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All odds & ends

I'm gonna review things that don't fit anywhere else or artists that  I don't want to give a whole seperate page to.Interesting,eh?
 
                                                                     ABBA    GOLD     B

 

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Released: September 21st, 1992
Formats: LP; CD
Genre: Happy ,Sugary Pop
Studio/Live?: Studio
1 Dancing Queen
2 Knowing Me, Knowing You
3 Take A Chance On Me
4 Mamma Mia
5 Lay All Your Love On Me
6 Super Trouper
7 I Have A Dream
8 The Winner Takes It All
9 Money, Money, Money
10 SOS
11 Chiquitita
12 Fernando
13 Voulez-Vous
14 Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
15 Does Your Mother Know
16 One of Us
17 The Name Of The Game
18 Thank You For The Music
19 Waterloo

Yep.ABBA ,the legendary ABBA do come on the miscellaneous page because I am positive that at least for the next 20 years I am not going to buy another album by them.You see the songs are OK and all that and Dancing Queen and Mama Mia even stick out in my memory but I hardly listen to this album .Since I got this I have only heard it 2 times.I bought this album 1 year ago.I expect they are too happy for me.Why are they so damn HAPPY?!!!!!!!!!?Why?And even they are sad ,it sounds like they are happy.

See,I like mood changes on my albums and I like them near 40 minutes .I can't remember  when I have ever sat out for the whole thing.

The songs are OK,all right.Most people will enjoy them.I expect most people to.They just aren't a band that  I dig.So don't let me stop you from buying this if you want to,ok?

"I have a Dream" is one song which seems to have been covered by every pop  band ever since.Was it a ABBA original ?I couldn't care less.

                                            Dreamland -Robert Miles         C        

Genre-Dream Pop

Most probably if you were born more than 5 years ago and were big enough to watch TV  you have heard some part of this in some commercial.

Anyways,what is germane to the issue is that this album is only good for one mood-and that mood is a mood where you want to fall asleep and don't want to listen to some good old rock'n'roll.Then this album comes in handy.I would also advise a good book.Otherwise this album is useless.I am, for some reason,unable to concentrate on the album because the whole damn thing is fluff. It's been months since I heard it last and when i heard it last I was doing so after many years.(And that basically is what this page is all about.

                                                               BACK  TO  BEDLAM   C

 Genre-New Age Lush Pop

High
You're Beautiful
Wise Men
Goodbye My Lover
Tears and Rain
Out of my Mind
So Long, Jimmy
Billy
Cry
No Bravery

You know,I possess only three albums which were released in 2005 .Bigger Bang By The Rolling Stones(bored the shit out of me),X & Y by Coldplay(used to like it but now it bores the shit out of me) and Back To Bedlam  by James Blunt,70% of which bores the shit out of me.

Whole of last year it was "James Blunt is great,Back To Bedlam is a great album" and "JAmes Blun is a fuckin' asshole and should be murdered Back to bedlam sucks fuckin ass ".Now.........a album a little different from the others comes out in the mainstream and see the fuss it causes.

There are about  3 interesting songs on the whole album,some are just filler,most sound generic,but if you are feeling very down in the mouth I won't tell you to say no to this album,it can work if you are feeling overly sentimental and have a preference for today's Britpop mainstream that sound miles better than Kylie Britney Lopez Agullserojsofjg Shakiraoifsjgoidjyoidxtjypoifjythoiftjhofit bla blah lbah lbahlblalflfgldfhldclg.

The good things first..........James Blunt has a different voice from those  boy bands(Westlife,Male prostitutes).It has sweetness,and so have the songs.It sounds quite fresh to me mainly because I never listen to todays mainstream pop.But then he goes and packs the whole album with songs that sound stale to me.God knows what it is like to people who hear stuff like this all the time.Wait a minute I was talking about the good things..............Wiseman is one of the good things you can download illegaly,so is Billy,You're Beautiful most likely you have heard unless you live in isolation or are like me.And..I guess thats it.You can afford to give the rest a miss.

Ummmmm.............this guy is unlucky.Either he is overrated or sadly underrated.This guy can write a pop song and make it sound good and fresh and also some original tunes and that's more than you can  say about anybody in the mainstream nowadays.Who's competing with this guy?Justin Timberlake?!!!!!!

And if you gave me a choice between any rap metal band and this guy I'll choose this guy,anytime,anyplace.

But if you think I am gonna risk buying an album by this guy,where there is a 90% chance that most of it is gonna be filler you can think again.That is why I created this page in the first place.To review albums I bought by mistake.

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