It is very hard to listen to this cd and survive!

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Very deceptive CD this...

I thought it would be, judging by the cover (as you do :) that it might be the girl on the cover was the artist, as either singer / songwriter, maybe electronic artist, but actually this artist is an indie group (male singer) who have a very easy listening / middle of the road, Indie Eagles sound.

(Quite a good cover of the Black Sabbath song, later done by Osbourne and Daughter).

Fairly good all round, a bit slow, but tuneful, and a little better than average.

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Welcome to my happy place!

Some songs attach themselves to you like barnacles on a whale's ass for happy reasons, and others sad... But this one stood for me as a little refuge in my mind when at a low ebb all those years back when it was released, so while of a not so great time, it reminds me of a little glimmer of sunshine cheese in an otherwise dark universe.

When I used to switch on VH1 at 4 in the morning before lurching off to my cruddy, soul destroying job, I used to hang a round for an extra few minutes before leaving, so I could see this video, for a little pick me up (Or maybe I used this as an excuse to leave for work later!).

And the thing is, because it hadn't clung to any particular person, or event in my life, I'd totally forgotten about it, until, a couple of months ago, it was used in a Booking.com advert on the TV:

"No way! - I rmember that!....erm... what's it called?"

So one of those songs that climbed out of nowhere , and for no particular reason, from the dark, forgotten recesses of the mind of a sudden, and kicks you in the balls: "Surprise!".

Having hunted it down again though, all these years later, I'm not ashamed to say I've been watching the video (ahem) "Occasionally", as soft a spongy place to park my brain before the horrors of the modern world invade my brain space again, and resume their assault on my already dubious sanity.

(Ah, Donna, won't you come and take me away from all this, to live with you in that honey coloured rotating box of happy, with you're oddly structured song, forever more?!!!)

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retro review written May 21, 2011

Avril needs to just adopt pop and get over this ridiculous notion that she will ever be a part of anything resembling edgy. The only thing brazen about Lavigne is her audacity, while if she simply aimed her arrow at the pop that dominates most of her music, she could conceivably be respected. Trying to be a snarky and snotty 14-year-old is as convincing as Mick & Keith believing they still impact the direction of rock music.

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Looking at this from a purely impartial "single that charted so I have it" point of view, this is pretty standard fare stuff. A 'cover' of the Farm's - 'All together now' who are also from Liverpool and using Sherlock like deduction I presume are Everton fans, I'm guessing they were pretty pleased that this made a respectable No 24 in the top 40 and even more pleased that they beat Man U 1-0 in the final to lift the cup! Not the worst footy song ever (see my team's efforts for that accolade). Part of a tradition that no longer exists (thank God) that FA cup finalists release a single to commemorate the achievement.

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An example of how musical tastes change in a relatively short space of time. On it's original release in December '86 it was a number 1. Barely much more than 10 years later it was the lowest new entry to the top 40 at number 36 which was also it's peak position. Mainly considered 'cheesy' and a feeling of cashing in on the 'millennium thing', it suffered badly chart wise. Unfair? I think so, since there were a few other songs at the time without a number one pedigree that did exactly the same but fared better in the charts.

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One of two "Black Metal" CD's I picked up today for pennies at a local charity shop.
Being one who can find something in just about any musical genre I encounter I today came to the conclusion that these Black Metal performers(?) not only sold their souls to the devil but also any musical ability they may have had.

My review: Avoid. (That's it folks, avoid!)

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Glorified elevator music. He a a fine voice but seems stuck in the gear of power ballads.

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I bought this EP for EUR 0,60 secondhand but I did not know this band. It is amazing … every song is a hymn to sing along to. To give you an idea about how they sound. More like U2 but there is a little Simple Minds in it. Great to play it in the car. Definitively gonna buy some more stuff from them.

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By far his best release to date and a single that saw a return to the UK top 10 for Mr Brown, unfortunately it was his last too! These K Klass remixes were absolute floorfillers when played at discos and it's not hard to understand why. It was a quick drop back into chart oblivion after this.

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The second of three UK top 40 singles 'Standing Outside The Fire' was slap in the middle of Garth Brooks year long UK chart success story. Not an unpleasant tune but something for fans only I'm thinking hence it's lowly No 28 chart position

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The original 7" release of this was a minor UK top 40 hit in 1978 (No32) and came at the tail end of the disco boom. A catchy, radio friendly tune, it's surprising then that given the huge success of the movie 'The adventures of Pricilla queen of the desert' (the soundtrack from which this is taken), that this release didn't make the top 40 at all!, peaking at No 61 on the w/e 8th of October 1994

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Steel bars is the last track on the album 'Time, love & tenderness' released on the 23rd of April 1991 in the UK. The cd single was released in February 1992 topping out at No 17 on the week ending 22nd Feb

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Following in the footsteps of Pavaroti, Andrea Bocelli 'scores' a UK top 40 hit thanks to footy. Canto Della Terra originally charted in 1999 reaching a peak of No 25 on the week ending 25th of September. It subsequently re-entered the top 40 when Euro 2000 coverage started and bettered it's original chart position by one place peaking at No 24 on the week ending 1st of July 2000

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Taken from the album 'The Best Of Foreigner'. The 16 track album includes all their hits: I Want To Know What Love Is, Urgent, Hot Blooded, Juke Box Hero, Feels Like The First Time, Cold As Ice, Waiting For A Girl Like You, That Was Yesterday, and many more.

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Although they did have other good hits, I never was able to like any as much as Regret. Living in the US I remember mentioning to others how european the video was but of course with all those outside monuments shots and the walking about bustling typical of european big cities, what else. Tom Chapman setting up his drums made it that much real, and Gillian’s shy away smirk as the camera close up was way too cute. The powerful melodic punch the song manages to develop seemed to give out hopes that good pop songs could be made again even in the 90’s. And just maybe music capabilities could survive the next decade and beyond, but that was not to be. Now I never deciphered why the cover sleeve looked like a Marlboro advertisement.

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The Motive8 remix on this was a 'dancefloor filler' in the day locally (Sunderland). I seem to remember some question over the truthfulness of sales at the time and consequently it bombed chartwise.

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The promoter's sticker on the rear of the case says "Love Is A Drum - Pop, male vox, Rock, 60s UK Pop feel, melodic, New Jersey" which sums it up nicely. The young Skuller knows his rockabilly and Buddy Holly and may well have listened to 60s UK bands. With blistering Clapton-style guitar breaks, this is a very accomplished band, and the A-side seems to presage JD McPherson.

The label is copied from the 45. The "B-side" is a basic ballad. The video adds an introduction until the band comes in.

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Love this more than the original of 1973.

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My youngest daughter (born 1994) just loves Two's Company (Three Is Allowed). And There Are Others sounds as if it always has been there; I love it!

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His best slide guitar solo on 'Jordan 191'.

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Great song, I got number 05763.

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Duo which participated in the Dutch Contest in 1999. She sang very fake, so they did not go to the ESC. Yet they still scored a minor hit in the Dutch charts.

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Maitlandsworld wrote:

This is Dennis Englewood's second single as a Philly soul ballad remake of the 10cc tune, written by Eric Stewart & Graham Gouldman off from his only one album, "Satisfaction".

When backing singers Dennis Englewood himself, Joyce Berry, Sue Fleming and then-12-year-old Laurie Maitland and Philly soul producer Thom Bell, who worked with songwriting partner Linda Creed, for pop-soul group The Stylistics, heard "I'm Not In Love" by 10cc they were complaining, "Oh, my God, too many synthesizers playing on that original! We don't like that strange abstract tape hiss that we can't deal with! That nauseous, irrelevant mid-section where the woman hushed her baby child to sleep at night from crying or vomiting by saying, 'Be quiet, big boys don't cry.' that turned our tummies inside out! We all prefer the Fender Rhodes electric piano and rhythm guitar playing and also the soft and buttery smooth tenor of Eric Stewart from that group in that song that all enjoy listening to. On the other hand their original tune needed a little more work by adding real live drums, shakers, bongos and congas besides the bass drum itself alone to make it more polished, so why don't we do it with real instruments playing on our Philly soul ballad version of the 10cc tune, 'I'm Not In Love' to make it as a Philly soul dancer instead of too many ethereal synclavier voices? Instead of us singing the 'ahh' part to create the strange wall of sound just like 3 members from that group, named, Kevin Godley, Laurence Neil Creme and Graham Gouldman in a British style that sounded so wrong, we wanted to sound like a decent family of backing singers, named, David Pack from the pop group Ambrosia, Royce Jones, David Lasley and Jo Ann Harris or Myrna Matthews, Ashford & Simpson, Vivian Cherry and Hilda Harris on backing vocals behind Dennis himself, who performed lead on that song in the style of David Pack from the pop group Ambrosia to create the American sweet soul/pop sound so natural, so right."

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I sang backup on Dennis Englewood's sweet soul ballad remake of the 10cc when I was 12 years old.
https://dennisenglewood.bandcamp.com/album/im-not-in-love

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Yuck. Why did they do it?

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