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Advantages: Excellent backing tracks, competent vocals, a couple of strong pop hits Disadvantages: Not much in the way of soul, some dull tracks, all rather dated now
wiped, as so many ?Top of the Pops? episodes were prior to 1976.
The song slipped from consciousness over time however and it wasn?t until I received the first ?Jackie? compilation album a couple of years ago as a gift that I heard it again and was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it ? despite the passing of well over 30 years.
Ever the curious sort, I sought out more of the Pearls? work and as an aficionado of the northern soul sound decided that their compilation CD ?A String of Pearls? had to be worth a punt if only to reminisce about my childhood.
The album has 24 tracks, including all singles and B-sides the girls recorded. To the best of my knowledge the Pearls never released an album in the seventies so there are no obvious ?album tracks? but there are several curiosities if you are familiar with music from the early 1970 ...
Advantages: The writing, the setting, the music Disadvantages: The characters are not sow ell defined or likable
I bought this book, An Equal Music by Vikram Seth, for the grand sum of one penny on the basis of a review written by Floon. I was enchanted by his description of the storyline and the author?s writing style. I was not disappointed.
The author, Vikram Seth states, in an author?s note located on the last page of the book, that, ?Music to me is dearer even than speech?. To convey this, he focuses his novel on the world of music and its performance.
The central character, Michael Holme, is the second violinist in a London-based stringquartet. His life has settled somewhat into a rut. He plays his violin; teaches the violin; makes love to one of his students, Virginie; rings his father; all as a matter of routine.
His comfortable lifestyle is suddenly disturbed by a series of events each connected and occurring in parallel ...
Advantages: Fantastically realised world, focused plot Disadvantages: Minimalist detail, not a cohesive collection
gone, the prose much plainer, stripped of the flair of old, but retaining the elegance of the fundamental, minimalist quality.
Not to say that there is nothing of merit in "Tehanu". It is a well written, interesting character study, but I personally found it too much of a jarring change from previous works to enjoy it. It does not pass without incident, there are some precarious situations, but there was much I took issue with, from Ursula Le Guin's newfound principles, to the rushed (arguably dues ex machine) ending, to the liberties taken with the characters I'd come to know.
The Quartet is a fascinating, if not cohesive, or even complete collection of the Earthsea stories. Even the worst of the stories has its unique strengths. There are a few minor editorial issues (inconsistent fonts and typographical errors) but nothing too ...
