Young Blood - Elvin Jones

Advantages: Big hits
Disadvantages: Repetitive

...this. It is one of the best tracks from the album and you can hear that some parts of it seem empty, so he repeats lines, this isn't really for this version, its main purpose is to improve the screwed and chopped variation. 6. Scandalous Hoes (feat. Lil' Bran) **Three Stars** This one has a different tone to the other songs on the album, this one is about women but in a different way as its a love song style, but the content is far from this. I don't see how this one fits into a screwed and chopped style, because its more R&B-orientated. This music form shouldn't be altered with as they are all about the singing quality of the singers and not just rapping, which is a skill, but is very different to it. Mike Jones tells us how he has been warned since he was young about women and how they can front when they are with men... Read review

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Advantages: Hurricane emerges as Grace Jones most compelling recording project
Disadvantages: None that springs to mind

...My Life (1982), Grace had been teamed with those two renowned Reggae wizards: Slyn Dunbar and Robbie Shakespere. They were the classic Compass Point Sessions. So, if anything, buying this brand new CD by Grace Jones was largely out of curiosity. I was immediately delighted to see Grace had hooked back up with Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakepere for Hurricane. From the opening track, i knew this album was going to be RED HOT and a WINNER! This was not least backed up some of the critics reviews that have been unanimous in their praise for Hurricane, many correctly stating that this was a significant comeback for Grace Jones. Hurricane(2008) is a deep, reflective, often spiritual piece of work by the legendary Grace Jones. On tracks such as Williams Blood and I'm Crying (Mothers Tears) the songs are almost autobiographical. The profound... Read review

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Advantages: Some of the tracks ignite
Disadvantages: Others are too dated

...onto the club scene where she had enjoyed immense success in the late 1970's. Opening the album is the funk-driven dance number Driving Satisfaction which comes complete with swirling, synthesised effects and a vastly seductive, sexually charged performance from the ever-weird Grace Jones. Driving Satisfaction becomes almost contagious after a couple of listens and emerges as one of the better tracks to be found scattered on Bulletproof Heart. With the jamming affair of Driving Satisfaction, you would think the album would get better from here on but the whole project is something of a mixed affair with some highs and some lows. Another anthem written by Jones and Chris Stanley, Kicked Around, features a ferocious, red-blooded Jones in sado-massachist (and even more freaky than usual) mode as she scowls through this tale of self... Read review

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