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Beautiful Future

CD-Charts > Music > Pop Rock
by: Primal Scream

Release Date July 21, 2008
Absolutely have to agree with Mark Astons review here over the missing-middle-eight-repetitiveness of this album. At first listen it sounds like a glorious sugar coated update of the Screams first album, "Sonic Flower Groove", with "Beautiful Future" and the "Glory of Love "(in both forms) particularly brilliant in a second-summer-of-pop type way. "Uptown" is good in the same way that "Trainspotting" and "Screamadelica" (the track not the album) were, and cover "Over & Over" is another Broken Bobby (TM) version of "Damaged". But it's true, all these songs sound unfinished and either repeat themselves adnausium in some sick loop after about 20 seconds, or else take the cursed fade out route at the end. Criminal stuff because this could have ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 72
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Abba Gold Vol.2: More Abba Hits

CD-Charts > Music > Pop Rock
by: Abba

Release Date August 25, 2008
i dont think the content overall needs to be reviewed, its all classic abba and can all be found elsewhere EXCEPT for I AM THE CITY, this track is still ,as far as i know, not available anywhere else except on this album,(im not counting the COMPLETE STUDIO RECORDINGS box set,the purchase of which may necessitate a small mortgage) and i cant believe no other review has mentioned this. If you@re a fan , its the main reason to buy this album,and if your collecting all abba's recordings,it makes this essential. oh, and if you havent heard it the track is great, not one of their moving and meaningful ones but its fun,hypnotic and sparkly,;incredible arrangement and production, -i know thats kind of a given for abba- but - much more so than, for example something ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 73
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The Lost Boys

CD-Charts > Music > Pop Rock
by: Various Artists

Release Date February 20, 1989
This is the perfect soundtrack for the movie, though not necessarily a great soundtrack, if that makes sense!! A lot of thought went into the selection of tracks, with obvious numbers such as 'don't let the sun go down on me' and 'people are strange', and great tracks such as 'cry little sister'. The album has a nice, gothic feel to it. That said, take it away from its context to the movie, I'm not sure its something a casual listener would get into.
Personally, I like the film, so I like the soundtrack. Watch the film first, then you can decide.....

CD-Charts Position 74
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For Your Pleasure

CD-Charts > Music > Pop Rock
by: Roxy Music

Release Date September 13, 1999
In the midst of reading the Eno biography "On Some Faraway Beach" -about page 120 if you are pedantic - i came to the section where the narrative deals with Roxy Music,s 1973 album For Your Pleasure. Described as a "gruelling and disquieting experience|" by Charles Shaar Murray on its release ( that was a compliment) Roxy,s second album is easily the best of their career melding Bryan Ferry,s art rock styling's with Brian Eno,s sonic sculptures and dissonant tweaks.
The Roxy line up at that time had the classic elements of Ferry , Andrew Mackay and Phil Manzanera along with the soon to depart Eno , bassist John Porter-who would soon depart also, Roxy going through bassist ,s like Spinal Tap through drummers and Paul Thompson on drums. The band were able to revel ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 75
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Who's Next

CD-Charts > Music > Pop Rock
by: The Who

Release Date December 06, 1999
how come none of you people are ostracizing this guy? oh wait....he was only studying, not looking for pleasure! or maybe its got something to do with his 100million fortune swaying the case? poor old gary. anyway - the music. its ok. a bit over-rated. the who never really were the leaders of the gang, know what i mean?

CD-Charts Position 76
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Revolver

CD-Charts > Music > Pop Rock
by: The Beatles

Release Date November 01, 1998
Nowadays critical consensus often ranks this as The Beatles' best album, and indeed one of the best albums ever made. While it's only my second favourite by them personally (The White Album being first), this is still one of the greatest albums I own.

Revolver is the point where The Beatles ceased to be a pop group and became something else entirely. Shortly after its release they gave up touring, having tired of performing to screaming fans when they'd much rather be holed away in a recording studio making new music. This also allowed them to be more experimental, recording sounds that could never have been recreated in stadiums and arenas at the time. Importantly they had all begun to experiment with drugs as well, witnessed by some of the songs here: She Said She Said ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 77
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1962-1966 : The Red Album

CD-Charts > Music > Pop Rock
by: The Beatles

Release Date October 05, 1993
amazeing the beatles love them always will buy this and the blue album the beatles are given justice with the 2cd box sets red/blue box sets amazeing the beatles are the best artists of the 20th century along side elvis presley,frank sinatra frank sinatra started it all the the king elvis presley then our own brittish fab four beatles forever buy them you wont regret it!! and of course revolver,rubber soul,sgt peppers,the white album,abbey road&yellow submarine essential stuff!!

CD-Charts Position 78
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

CD-Charts > Music > Pop Rock
by: The Beatles

Release Date June 01, 1992
I don't know why I think that this is the best album by the best band that ever was. I may as well admit that the Beatles are my favourite band, but it's not like every single song here is a solid gold classic. "Revolver" has more really great songs than "Pepper", so why does "Revolver" just feel like a great album while "Pepper" feels like a great album that is also a major work of art?

It has something to do with the idea, something to do with the sequencing, something to do with the spirit of the whole thing. "Revolver", like most of the Beatles' albums, was put together as one album like any other, with everyone throwing in their best songs. "Pepper" was conceived as an experiment, with the most famous band in the world pretending to be some unknown bunch of guys dressed ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 79
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You've Got A Friend: The Best Of James Taylor

CD-Charts > Music > Pop Rock
by: James Taylor

Release Date April 02, 2007
This is a great album; as soon I listened to the first song I was hooked on this man, I listened to this cd for a month non-stop; his voice has something in it which I could never tire of hearing again and again; every song on here is a gem; Steamroller and Mexico spring to mind as two of the best on this cd; an utter joy to listen to anytime of the day.

CD-Charts Position 80
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The Best of Talking Heads

CD-Charts > Music > Pop Rock
by: Talking Heads

Release Date October 18, 2004
I am not a massive Talking Heads fan, but I love 'Remain in Light' and got this Best-of as well to sample all of their other albums at once. However, I am suspicious that this is not a truely representative selection because the three songs from 'Remain in Light' have been so poorly selected. Surely 'Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)' and 'Crosseyed And Painless' - absolutely monster tracks - should have taken precedence over the comparatively low-key 'Houses in Motion' and 'This Must be the Place'. Of course, 'Once in a Lifetime' is a shoe-in and appears here in all its glory. Nevertheless, it is poor decisions like this that can make a novice survey the career of a great band and say 'What was all the fuss about?'