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In Search of Sunrise Vol.7: Asia/Mixed By Tiesto

CD-Charts > Music > Pop
by: Tiesto

Release Date June 16, 2008
ISOS 5 was widely regarded as the classic - this is way better! Very instrumental, very light on the vocals, which is how I like my trance. CD 1 / CD 2... they're both stunners. The best trance I've heard in a long while.

CD-Charts Position 72
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Spirit

CD-Charts > Music > Pop
by: Leona Lewis

Release Date November 12, 2007
This album is beautiful and nearly every song has had me in tears. Leona sings her heart out in "Here I am", an ineffable ballad with terrific vocals from the songstress. "Footprints in the Sand" is a phenomenal ballad which makes me cry so much. "Better in Time" and "Yesterday" are adorable rnb tracks and "Take a Bow" is, WOW, no words can describe how terrific that track is. It's truly wonderful and needs to be a single. "Whatever it takes", "I'm you" and "Angel" have super backing music and as always Leona's voice is powerful. The only song I don't really like is "Homeless". I think the reason I don't like this song is because it sounds too much like Xtina Aguilera's "Hurt" which I think is a better song- no offence to Leona as she is wonderful. I also ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 73
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Backwoods Barbie

CD-Charts > Music > Pop
by: Dolly Parton

Release Date February 25, 2008
For the die-hard Dolly fans i'm sure this is a 5/5 all the way but for me, a 28 year old casual Dolly fan its not quite perfect.

The stand out tracks for me are definately the title-track Backwoods Barbie, Tracks of my Tears and I Will Forever hate Roses, which is classic Dolly Parton!

The rest are very good with the exception of two.

Jesus & Gravity is cringeworthy and I can't even listen to it all the way through and i'm surprised it made the album. Only Dreamin' is a very folksy song but very bland and again, i'm sure a lady of Dolly's talents has alot better than this.

The Lonesomes is a great little blues number and Cologne is another of the heart-string pulling songs which she does so well.

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CD-Charts Position 74
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Ministry of Sound Anthems

CD-Charts > Music > Pop
by: Various Artists

Release Date November 19, 2007
I buy dance compilations primarily to listen to good mixing between (good) tracks. The track selection on this package isn't awful, OK there are some tracks that perhaps shouldn't be there, but what annoys me slightly is the total lack of any careful mixing between tracks. Some transitions are as smooth as silk, whereas others are a simple fade down and fade up which all takes place in about 3 seconds, or just a crash edit, which I find defeats the point of buying an album such as this.

When will MOS return to letting actual named DJ's mix their output?

CD-Charts Position 75
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Hey Ma

CD-Charts > Music > Pop
by: James

Release Date April 07, 2008
When I first heard James was reuniting, my heart was being tugged on in two directions. I would love to hear James again, but I was expecting a half hearted attempt at rekindling the magic that made James such a good band in the first place. "Hey Ma" proves my doubts wrong, and then some.

"Bubbles" begins the album with a song about new life, describing Tim Booth's joy as a father. This song is reminiscent of Laid era work - uplifting, but atmospheric. While Eno isn't here to produce this album, his presence is still felt.

But the sound quickly shifts to jam-based anthemic rock that James successfully mastered with "Gold Mother" and "Laid." "Hey Ma" might be described as an optimistic protest song. Tunefully, it's a classic. In the chorus, ... Read More:

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@#%& Smilers

CD-Charts > Music > Pop
by: Aimee Mann

Release Date June 02, 2008
This is truly a must have album for any lover of well written music. Unlike previous albums, there is no theme running through this one which really makes each song carry more clout than individual extracts from albums like lost in space did.

Every song is superbly written as Mann boosts a vocabulary other song writers could only dream of. You know you're listening to a great songstress when you hear 'phoenix' rhymed with 'kleenex' and you don't cringe.

Every song is great in its own unique way though my highlights of the album would be 'Freeway' - the strongest start to an album i've heard for a long time, 31 Today - whose chorus you will seem to know instantly and be singing along with after the first verse, and Borrowing Time - which is just quirky enough ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 77
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High School Musical

CD-Charts > Music > Pop
by: Original Soundtrack

Release Date September 18, 2006
High School Musical is being talked about by teenager's everywhere, so I was determined to see what it was like. I asked someone I knew (who is obsessed with it) If I could borrow their copy of the soundtrack - And now I wish I hadn't. For staters the actual music is just over-used up beat dance tracks. With some weak mordern R and B thrown in. The things kicks of with a song entitled "Start of Something New". The song is merely just a badly written, horribly sang pop song. The vocals are very poor, there are signs of lack of emotion (in all the tracks). The second one, which is more of an R and B tune, is well irritating. The whole trainers squeeking in the back ground is simply annoying beyond beliefe. The "Gota getcha getcha getcha head in the game" just proves how weak and simplistic these ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 78
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Saints of Los Angeles

CD-Charts > Music > Pop
by: Motley Crue

Release Date June 30, 2008
This album is a real return to form for Crue - its pretty much faultless. It rocks like hell and the boys are on sparkling form - these guys have been around for nearly 30 years and can show many a younger band how to play. The material is uniformly excellent, there isn't a duff track here. Welcome back lads!!

CD-Charts Position 79
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An End Has A Start

CD-Charts > Music > Pop
by: Editors

Release Date June 25, 2007
I see less of comparison with Joy Division than with the also-rans of the 80s big overcoat scene such as The Chameleons though without their originality. For a few minutes the debut album offered something to people who might be missing JD, early Bunnymen and The Sound but with the second they merely come across as lightweight carbon copies of.. Interpol. But I guess at least they dont sound like all the rest of the current crop of tousle haired indie clones.

CD-Charts Position 80
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Lay It Down

CD-Charts > Music > Pop
by: Al Green

Release Date May 26, 2008
Since the first time I heard Al Green (on "Tired of Being Alone", around 1970) I have regarded him as the paramount Soul man, His partnership with Willie Mitchell in the 70's produced some of the most consistent and superb music of that or any other era, and which came to define Soul for many. Soul went out of fashion around the time Al "retired" to his Memphis church, and he has struggled to reach anything approaching those dizzy heights since his return to secular music.

He is not alone in that. Nor is it unique to hitch up with current star names. There have been many attempts by 60's and 70's artists to recreate their success, and the fact that only a few have pulled it off tells you that it takes more than an up to date who's who. What it does take is that those involved have respect - ... Read More: