The Four Walls

The Four Walls

The Four Walls

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1. Asleep
2. Never Now
3. Side of the Road
4. Simple Thought
5. Turning Point
6. Constellations
7. Morningside
8. Locked in Circles
9. Even When You Sleep
10. Chained to Always Changing

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These Four Walls
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Disappointing
  • Nothing But Sky
  • Best yet
  • Evocative.
  • A new, great achievement.
 These Four Walls
Shawn Colvin
Manufacturer: Nonesuch
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000FIMHFS
Release Date: 2006-09-12

Tracks:

  1. Fill Me Up
  2. These Four Walls
  3. Tuff Kid
  4. Summer Dress
  5. Cinnamon Road
  6. Venetian Blue
  7. The Bird
  8. I'm Gone
  9. Let It Slide
  10. Even Here We Are
  11. So Good To See You
  12. That Don't Worry Me Now
  13. Words

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Shawn Colvin's fans are a dedicated and patient lot. They've had to be, to have waited five years for this new release and nearly six for the one before it. But she rewards the faithful with gems every time, and These Four Walls is no exception. Despite a label change to the more musically adventurous Nonesuch, after having been associated with Columbia since 1989, this is a typically low-key yet beautifully constructed set. Colvin again works with producer/songwriter John Leventhal, her musical collaborator for the past quarter-century, and that long-standing partnership pays off with 11 superbly crafted originals. Colvin's breathy voice conveys the emotion, yearning, sadness, and even the occasional joy and hope behind the melodies. As producer, Leventhal colors these songs with subtle textures, adding organ, brushed drums, and layered electric and acoustic guitars to bolster but never overwhelm the songs or Colvin's delicate yet defined vocals. It's a clean but never-slick sound, with enough edge and dynamics to reflect the nuances in the lyrics. Covers of the obscure Paul Westerberg track "Even Here We Are" and the Bee Gees' "Words"--the latter sounding like a demo, with just acoustic guitar, spare bass, and sparse piano--illuminate additional details in her approach. They round out one of Colvin's finest, most honest, and poignant collections. It's an album worth the extended wait. --Hal Horowitz

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Album Description

This is Shawn Colvin's first album since 2001's A Whole New You. On These Four Walls, Colvin displays an easy-going sophistication and an appealingly grown-up spin on both her own evocative songs and the smartly-chosen covers she interprets.

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Disappointing.......2007-05-26

Seen her live. Have a couple of her albums. Disappointed with this one. I usually like cryptic lyrics, but what the heck is she talking about. I don't get most of the songs. Musically OK but lacks excitement. Her production partner is talented but all the songs are starting to sound the same. Gave it a couple listens and gave up.

4 out of 5 stars Nothing But Sky.......2007-05-12

Shawn Colvin's "These Four Walls" is a good set, well worth the wait. Of my favorites, "Tuff Kid" pulses with Antoine Silverman's fiddle adding a nice touch, "So hey everybody at the old schoolyard, took it all the way & we took it hard; Did a lot of things make you feel alright; Said the kind of things keep you up at night." "The Bird" struts with a smart melody and Colvin's breathy vocals crosscutting with the edge of the lyric, "What I like about time is it don't ask why; What I like about love is it makes me cry; What I like about the bird is she don't need nothin' but sky." "Even Here We Are" has a gorgeous melody with Colvin's passionate voice, "Beautiful flower in your garden, but the most beautiful by far is the one growing wild in the garbage dump." The closer is a cover of the Bee Gees' "Words." Colvin's acoustic version contrasts with the orchestral production the Gibb Brothers employed & bares the emotional content of the track, making it stark & emotional. Other cuts like the opener "Fill Me Up" & "Cinnamon Road" are strong. It's nice to have Shawn Colvin back in form. Enjoy!

5 out of 5 stars Best yet.......2007-05-02

I have enjoyed all of Shawn Colvin's work. This cd is special probably because of the change in label. The music is not so produced, less instruments, and therefore probably more personality. Shawn Colvin isn't someone that you can sit down and enjoy easily. It takes some listening to acquire a taste. Also her lyrics have an edge. Sometimes she takes that a bit too far. I am no puritan but do think the f word in the last three recordings is old. Perhaps she thinks it is a good luck charm. I would also object to the Bee Gees song. Shawn is a wonderful writer and she has no need to borrow songs that we have all heard too often. "Even Here We Are" is a wonderful song and in my opinion worth recording. Don't take so long the next time.

4 out of 5 stars Evocative........2007-03-13

The CD cover of this release looks as if it were inspired by one of Tori Amos's dreams. But the sound of Shawn Colvin and "These Four Walls" is more Emiliana Torrini than Tori Amos.
The record has a folksy-pop beat. Beautiful, empowering vocals combine with a catchy tune to deliver to the listener one of the most upbeat, magical music experiences seen this century. Matters can become somewhat introspective from time to time.
"These Four Walls" the track, opens with the chilling statement: "I'm going to die in these four walls". It's the certainty and the apparent acceptance of fate in the vocals which will chill the blood. Yet, somehow, there's a slightly upbeat feel to this song. As if it represents an ode to something passed but not forgotten.

This record is atmospheric and eerie at times as it reaches towards the gothic.
This is not rock and it barely touches the conventions of pop.
The vocals want the gravitas and sheer gothic power of Tori Amos but they don't quite manage to achieve such an impact on the listener.
Instead, the songs remain powerful and beautiful but not earth shattering.
"These Four Walls", the album, is the soundtrack to an autumn night. Listen and escape into a world of wonder set to music. If you like your songs to be full of stories, this is the record for you.
The album is beautiful, evocative and powerful and, best of all, a hope for the future. More like this please. There's a feeling that both the sound and talent involved in the construction of this record are unique.

4 out of 5 stars A new, great achievement........2007-02-24

The first song Shawn Colvin completed for "These Four Walls", her Nonesuch debut, was the wistful "Summer Dress", which opens with Colvin singing over the austere strum of a lone acoustic guitar, then builds into a lilting folk-rock arrangement.
Colvin maintains a delicate balance between confidence and vulnerability as she describes a dream-like venture out to 'face a wilderness'.
Like much of this deeply felt album, "Summer Dress" is about looking ahead, moving on, performed from the vantage point of someone who's had a chance to glance back somewhat ruefully at where she's been.

"Summer Dress" could be a veiled recounting of the picaresque route Colvin herself took to hard-earned solo stardom, from her South Dakota birthplace to the Southern Illinois college town where she was raised, to the bars and clubs of Boston and New York City, where she first attracted a following.
Then again, it might be an artfully composed fiction about escaping a small town or running after love, a postcard from a youthful time when freedom seemed like a mere bus ticket or car ride away.
Whatever its origins, the emotional and musical pull of "Summer Dress" along with the rest of "These Four Walls" is powerful.
Somehow we've all been there, too.
Songs of Free Men/ A Paul Robeson Recital
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Robeson on wax
  • The voice, the sound quality and the interpretation
  • A Voice from the 40s, often dated, often moving
  • Robeson at his best
  • some of the greatest songs of the last century
 Songs of Free Men/ A Paul Robeson Recital

Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000029YJ
Release Date: 1997-12-09

Tracks:

  1. Balm in Gilead
  2. Chassidic Chant
  3. Quiet Flows The Don: From Border To Border
  4. Quiet Flows The Don: Oh, How Proud Our Quiet Don
  5. Elijah, Op. 70: The Lord God Of Abraham
  6. The Purest Kind Of Guy
  7. Joe Hill
  8. The Peat-Bog Soldiers
  9. The Four Insurgent Generals
  10. Native Land
  11. Song Of The Plains
  12. Cradle Song
  13. Within Four Walls
  14. By An' By
  15. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
  16. John Henry
  17. Water Boy
  18. My Curly Headed Baby
  19. Mah Lindy Lou
  20. Wagon Wheels
  21. The House I Live In
  22. Showboat: I Still Suits Me
  23. Sylvia
  24. Showboat: Ol' Man River
  25. Porgy And Bess: It Ain't Necessarily So

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There was nothing like the Robeson sound, ever. To describe his deep, rich, perfectly equalized instrument is futile. Go instead to "Balm in Gilead," the opening track, and see if you can listen to the last pianissimo phrase without falling to pieces. Robeson was at his best when the music was slow and the words contained spiritual or social messages. Faster, lighter fare like Kern's "I Still Suits Me" or Gershwin's "It Ain't Necessarily So" find the serious-minded singer out of his element, lacking irony and swing. "Old Man River," though, gets a simple, dignified treatment. It's Songs of Free Men, though, that will just keep Robeson's artistry rolling along, especially in Sony's astonishing transfers. --Jed Distler

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Robeson on wax.......2007-06-19

I found this album in a thrift store last week, for a couple of dollars. It's the original pressing on four 78 RPM records, in a gatefold format. It's in pristine condition. I really bought it for the incredible cover art, although I hope to be able to listen to it in this format at some point.

5 out of 5 stars The voice, the sound quality and the interpretation.......2004-09-24

Put this on your stereo and if it is good enough the depth and richness of Robeson's voice will make your fillings rattle and your chest rumble. The power of his voice is awesome. This CD is superbly recorded with no audible noise at normal listening levels.

4 out of 5 stars A Voice from the 40s, often dated, often moving.......2002-09-01

"Red diaper babies" have greeted this disc with nostalgic joy, and it captures a time and an aesthetic and a political belief with precision. Anyone interested in the emotional life of the pro-Soviet left of the 1940s should buy this disc. It's something like Henry Wallace set to music. There is much more to Robeson than that, however, and Sony has given us Robeson whole: there are songs by American masters of the musical, there are labor songs, religious songs, as well as the kind of faux-folk songs which the butcher supreme Josef Stalin encouraged and which were not taken seriously inside the USSR (except at gunpoint!!) but which were taken up by dupes around the world. This is Robeson at his least savory - willing propagandist for a vile mass murderer. Songs such as "Native Land" (fittingly, Robeson is referring to the Soviet Union) and the Red Army song are the equivalent of the "Horst Wessel Song", anthems of murder, and it is difficult to listen to the worst of them without retching. On the other hand, Robeson's commitment to American folk culture was real. "Balm in Gilead" is deeply beautiful; "John Henry" is heroic; "By an' By" is both resigned yet hopeful. "Joe Hill" captures an era in labor history. Anyone interested in American popular song should hear these. Turning to Broadway, his "Old Man River" is very fine, though Robeson changed the lyrics for political reasons and Leonard Warren has done the song better. I disagree with the editorial reviewer: "I Still Suits Me" is wonderfully playful and shows Robeson using his gorgeously rich voice to tease and poke fun. However, Marc Blitzstein's "Purest Kind of a Guy" is beyond saving - another example of Robeson recording an unworthy song by a political fellow-traveller. Ugh. But for every miss there are two hits. Robeson performs Mendelssohn's Elijah with nobility, and sings his favorite song, "Water Boy", with joyous pride: "There ain't no hammer that's on these mountains that rings like mine, boys, that rings like mine."
No one need have any fears about the mono sound quality. The orchestra in the second half of the program is at times a little dwarfed by Robeson's voice, but it generally sounds clean and colorful, and the great artist's voice rings like no other.

5 out of 5 stars Robeson at his best.......2000-05-12

It's hard to believe that most of these recordings pre-date the advent of magnetic tape: the CD transfer is superlative. The songs and performance are beyond reproach. Notable is the imaginative packaging in miniature 'record album' format, complete with the original cover art, and a replica of the original Columbia record label applied to the CD.

In response to a previous question: Robeson's performance of Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) can be found on the Vanguard LP entitled "Robeson" (VRS-9037).

5 out of 5 stars some of the greatest songs of the last century.......2000-05-05

In the 1940s, before rabid McCarthyism and racism had taken its toll on him, Robeson made these wonderful recordings of spirituals, classics and pop tunes. Accompanied by the solo piano of the incomparable Lawrence Brown, or by an orchestra, the songs ring out with pride, dignity, skill and unmatched integrity. The shameful treatment that Robeson was subject to from American authorities certainly seem grotesquely absurd to a modern listener. The wonderful version of "The House I Live In" included on this cd should forever kill off any suspicion that Robeson did not love his country deeply. This album ought to be heard by millions of people, world wide. Robeson's voice is nothing less than a glorious high point in 20th century music, and it's hard to think of any recording capturing it to greater advantage.
Songs for Free Men 1940-1945
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • This is the voice of Free Men....
 Songs for Free Men 1940-1945

Manufacturer: Pearl
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ASIN: B000000WRW
Release Date: 1997-05-20

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  2. Spring Song
  3. Oh, Give Me Your Hand
  4. Chee La!
  5. Fengyang
  6. Chinese Soldiers Song
  7. Riding The Dragon
  8. 'Quiet FLows The Don': From Border To Border
  9. 'Quiet Flows The Don': Oh, How Proud Our Quiet Don
  10. 'No For An Answer': The Purest Kind Of Guy
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  12. The Peat-Bog Soldiers
  13. The Four Insurgent Generals
  14. Native Land
  15. Song Of The Plains
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  18. Anthem Of The USSR
  19. The United Nations
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  26. Nobody Knows De Trouble I've Seen
  27. Joshua Fit De Battle Of Jericho

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars This is the voice of Free Men...........2001-11-03

I've had most of these songs on vinyl and they provide me with many wonderful memories. Paul Robeson had an unusual voice: a bass with baritone colorations, huge and powerful, with what can best be described as a mellow urgency. If that description confuses, then you'll just have to get this album and hear for yourself what I mean.
Robeson championed the cause of the working man through his music. Joe Hill is one of my favorites, in which Paul sinks down to the vocal depths with an astounding ease. The Song of the Plains is a rouser, and, if I remember correctly, it's sung in two languages. The Ballad For Americans is here, and it's a classic... and, for me, it's the very definition of America and the great spirit and soul of its people and its greatness. By and By is one of my favorite spirituals, and this is the version I remember. Who sang spirituals with as much richness and depth of feeling as Paul Robeson? Maybe Marian Anderson, whose voice was unique and whose life broke through so many barriers.
This is an album for those who love freedom and the many races who seek it. God bless Paul Robeson for his incredible contribution to humanity.
Four Walls
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Standard 80s New York hardcore.
 Four Walls
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Manufacturer: Blackout Records
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ASIN: B0000B1A63
Release Date: 2003-09-02

Tracks:

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  3. Am I Clear?
  4. Four Walls
  5. Down and Out
  6. Cause and Effect
  7. Machine Breaks Down
  8. Juan Carlos
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  13. See
  14. Shaft

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4 out of 5 stars Standard 80s New York hardcore........2007-05-04

Formed by ex members of Judge, Killing Time and a couple of others that pretty much sums it up. Their sound is a cross of Sick of it All and Killing Time with a couple of more melodic tracks thrown in.

Kind of the typical post 80s straight edge hardcore that came out back then (read Life's Blood, Majority of One, Sticks and Stones etc....) Still not bad, give em a listen but I guess you have to be into that era of music to realy like it.

If you like Wrecking Crew, Sick of it all etc you will like this.
Four Walls Bending
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Four Walls Bending may be the best album of the past century
  • wonderful ms bezar .....
  • Emily Bezar's fabulous art rock offspring
 Four Walls Bending
Emily Bezar
Manufacturer: Demivox
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B00003ETCM
Release Date: 1999-10-26

Tracks:

  1. Velvet Eye
  2. Kingdom Come
  3. Four Walls Bending
  4. Lead
  5. Filigree of Noon
  6. Sigh
  7. Maybe So
  8. Black Sand
  9. Rondo
  10. His Everything

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Four Walls Bending may be the best album of the past century.......2002-11-27

This album is so overwhelming on so many levels.

Four Walls Bending is a real masterpiece, and its grandeur may only be experienced by the listener, once the album is on one's CD player.

Although Emily herself prefers to describe Four Walls Bending as a "pop" album, it's rather an incredibly artistic, profound, subtle, complex, experimental, surprising and beautiful piece of work.

Emily's got a great love for music, and her aesthetical sense is unmatched, as we easily realize once the album starts playing.

Indeed, Emily manages to create dissonant / psychodelic, and still very melodic songs, as the unusual arrangements are on par with her beautiful, soothing and well trained voice.

Obviously, Emily Bezar's ingenious music may not be easily digested by those who are used to MTV or radio friendly songs only. Still, she certainly became somewhat more accessible to the general audience here, albeit kept the high level of her work.

Comparisons to Tori Amos and Kate Bush will always spring to mind. But a deeper contact with Emily's material will be more than enough to demonstrate - even to the most uncaring ears - that any resemblances are as remote as they can be: her music is her own.

In fact, as talented as Tori Amos and Kate Bush are, they never attained the depth and the level of experimentalism that Bezar so easily seemed to have achieved.

If one wants to give this VERY talented artist a try, this is the best start. Highly recommended.

5 out of 5 stars wonderful ms bezar ............2001-12-06

i bought this album having never heard this artist's work and i have to say that i love this album. having been a fan of kate bush and tori amos for what seems like forever and a day, i was almost ecstatic when i heard there was an artist who had a style even remotely similiar to these two overly talented women. this cd is one of the most amazing cds i've ever heard and i haven't stopped playing it since the day it arrived in the mail and that was 12/05/01. ms.bezar obviously has had an extensive background in classical music as well as opera but here she shows she is also well-educated in classical or modern jazz. what fascinates me even more is that she fuses modern rock in with these jazz and classical compostions. most of her songs veer away from the mystical and faery themes and focuses more on the joys, fears, and ultimate hopes of motherhood. it's just a shame in my opinion that more folks have not had exposure to ms.bezar's phenomenal work.

5 out of 5 stars Emily Bezar's fabulous art rock offspring.......2000-06-13

I would place "Four Walls Bending" up there with Emily Bezar's ingenious debut "Grandmother's Tea Leaves", in the "records that should have sold 10-million copies instead of 'Hit me baby one more time'" category. While the stylistic transformation that Bezar has made in "Four Walls Bending" (her third album to date) is huge and not necessarily a logical extension of her sophomore effort, "Moon in Grenadine", it is nonetheless a stunning and original piece of work. Bezar's band, who made their first appearance on "Moon in Grenadine", is back in peak form; far from sounding like a studio-assembled backing band, the different members interact almost organically. When the songs occasionally extend into "jam session" territory, the musicians keep it interesting with their tight interaction and remarkable proficiency. Apart from the newfound rock instrumentation, what sounds most different about Bezar's new CD is that it contains many more pop elements than either of her previous albums. "Grandmother's Tea Leaves" was an electronic foray into slightly pop-tinged art song, and "Moon in Grenadine" was a somewhat indecisive album in which melodic piano ballades, quasi-progressive rock and fusion sat side by side; Four Walls Bending is definitively in the pop/rock idiom, but respectably so. Bezar's chord progressions remain daring and unexpected, and her delicious tendency to explore alternate time signatures remains intact (if not accentuated, given her fantastic rhythm section). However, the lyrics on "Four Walls Bending" are more accessible, songs are more concise, and Bezar's piano playing sounds less like Debussy and more like Tori Amos. While that comparison may have been inaccurate on previous albums, it is definitely right on the mark here: Bezar has almost abandoned her previously operatic-sounding voice for a more breathy, pop sound (well, to be blunt her voice sounds a lot like... Tori.) Interestingly, some of "Four Walls Bending" sounds strikingly like "Little Earthquakes"/"Under the Pink"-era Tori, and some of it sounds very much like the recent "To Venus and Back". People who found the first two albums hard to digest will likely be seduced by the sheer catchiness of "Four Walls Bending", as well as Bezar's recent tendency to expose her emotions through tender lyric-writing (about half the new album is about her newborn son). My personal favorite tracks are "Filigree of Noon", "Black Sand", and the title track. While this album is not as daringly original or avant-garde as her first two, it is perhaps more cohesive and retains the unique mesh of pop, (prog) rock, jazz, and classical that is Emily Bezar.
Cage: Four Walls
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • EXCELLENT
 Cage: Four Walls

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  4. Four Walls: Dance
  5. Four Walls: Act I, Scene IV
  6. Four Walls: Dance
  7. Four Walls: Act I, Scene V
  8. Four Walls: Act I, Scene VI
  9. Four Walls: Act I, Scene VII
  10. Four Walls: Act I, Scene VIII
  11. Four Walls: Act II, Scene IX
  12. Four Walls: Act II, Scene X
  13. Four Walls: Act II, Scene XI
  14. Four Walls: Act II, Scene Xii
  15. Four Walls: Act II, Scene Xiii
  16. Four Walls: Act II, Scene XIV

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT.......2007-04-09

This is an excellent interpretation of John Cage's Four Walls. The recording quality is superb. Jay Clatons voice is remarkable and I would like to hear more from Jay. This music reminds me of Satie - Note: It was written using only the white keys of the piano. Grab this version while it's available.
Four Walls: The Legend Begins
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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 Four Walls: The Legend Begins
Jim Reeves
Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002W3U
Release Date: 1991-08-27

Tracks:

  1. Wagon Load Of Love
  2. Mexican Joe
  3. Then I'll Stop Loving You
  4. The Wilder Your Heart Beats The Sweeter You Love
  5. Give Me One More Kiss
  6. My Rambling Heart
  7. Bimbo
  8. Spoken Announcement By Jim Reeves/Youner Comes A Sucker
  9. My Lips Are Sealed
  10. According To My Heart
  11. I've Got Just The Thing For You
  12. Am I Loosing You
  13. Look Behind You (I'll Be There)
  14. Four Walls
  15. The Gods Were Angry With Me
  16. I Know (And You Know)
  17. I Heard A Heart Break Last Night
  18. I Get The Blues When It Rains
  19. Anna Marie
  20. I Love You More

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Really Good Stuff.......2000-07-13

If you are just discovering Jim Reeves, this would be one of his recordings to purchase. Once again, Reeves gives his all, and it does show in his work. This compliation mainly showcases his first recordings with RCA in the mid 1950's. Try it...you'll like it!
Mussorgsky Songs, Volume Two
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    		Mussorgsky Songs, Volume Two

    Manufacturer: Conifer
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    All Works by MussorgskyAll Works by Mussorgsky | Mussorgsky, Modest | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
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    Go To Work
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      		Go To Work
      The Wretched Ones
      Manufacturer: Headache Records
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD
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      ASIN: B0009EU0HA

      Product Description

      The Grandfathers of Punk play again! Play Loud! Tracks: THESE FOUR WALLS * BOTTLES AND CANS * MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS * UP IN SMOKE * TAKE US TO YOUR LEADER * LIFE HITS HARD * DEAR WOLFGANG * I'M JUST DOING MY JOB * MOVE ON * THE KING * THAT'S WHY I DRINK BEER * THE LAST SONG
      The Four Walls
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        		The Four Walls
        Languis
        Manufacturer: Plug Research
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

        GeneralGeneral | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
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        Release Date: 2004-03-09

        Tracks:

        1. Asleep
        2. Never Now
        3. Side of the Road
        4. Simple Thought
        5. Turning Point
        6. Constellations
        7. Morningside
        8. Locked in Circles
        9. Even When You Sleep
        10. Chained to Always Changing

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