Morrissey

Advantages: Good songs
Disadvantages: None

...I really like the album. According to the Guardian: " Visconti treats him as a handsome Latino melodramatist suffering from a kitsch surfeit of imagination as much as a damp, exiled Mancunian miserabilist with a cold tendency to nostalgic self-obsession. Ultimately, Visconti helps transform Morrissey's dogged oddness and phenomenal fussiness into pure magic. Love him or hate him, there's no one better at loving and hating." Complete Song List: 1. I Will See You In Far Off Places 2. Dear God, Please Help Me 3. You Have Killed Me 4. The Youngest Was The Most Loved 5. In The Future When All's Well 6. The Father Who Must Be Killed 7. Life Is A Pigsty 8. I'll Never Be Anybody's Hero Now 9. On The Streets I Ran 10. To Me You Are A Work Of Art 11. I Just Want To See The Boy Happy 12. At Last I Am Born Lyrics are...

Nazuku 07.07.2006 (27.09.2006) · Read review
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Review of Ringleader Of The Tormentors - Morrissey

this is how Morrissey grew up!

Advantages: best of the new stuff + old classics
Disadvantages: a fair few fillers

...For the few people who have read some of my reviews I think its more than apparent that I am a massive fan of Morrissey, in my opinion, probably the greatest to ever pen such classic, personal lyrics. Only last week I witnessed him live for about the 6th time in a couple of years. Yet rather than go all over the top and give him five stars just for being amazing to me I am gonna hold back and give what my head, not my heart tells me. Opening with 'First of the Gang to Die' , arguably his best song in recent times is a Morrissey classic that deserved to reach the summit of the now crowded with pure toss pop charts (James Blunt etc) as opposed to another customary top ten hit for Moz. This greatest hits failings are evident with the next two songs 'in the future when alls well' and 'i just want to see the boy happy', which are solid...

dtait07 12.02.2008 · Read review
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Advantages: Free trial, large choice, post included,new realeases
Disadvantages: see review

...I like movies and I like freebies, so when you get offered both in one swoop you?re bound to accept! I used my two week free trial with this company and remained with them for a couple of monthsbefore moving on to try many other companies free trials (and winning a new DVD player on Tesco DVD rental site on their free trial offer). I then had an email from DVDs 365 asking me to go back, and offering me a free DVD if I did so. I had just left Tesco (with my new DVD player) so I chose to go back with them. ∆◊◊ THE SERVICE THEY OFFER ∆◊◊ Basically it?s like going to a video shop and hiring films on DVD, except you don?t pay for each film you chose ? rather a monthly fee for which you can watch as many movies as you can fit in, for us this is usually around 8 a month (2 a week usually weekends...

dabmim 15.11.2004 · Read review
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Morrissey: The Jewel In His Crown

Advantages: Morrissey's Crowning Achievement
Disadvantages: None

...Following Morrissey's superb glam-rock album "Your Arsenal", many believed he was hard pushed to have it topped. They were wrong, very wrong. Released in 1994, "Vauxhall and I" proved to be Morrissey's solo crowning achievement. The album gave Morrissey not only his first hit single, but also a well-deserved UK number one album. The album, unlike its predecessor, is gentler both lyrically and musically and shows Morrissey at his most contemplative. This is evident right from the onset with the slow-tempo song "Now My Heart Is Full" - inspired by the film "Brighton Rock". In the song, Morrissey manages to incorporate his almost habitual theme of loneliness with lines such as "Tell all of my friends/ (I don't have too many...)". The second song of the album, "Spring-Heeled Jim" is underpinned with a sample from the 1959...

Iacomus 23.04.2006 · Read review
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Harvest: My introduction to Neil Young

Advantages: Alternative country/rock classic
Disadvantages: none

...From the delicate opening bars of "Out on the Weekend" till the closing sunrise of "Words", Harvest paints an emotional portrait of the post 60's world as seen through the eyes of Neil Young, godfather of alternative rock and grunge. Harvest is Neil Young's biggest selling album that still resonates today. It is a must have album for Neil Young fans and fans of alternative music across the world in this post grunge post britpop era. It is an unashamed alternative country album with contributions from notable country singers James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, with further involvement of NY stalwarts David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash. A gentle melancholia fills each song, and is one of the first things which strikes you about this record. Although this may have been due, in part, to the heavy medication which Neil was...

Logan33 03.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Harvest - Neil Young

Neil Young and He is living

Advantages: beautiful music, makes life worth living
Disadvantages: I REALY WISH THE AUDIO QUALITY WAS GOOD

...Neil Percival Young was born on November 12, 1945 in Ontario, Canada to Scott Young, a sportswriter and novelist and Edna-Ragland (Russy). His parents decided to part ways when he was 12. her mother moved to her family home in Winnipeg, Manitoba and here young Neil began his distinguished music career. Neil Young is a true artist, a very highly gifted singer, song-writer, musician who was at ease with number of musical instruments like piano, harmonica and of course who can forget his claw-hammer acoustic guitar. With his electric guitar solos he drove his fans to frenzy. I cann?t but say the selection of songs in the album couldn't been better just have a look at the least of songs this album contains: (1) Harvest ( 2) Heart of Gold (3) A Man Needs AMaid (4) Out on the week end (5) Needle and the damage is done (6)There...

roktimdutta 24.05.2009 · Read review
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Morrissey: The Definitive DVD

Advantages: Morrissey on top form. Fantastic extras.
Disadvantages: Questionable sound mix

...It was during the summer of 2004, that the Stretford-born Steven Patrick Morrissey had made his long awaited 'come-back'. After many years of semi-reclusion in Los Angeles, Morrissey and his band had completed work on their seventh studio album, entitled "You Are The Quarry". The album received critical acclaim across the board and demonstrated if anything, that Morrissey was back. Recorded on Morrissey's 45th birthday and in his home town of Manchester, Morrissey gave one of the strongest performances of his career. The zealous audience was not only treated to the highlights of his latest album, but also to those of his extensive back-catalogue including many hits from his Smiths days. The set-list began with the recent chart-topper "First Of The Gang To Die" and progressed onto other highlights including; the thunderous...

Iacomus 22.04.2006 (28.01.2007) · Read review
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Morrissey - You Are The Quarry reviewed

Advantages: You won't find lyrics like this anywhere else
Disadvantages: The quality is weighed far too heavy onto the lyrics and not the music for many songs

...He's back! And he's good! Whilst there seems to be a hyperbolic cheer at Morrissey coming back despite the fact his solo albums were not recieved, it is great to see him with singles that are good. I'm sure many do not remember the song Dagenham Dave do they? It wasn't good in any way, the only reason I remember it is because my brothers pointed out the fact that I was born in Dagenham and my middle name is David! Whilst Morrissey has a fantastic voice and puts great music with it (be it with Johnny Marr in the Smiths or as a solo artist, occasionally), many, including my girlfriend, cannot see the appeal of a man who seems unable to come to terms with the world. What they fail to appreciate is that, whilst his views appear often contradictory, he is, as Orwell puts it, 'in a minority of one, but that doesn't make him wrong...

woolystone 15.09.2004 · Read review
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Surprising Picture Quality - Panasonic DVD-S54

Advantages: Incredible picture quality when compared to my old non-upscaling player with a scart lead
Disadvantages: Sometimes disc drive can be really noisy when DVD's initially load.

...At first I wasn't convinced by up-scaling DVD player technology but was persuaded after reading an article in "What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision" magazine. Unable to afford a Blu-Ray player my sister and I bought the Panasonic DVD-S54 to match our parents brand new Panasonic TX-32LZD80 LCD television as their Christmas 2008 present. Admittedly it was a slightly selfish purchase as we both live at home and wanted to watch DVDs on the big new TV ourselves! We bought the player from the electrical retailer Comet for about £100 just before Christmas so there were no discounts applied. On Christmas day when opened we found a relatively small box tightly packed with the player in polystyrene packaging. All the components such as cables, remote and manuals were well presented in their own protective plastic bags, to keep them protected. The player...

bobbacon985 12.02.2009 · Read review
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Neil Young Produces A Masterpiece Before The Harvest Comes In

Advantages: Great Tracks Throughout With Some of The Best Lyrics Around
Disadvantages: There's A World Slackens The Pace A Bit

...I am in all truth, no great fan of rock critics, many of whom either rely upon flattering their own ego to produce a piece of musical criticism that usually falls into simply stating faults and then adding a couple of lines relating to positives. This though can also be reversed, with the positives given and the negatives pushed under the rug, and yet even though I do admit that I would do much the same in many cases, the review that Rolling Stone Magazine, (previously) one of the most respected rock magazines around, gave for Harvest by Neil Young seems to me more self-indulgence than criticism. The rock critic who rated this review panned this album on far too many levels, when it is now, rightly, seen as a brilliant piece of rock history and now sitting as No.78 on the Rolling Stone Magazine 500 Greatest Albums, retribution if there...

Robin_Hod12 19.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Harvest [Remastered] - Neil Young