title: Yet another unauthorized Mahavishnu boot

text: I can understand wanting to own everything ever recorded by these world-class artists, but realize that the musicians receive no compensation when you buy this album.  If you already own all the commercial recordings (including the terrific 2d "Between Nothingness & Eternity" disc quietly inserted into the 2014 box set, the recent surround-sound version of "Birds of Fire" on SACD, and the 180g remastered versions of the band's first two albums -- all available on Amazon), then at least instead consider downloading some of the live sets posted on concertvault.  At least McLaughlin gets a few pennies per download over there (even if he had no artistic control over the recordings), and most of those shows are superior to the show on this "lost Mahavishnu" disc.  I think we owe the band enough respect to avoid enriching those who release recordings without the consent of the artists.


title: great

text: great


title: Excellent Christmas CD!

text: This is the second copy of the CD that I have purchased. It isn’t Christmas without these songs.


title: Five Stars

text: Thank you so very much for this CD


title: ... you so very much for the CD I just love it!

text: Thank you so very much for the CD I just love it!!!


title: track listing

text:
1. God Is Good - Alvin Slaughter
2. My God Reigns - Darrell Evans
3. King Of Life - Hosanna! Music Songwriter: Gary Sadler
4. We've Come To Bless Your Name - Don Moen
5. Use Me - The Motor City Mass Choir
6. God Is Able - Ron Kenoly
7. Shout To The Lord - Revival
8. He Shall Reign - Paul Wilbur

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title: No Clowns Here; Only Angels

text: A wonderful performance by Dame Judy and terrific support from the orchestra makes this one of the best recordings of this show I have ever heard.  It beautifully preserves my memories of this production.  And wait till yoou hear Sian Phillips sing LIASONS.  That alone is worth whatever the price you pay to get this cd.


title: Essential rock collection

text: One of the best albums in rock history, a must for any good historical collection. Hauntingly beautiful compositions sung by one of the best voices of rock.


title: Packaged great and plays good

text: For being an original it's in great condition.  Just a couple of minor skips which is ok for the price. I'm happy 😀


title: If you like Kpop or pop/rock in general this album is a ...

text: Saw these guys on youtube and had to get this. If you like Kpop or pop/rock in general this album is a rockin' romp!


title: Just so you know....

text: sorely disappointed. Only two tracks on this CD.  Uptown Funk is great and one of those get-stuck-in-your-head songs, but sheesh!  Two tracks?<br />bummed.


title: Loved this Anne Murray CD

text: I had heard this CD playing in a friend's vehicle while driving somewhere. Had to have a copy of my own.


title: Great Music!

text: Excellent sound.<br />Nice to have all this great music on 2 CDs


title: Wonderful CD!

text: We just love this -- warm, lively, lots of variety -- and really uplifting. Thanks!


title: Kids Praise

text: Kids Praise CDs are the best collection of music for children ever! My girls had all of the music available for this age group when they were young and now my grandson has the music. He loves it!


title: Five Stars

text: Love this two cd music .  Very peaceful and uplifting.


title: Four Stars

text: Good go to sleep music.


title: Ms. Tubb deserves a better production

text: I adore Evelyn Tubb's singing -- her performance on the album "Monteverdi: Duets & Solos" (with Emma Kirkby) is memorable. Even better, Ms. Tubb is purely delightful in all tracks of the "The Troubadour and the Nun."  For my aging ears, the dynamic sound range on "Mad Lover" is off... maybe it needs a more practiced production hand to balance the sound levels.... The vocal seems variously too soft, just right or at times too shrill... The harp is lovely (and technically complex) especially in solo pieces but my ears simply do not appreciate the combination of high voice and "triple harp" as performed/recorded on this disk.


title: Five Stars

text: Tina at her best


title: Proud Of Ruben For This One.

text: This Tribute Cd To Luther Is A Masterpiece. The Concert I Saw Was Unbelievable.


title: Great music, but not quality CD.

text: I purchased this item on Dec. 30 or 31, 2010. The music and sound quality are great. However the disc is so thin it is actualy floppy. I am afraid to try and listen to it again because IT IS EXTREMELY FRAGILE! The extras included are real great and some of the alternative/not released songs are really cool. I would give this product 5 stars if it was about 4-6 times thicker, and that would still be thinner than most CD's. If your not concerned about that then you might order it. But be extremely careful with it.


title: Good old hard rock.

text: Good 1970's classic rock. It won't make you forget Zeppelin or Bad Co. but it is enjoyable.


title: Fun,  Fun, Fun

text: A family favorite, I was looking for any CD that had Bang, Bang LuLu as a selection. This CD had this and other cuts that I enjoyed equally as much. Although there were various artists, the music was all upbeat and the words could be understood with minimal effort. It is a great collection of party songs, a bit 'blue' but not vulgar. Most had the reggae island beat that really gets a party moving. You just wanted to get up and dance!


title: A Long Strange Trip

text: I Love this Album.  Bonnie has a voice like that other Bonnie (Raitt)but material I like better.  If you are into Americana, the kind they play in the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas.  I think you will like this.  BUT! Good luck finding it.  I just looked and it is still not showing on Amazon.  I bought it through Amazon used from a third party seller.  I have seen it as MP3 download.  If you are not into MP3 or you want your own copy of this.  Good Luck.


title: Five Stars

text: Wonderful music and very inspirational!


title: Five Stars

text: Love, Love, Love


title: Good buy as a gift

text: I purchased this for my dad and he loves It! He’s always listening to it. Good buy


title: Finding some of those missing songs

text: I guess I'm old fashion. I like having a hard copy, not to mention better sound. When I rip it I use 320 kbps The Highest I can select it just sounds better. Even though the cd is at 1411 kbps. Sound quality matters!!


title: Music once banned by the Marcos govt.

text:
ASIN means, 'Salt', as in, "The Salt of the Earth".

Their music was once banned by the Marcos govt. It was considered subversive and they were known to be Pro-NPA.

 But these are folk songs. Simple, direct, to the point. Most of their songs are about life & family, but some are political...like the suffering of native hill tribe peoples, and the over-developement of a country that is fast seeing it's natural beauty dissapear.

The once 'Pearl of the Orient', Philippines, is becoming 'The Sewer of the Orient', and this band tried to warn everyone about it.

 Marcos was just upset that the truth was being told thru their music.

 The music is acoustic, with rich vocals, backed-up by some traditional instruments.

Song #4, 'Ang Bayan Kong Sinilangan', is a national folk song.

There is nothing subversive about this music.

 I own this album. It is beautiful.


title: The best album ever!!!

text: This is my favorite album. I met her once at Morning Star.  She was awesome.  I love this worship music.


title: Die Happy = Best Band Ever

text: Not That Kind of Girl was the first song that hooked me on Die Happy years ago. I got the single to complete my B sides collection, and this is a good one!


title: Five Stars

text: Love it


title: just discovered

text: just discovered this talented young man.  his style is unique and his skill in the face of physical hardship is amazing.


title: OUTSTANDING!!!

text: Fantastic worship music!!!


title: Not in US

text: Well a bit pricey but it the only way to get this cd, Over seas is the only place I found this, got the album, now the cd, also order , Back in 72 and Seven. Well worth when people wow haven't heard this in years


title: good

text: loved it. deck use


title: Reminds of the movie titanic.

text: Lovely cd, i bought it to fall asleep to. It's not exactly calming, but still a great cd! Reminds me of the titanic movie.


title: Five Stars

text: Love these guys!


title: Five Stars

text: Who doesn't love Dolly?


Christmas gift for my buddies girlfriend who's a huge bieber fan.


title: Five Stars

text: very happy


title: purple rain purple vinyl lp

text: yes,very happy with the puple vinyl lp. thank you very much


title: Five Stars

text: Fiery set from an amazing collection of musicians


title: Five Stars

text: So many great '80's tunes.


title: Four Stars

text: Good CD by the band out of Raleigh.


title: Great Freshman output.

text: Great freshman CD by Dead-Reckoning who later became Far Too Jones. You can hear the classic FTJ sound in the CD albeit a younger version.


title: The BEST! at getting babies, toddlers and children (and parents) to sleep.

text: This is GREAT for getting babies to sleep (and their parents). We still use it to relax, 16 years later. Just bought a new one to replace our old cassette. It was hard to find for a while.


title: Scott Stapp/Creed still rocking!!!

text: Another great Scott Stapp/Creed CD!


title: Great for beginners to fitness training

text: The music is what I expected from Integrity Music. the gentle encouragement works better for me. I don't like being yelled at.


title: Mellow Music

text: Didn't purchase it from Amazon.  Have had it for years but probably only listened to it a couple of times.  Just started playing it on a regular basis and really enjoying it.  Great background music.  Very mellow and soothing.  Highly recommended.


title: Classical Greek Nightclub Music

text: Excellent collection.  Many precious memories.


title: Just what I needed

text: Great CD. Songs sound just like I remember hearing back in the 80s.


title: Great Collection!

text: Great upbeat collection with some songs in English and others in Norwegian, including Jim Stark's "Morning Song," Di Derre's "Jenter," and Jo Nesbo's "Hap"!!! Give yourself a treat with this album that will take you to Oslo and back!


title: Great summary of FDR, his life, challenges and accomplishments

text: This is an excellent book and was very happy to find it as an audio book.  If you are interested in learning more about FDR you won't be dissipointed with this series.


title: Great

text: Great CD I will probably get more from him.


title: Good product

text: Fast shipping. Product came as described. Very professional.


title: arrived in perfect shape

text: I would have preferred a CD but this record was in perfect shape & I will get a stereo someday to put on CD to give to others in family. I remember this record, had recorded on cassette and sang for my boys.  Record seems to be lost but now I have it again for my god-daughters new baby to start.  I had written all the words for the songs but I probably still know them by heart. It is nice to have something from one's childhood to pass on.


title: Priceless to me!

text: The inside cd prongs were all broken, but the cd and liner notes are in perfect condition. I am personal friends with the lead singer, and so this is a priceless work for me to own. I thank you so much for selling it. I am so grateful to have this in my Skywind/Skywynd/ Crash Anthem collection!! It is not easy to find this cd as it is one of the early editions. I hope you are still a fan of their music as well since you did own this cd (seller).


title: Five Stars

text: Our daughter listens to this daily. She loves it. Thank you!


title: Old school enjoyment

text: Old school that me and my husband enjoyed hearing.


title: Four Stars

text: This software helps students visualize math, including long division. An oldie, but still goodie!


title: A riot!

text: My mom bought me this record back in 1974 when I was about 7 years old. The songs were about the parts of the brain,and what they do, but the songs were a RIOT!.  One went like this: "Thank goodness that you have a cerebellum.- If they ask you what it's for be sure to tell em.- If you didnt have one all you'd do is lie there.- Till the buzzards come along and say "OH Hi There"!" LOL!


title: This was my favorite album when I was a kid...

text: The music is heartrendingly gorgeous and it is PERFECTLY performed by New York Pro Musica.  Utterly lovely and still not available to stream or on CD!!!


title: Beautiful music & wonderful memories!

text: A terrific patriotic musical, which my church choir & I had performed for July 4th 1999 (another choir member  & I performed the verse to "Great Land of Liberty" as a duet). I first had it on cassette until it wore out, so got the CD now. Thanks to COVID & all community celebrations canceled, listening to & singing along was the only Independence Day celebration I had, so I'm really grateful!


title: One Star

text: It didn't help my granddaughter at all.


title: Gr8888 CD!

text: Enjoyable CD of this young performer.  She is gr88888!


title: Old Folks Hit

text: Great purchase, we live in a retirement community and this U.K. made CD contained 32 of the Harmonicats hits<br />1946 to 1960.  79 minutes on an 8o minute disc.  Its a hit here too since I have answered many requests for a copy.


title: great series for salsa music

text: i now own volumes one and two.  is there a 3?  it's a good way to get to know various artists that one may not encounter separately.  they are great!


title: defect cd  to be  retuned

text: defect cd  to be returned  thanks


title: Sense of the dirty blues...

text: This woman, her deliverance__ entire CD feels and sounds exactly like the cover of the CD tells you it's going to sound and feel.  Can't get enough of listening... this woman, her deliverance.  Ears, mind, soul = happy with every dirty bluesy note.


title: Five Stars

text: This CD had the last Elmore James song I needed to complete my collection.


title: very funny

text: I got the cd from a recomendation from a customer at work. When i listened to hit i was laughing pretty had on how they changed the real songs to the cities in my area


title: Yelawolf is coming up!!!!

text: Thank you for Tennessee Love....made this chick melt


title: Beautiful folk music that masterfully tells the story of Alaska's history

text: I love this CD and the other I got from Steve Hites performance on my princess cruise to Alaska. The song lyrics suck you in and transport you back in history and the music is hauntingly beautiful.


title: Very disappointing.

text: If I hadn't read the title I would never have known the music was from Dances with Wolves.


title: This is a great CD it is awesome!!!!!!!!!!

text: It’s. Awesome👍🏻


title: Great album

text: Funny stuff, if it is your kind of humor.


title: Oriental version of the Shir Ha-Ma'alot

text: You haven't heard the Tehilim recited like this before, stunning Middle-Eastern inflections.


title: Five Stars

text: Great artist


title: Iron Maiden Rules.

text: Excellent album and good quality copy.


title: So relaxing for puppies AND humans!

text: I have used these wholetones songs to calm both of my Goldendoodles  when they first came home, at 10 weeks. The first month, or so, whenever they woke over night (after taking them outside), and they went back into their crate, I’d play wholetones to get them back to sleep. It usually put me to sleep on the couch next to the crate, too!  They are now 4 and 5 years old. Whenever they have a tough night (thunder, fireworks, upset tummy) I play the wholetones, and it calms them back to sleep. I highly recommend this music!!!!


title: Five Stars


title: Good product

text: Arrived quickly loved it


title: Quality product

text: This product arrived quickly and in perfect condition


title: Good Cerrone compilation.....

text: More than one hour of continuous excellent Disco music from the great Cerrone. Very good price for this compilation, especially due to the fact that the Cerrone CD's are not cheap......


title: Disappointed

text: The book doesn't cover very many grammatical structures and features a limited number of songs. I wonder if they have another volume to add to this one?  I haven't listened to the CD yet because right now the songs aren't on target for my students.


title: It's too bad the band is not together anymore

text: I think this second album was an improvement over their debut album, "Fridays and Other Small Tragedies".  The first two tracks, "Into the Arms of Nothing" and "Portrait", are especially great.  I miss seeing these guys perform.


title: Five Stars

text: Made For A Really Nice Gift !!


title: Nice Gift, Thank You

text: Nice Gift , Thank You !


title: Three Stars

text: It is OK


title: Three Stars

text: It is ok


title: Loved this

text: Fun patterns!


title: Serenity

text: Great CD


title: Five Stars

text: Love the music


title: Five Stars

text: Love the musice


title: Tony Bennett: An American Icon

text: The title pretty much sums things up. Tony Bennett’s music is eternal. Words do not adequately convey his contributions to the music industry. His distinct voice and style soothes the soul.


title: For fiddle fans !!

text: Very special, hard to find record by a masterful fiddler. These are not historically authentic, they are from a great artist’s heart.


Quick ship. Great packaging.  Plays well.  Item as described.


title: Present for friend.  She loves it.

text: Present for friend.  She loves it.


title: Pleased with purchase and with Seller!

text: Package arrived intact and in a timely manner!  Great find, blast from the past!  Thank you!


title: Wow...

text: Every once in a while, you find a singer that sings to your soul with a mesmerizing voice. With every note and pitch, you can hear certain songs from the heart. And comes a group of songs that touches you in that place where you can't even name. Ok, I know this sounds cheesy but this is how I feel when I hear Andrea Bocelli sing. His voice stirs something deep within and I seriously get chills. It was no different with the VERDI cd. His talents truly shine in this collection of favorite and most recognizable Verdi arias. Working in collaboration with Florence Maggio Musicale Chorus and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, this cd is does Verdi justice.<br />Sure, critics may say that Bocelli isn't of the best tenors out there but his passion for the music shows clearly when he sings. It feels like Bocelli puts his own self within the meaning of the songs and that's where he stands out from the others. This budding opera lover is a definite fan of Andrea Bocelli's opera-ic efforts on this cd.


title: Five Stars

text: Sounds good on the Pyle 5in one recorder and player


title: Careful with processing.

text: Despite being somewhat broken, it came as described. All corners were in the same state as the attached imagine. Very fast shipping.


title: Perfect for the TP fan

text: It's Tom Petty. It's his greatest hits. Nuff said.


title: Five Stars

text: SO MISS THIS TV SHOW LOVE THE MUSIC TOO


title: Exquisite!

text: The haunting music in this album excites and delights, soothes and restores a peaceful feeling after a long, hard day.<br />I only purchase extraordinary music.  I am well satisfied with the music in this album, particulary "Dreamcatcher", a very beautiful song.


title: Solid first album

text:
The Four Tops debut album is good, but only as far as it's hits go. "Baby I need you lovin'", the emotional first hit, the aching "Ask the lonely" and the lesser hit  "Without the one you love". "Without..." would definitely sound strange to today's young people, with all those semi-operatic falsetto's crying out love.

Some of the other songs are a bit sloppy. As much as Levi Stubbs is a supreme conveyor of pain, he sometimes pronounces words poorly, almost as if he's falling asleep  halfway through sentences. This is often compounded by ambitious productions. "Where did you go?" is a perfect example of a sloppy Four Tops song, especially noticeable when book-ended by two classics.

The other songs are of varying quality, although the exotic "Tea house in China-town", "Left with a broken heart" and "Call on me" are all fine songs. The overall rating is about three stars.


title: Fun-kee

text:
Ok, just plain 80's pop. No big deal. But at least there are some catchy, funky songs here.

This may not be a great album, but it is listenable, and fun at times. "Keep on lightin' my fire is SO catchy, and "Giving it up" has definitely been used in a 'Get a good nights sleep' commercial. Overall rating 2 1/2, but worth to round up rather than round down.


title: Enjoyable 'cookie' pop

text:
Huh! Another one of those one-hit wonders who rode the Techno bandwagon in the 90's; back in the days when 'Old Freddies Rusty Tin Can Band' could have had a hit, as long as it had a techno beat, dance-club synths, lyrics that make "sugar, honey honey" seem insightful and a lead singer who's not 'sexy' enough to appear in the video.

And this is their second album, which tanked. Big time. This album didn't fire the charts at all, accept a few minor hits in the UK. A band was over the hill about one or two years after their arrival on the big time! Ha ha!! Such was the nature of the superficial 90's.

So your expectations are pretty low, unless, of-course, you really liked the first album. This album is more of the same. But wait a minute... what about the first song on here, "The rest of my love", this is a real , uh, 'kick' (for complete lack of a better word). It's so joyous and fun, it's a real ball. While the trendies were waiting for the next big thing they overlooked this gem. Gem? Rotten cliche, this colourful "Cookie Techno" masterpiece (cookie techno, the 90's answer to bubblegum pop?). And for all the claims that techno is just head-numbing electric drums, this song sure has an impressive melody.

The following "Feels so good" is not that impressive... but what's this?? A Sitar? Yes! A Sitar opens the third "So beautiful", a vaguely psychedelic song with a slower beat to it, great stuff guys! And then there's "Virgin Breeze". Hold on! Wait a minute... what did I just hear? The lyrics were something like "7 Angels are 'rocking' me me in their arms", nice, but I don't think she actually said 'rocking', but another word that ends with cking... utterly tasteless, if you ask me, and completely ruins a celebratory-feeling song that. "Witness" has some very colourful synths, but they squander a great intro for a a chorus that gradually becomes annoyingly repetitive. Still, not bad.

To wind down the second half of the album, 'Shoot' is not a bad dance number, and "Shame" is excellent. An anthemic unity anthem with a hip-hop beat and swirling synths. This is possibly the best song on the album, or along with "Rest of my love". The joyous celebratory "Everybody wants the sunshine" is a joy to listen to.

There are a few mistakes here, like sometimes the lyrics seem to be half-forgotten, or the singer is rushing, so that doesn't help the quality of the album. An overlooked, worthy 2nd album from a band and a genre that is known for mindless beats, a lack of artistic direction and the like, but is a lot of fun and has a great atmosphere to it. Rating about 2 1/2  - 3, maybe 2.75 is about right.


title: Extreme limits of hair metal?

text:
We're called Extreme. Our hair is extreme (Gary looks like Elaine Benes in the photo shoots), our music is extreme and our lyrics are extreme! But like, since a lot of people who buy our records are athiests, we might just bury the more 'spiritual' side of out EXTREME lyrics under strings and trumpets.

Oh! Did I forget to mention these guys 'Extremely rock!', when these guys put the pedal to the metal they pump out energetic riffs like high-octane rockets. And that Elaine Benes look-alike, he knows how to scream like he was in a band called 'EXTREME!!'.

Their dedication to generic funk metal riffs are obscured by a lot of window dressing, but sometimes generic funk-metal riffs are powerful, like they might be on about half the songs here that are classed as rockers (Peacemaker Die, Warheads, ESP Rest in Peace). And other songs, such as 'Our Father', are dressed in proggy or alt-rock clothes, but soon race back to generic hair-funk riffs, like an iron filing married to a large, jealous and possessive magnet, in effect ruining the fake sense of variety. Only 'Tragic Comic' and 'Stop the world' break through the barricades.

Well, that's until the last three or four songs signify some glorious, 20+ minute stab at significance. At least this doesn't take it's cue from Genesis or Yes cut and paste, so I'd say EXTREME are on a higher ground than Marillion's flock of not-quite millions of minions.

And this is where EXTREME'S dream became an 'ex-dream', well, at least commercially. But artistically, to use some vernacular, "ain't half bad". And you know the formula, as artistic merit increases, yep, commercial sales DECREASE. Rating ***1/4 (3.25)


title: Not too bad, offers something worthwhile

text:
I have a lot of the Styx solo material. I think the band was much better than the solo material, whether it be Dennis DeYoung, Tommy Shaw or JY, there is very little Styx solo that I like.

That said, JY fares decently. Wise to the fact that he probably shouldn't work by himself, he made a very good choice in Jan Hammer. Jan and James are VERY different and complement each-other well. That said, they complement each-other a little too well. Freed from the constraints of the sanctimony associated with Styx, Young lets loose with anthems dedicated to 'Fast cars and Fast women' and Hammer's introspective 'Waiting' seems a bit insincere amongst all the groupie anthems.
Still it provides some variety, and is well pitted against the hard-rocking tracks. There are also tracks that balance the rocking sound with Hammer's more pensive sound, like 'No Mistake' and 'Prisoner of war'. These latter ones tend to be my favourite, though I also like some of the rockers, 'Wild dogs in the night' is kind of funny, great chorus. That said there are a few too many head-banger numbers that sound similar, and 'Waiting' seems out of place, though it is a good song. But at least this is a respectable recording, I think most Styx fans would find something here to appreciate.

One gripe - JY is hard to find! Try the website Waterdog.


title: first time - very unhappy with process

text: I very specifically ordered a CD (by title and year) and instead of receiving what I had ordered, I received a substitute with no warning or information. I was happy with Amazon's solution (my money was refunded and I was told to "keep" the CD substitute). But I question Amazon's dealing with a provider who could act in this manner. In addition, I was charged a great deal of money for "shipping and handling". The product was mailed without an insert (usually there is an Amazon statement or printed insert) with a bit of bubble wrap in a clumsily hand-addressed and cheap envelope with a few stamps (not equalling the postage I had been charged) stuck on "cattywampus". I will hesitate in the future before ordering from one of Amazon's subcontractors without some kind of guarantee (not a "no complaints" statement).


title: THE SAME AS BROADWAY CAST CD!  :) For a great price!

text:
For all you FOOTLOOSE freaks out there this CD features Jeremy Kushnier, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Stacy Francis, Tom Plotkin and the Original Broadway Cast. It is the same as the Available Green, Neon CD with all 17 tracks. The differences though are obviously the covers. This new one features a guy and a girl rockin to the music (I don't think it's Jeremy  and Jennifer.) Inside the booklet it has the Synopsis from the Original CD,  BUT NO LYRICS. That is the BIGGEST DIFFERENCE. So now that you are aware that this is the same album and not anything  new, I can critique it (For some of you who aren't familiar with the  FOOTLOOSE CD).
This is a VERY ENERGENIC CD. It's a great rock em time  with high octane energy. Most of the songs do come across as cheesy but it  really does fit. The only complaints I have are the poorly written songs  for Ariel's Parents. They lack the spark and energy that the Teenagers  have. (I know there's an age difference, but the sound is weak.)
Jeremy  Kushnier does well as Ren (the Kevin Bacon character.) He's got spark and  pizzaz. He was fresh from the Canadian Cast of RENT playing various roles  including Roger and Mark. He brought that energy to the CD.  Listen to him  let loose in the Opening number "Footloose". Jennifer Laura  Thompson is Ariel, the heroine, and does well with her songs but needs to  let loose with her vocals, a little more. Her song "Holding Out For A  Hero" is sung well but it is the back up trio (Stacy Francis, Kathy  Deitch and Rosalind Brown) who really tear the house down with their  BELTING harmonies!
Now Stacy Francis who plays Rusty, Ariel's best  friend, in a class of her own. Her voice is very different and unique (and  takes a little getting used too) but when you realize the notes she hits in  the powerhouse "Let's Hear It For The Boy" you'll jump right out  of your seat!  She's amazing! She's all over the place with her 5 OCTIVE  RANGE, BELT!  I saw a produciton of "Footloose" in Los Angeles  and I thought that Rusty was amazing until I bought the CD. Most of the  girls who play Rusty now don't go anywhere near where Satcy took  it!
Great songs to hear include "Footloose", "The Girl  Gets Around", "Somebody's Eyes", "Holding Out For A  Hero", "Let's Hear It For The Boy", "Mama Says",  "Almost Paradise" and the "Finale".
So for those of  you are interested or even like Footloose, but are financially well...poor,  I'd say buy this copy. All you'll miss is the lyrics, but you'll  listen to the CD so much you won't need them. You'll learn it in no time!


title: Meredith Braun Rocks!

text: Les Miz is my absolute favorite show and Meredith Braun, hands down, sings THE BEST rendition of "On My Own." The only problem, if at all, is that she follows the melody of the music too perfectly. But  just listen  to her voice as she goes into her full belt. "The world that's full of  happiness that I have never KNOOOOOWWWN! " She has the childlike  quality that the original, Frances Ruffele, had but it's more controlled  and not as whiny, and she definitely has the power of Lea Solonga but with  more pain and longing than anger. I would definitely recommend this CD just  for "On My Own", although the rest of the CD isn't bad at all.  Ofcourse Philip Quast sings the best rendition of "Stars" ever  but you can hear that on the other CD's. And at this great price you need  to add this to your collection, especially if you're a big fan!


title: One of my Favorites

text: After hearing one of the songs from this album, I searched for more music by this artist. I listened to his album on a streaming platform and love his voice. The album is a nice mix of songs so I added it to my CD collection. I look forward to more great music from Junny!


title: Amazing Debut Album!

text: If you’re willing to keep an ‘OpenMind’ and listen to this album, I believe you’ll be glad you did. There’s a mix of English and Korean lyrics and it's easy to get ‘Lost in Paradise’ when you hear the songs. Wonho was involved in every aspect of the creation and it’s clear that he is a very talented artist. His special message to his fans in ‘Losing You’ expresses his devotion to the fans and is absolutely beautiful! ‘With You’ and others who hear him for the first time, I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do.


title: Bad day, the only

text: While Bad Day is an awesome song, the rest on Daniel Powder's CD just don't cut it. This CD would bomb if it were'nt for BD. The songs aren't bad exactly, just regular. And the CD is short. But Bad Day is an awesome song.


title: Awesome 6 song ep, I wish they didnt break up.

text:
I rock out to this all the time, super heavy and dynamic. I think this band could have went on to do great things. This is worth the buy 100%!

Ps. The run time is not 60 minutes like it says, its closer to 25.


title: Great covers!

text: Word Up! and Another Brick In The Wall (Parts 1, 2 ,3) are both considered classics in the rock and hip-hop worlds.  The reason Korn covered Word Up! is because they used to play around with it on soundchecks during concerts.  ABITW is just a classic and a perfect song for Korn to cover!  The Dante Ross remix is ok, their are definetly better ones if you look around the internet really hard!  ABITW, live or cd version, both are excellent!  Couldn't ask for a better cover song!


title: My Favorite Bottle

text: I love just about everything Sara Bareilles. Still enjoynig this CD. I can't wait for her to come in concert!


title: Five Stars

text: Brilliant


title: Grate Music for the Price

text: Grate Music for the Price


title: Beautiful Music and Tone

text: Beautiful Music and Tone


title: Five Stars

text: All are excellent except Gobbi, who was at best a crooner.


title: Mazzocchi Was a Household Name ...

text:
... if your "household" happened to be an aristocratic palazzo in Roma circa 1620, particularly one of those lavishly maintained by the Aldobrandinis, Borgheses, and Barberinis. Domenico Mazzocchi (1592-1665) was himself born of a noble family in Civita Castellana. He was decidedly NOT, therefore,a professional musician. He was a courtier, a counter-reformation intellectual and a gentleman who functioned as the personal secretary to the powerful Cardinal Ippolito Aldobrandini, with rooms at his disposal in the family palace. He was unquestionably to intimate terms with the movers&shakers of Roma, including Pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini) and Giulio Mazzarini, better known to history as Cardinal Jules Mazarin. Mazzocchi enjoyed the privilege, rare then and now, of not NEEDING to compose and thus being able to compose only what he chose. He was, nevertheless, not without pride in his music; what compositions of his have survived were chiefly self published.

Mazzocchi's music is the nec plus ultra of "musica reservata" - music for the cognoscenti only. It's intricate, intellectual, abstractly passionate, the ultimate in sprezzatura. Many of the texts he chose to set come from Virgil, translated into Italian by one or another of his noble patrons. His sentiments are not for hoi polloi; indeed, if you read them, you'll be likely to find them hoity-toity. Don't let that dissuade from listening to the music. The great irony of 17th C music is that the goal of composition was to subordinate the notes to the words, yet what stirs us today are the sonorities rather than the sentiments.

It was above all the hyper-refined vocal artistry of the singer that elevated such music in the 1600s, and it's the same virtuosity that compels our ears today. Soprano Jill Feldman is as virtuosic a singer as has ever lived. She's an Olympic athlete of bel canto, and this selection of "sacred madrigals" gives her range to put on a clinic in vocal embellishment. You'll need to listen more than once just to "keep up" with her pyrotechnics. One of the fundamental embellishments of this music was the "messa di voce," the prolonged swelling of a single note. A modern messa di voce aspires to maintain a constant pitch and timbre through a crescendo. The 17th C messa di voce had a different aesthetic, to increase volume and to raise teh pitch simultaneously at a precisely defined microtone. That's right! Microtonal tuning was and is at the core of "historically informed performance." I guarantee you'll never hear better control of soprano tuning than in Feldman's performance here.

The harpsichord on which Kenneth Weiss accompanies Feldman is a Clavecin Chromatique - a keyboard with nineteen keys per octave, thus making the subtle difference between A-sharp and B-flat (for instance) audible. Issues of chromatic temperament were major preoccupations of composers of the era, and harpsichords with 19 or 24 keys per octave based on a mean-tone temperament, were highly valued in the salons of the intellectual aristocracy. Weiss's instrument allows Feldman's precision of tuning intervals to make sense. But you'll hear the chromatics of the harpsichord most obviously on the three instrumental toccatas - by Frescobaldi, Mayone, and Trabaci - interspersed among the vocal works. Get ready for something unlike the usual "skeletons on a tin roof" clatter! Wow! This music finally makes sense as Weiss presents it. Not until the 20th C did composers seek to "fix" the anomalies of the 12-note scale so boldly, and no one has ever done so more successfully. You'll never want to hear Frescobaldi on a mere 12-tone keyboard again!

Mazzocchi's solo musical declamations are so ornate that one can lose one's melodic compass in them. Not so with his duets for two sopranos, which to my plebeian ears are the most enjoyable pieces on this CD. There are four such duets. Feldman is paired on them with Orlanda Velez Isidro, whose technique and whose timbre are so exactly matched to Feldman's that I assume she has been Feldman's student. Have you ever wondered whether you would have qualified for admission to the Palazzo Barberini, as one of the cognoscenti of 1620? This is a performance to test your aesthetic readiness.


title: What Went Wrong?

text:
Look at the cast of this ensemble: Soloists: Jill Feldman, Marinella Pennicchi, Patrizia Vaccari, Claudio Cavina, Graham Pushee, Mario Cecchetti, Gerd Turk, Jean-Louis Bindi, Nicholas Isherwood! Primo vioiino: Fabio Biondi! Director Sergio Vartolo! I've heard every single one of them do stupendous performances. Some of them are close friends and some are colleagues. Several of them are effectively "superstars" of Early Music, with dozens of superb recordings on the market. So I have to wonder: why is this recording so wretched? Almost unlistenable, and certainly unlistenable a second time. The chorus is a murky bellow, but that's hardly unique. Why, against all probabilities, is the tuning so awful, especially of the very gifted sopranos?

Giovanni Pietro Colonna isn't at fault. He's no Scarlatti, but the music seems to be passably well-composed and affective/effective. Too bad "we" get such a faulty first impression.


title: Romanticism in Regal Robes

text:
It takes a self-confident or self-esteeming critic to pass judgment on the quality of 19th C Lieder, either on the poetry or the musical settings thereof. There's so much of both! And so much on a par! And so little, at least of the poetry, seems to suit our 'modern' emotions and aesthetics. Here's a CD to make my case: 25 poems written by the King of Bavaria, Ludwig I (1786-1868), patron of the elder Goethe and in turn praised as a poet by that supreme master; 25 settings of those poems by 13 virtually forgotten composers of the same era, most of them directly patronized by the King. The performance was occasioned by a temporary exhibition at Runklestein castle, near Bolzano, Italy, the site of the finest surviving secular frescoes of the Middle Ages and thus a venerated shrine for German Romantics.

Here's a taste of the royal verse:
Kampf is das Leben
immerwährender Streit,
Gegenbestreben,
nie von Sorgen befreit.
(Life is struggle,
perpetual strife,
efforts against,
never free from cares.)

And another taste:
Warme Lüfte,
süsse Düfte,
hauchet diese Flur.
Liebe, dieser Berge Schimmer,
Liebe, Liebe endet nimmer
Alles atmet Liebe nur.
(Warm breezes,
sweet scents,
waft this corridor.
Love, these mountains shimmer
Love, love never ends,
Everything breathes only love.]

Well now, is this romantic elegance or doggerel? Lest you rush to brand it the latter, notice how close it is the the lyrics of Heinrich Heine, who by the way despised both the King and his poems. However, unless you can read German, you won't need to evaluate the verse; the CD booklet contains only the original text and a translation into Italian.

Even the greatest Romantic composers - Schubert, Schumann, Brahms - set some wretched doggerel to gorgeous music. But that only brings me back to my first question, which was in effect how to draw any line between "the Great" and "the merely Good" when the two categories sound so much alike. Shall we play it safe? None of these 13 composers gained any immortal fame and therefore none of their Lieder can be any better than journeyman mediocrity. I hope you don't find that answer any more satisfying than I do.

Still, lacking the dogmatic self-assurance of the true Romantic, I can't stick my neck and assert that any of these Lieder are bona fide masterworks. Even when the composers were living, opinion about their skills was divided. Robert Schumann, for instance, praised the works of Adolphe Henselt profusely but scoffed at Franz von Pocci, both of whom are represented on this CD.

I'll leave the dirty work of judging the compositions to you who acquire the CD. What I can evaluate is the performance by Die Singphoniker, yet another German-Austrian all-male vocal ensemble with superb training and years of success, including more than 20 CDs. Unlike "Singer Pur," Die Singphoniker are exclusively devoted to German Romanticism; they also have recorded the complete partsongs of Franz Schubert. And they're deliciously good, these six grown-up boys with their glee-club sweetness of timbre. They have the vocal art to make one wonder whether these 13 composers were not first-rate after all.


title: My Father Was A Farmer

text:
"Pater meus agricola est" - the three-part instrumental fantasy played on violas da gamba on this CD - is six minutes of rhythmic contortion, as difficult a piece of music as any in the repertoire of the Renaissance. Whenever any of my baroque or modern musical colleagues gets persnickety about pre-baroque music, scoffing at its lack of virtuosic challenges, I like to slap this score on a stand in front of them and say, "okay, play this, Chucko!" They seldom succeed. The trio is capriciously polyrhythmic, its complexity notated with two sorts of 'coloration' and with differing prolations (changes in time signature) in the separate voices. The title is also a bit of caprice; it's a single line of Biblical Latin from a composer who Latinized his own father's name from Ackermann (farmer) to Agricola (farmer). Apparently Alexander Agricola (1456-1506) was the illegitimate son of a 'businesswoman' of Ghent, who was successful enough to provide substantial education for her son, while the father was possibly a slippery ne'er-do-well.

Rhythmic complexity is the hallmark of Agricola's distinctive polyphony, which is sometimes so irregular and capricious that even his contemporaries were confused by it. Modern musicologist have ineptly labeled it as 'improvisatory.' They had obviously never attempted to improvise counterpoint in four voices all in different time signatures. The same inaccurate label - improvisatory - has been attached to the works of Johannes Ockeghem (c.1420-1497), under whose direction Agricola served in the chapel of the French royal court. There's no doubt that Agricola was inspired by Ockeghem; so was every Franco-Flemish composer of his generation. I could say that Agricola carried the intricate style of Ockeghem in one direction, toward even more fantastical intricacy, while Josquin and Pierre de la Rue carried it in the opposite direction, toward emotively chaste simplicity. Many of Ockeghem's surviving works, especially his masses, seem to have been intended as intellectual challenges for the musicians who presumably sang them. Agricola likewise must have delighted in perplexing his fellow choristers, including Pierre de la Rue; they were the best of their milieu, and no doubt up to the challenge. In effect, Agricola was the most 'intellectual' composer of his generation, a sort of musico-mathematical genius with a touch of snarky wit.

And Agricola must have had high esteem for God's musicianship when he posed Him the dazzling challenges of polyrhythm, prolation, notation and 'musica ficta' contained in this Missa in Myne Zyn (Mass 'To My Mind'), constructed around melodic phrases from his own plaintive love-chanson of the same name. Whereas the art of Josquin was frequently to disguise musical complexities in graceful ease, there's nothing 'innocent' about the energetic gyrations of this mass, which require vocal acrobatics of the four singers. Even without a Kyrie (presumably lost), this is an extended composition of about forty minutes, structured in strongly contrasting sections of kaleidoscopic variety. Such a mass setting was not a concert piece, to be performed without interruption, of course. Capilla Flamenca has wisely separated the four "ordinaries' of the mass by inserting brief instrumental fantasies in the same rhythmic manner, played on gambas. A notion has floated around, by the way, that Agricola was himself an instrumentalist rather than a singer. (Most Renaissance musicians 'supported' themselves as singers, and were composers only incidentally.) Being an instrumentalist myself, I'd love to believe it, but I don't. The 'logic' of it is that his musical idiosyncrasies are most instrumental in character than vocal. Ockeghem, whose melodic lead Agricola followed, however, was not only a singer but a very acclaimed basso profundo of his times.

Capilla Flamenca sings this mass and the brief 'Regina coeli' with utmost confidence in the logic of its rhythms and structures. Believe me, it takes confidence to sing or play Agricola! This is the first and only recorded performance of Agricola, so far, that displays such confident mastery of the style. In other words, it's the first really "convincing" recording and, as such, it's a revelation of what I already knew, that Alexander Agricola was one of the finest composers in an era that fostered musical geniuses aplenty.

If you have any appreciation for Renaissance art or vocal polyphony, this is a CD you will want to hear.


title: Sincere Homage to the Great British Tradition ...

text:
... of cathedral and university choirs, especially of boys' choirs, from which have emerged many of the most artful ensemble singers of the "Early Music". Even the OVPP ensembles -- The Hilliard Ensemble, The Orlando Consort and others, the antithesis of choir performance -- include graduates of the English boys' choruses. This true, of course, of German ensembles also; Andreas Scholl was a boy soprano before he became a man soprano.

The Westminster Cathedral Choir usually includes roughly twenty boys and ten adult males. They are tightly rehearsed, probably with piano, and tightly conducted, but such a choir of semi-professional, not-fully-trained voices can't possibly manage the complex polyphony of the 16th Century. Add to their overly broad timbres the sounds of "His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts" and what you get is a vast whooshy sound in which it's impossible to sort and hear the various lines of polyphony. Try to record that whooshy sound and flush it through a couple of speakers in somebody's parlor, and the whoosh turns to a tinny white noise with only a hint of human timbres left. The tuning of such a large choir of modestly skilled singers will inevitably be "tuning by committee". On this CD, everything sounds "in tune" because nothing really is. The cross relations, suspensions, dissonances of every piquant sort sound exactly the same as the cadences and consonances; "more or less in tune" is no better than blatantly out of tune. This performance might have been impressive for parents and friends in some resonant cathedral ambience, but as a CD it's unlistenable.


title: Several Releases of Vol 5! Check Prices!

text:
Boccherini published his first six Quintets with two cellos in 1771, shortly after he'd committed himself to a career in Spain that extended for the rest of his life. The quintets were written and published, like all such chamber music of the period, for the enjoyment of musicians - players, not listeners, both performing professionals and amateurs. My apologies to all music lovers who listen but never play, but the greatest pleasures of chamber music are not for you. There's a level of sheer physical pleasure in such music that only the player can experience, and that was the level to which Boccherini was most devotedly attentive. So.. if you really want to love this music, get out your "air cello" and saw along! This is music to 'hear' with your proprioceptive body.

[That notion, by the way, is developed brilliantly in the scholarly book "Boccherini's Body" by cellist/musicologist Elizabeth Leguin.]

Boccherini has been persistently labeled a composer of the second rank, charming but not profound. In fact, he was an innovator of the first rank, in some ways a century and a half ahead of his contemporaries. This first set of Quintets established the structural possibilities of a form that was in effect Boccherini's own invention. Pay attention, for instance, to what the composer 'discovers' about the acoustic variety - the interior duos, trios, quartets - possible in a quintet. But Boccherini was also exploring the virtuosic capabilities of the string instruments themselves: the resonances and timbres, the sounds that could be extracted by different uses of the bow, the upper range of the cello, his own instrument. Boccherini was by far the first composer to treat the cello as the dominant voice in the quintet or quartet, and he was 'way ahead' of his Austrian "husband" in distributing the musical interest of his quintets to all five instruments in balance. Pay attention to the sound effects Boccherini achieves by deliberate doubling at octaves and by tricky double-stopping. Sound effects! This is music 'profoundly' attentive to sound as such, rather than to melodic architecture. Not until the 20th C was any composer so profoundly attentive to sheer Sound.

But there's more than just acoustic stimuli to this music. There's also Boccherini's discovery of Spain, of an Iberian musical heritage that Northern Europe was forgetting. Boccherini, the Italian wanderer, was to become the Founding Father of modern Spanish classicism, preserving and formalizing the 'fandango' spirit of the Spanish Golden Age. There's plenty of profundity in Boccherini's rediscovery of the New World.

La Magnifica Comunità deserves its name; they play magnificently on their 'period' instruments, and their 'period' instruments serve the musical vocabulary of Beccherini's quintets in ways that 'modern' strings can never match. The ensemble is attempting to record all 176 (one hundred seventy-six!) of Boccherini's quintets, over a period of years. So far they have released nine volumes, up to opus 39, so they are still short of half way. All nine recordings are "Magnifica"!


title: A Showcase for Pianists?

text:
That may have been the intention, but in reality this recording is a showcase for the skills of the great jazz bass player Ray Brown. Believe me, it's Brown whose notes you should pay attention to on this CD; of the five pianists, only Benny Green matches Brown in musical expressiveness and originality. The others play wonderfully, in their own bags, but only Green interacts with every phrase and every chord from the bass. It helps, of course,  that Green is by far the most technically accomplished of the pianists included. In 1995, when this session was recorded, Green was the new kid on the block, just beginning his fairly long partnership with Ray Brown. Oscar Peterson, on the other end of things, had partnered with Brown a lot over the years; their feeling of ensemble is also strong on this CD, but Peterson was playing from their past, while Green was playing toward their future.

The "Some of My Best Friends ..." series also featured Brown with saxophonists, trumpeters, and singers (in exactly that order of interest IMHO). It was a ploy, if the truth be known, to sell recordings by Ray Brown, since bassists may be acclaimed musicians without becoming money cows for the studios. This CD is the best of the series. Of the five pianists paired with Brown, the truth is that he'd never performed or jammed with three. Ahmad Jamal was a 'star' by 1995, and an obvious choice. Dado Moroni was a promising "European Jazz" performer trying to find a footing in the USA. Geoff Keezer was a newbie, thrilled to his fingerprints to get the call.

Classicists out there! Pay attention to the lead bass line on the first track, Bags' Groove. What you'll hear is a very subtle quasi-inversion of the theme that Jamal will soon make obvious. That's the sort of interesting musical substance you'll hear throughout this CD if you know how to listen for it.

Benny Green, by the way, is now performing regularly with clarinet/sax-player Anat Cohen. After a long stagnation, in my opinion, Green has become an awakened giant at the keyboard, playing stuff that's fiery new.


title: One of Many Reissues

text:
This is a surprisingly excellent performance!

... and yet I don't know why I should surprised. I hadn't ever heard the Chapelle du Roi. I didn't know much about its director, Alistair Dixon. I confess that I expected nothing better than another mellifluous but murky British choral performance, with too many singers on a part and too little sense of the rhythmic independence from the conductor's baton that's required for pre-1600 polyphony. I humbly apologize for my prejudice; this is a stunningly rich and insightful performance by first-rate singers. It was originally recorded beginning in 1997 and stretching over many years. I wish I'd heard it sooner. I have to thank one of my "friends" here in the amazoo for bringing it to my attention. I've only had time so far to listen to the first and last choral CDs of the set, so i may need to add or subtract from this review eventually.

Thomas Tallis (1510-1585) spent a good deal of his career in various small monasteries, where he was usually identified as an organist. It's doubtful that he ever commanded any large forces of singers, and it's obvious to the ears -- my ears at least -- that his music requires the expressive flexibility of one-on-a-part or at most two-on-a-part singing. That's what the Chapelle du Roi offers, with ten then-young singers in all. The superius parts are sung by women sopranos, and that is certainly an issue of authenticity, but the three women of the consort sing with a resoectful sense of total ensemble, and blend well with the lower men's voices, both in style and in timbre. One point of excellence is the 'forward' timbre of the tenor voices; they are never treated as mere 'inner' harmonizers, and since this music is plainly constructed around the "tenor" line, this is how it should sound.

All of the previous reviews have focused on the price. Lucky me, I bought the last and only modestly-priced 'used' set. However, there are any number of other releases of exactly the same performance available here via amazon's alternate sellers, and there seem to be other supliers offering the set for better prices. Shop carefully.


title: Here's a Choice Sampler!

text:
Music for the 'closed' consort of violas da gamba was the pinnacle of composition in Elizabethan England, outshining even sacred vocal music in subtlety and originality. Interestingly, it was 'chamber' music in the most precise sense -- music written to be performed in one' chamber, not for an audience but for the players' recreation. And there were surprising numbers of players; not only professional musicians but skilled amateurs - lords, esquires, yeomen - owned 'chests' of viols and sought prints of consort music to play at home. We know this is true from the wills left by people of quite moderate means, which listed such instruments in their property along with pewter mugs and feather quilts.

The most respected and skilled composers of the era wrote such consort music: Thomas Tallis, John Dowland, Christopher Tye, William Byrd, etc. This recording includes Dowland's greatest masterwork, his Lacrymae, in its entirety, along with all the consort music of Tallis that has survived and a sampling of distinctive works by other composers. The two leading gamba consorts of England, and thus of the world, are both represented, with 'The Rose Consort' performing the Dowland pieces, and 'Fretwork' performing the rest. If you've been looking for a 'sampler' of this repertoire -- essentially the first avatar of the 'string quartet' and the finest purely instrumental music of the Renaissance -- you couldn't do better than this CD.


title: Gardiner Rescues Verdi...

text:
.... from von Karajan and the usual lumbering, rumbling warhorse symphonic performances of the Requiem. The essence of this performance is not the use of period instruments but rather of "period sensibilities" by an orchestra and chorus that fully cooperate with their conductor's interpretation. Only the reeds, trumpets and drums sound radically different from modern instruments in timbre, but the articulations and bowings of the strings sound quite a lot less mushy than those on other recordings. Gardiner takes several movements at tempi that will surprise listeners familiar with older, stuffier versions. Likewise he takes the opening 'requiem aeternam' at a passionate adagio, pianissimo, setting your ears up for the thunderous kyrie.

It's the orchestra and the chorus that carry this performance to the heights. I'm not so enthusiastic about the four soloists - soprano Luba Orgonasova, mezzo Anne Sofie von Otter, tenor Luca Canonici, and bass Alastair Miles. The two ladies do a certain amount of scooping and swooping, shaking and quaking, while the two gentlemen don't really have the most abundant voices. All four have frequent pitch problems; Verdi must be harder to sing in tune than the notes look on the page, since pitch problems plague many recordings of his operas as well. That's my reason for giving this CD only four stars. Nevertheless, the "whole" is great enough to carry along the "parts."

Numerous critics consider the Requiem to be the finest music that Verdi ever composed. I readily agree. If you have been disappointed in the music as such of some of the operas -- as I have been -- you may be astonished at the vigor of his composition in this huge Requiem.

Postscript: Listening at home, on my higher-end system, I have a slightly different impression. The two men singers have more 'character' in their voices than I heard before. The 'whole' is a bit of a chore to listen to; it sounds a little too episodic (Verdi's fault, not Gardiner's) and it's strenuous because of the extreme, explosive changes of volume. You have to play it loud enough to hear the detail in the quietest sections, but then your eardrums will be at risk in the very loud tutti sections. That's the nature of the beast.


title: Christmas Can Too Be Fun!

text:
Rollicking good musical fun, at that! This collection is the yuletide gift to Medieval and Celtic music lovers from Shira Kammen, one of the finest "early" musicians outside the cloisters of the past, and the person who plays the vielle (the Medieval fiddle) with the most idiomatic authority. This CD includes performances by long-time colleagues of Ms Kammen, including current and former members of Ensemble Alcatraz, bodhran virtuoso Peter Maund, and Mitchell Sandler and Anne Hodgkinson of the pioneering ensemble Pastime With Good Company. Having played and sung together so often, they "play" off each other musically with wit and enthusiasm. Get thee to a yule fire with a pot of wassail, and catch the true solstice spirit!

Note that the album is available instantly via the MP3 option, in case no CDs are available.


title: The People's Music of Renaissance Italy

text: The "laude" of the Renaissance Italian city-states have survived in just two manuscripts; until recently they constituted one of the last major genres of Early Music to be reconstructed and performed. Essentially, they were the music commissioned by the guild-like confraternities (with members from the middle and lower economic classes of the cities) for performance by the members and by well-paid professional soloists, at festivals and in the side-chapels of the cathedrals where most lay people attended to their religious devotions. In short, the music of the people rather than the priests. They are basically monophonic rather than polyphonic, though harmonies were surely improvised by standard rules and practices. They are very joyful for the most part, and when performed artfully, they have a lot of "soul" in both the spiritual and the musical-slang senses.<br />La Reverdie has made the laude their core repertory, though they perform other Italian and French Medieval music quite convincingly. It's hard to vouch for the historical accuracy of any 13th or 14th Century performance, but La Reverdie makes enjoyable music of whatever they perform. Doron Sherwin, who sings and plays cornetto and recorder, is one of a handful of living cornettists who could have earned a goodly living with his chief instrument (the cornetto)even in Renaissance Venice or Florence.


title: Five Stars

text: awesome


title: 11 Songs- not 20

text:
Album Features
UPC: 012676041829
Artist: Billy Joe Royal
Format: CD
Release Year: 1994
Record Label: Hollywood
Genre: R&B, Soul

Track Listing
1. Cherry Hill Park
2. Down in the Boondocks
3. I Knew You When
4. Bring It on Home
5. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
6. Your Cheatin' Heart
7. Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)
8. Solitary Man
9. Amanda
10. Middle Age Crazy
11. Makin' Believe

Details
Playing Time: 25 min.
Distributor: Int'l Marketing Group
Recording Type: Studio
Recording Mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: n/a

Album Notes
Personnel: Billy Joe Royal (vocals).


title: Great memories

text:
If you are from the Northeast and are older, you will remember the Pandas.
The music, althoug a tad dated, still holds up very well.

Like eggs, they like life "Sunny Side Up"


title: Absolutely wonderful

text: Michael Card has the great talent to turn scripture into music, which makes the messages biblically solid.  The songs on this CD are very beautifully done.  I was very touched with this musical walk through the book of Luke.


title: Perfect sounds and images

text: Love this set! It helps me destress. I was using it while pregnant but a miscarriage has brought incredible sadness and stress. I hope this Chroma can help now.


title: ABBA HAPPINESS!

text: Nothing to dislike here! A  good recording of songs we love from ABBA.


title: You need to like Bob Dylan!

text: This is great. . Bob singing songs outside of his earlier genre. Some American Songbook, some pop…..<br />It is very  interesting and I love it!


title: Doors CD

text: Great cd for Morrison fans, love it-good tunes!


title: freak like me remix

text: man, i was disappointed when i got this cd because the remix i was looking for wasnt on here. how do you make a cd titled freak like me remixes and not have all the remixes that you had for that song. it has been a long time searching for that one particular remix...man adina..holla at me..lol


title: Wonderful ABBA CD

text: This is a great Abba cd- if you’re a fan. Lots of catchy tunes.


title: Excellent Modern Spiritual Songs!!

text: Great Album!


title: Hard to find Abba box set

text: This box set has not been reviewed because it was very hard to find. It has 3 c d s and 40 songs .The sound is great and I love the songs. if you collect ABBA then this is a must have and I only paid about $11-00 plus your Amazon shipping.<br />I have 2 c ds play  in my car and the third one in my Bose player in my home. The ABBA Hits Box is a hit


title: Good addition to my soul/R&B collection

text: Item shipped promptly. Good addition to my soul/R&B collection.


title: It's wonderful

text: This is a CD I ordered that features Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash. It was wonderful listening to their music and the way they combined their talents on many of the songs.


title: I love everything 2Cellos so am not an impartial customer

text: I bought it for the interview on the DVD, since I already had the music. I particularly like the kid pictures of the two of them. The CD is great but available for less if you're not interested in the interview. The 2 music videos are ok as well, but they're things you can see on youtube for free.


title: I basically love watching Stjepan and Luka play so how could I go wrong?

text: I'm a hardcore fan, so the review title says it all.<br />Yes, paying extra for the DVD from Japan was worth it for me. Although if you're not set up to read a dvd from a zone outside of the US, you may want to read up on th process first.


title: I like them

text: I like them, not to small nor too big, just right to accentuate my other throw pillows


title: Four Stars

text: Lovely cd


title: Rare masterpiece

text: I have this on a scratchy LP and I still love it, one of my favorites (I have 8000 LPs).<br />I ended up buying their whole catalog and it's interesting to see how they (d)evolved from this starting point.  It seems that they lose a band member with each album and some musical quality along with it.  So this first album is the one to get.  The second album is also pretty good, but IMHO forget it after that, sorry.


title: I read that this isn't being released in the U ...

text: I read that this isn't  being released in the U.S. until March 10. Looking forward to getting it!


title: Love it

text: This is one of my favorite cds. I always play it when I need to relax and disconnect, it's comfort music for me. Wish I could find chords to play the songs in my uke.


title: Absolutely love this product!

text: If you like Phill Collins you will love this!


title: All his great hits

text: CD's voice an sound were perfect.


title: JAPANESE HEAVY METAL

text: I got into the main song of this album after watching Youtube videos of Yousei Teikoku songs. (One of the guitarists from there is part of this group as well, I believe.) They're a lot more "heavy" metal than Yousei Teikoku, and there is some death screaming, which I usually hate, but I loved Black Pentagram! You can search it on Youtube if you want to listen to the song before you buy it. The other two songs are good, too, but I loved the first track.


It's a short 4-track CD, but the songs are solid, once again. If I can just buy a random soundtrack of hers and be pleased with all the music on it, it deserves five stars. Personally, Mayday! is my favorite.

Here's the track listing. Like a lot of the short Japanese CD's, the last two are instrumental versions of the first two.

1: RIGHT LIGHT RISE
2: Mayday!
3: RIGHT LIGHT RISE (instrumental)
4: Mayday! (instrumental)


title: I was terribly disappointed.

text: Everything on the site - even this review page, indicates that I was to receive a CD of these songs.  Nope - I got a cassette.  Nobody in our family has a cassette player of any kind anymore, and surely don't want to go out to buy one for just one cassette.  I was terribly disappointed.....Guess my granddaughter won't be hearing these songs her Dad grew up with.....


title: Awesome Brie!

text: Creamy, buttery, and tangy!!!  I will buy again!


title: Beautiful worship music!

text: Lovely! I'm so glad I ordered this!


title: Great tropical music.

text: Happy music to dance to.  Tons of fun!


title: This is the Binomio's best compilation.

text: The best Binomio de Oro's songs are included in this CD. My favorite El Llanto de un Rey.  It was hard to find, but finally is here. I love it.


title: Great music!

text: Perfect music for any party. Will keep everybody dancing.  I love it!


title: Five Stars

text: More great music by Donavon!


title: this is great listening!

text: If you are a Donavon fan, this is great listening!


title: Five Stars

text: his canary loves it !


title: Great CD

text: I love the song "God Is' and now I have it


title: Great value

text: Arrived in perfect shape, very good quality, contains all four full albums.


title: Easy listening.

text: Love this band, and this album!


title: Five Stars

text: Fun songs and over the top production.


title: Great buy

text: I bought this CD for my 13 yr old daughter. She loves it.


title: I missed her

text: This is a great cd. Lyrics, presentation, scale, melody, bassline etc etc.<br />She is back!


title: Gould gilds Beethoven!

text: Gorgeous. Gould informs whatever he plays.


title: Two Stars

text: Not what I Wanted


title: Wear A Mask Save Lives

text: He'll never get another penny from me.


title: Cream reunion concert !!

text: Quick shipping!! Awesome reunion concert with Cream !! If you like Cream, this CD is a must have!!


title: Just what I had found earlier was confirmed......

text:
I talked to Kevin Shirley personally (July 2, 2014), he was the original recording engineer for Counterparts.
He told me that he used the new Studer 48 track digital multi-track recorder which was a 24 bit/48kHz machine, but mastered at 20-bit/48kHz. So it's still a low-resolution recording. Even AF abandoned using 20-bit for their HDCDs since it was not much of an improvement.

Audio Fidelity, Rhino Records, HD Tracks, Analogue Productions, and others are playing on the ignorance of their customers.
People are ignorant about digital recording so they fall for the crap "professionals" sell them. All it is is greed and trying to make people believe they are getting something that they aren't.

The first 24-bit/96kHz recording was made in 1996. So AF HAD TO use low-resolution digital masters!! There ARE no analog tapes from Rush after the recording of Moving Pictures!!

So trying to make an SACD of this recording is ridiculous as all you get is a very detailed COPY of a low-resolution original recording!!!!!!

Some facts on using old digital recordings to make new digital "HD" discs:

Fact 1:
NO ONE can change or undo the original recording resolution of any digitally recorded music. They cannot retrieve the missing pieces of music that were left out / by-passed / ignored during the original digital recording session to a low-resolution format. Those are gone forever.

And the original low-resolution digital recording is very compressed to begin with. You cannot undo that either!!

Fact 2:
If they are starting with music data that has a very low 16 or 20 bit depth (and relatively low amount of music data)....... that's all it will ever be. Sure, you can increase it to 24 bit but all you're doing is "increasing" the bit-depth of 16-20 bit data!! You are still missing music dynamics information from the original performance! It was never captured/recorded!!

And again, the original digitally recorded music is very compressed to begin with. You cannot change that!!

It's not at all like starting with an analogue tape, which is the ONLY way anyone can get a true High-Definition mastering.

To recap:
NO ONE can undo the original 16-bit bit-depth or low-resolution sample rates of old digital music recordings. It's impossible since music information and dynamics are completely missing from what you're using to make the new "high-definition" masterings..... no matter what fancy name you might give your magical process!!

All you end up with is a very detailed COPY of a low-resolution recording!!
And I won't even get into the loss of more of the music data that is seen when re-sampling a sampled recording.

It's kind of like taking a Volkswagen automobile and putting a Rolls Royce body on it. The original engine is still what it's based on!! You can rebuild the Volkswagen engine to run a little better, but it will never be a highly-crafted Rolls Royce or sound like one. It's an illusion.

The ONLY way anyone can make a true High Definition recording, or master, is by using an analogue source of music.
If you're using a digital source to make a digital recording, all you get is a detailed copy of that digital source.


title: Excellent DVD-A, not so much stereo remaster.

text: Excellent job with the DVD-A. Need more releases like this but the availability of analog tapes is getting harder and harder to find. Digital was the most popular form of recording... the "new thing in technology" that everyone fell head-over-heels for. I liike high definition audio but not low-resolution.


title: BEWARE, all CBS Mastersound Half-Speed Mastered LPs are16 bit/ 44.1kHz remastered recordings

text: Yes, it's true, ALL CBS Mastersound Half-Speed Mastered LPs are 16 bit/ 44.1kHz digitally remastered recordings as detailed in-depth on the insert that comes with the LPs. So you may as well buy a true analog original pressing if you want true analog sound. Or if you want digital music (not likely if you are buying "audiophile" vinyl), save your money and buy the CD instead, it's going to be the same, but always without surface noise.


title: The best Prog-metal band in the world. Simply incredible.

text:
I have not been as impressed with a band as I am with Riverside in over 12 years when I discovered Porcupine Tree.
Now Riverside has edged out Porcupine Tree as my favorite contemporary band.

A phenomenal band. Exceptionally well crafted music, flawlessly performed, outstanding vocals and harmonies, and very deep lyrics revealing the pain of mental illness (as heard in the trilogy Out of Myself; Second Life Syndrome, and Rapid Eye Movement).
Simply incredible. Cannot wait for their new music to be released.

Their vinyl releases are worth finding as they are very high quality with great dynamics.

With a new LP coming in early 2013 and a possible tour of the US and Europe, their fan base is about to explode in numbers.


title: WATCH OUT, ALL "SHOCKHOUND" RECORDS ARE MP3 DIGITAL ALBUMS, NOT ANALOG

text: EVERY SHOCKHOUND LP IS AN MP3 DIGITAL LP.<br />DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY. LOOK FOR THE ORIGINAL ANALOG EDITIONS


title: Great DVD!!!

text: I love, love, love is DVD!!!


title: RELAX

text: Great relaxation music.


title: A great overview

text: Too often we in the English-speaking world remain ignorant of culture and developments in other languages. This compilation is a great introduction to the artists recorded by Label Blue, a French recording studio. Some were familiar to me, others were new, but all are great musicians who deserve a much wider audience. Be brave and sample works by strangers!


title: Bolling, Yo Yo Ma? YES!

text: Claude Bolling is outstanding in whatever mode he's playing. His work w/various artists is excellent.


title: Great full vocal workout

text: Really rely on this vocal workout to warm up several times a week, clears<br />me when I have "clogged head". Excellent workout.


title: My Daughters Obsession

text: A birthday request checked off the list.


title: My Daughters Obsession

text: My middle schooler is collecting everything she can from this artist.  Thank you Amazon for making her smile.


title: Next Best Thing To Heaven

text: Love my boys.  It may be preference, but they are so relaxing to listen to.  What voices.


title: So, so helpful in leading pre-school worship

text: This is about the 6th time I've purchased this CD over the years since it was first released.  I either wear out the one I have, I give it away to a child who has been especially touched by it or I give them (her other CDs too) as baby gifts.  Jana did the worship at a women's retreat I went to many years ago and I learned the hand motions there to use with the kids.  Those are SUPER helpful, so get the video if you want to use this with kids, if you are missing your creative gene like I am and just need someone to give me some ideas.  Great spiritual lessons in each CD (also use Jump into the Light, Believin On and Look Out Now) that I use to make my point in song for the Bible lesson for the day.  These are very powerful tools and I appreciate Jana putting them out (and God for leading her life!). Keep them coming!


title: Robert Palmer at the BBC

text: Robert Palmer's style of music and eccentric enthusiasm for it make him one of the most beloved, yet underrated musicians of his time.  This archive of his earlier musings is a splendid sound to the ears for those who enjoy his musical efforts, but without the polish and technology of the period to  quell his "rock tenor",  his live raspings have a way of piercing the ear, such as on the track "Some Guys", but he makes up for it on the bonus track with "Johnny and Mary" when he's not struggling quite so hard to maintain his voice.  All in all if you love Robert Palmer then you'll love this.  I do.


title: Love this CD from  the past!

text: Used to own this many years ago and lost it somewhere along the way. I ordered this and it was identical and I have enjoyed it immensely!


title: Great album!!!

text: Great album!! This record is in excellent condition!!! I had it as a kid in the 70's!!! What a trip down memory lane!


title: Soundtrack CD for the film "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

text:
With songs by:
- Blind Guardian
- HIM
- The Darkness
- After Forever
- Epica
- Mastodon
- Pantera
- Dream Theater
- Nightwish
- Hammerfall .....  and more
19 tracks in all


title: Uninspired concert

text: I saw them together in Los Angeles and it was an exciting show, very compelling. The show recorded here is shockingly insipid. It is live but the audience offers not much more than polite applause. Caetano Veloso's voice sounds hoarse and a bit ragged. For the price of this set I recommend that you get individual CDs by either artist. It isn't as if they sing or play together very much anyway. A big disappointment.


title: Almost as good as the movie!

text: This is a great fun album!,very clean and plays well.


title: Five Stars

text: I love it!


title: Quick

text: Wife loved it


title: Low quality

text: Low quality cassettes. Sound quality extremely bad


title: Five Stars

text: Excellent!!!


title: The Band Jericho CD

text: Later version of the band without Robbie Robinson And the Late Richard Manuel. An excellent CD Album nonetheless. The same band with songs of Americana and Rock /Country/Blues.


title: Favorite of mine

text: I am an avid Stevie Wonder fan!! Met my standards. Just loved this one and at a reasonable price to boot.  Great addition to anyone’s collection


title: Great gift

text: Was a great give.


title: Five Stars

text: Great cd love it great blues veteran thank you .


title: Cd sound great the country sound is the haggard a great cd ...

text: Cd  sound great the country  sound  is the haggard  a great cd  love it


title: Ahead of their time

text: This was definately a record ahead of it's time.  It brings back memories, but let's not go there.  If you have never listened to MANTRONIX, but like current hip hop this would be a good choice.  Give it a shot, you won't be disappointed!


title: Jason Gray's First Album

text: This album is entitled Jason Gay (aka Jason Gray). Very good music, I found it to be very relaxing especially when I am stressed. I love to see from this album all the way to Jason's Love Will Have The Final Word his newest album how far he has grown as an artist and in his walk with Jesus. Jason Gray is amazing, I can't say it enough!!!!!!


title: Jason Gray "All the lovely losers"

text: Just received this cd in the mail and I am very pleased. There are several songs on this album that are my favorite such as "This far" and "The cut", I am also fond of his song "Grace." With Grace he was really creative with the play on of words and melody, great song for an incredible album.


title: Jason Gray Live Vol. 1

text:
Jason Gray is an unbelievable musician and artist. He really gets to your heart and I have found God uses a lot of his music to reach the lost and help the saved. I absolutely love to hear Jason live and I love his acoustic songs - this is a much desired album to add to my Gray Collection!

5 stars! It's Jason Gray!


title: Why is This Still Unavailable?

text:
With meticulous care and production, George Harrison helped make this a better record than his own Dark Horse released the same year (which I happen to feel was unfairly maligned).

Overlapping harmonies, multi-tracked guitars, and with the same backing of Klaus and Preston, this is as good as any Apple artist ever produced and holds up well upon repeated listens.  It is legitimately a lost gem.

How hard is it for someone to get the rights to release the Dark Horse catalog in the digital age?

Come on!!!


title: Goodbye Mr. Jordan

text:
I like Julian Lennon, having bought and enjoyed Valotte, Help Yourself, and Photograph Smile.  His gentle voice, harmonies, and piano certainly recall his father, but with his own perspective.

Unfortunately, that perspective is missing here.  In its place is Patrick Leonard, who served as producer and masterminded the transformation of Julian Lennon into a generic LA-glam guitar rocker.  It doesn't work.  Julian's voice is morphed through production to sound like a watered-down Bowie, singing over wailing processed LA guitar pyrotechnics and cheesy synth lines and beats.

If I have described something you will like, by all means get this album.  Otherwise I would move on.


title: NIce!

text: Nice!


title: This album is a treasure!

text: I bought this album for a duet that Steve Green and Twila do. I was absolutely floored by the beauty of the other songs which I hadn't heard. My favorite is "My Heart Belongs to You". I can't tell how many times I've listened to this piece. Wintley Phipps and Larnelle Harris sing this and your heart will soar if you love Jesus and this is the kind of music you like.


title: So happy I bought this CD

text: I bought this CD for my 5-year-old daughter which is bilingual. As a child Yola Polastri was my idol and it was great to be able to listen again, after SO many years, the songs I learned as a child. Also, it is very special to share these songs with my daughter. She LOVES the music and she already has her favorites: "Con un poco de imaginación" y "La vida tiene color de rosa" :-)


title: great harmony

text: good quartet. great harmony. gave as a gift to one of the composers of one of the songs on the cd.


title: Five Stars

text: It was a gift for my son. I hope he enjoys it.


title: Rousing!

text: High energy great song selction great band and great singing


title: 19 Tracks to Like, Love, of Skip

text: "Happy Together" by The Turtles; "For Your Love" by The Yardbirds, "Lazy Sunday" by Small Faces, "Out of Time" by Chris Farlowe, "Yesterday Man", by Chris Andrews, "Judy in Disguise (with Glasses)" by John Fred & His Playboy Band, "Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum, "Winchester Cathedral" by New Vaudeville Band, "Let's Go to San Francisco" by Flowerpot Men, "Chapel of Love" by The Dixie Cups, "My Friend Jack", by Smoke, Viva Bobby Joe" by The Equals, "Hello Susie" by Amen Corner, "Hang On Sloopy" by McCoys, "Leader of the Pack" by The Shangri-las, "Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen, "Soldier Boy", by The Shirelles, "Go Now!" by The Moody Blues, and "Kansas City" by Fats Domino are the 19 tracks on this album. I bought it without really knowing what songs were on this album. Some of the songs were before I was introduced to Rock 'n' Roll. Some of these tracks are songs that were still playing on the radio about the time I started listening to Rock 'n' Roll music because they were really good songs. Some songs were released later than the others and I am familiar with them. 19 tracks on one CD.


title: Husband loved it

text: Great quality, fast ship.  Music quality was perfect and he enjoyed it very much.  The cover and outer appearance was perfect


title: A must buy

text: Love love love it


title: Kids LOVE it!

text: Such a big hit in our family. My snobbish music sensibilities didn't love it at first, but I did get used to it. However, my kids (ages 4 and 5) have the entire thing memorized! Seeing them so happy and enthusiastic about it really makes my heart swell. We listen to it all the time in the car.


title: Tony Robbins is timeless

text:
This CD set is from the 80s.  Don't let that scare you away.  Tony Robbins is timeless.  The 80s references are few and far between, and the rest is every bit as applicable as it was back then.  I believe buying the older set is the best choice, since he doesn't really have that much new to say.  Some unintentional humor about his wife at the time and how they are so disciplined etc that they keep their relationship fresh.  In real life, after the recording of that cd, they divorced.

If you are interested in Tony Robbins and trying to decide whether to fork out the big bucks on his latest release, or to buy the old set, I recommend the old set.  You will get out of it what you put into it, regardless of the version you buy, and the important information has not changed.


title: Amazing!

text:
The photographs are so gorgeous! It came with everything! Plus extra photo cards! I will definitely upload photos soon!
Update!
The poster looks great but there is a crease on Yerin's nose. I will not be hanging up the poster up so it's okay. They should be sent in a tube rather than folded :(
The corner of the album was a little dented but it's okay. Probably dented during shipping overseas not the seller's fault. It didn't lower the quality of the items! I will be utilizing the coaster for sure. The coaster is made of plastic so it will hold up over time. I definitely recommend on purchasing albums in the presale because one the prices is way cheaper! I should of bought the 3 albums for $70 during presale which is a great price! I will definitely do that next time! :) I am happy with my purchase. The CD is missing from the photo because it's in my car 😇


title: Flow fan!

text: I'm a big fan of Flow. Its a unique publication. I find myself going back to each issue, including this one, for resources and inspiration.


title: Yup- she loved the Lennon Sisters...

text: Didn’t know the LS recorded this album in ‘67 when I was ten years old. Was reportedly their last with Dot Records and like the way they cut loose, and broke out of their Welk-esque champagne kitsch. Definitely reflects the period and I love the late 60’s drum kit fills.  More importantly, it fills the empty void of losing my only sister of Blessed Memory in 2018. We grew up watching the Welk Show and his commercial announcements about Serutan laxative and Sominex sleeping pills. Yup- my Sis loved the Lennon Sisters. I cried my eyes out when I played this album upon its arrival. I can still see her as a teenager playing LS records...


title: Guitar Monster...

text: First got this album in ‘78. Had also seen the Romero’s live in Honolulu for their performance of Rodrigo’s Concierto Madrigal with the local symphony orchestra during this period. Was absolutely floored by the interplay and sheer power between Pepe and Angel, with Celin providing chordal backing and their father Celedonio trying to keep up with his sons. Haven’t seen many recordings of Rodrigo’s Elogio De La Guitarra and it’s not for the meek guitarist. The music demands utmost accuracy, technique, control, and expression. Was later fortunate enough to study with one of Pepe’s TA’s from USD, and at least got to learn basics and appreciate the tutelage that produced such marvelous artists. Maestro Angel Romero pulls out all the stops on this album. He’s like a Monte Carlo driver who floors the engine, strategically collides, and goes on to recover without a single dent or scratch so to speak. The Elogio and other selections on this album are astounding.


title: Got Polygot?

text: Have loved CV since seeing her on the Dean Martin show singing bossa nova back in the day. Also know she played wonderful Herman Hauser classical guitars. Gorgeous lady, multi lingual, nice varied voice range, excellent speech diction in her vocals. She’s reportedly 90 yrs young and still with us. The song tempos of standards on the first side of this album’s are mostly the same- can give the listener rhythm fatigue. The second has more variation and mixes of songs. Amazed at the quality of the old Decca vinyl lp’s- thick, and no warping.


title: If you like classical guitar you'll LOVE Steve Turley

text: Fantastic!


title: Five Stars

text: husband loves it


title: Condition is quite poor but owning them  is rather ncie for nostalgia.....

text:
The order was received promptly and was packed  well.  It is nice to see these lovely old 78's .  However, the condition of the records is very poor.  Yes these are old and you would expect the condition to be such but not really as bad which these are.  I am not sure that i want to play them on my expensive player even once.  I would have liked play them once at least.  I will try to dust off an old machine and may be will play them on that.  I don't mind listening to scratchy sound but these are in quite poor condition.

Even if their condition is quite poor it is nice to these just to look at them for nostalgia....


I liked it but was looking for the song "Rainbow, rainbow round me" and it wasn't on this one...will keep looking.


title: I was looking for the song "Rainbow, rainbow round ...

text: I was looking for the song "Rainbow, rainbow round me" and it wasn't on this ''CD" so will keep looking.


title: Good, but not as good as Geidi Primes or Visions

text:
Halfaxa is a really good album, but not as great as Geidi Primes or Visions. You can hear the style evolving here, so it isn't as raw or experimental as GP, but it lacks a bit of the polish and perfection of Visions. All the same, Halfaxa is definitely worth purchasing and giving a regular listen to.

J.Ja


title: What's not to like about Mozart?

text: What is not to love about Mozart? These concerts were played at home when I was a child, and I'm happy to listen to them again in this wonderful version.


title: Harvest & After the Gold Rush iconic

text: If you ever own a Neil Young album it’s those two, Harvest is just a masterpiece for Folk and RNR music.  Neil’s song writing on those two albums was the most accessible and overall top notch.  Out on the Weekend is one of my all time favorites!


title: The documentary on the other side was/is good, very informative & was a great welcome back ...

text: I was 15 when this came out, and I really just getting into my Priest fandom.  I had listened to a lot of Priest on Vh1 Classic as well as my father got me into Priests album Turbo.  But this one was the first Priest album I actually bought.  I remember hearing Judas Rising and feeling the need to crank it as loud as possible, I listed to it over & over and knew Priest was my band and after that I had to collect it all.  The documentary on the other side was/is good, very informative & was a great welcome back for Rob Halford.


title: Five Stars

text: Yes it was fine


title: Love it

text: CD withTev.Campbell


title: Great Purchase!

text: CD is just perfect!  Delivered on time and all that I expected!  Love the artwork and the liner notes, cinema perfection.


title: Fun and Upbeat

text: Great dance music from the 90s.  My faves are "I've Been Thinking About You" by Londonbeat and "The Sign" by Ace of Base.


title: Great Compilation from 1970

text: With The Partridge Family, Melanie, The Fifth Dimension, Anne Murray, Tony Orlando & Dawn, Elton John, Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and others, this is a great period compilation!


title: GREAT Bon ....

text: I never get tired of Bon Scott..Such a voice....


title: Overall I like it but there are just a few too many ...

text: Overall I like it but there are just a few too many covers on this versus bringing something new to the songs.  Of course it is a cover album but I was hoping for more artistry.  But from a cover/fun standpoint it is great!


title: great

text: great music


title: My Darlings

text: It was great to hear Hughie and Billy. They will always be my Darlings.


title: Quintessential Luciano

text: One of Luciano’s best albums! Classic Reggae


title: Review for "Congo" complete score.

text:
I'm not sure why this album is linked with an entirely different one, but I can assure you this review is for the 2013 release of "Congo" by Jerry Goldsmith. The original album, released in 1995, is one of my favorites by the composer. The themes and motifs are great, and the sound quality is excellent.

I've been waiting for the complete score for over a decade and am happy to finally have some of my favorite cues (Meet Monroe Kelly, The Eye, Help Me), which were left off of the first release. This album, as a whole, is very well put together and makes for an excellent, cohesive, listening experience. Bravo, Intrada Records, and thank you, Jerry Goldsmith.


title: Klaus Wunderlich

text: If you love various selection of world musical, you'll love Klaus selection in this Cd., So all I can say is buy it, you will not be sorry.


title: Klaus Wunderlich

text: Beautiful collection of Klaus's music. But one warning .. Do not purchase His Cd titled "Keys for Lovers."<br />It has the same selection of music, just in different order of play.


title: Donna Taggart

text:
She has a wonderful voice. You can sit back listen to her all day.
Can't remember where I first found her, but I'm sure happy that I did.
The only negative, is the amount of time it takes to get this Cd.
Comes from overseas. But worth the wait.


title: Very Good!

text: Very good.


title: Pricey.

text: Although I have only heard this outstanding score via the movie it is scary.  I hope that the price on this cd drops a bit more


title: ... contains a lot of songs so it's unlikely you'll like all of them but it's well worth the money

text: This CD contains a lot of songs so it's unlikely you'll like all of them but it's well worth the money.


title: Five Stars

text: Love this soundtrack.Very inspirational.


title: Very satisfied.

text: Item was received promptly and as advertised.  Very satisfied.


title: Excelente!

text: Un album super completo que no puede faltar en la colección de música en español de cualquier amante de las melodías latinas.


title: amazing!

text: Claudia is the best composer from Argentina after Valeria Lynch and Patricia Sosa.


title: Three Stars

text: muy mala calidad de sonido!!!! y la imagen llena de pixels!!!


title: Five Stars

text: incredible!!!!!


title: The first 3 albums...

text: You have to have the beginning of this DIVA...


title: 5 stars for a DIVA

text: DVD and CD, the best collection.


title: Thalia viva tour - 10 points!!!

text: Live recorded with HQ image and sound.


title: Great CD!!!!!!!!

text: Sometimes when I order cds through the mail the cd skips and I have to send it back, but….. this Lionel Richie cd is great. NO FLAWS!!!!!!! I would definitely order again from this manufacturer!!!


title: This is a very relaxing CD. My dog loves it!!

text: I bought this for relaxation. The right kind of harp music is truly relaxing. This automatically plays in my car and is very soothing, calming and enjoyable music. It’s like your nerves just relax, and the stress melts away. Just what is needed in today’s world. My dog enjoys this music, too! I’m going to order another one to play in the house. You won’t be disappointed with this CD.


title: Fantastic Music

text: I just recently became interested in Sea Shanties and compilations thereof that I found online. I found the band, "The Fishermen's Friends" to be perhaps the most enduring for me, especially with their song "the Corncrake" (included on album) and ""Safe and Sound" (not included on album). I had not heard much more of their songs before ordering and am now glad of it, because experiencing these joyous, gentle, happy, and sometimes heartbreaking tunes on this disc was well-worth it. I especially love the song "No hopers, Jokers, and Rogues," in its exciting drive and jovial execution which helps me face the day with satisfaction and hope. Great album which I highly recommend.


title: What kind of album is this??

text: The man is a force to be reckoned with. Bob knows how to write thought provoking lyrics and while the crop of songs on Shades of Grace aren't exactly power ballads, they are worth paying attention to. There's no denying that Butterfly Kisses is a mega hit, but when putting it against the rest of the songs presented, the album almost feels like it's limping along like something that's been improperly mixed. This feels like a flop compared to Hope of a Man from 1994, but then again, this is what ADULT contemporary music sounds like. I was 11 when this came out, and would've wanted to listen to something else. Giving this a listen for the first time in 2022 reminds me that my favorite era of Christian tunes is dated, but it makes me wonder if the younger generations are picking up on what today's adults grew up with......


title: a throwback to yesteryear,.....

text: Listening to this album for the first time has some shock value. Just when you think you're going to hear sweet cuing and higher pitches from this young lady, think again. Kellye resonates well with a vocal range that is strikingly similar to Amy Grant. I grew up with Amy, so hearing Kellye pulls at my tender heartstrings. As a hard core musician, I really do think of Amy as a motherhood figure in my life. Should I really compare Kellye to her?? In the longer run, not really. This came out in 1992, butt if you had no clue on the year, you'd think it was from the 80s. Perfect in every way. Glad I grabbed this.


title: Winter Wonderland

text: This is a great album! The first four Steamroller albums are on the seasons, this being the winter solstice. I must admit that the first couple of listens, it doesn't put me in the mood, but like Chip's other tunes, they quickly become addicting to listen to. This is the first winter that I have listened to the album outside of the Christmas tunes, but like the rest, this is timeless,......


title: Happy Birthday and enjoy binge watching

text: This entire series was a birthday gift to a very old and dear friend.


title: Clever pop band

text:
I remember the lryics from "this Is not A Test", a song about nuclear war and fall out:

"Mrs. Cow and her daughter Sue
Were killing penguins at the zoo
When enemy fire fell from the sky
They both died"

Then the song "Hot Dog" with it's catchy sing along chorus "Whooooah o ah oh oh oh nah nah nah nahnah HOT DOG!"


title: Very atmospheric!

text:
Dark and foreboding, this is an excellent sampling of the Middle Pillar label

best tracks :
Petals in Sequence (Mors Syphilitica)Sorrwful mandolin with Lisa hammers haunting voice

The Beauty of Obscenity (Zoar). Creepy instrumental

Falling Softly (Machine in the Garden)Wonderful mournful wailing


title: Why isn't this on cd! (Now on CD as of 05/22/22)

text:
Why? Why? Why?
Full of catchy hooks and fun word play, Slow Children sadly never hit it real big. They deserved to. Pal Shazar's baby voice fitst this music to a T.

The lyrics are cleaver little stories that paint a visual in your mind, either by pattern or actual words.

"Suspense" is easily the best track, and the most spooky. With it's odd pasltic bucket thumping drum, and it's one stroke accustic guitar strum, the song plods along. this was something new for Slow Chilren.