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Ladies and Gentlemen EA by dopejunkie Pros: Some sick concepts, skilled rhyming/scratching, Guest appearance, Production to a tee
Cons: Not as good as previous works, Flawed delivery, Interludes, 10/16/10 Hello guys. I am here again with another review. This one comes from the Rhymesayers camp. This includes Atmosphere, Brother Ali, Aesop Rock, etc. The artists are Eyedea & Abilities giving you E&A which dropped in 04. I had never ...
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Apr 08 '13 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Casting Crowns Goes Acoustic on Some Classic Songs by carstairs38 Pros: Eight great songs get new arrangements
Cons: Two new tracks are weak For the last several years, the acoustic release seems to have become the trend for best of releases. After all, it is something new enough to entice long time fans to buy the disc. Yet all the best (read radio) songs are included, so the ...
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Apr 08 '13 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Christy Moore's 38 minute Folk Tale... by knotheadusc Pros: May make you want to visit Ireland. Enchanting ballads. Soothing.
Cons: Imported CD. A bit short. Requires concentration. I was first introduced to Irish folk singer Christy Moore back in 1996, when a friend from Belfast sent me a mix tape with Moore's awesome cover of "Fairytale of New York" on it. Over the years, I've collected a few more of Moore's albums. An ...
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Apr 08 '13 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Somewhere between Havana and New Orleans... and Tucson, and Cozumel, and Mexico City... by divad23 Pros: More cohesive than the last album; the Latin/Caribbean influences are delicious.
Cons: Voc als and some instrumental parts are a bit too hushed/subtle for their own good. There are few bands who embody the term "sleeper hit" better than Calexico. There's a pervasive subtlety to their slightly jazzy, strongly Latin-influenced, and unmistakably Southwestern brand of indie folk. Many of their songs have layers of ...
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Apr 08 '13 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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"We become what we despise." - New Model Army's Today is a Good Day by teamfreak16 Pros: It's New Model Army - they've yet to put out a bad album
Cons: None - a very solid four star album Protest singers really hit their stride during the Vietnam War era, and over the years, many acts followed them down that defiant path. The 1980’s, in particular, saw an influx of protest acts, especially from Great Britain. Singers and bands with ...
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Apr 07 '13 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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A Second Helping of Jangly, Noisy Pop with My Bloody Valentine's GEEK! EP by xxxxer While they're primarily known today for their pioneering and highly influential album Loveless ...
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Apr 07 '13 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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The Breaking Dawn Part 2 Soundtrack Is Bittersweet... by donkee Pros: A few really good songs, nice to see selections from new/previously undiscovered artists...
Cons: ...album is too ballad-heavy, several forgettable songs, that Green Day track sucks. I think at this point in time, I don’t really need to tell anyone that the Twilight movies aren't the highest quality film series around. The movies have been notoriously panned for the weak scripts, poor acting, and subpar ...
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Apr 07 '13 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Crystal Castles's Best yet Worse Album : CRYSTAL CASTLES III by xxxxer Pros: Glass's vocals; great dance rhythms; album finale is particularly superb
Cons: Overused organ lines; disc seems less positively unique than previous releases Upon reviewing Canadian electronic duo Crystal Castles's sophomore full-length release, I declared that I hoped the band would change up their basic, glitchy electro sound in the future or be destined to sound too "samey" for me to really get into any ...
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Apr 06 '13 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Bon Jovi Bounce back on the scene. Album review by marksam91 Pros: *Some decent rock tracks
Cons: *Disjointed Bon Jovi have always been a band that has split the audience, many love the band but quite a bit have expressed their hate for them also. During the 80s, Bon Jovi was THE hair metal band. ‘Slippery When Wet’ and ‘New Jersey’ were ...
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Apr 06 '13 |
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Tift's TRAVELING ALONE: One Of The Best Albums Of 2012 by ecn71270 Pros: Tift's intelligent songwriting and breezy voice; solid Americana backing.
Cons: None really. TRAVELING ALONE—Tift Merritt In a music world teeming with overripe divas who think that every note they sing is a money note of some kind, who have taken their cues from American Idol, or who coast largely on looks but have no ...
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Apr 05 '13 |
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Blv in Nthng and Lstn to TRST by xxxxer Pros: Unique vocals, great melodies and rhythms and a captivating sinister feel throughout
Cons: I could see how some people wouldn't like Trust's sound Occupying the dark end of the indie electro-pop spectrum, Canadian band Trust drew recognition on the strength of a pair of singles before dropping their debut album TRST in early 2012. With new internet-friendly genres of indie electro ...
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Apr 05 '13 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Get Tangled Up In This Wonderful Soundtrack by donkee Pros: Great traditional-sounding Disney songs composed by Alan Menken, Mandy Moore is the perfect princess...
Cons: None! (read review) I haven’t actively followed most of the Disney movies since I was a kid. Part of the reason was that as I turned eleven or twelve, it was really uncool to be watching cartoon musical movies, and I didn’t want my friends to make of fun ...
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Apr 05 '13 |
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Death Metal Legends: Death Metal? Yes! Legends? Not So Much. by Freak369 Pros: A couple of amazing tracks.
Cons: A lot of filler and borderline generic aural agony. Whether in the throes of passion or wiping the blood off your face after a round in the pit, sometimes you need take a minute to think before you go balls out [or breasts out] with the music you share with friends. I have the "pop friends" that ...
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Apr 03 '13 |
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"This is Exile" - A chapel full of breakdowns by lordfrost Pros: Some moments here and there
Cons: Generic and unmemorable While deathcore has never been a metal subgenre that interested me much, Whitechapel came very highly recommended to me from a trusted source. I was told that their three guitar attack made for a heavy, brutal sound, and that they were worth a listen. ...
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Apr 03 '13 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Take a Trip...Cop Out...Groove : Timothy Leary Goes BEYOND LIFE by xxxxer Pros: Leary's philosophical rambling provides food for thought; The Moody Blues and Ministry provide tracks
Cons: Musical elements seem unimaginative and often cheesy A sort of freeform compilation of spoken word by the infamous counterculture icon Dr. Timothy Leary, Beyond Life is one of the more bizarre albums I've heard in quite a while. With most of the dialogue taken from Leary's 1967 album Turn ...
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Apr 03 '13 |
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Music For Real Life by donkee Pros: Wonderful album of indie/acoustic/pop music...
Cons: None! (read review) One of the most sentimental, touching movies I’ve ever seen is the 2007 Steve Carell drama, Dan in Real Life. The film is one of those few that makes me laugh, cry, warms my heart, moves me to think, feel and enjoy life...all in a two ...
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Apr 02 '13 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Exit: Or Maybe Another Entrance by rmthunter Pros: Rich, inventive, highly textured music
Cons: A matter of taste My latest digging-out-from-the-avalanche project is to convert all my CDs to MP3s and load them into a player. It's a little daunting, but I'm having fun rediscovering things I haven't listened to in a while (including a few that I'd forgotten I ...
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Apr 02 '13 |
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Bon Jovi - Have a Nice Day. A modern rock album review by marksam91 Pros: *
Cons: * The band from New Jersey is a multi-selling, award winning, chart topping and record breaking band that have rocked millions of fans all over the world for a near 30 years. Despite all that adoring praise, it’s hard to deny the fact that the last ...
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Apr 02 '13 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Don't Know Why This Was Such A Hit... by donkee Pros: A few great songs, Norah Jones has an easy voice to listen to...
Cons: ...the sound is too similar throughout, Jones' vocal delivery is flat and uninspired. Norah Jones was pretty much everywhere in the early 2000’s. Her husky voice was constantly heard on the radio, her videos were heavily rotated on VH1 and MTV, and she won a slew of awards, including five Grammys. ...
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Apr 01 '13 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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Don't Murder Me by silktempest Pros: The whole recording
Cons: One of a kind For a band so attached to the 1960s psychedelic scene, THE GRATEFUL DEAD had a surprisingly extended career, spawning the best part of four decades. In the early 1970s their epic cut-and-paste complexes of sophomore effort Anthem of the Sun ...
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Apr 01 '13 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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A display of the viruosity of the great Soviet violinist David Oistrakh by Stephen_Murray Pros: Oistrakh
Cons: disc could fit another concerto on it Though not especially talented, I played first violin in my high school orchestra, so have some appreciation of what is and what isn't difficult in violin playing. My appreciation for modernist music came more from my piano teacher than from my violin ...
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Apr 01 '13 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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It's suddenly springtime! Time to break out Billy Ocean! by knotheadusc Pros: Some fun hits from the 80s. Billy Ocean can actually sing.
Cons: Very dated and often cheesy. Synthesized. No, this isn't an April Fool's Joke. I really am going to review Billy Ocean's 1984 album, Suddenly. In 1984, I was 12 years old and in 7th grade. Billy Ocean was hot as a firecracker back then, with his breezy, beachy, ...
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Apr 01 '13 |
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No end California by silktempest Pros: Dark lyrics. Bright sonority.
Cons: Questionable legacies aside Tragedy triumphs. At the peak of their popularity THE EAGLES released a classic album. The title track – Hotel California – would go down as one of the decade’s grand statements, a perennial rock standard. Joe ...
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Mar 31 '13 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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The best defense is a good offense. by divad23 Pros: Great vocal interplay between Rossen & Droste. Surprising aggression on several tracks.
Cons: Only 9 songs, yet several tracks seem to drag on longer than they should. I can sometimes be unnecessarily hard on a record when I feel that it suffers from a lack of content. I've tried to expand my horizons on this issue as I've started to dig deeper into the world of indie rock over the years and discovered a handful of ...
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Mar 31 '13 |
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One of the Best Sleazy Listening Discs Out There : SCHOOLGIRL REPORT SOUNDTRACK by xxxxer Pros: A great selection of tunes that'll get you movin'; nudity in the album art
Cons: Like many euro-lounge albums, this one can be difficult to track down During the early 1970s, a seemingly unending series of German films called the Schoolgirl Report series focused on the sexual behavior of young women and became box office dynamite. While the films’s credibility was questionable due to ...
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Mar 31 '13 |
Overall Rating: Very Helpful |
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