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Artist:
Lemar
 He is a Super Star!, 2008-10-11
Without listening to this album, I can guarantee: This is going to be another best-seller! Lemar goes against the common R&B factory, where anybody with a sampler and a drum machine or a computer with good sound card; can make "music". Lemar writes, sings and interpret really well. He has got the voice and attitude! Good luck Lemar, keep up with the good work!!!
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Artist:
Vampire Weekend
Who would have thought it? Nobody, that's who. The last time African music enjoyed any meaningful dalliance with the Western mainstream it was under Paul Simon's patronage with his peerless 1986 album Graceland. That's if you don't count Damon Albarn's extra curricular indulgences (which you don't). The last place we expected it to turn up again was from four New York kids who otherwise might have been found fiddling with their fringes in dorm rooms waiting for the Albert Hammond Jr. tour to hit town. Even by the obscure standards US indie has set itself over the last few years (see TV on the Radio and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) Vampire Weekend offer up a witch's brew of audacity. That alone would be sufficient to garner infamy and a rep for experimentation, but they also hang from this rebellion of form a stream of alt-tunefulness so efficient and unabashed it would make The Strokes' first album blush. Thus, the piping reggae organ and sun-kissed swagger of "Oxford Comma" is given a heartbeat by tight lo-fi garage drums and "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" lilts along with cheerful tribal rhythms and crisp African guitar, bound by ascending psychedelic vocals. And that's not to mention the mad strings that make listening to "M79" like watching Ski Sunday on hallucinogens. Their advanced rhythmical awareness even makes more standard indie rampages "I Stand Corrected" and "Walcott" less standard. Which is about the length of it; Vampire Weekend, making the standard much less standard. --James Berry
Genius!, 2008-07-28
This album is absolutley brilliant! I love the lyrics! They are deep and perceptive and fun. The sound is infectious and life loving! Buy this album it will brighten up your day whenever you listen to it! And if you want to listen closer it will provoke you to imagine more fully the parts of stories it tells!!
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Artist:
Various Artists
Great!!!!!!!, 2008-10-29
This CD is fantastic, I bought it straight after going to watch the film at the cinema and the songs were still as good as they were in the movie, my fave songs are want it all and now or never.
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Artist:
Abba
Anyone looking for the key to ABBA's enduring appeal should look no further than "Voulez Vous" and "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" for their answer. There was an innocence to the Swedish quartet, even when they were singing about one-night stands and the invitations to them. Gold establishes that the band, while appreciated as campy, were actually multifaceted in their execution. "S.O.S." has a raw urgency in its chorus, and "Does Your Mother Know" draws its energy from classic 1950s rock & roll. Likewise, you don't have to be Priscilla to swoon over "Mamma Mia" or "Dancing Queen". And when it comes to drama, those soaring vocals on "The Winner Takes It All" turn the song into a bitter anthem of every relationship that has ever fallen apart. The much-covered "Lay All Your Love on Me" is practically epic. --Steve Gdula
ABBA song fest, 2007-10-04
when ABBA burst onto the scene in 1974 winning the eurovision song contest with 'Waterloo' the world was never going to be the same. some 33 years later, the world is still enthralled by them, spawning a highly succesful musical 'mamma mia' in the west end.
This CD includes all of their best known hits. 'Dancing queen' 'Take a chance on me' 'the name of the game' 'One of us' 'The winner takes it all'
'Thank you for the music' being just some of their major hits that make it onto this greatest hits album.
I was two years old when 'Dancing queen' came out in 1976, Just goes to prove, with quality music like this, the world never forgets.
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![The Sound of the Smiths: Deluxe Edition [2CD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zrwLjBCSL._SL160_.jpg "The Sound of the Smiths: Deluxe Edition [2CD]")
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Artist:
The Smiths
Keeps the joy of being a Smiths fan alive, 2008-11-08
The best thing about being into the smiths is hunting down a copy of the Draize Train studio version and finally buying it. Whether its on some foreign 12" b side or some beautifully produced bootleg (silver CD & factory pressed of course) it doesn't matter - just as long as you don't cheat and download it. So many longed for songs are a dissapointment when you finally get them but the Draize train gets a little better every time you listen to it.
To that end, this is the perfect Smiths compilation, and I dread the day when one finally does include the Draize train and robs us all of the satisfaction of listening to a true rarity.
Record company compilations like this are everything the smiths weren't. On pop and rock terms, musically superior to all before and after. Can amazon do a special 6 star score please.
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Artist:
The Verve
Warning: the Verve’s wittily titled fourth album--the first since their reformation in 2007--is no Urban Hymns Part II. That much is clear from the album’s first single "Love Is Noise," a punchy-yet-addictive propulsive rocker, but it’s a fact underlined several times on the remainder of the album. Taking a determined stroll along the boulevard of experimentalism, the band mix up their slick strings and ringing guitars with dense drums and murky soundscapes for this comeback album. Opening cut “Sit and Wonder” sets the tone: a lurching, bluesy tune with a loose, jam-session feel that maintains its groove for almost seven minutes. The soaring (and shorter) “Rather Be,” the dreamy “Judas” and the plodding “I See Houses” bring us closer to the classic Verve sound, but the retreat into moody psychedelia continues anew with “Numbness,” the intense “Noise Epic” and the kaleidoscopic, Can-like “Colombo”. Despite these darker moments being indulgently drawn-out at times they serve to raise the more euphonious moments--surprise anthems like “Valium Skies” included--to even more heavenly realms, and create a compelling chiaroscuro along the way. --Danny McKenna
Don't listen to the haters, 2008-10-06
As a Verve fan I've listened to the album over & over again on my work PC & in my Car and I rate it highly!
Stand out songs for me are 'Numbness', 'Noise Epic' & my personal favourite 'Columbo'.
Great Album.....Buy it!
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Artist:
Various Artists
Brilliant!, 2008-01-02
If you were a teenage girl in the seventies, then this album is for you.
All the old favourites are on it, and they are guaranteed to bring back memories and make you feel nostalgic.
Were you in love with Donny or David? Whichever one, there is a little surprise in with the discs for you too.
This is the best album I've bought for ages, and one I will keep for ever because of the emotions the songs evoke.
Great stuff!
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Artist:
Lesley Garrett
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Artist:
Various Artists
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![Viva La Vida: Prospekt's March [Deluxe 2 x CD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31EM3DrwnSL._SL160_.jpg "Viva La Vida: Prospekt's March [Deluxe 2 x CD]")
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Artist:
Coldplay
What's this? New Coldplay material so soon after the release of Viva La Vida? In fact, Prospekt's March is a collection of songs that were chiefly intended for the band's fourth album but which didn't get finished before the deadline. There are eight tracks in total, some new, some new-ish and a couple of re-workings of older material. Amongst the re-imaginings is a largely decorative Osaka Sun mix of "Lovers in Japan" and a version of "Lost" that includes an unlikely guest vocalist in the shape Jay-Z--incredibly, it seems to work. Of the new material, the piano interlude "Postcards from Far Away" is the shortest and most coruscating work, while "Life in Technicolor (II)" is larger but slightly less successful, adding only cursory elements to its predecessor on Viva La Vida. More alluring are the gigantic "Glass of Water", the experimental "Rainy Day" and the beautifully melancholy "Prospekt's March/Poppy Fields". A mixed bag then, but one that's generally more enjoyable than not. --Danny McKenna
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