The Kinks - Rock Reflections [2008]
The Kinks - Rock Reflections [2008]
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The Strawberry Bricks Guide To Progressive Prog Rock Music
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If This Is Rock and Roll I Want My Old Job Back
If This Is Rock and Roll I Want My Old Job Back
It was inevitable that someone would emerge from the Irish showband tradition to add rock & roll to the equation. Like all the most profitable ideas though, it only seemed obvious once someone had thought of it. If nothing else, the huge following gained by The Saw Doctors’ debut set illustrated what a wide-ranging thing Irishness is. If This Is Rock And Roll plays to the band’s greatest strength–a talent for rabble-rousing tunes which detail all manner of small town life. Diversity? Well, here’s the occasional lighters-aloft anthem such as “Sing A Powerful Song”. Exotic? How about “N17″–a rollicking offspring to Christy Moore’s emigrant hit “Don’t Forget Your Shovel”? Now add it all together and you’ve got yourself a national institution. As Irish as a pint of Guinness with a potato in it. –Peter Paphides
Customer Review: Show band at full throttle
An Irish five-piece who deliver all the passion and excitement of a showband at full throttle. This is melody and humour with a beat, a 60’s pop sound given a Celtic twist and driven by an unabashed determination to entertain.
This 1991 CD captures much of the excitement of a live band. These guys play with a vivacity which insists you get up and dance … or at least sing along relentlessly strumming your air guitar! There’s no fancy, pretentious superstar posing here - this is entertainment for the listener not a demand for adulation for the performers. It takes you back to a time when music was about boy-meets-girl on the dancefloor … a time when the guys on stage had to be able to play their instruments live and do so in a manner which kept your feet tapping. The Saw Doctors do that in spades!
Their songs look at love and lust and loss, and the economics of having to leave your home and go to another country just to earn a living. It’s an experience with which many Celts can identify. The lyrics allude to the politics of Ireland and the macro-economics of labour mobility. The lyrics allude to teenage emotions and teenage fantasies. The lyrics combine themes of life, love, and earning a living, of departure and loss, of moving on.
Tongue is firmly in cheek in places. The stand-out song is “I useta lover” - funny, irreverent, and a number which must be recognised as a rock classic. “Red cortina” and “N17″ are the other tracks which most gripped me, but a lot of the songs on the album catch your ear when they fit the right mood. Still a fresh, entertaining sound, an album you’ll play again and again.
Customer Review: Just class
Fantastic. Spirited and lively and completely feel good music with easy and catchy lyrics, when you have listened a few times you too will be singing along to the words. Hysterical madness, their inspiration coming from school girls to road signs. I found myself singing along in the car to some wary onlookers, but it is an album to let your hair down to, culchie rock with humour.
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The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle: Highlights
The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle: Highlights
Given that punk was supposed to blow away the hegemony of self-appointed “albums” artists, it’s perhaps a little optimistic to expect a classic album by the Sex Pistols. Some would say that Never Mind The Bollocks was indeed such a thing; few though, would make the same claim about this, the accompanying album to the band’s eponymous movie. That’s not, however, to say that The Great Rock’n'Roll Swindle doesn’t yield some top moments: “God Save The Queen” and “Anarchy In The UK” still remain as beautifully nihilistic as pop can get. Alas though, Glen Matlock didn’t stick around long enough to write a few more. What fills the gaps, in his absence, is a slew of occasionally amusing novelty songs (”Who Killed Bambi”, Sid’s “My Way”, “Friggin In The Riggin”), lame covers (”Substitute”, “Johnny B Goode”, the afro-funk Pistols medley “Black Arabs”) and a charming cameo from great train robber Ronnie Biggs on “Belsen Was A Gas”. Perhaps you had to be there. –Peter Paphides
Customer Review: Less is more
I would seriously reccommend the 12-track highlights album as opposed to the 24-track sprawling mess. Firstly when dealing with erratic material like this, the sequencing makes or breaks the album. The highlights album begins with Malcolm McLaren’s voiceover and then crashes into Rock n Roll Swindle - a good start. It includes all the best of the rock n roll songs like Something Else and Lonely Boy but none of the dross like Johnny Be Good and Road Runner where Johnny Rotten struggles to remember any of the words and consequently swears a lot! The Ten Pole Tudor songs are completely insane but seem to fit in better on the 12-track album than on the longer version.
However, the lyrics are still shocking, yet have none of the political oomph of the first pistols album. Perhaps this is the Pistols as Malcolm McLaren would have liked them - a charicature of punk rock with nothing much to say.
Personally, I would prefer a 17-track album with the ‘highlights’ dozen followed by the amusing French style Anarchy in the UK, then the first Belsen was a Gas, Don’t give me no lip, I’m not your stepping stone and the Black Arabs medley as a fittingly daft finisher. With the 24-track album this parody is placed before one of the songs it is parodying (No one is innocent) which seems absurd.
Whereas Johnny Rotten’s ‘Belsen was a gas’ seems to express disgust at the Nazi regime with the repeated ‘Be a man, kill someone’, the Ronnie Biggs’ version seems much too light hearted for the shocking subject matter, but then I suppose it would have been a bit much to expect pathos from one of the great train robbers! As for the dirty rugby song done punk style which concludes the longer album, if nothing has offended you so far, this one might just do it. Thankfully the highlights album omits this! All in all, this album proves just how pivotal Matlock was to the Sex Pistols being a serious band.
Customer Review: It’s A Swindle!
Forget objectivity this album is so obviously an insult to it’s intended audience that it’s beyond a joke.Then why do i find it so incredibly entertaining then? Punk rock always had a sense of the ridiculous.That was often missed by it’s detractors but as it was an antedote to the po faced mush that preceeded it we can understand that.It’s a mixed bag based on a film that was never really a film and contains all kinds of curios that many Pistols purists still find beneath contempt.As a collection of music it is fine, and like it or not, a part of the Pistols legend.
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Rock ‘n’ Roll Gypsies
Rock ‘n’ Roll Gypsies
Customer Review: Air guitars on standby
Great to see this finally being issued on CD, although be warned that the disc appears to have been recorded from a vinyl source. This is more apparent on some tracks than others but, overall, the sound quality is very good. The 4 bonus tracks, which include both sides of the single “Why D’Ya Lie To Me”, are a welcome addition to the original album and it’s great to hear the 11 minute instrumental, “Amazing Grace medley” again. Anyone who attended a Spider gig back in the day will have fond memories of this one!!
I would have awarded it the full 5 stars but for the sound quality, although, to this reviewer, this is a minor gripe.
Customer Review: TAKES ME RIGHT BACK
This band knew how to work an audience. One of the most hardworking outfits on the scene at the time. Never stopped touring. No frills. No airs and graces, just no nonsense rock & roll. Great stuff.
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Goodbye Nashville Hello Camden Town: a Pub Rock Anthology
Goodbye Nashville Hello Camden Town: a Pub Rock Anthology
Customer Review: Worth it for Unicorn
I saw a lot of those bands at Dingwalls in the seventies and the one that sticks in my mind the most is Unicorn.They had that American thing off really well but with quirky British lyrics.Some very good musicians in those bands,I wonder how many are Postmen,Couriers,Librarians and of course there’s one born again every minute.Deserves to be listened to,preferably in the state that you were in when you first heard them.Don’t try to get into those cheese cloth shirts though,without first having liposuction or at least wearing a training bra.
Customer Review: Goodbye Prog Rock, Hello Pub Rock
`Goodbye Nashville, Hello Camden Town’ is the most comprehensive attempt to create a Pub Rock Anthology to press. The Pub Rock scene was borne of frustration of the excesses of the seventies music scene and specifically prog rock creating rock theatre so isolating its self from its own audience. And so a grass roots movement of musicians playing in pubs re-energised the London music scene and led up to the birth of punk which itself then subverted most of the Pub Rock musicians into becoming `New Wave’ which somehow perfectly described their retro sixties styles.
Originally playing the sort of Country Music today referred to as Americana originally developed by Gram Parson’s era Byrds and The Band crawling out of Dylan’s window. The Pub Rock sound eventually evolved into the tight r’n'b famously peddled by Dr Feelgood. This anthology focuses more on the initial early country sound which would appear to be a commercial decision based on the cost of licensing the later more well known tracks, that Dr Feelgood would have only one track on this is criminal particularly when taking into account of how many times their name is used on the art work and extensive liner notes.
That said it is still a great anthology spot lighting Brinsley Schwarz whose Bassist, Nick Lowe, and manager, Dave Robson, along with Chilli Willi manager, Jake Riviera and a five hundred pound load from Dr Feelgood would start the Stiff record label. Other highlights are the Ian Dury led Kilburn and the Highroads, Punk prototypes Eddie and the Hot Rods and a pre-snooker loopy self parody Chas and Dave.
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Rock Follies
Rock Follies
Customer Review: Rock Follies
I can recall now crowding around the telly as a young kid to watch The Rock follies long before Girl Power there was The Follie’s Power a group of three women trying to make their way in what was and perhaps right up until the eighties (when we had left school and staretd to fight the power) a very male dominated world of music - you can’t help but cringe as you remember the fashion, the misery of a pre-thatacher britain where apathy ruled the day - and don’t you ever for get it. The Follies was the best thing on telly in the late 70’s - there was nothing like it and in a world now of Pop Idol and X factor (what did we all do before the talented Kelly Clarkson and Will Young!!) Follies music and the politics of the shows along with the fact that these women are from such different social class makes it ”must see tv” to understand where Music has not only come from today but exactly where things were back then. I understand Julie Conington turned her back on the whole fame game shortly after making this series…… But even so through Rula and Charlotte remind us all to say ” step back Suzi Quartro ” These Wimmin Rock” and the actng for the time and was just brilliant. I remain a fan of the show and the music until my dying day
Customer Review: TV’s First Girl Group
As we approach the Queen’s Golden jubilee, here is a welcome re-release of a show from the year of her Silver jubilee - the sequel to the 1975 series “Rock Follies”, neither of which have ever been repeated since (but why?). The story of the rise and rapid fall of a girl group during the year dominated by punk rock, if you never saw the series, then don’t worry , the main plot is told by the songs - “Follies of 77″ tells the story-so-far, “Round 1″, “The Hype” and “The Things You have to Do” are about life in a record deal, whilst the “Wolf at the Door” and the terribly sad “Real Life” tell the listener how it all ends. The album features the groups real-life hit single “O.K.” (plus its b-side “B-side” as a bonus track) - words and music being composed once again by Howard Schumann and Andy Mackay (of Roxy Music fame). More than nostalgia - a postcard of its time, now someone show the programme again, or at least get it out on video/DVD!
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Monsters of Rock
Monsters of Rock
Customer Review: Un-original
Agreeing with the above, this is a great selection of rock songs, and as soon as i saw this advertised i thought ‘iwant this!!!!’ but looking into it i do own all of these songs on various other compilations, its great if youre curious about rock music because these are the best youre going to find, but it is un-original and the same line up for many other cds, something for everyone on there though!
Customer Review: same old songs again
why do these record labels keep releasing these same old songs on the same old title ‘monsters of rock’?
don’t buy this cd because i bet you probably have all the songs on another best of heavy metal cd in a different order.
com’on record labels do something original.
but nice to hear gillan again.
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King of New Orleans Rock ‘n’ Roll
King of New Orleans Rock ‘n’ Roll
Customer Review: The Fat Man goes on forever
Hot on the heels of the Domino tribute comes the Proper Box edition-4 CDs up to 1958 plus a 30 minute read.
Though this repeats much of the Crescent City longbox its a good way of getting the album tracks-the longbox was just the As and Bs and took the music up to 1963.Both are essential.
At only ?15 this is of course great value.
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Roots Rock Riot
Roots Rock Riot
Customer Review: Everything will be allright
The long awaited second album by Skindred is finally here. I was worried that after touring, with Babylon for over three years, the Dred boys would be able to pull off another classic. The fact that Jeff Rose and Ginge left not long after the Babylon was released; record company politics;could have meant a dramatic problem re song writing. The last time I saw them live they did little new material to give us an idea of what the new material was like.
Having said all that, the melting pot of metal, punk and Jamaican danchall is all here. Benji gives us his lilting one second, harsh Ragga/ metal vocals the next. The guitars bass and drums interspersed with the trusty sampler gives us a wonderfully fresh groove.Changing tempos and mood dynamics flow effortlessly.
The song are all extremly catchy while having an inherent power that makes them all the more infectious.The mix of dance and metal/rock is gauranteed to have you jumping about even if your on a bus listening to i-pod!
The Title track Roots rock is a belter followed by Trouble which will hook you in with it’s sing along chorus. Ratrace, allright, are all good songs , in fact I don’t think there is one bad song on this album. The more I listen to it the more I get in to it. The doubts that I had wtih song writing over the line up change have been completely dispelled. This fusion of styles is contemporary, exciting and I can’t think of a “rock ” band at the moment that come close. Horns are on Rude boy for life as well as live strings. The production is clear without losing any of the power. I can’t wait to see them live, though they look like they are touring in the U.S. till the end of the year, hopfully next year.
Customer Review: 10 seconds left for you to decide…
whether or not to buy this..?
In general the album is heavier than Babylon, with more lean towards jungle (cause ah riot), and for anyone who doesn’t know Skindred, but is a fan of metal, this album is well worth a try.
Skindred fans, this is also good, as the band have resisted the temptation to commercialise, as many bands do, and have indeed ‘uncommercialised’.
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The Rockument Channel - Rock Music History by Tony Bove
The Heart of Rock ‘n’ Roll: the Best of Huey Lewis and the News
The Heart of Rock ‘n’ Roll: the Best of Huey Lewis and the News
Customer Review: Brilliant!
Ahh, how refreshing to hear some classic style American Rock music. I loved this album. It is packed full of great tracks, so much so I don’t really have a favourite, although Power of love and Hip to be Square do stand out. After putting up with the never ending pop rubbish conveyer-belt it was like a breath of fresh air to hear something original like this. I am not by the way a middle aged guy who liked this music when he was a teenager, I am 19 and a student. I just wish there were a few more Huey’s around today so we could balance things up a bit with the Pop world.
Customer Review: Much more than just the ‘Power Of Love’
Once again a band who have been associated with one song and not given the recognition they deserve for the rest of their work. ‘Power Of Love’ is a classic 80’s track but songs like ‘If This Is It’, ‘Do You Believe In Love’ & ‘Perfect World’ are also superb songs. If you like your 80’s music then this album is a must buy and even if your just a fan of the film ‘Back To The Future’ check this baby out! You will not be disappointed.
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