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Member Since: Sep 02, 2008
Rank: 4
Rated 12 releases, average: 3.17
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Reviews:
Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel - 06-Sep-08 06:29 PM
First time in 18 years... and as utterly forgetable as the day I bought it.
The highlight of the album is Cruel Prelude... Mainly because Bobby Brown does not feature on it.
The music is well rounded, the lyrics are good, the vocals are delivered well (ish), but the subject matter is dull, and the tracks just drag on and on, and on.
I was glad to put this away once I had finished converting it to my IPOD....
Various - Dance Mania Volume 1 - 06-Sep-08 10:17 AM
I think for me this was one of those impulse buys. Young and not really knowing alot about House music I saw the House Master Boyz on it and as it said "Dance Music" on the front, I instantly assumed it was a House music album.
Errrrr- no. It's Disco with a touch of house mixed in. Very 80's stuff.
On the flip side, someone really messed up with the times for each track. The back sleeve says exactly the same as on here... except, many of the tracks are nowhere near the length they are supposed to be.
The rough Real times are...
First Choice-Let No Man Put Asunder 6.54
Maceo & The Macks-Cross The Tracks 6.16
T-Coy - Carino 6.43
House Master Boyz- House Nation 5.03
Lanier & Co-Dancing In The Night 5.42
Kool Chip-Jazz It Up 5.56
Whispers, The-Rock Steady 5.05
Black Britain-Funky Nassau 4.09
Pleasure Pump-Fantasize Me 6.33
52nd Street-I'll Return 3.54
Trade Descriptions Act anyone? Difference is over 10 Minutes!!
Overall, this is a pretty rough album
Various - Jackmaster 5 - 04-Sep-08 11:30 AM
Seems weird now looking back at this. Odd and a little sad to think that this was perhaps the last and one of the best House music compilations. Circling around House music at the time were Rave and Dance pop, and that classic, intelligent and innovative sound would soon be gone, incorporated piece by piece in to the new breeds of dance.
All the usual suspects are on here, getting recycled from years before, but a few tracks cropped up such as the 7 Signs which proved life was still in the house / acid house scene...
Various - Rave Nation - 02-Sep-08 04:17 PM
Back in the early 90's, Rave was really starting to gain some main stream commercial cred, and this really was one of the first poptastic "Rave" albums.
Laughingly called Rave Nation, it took some of the popular hits from the time and wrapped it up in a neat little commercial package.
Was it really Rave? No, not really. The only two semi rave tracks on here are Urban Hype's The Feeling and Jonny L's Hurt You So.
As a young and ill inform youth, I bought this to add to my growing collection but needless to say I was disappointed when I finally listened to it. Having just listened to it again, I have to say, I am as disappointed today as I was all those years ago.
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