title: One catchy EP!

text:
Schooner is a GREAT band from Chapel Hill, NC.

This EP is packed with catchy melodies you'll no doubt get stuck in your head --- and don't be surprised to find yourself whistling these tunes at the grocery store!!  Especially "Trains and Parades" & "Stunts and Showmanship and Codes".  But this EP isn't just full of upbeat rockers; the final track "This Machine Is Running Out" is a beautiful down tempo number....a perfect way to end an album.

And, besides making good music, Schooner is good people!!!


title: Soothing but richly textured

text:
This music is transformative. It takes you places. Quiet, beautiful, warm places.

Celtic music mostly. Heavy on the hammered dulcimer and flute. Quite beautiful music. I have been listening to this album since I first picked it up I believe at a Harvest Festival in '88 or '89. I still enjoy it and it still moves me. Makes me want to close my eyes and drift with the melodies..


title: The ultimate house music experience

text:
If you like dance music, this is as good as it gets. DJ Moon is without question the best DJ on the Chicago Scene today. This CD was mixed earlier in the decade, back when he was learning the game. His genius was evident even in these early recordings.

Today you can catch him at clubs like Four, Level, Moda, Crobar, Ministry of Sound and others. Usually he doesn't announce his appearances more than 12 hours in advance due to security concerns. I would buy this CD asap.

The cover of this CD features one of the few known photographs of Moon.


title: Could there be another excellent performance like this?

text: There is no doubt that The Beaux Arts Trio was on their zenith in these beautiful performance. Each work was played in a stunning beautiful tone and stunning good interpretation; mellifluent and blissful. Although the happy and healthy atmosphere of Haydn's work prevailed everywhere, their score reading were still very careful, fresh and clear. Tempo, style and dynamic were all very natural. These 3 excellent musicians cooperated so well that I wonder could any other Trio surpass these performances.


title: Phenomenally literate in places, disguised by arena-rock sheen.

text:
Alchemy continues Melnitsa's transformation into a glossy arena-rock band. Overall it's more polished than Angelophrenia was, particularly Hellawes' vocals, which were surprisingly rough on the previous album. Here her voice is, for the most part, clear and smooth. So is the music, and the embarrassing blues detours are pretty much gone.

There are many good songs, culminating around the beginning of the second side with "On The Structure Of The Firmament," which earns a place on any top ten list of Melnitsa songs. The arrangement is intensely dramatic -- the song opens with a lone four-note riff on guitar, using rhythmic pauses in between notes like the best post-punk and leading in to the recurring central image, "because the snow flies vertically upwards." The rest of the song circles back to this line repeatedly, through a gentle, languid first verse and an increasingly passionate build-up.

The next song, "My Joy," is an absolute philological treasure trove and I could dissect the metaphors for hours, so I'll just copy the first verse instead: "Bodiless and weightless, how can I be heard by you / if your flesh is the flesh of words and my blood is the blood of fire? / The embers of the countless days burn to ashes inside my bare breast / the voiceless Logos inside me burns with white heat." The guest singer then passes it off to Hellawes for the chorus: "My joy, hold your palm out / you may push me away with your hand / my joy, here is the fire / I came to love you more than the fire."

The song serves as a brief guide to ancient [[ASIN:014044520X philosophy]], telling the story of a deity who experiences cosmic happiness from the act of creation. There are overtones of Greek [[ASIN:019953831X mythology]] -- the "fire" image suggests the Promethean myth, and the second verse refers to "the copper-bodied bulls," which evokes a sacrifice to the gods. But at the same time, the deity in the song is a single mind, rather than a group of gods, and he also contains the entirety of Logos, and in the second verse he says, "I sacrificed myself to myself / only to be able to utter you." The allusions have enough depth to reward some time spent [[ASIN:0913836311 thinking]].

Also noteworthy is the first song, "Gaudete," which has an elegant, baroque acoustic arrangement that, exactly as intended, calls to mind a holiday celebration in late-medieval Europe, and is a welcome throwback to Melnitsa's early work. On the "rock" side, "Farewell" and "Tristan" both have loud, anthemic choruses and the same hyper-dramatic approach to arrangement as "On the Structure..."

On the downside, quite a few songs are basically generic arena-rock, and are written with metaphors about naval combat ("Dreadnought") and space travel ("Martian Express") that have had all recognizable context sanded out of them. "Anesthesia" has been stylized so much that it is basically about nothing, and there is actually a song called "St. Exupery Blues," which even references that unwitting [[ASIN:0156012197 hero]] of infantile romantics everywhere. Even "War," an affecting song about a soldier who has "nowhere to return except war," prefers to stylize its dark subject matter with images of sunsets, "silver and steel," and clouds that look like tanks. The author clearly feels more comfortable with the people "drinking wine at home" than with the narrator who criticizes them. We can hardly blame her for it.

In that sense Alchemy is basically a direct sequel to Angelophrenia, which had all of these same tendencies too, but also had some songs ("River," "Flightless" and "Burn, Moscow") that grounded their flights of fancy in natural or mythological imagery. In a "professional" sense Alchemy is the better album, as it has better singing and overall better music, and Hellawes' use of mythological and philosophical allusion in "My Joy" is beyond all human competition, but there's a risk that her fascination with philology might get the best of her, as much of Melnitsa's style has become increasingly depersonalized compared to The Road of Dreams or [[ASIN:B0019HVY0S Call of the Blood]].


title: A glimpse of a different, higher world.

text:
Melnitsa, or Windmill, is a folk band, but Zov Krovi (Call Of The Blood) offers a very different kind of folk music, one that the hippies never got their hands on. The characters in these songs express emotions that are completely alien to pop music. "The Gates of Tamerlane" is narrated by a woman in ancient Mongolia (by way of the band's charismatic front-woman Hellawes), whose betrothed has just departed on a raid, most likely his last. She describes the steppe in haunting, unfamiliar metaphors ("from the rim of the pitcher, milk flows into the sky" -- try to visualize that for a minute); her love and sweet memories can easily be seen as a prophecy of misfortune ("weeds and ash for you, Tamerlane / you will disturb the feather grass in foreign shores / you will grow cold in a tall golden tomb"), frighteningly inevitable, and yet her narrative is also somehow light, full of quiet sadness rather than dull depression. In the final lines, she calmly awaits her own funeral pyre without any trace of regret.

When I heard this for the first time, I felt like my world was being turned upside down. I thought: yes! Finally, someone did it! This is the only contemporary work I know which convincingly evokes a high ideal -- cold and beautiful, alternately tender and savage, unafraid of death, clear and whole -- and takes it very seriously, giving it the dignity it deserves. Normally I would draw comparisons to other albums, but all that I can think of is very early [[ASIN:B000003JAW Sinead O'Connor]], circa "Jackie," "Troy," and "I Am Stretched On Your Grave," three songs that all express an archaic self-abnegation that is otherwise non-existent in popular Western music. Even the best of that music tends to view the simple act of having emotions as being sufficient justification for endlessly dwelling on them -- for that reason, Western artists come across as insular and self-obsessed [[ASIN:B000003TAR even]] [[ASIN:B00489YLBS when]] they are attempting to be self-critical.

But Sinead's songs were angry protests against the world's hypocrisy (personified, e.g., by the contemptibly weak lover in "Troy"), and that already made them somewhat over-the-top and unhealthy. Hellawes' characters simply live in another world to begin with. "Bride Of The Snake God" retells a Slavic legend about how the snake lord would wait by the well and capture young girls who had ventured too far away from home. But on another level, the song is narrated by a woman who is using the legend to tease her husband-to-be -- if he doesn't take care of her, she will go to the well on purpose and let herself be spirited away. In the chorus, "hold me back / lay me down on a bed of silk / caress me, don't let me go to the water alone," she shamelessly, fiercely exults in her vitality. At the same time, this is an elaborate courtship ritual, not an outpouring of uncontrollable desire. Until the poor oaf finally marries her, she will keep laughing and dancing just out of his reach.

Song after song fiercely glories in the forces of nature, written in forceful, striking poetry. The Viking warrior in the title track gives in to animal rage and is rewarded ("the fabric of existence smoulders and dissolves / your fury is blind, your sword is as a torch / the underworld will not claim you, the smiling warlike god will greet you"); the pagan priestess in "Full Moon" anxiously awaits her initiation; the lament in "Oh, The Wave" turns into an anguished howl at the narrator's childlessness; a "Dragon" contemptuously looks down on arrogant knights and imagines "soaring into the clouds as a challenge to fate / endlessly dangerous, madly beautiful."

But none of this would connect if the music didn't match the poetry. First, Hellawes is a unique phenomenon, a singer with a strong, clear, absolutely thrilling voice. Her delivery is dramatic and theatrical, but bereft of the usual pop-music screeching and straining. At the same time it doesn't go to the other extreme of being ostentatiously "operatic." Hellawes, and her understudy Alevtina Leontieva (who sings lead on three songs here), both sing in an intimate way that brings one close to the emotion inside Melnitsa's archaic stories, rather than distancing one from it with excessive stylization. But they also have a lot of power and energy, like Alevtina's swooning, seemingly endless note at the end of the last verse in "Full Moon," or the two ladies' circular call-and-response chorus in "Fortune-Telling." The band matches the vocalists with strong, Celtic-inflected music that explores a lot of variety within the folk genre. One of the most striking moments is the tonal shift that occurs when "The Gates Of Tamerlane," a slow song on acoustic harpsichord, gives way to the much more up-tempo "Little Grass," which starts in immediate sharp focus with a completely unexpected electric-bagpipe sound.

The ending is unforgettable. "Ribbon In Your Hair" might be the album's most accessible moment, an excellent but fairly straightforward mid-tempo, minor-key ballad with a rock rhythm and a cello lead. But after that there is one more parting shot: the bonus track "White Cat." A lilting melody supports a simple, unadorned lyric addressed to a newborn baby. After twelve songs about all kinds of epic characters, our muse decides that what she really wants to do is to "sit in your cradle and sing lullabies / so that the little bells may ring, and the fragrant flowers may bloom." At that point I understood that I had never heard any album like this before, and that I had always wanted someone to show me this world, rather than the one typically shown in popular music and popular culture in general.

This is the best album that I have ever heard. Oh, I forgot to mention -- it's written and sung entirely in Russian. But if you really want to be shown something different, that will be part of the point.


title: Sub-par, compared to Year Zero and Ghosts; it is free, though.

text:
The problem with The Slip is that there's almost nothing new about it. Even that aspect of it isn't new. NIN already have one "let's just rock out and have a good time" album, 2005's With Teeth. That album is also more fun to listen to than this one.

It's somewhat disappointing when you consider Trent Reznor's other recent work. Year Zero (2007) was a startling, original reinvention. At least, I personally would never have expected the voice of nineties teenage angst to become a visionary prophet of the apocalypse. Ghosts I-IV (2008) was uneven, but it was also an original move, possibly the only thing Reznor could have done at that point without repeating himself. And although it may have been too long, many of the tracks on it truly expanded Reznor's horizons as a composer.

But even the best songs on The Slip would have sounded more or less average on With Teeth. "Discipline" is a very catchy single, but it's practically a rewrite of "The Hand That Feeds," except the production leans more toward the electronic sound of Year Zero. And the drum track sounds like it comes from Blur's "Song 2." I'm sure it will sound great live, but it really shouldn't be an album's greatest draw.

The loud angry songs all sound very similar, and much more rudimentary than even the songs on With Teeth (which were already stripped-down). Songs like "1,000,000," "Letting You" and "Head Down" use almost identical two- and four-note guitar riffs. Of course, NIN albums were always more about Reznor's vocals than the music, but these songs don't have any particularly interesting vocal rhythms either.

And the lyrics, man, they're really phoned in. It almost seems like they're just mash-ups of typical NIN phrases: "when you crawl on your hands and your knees," "I feel a million miles away, I don't feel anything at all," "Believing your charade, begin to suffocate," "This is all a dream and none of you are real," "I'll give anything," "It keeps growing and I can feel it breathe," "Now I know what this is all about," "I will use my fist to destroy everything I can," etc. Even Year Zero suffered from this problem a little, but there Trent made a concerted (and successful) effort to tell a story about the world around him. Here, he's back to railing against "them" and describing his emotions.

The second half of the album changes gears completely and sounds more like Ghosts. But there, too, most of the music isn't as good as the best Ghosts tracks. "Lights In The Sky" is Reznor's least interesting piano ballad (if you want to hear one of his more interesting ones, try I-1 on Ghosts), and "Corona Radiata" is the kind of droning ambient loop that appears in a few Ghosts tracks, except here it's stretched out to seven and a half minutes to become the longest song on any NIN full-length. Yet it really doesn't have any more musical content than "999,999," the minute-long "Pinion"-like opener.

The one interesting exception is the instrumental "The Four Of Us Are Dying." In addition to an evocative title, it also has an excellent, deep bass line. Trent has never been the best guitarist, but he's become very good at writing bass lines -- all the good songs on With Teeth had bass and not guitar leads, Year Zero had a few of them too (especially "The Warning"), and so did a few of the best Ghosts tracks. Perhaps he's been secretly taking lessons from Peter Hook. Anyway, this bass line rumbles ominously with a softer keyboard rhythm laid over it, creating a cool dark-ambient vibe. Hopefully this is the kind of thing he'll be exploring on his next album.

Also, the one vocal track that grew on me with time was "Echoplex." It would have fit in well with the less aggressive bass-driven songs on With Teeth. The music largely consists of a bouncy drum rhythm and more of that deep bass, with little else of note. But despite the upbeat rhythm, the song itself sounds kind of murky and ambiguous. It never builds up to any kind of climax, instead there's a break in which Trent whispers in time with the beat. The odd tension makes it stand out.

I don't want to sound too critical...he did release the entire album for free, and it's still up for download on NIN's website. And critics liked it for once, so I might be in the minority. But I still feel that it falls below the standard Trent has set in the past two years. Perhaps one should view it as an EP and not a full-length album.


title: A bit difficult as a whole, but many excellent individual tracks.

text:
The revitalization of Nine Inch Nails might be the coolest story in popular music this decade. Eighteen whole years after Trent Reznor's first album made him an idol of alienated teenagers throughout the land, he mounted a powerful comeback with Year Zero. The teenage angst was replaced by ominous prophecies of doom, and the soundtrack was a combination of harsh digital noise with some of Reznor's most accessible songwriting, with a modern electronic production.

After that, Trent regained his confidence. Instead of disappearing for five years, as he had done before, he took only a year to release Ghosts I-IV, an entirely instrumental double album that greatly recalls Aphex Twin's 1994 exercise in minimalism, Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2. Even the presentation is similar -- two discs of untitled tracks, each represented only by a photograph. Except Trent does it better. Many of the photographs (not included in the CD package, unfortunately, but you can download them for free from NIN's website) are beautiful. The muted shots of sky and water fit the mood of the soft tracks very well.

More than that, Ghosts I-IV is generally more enjoyable than Aphex Twin's opus. Even the less memorable tracks are, at least, listenable, and most of them are fairly short, so even if your attention starts flagging here and there, at least the record still moves between tones fairly briskly. Whereas Aphex Twin's record had a lot of really beautiful pieces, but also a lot of blatant listener abuse. (2:11, anyone?) This record is not like that. There are loud and cacophonous parts, but they are tame by NIN standards, they tend to be brief, and Reznor's pop sensibility keeps any one sound from overstaying its welcome.

However, as with most double albums released by popular musicians, the length is an obstacle. The thing is, all four volumes of Ghosts are fairly similar. Each volume has a couple soft piano bits, a bit of grinding guitar, some weird ambient noise, and so on. It makes it seem like the record is less varied than it really is. Different parts of the record offer different variations on certain basic ideas and tones, but if you listen to the whole thing in one go, it does call attention to Reznor's reuse of those tones. It is better to listen to each volume separately, as many reviewers have recommended. Within each volume, the tones tend to cycle, from loud to soft to in between, so it doesn't feel like any one component is dominant.

Also, in my view, the sludgy guitar tracks (I-8, II-10, III-23, IV-29) tend to be unremarkable. Reznor was never much for solos. With the exception of III-27, the most "solo-like" track, the guitar mostly just grinds out basic rhythms. In an instrumental album, without Reznor's newly powerful voice (and Year Zero featured his best vocals to date), this just isn't very interesting.

But fortunately, Reznor does much better with other tones. Ghosts features his best, most elegant piano compositions (I-1, II-13, III-22, IV-36). In I-1, the opening track, the piano is joined by a very soft, eerie synthesizer melody that really sets the "ghostly," slightly uneasy dreamlike mood suggested by the album title. In II-12, there is an effective switch from a similar piano melody to a strident mid-tempo rhythm played with increasingly loud feedback, an example of a Ghosts track with internal development.

A couple of songs complete the Aphex Twin connection. The queasy echoing sound in II-15 is very Aphex-like, and not too different from, say, 1:2 on Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2. Interestingly, the drums in this track and many others have a kind of rough "organic" sound (as opposed to, say, the very mechanical electronic sound of Year Zero). Then, II-17 uses a very Aphex-like echoing production for a simple guitar rhythm, and III-25 rounds things off with a "bubbling" mixture of odd ambient noises. Though, granted, queasy ambience has always appeared in Trent's music, for instance in "The Downward Spiral."

Occasionally there are tracks that don't quite fit into any of the main templates, like II-14, which is based on a shrill, vaguely martial faux-Eastern riff, or III-24, the most "techno-like" song, which brings in danceable beats and electronic bass in addition to the sludgy guitar. A couple of times, Reznor channels his inner Peter Hook and produces some satisfyingly deep bass riffs (I-5, II-18). Especially notable is the interplay between the bass and keyboards in II-18. In III-22, another introspective piano lead is off-set by the effective contrast of crashing drums and a jangly guitar counter-melody.

If I had to choose, I'd say that the second volume of Ghosts is the best and most varied overall, but the single best track on the album is IV-28. There is first a long stretch of tentative guitar strumming, which gradually mounts into a steady, rhythmic build-up, softened by gentle production. A similar technique is used in IV-34, with a piano break. If Aphex Twin were to release such a thing now, it would be hailed as a breath-taking return to form.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to rate this album on a five-point scale, since you can find tracks on it to fit any rating. The sheer volume of material means that you'll find stuff you enjoy and stuff you don't, and the very loose concept makes it a bit hard to tie all the tracks together and listen to the album as a coherent whole. But it is definitely very different from anything Nine Inch Nails have done before, and it firmly identifies Reznor as a singular musical voice, which perhaps we knew all along. "Industrial music," if that label still applies to NIN, has never had its boundaries pushed as far as on this album.


title: Pow!

text: When all your CDs start sounding the same and you want something fresh, get this one.  When your life seems to remain always the same and you want an adventure, get this CD and any other by the Bay Ridge Band.  Valentina, Cas, Riro, Jonathan, Chris and Molly are not led by culture, but help create it, mixing traditional songs with brand new ones.  Valentina singing "A New Creation" on this, their debut CD, tells it all.  I'm a mailman, and everyone on my route can hear the Bay Ridge Band coming from my mail truck.  It makes me enjoy my work.


title: Tapes were as described.

text: These cassettes were what I expected.  I owned these before but one of the tapes broke, hence I was looking for a replacement.


title: Soothing music

text: Beautiful vocals and music...would really love it if I spoke Norwegian... 4 out of the 7 songs are song in Norwegian.


title: Five Stars

text: Loved the songs although it didn't come on the day it was suppose to but still I love it


title: This CD is a JOY

text: I am so grateful to have been able to find this treasure!!  Hearing Mo singing songs not on my other albums and hearing him talk  brought him back from heaven  {where I imagine him playing and singing requests for God!}.  If you, like me, are a #1 fan of Mo's then pay anything asked for this rare and wonderful CD...it's well worth it.  My mahalo goes to Roland Chang who produced it.


title: Awesome!

text: So good! Can't believe i waited nearly 20 years after this came out to listen to it. Love Rich Mulins' music!!!


title: Ultimate Gospel: More Than a Melody

text: Very good Gospel music. I would recommend this album highly you will not be dis-appointed in the purchase of this album.


title: James!

text: As per usual Mr. Taylor is good to listen to.I feel some of his material self written or otherwise a little under Parr but he makes up that lull with the next song!I feel his earlier stuff in some cases was better but he does find better things eventually!


title: Mr. Boone!

text: Great collection of hits and other lesser known things by him.This is especially true if you don't have a set of his music!


title: Too much fooling around

text: I love the Elvis sound but he fooled around too much during These rehersals.And they should have learned some of the new things they tried like Ghost Riders In The Sky.It could have been great.!


title: R n r

text: Good yo hear good ol' rock m roll!Not all to my taste but mostly !


title: Historic rockabilly plus

text: Good to hear people still doing real rockabilly r n r!


title: Tricky Ricky!

text: Mostly all good with songs you didn't know Rick recorded!


title: Nice combo!

text: Nice music by Penny And Buddy.Sound good together.Some songs too short,but that's there only fault.I would have picked some different songs here and there,but still worth hearing these!


title: Who sang Elvis?

text: I love Elvis related stuff.Guys who sang like  him and a lot of five and dime artists that one paid fifty cents for in the past.Still interesting! Some were studio guys!


title: Nestle copiers

text: I thought this would be better as the arrangements and performances were somewhat sloppy.


title: Great Mr. Charles!

text: Great music by Day Charles including some songs I don't know.Listen to Understanding.This song couldn't be released today!That's Ray Charles not day charles!


title: Great El!

text: Loved it.Since there doesn't seem to be much else newly discovered Elvis material,I guess new arrangements is the way to go.


title: Great Country

text: She's new to me but I like the years in country which she's singing,mainly the fifties. And Capitol Records had such a nice clear sound!


title: Good fun Elvis mobie

text: I think the movie was great.It was as good as Smokey and the  bandit and other movies of the day and based on a good book.Wake up people.Sure it was an Elvis movie but well done and fun.Good music too!


title: Nice combo

text: Nice mix and performances by these two great artists.


title: Elvis music tried.

text: Some good stuff ,some arrangements not so good.


title: Fantastic Talent.

text: Some great songs by a great talent,known widely and lesser known.


title: Great Gene Vincent

text: Always loved genes music.Even when he was hardly known.


title: Goifup

text: This album doesn't exist!


title: King thank you!

text: Always good to hear Elvis esp. when there are unreleased tracks!


title: Greasy!

text: Good ol' greasy music if you dig it as I do.Perfect instrumental stuff on here for listening or partying.


title: This is the real Elvis,the singer.

text: Nice to hear Elvis in a private moment like this with no big production factors  .Just him singing at a little party.Wish they released more things like this by him. He was good!


title: Talent

text: Good christmas cd with a overseas voice that is enchanting


title: The King indeed!

text: Elvis of course at his best with some new background tricks!


title: The Great Mercer!

text: As a kid listening to my Dads old 78s,I always liked Mr. Mercer voice.I still do .I'm not saying all these songs are great,but you get what you can find.I know ,I forgot the Ess after Mr. Mercer.I'm not Poifect!


title: Old Soul

text: Great song that was played here in Buffalo NY radio though not long enough.Great Record


title: Great country

text: Far on is always good and this cd is no exception. Very good songs And performances by the great Faron!


title: Generic nature?

text: Fine guitar,but sort of generic overall


title: Old cowboys

text: Nice to hear these great artists together!


title: Seasonal Musical Bliss

text: Fine cd of music concerning different seasons of the year and done nicely with out of door sounds added.


title: The country

text: Nice background sounds if your not in the country,but want to be!


title: Great Guitarist!

text: I still didn't play the whole cd,but Albert Lee was always great.He was in my area ,western NY.,and all the the local players and others of course,came to see him and were well pleased and stunned!


title: Western singing star?

text: Never heard Der Bingle sing country or rather western music before and I like it.I guess Bing thought if Jimmy Wakely could do it,why not him! Though I'm not sure who came first.Where's Abbott and Costello when I need them!


title: Wrong material

text: The cd was marked right,but the music isn't  what was marked!


title: The Modern Elvis .

text: Excellent release.The Real Elvis with new backgrounds.I would have done a couple of the songs differently myself but still excellent!


title: the cliff

text: Not his best but good


title: The Tom!

text: Tom is always great.I think he needed someone to promote his recordings better at times however.


title: Rock and Roll!

text: I love gene Vincent's music always but this time the Live Lively Bill Haley And The Comets  in NY was even better!


title: Five Stars

text: Mr Carlini does sound somewhat like Elvis through his enthusiasm


title: Father of rock and roll?

text: Bill Haley Always had a great band.tHis singing was competent and secondary to the great Whole sound.The father of rock and roll for a lot of segments of young listeners!


title: Great r and b instrumentals.

text: Always great to hear Bill Doggett.Earl  Bostic is great at times also.


title: Early Bob.

text: Fair folk stuff by Dylan only if this is new to you.


title: Arrived with a broken case

text: I bought this for my dad as a gift and it arrived with a partly shattered case. I have not listened to the CD.


title: Joyce is very inspirational, whether it is the subject ...

text: Joyce is  very inspirational, whether it is the subject of, over eating or the Bible.


title: Good cd

text: very underrated band from Austin Texas traditional heavy metal very good 10 out of 10


title: Death thrash

text: Old school


title: Texas thrash Christian

text: Christian thrash very good from Texas hometown boys I recommend


title: Christian thrash attack

text: Very good Christian thrash that's what I like thrash


title: Heavy metal

text: Definitely good heavy metal in mines me a new wave of British heavy metal that's why I like about it good stuff


title: Looks like a nice set.

text: Looks like a nice set I don't know how they sound it's going to be a Christmas gift for my daughter.


title: Not exactly the choice of songs weren't to my preference

text: It just wasn't what I was expecting it's just okay


title: CLEAR - SIMPLE AND BRILLIANT!

text:
I became acquainted with Richard Lee McKim's work a little over a year ago when I came across his book "How to Use Your God Power to Get everything You Ever Wanted and Live the Life of Your Dreams -The Masters Course".  I knew right away that it was the real deal.

The book was absolutely life altering. Once I started applying the concepts I saw results immediately. I don't write many reviews but his work impressed me so much that I want to share it. I believe every person on the planet should have this information.

This CD is a recording of an actual coaching call where the discussion is largely focused on the mechanism of vibrational resonance and how it works to get the abundance out of your head and into your hands.
This is the most clear and simple explanation I have heard.
The way he breaks it down- it's so easy a caveman can do it!
Every time I listen I gain more insight and learn something new. I now have a very clear understanding of how and why the principles he outlines in his book are so effective. It is also really helpful to hear the interaction between coach and client.
There are several other topics covered. The discussion on appreciation vs gratitude is probably the most honest and interesting perspective I have ever heard on the topic. As usual Richard Lee McKim has hit it out of the park!

After spending a small fortune on books and courses that promised all the answers and delivered nothing but more questions- I am so grateful to have found his work!
If you have questions and want the truth without the fluff -check out this CD.


title: Five Stars

text: Quick shipping, in original packaging as described


title: Superb music. One of my all-time favorites.

text:
If I remember correctly, I first heard Saltwater Colors in 1996.  Over the years this album has become one of my all-time favorites for relaxation and contemplation, or work that requires concentration.

Max Cohen is incredibly talented, the music is very tuneful, and his finger style skills are insane.

Over the years I've enjoyed this album so much, that when when my music player randomly picks up a track, it's like hearing from an old friend.

Songs (on my version of the album)
1. Manic (2:12)
2. Subliminal Orange (1:55)
3. Dunewalk (2:51)
4. The Awakening (2:02)
5. Gravity (4:05)
6. The Awakening (Reprise) (1:21)
7. Waterfall (4:34)
8. Matthew (3:30)
9. Older Colder Dreams (3:49)
10. Chestnut (4:17)
11. A Dream Of Autumn (4:30)
12. Saltwater Color (4:13)


title: Not what it seems!!!!

text: This is not the remastered 2014 version with cardboard packaging and Jimmy Pages 2014 remastering. This is the first issue of it on cd.


title: The Eroica Trio never disappoints! No matter what music ...

text: The Eroica Trio never disappoints! No matter what music or composer they are performing, their performance is spot-on, impeccably styled, lively and passionate.


title: Five Stars

text: Nice glass


title: The whispers are excellent singers

text: Listening to lusic


title: Five Stars

text: Very enjoyable.


title: The album came in PLASTIC SLEEVES and IS RUINED! ...

text: The album came in PLASTIC SLEEVES and IS RUINED! I bought the deluxe offering and will NOT subject my stylus to this. There is plastic residue that will NOT COME OFF!!!


title: NPR liked it, I do too.

text: Don't take my word.  Listen to the npr review:  http://www.npr.org/2015/08/03/429065110/guitar-phenoms-new-album-pays-tribute-to-jimi-hendrix


title: I have to agree

text: Wonderful, beautiful music.  I took a chance on this CD, but now I will be looking for more from Hollie Smith.


title: If you like Copland's musical Americana, do yourself a favor and buy this.

text:
Jerome Moross is one of those composers who seems to have fallen into the gaps of collective memory, although his fans are ardent ones.  He is best known for his film score to The Big Country, which initiated a new approach to writing for Westerns.  Moross didn't innovate the style -- Copland did that in his score to The Red Pony.  However, Copland's challenge to film composers lay largely unanswered until Moross.  Before Moross, the standard Western score sounded like Red River or High Noon.  After, it sounded like The Magnificent Seven.  Moross actually wrote for three Westerns in succession:  The Proud Rebel (1957), The Big Country (1958), and The Jayhawkers! (1959).  The approach to each one differs from the others, because the films differ in intent.  The Big Country is William Wyler's attempt to make The Definitive Western Epic.  Although it's an interesting film, John Ford accomplished far more with less.  The Jayhawkers! is a more straightforward action movie.  Proud Rebel is a more layered film than either of the other two and accordingly gets the more psychologically complex score.

It's an unusual Western in several ways.  It takes place in Illinois.  The action involves raising sheep rather than cattle.  A major subplot involves a child psychologically traumatized by the violent death of his mother.  The music is mostly "homespun" and intimate, except in the few violent scenes.  Although the music for those scenes is highly effective and memorable, Moross's interest clearly lies in the relationships among the hero, his boss, and his son and in their slow journey to becoming a family.  Many view Moross as a Copland disciple (he also composed wonderful theater music, including opera and ballet, and chamber scores; film work composed a very small part of his career), but I definitely hear an individual voice.  The score is like a unique house in a good neighborhood.  It's beautiful, memorable, and dramatically compelling.  Moross tended to compose distinct pieces of music for his cues, rather than generic underscore.  Consequently, the excerpts on the disc sound more like concert suites than "noodling around" until the scene is over.  Think of something like Copland's Suite from The Red Pony or Prokofiev's Lt. Kije Suite.

This is the movie soundtrack, definitely of its time in its standard of sonics and of performance; both are acceptable.  In the Seventies, Elmer Bernstein recorded the score for his film music series in better sound and with a better orchestra, but that LP album never made it to CD, as far as I know.


title: Old Heifetz Dazzling Form

text: The violin concertos played here by Heifetz in remarkably good sound given their age and are brilliantly virtuosic, but there are often times one wished he could have  eased up and brought more warmth to the music, as he indeed did in some of his later recordings. Finally, it is disappointing that his partnership with Emanuel Feuermann in the Brahms Double Concerto sounds like a routine run-through unhelped by Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, rather than bringing something special from the great cellist, as I had hoped.


title: An Absolute SACD Multri-Channel Triumph!

text:
After more than a decade of buying classical Multi-Channel discs (by now nearly 1,000+) & suffering the disdain of SFL and so many of my fellow Amazon critics (2ch Stereo only reviewers , of course), who didn't want to hear about SACD multi-channel recordings and how much better they could convey the recorded music than 2-ch could, I would ask them to read the review of David Rowe of this very disc to hear what an improvement SACD has made in these recordings which he has heard in their previous incarnations - and still WITHOUT HIS HAVING A PROPER MULTI-CHANNEL SET-UP!

I do not know Mr. Rowe or anything about him. But two things are clear. 1. He is honest. 2. He has excellent musical taste.  - Of course, that his comments on the terrific performances attained by Boulez and the NYPO on this disc mirror my own exactly helps, but I urge you to hear this disc. And particularly if you have a proper multi-channel SACD set-up, it's a lay-down. You won't regret it. It's magnificent. (It is also maybe the very best classical SACD issued by Dutton among the several of their excellent re-issues that are in my library). Hopefully there will be still many more to come.


title: Second-Best Bergland "Kullervo" Recording

text: This is Paavo Berglund's second recording of Sibelius' Kullervo Symphony, this time with the Helsinki Philharmonic replete with a Finnish cast of musicians and singers, aided by the Estonian male Choir, recorded by EMI in 1985, but unfortunately it no ways equals his 1970 earlier thrilling performance of this wonderful work recorded with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Finnish chorus and soloists and now beautifully remastered and available  on the Warner Classic label. By the way, also available on this 2-disc set of the 1970 performance are equally fine performances of Sibelius' Finlandia, Karelia, Tapiola, and The Oceanides. - The Warner set is really the one to go for!


title: Delightful Chamber-Like Beethoven by Brautigam

text:
Quite different from the traditional sound & performance of these well-known works by Beethoven for piano and orchestra, Ronald Brautigam and Andrew Parrott produce unexpectedly winsome, and exciting interpretations in brilliant SACD engineered sound which are a treat to the ear in an unforgettable way.

This time Brautigam uses a Steinway D piano, rather than the older forte pianos he has used for Mozart and other older composers to suprising and wonderful effect. The Norrköping Symphony Orchestra will not recall the Vienna Philharmonic or the Chicago Symphony to be sure, but even down-sized as they seem to be, the players are first rate and carry the day. Brautigam is spectacular as usual and Parrott sees to it that the grandeur of Beethoven can be maintained, even at a somewhat lower decibel count than is usually applied. All in all, it's marvelous!


title: Unmissable Rachmaninov!

text: If you love Rachmaninov the composer (and who doesn't), hearing these recordings of Rachmaninov on the piano playing his Symphonic Dances is a unique and special treasure from the creator. A great gift.


title: Electrifying SACD by Bernstein of Haydn's "Mass In The Time of War"

text:
This is a thrilling SACD quadraphonic recording done by Leonard Bernstein and an unnamed Orchestra (probably the National Symphony, I'd guess) in Washington DC, in conjunction with the March For Peace on January 20, 1973,. The soloists were Patricia Wells, Gwendolyn Killebrew, Alan Titus, Michael Devlin and the Norman Scribner Choir. Of course this "big band" Haydn, and frankly, I wouldn't have it any other way.  Bernstein's way with Haydn has been validated for decades by H.CV. Robbins-Landon. It is full, energetic, and romantic in style.

Now this particular performance has long been available to the public, and much praised. So why review it now? The answer is that it is being issued as a  quadraphonic SACD for the first time! Thanks to the English label Dutton Epoch, this great performance has been revealed in such spectacular splendor that it virtually recreates the music. SACD is the key,of course, but not all SACDs are as successful. In this case, Washington Cathedral  turns out to be a wonderful recording venue, and engineers Elliot Mazer and Larry Keyes delivered the goods. The singers, chorus and orchestra are beautifully recorded and integrated throughout. Like many of you perhaps, I've had the original issue, but now I urge you to acquire this one. It's a whole new kettle of fish - magnifique! - - - (In fairness I should point out that the accompanying  performance of Haydn's "Miracle" does not live up to its nick-name.)


title: Exciting Excerpts of Prokofiev's "Chout" by Walter Susskind & LSO.

text:
I remember quite a few decades ago getting this disc and being delighted with its explosive and brilliantly recorded performance of a suite from Prokofiev's ballet "Chout"or"The Buffoon,"performed by Walter Susskind and the London Symphony Orchestra. It was and still is lively, rude and entertaining with passionate and surprisingly beautiful music. Then, sometime later it was reissued  with a performance of Prokofiev's  Lt.Kije Suite, performed by Sir Malcolm Sargent and the LSO attached, which was appropriate since the Chout suite barely lasted 35 minutes.

Well, a lot has changed since then! There are now a lot more recordings of "Chout" available to hear. The great conductor Gennady Rosdhestvenski seems to have had a performance of his with the USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra issued by several different companies, and although one can't be absolutely sure due to the absolutely disgraceful absence of recording information by the disc makers, the Chout Suite has nearly doubled in length, and is referred to in its jewel box as Chout Op.21: Part 1, and Chout Op.21: Part II.

Finally, although the digitally remastered sound is also very good, Rosdhestvenski's later recording (possibly influenced by the ballet's action) is quite different from the Susskind interpretation I grew up with and is often monotomous and even nauseous. ("vinegar to the ear"  as famous Vienna  critic Hanslick once described another work.) To sum up: I suspect that Susskind picked the parts that Western ears would mostly praise, while Rosdhestvenski stayed closer to the action on the stage. For listening pleasure, I'd stick with Susskind. Completists , on the other hand, might prefer the Rosdhestvenski


title: Sonic Cuckoo's Egg of Mendelssohn Quintets

text: This is of course a well-known and much praised SACD recording of these marvelous Mendelssohn Quintets, but has been somewhat hard to find recently. Now inexplicably, however, the normally marvelous BIS label appears to be reissuing the disc, but BEWARE! It appears to be a cuckoo's egg! For some incredible reason, despite nearly an identical cover presentation, it's being released only in DSD, and checking it with my library copy, it suffers considerable sonic damage in the demotion. Does BIS want to make it easier to copy? or something more deceitful? Who knows. But don't be taken in. Try and find a "bona fide" SACD disc.


title: Some Unreleased And Entertaining Fritz Reiner Rarities

text:
Hoping for still more Fritz Reiner unreleased performances, I bought this forgetting that I had already purchased it years ago, from the CSO's store. Still, one is rewarded by some works not otherwise available under the great man's baton.
 This is a collection favorites, including Beethoven's 8th Symphony, Till Eulenspiegel (more vigorously played than Reiner's already released performance with the VPO), and a so-so performance of Bartok's Violin Concerto #2 with Yehudi Menuhin, and Webern's Six Pieces for Orchestra.

Although we must admit the sound quality here is relatively poor, especially for those of us spoiled by the sonic glory RCA gave us of Reiner's performances in Chicago's Orchestra Hall, not to mention the SACDs and even the Red Book issues, there is great pleasure and interest to be had here for all.


title: An Exciting, Secular Beethoven's Ninth from Gunter Wand

text:
I don't know if someone slipped Gunter Wand new batteries for his pacemaker (if he had one), but if anything could shatter his kapelmeister reputation (aside from some great Bruckner), it could be this excellent remaster of Beethoven's Ninth symphony. Without utilizing Mahler's arrangement, or departing from the score, he uses the kettle drums imaginatively to accent the drama of the second and last movements to produce added emphasis, for example. Otherwise, it is an exciting, luminous interpretation, brilliantly executed by his NDR Symphony Orchestra and the soloists.

This is quite different from the noble, traditional performance of this masterwork that one might be anticipating. Wand eschews the poise of the "sermon from the mount" approach to produce a more secular reading, down to earth, but quite exciting.


title: Disappointing Orchestral Music by minor Composers

text: Minor Composers' symphonies give ample evidence why they're "minor" only.


title: Poor SACD (two-channel?) remastering damages this excellent performance.

text:
WARNING! BUYER BEWARE. - Despite the expensive price, this SACD (?) appears to be a two-channel variety, & not the usual multi-channel kind and plays poorly on my system, and the sound is much degraded in comparison to the regular two-channel stereo DG issue.

The performance of course remains superb, but the sound seems pumped up, and instead of greater separation and clarity it exhibits a cloudy mid and lower range causing occasional distortion in this SACD remastering. I must conclude that if you already possess the DG original, stick with it.


title: Brilliant violinist Linus Roth performs works by Hartmann & Weinberg

text:
I do not know why this disc is so expensive here, since it can be bought for half this price in the UK, but it is terrific never-the-less!
For those who have already had the happy experience of hopping on the current boomlet of Weinberg's music produced by the marvelous Chandos SACDs series with Thord Svedlund and the Gothenburd Symphony, this will be a welcome addition.

But above all, this is a dazzling example of the superb violinist Linus Roth who digs into Karl Hartmann's Concerto Funebre with deep reflection and emotion that recalls Alban Berg's great violin concerto. Ably partnered by Ruben Gazarian and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, the entire production team have produced sonic splendor as well in a wonderful SACD recording from Challenge Classics, a perfect backdrop for Roth who absolutely rivets your attention with his deeply felt interpretation.

Roth is equally felicitous in the two much lighter Weinberg pieces, the popular Concertino, op.42 and the World Premiere recording of Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes, op.47, #3. The disc concludes with Roth, joined by José Gallardo, in another World Premiere recording, this time of Dmitri Shostakovich's Unfinished Sonata (1945) for Violin and Piano. Although Weinberg's Rhapsody is rather attractive, I must say I understand why Shostakovich never bothered to finish the sonata - sadly, "pas grand chose" as they say.


title: THE BEST YET

text:
I am in almost total agreement with the others who have written before me.

However, it must be said that a price has been paid in the wondrous sound clean-up in this latest remastering. The (huge) dynamic range of the previous issues has been diminished considerably, and sections such as the "Dies Irae" sadly no longer have the overwhelming impact as before - even though some of the bass drum whacks throughout still retain reminders of the previous omnipresent distortion. In general, listeners will therefore need to set their volume controls considerable higher than before to retain the over-all dramatic effect of the performance.

Finally, I must remark that the Strauss "Death and Transfiguration" (similarly recorded by Decca for RCA) is horribly remastered to make a mockery of what was a much praised performance of the work when issued (indeed often more praised abroad than the great Reiner/Verdi Requiem was due to its very slow opening), and it still sounds very good on its "Decca Legends 1956" CD (although it's a less explosive performance than one Reiner once did with the CSO).

If you care not at all about the Strauss work, then this is a must-buy. Bearing in mind the diminished sound stage of the Requiem (which you can to some degree compensate for), this is the cleanest version and on balance "best buy" of THE PERFORMANCE many of us grew up with (pace Toscanini). - Get it!


title: The Very Best Teach In Compilation!

text: For Teach In fans, this is the collection to buy. The first two lps plus key tracks thereafter. Regrets continues to stand out as a should-have-been global smash. Other Nederpop to consider include Maywood, Frizzle Sizzle, Pussycat, Vanessa, Dolly Dots and Luv'.


title: Dandy 90's Danish Pop

text: Was unfamiliar with Tiggy but was surfing bands that might sound like Maywood or Luv (80s Nederpop).  For ABBA fans, the energy and enthusiasm they put into their music seemed to dry up by the end of the 80s.  Came across Tiggy.  Her 1997 release, Fairytales, is full of infectious harmony pop.  Also got me into Yoomiii, two CDs - both very good.  If you want to explore this period, you might start with the five CD Japanese compilation series - Candy Pops.  Many bands you may be unfamiliar with but will start hunting for immediately.  My only regret:  Tiggy is not available as an Amazon download.


title: ABBA-esque Europop You Have Never Heard Of

text: The Newton Family was / is a Hungarian pop band, heavily influenced by ABBA.  Although most of their material was sung in Hungarian, they released several albums sung in English.  This is one of those happy catchy CDs that will make you smile - back when music was light on message and heavy on beat.  Two personal favorites here:  Another Saturday Night On My Own (a hit) and I Love You.  Male and female vocals - great harmonies.  I discovered the band by purchasing the Candy Pops box set which features several Newton Family tracks along with more obscure artists like Trix.


title: See For Miles Classic 60's UK Psych Compilation

text: Best of this 60's UK psych pop rock series with a number of more obscure tracks.


title: Great Single LP Compilation of John Pantry Productions

text: 1999 LP compilation of John Pantry productions of UK psych pop with tracks by Factory, Norman Conquest, John Pantry and Peter and the Wolves. 19 tracks. Ten Planet release. OOP.


title: An Almost Perfect Caravan Compilation

text: This should have been the very best single CD compilation for Caravan - with 15 tracks from their first several LPs.  Leading off with the best tracks from In The Land Of Gray & Pink is a great place to start. Particular fan favorite - Golf Girl is here.  I have most of the LPs on CD anyway but I wanted a overview compilation.  Things go well until Track 11. Out of left field, they cover Feelin' Reelin' Squealin' - a Soft Machine single written by Kevin Ayers. Caravan's version is turned into an in-concert workout - totally out of character for this otherwise melodic band - Arthur Brown on a very bad day.  Recommendation: Fast forward.  The remaining 13 tracks are thoughtfully compiled so I will keep the collection - just fast forward over Track 11.


title: Left Banke Heads Into Badfinger Territory

text: Ok. We kick things off with  Montage - Michael Brown's post Left Banke band. Continuing that musical theme - classically influenced pop. Some bonus tracks too. And then the masterpiece - Voices Calling. At this point Michael is gone. Sadly. But not -  as the rest of the band led by Steve Love swerve into Badfinger territory with a vengeance. The lead off track is Strangers on a Train - Left Banke influenced - before launching into Heartbreaker (Raspberries anyone?). At least in the UK, And One Day got airplay - lovely ballad.  No bad tracks on Voices Calling and an unknown gem. Red Cap (reissue label) throws in Steve Martin's standout solo tracks from the Hot Parts soundtrack Two by Two and Love Songs In The Night.  If you like Stories (Michael Brown's next project), you will love this collection. Perhaps Voices will get legit reissue at some point.


title: Post Capability Brown Rock

text: Post Capability Brown and Spreadeagle effort. Moving away from prog influenced rock to more pop rock. Not as memorable but well played.


title: Absolute Best And Most Generous Beatles Compilation Covering 1962-1966:  But A Bootleg All The Same

text: First of all you need to accept that this is an unlicensed bootleg despite professional packaging and clear crisp mixes. This 2 CD set covers 1962-1966: 66 tracks. Mixed around a bit but flows very well. For the money easily the very best Beatles compilation available that covers this period.


title: Fun Eclectic Collection of Mostly UK Prog ,Pop and Psych From 1965-72 On Red Fox

text: Generous if highly eclectic collection of tracks from mostly UK bands - recorded / released between 1965-1972. For psych rock fans the highlight is White Trash - Road To Nowhere (1971). Shades of Heavy Jelly. Ning's Machine is a close second - almost punk from 1968. US band, Group Therapy, shows up with their near hit, Can't Stop Loving, swirling Hammond and snarling guitar. On the lighter pop side, there are a couple of odd covers and a couple o gems. Don Gibson's Magic Book and Die Anderen's Forever And A Day - (Die was aka Kannibal Komix that recorded a fine collection prog pop in 1969). There are two Joan Baez tracks from 1972 - neither folk influenced. Both show off her note perfect voice. Finally the big draw here are four Arcadium acetate tracks from an otherwise unreleased promo. The band was clearly trying to find their sound so this mix of original material and covers may confuse fans. If you love Breathe Awhile give this a try.


title: The Very Enjoyable 1994 Return of 70's Popsters Middle of the Road

text: IN 1971 CHIRPY CHIRPY WAS RIDING HIGH ON THE UK CHARTS. OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS MIDDLE OF THE ROAD CRANKED OUT A. STRING OF CATCHY SING ALONG POP NUGGETS ANCHORED BY THE VOCAL CHOPS OF SALLY CARR. IN 1994 MIDDLE OF THE ROAD PRODUCED A CD OF MOSTLY NEW MATERIAL. ALTHOUGH THE MCCREDIE BROTHERS CONTINUED TO PROVIDE THE MUSICAL BACKBONE A NEW VOCALIST, LORRAINE FEHLBERG, JOINED THE BAND. THE FOURTEEN TRACKS ARE MOSTLY NEW ALTHOUGH THEY REVISIT HONEY NO. OF THE THREE COVERS T-REX'S HOT LOVE WORKS BUT FREE'S ALL RIGHT NOW AND CCR'S BAD MOON RISING DO NOT. AS A MOTR FAN AND ABBA TOO I FOUND THIS PLEASANT LISTENING. IT BROUGHT BACK MEMORIES OF A TIME IN MUSIC WHEN HARMONIES AND MELODIES COUNTED.


title: Maywood - Excellent 80s Euro Pop From Holland

text: What a pleasant surprise.  I am generally interested in 70s and 80s euro pop but had never run across Maywood.  Glad I did.  By the late 70s, ABBA had influenced everyone. From Holland had come Earth and Fire and Shocking Blue.  So did Bonnie St, Claire - a more Blondie influenced artist.  This LP was recorded in 1981 and was one of the best produced I can recall from the period.  Big songs like Rio and Pasadena feature full instrumentation and stunning layered harmonies. No bad tracks and lots of variety, After buying this CD I have listened to it several times and liked it more each time. Highly recommended for fans of the genre.


title: Morgantown Pop And Psych

text: Great collection of various 60s pop and soft psych from the Morgan Town Studios - frequently with Wil Malone playing, producing etc.


title: Wil Malone Project From 1976 - Space Opera That Soars

text: Wil Malone (solo and Orange Bicycle - Morgan Blue Town) wrote this epic space opera in 1976 - heavily influenced by Yes, Moody Blues and Mandala Band.  Each track features a different lead vocalist including Meatloaf, Rod Argent. Arthur Brown and Dave Cousins.  The weakest track is a funky little disco club thing - Love Station - featuring Ben E. King - not sure why they went in this direction.  Most of the songs are "big" with orchestra and a full band.  Have to call out David Scance on guitar - one of those guys like Steve Howe or Dave Gilmore who can soar - more melody than speed.  Not sure why this never got much play at the time but it deserves a re-examination.


title: Memorable Prog Pop From New Zealand's 70s Scene - Dandy

text: New Zealand band that recorded first as Clevedonaires and scored a regional hit with a solid version of the Small Faces Up The Wooden Hills. Absorbing influences from prog, they then recorded this exceptional LP, expanded here to include their 16+ minute opus, Michael - originally released on EP.  Overall this can be considered prog-pop - think the Easybeats Peculiar Hole In The Sky. Because they came from so far away, the band never really connected outside the region - unfortunately.  Frustrated, they decamped to LA and rebranded as Bitch.  More power chords and strong female vocals. A long way from the Wooden Hills or their charming Penny Lane influenced, Sticks and Stones, but a credible final step for this talented band.


title: Abbey Road and Hey Jude On One CD - Russian Reissue

text: This two-on-one single CD reissue is part of a Russian bootleg series that covers The Beatles entire LP output - many with bonus tracks. This particular CD has both complete LPs, Abbey Road and Hey Jude, but no bonus tracks. Sound quality is fine but nothing special. I bought the entire series years ago to play in the car. What makes these worth owning is the amount of music loaded on a single CD.


title: Solid 18 Track Asia Best Of Collection

text: Probably the most successful UK prog band of the 80s - particularly commercially. All of the hits are here with some less frequently compiled LP tracks like After The War and The Last To Know. Great value too.


title: Great Guitar Driven Swamp Rock - 1971

text: Games from Redeye's debut was a top 30 hit - driven along by catchy slightly fuzzy lead guitar by Douglas "Red" Mark. Hard to believe but Red was previously with The Sunshine Company. He is a dandy melodic guitarist who will remind you from Stephen Stills - Buffalo Springfield period.  One Man's Poison mixes it up a bit but a couple of tracks jump out. You Don't Need It is a nice Games type track with sharp guitar. The Seeker is their most ambitious track. Red Eye Blues was a charting single but stumbled when censors at several radio stations questioned the lyrics - a guy too stoned to find his stash. Remember that this came out at the height of the Vietnam war and the draft was underway. Hard to believe they didn't have better things to do than censor rock songs. Overall a solid effort and a shame Red Marks didn't surface again - perhaps he did? I'd but it.


title: White Duck - Country Rock from 1972 with John Hiatt

text: White Duck's 2nd LP was released in 1972 and features John Hiatt before he became famous as a solo artist.  His self-penned contributions, Sail Away and You Caught Me Laughing, are standouts (Side One).  The overall style is "mellow" country rock and may remind you of Potliquor (if you like these guys) or the Lost Gonzo Band. The other principal songwriter is Don Kloetzke.  His, Carry Love, the lead off track, was an FM favorite.  I remember owning this LP and always thought Side One was stronger.  It still is - and is more original too.  Still missing in action is The Lost Gonzo Band, their debut and an all time classic.  As a sidebar, White Duck, their self-titled debut is OK but this is better so start here.


title: Rubble 9 - Another Treasure Trove of UK - Euro Pop Beat & Psych Obscurities

text: These Rubble compilations are always worth a spin.  The particular collection has some nice obscurities like two tracks from Israel's The Sea-Ders (aka The Cedars) and a non-LP track from the Wallace Collection (Belgian pop prog who managed a big euro hit with Daydream).  The State of Mickey & Tommy (Mick Jones - later to form Foreigner) had a string of pop singles - largely recorded in France.  Pretty Things weigh in with several tracks from their mid-period as they transitioned from Stone's influenced r&b beat to psych.  A particular favorite is The Lovin which has never gotten a proper singles compilation but perhaps should.


title: Earth and Fire - Part Two - Every Bit As Good As Part One

text: OK Earth and Fire fans, time to explore the band's later work (1979-89).  Tracks from Reality Fills Fantasy (1979), Andromeda Girl (1981) and Phoenix (1989) comprise the sum of this 14 track "best of" collection.  While the Koerts brothers remained involved through 1981, the band that put together Phoenix eight years later was mostly new - featuring just Burt Ruiter and Jerney Kaagman from the original band.  But be not concerned - they recruited Tom Scherpenzel (Kayak, Yes etc.) to take over keyboards.  Really an unbeatable choice when plowing the melodic prog category that makes up this collection. While both Andromeda Girl and Reality Fills Fantasy have been reissued (CD and digital download), Phoenix has not so getting four of the very best Phoenix tracks in this collection are reason enough to buy it.  To improve on this further, all four are dandy.  Perhaps the standout is the epic power ballad, Keep On Missing You, with great guitar work from Age Kat.  Also included are Winds of Change, Dreaming and one of Jerney's most endearing songs ever - French Word For Love.  A couple of comments.  First, Jerney's english and voice have improved so much since the band's debut.  A lot more confidence, clarity and range.  A real pleasure to listen to but the band's sense of songs has not been lost - remaining generally true to the sound that Earth and Fire fans expect.  Second, there is only one "hit" on this collection - Weekend from Reality Fills Fantasy.  For completists, Jerney has a couple of OOP solo efforts to chase down.  The Koerts brothers took another direction with Earth and Fire Orchestra - a kind  of melodic new age sound with no guitar solos in sight.- an acquired taste and/or a shock for fans of Maybe Tomorrow Maybe Tonight etc.  Given the overall quality of this later material, it is a shame Earth and Fire have not kept recording.


title: High Quality Un-Released BBC Recordings from 1969-71 - Gems

text: It is hard to believe that much of anything recorded in the late 60s and early 70s has never been released. Well here is a surprise!  Mostly BBC recordings (good quality throughout) of bands you have probably never heard of until now - but in many cases will know some of the band members.  Musicians in the late 60s moved around, in and out of groups, sometimes recording and sometimes not.  Although getting into a proper studio was the ultimate goal, they all accepted a call from the BBC - Top of the Pops.  Starting things off is Tapestry, clearly influenced by Renaissance and Illusion.  Four longer melodic tracks with both prog and classical influences.  Female lead vocals mostly. The next surprise is Ora featuring the rhythm section from Wishbone Ash.  Two lovely tracks. An LP was released in 1969 - less than 1k copies.  Subsequently reissued in Japan.  Well worth it for fans of UK folk rock. The next up is Griffin, a band featuring former Skip Bifferty and Heavy Jelly members - produced by Alan Price.  The Skip Bifferty 2 CD anthology has this same track but this is somehow cleaner. Long moody prog with guitars, keys etc.  While these guys never topped Heavy Jelly's I Keep Singing The Same Old Song, they got close here. The next two bands are related.  Blodwyn  is post-Mick Abrahams Blodwyn Pig.  Peter Banks is now on guitar with Jack Lancaster on flute and horns.  Blodwyn Pig was always known for Mick's interesting chording and changes of tempo.  Mick is gone but the influences remain.  In case you were missing Mick, no problem.  Next up is Wommet which is Mick and a couple of Blodwyn Pig alums. Greyhound Bus from Mick's first post Pig band kicks things off.  Complicated guitar work which Mick pulls off. There are a couple more even more obscure artists here plus some un-necessary commentary from John Peel.  Despite a couple of minor negatives, this is probably the most interesting "discovery" I have made in years.  The only bittersweet part - most of these artists never got into a studio as such so these BBC snippets are all that remain of some wonderful but transient combinations of talent.


title: If You Like ABBA or Bananarama Give Lili and Susie A Try

text: For those of you wondering what a Swedish Bananarama might sound like, look no further and be pleasantly surprised.  The 80s are frequently remembered for a very techno pop sound = perhaps Donna Summer set the table.  ABBA perfected the sound. Silver Convention also come to mind.  Lili & Susie were stars in Sweden but really did not get much further - other than a fervent fan base in Japan.  This is sad for two reasons:  1) they sang catchy synth driven pop in perfect English and 2) guided by producer, Ola Hakansson, experimented with a number of styles successfully.  Boyfriend starts this out - catchy pop. Then on to some flamenco guitar with Can't Let You Go.  Evelyn has a snarling guitar solo - uncredited but should have been. The guitar reappears in Something In Your Eyes. Perhaps the standout track, What's The Color Of Love, has "hit" written all over it.  You get both the LP and remix versions so it must have been one. I bought this really looking for another unknown gem and generally liking Swedish pop. Mission accomplished. I have ordered their Best Of and will write another review,


title: Byrd's Influenced Jingle Jangle - Lovely

text: First of all, you will need to love the Byrds (first four LPs) to get excited about SE&L.  This band was starting out about the time the Byrds were changing gears and heading for steel guitars and country influenced rock.  In sharp contrast, SE&L broke out the twelve string Rickenbacher guitars and started with some tasty Bob Dylan covers including Forever Young, the open track of this collection of early material which out-Byrds the Byrds.  There is a nice mix of original and covers. He Was A Friend Of Mine - also Dylan - is note for note with the Byrds version raising the question of whether you really needed another version of this classic song about President Kennedy.  While Thought Talk - their second and best LP - is a more varied outing, the raw energy of this collection of tracks and superb guitar work will take to you back to the days where production values were pretty basic so the actual talent of the band members made or broke many LPs.  All you Byrds fans will not be disappointed.


title: No Substitute For Clout - A Early Mutt Lange Success

text: Clout emerged from the South African scene in 1978 with Substitute which proved to be a European smash hit.  Combining the harmonies of ABBA with the hard rocking sensibilities of Joan Jett, this five woman band stood out among the more dance/disco influenced bands of the time.  Attracting the attention of fellow South African Mutt Lange (future Mr. Shania Twain and the architect of her recording success), he produced both Save Me and authored Don't Stop - both radio friendly tracks that kept the band on the Euro radar screen.  Over a four year period, the band released three LPs - hitting the charts several times.  The German audiences seemed to be particular fans.  Repertoire has released Best of Clout with 20 career-spanning highlights and all the charting singles plus select LP tracks.  This Clout compilation, Substitute, takes a somewhat different approach.  With 20 tracks, Substitute has all of the hits plus the previously unissued-on-CD "B" sides.  In particular you get Sunshine Baby, Gonna Get It To You, Ms. America, You, Don't Hold Back and You Make My Life So Colorful.  Buy both and you will have most of the tracks from their three LPs plus most of the "B" sides.


title: Catch The Buzz - Nederpop Treasure

text: I am not sure why BZN never really caught on outside the Netherlands.  Sang in English.  Abba-challenging harmonies.  Even a bit more adventurous from a song writing perspective.  I have now purchased two Best of collections and, interestingly enough, there is less track overlap that you might expect - given the title.  The completists buy Good For Gold but it is expensive.  Start here to get a feel for the band and their harmony rock.  Highly recommended.


title: A 14 Track Fruupp Sampler

text: If Fruupp is not familiar to you start here. This UK prog band recorded for Dawn records - releasing four LPs between 1973 & 1975 and a couple of singles before calling it a day in 1976 - final gig at London's Roundhouse. This sampler has studio tracks from all four LPs plus a previously unreleased single, On A Clear Day. In addition to fine individual LP reissues on Esoteric look for a two  CD compilation which digs deeper than this overview. Like Cressida, Gracious, Spring and so many more obscure prog bands, Fruupp was accomplished and highly listenable.


title: Greek Prog From 1970s

text: Ela Ela was a redo of a traditional Greek folk song and was a minor hit in Europe. It was however not really representative of this 1970s prog influenced band who sang in English and channeled King Crimson. Pleasant surprise.


title: Generous Collection - So So Selection

text: Tracks from most of their recording periods other than the RCA years. Really for completists only.  There are better collections out there.


title: The Majority Grows Up And Channels Badfinger

text: After The Majority came Majority One in 1971. Heavily influenced by Badfinger and later Tremeloes they deliver a great set of power pop. West Coast Consortium morfed in Consortium around the same period but instead delivered a more prog influenced LP. Music was evolving and 60's UK popsters tried to remain relevant. Majority One remained true to their 60's roots with more muscular song writing and musicianship. Recommended.


title: Dutch Pop Psych

text: This Repertoire reissue contains most of the tracks also released on After Tea's Not Just A Flower In Your Hair. Guitarist Ray Fenwick went on to join Spencer Davis for their single - After Tea and their final LP, Funky. The title track, National Disaaster,  is a standout. Most of the tracks take their cue from contemporary bands like Fire, The Herd, The Tages and The Alan Bown. Catchy songs with a sing-along feel. The kind of thing the Beatles did with Lady Madonna and Penny Lane. If this floats your boat, you will really enjoy National Disaster. One of my favorite periods of pop music before everyone started to take themselves too seriously.


title: Dave Edmunds - Under Appreciated Guitar Genius

text: This 20 track compilation was released on See For Miles in 1989 and remains the definitive collection of Love Sculpture, Human Beans (pre LS), Dave Edmunds early solo and early Rockpile recordings.  In addition to the global hit, I Hear You Knocking (exceptional slide guitar), Colin Miles has hand picked a solid cross-section of LS blues tracks combined with originals like In The Land Of The Few (top 50 solos ever) and the Moody Blue's influenced River To Another Day.  "B" sides to key LS singles are also interesting including Think Of Love and Brand New Woman.  However no collection would be complete without Sabre Dance and Farandole, Dave's instrumental reworkings of two classical pieces that show off just how fast and tasteful a note-picker he was (eat your heart out Alvin Lee). Miles has also gone away from chronological order which keeps things interesting.  While LS was a mix of blues and hard rock - prog, this collection showcases how eclectic Dave Edmunds could be and why he remains a musical force 40 years later.  Highly recommended.


title: Canadian Power Rock

text: Canadian guitarist, Gus, released two LPs in the early 1980s.  The single from Convicted, She's Not Gonna Come To You, was an almost hit.  Influences include Bryan Adams and Andy Taylor (Duran Duran).  All original songs.  One of those "never heard of this guy but wish I had" artist.  This compilation is recent.  Gus has never previously been released on CD. Recommended.


title: Take Cargo On Board

text: This Dutch band brings the jammin' 70's to life with several long tracks - generally melodic with prog and jazz influences.  I have listened to this several times and believe it is most like UK's May Blitz with better guitars and more complex songs.  You will find yourself trying to figure out keyboards and guitars on a couple of tracks - a nice if unintentional complexity.  At the end of the day, most of the Dutch bands from this time period worried about getting a hit single.  There are possibilities here but none jump like the best of Earth & Fire or Kayak.  A nice discovery worthy of attention.


title: US Prog Surprise

text: 1972 LP released on Cotillion Records; Boston band; excellent mix of keyboards, guitars, flute and violin.  Some classical and celtic influences as well.  Standout tracks include Sometimes, Elysium's Butterfly Comes and The Wanderer.  Similar to Seatrain and Bloodrock.  Recently purchased this and have listened to it 5-6 times.  Always a surprise - some nuance I missed earlier. While bands like Chicago, Lighthouse and Ides of March use horns to hammer you with a wall of sound, Guns and Butter is much more subtle.  Owned the LP and was pleased to rediscover the CD reissue.  Sound quality is very good.


title: Sailor - Titanic Return To Form

text: This was Sailor's final studio LP with only two original members.  Don't let that trouble you.  The addition of a female vocalist expands the sound beyond cheery dancehall ditties and moves into Heart / Quarterflash territory with "Danger on the Titanic" as the standout track.  Most hits collections do include some cuts from this including Private Eye, Hat Check Girl and the beautiful ballad, Starlight.  It remains a shame that this has not been re-discovered and released on CD.


title: German Fuzz Gods From Mid 70s

text: This one-off LP (now on CD) is lots of listening fun if you like Crazy Horse, Grand Funk and Iron Butterfly.  On Tour opens things up with the kind of unpretentious clap-along rocker that would be great to hear in concert.  Over the course of a total of nine tracks, they explore slow fuzz and rockin fuzz.  The slightly muddy mix is a plus.  Personal favorite track is Lucky Strike and the slower Hold Me.  For a band I had never heard of, this is now a playlist staple.  Twin fuzz leads is somewhat unique - not your Wishbone Ash sound at all.  Worth exploring.


title: Motions - The Netherland's Beat/Pop/Psych Treasure 65-67

text: Pseudonym always does a dandy job with compilations and reissues.  This collection takes the Motions from early singles (Everything That's Mine, Wasted Words and For Another Man) to later hits like the lovely Impressions of Wonderful.  I have compared Introducing the Motions (two full LPs plus several bonus on a single CD - also on Pseudonym)and a 2 CD set on Hunter (Motions As & Bs).  Interestingly enough, you need all three to get all of the tracks although there is plenty of overlap. The two unreleased tracks on this release appear nowhere else. For the fans of an start-to-finish look at the band and its evolution, this may be the best collection.  No filler and all of their charting singles.  What may draw you to the Hunter 2 CD set are several Rudy Bennett solo tracks (lead singer).  After the 2nd LP, Robbie V departed and would shortly turn up in global smash hit producer, Shocking Blue, again writing most of the tracks.  While I have a personal preference for Golden Earrings and Ro-Dys (a couple of excellent Dutch bands who recorded beat-influenced songs at the same time), you can tell that the band is maturing with better things to come - unfortunately in another band.  Also highly recommend After Tea, one of the most fun of the Dutch pop-psych collections that mirrors the Toyland period from The Alan Bown.


title: Dutch 60s Pop Psych With An Edge

text: Whatever happened to the Tee Set, Dutch 60s popsters with My Belle Amie charting the world charts.  Change your name to something clever like After Tea, team up with Ray Fenwick, an English guitarist who worked with Spencer Davis and later with Fancy among others, and put together some wonderful pop psych tracks that combine the best of bands like World of Oz and The Alan Bown with harder rocking tracks that sound like Spencer Davis - phase two (Gluggo and Backstreet).  You will need to overlook a couple of very wimpy tracks that feature a children's choir and an attempt at UK cockney dialog but the remainder is well worth the effort.  Personal favorite tracks include National Disaster and Got To Get You In My Garden as well as a nice version of After Tea, a Spencer Davis charting single written by Renwick.  There was a kind of whimsy and innocence to the pop originating in Holland during this period of time and this is some of the very best.  PS


title: The Mirage - You Can't Be Serious

text: This 24 track career overview from one of the UKs best pop-psych bands from the mid-late 60s contains classic tracks like Wedding of Ramona Blair (three versions), , We Can Fly (where the US/UK pop/psych compilation series gets its name), Ebeneezer Beaver, Poor Mrs. Buzby, Lonely Highway, See My World, See The Rain, The World Goes On Around, five live tracks including their version of psych favorite, Hold On, and the early single, Go Away and Just A Face, not otherwise available on CD.  The collection was assembled by the band and was independently released.  The recent 2007 compilation is also excellent but fans should consider owning both.  Dee Murray, who went on to fame with Elton John, plays bass and contributes vocal harmonies.  As with most bands from the period, their output was generally limited to singles (recording deals with for a certain number of singles but seldom for LPs).  A real treasure trove of pop psych classics - highly recommended.


title: Great music

text: Great music. Bought CD after watching wonderfully uplifting movie, Fisherman’s Friend.


title: The music is fantastic, I used to listen to them when i ...

text: The music is fantastic, I used to listen to them when i was a child. I still like them. Thanks Y.Castilla


title: Five Stars

text: Love this oldies. Great to listen to them at candle night dinner. Thanks Castilla


title: Five Stars

text: Bring me lots of beautiful memories when I was in Spain. Thanks Castilla


I am have to have been able to find this cd. He has a beautiful voice. I could  play it again and again. Thanks Y.Castilla


title: It is a beautiful voice, pity that he died so young and ...

text: It is a beautiful voice, pity that he died so young and many years ago. He left a legacy. Thanks Y.Castilla


title: Great find. Arrived on time

text: Great find . Arrived on time .


title: Cjhristmas with the Rat Pack

text: It met my expectations since I've always been a fan of  the three singers.  Besides the program is very well selected.


I was expecting better quality, but was left disappointed, especially with the nocturnes. Probably not Tsujii's forte.


title: Christian Joy!

text: If you love big band, are a Christian, and looking to brighten up your listening pleasure - this album is for you!


title: Great Old Songs

text: I play these for my 3 and 5 year-old grandsons.  We have a grand time singing along with "The Name Game" and "The Clapping Song".


title: Five Stars

text: Great


title: One Set of Lungs

text: There are a fair amount of pipe band CDs that mom and pop pipe bands seem to produce no shortage of, and most of them, are poor. They're not perfectly in tune, they aren't in good time, the quality in general is bad. However, with the 87th, the tradition of excellence started with John Crawley Sr is evident on this album. They blow up their collective pipes with one set of lungs. Not content to just have a wall of pipes the entire time, they break up the full band for some unique and innovate approaches to traditional Scottish music. This is one pipe band CD that is not only great, its a breath of fresh air in the world of piping.


title: Loved It!

text: Incredible talent throughout this CD!


title: Askil Holm's Music is Incredible

text: askil holm is a wonderful artist from norway.  i first heard him singing with one of his groups called, Lind, Nilsen, Fuentas and Holm (check them out on you tube).  they sing in english, and are hard to resist.  i listen to them all the time; bet you will too!!!!  singing solo or with a group, askil is a man worth hearing and watching.


title: I have liked Indian Style violin for some time and am now ...

text: I have liked Indian Style violin for some time and am now learning how to play it. I was trained in classical, enjoyed rock and jazz but recently discovered I have a spiritual side since I became sober. I enjoy this piece of music a great deal and am now buying it for my friends as gifts. I just can't seem to stop playing it....it may be a new addiction for me!

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title: But it is not a very good recording.

text: This has historical value and is quaint. But it is not a very good recording.


title: Five Stars

text: I enjoyed all songs on album...Think it is one of<br />Bon Jovi's Best.


title: Gift for son-in-law

text: He has a small collection of albums and he wanted this one because he sings "the Mighty Quinn" to his twin daughter, Quinn.  There are no skips or scratches in the album but the cover is a little worn and it smells musty.  Didn't matter to my son-in-law.


title: A Meaningful Album of Faith Based Music

text: A gift for my sister.  She loves it.  A really nice collection of songs with well known artists.


title: Five Stars

text: Love this CD!


title: " What does that mean ? "

text: Who knows but Glukoza has a lot of things going for her.  Beside the Blond and Blue - eyed look of a  modern day goddess... but her music is catchy and phoenetically you will find yourself singing along even if it is in Russian!<br />Remember when MTV use to play music videos and you would sit around and watch for hours ?  ?  Well for some fun entertainment I dare you to sit down and watch the video for " Schweinne" and not be smiling at the end of it. I mean , Hitler as a little Nazi Pig????  and our animated Glukoza comes in and saves the day.  What could be better.


title: Stonewall Jackson's Greatest Volume 2...

text: ...is pictured on the "Vinyl" version of this listing.<br />I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.


title: JUST BEAUTIFUL

text: Just perfect!  i just love it.  Jim McDonough's  "Simple Gifts"  CD is just as wonderful.


title: Delivery was on time.

text: Great


title: Five Stars

text: 5.0 out of 5 starsMasterpiece


title: Stunning

text:
Stunning arrangements. Stunning vocals. Stunning recording. Difficult to find the words to describe how good this cd is...... Other than simply stunning.

If you have a 300B SET amplifier, or other SET amp known for awesome vocals, get this CD and blown away.


title: A Terrible Remaster: almost sacrilege what they did to this score

text:
2 stars not for the music which is outstanding. 2 stars for the remastering which is terrible.

I have four superman soundtrack editions. The original 1987 cd release by warner, the 2 cd remaster released in 2000 by Rhino,  The 8 CD Film Score Monthly version, and this 40th anniversary edition.

In this 40th anniversary remaster, the stereo image of the original recording  is practically completely destroyed, as compared to any of the other versions.

To quantify the difference: In al the other versions, I can literally point to each instrument in the orchestra within the stereo image, tell you what instrument it is, and where it is compared to the other instruments in the orchestra. This is important especially in orchestral music, since composers commonly play instruments against each other. Hearing each instrument independently (string section, horn section, wind section, etc.) increases the drama of the music considerably.

But in this 40th anniversary remaster, I am presented with a "wall of sound", with all the instruments blended together and almost no delineation between them at all. Imagine what it's like to listen to music in headphones (everything sounds like it's a ball inside your head) and move that outside your head between the two speakers. That is what this soundtrack reminds me of. Absolutely, absolutely, terrible.

What an incredible shame.....


title: Bend the Wind Burnett Family

text:
An absolute must buy cd . I purchased this cd at a bluegrass festival right after
they performed. Let me tell you this is the best bluegrass Ive ever listen to.
you can goto there web page at [...]  The recording is top as well. be sure to use your best audio equipment. this family will eventually
be nationally recognised .


title: not original soundtrack

text: The description of the product does not indicate that this NOT from the original sound track. Other than that it is one of the best compilations of the Indian musical genius!


title: Five Stars

text: Perfect


title: Awesome to get this soundtrack from 38 years ago!

text: Item exactly as advertised.  An excellent transaction.  I was able to get the soundtrack of my childhood Christmases from this provider.  I am very pleased.


title: A great selection of funny songs

text:
A great selection of funny songs.  The first record I ever bought  (I believe I saw a tv commercial for it as a child).

Ya can't go wrong with these.


title: Five Stars

text: Love this artist. A+++++


title: Five Stars

text: I love this man's voice,  The music is soulful, haunting, happy and sad.


title: Okay but not as good as it once was

text: The music on this album has been re-mixed from previous albums, one being Steppin' On A Cloud which is no longer sold. I have The Early Years but when I listen to it I really appreciate good sound-mixers. Steppin' On A Cloud was an excellent album; this one sounds butchered.


title: I love this C

text: I love this C.D.! Have looked for other CD's by this artist, but have not found any. I would  purchase any and all collections.


title: Five Stars

text: Awesome praise and worship songs!


title: Great version and right now you can stream it on ...

text: Bought this for the one piece -- Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.  Great version and right now you can stream it on Prime too.  CD arrived in great used condition as described.  Great seller!


title: Five Stars

text: Great composition and great complement to Vol II.


title: Great musician

text: Have seen him in person twice.  I really like him.  Would love to hear more of his classical music.


title: great performance

text: I haven't seem many CD's of Coldplay's live performances.  I watched some of their concerts on YouTube and always enjoyed them.  This concert in particular is fantastic to see on YouTube.  This is a nice way to have audio of a fantastic, high energy concert that I can play in my car or workshop.  Good sound quality, two long discs.


title: A spiritual musical experience  (Totally subjective, of course!)

text:
In a 5-star rating system, this version of "Scheherazade" performed by the Chicago Symphony, deserves 10 stars. It is, IMHO of course, the BEST performance and recording of the Rimsky-Korsakov piece. I've heard many other symphonies' recordings, and none quite measure up. They are adequate, but not as good. The violin solos lifted my soul to a level I would not have thought possible.

I've had my copy since the 1960s, and have tried not to wear it out. I was able to make a couple amateurish tape copies (on cassette!) that are not nearly as high quality, but they worked as long as they lasted.

In the 50+ years since I first heard it, I've listened to a LOT of classical music; this version of Scheherazade and a specific orchestral version of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata are the two pieces that have moved me to tears of joy while listening.

The power of music.....


title: Fernando Ortega has a one of a kind voice and I highly recommend his ... "Ultimate Collection" CD for you!

text:
I have always loved the singing voice of Fernando Ortega. If you have no idea who he is, please check out his songs on youtube.com, for example. On this album there are only two or so that I do not care for, and the rest are the ones that I love to hear and even sing them when I am working alone. These songs are full of faith and pleasurable inspiration. Mr. Ortega plays the piano (he's classically trained) and sang "Give me Jesus," at Billy Graham's wife, Ruth Bell Graham, when she died a few years ago, at Billy's request. Just a beautiful slow and heartfelt song.

  I do recommend this singer and this Collection of songs and believe that you may also love his gifted voice, as well.


title: Five Stars

text: Miss him so much on PHC


title: Worth if for Cowsill fans & others

text: Nice collection of songs for Billy Cowsill benefit.  Good album for collectors.


title: Lyrics AND Beats

text:
Hip Hop at its finest, at its highest level of artistry and skill.
This album is a pleasure to listen to. Over and over for multiple plays.
It is 2 discs absolute classics.
Killah Priest is a master of the pen and the production quality of this release is arguably his best to date.

A must for anyone interested in getting into super deep Hip-Hop.
A must for any true Hip-Hop head


title: A fine compilation album

text:
Wayne Gratz is a fine piano instrumental composer, one of my favorites.  I would describe his music as a cross between the sweet, simple melodies of David Lanz and the spacious, thoughtful material of George Winston's early work (before his focus on Vince Guaraldi).  As such, a cherry-picking of his work yields a tremendous, soothing album of melody and quiet.

Collectors of Wayne Gratz should note that this album is a compilation album, and contains material from some of his early albums, including "Reminiscence," "Panorama," and "Follow Me Home."


title: great gift

text: We gave this as a gift after hearing most of the songs recently.  Our friends have said its just what they have needed to hear.


title: Renaissance Music at it's Finest..

text: This is a great cd and I encourage you to buy it.  But not from these people on here.  If you can't find it for a cheaper price, I suggest joining Naxos.  You can record it.


title: 3 stars for its novelty.

text: In all honesty, I was intrigued at the title.  This guy can whistle like a bird, yes, but with his vibrato you can't tell what note he's whistling half the time.  Also, once the whistling gets fast his intonation suffers.  Don't buy this cd.  If you want to hear it, go to [...]


title: Amazing renditions ....

text: Rhythm and News produced this album of Christian selections around 1990.  They are Canadian.  Their renditions are unique, especially at that time, in that they are all acappella with all sounds created by them as they sing.  If you like rhythmic Christian music with harmony this album is for you!  You are lucky to be able to purchase a CD even now.  Their exacting entrances and exits and their voice modulations are great.  Personally, I still greatly enjoy listening to this particular selection of songs.  Originally, I had bought a cassette tape of this.  You won't be disappointed unless you are a died-in-the-wool classical traditionalist  Enjoy!!


title: Early ship - it came via AIRMAIL!`

text: It was estimated about 1 month to arrive. But it arrived really quickly. The CD was in perfect shape. I am enjoying the music right now as I write this review. Great service.


title: It delivers on its Title

text:
Mozart for Meditation - I played it again and again, both with others and when alone.  It never failed to reach me.  I recommend it to you.

RDS


title: Five Stars

text: One of my favorite movies, wish was longer, but that's about all there is......


title: enjoyable

text: just what I was looking for


title: Most excellent recordings!

text: A very complete, well preformed collection of Tarrega's works and transcriptions.


title: A real treat!

text: Wonderfully performed later 1800's band music resplendently rendered by The American Brass Band.  The music puts you right there at Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of the Rough Riders of the World. Two great pamphlets and a nice poster are included with the DVD. Well worth the money for Old West history buffs and brass band lovers.


title: Wonder seller, great CD

text:
Loved this CD. This CD was just as seller described, just like new. There are no scratches on the CD. The case has few scratches but for a used CD, it is in excellent condition. The cover picture is perfect.
The CD plays wonderfully, no skips and sounds new.
For any David Cassidy fan this is an incredible, must have.  I never saw EFX, but felt like I was right there, watching a great performance.  David hits such incredible ranges in all songs.  This is a wonderful CD. The buyer wrapped this CD nicely and it came quicker than expected.


title: Music made in heaven

text: What a beautiful CD with so many of my favorite hymns. Thank you so much for creating such a blessing. God bless you.


title: Excellent renditions. Surely the best account one can find.

text: These are for me, wonderful Bach Sonatas that should be better known. As am a Cello lover, I was extremely pleased to find the deep, rich, powerful viola de gamba sound Wieland Kuijken has. It shows that not only his celebrated brother Sigiswald is a gifted, expert musician. To find him here perfectly entwined with the Leonhardt harpsichord was the other factor that lead me to get this. And am very happy to have it, needless to say. The only thing I could object to this rendition is that it should and could contain something more, for obviously there was room enough in the recording. But casting this aside, as it is, it's still a worthy to have cd. Really, an excellent account in every sense. Doubt there is another one better. Lovely, charming works that will make you love Bach, once again. Needless to say, these Sonatas could also be played with Cello, instead.


title: With his Brahms concerts, these are the best Gilels Concerts. Poetic renditions.

text: From Edward Sackville West to the Penguin Guide and Gramophone, everybody praised this marvel of recording. Of course nowadays you have the Aimard brilliant rendition, or the Subdin or Lisiecki ones. But before those, comes this one. You can compare it to the Serkin or the Kempf ones, but I prefer this account. It has everything the Fourth Piano Concert requires. You will find here the romantic approach Gilels applied in his young period. So you will find all the inner poetry this concert has. Besides the orchestra maintains a perfect dialogue with Giles piano, making the whole a masterwork. The Fifth one is also remarkably good and the is sound good enough to allow you to enjoy it as deserved. All in this cd is done to make it an artwork in every sense. Get it and you will have steely fingers Gilels in his best moment. With his Brahms concerts, these are surely the best Gilels concerts.


title: The fascinating Simon Standage coupled with Trevor Pinnock. A reference account of Vivaldi Opus 8.

text: The extraordinary violinist Simon Standage is, recorded this with Trevor Pinnock at harpsichord and conducting. The celebrities Standage and Pinnock are nowadays, is precisely due to works as this one. They were pionniers of the British music movement of playing Baroque on authentic instruments and so the more faithful possible, towards how they played it at those times. As Standage on violin, Pinnock became an eminence on harpsichord, a serious contender to Leonhardt. Nowadays he has the competence of the cool Christophe Rousset, who is almost a myth on harpsichord. We must also mention harpsichord luminaries as John Butt or Mortensen or Pierre Hantai all of them doing brilliant recordings on this instrument. But at the end of the sixties, the work of Standage, as the name of Pinnock started to call attention. So good they both were and still are. After came Christopher Hogwood, who until his recent death was to be considered as a sort of god in Baroque Music. Because besides an excellent Conductor, was a also a harpsichordist, researcher and musicologue whose studies and investigations about this music continue being revered references for everybody. Hogwood recordings became cult music, and all his sophisticated performances were and still are (in his many recordings) followed by millions of people. Among them, me. With Hogwood, the British movement of playing with Authentic Instruments imposed itself as surely the best Baroque you could hear. Going back to this cd, got it because after John Holloway, I like very much Standage and his diabolical violin, always so inspired and able to attack the most difficult passages making them sound as if they were easy to play. This can be seen if you ever hear what he did in Vivaldi's La Cetra, with Hogwood conducting. So, this is a display of the SS virtues as violinist. It may not be possible to compare this to the Hogwood and his Academy of Ancient Music or to Andrew Parrot and his Taverners in this Opus 8 rendition, but after those two, and as an alternative, I would no doubt recommend this classic on Baroque Music on historic instruments. It works wonders. A very serious and exciting interpretation. Try it, if you fancy.