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Review Britney Spears  / Blackout
Tracks Blackout
  • Heaven On Earth
  • Hot As Ice
  • Piece Of Me
  • Toy Soldier
  • Gimme More
  • Break The Ice
  • Radar
  • Freakshow
  • Perfect Lover
  • Ooh Ooh Baby
  • Why Should I Be Sad
  • Get Naked (I Got A Plan)
Publisher: SonyBMG
Release date: 2007-10-29
RRP: £16.99
Price: £4.40

Review Blackout / Britney Spears:

Poor old Britney Spears hasn't exactly had a good time of it lately, what with her recent lackluster MTV performance and dubious appearances all over the tabloids. Blackout, her fifth studio album, is being touted as a bit of a comeback album, the title allegedly alluding to how she is "blacking out" all negative media coverage and focusing on getting back to form. Backed by an array of superstar beatmakers-Bloodshy & Avant, Pharrell Williams, T-Pain, Danja-Blackout presents a soundtrack that brims with trashy new-wave `nowness'. Tunes veer from the highly infectious "Freakshow" and "Toy Soldier" to the unconvincingly lascivious "Get Naked," "Ooh, Ooh Baby", and downright uninspiring ("Radar" and "Hot As Ice")-with some inroads into dirty disco ("Heaven on Earth") along the way. The tunes aren't bad, but the brittle, robotic soundtrack does start to feel dated and dull, especially when Britney's vocals are so intensely processed they feel equally starchy and disinterested. Comeback album it may be, but "Blackout" doesn't point towards any clear future for Britney-nor for pop music in general. -Danny McKenna.

Review Neil Young  / After the Gold Rush
Tracks After the Gold Rush
  • Only Love Can Break Your Heart
  • Birds
  • Don't Let It Bring You Down
  • Southern Man
  • After The Goldrush
  • Till The Morning Comes
  • When You Dance I Can Really Love
  • Cripple Creek Ferry
  • I Believe In You
  • Oh Lonesome Me
  • Tell Me Why
Publisher: Warner
Release date: 1987-07-31
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.09

Review After the Gold Rush / Neil Young:

After labouring in Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Neil Young finally hit perfect pitch-if his endearing off-centre whine can be called "perfect"-with his third album. He's equally passionate with trippy riddles (has anybody figured out what "We've got mother nature on the run" means in the title track?) and pointed protest (after 30 years of rock-radio overplay, "Southern Man" still rings with truth about redneck racism). His creaky ensemble, including pianist Jack Nitzsche and rotating members of Crazy Horse, transforms ramshackle country and folk songs into soulful hippie hymns. -Steve Knopper.

Review Def Leppard  / Songs From The Sparkle Lounge
Tracks Songs From The Sparkle Lounge
  • Cruise Control
  • Go
  • Hallucinate
  • Tomorrow
  • Bad Actress
  • Nine Lives - Def Leppard, Tim McGraw
  • Love
  • C'mon C'mon
  • Love
  • Only The Good Die Young
  • Come Undone
  • Gotta Let It Go
Publisher: Universal
Release date: 2008-05-05
Run time: 44 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.49

Review Songs From The Sparkle Lounge / Def Leppard:


Review Stevie Wonder  / Songs In The Key Of Life
Tracks Songs In The Key Of Life
  • Another Star
  • Pastime Paradise
  • Saturn
  • Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call)
  • Ordinary Pain
  • Summer Soft
  • If It's Magic
  • I Wish
  • Love's In Need Of Love Today
  • Contusion
  • Joy Inside My Tears
  • Knocks Me Off My Feet
  • As
  • Ebony Eyes
  • Have A Talk With God
  • All Day Sucker
  • Isn't She Lovely
  • Sir Duke
  • Black Man
  • Village Ghetto Land
  • Ngiculela-Es Una Historia-I Am Singing
Publisher: Universal / Island
Release date: 2000-05-08
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.68

Review Songs In The Key Of Life / Stevie Wonder:

Songs in the Key of Life was the highest high-point of Stevie Wonder's career. More sprawling than Innervisions and Talking Book, this 2 LP-plus-EP was also less of a consistent stunner than either of those masterworks. That Songs retains an enormous amount of visionary relevance, though, is demonstrated not only in Coolio's borrowing of "Pastime Paradise" as a template for "Gangsta's Paradise", but in the cold-as-ice synthesized string quartet of "Village Ghetto Land". This is Stevie, so naturally that cut's anger is balanced by the ultra-buoyant "I Wish," "Sir Duke", and "Another Star". -Rickey Wright.

Review The Beatles  / A Hard Day's Night
Tracks A Hard Day's Night
  • And I Love Her
  • I Should Have Known Better
  • Can't Buy Me Love
  • Anytime At All
  • Tell Me Why
  • Things We Said Today
  • I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
  • Hard Day's Night
  • If I Fell
  • When I Get Home
  • I'll Cry Instead
  • I'll Be Back
  • You Can't Do That
Publisher: Parlophone
Release date: 1998-11-01
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.83

Review A Hard Day's Night / The Beatles:

Strummmmm! That dramatic guitar chord that kicks of A Hard Day's Night (album, song, movie) still jumps right out at you, slaps you in the face, and jump-starts your heart. And you know what? Both the music and the film are still as crisp and lively as they were in 1964. Of course, only the first seven songs are actually in the movie (and they are the strongest of the bunch, from the rousing rock & roll of title track and the hit single "Can't Buy Me Love", to the beautiful ballads "If I Fell" and "And I Love Her"). But nobody's going to complain about having songs like "I'll Cry Instead" and "Things We Said Today" in the second half of the record; they certainly don't feel like leftovers. Yet another high-point for John, Paul, George, and Ringo-four fab fellows who hit the highest heights imaginable. -Jim Emerson.

Review Blondie  / Greatest Hits
Tracks Greatest Hits
  • Rapture
  • Call me
  • Island of lost souls
  • Union city blue
  • Denis
  • Heart of glass
  • Rip her to shreds
  • Dreaming
  • Sunday girl
  • Hanging on the telephone
  • Atomic
  • Tide is high
  • Maria
  • Picture this
  • In the flesh
  • I'm always touched by your presence dear
  • One way or another
  • Hardest part
  • X offender
Publisher: Chrysalis
Release date: 2002-10-21
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.27

Review Greatest Hits / Blondie:


Review Various  / One Tree Hill - Music from the Television Series, Vol. 2: Friends with Benefit
Tracks One Tree Hill - Music from the Television Series, Vol. 2: Friends with Benefit
  • Son's Gonna Rise - Citizen Cope
  • Middle of Nowhere - Hot Hot Heat
  • Please Please Please - Shout Out Louds
  • I've Got a Dark Alley and a Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut ... - Fall Out Boy
  • Always Love - Nada Surf
  • Mixed Tape - Jack's Mannequin
  • Coffe and Cigarettes - Michelle Featherstone
  • Feeling a Moment - Feeder
  • Light Years Away - MoZella
  • Missing You - Tyler Hilton
  • Jealous Guy - Gavin DeGraw
  • Mixed Tape
  • 23 - Jimmy Eat World
  • Be Yourself - Audioslave
  • Halo - Haley James Scott
  • 2 More Years
  • Light Years Away
  • For Blue Skies - Strays Don't Sleep
Publisher: Maverick
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.81

Review One Tree Hill - Music from the Television Series, Vol. 2: Friends with Benefit / Various:


Review David Bowie  / The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars: Remastered
Tracks The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars: Remastered
  • Star
  • Hang on to Yourself
  • Five Years
  • Starman
  • Moonage Daydream
  • Ziggy Stardust
  • Lady Stardust
  • Suffragette City
  • Rock & Roll Suicide
  • It Ain't Easy
  • Soul Love
Publisher: EMI
Release date: 1999-09-06
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.15

Review The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars: Remastered / David Bowie:

Of all David Bowie's many distinctive personae, none have done more to lodge this most ingenious of British artists in the world's consciousness than his 1972 amalgam of the alien visitor and Christ-like rock star: Ziggy Stardust. Cheap glamour, spacemen and ambiguous sexuality surface throughout the loosely conceptualised collection that is The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. If its premise sounds faintly ludicrous, then inspired and dramatic songs such as "Starman" and "Five Years" dispel all doubts about Bowie's genius, and the theatrically tragic "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" brings the album and it's fictional protagonist to a close. As a cultural and musical signpost, Ziggy Stardust points simultaneously backwards to early rock & roll and forward to the simpler, tougher inclinations of late-1970s punk and New Wave rock. As one of the defining rock albums of the 20th century, its influence is immeasurable. -James Littlewood.

Review Neil Diamond  / Hot August Night
Tracks Hot August Night
  • Porcupine Pie - Lee Holdridge, Neil Diamond
  • Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond, Lee Holdridge
  • Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon - Neil Diamond, Lee Holdridge
  • Dialogue (Neil Diamond/Hot August Night) - Lee Holdridge, Neil Diamond
  • I Am...I Said - Neil Diamond
  • Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show - Neil Diamond
  • Holly Holy - Lee Holdridge, Neil Diamond
  • Soolaimon - Neil Diamond
  • Shilo - Neil Diamond
  • Cherry, Cherry - Neil Diamond
  • Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
  • Crunchy Granola Suite - Neil Diamond, Lee Holdridge
  • Canta Libre - Neil Diamond, Lee Holdridge
  • Play Me - Lee Holdridge, Neil Diamond
  • Soggy Pretzels - Lee Holdridge, Neil Diamond
  • Done Too Soon - Lee Holdridge, Neil Diamond
  • Red, Red Wine - Neil Diamond
  • You're So Sweet - Neil Diamond, Lee Holdridge
  • Cracklin' Rosie - Neil Diamond, Lee Holdridge
  • And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind - Neil Diamond, Lee Holdridge
  • Solitary Man - Neil Diamond, Lee Holdridge
  • Prologue (Neil Diamond/Hot August Night) - Lee Holdridge, Neil Diamond
  • Morningside - Lee Holdridge, Neil Diamond
Publisher: Universal / Island
Release date: 1999-03-20
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.99

Review Hot August Night / Neil Diamond:


Review Neil Diamond  / Hot August Night
Tracks Hot August Night
  • Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show - Neil Diamond
  • I Am...I Said - Neil Diamond
  • Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon - Neil Diamond, Lee Holdridge
  • Porcupine Pie - Lee Holdridge, Neil Diamond
  • Cherry, Cherry - Neil Diamond
  • Crunchy Granola Suite - Neil Diamond, Lee Holdridge
  • You're So Sweet - Neil Diamond, Lee Holdridge
  • And The Grass Won't Pay No Mind - Neil Diamond, Lee Holdridge
  • Canta Libre - Neil Diamond, Lee Holdridge
  • Morningside - Lee Holdridge, Neil Diamond
  • Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
  • Done Too Soon - Lee Holdridge, Neil Diamond
  • Prologue (Neil Diamond/Hot August Night) - Lee Holdridge, Neil Diamond
  • Dialogue (Neil Diamond/Hot August Night) - Lee Holdridge, Neil Diamond
  • Soggy Pretzels - Lee Holdridge, Neil Diamond
  • Cracklin' Rosie - Neil Diamond, Lee Holdridge
  • Holly Holy - Lee Holdridge, Neil Diamond
  • Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond, Lee Holdridge
  • Solitary Man - Neil Diamond, Lee Holdridge
  • Play Me - Lee Holdridge, Neil Diamond
  • Shilo - Neil Diamond
  • Soolaimon - Neil Diamond
  • Red, Red Wine - Neil Diamond
Publisher: Universal / Island
Release date: 1999-03-20
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.99

Review Hot August Night / Neil Diamond:


Review Blondie  / Greatest Hits
Tracks Greatest Hits
  • Maria
  • Island of lost souls
  • Rip her to shreds
  • One way or another
  • Hardest part
  • Hanging on the telephone
  • X offender
  • Atomic
  • Heart of glass
  • In the flesh
  • Rapture
  • Union city blue
  • Sunday girl
  • Tide is high
  • Dreaming
  • Denis
  • Call me
  • Picture this
  • I'm always touched by your presence dear
Publisher: Chrysalis
Release date: 2002-10-21
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.27

Review Greatest Hits / Blondie:


Review Sugababes  / Overloaded: The Singles Collection
Tracks Overloaded: The Singles Collection
  • Push The Button
  • In The Middle
  • Caught In A Moment
  • Too Lost In You
  • Easy
  • Ugly
  • Good To Be Gone
  • Hole In The Head
  • Stronger
  • Round Round
  • Freak Like Me
  • Red Dress
  • Overload
  • Shape
  • Run For Cover
Publisher: Universal / Island
Release date: 2006-11-13
Run time: 58 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.15

Review Overloaded: The Singles Collection / Sugababes:

It's been a slightly tumultuous but hugely successful ride to the top for UK superstars The Sugababes. They've lost not one, but two band members since forming in 1998, but have nonetheless achieved three Brit Awards, an ESKA, a slew of chart hits (including four number ones), four well-received LPs and - more recently - an inclusion in the Guinness Book Of Records for 'Best Female Act Of The Century'. Overloaded, their fifth official album, is a Greatest Hits package, bringing together most of their main singles so far. Beginning with their Richard X produced hit "Freak Like Me" (their first number one), the album profiles most of their hits, including all their most addictive moments - such as "Hole In The Head", "Round, Round" and "Push The Button" - but excluding more lukewarm releases like "New Year", "Soul Sound", "Angels With Dirty Faces" and "Follow Me Home". There's some new material too, notably "Easy", the band's lascivious collaboration with Californian rock band Orson, and the catchy "Good To Be Gone", which is slated to be the second single from the album. -Danny McKenna.

Review George Michael  / Ladies and Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael
Tracks Ladies and Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael
  • Desafinado
  • Fastlove
  • Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
  • Outside
  • Praying For Time
  • Spinning The Wheel
  • I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)
  • I Can't Make You Love Me
  • Killer/Papa Was A Rollin' Stone
  • You Have Been Loved
  • Star People
  • I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)
  • As
  • Too Funky
  • Cowboys And Angels
  • Moment With You
  • Freedom 90
  • Spinning The Wheel
  • Kissing A Fool
  • Faith
  • Jesus To A Child
  • Careless Whisper
  • Waiting For The Day
  • Fantasy
  • Faith
  • Somebody To Love
  • I Want Your Sex
  • Somebody To Love (1)
  • Fantasy
  • Star People
  • Strangest Thing 97
  • Fastlove
  • I Want Your Sex
  • Too Funky
  • Strangest Thing 97
  • One more try
  • Outside
  • Freedom 90
  • Killer/Papa Was A Rollin' Stone
  • Different Corner
  • As
  • Waiting For The Day
  • Father Figure
  • Heal The Pain
Publisher: Epic
Release date: 1998-11-09
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.88

Review Ladies and Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael / George Michael:

Since the break-up of teen duo Wham! in 1986, George Michael has constantly had to reinvent himself as a credible master of various musical styles. Ladies And Gentlemen charts this journey, from his duets with pop elite such as Aretha Franklin ("I Knew You Waiting (For Me)") and Elton John ("Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me"), to dance floor classics such as "Too Funky" and "Fastlove" and bleak, evocative numbers such as "Jesus To A Child" and "A Different Corner". The songs are arranged on two complementing discs: the slower, ballady productions are on the first disc ("for the heart"), and the more dancey, poppy numbers are on the second ("for the feet"). The compilation also includes three tracks specially recorded for the album, most notably his duet with Mary J Blige on the Stevie Wonder classic "As". -John Galilee.

Review Britney Spears  / Blackout
Tracks Blackout
  • Toy Soldier
  • Perfect Lover
  • Get Naked (I Got A Plan)
  • Why Should I Be Sad
  • Break The Ice
  • Ooh Ooh Baby
  • Hot As Ice
  • Piece Of Me
  • Radar
  • Freakshow
  • Heaven On Earth
  • Gimme More
Publisher: SonyBMG
Release date: 2007-10-29
RRP: £16.99
Price: £4.40

Review Blackout / Britney Spears:

Poor old Britney Spears hasn't exactly had a good time of it lately, what with her recent lackluster MTV performance and dubious appearances all over the tabloids. Blackout, her fifth studio album, is being touted as a bit of a comeback album, the title allegedly alluding to how she is "blacking out" all negative media coverage and focusing on getting back to form. Backed by an array of superstar beatmakers-Bloodshy & Avant, Pharrell Williams, T-Pain, Danja-Blackout presents a soundtrack that brims with trashy new-wave `nowness'. Tunes veer from the highly infectious "Freakshow" and "Toy Soldier" to the unconvincingly lascivious "Get Naked," "Ooh, Ooh Baby", and downright uninspiring ("Radar" and "Hot As Ice")-with some inroads into dirty disco ("Heaven on Earth") along the way. The tunes aren't bad, but the brittle, robotic soundtrack does start to feel dated and dull, especially when Britney's vocals are so intensely processed they feel equally starchy and disinterested. Comeback album it may be, but "Blackout" doesn't point towards any clear future for Britney-nor for pop music in general. -Danny McKenna.

Review Thompson Twins  / Here's to Future Days
Tracks Here's to Future Days
  • Desert Dancers [Breakaway]
  • The Fourth Sunday
  • Lay Your Hands On Me (extended Nile Rodgers + Tom Bailey remix)
  • Love Is The Law
  • Lay Your Hands On Me [original remix]
  • King For A Day
  • Don't Mess With Dr Dream [Smackattack!]
  • Fools In Paradise [12"]
  • Lay Your Hands On Me
  • Don't Mess With Doctor Dream
  • Shoot Out [Don't Mess With Doctor Dream]
  • King For A Day [US remix]
  • Rollunder [extended]
  • Roll Over
  • Emperor's Clothes (Part 1)
  • Alice [Lay Your Hands On Me]
  • The Lewis Carol (Adventures in Wonderland)
  • King For A Day [Extended mix]
  • Heavens Above! [Future Days]
  • Future Days
  • Roll Over Again [12"]
  • Revolution
  • Breakaway
  • Tokyo
  • You Killed The Clown
  • The Kiss [Tokyo]
  • Very Big Business [12"]
  • Lay Your Hands On Me [US remix]
  • Revolution [12" remix]
Publisher: Edsel
Release date: 2008-08-04
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.70

Review Here's to Future Days / Thompson Twins:


Review Aerosmith  / The Very Best Of
Tracks The Very Best Of
  • Dream On
  • Amazing
  • Janie’s Got A Gun
  • Dude (Looks Like A Lady)
  • Crazy
  • Livin’ On The Edge
  • Sedona Sunrise
  • Don’t Want To Miss A Thing
  • Sweet Emotion
  • Cryin’
  • Pink
  • Devil’s Got A New Disguise
  • Angel
  • Walk This Way (RUN DMC)
  • Love In An Elevator
  • The Other Side
  • Jaded
  • Falling In Love (Is Hard On The Knees)
Publisher: SonyBMG
Release date: 2008-06-30
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.17

Review The Very Best Of / Aerosmith:


Review Oasis  / Stop the Clocks
Tracks Stop the Clocks
  • Talk Tonight
  • Half The World Away
  • Go Let It Out
  • Slide Away
  • Live Forever
  • Lyla
  • Songbird
  • Cigarettes & Alcohol
  • Don’t Look Back In Anger
  • Wonderwall
  • The Importance of Being Idle
  • The Masterplan
  • Supersonic
  • Rock n Roll Star
  • Morning Glory
  • Acquiesce
  • Champagne Supernova
  • Some Might Say
Publisher: Big Brother
Release date: 2006-11-20
RRP: £16.99
Price: £2.95

Review Stop the Clocks / Oasis:

Terrace anthem heroes or rock plagiarists: how will history judge Oasis? Well, if a band's Greatest Hits is their dispatch to the ages, Stop The Clocks - a two CD collection that spans the ins and outs of their career from debut single "Supersonic" to 2005's sixth studio album Don't Believe The Truth - suggests that whether you believe they lost their way in a blizzard of cocaine around the time of 1997's Be Here Now or put their first foot wrong the day Liam first put crayon to paper as lyricist - at their best they're quite simply at the top of their game. First up, a run-through the early stuff: band manifesto "Rock'n'Roll Star', their first chart-topper "Some Might Say", and its B-side, the acoustic, Noel-sung "Talk Tonight". In such context, later efforts like "Lyla" and "Go Let It Out" lack the obvious hunger of what came before, but they demonstrate exactly why Oasis got as huge as they did: their affinity for the stomping, Slade-derived swagger and runway-width choruses just perfect for filling stadiums and football fields. Fans who shelled out for Oasis' B-sides compilation The Masterplan might feel mugged by the decision to reprise four tracks here, but a genuine Oasis Best Of wouldn't seriously work without the presence of "Acquiesce". Live forever? These songs just might. -Louis Pattison.

Review Various Artists  / PULP FICTION (10TH ANNIVERSARY
Tracks PULP FICTION (10TH ANNIVERSARY
  • Rumble - Link Wray & His Ray Men
  • Since I First Met You - The Robins
  • Pumpkin And Honey Bunny/Misirlou - Tim Roth/Amanada Plummer, Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
  • Ezekiel 25:17 - Samuel L. Jackson
  • Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
  • Royale With Cheese - John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson
  • Zed's Dead, Baby/Bullwinkle Part II - Maria De Medeiros, Bruce Willis, The Centurians
  • Out Of Limits - The Marketts
  • Bustin' Surfboards - The Tornadoes
  • Bring Out The Gimp/Comanche - Peter Green/Duane Whitaker/The Revels
  • Surf Rider - The Lively Ones
  • Interview With Quentin Tarantino - Soundtrack
  • You Never Can Tell - Chuck Berry
  • Jungle Boogie - Kool & The Gang
  • Let's Stay Together - Al Green
  • Flowers On The Wall - The Statler Brothers
  • Personality Goes A Long Way - John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson
  • Lonesome Town - Ricky Nelson
  • Strawberry Letter 23 - The Brothers Johnson
  • Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon - Urge Overkill
  • If Love Is A Red Dress (Hang Me In Rags) - Maria McKee
Publisher: Commercial Marketing
Release date: 2002-08-19
Run time: 69 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.72

Review PULP FICTION (10TH ANNIVERSARY / Various Artists:

Dick Dale's surf-guitar provided the memorable title theme ("Misirlou"), for Quentin Tarantino's 1994 smash, and although that sound runs throughout the soundtrack (along with bits and pieces of dialogue from the movie), this is a pretty eclectic bunch of really terrific songs. I don't know how it all manages to hang together, but it does (you might say the same for the interwoven stories in the movie). Where else are you going to find Chuck Berry, Maria McKee, Al Green, The Statler Brothers, Kool & the Gang, Urge Overkill (singing a Neil Diamond ballad!), Ricky Nelson, Dusty Springfield, and the Tornadoes (among others)on one album? McKee's beautiful "If Love is a Red Dress (Hang Me in Rags)" is a standout, partly because it's less familiar. One of the few soundtracks of the '90s that went into the CD player and stayed there for weeks and months thereafter. -Jim Emerson.

Review Original Soundtrack  / Kill Bill Vol. 1
Tracks Kill Bill Vol. 1
  • Sword Swings
  • "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" - Santa Esmeralda
  • "The Flower of Carnage" - Meiko Kaji
  • You're My Wicked Life - dialogue excerpt w/ David Carradine, Julie Dreyfus & Uma Thurman
  • "Green Hornet" - Al Hirt
  • "That Certain Female" - Charlie Feathers
  • "Crane"/"White Lightning" - The RZA/Charles Bernstein
  • "Twisted Nerve" - Bernard Herrmann
  • "Woo Hoo" - The 5.6.7.8's
  • Queen Of the Crime Council - dialogue excerpt from film featuring Lucy Lui & Julie Dreyfus
  • Bannister Fight
  • Flip Sting
  • "Ode To Oren Ishii" - The RZA
  • Axe Throws
  • "Run Fay Run" - Isaac Hayes
  • "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" - Nancy Sinatra
  • Yakuza Oren 1
  • "The Lonely Shepherd" - Zamfir
  • "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" - Tomoyasu Hotei
  • "Ironside" excerpt - Quincy Jones
  • "Super 16" excerpt - Neu!
  • "The Grand Duel - (Parte Prima)" - Luis Bacalov
Publisher: Maverick
Release date: 2003-10-06
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.99

Review Kill Bill Vol. 1 / Original Soundtrack:

Soundtracks have always been an integral part of Quentin Tarantino's films, sometimes playing as big a role as the actors, and the soundtrack to his kung-fu exploitation flick Kill Bill Vol. 1 is no exception. Who can forget the marvellous ear-splitting use of Stealers Wheel's "Stuck in the Middle with You" in Reservoir Dogs, or Dusty Springfield's sublime "Son of a Preacher Man" in Pulp Fiction? Tarantino is the executive producer for the Kill Bill Vol. 1 soundtrack and considering his penchant for the wilfully obscure and talent for dusting off old gems, it's not surprising this overtly eclectic collection makes fascinating listening. Along with the jarring-if, thankfully, few-dialogue excerpts, comes delightful gems such as Santa Esmeralda's masterful "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood". There's the slide guitar-fuelled rockabilly cool of Charlie Feathers' "That Certain Female", Spaghetti Western atmospherics from Luis Bacalov, and Wu Tang Clan rapper RZA belting out "Ode to Oren". Not for the faint eared then, but despite breaking every continuity rule in the book, it makes for marvellous listening. -Christopher Barrett.

Review Sugababes  / Overloaded: The Singles Collection
Tracks Overloaded: The Singles Collection
  • Freak Like Me
  • Too Lost In You
  • Round Round
  • Push The Button
  • Red Dress
  • Overload
  • Stronger
  • Ugly
  • Shape
  • In The Middle
  • Hole In The Head
  • Easy
  • Good To Be Gone
  • Run For Cover
  • Caught In A Moment
Publisher: Universal / Island
Release date: 2006-11-13
Run time: 58 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.15

Review Overloaded: The Singles Collection / Sugababes:

It's been a slightly tumultuous but hugely successful ride to the top for UK superstars The Sugababes. They've lost not one, but two band members since forming in 1998, but have nonetheless achieved three Brit Awards, an ESKA, a slew of chart hits (including four number ones), four well-received LPs and - more recently - an inclusion in the Guinness Book Of Records for 'Best Female Act Of The Century'. Overloaded, their fifth official album, is a Greatest Hits package, bringing together most of their main singles so far. Beginning with their Richard X produced hit "Freak Like Me" (their first number one), the album profiles most of their hits, including all their most addictive moments - such as "Hole In The Head", "Round, Round" and "Push The Button" - but excluding more lukewarm releases like "New Year", "Soul Sound", "Angels With Dirty Faces" and "Follow Me Home". There's some new material too, notably "Easy", the band's lascivious collaboration with Californian rock band Orson, and the catchy "Good To Be Gone", which is slated to be the second single from the album. -Danny McKenna.

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Blackout, After the Gold Rush, Songs From The Sparkle Lounge, Songs In The Key Of Life, A Hard Day's Night, Greatest Hits, One Tree Hill - Music from the Television Series, Vol. 2: Friends with Benefit, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars: Remastered, Hot August Night, Hot August Night, Greatest Hits, Overloaded: The Singles Collection, Ladies and Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael, Blackout, Here's to Future Days, The Very Best Of, Stop the Clocks, PULP FICTION (10TH ANNIVERSARY, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Overloaded: The Singles Collection

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