An Impressive Debut Album From Suzanne Vega.

Advantages: Good Songs, Fantastic Lyrics
Disadvantages: A Few Weaker Tracks

...One of the things about moving House as frequently as I do is that things tend to get boxed up and forgotten about. Even though I moved into my current House almost a year ago I am still getting around to sorting out some of my stuff. One advantage of this laziness however is that from time to you rediscover something that you had forgotten you owned and in my case I recently stumbled across a whole batch of CD's. Amongst this hoard was a CD from Suzanne Vega, simply entitled Suzanne Vega. It is hard to believe that this Album was originally released as long ago as 1985. This CD contains ten tracks as below: 1. Cracking 2. Freeze Tag 3. Marlene on the Wall 4. Small Blue Thing 5. Straight Lines 6. Undertow 7. Some Journey 8. The Queen and the Soldier 9. Knight Moves 10.Neighbourhood Girls...

micksheff 12.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega

FREE DVDs

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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Suzanne Vegas definitive moment

Advantages: 21 brilliant songs, great lyrics
Disadvantages: a couple of weak links

...Suzanne Vega is an artist I have always admired. Deeply rooted in folk rock, inspired by Dylan, Cohen and Lou Read and the intelligensia pop of The Smiths and The Police she has had a careeer that has spanned the eighties to the present day. Vega has never been afraid to experiment and to push her song writing abilities harder and with more courage than many other artists, she has always seen music as an art form and followed it with purity and passion. This 21 song retrospective and its 7 track bonus cd show her talents perfectly. 'Luka' I guess is the song most associated with Suzanne Vega. Melodic folk rock and sung from the heart. A song about abusive violent relationships. A beautiful tune masking disturbing lyrics 'yes i think I'm ok. I walked into the door again.Well, if you ask thats what I'll say and its not your...

mart34 20.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of Retrospective (The Best Of Suzanne Vega) - Suzanne Vega

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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CHILL WITH COX AND MCKEEVER

Advantages: Lovely and relaxing
Disadvantages: None that I can think of

...I just thought I would tell you about a new kind of music. Well a new kind as far as I?m concerned As most of you know Ross (my son) is doing web design for a company called The Music of Cox and Mckeever. They have sent him on a day course for HTML and other things so as when the company grows so will Ross?s future The company is owned by Zoe Cox, and her business partner John Mckeever. They originally started in Bonnybridge (the centre of activity for UFO sightings in Scotland) but Zoe now lives in Falkirk. When Ross told me about their music at first, I thought I wouldn?t fancy it at all. I imagined it would be all dolphin sounds and water breaking against the cliffs. As I?m an Elvis fan and I?m used to hip swinging and the twist style music It?s nothing like that. Some of their music is really calming and relaxing...

weemam 03.09.2003 · Read review
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Miss You Forever - Josephine Cox

Advantages: A Real Page-Turner
Disadvantages: None

.... Rosie reads the diaries in their entirety and decides she wants to do something for Kathleen before she dies (is she going to die)? Rosie goes on a search for some of the people mentioned in Kathleen's diaries - does she find anyone? You will have to read the book to find out whether there is a happy ending or not. I guarantee you won't be disappointed! All the loose ends are tied up neatly with everything seeming to come full circle. Josephine Cox has once again taken a group of people, bought them together and wound a great story around them. I found characters that I cared about in the pages of this novel though I also found characters that I would happily have slapped (given half the chance). Kathleen is no doubt a great lady - in all senses of the word and Rosie would be a fantastic friend to have in your life - just because she...

booeze123 16.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Miss you Forever - Josephine Cox

Sara Cox - Turning Amateur into an artform

Advantages: Stupid, amateur sounding at times
Disadvantages: Stypid, very funny at times

...The Breakfast Show on Radio One is usually the one radio show I hear bits of without fail. And I must say that, on balance I think that Sara Cox isn't doing a bad job, now that she's had over a year doing the job. I watched the Girly Show on TV, which made a big thing of taking the unknown Boltonian to 'stardom'. The show was useless, and Sarah came across as very amateur on it, especially when interviewing celebrities. Mind you, a chaotic feel was no doubt what the programme's producers were after, so she certainly helped that along. Since then, she's become a famous ladette, a la Zoe Ball and co. And, well, nothing wrong with that, good on her. It just doesn't seem to have got her many fans, somehow. Anyway, back to the Radio show. The music, first - she doesn't really seem to give a toss about the music she's playing...

chrisOne 03.09.2001 · Read review
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Review of The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Sara Cox

Suzanne's Diary

Advantages: True to life
Disadvantages: sob book!

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jodiemay 20.12.2003 · Read review
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Review of Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas - James Patterson

A BOOK TO READ ON THE BEACH

Advantages: An easy and fast read that didn't involve too much thinking
Disadvantages: Rather predictable

... THE BEACHCOMBER JOSEPHINE COX I have just finished reading 'The Beachcomber' by Josephine Cox; it is an easy reading book, nothing too heavy and a decent holiday read.The book is a mix of romance and murder mystery and, although somewhat predictive, isn't a bad read. The Author Josephine Cox was born into poverty in a cottonmill house in Blackburn, one of ten children. At the age of sixteen, she met and married her husband Ken, and had two sons. When the boys started school, she decided to go to college and eventually gained a place at Cambridge University. Unable to take up this place as it would have meant living away from home, she went into teaching and set about renovating a derelict council house as the family home, coping with the problems of her own mother's unhappy home life while writing...

oldchem 13.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Beachcomber - Josephine Cox

Science & Courtney Cox!

Advantages: Excellent soundtrack
Disadvantages: Slighty pants plot.

...The movie itself was a pilot for a tv series, it does seem to loosely be based on Scooby Doo (at least it does to me anyway) with the Misfits travelling around to their various crime fighting adventures in an Icecream truck (which they aquire so they are able to carry around a defrosting Iceman to keep him alive and sufficiently cold enough to maintain his power) It's not bad but its not awful. From initially reading the cast list I only knew Courtney Cox (from Friends, of course) and Larry Linville (who is better known as Frank Burns from MASH). I eventually managed to recognise Senator Donner as Otto from "Malcolm In The Middle" though! There might not be much of a plot and the effects might be really awful & cheesy but the cool 80's music and the goofy 80's fashions do a great deal to save this film from being really awful...

atytyut2434 12.03.2009 · Read review
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