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Advantages: Hidden R.E.M. gems that were never released....until now!
Disadvantages: Doesn't play like an album

...for their 1984 song '7 Chinese Bros.' Everything is as the song would eventually turn out, right until the instant Stipe enters. Stipe, for this recording, grabs a gospel album and starts to sing the liner notes. It's amazing how effortlessly he wraps the words to the music having never seen them before; he makes it seem like he wrote them especially for it! 5. Burning Hell: Now we know where The Darkness got their sound from! A comic glam-rock ditty with screams to die for. This song contains one of the greatest comedy lyrics ever penned in 'Women got legs, men got pants/ I got the picnic, you got the ants'. A fist-pumping rocker with enough energy to fill a whole album. IT'S A BURNING HELL! 6. White Tornado: Is the B-side to their very first single, Radio Free Europe. It's a quasi-surf instrumental with some death-defying drumming from Berry... Read review

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Advantages: Melodic Death / Power Metal - Bodom Style
Disadvantages: Mainstream touch

...For those who don't know, Children of Bodom are a fantastic Finish Power / Death metal band, which started its own genre. Incorporating Neo-classical riffs with compelling solos and an unmissable death metal styled singing to go with it. Children of Bodom's front man Alexi Laiho does all lead and rhythm guitar whilst singing, along with Janne Warman giving the melodic death metal touch with his keyboard skills. After the brilliant releases of albums such like: Hate Crew Deathtoll, Follow the Reaper, Hate Breeder and Something Wild, comes the latest addition - Are you dead yet? ----------------- As a Bodom fan myself purchasing this album for 9.99 was a steal - usually they're around 15 pounds, so I thought this should be good. After a quick run through, you realise is this the same band that really made Follow the Reaper... Read review

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Advantages: Cracking Good album, Great Songs
Disadvantages: You May not Of Heard Any Of (or most) Them

...previous albums earlier in the eighties. Yes the first album came in 1983 and was called -'Sophisticated Boom Boom', and on it, their first real hit, a cover of K. C. And The Sunshine Bands 'Thats The Way (I Like It)' . This track was probably 'DoAs' most known single in that year, evan though they had released more singles from the album. Their next album gave 'DoA' global success and made them famus in well, most places in the world. Can you guess which album I'm talking about ??? Come on, its got their biggest (and only) No. 1 on it,.... Yes its 'Youthquake', the album that gave us the No. 1 hit 'You Spin' way back in 1985. Of cours, DoA had released more singles of the album to,... 'In Too Deep', 'Lover Come Back (To Me)' and 'My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me To The Doctor)', but who rememberes (or evan knows) them ??? Dead... Read review

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