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agreed - the cover art is really bland and nondescript...and the photography is just..... bad. It's a great album though..... This Is What Makes Us Girls is just.... superb. It's obviously a number one album, where it belongs...and, as it's the first payday this week for many after a long, long time, I predict great sales..... 80-100k.

I can't see them lighting up the world again, and personally, I preferred their career in reverse... I can take or leave the first 2 albums but love the last 2.

I bought the deluxe version from Amazon and got it on Monday - the extra 3 tracks I like a lot. It's a real grower of an album. And there's no doubting it sounds like the soundtrack to some new wonderful David Lynch movie. I do think the shoddy, humdrum cover art lets it down, though... it should have been devastating and iconic...... it's not. This is What Makes Us Girls is my favourite track - pop genius. Laughable review from the chronically out of touch Rolling Stone, which describes Del Rey as 'just another aspiring singer who wasn't ready to make an album yet. Given her chic image, it's surprising how dull, dreary and pop-starved Born to Die is.' Oh Rolling Stone.... do people REALLY still bother buying you? Pop-starved? Are you deaf?

I do like them.... but from what I've heard of this, it seems they've been going through their Cocteau Twins back catalogue and taking serious notes.....

This album's awesome..... :)

Seven Nation Army is a travesty - end of. And the post below saying SyCo got it right with Olly Murs... really? OK, he sells records - but the actual material is absolute junk - his last single sounds like a song Shakin Stevens would've turned down in 1981 - ATROCIOUS.

Totally forgot to vote..... sorry guys. I think Lewis's cover is my favourite in months...... absolutely stunning.

TOTALLY agree..... great that you're entering again.... and that's a GORGEOUS cover.

Disappointing proof that mediocrity still seems to capture some people...... Bruno Mars would make a slice of white bread seem exciting.

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...and jark - are you seriously trying to applaud this woman? Because with all due respect, if you think her rise to power/dictatorship was some glorious struggle against the odds, was some one-woman challenge in a man's world, as this flimsy movie would have you believe... well, sorry, but that's just not the case. She became Tory PM because the Tory party was so hopelessly inept, clueless and out of touch at that time.,.... there simply WAS no other leader - gender regardless. And if you're thinking of basking in some obscene rose-tinted memoir that Thatcher was a 'great leader' - well.... so was Adolf Hitler. It might do you well to investigate some of this 'lady's' policies. Especially Section 28. She was singularly the most dangerous, divisive, fascistic PM this country has experienced in living memory. And I lived through it - which is very different to hearing second hand accounts from relatives or books. And Meryl Streep should know better than to taint a pretty impressive film career with starring in this one-dimensional, inaccurate portrayal of this monstrous woman. It's far from ok that she distances herself from Thatcher's politics now - she knew the score when she read the script, she could see how it glossed over her war crimes and misdeeds. It's too late to have an opinion now, Ms Streep...... At best, this is 'made-for-TV' fluff. And her portrayal of Thatcher? Humdrum, hammy and embarrassing in parts. You'd just never think this was a distinguished and lauded actress with decades of incredible roles (and...err..Mamma Mia) behind her. She comes across as some awful b-movie actress who simply doesn't 'get' her subject, she overplays her hand at every turn. She's quite shockingly terrible in Iron Lady. But, as it's a Brit 'period' historical movie..... it'll win award after award unfortunately. Three triangles... I agree - how on earth has Julianne Moore not got an Oscar? Her absolute career highlight for me, in a career full of highlights, has to be her stunning performance in A Single Man...... then again, Mr Firth should have walked away with the Oscar for this masterpiece, too.

I'd have chosen Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me as the ultimate 80s Cure album.... but also, The Head on the Door is a FANTASTIC pop album.... and I think The Cure always work best when they're being deleriously poppy (for instance, I think Let's Go To Bed is their best ever single). Talking of The Cure... have you seen the new box set released just before Christmas? The first 5 albums, bar Japanese Whispers and Live, packaged in gorgeous Japanese-style mini-LP sleeves in a box... an absolute bargain at £15. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Classic-Album-Sele...7927&sr=8-1

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The laughable thing here is that Olly Murs is number two..... a man who makes every single record he releases sound like a Shakin' Stevens b-side. Appalling. Will.... deserving winner.

Florence and the Machine are a band... which makes her inclusion in the Best Female Solo Artist at the BRITS all the more wrong and baffling....

?!?!?!? Whaaaaat? Please....explain...... because, lyrically, Someone Like You is utterly jaw-droppingly brilliant... so what do you find so 'rubbish' about it lyrically?

Nicola McLean is a completely vile excuse for a human being. Gareth Thomas to win. By miles.

That's fine by me. Thanks everyone for the feedback.

Cremey - definitely Avicii! :heart: As for mine... oh I don't know..... leaning towards The Horrors too.... or Bon Iver.... whatever you choose, I'll go with to be honest :)

I bought the BluRay in the amazon sale.... and I have to say that I, too, think it is a masterpiece. Yes, it's pretentious and baffling at times, and it did seem a bit muddled itself as to what the film was actually trying to say.... but... visually, I thought it was stunning. In fact, only the jaw-droppingly beautiful Baraka comes anywhere close in the cinematography stakes. A must-see for any fan of the art of cinema.

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he decline in singles sales has a simple answer..... shops just don't stock them anymore..... I don't think thje record buying public have fallen out of love with the single at all..... but te record company bully-boy tactics determine that no shop sells them anymore. A disgrace, really.

I've tried twice to revisit this album... but it's very samey, and minus the songs that made their debut so enchanting...... great artwork, pretty dire album, I think....

In love with this album all over again bar 2 tracks (Breaking Down is pretty dreadful)... Never Let Me Go is just phenomenal.....