Warning: Stop Thinking Before Pressing Play
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If your looking for a lyrical masterpiece then I suggest you stop reading this review and go find yourself some Sarah McLachlan. If you want No Doubt, go listen to a No Doubt album (I prefer Tragic Kingdom). If your looking for a non-stop party pop album, please read on.

"Love,Angel,Music,Baby" is definetly one of the best pop albums out in the mainstream right now. Gwen Stefani breaks free of her No Doubt chains and tackles everything from R&B to 80s pop.

It starts out with Gwen singing "what an amazing time, what a family, how did the years go by? Now its only me..." over a piano and from there moves into the fast-paced Grammy-nominated pop track, "What You Waiting For?", which is sure to get anyone hyped-up for what lies ahead on her wild and crazy experimental album.

Your either going to love or hate the next song. Its a knock-off of a song from Fiddler on the Roof named "Rich Girl" which finds Gwen and Eve at it again. Gwen sings about all the things that could happen if she was a rich girl and Eve drops in a rap verse over a Dr. Dre produced club-friendly beat.

Although it is lyrically dumb, "Hollaback Girl" is a fun little track produced by The Neptunes. Gwen refers to this track as her "attitude song", and it does have a whole lot of attitude in it. Shes been around that track a few times, and its not just going to happen like that, because Gwen ain't no hollaback girl.

After those 3 lead singles we have the most No Doubt sounding song on the album called "Cool", which is about her former romance to a No Dout band member. Following behind- a throwback 70s duet with Johnny Vulture, an R&B dud, an obsession with Japanese school girls and a just plain wierd song called "Crash".

Now we are to "The Real Thing", "Serious" and "Danger Zone", which are my personal 3 favorites. These 3 tracks will take you back to the 80s, which some will love, and some will hate. I find "Danger Zone" to be the best track on the album- a killer production collab with Nellee Hooper and Dallas Austion and probably has the most intelligent lyrics you can find on the album.

Andre 3000 and Gwen team up for the last track, "Long Way To Go"- a Prince-styled song about interracial dating.

All tracks have excellent production. This is a great album to have if you just want to be loose and have a good time.
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The first time I used the pillow speaker, I thought it was great.  But, I had to stop using it, because during quiet sections of music or between tracks, I would hear a snapping, popping sound.  It was enough to wake me and later, when I was able to fall back asleep, cause some very strange and disturbing dreams.  I thought it was the powered unit, but with it turned off, I couldn't get the range of sound that was the benefit of the powered unit.
I'd like to return it, but I already threw out the box.  lesson learned... Keep the box for at least 2 weeks.
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I needed it to continuous play for a waiting room. It will not. Reddit has info about this issue. Amazon has been aware for nearly a year and not corrected it.
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The default sounds from the device of power on, power off, device connected, volume adjustment, etc. are TOO loud and annoying. Cannot adjust it. Bad design.
I assure you that the "battery low" sound would scare you to freak out!
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WE got one for my son for Christmas from Amazon, his girlfriend got him one somewhere else and they both skip many times in the EXACT SAME place!! This clearly is a manufacturer problem. :/  The album itself / song wise is great. Too bad they can't be played. After reading this issue online...it is an 'issue' with many people. Time got away from us, and we never returned. That's our fault. We just wanted to let you all know. Hopefully, the issue has been fixed.
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The cheat that activates the money, adds friends, make all happy, etc. will within minutes cause the game to freeze and stop completely. If you add the cheat; testingCheatsenabled True this will guarantee the game to shut down. It really pisses me off!!!
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I think I'm different, unique, or maybe favored in a way.  And surely I will not experience problems the other reviewers write about.  I have my Sony HT 7000DH XM out of the box 20 min., and while listening to "Sting" I begin to hear that damn clicking sound that everyone else is warning about. And what's worse, is it started faint and now has increased in volume so I can hear it even when music or movies are playing.  Ahh, CRAP! With so many reviewers experiencing the "Click" it has to be a systemic manufacturing defect and I wish Sony would address the problem before shipping any more out.

So, I therefore acknowledge I am no longer different, unique or favored in any way and the fact that I too got the damn "clicking sound" on my system just ticks me off.  Anyway, I wish I would have listened to the warnings and chose another system.  If you are thinking about this Sony system, I advise you against it.  You may think you are different and it won't happen to you, but the odds are you too will end up with the damn "click".  Thank you.
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While your iPod looks and sounds great when plugged into The Bridge and using one of harman/kardon's AVR x40 receivers, you must switch back and forth between The Bridge button and AVR button to be able to alternately switch tracks and control the volume. Worse, you won't be able to access your artists, songs, or albums unless you have a half an hour to kill to get to the one you want.  After testing it out and speaking with harman/kardon customer service, it's official: there's absolutely no way to fast scroll through the menus.  When scrolling, you must sit there and punch the "forward" button each time you want to advance to the next artist, song, or album.  If you have 870 artists on your iPod like I do, you have to punch the "forward" button 855 times to get to Yo La Tengo, and 870 times to get to Zappa.  There's no way around it except to create playlists beforehand.  Awful design flaw.  The service rep was very agreeable and told me that h/k appreciates customer comments and forwards them to their engineers, and that maybe a future model will incorporate that change.  Until then, don't bother with this one unless this issue doesn't bother you.

UPDATE: While it's true that you can navigate thru your artists by alphebetizing them by genre, i still have about 56 "B" artists and 46 "S" artists...the point is, you shouldn't have to do this.  There are plenty of similar products for the iPod that allow you to navigate thru your collection using a separate remote (such as the DLO HomeDock Deluxe and the Kensington StereoDock). The downside is, they don't provide a direct digital output -- someday, they will.  A week after writing this review, my brand new AVR 240 receiver wouldn't turn on.  Since it was already outside the store's return period, I packed it up, spent $40 to send it to H/K, and they sent me a refurbished one that wouldn't charge my iPod through the Bridge and wouldn't allow me to navigate my music at all.  So "Shanley", with all due respect, H/K has severely disappointed me...I reserve the right to rant.

ANOTHER UPDATE: After upgrading to the latest iPod firmware, as of November 2006, my 5G video iPod will no longer work with The Bridge.  I get an error message saying my iPod "is not compatible with this accessory."

I'd try to sell my Bridge on eBay, but my moral fiber prevents me from burdening someone else with this thing.
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Update:  I checked some of reflexive's other games on Amazon, and I can't see another one where they did the same thing as in this one.  Regardless, I found the in-game adverts distracting and an unacceptable business practice.
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Look carefully at the preview images before you buy this product (Or any reflexive product?).

The lower right corner (about 1/16th of the screen!) features a rotating ad the WHOLE TIME YOU PLAY THE GAME.

Not only is it insulting to feature ads throughout a PAID game (in demo versions or "free" games this may be acceptable, or at the beginning or end/credits of a normal game), but the ads take up a significant portion of the screen.

The "flashing"/changing of the ads between the various pictures during the gameplay is also very distracting.

This is my first and last reflexive "purchase".

Other than the ads, this may have been a decent game.  They were too distracting changing throughout playing, so I couldn't stand playing it for more than 5 minutes, and now I've uninstalled it.
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I am surprised more people don't complain about this... Everytime you start your car you will have to physically press "OK" on a warning dialog box to even proceed to the main screen! Completely annoying and unacceptable that this cannot be disabled after I accept. It's like installing a new version of iTunes everyday for the rest of your life.

**NOTE TO PIONEER**: MAKE THIS BOX CAPABLE OF BEING DISABLED PLEASE!
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I have used one of these for years BUT this one is not right!  I have loaded the songs I want to play, charged the device, and it will not turn on.  when I use the RCA tool to make sure that the device has the songs on it I see they are there.  I NEED TO GET RID OF THIS AND SEE IF I CAN FIND SOMETHING THAT WORKS.  The real  big complaint comes when I open and try the second one. THEY SAY TRYING THE SAME THING TWICE AND EXPECTING DIFFERENT RESULTS IS THE DEFINITION OF STUPIDITY.
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Had a bad experience with this in the beginning but I got it figured out. Do not press and hold any buttons. You gotta constantly press the 0 button.
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Music will not keep playing if you change screens to say.....adjust the EQ??? How are you supposed to dial in your sound if the music quits when you go to tone adjust?? And no scroll feature in the directory of your SD card?!? With 1,000 songs, you have to scroll each screen 1 at a time to get from A to Z. Alot of unnecessary wasted time! Great Sound, Looks, Fit! Just could have made the functionality a bit better!
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This clock's alarm function works perfectly fine, but someone mentioned before how it has no skip protection and will skip at the slightest tremor. Now, after having this item for a few months, I can add that if you have the audacity to fall out of bed or sneeze in front of this clock, it will actually scratch the disc being played. For the last few days, one of my favorite albums has been unable to play in this piece of garbage, and I just figured out this morning that it's because the disc is damged and the clock will just stop playing any audio; I haven't been sleeping through my alarms after all. So now I've got to find or burn a new copy and replace this hunk of junk. Don't buy this unless you like being late for important events or you hate yourself.
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I love the sound, and the speaker easily connects to all of my bluetooth devices (phone, computer, and iPad). No complaints there.  What I find most annoying is that if this speaker goes unused for 14 days or more, it goes into "protection" mode, and the only way to get it to turn on is to plug it in.  This is the case *even if* the speaker is fully charged.  I thought there was something wrong with my speaker, but after some research on Bose's website, if found that this is a "special feature" you get when you buy this speaker.  For me, that's annoying and disappointing.
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WARNING: Every time you turn it on or change a function a super loud, super creepy, super stupid man's voice announces what you are doing. It's obviously supposed to be funny but it is ANNOYING!

Sound quality is good and it's a rugged speaker but the built-in voice is enough to make you go CRAZY! Would have been a 5 star review otherwise.
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If so, I don't want to hear it.
I play this song at least 15 times/day. It wakes me up. It brushes my teeth. It drives me to work. It microwaves my pasta.
If you don't add this free Prime album to your playlist, and while you're at it delete everything else because this is all you need, there is something seriously wrong with you.
Oh, and if you're not afraid of getting TOO PUMPED UP, watch the video on youtube. I just ripped the sleeves off my suit and jumped up on the desk thinking about it.