Air Guitar 2 -Just Hot Air, Or Rocking Fair & Square? (The Best Air Guitar Album In The World... Vol II)

Member Name: Caveat-Emptor

Product:	The Best Air Guitar Album In The World... Vol II
Date:	23/06/09 (8 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Some of the great guitar heavy tracks are on offer here

Disadvantages: Some of the songs chosen are not relevent to a guitar compiliation

A Guide To The Best Air Guitar Album In The World... Vol II - by an experienced guitarist.

This is the second in a series of rock flavoured compilation CD's by various artists, based squarely around the electric guitar; light heartedly titled Air Guitar 2. Being a guitarist myself, I bought this on CD as soon as it came out...

Artists include;
Queen, The Kinks, The Who, ZZ Top and Deep Purple, along with artists I'm not so impressed by like Def Leppard and (shudder) The Beastie Boys (what are they doing here?).

So as you can see along with the rock artist, 'axe' (guitar) heavy classics, you'd expect are some not so welcome artists, who don't always fit in with the albums title promise of Air Guitar.

This is a shame and (in my opinion) very sloppy conceptually -as it isn't like the album's creators didn't have enough great guitar songs to chose from -so why add songs artists that don't really work? Hmm...

Having said this -there are enough crackingly good tracks on this album to still make it worth while and guitar-loving-friendly;

Featuring tracks like Pinball Wizard -with Townsend's thoughtful acoustic chord play mixed with Entwhistle's mighty distorted bass power chords,

ZZ Top's stomach churning, southern boogie, turn your valve amp up to 1o for that sweet, fat saturated overdrive; Sharp Dressed Man,

And even a welcome addition which pays homage to the early days or rock guitar; with the Ventures (they were like a USA version of the Shadows, but with a bit more oomph than Hank and and the boys) snappy little Walk Don't Run instrumental based on a catch little pentatonic melody over a minor chord progression.... SWEET!!! I love it!!

Overall; not a bad album for your collection if you're into guitars; but it could still have been compiled with more thought given to the included tracks. Still the good outweighs the not so good -lol!!

Hope you found my review of some help, and good luck with your bargain hunting!!

Best wishes,
Brett

Summary: Some Great Tracks, But U Will Be Reaching For The FF Button In Places!!