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Artist:
Kings of Leon
  this one is second best, 2008-10-04
this album is second best to because of the times for me, the first few albums were a bit to heavy for me while i love everybodys favs like molly's chambers and the bucket is the best song ever but because of the times was a unbeliveable album and finally put kol on the big stage were they truley deserve and it was on repeat all the time on my cd player, only by the night is a great album ,dont get me wrong ,but now i only listen to some of the songs rather than all of the songs on the previous one , i love this band and they get better all the time and cant wait to see them in liverpool in dec , still, buy the album you will enjoy it .
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Artist:
Duffy
Rockferry, the Welsh singer's lovingly constructed debut album, has already succeeded beyond expectations, and although Duffy may not quite be the ingénue portrayed by a clever press campaign (she nearly won a local television talent show a few years back while a single credited to Aimee Duffy is still available on iTunes) she is surely the most appealing of the current flood of young soul sirens. The astonishing title track, co-written by Bernard Butler, sounded like a lost transmission that had taken decades to get through as soon as it hit radio last year. But the gently rolling soul ballad "Stepping Stone", that strapping, inescapable monster hit "Mercy", the ice cool "Serious" (the one time she really does channel the spirit of Dusty Springfield) and the wistful, elegant "Warwick Avenue" are similarly effective. Suggestions by some that Rockferry is little more than sixties pastiche are churlish. Butler's previous work with David McAlmont (featured here as a backing singer) showed his skill at writing and arranging the dramatic, while her other collaborators such as Steve Booker and the team of Jimmy Hogarth and Eg White are hardly lightweights. But despite some wonderful orchestral settings, it's Duffy's terrific voice that makes this so satisfying, even overpowering Butler's exquisitely underplayed guitar work on "Rockferry" itself. Growling the blues on "Syrup & Honey" or belting it out over his lovingly arranged wall of sound on "Distant Dreamer", she sets the tone throughout, several of her songs dealing with escape, both physical and romantic. The sound of someone singing herself to stardom, Rockferry is at times genuinely amazing. Steve Jelbert
Ratings, 2008-09-11
Track 1. Rockferry
This is a really good song, seems boring at the begining but as it gets further into the song its alot better 10/10
Track 2. Warwick Avenue
Second sigle of the album a great song but not the best one of the album. Could be worse 8/10
Track 3. Serious
Another really good song on the album, she has the perfect voice for this song 10/10
Track 4. Stepping Stone
The third single of the album its a really good song but i found it abit slow for me but it is still a great song 9.5/10
Track 5. Syrup & Honey
Probably the worst song on the album.Its still a good song but i find that it is quite continous and doesnt have a corus, i dont really listen to this song very much becuse this song is not the kind of music that i like 6/10
Track 6. Hanging On Too Long
Another really good song. The first verse seems to drag on for abit but when the song actually kicks in it is a really good one. I would say that this is the best song on the album if you pay attention to it 10/10
Track 7. Mercy
The first songle of the album, at number 1 for 5 weeks, i do like this song but i dont think that it was good enough to be at number 1 for 5 weeks, its a really good song but not that good 9/10
Track 8. Delayed Devotion
One of the best songs on the album it has great verses and great lyrics and choruses and is a really catchy tune, i didnt like it at first but then i got usto it and now it is 1 of my favourites 10/10
Track 9. I'm Scared
I didnt like this one at first util i listened to the chorus and i started to like it and now i love it. It is another of the best songs on the album. 10/10
Track 10. Distant Dreamer
I didnt pay much attention to this song at the begining because it lasted 5 minutes and i thought that it was just a tune with no words but when i listened to it i thought it was great and still like it today 10/10
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Artist:
Glasvegas
Glasvegas are a four-piece from Glasgow - the latest band to be championed by industry mogul Alan McGee, the man that "discovered" Oasis. Despite the inevitable hyperbole that has followed McGee's proclamation of the band, Glasvegas more than deliver on their early promise with this eponymous debut album. The quartet already showcased their earthy wit and sonic ambitions on singles such as "Daddy's Gone," a heartfelt tale of soured father-son relations delivered in an uncompromising Glaswegian accent and set to a shimmering wall of rock & roll. Glasvegas continues in more or less the same vein. Singer James Allen reels off stories of everyday city life over euphonious, pop-edged soundtracks that blend 50s surf rock, layered, Phil Spector-esque production values and the occasional splash of 60s doo wop. Tracks like the arching "Flowers and Football Tops", the confessional "It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry" and the upbeat "Legs & Show" contrast with darker songs like "Stabbed" and "Go Square Go!". The band's down-to-earth worldview combined with their nostalgic sound and surging, sing-a-long choruses makes for a rich and enjoyable musical tapestry.
spector goes to castlemilk, 2008-10-03
Glasvegas relocates Phil Spector's Wall of Sound in proletarian Glasgow with no loss of relevance or power (it's about 10 times louder than the loudest bits on the latest Mogwai -- also recommended, by the way). I've given it 5 stars to compensate for some of the clots on this site who seem to have hankies blocking their ears and endorphin conductors. For a first album, this is mighty.
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Artist:
Seasick Steve
Authentic blues, 2008-10-01
I love blues music, all types new and old and I love this album.This is more in the style of the older bluesmen (compared to SV or Clapton type stuff). If you enjoy blues get this album,you won't regret it, yes it does sound like old delta blues and isn't a new style but so what, Steve is great at it and no-one else is doing anything like it at the moment,it may be an old style but it still sounds great and is played from the heart.
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Artist:
James Morrison
Another Cracker !, 2008-09-29
The usual problem with a brilliant first album is following it up with something that comes remotely close. Well, this one does more than that - I've not played it to death yet, but it could be even better that his debut ! Not heard a bad track yet, and this, like the debut, keeps popping up new favourites on each listen. The opener grabs you straight away, as does the duet with Nelly Furtado.
Knockout !
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Artist:
Metallica
beats st anger heads down , 2008-10-03
Death Magnetic beats St Anger for the fact that Kirk Hammets solos that where missing from such a maligned album have came back with a veagence on tracks like the day that never comes, judas kiss, Broken beat and scarred to name a few which are held together well by James Hatfield vocals and the thundering bass lines of Rob Trullio and the drumming of Lars Ulrich.
Which in all makes this a lot sweeter knowing they have beaten indie popper Glasvegas to the number one spot in the charts.
Welome Back.
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Artist:
Coldplay
To say there has been a lot of anticipation for Coldplay's fourth album, Viva La Vida, is an understatement. Having enlisted legendary leftfield producer Brian Eno, borrowed their album title from a painting by renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and made tantalising remarks about sonic reinvention, the world has been curious (to say the least) to hear what the `new' Coldplay might sound like. Viva La Vida definitely makes some departures from the band's usual formula, which happens to be one of the most commercially successful rock-pop blueprints of recent years. The plangent chords, emotive melodies, stadium-rock rhythms and universal lyrical concerns remain, but Martin and co. have gone out on several limbs here, incorporating instrumental tracks ("Life In Technicolour"), using subtle North African and Latin elements ("Yes", "Strawberry Swing"), and overhauling previously strict verse-chorus-verse structures in favour of slightly more avant arrangements. The old Coldplay still shine through (see tracks like "Violet Hill" and the title song) but even their classic sound feels more muscular and confident. The band's new flourishes, cosmetic and self-conscious as they may be, are enough to make Viva La Vida a welcome break from the old routine--Danny McKenna
Coldpay get better and better!, 2008-09-12
I thought X&Y would take some beating but I have to say, after listening to this album for months now, I still love it.
I thought Coldplay's first album Parachutes was dull, second a lot better and then X&Y was great. If like me, you don't rate their first album, then you will probably like this.
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Artist:
Cast Of Mamma Mia The Movie
Mamma Mia - exciting, feel good, glad to be alive sound track, 2008-08-21
Being a stout ABBA fan from their glory days after winning the Eurovision with Waterloo I tread carefully when being injected with any take-off of their music. However no reserve needs putting in place in my opinion as this just comes across as feel good Abba one hundred per cent. Obviously we're never going to get the vocal range that Abba had but for feel good, solid enjoyment, love of music, crowd appreciation, this delivers one hundred and ten per cent. Abba appeal to all generations and will never lose their appeal. Be surprised if you don't find yourself joining in as it's hard to resist! Was surprised at some of the tracks missing from the film following the stage show but ultimately Abba haven't made a bad record so wasn't too bothered.
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Artist:
Will Young
Still the original, still the best..., 2008-10-03
The most obvious thing that needs to be said here to begin with is that Will should be congratulated on managing to get so far in what's turned out to be a well deserved, fruitful career for the original Pop Idol winner from 2002. Few would have predicted six or seven years ago that the same man who was grudgingly hiding behind a cover of a Westlife album track for his first chart topping single would still be here, many years later, after three hit albums, stints in film and theatre, 4 UK #1's and a few BRITs for good measure, releasing his fourth studio LP, "Let It Go".
Having taken 18 months to record, the album is certainly Will's most introspective, perhaps even most personal album to date. And, when you listen through to the album, you get the distinct impression that topically, this is a concept album about the various stages of being in love, perhaps something we can all relate to at some point in our lives. "I Won't Give Up" seems to be about unrequited love, "Disconnected" tells of the happiness and buzz you feel at the start of a new relationship, whilst the album's hauntingly sung title track looks upon a lost love with a mixture of regret and finding the strength to move on.
Musically, this is also Will's most diverse album yet, whilst still staying true to the funk laden soul and jazz pop that he's known for. Indeed, not only do some of his regular writers appear again on this album - Richard Stannard (U2, Five), Karen Poole (Kylie, Sugababes) and Francis "Eg" White (the man behind his career defining #1 "Leave Right Now" from 2003), but there's also production appearances from dance pop titans the Freemasons to name but a few, that even push some of the material out in a more dance orientated direction, a direction that Will hinted may push him in the direction of a dance/chillout album sometime next year.
Until then though, "Let It Go" is the most enjoyable, well sung and well written and produced album of Will's career to date, and is very likely to be the one he's remembered for above all the others in a few years from now.
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Artist:
Elbow
There are few things in life quite so liberating as the opening track on an Elbow album--they're like airlocks between the plainness of the outside world and the elaborate melancholic heave-ho that you are likely about to submerge yourself in. Following predecessors "Any Day Now", "Ribcage" and "Station Approach", "Starlings" opens their fourth album The Seldom Seen Kid rising from a bed of tumbling electronic subtlety like a depressed Atari game loading up, adding bare touches of piano, glimpses of ambient guitar, out of body background vocals, an understated pulse and a wisp of strings, before--EXCELSIS!--a fanfare avalanche of horns crashes the gate and elevates things to gasping palatial heights, before Guy Garvey's inimitable gravel tone and wrenchingly poetic reinterpretations of the everyday announce their arrival proper. It's astonishing, by far the most progressive moment on the album and if anything it sets the bar too high. But even when the pace dips, and songs like "Mirrorball" and "Weather to Fly" don't distinguish themselves quite enough, their textural peerlessness remains. This is a beautiful sounding record. Their collaboration with Richard Hawley may be more of a curiosity than a thing of beauty, but the highs, the riffing cross-stitch of "Ground for Divorce", the desolate grandeur of "The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver" and the enlightened string-laden anthem "On a Day Like This" (like their own Sound of Music--only substitute the Alpine peaks for a Manchester high-rise) number amongst the best of their career. --James Berry
Marvellous, 2008-09-29
Elbow have been floating around on the edge of my musical world for some time now. An occasional track would appear on some free CD given away by a music magazine and I'd make a mental note to investigate them at some point in the future, but never did. Then I heard 'Grounds for Divorce' on another free CD and immediately looked to see who it was. So I bought the album. And it's absolutely superb, feeling like a 'complete' album, where every track fits into place. I can't see this being beaten as my favourite album of 2008.
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