Pop Party 1

These hits are as cheesy as my feet (1317 words)
by deb10 - written on 05/07/05, updated on 05/07/05 (Useful, 12695 readings)
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discs inside were not scratched so of I went with my bargain of the day. I just hoped it played ok in the car. The hits are from v Various Artists listed as below. THE TRACKS: Disc: 1 1 Hit me baby One More Time - Britney SpearsI’m not a Britney Fan but this old time hit of hers is quite catchy if you are sitting in a pub on your tenth bacardi and coke. Why is it when you are drunk you seem to know all the words of the cheesy tunes? 2. Year 3000 – BustedI love this even though I’m not into young boy bands. My kids enjoyed swaying to this in the car. 3. The Tide Is High - Atomic Kitten I remember when Blondie put this out originally, how old does that make me. ...

Fame Academy - The Finalists

An underwhelming album (1418 words)
by dippykitty - written on 20/05/09 (Very useful, 38 readings)
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I used to enjoy watching Fame Academy before it was axed from BBC. I preferred it to the likes of The X Factor as one of the requirements was for the contestants to be able to write their own songs rather than just rehash other people's covers. My next sentence is probably going to sound more than a bit ironic as this CD features cover songs from some of the contestants on the second series of the show. In the order that they finished, this is Alex Parks (the winner), Alistair Griffin (the runner-up), Carolynne Good, Peter Brayme, James Fox (who went on to represent the UK in Eurovision a few years back and didn't do very well) and Paris Campbell-Edwards. ***Alex Parks ...

Kill Bill Vol 1 - Soundtrack

Kill (1468 words)
by berlioz II - written on 28/08/08 (Very useful, 177 readings)
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There are only a few directors who have basically made their careers out of homaging cult movies from the 60s and 70s with an aggressively violent hold with such consistency other than Quentin Tarantino. He is basically the ultimate cult director who loves his childhood movies, B-grade low budget sloch horror, kung-fu, and action films, as well as other cultish endeavours to make his own films stand in a very similar cultish light, yet with bigger budgets to make these films at the same time produced with a higher level of accomplishment without hiding their source of origins. Tarantino's double feature of Kill Bill was exactly this type of movie that relied a lot on references to old ...