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Sunny Side Up

Excellent, 2010-03-03
At 50 I thought my days of enjoying 'pop' music had long gone. So thanks to Paolo Nutini for giving me back some credibility with my son :-). The album is a varied mix of styles and one that keeps you interested throughout. Now, where did I leave my Ovaltine?

Lungs

Exciting, original and dark, 2010-03-04
I am a big fan of You Got The Love, so when I heard someone who clearly was not Candi Staton belting this out I was intrigued and bought the album on an impulse. I am very glad I did. At times Florence reminds me of Siouxsie Sue (another favourite) and she is a breath of fresh air in today's pop world - I agree with the reviewer's comments re a certain Mr S Cowell. Driving drums, at times juxtaposed with delicate harp, great lyrics and an underlying edge to many of the tracks makes for an involving experience, which draws the listener in, not quite sure what to expect next.

Glee: The Music, Volume 1

Fab album but I am a little confused!!, 2010-01-28
Having already bought this album and Vol 2 in a big chain music store I was suprosed to note that it doesn't get released until Feb??? The albulm however is fab and you do not need to be a fan of the show to appreciate the new versions of the album.

Forever Vienna

Forever Vienna, 2010-03-09
I bought this cd for my mum. She was thrilled with it. Would recommend this cd.

Brother

Great Album, 2010-03-09
Over the years I have started to really enjoy Boyzone's music especially the song "Love You Anyway" from their last cd, I thought that song was fantastic.

This new cd is very strong with some really good vocals.

I never knew Stephen Gately was called Steo but the boys tributes to him make very moving reading, it seems Steo had a great sense of humour and they miss the laughs they shared with him. I'm sure Steo would be very proud of this album and rightly so!

The Fame Monster

Pure Monster Dopness !!!, 2010-03-03
A year ago I downloaded it and on first listen I was not impressed. I thought half of the tracks were extremely catchy but the other half was second class fillers. 12 months on I know every tune by heart and I can proudly tick off seeing Monster Ball in London from my to do list. Actually I can't...cuz I'm definitely going again in May. Those track which I didn't love at first grew on me big time and now I probably listen to them more often than the single ones. All the new tracks are mindblowing and I'm sure Telephone will help her maintain #1 status on the chart and will prove to be just as popular as Bad Romance. Hits, hits, nothing but hits. Go buy..you know you want to!

The Element of Freedom

Impressive, 2010-03-02
Not my favourite music (am too old)but I was impressed enough by this album that i had to write a review. Great music; great vocals and outstanding production. Nothing else. Glad I found Alicia Keys for my record collection.

Sigh No More

Sigh No More - Mumford and Sons - Great Album!, 2010-03-07
I love the songs on this album. The band's passion for music shines through sincerly, and I can imagine that Mumford & Sons create an amazing atmosphere live. Excellent xx

American VI: Ain't No Grave

Man, Myth And Legend, 2010-02-24
Johnny Cash was part man, part myth and part legend and a Colossus who bestrode the roads of Americana, Country and Folk for half a century.

"American VI - Ain't No Grave" is Johnny's final studio album and the last in the Rick Rubin series that began, to great acclaim, in 1994 with American Recordings The tracks were recorded in 2004 during the same sessions that produced American V: A Hundred Highways. It was during these sessions that his wife, June Carter Cash, died. Despite this grievous loss, and the knowledge that he too was dying, he completed the content of both albums with a heightened sense of pain and sorrow and died three months later.

Johnny Cash was born February 26 1932 and so this release almost coincides with what would have been his 78th birthday.

When first they met Rick Rubin told Cash that he'd watched him on stage and that he'd lost none of his fire and passion. As these recordings show, even 10 years later, he was right. Morover, as JC wrote in his 1997 autobiography Cash: The Autobiography Rubin managed to capture the "honest, unadulterated essence" of Johnny Cash and never more so than on these final recording.

Cash was a deeply religious man and his readings of the traditional "Ain't No Grave" and his own "I Corinthians 15.55" based on the New Testament verse provide compelling insights into his convictions:

"Oh Death, where is thy sting? Oh grave, where is thy victory?"

Not even death was going to conquer his spirit, fire and passion.

Despite the many contradictions in his life, Johnny was also a passionate champion of social justice and so it is fitting that Sheryl Crow's "Redemption Day2 is included. I love the way he sings

"There is a train that's heading straight
To Heavens Gate, to Heaven's Gate"

and that's his love of the railroad coming through.

There are two odes to love lost. Kris Kristofferson's "For The Good Times" is a song of singular beauty but the reading by the gravely ill Cash is so poignant that I felt crushed by the emotion. If ever proof was needed that he was the master story teller, this is it.

"It Don't Hurt Anymore, all my teardrops have dried,
No more walking the floor, with that hurting inside.
Just to think it could be, time has opened the door
And at last I am free, it don't hurt anymore."

These are words sung with his customary dignity and grace and high on emotion, too.

"Aloha Oe, one fond embrace 'ere I depart, until we meet again".

And so, American VI ends the song cycle of his life as his 1955 Sun recordings began it, with a beguiling simplicity and a uniqueness of style that shone across 50 years without its essence diminished by time. This album should be Johnny Cash's final legacy. Sad, poignant and emotional yes, but this should also be a celebration of the life of The Man In Black. There is nothing more to be said.

Soldier of Love

Has Sade lost it in the intervening years?, 2010-03-07
Arrangements, so typically Sade, so superb, the production so spot-on and professional; Sade it would seem is back!

In away, it is perhaps a disappointment - one expects that Sade would not be able to produce a new CD as special and exceptional as Lover's Rock, her last album released in November 2000. But in Soldier of Love, Sade is able to reach back to those past days and bring back those haunting vocals and stirring arrangements that was her hallmark back in the 80's running into the noughties.

There is a familiarity that many will enjoy and recognise, yet there is still a new edginess in Soldier of Love that shows a new outlook or focus.

In summary, light a fire, pour yourselves a glass of good wine and sit and enjoy this new CD from Sade.

Yes, nearly thirty years on, Sade does manage to demonstrate that she still has what I takes, I Promise, despite Love Is Stronger Than Pride: E. Lynn Harris's New Novella Plus Four Novellas from Debut Authors, this Diamond Life Lovers Rock.

No The Best Of Sadehas not Lost it.

David Tucker