Tudo Azul - Velha Guarda Da Portela

Advantages: Happy happy happy
Disadvantages: Even if you don't want to, you will end up smiling

...What? You haven't got this album yet? What are you waiting for? Thankfully, something different to Las Ketchup and the OT guys has come out of Spain, at last. This is the very first album of La Casa Azul, a band of 5 androids that never show up at their concerts. Guille Milkyway made us all believe that the characters were real, giving them names, real voices and pictures of them, but he is the true genius behind the poppy, bubbly lyrics, that make you want to sing and dance away with a smile. Guille is, as well as the composer, the producer of this album. His success has allowed him to publish two other albums by now, the most recent being La Revolucion Sexual. Be warned that the happy feeling is contagious and you might need to listen to a bit of Radiohead to delete that smile off your face. Only "downside" is that you... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: It's weird
Disadvantages: It's weird

...and for Alice himself, Da Da was neither the final album he wrote nor was it representative of his general talent. Equally fortunately, this down period in Cooper's life did not last - by mid-1984, he had solved his marital problems and by 1986 he returned to the music scene with more "normal" albums, such as "Constrictor" and with his successful "The Nightmare Returns" tour. Although one can hardly call this album a "hit album", it is nonetheless an album that should find its way into any Alice Cooper's fan collection and should be listened to by anyone who considers themselves a music expert, as it does have some historical value. Unlike most of Alice's albums, this one hardly contains any songs that could be classified as "rock music". Instead, the entire album is very electronic and new age. Most of the album was produced by using a computer... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Might learn something about Buddhism
Disadvantages: Written in dialect, hard to read

...I bought this book a couple of months ago after reading a positive review in a magazine. However, there was something slightly important that the review left out. But first; 'Buddha Da tells the endearing story of a working-class Glaswegian man who discovers Buddhism, rejects old habits and seeks a life more meaningful, only to alienate his immediate family in the process' So all sounds good, I was interested in this because I recently studied the Dalai Lama and found Buddhism and everything surrounding the DL fascinating. The book arrived, nice looking cover, 344 pages so not too long, then I read the first page. Now, I read A LOT - but this totally threw me. The book is written in Galswegian dialect, here's an example; "He'd dae anythin for a laugh so he wid; went doon the shops wi a perra knickers on his heid, tellt... Read review

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