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Name: Adrian Tyler
Home Page: aquaade
Member Since: Mar 21, 2006
Rank: 3295
Average Vote Received: Correct (3.99, 269 votes)
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Rated 683 releases, average: 4.30
Location: Hatfield, Herts UK
Profile: I love music - all sorts! I used to be a vinyl junkie but I used to do a bit of deejaying then so I had an excuse. Now I'm a CD junkie and I haven't got any excuses. I buy lots of different music (mostly on the cheap on Amazon or eBay) so it's not too financially painful! Looking through my collection I guess you could pick out my favourite artists as the ones I've got five or more releases by:

R&B/Funk - Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, Corinne Bailey Rae, Cameo, Isley Bros., Kleeer, Slave, Parliament/Funkadelic, Lauryn Hill, Minnie Riperton.

Rock - Neil Young, Todd Rundgren, Paul Weller, The Rolling Stones, Sting, Pretenders, Annie Lennox, Athlete, Garbage, Manic Street Preachers, Snow Patrol, Counting Crows.

Jazz - Pat Metheny, Sade, George Duke, Steely Dan/Donald Fagen, Azymuth.

Dance - EBTG, Underworld, Madonna, Bjork, 4Hero, Faithless.

Chillout - Tosca, K&D, Thievery Corp., Air, Afterlife, Buddah Bar.

Reggae - BMW, Burning Spear, Third World, Ijahman, Aswad, Culture.

I'm not into heavy metal, gangster rap and crass pop.

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Reviews:

Todd Rundgren - Re-Mixes - 11-Sep-09 07:46 PM
Todd Rundgren - Re-Mixes (Brilliant BT 33099) 2003

The first 11 tracks of this album were originally released in 2002 as Todd Rundgren & His Friends, a fresh and imaginative compilation of rhythm section and backing vocal re-recordings by guitarist Bruce Kulick & multi-instrumentalist Billy Sherwood and featuring Todds original vocals along with various guest artists. This version includes a selection of 7 (sometimes indistinguishable) alternate mixes of the first 11 tracks.

Track 6a (Emperor Of The Highway) is unlisted here and the original tracks appear in a different order from the original release. The track names for Bang On The Drum and Dream Goes On Forever are incorrectly titled. Vivian Camp(bell)s and Richie Kotz(en)s names also barely survive the mangle but somehow they managed to spell Todds name correctly!

Despite these minor imperfections, this is a must have for any Todd Rundgren fan (or anyone appreciative of quality electric guitar work). The highlights:
Hello Its Me featuring some tasteful saxophone in-fills from Edgar Winter
Tiny Demons with some ripping guitar by Steve Lukather.
Just think, you get to hear them twice on this release. See if you can spot the difference.

I just wish theyd re-recorded The Last Ride. To hear maybe Carlos Santana guesting on the guitar for that track...

Peter Andre - Behind Closed Doors - 06-Sep-09 07:53 AM
I recently saw the start of a video for this on TV. In my panicked haste to hit the mute button my ears were momentarily assaulted by the most dreadful noise; this type of stuff can hardly be called music! What there is of it is rendered almost tuneless by the distorted and synthesized vocals. One can only assume that Andre is hoping to appeal to some extra-terrestrial lifeform.

I recently heard someone categorize a recent slew of sub-standard Indie releases as Landfill Indie. I think this deserves a category all of its own: Charity Shop Pop.

If you feel you really must own this, then why not save yourself some money and wait a few weeks before visiting your local charity shop. You will find the racks overflowing with a veritable avalanche of this rubbish. And just think, you can feel good about donating 20p to a good cause and save someone the job of sweeping the floor.

Juliet Roberts - Natural Thing - 05-Sep-09 07:08 PM
Juliet Roberts Natural Thing ctcd39

1994 Reissue with 2 extra tracks.

A few of the tracks on this compilation sound really dated 15 years after their release in 1994. Both versions each of Caught In The Middle and Free Love have a cheesy faux gospel feel to them that hasnt stood the test of time. Acieed House is definitely dead! Roberts vocals seems so disconnected from the morass of sounds occuring on these tracks that its hard to believe she had any more to do with this than perform the vocals before handing the project over to someone else.

Fortunately, she really gets a chance to shine on the rest of the album which has a much more soulful essence and arrangements that are less complicated and all the richer for their use of real instruments and vocal harmonies. In particular September, Eyes Of A Child, Force Of Nature and the 1992 Courtney Pine track Life Goes Around are top drawer material.

Turpin Records - 10-Apr-06 10:38 PM
Catalog # guidelines (using TPN5CD "Whatever..." by Linda Lewis as an example)

In this example the CD labelling shows Catalog # as TPN-5CD whilst the mastering data on the reverse is ABLEX 83497 TPN5CD. The case shows it as TPN-5 (probably because the same artwork was used for the vinyl version as well). Amazon.co.uk shows the catalog # as TPN5CD which fits Discogs policy of removing spaces and dashes.