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Hot Fuss

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by: The Killers

May 15, 2006
I bought this album because I really like the track 'Mr Brightside' which is excellent and easily the best thing on the album. Some of the others are ok but I couldn't listen to this from start to finish as it would annoy me intensely. The reason I'm not that fond of it is because I often struggle to see a lot in mainstream pop music generally - it all seems to have either been done before or just doesn't mean anything to me I'm afraid! I appreciate that the band have been immensely successful and I would imagine that if you saw them live it would be a great performance. Not really my kind of thing on a CD though.

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Raising Sand

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by: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

October 29, 2007
I can respect Robert Plant for his work with Led Zeppelin (nearly 40 years ago) and Alison Krauss is a major talent with the Union Station but this just does not work. The production by T Bone Burnett is good but the material is poor and boring. It neither one thing (Rock) nor another (Country/Bluegrass). Having read the reviews beforehand I borrowed this CD from my library prepared for a probable disappointment and it certainly lived up to that.

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Vivere - Greatest Hits

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by: Andrea Bocelli

November 12, 2007
I have this CD on constant repeat! The music is so varied but holds your attention every step of the way. Bocelli's voice is one you just have to fall in love with. His "Romanza" is 1 of my favourites but "Vivo Per Lei" has me hooked also. GET THIS CD!!!!!!

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Grange Hill - the Album

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by: Various Artists

November 10, 2008
I have this CD on constant repeat! The music is so varied but holds your attention every step of the way. Bocelli's voice is one you just have to fall in love with. His "Romanza" is 1 of my favourites but "Vivo Per Lei" has me hooked also. GET THIS CD!!!!!!

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Third

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by: Portishead

April 28, 2008
Much of the time bands who have gone into hibernation return with albums which are mere shadows of their previous work. This album is the complete opposite and successfully captures the eerie tones which occupy many of their best songs. I simply cannot pick a favourite from an album which oozes style.

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Glasvegas / A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss) (2CD)

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by: Glasvegas

December 01, 2008
The album is fine, nothing wrong there, it's just the tagged on second disc. It should have been released as a stand alone, allowed to stand and fight it's own corner, win it's own battles, as it is it's just a cheap marketing gimmick to flog a few extra copies of the lp, come of them to fans who've already shelled out their hard earned already. Glasvegas - doing it for the man.

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ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits

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by: ABBA

June 24, 2002
This cd is amazing, it sold over 26 million the year it came out, and now that it has been released it still is selling, ABBA has sold over 7,000 cd's every day!!!

The music on this cd is fantastic, best music there ever is, and the other ABBA cd is amazing music, all there music is fantastic, this cd is somethink that everyone should own cause it is fantastic, catchy, like

1. Dancing Queen
2. Take A Chance On Me
3. Chiquitita
4. Voulez-Vous
5. Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie! (A Man After The Midnight)
6. Sooooooooo much more...

And there are amazing songs that capture the heart, like

1. The Winner Takes It All
2. One Of Us
3. Soooooooo much more...

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BANDAGED - Little Drummer Boy / Peace on Earth

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by: Sir Terry Wogan & Aled Jones

December 08, 2008
I found this on play.com reviews which i think sums it all up
"It is pretty good, but that's not what's important. What really matters is:

1 It's for Children in Need
2. Surely, anything that might prevent another reality TV show song from being Christmas number one has to be a good thing.

So just order it, okay? And if you can bear (as in Pudsey!) to wait, order it during the week commencing 15 December, so that the purchase counts towards the charts for Christmas week."

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Classic FM - Smooth Classics - The Ultimate Collection

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Music
by: Various Artists

October 27, 2008

The `smooth' title has been often used, but this is an inspirational choice of music, for its variety of relaxing tunes and a great line up of soloists including Nicola Benedetti, Bryn Terfel, Aled Jones, Julian Lloyd Webber, Renée Fleming, Lisa Gerrard, Vladimir Ashkenazy.

The orchestras include The Royal Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, City of Prague Philharmonic,

The conductors are Herbert von Karajan, Daniel Barenboim, John Eliot Gardiner and more.

Highly recommended.

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Voices Of The Valley Encore

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by: Fron Male Voice Choir

November 19, 2007
This could be any reasonably competent male voice choir. I WAS VERY DIASAPPOINTED WITH IT. It did not have the depth and resonance and passion of a 'proper' Welsh male voice choir like Treorchy.
It seems like a sanitised version.
Nowhere near good enough!!!