Wound Dresser, The - John Adams

Advantages: Some Good Songs, Good Lyrics
Disadvantages: A Bit Too Techno In Places

...strange things can sometimes happen and in 1994 Todd Terry got his hands on an Everything But The Girl track from their previous Album, Amplified Heart, called Missing and remixed it into a dance track. The result was one of the biggest selling singles of the decade, but this new direction was not welcomed by all, and many faithful Everything But The Girl fans wondered if this signalled yet another change in direction for the band towards a more dance orientated theme. In 1996 Everything But The Girl released their eight studio Album entitled Walking Wounded. From the very introduction it is apparent that the success of Missing has steered the duo towards the bright lights and pound signs of the dancefloor. This Album is full of strange experimental noises and sounds created from a whole plethora different instruments. The Album contains... Read review

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Advantages: A wonderful lyric based song
Disadvantages: most of the other songs on the album are crap

..."I never conquered, rarely came, tommorow holds such better days, days when i just feel alive, and i cant wait to get outside" Thats just part of the chorus of this masterpiece from Blink 182! Adam's song is a very sad song which is Track 7 on Enema of the State, an Album which saw Blink 182 come into the world as a very popular pop rock band. This song is the best song on the Album along with Going Away To College and a few others in this pop infested album. Adam's song is about a boy called Adam (naturally) who's teenage life is going wrong and everything is just a mess after he's split up with his girlfriend and he's contemplating suicide. The video for this song is pretty cool as it shows Blink 182 performing infront of a board full of pictures of happy memories with the camera zooming in on them and playing... Read review

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Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Boring, Same Old Songs Rehashed, Embarrassing Lyrics

...Bryan Adams is unfortunately clutching at straws with his eleventh album and its rather predictable title "eleven". In releasing another album featuring yet more of the same old songs, Adams' record company bosses seem to have had a bit of a panic. Being the eleventh album by Adams, and containing eleven tracks (purposely listing the technical twelfth track "Way of the World" as a "bonus"), Adams' will play it on his "eleven dates, eleven cities" tour this year. Perhaps if this album had any merits worth mentioning I could view this as a clever little marketing ploy; instead, I just have visions in my head of music executives sat round a table going "this sounds just like his last five albums, what are we supposed to do with it?" The first three tracks are sweet, melodic laid-back little ditties far too similar to songs that most... Read review

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