Wolves Of Willoughby Chase, The - Colin Towns

Advantages: Nice music, good lyrics
Disadvantages: A bit samey

...is not always by company cured / The cats are in the windows, dogs are at the doors / the lamps are lit and all the curtains being drawn / but you’re wanting his heart when I’m wanting yours.” He also sings it quite differently than you’d expect, with his voice rising and falling. “Middle of the hill” is a good tune and great story, almost a stream of consciousness: “And the girl down the street said a dog couldn’t bark cause a man with an axe cut its voice box out. But my older sister told me that it probably wasn’t true and I believe what she said coz she took me by my hand one time, when a couple of men drove down the hill in a white van said there was a phone box filled with money round the corner and I would have gone along but she took me by my hand to the house on the middle of the hill”. Phew. “Feeding the wolves” is a quieter song (and... Read review

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Advantages: It's a Classic
Disadvantages: Absolutely None

...Barry's score is a wonderful representation of understated yet epic, simple yet powerful, long-drawn but melodious music. Barry deliberately steered away from writing a Western score (after all Dances With Wolves is not your everyday Western), as well as deciding to leave the period Native American music to other hands. Instead Barry took John Dunbar as a starting point, preferring to focus on his story; his journey to the American frontier, his encounters and observations with the Sioux, and his assessment of these people. The main John Dunbar Theme is one of the most recognizable themes ever to rise from the movies and it is a popular addition on many compilation albums. The theme has two distict personifications: one is a small, haunting fanfare that opens and closes the film and the second (the more important one) an extended string... Read review

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Advantages: Loud, a scream of rage, intelligent, proper punk
Disadvantages: Bad language, screamed vocals

...'t stop till everyone screams". "Come friendly bombs" is an angry scream at the boredom of life: "The same faces the same release / If this place had a name it would be defeat / So sick of waking up to white skies / Can't stand the look in everyone's eyes". Anger is the predominant feel of the lyrics, some at life in general, though "Six years" appears to be about a father who walked out and "Stay cold" is a song of hate for the person who nicked their gear in their home town: ""Five good men go broke while the rats go fat" is a line (miraculously expletive free) that sums it up: "Someone said a grand don't come for free / Apparently it does when you're a f~~~~~~~~ thief". Those references to John Betjamen (friendly bombs) and The Streets (grand for free) are not the only ones: "Will someone shoot that f~~~~~~ snake" starts off... Read review

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