Welcome To Circus Punkabilly - Various Artists

Advantages: Smith, Smith, SMITH
Disadvantages: There are none

...More than twenty - that's years, albums and line-ups, folks. In the world of music at the tail-end of the 20th Century there is little doubt that The Fall, dynamite punkabilly Manc band, led by the spiteful, spiky, evil wordSmith, Mark E are SOMETHING ELSE, as different from most of the everyday dross you found in the charts as butter is to fire. There's nothing else like this band of whores and comics that has mutated through various guises since the late 1970's, but always with the lippy genius at the helm. Smith once said, it'd still be The Fall, even if it's only me and my granny on bongoes, and how right he is! The charge that you get when The Fall are around, with their uniwue, rumbustious and even downright dangerous attitude is like nothing else you'll experience in modern music. Unique amongst their peers in never selling... Read review

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Advantages: Fab compilation of all the hits
Disadvantages: None at all

...Wow! What a fantastic CD! I could tell when I listened to it, that every song had been carefully hand picked to create such a smooth album. The songs seem to intertwine into one another. All of the big reggae stars from the past captured onto two discs. Features such artists as: -Shaggy -Toots and the Maytals -Desmond Decker -Tony Tribe -UB40 Bob Marley Features such song as: -Boombastic -Mr Loverman -Welcome to Jamrock -Red Red Wine -Wonderful World, Beautiful People The makers of this compilation have done a really fantastic job rounding up these classic reggae hits. No need to such for odd songs in tens of CDs anymore. Everything I like about Reggae captured onto one CD. Excellent value and a great buy for the reggae enthusiast.... Read review

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Advantages: Full of classics
Disadvantages: None

...The Bonkers album series is perhpas the most iconic modern UK Hardcore album series of all time and the chances are if you've ever enjoyed this form of underground rave music you'll have bought a Bonkers album at some ;oint in your life. So this best of Bonkres album is a welcom addition to the series witha triple CD mix from Hixxy & Recon, Druid & Sharley and Scott Brown. Expect nothing less than a full on trawl through some of the best tracks to have featured on Bonkers albums through the ages with all the anthems of the past 12 years or so carmmed into these 3 excellently mixed CD's. This CD offers something for everybody as far as UK hardcore goes and is well worth the cheap as chips purchase price.... Read review

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