The Platinum Album

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Vengaboys

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Last night, July 14, 2001, I saw this band put on one of the greatest shows of all time in Cincinnati. In the same area where the riots occurred, Vengaboys appeared at Club Electra and performed all the great songs from this album. They rocked! They partied! They danced! They ruled! Kim promoted this album! The audience went nuts! 3,000 fans went crazy!

For those Americans who still have not heard about the Vengaboys, they are a four member Dance/Pop act who live in Amsterdam, Holland, the same country that Alice Deejay is from. The Vengaboys are two girls (Denice and Kim) and two guys (Roy and Yorick). Denice is from Hungary, Kim is from Brazil, Roy is from Trinidad and Yorick is from Holland. Kim is the lead singer, but what makes the act truly superb is the incredibly vigorous synchronized dancing that the band puts on. It is fabulous! They all go flat out! There is no cuteness; there is no forced sexiness; there are only straightforward actionpacked dance moves. The girls dance as strongly as the guys. Forget "Brittany" ,forget "In Sync" forget "Christina" forget "Backstreet Boys". This act is the future.

The Platinum Album is their greatest album so far. Standout songs are "ShalalaLala", "Kiss when the Sun don't Shine", "Uncle John from Jamaica", all of which they performed last night. Two other good tunes on the album are "48 Hours" and "Take me to the City". All the songs are influenced by the unusual techno/trance production values that are now coming out of Holland, but all songs retain a strong pop influence. DJ Danski and Delmundo produce this album, and they must have been influenced by DJ Jurgen who is an expert in the field of trance music.

I want to see the Vengaboys on Late night TV. Jay Leno, wake up! Letterman, this band will increase your ratings! It has to happen! Make it soon!

I strongly recommend this album. A few of the songs could be considered weak, "Cheekah Bow Bow" for example; but the hits with the fun attitude, overpower any weaknesses.

The original idea was dance music and the two Dj's Danski and Delmundo started with dance stuff before they even were the vengaboys however, the last Cd was good, the songs were more dance songs with cool beats but after the gteat success they had they realized it was better to make an Cd with more or less pop songs to sell even more, cause it was actually "Boom" that sold the most singles and probably the reason they became so popular. On this Cd many of the songs are plain pop instead. "Shalala Lala" and "Uncle John from Jamaica" are too example what fame can do to a group. "Kiss" is a little better, but the real dance fans would laugh at this teen-pop band they became against their will. "Cheekah Bow Bow" is a dance song with a computer voice, quite funny but the single flopped so did "Skinnydippin" which is more or less pop anyway. "24/7 is another pop song with some dance sound, not that good at all. Nah this album was alot worse then "The party album" i wonder how the next one will sound.