Track Listings
| 1. Genepool |
| 2. Sex, Cash and Fuel |
| 3. Highest Ground |
| 4. Coldfront |
| 5. Two Into One |
| 6. Not To Love You |
| 7. Flowers |
| 8. Love Replaces Love |
| 9. Just Like That |
| 10. The Sidewalk Ends |
Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Melodrome delivers contemporary rock music with a slight retro flavour. Think U2 meets Beck and then hangs out with the Stones. Simple, pulsing drums, smooth, tight bass lines, haunting guitars and a hypnotic vocal sound combine to make a sound so deep it might change your DNA. They are contemporary rock with an emotional resonance, lyrical, but with an edge. Melodrome blends sampling with the warmth of vintage recording gear to create a sound that is theirs alone.
Robby Baier: singer, guitar, songwriter Robby brings to this recording a solid background as a performer and songwriter, having most recently won the Musician's Atlas 2002 Independent Music Award for Best Pop/Rock Artist. His songs have appeared in various films and TV shows over the years including: Drowning Mona, The Brutal Truth, Judging Amy, Touched by an Angel, Robocop, and Walker Texas Ranger. In 1989, the year the Berlin Wall came down, Robby was the leader of Pearls at Swine, a Berlin-based rock band signed to BMG Records. He now lives in Housatonic, an old mill town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he has converted the former train station into a recording studio. Robby played and recorded all the instruments on his 1998 debut solo album,"Soultube". The Boston Herald has said, "Baier sounds like Mick Jagger under the guidance of Ani diFranco" and NorthEast Performer Magazine called his CD "an album of singular vision and wrenching honesty, a collection ofdeep! ly moving aural canvases". Robby has been nominated for two Boston Music Awards.
Jesko Stahl: bass, vocals Jesko was also a member of Pearls at Swine in Germany. He relocated to New York City three years ago, and has recorded and performed with numerous New York bands including Punch Havana, Aerosol, Fagen, Stella Soleil and Thirst. Jesko has composed the music two independent films, The Fly and The Last Minute of JKF. With Robby, he produced Meg Hutchinson's CD, Against the Gray, and together they engineered, mixed, and produced the Melodrome CD.
Matt Sloan: drums, vocals Matt studied drums with renowned jazz drummer Randy Kaye (Jimmy Giuffre, Jimi Hendrix). Besides being a drummer, he plays a number of other instruments including guitar, bass, and keyboard, and is currently working on his debut solo CD. Matt has recorded and toured with former Virgin recording artist Mark Curry, as well as numerous local and regional acts.
Darren Todd: guitar, vocals A gifted multi-instrumentalist, producer and session player, Darren is well versed in many genres and is an accomplished performer and instructor of classical guitar. Darrren has recorded and toured internationally with Arlo Guthrie, including performances at Farm Aid and Carnegie Hall. One of his projects included conjuring up experimental sounds with the avant garde Big Spider Tribe.
Product Description
"The Sidewalk Ends" is packed with interesting and engaging work, from the spareness of the love song "Higher Ground" to the rap and tight syncopation of "Genepool." Melodrome remembers that even though the machines can cook up a lot of magic, the human voice, left to its own, as in the natural and lovely "Two Into One," can't be matched. In song after song Baier and company tease out appealing new sounds, rhythms and feelings. The retro "Sex, Cash & Fuel" has the spunk of an old James Gang song. "Love Replaces Love" is wonderfully spooky and strange. Overall, the disc is rich on atmospherics and invention, but not to excess. At its heart, "The Sidewalk Ends" is a round peg for the round hole of rock, even if it needs a bit of body English to slide it in. Like Beck, Baier shows an ability to masquerade as someone else, but do so with dead-on accuracy and credibility. It's a disguise, you know, but oh my, how well it fits.
The Sidewalk Ends,Melodrome,SoulTube,Contemporary pop/rock with a slight retro flavor. U2 meets Beck and hangs out with the Stones.,Rock/Pop
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  General
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If you've heard Shel Silverstein's bawdy Freakin' at the Freakers Ball, your notion of the man who wrote Where the Sidewalk Ends might've been skewered. Silverstein was nothing if not a tad twisted. But his twists and turns in world of children's arts were well considered and infectiously charming. When he recorded poems and rhymes from Sidewalk, the book was nearly a decade old. But he brought the words to life, albeit a funky, sometimes nasally delivered, sometimes abruptly jolted life. Silverstein knew that his changes in voice pitch, his quickly dashed mixes of spare guitar and pinched singsong delivery, and, most of all, his rhythmically fetching words were ideal for hearing. Sidewalk, which took home a 1984 Grammy for best children's album, still stands boldly above (or at least apart from) so much of what's recorded for kids. One should expect nothing less than pretzeled genius from the guy who wrote such pop hits as "The Unicorn," "A Boy Named Sue," and "On the Cover of Rolling Stone." And that's what comes through on this expanded Sidewalk, with its 11 newly added snippets (including "Hector the Collector," "Hungry Mungry," and "If I Had a Brontosaurus"). If it's a rhyme you're after, look no further. --Andrew BartlettCustomer Reviews:
Love it!.......2007-04-15
It's a classic.......2007-02-06
Shel Silverstein Brings His Poems To Life.......2007-01-15
quickly arrived.......2006-03-12
Where the Sidewalk Ends - Audio.......2005-10-17
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
| Folk
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Children's Music
| Styles
| Music
Folk Music
| Children's Music
| Styles
| Music
Poetry
| Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews
| Miscellaneous
| Styles
| Music
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ASIN: B000002602 Release Date: 1992-09-22 |
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Amazon.com
If you've heard Shel Silverstein's bawdy Freakin' at the Freakers Ball, your notion of the man who wrote Where the Sidewalk Ends might've been skewered. Silverstein was nothing if not a tad twisted. But his twists and turns in world of children's arts were well considered and infectiously charming. When he recorded poems and rhymes from Sidewalk, the book was nearly a decade old. But he brought the words to life, albeit a funky, sometimes nasally delivered, sometimes abruptly jolted life. Silverstein knew that his changes in voice pitch, his quickly dashed mixes of spare guitar and pinched singsong delivery, and, most of all, his rhythmically fetching words were ideal for hearing. Sidewalk, which took home a 1984 Grammy for best children's album, still stands boldly above (or at least apart from) so much of what's recorded for kids. One should expect nothing less than pretzeled genius from the guy who wrote such pop hits as "The Unicorn," "A Boy Named Sue," and "On the Cover of Rolling Stone." And that's what comes through on this expanded Sidewalk, with its 11 newly added snippets (including "Hector the Collector," "Hungry Mungry," and "If I Had a Brontosaurus"). If it's a rhyme you're after, look no further. --Andrew BartlettCustomer Reviews:
Love it!.......2007-04-15
It's a classic.......2007-02-06
Shel Silverstein Brings His Poems To Life.......2007-01-15
quickly arrived.......2006-03-12
Where the Sidewalk Ends - Audio.......2005-10-17
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
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Album Description
"The Sidewalk Ends" is packed with interesting and engaging work, from the spareness of the love song "Higher Ground" to the rap and tight syncopation of "Genepool." Melodrome remembers that even though the machines can cook up a lot of magic, the human voice, left to its own, as in the natural and lovely "Two Into One," can't be matched. In song after song Baier and company tease out appealing new sounds, rhythms and feelings. The retro "Sex, Cash & Fuel" has the spunk of an old James Gang song. "Love Replaces Love" is wonderfully spooky and strange. Overall, the disc is rich on atmospherics and invention, but not to excess. At its heart, "The Sidewalk Ends" is a round peg for the round hole of rock, even if it needs a bit of body English to slide it in. Like Beck, Baier shows an ability to masquerade as someone else, but do so with dead-on accuracy and credibility. It's a disguise, you know, but oh my, how well it fits.Customer Reviews:
fabulous!! Melodrome new U2.......2003-11-14
Sort of like a Porsche on the open road........2003-09-21
Best record I have bought since the first Coldplay record.......2003-02-14
Couldn't believe my ears.......2003-02-01
If you like Gin Blossoms, early Oasis, bit of Ska and Stones groove to these guys
melodrome ROCKS!!!.......2002-12-16
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