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Laundry Service - Easily Shakira's best album to date

Advantages: Fantastic album
Disadvantages: Need to brush up on your Spanish

It is an unfortunate fact of life for the many thousands of talented latin musicians that, if you want to make it on a worldwide scale, you have to learn to sing in English. This was powerfully illustrated in the late 1990s by Ricky Martin, and in 2001 when Shakira's third studio album - but only her first in the English language - expanded her appeal from the confines of the Spanish-speaking world and sent her global. Of course the fact that the ...
...coupled with the fact that Shakira herself is a multi-talented mega-babe, did her progression no harm at all. The album itself is an appealing mix of traditional latin beats, pop and ballads, with a number of tracks still sung in her native tongue - but not enough to make the album unlistenable to the monolingual masses (of which I am one). OBJECTION - Starting with a typical Tango-Argentino introduction, the song bursts into life with a lyrical ...

rabidbadger 04.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Laundry Service - Shakira

NFAK Madness

Advantages: Great Music, Great Sound, Great Words!!
Disadvantages: CD = Scratch

This is one of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's best selling albums. It is great!! I absolutely love the words which he sings. This album does not only help me relax, but i listen to it whilst i try to sleep. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's voice is powerful in which he reflects his passion for Love and people in Love. So if you are in love, this is a great album to buy. The songs are about 5-7 mins long and are suitable for all ages. The only problem with this ...

uzzer 03.05.2006 · Read full review
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Amarantine brings a tear to my eye

Advantages: Absolutely beautiful music; emotional; powerful
Disadvantages: I wish it was longer

Enya is an irish singer, best known for singing the theme tune for the premier film 'Gladiator'. She has an amazingly soft yet powerful voice that makes me feel sleepy when listening to her. This is a such a beautiful piece of music. The music in unconsciously consistent the enitre waythrough the song which makes you feel really relaxed and drowsy. The music sort of echo's and I liken it to raindrops. The beat is four beats, the inital beat is slightly ...
...da; da; da' 'DA; da; da; da' The lyrics are heart warming and I said that this was a song I sing to my mum when she is feeling low following an argument with my step-dad. The song is all about the enternity of love, 'Amarantine' being roughly translated as 'Eternity'. A part from the chorous, every verse is the same consistent rhymthm and beat ,again, to make you feel relaxed. It's a two syllable beat each sentence, the stress on the last syllable. ...

LaceyR26 11.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Amarantine - Enya

The Voyage - a beautiful thought-provoking album by Christy Moore

Advantages: Good mix of musical moods, suberb vocals and musicianship.
Disadvantages: None that I can see

...lyrics and melody. The Voyage is a good album for the Christy novice listener as it is not as political, perhaps, as some of his other albums.....or at least the songs contained on this album can be interpreted on different levels.There is also a fair mixture of light and shade, of lively and contemplative songs on this album. The title song has a haunting melody and lyrics which compare a long-term relationship with a sea voyage. The song is quite ...
...a popular choice to be played at weddings. The Mad Lady and Me has a wonderful narrative and it is up to the listener to conclude if the lyrics are a straight-forward piece of storytelling of are representational of something more profound. By the same songwriter (Jimmy MacCarthy) is the sublime song Bright Blue Rose which leaves the listener wishing to hear its' complex and (at times) unfathomable lyric over and over again in order to connect ...

Moongazinghare 23.04.2009 · Read full review

Review of Voyage - Christy Moore

Don't Escape this!

Advantages: Brilliant combination of tunes, from up-beat to ballads.
Disadvantages: None at all.

...can hide but you can't escape my love". Run Anna, Run I think there's a stalker after you. Run back to Sweden, leaving Enrique behind! (Please) 2. Don't Turn Off The Lights This is one of my favourite songs of the album. It's another up-tempo song , which begins slow but then a beat kicks in with a very catchy chorus. The electric guitar is used to full effects in this song, and includes Enrique singing Soprano-high vocals. 3. Love To See You ...
...the others. It's not quite as cruel as the title may seem. But suprisingly he "loves to see you cry" and he doesn't know why, but it "makes him feel alive". This was also released as a single and the video features Enrique wearing an unusual dressing gown/hoodie! 4.Hero If you haven't heard this song, you must have been in mars for a few years. This was Enrique's biggest succes single, when it was released in 2001, in the UK, and is still a classic. ...

Bouncebackability 22.08.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Escape - Enrique Iglesias