Pigpen's Birthday [Live]

pigpen's birthday [live]

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Featuring the same set list that permeated most of Fish's first solo outing after his split from Marillion, Pigpens Birthday is an impressive live recording on 2 CD's taken from the singer's second sold out show at London's legendary Hammersmith Odeon in April of 1990. A Griffin Release.

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Pigpen's Birthday [Live]
75th Birthday Bash Live!
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    		75th Birthday Bash Live!
    Kenny Burrell
    Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000O5BP64
    Release Date: 2007-06-19

    Tracks:

    1. Vivo Tirado
    2. Medley: Stormy Monday/Blues For the Count
    3. Romance
    4. Love You Madly
    5. Sophisticated Lady
    6. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
    7. Footprints
    8. Lament
    9. All Blues
    10. A Night In Tunisia
    11. I'll Close My Eyes
    12. Take the 'A' Train

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    Kenny Burrell turned 75 on July 31, 2006. That night he finished a five-day run at Yoshi's in Oakland and then the next day played with the Gerald Wilson Orchestra in Santa Cruz. This CD commemorates the occasion with performances from both nights, presenting Burrell's sparkling guitar in settings that range from an intimate trio to fronting Wilson's 17 -piece band. The material reflects Burrell's long career and broad associations. Among the small group tracks, there's a beautiful quartet sequence of Wayne Shorter's "Footprints," J.J. Johnson's "Lament," and Miles Davis's "All Blues," each demonstrating Burrell's consummate lyricism and absolute mastery of the mainstream modern. The big-band tracks pick up on associations with Duke Ellington, including the elegant "Sophisticated Lady" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," with the 88-year-old Wilson providing a sparkling foundation that has Burrell and company soaring. Best of all is the extended "A Night in Tunisia" with a septet that has organist Joey DeFrancesco and flutist Hubert Laws. --Stuart Broomer
    Live In Dublin
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Would you like ketchup with your bug?
    • he makes you get up and dance
    • Live in Dublin
    • Live in Dublin
    • Live audience is great.
    		 Live In Dublin
    Andre Rieu
    Manufacturer: Denon Records
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0000CABHH
    Release Date: 2003-10-07

    Tracks:

    1. Dark Eyes
    2. Thunder & Lightning
    3. The Merry Widow
    4. Song of the Volga Boatman
    5. Hor Ich Zimbalklange
    6. Espana Cani (Bull)
    7. O Mio Babbino Caro
    8. The Blue Danube Waltz
    9. Announcement Olympia Song
    10. Song of Olympia (puppet)
    11. My Heart Will Go On (Titanic)
    12. All Men Shall Be Brothers - Beethoven 9th
    13. Radetzky March
    14. Opera Potpourri
    15. The Red Rose Cafe
    16. The Marino Waltz
    17. Irish Washerwoman
    18. The Last Rose
    19. Chianti Song
    20. Lullaby

    Album Description

    Recorded at the filming in Dublin's famous downtown train terminal, LIVE IN DUBLIN features Andre and the orchestra performing a collection of old favorites and exciting new selections. Already a smash PBS program LIVE IN DUBLIN captures Andre Rieu and his magical live performances at their most elegant best!

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Would you like ketchup with your bug?.......2007-05-05

    The person who sang O Mio Babbino Caro is Carmen Monarcha. Do a search for her on YouTube; she's really fantastic!

    Anyway, I saw Andre Rieu on a PBS special on television and it looked like such an awesome, high-energy concert! The CD is not so exciting, but it is worth buying just for that beautiful aria.

    5 out of 5 stars he makes you get up and dance.......2007-04-10

    my 3 yr old enjoys this as much as us

    5 out of 5 stars Live in Dublin.......2007-02-17

    The music is really toe tapping and excellent. Andre Rieu is a master of music.

    5 out of 5 stars Live in Dublin.......2006-07-05

    This concert is magnificent in its energy and in the great performances by Andre Rieu and the Johann Stauss orchestra. I watch it when I need lifting up. I love the audience interaction which makes me feel as if I'm there in person.

    5 out of 5 stars Live audience is great........2006-05-03

    This has to be one of Andre's best. The live audience adds much to the music being played. I wish I had been there for the performance.
    Songs of Free Men/ A Paul Robeson Recital
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Robeson on wax
    • The voice, the sound quality and the interpretation
    • A Voice from the 40s, often dated, often moving
    • Robeson at his best
    • some of the greatest songs of the last century
    		 Songs of Free Men/ A Paul Robeson Recital

    Manufacturer: Sony
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    ASIN: B0000029YJ
    Release Date: 1997-12-09

    Tracks:

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

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

    Customer Reviews:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Manufacturer: Decca
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    ASIN: B00000424J
    Release Date: 1994-07-19

    Tracks:

    1. Louise: Depuis le jour
    2. Mariettas Lied
    3. Porgi amor
    4. Befreit
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    4 out of 5 stars A very fine Dame Kiri .......2006-01-05

    Dame Kiri Te Kanawa was never between my favourite singers but I have to admit that she is really a respectable artist and this lovely cd proves how versatile she is and how she managed to keep a fresh and mellow tone even in her fifties. She is really at her best in the extracts from Citizen Kane and the operetta The Enchanteress. It's a pity that no Verdi music is included in the program, Kiri Te Kanawa was a great Amelia (Simon Boccanegra) and a moving Desdemona. A very fine Dame Kiri indeed.

    5 out of 5 stars Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!.......2005-04-15

    OK. I'm going to go out on a limb here. This is, IMHO, Dame Kiri's finest recorded performance.

    I know that's taking in a whole lot of territory, but there is something simply magical, and magisterial, about her singing here.

    Yes, I know "perfection" is that illusive impossibility to be sought but never achieved. However, on this night I think Dame Kiri did achieve perfection.

    Simply a glorious life affirming performance by one of the great singing artists of the last fifty years.

    Dame Kiri, Happy Birthday, and thank you.

    5 out of 5 stars Listen to a real diva!.......2002-12-17

    Kiri's exquisite voice and expansive repertoire make for an unbeatable combination which reaches its crescendo on this special evening. A full symphony orchestra, two choruses, a jazz trio, and even a tenor (!) help Kiri in celebrating her 50th birthday. (That's her chronological age, the voice is timeless.) The hall's accoustics are excellent and orchestra and audience support without intruding. One of the reasons why I love Kiri's singing is that I believe she sings the songs the way the composer wanted them to be sung without the sometimes annoying embellishments employed by others. Kiri includes songs sung in her ancestral Maori in a program that takes the listener from the opera house to Broadway and then to an intimate jazz club. I love live concerts because I feel most artists are at their best before a live audience and this cd is proof. I don't believe that there is another artist recording today that has covered such a wide range of song styles and done it with such beauty and skill. This disc is confirmation. If you only buy one Kiri cd, make it this one. But don't be surprised if you start buying many more!

    5 out of 5 stars She Is the Best.......2002-10-26

    The first time I ever heard the voice of Kiri Te Kanawa was on a recording of Salaambo's aria from CITIZEN KANE for the RCA film classics series on vinyl. It was one of the most haunting and beautiful pieces of music ever composed by Bernard Herrmann. It was Kiri Te Kanawa performance of this piece that was so incredible. I had seen the film several times, but to hear a high fidelity recording of Kiri Te Kanawa on this particular piece really demonstrated not only the raw talent but also a depth of intuitive emotion that she brought to Herrmann's composition. Anyone that could interpret the inner struggle behind Herrmann's music so precisely demonstrated an uncommon ability to become one with the music. I still can't pronounce her name correctly but Kiri Te Kanawa is the epitome of a well-honed talent. She is a gift to us all. This CD is very welcome.

    5 out of 5 stars Brava Kiri!.......2002-08-26

    What a truly breathtaking concert! Kiri is obviously one of the top three divas to surface over the past fifty years!

    Her technique is spotless, her tonality marvelous, and her intonation superb! For those worried about Kiri's "maturing" sound; age has brought a "different" soprano, but one just as lovely as ever...

    The selection of music was fabulous, such a variety brings about an interesting and lively effect...

    Kiri's Greatest Hits Live!, was truly a wonderful addition to my collection...I would recommend it to any opera fan!
    Live, 1981-1982
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • So yeah...
    • Put The Birthday Party on a stage, where they belong!
    • Set to fry your brain
    • Are you listening, sonny?
    • It's still living...
    		 Live, 1981-1982
    The Birthday Party
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    ASIN: B00000IAGC
    Release Date: 1999-11-16

    Tracks:

    1. Junkyard
    2. Dead Song
    3. Dim Locator
    4. Zoo Music Girl
    5. Nick the Stripper
    6. Blast Off!
    7. Release the Bats
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    15. Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)
    16. She's Hit
    17. Fun House

    Amazon.com's Best of 1999

    Angular art punk fronted by a dagger-wielding madman with literary pretensions? The Birthday Party didn't simply flirt with chaos, they inhaled it; chaos flowed through their veins and ignited the spark for every firing synapse of this exquisitely dark band. Led by caterwauling vocalist Nick Cave, Live 1981-82 captures this dangerous bunch at the height of their powers. Not for the squeamish or those sensitive to abrasive noises, but a spectacular car wreck nonetheless. --S. Duda

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    Few bands were as cataclysmic, chaotic, and iconoclastic as Australia's Birthday Party. And while they spawned a few imitators (most notably Bogshead, Scratch Acid, and the short-lived "batcave" movement), their fractured sound and aura of wickedness were so far removed from the norm of early-'80s rock music that no group even came close to duplicating their murderous persona and manic, driving racket. Live 1981-82 collects 17 tracks from concerts in London, Germany, and Greece, and for a band whose music seemed to cling to sanity by the most delicate of threads, these recordings are surprisingly coherent and faithful to the album versions. Taking into account the barrage of feedback, the pile-driving bass, and singer Nick Cave's howling, the sound is also quite good (the only exception being the single cut from Greece, a cover of the Stooges "Funhouse"). As for the performances, the band is in excellent form. Cave delivers the songs with conviction and energy, punctuating them with his startling vocabulary of shiver-inducing screams, grunts, snorts, groans, and growls. Considering the schizophrenia that was so much a part of the band's music, Cave's ability to convincingly deliver his gut-wrenching angst is nothing short of remarkable. While Cave's Manson-meets-Morrison persona drew most of the attention, it was the Birthday Party's ability to swing--hard--that put them over the top. Drummer Phil Calvert is a beacon in the sea of chaos as guitarists Mick Harvey and Roland S. Howard disembowel their guitars, blasting shards of jazz and blues across the horizon. The late bassist Tracy Pew is the real revelation. Rock solid and never missing a beat, Pew emerges as the constant amidst the wreckage, providing the rich base from which these bad seeds sprung. Live 1981-81 is a near-perfect document of one of rock's most extreme, creative, and dangerous forces.--S. Duda

    Album Description

    1999 compilation of live tracks recorded 1982 in England, Germany and Greece by Nick Cave's post-punk/pre-Bad Seeds outfit. 17 tracks total. Standard jewel case.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars So yeah..........2007-03-24

    This is it. This is quite possibly the best band that ever existed doing what they did best- killing us bluntly with their songs (and fists.) The madness of this record makes all the punk-jive, past and present, seem moot. For those uninitiated into the genius of The Birthday Party, this would be a great place to start. And oh yeah- be sure to turn up the last track, a cover of The Stooges "Funhouse", nice and loud. Your speakers will hate you, as will your neighbors/friends, but there you'll be in distorted, deafened bliss.

    4 out of 5 stars Put The Birthday Party on a stage, where they belong!.......2006-07-03

    Nick Cave has always been one of these artists who is more than just a singer: he is a performer. He belongs on stage, in recent years with his Bad Seeds ensemble, and in the early years with The Birthday Party.
    More punk rock orientated and with lyrics that seemd to be written more to be of a musical "guiding" function than to have any real literary pretentions, TBP is a live act al the way.

    "The Birthday Party Live 81-82" offers two gigs, the first one in "The Venue" in London, the second one in Bremen, Germany. A nice but not all to memerable bonus track is included here, called "Funhouse", performed in Athens, Greece.

    The first concerts gives you all the classic stuff: from the mind bending opener "Junkyard" which sets the tone for a "slambang-in-your-face evening", to "A dead song", and from the self-mockery of "Nick the Stripper", all the way to the blasting "Blast off!" and the biting "Release the bats".

    The German gig has "Big-Jesus-trash-can", the hymn-for-a-car-wreck "Dead Joe", the theatrical spoof "Hamlet (Pow pow pow)" and a good performance of the hypnotic "She's hit".

    So over fifty percent of the songs come from the quintessential "Junkyard", and, unfortunately, no songs from the last TBP output "Mutiny / The Bad Seeds", which is really a shame.

    The live dvd "Pleasure heads must burn" however does contain live footages of songs from the last two E.P's like "Sonny's Burning", "The Six strings that drew blood", "Wild world" and "Pleasure avalanche".
    Both CD and DVD are a must-have for everyone who still cherishes some nostalghia for the years with the maniacle and insane Caveman-with-the-blood-shed-eyes.

    5 out of 5 stars Set to fry your brain.......2006-04-02

    If you are brave enough to buy this CD, be prepared for this CD to scour your brain inside and out. It's fiendishly noisy. There was an old review I read on the internet with the band and Nick Cave had said that he was unimpressed with some of the recordings of that time because they did not capture the intensity of their live performances. After listening to this, I can see what he means. This is obnoxiously ferocious. The sort of take-no-prisoners live album that shreds it's instruments for an all-out aural assault. Some of the songs are virtually unrecognizable from their studio counterparts. While I've never gone to a Birthday Party concert, this CD would pretty much give me a clear indication about how it would be like. You could probably end up empty headed, sore and in desperate need of paraceteamol to cure that thumping headache. If you are brave enough to listen to this, make sure you have aspirin at the ready....because your headache could get nasty!

    5 out of 5 stars Are you listening, sonny?.......2005-12-21

    Every track here is a classic. Better than the studio versions. The bass and drums are set to pulverize, every note sounds like a punch in the stomach. The guitars are chaotic and Nick Cave is brilliant. I first heard the Birthday Party when I picked up the hits album when I was 16. I had never heard anything like it and was hooked immediately and spent the next few years tracking down all the studio releases. I was completed saturated and sated with the Birthday Party albums I had and eventually moved on to other bands. This album again has just blown me away. I'm hooked again. Great stuff.

    5 out of 5 stars It's still living..........2005-01-16

    Someone once said that you could tell the smart people at a Birthday Party concert, because they were the ones standing at the back. There were two advantages to being toward the back of the crowd at a BP performance - for one, you were less likely to sacrifice an eardrum to the squealing amps being pumped full of Rowland S. Howard's unique style of guitar playing. The other, more obvious advantage was that you were far less likely to get kicked in the face or hit on the head by Nick Cave.

    The Birthday Party represent a style of music much missed in today's society. I'm not speaking so much of their genre, which is still present in this day and age (but is nowhere near as good), but rather the fact that their music was largely written for stage before studio, rather than the other way around. I bought "Hits" as my first taste of the BP a few months ago, and was impressed. The songs were intense. But then I got this, and realised that the studio recordings, despite Tony Cohen's best efforts, paled next to the work the BP did on stage.

    The entire album is recorded in the wake of "Junkyard", and the classic hit (much to Nick Cave's endless puzzlement and frustration) "Release the Bats". It contains material ranging from 1979's "Hee-Haw" through to "Junkyard", including a few tracks which never made it to the studio. The quality varies - the London material is brilliant, but the Bremen concert has been quite noticably sourced from cassette. The Athens track is the worst quality, and I'm pretty sure it and the Bremen material are bootlegs which the band have bought. None of it's unlistenable, however, provided that you have a taste for the Birthday Party's style of music.

    The Birthday Party, it must be said, never quite got the idea of rhythm. Oh sure, there are a lot of drums, but that doesn't mean that they keep the time or anything. Tracey Pew (bass) is the only member of the group who could or would keep the beat. Mick Harvey and Rowland S. Howard (guitars) just kind of seem to play thunderous riffs at will and Phil Calvert is in blistering form on his drums, but he plays them more as a lead than the rhythm section.

    And as for Nick Cave...well - it seems a bit like he's decided how he's going to sing the lyrics, and no-one better try stop him. Doesn't matter to him that the music and lyrics are completely out of time. But that's what the BP so great. Take "A Dead Song" for example. It's heavy, thunderous, and nightmarish...in both lyrics and music. But neither really seem to influence the other. It's...well, wierd. Better descriptions escape me.

    Not all the songs are like that, of course. "The Dim Locator" was a pleasant surprise, with Cave and the musicians almost seeming to have come to an agreement on how to perform together. The band even manage to sound almost rhythmic, with the primal drum and bass lines of tracks like "Zoo-Music-Girl" (one of the truly oddest songs about love ever written) and "Release the Bats".

    "King Ink" was a song that I never really appreciated on the studio record, but here I've discovered a new fondness for it. "Pleasure Heads" is a track that is worth the purchase of this CD alone, with the BP in rare form with this stage only track.

    For me, though, the highlight is the stunning rendition of "The Friend Catcher" from the Bremen concert. This track, one of the group's first, spanning back to their days as the Boys Next Door, is given a new dimension on stage that it was sorely lacking on record. It's truly stunning. It's so easy to picture Cave flinging his head back and forth as he screams "Hee-haw-hee-haw" and Mick Harvey and Rowland S. Howard on either side of him nailing a dual-guitar riff throughout the whole song. This CD - this song in particular - brings the experience of a Birthday Party concert to life.

    If I had to make one complaint about this album, then it would have to be that it's too early in the band's career. If some of the 1981 material - maybe "Bully Bones", or "Blast Off" - had been traded out for something from "Wild World" and/or "Sonny's Burning"...that would really have been something. The material was there on the "Pleasure Heads Must Burn" live video, and it would have just made this album a bit better.

    But other than that, there's just nothing bad to say about this album - provided you like the music, of course. The BP are something of an acquired taste, but if Nick Cave screaming and Rowland S. Howard inducing orgasmic screams from his six strings doesn't give you a headache...then this album is a must have.
    Busted
    Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
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    • Busted is a bust
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    Manufacturer: Telarc
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    ASIN: B000003D2U
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    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Brilliant!.......2003-11-24

    I found this CD more satisfying than the previous two. I play it constantly while driving. I have no idea how I came to this CD. Maybe one of my daughters bought it for me. I prefer the renditions of Mozart, Beethoven and Dorsey himself to those of Bach (personal taste, I guess). By the way, I found tracks 20 and 21 on this CD, "Dimensions" and "Birthday Dimensions," the best of the lot. Both were composed by Dorsey. He should do more. I am waiting for his next CD. Dorsey is a gift to our generation, as much as Beethoven was a gift to people of another time.

    1 out of 5 stars Make him stop!.......2002-01-09

    I can't believe this guy even has a recording contract. He is completely without talent and just plays a bunch of machines that any 15 year old with an IQ of 80 can operate. This music is some kind of bad joke.

    2 out of 5 stars Busted is a bust.......2001-01-06

    This CD is a big disappointment after hearing BACHBUSTERS and BEETHOVEN OR BUST. It contains duplicates from these previous albums and a lot of other music that isn't especially pleasant to listen to and has no central theme. The Mozart additions are not very exciting and sound a lot like cuts from the previous albums. I had hoped to hear some great Mozart stuff on this disc, but it isn't there.
    A Portrait
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    • Elegant is as elegant does!
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    4 out of 5 stars Elegant is as elegant does!.......2004-04-24

    This the review that I wrote for OperaOnline.us: There is only one word to describe this compilation of varied works by soprano Kiri Te Kinawa: Elegant! From the cover to the selection of songs inside, to the way each selection contributes to and results in a perfect blend of orchestra and singer, nothing is out of place. I usually prefer CDs that are thematic and carry a mood throughout, and this offering by DECCA, bless them, will not disappoint those who share my sensitivity to mood. It doesn't hurt either that Kinawa's voice radiates control and smoothness that sweeps one up in defiance of gravity to a place somewhere betyween awe and gratitude, but that is exactly what occurs here. You listen to the melodic expressiveness of Beim Schlafengehen with the Wiener Philharmoniker and think it can't get any better, and then find it followed by Ave Maria with the Utah Symphony, followed by Pie Jesu with the Orchestre symphonique de Montreal, and it does get better. The chorals are pretty impressive as well, as in Nuns' Chorus and Climb Every Mountain. Consistently Kinawa's voice soothes and never presses even close to the edges of shrill. She is a soprano with depth and a cultured delivery that wraps every note in any range with the delicacy of a mother's loving embrace. It just doesn't get any better than this. Give this CD to someone you love, they'll appreciate it, with this one caveat: the second of the two disks is less moody and a little uneven in mood. Hold the second disc back.
    65th Birthday Celebration: Live at the Blue Note in New York City
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      Manufacturer: Lightyear
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        • You Know I'm More of a Von than Chico Fan
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        5 out of 5 stars You Know I'm More of a Von than Chico Fan.......2005-09-16

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