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Advantages: Some top songs
Disadvantages: Moments where the quality control falters

...see the release of 'The Curse of Blondie', taking its name from the various disasters and court-room dramas that are following the band around these days. And the album itself? Yikes, it's not very good. As with 'No Exit', the quality control seems to let Blondie down. Blondie seem to have this uncanny knack for writing some fantastic songs and then sitting them next to really dire, uninspired material on the albums. This was painfully evident on ...
...The fact that 'The Curse of Blondie' didn't even muster a release in the New Yorker's home country suggests that the band is now nearing its revised expiration date. Also, the fact that Debbie Harry will be 60 this year (while the rest of the band sport middle-age spreads befitting men in their early 50's) signals that the band can't go on for much longer. Thankfully, it will be on Blondie's 70's and 80's output that they will be judged, proving ... Read review

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Disadvantages: none

Hello and welcome to the review that should have been here. It was here but its not here now as I have taken it and put it into my private stash somewhere else. It may well appear somewhere else online and if it does it will have my name on it. Thank you to everyone, to all the people in my COT over the years who have stuck by me and who have been great influences over the reviews I have written. It is indeed a sad case that reviewers have to come ...
...sense at all when the original content should be listed and frankly because of endless problems with Ciao I no longer have the time and energy to carry on. Each time I tried, it didn't work. Each message I sent to other members, they didn't appear. Each rate I applied, it didn't show. So that's the end of it. Ty for reading. ... Read review

Advantages: An interesting new studio album from a band with a strong pedigree
Disadvantages: A few duds. Takes time to appreciate

...internet address is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006LHXF/qid=1064588869/sr=8-1/ref=sr81/002-5022523-6298464?v=glance&s=music&n=507846 Loose Screw – THE PRETENDERS (2003) Eagle EAGCD256 £10.99 Amazon [POSTSCRIPT: I'm always intrigued by the choice of title artists give their albums. It is perhaps unfortunate that there is a current DVD release "of a certain kind" with the same name. This does rather clutter up (and confuse) ... Read review

Advantages: Amazing songs
Disadvantages: A few covers

I wasn't sure about buying this CD at first as I thought it would just be a collection of songs that weren't good enough to be put on the proper ablums. But after hearing one or two of the songs I soon realised that they were just as good as some of the songs on Hot Fuss and Sam's Town. As soon as I bought this Cd I started to fall in love with the rythems and lyrics, many of the songs I believe could have easily been accepted onto the original albums. ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliant, Cute, Poppy Lyrics & Catchy Melodies.
Disadvantages: Reworked tracks sounded better on EP

After being featured in the Rolling Stones Top 10 for 2008, and the BBC's Ones To Watch list, Black Kids album was deffinatly one i was looking out for, and when i finally got round to buying and listening to the album, i was not disapointed! Carrying over tracks from the EP such as "Hit the Heartbrakes", "Hurricane Jane", "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend...", and "I've Underestimated My Charm", already sets off the album to a great start with ...
...felt were good enough to live up to the hype surrounding the first EP. Regardless, i would say this is a album well worth owning, sing and dance along tracks like the fantastic single "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend", aren't going to change your life, or make you want to get up off your sofa and make a difference, but this album will make you smile, dance, and set your day of to a great start. Deffinaty one of this years summer anthems. ... Read review