Advantages: thrilling, well written, not too long Disadvantages: none
presented, they deal with the Apparition of Our Lady of Fatima and the third secret she?s told the three shepherd children she appeared to. It?s so horrible that the last surviving child, now a nun, refused for years to reveal it.
What do I care? I?m not a Catholic and places of pilgrimage like Lourdes, Medjugorje and Fatima interest me as much as the proverbial bag of rice toppling over in China. But then I realised that the author has cleverly put readers like me on the same side as Ben, he?s also dumbfounded. ?Weird. Fatima is uncool among church intellectuals of today? is what he thinks. His research and probing lead him to the insight, however, that there?s a group of high-ranking Catholics believing in the advent of the Antichrist, or Spoiler as he?s also called, at the beginning of the new millennium. They?re convinced that he?ll show ...
Advantages: Vincent & American Pie. Disadvantages: Lots of naff tracks.
American Pie - Don McClean
This album was originally released in 1971, this is the 1988 CD version, or at least the CD of the 1988 version (says 1988 on CD sleeve, though I do not remember CD's in 1988! Or maybe I just did not have any then, lol). According to various sources this album is amongst the 'best ever' American albums, really?
McClean was/is primarily a folk singer and this album, by all accounts was a 'one off', he certainly has little fame apart from this album. The album itself is quite an epic, particularly the title track 'American Pie', a song of over eight and a half minutes that tells a story that is a mix between psychedelia, Americana folk and angsty ballad. The famous line 'The day the music died' is referring to the air crash that killed Buddy Holly.
This album should not include 'Sister Fatima' according ...
Advantages: The artist at his very best Disadvantages: For me personally...none
Mention the name Don McLean and I bet you think ?Oh yea?American Pie?great!? And it was great, of course. But there?s much, much more to McLean than this one hit. On this album there are some of his best ever songs; the haunting, melodic ?Winterwood?, the mysterious ?Sister Fatima?, and the thoughtful ?The Grave?. Plus McLean?s version of Roy Orbison?s classic ?Crying?. Also the wonderful ?Castles In The Air? which was a hit for McLean in 1982.I particularly like McLean?s version of the trad Irish ballad ?Mountains of Mourne?, which is sung with feeling. Also included is perhaps McLean?s second best-known song,?Vincent?, dedicated, as we all know, to the artist Vincent Van Gogh.Oh?and yes, the album does include ?American Pie?. You couldn?t really have ?The Best of Don McLean? without it, could you now? ...
