Joel Compass

Welcome back, or hello for the first time.
Here is some music for your fine little faces.

This is Joel Compass. He is 19 and from Brixton (London, for the less traveled of you.)

'He has a debut EP coming out around June time on Black Butter Records. He's already drawing favourable comparisons to the likes of The Weeknd, Frank Ocean and Jamie Woon (amongst others). 'Back To Me' has also gone straight on to the 1xtra playlist, too. Joel Compass certainly has an exciting future ahead of him.'

Straight from his press release. Says it much better than I could have.
I will no doubt have more to say on him very soon.
Listen below:
Joel Compass- Back To Me (SoundCloud)

Or check out the wacky video if you prefer:

Music Page

I have added a music page but can't for the life of me figure out (I haven't tried that hard) how to make all the things I post in it also show up on the home page. So for the mean-time if you'd like to read it just click on the tab above or if you are too lazy here is a link: Joel Compass
As the blog grows I'll add links to the numerous SoundCloud & Youtube etc links of songs.

The Godfather Part II

Last night

I lost some faith in the before ever trust-worthy IMDb Top 250.

The Godfather Part II is #3 behind only The Shawshank Redemption (which isn't the best film ever so I should have seen the signs long ago) and The Godfather I (Which probably is).

Now Part II (let's just call it II) is a good film, make no bones about it. But there are many better films, that deserve the third best film ever spot. It probably doesn't help that it is going up against Part I and a sequel without Brando was always going to have something missing, but Robert De Niro as a young Vito Corleone is perhaps the best casting Coppola could have ever mustered.

But II is just a hard film to love. Al Pacino as Michael Corleone doesn't give much away at all. With Brando as the Don I felt for his problems, I had sympathy for 'The Reasonable Man' who was having to deal with his family being in a world of shit.

Michael however is no 'reasonable man' he's a bastard really, he was much more likeable as the little pathetic boy who signed up to fight for his country much to his brother Santino's dismay.

The Whole affair is a bit disengaging and for most of the 190 minutes there is no emotional connect other than thinking 'Well whatever problems come his way he'll deal with, oh he's just killed his brother... And he's got the man who play Junior Soprano murdered. What did he do that for?'

At times there are so many close-ups on Michael's face it almost feels like they have forgot to tell the story up to the point where I had to check Wikipedia to remind myself what was going on.

Part of this problem might be my problem, I read the book so I know that the majority of the first film follows the novel word for word and as I watched the second one I was debating if this ever actually happened, apart from the flashbacks with Bobby D (they happened.)

It's all a classy affair however and is still better than the Shawshank Redemption. And why am I reviewing a film that came out 39 years ago. If I'd have waited another 12 months this would have been a 40th anniversary and much more relevant.

Thank you for your time.