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Title: Healing, Seamless Sounds Review: I first heard this playing in the background of my favorite Balinese-style hot springs resort and am so glad I found it here! "Bali" is a delightful, inspiring and always comforting journey through a peaceful world of water and sunlight. Midori incorporates the use of water sounds, windchimes, Asian percussion and wind instruments to compliment the easy, unobtrusive keyboards, creating a seamless, relaxing mood throughout. Each song slips into the next with ease, never breaking the mood, making this album ideal for yoga or massage (it works great with my Hatha yoga routines). Some parts of the CD make me feel as if I'm sipping jasmine tea in China. Other parts have slightly Celtic overtones to it. I can't exactly pin down musically what makes this particular collection "Balinese" compared to other meditation albums but it's still a very lovely and soothing piece of work. Is the review positive or negative?
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Positive


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Title: Overrated Review: This is easily the most overrated of P.J. Harvey's records and is perhaps one of the most overrated alternative records released in the 1990s. The production and song-writing is as shoddy as it gets. With the exception of the misplaced experiment with violins, "Man-Sized Sextet" (which was better executed on later records), and the melodic, "Missed" (reminescent of her debut release, 'Dry'), the simple punk/riff which works on some of the tracks ("Rid of Me", "Yuri-G", and Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited") becomes tiresome after a short time.NOTE: Whether you agree with my assessment of this record or not, people who really seem to like this record also seem to like her new record ("Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea") but not 1995's "To Bring You My Love" or 1998's "Is This Desire", both of which represent far-better productions by Flood. Depending on where you are on the P.J. Harvey fan spectrum, beware. Is the review positive or negative?
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Negative


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Title: Not for sensitive ears Review: Bought these thinking they were a cheaper alternative to solid gold but they have proven to be irritating to both my and my daughters' ears. Maybe for those without a sensitivity to non-gold, they would work. They are pretty, but we are limited in how long we can wear them. Is the review positive or negative?
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