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Beautiful Resort in Hilton Head

Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:58:28 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author seang - Overview The Westin Resort http://www.westinhiltonhead.co
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on Hilton Head’s northern edge was our choice of location for my honeymoon. If I had read epinion’s reviews before, I might have been spooked into not coming. As always, I rarely believe...

Lost in Space, BUY IT!!!

Wed, 11 Sep 2002 17:01:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seang - Aimee Mann’s Lost in Space is one of those albums that by the fifth listen, you realize you might have a masterpiece here. On first listen, a few songs will jump out of the woodwork, but it appears to leave you hanging for more. As with most of her...

Busted Stuff is just that!

Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:47:51 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author seang - First let me say that I think the Dave Matthews Band (DMB) is easily among the best artists of their day. I believe that Busted Stuff is good, probably better than 99% of the new discs that have been and will be released this year, but the often...

Bowie is Back!!!

Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:10:43 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seang - While so many aging artists have gone back to the well once to often, Bowie has always tried to remain fresh and important. Heathen is another example of Bowie's musical vision being innovative and fresh. It is without a doubt his most complete...

Driving Rain Has much to give!

Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:29:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author seang - Paul McCartney has released another great album and the world seems to pay attention. This is his strongest effort since Flowers in the Dirt, making it one of his best albums in almost a generation (I say 25 years counts as a generation). Driving Rain...

GOLD is Ryan Adams Coming Out Party

Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:14:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author seang - This is one of those rare albums that I purchased on pure word of mouth. I not only have read articles about this release, but I read things about WiskeyTown, and they compared him to the classic artists and I said, "well I need to find out for myself"...

Ben Folds Solo Masterpiece

Fri, 30 Nov 2001 13:21:49 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seang - Ben Fold's new release Rockin' the Suburbs is hands down the best release of 2001. Ben Folds's decision to break-up the two-piece band Five that had backed him on four excellent albums has not resulted in any significant shift in trajectory. The Ben...

Just Push Play says it all!

Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:20:28 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author seang - Aerosmith may be the ultimate survivor of the 1970's hard rock scene. Only the Rolling Stones have lasted longer and I would be hard pressed to rate anything they have done in a long time as anything other than retread. Just Push Play...

Utopia Highway is pure UTOPIA

Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:49:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seang - Fountains of Wayne's latest disc, 1999s' Utopia Highway is one of the most enduring power pop discs of the 1990's, it is also one of the most overlooked. For those of you who saw the Tom Hanks movie That Thing You Do! you know the melodies...

All that (I almost) Left Behind

Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:27:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author seang - I have found that through the years, I frequently need more time to evaluate a new CD (sometimes that means, weeks, months, years or decades) than I have allowed. Since a friend loaned me a copy of U2's October in 1981 I have always rushed out to...

Queen Hits its Highest Note!

Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:23:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seang - It was with A Night at The Opera that queen announced to the world that they had arrived. While Sheer Heart Attack had its moments and in fact was an outstanding early release (1974), it was Night at The Opera that reached into the...

Go to the SCI Carnival!

Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:02:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author seang - What a name? When a friend first recommended this band I had to ask him a dozen times "What is the name of that band you said I would love again?" Well I finally got it and after listening to Carnival 99 I GET IT!

The bands playfulness...

Fantastic Jam Band Live

Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:58:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author seang -

To the casual observer, since of the late 1980's success of The Grateful Dead and the late 1990's success of Phish, jam bands are blossoming faster that new viruses. If Moe. & The String Cheese Incident are both prime examples of the...

Jazz is Dead worth a listen

Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:14:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author seang - Jazz is Dead is an instrumental Grateful Dead cover band, which creates jazz-fusion versions of Dead songs. I recently picked up Great Sky River, their newest album after hearing it played in the local borders bookstore. To my surprise I...

Catch a Fire as never before

Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:50:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seang -

Bob Marley is the greatest reggae artist to ever live! That being said, now I can review Catch a Fire the deluxe limited (two disc) edition released in March of 2001.

Catch a Fire was the first Island Records release for Bob Marley &...

Hemispheres opens your Soul

Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:37:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author seang -

The last RUSH album of the 1970's demonstrates their evolution from art-rock to contemporary rock. Where Cygnus X-1: Book 1: The Voyage ends their last studio release 1977's A Farewell to Kings, Cygnus X-1: Book 2: Hemispheres begins this...

Meaty/Thick/Heavy Haunting

Fri, 6 Jul 2001 12:15:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seang - Lateralus the first official release in five years from TOOL is a deep, far-reaching masterpiece of prog-rock. just when I thought no-one would ever try to scale prog-rock mountains again, TOOL arrives to save the day. Both...

Another Coen Brothers Masterpiece

Fri, 6 Jul 2001 11:53:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seang - Only the Coen Brothers, the team behind hits like The Big Lebowski and Fargo and masters of quirky and ultra-stylish genre subversion, would parody the plot line of Homer's Odyssey. The movie takes place in 1930s Mississippi. After the trio escapes from...

Very Good, but not amazing

Fri, 6 Jul 2001 11:16:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author seang - Radiohead is currently caught in the same clutches that many bands in the past have never escaped from, that is, The Biggest Band in the World trap. Like U2, REM, Pearl Jam, etc. before them, Radiohead is boxed in from their own...

Jimmy's Hidden Masterpiece

Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:33:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seang - Herman Wouk's masterpiece Don't Stop the Carnival is one of the best reads' I have enjoyed in a long time. It takes a while to get the characters straight, but once you do, its wonderful. You feel like you are on the Island of Kinja...

Weezer Steals the Show!

Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:16:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seang - Leave it to Weezer to steal the fire from the competition. REM, Tool and about every major recording artist seems to have their best albums of their career coming out this summer, yet I feel for my money, nothing compares to Weezer's The Green...

Nothing new, but still very good

Wed, 23 May 2001 19:40:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author seang - Blues Traveler has been making outstanding music now for over a decade and they are no longer some obscure jam rock band. When HORDE first started, Blues Traveler, Phish, Spin Doctors and Widespread Panic sounded like a breath of fresh air compared to...

REM's best since Automatic

Tue, 15 May 2001 15:08:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seang - REM has stuck themselves in a box, always having to be something new and exciting. Ever since first hearing "Radio Free Europe" in 1983, I have been expecting something better with each release. Chronic, Murmur, Reckoning, Fables, Lifes, Document,...

Much better than I expected!

Sun, 6 May 2001 19:46:48 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author seang - When I first heard that they were going to make a major motion picture of Charlie's Angels, I thought oh...

Then I heard Drew Barrymore was involved with the project and I thought, well maybe?

I did not see this in the...

Signals 1982's Best CD

Sun, 6 May 2001 19:10:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author seang - I originally reviewed this disc in my high school newspaper in 1982, and over time I realized I was right all along. This is a great disc! Many students wrote and complained to me in high school that Signals was too commercial and generally a...