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Having recently offered readers the soundtrack to The Sound of Music , the Mail Newspaper is offering readers another great soundtrack this Sunday. This time there is a free copy of the Soundtrack to the classic musical Oliver with the paper. Containing these great tracks:

FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD
BOY FOR SALE
WHERE IS LOVE?
PICK A POCKET OR TWO
CONSIDER YOURSELF
I’D DO ANYTHING
BE BACK SOON
AS LONG AS HE NEEDS ME
WHO WILL BUY?
REVIEWING THE SITUATION
OOM-PAH-PAH

Being a big fan of Snow Patrol I was very excited when I read that they have a new album out - entitled “A Hundred Million Suns” it is the fifth album to be released by them and I am hoping to get it. So far I have only heard “Take Back the City” and it’s a real corker Hopefully the rest of the album is as good.
Here is the track-listing for the new album.

If There’s a Rocket Tie Me to It
Crack the Shutters
Take back the City
Lifeboats
The Golden Floor
Please Just Take These Photos from My Hands
Set Down Your Glass
The Planets Bend Between Us
Engines
Disaster Button
The Lightning Strike
What If This Storm Ends?
Sunlight Through the Flags
Daybreak”

Chasing Cars

Run

You’re all I have

Open Your Eyes

Hands Open

You could be happy

Chocolate

This weekend There is a copy of Tina Turner’s classic 1984 Album “Private Dancer” in the Mail on Sunday Newspaper- Cool B) . Here is the track-listing plus some tunes courtesy of YouTube

1. I Might Have Been Queen
2. What’s Love Got To Do With It
3. Show Some Respect
4. I Can’t Stand The Rain
5. Private Dancer
6. Let’s Stay Together
7. Better Be Good To Me
8. Steel Claw
9. Help
10. 1984
11. I Wrote A Letter
12. Rock ‘n’ Roll Widow
13. Don’t Rush The Good Things
14. When I Was Young
15. What’s Love Got To Do With It (2)
16. Better Be Good To Me (2)
17. I Can’t Stand The Rain (2)

Private Dancer
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zTG2X3M6V8A
What’s Love Got to do With It
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0eu3WIXuzmo
I Can’t Stand the Rain
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BC-FkDDFvA8
Better Be Good to Me
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jyBmlXrPdAw

The last album in the Times Newspaper’s seminal Album giveaway is Ocean Rain the 1984 album by Echo & The Bunnymen, it really takes me back hearing these tracks again, I was at school when this was released & it brings back some happy memories - Especially Killing Moon.

Tracks on the album are
* Silver
* Noctournal Me
* Crystal Days
* The Yo-Yo Man
* Thorn of Crowns
* The Killing Moon
* Seven Seas
* My Kingdom
* Ocean Rain

The Killing Moon

Silver

Seven Seas

Hearing a great album like Power, Corruption & Lies by New Order again, has got me listening to all their other albums too, I think my favourite album is Substance, anyway here are a few more of their best tunes courtesy of YouTube

Vanishing point
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfY_lqlYUd4
Thieves Like Us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KTlDVeY–0
World in Motion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nQItOROYlc
Regret
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUuxIinbMPA
Temptation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xezmxnScGS4
Krafty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8OcjdL8GvE

Being a huge fan of New Order I was very excited when I learnt that The Times newspaper was giving away a free copy of this classic album as part of their current Seminal Albums Promotion. I’ve got the vinyl 33′ somewhere, but since my record player broke I have been unable to play it.

This was New Order’s second album and was the moment when they started to sound less like Joy Division and started to experiment with their own sound, in fact you can hear elements of future tracks such as Blue Monday & Fine Time taking shape when you listen to the album.

Here is the track listing:
* Age of Consent
* We All Stand
* The Village
* 5-8-6
* Your Silent Face
* Ultraviolence
* Ecstasy
* Leave Me Alone

Here are a few of their best tracks courtesy of YouTube

Blue Monday 88
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts9r0QHuFHw
Bizarre Love Triangle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w77T0AncLKo
True Faith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og1HAkjOuL0
Perfect Kiss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–pSWLEVGhY
Round and Round
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kHgMvWmIs4
Fine Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPLAEAhMlUU

Today the Times Newspaper included The Jesus & Mary Chain’s classic 1985 album “Psychocandy”, It really takes me back, I haven’t heard these songs since the 80’s. Track on the album are:

* Just Like Honey
* The Living End
* Taste the Floor
* The Hardest Walk
* Cut Dead
* In a Hole
* Taste of Cindy
* Never Understand
* Inside Me
* Sowing Seeds
* My Little Underground
* You Trip Me Up
* Something’s Wrong
* It’s So Hard

Just Like Honey
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jYTpRWlQnf0
You Trip Me Up
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IdwbEa10CF4
Never Understand
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PtyGXwWs89c

Another classic 80’s album in The Times Newspaper’s seminal albums offer is Closer by Joy Division, and being a bit of a fan of Joy Division & New Order I really wanted to get it, there are some great tracks on the album, here is the track-listing plus some tunes courtesy of YouTube

Atrocity Exhibition
Isolation
Passover
Colony
A Means to an End
Heart & Soul
Twenty Four Hours
The Eternal
Decades

Decades
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMAB3r6EjcM
The Eternal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPY5TxTdElM
Isolation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOdNRGuX9g8
Heart & Soul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9bH6R3gj0I

This classic 60’s album by Arthur Lee & Love was being offered by the The Times newspaper today - Great suff Here is the track-listing plus some tunes courtesy of YouTube

Alone Again Or
A House is not a Motel
Andmore Again
The Daily Planet
Old Man
The Red Telephone
Maybe the People Would Be The Times or Between Clark & Hilldale
Live & Let Live
The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This
Bummer In The Summer
You Set The Scene

Alone Again Or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFHYr1jvri4
You Set the Scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk65Xd0NfTc
Bummer in the Summer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDVj1X5Qjew
The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UV73PqvZnHk&NR=1

Hot on the heels of The Daily Mail’s Classic 80’s Album promotion, All This week The Times Newspaper is offering readers the chance to collect some absolutely brilliant classic albums which are available when you get the paper from WHSmiths (of course you could probably download them all - from a legal site of course Titles on offer are:

* The Doors - Strange Days
* Love - Forever Changes
* Joy Division - Closer
* Jesus & Mary Chain Psychocandy
* New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
* Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain

Yesterday I decided to get Strange Days by the Doors, there are some brilliant tracks on it, here is the track-listing

* Strange Days
* You’re Lost Little Girl
* Love Me two Times
* Unhappy Girl
* Horse Latitudes
* Moonlight Drive
* People are Strange
* My Eyes Have Seen You
* I Can’t See Your Face in My Mind
* When the Music’s Over