Thrustmaster Sound System 5.1 - PC multimedia home theatre speaker system - 60 Watt (Total)

Classics at the Pops
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Confessions Of A Pop Group
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Customer Review: TSC at their best!! Hooray!! for uncommercial albums
This album is a hidden gem, Very uncommercial. At the time of release, sadly commercial sales for TSC dipped, hence why its a hidden gem. This is sad, but maybe TSC’s audience wanted ‘Long Hot Summer’ part 3, 4, 5 etc every year, but with maturity you can listen to this some 16 years after it was released in a different light. The First part of the album is very experimental, beautiful vocals, orchestration, piano and charming gentle tunes as good as any of TSC’s early work. Standout tracks ‘The story of someone’s shoe’ and Mick Talbot’s ‘The little boy in a castle’ are a case in point. The second part of the album has soul, even funk with the only two singles released off the album, the charming ‘Life at the top peoples Health Farm’ and ‘How she through it all away’ showing the humour and softer side of The Style Council. Its a terrific album, enjoy it!!
Customer Review: His Ever Chaging Mood
In retrospect ‘Confessions’ can be seen as a watershed in Paul Weller’s career, marking a shift from politically motivated pop to songs of a more personal nature. The brittle production that marred 1987’s ‘Cost of Loving’ LP is thankfully missing, replaced with a more natural acoustic feel. While bands of the time, such as The Happy Mondays and New Order embraced the explosion in house music Weller and Co were taking a sojourn into classical. ‘Confessions’ was and remains Weller’s most ambitious and complex album and in the main it worked. Despite being grandiose, the opening side (the first five tracks for those listening on CD) features some of his best recordings.The piano drenched opener ‘It’s a Very Deep Sea’ is one of these, as is the sweeping ‘Changing of the Guard’. Lyrically it’s also strong perhaps best highlighted on ‘The Story of Someone’s Shoe’, which in no uncertain fashion details the emptiness of a one-night stand. The record’s theme is one of reflection; many of the tracks are awash with tales of regret and missed opportunity.The fantastically poppy ‘How She threw it All Away’ and the equally melodic ‘Why I Went Missing’ are both in this mould so too is the Big-Band style ‘Confession’s 1, 2 and 3′. However fans of Weller’s more robust work should probably steer clear, only on the title track does he unleash some of his old fury. ‘Cheap and nasty bullshit land’ he spits on the tracks opening line, as the band launch into a nine-minute plus synth-funk tirade on 1980’s culture. As a collection of songs it’s as complete as ‘Our Favourite Shop’, perhaps just lacking a little of that record’s swagger. Only ‘Life at a Top People’s Health Farm’ (which must rank as Weller’s worst ever single) and the lacklustre ‘If I Was a Dole Dads Toy Boy’ disappoint. Mick Talbot whose previous offerings are at best described as ‘mixed’ even contributes two fine instrumentals while DC Lee’s voice also sounds less abrasive. The singer putting in her best Council performance on the elaborate ‘The Gardener of Eden’, which somehow manages to open with a heavily orchestrated piece and close with a Beach Boys pastiche. It’s this track that evokes the diversity of the Style Council, who 18-months after the release of ‘Confessions’ were no more. A musical journey that had taken in jazz, soul, fink and pop brought to a close when their record company rejected the band’s garage house direction.

Baby Pop
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Ghosthunter (PS2) Many people scoff whenever the suggestion is made that video games can be scary, but Ghosthunter proves once and for all that games are the new medium of choice for entertainment with added goose bumps. The game casts you as rookie cop Lazarus Jones, who accidentally sets loose a horde of evil trapped spirits (as you do) and has to take on the job of recapturing them and saving his partner.

The obvious problem is that ghosts are incorporeal by nature and it takes one of the insubstantial blighters being fused to Lazarus before he can really take them on. At this point he gains not just the ability to see the evil dead, but also shoot them with his gun and capture them in a special ghost trap/grenade. When in “weapon mode” the game has a rather nice dual control system that allows you to move and fire in another direction at the same time (as long as the rather unhelpful camera system isn’t getting in the way)–but thankfully this is more than just another mindless shoot-’em-up. Most of the important ghosts are actually rather difficult to attack directly and you must solve various puzzles, such as getting them to come out of a possessed TV or tricking them into turning on the power in a dilapidated building, before you can start blasting. Like the same team’s Primal this is not going to appeal to adrenaline junkies, but for most others this offers a fairly intelligent and atmospheric adventure in ghostbusting. –David Jenkins
Customer Review: Pleasantly surprised!
Well now…
Firstly I’d like to say I’m a fan of all things spooky. I like nothing better than popping zombies heads at close range in the Ressie series(tm) or being scared (and slightly confused) at the warped world of everyones favourite lake resort of SH! So I wasn’t happy when I started playing this game and found it looked a bit childish! However after hours of poltergeists in schools and psychotic mourning mothers in swamps I was hooked. Yes it’s not gory, I know there’s no flesh eating and yes a talking ghost head is more Disney than Grisley! But it’s compelling, fun and addictive with a good plot, laughs and some spooky moments. Give it a chance, you might like it.
Customer Review: Very addictive!
Hi guys,

I would really recommend getting this game. I have just completed it and I have been captivated all of the way through. The graphics are simply stunning and it makes you realise that all games should be pushed to this level of detail on the PS2, so much so that I recently started playing another game only to have an aniclimatic feeling due to the graphics as I had been so spoilt by GhostHunter's graphics. I especially recommend this game if you have played and completed 'Second Sight' and love that too. Just imagine Ghostbusters meets Resident Evil and TombRaider and there is your premise for this game! I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

Thrustmaster Sound System 5.1 - PC multimedia home theatre speaker system - 60 Watt (Total)