Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The song remains the same, it is how the album is packaged that will draw the audiophile and the collector in, and if you manage to snag in the net those who had long thought about investing in their soul, albums from the said artist, then the Decades in which they have plied their trade have not only been worth it, but pursued with an acclaim of history on its side.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
To appreciate the heroes of the counter culture movement is to know your own mind, it is too rail, no matter how many years after the end of the flower power bearers, the orators of good hope, and those who paved the way for us all to cut swathes through the squares and the rules of pre-war dogma, and argue that the world has become bland, dull, it has immersed itself in the safety of the beige, and it shows no sign of wanting to heave itself out of the mire of the deadly and the dreary tedium.
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Critical reception in the eyes of all-knowing journalist can be tempered by understanding that they only write what they perceive to be true, or what they have been ordered to by those with a common purpose.
There was a period of time when music magazines, writers, had a ulterior motive, at some point they would knock a band so severely and claim that the record they were listening to was to be dismissed, to be wary off, and that the group in question was obviously no longer a relevance. Not every music journalist followed the line, but it is telling when you look back at old reviews that some albums which are rightly now considered as classics, have suffered from a way of thinking that had nothing to do with appreciation, and more about ego.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The top 40 may have lost its relevance, its stature since the turn of the century lost a generation who paused their breath as the reveal of the number one was announced, their much loved artist, their latest favourite song, would it be there, the pinnacle of the week’s current adoration; but it doesn’t stop the rise of the song, of the single, from catching our ear, conscious, and soul and taking us from the Lonely One to the one who feels love, friendship, and perhaps inclusion on a larger stage.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
For a decade the music coming out of Los Angeles was raw, energetic, magnificent. It had grown from its encompassing roots of Californian 60s rock standards, flower power child sensibilities, its long hair ‘hippy’ roots and taken on a greater, more fierce, more competitive edge as it sought to outmarch bands emerging from its East Coast counterparts and those from Europe and Australia.
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To discover where the road may lead you, you have to first admit that being lost is just the start of the journey.
To still be producing albums of such intensity after more than 50 years is remarkable, and for that alone the legend is set in concrete, protected by a court order of significant cultural appreciation, and a monument to perseverance. Every now and then a lost soul will happen across this monument, they will pull across to the hard shoulder, read the inscription, listen to the audio description, and realise they were never lost, they just needed Alice Cooper to offer them direction.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Aces are always high, for in a world where the Kings judge they are number one, they can be beaten by those they perceive to be the lowest denominator, and that sows the seeds of overwhelming brilliance from the true aces in the pack, the ones who grow and continue to be appreciated, and not because of imposed rank, but of dedication, natural flair, and a soul that is prepared to work and graft with a truth bursting put of every seam, every pore.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The public complain of the rise of the selfie, the pose that keeps on coming in the most arguably often inappropriate places. The issue as they see it is a belief that a camera phone in the hand and the constant retakes is either a case of narcissism out of control, or struggling to see an image of themselves that they can be satisfied without bowing to the pressure of anxiety.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Flying a kite in a thunderstorm is a reckless occupation, only scientists and foolhardy adventurers would see the lightning and relish the challenge…and yet to see the spark of brilliance as the flash explodes, as the possibility of fire framed by the reflection in the eye, that is the moment where holding The Paper Kites might just be the most thrilling occasion a person can behold.
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A true observer of the human condition and one who sees the meaning behind every building, who feels every ounce of historical sweat that was produced as cracks and fissures were framed and restored, and who understands that the town, every village, and that of the great and expanding metropolitan, is as much of the fabric of society as the person who lives and breathes within their tempered walls….these are the people who recognise the point in documenting it all to words and memory.