Do You Like Rock Music?
Since forming in 2000, Brighton renegades British Sea Power have firmly stomped their own path. Whether dressing up as 1930s Boy Scouts on stage, walking through their audiences beating drums or exploring the peripheries of rock music (as on their first two albums 2003’s The Decline Of British Sea Power and 2005’s Open Season) they have honed a style that’s all their own. Do You Like Rock Music? sees the band continue their uniquely exploratory approach. Enlisting producers Efrim Menuck (Godspeed You! Black Emperor) and Graham Sutton (Jarvis Cocker), the band seem even more determined in their effort to create something adventurous. But despite these veteran helping hands and the towering, oppressive atmospheres that mark the introductory songs on the album–all pounding drums, bleak rockscapes and chanting choruses–this is a deceptively accessible record. Tunes like “Atom” and “Down on the Ground”–both heard last on the band’s Krankenhaus EP)–are full of edgy BSP bombast; but Arcade Fire-esque opener “All in It,” the shoegazery “Canvey Island,” “Great Skua,”–and especially “Waving Flags”–are stadium-sized songs to wave your lighter around to. Then again, BSP playing it safe is still a much more convincing–not to mention entertaining–proposition than many of their conformist contemporaries. Rollickin’ stuff. –Danny McKenna

Customer Review: British Music at its best
I was a bit dissapointed with open Season after their first album The Decline of….. But they have come back with possibly the album of the year and its only February

Anybody who gives this 1 star should go back to their Simply Red and Take That Albums

Customer Review: Long Overdue
Its good to see British Sea Power getting some praise at long last. Sure “The Decline Of..” rightly got great reviews but it was too raw for some, with DYLRM? they have made their sound deeper and more cavernous, while the songs while by no means dumbed down are more accessible to the mainstream but still bear the hallmarks of their quirky debut. Like a previous reviewer said there is no point picking out best songs as your favourite changes daily. A great achievement and surely at last they have the Mercury prize in the bag, they deserve it as BSP are the only UK band to produce 3 high quality albums this decade. Some of us have been sailing with them all the way but we WELCOME IN all newcomers.

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The Platinum Collection - Greatest Hits I, II & III
What once seemed Queen’s greatest liabilities–a preening flamboyance and pompous, overwrought theatricality–have ironically become their most enduring charms in a grey, postmodern pop-music landscape. While it eschews the glammy, pre-punk hard rock of live faves such as “Stone Cold Crazy” and “Tie Your Mother Down” for the band’s more quirky club-beat string of latter-day hits , this 51-track triple-CD anthology goes a long way toward documenting the true dimensions of the band’s music and fame. It even includes some solo work by Brian May and Freddie Mercury, whose duet on “Barcelona” with diva Montserrat Caball? transcends boundaries of both time and genre. A previously unreleased live performance of “The Show Must Go On” featuring Elton John on vocals is also included. –Jerry McCulley

Customer Review: Bow down to Rock Royalty!!
The best, most flamboyant, most spectacular, most amazing rock group ever!! Queen are just brilliant. In Freddie Mercury, they had a frontman who had it all. He could command the stage like no one else, had a voice that was so incredible, a style that was so unique, and a talent that can never be dimmed. Brian May is a guitar genius, able to make the instrument speak, and being a good vocalist in his own right. John Deacon is brilliant on bass, and Roger Taylor a diva on the drums, each member stamping his own individuality on the band. Their music is so intense, so haunting, so fantastic, so QUEEN!! This band are THE Royalty of Rock, and as such, deserve all the homage that is offerred to them. They rock,their music rocks, they certainly rock my world, and I’m sure that everyone who listens to them will find their own world rocked too. God Save Queen!!

Customer Review: Doesn’t represent the true power of Queen
If you’re a collector, who wouldn’t mind buying 5-6 albums when you really like a band, then don’t buy this. If you however are just interested in their most well known songs, like Bohemian Rhapsody, Killer Queen, We Are The Champions…etc, then this might be worth your money.

Greatest Hits I

This collection isn’t fair to their early material. This is like making a 15 song compilation for The Beatles from Rubber Soul to Let It Be, or for Led Zeppelin throughout their entire career. You simply can’t make a fair Queen compilation from 73 to 80 on one CD only.

If this would be a 2CD-compilation from 73 to 80, I would remove Flash’s Theme, and add the following songs, for a total of 17+17 songs.

Keep Yourself Alive, Doing All Right, Liar, Father To Son, White Queen, Ogre Battle, Nevermore, Brighton Rock, In the Lap of the Gods, Stone Cold Crazy, Death On Two Legs, 39, Love of My Life, Tie Your Mother Down, You Take My Breath Away, More of That Jazz, Dragon Attack and Sail Away Sweet Sister.

That would be fair to the early Queen.

Greatest Hits II

Queen in the 80’s developed into a single oriented band, so this is a great compilation for their late years. But where’s Bijou?

I have to say I don’t see the point in Greatest Hits III, but some songs like You Don’t Fool Me and Princes of the Universe are worth listening to, atleast.

I would only recommend this if you’re into the late Queen material. And then take a look at their 70’s studio albums, from Queen(1973) to The Game(1980).

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Rock N Roll Backlash

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Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party
Customer Review: Great reissue
Alan Freed was only the artist via his name being there-the man without whom etc.As a “singer” he isn’t even much of a non singer simply adding the words”rock’n'roll boogie” to the instrumental led by Sam The Man Taylor

The instrumentals here are spot on they groove like a groover and Taylor honks like a crazed honker.

Anyone who remembers listening to Freed’s shows on Radio Luxemburg may remember the vast amounts of white music he played-Ivory Tower for instance was not by the black group who covered the song but the version they covered by Cathy Carr.Rather surprising really as Ivory Tower by Cathy Carr was not exactly rock’n'roll but a Tin Pan Alley Waltz.Cathy cut an album of mainly standards but showed a greater preference for what became high school pop-as her CD on the Teenager label proves.

Maybe this rather stunning blonde in her late 20s in 1956 always wanted to be a teenager

Anyway back to this album-another of Freed’s possibly “guilty pleasures” was a box of singles he would number in his own hand and which contained a few Pat Boone singles.As he was a great friend of pop singer Jody Reynolds he eventually left it to him.

On this CD from the original 2 albums are a number of songs by the Modernaires-of Glenn Miller fame.

Which goes to show-Freed may have named and pioneered rock’n'roll but he was into a lotta other musics as well

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Rock Island: Remastered

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Rock ’til You Drop
Customer Review: later 90s Quo learn to rock hard again
After a few disappointing efforts “Perfect Remedy” & “Aint Complainin” and the so-so “Thirsty Work” Quo rediscovered their rock roots and went back to the basics with “RTYD”. Clean production no synths and good strong rockier songs made this a winner with most of Quos ever loyal Army of fans. First track “Walk Around Like A Zombie” rocks very hard & sets the tone for the rest of the CD…”One Man Band” has Parfitt singing stronger than ever although the message in the lyrics is a worry given Rossis dictatorial ways.”Nothing Comes Easy” has a hypnotic beat with typical Quo understated vocals but Piledriver guitars building.A real bonus is the remake of the early 70s classic “4500 times” which the band pull off brilliantly given it a new fresh feel but retaining its haunting boogie roller coatser ride feel. A very good CD overall with Quo building towards the awesome “Under The Influence” of mid 1999.

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Bomb The Rocks: Early Days Singles 1989 - 1996
Customer Review: Early hits writ large!
This really is a case of `if you don’t like this you don’t like music’. Not because it is the greatest thing you have ever heard but because this is what music should be about… sometimes we forget music should entertain and not `impress’ you.

Only 2 or 3 songs get past the 3 minute mark, most are 12-bar blues with no more than about 5 or 6 lines of repeated lyrics and every one of them will blow you away with the energy and power available to this band.

Buy it, love it, start a garage rock band and love every second of it…

Customer Review: Original and extremely cool
I recently bought this CD like most people after seeing them in Quentin Tarrantino’s Kill Bill Vol. 1.
The song range from 50’s rock and roll to 90’s punk. Ok so the vocals are a bit shaky but the instrumental performance is mind blowing. I especially love the drummer, she provides raw energy to the tracks.
Woo Hoo is still my fave track just because it is so catchy (the song from the Carling advert). Bomb the Twist, Three Cool Chicks and She Was a Mau Mau are all cracking tracks too.
All in all a cool, trendy funky original album to own. Buy It!!!

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