Ultimate Smooth Album, The (40 Of The Very Best Laid Back Songs) - Various Artists

Advantages: Great Slow-Jam songs, enjoyable and laid back summer feeling
Disadvantages: quite a few of the songs sound the same?! But still sounds great

...Wow!! A truely great artist with great laid back summer vibes and tunes that you can sing along 2!! his songs tell us a more mature sound voice a mix of mario, omarion and usher! His hit selling song "Slow Down" is a song that never bores you and his new song "Tell Me" also featured on this album is sure to be another hit for the summer! There arent really any songs on here that you would be abled to dance to, there all slow, love songs. I think "Tell Me" has a really good beat though! In this talbum you get a enjoyable smooth sexy laid back voice! This album is sure to be a hit!! If you like artists such as Mario, Usher or Omarion but would like to hear a little more mature voice this is definitly the album for you!... Read review

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Advantages: Great spread of music
Disadvantages: Too much of a spread in places

...Looking back at the last 1000 years of music, and only drawing on music from the last 40-odd may seem a touch shallow, bot looking at the track-listing makes you see why. There is Oasis, Rolling Stones, The Who, John Lennon, Wings, Derek & The Dominoes, and a whole host of other classics. The main sticking point is "where are the Beatles?", but when you realise that they're on no compilations due to the amount they demand in royalties, you realise they've dug their own grave in that respect. The album runs very well, with one or two exceptions e.g. 'Millennium'-Robbie Williams, and a few other weak songs thrown in in an attempt to add a variety of artists. Overall, in their bid to compile and produce an album of the best music of the last millennium, a good job has been done! But it!... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent covers of some old reggae standrads
Disadvantages: Sometimes a bit too slick

...The creation of entire albums of music from other artists is nothing new. It has been done to great effect by David Bowie, Bryan Ferry and many more. When UB40 followed up their first 2 albums which contained their own material with an album drawn from favourite reggae songs from their youth. Having established themselves as the conscience of 80s youth with their socially aware lyrics about unemployment and social injustice it could have been seen a s a commercial sell-out and perhaps ultimately it was. It was also, however, a very fine album. That it must have been a labour of love can be heard in the loving way the songs are crafted and every track reproduces the excellence of the original. As a lover of real reggae I do have to make one minor criticism and that is that the album is too good. There is far more added production... Read review

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