Testify (The Best Of The A&M Years) - Al Green

Advantages: raucous, rebellious, irreverant and OFFENSIVE
Disadvantages: raucous, rebellious, irreverant and OFFENSIVE

...with the same old sh*te they've been coming out with since they learned how to ****pass wind**** (more censorship for Ciao!). If this sounds like you, you might like it. THE BO**OCKS ***************** 1. The Sex Pistols were NOT the first Punk Band. I cite Blondie, The Ramones (the Ramones were, i believe, even calling themselves "Punks" by 1975) et al, who were playing CBGB's and the Whisky-A-Go-Go in New York in the mid-70's, and before them a direct line can be drawn back to Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground. It was when Malcolm McClaren saw these bands, and especially the New York Dolls (who i have always thought are a load of rubbish, but there you go), that he got the idea of bringing this feeling/concept/irreverance to England. 2. The Sex Pistols were not the first Punk band in the U.K. to release a record. The Damned... Read review

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Advantages: a wonderful return of an american master
Disadvantages: lyrics

..., the frightfully gifted prodigal son who, throughout mountains of PCP and cocaine, never came home. Stevie Wonder, the golden child who, through the power of his moog and his imagination, took the frenetic joy of the revival to Neptune. I Can't Stop, Green's first full-length secular album in 26 years, succeeds in both showing how powerful and real the myth of Al Green is and in showing how the myth can differ from the artist as well. It not only shows why he is considered as, arguably, the greatest soul artist of all time, but also the full range of the gifts that made him mythic in nature, as well as the deeply human element of his art that has compelled people to it for over three decades. Those looking for the master of controlled sensuality and nearly unbearable sexual tension that created hit after breathtaking hit in the '70s will leave... Read review

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Advantages: great vocal, great songs, everything's great and perfect
Disadvantages: can never get enough of it

...when childhood friends and actual founder Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar, vocals) and Mike Dirnt (bass; born Mike Pritchard) formed their first band, Sweet Children, in Rodeo, CA, when they were 14 years old. By 1989, the group took drummer John Kriftmeyer aka Al Sobrante and changed the band name to Green Day and released their first album. However Sobrante was replaced by Tre` Cool (Frank Edwin Wright III) to further his study and Tre` becomes the band drummer till' now. Green Day was part of the northern California underground punk scene. Kerplunk and Dookie album were more to the energy and insanity of punk rock with most of their songs about picking scabs, pyromania and masturbation. However they still been accepted by the listener and managed to sell millions of copies and won Best Alternative Music Performance in Grammy 1994... Read review

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