CD Reviews
VARIOUS ARTISTES
Sunday Morning Songs
By Phil Savva
 AH SUNDAY mornings
— traditionally a time to wake up slowly and chill out. So this
double CD will certainly help create the mood.
Featuring 37 songs from some of today’s top contemporary artistes
and some golden oldies this will definitely ease you into a feeling of
well-being.
CD1 opens with José Gonzalez’s brand new release Heartbeats
(you may recognise it from a TV ad campaign) and follows up with the quirky
but highly-successful JCB song from Nizlopi.
In fact there are quite a few tunes you’ll probably recognise from
ad campaigns on this CD — The Zutons’ Confusion (Peugeot)
and Nouvelle Vague’s Teenage Kicks (T-Mobile).
Other contributions come from K T Tunstall (Other Side Of The World),
Supergrass (St. Petersburg), Crowded House (Four Seasons In One Day) and
Lemon Jelly (In The Bath).
CD2 kicks off with Coldplay’s Fix You and follows up with the talented
Richard Ashcroft’s new release Break The Night With Colour.
In addition to these current hits there are classic offerings from The
Beach Boys (In My Room), Julie London (Cry Me A River), Bobby Womack (California
Dreamin’), Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here) and Chet Baker (My Funny
Valentine).
Possibly my all-time favourite on this CD is the smooth and mellow Avalon
from Roxy Music.
Norah Jones (Come Away With Me) and Kate Bush (This Woman’s Work)
also chip in with recent releases.
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Club Nights
By Phil Savva
 THREE stonking CDs-worth
of some of the hottest club tunes around at the moment.
If you like your dance music then you’ll love this collection of
high-energy, party-inducing, good-time feeling tunes.
CD1 sets the mood by opening with the brand spanking new release from
Hi-Tack Say Say Say (ingeniously sampling the Paul McCartney/Michael Jackson
collaboration of the 80s).
There are also new releases form Herd & Fitz (I Just Can’t Get
Enough), Freemasons (Watchin’), Royksopp (What Else Is There) and
Mylo (Muscle Car).
Recent club hotties Weekend (Michael Gray), I Like The Way (Bodyrockers)
and Ai No Corrida (Uniting Nations) are also featured alongside a reworking
of old school classic De Lacy’s Hideaway.
CD2 opens with Bob Sinclair’s Love Generation and follows up with
the heady bass beats of Filterfunk’s SOS sampling the old Police
classic Message In A Bottle.
Recent chart hits Out Of Touch (Uniting Nations), I’ve Got The Music
In Me (Boogie Pimps) and Dr Pressure (Mylo vs Miami Sound Machine) are
also here mixed together with more hardcore dance offerings from Axwell
(Feel The Vibe), Dajae (Brighter Days) and Chanel (My Life).
Another classic gets a makeover in the form of D.O.N.S. featuring Technotronic
with Pump Up The Jam.
CD3 features the mixing team of Uniting Nation doing the business on a
number of the aforementioned tracks and also contains the saucy video
to Hi-Tack’s Say Say Say.
VARIOUS ARTISTES
Very Best Of Love Legends
By Phil Savva
 WITH Valentine’s Day
firmly in mind those of you with a romantic nature will appreciate the
collection on the Very Best Of Love Legends.
A two-CD box set that features some of the most sentimental and romantic
tracks ever to be released and a perfect little present for the girlfriend/wife/partner
guys!
CD1 features classics from John Lennon (Woman), Robbie Williams (Angels),
Roxette (It Must Have Been Love), George Michael (Jesus To A Child), Spandau
Ballet (True) and Judie Tzuke (Stay With Me Till Dawn) to name but a few.
CD2 continues to tug at the heart strings with offering from LeAnn Rimes
(How Do I Live), Julie London (Cry Me A River), Brian Kennedy (You Raise
Me Up) and The Righteous Brothers (Unchained Melody).
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