Tracks Lovers at the Gun Club
- WOMAN IN A CAR
- I`VE PASSED AWAY FROM HUMAN LOVE
- THE DENT IN THE FENDER AND THE WHEEL OF FATE
- LOVERS AT THE GUN CLUB
- THE INNOCENT RAILWAY
- TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
- HEAD FULL OF WAR
- FAREHAM CONFIDENTIAL
- HEART IN MY SOUL (David Childers)
- OLIVIER BLUES
- MY OLD HOME
Release date: 2008-08-18
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.83
Review Lovers at the Gun Club / Jackie Leven:
Tracks Discovery: Remastered
- Confusion
- Last train to London
- Shine a little love
- Need her love
- On the run (bonus track)
- Second time around (bonus track)
- Little town flirt (bonus track)
- Don't bring me down
- On the run
- The diary of Horace Wimp
- Midnight blue
- Wishing
Release date: 2001-06-11
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.12
Review Discovery: Remastered / Electric Light Orchestra:Although Discovery isn't one of the Electric Light Orchestra's strongest albums, it is more than redeemed by the inclusion of what is perhaps their greatest single, the massive, drum-looped pop genius of "Don't Bring Me Down". "Shine a Little Love" and "Confusion" are also both classic ELO: synths, guitars and orchestration all merging into a finely crafted whole. Unfortunately, songs such as the Beatles pastiche of "The Diary of Horace Wimp" and the overly sentimental "Last Train to London" all show that, for this world-conquering band, time was about to run out. This remastered edition includes three extra tracks, including a cover of Del Shannon's "Little Town Flirt". -Robert Burrow.
Tracks Lloyd Webber: Requiem
- 3. Recordare - Sarah Brightman, James Lancelot, English Chamber Orchestra, Lorin Maazel
- 5. Offertorium - Paul Miles-Kingston, Choir Of Winchester Cathedral, James Lancelot, English Chamber Orchestra, Lorin Maazel
- 4. Ingemisco ...Lacrymosa - Sarah Brightman, Plácido Domingo, Choir Of Winchester Cathedral, James Lancelot, English Chamber Orchestra, Lorin Maazel
- 2. Dies irae ... Rex tremendae - Paul Miles-Kingston, Plácido Domingo, Choir Of Winchester Cathedral, James Lancelot, English Chamber Orchestra, Lorin Maazel
- Hosanna - Sarah Brightman, Plácido Domingo, Choir Of Winchester Cathedral, James Lancelot, English Chamber Orchestra, Lorin Maazel
- Pie Jesu - Sarah Brightman, Paul Miles-Kingston, Choir Of Winchester Cathedral, English Chamber Orchestra, James Lancelot, Lorin Maazel
- 8. Lux aeterna & Libera me - Sarah Brightman, Plácido Domingo, Paul Miles-Kingston, Choir Of Winchester Cathedral, James Lancelot, English Chamber Orchestra, Lorin Maazel
- 1. Requiem & Kyrie - Plácido Domingo, Paul Miles-Kingston, Thomas Drew, Choir Of Winchester Cathedral, James Lancelot, English Chamber Orchestra, Lorin Maazel
Release date: 1995-11-13
Run time: 45 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.33
Review Lloyd Webber: Requiem / Plácido Domingo Sarah Brightman Paul Miles-Kingston Choir Of Winchester Cathedral Martin Neary James Lancelot English Chamber Orchestra Lorin Maazel:Before Andrew Lloyd Webber's seemingly endless run of Broadway shows, when he was known primarily for Jesus Christ Superstar, he managed to write this dramatic, tuneful, occasionally powerful religious work. Although Lloyd Webber takes some liberties with the text and organization of the traditional Requiem mass, the result is a unified and finely crafted composition. There are exciting moments in the "Dies irae" and in the "Lacrymosa", where voices and orchestra are most effectively used to convey the desperate yet hopeful feeling of the text. This work isn't performed much these days in its entirety, but, as in many of Lloyd Webber's musicals, it produced a "hit" tune-the "Pie Jesu"-whose popularity alone could have kept the composer living comfortably for the rest of his life. -David Vernier.
Tracks Now That's What I Call Music! Vol 59
- Scissor Sisters - Mary
- Houston - I Like That
- Christina Milian feat. Joe Budden- Whatever U Want
- Daniel Bedingfield - Nothing Hurts Like Love
- Khia - My Neck My Back (Lick It) (Kardinal Beats Clean Radio Edit)
- Embrace - Gravity
- Kelis feat. André 3000 - Millionaire
- McFly - Obviously
- Intenso Project feat. Lisa Scott-Lee - Get It On
- Eric Prydz - Call On Me
- Darius - Kinda Love
- Angel City feat. Lara McAllen - Do You Know (I Go Crazy)
- Jay Sean - Stolen
- The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now
- Girls Aloud - Love Machine
- Michael Gray - The Weekend
- Rachel Stevens - More, More, More
- Dannii Minogue vs FlowerPower - You Won't Forget About Me
- Black Eyed Peas - Let's Get It Started
- JoJo - Leave (Get Out)
- Duncan James & Keedie -I Believe My Heart
- Keane - Bedshaped
- R. Kelly - Happy People
- Jamelia - Stop
- Lucie Silvas - What You're Made Of
- V - Hip To Hip
- Sugababes - Caught In A Moment
- The Pirates feat. Enya, Shola Ama, Naila Boss & Ishani - You Should Really Know
- Joss Stone - You Had Me
- 3 Of A Kind - Baby Cakes
- Busted - Thunderbirds
- Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved
- Ice Cube feat. Mack 10 & Ms. Toi - You Can Do It (2004)
- Hoobastank - The Reason
- Natasha Bedingfield - These Words
- Deep Dish - Flashdance
- Mousse T feat. Emma Lanford - Is It Cos I'm Cool?
- Ronan Keating - I Hope You Dance
- Robbie Williams - Radio
- Blue - Curtain Falls
- Danzel - Pump It Up
- Eyeopener - Hungry Eyes
- Nelly - My Place
Release date: 2004-11-15
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.81
Review Now That's What I Call Music! Vol 59 / Various Artists:
Tracks Bon Jovi
- She Don't Know Me
- Runaway
- Burning For Love
- Shot Through The Heart
- Breakout
- Come Back
- Roulette
- Love Lies
- Get Ready
Release date: 1998-10-05
Run time: 38 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.53
Review Bon Jovi / Bon Jovi:
Tracks Strange Weirdos: Music From And Inspired By The Film Knocked Up
- X or Y
- Passion Play
- You Can't Fail Me Now
- Feel So Good
- Grey In L.A.
- Strange Weirdos
- Ypsilanti - Joe Henry
- Lullaby
- Doin' The Math
- So Much To Do
- Valley Morning
- Daughter
- Naomi - Joe Henry
- Final Frontier
Release date: 2007-06-04
Run time: 48 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.86
Review Strange Weirdos: Music From And Inspired By The Film Knocked Up / Loudon Wainwright III:
Tracks X Marks Destination: +DVD
- Sister Siam
- Fire
- Muzzle #1
- Dubsex
- Save My Soul
- Blackout
- Sirens
- Divebomb
- Frustration
- Trash
- Live At Manchester Academy 2008
Release date: 2008-03-24
RRP: £11.99
Price: £7.40
Review X Marks Destination: +DVD / The Whip:
Tracks The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt
- When Will I Be Loved
- Long Long Time
- Tracks Of My Tears
- Heatwave
- Hurt So Bad
- That'll Be The Day
- Somewhere Out There - Ronstadt, Linda & James Ingram
- Desperado
- Love Has No Pride
- How Do I Make You
- Different Drum - Stone Poneys
- All My Life - Ronstadt, Linda & Aaron Neville
- After The Goldrush - Ronstadt, Linda & Emmylou Harris/Valerie Carter
- Just One Look
- You're No Good
- Heart Is Like A Wheel
- Back In The USA
- Ooh Baby Baby
- Winter Light
- Don't Know Much - Ronstadt, Linda & Aaron Neville
- Blue Bayou
- Poor Poor Pitiful Me
- It's So Easy
Release date: 2003-09-29
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.49
Review The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt / Linda Ronstadt:
Tracks A Present For Everyone
- Nerdy - Busted
- 3am - Busted, Charlie Simpson, Mattie Jay, James Bourne
- Over Now - Busted
- Why - Busted
- Meet You There - Busted
- Can't Break Thru - Busted, Charlie Simpson, Mattie Jay, James Bourne
- Fake - Busted, Charlie Simpson, Mattie Jay, James Bourne
- Who's David - Busted
- That Thing You Do - Busted
- Loner In Love - Busted, Charlie Simpson, Mattie Jay, James Bourne
- Crashed The Wedding - Busted
- She Wants To Be Me - Busted, Charlie Simpson, Mattie Jay, James Bourne
- Falling For You - Busted
- Air Hostess - Busted
- Better Than This - Busted, Charlie Simpson, Mattie Jay, James Bourne
Release date: 2003-11-17
Run time: 55 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.93
Review A Present For Everyone / Busted:Busted may look about as rock as Westlife, but A Present for Everyone confirms that under those chiselled cheek bones and polite smiles they're every inch the British Blink 182. For the most part, the clean-cut trio's second album is full of the same dumb fun as their first. Careering hyperactively through trashy skate-punk fantasies, classroom crushes and troublesome girlfriends, "Crashed the Wedding" and "Who's David" are irresistibly throwaway teen trauma, while "She Wants to Be Me" deals with the difficult issue of an overly dependent girlfriend ("she's so obsessed with me/now she stands up to pee"). That line aside, second time around there's even a newfound maturity that creeps through in some of their songwriting, which means that they carry off the bittersweet pop of break-up song "Over Now" with conviction and without resorting to cheap laughs. Ultimately though, it's the pogoing choruses and crude one-liners that are the main attraction. And they don't come much better than "Air Hostess" with its less than wholesome appreciation of a girl in uniform: "I messed my pants when we flew over France". -Dan Gennoe.
Tracks The Better Life
- The Better Life
- So I Need You
- Smack
- Be Like That
- Loser
- Duck And Run
- Kryptonite
- By My Side
- Down Poison
- Life Of My Own
- Not Enough
Release date: 2000-09-18
Run time: 41 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £5.69
Review The Better Life / 3 Doors Down:The Mississippi-based quartet 3 Doors Down has only one thing that sets them apart from other hard rock bands: lead vocalist Brad Arnold is also the drummer. The group shops the sounds of Pearl Jam and the Goo Goo Dolls, pointing at what they like, picking it off the shelf and throwing it into the stew. While the music on The Better Life, their debut, sounds overall both competent and confident, the songs themselves are equally uninspired and clichéd. For example, the riff from the track "Loser" is straight out of the Alice In Chains songbook, adding much more cringe-worthy lyrics ("Addiction needs a pacifier, the buzz of this poison is taking me higher"). In fact, most of the lyrics zero in on well-worn rock themes of aggravation, confusion and frustration, feelings that 3 Doors Down will easily coax out of discriminating listeners. -Jason Josephes.
Tracks Enlightenment
- Memories
- Youth Of 1000 Summers
- Enlightenment
- See Me Through
- Real Real Gone
- Start All Over Again
- She's My Baby
- So Quiet In Here
- In The Days Before Rock'n'Roll
- Enlightenment
- Avalon Of The Heart - Van Morrison, John McCarthy, The Ambrosian Singers
- So Quiet In Here
Release date: 2008-06-30
Run time: 58 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.59
Review Enlightenment / Van Morrison:
Tracks Bring It on
- Whippin' Piccadily
- Get Miles
- Make no sound
- Bubble Gum Years
- Rie's Wagon
- Here Comes The Breeze
- 78 stone wobble
- The Comeback
- Tijuana Lady
- Free To Run
- Love is better than a warm trombone
- Get myself arrested
Release date: 1998-04-13
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.99
Review Bring It on / Gomez:In 1998, Gomez burst onto the music scene from out of nowhere and picked up the prestigious Mercury Music prize for their debut album, Bring It On. Hailing from Liverpool, this five-piece band of gawky youths seem to be the very antithesis of traditional rock stars, but their appearance and heritage belie their rich and rootsy sound: their combination of Ben Ottewell's gravely voice and slide guitar conjure up images of the American South, especially on singles "Whippin' Piccadilly" and "Get Myself Arrested". Combining a soul sensitivity with a pop sensibility, Gomez constructed one of the most stunning debuts of the 1990's. -Carina Trimingham.
Tracks Portrait of Donny, a/Too Young
- All I Have To Do Is Dream
- Lonely Boy
- Hey There Lonely Girl
- Teenager In Love
- Donna
- Puppy Love
- Pretty Blue Eyes
- Why
- Big Man
- Too Young
- Promise Me
- Let My People Go
- Going Going Gone (To Somebody Else)
- Take Good Care Of My Baby
- Last Of The Red Hot Lovers
- This Guy's In Love With You
- Love Me
- Hey Girl
- I've Got Plans For You
- To Run Away
- Run To Him
Release date: 2008-05-26
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.75
Review Portrait of Donny, a/Too Young / Donny Osmond:
Tracks Sex and the City Volume Two: More Music
- Trouble - Bitter Sweet
- My First Love - Craig David
- Dangerous - Elijah Kelley
- Pretty Please (Love Me) - Estelle, Cee-Lo
- We Got Love - Ryan Shaw
- You Look So Good - Owen Brady
- Mockingbird - Allison Moorer
- Beautiful - Goldfrapp
- Hey Baby - The Champagne Flutes
- 2nite - Janet
- Real Girl - Mutya Buena
- Fool's Gold - Amy Winehouse
- Little Romance - Ingrid Michaelson
- Click Flash - Ciara
- Look At You Now - Katie Herzig
Release date: 2008-09-22
Run time: 54 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.99
Review Sex and the City Volume Two: More Music / Various Artists:
Tracks Sunday's Child
- One Day Without You
- Sunday's Child
- Satisfied Mind
- Call Me Crazy
- Satisfied Mind
- You Can Discover
- Ellie Rae
- My Baby Girl
- One Day Without You
- My Baby Girl
- Spencer The Rover
- Clutches
- Root Love
- The Message
- You Can Discover
- Lay It All Down
- The Message
- Spencer The Rover
Release date: 2005-11-14
Run time: 62 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.18
Review Sunday's Child / John Martyn:
Tracks Into The Blues
- Baby Blue Eyes
- Something's Gotta Blow
- Play The Blues
- Into The Blues
- Secular Songs
- DNA
- Woman In Love
- Deep Down
- There Ain't A Girl Alive
- My Baby's Gone
- Empty Highway
- Liza
- Mama Papa
Release date: 2007-04-09
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.76
Review Into The Blues / Joan Armatrading:On the surface, yes, this is a blues album; mostly, though, it's a Joan Armatrading album-which means she'll follow blues forms and conceits wherever she damn well pleases. On "Liza," she takes the "Mannish Boy" groove across the tracks for a pick-up on the wrong side of town; on "There Ain't a Girl Alive (Who Likes to Look in the Mirror Like You Do)," she dresses down a rival; on "Play the Blues," she simply undresses herself to a juicy, contemporary soul groove; and on "Mama Papa," the album's finest and funkiest moment, she recalls her youth on the island of St. Kitts in lines that flash with truth: "Seven people in one room/No heat/One wage/And bills to pay. " It's also a guitar album: her blues chops, especially on the sprawling closer "Something's Gotta Blow," would give Robert Cray a serious run. Fiery as her playing can be, her blues riffs are mostly economical, concise, with evocative spaces between the notes. The same can't be said for the overall production values. Armatrading is still enamored with slick gimmicks: doubling and tripling her vocals and adding layers of echo on top of that, and synth pads and distortion that feel more bombastic than bright. Into the Blues is far from a return to form, but it still sends a tough, funky message. -Roy Kasten.
Tracks Ring Ring
- People Need Love
- Merry-Go-Round
- Me And Bobby And Bobby's Brother
- Disillusion
- I Am Just A Girl
- Ring, Ring (Bara Du Slog En Signal)
- Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)
- Santa Rosa
- Nina, Pretty Ballerina
- Another Town, Another Train
- He Is Your Brother
- Ring Ring
- Rock 'N' Roll Band
- She's My Kind Of Girl
- I Saw It In The Mirror
Release date: 2002-03-01
Run time: 44 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.14
Review Ring Ring / Abba:
Tracks Curious George
- Lullaby - Jack Johnson, Matt Costa
- Talk Of The Town - Jack Johnson, Kawika Kahiapo
- Supposed To Be
- Questions
- Upside Down
- We're Going To Be Friends
- Jungle Gym - Jack Johnson, G. Love
- Broken
- The Sharing Song
- My Own Two Hands - Jack Johnson, Ben Harper
- People Watching
- The 3 R's
- The 3 R's
- Wrong Turn
Release date: 2006-02-06
Run time: 43 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.93
Review Curious George / Various Artists:Admit it: If you had to pick an artist to give voice to the wackadoo thinkings of a monkey beloved by most of the American populace over age 3, you could do a lot worse than Jack Johnson. Black Eyed Peas? Too hyper. Death Cab for Cutie? Too ironic. They Might Be Giants? Too eggheaded. Johnson, though the object of much rightful jealousy-here, after all, is a guy who only stumbled into music and vaulted himself up the charts after a successful career as a pro surfer-turns out to have the goods to do H. A. Rey, Curious George's creator, proud. Fans familiar with Johnson's earlier discs will recognize a certain laconic sprawl and easy fascination in his songs that suits the theme of perpetual puzzlement perfectly (here, let's not forget, is a guy who racked up fans with songs called "Bubble Toes" and "Banana Pancakes"). That the music takes a childish turn barely registers-songs like opener "Upside Down" are classic Johnson, all wonderment and groove, and the collaborations with friends Ben Harper, G. Love, and Matt Costa warm up, wink, and scamper off before packing on the weight of excess meaning. [+]"We're Going to Be Friends," track seven, seals the deal-when you can make the White Stripes sound compatible with the Man with the Yellow Hat, you know you've got a multi-generational winner. -Tammy La Gorce.
![Review John Martyn / One World [Deluxe Edition]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41utTvGYA5L._SL160_.jpg)
Tracks One World [Deluxe Edition]
- Big Muff
- Big Muff
- One World
- Certain Surprise
- Small Hours
- Small Hours
- Dealer
- Small Hours
- Dancing
- Dealer
- Dealer
- One World
- Smiling Stranger
- Couldn't Love You More
- Smiling Stranger
- Dealer
- One World
- Big Muff
- Black Man At The Shoulder
- Certain Surprise
- Dancing
- Certain Surprise
- Couldn't Love You More
Release date: 2004-11-01
Run time: 119 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.97
Review One World [Deluxe Edition] / John Martyn:
Tracks Nothing Can Stop Us
- Grass
- Arauco
- Stalingrad
- Strange Fruit
- Red Flag
- Caimanera
- Born Again Cretin
- Trade Union
- At Last I Am Free
- Stalin Wasn't Stallin
Release date: 2008-10-27
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.86
Review Nothing Can Stop Us / Robert Wyatt:Still under contract to Virgin as the '70s drew to a close, Robert Wyatt got special dispensation from Richard Branson to record a series of singles for upstart indie Rough Trade, the glorious results of which found their way onto this reissued 1982 compilation. Wyatt's melancholy choirboy voice and minimalist arrangements are astonishingly effective throughout a series of unlikely covers, including a liturgical rendition of Chic's "At Last I Am Free," the Golden Gate Quartet's "Stalin Wasn't Stallin'," the Billie Holiday-identified "Strange Fruit," and a suitably bizarre, tabla-driven take on Ivor Cutler's "Grass" (sample lyric: "While we talk I'll hit your head with a nail to make you understand me / I have something important to say"). It's a shame Elvis Costello's "Shipbuilding" is not included here, but no matter: Wyatt's "Caimanera" and "Arauco" alone are worth the price of admission. -Billy Grenier.
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