All in all this was decent to listen to. I loved Avril Lavigne's cover of The Scientist (although some bits were out of tune) and plenty more good listening from this double album. good choice opening with the foos!
I would give the DVD 5 star rating too. The program is awesome. Take That is in it's best form, and concert is wonderfully conceived.
I trained myself to perceive buying something I like on a Blu-ray, after I already have it on a DVD, as an upgrade and not double-dipping. As such, I expect it to actually BE an upgrade...
Unfortunately... it was lit for the in-house audience and not for cameras (at least not for cameras used to shoot this concert). Insufficient light leads to grain and grain is abundant here, there is a lot of blocking and it is obvious that there is something gravely wrong with the colors and contrast. It's blooming, posterized and painful to watch. I wasn't expecting much of an improvement over ... Read More:
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Girls aloud are the most fantastic girl group Britain has had for ages! All of the songs, are catchy and very very good! I booked tickets last week to go see them in tour next year! If your thinking of buying this cd, do, you wont look back!
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Hmmmmmmmmmm?? Why do I have to give it 1 star?? It's one too many!!
A brave album that doesn't work I'm afraid.
He's got some guy called Youth working with him, and with Smug Mccartney being "down with the kids" I presume that this is whom the album is intended? However, anyone below 35 won't buy this as they won't have heard of His Smugness.
There's more chords on a Status Quo album than there is on here!! It's not catchy enough to work in the clubs, not folky enough for the hippies and not Beatles enough for those poor misguided fools few who still listen to them.
Paul, please do us a favour and retire. Or at least go mad like Ringo so we can laugh at you instead of empathise. Your music applies more ... Read More:
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This review only gives 4 stars because most of the tracks have already been included on one or two of Rutter's previous CD's. Having said that, this is the Ultimate Collection, so that is to be expected. So if you have most of the previous releases, there's maybe not much point in buying this, except of completeness, however, if you don't have them, I'd definitely recommend it.
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Difficult to see who this set is really aimed at. On the one hand, the casual listener is already well served by the numerous ABBA compilations currently on the market (there are or have been more ABBA Best Ofs than there have genuine ABBA studio albums); on the other, the serious fan will be disappointed by the lack of genuine rare material (no foreign language hits and, more importantly, no unreleased stuff from the vaults).
So, peerless though some of the music is, I can rate this latest repackaging no higher than three stars :-(
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I'm not much given to hyperbole and "ace" is not a word I've used much since I was 14, twenty years ago, but then I haven't enjoyed an album this much since 1988 either. Certainly not one by Metallica. Death Magnetic, however, is just...ace.
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In an entertainment business full of faked stance and faux emotion, all of a sudden something REAL has come along. Glasvegas are tough, rough around the edges but ultimately this is the genuinely most affecting releases not just in 2008 but for many years.
Let's be clear about this, 'Glasvegas' aren't romanticised 'loser' jangle from the bedroom of a semi-detached, this is raw anguish, the sound of souls being shreaded by the dismal reality of life on the streets of the East End of Glasgow. The album covers such topics as gang violence, disfunctional families and perhaps most of all the utter desperation of the poverty trap and the yearning for a better life.
If all this sounds a little dreary, like a Ken Loach film set to music, then it is ... Read More:
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I don't understand how one can write a review before the package was released. I have bought it, and the DVD alone worths the price and 4 stars.
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