title: Rare, limited released album from 1975 now on CD with many bonus tracks.

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Pathways to Unknown Worlds was recorded in 1975 and got limited release.  It was only 26 minutes long.

On this CD, another track is added from that same recording session.  Also included on this CD is the 38 minute album Friendly Love, recorded in 1973 but never got released.

Of the almost 70 minutes of this album, I only like about 18 minutes...The first 6 minutes of the first track and the last track.  These are interesting musical pieces that have some direction.

The rest is just a discordant mess with musicians blasting bits and pieces with no coordination with each other.

A lot of the music sounds like early Pink Floyd....the weird, spacey interludes they would do in the middle of songs like Atom Heart Mother or Echoes in concert.  But on this CD, it is just the interludes and they go nowhere and are not as well done.

I like some of Sun Ra's music and discordant jazz in general, but I can't get into to most of it.


title: Collection of mostly poorly recorded odds and ends

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This is one of those albums where some small record company gathers up recordings from various sources and puts out a CD.  This is typical of LaserLight records.

None of these tracks are from an official studio or live album.  From the sound quality, I think that a number of these came from old TV shows, probably from the 1950s.  Others sound like they came from old tapes.  None of these tracks due justice to Armstrong and you are better off finding more legitimate releases.

LaserLight is part of Delta Music which went bankrupt.


title: Mildly entertaining; typical Redbone growling his way through some classics

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Released in 1977, this is Redbone's second album.  It is about 35 minutes long.  The sound quality of the CD is pretty good.

Leon Redbone is a singer and not a songwriter.  I like his renditions of many songs where he adds life to them.  I don't find that on this album.  Although he does have his distinctive voice, I don't think it adds anything to the way he sings these songs.  It is just too low key and not very interesting to me.


title: Hard rock with a tinge of the blues; but with some great guitar playing

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This album was originally released in 1979.  The CD was released in 1999 with two bonus tracks for a total of 47 minutes.  Sound quality of the CD is good but not great.  I don't have the vinyl to compare.

I have heard stuff but Gallagher before and it was much more blues oriented.  He is one of the highpoints of the Peter Green tribute album Rattlesnake Guitar.

This album is hard rock.  Reminds me a lot of later rock albums by people like Mason Ruffner or some of Living Colour.  One tracks sounds like one of Led Zeppelin's worst songs.  One of the songs reminds me of Pearl Jam's Daughter.

I don't like most of the songs, but they all do have some nice to great guitar parts.  There are only three songs on this album I would want to hear again.


title: Typical 1980s digital CD new age type jazz

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This album was released in 1986 and is about 45 minutes long.  The sound quality is good...like many digital jazz albums released in the mid 1980s.  It has that digital sound that was overdone when CDs first came out.  It is clear and has a good dynamic range but there is little bit of that artificial sound to it.  On the plus side there is less of that pinging sound that was on most jazz CDs of that period.

This is mostly new age type music.  Even the back photo of Goodman is typical of the clean cut jazz image back then....no facial hair, longish but nice groomed hair and wearing a sweater.

Like a lot of the albums from this time, it is all about the sound and not the music.  Beautifully sound violin but not much in the was the way of a composition.  I find it boring and tedious to sit through.

I liked Goodman in the Flock and Mahavishnu Orchestra but on this CD, the best parts are actually when he is not playing.  When he is not playing there are actual interesting musical compositions instead of beautiful sound violin.

I wasn't a big fan of the duet album with Jan Hammer, Like Children.  I would only play it once and then not listen to it again.  I think I will pull it out again to remind why I was disappointed in that one.


title: Crappy name and cover for a fantastic CD

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THIS IS AMAZING....JAW DROPPING FANTASTIC...I wasn't expecting much based on the cover and title.  This is up there with the very, very best of Betts.  It is like the acoustic equivalent to Fillmore East, Les Brer and High Falls.  And every track is great, which is a rarity for even the best albums.

This was released in 2002 and is just under 60 minutes long.  About the only downside is that the sound quality is good but not excellent.  Since this is the mostly acoustic, the lack of clarity and dynamic range aren't as noticeable as on other Betts albums.  By 2000, sound quality of CDs had greatly improved but this CD is not on the leading edge of that movement.

I don't think that this CD by itself is still in print.  It is now being sold in a two disc set with Let's Get Together (which isn't as good and has horrible sound quality).

This is mostly an "unplugged" acoustic session.  Some of those can be boring...but that is not the case here.  There is wonderful playing throughout.  Unlike many acoustic sessions, the music is not stark but is rich and full.  Excellent playing from Betts and the back up band really comes through.


title: Techno/industrial and soft jazz

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Released in 2003, this is something like Jan Akkerman's 19th solo album, depending upon how you are counting.  It is over 60 minutes long and the sound quality is very good, but punchy and booming to match the musical style.

It actually starts out good with the first track and has one other good track on it.  It is kind of a blend of electronica, jazz and progressive rock with lots of Akkerman's guitar playing.

I don't like the rest....it is either boring, tedious repetitious or head ache inducing or sometimes all four at once.

Most of the tracks are techno or industrial.  I am not a fan of most techno.  There is some I really like but most I don't.  Most of it is tape loops and  just a bunch of pounding repetitive notes.  It is why an album like this is so long....the same chords get repeated over and over again.  It is sometimes OK in a disco but not for home listening or anywhere else.  If you like techno, you might enjoy this.

There are a few tracks of Akkerman style soft jazz on this album....which in a way is a precursor to this foray into techno.  Much of his soft jazz can be repetitive and tedious.  He has some great numbers, but others not so great.


title: Probably Akkerman's best solo album

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This album was released in 1997 taken from the tour to support the studio album Focus in Time.  It is over 130 minutes long.  The sound quality is very good but I noticed the very highs were a little bit tinny at times.  The mix of the audience noise is perfect with no whistling or screaming during the quiet solos.

This is a live album where the artists plays music spanning his career, going back to the days of Focus to his recent solo album Focus in Time.

The tracks on this album range from absolutely fantastic to very good.  Unlike most of his solo albums there are no bad, boring tracks mixed in.  Even some tracks, like Skydancer, that I find tedious and annoying on his studio albums are played wonderfully here.  This is the Akkerman I have expected and was hoping to hear.  Lively, energetic and lots of guitar playing.  His back up band is fairly good and have some good solos.

The last track, "Quiet Storm" which is credited to Akkerman is actually an instrumental version of Joe Walsh's Meadows.


title: Some good moments but mostly boring soft jazz with too much synthesizer

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This was released in 1987 and was 42 minutes long.  For the 1998 CD reissue, 20 minutes of extra music was added that is along the same lines as the original.  The sound quality is very good and beautiful in spots.

It is very interesting for the first few minutes with a great rhythm.  But the first track than devolves into the soft jazz like on many of his albums.  It is actually another version of Beethoven's Revenge Bach One Turbo Overdrive from the 1985 Focus reunion album.  He has done this tune on many albums with many different names.

There is some great guitar playing on it, but many of the compositions are mostly boring synthesizer melodies, some with guitar overlaid on them.  A couple of the tracks gave me a headache, which is hard to do.


title: His hardest and maybe his best

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This album was originally released in 1984 and was almost 50 minutes long.  The 1998 CD release added about 25 minutes.  The sound quality is excellent pounding rock.

Most of this album is hard rock with lots of great electric guitar.  It also has two great blues numbers.  The only less than stellar track on this album is a 14 minute reggae version of All Along the Watchtower.  Like many reggae tunes, it is repititious and goes on too long.  It's still fun and isn't boring like some of Akkerman's soft jazz tunes.

Akkerman solo career is nothing like what he played with Focus (except for the 1985 Focus reunion album).  He has put out albums in a number of different styles, but most of his albums have been a cross between jazz, jazz fusion and soft jazz.  I like his fusion but I find his soft jazz tedious at times.  Most of his albums have great, interesting tracks intermixed with boring ear worm type music.  This album is mostly great throughout.


title: Side 1 excellent Arabic influenced music; Side 2 bad disco soft jazz mix

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This was released in 1981.  It was recorded after but released before Pleasure Point.  It is about 35 minutes long.  The sound quality is very good but I think I hear a little distortion in the bass a few times.

The first half, especially the opening track is some very interesting jazz with heavy Arabic tones (hence the title: Oil in the Family).

The second track, Formula N-one uses a theme that Akkerman will use again in the future, including on the Focus reunion album as Beethoven's Revenge (Bach One Turbo Overdrive).  However, here it is given the Arabic treatment while on the Focus album it is more of disco/soft jazz cross.  I obviously like the version here much better.

There are a couple of tracks that are disco jazz that was popular in the 1980s.  It is painful to sit through.

The last track is soft jazz, but it is not bad soft jazz....it is probably one of the better soft jazz tunes Akkerman has done.

I give it 4 stars because I really like the way it starts out.  I loose interest in the last half of the album.  Maybe I should have given it 3 stars because it so short and you end up with about 20 minutes of very good music.


title: Sounds like something from 1968; kind of reminds me of Peter Green

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This album was recorded in 1968, a year before Focus.  It is about 35 minutes long and the sound quality is very good.

This is mostly blues-rock but with some lush soft music mixed in.  I really like the first three tracks, which are Akkerman compositions.  They good blues rock that feature and highlight his excellent guitar work.  They remind me of Peter Green's End of the Game.  (Peter Green formed Fleetwood Mac).

The rest of the album is covers of a wide variety.  It was a surprise to hear something like Mercy, Mercy, Mercy on this album.  Some of them are good and some not so good.  Probably the biggest problem is that many of these tracks really don't feature Akkerman.  Some of the covers are not that recognizable but others are.

One of the covers is Ode to Billy Joe, which is overly lush.  It was recorded as the backing track for a vocalist, but it is here as an instrumental.  It really does sound like a backing track with the vocals removed.


title: No reason to buy this 2 CD set when the 4 CD set is available for slightly more

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If you are going to buy this, I would suggest getting the 4 CD version instead.

However, I would not recommend getting either.  The sound quality is horrible...similar to the Simple Minds' other live CD, City of Lights.  The acoustics are horrible....it sounds like you are in the back of the arena.  The instruments and vocals are muddled and it makes it hard to enjoy the performance.


title: Sound quality slightly better than City of Light

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I don't know why...but Simple Minds live albums have horrible sound quality.  They sound like they were recorded in the back of an arena.  It is a muddled mess with a booming echo being the most predominant sound.  It is hard to make out the instruments and vocals sound like yelling across the room.

Otherwise, this would have been a great set.  It has great collection of songs and it does appear that the performance was very good in many places.  Unfortunately, the sound quality is so bad it is hard to appreciate the performance.

This album comes in three varieties: single CD, double CD and this four CD set.  It comes as a nice hardcover booklet with lots of photos.  It is a little taller and about 25% longer than a standard jewel case so it won't fit in most CD racks.


title: CD missing a track; most of the songs here are now on Recorded Live

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To be honest, I haven't heard this.  I'm thinking of getting but was disappointed that a track was left off the CD that was on the original double LP version.  Anyway, most of this is now available on the new expanded version of Recorded Live.

The track left off was called Frankfurt Jam.  I am wondering if it is the Hobbit or another version of I Can't Keep From Crying.

Recorded Live was also released as a double LP.  When it first came out on CD, it was released as a single CD and the Hobbit was left off.  It has been reissued as a double CD and contains most of this album as bonus tracks.  But, it is hard to find and expensive.


title: Not very interesting (I'm a huge Cobham fan)

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The group is Billy Cobham's Glass Managerie, is a band he had in 1981 that released two studio albums and a live video.  This CD, Spectrum, was released in Europe and did not get wide distribution.

It claims to be a digital recording but it was recorded in 1981, so I have my doubts.  It was originally released as an LP and converted to CD in 1984 .  The sound quality is fairly good but not excellent.  It doesn't have the pinging, unnatural sound of early digital recordings.

It is only 33 minutes long and it is mostly older compositions that Cobham did earlier and much better.  I find this mostly boring...and I am huge Cobham fan.  I will rip three and a half tracks and get rid of the CD.

The band is mostly American session musicians with Michael Urbaniak, a Polish violinist.  I have a number of his albums.  Some of his material I really like but others not as much.


title: Typical break up album.

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Released in 1971, this is Mountain's third album and last for a while.  It has all the markings of an album from a group that is about to break up.  Side A is a bunch of forgettable songs and side B is live because they didn't have enough new songs to fill an album.  The cover is cheap looking and the sound quality is not great.

The live "Dream Sequence" medley makes this album worth considering.  Except for a  featuring bad version of Roll Over Beethoven, this piece showcases what Mountain known for, great hard rock extended pieces.

The album ends with a worthless version of Mississippi Queen.  Three of the studio tracks are not very good.  But, I do like One Last Cold Kiss and Crossroader.


title: Great, unique show; marginal sound quality.  Oct. 1975

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The sound quality of this CD is marginal.  It is right on the border for me between being listenable and trash.  It is good enough for me to enjoy the music and play it a few times but it isn't something I could play over and over again.

This appears to be one of those CDs that comes from a tape recording off the radio.  If you were like me, you would hook up your cassette recorder or reel to reel deck to the radio and record a radio show.  Over last decade, people have been unearthing those old tapes and releasing them on CDs on off brand labels.  This is popular in Europe but I don't think it is legal to do in the US.

I think this one was recorded off the radio by a reel to reel tape machine.  You can usually hear certain artifacts when it is a cassette recording.  It was probably digitized using a computer.  There is a gap between each track even when the music should segue from one song to the next.

It comes from a concert in Vancouver in 1975 and it is one of the Napoleon Murphy Brock/Terry Bozzio bands.

This a great concert with lots of good songs and much more great jamming.  The other great thing is that I haven't heard most of these songs  played live before and there are some that I have never heard before.  So, most of this is a new experience to me.

I own tons of Zappa music and concert recordings.  Some are great and some aren't.  But, I thought I had heard mostly every song he has played in concert.  Much of this is new to me.


title: Interesting with some great moments, but other moments you wouldn't want to hear again

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Ant-Bee is Billy James, who was a musician who hung around the 1990s LA music scene.  This album has guest musicians from the Mothers of Invention, Alice Cooper and Captain Beefheart.  Jimmy Carl Black does some talking on the album.  Also appearing is Daevid Allen from Gong.

This is from 1995, so many of the artists must have phoned in their participation or the tapes are really old.  By this time many of these performers had dispersed from the LA area.  Most of the original Mothers had gone to Austin but then on to Europe.

Much of this reminds me of the Mothers experimental music like the weird parts of Uncle Meat and 200 Motels.  There is strange stuff that I would only want to hear once plus some stretches of great music.


title: Nice but not fantastic.  Too much like the original.

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In 2014, PFM did a series of live concerts in Japan where the group played its first 4 albums in their entirety (including the US compilation Photos of Ghosts).
So this is just a live version of Per Un Amico.

The problem is that this version is too true to the original.  The instruments sound slightly different in parts but the notes are all the same.  There is nothing new added to the album, so I would rather just hear the original.  And like the original album, it is very short at 32 minutes.

On the plus side, the sound quality is excellent.  This live album probably has better sound quality than the original studio album.


title: Four great songs; four not so great

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When this album came out, I really loved it and played it all the time.  As I play it now, I realize that I really loved half of the tracks on the album and the other four are kind of hard to sit through.  But, it starts out with the wonderful Convenience, a great punk/new wave kind of song.

Like all Gentle Giant albums, the original release was relatively short at about 35 minutes.  The original CD issues of the album had horrible sound quality.  There is a remastered version that has excellent sound and a bonus track, putting right at 40 minutes.

By 1980 when this album came out, progressive rock was all but dead.  Gentle Giant started devolving with the times in 1977 with the Missing Piece.  Civilian goes for a punchy New Wave and almost punk sound.  I think they are little more successful with it than the pure rock sound on Missing Piece.

The tour to support Missing Piece was also pretty bad.  The Civilian shows were much better.  I saw the second to last concert Gentle Giant ever played.  This tour was much more popular than anyone expected and they kept adding shows.  The show I saw in San Francisco was supposed to be the last, but then they added a final show back in LA after 3 previous shows sold out.


title: It is a sampler of songs already released on various Ryko records.

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There are 18 songs on this CD from artists like Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and Jerry Garcia.  To get 18 songs on the CD, they are all short songs, 3 to 4 minutes long.

All the songs are taken from released albums.  For the songs I like on this CD I already own most of the albums.


title: Bootleg with poor sound quality.  Not the best song selection.

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My copy is a single CD.  I have seen postings for a 2 CD from two different concerts from the same tour with mostly the same setlist.

This is a bootleg and the sound quality is poor.  It contains 12 tracks and I think the time frame is just before the Ritual album based on the song selection.

I don't think it is the greatest collection of songs.  There are only 4 songs I can tolerate with the poor sound quality.  They are marginal and it is kind of a flip of a coin on whether or not to keep them.  If the sound quality were better, there might 6 to 7 enjoyable songs on this.

I will rip the 4 songs and get rid of the CD.


title: Deluxe version does add anything good except some good remastering.

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This review is for 461 Ocean Boulevard Deluxe Edition (I am explaining that here because Amazon tends to mix the reviews of different versions of an album).

I was a huge fan of this original album and I think most of the extra material is even worse.

On CD1 there are 5 bonus tracks that are outtakes from the recording sessions.  There is only one track, the last one that is very interesting.  The rest don't appear to be remastered or remixed.  Three of the tracks sound mostly like a rhythm track with the main song way in the background.  You just get mostly drums and some bass.

On these bonus tracks, Clapton sings in an affected way, like he trying to be soulful.  He makes these moaning sounds that are really creepy, like he is in the bathroom doing who knows what but trying to stifle the sound.

The second CD consists of 72 minutes of live tracks taken at the end of his 1974 tour.  The sound quality is OK but the mix is off.  You can't hear the singers most of the time.  It is really bad on Tell the Truth where it is difficult to make out Marcy Levy' soulful vocals.

The performance is not that great, compared to what it will be like in later years with this band.  It was like the band had not played together long enough and were still finding their way.  There are some good songs on this CD but I would just get Crossroads 2 and skip this.


title: Horrible sound quality; mostly unlistenable

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This was released in 1995.  It is a collection of one off U2 has done in concert.  It is mostly covers but there are a few original U2 songs that were done differently from other live performances.

The sound quality is poor.  Most of it sounds like bad audience recordings.

There a few interesting songs on this album but the sound quality is too bad to make them enjoyable.  Many of the songs are nothing special other than U2 doing them and not that well.


title: 4.5 stars....maybe 5; some fantastic parts; some very good; nothing bad or boring

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This was released in 2012 and is a just under 1 hour and 40 minutes long.  The sound quality is very good to excellent.  Almost all the audience noise has been mixed out and it is hard to tell that this is a live album.

The group is a quartet of keyboards, guitar, bass and drums.  This is jazz fusion played in the early 1970s style like Spectrum, but stretched out.  The stretched out sections are a little more like lighter 1980 and 1990s lighter jazz that Cobham had moved towards.

I was torn between giving this four and five stars.  Based on how most CDs are rated, this is probably 5 stars plus.

There are some really fantastic parts on this album.  The rest is mostly really good music, but it does tend to slow here and there.  It isn't much.

I guess why I give 4 stars is that it starts off like the boring jazz of the 1980s and 1990s.  But within a couple of minutes it moves to a very good guitar solo.


title: Half good; different bassists have little impact

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Except for the two Les Claypool tracks, it really doesn't matter who plays bass on these songs.  It could be anyone.  The guests bassists don't really add anything unique to the songs.

Gov't Mule is at its best when it playing Southern Rock or Blues.  It can also do some very good heavy metal.  But, the straight ahead hard rock is usually not that good and Haynes has been slowly shifty to that style.  While I found the first Mule albums to be invigorating and exciting and the most recent ones to be tedious, boring hard rock, more like Haynes's solo material.  This album comes out in the middle.


title: Traditional jazz

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This was released in 1990 and is about 60 minutes long.  The sound quality is pretty good, but not excellent.  For traditional jazz, it doesn't have that crisp, clear sound.

Pip Pyle was a drummer in the English progressive rock Canterbury scene, with groups like Gong.  Elton Dean was in the progressive, jazz fusion band Soft Machine.  None of the music on this album is anything like that.  It is mostly straight ahead, traditional jazz.  It reminds me somewhat of Ornette Coleman, in his more traditional years, before he went totally improvisational.  The music and compositions are driven by the piano player who was Pyle's love interest.

This is a nice, pleasant album and there is nothing wrong with it.  I just think there is much better out there in this style of music.  For instance, I prefer old Chick Corea (before he went fusion) or Bill Cobham when he changed from fusion.  Cream's Ginger Baker and Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood have some very good jazz albums in a similar style.

Both Pyle and Dean died in 2006.


title: Mostly tradiational 1960s type jazz


title: From 1992, some good songs but nothing great

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Released in 1992, this was Man's first studio album in 16 years.  The band had reformed in 1983 and released a bunch of live albums, but no studio albums.  This CD was reissued by Point in 1997 (although some say 1998) and in 2015 by Cherry Red records as a boxset that contains two CDs from a concert.

The sound quality is good but not great.  It is better than most CDs released in the 1990s.  Sound is clear but doesn't have a wide dynamic range.  The Cherry Red version is remastered and might sound much better as Cherry Red usually does a quality job.

This album is very similar to Man's studio albums in the mid 1970s and the 1990s.  However, I think Call Down the Moon is much better than this.  Most of it is hard rock, similar to Deke Leonard's solo material.  There is a little blues thrown in here and there.  I like 6 of the songs and don't really like the other 5.

It contains Man's second worst song of all time: Jumpin' Like a Kangaroo.  Man's worst song is "Thank God It Wasn't Miss Cathy" from Diamonds and Coal (which is mostly coal).  Both were written by Martin Ace.

It also has a tribute to Quicksilver guitarist, John Chipolina, who is a guest on Man's Maximum Darkness.

I haven't heard the live material in the boxset.  I have heard some other shows from this same time period.  They are much better than the shows from the 1980s but not as good as the live material from the 1970s.

Deke Leonard died recently.  Martin Ace, with his son and some friends has been carrying on the Man brand even before Leonard's death and it hasn't been a good thing.


title: "Greatest hits" album

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This is a 2 CD set with 8 tracks per CD.  Each CD is around 50 minutes.  It contains tracks from 1971-1978.  It was released in 2001.

If this is a compilation album I don't understand why they didn't fill each CD to the full 80 minutes each.  Since this was released in 2001 before the vinyl comeback, this was a CD only product.  So, they didn't make it short so it would fit on an LP.


title: Traditional jazz trio from 1992;  would have been good to see but not good on CD

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This is 2014 release of 1992 Paris concert.  I am surprised that it is hard to get and there are no reviews for it.  I have been seeing in all my local CD stores (I live in an area where there are two CD stores close by and many within an hour's drive).

It is a little over 72 minutes.  The sound quality is uneven but mostly good.  There isn't anything bad about the sound quality, it is clear and has a wide dynamic range.  It is just that instruments are not vibrant, especially the synthesizer.  At times it sounds like the keyboards are coming from another room.

This is probably not the whole concert.  In fact, track 5 starts in the middle of the number.  An energetic piano solo is faded into.  I am not sure why that it done...maybe they couldn't fit the whole thing on a single CD and thought that was a good place to cut it or maybe there were problems with the tape.

This is a trio of drums, upright bass and keyboard (piano and synthesizer).  I am not impressed with either of the back up musicians that Cobham uses.  I have seen Cobham with much better bands in the past in the 1970s.

It probably would have been a nice evening to sit back and enjoy the music while having a drink.  It isn't that entertaining on CD though.

It does start out pretty good with a bit of fusion mixed in and I kind of like the first two tracks.  I don't find the rest that interesting and I am a fan of this style of traditional jazz.


title: Boring

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Steve Morse is an excellent guitar player and I have enjoyed his work in Kansas and Deep Purple and sometimes with the Dixie Dregs.  However, he is not a good composer and I find most of his compositions to be boring.  They are just splotches of music to support his guitar playing.  This album is a bunch of interesting compositions.  There are only a couple I would want to hear again and I think of some of them as torture just to sit through.

I once saw Morse at a free concert.  There were maybe 100 to 200 of us there.  The whole thing was mostly boring until he played some Hendrix at the end of the show.  In concept, the Dixie Dregs are the kind of band I should love.... a cross between the Allman Brothers and Mahavishnu Orchestra.  But, no matter how many times I listened to What If and Free Fall, I could never get into them.

This album was released in 1991, is about 38 minutes long and the sound quality is fair.  The sound quality is typical of an early 1990s CD.  It is muddy and fuzzy and not very enjoyable during complex sections but can sound beautiful when highlighting a single instrument.

The style of this album is more of Hard Rock (although it does sound a little like Dixie Dregs at times).  But, not really Hard Rock...maybe more of Soft Hard Rock....but actually I think the title of 9th track explains it best: Arena Rock.


title: Available with History and Mystery of Planet Gong

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The album can be hard to find on it's own, but is now available as a bonus CD with one version of the History and Mystery of Gong.  The album is currently available...but who knows if it will be later.  The sound quality in that set is excellent.

I am a big fan of Gong, but not of Mother Gong.  I equate Gilli Smyth to progressive rock's answer to Yoko Ono.  She mostly recites poems over background music.  She throws in a little of the space whisper here and there.  Some of the music is interesting but much of it can be tedious.


title: Two interesting tracks; only two bad tracks; nothing great

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This was released in 2009, this was first studio album released since 2002.  The group is now down to three people with guest musicians filling in.  It was always Glabicki's show, but I think the earlier albums had more of group sound them to them.  On this album, the sound and music seems more limited.  Now, Arcade Fire sounds more like the original Rusted Root than this album.  On the plus side, there is less of the Glabicki yodeling and affected vocal style.

The sound quality is mixed.  It has good dynamic range and is clear is spots.  At times when the music is complex, the sound is muddled and muffled.  It is hard to pick out the individual instruments.  It has less of that interesting sound of the earlier albums.  More guitar and drums and less other instruments.

Driving One and Driving Two are the two really interesting tracks.  They are driving instrumentals but do not sound too much like Rusted Root.

Giving the Grace is one of the bad Rusted Root songs that is hard to sit through and being the fifth track on the album really hurts the flow of the album.  (Like I think Remember is much better if you listen to the tracks in reverse order or just skip the first 5 tracks).

They do a cover of the later in life Elvis hit, Suspicious Minds.  They do a nice job of it but for pop song like this, they play it far too long.  This is one of pop factory, formula songs from the 1960s and early 1970s.  It is short and sweet.  There are not many lyrics and there is  not much to them.  The chorus is repeated over and over at the end and it highlights how annoying Glabicki's vocals can be at times.

There as some interesting songs on this album with interesting lyrics, such as Bad Son.  However, they don't have the interesting musical accompaniment like on earlier albums.

I am kind of torn on this album.  For marginal albums, I rip the songs I like and get rid of the CD.  On this CD, this CD, I like all the songs but 2, but I don't love them.  So, I will probably keep the CD but I doubt I will ever play it again.


title: This has been previously released in many different formats.

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This is a review for the 4 CD, 2 DVD boxset call From the Land of Gray and Pink.  This product page has reviews for other Caravan products in it.

This comes in a very nice package.  It is from two different concert tours in 2002.  There is a video of each show and two CDs from each show.  For some reason, the order of the songs on the CDs is not the same as the DVD concerts.  These videos have been released before separately.  Parts of the concerts have also been released before on CDs.  The videos are 90 minutes long and the CDs released were single CDs so some songs were left off the CD releases.

The bands in both cases are Hastings, Coughlin, Richardson, and Leverton, with the addition of Doug Boyle on guitar.  The first show has Sinclair on keyboards and the second show has Schelhaas plus a percussionist.

Sound quality is very good on this set.  I think the DVDs are in 5.1 but my guess is that they weren't originally.  The DVDs do not have an option for audio setup.  The first time I played them, I thought they were in stereo, but the second time, I distinctly heard cheering coming from my back speakers.  I am wondering if how the sound is processed is partially randon.

The first video is in 4:3 format and the resolution and color are not great.  It looks a little bit better than a VHS tape.  The camera does focus in the right place at the right time most of the time and there isn't a lot of the zoom in and out and pan and scan that ruins most concert videos today.  The concert is very good but not the best of Caravan.  It has a 14 minute medley of 6 songs that is a bore and thank god they stopped doing that.  On different places, this medley has been listed as Love in Your Eye and Dabsong Conshirto but it only contains about 3 minutes of each.

The second video is in widescreen format and has better resolution, but the color still isn't great.  There are many times that the cameras focus on the wrong people at the wrong time.  I think the song selection is a little bit better on this set.  However, I generally prefer the shows with Sinclair on keyboards.  Sinclair creates while Schelhaas just copies what Sinclair did.

In summary this is a very nice set, it just isn't Caravan's best.  From this era with Boyle on guitar, the best CD is All Over You, Too.


title: Two of Zappa's commercial successes

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Many of the Zappa albums were so short, it is good that two were put on the same disc.  Each was about 36 minutes long, so you still only end up with just over an hour of music when two albums are combined.

This was Zappa's foray back into rock music after adventuring into jazz and classical.  We did it with short, humorous songs.  Overnight Sensation was a big hit on FM radio, with many of its songs being played and Apostrophe was Zappa's biggest hit, a top 10 album.

I think the sound quality of this version is very good.  Both these albums have also been released as single CDs.  I haven't heard them so I don't know if they have better sound quality.

This CD set contains most of the original artwork of the two albums but not in the original layout.


title: Poor sound quality and very little new or exciting

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This comes from the Catfish Rising tour.  It is a little over 50 minutes long and the sound quality is marginal.

The sound quality of this CD is borderline.  I think it is just bad enough that I don't want to listen to it.  It is supposed to be a BBC concert master tape.  The BBC concerts have had varying sound quality.  Some have been very good (like Caravan) and others have been very bad (like Yes).  This sounds like a bootleg audience recording.  There is no high end.  The drums and bass are booming as if recorded from the echos on the wall.  The vocals and guitars have no dynamic range.  However, the sound is clear and there is no static or hiss.  But, it has a strange quality that is pleasant for repeated listenings.

I have many, many Jethro Tull albums, including the 25 and 30 year anniversary boxsets.  I have lots of live recordings from those and other sources.  Most of the songs on this CD are available live from other concert CDs.  Almost nothing is done in a new or interesting way, so you just get reruns with bad sound quality.  I certainly don't need to hear another 7 minute Thick as a Brick. The one exception is a nice blues jam I haven't heard before..

Tracklist
Minstrel In The Gallery / Cross Eyed Mary 4:00
This Is Not Love 4:00
Rocks On The Road 6:30
Heavy Horses 7:33
Tall Thin Girl 3:28
Still Loving You 4:40
Thick As A Brick 7:48
A New Day Yesterday 5:45
Blues Jam 3:00
Jump Start 6:30


title: Excellent performance; very good sound quality; disc problems

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This album is 79 minutes long and the sound quality is very good (but not excellent) on the first track, which is 45 minutes long.  There is a buzz in the second and third tracks but otherwise the tracks are OK.  I am always cautious about by live CDs these days, since there have been so many released with horrible sound quality.  People are finding old tapes, bootlegs and recordings off the radio and releasing them like they are ligitimate albums.  Recordings of radio concerts are big in Europe, but the source material is usually someone's old cassette recording directly off the radio and the sound quality is poor.  It is not a problem with this CD.  You can play it over and over without getting a headache.

This is live music from the 1972 time frame, well before the live album Live at the Rainbow.  The group is more open and looser than it would be later.  Eruption is 45 minutes long and includes extended guitar, organ and flute solos.  Jan Akkerman is probably more prominent here than any other Focus recording.

I got this CD as a present from someone who bought it off of Amazon.  My copy has problems playing starting in the middle of track 2 on most of my CD players.  It causes my very expensive Sony X1000 CD player to hang up.  I have to unplug it to get it to work.  On other CD players the sound just stops midway through track two.  I do have a CD recorder and it works OK on that.  It won't play on my computer's CD drive but does play on an external blu-ray recorder.  Since it was a gift, I can't return it to Amazon.  I am ripping the disc and rerecording it on to a CDR.  Maybe I will play around and see if I can get rid of the buzz on the second and third tracks.


title: Half good

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I like the title suite but not side 2.

I was big fan of Ponty's earlier, but just like with most jazz artists, I did not like how his music evolved in the 1980s away from jazz fusion and more towards lite, breakfast club jazz.


title: Short EP; not one of Poi Dog Pondering's best.

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I really like Poi Dog Pondering, but this is not a good CD.

This is a 27 minute EP, consisting of 6 songs.
The sound quality of the 4 studio tracks is OK.  The sound quality on the two live tracks is just fair.  It isn't as bad as some live CDs released today, but it isn't great.

Only the title track is really good.  The live track, Wood Guitar if fairly good but brought down a little by the sound quality.

There is a short tune written by Roky Ericson which is OK.  Roky Ericson was the leader of Austin's 13th Floor Elevators.  Poi Dog Pondering resided in Austin when Ericson was making somewhat of a comeback.

There is also a version of Canned Heat's Going Up the Country which is good but not as good as the original or significantly different.

The live version of Thanksgiving just drones on.


title: Audience recording...poor sound.  Not a great performance but some really interesting stuff.

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This is an audience recording.  The sound is just barely passable in spots and unlistenable in others.

This was recorded on July 6, 1972 after Duane died but while Barry Oakley was still alive.  It does not have Les Dudek, who played with the Allman Brothers in concert for a short period of time.

Johnny Winter plays on the two encores, but this is where the sound quality is the worst.  You cannot hear the vocals and the guitar work is very audible.  Dust My Broom is pretty interesting but Johnny B. Goode is nothing special.

Other than the encores, this concert is basically the same set the group had been playing for 3 years.  Only each night a song may be switched out or one song would get a long jam.  Here, You Don't Love Me is only 7 minutes as is Elizabeth Reed.  Whippin Post is 17 minutes.

The only thing really intersting about this concert is how Oakley comes more upfront and some of his solos blast off the speakers.  This might be the best version of Statesboro Blues, if the sound qualiy wasn't so bad.  There is an interesting jazzy 6 minute secion in Whippin Post that I have never hear before from any other concert recording.

This is really 1 star CD and I wouldn't buy it if I had known.  I bump up to two stars becaus of the few musical moments I haven't heard before.


title: Great music; source is probably a recording off the radio.

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I almost marked it down one star for the sound quality, but the sound quality is good enough.
This is one of the best, or maybe even the best Cobham live album.  It is much better than the studio albums of the time.  It is better than a livemuthaforyou from the same era.  The band is great.

It is a big thing now, releasing old radio shows on CD.  The problem is that the source can be from anywhere.  Sometimes, the source is the original master recordings.  But, most times, the source is someone's old tape that they recorded off of the radio.  And the source tape can sometimes be good, like a reel to reel tape, but other times, it is a recording on to a cassette tape (like the second Anderson, Wakeman, Buford, Howe live album).  Sometimes, with cassette tapes, the recording was done with Dolby and then playback was done with Dolby shut off to give a boost to the high end.

To me, this sounds like it came from a radio broadcast but was recorded on a high quality system.  It sounds better than a cassette recording but has the lack of dynamic range similar to the radio.  It also is not crystal clear.  The sound quality is good enough.  I am picky about sound quality and have bought a number of horrible sounding CDs.  For instance, most Dave Matthews live CDs are not that good.

These radio concert CDs are big in Europe but hard to find in the US.  I am guessing that it has something to do with licensing because I don't the artists are seeing a penny out of these things.  I bought this one in Geneva.

About the music:  This is from 1978.  Most of the music is from Magic, but most of the band is from the Simplicity of Expression album.
It is right at 60 minutes long.  The music is funky and fusion.  Great contributions on reeds and synthesizer.


title: Interesting

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This a collaboration of Christian Vander from the French progressive group Magma and bassist Jannick Top.  There are other musicians, including a violinist.  It is just under 60 minutes long.

The sound quality is not great.  Fortunately, for the type of music, the problems with the sound don't detract that much from the music.  This all instrumental and heavy on bass and drums.  If there were vocals or guitar, then the sound quality issues might have a bigger impact.

Some of the music reminds me of later Mothers of Invention live music, but before Flo and Eddie joined.  Similar to King Kong.

There are some great bass guitar solos on this album.  The second track is 21 minutes long and starts with an 8 minute spacy interlude and then breaks into a great extended bass solo.


title: May be Zappa's best band ever

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This was taken from 3 shows played in Helsinki in 1973, during the Overnight Sensation Tour.  It is about 145 minutes long.  Sound quality is very good but not excellent.  The sound quality is not as good as the Zappa live LDs from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.  But, the sound quality is much better than many of the live albums released today, like anything by Dave Matthews.

This may be best band Zappa ever had.  It is the same band that played on Overnight Sensation, and except for Jean Luc Ponty, would later record Apostrophe.

The band includes Ponty, the Underwoods, George Duke, the Fowler brothers and Napoleon Murphy Brock.  On this concert tour, they would play great songs and then have some monster jams.  When I saw them, they did the Montana medley for an hour.  On this disc, there are suites of 22 minutes to 40 minutes long.  During these jams there are just fantastic solos by Ponty, Ian Underwood, Brock and of course Zappa.

This CD set takes songs from the 3 different shows and sort of comes up with a complete concert.  My only complaint is that I want more.  I don't know what was left off from those 3 shows and how redundant it would have been to include more songs, but it feels like they just wanted to stuff everything on to 2 CDs.  I would assume that there were other songs played during these 3 nights, because when I saw them on this tour, they played more songs from Overnight Sensation.

Roxy and Elsewhere was one of Zappa's best albums, because you got the songs and you got some good playing inbetween.  But, the frustrating thing about that album was that songs were faded out in the end and you knew you were missing some great music.  On this CD set, you don't get frustrated.  You get to hear the whole thing.

Ponty is well known jazz violinist who got his start with session work for Zappa and Elton John.  Before Overnight Sensation, Ponty played with Zappa as part of a quartet, focusing on material from Hot Rats and Burnt Weeney Sandwich.  Ponty's first solo album is called King Kong and features Zappa commpositions.  It is not well known amoung Ponty fans, but it is one of his best albums.

I saw this tour when it came through Tucson.  The basketball arena, McHale Center had just been built.  Instead of a standard hardwood floor, they put in this "high-tech" resin floor.  After the concert. the floor started bubbling.  They blamed it on the concert and the marijuana cigarettes (although the whole floor was covered with a tarp).  They didn't allow another concert in McHale for several years.  But, they finally admitted their mistake, replaced the floor with hardwood and booked Bob Dylan.

This was a triple act show, with Zappa as the headliner.  It went way beyond the curfew limit.  Before Zappa played, the doors were opened and anyone could have walked in.  Much of the show was played with the house lights on and people out their assigned seats and sitting in the aisles.

I have always been anxious to have live recordings of the concert tour.  I  was very disapointed when You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore series did not include anything from the tour.  Well, this finally popped up.  I wondered if I was going to be disappointed in it.  Was my memory from 40 years faulty and the concert not as good as I thought.  Well, I was not disappointed.

I think this is Zappa's best band.  The next best band was the Adrian Belew band.  There are a couple of songs from that band on the You Can't... series, but I would love to get a lot more.


title: Some good and some bad

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This is was originally a bootleg from concert recordings in 1968 just before Uncle Meat was released.  Parts of this CD have been released on other bootlegs.  It is about 65 minutes long and the sound quality is OK.  It is a bootleg, not professional sounding, but in some ways is better than many live albums released today, like those by Dave Matthews.

This CD consists mostly of the same musical piece (I forget the name...maybe it is Uncle Meat)played at 3 different concerts in 3 different ways.  The pieces range from 14 to 17 minutes long.

The worst part of this CD is the horrible 6 minutes of Wild Man Fisher screaming his head off.  It is just painful to get through.  This is probablby a 3 to 4 star CD but I knock it down because of this Wild Man Fisher crap.


title: Bunch of short tracks

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This CD was originally released as part of the Beat the Boots II boxset.  Zappa took old bootleg recordings of his concerts and released them on CD and took the money for himself (which was the right thing to do).

Most of this comes from a concert with what I call the Ike Willis band.  Zappa had a semi-stable band with Ike Willis for many years.  On this album are  Ed Mann (who has a very nice solo album if you can find it, Barrow, Caoluita, Mars, Walley and Wolf.  A date is not given, but I am guessing it is from a tour just after Joe's Garage part 1 was released.

There are two tracks from something called the Rueben and the Jets tour, but features the Flo and Eddie band.

The CD title is a good name for it as it features mostly short, silly tracks.

The sound quality is OK but not great.  It is not what I would call professional quality, but it is better than many "professional" live albums released today.  It is better than many of the Dave Matthews releases.


title: Anderson Does Simply Red, but with bad lyrics

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THIS IS BAD (except a couple of songs where the real Anderson comes through).

This is not soulful.  This is disco pop of the late 1980s (when disco had evolved away from the Bee Gees and Donna Summer).

Released in 1988, this was recorded when Anderson left Yes for the second time.  It is 47 minutes long.  The original CD sound quality was OK (better than most of the Yes CDs released in the 1980s), but still not great.  There is some harshness on the high end, which is a bad thing for someone who sings like Anderson.  I have not heard the remastered version, but the original sure could use some fixing.

This is more of a producer's album than an artist's album.  It was produced by Stewart Levine, who produced the jazz/soul/disco band Simply Red.  Some are going to argue that Simply Red is not Disco, but that is what Disco had evolved into in the late 1980s until Grunge wiped it off the map.  So, many of the songs have that kind of Simply Red feeling to them.

The lyrics on many of the songs were written by others, including Lamont Dozier of Holland-Dozier-Holland fame.  He has written a number of classic songs, but his writing here is just horrible.  Although we all complain about it, Anderson is better off just singing his spacy nonsensical lyrics than this pap.

There are a couple of good songs on this CD (Sundancing and Top of the World) where Anderson breaks away from the pop and sounds more like he does on his other solo albums.

To sum up:
-I like Jon Anderson
-I like Simply Red
-I don't like Jon Anderson doing Simply Red (it was like when Eric Clapton tried to do Phil Collins on August...another project involving Dozier)


title: Just like the live concert

text: We saw the Glenn Miller Orchestra live in February of 2019.  This CD has a very similar feeling to being at the concert. The sound quality is great. I was a little disappointed that the female vocalist was not the one we heard, because she was incredible. I did not like this female vocalist quite as much - she did not have the sultry deeper tone of a torch singer that the performer on the 2019 tour did.  However, overall it is a very nice addition to your collection if you like Glenn Miller's music (and other music of that era), and I recommend adding it to your collection.  There is always something special about listening to live performances, and this recording will give you that essence of being there.


title: FAKE.  NOT AUTHORIZED.

text: This is a fake.


title: Because She Made Me Laugh. Because I wanted to be her

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Dame Maureen Lipman CBE played Joyce Grenfell, a British comedienne and entertainer largely known in the United Kingdom. Dame Maureen transformed herself into the singer, comedienne and actress. Joyce was known for her comedy and charm.

Joyce Grenfell was a beloved national treasure like Dame Maureen herself. The cd is a soundtrack to the stage production itself with music and dialogue intertwined to entertain audiences and pay tribute to Joyce’s life and career onstage, radio, film and touring.

The only drawback is that the CD is limited to those of us who are fans of either Dame Maureen Lipman or Joyce Grenfell herself. I do admire and appreciate Dame Maureen’s own transformation into a British icon and legend. She was her inspiration.


title: This Is The Place Where I Belong!

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I had no expectations when I ordered the CD. I have been researching the San Francisco Mime Troupe since last year. The CD had music from three original musicals such as "CIty for Sale;" "Eating It" and "1600 Transylvania Avenue." The music came from their original productions.

I am stunned beyond belief at the genius and high quality of the CD. The voices are incredible and first rate. I am envious of those who live in San Francisco Bay Area where they can see this first rate theatrical production for practically free. What a treat and treasure, I'm honored to be the first person to review this CD.

City for Sale
1. This is the Place
2. City for Sale
3. This is My City
4. Life Sucks
5. Ya Me Voy

Eating It
6. That Felt Good
7. Servant of Science
8. The Dream Team
9. Savin' Seeds
10. The Five Big D's
11. The Rule of This Bottom Line

1600 Transylvania Avenue
12. The Press Conference
13. A Guy Named Gene
14. Legal People
15. Oh My Shamina
16. The Winning Side
17. Corpus Incorporalee


title: What God Wants!

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Roger Waters should be Knighted for his services and contributions to music. His songs are a testament to his depth and intelligence. The songs here include the lyrics in the inset brochure. The songs here speak about God and the world today. The songs are ballads and poetic in style and substance. Roger Waters is a magnificent musician and singer.

The songs included
1. "The Ballad of Bill Hubbard."
2. "What God Wants, Part I," (Parts II and III are 9 and 10).
3 & 4. "Perfect Sense" Part I and Part II.
5. "The Bravery of Being Out of Range."
6 & 7. "Late Home Tonight" Part I and Part II.
8. "Too Much Rape."
11."Watching TV."
12. "Three Wishes."
13." It's A Miracle."
14." Amused to Death!"


title: Don't Come Around Here No More!

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have recorded some of the best music around in rock 'n' roll. When I listen to their songs here, I remember some of their videos on MTV in the eighties and nineties. I wished there was a DVD compilation out there.

Here their greatest hits began with their first classic, "American Girl," and ends with the song, "Something in the Air," in the early nineties. They are still playing and making music to this day.

Without their videos in the eighties, I probably wouldn't have become a fan. The best video is for the song, "Don't Come Around Here No More!," with an Alice in Wonderland theme. Another classic video was "Into the Great Wide Open," with Faye Dunaway and Johnny Depp.


title: Waltzing with the Best of Strauss!

text: Johann Strauss was best known for his beloved waltzes. The six here in Volume 7 of Listener's Choice collection include "Blue Danube Waltz" (10:01); "Roses from The South Waltz" (9:13); "Artist's Life Waltz" (9:31); "Treasure Waltz" (7:56); "Voices of Spring Waltz" (6:54); and "Tales of Vienna Woods" (11:57). The CD is a lovely collection of his best work.


title: Can't Take My Ears Off Your Music!

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I love this collection of songs featuring great singers and music groups from the past. With an excellent sound and quality, I highly recommend this two disc CD for any music lover of the past. I will include the titles and performers for each disc below.

Disc One; 1. "When I Fall in Love" by Nat King Cole; 2. "You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You" by Dean Martin; 3. "Poor Little Fool," by Ricky Nelson; 4. "I Honestly Love You" by Olivia Newton-John OBE; 5. "She Believes in Me" by Kenny Rogers; 6. "One Less Bell To Answer" by The 5th Dimension; 7. "Love Makes The World Go Round" by Deon Jackson; 8. "You Needed Me" by Anne Murray; 9. "All I Have To Do Is Dream" by the Everly Brothers; 10. "Theme from the Valley of the Dolls" by Dionne Warwick; 11. "Mr Blue" by The Fleetwoods; 12. "You Belong to Me" by The  Duprees; 13. "See The Funny Little Clown" by Bobby Goldsboro; 14. "Don't Make My Brown Eyes Blue" by Crystal Gayle; and 15."Let It Be Me" by The Everly Brothers.

Disc Two: 1."Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" by Frankie Valli; 2. "Dream Lover" by Bobby Darin; 3. "Never My Love" by the Association; 4. "Nobody Does It Better" by  Carly Simon; 5. "My Love" by Petula Clark CBE; 6. "This Girl's In Love With You" by Dionne Warwick; 7. "If I Were A  Carpenter" by Bobby Darin; 8. "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love" by Petula Clark CBE; 9. "My Eyes Adored You" by Frankie Valli; 10. "Beyond the Sea" by Bobby Darin; 11. "You Light Up My Life" by Debby Boone; 12. "Come Rain or Come Shine" by Ray Charles; "I Cried a Tear" by Lavern Baker; "A Lover's Question" by Clyde McPhatter;" and "When a Man Loves a Woman" by Percy Sledge at 15.

I really enjoyed listening to the nice array of music on two CDs. It opened my ears to enjoying other musicians and groups in singing songs whether familiar or not. They are truly lovely songs full of love all around.


title: Sassy but Classy!

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Joy, Babette, and Teddy Beverley MBE are the British singing sisters who have sung since the 1940s to today. Joy is the eldest while Babette and Teddy are twins. The trio have been singing songs for decades.

With this CD, they are with the Syd Garrett Orchestra. The CD features 16 recordings. If you like big band music, you will love them. They're better known in their native England.

When they perform, they are in matching outfits and hairstyles. They're reminiscent of the Andrews Sisters and other sister acts but the Beverley Sisters have lasted the longest by decades.


title: And I'll Be Faithful to Dusty Springfield!

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Dusty Springfield OBE died in 1999 from breast cancer. When she died, the music world and her fans mourned her loss. There hasn't been anybody before or since like Dusty Springfield. It is hard to believe that I haven't heard every recording since I have several of her CDs.

Yes, there are some songs or recordings that I haven't heard before on this compact disc. Even song like "Nothing is Forever" is new to me. I listened to Dusty's sultry smoky voice thousands of times. When I listened to this compilation, I felt like I was listening to the first time. The quality is high and the sound is excellent.

Dusty is still sorely missed by her fans like myself. I am sure that she would have been awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire if she had lived longer. The world lost her too soon. She is probably smiling in heaven at knowing of her impact, legacy, and influence in the music industry now.


title: It Never Rains In Southern California!

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This compact disc is an assortment of music on California living of sun, fun, and beaches. This music is inspired by the Golden State.

The CD opens with the classic Mamas and Papas song, "California Dreamin." I thought the Beach Boys song "Kokomo" should have been replaced by their signature tune, "California Girls." The classic "Hotel California" should be included here but isn't unfortunately.

There are other less popular songs included here. I loved Wilson Phillips' hit, "Hold On." In fact, Chynna Phillips is the daughter of Mamas and Papas John Phillips. Wendy and Carnie Wilson are the daughter of the Beach Boys' Wilson.

The CD should have also included Randy Newman's hit, "I Love L.A." There were other songs inspired by San Francisco as well like Otis Redding's "Sitting on The Dock of The Bay" and Jefferson Starship's "Nothing Gonna Stop Us Now" that should be included here. They should also have included Christopher Cross classic like "Sailing" or "Swept Away." Perhaps they will be a second volume of California inspired music.


title: Reliving Radio History!

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The CD came with a cover but little information about the episodes. While it plays fine on my laptop, I still would like more information like cast and crew information.

Still it is a bargain price and worth it. I have a friend whose birth mother was a radio actress in Chicago during that time. For this price, it is worth getting it to see if she was in the cast.


title: I have one complaint! I want more!

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I am going to treasure this compact disc for as long as possible. This compilation of songs are recorded by Second City Divas. Chicago is America's second largest city to New York City but I believe is the heart and soul of American theatre, musical and drama. The Chicago area is home to over 200 theaters, union and amateur.

Unlike Broadway where plays and musicals can last years with numerous cast changes, Chicago's theatre scene is more diverse in schedule and repertoire. The singers here like the great Alene Robertson, Felicia Fields, Mary Ernster, Hollis Resnik, and Peggy Roeder have won multiple Joseph Jefferson Awards (Chicago's version of the Tony Awards).

This wonderful collection is just heavenly in sound. Each female vocalist here displays their range, emotion, and passion for their chosen piece which ranges from Gilbert & Sullivan to Andrew Lloyd Webber.

My favorite performance here is Alene Robertson known as Chicago's answer to Ethel Merman. She has held the record in winning Joseph Jefferson Awards. I. My opinion, Alene Robertson should be a Kennedy Center Honoree after decades of service in musical theatre or be awarded the National Medal of the Arts.

If I have a complaint, I want more!


title: It should be re-released to remember those lost forever!

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Believe it or not, the People's Temple choir had gifted singers like Deanna Wilkinson who entertained Congressman Leo Ryan and the Press the night before they would all die in Jonestown. The People's Temple had sung some beautiful gospel songs. The sadness is the fact that this compact disc also includes the forty minute taped recording of the final white night which Jones called it as the revolutionary suicide. Still thirty years later, their deaths are still stained by his vanity, conceit, and loss. Only 16 people defected and 9 defectors left in the Guyanese jungle that morning, so only 25 of about 900 left Jonestown. There were others who were in Georgetown, Guyana but they mostly survived except their right hand woman, Sharon Amos Harris, who was a devout and killed her three children before killing herself. Four people dead in Georgetown, Five people dead on the Port Kaituma Airstrip, and over 900 in Jonestown. Their music is really beautiful and the sadness is that they didn't get appreciated in life nor in death.

Unfortunately, the compact disc can costs hundreds of dollars on ebay. I was lucky to get it for $99.00 from Israel plus shipping and handling. I recommend this compact disc for Jonestown researchers and those interested in hearing more about the People's Temple's than their final act.


title: An Angel's Gonna Find You!

text: The main reason that I bought this compact disc is because I was searching for a song, "An Angela's Gonna Find You," which was played in one of my favorite films, Dear God. The song has a nice ring to it and it was use appropriately. More importantly, Brett Raymond has a nice light sound and he can be inspiring at times. I miss the pop music of my generation and it's nice to know that it's still being made but it's not mainstream. You have to find it.


title: A Terrific Sound of Soul!

text: I bought this compact disc because I loved the song, High, not that it has anything to do with getting high. Listening to this compact disc, I find it hard to even think of giving it away. It has a great sound of soul, motivational, and spiritual singing. This music brings you up in the day just as it did when I first heard High. This compact disc does not disappoint but you want more and I don't know why we don't hear much about them. Maybe it's because I listen to CDs instead of the radio. Too many commercials on FM. I'm glad that they kept their style and keep making music. I thought they were gone.


title: Flamenco inspired brilliance

text: I was at a wine festival several years ago in Baja California enjoying the ambiance beneath the shade of olives groves when I first heard Maria Jimenez blaring across the hot desert silence. I was blown away and did not know who was singing accompanied by the lovely guitars. I asked the waiter and he informed me and I bought it as soon as I got back home. It is a pity that this item has been discontinued as it is one of the best flamenco inspired discs paying tribute to Sabina around. I think it can be found if you look around in other markets, especially Latin markets like The Tango Tienda or others that cater to Spanish music. As for Maria Jimenez,she is incredible. Her voice has such bravado, emotion and range that it is inolvidable(unforgetable). Her voice is perfect for flamenco. The whole disc is exceptional but there are a few outstanding tracks that stand above the others. One such song is the ever popular " Y Nos Dieron Las Diez" that is pure flamenco accompanied by gritos (shouts) and hand claps while the guitar, as George Harrison said, gently weeps. Another highlight, amongst an album of highlights is the spectacular duet performance with Sabina on "Con Dos Camas Vacias" where she seems extra energetic, if that is even possible.If you love women singing flamenco than this is one seeking out. If you like this you also will enjoy another of her discs entitled [[ASIN:B000AUZUFU Genio y Figura]] Recommended for those that love flamenco and the music of Sabina.


title: Like light snow flurries

text: If you can find this disc you will be rewarded with great Chrismas music year after year. The Windham Hill artists are known for their accoustic music that is usually characterized as New Age. This is soft music of the season that will warm your house with joy. The late great(died much to young in a car accident) guitarist for Windham Hill Michael Hedges introduces the disc with "Prelude to Cello Suite #1" and from the there the disc just flows quitely and melodically. All tracks are outstanding and even though they are by different artists there is a consistency and cohesiveness that binds them and that is the Windham Hill sound. Beautiful songs include "Greensleeves" that is just piano by Liz Story and she takes you soaring on her graceful runs on the keys,"The Christmas Song" by Steve Erquiaga who plays a stripped down version on accoustic guitar, the melancholy "Veni Emmanuel" by the Turtle Island Quartet, the sublime "March from the Nutrcracker Suite" by the Modern Mandolin Quartet, "Abide the Winter" played softly on accoustic guitar by William Ackerman and the gently swaying jazz version of "Winter Wonderland" by Tuck Andress. If you want something unobtrussive and soft to fill the season than you might try this Windham Hill accoustic blend.


title: Mexican electronica

text: This is a super collection of songs from the duo of Bostich & Fussible that was released around the same time as another of their efforts was released under the name of Nortec Collective. Similar in style to the Nortec Collective CD, this disc features hyper-beats, wailing  jazzy horns and crashing and droping percussive syncopation, infused with Banda samples that sound nothing like the original horns. A popular song from the disc entitled "Odyssea 2000" is performed twice, once as an extended version by a Dj that has many "false starts" that keep the song sounding like it is just beginning. It is a radio friendly , hence the radio edit version, sort of song that gets occasional airplay on one of the local Tijuana radio stations down here in southernmost Cali. Much of the music is the type of stuff perfect for bumper music on radio shows or for those snazzy car commercials on tv. The music is very clever  that features dance type grooves or if your best  dancing days are behind you perfect for an additional adrenaline rush to compliment your aerobic activity. "Unicornio" is another done twice song that probably could have suficed with the extended version only but I guess they felt the Dj version was neccessary.The problem is that it makes for much of the same songs as opposssed to two new fresh songs being on the disc. "Unicornio" is a hybrid that bears the qualities of chill and trip hop with a trippy Banda flavor. "Mona B" is an odd song that sounds like the inside of  a martian craft from a b-movie with someone tweeking the control panel resulting in a bunch of odd  fluctuating hi-pitched sounds. The percussion picks the song up and the odd mixture of sythn sounds results in an exotic dance groove. "Tj" has the feel of a human  cabaret, people walking thestreets, horns blarring and buses spewing black toxins in the air, while people scurry about in the most visited city in the world, vendors hawking their wares to tourists as the heartbeat of the city pumps  a um-pah-pah- banda beat. If you have never heard electronica from Mexico this is a good example but there are many others too, including Nopalbeat, Wakal, Tocadisco, Nortec Collective and various variations on a genre like Sidestepper, Plastillina Mosh or Kinky. If you want to try something different in the electronica vein than this might be a good place to start your exploration  from down Mexcio way.


title: literary masterpiece..

text: perhaps the most memorable of the Border Trilogy..Cormac McCarthy takes a little getting used to as far as his literary style but once you find the rhythm of his words sit back and enjoy being transported to a world of masterful prose..John Grady Cole is 16, parents divorced and his grandfather, the only adult he's close to dies then his world changes..deprived of life on his grandfather's ranch after it's sold..he decides to cross the border into Mexico..he's joined on the trip by an old friend, Lacey Rawlins..along the way they meet another teenager,  Jimmy Blevins, most likely riding a stolen horse..the three amigos ride into Mexico..and what awaits is a journey that turns them from kids into men..in a harsh Western way..beautifully told...splendid imagery..


title: Terrifying film! Packaging was sturdy and product came exactly as described.

text: It took me a while to find this film online for some odd reason. Quality film...nice menu....definitely NOT bootleg...special features included.


title: Five Stars

text: excellent


title: Some good lessons.  Narration lacking.

text:
I was interested in this book because I know YUM brands and wanted to see what the CEO has to say.  He's a little full of himself - but one would have to be to scrabble to the top of this big company.  And I do think that he has brought about some amazing changes in the consolidation of the company and all of the brands.  He is also very humble in outing his own mistakes.  Refreshing.

I listened to the audio version of this book.  Unfortunately, the narrator Howard Ross, was too old for this book.  He sounds about 80.  No offence to those who are in that age group, but his voice didn't match the dynamic personality of David Novak.  It would have been better with a different reader.


title: amazing just what i ordered

text: love


title: I love these Fig Bites!

text: I have Fig Bites with a cup of tea each morning. Love them.


title: Just Fine!

text: Great purchase on a diminishing resource. Opera explained!


title: Five Stars

text: Great purchase.


title: Five Stars

text: Good, prompt service


title: A must for any fan

text: Nothing really new or great but enjoyed it and liked the different takes on KISS music


title: Five Stars

text: very unique music. Very uplifting.


title: Beautiful Voice

text: Happened to find Demis on a You Tube video and enjoyed him there.  Bought this collection and am quite happy with it,  I wish I had known about him years ago,  So sad that he died at a relatively early age, but at least his music will last for many years,


title: What can I say -It's James Last

text: We fell in love with Last's music after having seen him on Public Television several years ago,  Had a hard time finding a place to buy his music before discovering it on Amazon.  Have 3 of his cd's now and plan to buy more.


title: Five Stars

text: great folk music. 4 CDs


title: Great CD

text: I have been searching for this cd for awhile; so glad I found it.  The cd is great, works fine, and sounds good.  Made my day , thank you so much, Great Seller.


title: Four Stars

text: The CD's skip a lot.


title: Perfection in Music

text: Perfect songs in a perfect album.  Very enjoyable music.


title: Five Stars

text: Absolutely awesome..this was a gift...perfect..arrived earlier then expected...thank you...gwen


title: thank you

text: This was a gift for a dear friend. She cried the entire cd and dvd. thank you for quick shipping and a perfect product.


title: Not a happy customer!

text: I opened the cd case to find not Sergei Nivikov,s cd, but a Reader's Digest cd of classical piano solos! What a shock. Now I have to contact the sender for an answer as to how this happened. Hopefully, I can receive the cd I requested!


title: EXACTLY what the title states: wave sounds only

text:
Title of CDs states waves and beach house, but I expected music w/wave sounds in the background. Not so!

For sleeping, calming, studying, the two CDs make excellent white noise. If that's what you're looking for, then these CDs are for you.


title: Good selection of well-known hymns

text: Not all songs are my favorites, but the words are clearly audible and accompanied by various styles of instruments.  I'm not a fan of current Christian pop, and these selections aren't that, although a couple of hymns veer that way. It's beautiful w/o being a church choir. This is the 2nd copy I've had of this CD, and I have enjoyed learning the words to the tracks that appeal to me.


title: Fabulous, as usual!

text: I’m slowly collecting all of Ann Rachlin’s CDs and MP3 albums. They are simple gems. Incredible artistry and story telling. A cultural service indeed!


title: Nice educational activity set

text: I bought this activity set for my son as this comes with words cards along with addition and subtraction cards so can be used to teach both with same set. My son already knows basic addition and he was very excited to play/learn with it.  Cards are very thick so it's safe to leave kid to play with it. It comes with 26 alphabet tiles and 0 to 9 number tiles along with +,- and = signs. Words cards doesn't have any word where same letter appear twice so one set of alphabets is enough to play with those flash cards .

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title: Oh so bad.

text: Awful awful music. Don't buy this for any other reason than as a gag gift. (which is why I bought it)


title: Super cheap feeling

text: Super cheap feeling. I sent it to a friend, and he thought it was a free promotional item, and a bad one at that.


title: Satisfied.

text: As expected


title: My Album of the Year

text:
I discovered Saint Etienne quite late on when I bought the wonderful 'Boxette' retrospective. After a long break, they are back with this fantastic album. There is not a dud track on it.

The album opens with the sublime 'Over the Border' on which Sarah's silky smooth voice perfectly evokes the feelings you had when you were young and discovered music for the first time.
Other highlights include the impossible not to dance to 'I've Got Your Music' (find the video also, it's great), the mid-tempo 'Last Days of Disco', which is perfect chill-out music and, of course, 'DJ' which has to rank as one of the pop songs of the year.

Seriously, if you don't know Saint Etienne, give this a go, it's fantastic, innovative yet traditional, immaculately produced and an essential purchase for fans of great music.

Pop music for adults, buy it.


title: Did one already.

text: Second on mail.


title: If you like Pride and Prejudice and Downton Abbey, you'll like this

text: One of my favorite mini-series.  Excellent adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel detailing the trade offs on both sides when rich American heiresses marry into titled but financially precarious English families.  The "new money" Americans can't break into supposedly democratic society in the US because they didn't arrive on the Mayflower, and hope that a daughter with a title will provide the entrée for business and social climbing on both sides of the Atlantic.  Colorful, costume drama is well acted and showcases the talents of many of today's well known actors before they were bona fide stars.  Wonderful score as well.  Shades of Downton Abbey, but without the upstairs downstairs aspect.


title: An Incredible Talent Blends the Best of Both Worlds!!!!

text:
Aaron Diehl is that rare talent that moves effortlessly from one thing to another. I sincerely hope more people get to hear him one day soon; he is a musical genius. I really love both classical and jazz, but this instead some kitschy combo collection, this is the essence of Mozart elevated to a whole other dimension. Mr. Dieh's expert command of the piano is beyond that of most of his contemporaries. There is so much to hear in every moment of this CD, that it is a new experience every round of playing.

If you ever have the chance to hear Mr. Diehl play in a live setting, you must go. He is exhilarating to watch and hear, and it will likely become one of your Top 10 live performances.


title: Awesome Django Music by a Truly Talented Young Man!

text: It's really hard to believe Jimmy Rosenberg was merely sixteen when this CD was produced, he plays as if he's had a lifetime of music at his fingertips. What's even more amazing is that apparently this young man had no formal training or instruction. It's such an immense pleasure to find and celebrate such incredible talent. If you're into music in the Django Reinhart genre, you will absolutely love this CD and if you're not, no matter, you will quickly find yourself tapping along and enjoying the upbeat tempo and in pretty amazed what a couple of young guys on guitar can produce.


title: Very helpful.

text: I bought it for a child from Russia who is learning English. The songs help to retain basic academic information regarding alphabet, numbers, shapes, etc. It will be helpful for any kindergarten student.


title: Very soothing and healing

text: There are three meditations on this CD, and all are very relaxing to listen to. Ms. Larkin's voice is very soothing. Her imagery is clear and I truly felt i was experiencing what she was talking about. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants guided meditation for relaxation.


title: Great duo, they harmonize so well and this is ...

text: Great duo, they harmonize so well and this is great collection of gospel music.  I would definitely recommend this CD to anyone who like some of the old gospel songs.  Any music from this duo is great,  I love these guys.


title: Loved it

text: Good value


title: Five Stars

text: Great music great performers<br />Definitely 5 stars


title: A little disappointing. Not very exciting. But I ...

text: A little disappointing.  Not very exciting. But I will still air it. Thanx .


title: more like a pop art contrasting color style for this 2018 ...

text: neat design, more like a pop art contrasting color style for this 2018 collection.


title: A great assortment of hits on this CD

text: So many of Neil's hits on (1) CD. I listen to it a lot in my car!!


title: Great for Creedence lovers

text: I love Creedence. They've been my favorite band since they began! I also own greatest hits vol. 2.


title: Love JB

text: This one is pretty good.  Some of the others they have made do not show much quality and the song selections are bad.


title: Very good solo album by Last Autumn's Dream lead vocalist.

text: This is a very good album by Mikael Erlandsson, most likely better known in the U.S. as the lead singer for Last Autumn's Dream.  The songs on this album have a lighter touch to them than the offerings from Last Autumn's Dream, i.e., more of pop feel.  Also, seven of the eleven songs on this album are included on the "Very Best of Mikael Erlandsson" that is a compilation of his first three solo albums, with two unreleased tracks.  If you have any interest in this album you would likely be better off just getting the compilation album.


title: Good collaboration.

text:
Fergie Frederiksen is in fine vocal form here as he sings songs primarily written by Ricky Phillips.  (Phillips is given credit as the sole writer or as a co-writer on all of the songs.  Frederiksen is given credit as a co-writer on four of the songs.  There are eleven songs on the album, which are listed below.)  As a surprise bonus, Giuffria is credited a co-writer of the music, along with Frederiksen/Phillips, on one of the songs. David (Glen) Eiseley is even credited with background vocal on that track. The musicians on the other tracks, including Neal Schon on one track and Deen Castronovo on several others, are well respected and add some flair to the arrangements.

The album overall is a pleasant collection of tunes that is more melodic, soulful, and uptempo than Fergie's album with Toto.  For melodic rock aficionados this is a must have.

The tracks are: (1) Shot down, (2) Oh Diane, (3) How much longer, (4) Name of love, (5) You must be a liar ('cause you're unbelievable), (6) Baby Blue, (7) Captured, (8) Queen Bee, (9) Hopelessly lost, (10) Do you love her,  and (11) Long way around the world.


title: Five Stars

text: Nice to be able to practice along with the mantra


title: Love this!

text: I love the songs on here and that it’s like a story-/ great for kids and adults!!


title: It's A Homer!

text:
In "Babe Ruth" Kal Wagenhem introduces the reader to one of the greatest icons of American sport.  From his home in Baltimore through the minor leagues, the major leagues and retirement we see the man behind the hero.  Wagenhem does an excellent job of interweaving baseball with life.

Through the pages we meet the dichotomy that is Babe Ruth.  Though America's greatest sports hero, he never learned to take care of himself.  Though he could afford any car he wanted, he needed them because he never really learned to drive safely.  Despite achieving riches unimaginable for an athlete of his day, he never quite crossed to the right side of the tracks.  Despite a life dripping with debauchery, he never left the Church in which he had been raised.  A vocal supporter of Al Smith, he did not register to vote until long after the Smith era.  After having established himself as an outstanding pitcher, he became the game's greatest hitter.

The baseball world of Ruth's day is portrayed as differing greatly from that of today.  In the off season players doubled their earnings on barnstorming tours.  Players rode trains rather than planes.  Some abused booze rather than drugs, but Oh, they played the game and the Babe dominated it as no other player has before or since.

Babe's life was a combination of triumph and tragedy, fulfillment and despair.  The road from the top was bumpy for he Babe.  His dream to manage never fulfilled, Babe resented a world which, though it was his life, he never really understood.

This book changed my view of Babe Ruth.  He emerges as a figure despiseable and lovable, heroic and  irresponsible, admired and pitied.  The ability to lead the reader to see a different viewpoint is a test of a good book.  By this measurement "Babe Ruth" hits a homer.


title: Five Stars

text: more great travel music!


title: BONGO HERBERT BANGS AGAIN!

text:
From the first blast of the brass of the overture, you know that this is something special. One can imagine the excitement at the Saville Theatre in London on April 23, 1958, when the show opened. This was a rock and roll musical - or at least a musical with some rock and roll music. Its main character was a sleazy promoter who discovered a young boy who was driving the girls crazy with his music in a local bongo bar.  Paul Scofield played the promoter and the boy was played by James Kenney.

The story was about the making of a "star" when everything was a backhanded deal. None of the people was particularly concerned about anything except getting his/her own piece of the money.  This "play with music" is never done anymore. What we have is a film version with Laurence Harvey and Cliff Richard in the two roles. Most of the music in the film is NOT from the stage show, so what we have on this CD is our only chance to hear it as it was heard in the theatre.

I say this because the reviews on most of the other CD's available write about the terrible sound on those discs. This is NOT true with this one. It is clear and loud and sounds like it was recorded yesterday.

The music by David Heneker and Monty Norman, with lyrics by Julian More, Heneker and Norman, are a treat. There are all kinds of songs here. They include parody rock, Latin jazz, skiffle and traditional stage songs. All of them are entertaining and fun and worth hearing. In fact, you may have to play it two or three times just to get the cleverness of the lyrics in some of the songs including "Nausea", "Spoil the Child", and "He's Got Something for the Public."

In addition to Scofield and Kenney, we have Millicent Martin and Charles Gray.

This is a time capsule of music that deserves a listen. The songs and story are both great. Since we only have the film version with Richard, it is great to have this for comparison. The inclusion of the EP songs from the film by Richard really points up the difference between the two products. Cynicism gives way to sincerity - but who can believe it?

A great surprise gift to someone who claims to have everything! A nice discovery for stage music fans, this CD produced by Bruce Kimmel and remastered by James Nelson should be on YOUR shelf.


title: Four Stars

text: was a wonderful talent.  she died too young


title: Gear

text: This is an excellent recording of the audition the Beatles had with Decca Records on January 1, 1962. Decca turned them down, saying guitar groups were on their way out. The Beatles were very nervous during this audition, and it sometimes shows. Lennon's voice cracks, Harrison's guitar solo is awkward, McCartney seems constrained at times. But this is a fantastic look at where they were at that time, and it includes three original compositions, and one of them, McCartney's "Love of the Loved," you won't find anywhere else except on a bootleg CD. It was worth every penny.


title: Shirley Yamaguchi

text: Before Shirley Yamaguchi was a 1950's Hollywood actress in Samuel Fuller's color film-noir "House of Bamboo" and King Vidor's "East is East" [Japanese War Bride] she was a star singer and actress in 1930's and 1940's China. After Hollywood, she moved to her parents' country, Japan, where she had a career as a singer, broadcaster and member of Parliament. One can hear an echo of Li Xianglan in a remix by the American group, The Shanghai Restoration Project, with [[ASIN:B000X7ZS98 "The Evening Primrose."]]


title: "Let us not mistake dissent for disloyalty...."

text:
Almost a novella of a movie -- a quick, crisp, solidly built, well-timed look at the public feud between newsman Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy, and the political and corporate friction that followed.

As he did with "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," co-writer and director George Clooney offers another wry look into the wiring of modern media.  Politics may be the main item on the agenda, but Clooney clearly relishes a chance to dig into the world of broadcasters and journalists during a goldern era of television.

And a lot of the film's moves come from live television (elevator sets that rotate rather than rise and other visual slight-of-hand gags), and indeed the primary inspiration seems to consist of equal parts Sidney Lumet (both his TV work and, in the surroundings and some of the compositions, "Network") and the gorgeous black-and-white photography of Francis Wolff.  Clooney uses both influences to his advantage. Completely apart from the issues at hand, this is one sturdily composed, good looking film.

But the main virtue of "Good Night" is in transmitting the spirit of Murrow, who faced down a snowballing form of bad juju with reason and clear-headed common sense.  This is a good point in time for a film that reminds viewers not to mistake dissent for disloyalty.

This story could've been an epic.  Clooney could've gone into the private lives of the characters, amped up the drama and stretched the running time to two hours and change.  But instead, "Good Night" is a short, stark, undemanding movie that, much like Murrow, simply steps in and says what it feels it should say, then gets out of the way.


title: Very hard to find and so worth it for any mandolinist's library of music.

text: This was recommended to me by my music teacher who was a student of Alison Stephens.  After listening to this CD I found it's no surprise that this duo was the best of the best for classical mandolin.  It's such a shame they're no longer together.  This has become my "go to sleep" music as it's so pleasent and restful.


title: Wonderful Tennessee Ernie Ford CD of favorite hyms

text: Saw a special involving Tennessee Ernie Ford that showed this CD.  Could not wait to order it from Amazon.  Delighted!  Such a special man and such a special performance.


title: Five Stars

text: Great price


title: LOVE LOVE LOVE my album

text: LOVE LOVE LOVE my album, great seller, quick shipment, great price and charming packaging. Will buy from this seller again. Thank You.


title: Could have been better

text:
On the one hand, these are virtuoso musicians collaborating with one another, so the concept is quite interesting.
On the other hand the set is uneven and in fact perhaps a bit boring.
It's not bad, but it certainly could have been better.


title: Excellent, though uneven

text: This is a good disc featuring outstanding musicians. Yes, it is a bit uneven in its temperament, but some of the negative reviews here are simply nasty. Several of the tunes have a distinct "Weather Report" flavor, and the band performs admirably. The cover of "Boogie Woogie Waltz" is fantastic. I was going to give five stars just to balance some of the unnecessarily derogatory comments, but the fact is that this disc is a four-star jazz recording—nothing more, nothing less.


title: One of the greatest albums ever recorded...

text: ...and it never sounded better! Absolutely magnificent remastering. I'm able to hear the music with clarity and definition that I've never heard before, especially on my old cassette tapes from the 70s! The bonus disc is interesting, as you can hear what the tunes sounded like before the Phil Spector "wall of sound" was added. Most of those alternate takes are otherwise disposable, with two prominent exceptions: a 10-minute version of "Hear Me Lord" that features some incredible guitar work, and a fantastic 12-bar blues jam that I've never heard before. I can't imagine why those two tracks were excluded from the original release, but I'm thrilled to finally have the chance to hear them.


title: Excellent "straight-ahead" jazz

text: This is an excellent recording of a very good live performance by an underrated artist. It falls short of "essential listening" in my opinion, but it is quite enjoyable.


title: Just okay

text:
This album is just okay, and a bit disappointing.
I'm a big fan of ska, and this does not hold up to their previous work.
I would suggest checking out one of the prior albums.


title: Brilliant collaboration

text: This is a brilliant collaboration between a pair of interesting artists. The supporting musicians are outstanding, as well. In various songs, one can hear wisps of David Byrne, David Bowie, and even a hint of Tears For Fears. And of course, the King Crimson influence is front and center on a couple of tunes as well. This is a thoroughly enjoyable collection, discounting the last track, which is simply ambient filler.


title: Smo-o-o-o-th

text: Mellow, inoffensive, and pleasant enough. Nothing particularly memorable or interesting.


title: An incredible, historic gem.

text:
I bought this disc several years ago from an "oldies" catalogue that has since gone out of business. It sat on my shelf—unopened—for so many years because after I bought it I was afraid it could not possibly live up to expectations. I was dead wrong; this cd is fantastic and I've had it in my rotation for a couple of months now.
The highlights, at least in my opinion, are hearing Keith Emerson and John Entwistle play outside their usual boxes. For example, Entwistle—aside from taking several killer solos—absolutely shines on "Fanfare For the Common Man", and Emerson—who is perhaps even a bit too high in the mix throughout—does a great job covering the Steely Dan and Doobie Brothers tunes.
A comparison to the best of the Ringo All-Star Bands is reasonable. The vocals are surprisingly competent. Simon Phillips does yeoman's work covering some very challenging drum parts. The sound quality is fine. The selection of tunes is occasionally iffy, but overall this is just a lot of fun. It's probably really a 4-star product, but I absolutely love having the opportunity to add to my archive of recordings by Emerson and Entwistle (two of my favorites.)


title: A must-have for any fan of Jaco

text: This CD is a lot of fun, and a must-have for any fan of Jaco Pastorius. No, the sound quality isn't the best, and the vocals are iffy, but this is an opportunity to hear the great Jaco at his earliest, playing in a Florida cover band! The bass is high in the mix, so you can really hear Jaco developing some of his signature riffs. And the track selection is fantastic, some of the best tunes of the early 70s.


title: So so

text: Could not tell any difference in my anxious girl. Gave 2 stars because some of the CD is nice to listen to myself.


title: I received the CD quickly. I have listened since l received it. Thank you!

text: Great, quick service.


title: Great pillow!

text:
To begin, this pillow feels well made and is very comfortable. It truly feels like memory foam, keeps its structure, and continues to feel soft!
I love that the pillow has a place for your ear. I am a side sleeper that often wakes up to earrings poking into my head. This pillow helps prevent that from happening.
I do wish that this pillow came in sizes. I feel that the length from the edge of pillow and the place for your ear is a little wide for my neck. However, I squish the pillow up just a little, and it works just fine!


title: Four Stars

text: My daughter enjoyed this cd


A great new Christmas CD by Journey's Jonathan Cain.  Really some great new songs as well as few classics covered...Just a perfect addition to the Christmas season!


title: ELTON

text: NOT ONE OF HIS BEST


title: Excellent greatest hits CD

text: This CD has all of George Benson's greatest hits. It's also very well recorded and has good sound.


title: Very good early Emmylou set

text: Very nice set of 1970's albums. These are a 2010 remaster.


title: Great intro to Tony Bennett

text: Very nice collection of Tony Bennett hits. Excellent recording quality.


title: Applicable, Valuable and worthy of sharing.

text: Recommended by another friend and network marketer, I have found Jim Rohn to be true, real and heartfelt in his teachings.  So full of meaty information it will take several listenings to digest it all and put into practice.  Bravo!


title: Sounds good.

text: I haven't heard it in a long time. Sounds good.


title: Great era

text: Bought for husband after seeing it advertised on tv.


title: Four Stars

text: unique music


title: I love what she does

text: This was the first cd of Kirtana's that I purchased years ago.  I needed to replace my copy.  I love what she does.


title: Smooooth!

text: I'm listening to this CD as I write this review.  Chris Botti is an exceptionally talented young jazz musician with a smooth sound.  This offering is a fine example of his prolific handiwork.  The opening track, "Indian Summer," is catchy and lively -- a genuine feel-good tune.  From there the CD slips into a mellow, relaxing mix.  Track 2, "When I Fall In Love," and Track 8, "Lisa," are my personal faves, with a subtle passion that cuts straight to the heart.  Track 9 is a wonderful rendition of the classic "Someone to Watch Over Me."  Admittedly, a couple of tracks like 3 ("Miami Overnight") and 10 ("Best Time") wander dangerously close to the kind of music you'd hear while watching your local forecast on the Weather Channel, but overall this CD is a delightful jazz mix that is best shared with good friends and good wine on a Saturday night.  Well done.


title: Twelfth of Never

text: The Twelfth of Never was a great song when sung by Johnny Mathis and I loved it. But when Elvis sings a song it takes on a life of its own. Love his version and listen over and over and never get tired of it. You should have this in your collection .


title: Double Brahms

text:
We saw Gil Shaham perform the Brahms Violin Concerto a month ago.  What a treat!  He is absolutely involved in the music and the interplay between the orchestra and his violin and is a unique and first rate artist.  So, we had to have his recording of this piece.  It is well done, with the Berlin, and will not disapppoint the listener.

The Concerto for Violin and Cello is also with the very fine Berlin conducted by Claudio Abbado, one of the world's finest orchestras. While pleasant and a good performance, I do not think this Brahms piece is among his best.


title: Five Stars

text: CD arrived perfectly.


title: A W E S O M E ! ! !

text: Been listening to this since the release date...Really holds up over time!  Talk about major polish on this album.  No rough edges! Superb!


title: Bob Dylan

text: Good concert.  Poor quality sound


title: Loved every song.  Great compilation

text: I wish I knew about them when I was enjoying their music as a young man.