A good showcase of Australian Talent.
P. Humphrey | Arncliffe, NSW Australia | 10/30/2003
(4 out of 5 stars)
"A 14 Track cd from the 12 Finalists of Australian Idol.
Track 1: Rise Up - Australian Idol final 12. Its an OK song, I do find alot the lyrics rather tacky though, we're gonna rise up, fly like eagles etc etc but it is ok as the opening track. I would give it 3/5Track 2: Dirty Girl - Rob Mills. AWESOME SONG, upbeat, fun and funky 5/5Track 3: Dance with You - Rebekah LaVauney. LOVE IT, RnB done with sytle, Rap by Levi, Excellent Song 5/5Track 4: What a Wonderful World - Guy Sebsatian. A cover version of an old classic which Guy has put his own stamp on. Its OK 2/5Track 5: Burn for you - Peter Ryan. A cover version of a John Farnham song. Done well. 3/5Track 6: Ladies - Cle Wootton. Wow, another excellent track. Bit of Pop/RnB LOVE IT 5/5Track 7: 1 thing leads to another - Paulini Curuenavuli. Nice little pop song, reminds me of something Anatascia might do. I think the song itself lets Paulini's voice down a bit though 3/5Track 8: Wide awake & dreaming - Matt Chadwick. An inoffensive slice of pop. Its OK but could definately fall asleep listening to it 2/5Track 9: Starting all over again - Shannon Noll. This is NOT 1 of Shannon's better moments. Like Paulini I think this song lets Shannon down. Sounds like something that has come of the UK TV show "Heartbeat". 2/5Track 10: Always & Forever - Lauren Buckley. A really nice pop song that works well with Laurens voice. 4/5Track 11: Closer - Levi Kereama. Rnb/Pop, Good song but doesn't stand out enough. 3/5Track 12: The show must go on - Kelly Cavuoto. A heavier rock tinged track and its really good. Kelly has a great voice for this style of music 4/5Track 13: You believe in me - Cosima De-Vito. Another song that I could fall asleep to. It doesn't quite cut it, something about it misses the mark and personally I find her voice quite annoying 2/5Track 14: Movin on - Marcia Hines - A judge on Australian Idol(feat Aust Idol Girls). This is a great up tempo number that shows us all what an amazing vocalist Marcia Hines is. 4/5 By the way, I am a 35 year old male so maybe my opinions of some of these songs will not be the same as other peoples but I do believe that all up we have a CD that all Australians can be proud of."
Track Listings (14) - Disc #1