With only four full-length albums and a couple of live records to their name, it's hard to view this 2006 two-disc Cinderella set as being essential, especially as the thorough Rocked, Wired & Bluesed: The Greatest Hits was released early the preceding year. Nevertheless, the two-disc Gold contains almost everything a Cinderella fan could want or possibly need. Almost.For some reason, the group decided to opt for live renditions of two of its most well-known recordings "Gypsy Road" and "Somebody Save Me" over the original versions. This flaw aside, Cinderella comb through their other releases to present this 30-song collection of their other hits, including the power ballad "Don't Know What You Got ('Til It's Gone)," the hard-driving "Shake Me," and the MTV favorite "Nobody's Fool." Regardless, there really isn't much reason to purchase Gold for anyone who already owns the economically sensible single-disc 20th Century Masters or Rocked, Wire & Bluesed collections, and those with just a casual interest in the band would be better off with either of those collections instead. (allmusic.com)

Tracklist:

01. Ocean Drive - Without You
02. Whizzkids & Inusa Dawuda - Rub-A-Dub Girl
03. Llp & John Puzzle Feat. Chriss-T - I Miss You
04. Sidney Samson - Riverside
05. Gregoire - Donne Moi Une Chance
06. Deepcentral - Russian Girl
07. Ela Rose Feat. David Deejay - I Can Feel
08. Klaas Haddaway - What Is Love

Track list:

1. Alan Pride And Jeremy Kalls - Feel Alone (Club Edit) (5:22)
2. Alan Pride and Jeremy Kalls - Feel Alone (Quentin Mosimann remix) (5:48)
3. Alex De Vito - My Sound (Olav Basoski Remix) (6:17)
4. Bob Sinclar - Rock This Party (London 909 Main Mix) (7:54)
5. Chips & Gold - Let's Hear It for The Boy (Funkk Frikz Remix) (6:13)
6. DJ Ivan Flash - My Model Game (Original Mix) (5:18)
7. Electrobeat & Kike Rodriguez - Castles In The Sky 2010 (Ian Van Dahl Remix) (7:07)
8. Funkk Frikz - Girls Around The World (DJ Ivan Flash Remix Vol 2.0) (5:58)
9. Joss Dominguez - Dee Jay (Original Club Mix) (7:05)
10. Merlin Milles - Sax Bomb (Scotty Remix) (5:38)
11. Oksygen - Hey You (7:48)
12. Strip Steve - Breakin (Rynecologist Remix) (5:21)
13. Three 6 Mafia feat. Tiesto, Sean Kingston & Flo Rida - Feel It (Jump Smokers Club Mix) (5:03)
14. Venus Kaly - Everytime (Chic Flowerz Mix) (5:08)

From amazon.com
Never shy of talking history, Manic Street Preachers have tackled everything from fellow Welshman Dylan Thomas to World War Two concentration camps in their two-decade history. Journal For Plague Lovers, however, sees the Manics tackling a past even closer to home: their own. With a sleeve painted by artist Jenny Saville and words culled from the notebooks of Richey Edwards, the band’s former lyricist and guitarist who apparently disappeared into the fog back in 1995, Journal For Plague Lovers consciously harks back to the group’s excellently caustic 1994 album The Holy Bible. Journal For Plague Lovers is a softer album than that, one that perhaps imagines The Holy Bible’s razor edges through a sepia filter. But a recording job by Steve Albini leaves songs like "Peeled Apples" and "She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach" feeling satisfyingly raw and there remains something undeniably thrilling about the pairing of James Dean Bradfield’s vocal--gruff, passionate--and the strange, cryptic imagery conjured up by Edwards’ lyrics: "This beauty a dipping neophobia", he choruses, soulfully on "Facing Page: Top Left", and you remember what a strange, special band the Manics can be when they put their minds to it. ––Louis Pattison