Unchained Melody (The Very Best Of The Righteous Brothers) - Righteous Brothers (The)

Advantages: The classic hits and some top notch album tracks
Disadvantages: The showbiz and MOR cover versions

...In Paradise, Without A Song and Wonderful, Wonderful, showcase their flair for diversity, I have to say purley from my own personal view that I found those kind of tracks quite ghastly. When I think of Diana Ross And The Supremes, I think Soul/R&B/Pop and its these elements of styles that captured their own unique, magical sound. There is a rather bland reading of The Beatles, Yesterday whilst there is little ignition in their ponderous cover of The Righteous Brothers, Unchained Melody. Diana Ross certainly makes the songs her own as she sings them in her own unique vocal style and in no way are these criticisms aimed at Diana Ross but I feel the corny showbiz and MOR cover versions flaw this album in a big way and no doubt other die-hard Soul/R&B fans like myself, ran for cover on hearing these recordings! However in its favour... Read review

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Advantages: Smokie at their best
Disadvantages: Absolutely none

...and much reflection Smokie recruited singer Mike Craft and Smokie were back on the road.Craft,without doubt the one with the best vocal ability of of the 3 lead vocalists was an instant hit with the fans ,his ability to make any song his own brought Smokie back to the top of the charts and returned Smokie to the peak of popularity in Europe and Scandinavia They have never stopped touring since. After 30 years they decided to cover songs that a lot of people mistakingly thought were done by them originally.It was bound to be an interesting project to work on and the finished product did not leave me dissappionted. My first thought on this album was the fact that their greatest hits had been re-recorded and re-mixed and came with this presentation but the covers disc was very interesting indeed. When a band covers another artists song... Read review

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Advantages: easy on the ears, soft
Disadvantages: their not that good looking

...ahh the righteous brothers youve lost that loving feeling, what can i say but brilliant, i love this song it has such meaning to it, you cant beat the old classics they have the voices of angels! rereleased in 1996 and just as popular with the young and old, these are the sort of songs that will live on forever, even way past my generation, there up there with elvis and the carpenters and the whole rat packfor songs that will never die, its great for listening to when you have broken up with your husband or boyfriend, lover when you have broken up due to that feeling of love that you had for one another is gone, an absolute excellent song.... Read review

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