, on with the songs. (Note: Some will be explained long, but others not so long as I am reviewing 38 songs!) Disc 1 ●Dr Dre ft. Eminem - Forgot About Dre● This song is a fantastic one to start off a hip-hop classics album, as Dr Dre is the first, most popular and best selling hip-hop/rap artist and producer, closely... Read review

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Advantages: Summer beats and witty lyrics
Disadvantages: The 'Mockney' vocals can be a bit irritating

...by The Specials 'Ghost Town' and is about a night out in a club and being provoked by some other girls. Shame For You is another track about rejecting an admirer; it has a more bluesy feel over the ska beat. Well, about a bluesey as Lily Allen can get, she does actually sing on this track (she says she is classically trained) compared to her half talking, half singing on a lot of other tracks and, as ever, her lyrics are sharp and witty. Littlest Things is about reminiscing about a past relationship (presumably not with the guy who was bad in bed) and is the nearest to a romantic ballad on the CD. There is a piano and strings and harmonious backing vocals over a ska type beat with Allen's "Cor Blimey" vocals warbling over it, quite frankly it makes it all sound a bit odd! Take What You Take is about keeping in real and receiving unwanted advice... Read review

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