Sound of Fitness Spinning [Import]

Sound of Fitness Spinning [Import]

Sound of Fitness Spinning [Import]

Track Listings
 
1. Mine
2. Upside Down
3. Rock You
4. Talk Up
5. Tell Me Why
6. Millennium
7. Conquest Of Paradise
8. We Want Some Pussy
9. Shout
10. When Doves Cry
11. Babe

Sound of Fitness Spinning,Various Artists,Zyx Sounds of,Dance,Fitness/Self-Help,Pop,V/a Compilations
Sound of Silver
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Great music
  • I've heard this before.
  • Better Than His Last One
  • Sounds like a hit!!
  • bright eyes
 Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem
Manufacturer: Capitol
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ASIN: B000M3452Y
Release Date: 2007-03-20

Tracks:

  1. Get Innocuous!
  2. Time To Get Away
  3. North American Scum
  4. Someone Great
  5. All My Friends
  6. Us V Them
  7. Watch The Tapes
  8. Sound Of Silver
  9. New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down

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Two years after LCD Soundsystem's eponymous full-length debut sent indie scenesters rushing to the dancefloor, the outfit headed by dance-rock producer James Murphy serves up another stiff cocktail of punk, dance, and funk with Sound of Silver. Analog synths, chugging basslines, chunky guitars, and Murphy's wild falsetto excursions are once again the foundation to which is added the new and strange, such as the heavily chorused voices that suggest backward-masking in the opener "Get Innocuous" and the captivating harmonics keyboardist Nancy Whang bounces off of Murphy's vocals on "Someone Great." If this album has its own version of "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House," it has to be "North American Scum," an infectious stormer that breezily dismisses Europe as a place where "the buildings are old and you might have lots of mimes." Such lines are good evidence that LCD's music would rather ridicule itself than fall into the kind of pretense and nostalgia it constantly lampoons. The album's title track reflects that hankering after one's teenage years is often interrupted when "you remember the feelings of a real live emotional teenager--then you think again," while the power ballad "New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down" wearily serenades the Big Apple as "still the one pool where I'd happily drown." True, LCD's music is not for everyone, which may have something to do with why their fans love them as they do. If you fall into the latter category, however, Silver is gold. --Brent Kallmer

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Great music.......2007-07-07

This was the first CD I ever heard from LCD Soundsystem and once I did, I was hooked. Excellent music has made me a fan.

2 out of 5 stars I've heard this before........2007-07-03

Why is everyone lauding this second effort from LCD Soundsystem so much? It sounds like his first album. I own his first double CD album and this, "Sound Of Silver", just sounds like a rehash of that. It's well produced, fairly nice to listen to, but it just seems as if LCD Soundsystem realizes they have a hook, something that people will buy, so that's what they'll put out. And unfortunately, I was duped into buying it. I wasted money on an album ('Sound Of Silver') that I basically could have heard by listening to his first album. All of the songs on this album sound like songs on his first, and the lyrics on some of the songs are laughable in the least, which I would quote verbatim from the lyric sheet, had I already not gotten rid of this CD, due to its taking up space in my CD rack. 'New York...', is a riot, anyone who produces a track like this cannot expect to be taken seriously. I hope for his next album that he does better, although I'm fairly certain I won't be buying it anyway.

4 out of 5 stars Better Than His Last One.......2007-06-22

If I have one criticism of this album it would be that he wears his influences on his sleeve. However, if you love Talking Heads' "Remain In Light" and Kraftwerk's "The Man Machine", you will probably like this album. The last track is also reminiscent of Grandaddy.

5 out of 5 stars Sounds like a hit!!.......2007-06-17

LCD Soundsystem are a US electronic rock group, with a very British sound, a fact not lost on them as they sing "and for those of you who still think we're from england / we're not, no" on the buzzing, incredibly catchy "North American scum".

The album comprises just 9 songs, averaging 5 minutes each. Each track takes 1 to 2 minutes to build up to the vocal delivery.

Case in point is "Someone great" with loads of layering and electronic effects building up to a Human League-like song with eighties sounding synths.

Similarly, "Get innocuous" takes about 2 minutes to build to a shimmery dance song (with disembodied vocals) which takes no prisoners.

"Time to get away" has lead singer James Murphy singing and yelping over a pulsing guitar drenched house groove. The title track is a sparse but hypnotic effects laden song. "All my friends" is a pulsing U2-esque song.

Closing is the lone ballad; "New York, I love you but you're bringing me down", starting off deceptively like a Coldplay song, building up to a blistering guitar solo, and an unexpected twist at the end. They sound like a totally different band on this one.

It does take a few plays to get into but once it gets into your head, you can't get it out. One of the best dance CDs of the year!

4 out of 5 stars bright eyes.......2007-06-12

I had to think of the Bright Eyes albums 'I'm Wide Awake' and 'Digital Ash'. The first one is a lot about New York, the second is more an electronic album. Sound of Silver sounds to me like an electronic album about New York.

Great album, very diverse, has its mellow moments (NY I love you) and a superdance tune (North American Scum).

Also a nice crossover album, people who only listen to electronic music will enjoy it and indie fans will as well.
The Sound of Music (1965 Film Soundtrack - 40th Anniversary Special Edition)
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • a classic......
  • Sound of Music--Still Great
  • Sound of Music
  • I love The Sound of Music!
  • Loved it so much, we bought it twice.
 The Sound of Music (1965 Film Soundtrack - 40th Anniversary Special Edition)
Julie Andrews , Rodgers & Hammerstein , Marni Nixon , The Sound Of Music (Related Recordings) , and Irwin Kostal
Manufacturer: RCA
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ASIN: B000BFNZAQ
Release Date: 2005-11-08

Tracks:

  1. Prelude And The Sound Of Music
  2. Overture And Preludium (Dixit Dominus)
  3. Morning Hymn And Alleluia
  4. maria
  5. I Have Confidence
  6. Sixteen Going On Seventeen
  7. My Favorite Things
  8. Do-Re-Mi
  9. The Sound Of Music
  10. The Lonely Goatherd
  11. Edelweiss
  12. Laendler
  13. So Long, Farewell
  14. Ent'acte
  15. Climb Ev'ry Mountain
  16. My Favorite Things
  17. Something Good
  18. Processional And Maria (The Wedding)
  19. Sixteen Going On Seventeen (Reprise)
  20. Do-Re-Mi (Reprise)
  21. Edelweiss (Reprise)
  22. So Long, Farewell (Reprise)
  23. Climb Ev'ry Mountain (Reprise)
  24. Finale
  25. Robert Wise Interview
  26. Richard Rodgers Interview
  27. Charmian Carr Interview

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars a classic.............2007-05-17

I can still remember the first time I heard this soundtrack. It was on my family's turntable. We happened to own the original vinyl addition. THE SOUND OF MUSIC (AKA THE SOUND OF MUSIC, in the words of Christopher Plummer who was Captain Von Trapp, in the film) is a classic musical that has really spanned the generations of young and old viewers, for (more than) four decades. For starters, the music is catchy ("The Sound of Music," "These Are A Few of My Favorite Things," and "Edelweiss," as just a few examples). Secondly, this cast was just great! Though, I have a personal preference toward the original cast, with Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel. Nonetheless, Julie Andrews is great here. What a beautiful soprano voice.

This edition features bonus transfers of interviews with those involved in bringing THE SOUND OF MUSIC to the screen. What's more, this is the complete soundtrack (instrumental and music featuring vocals is included here). Definitely a "must buy" for true fans.

5 out of 5 stars Sound of Music--Still Great.......2007-05-13

I loved the music when it came on the big screen. I loved it on LP and cassette. Now, I love it even more on CD. The joy I get from listening to it while driving is wonderful. It sends me back to fond family memories. This is a must have.

5 out of 5 stars Sound of Music.......2007-05-07

The CD of the soundtrack of Sound of Music came in good shape and in good time.

5 out of 5 stars I love The Sound of Music!.......2007-04-14

I love this movie so much, it's my favorite! So I recently bought this cd. Wow! If you love the movie, you'll love the cd. The cd has every song from the flic and is so clear. Listening to the songs make me want to watch the movie all over again for the trillionth time. You'll be able to picture every scene listening to this cd. Also, if your stuck in traffic and need a pick me up, play this cd. You'll wake up from your drowsy drive and entertain yourself cause you can actually sing along to a song and know the words, while the movie is replaying in your head.

5 out of 5 stars Loved it so much, we bought it twice........2007-04-11

You know all of these songs and Julie Andrews is at her best. This is a great soundtrack, and the disc got a ton of play in my family. On a vacation trip to California the disc accidentally got left behind in the rental car. After 6 months of the kids asking for me to replace the disc, I finally bought it again. The disc is in heavy rotation, to borrow a term from radio programming, and everyone's enjoying it again.
Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Oh the memories!
  • Soundtrack Review
  • STAYING ALIVE!!!!!!
  • Saturday Night Fever....
  • Soundtrack of an Era Puts an End to Hairy Music
 Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track
Kool & The Gang
Manufacturer: Polydor / Umgd
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ASIN: B000001FDV
Release Date: 1996-02-06

Tracks:

  1. Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees
  2. How Deep Is Your Love - Bee Gees
  3. Night Fever - Bee Gees
  4. More Than A Woman - Bee Gees
  5. If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Elliman
  6. A Fifth Of Beethoven (Based On Beethoven's Fifth Symphony) - Walter Murphy
  7. More Than A Woman - Tavares
  8. Manhattan Skyline - David Shire
  9. Calypso Breakdown - Ralph McDonald
  10. Night On Disco Mountain (Based On 'Night On Bald Mountain') - David Shire
  11. Open Sesame - Kool & The Gang
  12. Jive Talkin' - Bee Gees
  13. You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
  14. Boogie Shoes - K.C. And The Sunshine Band
  15. Salsation - David Shire
  16. K-Jee - M.F.S.B.
  17. Disco Inferno - Trammps

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The double-disc soundtrack to the blockbuster Saturday Night Fever (available on a single CD) marks both the zenith and the nadir of disco. It was such a popular sensation that it catapulted the music to stratospheric levels of mainstream popularity, and the album was the bestselling movie soundtrack of all time (until The Bodyguard, and then Titanic). But "Disco Fever" became so hot, it could only flame out just as quickly (along with the careers of the Bee Gees). With this record, disco became a phenomenon and a fad. The Bee Gees' contributions are the strongest, especially the once-ubiquitous "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever," and they still hold up. Then there's Walter Murphy's "A Fifth of Beethoven," a trivial piece of pop ephemera that may have set new standards for ephemeral triviality. How often will you listen to this record--and how much will you play when you do? There's no telling--but it remains a classic piece of pop history, and when you're in the mood it's a good thing to have around. --Jim Emerson

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Oh the memories!.......2007-05-25

This is a time tested awesome soundtrack. It brought back so many memories for me. I was just a kid when it came out, but my mom had it on 8-track and we listened to it ALL THE TIME! Great music!!!

5 out of 5 stars Soundtrack Review.......2007-05-15

I love this movie and of course mainly because of the music! I actually bought this for my mom and she absolutely loved it!

5 out of 5 stars STAYING ALIVE!!!!!!.......2007-05-13

The movie soundtrack all of us have always dreamed to be able to dance like TONY MANERO!!!!!!!!

1 out of 5 stars Saturday Night Fever...........2007-03-22

Save your money. You are better off purchasing the BEE GEES greatest hits CD. There are too many songs on this CD that the BG's didn't sing.

5 out of 5 stars Soundtrack of an Era Puts an End to Hairy Music.......2007-03-09

Ironically, even though The Bee Gees had massive pelts and medals on their chests, their music on the soundtrack was a major breakthrough for the smooth or "hairless" sound. Prior to Saturday Night Fever, "hairy music" (unkempt, natural, course texture) from acts like BTO, Peter Frampton, and Fleetwood Mac dominated the charts. The hippy ethos of the 1960's had trickled into the mid-seventies, and ruled the top 40 like a shaggy tyrant. And it seemed like nothing could be done to stop it. (People forget that Fever hit the streets less than ten years after the play Hair opened. A seeming coup de grace for the hippies, Hair left good clean-shorn Americans wondering if this country would ever be normal again).

And then the Bee-Gees led a concept album (all disco!) named Saturday Night Fever, which "waxed" the hairy music sound right off the radio! Everyone remembers where they were the first time they heard a Fever song! It was "Staying Alive", April 7th, 1977. I was age 11. At 12:40pm, I was playing basketball at the park and admiring the girls' Ditto jeans. One girl had a portable am radio she set courtside. When Steve Martin's "King Tut" ended, "Staying Alive" came on!! All the 6th graders knew it: The dirty hippy era was over!!!

Epilogue: After Fever was released, a generation of school kids walked with a jaunty stride and blowdried their hair.... The national disco movement that Fever launched was soon joined by - you guessed it - hippies. A surprising number of hippies just washed their hair, changed into white suits, and stepped into the disco. Some people have argued that these "former" hippies introduced drugs and hedonism into the once pristine disco environment. Others disagreed, citing the lack of "lazy, flowery drugs" in discos.... In New York City, DJ's started talking over disco, telling jaded New Yorkers to have fun and throw their hands in the air. Thus, "rap" was born, and African-Americans reclaimed the term "rap" from hippies.... People still listen to Fever, like an aural Life magazine that chronicles a pivotal time in our great nation's history.... Americans now spend billions each year on hair management products. And Americans are now the least hairy people in world history.... Today, disco thrives. As a great poet once said, "Disco by any other name still has the same beats and high-sheen production values"....
The Departed
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Fabulous CD
  • Great
  • The Departed
  • great soundtrack
  • Buy this cd
 The Departed
Soundtrack
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
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ASIN: B000J3FBVG
Release Date: 2006-11-07

Tracks:

  1. Let It Loose - The Rolling Stones
  2. Comfortably Numb - Rogers Waters feat. Van Morrison & The Band
  3. Sail On, Sailor - The Beach Boys
  4. Sweet Dreams - Roy Buchanan
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  9. Tweedle Dee - LaVern Baker
  10. Sweet Dreams (Of You) - Patsy Cline
  11. The Departed Tango - Howard Shore Featuring Marc Ribot (dobro) and
  12. Beacon Hill - Howard Shore Performed by Sharon Isbin

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With Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese completely reinvented the way popular songs--instead of a made-to-measure score--can be used all the way through a movie to emphasize mood and action. He continues in that vein for The Departed, whose soundtrack is full of tunes by classic acts. If a theme emerges, it's great guitar work: on Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb," on the Allman Brothers' "One Way Out," on Badfinger's "Baby Blue," and on Roy Buchanan's "Sweet Dreams." (Even the two selections from Howard Shore's score highlight that approach, with performances by Marc Ribot and Larry Saltzman on "The Departed Tango" and by Sharon Isbin on "Beacon Hill.") A couple of numbers also deliver slight twists: the version of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" is the live one from 1990, when it was performed with Van Morrison and the Band; and the Beach Boys' obscure 1972 song "Sail On, Sailor" isn't sung by its cowriter Brian Wilson. Thankfully, LaVern Baker and Patsy Cline help offset a very white, very male, very classic-rock selection. While it looks as if Scorsese stopped listening to music sometime around 1975, Beantown's Dropkick Murphys do contribute "I'm Shipping Up to Boston," a nod to the movie's setting. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

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The Departed has been hailed as director Martin Scorsese's most powerful film since Goodfellas. With critical acclaim, major stars and all the punch of an explosive crime drama, The Departed is set to be a box-office smash. The soundtrack album features songs from all-time greats The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, The Allman Brothers Band, Roy Buchanan and Badfinger along with a collaboration between Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, Van Morrison, and The Band. Add cult faves The Human Beinz, current South Boston punkers Dropkick Murphys, an R&B gem from LaVern Baker, a country- pop selection from the immortal Patsy Cline, and a pair of selections from Grammy® Award-winning score composer Howard Shore and The Departed's soundtrack album promises to be as widely popular as the film.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Fabulous CD.......2007-06-27

I loved the movie and I love the soundtrack. I play it all the time.

5 out of 5 stars Great.......2007-06-27

I really enjoy the Departed soundtrack it is a great mix of varying songs from all eras, and of course it came from a great movie.

4 out of 5 stars The Departed.......2007-06-26

The soundtrack for the movie was so wonderful I knew I wanted it for my collection. Although the CD does not contain all the songs in the film, there are enough to make this one of a kind collection worth having.

4 out of 5 stars great soundtrack.......2007-05-19

I loved the variety of music on the "Departed" soundtrack. From Roy Buchnanan to Patsy Cline's version of "Sweet Dreams", Pink Floyd, The Allman Brothers, and The Stones! As a musician, I can confidently state that this soundtrack is about good music.

5 out of 5 stars Buy this cd.......2007-05-18

A simple review that can be summed up as "buy this cd". Loved it from start to finish. You won't be disappointed.
The Essential Willie Nelson
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • This will do--til I can buy every CD he's done
  • Absolute must have!
  • How sweet!
  • The Essential Willie Nelson
  • The Grand Old Man
 The Essential Willie Nelson
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ASIN: B00008BXK3
Release Date: 2003-04-01

Tracks:

  1. Night Life
  2. Hello Walls
  3. Crazy
  4. Funny How Time Slips Away
  5. I Never Cared for You
  6. The Party's Over
  7. Good Times
  8. Me And Paul
  9. Shotgun Willie
  10. Bloody Mary Morning
  11. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
  12. Good Hearted Woman (with Waylon Jennings)
  13. If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time
  14. Uncloudy Day
  15. Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys (with Waylon Jennings)
  16. Georgia on My Mind
  17. Blue Skies
  18. All of Me
  19. Heartbreak Hotel (with Leon Russell)
  20. Help Me Make It Through the Night
  21. Whiskey River (live)
  22. Stay a Little Longer (live)

Tracks:

  1. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
  2. Faded Love (with Ray Price)
  3. On the Road Again
  4. Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
  5. Always on My Mind
  6. Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning
  7. Pancho & Lefty (with Merle Haggard)
  8. To All the Girls I've Loved Before (with Julio Iglesias)
  9. City of New Orleans
  10. Seven Spanish Angels (with Ray Charles)
  11. Forgiving You Was Easy
  12. Highwayman
  13. Living in the Promiseland
  14. Nothing I Can Do About It Now
  15. Graceland
  16. Everywhere I Go (with Emmylou Harris)
  17. Slow Dancing (U2 featuring Willie Nelson, Mickey Raphael on harmonica)
  18. Mendocino County Line (with Lee Ann Womack)
  19. One Time Too Many (with Steven Tyler and Aerosmith) (previously unreleased)

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With 41 tracks drawn from nine record labels, the two-disc Essential Willie Nelson is impressive in its breadth. Disc one is simply superb; it begins with 1961's "Night Life," recorded for the obscure Bellaire label, and moves on to several of Nelson's early 1960s Liberty recordings, an overlooked gem recorded for Monument in 1964 ("I Never Cared for You"), a cherry-picked selection of his RCA and Atlantic sides, and finally his mid-1970s hits for Columbia (where he found his greatest chart success, beginning, in 1975, with the No. 1 single "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"). Disc two, however, is hit-or-miss. Classics like "On the Road Again," "Pancho & Lefty," and "Nothing I Can Do About It Now" are offset by such lesser material as "To All The Girls I've Loved Before" (recorded with Latin pop star Julio Iglesias), the phoned-in "City of New Orleans," and the sounds-better-on-paper "Highwayman" collaboration with Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and Waylon Jennings. (Just because they all made it to No. 1 doesn't make them "essential.") Nelson's two best albums of the 1990s, Across the Borderline and Teatro, are represented by a paltry two songs. The disc ends with collaborations with U2, Lee Ann Womack, and Steven Tyler and Aerosmith (the previously unreleased "One Time Too Many"). None is particularly worthy of a best-of collection. Still, while it doesn't quite live up to its billing, the Essential Willie Nelson offers an excellent career overview of one of country music's true legends. --David Hill

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars This will do--til I can buy every CD he's done.......2007-07-06

I didn't like Willie Nelson til I moved to Austin. You can't live there, hear all the good things he's done, and then listen to him and not start liking him. Someone has a problem, there's a storm, a fire--whatever, Willie's there playing and singing his heart out and getting as many of his fellow musicians out doing the same. Now, I want the whole collection because the B-sides are as good as some other folks' A's.

5 out of 5 stars Absolute must have!.......2007-06-28

Great collection of Willie's best. Note though that the songs on the label of the 2nd CD are not the actual order they are recorded on the CD.

2 out of 5 stars How sweet!.......2007-06-15

I am really disappointed with most of the cuts in this collection. For example, I had never heard "Pancho and Lefty" with violins and chorus. Not the Willie I want to hear.

5 out of 5 stars The Essential Willie Nelson.......2007-06-08

I absolutely love this CD. If you are a Willie Nelson fan then you need to add this one to your collection

5 out of 5 stars The Grand Old Man.......2007-04-18

Hard to imagine a world without Willie Nelson's music. This might be the only album you need on a desert island.
The Search
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Farrar bares his influences.
  • Appalling
  • Good album, but buy it on ITunes
  • A Beautiful Progression for Jay Farrar
  • Strong diverse outing for Jay & Co.
 The Search
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Manufacturer: Transmit Sound/Legacy
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ASIN: B000MNOXXA
Release Date: 2007-03-06

Tracks:

  1. Slow Hearse
  2. The Picture
  3. Action
  4. Underground Dream
  5. Circadian Rhythm
  6. Beacon Soul
  7. The Search
  8. Adrenaline And Heresy
  9. Satellite
  10. Automatic Society
  11. Methamphetamine
  12. L Train
  13. Highways And Cigarettes
  14. Phosphate Skin

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Five albums into Son Volt's career--and a pair into the band's rebirth following leader Jay Farrar's several solo ventures--it's time to bury the encumbering "alt-country" moniker that has dogged Farrar since his days in the genre-setting Uncle Tupelo. While the inexhaustible songwriter relied on guitars to drive 2005's rock-heavy Okemah and the Melody of Riot, Son Volt amends its familiar arrangements on The Search, balancing the instrumentation with piano, organ, and dabbles in a horn section. "Feels like drivin' 'round in a slow hearse," Farrar pleads over repetitive piano and East Indian guitar loops in "Slow Hearse." It's a pensive opener that suggests something is askew, but the horns that kick off "The Picture" literally scream it from the Stax vaults. Farrar dives in and out of genres, tingling the ivories to add subtle alterations to both the gorgeous "Underground Dream" and Imagine-like "Adrenaline and Heresy," turning his band into Gang of Four for the 134-second rocker "Satellite" and singing alongside Shannon McNally on the soulful "Highways and Cigarettes." While it may be impossible for this Son Volt to ever reach the pinnacle of their 1995 debut, no one can accuse Jay Farrar of going through the motions. --Scott Holter

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Farrar bares his influences........2007-07-10

After listening to the first 5 songs I was hailing this as his masterwork.When I listened to the whole album I was convinced it was the best complete album I have heard in 20 years.It stayed in my cd player 3 days.The only reason I took it out was to loan it to a friend.It seems to me Jay let some of his influences peek out.The 1st song sounds like a Beatles song.The second song sounds like a Van Morrison tune.The third song sounds like a Led Zeppelin song.The fourth and my favorite has lush backgrounds that remind me of those great Moody Blues songs with mellotron layering.Every song is a treat on this one.Buy it.

2 out of 5 stars Appalling.......2007-06-27

Dull, trite (especially the hard-hitting commentary on the depredations of Chimpy McBushhitlerburton and his Cheneyboy puppetmasters) and did I say dull, and distinguished by an utter absence of melody, inventiveness, or anything that makes music fun to listen to?

It's been ntoed that there's a Farrar camp and a Tweedy camp. I never cared much for Tweedy - but you gotta admit, the guy does try to push the envelope and consistently sets what we capitalists call "stretch targets." Not so Jay, who since the brilliance of Trace seems resolved to produce the same lame album over and over again. That his fans find some deep aesthetic purpose therein speaks less of their delusion than how great a record Trace was: certainly someone who threw this thinderbolt can make lightening strike at least once more time. But it's not to be, and will never. Proof? Quick, hum something from Straightaways or Wide String Tremolo. Or Sebastopol. That's right, you can't, can you? Nor would you want to, if you could. Or nor could you, if you wanted: there's nothing hummable.

Alas, it ain't to be. Jay had one good record in him, that was Trace, and we shall never see its like again. I am starting to believe that his "brilliance" in Tupelo was the result of good old capitalism competitoin with Tweedy, who modest though his talent may be, does make excellent use of it. Jay, unmoored from his old Belleville pal, reveals himself as a lazy, pompus slacker, the sort of boring nut you see journaling in independent coffee houses with a copy of some Said or Chomsky trash under his elbow. The brilliance of Trace, in retrospect, is starting to strike me as dervived less from a spark of the divine within Farrar than the principle that if a monkey sits at a typewriter long enough, he'll produce Shakespeare. By some weird change of evolution and chance, it happened early for Farrar.

Two stars because no mmatter how wretched Jay is, at least he's not Ryan Adams.

4 out of 5 stars Good album, but buy it on ITunes.......2007-06-18

The I Tunes version has bonus tracks bundled into the album price. Two of those bonus tracks - Bicycle Hotel and Carnival Blues - are as good as anything Jay has ever written.

Jay's Gob Iron album, released a few months earlier, is slightly better than The Search.

5 out of 5 stars A Beautiful Progression for Jay Farrar.......2007-05-25

I always suspected that Jay Farrar had a masterpiece in him, but the ever-diminishing payoff I experienced with most Son Volt releases left me feeling less and less certain of my conviction. After listening to "The Search" for two solid weeks, I'm fairly convinced that this is the miracle I've been hoping for. As is usual for a Son Volt record, I required multiple listens before the songs began to sink in, but like a cautious friend, the underlying logic of "The Search" slowly started to reveal itself. This album is deeper than most, so it justifies a lot of playtime, and the more I listened, the more I realized that this is a disk you can keep in your player for a few weeks without growing tired of it, or restless.
As a lyricist, Farrar was never one to reveal himself recklessly, but I notice a few shifts in his methods here that aid in conveying his expressive side. First, the lyrics are more poetic than usual, which does not necessarily mean that they are opaque. Depending on the song, Farrar's words veer from the oblique to the direct and literal. For example, on "Action," he sings, "Break up the old drug pound story, Tortured soul wears an ego sleeve. Heavy hearts and heavy hitters, Bards disease finds the killing floor." These words might not ever mean anything literal to me, but they conjure up rich imagery, while the melody deepens their impact. Elsewhere, on "Adrenaline and Heresy," Farrar sings "She said I still love you, I don't know if I want to spend the rest of my time with you," which is as direct a statement as can be made about a failing relationship. Farrar sings these words with a striking sense of resignation that resounds long after the song ends. "Highways and Cigarettes" is also full of literal imagery ("Best to clear the mind with a Mexicali radio station. Keep an eye out for the border patrol, checking for drugs and so called aliens." He's still very self-serious, but the wordy phraseology and energized interplay of the new band adds an element of fun that had been lacking on previous Son Volt projects.
These words might not resound on the page, but "The Search" benefits immensely from Farrar's melodic sense, which appears to have grown suddenly, and significantly. He is no longer limited by the ideas on his palette, and all sorts of textures help the listener to retain interest. A horn section spices up the high-energy romp of `The Picture," while tasteful keyboards add flavor throughout. Interestingly, there also seems to be an abundance of backward-looped guitars to add a spooky, otherworldly feel to songs such as "Slow Hearse" and "Phosphate Skin." It may take some patience to realize it for yourself, but "The Search" is a beautifully constructed work and I'm finally able to say with some certainty that Jay Farrar and Son Volt have created a minor masterpiece. A Tom Ryan

5 out of 5 stars Strong diverse outing for Jay & Co........2007-05-01

I wasn't exactly sure what to expect with this album, with the pre-release reports that Son Volt was moving in a new direction, adding new instrumentation. Would it be some weird new experimental, unlistenable thing?

After listening for myself, I'd have to to call the new direction more of an enhancement than a departure. The traditional elements of a Son Volt record are still here -- great songs and melodies, sorrowful pedal-steel guitar, some inscrutable social commentary lyrics, and a solid dose of Americana.

But this record is somehow more than other SV albums. It has diverse sounds that we haven't heard on SV songs before, like horns and piano, that blend very nicely with their sound. There are rocking tracks, slow burn tracks, and moody introspective tracks. Every song on this record is strong, which is a lot more than I can say for "Okemah". This is an excellent record from start to finish.
Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Classic Cowboy
  • Gunfighter Ballads by Marty Robbins is Cowboy Songs at their Best
  • Great CD
  • More than just "El Paso."
  • Gunfighter Ballads & Trails Songs
Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs
Marty Robbins
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ASIN: B0000296J9
Release Date: 1999-10-19

Tracks:

  1. Big Iron
  2. A Hundred And Sixty Acres
  3. They're Hanging Me Tonight
  4. Cool Water
  5. Billy The Kid
  6. Utah Carol
  7. The Strawberry Roan
  8. The Master's Call
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  12. The Little Green Valley
  13. The Hanging Tree
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  15. El Paso (Full-Length Version)

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A lonely Westerner in Nashville, Marty Robbins salved his soul by cutting an album (in one afternoon) of mostly self-composed cowboy ballads. One of them was a four-and-a-half-minute epic, "El Paso," that broke every rule of Top 40 programming to become a No. 1 pop and country hit in 1960. Robbins was arguably the most surefooted and accomplished singer in all country music, and that was never more obvious than on these Western ballads performed to often breathtaking perfection with a very small group and a vocal trio. Other titles include "Big Iron" (also a Top 30 hit), "Running Gun," and Western classics like "Cool Water," "Billy the Kid," and "The Strawberry Roan." Three extra tracks flesh out the 1999 release, including "Saddle Tramp" (the B-side of "Big Iron") and "The Hanging Tree" (title song from the 1959 Gary Cooper Western). --Colin Escott

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Classic Cowboy.......2007-05-27

Although Frank Sinatra is credited with creating the first "concept" album. Columbia might have one-upped Capital with this unique "Old West" collection. Although its been almost 50 years since this jewel was first recorded, it sounds like it was made yesterday. Marty Robbins has had many hit albums in the C/W top ten, but none of them has been as endearing as this 1959 classic. You get "El Paso, "Cool Water" "The Hanging Tree" and 12 more ballards sung by one of Country/Western all-time favorites. I can guarantee, you will continue to listen to these cowboy story songs for years to come.

5 out of 5 stars Gunfighter Ballads by Marty Robbins is Cowboy Songs at their Best.......2007-03-20

The lable attached to the CD says "All Time Country Classic". It's misleading. This is an all time classic, period. I first bought this collection as an LP. The front said "High Fidelity", not "Stereo High Fidelity," but as a kid in 1959, I didn't care. "El Paso" was #1 on the pop charts. Marty Robbins had been a "cross-over" artist making the charts with "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation," so I was primed when this album hit. Grammy-winning "Gunfighter Ballads..." set Marty Robbins apart. It isn't country, it isn't '50s pop, it might be Americana or folk music. It is cowboy or western music, I suppose. There are more reasons to own this album than "El Paso." "Cool Water," "The Master's Call." Utah Carol," "and "The Strawberry Roan" are all great songs interpreted by a great voice. "Gunfighter Ballads ..." is what it now says on the CD jacket, a "classic." Marty Robbins died in his early sixties, so many younger ears may not know him. They should, especially if they collect the good stuff from all eras.

5 out of 5 stars Great CD.......2007-03-08

I grew up listeniing to Marty Robbins, and the Gunfighter Ballads is my favorite album and I just had to get this CD...because I use to listen to the music on LP, back in the 80's and I haven't heard the songs for over 15 years...with great imagination, listening to these songs would make it seem like you're watching a very interesting Western movie.

5 out of 5 stars More than just "El Paso.".......2007-01-28

If you want to buy this CD just for "El Paso" you'll be plenty happy. If you allow yourself to listen to the remaining tracks, you'll be very happy. This was Marty's best effort, IMHO.

The remastering is done very well, although the source recording, being in 1959, does have its limitations. Overall, a very enjoyable CD, and well worth the work done to remaster and restore it!

5 out of 5 stars Gunfighter Ballads & Trails Songs .......2007-01-18

I find the quality of the CD GUnfighter Ballads & Trail Songs to be fantastic. I never thought I would ever find this album in a CD form. This was one of my favorite albums I loved listening to when I was little. My dad loved this album as well and now that my dad passed away. Everytime I listen to this CD I think of my dad. Thanks Amazon for having it on hand for me to purchase it.
Patsy Cline - The Definitive Collection
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Patsy is timeless!!!!
  • WONDERFUL!!!
  • This is a great collection!
  • Beautiful Collection
  • What a voice.
 Patsy Cline - The Definitive Collection
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ASIN: B0002B163W
Release Date: 2004-06-22

Tracks:

  1. Walkin' After Midnight
  2. A Poor Man's Roses (Or A Rich Man's Gold)
  3. .Lovesick Blues
  4. I Fall To Pieces
  5. True Love
  6. San Antonio Rose
  7. Crazy
  8. Strange
  9. She's Got You
  10. Heartaches
  11. Half As Much
  12. When I Get Through With You (You'll Love Me Too)
  13. Imagine That
  14. So Wrong
  15. Why Can't He Be You
  16. Leavin' On Your Mind
  17. When You Need A Laugh
  18. Back In Baby's Arms
  19. Faded Love
  20. Always
  21. He Called Me Baby
  22. Sweet Dreams

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Patsy is timeless!!!!.......2007-05-12

Whether you are country or not this is an excellent CD!!! Patsy Cline is one of the great classics of all times!!! Great selections on this CD!!! Definately Definitive!!!! Worth owning and listening to!!!

5 out of 5 stars WONDERFUL!!!.......2007-01-17

This collection is "wonderful". Also, try to see the live show, "Always....Patsy Cline" when it comes to your area. The show is much more than just singing as a "fan" tells the story of her supposed "involvment" with Patsy. Both this CD and the show are "the greatest!"

5 out of 5 stars This is a great collection!.......2006-11-10

I looked for awhile to find a colllection that included almost all the songs I remembered from my younger days. This CD pretty well does that. I have heard a lot of imitators over the years, but no one has come very close to her great style and sound.

5 out of 5 stars Beautiful Collection.......2006-08-30

This is a terrific collection with a wide range of songs from one of the most spectacular voices the music industry has ever heard. Patsy Cline's gorgeous voice and the emotion she put into her songs makes them heartbreaking to listen to, or if an upbeat song, especially fun to listen to. She just can't be topped. I only wish there were a Patsy Cline Christmas album available. I highly recommend this CD to any Patsy Cline or country music fan. Great selection of hit songs!

3 out of 5 stars What a voice........2006-07-30

I just love listening to this old style of music. Patsy Cline has such a pure tone to her voice. I have to remind myself that even though some of these subjects are a little degrading to women it was a different era and it's the lady's voice that I love. I experienced some volume fading and getting louder in few of the songs. But, that's my only complaint.
Sound Theories I and II
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Ah, complete control over vibrational radiance.
  • Steve Vai and an Orchestra, pure magic.
  • Simply Sublime.
 Sound Theories I and II
Steve Vai
Manufacturer: Red Int / Red Ink
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ASIN: B000QFCCV4
Release Date: 2007-06-26

Tracks:

  1. Kill the Guy With the Ball
  2. The God Eaters
  3. The Murder Prologue
  4. The Murder
  5. Gentle Ways
  6. Answers
  7. I'm Becoming
  8. Salamanders In the Sun
  9. Liberty
  10. The Attitude Song
  11. For the Love Of God

Tracks:

  1. Shadows And...
  2. Sparks
  3. Frangelica Pt.I
  4. Frangelica Pt.II
  5. Helios And Vesta
  6. Bledsoe Bluvd

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Ah, complete control over vibrational radiance........2007-07-01

It wouldn't be accurate to call this a live album. It's really more like an album that was recorded (mostly) in front of a live audience and HEAVILY edited. It sounds like a live album, though. Basically, Steve Vai has taken seven complete performances and, for each section, phrase, or sometimes even single note of all seventeen songs, chosen the most perfect of the seven. He then pasted all of these most favorable parts together to make one perfect whole. This is especially remarkable considering that Steve had to deal with the different sound ambiences of different venues.

In the liner notes, Steve writes that the two-part piece "Frangelica" has hundreds of edits, while other tracks (he doesn't specify which ones) have very few. It's fascinating reading how he carefully listened to each note of each instrument and replaced any less-desirable notes with notes from other performances or even from other sections of music. In some cases, when no "right notes" (defined by Steve as notes that were played with the correct pitch, phrase, confidence, and attitude) were available, he would try to "re-fabricate" the notes in the studio or take them out altogether. Only perfection is heard on this album!

I know it's an overused word, but Vol. I (entitled "The Aching Hunger") is brilliant! Each track on this disc showcases Steve's exceptional guitar work in completely refreshing ways. The old songs, with the backing of the Holland Metropole Orkest, often seem entirely new. There's a lot of newly composed material on this disc, too... all of it beautiful. The highlight here, in my opinion, is the perfectly arranged "Salamanders in the Sun," originally from the album Flex-Able.

Steve, as a guitarist, gives the impression that he has the ability to translate through his guitar absolutely anything that enters his head. It's always been amazing to hear Steve perform his most complex passages note-for-note, accurately and exactly as intended. With these new versions of the songs, we hear other instruments keep up with him note-for-note, as well. Even knowing that these performances have been highly edited, it's evident that Steve and the orchestra played amazingly tight together!

Personally, Vol. II (entitled "Shadows and Sparks") isn't nearly as accessible for me. It's without Steve's true expressive voice, his guitar, and frankly the compositions here aren't quite as brilliant (they are still very good, though). It's interesting and different and incredibly complex.

In addition to traditional orchestral instruments, there is often more eccentric instrumentation used. Saxophone, Moog synthesizer, electric guitar (not played by Steve), bass guitar, what sounds like at least one drum set, and even a referee-type whistle are commonly heard. This makes the Holland Metropole Orkest able to have a chameleon-like sound. It often resembles a traditional symphony orchestra, but sometimes it sounds more like a marching band or big band or, quite often, a jazz fusion group. Rarely does it sound like any one thing for too long, which keeps it interesting.

A few of the melodies on disc two are familiar ("Shadows and..." contains allusions to "Whispering a Prayer" and an excerpt from "Bangkok," for example) and some of the melodies are subtle and inspired, but some of the melodies don't make sense for me, musically. Some individual sections of compositions seem too different from one another or seem to exist without real purpose or are never really given a chance to develop. Many of the odd time and key signatures are overwhelming. I don't possess the musical understanding that is needed to appreciate exactly what Steve is doing.

Even if there are perhaps some shortcomings, I find disc two to still be a true wonder to listen to. Although it doesn't contain his guitar playing, it still contains Steve's magic. The standout track for me is "Frangelica Pt. II," one of the more accessible tracks on Vol. II.

There is an undeniable attraction to the music on both of these discs that has made me want to listen to them over and over. The title of this review is a phrase Steve used in the liner notes to describe the ability of a composer to "capture, and make real, the audio vision of their mind's eye." There's no doubt that Steve has captured something intangible and made it quite real. It's the ethereal magnetism of his music. Very few artists today are capable of this. It would probably be fair to say that not even all of Steve's releases have it, but Sound Theories most certainly does. It contains music with so many layers, so much depth, and Steve has so much passion for what he plays and creates, that undoubtedly both discs in this set will be spinning in cd players... and spinning heads... for years to come.

5 out of 5 stars Steve Vai and an Orchestra, pure magic........2007-06-28

Sound Theories Vol 1 & 2", a double-live CD capturing legendary guitarist Steve Vai's electrifying collaboration with the Netherlands Metropole Orchestra. The two-disc set spotlights rare material pulled from five European performances, a studio session and a soundcheck rehearsal recording, all of which took place between mid-2004 and 2005.

"Volume 1" features Steve Vai playing guitar with the Orchestra, which has earned worldwide acclaim.
What he does on CD 1 is take those performances and blends them together so it sounds as though it was all 1 show. Truly amazing.

Steve Vai never disappoints.

Together Steve and the Orchestra they bring new life to both
existing and never-before-heard Steve Vai songs.

Highlights on disc 1 are

"For the Love of God", "Liberty", "The Murder", "Attitude Song", "Salamanders in the Sun".

That's not to say the rest aren't as good as those, they are but I feel that these are the songs that are just a bit above the rest and will be the ones you'll remember most.

"Volume 2" features the Orchestra by it self performing songs written and composed by Steve Vai.

Listening to CD 2 it sounds as though he's playing along with the Orchestra, but he's not.

Highlights on CD 2 are
Well CD 2 is the highlight as the whole disc is just that good.

So there you have it.

The question is should you buy it or not.
I say this is an album that Steve Vai fans and rock music fans and even some of you metal heads out there can agree on that is worth buying.

5 out of 5 stars Simply Sublime........2007-06-26

Absolutely amazing! Vai's compositions sound so full and lush with the orchestra. Steve's attention to detail in the audio editing, is a lesson worth aspiring to also. The guitar playing is faultless - as you'd expect from any Vai release.

Go buy it know you knuckleheads! Or I'll hunt you down...
Johnny Horton - Greatest Hits
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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  • Awesome!
  • beautiful song.......
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ASIN: B0000026AG
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

  1. North to Alaska
  2. Whispering Pines
  3. Johnny Reb
  4. The Mansion You Stole
  5. I'm Ready If You're Willing
  6. When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below)
  7. Honky Tonk Man
  8. The Battle of New Orleans
  9. All For The Love Of A Girl
  10. Sink The Bismarck
  11. Comanche (The Brave Horse)
  12. Jim Bridger
  13. Johhny Freedom

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While Louisiana Hayride star Johnny Horton's 1956 Top 10 debut "Honky Tonk Man" strode the line between rockabilly and honky-tonk minimalism, he found his niche in 1959 with a short-lived phenomenon known as the saga song: newly penned tunes, based on or inspired by historical events. The song that rendered Horton immortal? A rousing rendition of folksinger Jimmie Driftwood's War of 1812 number "The Battle of New Orleans," which topped both the country and pop charts for weeks. Riding a winner, Horton kept the momentum going with the Civil War-themed "Johnny Reb," and "Sink the Bismarck," based on a World War II naval battle. He died in a Texas car crash in early November 1960, days before his next single, "North to Alaska" (from the John Wayne film of the same name), hit the charts. While saga tunes understandably dominate this collection, it also includes "Honky Tonk Man" and the ballads "Whispering Pines" and "The Mansion You Stole." There's no better introduction to Horton's seminal recordings. --Rich Kienzle

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars LIberal Democrat the Loves Real Country.......2007-05-21

The current generation probably doesn't realize that real country was anti-establishment. I loved Johnny Horton and Jimmey Dean (Remember his song PT-109 about "commie-pinko" Jack Kennedy, who acutally FOUGHT in a war?) when I was a kid. Songs about people with gumption-- not mindless clones whose goal in life is to be a religious/corporate lackeys. You have no idea what it is to be an American... although you think you do.

5 out of 5 stars Awesome!.......2007-01-18

When I was younger, my father had a cassette with all of these songs on them, but my mother sold it in a garage sale. Of course I was upset when I looked for it years later, and I was so excited to find this CD! I remembered all the songs and still listen to it frequently. I couldn't be more satisfied.

5 out of 5 stars beautiful song....... .......2007-01-12

I had decided to purchased this cd when I heard some of Johnny's song in the radio.Its a wonderful song and good for easy listening..........

5 out of 5 stars Great GIft.......2007-01-10

Great gift for someone who loves Johnny Horton, It has all of the best and most loved hits.

3 out of 5 stars Is ok........2007-01-06

Buy it for "Battle of NEw Orleans" and "sink the bismark." Enjoy it for "whispering pines" and "north to alaska."

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