The Sound of Music [Import]

The Sound of Music [Import]

The Sound of Music [Import]

Track Listings
 
1. My Machines
2. Microlovr
3. Jam the Box
4. Desire
5. Rushed
6. Sub Seducer
7. Sound on Sound
8. Poi et Pas
9. Filter King/No Highs/Finale

The Sound of Music,69,R&S,Detroit Techno,Techno
Chester & Lester
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • One of the best guitar albums ever
  • Classic meeting of the Greatest!
  • Shagadelic baby
  • Entertainment at its best, for the players and listeners.
  • This is why those Brits picked up their axes!
 Chester & Lester
Chet Atkins
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000007691
Release Date: 1997-03-26

Tracks:

  1. It's Been a Long, Long Time
  2. Medley: Moonglow/Picnic
  3. Caravan
  4. It Had to Be You
  5. Out of Nowhere
  6. Avalon
  7. Birth of the Blues
  8. Someday, Sweetheart
  9. 'Deed I Do
  10. Lover, Come Back to Me

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars One of the best guitar albums ever.......2005-12-14

This album focuses on two of the greatest guitarists, who you can easily hear their different styles on this recording.

The production and material is brilliant as well.

Once you could find this recording on a two for one cd, with the other recording they did called Guitar Monsters.

Les Paul supposively showed up with a cold and the performance is not as good. There is more joking around as well.

Never the less, if that recording, buy it. Else, purchase this recording.

By the way, why does Amazon include a 'NO' in 'was this review helpful to you?'. People are only human and don't like opinions that differ from themselves. With some who are less mature, this the 'NO' makes it too easy express such displeasure.

Are they trying to discourage negative reviews, hence not purchase the CD. Such reviews only help a person in not being dissatisfied a product that received positive reviews

5 out of 5 stars Classic meeting of the Greatest!.......2005-07-21

If you don't get any other Chet and/or Les album/CD's, get this one.
It's a wonderful chance to hear two of the greatest electric guitarists together. The vastly different styles of these two are a perfect blend, and the meeting of two old pros is classic. It's a lot of fun and great music.
I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

5 out of 5 stars Shagadelic baby.......2000-01-01

A most excellent listening experience. Two different and distinct styles that when combined with the proper amount of Budweiser creates a most shagariffic time.

5 out of 5 stars Entertainment at its best, for the players and listeners........1999-04-29

Chet Atkins reminds me of my father who used to play every evening in the living room after dinner. He'd listen to this album, get a good laugh, and start playing Caravan or Avalon. I have not seen my father for 20 years now but this record reminds me of those days. Days when I'd rather watch TV instead of listen to dad's picking. Days when country music was definitely not for a 10- or 11-year old growing up in southern California. Now that I have kids with whom I'd like to spend more of my time with, I realize the plain simple fun that my father was trying to have. He wasn't professional, but when he played with friends or relatives, it sounded like the fun Chet and Les are having on this album. I'd really like to dedicate this review to my father who lives somewhere in the US. We've lost contact for the last 20-some years, but I know he's listening to the analog version of this album very often. It was his favorite and now I know why.

5 out of 5 stars This is why those Brits picked up their axes!.......1998-07-12

The playful joy found in the interplay between These two masters of the guitar make you wish this record wouldn't stop! Part of the fun comes from the between songs banter between the "boys" left in tact. My only wish is that it was longer. Just can't get enough of these two together.
Collection
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Nice
  • A very strong hits collection
  • MARVELLOUS GREATEST HITS COLLECTION
 Collection
Patti Page
Manufacturer: Umvd Import
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B00004TJYM
Release Date: 2002-08-19

Tracks:

  1. With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming
  2. All My Love
  3. Tennessee Waltz
  4. Would I Love You (Love You, Love You)
  5. Mockin' Bird Hill
  6. Mister and Mississippi
  7. Detour
  8. Come What May
  9. I Went to Your Wedding
  10. You Belong to Me
  11. Why Don't You Believe Me?
  12. (How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?
  13. Changing Partners
  14. Cross over the Bridge
  15. Let Me Go Lover
  16. Allegheny Moon
  17. Old Cape Cod
  18. Left Right Out of Your Heart

Album Description

2002 compilation for the 50s pop vocal superstar. Highlights include, 'The Tennessee Waltz', 'Mockin' Bird Hill', 'I Went To Your Wedding', '(How Much Is) That Doggie In The Window', 'Let Me Go Lover' & 'Old Cape Cod'. 18 tracks.

Album Details

America's Sweetheart of the 50's and 60's is Celebrated on this Digitally Remastered 18 Track Collection of her Greatest Hits. She Has Recorded Over 100 Albums and Has 80 Chart Singles to her Credit. The First was the Memorable "How Much is that Doggy in the Window", Then "The Tennesse Waltz", "All My Love", "Mockin Bird Hill", "You Beling to Me", "Allegheny Moon" and Many More Followed. Her Recording of "Old Cape Cod" was Sampled by Groove Armada for their Hit "at the River" and a Recording of her 50th Anniversary Concert Earned her a Long Overdue Grammy Award.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Nice.......2007-07-03

I had most of the songs on this album, but was missing 3. My Patti Page collection has a way to go but I'm getting there.

5 out of 5 stars A very strong hits collection.......2004-10-02

It needs a lot more than eighteen tracks to do full justice to Patti's music but this British budget collection of her fifties music is the strongest available as I write this. Patti was born as Clara Ann Fowler in Oklahoma. Like those other great Oklahoma-born singers of her generation, the Dinning sisters, Patti was steeped in country music tradition but achieved success in pop music although she never forgot her roots.

Patti only had one hit in Britain (How much is that doggie in the window) but might have had more if charts had started earlier than November 1952. Of course, Patti had a lot more success in her homeland, eleven of her hits selling at least a million copies each. They were (in chronological order) With my eyes wide open I'm dreaming (not included on this set), All my love, Tennessee waltz, Would I love you love you love you, Mocking bird hill, Mister and Mississippi, Detour, I went to your wedding, How much is that doggie in the window, Changing partners and Cross over the bridge. So ten of the eleven songs are included and the one that didn't was the lowest-charting hit, peaking at eleven. Exactly how it sold a million without making the top ten is a mystery - it didn't have a long run in the charts.

Apart from those million sellers, Patti had plenty of other hits. Of those included here, Come what may, You belong to me, Why don't you believe me and Steam heat all made the top ten in the period to 1954. As the fifties progressed, Patti found it more difficult to compete against rock'n'roll but still had a few big hits including Let me go lover, Go on with the wedding, Allegheny moon and Old Cape Cod.

Chart students will know that several big hits are missing including I don't care if the sun don't shine, And so to sleep again, Once in awhile and Butterflies, all of which made the top ten, plus others that came close to the top ten. To include all these hits in one compilation would require a double CD.

Of the CD's available at the time of this review, this is the strongest compilation of Patti's music there is. One day, something better might come along but the wait could be a long one.

5 out of 5 stars MARVELLOUS GREATEST HITS COLLECTION.......2003-03-12

There are plenty of Patti Page "Greatest/Golden Hits" collections. If you need one collection of her best Mercury recordings from 1949-1958, this is it. Being a Patti Page FAN I usually buy each new CD as it is released. This collection is certainly a better buy than Mercury's new "20th Century Master's" collection which sells for the same price or even a bit more and only includes 12 cuts.
The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Excellent singles band
  • The Sound of Girls Aloud
 The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits
Girls Aloud
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ASIN: B000JFXT72
Release Date: 2006-11-06

Tracks:

  1. Sound of the Underground
  2. Love Machine
  3. Biology
  4. No Good Advice
  5. I'll Stand by You
  6. Jump
  7. Show
  8. See the Day
  9. Wake Me Up
  10. Life Got Cold
  11. Something Kinda Ooooh
  12. Whole Lotta History
  13. Long Hot Summer
  14. Money
  15. I Think We're Alone Now

Album Description

2006 compilation featuring the very best of this female quintet, who found their first taste of fame on Popstars, the UK's version of American Idol. After three hit albums and 12 Top Ten singles (including two number ones), Girls Aloud are one of the very few reality TV acts to achieve continued success. The Sound Of Girls Loud features 14 tracks including the newly-recorded single 'Something Kinda Ooooh'. Polydor.

Album Details

This 15 Track Disc Includes Girls Aloud's Astonishing Run of 12 Top Ten Singles. They have Had More Consecutive Top Ten Singles that Any Other Girl Band Beating the Likes of Spice Girls and Destiny's Child. All of the Singles Are Included, from the #1s "Sound of the Underground" and "i'll Stand By."

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Excellent singles band.......2007-01-20

No matter what you think of them, you cannot deny that Girls Aloud have put out an extraordinary series of first-rate pop-singles. the tunes and the musicianship have been well above average for this type of band. The albums have also been rather strong, surprisingly. Thus I warmly recommend this fantastic collection of pop singles.

5 out of 5 stars The Sound of Girls Aloud.......2006-12-02

Four years on and already time for a greatest hits disc? If Britney Spears could pull it off after only 40 months, then Girls Aloud's thirteen top 10 singles certainly qualify them for such an offering. Yes, the hype every music magazine in Britain has been making is true- the tracks this group puts out are insane. Name one other pop act who had the audacity to mesh three songs into one and proclaim "you can't mistake my biology" as if we were stupid all along to disagree? Or, for that matter, name their comeback single "Something Kinda Oooh"? The risks taken by Girls Aloud and their production-team extraordinaire, Xenomania, are ones not common among the lazy bits of top 40. To see such livelihood and originality from a band created by reality television is an irony if we ever heard one. Simply put, they're the finest mainstream singles act of this decade and the soldiers of futuristic pop. Ballads withstanding, every one of these hits sparkles with a ferocity and sauciness that are impossible to not fall in love with. Anyone who doesn't snap their fingers to the billyrockin' "Love Machine" or strike a pose to the positively sexy electro romp "The Show" is more likely dead, and to not gawk at the genius of "Biology" is a perfect insult. Even the much-maligned "Long Hot Summer" is destined for the pop hall of fame. The music press has proclaimed for the past three to four years now that pop is dead, but with Girls Aloud leading the pack, not only would it be alive and kicking, it would be better than it ever was. And we can overlook the limp cover of "I Think We're Alone Now" (particularly unnecessary) if it meant skipping over to something like "Sound Of the Undeground". Ready for a crazy night out, stilletos and all? You've just got the perfect soundtrack.
Other Peoples Music
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Hedonism in a box
 Other Peoples Music
Sneaky Sound System
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ASIN: B0000DF4MN
Release Date: 2003-10-13

Tracks:

  1. Lo-Fu (NK)
  2. Money in the Bag - Bernadette Kraakman, Bert Smaak
  3. This One Jam - Gonzales
  4. Bene [Quantic Remix]
  5. Panther [Slow & Local Mix]
  6. Clouds Instead of Heads [Original Mix]
  7. Hang Up Your Hang Ups
  8. 1, 2 Shakumuna [Original Mix] - Rod & The Cobras,
  9. I Know a Place [Shades of Black Remix] - Mooney, Jaymz Nylon
  10. Move for Me
  11. Rite Place [Crazy Penis Jackin' the Beanstalk Mix] - Aswan Troupe for Folkloric Art, Blakkat
  12. Bleeding Together [Kaskade Mix] - dissent
  13. Round and Round [Metro Area Mix] - Alexi Delano, Robert Manos

Tracks:

  1. On Time
  2. Deliver Me [Hardsoul Keeps on Trying Dub] - Michael Proctor
  3. Getting on Down
  4. Dance Shake [Roy's Original Mix] - Roy Davis, Jr.
  5. What I Know - TO-KA Project
  6. Chromatix [Original Version]
  7. Law Is Wrong - Malente
  8. Orange Alert [DFA Mix] - Metro Area
  9. Make It Happen [Zongamin Mix] - Playgroup
  10. Outta Space [Twice Extension] - Daniel Paul
  11. Roller Disco Theme - Home and Garden, ,
  12. C'mon Give It Up
  13. Playground [Crazy Penis Remix]

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Sneaky Sound System Are Four Party Loving Boys Renowned for their Deep and Funky Hip Shaking Party Grooves, Tongue in Cheek Artwork, Fancy White Suits and Top Shelf Live Show. They Are, Without a Doubt, One of Australia's Most Popular and Sought after Music Collectives. Their Debut Mixed CD "Other Peoples Music", Gives You a Good Taste of What It's all About. There's One CD to Warm Things Up and Another to Make You Get Loose.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Hedonism in a box.......2003-12-03

Have you ever attended an amazing party where everyone seemed to be in spanking dancing form, dressed to the nines and celebrating nothing in particular? Ever wanted to bottle that feeling and be able to release it at will without violating federal laws? Buy this album. Really, its like standing in the middle of a great party on a warm night, waist deep in the swimming pool surrounded by friendly people. Can a CD really do this for you? Not really, but this gives it a really good bash. Good quality dance music for cheeky people who don't take themselves too seriously.
Class of '55: Memphis Rock & Roll Homecoming
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • I know it's "only Rock and Roll," but I LOVE it!
 Class of '55: Memphis Rock & Roll Homecoming
Various Artists
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ASIN: B000008108
Release Date: 2000-04-25

Tracks:

  1. Birth of Rock & Roll
  2. Sixteen Candles
  3. Class of '55
  4. Waymore's Blues
  5. We Remember the King
  6. Coming Home
  7. Rock & Roll (Fais Do Do)
  8. Keep My Motor Running
  9. I Will Rock & Roll With You
  10. Big Train (From Memphis)

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars I know it's "only Rock and Roll," but I LOVE it!.......2003-09-13

OK, CERTAINLY it could've been produced better - but, hey, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Jerry Lee Lewis all on one CD, commemorating the birth of Rock and Roll? Like Perkins sings in "Birth Of Rock And Roll," "I was here when it all happened - I watched Memphis give birth to rock and roll." And that's the truth, folks. Yes, it is WAY too slickly produced (WHY Chips Moman and NOT Sam Phillips?), but these guys - and, of course, The King, Elvis - INVENTED Rock And Roll. Notice I said "Rock And Roll" there, NOT "rock," there's all the difference in the world. Yeah, these guys were making this kind of music back when it was DANGEROUS. I guess the current generation knows only of Roy Orbison by way of the (one-off) Traveling Wilburys back in (whew..1988), or Johnny Cash by (ugh) "Boy Named Sue," or Jerry Lee by the allegations of his...naughtiness. But if you want to know how rock and roll originally sounded, check out the afore-mentioned Carl Perkins song, or, especially, Jerry Lee's "Keep My Motor Running." (yup, you can just BET "motor" was a metaphor...) The tour-de-force of the CD, though, is John Fogerty's "Big Train From Memphis," which has a veritable who's who of everybody who was THERE when rock and roll got started, including Sam Phillips, Chips Moman, and some PRIMO rockers, Ricky Nelson and John Fogerty. (It even has the-love(s)-of-my-life, Naomi and Wynonna Judd...) OK, quit listening to your "alt-rock" radio station for about half an hour and dig this CD. You'll understand why a lot of people think Rock and Roll died when Elvis did. And, by the way, get "The Best Of Big Daddy" while IT'S still available!
ER
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Not for all tastes (or pockets) but ineffable, enchanting, and profoundly aesthetic.
  • GREAT TRUMPET PLAYER, GOOD ALBUM
 ER
Nils Petter Molvær
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ASIN: B000BBRZUG
Release Date: 2005-10-24

Tracks:

  1. Hover
  2. Softer
  3. Water
  4. Only These Things Count
  5. Sober
  6. Darker
  7. Feeder
  8. Dancer

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Not for all tastes (or pockets) but ineffable, enchanting, and profoundly aesthetic........2006-12-06

Upon reading the titles of the tracks on "ER," I was prepared for a Windham Hill sampler of programmatic "nature-music" pieces. But Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer's muse, it soon becomes evident, is more closely related to the genius presiding over "In a Silent Way," "Bitches Brew" and similar projects by some of Miles Davis' '70s progeny. It's New Age music with a beat, but with nuanced textures mixed so deliberately and motifs insinuated so subtly that the inattentive listener is likely to miss altogether the gossamer fabric of these fragile yet frequently appealing, inviting constructions.

Molvaer's trumpet is too much in the background for this music to be mistaken for a Miles Davis session. Instead, the horn becomes another vibrant freqency floating in the sonic ether, whether producing muted plaintive sounds without the mute or suggesting a momentary chill when Molvaer blows through his mouthpiece sans horn. Even the multiple tracking of the instrument along with the layering of bird calls and human voices does little to disturb the Noh-like stillness of "Water," following "Softer" like diaphanous gauze yielding to the glimpse of a golden carp suspended in a moon-lit pool.

"Only These Things Count" is verbalized, sung moreover in English, thus threatening to rupture the listener's connection with the safe and magical harbor of the musical Zen garden. But soon the churning textures of the accompaniment lead to another quiet, intimate moment during which Molvaer's breathy trumpet supplies incandescent incantations over a single sustained pitch, a note evoking a wordless plainsong resonating with the dynamic energy field of consciousness itself.

The next piece, "Darker," momentarily establishes an almost funky groove, perhaps Molvaer's turn to run the voodoo down, but again he moves skyward, as "Feeder" offers the most extended, extreme trumpet solo on the CD--loud in dynamics or high in register only relative to its previous unobtrusive presence. The role of the trumpet as an "individual" voice is an open-ended question in music of such exacting scale and ecological balance.

"Dancer," the final piece--or, more precisely, movement of a continuous work (there are no silences between the compositions)--is descriptive of the acoustic properties of the piece itself, which emphasizes the rhythms of primitive percussion. But in its metaphoric invoking of dance, it's also an interpretive, revelatory key to Molvaer's paradoxical and poetic, even mystical, compositions that blur the lines between soloist and accompaniment, text and context, confounding any attempts at easy categorization of this music.

The listener's epiphany is that "ER" is, above all, a delicate but vital and indivisible organism, recalling if not demonstrating the understanding implicit in the poet W.B. Yeats' famous question about the relationship between the artist and his creation: "How can you know the dancer from the dance?"

4 out of 5 stars GREAT TRUMPET PLAYER, GOOD ALBUM.......2005-11-08

Nils Petter Molvaer has made some good music over the years. His trumpetplaying is very moody and he can set an atmosphere that not a lot of people can. The beats and electronics he uses are unique. The beats and sounds he uses create a lot of space in wich he can let a solo come to full advantage. The particular Molvaer-sound is only to be heard in the group of musicians Molvaer works with (the guitarist Eivind Aarset for instance; try his album Electronique Noir!).
I own three albums of Molvaer: Khmer, NP3 and ER. The first one (Khmer, 5 stars easily) is without a doubt the best. Most songs take their time to develop, but there always is a lot going on. Within the songs the tempo or volume build up. The beats are not the only things that count. And that maybe is Molvaer's trap: he manages to make his beats sound better and better, but they become so important that the rest of the music gets less attention.
NP3 had bigger beats than Khmer, but the album as a whole is a bit flat. But it's the most accessible and if possible happy one.
ER is down. Way down. And I like that. The album starts of really good. The first song is a killer! The second one is very sad. The intro's the songs lead to good beats that have a good dark atmosphere. But just like NP3 I miss the evolution of the songs beyond the beat. When Molvaer could pull that off again he could make a 6 star album.
There's one thing about the album I almost forgot to mention: there are voices on two of the songs of the album. The voice of Sidsel Endresen is a treat. She doesn't sound like a jazzsinger, and I/m glad about that. It wouldn't fitt. The singing is like a beat up Sally Oldfield or holds somewhere in the middle of Portishead and Clannad. Very tastefull!

When you don't own a Molvaer-album and you've got nothing against fantastic electronic beats, soundscapes and trumpet you must get yourself a Molvaer-album. This album for me is a five star album untill song number six. It's good enough, especialy the way the beats are recorded is good, but I believe Khmer has more to offer.
Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Sweet!
 Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits
Girls Aloud
Manufacturer: Umvd Import
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ASIN: B000KGGB20
Release Date: 2006-12-11

Tracks:

  1. Sound of the Underground
  2. Love Machine
  3. Biology
  4. No Good Advice
  5. I'll Stand by You
  6. Jump
  7. Show
  8. See the Day
  9. Wake Me Up
  10. Life Got Cold
  11. Something Kinda Ooooh
  12. Whole Lotta History
  13. Long Hot Summer

Album Description

South East Asian pressing of this 2006 compilation featuring the very best of this female quintet, who found their first taste of fame on Popstars, the UK's version of American Idol. After three hit albums and 12 Top Ten singles (including two number ones), Girls Aloud are one of the very few reality TV acts to achieve continued success. The Sound Of Girls Loud features 14 tracks including the newly-recorded single 'Something Kinda Ooooh'. Polydor.

Album Details

This 15 Track Disc Includes Girls Aloud's Astonishing Run of 12 Top Ten Singles. They have Had More Consecutive Top Ten Singles that Any Other Girl Band Beating the Likes of Spice Girls and Destiny's Child. All of the Singles Are Included, from the #1s "Sound of the Underground" and "i'll Stand By."

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Sweet!.......2007-05-08

Anyone who likes dance music must buy this album!. There is nothing bad I could say about this CD.
20th Century Masters
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    		20th Century Masters
    Mac Davis
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    ASIN: B000HD145K
    Release Date: 2006-09-18

    Tracks:

    1. It's Hard to Be Humble
    2. Hooked on Music
    3. Stop and Smell the Roses
    4. Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me
    5. Rodeo Clown
    6. You're My Bestest Friend
    7. Secrets
    8. Texas in My Rearview Mirror
    9. Let's Keep It That Way
    10. Midnight Crazy
    11. Shame on the Moon
    12. Most of All
    This Is Northern Soul! The Motown Sound, Vol. 1
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • ATTENTION !! ALL MOTOWN ADDICTS
    • Good value 2CD
    		 This Is Northern Soul! The Motown Sound, Vol. 1
    Various Artists
    Manufacturer: Umvd Import
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    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B00007MBZA
    Release Date: 2005-05-09

    Tracks:

    1. Think It Over
    2. Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)
    3. This Love Starved Heart Of Mine
    4. Goodbye Cruel World
    5. Share A Little Love With Me (Somebody)
    6. Forever In My Heart Aka Come On Back To Me Baby
    7. I'm Still Loving You
    8. He's All I Got
    9. Just Walk In My Shoes
    10. Keep On Lovin' Me
    11. Crying In The Night
    12. You Hit Me (Where It Hurt Me)
    13. (Like A )Nightmare
    14. Thrill A Moment
    15. I'll Keep Holding On
    16. Truly Yours
    17. When I'm Gone
    18. Just A Little Misunderstanding
    19. No One Could Ever Love You More
    20. You Ain't Saying Nothing New
    21. Goodnight Irene
    22. I Gotta Find A Way (To Get You Back)
    23. What More Could A Boy Ask For
    24. It's Too Late For You And Me
    25. Suspicion
    26. Your Love Can Save Me
    27. Just Ain't Enough Love
    28. Lonely, Lonely Girl Am I
    29. Lonely Boy
    30. Baby Come Home To Me
    31. I Gotta Let You Go
    32. When I Fell The Need Aka It's My Baby
    33. For The Love Of Mike
    34. Baby Hit & Run
    35. Tune Up
    36. My Weakness Is You
    37. One Way Out
    38. I Ain't Going Nowhere
    39. Tell Me It's Just A Rumour Baby
    40. Two Can Have A Party
    41. My Smile Is Just A Frown Turned Upside Down
    42. Oh I've Been Blessed
    43. I'll Always Love You
    44. These Things Will Keep Me Loving You
    45. This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)
    46. Bird In The Hand (Is Worth Two In The Bush)
    47. Sweet Thing
    48. Lonely Lover

    Album Description

    2-CD set featuring magical names that should proudly stand alongside the million-sellers because together they were instrumental in building the world's most successful black music company, whose importance has spanned almost four decades. Artists include

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars ATTENTION !! ALL MOTOWN ADDICTS .......2007-01-16

    THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST COLLECTIONS TO COME OUT OF THE MOTOWN VAULTS IN A LONG TIME. IT WAS ACTUALLY RELEASED ON THE DEBUTAUNT LABEL IN THE 90's.
    I WENT AHEAD AND BOUGHT IT ON MY OF MY TRIPS TO N.Y.C.
    I DID CARTWHEELS OUT OF THAT STORE !! HOWEVER I WAS A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED THAT SOME OF THE TRACKS WERE OF POOR SOUND QUALITY.

    THAT'S WHY I THINK THIS RE-RELEASE IS SUPERB, EVERY TRACK SOUNDS EXCELLENT !! RIGHT FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER !!!!
    YOU REALLY DON'T WANT TO MISS A CHANCE TO GRAB THIS ONE !!!

    4 out of 5 stars Good value 2CD.......2006-03-09

    This attractively priced 2CD replaces two separately issued CDs that appeared on the D?butante label in 1997 and 1998. The title of this reissue is slightly confusing as the original releases were called This Is Northern Soul Volumes One and Two.

    They were much heralded at the time as several of the items had never been officially released before, but were well known from the clubs, where scratchy acetates and treasured bootlegs had been played to Northern Soul fans. While the sound quality was obviously better on the CD releases, and the general availability much welcomed, some of the tracks had clearly been transferred from vinyl pressings and some of them were in reprocessed fake stereo.

    For this reissue on the Motown label, through the Universal Music Group, only the original Detroit analogue masters have been used for the digital remastering. Reprocessed stereo has been quite rightly eliminated and there is thankfully no vinyl surface noise, representing a significant improvement for most of the tracks. The Temptations' previously unreleased Forever In My Heart was included in the speeded-up master used in the clubs before and is now restored to the proper speed, as found on their Lost And Found CD, and The Andante's (Like A) Nightmare, which had surfaced briefly as a V.I.P. single in 1964, is ten second longer than before (but check out the extended stereo remix on The Motown Box). Carolyn Crawford's lovely single, written and produced by Smokey Robinson, also gains a couple of seconds and is now cleaner sounding. Frank Wilson's Do I Love You (Indeed Do) was in a great alternative stereo mix with a slightly different vocal to the familiar single, and remains so on this.

    Mostly, however, the remastering and cleaning up has left the tracks slightly shorter than before. Brenda Holloway's previously unreleased Lonely Boy had been allowed to run until only the funky bass line was left in the mix - now it fades a full ten seconds earlier. Her other two tracks Think It Over and When I'm Gone both still appear in mono mixes in preference to the stereo versions on the subsequently released Motown Anthology set; this is also the case with the three Kim Weston tracks. Conversely, the Velvelettes' Lonely Lonely Girl Am I and Bird In The Hand are in stereo mixes that do not appear on their Motown Anthology double CD. The Detroit Spinners' What More Could A Boy Ask For now clocks in at 2.29 whereas before it was 3.08. The Isley Brothers' Tell Me It's Just A Rumour Baby, recorded in 1966, is now a mono mix lasting 3.08 whereas before it was in stereo and of 2.50 duration.

    The Marvelettes' classic I'll Keep Holding On, with a lead vocal from the great Wanda Rogers, is also the well-known original mono mix, though I believe a stereo version has been released somewhere. The Gladys Knight track No One Could Love You More dates from 1967, but was extracted from her 1971 album Standing Ovation for a UK B-side a couple of years later. She can sing just about anybody under the table and all her three tracks are wonderful. Junior Walker's I Ain't Going Nowhere was another popular UK B-side. The oldest recording in the collection is Linda Griner's Goodbye Cruel Love, recorded in June 1962 and a single for Motown in 1963.

    Virgil Henry's You Ain't Sayin' Nothing New may be the most recent, but is a bit of an oddity, having been originally released for Jerry Ross's Colossus label as a flipside (Colossus 115), and the same single coupling appeared on Tamla 54212F in 1971, possibly remixed, while Jerry Ross was briefly Berry Gordy's New York A&R man. The mastertape was in less than perfect condition on the 1997 release and is not improved here. Some collectors believe it to have been recorded in New York with local musicians as early as 1966 and this is the publication date given here, though it sounds more recent. The Temptations' I Gotta Find A Way comes from their Norman Whitfield-produced Cloud Nine album of 1969 but had been in the can since October 1963, so dating a track can be problematic.

    As always, the music is of the highest order and fully recommended, and only the more avid collector, of which there are many, will be concerned with the specifics detailed above, which are not annotated in the sleeve notes.
    Sound Affects
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • The best album from one of the world's greatest ever bands
    • Great Album
    • Stunning effort by a maturing punk band.
    • Band hits pinnacle of their career next-to-last LP
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    		 Sound Affects
    The Jam
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    ASIN: B000001FAG
    Release Date: 2004-08-24

    Tracks:

    1. Pretty Green
    2. Monday
    3. But I'm Different Now
    4. Set The House Ablaze
    5. Start!
    6. That's Entertainment
    7. Dream Time
    8. Man In The Corner Shop
    9. Music For The Last Couple
    10. Boy About Town
    11. Scrape Away

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    By the time the Jam released Sound Affects, they were well on their way out of their angled, clean-guitar choppiness and headed toward a pop amalgam that loaned itself to horns, strings, and more. "Pretty Green" is something like its title, a very pretty little tune that hints at things other than what lies on the rest of the album. "That's Entertainment" became the band's acoustic zenith, urgent and strong in its lyrical collision of everyday life and postmodern society mechanisms. There are danceable hoppers such as "Start!" and motoring energizers such as "Set the House Ablaze," and all of it seems to coincide in a great, effortless sway of styles as they run into and through each other. --Andrew Bartlett

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    5 out of 5 stars The best album from one of the world's greatest ever bands.......2004-11-25

    It's difficult to define what the Jam really mean to me as there's always that risk of pidgeonholing them and thus reducing them, but in the rare case of the Jam the music speaks for itself. I'm sure likeminded people who really love the Jam will know what I mean and admit that the band's music is more than just a collection of great songs, but instead a soundtrack to life, particularly for those like me who lived in Britain at the time the songs were written and recorded. Weller's songs speak of how we all feel but could never quite put into words and the Jam were always about speaking to young people one-on-one from a mutual standpoint and never as the "idolised pop group singing to the starry-eyed fans that hang on their every word". The Jam's first two albums were essentially punk records while their following albums showed a broad range of influences including the Small Faces, the Who, the Kinks, the Beatles, Tamla Motown and, in the last year or so of their career, soul and funk. Paul Weller's songwriting abilities already reached incredible heights on the album "All Mod Cons" and progressed even further on "Setting Sons", but for me, the next album, "Sounds Affects" is the one that continues to stand out and is, in my view, the album that displays the peak of Weller's songwriting. Some critics have cited "Sound Affects" as the Jam's "Revolver" and it's not difficult to see why. In fact, the Beatles' "Revolver" was played relentlessly by the group on the tour they embarked on prior to entering the studio to record "Sound Affects" and it's influence is clearly audible here, from the backwards guitars on "Dream Time" and "That's Entertainment" to the bass riff from "Taxman" on "Start!". There isn't a bad song on the album. From the infectious opening bass line of "Pretty Green" to the closing fade of "Scrape Away", this album perfectly captures the angst, boredom and frustration felt in the dawn of Thatcher's Britain at the dawn of a new decade. The line "Pissing down with rain and boring Wednesdays" from "That's Entertainment" sums it all up, and it is also clearly felt in the track "Set The House Ablaze", but there are still glimmers of optimism shown in the Ray Davies-esque "Monday" and "Man In The Corner Shop". A truly great album is one that evokes the times when it was recorded but that also still carries momentum, and sometimes even relevance, when listening to it today. "Sound Affects" is one such album.

    5 out of 5 stars Great Album.......2000-08-28

    The Jam's Sound Afects, although hardly punk, is a great album. It is more like pop rock. Paul Weller was a great song writer and this album shows that. The highlights of the album are Monday, Start!, That's Entertainment and Man In The Corner Shop.

    4 out of 5 stars Stunning effort by a maturing punk band........2000-07-11

    The Jam took British punk music and made it into something more, and each album finds them exploring a different facit of their sound. "Sound Affects" is between the era of hard mod rock and soul seen on the final album. It begins with the punkish "Pretty Green" and immediatly slows into the almost dreary "Monday". The optimistic "But I'm Different Now" is of lesser quality, but short. "Set the House Ablaze" is another hard song with an interesting minor key lead line. "Start" takes the Beatles "Taxman" bassline and adds in Paul Weller's mod sensablities to make it a new song. "That's Entertainment" is a dark and moody acoustic song exploring the ups and downs of life. "Dream Time" and "Music for the Last Couple" are interesting and unique, but are somehow rather forgetable as well. "Man in the Corner Shop" is another Beatles take-off, borrowing from "Here Comes the Sun" a guitar line that Paul makes his own. "Boy About Town" is quintesential mod-pop with a cheery trumpet solo. The album closer is an abrupt change in mood, showing Weller at his nastiest and most blunt" ("Your twisted cynicism makes me feel sick... The trouble is your thoughts a catching disease"). Overall, this album mirrors the Beatles "Revolver" in its vague psychedelic vibe, rock sensiblities and solid songwriting indicative of a great band and talented songwriter.

    5 out of 5 stars Band hits pinnacle of their career next-to-last LP.......2000-06-19

    After hitting a new peak with their third LP, "All Mod Cons," their fourth LP, "Setting Sons" seemed to lose focus. This followup, and their next-to-last studio LP, put it all back together: the punchy instrumentalism of their debut, the strong songwriting and melodicism of "All Mod Cons," and a strong dash of poeticism in the lyrics. It's truly Paul Weller's most consistent and powerful set of songs to date.

    Musically this draws heavily from Revolver-era Beatles. The psychedelic touches are spare, but the guitar and basslines echo the tone of the Beatles '66 release. Lyrically, Weller moves away from the storytelling he'd become so adept at and uses more poetic forms. "Man in the Corner Shop," for example, is a brilliantly formed lyric that describes a community's chain of envy, and "That's Entertainment" creates images that stick in the mind long after the LP's finished playing.

    Through and through this is the Jam's highpoint, and perhaps the finest example of Britain's rock 'n' roll of the era. It's an amazing document of how far this band evolved in the three years since their debut.

    5 out of 5 stars This is what makes Britpop so great!.......2000-02-08

    I was actually very pleasantly surprised to find quite a few American fans of The Jam. I think it's such a shame that Paul Weller never made it as big in America as he did in England. Feel that he is probably one of the most talented musicians of all time. Although, the songs are not as polished and refined as the stuff he did on "Wild Wood" and "Heavy Soul", there is this raw beauty to every track that makes this album so wonderful to listen to. Songs such as "Start!" and "Pretty Green", just to name a couple off the top of my head are just so upbeat and energetic, you can't help but get them stuck in your head for hours after you've finished listening to the album. This album is a must have for all fans of Blur, Pulp and yes even Oasis. Heck, Paul Weller did appear on their hit song "Champagne Supernova" after all (the only redeeming quality of the song). You won't be disappointed.

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