Your Special Gift - Anthony Campbell

Advantages: Excellent music and songs, a truly great album
Disadvantages: none at all.

...Meyers (Time Out Of Mind present) added for some organ: Bob Dylan - Vocals, Guitar, Piano. Larry Campbell - Guitar, Violin, Banjo, Mandolin. Charlie Sexton - Guitar. Tony Garnier - Bass. David Kemper - Drums. Augie Meyers - Vox Organ, B3, Accordion. Discussion amongst Dylan fans suggests that the current touring band is one of the best he's had, certainly in recent years. And though they have no need to prove to us that they are all exceptionally gifted musicians they do prove it by not putting a note wrong and sounding so fine. Apparently they laid down the album at around the time Bob's 60th birthday was pasted across the world's magazines. All those articles were written almost in obituary form, so it makes the idea that at the same time Bob was actually in full swing in the studio that bit more romantic. ~~*~~The Music... Read review

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Advantages: Fun, Racy Tracks
Disadvantages: Songs aren't labeled by which band wrote them.

...-Too Much Too Young' which instantly hit number one in the UK. After their well known song ' Ghost Town' hit number one in 1981 Neville Staples, Lynval Golding and Terry Hall left the band and Stan Campbell joined. In the 1980's Lynval Golding, Neville Staples and Terry Hall formed the band 'Fun Boy Three' they wrote hits such as 'Our Lips Are Sealed and The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum' which are both on the album tracks 12 and 15. The specials songs have a funky , fast and fun beat and all use the trumpet and trombone whereas the Fun Boy Three sonds are more slow and dancy which gives the album a good range of genre. What Songs Are On The Album? 1. our lips are sealed 2. Man at C&A 3. A Message To You Rudy 4. Rude Boys Outa Jail 5. Leave It Out 6. You're Wondering Now 7. Running Away 8. Ghost Town... Read review

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Advantages: Emotional post-grunge rock music very competently done
Disadvantages: No one ever heard them so they disappeared after album two

...It was around 1999 that I really started getting into a much wider range of music. Prior to that I'd graduated from my parents' likes and children's music to Nirvana, silverchair, Foo Fighters, etc but it was then that I started buying magazines, going to gigs and exposing myself to a lot more alternative artists. So it was I came to hear of Liberty 37 - though when I went on a week's geography fieldtrip in Swansea that summer, I'd barely have been able to miss the masses of fly-posters anyway. A four-piece from the South Wales area, Liberty 37 consisted of Ishmael Lewis (vocals - who metal fans may have heard guesting on earthtone9's 'Yellow Fever'), Tim Batcup (guitar), Andrew Watkins (bass) and Cliff Harris (drums). The Greatest Gift was their debut album, and though it was followed by The God Machine in 2002 they have, to my... Read review

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