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Advantages: Great songs
Disadvantages: Not as good as her following albums.

...she released her debut album Thankful the following April after the album's release was put back from November 2002. She is the biggest star of American Idol so far and has won many awards since the American Idol show. I remember thinking when I watched the show that She would be a very big star someday. **Breakaway** On her debut album Thankful she came out with a variety of different tracks but the thing they have in common is that they all have ...
...her best album but without Thankful there may never have been Breakaway and My December. As debut albums go this is one of the best from the pop genre in this decade so far. Her voice has come on even more and she seems to be able to sing with any type of music. Also posted on dooyoo as Lakerfanster ... Read review

Advantages: You won't get bored of it
Disadvantages: Could come out with more songs

Guess what? Summer's here!! And its time to P A R T Y!! Well don't just stop there and think whats it gonna be like....if you care enough to shake a leg with your partner and bring back those memories of allsuch summers together... then you have it. Your wish has been fulfilled because you have all those tunes packed as a collection of this wonderful Cd set. You want it you got it dance beats...reggae ..Pop and the right rhythm. You really won't ... Read review

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...is why I love Madonna's Immaculate Collection album so much, which was released in November 1990, and was a compilation of some of the best tracks that she had produced over the 7 years of her career to date. Track Listing Holiday Lucky Star Borderline Like A Virgin Material Girl Crazy For You Into The Groove Live To Tell Papa Don't Preach Open Your Heart La Isla Bonita Like A Prayer Express Yourself CHerish Vogue Justify My Love ...
...order of hits and shows her talent and the way that she develops as the album progresses. Starting off as a young girl and then slowly the tracks starts to get a litle more raunchy and also you start to see her mature as she gets older. I have a lot of favourite tracks on this album, Crazy For You has got to be one of my all time favourites though, a ballad in which Madonna sings extremely, shows how talented she is, and the lyrics I find are absolutely ... Read review

Advantages: Sumptuous sound, great production, typically offbeat
Disadvantages: An overdone electro beat, corny in places

The Summer of 1982 was a time of new beginnings for the Stranglers. Earlier that year they had parted company with EMI - an association that had lasted six years and produced six studio albums - and had signed with CBS / Epic in a deal that had excited everyone involved. Even better was the fact that their last EMI release, La Folie (Nov 81), had been an unexpected triumph, breaking into the top 5 in the UK Album Chart and producing a huge hit ...
...fellow hit, Strange Little Girl, had introduced the band to a whole new market. Many, perhaps most, who had bought those singles were unaware of the band's past. They knew nothing of Burning Up Time, Nice and Sleazy or Death and Night and Blood. They were interested in a softer sound, an 80s sound, sophisticated and mellow; and as this was a new beginning for the band, with opportunities aplenty provided by an indulgent new record-company, ... Read review

Advantages: Experimentation/ Some more Classic singles
Disadvantages: Song structures/ Politics/Religion overload/ Indulgency

Coldplay, longtime favourite of mine and absent since 'X&Y' in 2005, returned last month with the release of their fourth studio album 'Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends'. Three albums have gone before, 'Parachutes' in 2000 'A Rush of Blood to The Head' in 2003 and 'X&Y' in 2005, all three recieving critical acclaim and awards. So theres a lot to live up to. Production was started as early as December 2006 although a break ensued in early ...
...Brian Eno and Markus Dravs were the men Chris Martin turned to for this album. And since it has been stated publically that the group were going to travel in new directions and use less of Martin's falsetto this decision was going to very important in getting it right, making sure it balanced with previous material, it was even rumoured the band would be collaborating with Timbaland - a million miles away from Coldplay we all know and love. So I ... Read review