Yea so Ben's Review of the Week thread gave me an idea. :o

 

Basicly this is a place were you can put all your reviews in one thread (and people can comment as well). This can be of New Albums, Old Albums, Singles, Gigs or anything. It means that we don't have reviews all around that clutter up the forum. Obvioulsy if the Mods don't think this is a good idea or w/e than they can close it. This can be a Review Forum in-a-thread. :heehee: :manson:

 

Now watch it flop. :lol:

Edited January 26, 200817 yr by Jonny

Good idea! Here's mine then;

 

 

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Janet Jackson - Feedback / 2 Out Of 5 Stars

 

On the first few listens, it'll blow you away. After a few more listens and watching the video, it punches you, literally. So why isn't Janet and this hot mess moving anywhere? Simple. She's no longer making the music she use to make 10 years ago. She's writing & singing about her heavy first day periods or how she wants you to blow out her amplifier. Which by all means is fine, but when your using that same trashy beat nicked from Brit's 'Blackout' project, it makes you wonder, is Janet just a hit and miss now?

 

Give it up Janet, give acting another go, as I quite enjoyed her role in 'The Nutty Proffesor'.

 

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There. :lol:

:heehee:

 

I've never been much of a Janet fan tbh. ( :o )

 

I'll post some I did ages ago later. :D

Now that I actually get what the thread is on about, I may review an album. :o

 

Personally I think it would be great if Buzzjack had user-submitted reviews on their website like http://www.ukmix.org/ (sorry to promote a rival site :P)

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Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future

 

Hmm so the so called "leaders" of "New-Rave" had a lot to live upto when they released there debut album, "Myths Of The Near Future" back in January last year. After the good debut of opening single "Magick" they had a lot to live upto when the released "Golden Skans". For me the album was an overall exclent performance, a fantastic album. Opening track "Two Recievers" rocks in first and leads the way to "Atalantis Of Interzone" which is a certain Live favourite, and it's not hard to see why, a hard beat with strange but fantastic lyrics. The next track on the album is "Golden Skans", which seems to be remembred for "Oooo-ooo-ooo-oo-AH", is another enjoyable track. The opening three tracks show how the album is going to carry on. The rather excelent "Forgotten Works" is one of the quieter tracks on the album, but is still a fantastic song. The rather quirky "As Above, So Below" is another track that for me stands out on the album. Possibly one of the most recognised tracks on the album will be the cover of Grace's hit "It's Not Over Yet", whch was remixed and re-done by Klaxons on this

album, and was slated by some critics, but not by me. A fantastic track that prooves that you can redo a song and not ruin it. After winning the Mercury Music Prise earlier this year, The Klaxons have a lot to live up to on there next album, and should not dissapoint.

 

Download

As Above, So Below, Forgotten Works, Gravity's Rainbow, It's Not Over Yet

 

Avoid

None

 

Overall

95/100

 

 

i'd perfer a forum, i wouldnt be arsed to post a review in a thread but i would if there was a reviews forum, a forum would be more organised aswell.

i'd perfer a forum, i wouldnt be arsed to post a review in a thread but i would if there was a reviews forum, a forum would be more organised aswell.

 

Meh.

 

We all would Chris. I could have a go now but I CBA and it won't get me anywere so I won't bother. -_-

Adele - 19

 

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It's hard not to feel a tad sorry for Adele Adkins. Only a couple of months ago she was a 19 year old singer/songwriter from North London, with one critically acclaimed limited release single on a small independent label under her belt and shielded from the often crushing weight of expectations.

But now, everything's changed. She's signed to XL (home of the White Stripes, M.I.A. and, albeit temporarily, Radiohead), been named the BBC's Sound Of 2008, been awarded the inaugural BRITS Critic Choice award, and inaccurately marketed by her record company and the musically ignorant media as 'the new Amy Winehouse' - although presumably without the life threatening drug habit and troublesome husband.

 

Hence a lot of people will approach 19 expecting to hear something radical and life-altering. Which they won't, inevitably. However, if the unasked for hype can be discarded for a moment, Adele's debut album reveals itself to be a superior singer-songwriter album - not without its flaws admittedly, but guaranteed to be one of the more enjoyable listens of the year.

 

Adele's voice has been much discussed, and it's true to say that she sounds quite extraordinary at times. Personally I think she sounds nothing like Amy Winehouse and has far more in common with 1980s songstresses Tracey Thorn (Everything But The Girl) and especially with her looks & hair colour a young Alison Moyet. While a lot of the acoustic based tracks have more in common with folk singer Kate Walsh than fellow Mockney Kate Nash. Her vocals sound best with sparse instrumentation, such as on the opening track, the lovely Daydreamer. It's just Adele with a gently plucked acoustic guitar, leaving her voice to swoop and soar without ever giving into that annoying Mariah Carey-isms of attempting to sing every note within a verse.

 

It's a similar story with First Love, a gently sparse ballad where Adele sounds genuinely sorrowful as she breaks up with her lover, and Chasing Pavements (surely destined to be Adele's equivalent of Kate Nash's Foundations i.e. a brilliant song that stays stuck at #2) has a wonderfully uplifting chorus that stays in the memory for a very long time.

 

Of course, there's also Hometown Glory, most people's initial introduction to Adele (although it reminds me of Sinead O'Connor's Troy), which closes the album. It's another love song, but this time to her home city, and it still sends goosebumps up and down the spine as Adele paints an affectionate picture of the capital city backed only by some stately piano chords. Expect it to be used for TV programme's incidental music for some months to come.

 

Not everything works so well though. At only 19, it's perhaps unrealistic to expect Adele to produce with an album which is 'all killer, no filler'. Some of the tracks here, such as Crazy For You and Tired, lean towards the Corinne Bailey Rae school of 'great voice, shame about the song'. Some of it also feels a bit too familiar - the Mark Ronson produced Cold Shoulder swipes the introduction to Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy but recovers to be surely a future single.

 

Yet just when you start to think that Adele's not all that special, she pulls out a heart stoppingly lovely rendition of Bob Dylan's much covered (Billy Joel & Garth Brooks have had US hits with it) Make You Feel My Love and reclaims the song from being about an older man looking back on regrets about a former relationship/marriage that went wrong with the promise that this new relationship will go better into something far more special for a younger person.

 

19 is a decent debut album that will sell by the bucketload and propel Adele to the inevitable success she's been widely tipped for. It may not be particularly original or challenging, but there's enough positive signs here to bode extremely well for the future. The sound of 2008? Well, it is certainly a damn sight better than the debut album by the Sound of 2007 - Mika.

 

4 Stars (8 out of 10)

 

Daydreamer