Little Angel DP

There are a lot of good songs on this five CD compilation that take you back to better times and real music. This is definitely a great companion CD set when taking a road trip…you can rock for hours!

There are a lot of good songs on this five CD compilation that take you back to better times and real music. This is definitely a great companion CD set when taking a road trip…you can rock for hours!

Scotland's premier hard rock band, Nazareth have now been in the business for over 50 years. This triple-disc Ultimate Collection celebrates their incredible recorded legacy. Disc one examines their first half of the 1970s, taking in UK top ten hits Broken Down Angel and Bad Bad Boy along with the massive ballad Love Hurts, which reached the US top ten in 1975 before going on to be featured in dozens of films since, including Wayne's World, This Is Spinal Tap, The Full Monty and High Fidelity. The second disc covers selections from five studio albums from 1976 to 1981, and brings in more hits, among them May The Sunshine. Disc three continues the story through the 80s, 90s and into the twenty-first century, showcasing two tracks from the final album recorded with longtime lead singer Dan McCafferty in 2014. For fans, The Ultimate Collection is an excellent precis of Nazareth's brilliant career. For those coming to the band for the first time, this is the best place to start.

It's time to rewind, reload and take one massive 2-step back to one of the biggest genres to come from the UK music scene. A sound that defined a generation and remains as popular as ever today. Ministry Of Sound presents Garage XX. A 25 year celebration of the very best garage tunes. Two decades since the mainstream birth in the London clubs and its influence is still very much felt around the charts today. This definitive collection embodies everything about the sounds of the original UK Garage scene, across 3CDs. From the chart bangers to the forgotten gems.

This CD was released, at the moment of writing, 28 years ago, and if you are used to today's sound, you may find the engineering a little on the pale side, with the violin very much in the centre of attention and the continuo only occasionally able to rise above a mere accompaniment. However, it is Monica Huggett's performance which ensure the disc a five-star rating, fully justifying ASV's quote from the French classical musical magazine: "Leclair's violin has never been so well represented."