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Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House, Ann Arbor Mi Nov 1968/+Dvda

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Adult Contemporary
by: Neil Young

December 08, 2008
though the dvd is another audio and does not contain the concert as a video...this cd/dvd is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo great and worth the wait...enough said, it's a neil young cd so...

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Safe Trip Home: Deluxe Edition

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Adult Contemporary
by: Dido

November 17, 2008

Loved her previous albums but I'm finding this one a bit of a drudge - its hard to determine when one track ends and another starts and its just miserable listening to it BORING

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Jennifer Hudson

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Adult Contemporary
by: Jennifer Hudson

September 29, 2008
I bought this albulm off the back of really liking the single 'Spotlight'and I was not disappointed. It is a really good albulm with a great mix of songs on it, I don't think there was one that I flicked through. I think that Jennifer Hudson has a brilliant voice and this really shows it off.

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A Christmas Gift For You from Phil Spector [Digitally Remastered By Phil Spector]

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Adult Contemporary
by: Phil Spector

October 26, 2007
When this album hit the shops Pres.Kennedy had just been assasinated.As no one felt like celebrating-so they say-the album was a total flop and warehouses all over the country had 1000s of returned copies.
Understandably Spector was annoyed after all that work!
Probably the fact that the Singing Nun represented that years Christmas hit!
In 1964 the British Invasion which gave a boost to his career as the Ronettes toured the U K and the man came here to nob with the Stones and his British answer Andrew Loog Oldham who would prove beneficial.
as for the Beatles they would be his Saviour and by the early 70s both Harrison and Lennon had increased his bank balance considerably as well as his ego.Plus the fact that Apple had reissued the Christmas ... Read More:

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Jonas Brothers

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Adult Contemporary
by: Jonas Brothers

June 23, 2008
I love this album. Ever since i bought it iv been driving my family and friends crazy singing all the catchy songs. As a big busted fan i think it is a very good pop/rock album. I would recommend it to anyone, the jonas brothers are more than just some "disney popcorn" and their songs are very well written. One of the best albums i own!

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And So It Goes

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Adult Contemporary
by: Blake

September 29, 2008
I was very excited to hear that Blake had a new album coming out so I quickly ordered this one. I have to say, while I still love their music, it came as a disappointment. Quite a few of the songs that are being covered are too well known and Blake's version is not that different from the original. What made their first album great was the unique way their voices gave character to well-known pieces of music. This album however lacks the warmth and originality of the first. It is a bit too "pop" and "balladesque". Best song in this album is probably "Chasing Cars".

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The Essential Leonard Cohen

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Adult Contemporary
by: Leonard Cohen

April 25, 2005
This is as fine an introduction to the works of Leonard Cohen as could be imagined. The track list, selected by the man himself, covers almost every period of his recorded output (Cohen is not prolific in the way, say, Bob Dylan is, or Neil Young), but I do feel some truly great stuff has been overlooked, i.e. the hushed, but haunting version of 'Story Of Isaac' from 1973's LIVE SONGS, which is one of the most profound things that anyone has ever written, the great live recordings from FIELD COMMANDER COHEN: Tour Of 1979, which admittedly was not released until after THE ESSENTIAL LEONARD COHEN appeared. Of those songs, I feel the title track is as good and epic a song as any he's recorded, and the version from NEW SKIN FOR THE OLD CEREMONY would have sufficed over e.g 'Take This Longing' ... Read More:

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Gossip in the Grain

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Adult Contemporary
by: Ray LaMontagne

October 13, 2008
What an absolutely magnificent release this is.From the soulful,upbeat strut of the opener "You Are The Best Thing" all the way to the hushed beauty of the title track which closes proceedings , Ray and his cohorts simply never put a foot wrong.It is ,i believe, a modern classic and a firm contender for Album Of The Year .
I came to this release with no knowledge of this guy's previous work , i'd heard his name and read about him but never got around to checking out his music. I cannot therefore tell you how this new work compares to previous releases , what i can tell you , without doubt , is that this is a CD i've been playing constantly for the past 3 or 4 weeks now and i've never got bored yet , in fact it just seems to get better every time i play the damn thing !
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I Am... Sasha Fierce [2X CD]

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Adult Contemporary
by: Beyonce

November 17, 2008
This is her best album to date. 18 wonderful tracks of Beyonce at her best.

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Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol.8/Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Adult Contemporary
by: Bob Dylan

October 06, 2008
All the 29 (so far) 1 star reviews are not reviews of the music but of the marketing of the 3CD version. Amongst them are some very angry long standing Dylan fans who refuse to even buy any of the versions, not merely the over priced deluxe version. Well, thats their loss.

I started listening to Dylan as a teenager in the early 60's and have always felt that the first three albums from the electric period were the peak of an amazing career. This new collection is another wonderful peak that has enabled me to revisit the period they cover and add to my appreciation of his later career. I have not yet found a song to better my personal Dylan favourite 'Desolation Row' but there are several that come close after a few weeks of listening and the collection only adds to my gratitude that the man ... Read More: