Firstly, I'm not connected with Tangent Music or anyone who made this album. I'll keep my opinions of it out of this text so right on with describing what it is. Everybody's Girlfriend is an album product by the Ex MD of Commodore UK, David Pleasance. It has 14 tracks on it and is being marketted as a product 'inspired' and product with the Amiga. In fact there's little of direct relevance to the Amiga and certainly you wouldn't know by looking at the album itself which has a strange text cum 70s psycho-oil montage artwork without an Amiga in site. It seems clear that David Pleasance intended to use the Amiga market for some free publicity for the product and well, I guess you have to earn a living somehow. :-) The most interesting track for Amiga people will be Track 11. Para Mi Amiga (Homage to Jay Miner). This is, in fact, a weird flemenco cum classical guitar montage played my Mr David Pleasance himself. It's including in this archive in a highly compressed ADPCM format. To play it do the following; CD Execute Play It should go off and play. I HAD to split it into two parts. The utility I used to compress the data insisted on loading through datatypes which insist on loading into chip memory of which I obviously only have 2MB. :-/ It's not a bad join though, it'll do for listing to this most ... interesting track. Not sure what on earth it has to do with the Amiga or Jay Miner especially given how many stolen classical licks are present within. Surely he deserved something original? Maybe one of the Module Gurus might like to compose a fitting dedication and put it on the Aminet one day. A quick note on the rest of the album; It's nothing like this track. It's some adverage pop band called 'Passion' playing some tracks that range from the rather cheesy like 'Leaving on the Bread Line' (Not talking about Mr Pleasance I take it? :-) to some pretty reasonable tracks including the last track instumental called 'Infinity' which I liked being a bit of a guitar head myself. I had hoped to make some kind of mix PCM track but Tony Horgan, the magazine's musical genius, was too tied up playing XTreme Racing this Friday afternoon with the Editor to help out. Figures. :-) Should you buy it? Up to you. It's interesting and, whatever happens to the Amiga, will be a nice bit of history in years to come. Maybe... You might even like some of the tracks on the album since it ranges from poppy cheesy Commitments type stuff to some well executed soft rock songs with plenty of proficient guitar. Oh yes, seems David's son Marcel is a budding 'Axeman' too. He plays (a bit) on a track called 'Prisoner of Passion' who's lyrics were written by non other than Mr Pleasance again (he doesn't do that much on the album so don't be fooled). This song is a pretty cheesy pap pop song but it's adequately performed and, like much of the other lyrics, could be talking about the Amiga but if you didn't know what the Amiga was, you wouldn't be missing a thing. The production values of the entire album is quite high. This is no amateur produced album. I scanned their (Tangent's) advert from the magazine (the advertising crew are next door and it's Friday afternoon so I can't be bothered to get a real bitmap) and it's included. Advert.IFF. You can't read the text in places so I stuck it in the archive too under the filename Advert.txt. Note the nasty cash grabbing prize-winning A500 premium rate number 'compo'. I think it would have been taken more seriously by our readers if it wasn't for this. :-/ Interestingly from David's list of thanks on the CD inner sleeve; Colin Proudfoot - We almost did it mate - Thanks Oh and apparently Bars and Pipes couldn't do something in the studio so they got rid of the Amiga for a Mac. :-( Anyway, it's certainly interesting so it wouldn't be a waste of money if you lashed out. You wouldn't want cuddly Dave to go hungry now, would you? :-) We wont be covering it in the magazine on principal though I'm afraid... If it's true Amiga music you want, check out SideWinder's up and coming Analyser CD and perhaps his previous Future Shock II CD. Until next time (something interesting happens). Mat Bettinson - Technical Staff Writer CU Amiga Magazine.