Sleepy Little Sailor - Oh Susanna

Advantages: A solo album from the Bangles vocalist; a prodigious array of musicians, backing vocalists and producers. Excellent vocalisation, good in parts
Disadvantages: A slightly flawed jewel

...chorus and a meaty wall of sound instrumentation. “I know you know that you're good lookin' And you're not known for too much else I took you in and you left me half a live” This was released as a single at the same time as the album but did not make any showing in the sales charts. All I Want (3:18) **** We’re back with a late 1960s big band sound here with shades of romantic guitars (Walker Brothers). Her voice at times could well be Joni Mitchell or Helen Reddy but she still finds time to put those coy little girl lost inflections in there. This is a pleasant sound which improves with repeat hearing. This track was written and released on an album by the Lightning Seeds in 1990. Susanna’s version was also released as a single but did not make any impact on the charts. Enormous Wings (3:47) **** Starting... Read review

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Advantages: Remind people of events that have taken place in the series
Disadvantages: English song are usually corny

...I haven't got a clue which of the many Sailor Moon soundtracks Ciao is listing so I am going to talk about the Sailor Moon Music in general: *ENGLISH SONGS* As some of you will know the music off any anime series is usually catchy but the Sailor Moon theme is especially catchy no matter how corny it is, watch one episode and it will be stuck in your head for hours! All the English Sailor Moon songs are incredibly corny but they do set the mood and atmosphere for certain events and that's the reason I like them, they remind you of the events in the series. *JAPASESE SONGS* The Japanese songs are really good, they're all really original and there is a wide variety of style - not that I understand the lyrics in any of them! I listen to these songs the whole time, not just because they remind me of events or characters but because... Read review

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Advantages: Interesting stuff, Some good music, Dylan
Disadvantages: Can nag when in certain moods.

...The 1980s were a notoriously mixed bag of years for the legendary Bob Dylan. He started them in his born-again Christian phase, something even a lot of hardcore Dylan fans found hard to swallow as it seemed to go against everything he stood for and what they stood for. They were hard times really, and he'd been through a couple of reasonably average to poor albums in the bible-bashing vein before 'Oh Mercy'. Incidentally, whilst I don't agree with the sentiment I think 1979's 'Slow Train Coming' the first Christian phase album is a very under-rated album, it's actually great! And that's the interesting thing; from that first and most certainly excellent album of his new phase Dylan seemed to gradually be losing interest in his new direction. It started to fade away as quickly as it came. There are those amongst the Dylan crowd who... Read review

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