Top Cat White Tie And Tails (Guide Cats For The Blind Vol.3) - Various Artists

Advantages: Great music for all ages
Disadvantages: None

...progressed from there and changed his name from Steven Demetre Georgiou to Cat Steven’s. Later changing it once again to Yusuf Islam. At the age of eighteen Cat Steven’s had his first hit called ‘I love my dog’ which is included in The ultimate collection. Remember Cat Steven’s The ultimate collection was released in 1999 and it has a running time of 87:53. It is the best of all Cat Steven’s work, which I personally find to be excellent. His work has been covered by many artists over the years and some even went to the top of the charts, including one that went to no1. Cat has a very emotional singing voice, which varies from song to song. Moonshadow has a very clean acoustic guitar sound; the song itself has a very driving even forcefully quality about it. . Patti Labelle back in 1971 did this as a cover song whilst in a group... Read review

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Advantages: A little bit different, quite introspective
Disadvantages: Very 70's, will appeal to -ooh- about 5 people

.... Hard Headed Woman* More shaky verses and gut-wrenching choruses in this tale of triumph in the bra-burning liberation of the early 70's. It's the archetypal quite-loud-quiet aesthetic on the vocal front and when the drums kick in half way through you know you've got another immaculately performed track on your hands. *3. Wild World* So the Pet Shop Boys wrote and recorded a song called It's A Sin and Cat came out in the late 80's moaning that it melodically and rhythmically ripped off this track. Then, that little reggae shit stirrer recorded a version of this track and took it into the top 10. Who pocketed the royalties? Cat! What a great way to get people to record your material and thus earn money for nothing. This version's great, of course, but it sounds nothing like It's A Sin in my opinion. *4. Sad Lisa... Read review

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Advantages: Lots of great songs from the eighties
Disadvantages: A few not so great

...I was in my local record store the other week browsing for ideas for mothers day for my wife from our two small children when my attention was caught by this particular offering. As most of you will be aware from my previous reviews, one of my great passions is eighties music and I couldn't resist buying this. Not for my wife I might add but for myself. So what was it that caught my attention? Well to be honest the graphics on the CD hardly grab your attention. Basically it consists of a dark blue cover with light blue lettering declaring that it is a Top of The Pops Album, with this letting enclosed to make it appear like a circle. The BBC logo is also detailed but this is hardly prominent either. In red lettering at the bottom of the circle the album stipulates the 80s, and provides details of a selection of artists... Read review

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