title: Great memories

text:
I actually bought the record when it came out decades ago, after having spent time living in Greece and visiting Crete twice during my time there.  I vividly remember boarding a bus in Southern Crete with a friend of mine (she was born and raised in Crete) and all the men there suddenly burst into song, Pote Tha Kame Xasteria, one of the songs on that record and this CD. It was awesome!  Anyway, from that moment, I became extremely interested in the ancient Greek folk songs, and this CD, wonderfully remastered, has so many of those from Crete.

Since we no longer have a functioning record player, I was amazed and excited to see this remastered CD on Amazon. The seller got this to me within about 10 days, the CD is high quality, and the memories of my time in Greece are still vivid and wonderful.


title: wonderful

text: I love this album. Jenny has a very rich quality to her playing and it is quite evident here. I also love her Christmas album.


title: Five Stars

text: Such beautiful music. Always a great listen.


title: Five Stars

text: Wonderful CD by my favorite radio station.  Thanks!


title: Five Stars

text: Every song you love is done well and sang well


title: I love this music so much

text: I love this music so much, after work I sit on my patio with a glass of wine listening to Asaf Avidan, brings a smile to my face. I want all of his cd's


title: Four Stars

text: Liked the words and the music.  He has a nice voice.


title: Great 90s music!

text: I loved mazzy star in the 90s. Now my kids like them too!


title: Special C's best!

text: I adore this style of music - Special C in particular. This has quickly become my favorite of their albums. There's not a bad song on it. The addition of Dustin Benson (a pickin' BEAST) to the band has really reinvigorated Special C.


title: A very enjoyable CD

text: Paul is a jovial and gentle entertainer.  He performed many time for us at the Pioneers Home in Palmer during the 80s and 90s.  This CD is a very good representation of his music, and it brings back sentimental thoughts of a time In Alaska when life was simpler. Oh by the way, you might be able to get this CD much cheaper by ordering directly from him in Girdwood, Alaska


title: Sourdough pioneers in the Alaskan music scene

text: Don Schultz, Loren Arment, Goodwin Trent, Dana Cox, and Kathryn Cox were the artist that made up this groundbreaking Alaskan folk band from the 1970's.  Don Schultz's impeccable banjo carried many of their tunes, along with the lilting voice of Dana Cox and the superb harmonies of Loren, Kathryn, and Goodwin. The producer, John Speer, did a remarkable job of arranging and recording the music along with Don Schultz.  The Last Frontier Band is and was the first band to really set the bar for Alaskan recording artists, and I have yet to see an album of its caliber since.  Except of course, Dana Cox's solo album from the 1980's.<br />The folk standard Wayfarin' Stranger, is enchanting.  Trees, written by Goodwin Trent is a classic flower child song of the time period. Traveling Lady, sung by Dana Cox is haunting. Save The Whales, sung to the tune of The Drunken Sailor inspires dreams of the good ole days when the whales were hunted almost to extinction.  A few years ago, I contacted John Speer about re-releasing this album on CD, but that has yet to come about.

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title: Psychedelic Rock at its Best

text: Obscure, not-so well known album that many enthusiasts of flower-power music might have overlooked or never had the opportunity to listen to.  The artists are not named, but it appears to be a collaborative effort of many good, possibly famous Woodstock hippies of the time.  There are a couple of very good Drivin' jams on it!  My particular favorites are the Beatles tune Get Back with just a little bit more punch than Paul, George, John, and Ringo ever had, and Louis, Louis which is 10 times better than the Kingsmen's version.<br />You have to really be into this type of music, or at least lived through the 60's to appreciate it.


title: Four Stars

text: as expected


title: Great collection of memory verses

text: This is one of my favorite music CDs for children.  The verses are well chosen and the tunes are catchy and beautiful.


title: Awesome Christian contemporary music

text: Shane & Shane are two of my favorite Christian contempary music artists. Their music is powerful in its message w/ lots of acoustic guitar. Love this duo from Texas.


title: He Chose Me by Dave Boyer

text: My husband loves this CD and listens to it all the time.  The quality is great.  Very clear and the price was very reasonable. Some of Dave's CD's are hard to find so he was really excited when he could get this one.


title: VERY LIGHT ON STEEL DRUMS

text: This CD should be titled Tropical Music with other percussion.  The music is good, but not what I expected by the title.  Guitar is what you get mostly (80-85%) and when the steel drums finally come it is overshadowed by guitar.  As far as Caribbean I would say not so much, more Hawaiian.  As a tropical CD you will not be disappointed, but if you are looking for steel drums it isn't here, not one song is exclusively steel drums.


title: I only wish I could review this product!

text: This would be the greatest product IF IT WERE AVAILABLE! The Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii concert is just wonderful, and I would love to have it on CD and DVD and to give it as a gift to a few Pink Floyd fans I know, but it is not available at this time. Amazon does not know when or if this item will become available again. Come on, Amazon! Get it together! There are such wondrous scenes of the artists in the video; and if you're a Nick Mason fan in particular, you will LOVE this DVD because he is the focus of many ongoing camera shots. I like the shots of Rick Wright especially, but I also love those of Roger and David. Just a great concert! Fun and interesting interviews with the band are interspersed throughout the video. I need this product because I need to upgrade from VHS to DVD! Please get this product again! Thank you very much!


title: Cute, but I was looking for more.

text:
[[VIDEOID:805c3afd00453965f9e4e63d407ad1ba]] Dumplin-
It's about a girl who wants to comfortable in her own skin, but it's hard when the one who fat shames her the most is her own mother...

This book is about loving yourself completely, allowing yourself to be loved, looking past what others think and so much more. And even with all those attributes, I felt something was missing.

I can't tell you why without giving a bit away. The story is good and witty and full of realism. But it's also a bit disappointing, since I was expecting something more. Something bigger than what I received.

Afterwards, I asked a friend of mine about a few things and she had no clue what I was talking about. I was shocked, because to me, it was a major event that should have been shared in the movie! Have you watched the movie yet? If you've both seen and read the book, let me know your thoughts. I don't think I'm going to watch it now.

Don't get me wrong, the book's okay, but not as good as I'd hoped. As a matter of fact, I returned my copy of Puddiń, the follow up book, because it doesn't pick up where the first left off. It's not even about Willow Dean! Oh well. You can see for yourself. Who knows; I may check it out on Netflix...
Cheers!
For the full review, please visit www dot AReneeHunt dot com.


title: Songs 4 Worship en Espanol

text: I love this.  I attend a Catholic church that has Spanish and English Masses.  During special holiday Masses, parts of the Mass is spoken alternating in Spanish and English.  These songs aren't sung in our church, but they are familiar to me in English and I love to here them in Spanish because I know the words in English.  I live in a mostly Spanish speaking neighborhood where Spanish music is playing outside very frequently.  I don't know what they are listening to because I don't speak Spanish, but when I play this music outside...I do know what they are listening to! and I know some of them attend church and some don't, so it's my way of evangelizing in a non-offensive way...through music. :)


title: love it

text: Thanks, love it


title: Love It

text: You brought back so many childhood memories thank you so much you are the best!! Thank you so much for helping have those memories it brings a smile to my face everytime I listen to it.


title: New. Good Condition. Not dented

text: The Album came in good condition. No dents.  Came with 4 gift photocards. I recommend buying it.


title: Great CD

text: Great CD!


title: A pleasure!

text:
If you like French pop this cd is for you. Every tune is catchy and hummable.

It is a well crafted, layered offering that is a mix of dreamy, poppy, funny and heartfelt. Highly recommended.


title: Love Sammy Davis Jr. and Love This CD!

text: This cd is one of the best to listen to the late, great Sammy Davis, Jr..  Even though it is marked running late, I've already received this item.  I don't know why they don't realize that it was delivered already.  It brings me back to yesteryear.  Three discs that take you back to the golden age with Sammy Davis, Jr. in tow.  With songs like That Old Black Magic and What Kind of Fool Am I, it makes you feel like you're sitting right in the front row of a Sammy Davis, Jr. concert.  Love it!


title: Fun Halloween Story for Kids

text: My son loves this story and asks to “read” it and listen to the audio CD every time we take a ride in the car. The story includes a lot of predictable text and rhymes, making it a great option for preschool-aged kiddos. The book came packaged very well and in excellent condition.


title: Five Stars

text: The best ever


title: Great

text: Delightful


title: Very disappointing about the seller

text: I have only played this cd a couple of times and then only the first 4 songs, which are my favorite. I wanted to put it in my itunes playlist and out of 14 songs only 7 played completely and the next two, #8 and #9 played half of the amount of time and #10 - #14 did not play at all. This is very disappointing to me and of course I should have checked the whole cd when I got it. But the seller was not Amazon, but they were ranked high<br />so I did not think about it. How frustrating the way people rip of others.


title: Great cd

text: Love the cd


title: Its VIXX

text: Almost complete


title: Completes the album set.

text: Love VIXX


title: Great buy/experience

text: Great CD, arrived on time.


title: Nice for sleep music

text: Nice for sleep music


title: Nice music to sleep or relaxing too.

text: I now have all of the VS CDs. Nice music to sleep or relaxing too.


title: This is nothing less than superb

text:
The limited-edition 5-disc set of David Gilmour's "Live in Gdansk" is an amazing fusion of audio and video. Is it worth the money, though? I suppose that depends on how big a fan you are of the guitarist/vocalist and/or his former band, Pink Floyd. Being a fan of both, I find this set to be very compelling.

On the two main CDs, Gilmour offers up 148 minutes of music, nicely balancing work from his 2006 solo album "On an Island" with older, classic Pink Floyd material. CD 1 features all ten tracks from "Island," including the lovely "Smile," the harder-rocking "Take a Breath" and the wistful "A Pocketful of Stones." The four Pink Floyd songs are all from "Dark Side of the Moon": "Speak to Me," "Breathe," "Time" and "Breathe (Reprise)." CD 2 finds Gilmour reaching back into the Floyd canon for some early stuff, including his take on Syd Barrett's "Astronomy Domine," plus his own "Fat Old Sun" from "Atom Heart Mother," plus some more recognizable stuff such as "Echoes," "Comfortably Numb" and "Wish You Were Here."

The two DVDs offer the following: 1. Video of the Gdansk concert itself, including "Castellorizon" and all the other "On An Island" songs plus versions of these Pink Floyd songs: "Astronomy Domine," "High Hopes," "Echoes," "A Great Day for Freedom" and "Comfortably Numb." Disc 4 is the other DVD, offering video performances from other stops on the "On an Island" tour, and some other goodies: For one, it has three "barn jams" of Gilmour playing with the late Rick Wright and other musicians. For another -- and this is one of the collection's gems -- a DVD-Audio only section with a complete 5.1 mix of "On an Island"! Altogether, the two DVDs offer 289 minutes of material -- nearly five hours.

Disc 5 is a bonus CD of audio tracks from the 2006 tour, and includes "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," "Coming Back to Life" and "On the Turning Away."

The lavish packaging also includes some photos and tour memorabilia such as a replica of a backstage pass, but honestly, I hardly glanced at the stuff. The audio and video content here have been my focus, and will continue to be for quite some time. This is a collection to savor, and to return to, again and again.


title: Not the greatest, but still has some decent tracks

text:
This album seems like it was rushed into production and had some left of tracks from past albums tossed in as filler. Overall, i would say check out other pieces of work from NIN's back catalog before diving into this one if you are new nine inch nails.

"Head Down" and "Demon Seed" are the two main highlights of this album. "1,000,000" is a good track too, but it doesnt hold ground like the other two tracks mentioned before. "Discipline" is a fun dancy kind of track with a good beat and "Echoplex" is a excellent track as well. "Letting You" is the heaviest track on the album and is a favorite of mine. The rest seem like the "filler" tracks to me. "Corona Radiata" (a track i skip just about every time i play this CD) is pretty much a left over track from the "Ghosts" series and the same can possibly be said about "The Four Of Us are Dying". "Lights in the Sky" is pretty much the "Hurt" for this album....boring and dull and is another track i skip just about everytime i listen to this CD.

Overall, its not the greatest NIN album to date. If you was some of the more excellent stuff TR has produced, look at getting your hands on "The Downward Spiral" or "The Fragile".


title: Mix tape for sub pop party

text: I grabbed this for Flight of the Concords but the whole thing is pretty good. I was about 5 dollars in price and is a recording of the sub pop mag 300 edition party. We like to check out new bands so for the price it was a great addition to our collection.


title: Fabulous singer

text: Nourhanne is a wonderful singer. You may remeber her from Bellydance Superstars.  This album is a little more "pop" and modern. I really enjoy her more traditional pieces and will keep looking for new releases from this provocative singer.


title: Really special

text: Long time fan, some of his best wiring & voice!!!


title: Michael Jackson HIStory is historical MJ

text: I love this 2 cd set because every song on it is great. I especially love the remix sound of certain favorites. And I love Little Suzie, and Childhood. Michael is so incredibly talented. If you gathered all the people who ever sang on Broadway and any world stage ever, Michael would outperform them in a few brief notes.


title: the only thing i didnt like is that there was a gouge taken out of ...

text: the only thing i didnt like is that there was a gouge taken out of the case.thankfully it didnt touch the cd. but dont understand why there is  a gouge cut through out the case


title: Five Stars

text: Thanks much.


title: Diabolik Lovers FOREVER~!!!!

text: YESSSSSSS! I FINALLY GOT THE CD WITH THE "Mr Sadistic Night" OPENING! WHEN MY LAPTOP'S FIXED, FIRST THING I'M DOING IS PUTTING THIS BABY INTO MY IPOD AND ITUNES!!!!!!! 😇


title: Five Stars

text: love this album/THE BEST


title: No Poster!

text: I love the cd. The tracks were dope and the box was in great condition, but I didn't get my poster, which I wanted just as bad as the cd itself. So, only two sad stars from me.


title: So Good

text: This is one of my favorite CD's. It truly is ex girlfriends. Julia, Jane, Nikki,are some of them. It's a close cross-between Indie and pop. So easy to listen to.


title: Love, love

text: Love, love, love these guys!  Their harmonies are rich & beautiful, their voices are agile, and their arrangements range from touching to rip-roaring good fun.  This is definitely their best album yet.


title: Love it

text: So when I got it the box was damaged but luckily the album was ok it did come across the world so that might be the reason but idk but I still loved the album 💿


title: Five Stars

text: Love these guys.  Old friends.  Buy it !!!!


title: Awesome

text: Love them.


title: Five Stars

text: love tim curry


title: Fabulous!!!

text: Wonderful; their arrangements on some numbers are better than the original, popular versions. They are a hoot in their comedic routines.


title: Great!!!

text: Fabulous; these folks are talented and have a great sense of humor; I hope to be able to attend one of their live concerts when they visit the USA.


title: not consistent

text: The first few selections are indeed reminiscent of Sinatra and his genre and are quite pleasant. All the instrumentations are good. But the remaining selections become unrecognizable and common, even blase, not enjoyable at all. He even seems to go off-key now and then as if his heart isn't in it. I am very disappointed in this CD and will probably only listen to it in the car now and then for the first 6 songs.


title: SO CUTE

text: My album arrived in great condition! It's so small and cute :D I pulled Renjun !


title: Five Stars

text: Excellent, it is austanding cd you must have in your collection.


title: Four Stars

text: Ok


title: Five Stars

text: Great music


title: Tastes Great

text: Tasted wonderful but hurt coming out


title: This woman can sing like an angel

text: I ran into her by looking for a particular song.  She has a voice that pulls you to Heaven. I bought other albums just because of her gift.


title: Attack  -  uh, March  -  that is, Appearance of the Clones!

text:
Not only does this movie have the worst title ever given any film in history, it isn't even accurate.  Yes, there are more clones than you can shake a lightsaber or two (hundred thousand) at, but they're really just lurking around in the background, are given a once-over in the middle of the movie, and don't do anything until the finale  -  when you don't even realize they're the clones until after you've left the theater.
There are a lot of problems with this movie, but they must be prefaced with the recognition that it is better than Episode I:  The Phantom Menace.  First and foremost  -  aside from the gross inaccuracy of the title  -  the love story between Queen Amidala and the young Annakin Skywalker is terribly wooden, doesn't develop believably, and really grinds the movie to a screeching halt whenever it crops up.  There are either plot inconsistencies with former movies, or else they haven't sufficiently been encountered or explained before this one  -  for instance, since when were Jedi Knights forbidden to marry?  (I could easily be mistaken, but I seem to recall that their new recruits were often their own offspring.)  And if they are forbidden to marry, but Annakin and Amidala intend to cherish their forbidden love, why do they marry each other in the open?  When did Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru become Annakin's family by marriage  -  and if that was always the case, isn't their later obliteration by Darth Vader a bit odd?  And  -  aside from the simple desire to create a series of comic situations  -  why does R2D2 deliberately push C3PO into almost certain doom on the trash heap...and then later put him back together as if it was all just some sort of junior high school prank?
Yes, I know, it's only a movie.  But continuity, people, continuity.
Aside from these  -  and a few other  -  complaints, the movie has a great deal to recommend it.  The scenery and effects are incomparably beautiful, easily the best of the entire series (but, then, that is where the budget goes, after all).  The opening series of sequences with Obi-Wan and Annakin tracking down an attempted assassin of Amidala are incredibly exciting, as is the slam-bang finale and the Arena sequence immediately preceding it.  The concluding battles involving Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee and everyone's favorite Little Green Man, Yoda, are great.  Obi-Wan's sleuthing-out of the clone planet and his fighting pursuit of Janga Fett are also top-notch.
In short, George Lucas needs to spend more time thinking out the continuity of his stories and not confusing his audience, but there's no denying he knows how to put on a killer show.


title: Joplin in breeches and a frock coat?

text:
I really enjoyed hearing Scott Joplin's works performed on the pedal harpsichord by E. Power Biggs. This is no novelty record...the performances really work and convey the spontaneity and joy (or sometime melancholy) of good ragtime. My favorite work on the album is the Great Crush Collision March, a musical depiction of a deliberate train crash staged as a spectator event in 1896. I do not know if the album has been reissued on CD.

EDIT: The "Great Crush Collision March" is not on this LP, as I mistakenly state above. It is recorded on Volume 2, the companion to the disc reviewed here. [AB, 24 October 2011.]


title: Great Music--second rate recording

text:
For those of us who grew up with Surrealistic Pillow, any release by Jefferson Airplane is welcome. Like many of the SanFransisco based rock bands of the late 60's, the Airplane had two personnas--one live, and one on commercially released albumns.

The Greatful Dead long ago figured out that there was a market for the thousands of hours of recorded live shows, and sell them through their web site. In contrast, Jefferson Airplane has a dearth of live recordings--Bless Its Little Pointed Head and the Fillmore albumn were about it.

Monterey shows them at the top of their form. The interplay between Cassidy on bass, Jorma on lead guitar, and Grace Slick's incomparable vocals is worth hearing.

Too bad the recording technology was so primitive. The mix is often annoying in the extreme--bass out front, or buried, and other instruments/voices turned to muddy echoes in the background.

For Jefferson Airplane fans, this is a must have documentary of their live sets. For anyone just discovering the group, start somewhere else.


title: Beautiful

text: This is beautiful music. I wish I could get it digitally remasters. The first time I heard the track "Good Friends" I knew I had to have it.


title: Entertaining and Interesting Insights

text: Dr. Chopra's soothing, soft style of providing his deep insights, and knowledge of the language from whence they come, make a long commute go faster.


title: Thanks Mr. Obvious...your a life saver.

text:
This album is great, except it is missing "The Service Call".  Which is found on "camel Toe".

Also, too much of a good thing can tire pretty easily.  I can only listen to it in segments.

"Mr Obvious" is the only thing worth listening to on Bob & Tom.


title: Best coming-of-age story

text:
Main character Emma was a pretty ordinary teenager before her accident.  She was at an age where she was starting to notice boys even if they weren’t noticing her.  Like most teenagers she was still a bit self-centered.  Then in the blink of an eye, so to speak, her whole life changed.  Everything she took for granted had to be relearned.  Emma, already an introvert, drew even further into herself and often lashed out at those closest to her.  Leaving her old friends and going to a special school for the blind was tortuous.  But as she gradually learns to navigate a world designed for the sighted, her true healing begins.  This is Emma’s coming-of-age story.  Helped along by her accident, the death of a classmate, and the betrayal of a best friend, Emma matures into a strong and courageous young woman, even someone that others look to for leadership.  It’s the story of the difficult journey that we all must make at some point in our lives.

Listening to the story of how Emma lost her sight in a tragic Fourth-of-July accident and had to learn new ways of doing all the things she used to take for granted struck a deeply resonant chord in me.  I was vividly transported back to my own blind days as Emma walked with her cane, learned how to pour a drink without spilling, and struggled to find a balance between independence and the need for help.  I totally related to her initial feelings of wanting to be left alone, to become invisible, but as Emma herself says, <I>”…being blind is the exact opposite of being invisible.”</I>  I thought for sure that Rachel DeWoskin must be blind to have captured the experience so deftly but I read her bio on Wikipedia and it doesn’t mention anything about it.  I’m guessing she has probably spent a good deal of time with a blind person because she shows an amazingly in-depth knowledge of what it’s like.

<I><b>Blind</b></I> is a great book for anyone who has experienced being blind, but I think it has a much more general appeal than that.  We all, mostly when we’re young but not always, suffer from blindness, some of us literally and others figuratively.  Growing up and learning how to navigate in the world is a process we must all go through.  Rachel DeWoskin’s description of Emma’s journey would be a good read for anyone.

Annalie Gernert’s narration was entirely appropriate for this book.  Her voice was an excellent match for main character Emma, not only the physical sound of her voice but her intonation and inflection.  Gernert captured Emma’s wit and sarcasm perfectly.  Her voice actually reminded me a lot of Emma Galvin, which is high praise indeed <a href=http://www.audiobook-heaven.com/2012/12/2012-halo-awards.html target=”_blank”>(see the 2012 Halo Awards).</a>  Annalie is relatively new to the audiobook industry and has only a handful of books to her credit but I predict she will have a long and successful career in the field if she chooses to stick with it.


title: Tombs of Atuan: Earthsea Cycle book 2

text:
The Tombs of Atuan is the second audiobook in Ursula K Le Guin's Earthsea series.  This audiobook is not a direct continuation of the first Earthsea installment, A Wizard of EarthSea, and works well as a stand-alone if you're not interested in reading the whole series.  There is one common character, however, in Ged the wizard, who was the main character of the first audiobook.

To tell you the truth, I got a little bored with The Tombs of Atuan.  I mentioned before that fantasy audiobooks are not my favorites.  I still pick one up now and then, however, because you just never know when you'll come across something that you really like.  I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you never read outside your favorite genre, you're going to miss out on a lot of good fiction.

Rob Inglis narrated a lot of fantasy audiobooks, including J R R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series.  There is surprisingly little information about Rob Inglis available on the internet but I'm guessing he has had training in classical theatre.  He has a fantastic reading voice and I like his British accent.

Hey, don't take my word for it, check out The Tombs of Atuan for yourself.  If fantasy is your thing, you'll no doubt enjoy this one.


title: Five Stars

text: Love this album, and the extras that come with it make it a great collector's piece


title: Five Stars

text: Sounds Amazing. Great add to my collection


title: Terrific

text: I would urge people who appreciate good music, especially that rooted in the wide variety of American music's roots, to seek out the works of this unusual (in the best sense) musical artist, for while I am heartened that he can make a living from his music, the fact is that the prefabricated Top 40 music of `artists' like Carrie Underwood should be the stuff that appears on Indy labels, and she should be opening for better acts like Martinez. Only by supporting artists of quality (via purchases, criticism as this, or patronizing their performances) does more quality emerge. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy and act, of sorts. So, act, and perhaps the act will fulfill the prophecy. Lo, I smell the seeds for another song by Martinez. Here's hoping.


title: Overlong, clichéd and not scary...

text:
This review is of the audiobook version.

Had this book been cut by two-thirds there may have been an interesting spooky story in it. I say 'may' because I have to admit to giving up at disc 10 of this mammoth 14-disc 18-hour audiobook. The endless repetition, the endless backstories of every character, the endless repeating of the same 'spooky' effects (how often are we supposed to find knocking noises in a cupboard frightening?) all made this book seem...well...endless.

However, I would have persevered had the author not descended into some pretty tasteless descriptions - first, of the corpse of a murdered child, then descriptions of child sexual abuse given in lovingly lingering detail. Not scary, just a bit sick. And yet still tedious...

The audiobook is narrated by David Rintoul, who does a very fine job especially considering the poor material he was working with. Only his narration injected some life into this overlong, clichéd, tasteless and so not scary book.

My first James Herbert book, and also my last - not recommended.


title: Now a Torchwood convert!

text:
This box set contains 3 episodes of Torchwood, each 45 minutes long and acted by the original cast. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed these. Although I've always enjoyed the odd episode I've seen on TV I've never found it a must-watch series. However, these radio versions definitely fall into the must-listen category for me. I think perhaps the lack of visuals allows the imagination of the listener to come into play, and this adds something to the overall enjoyment.

The acting throughout was excellent, not only the major characters but also the supporting cast. Because each of the main characters has a distinctive accent, there were none of the difficulties of differentiating between them that you sometimes get in audio productions. The sound effects were great - I listened in my car and the scary bits were greatly enhanced by the sensation of `surround-sound' you get with the car speakers.

Each of the episodes was well plotted - scary enough but not too much, plenty of humour, some mild horror. The third episode, The House of the Dead, was much darker than the others and, to my amazement, I actually found myself sniffling in the supermarket car park at one point! (There was no way I was getting out of the car till I got to the end of the episode...)

These would be excellent for family listening on a long journey or for a winter night in bed when there's a handy blanket to hide under as required! I will certainly be looking out for more of these radio adaptations - I'm now officially a Torchwood convert! Highly recommended.


title: A HOLLOW SPECTACLE

text:
Coming on the heels of the tremendously engaging (and unfairly maligned) Phantom Menace, this film is a letdown.  The movie has fantastic painterly backgrounds, but like most computer-generated animation they look somewhat fake.  The special effects are elaborate, but Lucas was determined to cram so much on the screen during the action sequences that it almost gives you a headache.  Note to Lucas: sometimes less is more.  I was not so much enthralled as just worn down by the barage of digital effects.
The movie does a good job filling in the back-story to the trilogy that began with Star Wars, but the script lacks heart.  The romance between Anakin and Amidala is inert, and seems even more implausible in light of the fact that he appears to have aged about 15 years since the Phantom Menace while she looks exactly the same.  The scene in which Anakin's mother dies is contrived and melodramatic, and the film's disjointed narrative never fleshes things out well enough to make us care about the characters.
Another problem is that the script often does not make sense.  For instance, who would make a massive army of clones under contract and not stay in touch with the people who placed the order for years at a time?  What's the deal with Yoda, who usually goes limping breathlessly around with a cane but can spring into action as the greatest fighter of the jedi knights?  Where did Senator Amidala's pin come from that enabled her to pick her handcuffs?  Why is Senator Amidala, as one of over a thousand senators, so important that the dark forces keep trying to assassinate her?  If Jango Fett is such a super-killer that they would want to make an entire army of his clones, then why is he killed so quickly and easily in this movie in the arena scene?
The film too often feels stale.  Almost every scene seems to have come from previous sci-fi films (like the taxicab sequence in the Fifth Element) or previous epics (like the arena scenes in Spartacus).  The large battle scenes involving strange, computer-generated creatures bear an unfortunate resemblance to the tedious battles in Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.  It even seems as if Lucas is recycling his own ideas.  The light-saber fights still have a certain pizzazz, but we first saw those over twenty years ago, and in any case the climactic light-saber fight with Darth Maul in the Phantom Menace was much more suspenseful.  The conveyer belt scene in this movie is a rehash of the famous scene in The Temple of Doom which Lucas co-produced.
The dialog is often stilted, making it hard for the actors to breathe life into the characters.  Samuel L. Jackson chewed up the scenery in Shaft, but his performance here is lifeless.  Hayden Christensen is good as Anakin (although some of his lines were too bad to be effectively delivered), showing the arrogance and rage building in the young jedi knight soon to become Darth Vader, and Christopher Lee has a nice menace as Count Dooku.  Natalie Portman is fine but doesn't sparkle as in the Phantom Menace.  As for Yoda, he remains the most annoying character in the Star Wars universe -- an ugly little toy with the voice of Marge Simpson spouting banalities wrapped as profundities -- and unfortunately he gets plenty of screen time here.
This is not a bad film.  In fact, I'd say that it is about average for a science fiction movie, but it's the worst of the Star Wars series so far.  Where's the magic?  Where's the thrill?  Where's the fun?


title: About as original as fast food.

text: I'm sure there's good Swedish rock out there, but this ain't it


title: Four Stars

text: Great cd!


title: EXCALION - PRIMAL EXHALE

text:
"Primal Exhale" (2005) is the first album from Finnish power metal band Excalion, which plays with lots of keyboards and some progressive elements.

While Excalion's musicianship is solid and some of the arrangements are creative and relatively complex, there's really not a lot here that's particularly interesting or memorable, especially melodically. There are no choruses or guitar riffs that get in your head, and there's no real highlight here.

What separates this album from the vast crowd of similar-sounding power metal CDs out there is singer Jarmo Pääkkönen, who has a powerful, energetic, passionate voice. Replace him with an average metal singer and "Primal Exhale" becomes a thoroughly boring album.

"Primal Exhale" is always listenable but never impressive, but Excalion has gone on to substantially better works, as both "Waterlines" (2007) and "High Time" (2010) are well worth checking out. If you take a pass on this one, though, you won't be missing much.

10 tracks, 55 minutes


title: SAVIOUR MACHINE - MASK COLLECTOR'S CD

text:
The Saviour Machine mask collector's CD was released by Massacre Records in 1999. It features 5 tracks: Behold a Pale Horse, Love Never Dies, Carnival of Souls, The Lamb, and Enter the Idol. All of these songs can be found in identical form on previous Saviour Machine albums. There is no new material here whatsoever.

This is a gimmick release - the cd is shaped like a mask. It is, therefore, not round, and will not play in the majority of cd players.

Even hardcore fans of Saviour machine will receive little benefit from this disc. It's for collectors only.


title: Five Stars

text: Harlan is simply on of the best.


title: excellent music

text: Sweeping music with BTs Unbreakable being beyond beautiful.<br />Corsten knows his craft. I listen to this collection often.


title: not the best , not the worst either

text: Not really gripping, kind of bland,it DOES have some good beats and rythms though but overall it has the flavor of Digweeds work,  just not as absorbing.<br /> I still give it a listen from time to time.


title: an adorably cute woman and absorbing music

text:
She has such a cute face and man what a figure !
Skin on Skin is a fascinating piece of music and each of the 5 interpretations presented on this disk are strong in their own way with track 4 having a Goa Trance feel ( I think thats the genre name). Albums such as this one tend to be hit or miss imo .With so many different approaches to the same piece of music theres always a bit of stumbling but each of these 5 tracks succeed because the music itself is strong and her voice is feminine and sweet and she knows how to use it . Ive encountered her voice here and there over the past 13 years or so but I cant find any comprehensive library of her work here on Amazon. Oh well , Ill take what I can get and I got this.... Too bad I cant get the rest of her :) , id make her happy and she could sing to me when ever she wanted :D
 Check out her video of this song on You Tube


title: TAKE MY MONEY ALREADY!!!

text: I would buy some of this girls music if it was for sale here on Amazon.As it is the only place Ive heard her music is on youtube.Im assuming any album she creates will reflect what I saw there. She a cute kid with quite a voice, I hope she makes a great career for herself


title: Light, radio friendly rock music.

text: I bought this out of nostalgia. My brother was friends with a couple of the guys in the band and I had lost my copy of their CD years ago. The music is solid but not exceptional. The singer is quite bland and is the weakest link of the unit but its still a fairly enjoyable CD that would appeal to fans of lighter, radio-friendly rock music.


title: "I want to hear you . . . Thanx For The Angst"

text:
Chrome Molly was late entry to the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, and while they had big hair, their sound more often crossed over into catchy hard rock than heavy metal.  A criticism that could be levied against a lot of the "heavy metal" bands of the time.

 Regardless, Chrome Molly released some singles, an EP, and an album ("You Can't Have It All . . .") before they were regrettably picked up by I. R. S. Metal.  I. R. S. started out as a Punk/New Wave album label before they decided to branch out, because the market for Punk/New Wave was shrinking, into metal.  They were woefully inept in this endeavor, and what they did have they mismanaged badly.  The best known of their albums was Black Sabbath's [[ASIN:B001DIDUHS Headless Cross]], but some of their other stuff (like Shock Paris' [[ASIN:B00008FD51 Concrete Killers]], Detroit's own Seduce's [[ASIN:B000W718AM Too Much Ain't Enough]] and Nuclear Assault's [[ASIN:B000002PHY Survive]]) became rare due to their mismanagement and/or poor distribution.  Chrome Molly's "Angst" was one of these albums and it was also caught in the market flux of the time.  Just as Punk was elbowed out by New Wave, and New Wave by Heavy Metal, so was Heavy Metal being elbowed out Hair Metal.  Chrome Molly was a hard rock band that fell in-between the cracks.  At their best they were a hard rocking band with strong catchy radio friendly songs that were decidedly British (lots of sing-along, shouting choruses) with good production, a clear and strong vocalist, and a solid guitar sound.  But, like so many bands of this time, they got little or no radio play, and eventually fell apart and disbanded in 1990.

 "Angst" may have been their third album, but it wasn't really an original production.  "Angst" was actually a compilation of assorted cuts from the "You Can't Have It All . . ." album, and a number of singles tossed  randomly onto vinyl for the American market.  Music aside, this CD is an even worse product than the album version, I believe the songs on the American album were in different order than the CD, the album had an insert that had a ton of band photos, the CD has only one, and, it's been twenty years, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the album had lyrics, the CD doesn't.  This bare bones CD version doesn't even tell you who wrote the songs, even though 'Take Me I'm Yours' is a cover of one of Squeeze's songs.  While a good version of the song, with some muscular guitarwork, it is clearly out of place on the album.  Yes, it had hot keyboardist at the time Jools Holland playing synths and piano on it, but the song is clearly a play for radio time.

 This album starts out with one of the best hard rocking songs of the eighties, 'Thanx For The Angst'.  Bass Player Brad, in his review above gives a pretty good review of the songs themselves, so I'll just list the songs and where they originally appeared.

1.)  'Thanx For The Angst' ("You Can't Have It All . . .")
2.)  'Take Me I'm Yours' (single)
3.)  'Don't Let Go' ("A" side of "Take It Or Leave It" single)
4.)  'Come Back' ("You Can't Have It All . . .")
5.)  'I Want To Find Out' (single b/w 'Too Far Gone')
6.)  'Take It Or Leave It' ("You Can't Have It All . . .")
7.)  'Living A Lie' ("You Can't Have It All . . .")
8.)  'Cut Loose' ("You Can't Have It All . . .")
9.)  'Too Far Gone' (single b/w 'I Want Out')
10.)  'Set Me Free' ("You Can't Have It All . . .")

 'Set Me Free' by the way is an original song, and not a cover of the same song by Sweet from Sweet's "Desolation Boulevard" album.

 My favorite songs on the album are 'Thanx For The Angst', 'Living A Lie', 'Cut Loose', 'Too Far Gone', and they all have some really blistering guitarwork and cry out to be played REAL loud.

 Chrome Molly's personnel on this album are Tim Read (Guitar), Mark Godfrey (Drums), Steve Hawkins (Vocals) and Nic Wastell (Bass).  The band reunited lately and is playing gigs in England with a slightly different line-up.  I can't help but think that with better management, this band could have gone places if life was fair, but it ain't, but we still have this artifact.  Maybe somebody will release a boxed set of all of their albums, but don't hold your breath.


title: Cluelessness of the British royals revisited

text:
Director Stephen Frears using reels of archival footage created an insightful pseudo documentary surrounding the drama played out around the British royal family in the wake of the tragic death of Princess Diana.

Helen Mirren was at her frumpy and matronly best portraying Queen Elizabeth trapped in the quagmire of tradition in attempting to respond to Diana's demise.  The royals were represented as a privileged and aloof lot severely misjudging the outpouring of emotion of the British people indicative of their affection for the beloved princess.  This was shown most clearly through the heartless response of Prince Philip played by veteran actor James Cromwell.

While Prince Charles was played sympathetically by Alex Jennings, the real savior of the Brits was newly elected prime minister Tony Blair played superbly by Michael Sheen.  Blair while wafting through the proper etiquette in dealing with the queen, accurately judged the emotion of the British populace.  The Queen's lack of a public response to the tragedy was eroding her support throughout the country.  New kid on the block Blair advised the Queen to show some unrestricted emotion and compassion, which she ultimately did.

The movie featured a myriad of excellent acting performances yet tended to drag as this unforgetable calamity and drama played out before the unobscured view of the television cameras.


title: Love it!

text: Great product, fast shipping!


title: Great experience

text: Amazing quality quick shipping and we'll packaged


title: The King Rules!

text: Galleon is one of those seldom heard of neoprog bands similiar to Pallas. Their singer sounds like a mixture of Wetton and Sadler of Saga. Their music is majestic with excellent guitar/ keyboard. A special mention must be made about the bass guitar on this one- Wow-makes me want to pull out my Ibanez and start jamming. Great music!


title: Strong Progressive Effort

text: Galleon is one of those unheard of bands that are slowly making a name for themselves. I found this CD the other day while cleaning up my vast CD collection. I completely forgot about them. The sound reminds me of Pallas to an extent but they have their own identity. They have a ton of CDs- I think I'll buy more. Highly recommended!


title: love it

text: For husbands birthday and he loves this


title: Five Stars

text: my grandpa wanted me to order it for there 65th anniversary my grandma loves it


title: Very happy

text: Came out not damaged considering the package looked like it had been through a war. Very happy with it


title: Easier than I thought to get an old 45 rpm record

text: In good condition / altho not new.


title: My favorite performance and recording.

text: After decades of searching for a difinative recording of The Planets, I still go back to this excellent performance and recording. I have many versions including SACD and this is still the best in my book. I do know that this is all subjective, but, if you have not heard this recording, you might really agree with me.


title: God bless

text: Great blessings


title: Beautiful, haunting, original music.

text: I saw Daryl Fleming in concert some 20 years ago and bought a cassette of this recording.  How happy I was to be able to find it on CD so I could begin listening to it again.  Daryl's music and performances are simply beautiful.


title: Amazing!

text:
I've been staring at my computer screen for over an hour, because I don't know how I can possibly tell you how much I loved this book. All I feel like doing is yelling from the rooftops: "READ THIS BOOK! OR ELSE!"

How am I supposed to properly convey to you what I feel about this book? How am I supposed to tell you that I completely fell in love with it, because it was one of those books that made you feel all gushy and tingly inside? How am I supposed to tell you that this book is one of my all time favorites?

How am I supposed to say all of that in a simple review? I guess I could tell you how it didn't matter where I was, whether it was on the train, on my way to college, or studying in the library, this book never failed to bring a smile to my face. It always made me laugh out loud. It always made me want to stop whatever I was doing and just focus completely on this book.

I could also tell you how Eleanor's voice resonated with me. How I always wanted to live inside the book and be Eleanor's best friend. How the narrator made me feel like she was sharing a secret with me. Or maybe how Park made me feel. Park's narrator was.... Breathtaking. Hearing his voice always made me feel giddy and happy.

"There's no shame with Park. Nothing is dirty. Because Park is the sun, and that's the best way she could think to explain it."
-Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell

What if I told you all about the romance in this book? The romance in this book is slow building, and every bit as adorable as any other romance. What if I told you that this romance is probably one of the best romances I've ever read in my life? What if I told you that Eleanor & Park's story is one I never want to let go of?

"You can ask me why I need you, but I don't know. I just know that I do ... I miss you, Eleanor. I want to be with you all the time. You're the smartest girl I've ever met, and the funniest, and everything you do surprises me. And I wish I could say that those are the reasons I like you, because that would make me sound like a really evolved human being ... But I think it's got as much to do with your hair being red and your hands being soft ... and the fact that you smell like homemade birthday
cake."
-Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell

What if I told you this book isn't only about the romance? This book paints such a vivid image of children living in the 80's, I actually feel as if I was actually born there. And I was actually born in the 90's!

Do you know how this book made me feel? It made me feel like the happiest person in the world. It made me want to keep this story to myself so no one else could feel what I felt. Because other than feeling like swooning every time Park spoke, or giggling every time Eleanor and him would banter, or sighing at every romantic moment, I felt like my heart was turning into a giant black hole and sucking every bit of happiness as I kept reaching the end. I didn't want anyone else to feel what I felt, but at the same time, my hands were just itching to create a review of this book.

You know how John Green says that a book can fill you with Evangelical Zeal ? I finally understand what he means. I finally understand what it means to be touched by a book as much as this one touched me.

I don't know how else I can make you understand that you UNDOUBTEDLY NEED TO READ THIS BOOK. I do know that this book is well deserved of its hype. I also know that I've just become a great fan of Rainbow Rowell and everything she writes.

5 stars.


title: Very very nice.

text: I love this plate .it displays very nice.if you collect cowboys.youll love it .winner.


title: Five Stars

text: GREAT,GREAT


title: Great CD

text: I have had this CD for over 10 years and absolutely love it. It is perfect for listening to while studying.


title: Great

text: I love love this CD however please don’t let young kids listen to it had explicit words but I listen to it everyday it tells a story


title: Bought it for a specific song but it was not on the album

text: The CD is fine and was in good shape, it was purchased used.  There are good songs on the CD, just not the one that I had wanted.


title: Heavenly Meditation

text: One of my splurges for Christmas and I’m so glad I did it. Harpsichord music has always helped me achieve alpha state in meditation. The soft but powerful tones of this Renaissance CD are unlike what I have. I’ll listen to this all year round.


title: good

text: good


title: Moosic

text: Bought jt for un friend she like


Wow.  Greatest listening for background music while I work, read or exercise. Lovely.


title: songs on cd

text: This has all the songs that I wanted on it.


title: Five Stars

text: Great sound and in great condition! Thanks!


title: The Wilburys

text: Loved it...


title: The Velveletts, oh yea !!!

text: This was a class girl group, love this cd.


title: Five Stars

text: love it


title: Simply Wonderful

text: This CD arrived in a very timely manner in perfect condition and since it’s been previously loved, it’s even better than full price and still in excellent shape!!! I’d say this is a very professional and honestly forthright seller. You can rest easy dealing with this reputable seller!!! BTW thank you so much for my new to me CD!!! It’s been a real blessing.


title: You will swear it's Elvis

text: The closest Voice you will ever hear. He sounds exactly like Elvis. Amazing.


title: Their last Radio Hit

text: LP was their last Recording after leaving Capitol. Contains their last Radio Hit' Holly Go Softly  which is their best song written by Toni Wine..


title: The Byrds/ Flying Burrito Brothers Chris Hillman

text: Loved The Byrds. FLYING Burrito Burritos & The Desert Rose Band all which Chris Hillman was part of.  Chris was always Country & when The Late Great Gram Parson joined The Byrds They went  in that direction. Chris & Herb Pederson (Burrito Bros) members formed The Desert Rose Band and had a hit with one step foward & 2 steps back. I have all their Lps and wanted their biggest hits on cd. If you love Country you will love them.


title: The BEST COLLECTION EVER. Records that Gus Gossett played

text: I grew up listing to Alan Freed, Murray The K, Slim  Times Square Radio Show on Saturday night. Gus Gossett on WEBSITE 101 FM & WPIX 101 FM. WCBSFM Norman N  Nite & Don K  Reed. These are the records they spun.  Sound Remastered  spectacularly  no pops & clicks like old 78 & 45 rpm  records. Not  the same rehashed songs you get on other collections Big Hits & rare great songs that never got the airplay  they deserved. If you grew up with NY radio and jocks that I have named you will know and love this. Try to get the set that has the 4th Bonus Discovery it has The one song that Gus Gossert  always played and was the favorite of all listeners & myself, The Ocapellos  - The Stars. 1010 Wins before they became all news, WCBSFM 101 when they were a real oldies station that spun these songs, WPIX 101 & THE GREAT AM STATIONS WMCA  & WABC.  NY YOU LISTENED & LOVED IT. STEP INTO THE TIME MACHINE THIS WILL TAKE YOU BACK 📻🎼💓


title: IT'S RONNIE DUNN WHO ALWA6S GETS THE JOB DONE

text: It's RONNIE DUNN who can sing anything. Ronnie is one of the GREAT VOICES  that you don't have to guess who  the vocalist is. Like Elvis, Englbert,  George Strait,  Glen Campbell, B.J. Thomas, Conway, Waylon, Willie.  Randy Owens ( Alabama) .  Truly one of the GREATS who puts his unique  voice & touch to these great classic songs.


title: AVOID!  DEFECTIVE CD BY RAVEN RECORDS 1 CHANNEL  ONLY

text: AVOID THIS RELEASE. FIRST ASKING PRICE IS ABSURD.  THE CD WAS ISSUED WITH HUGE MISTAKE. ONLY 1 CHANNEL  COMES THRU.  THE CD HAS BEEN RE-ISSUED AS ANOTHER NIGHT WITH REMASTERED SOUND AND BONUS TRACKS AND IS FANTASTIC. AVALIABLE HERE ON AMAZON AT A GREAT PRICE.


title: Kyle is AWESOME

text: Big fan of Kyle  who is SUPER TALENTED and a GREAT person who appreciates his fans.  Barry Manilow has called him the Best to come out of Tin pan Alley and 1 listen and you will know why. He is a SUPERSTAR in Japan where GREAT TALENT is appreciated. I have viewed  many videos on you tube and he always responds with warm appreciating  thanks.  I am a major fan of the Raspberries  and The  Rubinoos & Kyle has worked and is friends with Wally Bryson, Jim Bonafonti of the Raspberries  & Jon Rubin  & Tommy Dunbar of The Rubimoos as well as Producer the GREAT JIMMY INNER who produced all of The Raspberries LPS. This is one FANTASTIC LP in The tradition of those 2 GREAT Bands. Oh yeah Kyle started out with the Band Candy & has fronted Bo Donaldson & The Heywood & The Bay City Rollers.  Don't pass this up.


title: The PRIDE of Maspeth Queens

text: Dom Randy Safuto & The Rainbows as Legendary DJ Norm N. Nite calls the PRIDE OF Maspeth Queens. All the Rust Record hits are here. Sound Quality  is excellent and taken from the best avaliable sources.  They should have gotten more recognition  then they got. The British Invasion didn't help. With a major  record label they would have been standing along groups like the  4  Seasons  Jay & The Americans, The Vouges, The Beach Boys The Grassroots, who stood up to the British Invasion. Get this and see how great they were. Take it like a man stands out with its 4 Season Sound.  Love this Cd.


title: Aaron Tipperary Real Country, Real Music.

text: A.T. Has Never Sounded Better. 1 Of The Real Greats Still Around. All The Old Hits Are Here On Disc  1. And Recorded With Today's Technology And Sounding Great. Disc 2 Is All New Material That Aaron Has Recorded.  Words Can't  Describe  How Good They Are. The Backing Musicians  Are Legendary Names That You Will Recognize  From Recordings From All The Nashville Legends.  Love This Cd.  If You Love Traditional  Country, This Is A Must Have.


title: Worth the price just for somebody told me you were crying

text: The cut somebody told me you were crying is worth getting this lp. It is about the loss of a loved one who's spirit comes back to tell loved one that even death can not seperate the love between them. Just close your eyes and  I' LL  be there. We will be together some day again so don't cry. Beautiful song  can see Patrick Swayze comforting Demi Moore.  when you hear it. Spencer James and Searchers best recording


title: THE  GOATS OF KUDZU IS THE GREAT ERIC HEATHERLY

text: This is the GREAT Eric Heatherly who had  a  hit with his remake of the Starlet Brothers Flowers on the wall. His 1st cd Swimming in Champagne had 3 Chart Single hits. Eric has gotten bad breaks in his career and should be a maor star. He is a master at guitar and is highly respected by his peers. This is a guy who has it all great voice, great instrumentalist, songwriter and good looks.  He is so much better than what's coming out of Nashville the last 10 year's or so. He can do heartfelt ballards, and Rock with any guitar player including Keith Urban, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards,James Burton Glen Campbell Duane Eddy to just name a few. In fact Dianne Eddy said he is the best guitar player to come out of Nashville in Decades. Eric as mentioned before has had bad luck in his career and personal life and is still standing and deserves a big break. Nashville get behind him and sign him to a major label and promote him and make him the SUPERSTAR that he deserves to be. Anybody reading this do yourself a favor and get anything that Eric has put out. You will love it and play it over and over.


discovered on new yorks whli which you can also receive on the world wide internet 1100 am. If you like frank and bobby darin this artist is for you. SUPER TALENT WITH GREAT ORCHESTRA AND ARRANGER WHO WORKED WITH SINATRA ON MANY RECORDING.


FIRST THE GROUP ON THE COVER IS NOT THE CLASSICS IV I DONT KNOW WHO THEY ARE. BUT I CAN TELL YOU THEY ARE NOT THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE AS ONE REVIEWER SAYS. I AM A BIG FAN OF DENNIS YOST., AND YES THE HITS ARE RERECORDED VERSIONS BUT IF YOU ARE A FAN OF DENNIS YOU MOST LIKEY HAVE THE ORIGINAL RECORDINGS. THESE REMAKES ARE EXCELLENT AND ARE ENJOYABLE. EVERYTHING DENNIS DID WAS  MAGIC THE 14TH TRACK I JUST WANT TO  BE YOUR EVERYTHING SOUNDS JUST LIKE ANDY GIBB AND HIS BROTHERS. . EVERY TRACK A GEM. RIP DENNIS YOU ARE MISSED


title: A SINGER WHO IS RIGHT UP THERE WITH JERRY VALE WHO WAS HIS FRIEND. AND JIMMY ROSELLI

text: Paul Ciaurella aka Paulie Teardrop a singer up there with Jerry Vale and Jimmy Roselli. Started out with brother Tony as the Teardrops hence the name Paulie Teardrop. First heard about him from John Labarca's Italian House Party on 1100 WHLI AM LONG ISLAND N.Y. HEARD EVERY SUNDAY FROM NOON TO 3PM AND ALSO ON THE INTERNET. IF YOU GREW UP IN EAST NY, BROWNSVILLE, CITY LINE, JOHN WILL TAKE YOU BACK TO THE DAYS WHEN YOU WERE GROWING UP THERE. WONDERFUL MEMORIES AND FUNNY AND TOUCHING STORIES. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE ITALIAN TO ENJOY THE SHOW . THANKS TO JOHN FOR PLAYING SUPER TALENT LIKE PAULIE. BUY  PAULIES MUSIC, AND LISTEN TO JOHN'S SHOW.


title: great raider reunion

text: A must. best release ever released on a canadian label features Mark lindsay and carl driggs who was the lead singer for over 25 years with the group after Marks departure. Mark was great but Carl was the best. Saw group live many a times with Carl and people were dissapointed when they heard Mark was not with them, but once they heard Carl they were blown away. Should be released on cd


title: Nice mix

text: Like the variety!


title: We also love this

text: As with Tantric heart, my wife and I both love this, and she likes it much more than classical Indian music.


title: Unhappy.

text: I thought this would be more for personal us and it's for business.


title: LOVE!!!

text: Pretty much every song is a different sound. It's a really great album much like the rest of his stuff. I am please to own it. :)


title: Great music to our Creator.

text: You'd be a fool not to buy this. His love for our Father is written in every word of these songs.


title: You won't be disappointed.

text: If you wanna jam with Jesus..this is the album. Love Brandon Lake and House of Miracles didn't let me down. :)


title: soul story vol.7

text: This entire series is very very good. I have 6 or 7 volumns and play them all the time.  Buy it or any soul story cd, you won't regret it.


title: Meh

text: I am a huge PUSA fan but this just didn't get me like the PUSA albums do.  They are a couple good tracks but I could have done with out.


title: Nice turkish music by Bulent Ersoy

text: Just as good as his other works. But less variation.


title: passionate turkish songs by Bulent Ersoy

text: best ever. Listen to Turkish radio but Bulent beats them all. Best to just listen all the hours to him and his wonderful singing voice. What power, what emotion, what passion!


title: Bizm Hikayemiz CD- Passionate singer with passionate songs-Bulent Ersoy

text: Singer is very passionate, has a repertoire in his/her singing. Songs on CD are far the best- classic, passionate, v. Turkish.<br />I am a great fan of Bulent Ersoy. I listen to it daily and never get bored. A few songs are repetitive and may be boring to some, but for me, it is just good Turkish music- modern, yet traditional, with the exotic flavor of the Orient.


title: Accurate Description

text: Received promptly and was as described.


title: Best Dou Pianists

text: Brilliant performances.<br />Always a treat to hear Poulenc, one of the best.


title: Five Stars

text: GOOD SELECTION OF CHRISTMAS SONGS !


title: Five Stars

text: great sounding music by coldplay !


title: coldplay  a head full of dreams tour 2016

text: once again very happy with this release, great sound on this live concert, received on 8/05/16  !


title: great music

text: simply the best for relaxing and dozing on those hard to sleep nights!


title: Great Soundtrack

text: This score definitely lives up to the Star Trek name. The music is brilliantly written and orchestrated. Both discs are inclosed in a neat little booklet (about the size of a blu-ray case) that has pictures from the movie and includes notes from J.J. Abrams and Kerry O'Quinn. The music was more than I expected. I thought I would be listening to a lot of ambient music that plays in the background of the movie, but there were a lot of recognizable cues and themes throughout the entire score. A must have for any fan of the music of Star Trek.


title: Love, love this dvd

text: Love, love this dvd! Have slept to it at night for 5 months now. Has improved my quality of sleep, and duration of sleep. Very calming and restorative. Highly recommended to anyone having sleep issues!


I purchased a total of 8 wheel casters and they all swiveled easily!


title: Wonderful album

text: Wonderful album! Bought it for one hit and found the entire album strong. Elle has a great voice.


title: Face Yourself was a gift for someone else

text: no complaints from recipient


title: Awesome album

text: Arrived really quickly, undamaged and loaded with awesome new songs


title: Relaxing but not unique sounding

text: The sound on this CD is too low, I have to crank up the volume higher for it. It's just one track that is 45 minutes long. The sound of rain & thunder is comforting and relaxing for my baby when we are in the car, however if you want the sound of rain for longer than 45 minutes (say for the babies nap to block out other noises), then a sound therapy machine is better because the rain & thunder sounds are of equal quality and they don't run out.


I have listened to this CD many times since it was given to me as a gift. Showalter is an excellent guitarist, but I would have preferred vocals, too, to give the songs more depth and personal meaning. I believe his wife had just died before he recorded this CD, and you can hear the sadness in every note he plays. It is not a "pep me up" CD, but more of an easy listening CD.  Now I have seen this CD on Amazon.com for $69.95 - what's up with that?! Who in the world would pay $69.95 for a CD by an unknown musician - that price is ridiculous - unless Showalter does not want to sell any of his CDs. When I saw the price I had to LOL - is this a joke or just a really confused man?! I would say "Buy it" for pleasure if it was $15.99, but I cannot recommend the CD to anyone for $69,95!  HA!  Still in shock.........  :(


title: Five Stars

text: excellent album .


title: This HAS been released on DVD

text:
This has been released on DVD.  Don't pay some crazy amount to some jacknut claiming it's out of print.  It JUST came out on DVD, and it is available for $14.95 on Legend Films website, as well as at select Target stores.

This is a great movie, by the way.  It was Scary Movie before Scary Movie, making fun of the slasher films of the 70s and early 80s.


title: Great music to drive to!

text: This is my FAVORITE album! A MUST HAVE for Glam Rock fans!!!


title: Excellent vinyl!

text: It is an excellent product, excellent quality, the best sound, a very nice color. Very good acquisition.


title: FUNNY, FUNNY, FUNNY

text: I once had this CD and someone must have liked it because when I went to look for it, it was gone.  Of course, I could have lent to someone and forgotten.  Thank you for replacing my CD.


title: What great music!!!!

text: I received the CD on time and in excellent condition.  I am very happy with this purchase.  Thank you.


title: Killer Poetry

text: This is some awesome poetry that makes one really think. I especially like "Stupid Girls" GO TO MICHIGAN! Very CANDID, very true, very thoughtful, deep and rhythmic.


title: Relaxing

text: Very relaxing and pleasant to listen too.  Great background music.


title: I bought it twice

text: Miguel Bose’s best compilation. Already had it. It was a gift.


title: good album

text: My son loves this album


title: Delivered quickly and all is well!

text: The Phanthom CD was delivered quickly, all is well!  No problem with delivery! Thank you!


title: Five Stars

text: Very pleased with this purchase


title: Great album,  service,  and price!

text: My son loves it!  Thank you!


title: Five Stars

text: Love IT!


title: Excellent follow up

text: Excellent follow up to his debut album.


title: Beautiful music!

text: This music never grows old.


title: His early "Best"

text: Has always been my favorite!!


title: Five Stars

text: Great CD.


title: Five Stars

text: Great CD, I have all three volume's and love them!


title: Only 2500 made-get it while you can

text:
This is still available through propermusic's site-don't pay the scalpers on here.
This is an excellent ode to Ian Hunter.  The more expensive box sets (Wishbone Ash, etc) seem to be well done-vs the box sets like Hot Tuna or Quicksilver Messenger Service.  They don't have all the extras these sets have.
If you are a MTH or Ian Hunter fan, this is for you.  There are only 2500 sets; when they are gone, they're gone.  If you have the disposable income, you will not regret buying the set.


title: The Doobie Bro's return-in rocking form!!

text: I lost faith in the Doobie Brothers when they released "Taking it to the Streets", their 6th LP.<br />I quit buying their releases at that point.  And then I find this rocker, "Brotherhood"!  Wow.... This more than makes up for all the top 40 crap they later released.  Somewhat on the expensive side but if you can find it, buy it!!!!


title: Rip-off  Duplicates original music and graphics are horrible

text:
Somehow I neglected to realize that the music on this set is IDENTICAL to the music on the original Wholetones set, which I already had.

So I now have two copies of the same music...only this one is accompanied by seriously low-budget boring repetitive graphics.

The fact that both sets come with the book...which will appeal to only the religious...should have been a big tip-off.

This was a waste of money for me and it just might end up getting donated.  (I already recycled both books.)


title: Still love the music, but found a downside to having the CD

text:
I was so excited to buy this for my boys, since I was a big fan of the music as a kid.
Still fantastic music.  The downside to the CD, however, is that the talking is still included; meaning for my two-yr-olds, they lose interest before the music actually comes on.
I'm sure as they get older they'll appreciate listening to the dialogue, but I wish it had been recorded as dialogue separate from the songs themselves, so that younger kids could easily fast forward to just hear the music.


title: Well done Sarah!!

text: A sweet, gentle album with a real message!


title: Let's sing real softly in this part . . .

text:
. . . and then get REAL LOUD!  That should be a novel musical style, betcha no one's done that before.  And then we'll do it over again in the same extended song.  And then record another one just like it.  Oh God, this is so wrong.  Do I need to mention the ponderous title?

Ef is a seven year old Swedish band, three guys (plus guests) who supposedly play "post rock", whatever that means in context (sounds like a mix of ambient and shoegaze to me).  You would think that playing together that long would have cured them of playing these deathly dull dirges that take forever to get going and then just end up in a big wall of sound, but no.  I mean, they're not bad, individually the playing and singing is okay, but after a song like "kypck" does this cycle about three times, you just can't take anymore of the guitar plucking out one note at a time, when you know it's going to start monotonously pounding again eventually.  What is the point?  Especially when "Longing" does exactly and precisely the same thing.  Maybe it sounds good stoned, I don't know.  Check them out in Poznan in May, that sounds like a lively venue.  Sorry.


title: Something to search out

text:
Jellybeat is a couple of guys from Austria, who play bright up-tempo electronic pop, featuring the solid (English) vocals of current female lead singer Katrin Navessi.  They've actually been around for a decade, swapping out singers over time, though I doubt many here have heard of them (me too).  At times they can sound pretty silly, like Bananarama doing bad Bangles tunes with a B-52 lilt, as in "Lily's".

But the style can work great, "Kaleidoscope" has definite Dandy Warhol touches, a cheesy synth line morphing into a slapping drum beat that propels the song along, very nice.  That same groove is evident on "Misunderstood" as well, and if that's where they want to go, cool, it sounds great.  There are all kinds of influences in here, Abba of course, especially in "Sparks", and I can even detect some Charles Burchill in the synth guitar lines (which they might not even be aware of).  Twelve years in you might expect they should have already progressed beyond fun pop to a more mature form, so I'm not sure we can expect great things out of these guys.  But that's okay, there's nothing wrong with a modern update of Roxette, check it out.


title: Big rock from Finland

text:
Damn Seagulls has been around since the late 90's, out of Finland.  The all-male group uses a mix of instruments off the basic guitar sound, led by lead vocalist Lauri Eloranta.  They sing in English.

At their best their sound is a fat wall of sound somewhat reminiscent of Bruce by way of Mew, as in "Dead Pigeons".  They can also bring in a ska or rocksteady influence as in "Novus" that does not serve them as well.  They prefer the big ballad form, very much mor most of the time, good melodies and strong passages.  Unfortunately, the music is competent and pleasant, but there's nothing new here.  You'll like it, but there's nothing here to get passionate about.  Reportedly their bass player quit due to the musical direction of the band, one wonders if he felt the same.

Anyway, worth checking out, certainly you won't get burned if you find a somewhat more logical place to purchase this than as an "import", which I'm sure you can, in about ten seconds.


title: Even more Euro MOR

text:
My goodness, modern folk-power-pop sure is popular in the EU these days, judging by the number of bands playing this stuff.  Reamonn (is that Jamaican?  You know, Rea . . . mon), is a German band singing in Nashville English, and very well.  Big concept power ballads like "Free", "Broken" and "Moments" are full of vocal and guitar walls behind good hooks and melodies, it's very pleasant music.  Slower stuff like like "Serenade" have all the requisite emo and sweep that are standard ingredients of country charts these days (although technically this isn't a country album).

Which is where it falls well short for me, there's no real reason for this music to exist except that it does, no ground is broken, no chances taken.  You'll like it, you're suppose to, and they are very professional about doing their job in that respect, but I don't think it's music of any real importance.  Still, give it dues for being melodic and very competent, not everyone can write hooks after all.

PS: I don't need to point out the absurd "import" price means buying from Azon is a joke.  My apologies to the host, but you can't really expect anyone to pay forty bucks for a CD.


title: Uh, which one?

text:
Okay, this is just weird.  There's "Makeout Party", this band, a New Jersey group someone compared to the Appleseeds (fair enough, but this band is louder), and "Thee Makeout Party", a retro garage thrash band from Los Angeles.  Both have debut CD's out.  Needless to say, since the commercial visibility of both bands is zero, one of them should have cried uncle and picked another name.  Ah well, given the mortality rate of new bands, probably it won't be long until the name confusion stops being a problem.

Anyway, let's focus on the right coast outfit, since their sound is quite a bit more interesting to me.  The most paramount attribute of any young band is songwriting, followed by vocals, musicianship and image, I suppose.  And it's the songs that make this band worth noticing, they have a good feel for producing basic melodies that please the ears.  One major problem, so prevalent among the youth, is a tendency to change the beat within a song, it rarely works, and makes a song like "Back to Your Ways" far less effective than if it had simply plowed ahead.  Another problem is a song like "Conditional", which I think would have a better song without the power pop chorus.  But time will cure the amateur hour stuff if the talent is there.  I'm giving this a three, because it's not what I would call a solid CD throughout, and maybe only a song or three will survive in my playlists.  And then we'll see where they go.  Presumably not touring in L.A., that would be a mess.


title: What's going on in Winnipeg?

text: I don't even know where it is (north?), but there seems to be a pretty interesting indie musical scene going on there.  This debut album from a  Winnipegien four-piece is very promising.  Jon Plett has a good voice for this kind of emo-influenced power ballad stuff, and there's a lot of lyrical depth.  Yes, there are freshman errors, too much stopping and starting, particularly "Always", "Height" and the fine "Floor Plans" end abruptly when the good musical themes in those songs needed to be stretched (what was the producer doing? Arranging one of their seemingly endless series of gigs?).  But hey, that you can learn, what is built into your genes (or not) is the ability to write hooks and recognize them.  Worth checking out, quite pleasant in itself, and full of promise 3 or 4 CD's down the road.  Probably a good distance from Winnipeg.


title: Virtually unknown, shouldn't be

text: He's from Maine, kind of a troubadour type, no real obvious influences in his music despite the favorites that he claims.  What he has is great pipes and a talent for writing dramatic and unusual music that is held together with outstanding vocal lines.  It's not working entirely right now, there's a tendency to run on, the mix of (acoustic) instrumental lines sometimes jangles, and a song like "Carriage House" is way too smaltzy.  But the underlying talent is so obvious I don't see how an original voice like this can be kept down.  Shouldn't be, anyway, search it out.


title: Just one slight problem

text: This Washington band pretty much wears their influences openly, kind of a dark wave Cure sound, with a lot of similar melodies and passages in the music, which is okay.  The production is on the garage side of things, and even their full length CD, "Violent Hearstrings" had to be self released.  Which is probably because lead singer Helton . . . uh, can't.  Sing, that is.  He doesn't have a bad voice, kind of gruff, but he can't hold a note without wavering all over the scale, which makes something good like "Walk on Water" impossible to listen to without cringing.  Maybe he just needs some coaching, the basic sound isn't that bad.  Maybe the bass player can sing in the meantime?  Sorry.


title: Philly Chicago

text:
This is really nice stuff from a young band that has a lot of what pop bands need, a rolling tempo with good vocals and nice hooks.  As noted they remind of Chicago in places (especially "Chair" of course, with the horns), Squeeze, Matthew Sweet, etc.  It's pretty much just straight ahead mild rock, but the songwriting is fine, good instincts for the most part for what sounds right.  They betray their inexperience in places, the tempo switch on "Breaking" doesn't help the song, a lot of young bands do that kind of thing for some reason, and it rarely works.  They also use a some hackneyed transitions, you'll hear of a lot of familiar twists in something like "Pretending", for example, that make a good song sound a little trite.

There's not a lot to say about the musicianship, it's just there to support the songs, but the guitar occasionally gets too screechy in context.  Overall the CD leaves a good impression, even if nothing on it really kills.  But at least they can produce a nice groove, and that's most of the battle.  Check back in a couple years.


title: Static

text: Okay, I'm a sucker for shoegazer, the big wall of sound, swirling guitars burying soft vocals and so forth, but these guys take it to a ridiculous extreme, and a result produce nothing but junk.  It's just a bunch of fuzzed out noise, barely even music.  Re-think this you guys, it may sound good in the context of a drug fueled rave at 3 AM, but on a CD it's just awful.


title: File under "eclectic"

text:
Okay, warning, this thing is just plain weird.  It's an instrumental album, jangly folk type music, with a dozen (or so) Japanese musicians lead by one Rocket Matsu, playing about a thousand instruments, ranging from horns to string instruments, whistle pipes, bells, synths, saws, squeeze boxes, and all manner of various things being beat upon.  Sometimes it sounds like Men Without Hats and sometimes it sounds like a Three Stooges soundtrack.  Some of it is listenable and some (like the title track, half McCarthur's Park and half noise) just isn't at all.  I don't know how you rate something like this, or even how you classify it.  Make up your own mind, but do not expect it to sound rational.  This is their third CD.  Jeez, you have to wonder what the first two sounded like.

By the way, Amazon, the name of the album is "Dodesukaden", not "er".


title: Peaceful and Totally Relaxing

text: Can’t go wrong with Mozart for a quiet, relaxing meditation or getting in a serene mood to sleep. I don’t recall hearing the cd in its entirety at bedtime.


title: Best for Beginners and Continuers

text: The best shamanic journeying drumming I've found. I started with this set when it first came out in 2004. Book is to the point and easy to learn. I got it right away.  I recently bought the paperback version as a replacement.  Enjoy!


title: Just Amazing

text: Free and creative as it gets!!


title: Five Stars

text: thanks


title: Five Stars

text: I'm an aging hippie from CT, so the bluegrass, wit and irreverence work for me.


title: If you know what you're getting...

text: If you know this band and these two albums you're getting them together with good mastering. I am impressed with the sound, as for the content... Fever Tree!


title: Love pwr bttm

text: One of my fave cds


title: Love this disk

text: If Beggie plays the song it's one of the many songs in the Americal song book. Love this disk, I am prejudice because I am a Beggie Adair fan.<br />Fifteen songs, Take The A Train to Harlem for great jazz, timeless, Moonlight Serenade, A Kiss To Build A Dream On....! Great music, easy to listen to, relax, unwind, lower the blood pressure.....GREAT!


title: Refreshing and fun

text: Loved it!


title: Five Stars

text: Excelent


title: Nice CD

text: Very nice


title: Two Stars

text: Not the one he wanted.


title: Who doesn’t love Neil Young!

text: I was 16 in 1971 and proud of it!  I saw Neil in concert in 1970. Bought all the albums, through the 80s…now have all on CDs. Needed this one!  So good. Great quality.  Arrived sooner than expected. Happy!


title: Never came.  But it is a fun collection.

text: Great album. Seller never it.


title: Love it

text: I like Greg Lake andI like this album very much.. The songs are varied an it's a must have for Greg Lake fans.


title: classic horror soundtrack, good presentation.

text: Great to have this classic soundtrack and one of Pinochle Donaggio's best. A little pricey, however. It is a good presentation.


title: Never sounded better!

text: This classic Pino Donaggio score from the masterful suspense thriller from 1980, sounds better than ever. They took the reverb out and now the music is clear, sharp, defined, and powerful. They did an excellent job on this soundtrack.


title: Moments Like This - 4.5 stars

text:
I became aware of Carol Riddick while she was performing as one of Jill Scott's backing vocalists - the other was Vivian Green.  During a concert, Jill announced that both ladies were working on solo ventures so I stayed on the lookout for their debut albums and bought MOMENTS LIKE THIS without having heard any tracks because I so wanted to support Carol.

Carol has a really warm tone to her voice and either wrote or co-wrote all of the songs and coupled with the pretty musical arrangements created one of the best neo-soul albums I've purchased this year!

All of the tracks are beautiful but the ones that really stand out to me are: BELIEVE IN ME, YOU BETTER NOT HURT ME; A BETTER ME; CONFUSED; MOMENTS LIKE THIS & FLIRTATIOUS.

I hope that through positive word of mouth, more people can learn about this talented new songstress and enjoy her music.


title: Corinne Bailey Rae

text:
I immediately got this disc after seeing her video featured on VH1 Soul's channel a couple of months ago.  Happily I am enjoying this disc and heard that it'll be re-released stateside later this summer - hopefully more people who love Amel Larrieux, India.Arie, Adrianna Evans, etc will give this woman a chance.

What I love about singers & bands from the U.K. is that they are not afraid to be individuals and create signature sounds.  So while American r&b singers all strive to sound alike, females in overseas are not only writing & producing their own songs but like Ms. Bailey playing a lot of the instruments on their records - this is a refreshing trend that I hope US artists like Alicia Keys, India. Aire, Vanessa Carlton & Fiona Apple pick up on moreso than those who jump across the stage barely clothed "dropping it like it's hot".

I liked this entire disc for the beautiful lyrics & music production and while not every song captured my heart, enough did so that I gave it a high ranking.  To the poster who stated that all of the songs sound alike, I suggest you give it another listen because I heard a few heartfelt ballads, a few mid-tempo grooves and even a mildly funky groove so saying that the songs sound alike gives a wrong impression to those who haven't heard anything from this young lady yet.

The songs that I keep on repeat are: LIKE A STAR (beautifully spare), ENCHANTMENT & TILL IT HAPPENS TO YOU (beautiful love songs with exquisite lyrics); TROUBLE SLEEPING, BREATHLESS & I'D LIKE TO.

Corinne Baily Rae is a unique new voice in the neo-soul realm who hopefully will get a chance to shine in the states.  I'd highly recommend this disc is you love neo-soul music.


title: Five Stars

text: One of the best sets


title: Five Stars

text: Interesting collection


title: Nice selections

text: Sound quality leaves something to be desired.  I love what they sing.


title: Under rated guitar player others take on the road

text: Bobby Bandiera, a long time member of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Dukes needs to come out with even more CD's.  He, of course, can be heard as playing with Bon Jovi on the Lost Highway Tour.  He has also gone on tour with JBJ on his solo album, Destination Anywhere.  If you see clips, you can actually get a better glimpse of his true talent.  In between these gigs, we need to be satisfied with the few CD's he has offered us.  Bobby Bandiera does a number of cover songs on the CD and I enjoyed them all.


title: Pre mixed

text: When I bought this album I was under the impression that the songs were not mixed together. I was buying them for the original songs, but its a mix cd. Had to go back to vinyl to get some of these classics. It would be nice if you could find more classic house in digital format.


title: Five Stars

text: Great album


title: thanks

text: thanks for the the item the item arrived on time and was right on its description , thanks for the good customer service<br />good luck with the rest of your items


title: Be cautious when reviewing a Masterpiece.

text: C.A Parraga says:  I can't find words to praise this work enough..<br />Then, He or She leaves a 3 Star Review?


title: Five Stars

text: Excellent


title: 2 ignorant reviewers

text: 2 reviewers here are smoking it green!!  These 2 guys have no idea what they are talking about. This CD deserves four or five stars, not 1 given by these 2 ignorant reviewers.


title: Great Single

text: A must for The Killers Fans And you get a new single and you help out Product(RED) At first i was how is this a christmas single?, but it gets in you head and won't leave well at least for me anyways and i like the spanish sound to it and The Killers always change up the Christmas singles and i look forward for the new Christmas Singles every year even though i'm Jewish Lol


Wish the price would had been better. A little steep for a CD only disk. But, still enjoying it.


title: I was sent the double disc version, just be aware....

text:
Five Stars but... Being that I ordered the single disc version but was sent the double disc version, this gets a two star deduction...
That said the vinyl came in a timely manner and was in excellent condition.
The actual album is WOD's best to date IMO. They capture what guys like Bob Dylan, Springsteen,Ryan Adams, etc.. have captured in the past. A must buy for all dreamers and mellodrama cravers.


title: Brings me back

text: I saw Alexander O'Neal at Hammersmith Odeon in the 80's... Good times... good times... This brings the memories flooding back! Such a great Album, wish I still had the Tee shirt.


title: Dead in Boise in the ‘80s

text: Love the CD also I was there too


title: Awesome!!!

text: Exactly what I was looking for, the original broadway cast 1982. This is a double CD with the second CD being the music and background vocals only. I didn’t get that with my purchase back in 1982 so this exceeded my expectation.


title: A great gift

text: She loved it!  Bought it for niece and she was so excited when she opened it at Christmas--nearly ignored other gifts.


title: Great product to learn math skills.

text: Great product! Cards are a bit thin but this does not affect the learning of math skills. Seven year old son loves using the pen. He is so proud to be able to check his answers all on his own. Set arrived in a timely fashion.


title: This record is really good. If you like a group of young white ...

text: This record is really good. If you like a group of young white fellas layin down some funky soul....you had better spend the 5 bucks


title: The Best Level 42 Record in 20 Years

text:
This is Phil Gould's bandleader album, collaborating heavily with Mike Lindup and Wally Badarou.  Which, it turns out, was largely the writing team behind the most successful Level 42 material as well.  And you can definitely hear that on this album.

Mark King's absence removes an obvious Level 42 element with no heroic bass playing here.  Certain Level 42 songs were like that too, though (Two Hearts Collide, Sleepwalkers, It's Not The Same For Us as examples) and overall this album sounds a lot like a rather mellow Level 42 album might have sounded in 2009.  More, perhaps, than the Mark King-led Level 42 album "Retroglide" did, released 3 years earlier.

I don't mean to trivialize Gould's efforts here by reducing them to a Level 42 comparison.  Rather, I'm pointing out that this work makes obvious the impact Gould had on Level 42's product, especially in their 1985-1989 commercial heyday.  A very good outing.


title: Be Warned There's a 2 CD Plus DVD Edition Before Buying This Version

text: I'm giving this five stars because the album is one of the greatest most iconic personification of the 80s yet the recording still sounds fresh today. (Kissing a Fool is in the Great American Songbook for sure). I would never have bought this had I known there's a 2 CD plus 1 DVD edition however. Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 was given a decent box set. Older was given an amazing box set while they clearly scrimped on Faith. There's a live Faith in Paris concert floating around that would have made the perfect addition. George Michael toured a total of four times on his own: Faith and Cover to Cover are not available on video. I can't imagine a reason why these two aren't included in box sets somewhere. It's a big lost opportunity. I saw Cover to Cover and it was amazing. Maybe because they're other people's songs the estate doesn't want to pay the royalties? How extremely stupid. Fans should have access to these tours as part of GM's legacy.


title: Future Past is the Best Dursn Duran Since Rio

text: Allow me to be the first to review the Exclusive CD Euro version of Duran Duran Future Past. "Even after four decades, they’re still innovating, still experimenting, with their excellent new album Future Past," - Rolling Stone review. They opened their Madison Square Garden Show with Velvet Newton before the curtain drop so I wanted that track and I wanted the book because I'm a collector. OK, the book is nothing special. Just different color variations of the cover. Nothing to write home about. The record itself is FANTASTIC. Google Duran Duran Future Past review and you'll find pages and pages of raves. The highlight of the record is a track called "Anniversary" which fit seamlessly into their live set list. They're now a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Band and they still love playing together (Simon and John share the mic quite often) and are really having fun. They didn't play a ton of US shows to support Future Past so the New York show was packed with people from all over the world. It was a joy to watch. If you loved Rio, you will love this record. Give it a few listens and Anniversary will be stuck in your head forever. When they were announced as inductees into the Rock Hall critics noted that it's amazing that they're doing their best work NOW, some 40 years into making music. I was lucky enough to meet the band in New York City and they all signed my Rio album cover. I got Paper Tigers that day which didn't exactly set the world on fire. Future Past does. It's terrific. Buy the CD, download the MP3, buy the vinyl, just get this record!


title: This is the "Clean Version" I Think Not -- Why Would Madonna Put Out a Clean Version of Anything?!?

text: I ordered this clean version of Rebel Heart by accident. What is the point of Madonna putting out a clean version of anything? I guess more profit for her. She's Madonna, there should be no clean version of anything. I found and ordered the deluxe edition on CD instead. It's rare and hard to find, so order if you see it. Most of the songs leaked and can be found everywhere, including the awesome Avici (RIP) versions of Rebel Heart and Wash All Over Me. Why she didn't use his versions is beyond my comprehension. They're awesome compared to these album versions. I like this record. I saw this tour three times and loved it. Ghosttown would have been a No. 1 hit if any young artist would have recorded it. The remixes of Devil Pray were all over the NYC Clubs, and Veni, Vidi, Vici is a great track. I don't care about the criticisms. The two Ye tracks are nothing to write home about. She needs to stop working with him. (Add Nikki to that list, she's tired). She did the Living For Love Offer Nissim Drums version on tour, and I encourage everyone to seek that out. The Avici versions of his two track are everywhere, seek those out. It's a very good record, not a great record, but better than MDNA and Hard Candy (Spanish Lesson should be used by the CIA as a torture device). Jennifer Lopez was at my show standing by the soundboards in a hoodie over her head, that was pretty cool. Sean Penn was also at my night and he was very sweet as he looked on. She sings True Blue upstage and he was downstage so she didn't face him, but it's great that she's singing it again. My advise? Buy ANY version BUT this one. Do buy it. It's worth the cash. I have every Madonna CD including at the singles, so I wanted a CD version for the collection, but this one ain't it.


title: Four Stars

text: Love it except for the bad language in song 2. Not very appropriate for my daughter.


title: Four Stars

text: sound quality not best.


title: Great quality Cd!

text: Like very much!


title: One of a kind

text: Gould expresses here what no other pianist has, before or since. You can only hear and feel it, and not so much intellectualize it. But it's there. Nobody sounds like this, all respect to the other giants who have recorded this music. Bravo, Dear Mr. Gould.


title: Addicting!

text: This cd is addicting! Love it


title: Maestro Indeed

text:
Last weekend, I met a guy who said that Willie Nelson was the best concert that's he's ever seen.  Yeah, I know; if you're reading this review, you are either laughing or cringing, or perhaps doing a little of both.  I had to control myself at the time and try to not be insulting.

Well, I've never seen Mr. Nelson myself, not that I really need to in order to give some type of critique of his music.  I have heard him before on a live recording, and while I occasionally find his singing voice entertaining in an odd sort of way, I would say that he must be the worst guitarist in history, at least for those who have been playing for so long.  I have heard others complain that they believe that his guitar is out of tune on stage, but in reality, when you don't understand what key you're playing in, does it really matter how your guitar is tuned?  In that case, you could tune your guitar anyway that you want and it will always still sound like a mess.  (In contrast, great rock guitarists such as Eddie Van Halen often tune their guitar "incorrectly" for technical reasons.  "Unchained" would be an excellent example, where he tunes lower E to D.)

And while I have never seen Mr. Nelson in concert -- I never plan on it unless I'm dragged into it by wild horses -- I never had the opportunity to see Andres Segovia in concert either.  It wasn't for lack of trying to get tickets for the Greatest-Guitarist-that-ever-was-and-the-Greatest-Guitarist-that-will-ever-be.  When I was living in Seattle in the 80s, I heard that Mr. Segovia was going to play at the UW on his next tour.  To say that I was excited was an understatement.  Now THAT would have been an event!  (I wrote before how you should never miss a Sade concert if she ever tours again, and the same if not more would have surely held for Mr. Segovia.)

I say "would have been an event" because, from what I remember, he sadly died just before the tour.  That was heartbreaking.  To think that he lived for almost 100 years and I never saw him live in concert?  That was not only sad, but I will say that it was stupid on my part.  Oh, how I wish that I could go back in time. . . .

But I was given this album as a gift, and back when I played guitar, I actually learned the entire front side of "Maestro."  I'm not saying it was easy, and I'm not saying that it didn't take time.  I spent hours and hours learning the intricacies of Mr. Segovia's play, or at least trying to learn those intricacies.  There are some subtleties that, no matter how hard you try, you will never quite master.  But luckily for us, Mr. Segovia did have those subtleties, and luckier even than that, he left a very large recording collection that you may still listen to.  I have quite a few of his records -- actually CDs that I converted to WMAs and iTunes -- and I still listen to them quite often.

Well, if you're into Willie Nelson, I might just harrumph, "To each his own I suppose," and then walk away in disgust.  But for those that want to listen to a true master, I'm going with the highest possible rating on one of the best recordings ever.  And to Mr. Segovia I say, "May you forever rest in peace."  But I might add, "I apologize that I never saw you live in concert."


title: It's Mozart

text: Symphony No 40 is why I purchased this CD. The rest are just add-ons - really great add-ons! It's Mozart - what more do you want!


title: Love This! Best One Yet Of MTV Greg Lake Fronted Asia

text:
Loved Asia and Wetton (RIP) but if anyone could stand in it was Greg Lake (RIP). On this live Japan broadcast on MTV there was friction over poor reception on 2nd Asia after 1st did so well so Wetton was side-lined and, either to keep Japan commitments or test Lake on bass/vocals Greg Lake was brought in.

Over the years audio & video appeared but this is the best and most complete audio. A very nice snapshot in time of a band that was both ahead and behind the music curve. Asia started on golden and then were hit with every cliché from band struggles to music taste changes. I loved them with Wetton, Lake and later John Payne. Today there's an ever-changing version still out there....maybe they will surprise again?


title: Lou Gramm Just Before Foreigner

text:
I had a transfer from their 2 LP albums a friend gave me many many years ago but this is SO MUCH BETTER! The last thing Lew Gramm did before he co-created Foreigner with Mick Jones. Very similar sound to the 1st Foreigner album in fact, the bass player of this project later joined Foreigner when Lou Gramm returned on his last with Foreigner Mr. Moonlight.

The big question I have and others share, why didn't this break when Foreigner did a year or so later? Bassist Bruce Turgon did a solo cd Lou sings a song on, nice addition to buy.


title: WOW! THIS IS SO TERRIBLE!

text: THIS CD IS WORTH FEW WORDS ---- THEY TRY TO BE STRYPER BUT COME ACROSS AS AN OUT OF KEY PRETTY BOY FLOYD. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!