Easy Listening

Advantages: Pleasant poppy sound, suitably gloomy lyrics
Disadvantages: Can be a bit gentle for my tastes

...think may be attributed to this, but there is also a poetic aspect here that?s helped them endure. After their debut album ?Rattlesnakes? became a student classic, featuring the excellent single ?Perfect Skin?, the boys from Glasgow produced their follow-up, Easy Pieces in 1985. It?s an album I still play occasionally now, and replaced on CD for the nostalgia value. It serves as a reminder that not...

allmodcons 14.05.2007 01:14 (07.03.2007 22:21) · Read review
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Review of Easy Pieces - Lloyd Cole

Easy Listening

Advantages: Sturdily built, decent quality stereo sound.
Disadvantages: Appalling user manual, very poor battery life

...have to stress I don?t use mine excessively ? I bought it purely to use as a kitchen radio so I could listen to music while I did my ironing and three house moves later it?s still my kitchen radio. Reception is, generally, very good but I do find sometimes I have to fiddle about with the antenna to keep a radio station tuned in perfectly. The antenna is telescopic and stretches quite far. It...

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Review of Proline DAB300

Martika's Kitchen

Advantages: Great vocals, mature sound, excellent production
Disadvantages: Last Martika album, underrated

..., jazz, funk, R&B and traditional Cuban music. The lyrics on the album were also more adult-orientated - many tackling numerous social issues. In 1991, Martika released her second and last album Martika?s Kitchen. Tracks The album opens with the same-titled song Martika?s Kitchen which was written solely by Prince. This song opens with a strong use of a simple percussion beat, followed...

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Review of Martika's Kitchen - Martika