Turn Back The Years (The Essential Hank Williams Collection) [Remastered] - Hank Williams

Advantages: Erm.............things can only get better!!!
Disadvantages: Many of the tracks are poor

...As I start this review I have to make it clear that I am a Robbie Williams fan. My better half and I saw him live in Paris last year and it was, undoubtedly, the finest 2 hours of live entertainment and showmanship that I have ever seen. He is, without question, the finest performer and "popstar" that the UK has produced in the last twenty years, building a career on musicality, pop songs and performance, which is why "Rudebox" seems to have been a genuinely bad idea!! It's a departure into electro-pop, hip-hop and rap that is as unwelcome as it is unconvincing, and I worry that Robbie is starting to sink with his demons again! It is backed up with unusual images of Robbie in tracksuits, staring at us with hip-hop "attitude". The Background Robbie Williams' meteoric rise to stardom with Take That, the apparent acrimony behind... Read review

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Advantages: It's the best Harry Potter score yet - deeper, darker and inspired!
Disadvantages: Where have the old themes gone??

...and in the trailers that seemed to be on a loop in most cinemas. I was definitely impressed – there were some memorable themes (such as Hedwig’s Theme and the Quidditch Match) but looking back on it a few years later I must admit there was a slight overuse of the main ideas. Whether this was Williams himself or the aid who arranged and orchestrated the themes for him, it does begin to grate once you have seen the film a few hundred times…! Sometime in mid-2003 they announced that John Williams was to fully compose and orchestrate the score for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. After the score for the Chamber of Secrets (which did often seem like a reprise of the first film’s themes) there was much anticipation among music buffs and fans of the series, especially with all the talk of a darker, scarier instalment. It didn’t disappoint... Read review

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Advantages: It's Bowie
Disadvantages: Another version to buy!

...by a stunning interlude that sounds like an outtake form the Miles Davis “Sketches form Spain” this is where Bowie uses the mellotron to copy the sound of a trumpet, during the passage of the track we find that Winston has been shocked, tortured, and manipulated out of his rebellious ways and now adores “Big Brother” with Bowie’s own fascination with the “Nietzsche” concept of supermen as a means of Salvation, this subject was covered as far back his 1970 “The man sold the World” album, to close off the album Big Brother segues into “The Chant of the ever circling Skeletal Family” (2.04) Bowie has used an amazin’ and frightening chant in 5/4 time the rebel of 1984 finally gets zombied out and as the album ends “Bruh! Bruh! Bruh! Is repeated off into infinity (in the days... Read review

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