Reviews of new Albums

I'm always buying new CD's as I love all different types of music. So I thought why not review the music on here, so here goes BUBBADOG'S CD REVIEW

The star ratings - *****/ excellent ****/Good ***/Alright **/poor */Rubbish save your money!! :pinch:

CD:- Adele 21
This is the 2nd album from the power house voice of Adele and it won a Mercury Prize, and I can understand why! This Album is jam packed full of amazing songs all 11 songs are written from the heart and you can here it in her voice from the 1st track 'Rolling in the deep'to the last track 'Someone like you' tells the story of a past love who broke her heart. An amazing 2nd album!
*****

CD:- Kasabian - Velociraptor!

This new Album from the tour de force that is Kasabian has rocketed in at No.1 this week Thanks mainly to the 1st single off the Album 'Days are forgotten' which is a proper rock & roll track that has you nodding your head along to it! It is a solid hit as for the rest of songs on this Album some are strong and a couple are weak. Is it a good Album? yes, Is it a great Album? I feel they have done better in there last 2 Albums :S
***

Singalongamax.......For all you Max Bygraves fans out there this is a must for the collection...With classics like....Im a Pink Toothbrush and Your a Blue Toothbrush.....Theres a Tiny House....The Ugly Duckling ..and many many more of Maxs hits you will be spoiled for choice......Time doesnt deminish the Artist at his height,when ladies threw their double crotch knickers onto the stage for Max to autograph....He might be dead ( we assume ) but his memory goes on

Actung Baby 20yr Anniversary re-release - U2

Being a big fan of U2 I did have the orginal CD but my husband decided to take it to work and left it there over the weekend the same weekend the factory had a major fire!! and nearly 15 of my orginal CD's where destroyed! Of course I was annoyed and had to replace the ones that where dear to me of course all the U2 CD's being the main of them.
Anyway Actung Baby was the album that brought U2 back into the main stream after there last couple of albums didn't do so well. This album shows the band experimenting with electro pop as well as keeping the rock & roll element in their music.
The 1st track on the album is 'Zoo Station' which uses the electro pop theme, lead singer Bono uses a voice decoder on his voice which is a good effect in the song, the album flows with great songs including the now famous 'One' & 'the fly'. This is a excellent album for U2 and it did originally bring them back to the fore front and the 'Zoo tv tour' that followed the album made them 'the biggest rock & roll band in the world'. I personally think it's thier best album, but thats for you to decide!
*****

I used to love Max. Grew up with his songs. Still have some of his vinyl in my collection and not ashamed to say so... :laugh:

cazzy wrote: I used to love Max. Grew up with his songs. Still have some of his vinyl in my collection and not ashamed to say so... :laugh:

Good for you Cazzy....Singalongamax I say...Spooky thing is,I was in a retirement home this morning and guess what they were singing along to LOL.....Theres a Tiny House...By a Tiny Stream...... xxxx
Will review Freddie and the Dreamers next xxxx LOL :laugh:

Matt Cardle - Letters

This is the long awaited album from last years X Factor winner Matt Cardle and it was worth the wait!! This album is jam packed of well written songs from his new single 'run for your life' and 'all for nothing ' to the No.1 single 'when we collide' and Matt Cardles voice suits all of them from soulful to pleading his vocal range is amazing. You can tell he has put his heart and soul into this album by listening to his voice and reading the lyrics. This Album is an excellent 1st try. An album worth having in your collection.
*****

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - 1975

Track List
01 - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5)
02 - Welcome To The Machine
03 - Have A Cigar
04 - Wish You Were Here
05 - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9)

This is not a new album, but it has be re-released as part of a remastered 16 disk boxed-set...I hope that's OK

My first introduction to this was seeing the album cover of the vinyl release in a record store. I thought the image of the two men shaking hands, with one of them on fire looked pretty cool. Some weeks later my neighbour loaned me his copy and I was blown away...and my enjoyment of this album has not diminished over the years.

Shine On You Crazy Diamond (a tribute to former band member Syd Barrett), is over 13 minutus long with an 8 minute instrumental that seems to unfurl before yor ears. Track 2 explores the band's negativity towards the music industry; which for me seems to have a harshness that contrasts well with the almost melancholy 'Wish You Were Here'.

The album closes with the second half of Shine On You Crazy Diamond. The following youtube video contains the full audio of Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts 1 to 9). Enjoy (*****)

Jessie J - Who are you?

Brit winning Jessie J's 1st album Who are you? is a mix of electro pop,with some swagger and a small number of ballards. The Album includes the No.1 track 'price tag', who's laughing now,Do it like a dude, who are you, Domino and new song Nobody's perfect.
As Jessie carries on collecting the awards and releasing No.1 tracks this album carries on climbing up the charts!
As a 1st Album it's like Jessie fun and colourful and it's a great introduction to what we can expect from Miss J in the future.
I have to say I actually like Jessie J as her music is light hearted and fun with a peppering of emotional ballards. A good mix of music to lighten your day.

****

Madonna - MDNA

After announcing she was going on tour and releasing the dates and venues, one place being Birmingham (which I got tickets for!) the long awaited album was released. MDNA (which no one knows what it stands for) is a good mix of dance,techno,pop and a couple of ballads thrown in for good mesure. From the 1st track 'Girl gone wild' you can tell it's Madonna with an extra bit of naughty & saucy.The album bounces along including the 1st single from the Album 'give me all your luvin'A good pop anthem which wasn't the best of Madge! The Album comes with an Advisory sticker on it, I'd definatly take notice of it before putting the CD on! The whole album is a woman scorned after a split! And because of that it brings out the better of Madonna a different side to her in her music. A top Album and the songs will come across brill live! Can't wait till the tour!!

*****

MDNA stands for

mad doll nonsense away ? (-;

My latest aquisition is the remastered "Straight Up" Album CD by Badfinger. Joey Molland lives about 100 miles from where I do and I have yet to see him in concert but hope to soon!

I wasn't aware of the tragic story of the band back when I heard their music on the radio in high school, but I loved their music. You can get CDs anyplace, but Joey's website (sorry, don't have the link but you can Google, Joey Molland Badfinger and it will come up) sells them autographed! Also other merch. Really fun stuff, including a link to unreleased recent songs.

This is the Straight Up track list:
1. Take it All...........7. Suitcase
2. Baby Blue.............8. Sweet Tuesday Morning
3. Money.................9. Day After Day
4. Flying................10. Sometimes
5. I'd Die Babe..........11. Perfection
6. Name of the Game......12. It's Over

Bonus Tracks:
13. I'll be the One
14. Name of the Game (earlier version)
15. Baby Blue (US single)
16. Baby Please
17. No Good At All
18. Sing for the Song

I'd rate the CD 4.5 stars only because it does not come in a hard CD case.