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Artist:
Various Artists
  A Good Mix, 2009-01-04
Bought this for my son as he is starting to like R&B. A good mix of some of the best R&B tracks this year. Something for everyone.
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Artist:
Lil Wayne
Bring Back The Old Carters , 2008-10-20
The Carter 3 is a good album , but is Waynes weakest by far.
If you havnt heard the old Carters then i suggest that you listen to them before claiming C3 is Waynes greatest album.
Dont get me wrong C3 is still a top album ( 5 Stars ) but i think it is highly overated.
Most Recognisable Tracks include Lil Waynes hit Lollipop Ft Static Major.
A Millie
And Got Money Ft T-Pain
Artist such as Juelz Santana, Fabolous, Bobby Valentino and Jay-Z also feature among others.
I recomend this album to anyone but suggest that listeners also listen to Waynes early work Eg. The Carters 1 & 2 , 500 Degreez.
Also Waynes Mixtapes Eg. The Droughts , Dedications , The Leaks.
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List Price: £12.99
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Artist:
Alesha Dixon
Great Stoking filler!, 2008-12-31
This was just a little stoking filler for my Mom, because she LOVES this song!
I've even ended up downloading it too! lol
Its a great song to play VERY loudly when your man "does nothing" ... Good, catchy lyrics!
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Artist:
Akon
Freedom class!!, 2008-12-20
I have always been a fan of Akon but never bought his albums however this 1 i bought just off the back of Right Now and i'm extremely happy with my purchase. It really has a dance feel to the album with a few slow songs but the songs that jump off the album are Beautiful, Holla Holla, I'm Paid, Troublemaker and Freedom an all round great effort.
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Artist:
Kanye West
808s & Heartbreak sees Kanye West move somewhat controversially away from hip hop towards what he calls "pop art"--not the art movement championed by Andy Warhol, but his own artful pop music. This translates as Kanye dropping his rap shtick and picking up the Auto-Tune to help even out his singing voice, and trading his usual summery bounce for the brittle, wintry sound of the electronic Roland TR-808--the drum machine used in early hip hop and techno. Where previous Kanye albums have been about bling, 808s & Heartbreak is a paean to pain and misery. Prompted by the recent death of his mother, opening track "Welcome to Heartbreak" sets the album's key theme...
A "Closer" for the hip hop generation, 2009-01-03
First and foremost, I'd like to express my exasperation at hearing or reading people moaning at some - currently successful - black artists (Kanye West being one of them), accusing them of having betrayed the so-called "original true spirit of hip hop". These, behaving like self-proclaimed guardians of some private temple, seem to forget that hip hop, like every other form of art, is a mean not an end.
I also recall the great Mos Def was once asked, a few years ago, what he thought of his peers parading in videos with lavish ladies and expensive cars instead of providing supposed conscious statements in their music. His answer has baffled me for years (and still does): he said that it was precisely this (i.e. the fact of seeing black people behaving that way in front of huge audiences of, say, MTV proportions) that was revolutionary, more than any kind of political contest. And so, whether you fancy it or not. I can't agree more, as it seems, more generally, that a black artist is, still nowadays, supposed to deliver what's expected of him: making "black music".
Sorry for that somewhat long introduction, but I thought those two distinct points could be helpful to fully understand what Kanye West's fourth album proper is all about, and what it aims to be. On the previous one, 2007's "Graduation", he already considerably extended his sonic palette (sampling Daft Punk or legendary german krautrockers, Can), yet after that, last summer he produced, in the form of his duet with the promising Estelle, the wonderful "American Boy", which can only be described as the single best musical mainstream moment of the year, all straightforward dancefloor power and heavy beat science upfront.
"8O8s & Heartbreak" is an altogether very different beast to both those releases; having recently both lost his mother and ended up a longtime relationship with his fiancee, Kanye West isn't exactly in a partying mood here, to say the least. Yet, and it's what makes this record so satisfying, he still manages to entertain while expressing his utter sadness and pouring his deepest doubts over every song featured. From the first few bars of "Say You Will", it's understood Kanye's probably unleashed his landmark piece of music this time: over a bleak, possibly new wavish rhythm synth, he croons in a desperate yet suggestive and seductive manner about the loss of his love. The much-publicized use of the auto-tune process, supposedly a limitation, in fact allows him more freedom than ever: some reviewer pointed out he's not Nas nor Guru (he actually barely raps on the whole LP, mind you), and heaven knows he ain't Marvin Gaye either, but if the spine-tingling lament that is "Heartless" or the broody hypnotic complaint the first single "Love Lockdown" manages to be fail to move you, then nothing ever will. On the only upbeat track, "Paranoid", Kanye West even delivers the most perfect slice of pop angst ever heard since, say, Depeche Mode's "Enjoy The Silence" (yeah, that good). Perhaps only the quite blank "Robocop" is a relative failure, as every other song is a fascinating trip through this visionary artist's mind, even the somewhat rawer-sounding live freestyle "Pinocchio Story", that closes proceedings with an overwhelming tearjerking class.
Being very intimate, sounding entertaining at it and clearly conscious of what he does, somewhere between Kool & The Gang produced by New Order and the late and great Al Green stuck with The Neptunes in an elevator, Kanye West has achieved, minor weaknesses aside, a truly perfect pop album.
In a world that enjoys nothing as much as pigeonholing people of every kind (let alone artists), that alone is a triumph in itself.
TO ENJOY, CHERISH AND TREASURE...
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Artist:
Alesha Dixon
Brilliant Album By The Queen Of Strictly!, 2008-12-21
1. Welcome To The Alesha Show. Even though only 26 seconds, this has a lot of soul. 8/10
2. Let's Get Excited. A brilliant piece of slinky elctropop with R&B influences. 9/10
3. Breathe Slow. Beautiful ballad with a brilliant lush soundscape. 10/10
4. Cinderella Shoe. Sounds like a cut from Girls Aloud's "What Will The Neighbours Say?". 10/10
5. The Boy Does Nothing. The single of 2008. Brilliant Xenomania production with about 22 catchy bits. 10/10
6. Chasing Ghosts. Like the soul-revival of 2008. 8/10
7. Play Me. Song with brilliant drum & bass influences. 9/10
8. Hand It Over. A rap-pop song. Rather like "Some Like It" by Amerie. 10/10
9. Do You Know The Way It Feels. A chill-out cut. 8/10
10. Can I Begin. A Destiny's Child-esque ballad. 9/10
11. Italian's Do It Better. A beautiful ballad, like the new GA track "The Loving Kind". 10/10
12. Ooh Baby I Like It Like That. With the title, you'd expect it to be a club cut. It is. Beautifully dancey. 10/10
13. Don't Ever Let Me Go. A surprisingly upbeat ballad. 9/10
14. I'm Thru. Sounds like "Here We Go" from the GA album "WWTNS?" A Moonbaby cover. 10/10
If you keep on listening.....
15. Mystery. Quite a rocky number. Good still. 9/10
GRADE: 10/10
Alesha Dixon's debut album has similarities to Girls Aloud's albums, as she worked with the same people who produce GA's albums, Xenomania. Brilliant album.
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Linkin Park
fantastic as always, 2008-12-18
I have the live in Texas cd/dvd too and thought this one was just as good if not better!! The only downside to it is the numb/encore and jiggawhat/faint songs with Jay Z who is not really my cup of tea.Love Chester Bennington his voice is amazing!!! You will love this album go on buy it!!
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Portishead
Portishead's Third has been a long time coming, the result of a lengthy creative topor following 1997's dark, distinctly underrated album Portishead. Importantly, though, they've shaken it. While the core trio of Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley remains, this is quite a different band to Portishead's 90s incarnation: gone is the slo-mo turntable scratching and smoky jazz feel, replaced by heavy, brooding rhythms, vintage-sounding electronics, and spindly guitar. Still present, though, is that sense of emotional fracture and deep gloom. "Silence" opens with a dense drum loop which suddenly falls away to reveal Gibbons' voice, cold but magnificent:...
Prog-dub Snapshots of the Apocalypse, 2008-12-30
A soundtrack to some post-apocalypic world movie.
This is a wonderful album - to sit back and listen to and also to dance round the campfire!
There's elements of prog-rock but tastefully done in the dub style.
One weird thing about the songs though is that they seem to be amateaurishly put togeather and end too soon, but this is one of the spells that the landscape creeated by this music invites.
Worth every penny!!!
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Artist:
N-Dubz
Dappy, Tulisa and Faze are a trio of young rappers/vocalists from Camden who have been working hard to build up a solid UK fan base, putting on energetic live shows and diligently touring British secondary schools. Their work ethic has paid dividends, since the trio are now regarded by many as teen pop idols, and rightly so: their debut album, Uncle B, is an immediately likeable record that manages to blend big, hooky pop choruses with some serious âurban’ credentials - despite the group’s age and radio-friendly lyrics. The production – r&b mixed with UK-grime-lite rather than straight up rap – is equally co...
best album this year, 2008-12-29
i have loved n-dubz since better not waste my time was first released in 2006. they are my favorite band in the world. if u havent heard of them oR got this album - where u been? A must have. love all 3 of them. the n-dubz uk tour is in march-april 2009 all over the country. get ur tickets now! so N-DUBZ UNCLE B - BUY IT! NA NA NAI! HOPE U READ THIS DAPPY, TULISA AND FAZE. BIG LOVE!
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Artist:
John Legend
Strength to Strength, 2008-11-19
This is a fantastic return to form for John Legend. His last two albums have been great but both were very similar. This however, shows a change in tack from John Legend.
Tracks such as "Green Light" and "It's Over" will appeal to newer fans who favour Hip-Hop over R&B and those fans who want more up tempo songs. However, tracks such as "This Time" and "I Love, You Love" will appeal to the more traditional fans and those who like him for his tender and soft R&B songs.
From start to finish it is an outstanding album! My only criticism would be the dominance of Kanye West's influence. Some tracks would have been better without the use of Synthesisers on John Legends voice and some of the cheap 80's electro sounds which Kanye was trying to put in most of the tracks. However, John Legends soulfulness manages to overcome this.
Fantastic.
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![The Boy Does Nothing [Single]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lX%2BMoZRsL._SL160_.jpg "The Boy Does Nothing [Single]")
