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The Newz - Spicy Stories
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| An awesome band that never made the big time... |
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They should have been famous. But they weren't.
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1 of 1 found this review helpful |
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Depeche Mode - Violator
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| Recommended 1st Depeche Mode album |
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da1e
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9 Apr 2012 |
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If you have never heard of or never owned a Depeche Mode song/album, this would be the first I recommend. It starts out with "World In My Eyes" with it's slightly upbeat post-mid 80's sound. Full of synthetic sounds and the lead singer's booming bass voice, this gets the listener more in tone with what DP really sounds like. The next few songs, including the popular "Personal Jesus", set the sound of DP. "Enjoy The Silence", "Policy of Truth" are two of the 3 biggest hits from this album. While none of the trio were really played much in the 80's or even the early 90's, they had quite the resurgence in the late 90's when the alternative scene became popular. The ending song "Clean" rounds out the album with some of the coolest melodic deep synthetic bass beats while the singer's voice drops well into the deep-bass sound that sends shivers through your bones without vibrating your body to uncomfortable proportions that is common with today's bass-beats. I highly recommend this album for your disk or MP3 collection.
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4 of 4 found this review helpful |
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Neil Diamond - Heartlight
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| Heartlight |
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Winter
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13 Mar 2012 |
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The "Heartlight" album, named for the first track is an often-overlooked piece of the Neil Diamond collection. Though none of the songs on the Heartlight album were quite as widely popular as some of the earlier music, the album itself contains some real gems.
The title track, Heartlight, was inspired by the movie E.T in the early 80's. It was co-written with Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager, and it touches many listeners with nostalgia for the movie as well as the era in which is was made famous.
The album combines easy-listening popular songs with other pieces that rocked audiences all over the world. "Heartlight" reached Platinum status in the US, but is currently out of print.
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2 of 2 found this review helpful |
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Genesis - Genesis
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| That's all |
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da1e
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12 Mar 2012 |
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With the Genesis sound constantly changing through the latter 70's and early 80's, this is probably one of their most diverse albums. With the slightly country sound of "That's All" to the more rough guitar sound of "Just a Job to Do". It seems to have everything a Genesis fan could want. "Illegal Alien" and "Silver Rainbow" are probably the oddest songs to hear from this masterpiece group. "Mama" and "It's Gonna Get Batter" are your two typical 80's Genesis sound. Now that the band has solidified as 3, this trend continues over the next few albums up until the departure of Phil Collins.
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1 of 1 found this review helpful |
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Kate Bush - Dreaming, The
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| A Little Gem |
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This is Kates Fourth Outing and with such a mad eclectic assortment of subject material in this Album from "A Thief" to a Viet Cong soldier to Houdini's Wife she manages to pull it off to make it entertaining and this wild experimentation she did here opened the way to go and make her Biggest Album "Hounds of Love"
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2 of 2 found this review helpful |
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Peter Gabriel - So
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| A Corker |
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Pete at his best here In your eyes and Mercy Street truly Excellent , but the Piece de resistance (or however you spell it) is definitely "Don't Give up" (Only cos im a huge Bush Fan) but Kates and Petes Vocals are excellent and the Song itself complimnt them both really well.....Lucky Pete sigh
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1 of 1 found this review helpful |
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Phil Collins - Face Value
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| Face Value |
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da1e
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6 Mar 2012 |
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One of the best breakout albums from any artist associated with Genesis. With one of the biggest hits of the 1980's and still played quite often 30 years later, this album has staying power. With a mix of love songs, slightly depressing ballads, upbeat pop and some great melodic sounds from the former drummer of Genesis, it's a great first attempt at an amalgamation of his own sounds while holding on to the music backbones that have made him the artist he is today.
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2 of 2 found this review helpful |
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Styx - Paradise Theatre
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| Paradise Theater |
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da1e
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5 Mar 2012 |
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One of the most successful albums by Styx and probably the oddest theme for an album. Centered around the fictional Paradise Theater of downtown Chicago, the album starts out with a sleepy love ballad into that quickly leads into "Rockin The Paradise" - sadly a song that really never hit the radios. From there on, the diversity of the album includes the popular love ballad "Best of Times"...which starts out very similar to the album's intro track. Party times and post prohibition era are the theme for "Too Much Time On My Hands". Snow-Blind, Half-Penny Two-Penny reference the greed of the times and the Great Depression. The album ends on what sounds like a sad note. To me it's more of a draw to press the replay button. With more singles (although not all Top 40) probably the best album by Styx that isn't a compilation album.
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Machinations - Big Music
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| Big Music Review |
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Sydney-based independent mid 80's dance band who had a half dozen hits hits such as "Pressure Sway", "No Say In It" and "My Heart's On Fire".
This album really pumps with good solid 80's style funk/pop/dance music with a quality feel to it.
Stand out tracks are "My Heart's on Fire", "Predator", "No Say in It", "You Got Me Going Again", and the awsome "The Letter" (one of my favorites).
As Molly Meldrum used to say, do yourself a favor and check this great Aussie album out.
DavidStHubbins
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