Cruising With Ruben & the Jets [Import] [Limited Edition]
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Track Listings
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1. Cheap Thrills
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2. Love of My Life
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3. How Could I Be Such a Fool?
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4. Deseri
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5. I'm Not Satisfied
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6. Jelly Roll Gum Drop
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7. Anything
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8. Later That Night
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9. You Didn't Try to Call Me
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10. Fountain of Love
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11. No. No. No.
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12. Any Way the Wind Blows
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13. Stuff Up the Cracks
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Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Japanese limited edition reissue of 1968 album, packaged in a miniature gatefold LP sleeve.
Cruising with Ruben & the Jets,The Mothers of Invention,Vido Arts,Comedy Rock,Doo Wop,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop
Cruising With Ruben & the Jets [Import] [Limited Edition]
Average customer rating:
- Beware: This is NOT the Original Recording Remastered
- Really close to a masterpiece
- omg
- Avoid the "colorized" CD and get the original if you can find it.
- One facet of many
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Cruising with Ruben & the Jets
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
Manufacturer: Zappa Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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| Oldies
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| Comedic Music
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ASIN: B0000009S0
Release Date: 1995-05-16 |
Tracks:
- Cheap Thrills
- Love Of My Life
- How Could I Be Such A Fool
- Deseri
- I'm Not Satisfied
- Jelly Roll Gum Drop
- Anything
- Later That Night
- You Didn't try To Call Me
- Fountain Of love
- 'No. No. No. '
- Anyway The Wind Blows
- Stuff Up The Cracks
Customer Reviews:
Beware: This is NOT the Original Recording Remastered.......2007-04-20
I now own 2 copies of the 1980s didgial remix because this page claims to be the original recording remastered...unfortuneately Roy Estarda's bass and Jummy Carl Black's drums have been replaced with the 1980s sound of Arthur Barrow's Bass and Chad Wackerman's Drums. Ryko please release the actual Original recordings remastered like you did for 'We're Only In It For The Money'
Really close to a masterpiece.......2007-04-07
Zappa goes back to his roots & writes what I would call a doo wop album,although it is much more than that. Every Zappa fan should own this one. A good first album to start with if you are not a Zappa fan as is 'HOT RATS'. I love the way Zappa sucker-punches everyone with the outro guitar on 'STUFF UP THE CRACKS'. I don't know if the man was genius or not but he left some impressive music behind.
omg.......2007-03-10
omg it's like, totally, what? i don't remember. i was there in the '60s but this like, totally....what? I don't remember. Get the vinyl.
Avoid the "colorized" CD and get the original if you can find it........2006-07-31
I own both the LP and the "new & improved" CD, and it's the original that I ripped to MP3s for regular listening. With all due respect to Frank Zappa, who's been one of my heroes since the late 60s, and who is the undisputed father of art rock, progressive rock, jazz-rock fusion, punk, alt and just about every other musical style that came after him, this reissue was simply not a very good job. Tacking on some bloated bass, drum rolls and snarky vocals to this gem of an album would have been vandalism if it hadn't been the vandal's own work. Frankly I find it hard to believe that Zappa actually did this himself, such a perfectionist would have made an effort to integrate the new stuff into the original mix. Since the LP can now be had for reasonable prices, buy a clean one (the recording isn't great but the pressings were generally pretty good), add a little bass & treble boost if you need to, and enjoy one of the best albums of 50s music, and THE BEST PARODY of 50s music, of all time.
One facet of many.......2006-05-29
Each of the LP's recorded by The Mothers Of Invention had, or has, a special flavor to seperate itself from the others. As men born in the late 1930's and early 1940's, they grew up listening to the type of music featured exclusively on this disc. And they play it well, but I personally think it was two-fold: One, to have some fun recording the music of their roots, and two, as proof to their detractors that they can play "real" music. Just an opinion, but I believe this to be the case.
The reworking of the tracks on this disc has gotten some praise, and a lot of criticism. The "Official" story has the original master tapes being improperly stored in the vaults for all those years by Warner Brothers, and after Zappa regained legal possession of the tapes, he had to remaster them, as the bass and the drum tracks were unusable. This could be the case. But the puzzler is, even if this were the case, he could have just cleaned up a good copy of the tape as was available, like what happened with "We're Only In It For The Money." Some fidelity is lost, but you do get to hear the original work as it came out the first time. And it is easy to make a "before-and-after" comparison here, because the run-off track, "Stuff Up The Cracks" is unretouched. And you can tell a big difference in the sound. The other tracks sound cleaner and "newer," but the element of it being a time piece is lost. It's supposed to sound like a bunch of old, greasy songs from the 1950's, you don't need to be a mind reader to know this. But as usual, Frank Zappa was looking for ways to improve his work, constantly changing the running order of songs, putting a new version of an old song on a new release, making it more accessable, and the like, but I agree with most of the reviewers on this site, the "improvements" were to the original work's detriment. If anything, he could have just cleaned up the sound a bit.
But overall, it still is a really good record by a really good band, even if it isn't the full compliment of original players.
Average customer rating:
- Cruising with Ruben and the Jets- Remixed version
- Not the origonal mix
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Cruising with Ruben & the Jets
The Mothers of Invention
Manufacturer: Vido Arts
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Rock
| Styles
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Progressive Rock
| Progressive
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rock
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Doo Wop
| Oldies
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Comedy Rock
| Comedic Music
| Comedy
| Miscellaneous
| Styles
| Music
Progressive
| Rock
| Indie Music
| Stores
| Music
Rock
| Imports
| Stores
| Music
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ASIN: B00005MIIY
Release Date: 2002-04-25 |
Tracks:
- Cheap Thrills
- Love of My Life
- How Could I Be Such a Fool?
- Deseri
- I'm Not Satisfied
- Jelly Roll Gum Drop
- Anything
- Later That Night
- You Didn't Try to Call Me
- Fountain of Love
- No. No. No.
- Any Way the Wind Blows
- Stuff Up the Cracks
Album Description
Japanese limited edition reissue of 1968 album, packaged in a miniature gatefold LP sleeve.
Album Details
Japanese Version featuring a Limited LP Style Slipcase Cover. Strictly Limited to 2000 Copies!
Customer Reviews:
Cruising with Ruben and the Jets- Remixed version.......2005-11-15
This is a review of the remix, not the music, which is great. I too, was disappointed with the remixed version of this classic album. My understanding is that the master tapes of Ruben have been lost, and all that remains is the mid '80s remix. Is the LP of this record still available? Has any one burned a version from the original LP? If you haven't heard the original 1968 mix of Cruising with Ruben and the Jets, then you haven't really heard this great record .
Not the origonal mix.......2005-09-13
I hoped this would be the real thing. Not so. It is the mid 80's remix with the replaced bass & drum tracks. All the origonal cover art is restored, just not the music. Damn.
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Cruising with Ruben & the Jets
The Mothers of Invention
Manufacturer: Rykodisc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Doo Wop
| Oldies
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Comedy Rock
| Comedic Music
| Comedy
| Miscellaneous
| Styles
| Music
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ASIN: B00000E7MH
Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
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- Cheap Thrills
- Love of My Life
- How Could I Be Such a Fool?
- Deseri
- I'm Not Satisfied
- Jelly Roll Gum Drop
- Anything
- Later That Night
- You Didn't Try to Call Me
- Fountain of Love
- No. No. No.
- Any Way the Wind Blows
- Stuff Up the Cracks
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