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The Don Reeve Sound
'Mighty Hammond' (MFP 50013)
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Pain, No Gain
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'A Walk in the
Black Forest' is must refer to the one in the Blair Witch
Project! Nasty!
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A drum-rattling
'Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine in' medly is top of the heap here-one
of the best around!
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Geoff Love &
His Orchestra 'Big Suspense Movie Themes'
(MFP 50035)
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Help ! 'The Harry
Lime Theme' is totally not good at all. Plodding and lame
with the zither bits sounding like they are played by Hank
Marvin-with a poorly hand-and a blindfold on. Nonsense !
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A pretty faithful
but unremarkable version of 'Shaft' is what makes this album
worth having, but its not one to pay any kind of money for.
No one in the band seemed to give a damn either because they
are certainly not worried about keeping in time on it.
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'Smash Hits 72'
(MFP 50048)
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The pipes! Och
aye, the pipes! 'Amazing Grace' has a sporran full of nasty
surprises.
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'Popcorn' done
to a turn! If anything, its better than the genuine article
with plenty of pounding drums. Yum!
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The Conway Sinfonia
'Classics with a Beat' (MFP 50049)
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Flashback to
Platoon, 'cos we are indeed in a World of Pain where the is
no end or hope of escape!!!!
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Its not often
that you find an album on MFP with absolutely no redeeming
features at all, but here it is!!!
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The Power &
the Glory 'Sing 12 Rock & Gospel Hits' (MFP 50051)
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It could be a
fair assumption that Kenny Everett got the idea for his Brother
Lee Love thang after a dose of this record. 'Amazing Grace'
is particularly disgraceful, even for a bunch of Jesus-pushers...this
one's for Satan!
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A slow burning
'Oh Happy Day' has a righteous dose of Hammond to covet! Amen!
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Elektrik Cokernut
'Go Moog!' (MFP 50071)
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'Morning Has
Broken'...sounds like its not the only thing!
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Let's skip by
the very same version of 'Popcorn' that surfaced a few records
back and extoll the delights of the Glam/Moog crossover original
'Jungle Juice'. Absolutely bonkers!!!!
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Spoilt for choice
really with an album full of kiddies songs sung by beardy hippies...top
song title has to be 'A Tree, He Asks No Questions'...huh???
Stay away from the brown blotter acid...
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Now then, the 'Rainbow'
theme, as we're sure those of a certain age will recall, is
blessed in parts with a nice beat and some wigged-out guitar...
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Geoff Love
& His Orchestra 'Your Favourite TV Themes'
(MFP 50091)
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Lordy ! 'Country
Matters' conjures up a fairly rural picture indeed. Bad-tempered
farmers, burning pyres of culled livestock and the stench
of the silage pit...
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Wow ! A free-jazz
take on 'Ironside'. I shit you not. Bass, flute and piano
do their own wonderful thing and turn this into a real corker-especially
if you turn the pitch up just a touch...go on, try it-you'll
like it !
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| Denny Wright & The Hustlers
'Non Stop Pepsi Party' (MFP 50098) |
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It's time for
the 'Fille Rouge', and Luxembourg play their joker with 'Tijuana
Taxi' the 'It's A Knockout' theme. It sucks logs !
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'Shout About
Pepsi' has it all; funky percussion, Mohawks-style hammond
and saucy sax !
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The Roger Webb
Trio 'Plays Gershwin' (MFP 50099)
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Take yer pick!
It's dull, dull dull-full on nim-nim-nim stand-up bass
playing too...give over!.
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Mr Webb lets
us down badly with a piano trio LP that does not reward even
pence. 'Summertime' is probably the least snooze-worth thing
on offer, but that isnt saying much at all.
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Chico Arnez 'Non-Stop
Dance Party' (MFP 50179)
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Even Kylie did
'The Loco-Motion' better than this in the days before she
got sauced up...extremely lame.
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'Soul Finger'
is a cracker; brass, Hammond and a flippin massive drum break
too...what more could you possibly want?
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King Kong 'Funky
Reggae' (MFP 50190)
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'A Little Bit
of Soap'...Showaddywaddy
in a reggae stylee only conjures up images of the shower time
in The Big House...
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The only real
stand-out on here is a bash at 'Funky Nassau' that doesnt
get too much of a pasting...just about not bad.
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'Dance to the Music'
(MFP 50193)
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With twenty cuts
on here there is a right load of old cock to chose from, but
somehow those 50's covers always seem to stand out in a bad
way, so its a toss up between 'Leader of the pack' and 'Da
doo ron ron', as you can't really put a fag paper between
them in terms of being gratuitously dreadful...
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As you might
expect from the title of the LP, they have a good old bash
at Sly's biggest hit, and blimey-it's really not half bad
at all thank you very much!!!
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Alan Moorhouse
& His Bond Street Brigade 'McCartney, Mendelson, Mancini Go Marching
With...' (MFP 50198)
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Why in God's
name was Alan Moorhouse allowed to carve out a career dishing
up 'Hits In A Military Swinging Style' ? There are at least
four of these efforts and between them contain one solitary
track worth hearing. Everything is smothered with terrible
parade ground rat-a-tat drums. The sleeve notes state that
Moorhouse 'is one of the most respected arrangers on the British
music scene'...Not on the strength of this kak he ain't.
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We're struggling
a bit here...Ooof ! Bought on a very fallow day round the
charity shops, just to see What kind of damage Mr. Moorhouse
would inflict on 'Live And Let Die'. The boy did a job on
it all right...
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Geoff Love
& His Orchestra 'Big Bond Movie Themes' (MFP 50227)
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Owww ! The hateful
little cod-reggae bit in the middle of 'Live And Let Die'
is just SOOOOO bad it's not true.
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A belting run
through 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' does the business.
Right up there with the best.
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| Michel Legrand 'The Windmills Of
Your Mind' (MFP 50240) |
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He picked up a
few dirty habits from his time as an arranger for Miles Davis
and his insertion of an atonal Yorkshire Colliery brass band
into the middle of 'Wuthering Heights' is very unnecessary.
By 'eck !
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'Theme From The
Go Between' is a very Barry-esque affair - in fact almost to
the extent of inviting litigation...but it does not disappoint.
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Geoff Love
& His Orchestra 'Big Terror Movie Themes' (MFP 50248)
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Blimey ! 'Bach
Toccata In D Minor'. Mercy ! What a load of cobblers. Say
no more.
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Let it be known
that this is a pretty fine LP all round, but the pick of the
bunch of funky soundtracks is from the obscure 'Three Days
Of The Condor'. It's a little beauty and no mistake and partly
why dealers try and bump the price up so much on this album.
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Hugo Montenegro
'Broadway 'n' Brass' (MFP 50303)
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This is a dreadful
album of awful show tunes recorded in the mid-60's before
Hugo even got a whiff of Moog madness...DON'T!!!!
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Not even a half-decent
track on it. During this time Monenegro was releasing album
after album of utterly bonkers Moog-groovers and this shite
is all that MFP could license to cash in???
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| Jack Parnell & His Orchestra
'Braziliana' (MFP 50327) |
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'Caravan' ?? obviously
referring to one parked in a lay-by in Bangor rather than one
found on the Rio beachfront !
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Copies are now
much prized, with 'Deixa Isso Pra La' seemingly being the reason.
We're a bit non-plussed about it personally though.
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Geoff Love &
His Orchestra 'Star Wars & Other Space Themes'
(MFP 50355)
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Christ ! 'Things
To Come' is the sort of thing that the Coldstream Guards
play ! No place for this in the disco-fied sci-fi age.
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Yes ! 'Space 1999'. Orange
catsuits all round and Mikki Berenyi's shape-shifting
mum. What a show !
What a Tune !
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Geoff Love's Big
Disco Sound 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind & Other Disco Galactic
Themes' (MFP 50375)
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Yuk ! The un-funky
disco version of 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind' is
just well out of order. Red card ! Chock full of that disgraceful
'uhm-da-uhm-da-uhm-da-uhm-da' walking bassline that makes
everything it graces suck so badly. Who though that was
a good idea ferchrissakes ?
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A splendid
take on Nick Ingman's 'Space Patrol' is well ahead of the
pack on this LP. Groovy electric piano & bass grind
along nicely to the beat. Well worth it.
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Mandingo 'Tiger
in the Night' (MFP 50428)
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Principle Pleasures
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This is quite
possibly the very bestest MFP album that there is-culled from
the classic 4-LP series on EMI, every track is nothing but
a winner for sure. If you haven't got it already, then you
ought to get one quick!
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'Black Rite'
is a big Mandingo fave round these parts...big-ass guitar
and jungle beats all the way. Very sweet.
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Sergio Mendes &
Brazil 77 'In Concert' (MFP 50434)
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As with most
Mendes albums, the screech-some female singers always take
the edge of the groovy goodies, an by the time you get to
'The Look of Love' at the end of the LP, you've had just about
all you can take of 'em...
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A You'll often
see this LP at criminal prices in shops on the strength of
the ho-hum drum break on 'Viramundo'. It's not a bad Latin
groover, but tread carefully.
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Wes Montgomery
'Windy' (MFP 50436)
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Wes gets decidely
ordinary when he sticks to the smokey jazz standards, and
'Green Leaves of Summer' is very dreary...
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There are some
cracking Beatles covers on this comp of the last pair of Wes
LP's on Blue Note, but the top groover has to be a version
of The Association's 'Windy' that's as cool as the summer
breeze-nice!
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Geoff Love
& His Orchestra 'Themes For Superheroes' (MFP 50439)
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Pain, No Gain
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Principle Pleasures
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Two sides of
the same coin are on show here: on side one we have the
terrible limp lettuce of a country waltz that is the 'Bionic
Woman Theme'. Come to think of it the show itself was fairly
lame and awash with sentiment in the same way this track
is.
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Ah, now...side
two serves up an immense take on 'The Six Million Dollar
Man'. Great stuff-drive, power and energy. 'I can't hold
her...she's breakin' up'. Thats the stuff !
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Burt Bacharach
'In Concert' (MFP 50442)
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Principle Pleasures
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'Come Touch the
Sun' is too parpy by half...very un-smooth for old Burt...thumbs
down.
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A nice LP all
round, but a brisk run through of 'Bond Street' comes out
on top of the lot...
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