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Rockferry

CD-Charts > Music > Soul
by: Duffy

Release Date March 03, 2008
I don't think she's got a good voice at all, she squawks lazily like a doped up duck. Why doesn't she just try singing instead of warbling?

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Year Of The Gentleman

CD-Charts > Music > Soul
by: Ne-Yo

Release Date September 15, 2008
This has to be one of the best albums I have bought in a long time. Every track is good usually there is always a couple of songs that don't do it for you but every track is great.

This is my first Neyo CD but not the last.

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CD-Charts > Music > Soul
by: Adele

Release Date January 28, 2008
Having now heard her album, to compare her to Lily Allen is a travesty. Adele is far better, her smooth voice and song writing skill for starters...

And whilst we're on the subject of comparisons, there's only one similarity to Amy Winehouse - and that is I love both of their albums, when my expectations were low.

Daydreamer: A chilled, melodic start to her debut album, but on first listen you kinda want to skip it to speed up your new listening experience. This is definitely one of those tracks you have to listen to a few times. Vocally she is very good.

Best For Last: Sounds quite bluesy, simple yet effective guitar backing throughout the beginning. Then the song gets going, catchy, warming and just simply easy to listen ... Read More:

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Exclusive: the Forever Edition

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by: Chris Brown

Release Date June 23, 2008
This is rnb at its worse..bland style hip hop/rnb beats over a good singers voice..the boy can sing for sure but apart from "take you down" and "with you" the quality control on this album is appalingly bad. i was actually listening to some 70's and 80's rnb today and it reminded me of how bad some modern soul/rnb is these days..theres no melody or musicality to most of the tracks. With you is a great track though but this isnt great at all.

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The Alesha Show

CD-Charts > Music > Soul
by: Alesha Dixon

Release Date November 24, 2008
This album is great. The Boy Does nothing was a brilliant first single but there are plenty of potential singles on this album. Definatley worth buying this album - Alesha at her best.

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Good Girl Gone Bad (New Version)

CD-Charts > Music > Soul
by: Rihanna

Release Date June 02, 2008
it wasn't until Disturbia and Take A Bow that i became a fan of this smashing R n B star....and i saw this album for a great pice and i got it.
Umbrella was an awesome lead single but it didn't persuade me to buy the album the first time round.
but now this release was out...i had to get it....and my gosh is it an amazing album.
it's the equivalent of Michael Jacksons' THRILLER album...amazing stuff.
Madonna did it with Like A Prayer....now Rihanna the r n b equivalent has done it...and made it entirely personal and extremely enjoyable.
while Britney Spears CIRCUS is gonna knock it off the top spot as the album of 2008(i'm sure it may do so as Womanizer is spectacular)...for now Good Girl Gone Bad is definately the album of the year just matched ... Read More:

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Rockferry (Deluxe)

CD-Charts > Music > Soul
by: Duffy

Release Date November 24, 2008
Seven new Duffy tracks are worth their weight in gold as far as I'm concerned. At the same time she wrote 50 songs for the Rockferry album and it wouldn't have hurt the record company to include some of the extra tracks that have only appeared on vinyl 'Save it for your prayers' or 'Smoke without Fire' for example.

The tracks that appear here include two Duffy didn't write 'Oh Boy' and 'Enough Love' - these are the Richard Parfitt penned demos that brought Duffy to Jeanette Lee's attention back in 2004. 'Please Stay' is a Bacharach/David song used in the forthcoming Joe Meek film Telstar, complete with outer-space and bathroom sounds which only make sense if you've seen the film. They distract a little from Duffy's staggering vocals, but only a little.

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The Ballads

CD-Charts > Music > Soul
by: Mariah Carey

Release Date October 20, 2008
...the record company left a few other underrated gems like "Never Too Far" which was the second single from "Glitter" and many more from her previous catalogues.
I think the proper title should be "the incomplete ballads" or "evil marketing-ploy for stocking filler ballads" since Christmas is just around the corner. What a pity. Still a great collection but not an excellent one.

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The Definitive Collection

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by: Stevie Wonder

Release Date November 28, 2005
This is probably the best compilation album of Stevie's work and that's great but I urge you all to use this as a taster of his work, there is lots of it and if you buy anything before 1980 you will love it if you like this. Unfortunately he's done nothing of real note after the 1970's and that was where his key work was done. The trilogy of talking book, innvervisions and Songs in the key of life are treasures to be explored in their won right and you should all do so, personally although songs in the key of life is seen as his masterpiece it was a double album brain dump of everything he was working on and contains material that is weaker than the shorter talking book and innvervisions, with Innvervisions representing his finest (non compilation) album in my opinion, with perhaps Living for ... Read More:

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The Reason

CD-Charts > Music > Soul
by: Lemar

Release Date November 24, 2008
Since his great debut album Dedicated i found his last 2 albums (with the exception of the lead singles) disappointing with many fillers. Not quite knowing what to expect with his latest release The Reason......I have to say its his best work to date. From start to finish its a great listen. Absolute quality! Every song is a winner.....Over You has to be a single!!