title: Stay Away From Holosync

text:
Holosync Side Effects

Dizzy
Nauseous
Anxious
Panicked
Dissociative State
Unhealthy Sleep Patterns
Groggy
Easy to Anger
Apathetic
Unmotivated
Change in Diet/Food Cravings
Spaced Out
Distant
Disconnected

I felt like a zombie each successive day I participated in the program. The world seemed a million miles away. I couldn't focus or concentrate on what I was doing. I felt stuck in a state of drone, of exile, locked in a mindset that interpreted the world as something foreign and feared. The simple pleasures of touch and feeling were unknown and scary. My thoughts were scattered and unobtainable. I felt myself slipping away, while a consciousness insane was emerging, leaving my sense of self behind.

If this is what one calls evolution, then insanity is truly their divine. Meditation and getting back in touch with your authentic self does not involve feeling mentally ill. It's a welcoming awareness of who you always have been, facing and seeing all that you are, and none of that causes fear, but instead great joy and bliss at the awakening of your fully recognized self.


title: Loveeeeee

text: Love love loveeee😍 Didnt come damaged at all and the pc was just fine.


title: Ripped bag one missing

text: Ripped bag… really tiny; one was missing


title: Classic Charanga

text:
I was hesitant about purchasing this CD because of the high cost. I first heard "Juana y Miguel" on a YouTube video about three years ago and I finally decided to spring for the CD, "Concepto en Flauta."
The entire CD smokes. If you like charanga music, you will not be disappointed. It's great dance music, melodic and sensual.
Love the talented Rene Lorente on flute accompanied by all those violins. Goza!


title: Folksinger LP

text: Great purchase! Great seller! A good recording of Dave Von Ronk, Nothing better than vinyl. This is a great addition to any collection.


title: I love Bad Boys !!!

text: Unique group, fun, original and perfect for dancing


title: Trouble in life

text: Jesse is very knowledgeable about life problems. He tells the truth and gives on hope for the future with effort and with God.


title: Faith in hard times

text: Jesse makes you have faith and hope. He lessens the fear of death and gives information to have you believe.


title: inspiration

text: Jesse is a very inspirational speaker. He speaks through his life experiences and holds your attention with his humor. He inspires faith and hope.


title: A really good CD

text: This one is a little mellower. Well, a lot mellower.At first I missed the edginess of the soundtrack album, but have grown to appreciate this one for itself.


title: Beautiful music

text: Andromeda is a beautiful collection of songs which celebrate great events in life.  The melodies are creative, thoughtful and relaxing.


title: Abinadi

text:
Set in Book of Mormon times, Abinadi explores the (fictionalized) life of the prophet for the three years before he was martyred. Moore includes wonderful gems of cultural history, including the clothing, the food, and even a wedding ceremony.

The story line itself is obviously predictable, since the fact that Abinadi dies by fire is...well, a fact. The love story is also predictable: Raquel loves Abinadi but thinks he won't like her because she's rich and not a believer, and Abinadi loves Raquel but thinks she won't like him because he's not rich and is a believer. Any questions how it will play out? Didn't think so.

Perhaps the most interesting character was Alma. I was a bit surprised at what a big part he had to play, since I thought it was Abinadi's story, but it sets up the second book, Alma, quite nicely. Alma was so multi-faceted and interesting. Raquel and Abinadi were far from flat, but they definitely weren't as dynamic. Their romantic relationship didn't feel quite genuine or real to me, until the end when they said goodbye. Moore did a good job of capturing the emotions of a husband and wife separating for a time.

The book fits the genre of historical fiction. Not a heart-stopping thriller with nail-biting page-turners, but historically fascinating and enjoyable. I look forward to Alma. I think this book will be even more satisfying.


title: Very Creative!!

text: When I went to New Orleans two summers ago, this group was one of my top favorites out of all the musicians on Bourbon Street.  I was going from club to club, buying CDs from all the artists I liked.  I was really disappointed when, after listening to their music for a while, I approached the members of this group and asked if they had a CD I could buy and they told me no but that they would be out with one soon.  Ever since then I've Googled "Mother Tongue New Orleans" every few months to see if they had a CD out, and was pleasantly surprised when, upon my last search, I discovered they did.  I immediately bought it and I'm so glad I did.  Their sound is smooth, soft R&B over classical notes, thanks to the skilled violinist in the group, which, unfortunately, isn't a combination you hear too often.  Their only instruments are the violin and a guitar with the vocals over that, which makes their music pure and beautiful.  Most of the songs are slow, which makes it really nice to relax to.  I was also pleased to find that, by purchasing the CD, I would be helping people who were affected by the Katrina disaster, but I definitely would have bought it anyway even if that had never happened.  I hope to see a lot more from this talented trio.  And let me just say that I've bought a lot of music from Amazon before, but have never been moved and pleased enough to actually take the time to write a review until now.  Pick up this CD and support this group - you won't be sorry!!


title: excellent condition

text: lost my original and had to replace...excellent condition


title: Lovely renditions of familiar hymns

text: Loving this CD, I’ve ordered it for several friends!


title: If you're not listening to Dimestore Freud, you should be!!!

text: Awesome bluesy rock, OUTSTANDING vocals, and massive sex appeal...  Seriously, do yourself a favor, and listen...you won't be disappointed.


title: Great Relaxing CD

text: I took a chance on an unknown artist (to me) and love the music. Great for the office.


title: Jazz Lovers Need This!

text: This has always been a must for any jazz collection. This is an entire course on how to arrange and swing your back-side off when playing. Plus, Frank was never more at home than when he was backed by Basie. Priceless!


title: Perfect!

text: CD arrived with zero cracks in the jewel case! Great service, great packaging. Thank you!!


title: Four Stars

text: Great music for any Alumni. However the cast was broke.


title: I love Bob Ayala's music

text: I love Bob Ayala's music.  He performed at my church several years ago and I really enjoyed his style.  I like every song on this CD.


title: Cool group.

text: Album and photocard came. The cd looks nice. My favorite song from album, Cause U.


title: My First Exo album

text: The cd works, got Sehun version and his photocard. Tho, I’m a bit disappointed how dark the photocard is.


title: Happy with my first solo album.

text: I got the day version, really enjoyed my Album.


title: Four Stars

text: I love WXPN in philly so you know I love this cd!


title: Thank you very much!

text: Thank you very much! I received the 2 symphonies with Karl Bohm!


title: featuring artists like Lotte Lehmann

text: I didn't know this when I first bought it, but this 1930s recording is NOT the complete Fidelio (very very tiny print on the front cover). This only covers less than an hour of Act I of Fidelio; that's all that's left from very old recording process. This is a historic recording, featuring artists like Lotte Lehmann, and I think this also has Act I of a Weber opera. And I did buy the 2 complete operas conducted by Toscanini at the Salzburg Festival (which I don't regret in the slightest, Falstaff & Die Meistersinger). And Toscanini did conduct a complete Fidelio in 1944 which you can find. I ended up returning this. So it really depends on what you're looking for. If this incomplete recording is really what you want, then by all means have at it.


title: Biased but tries to come across as "sensitive"

text: This is not the book for you if you enjoy objective facts and truth. I was led to believe before reading this that this is a good representation of what Black Americans go though today, but there is nothing in this book but anti-White rantings.


title: Cd has scratches. Request new one

text: Has scratches on 2 songs


title: We have a new grandbaby

text: Beautiful soothing lullaby music and bible verses in music is perfect for baby gift!


title: Great CD!

text: Great CD. I enjoy it everyday. Helps me relax and sleep and does wonders with making me remembers my dreams. I have only been listening for a week now, but I can already see how it will help me fall into sleep consciously! it works!


title: fav bts album

text: PULLED JHOPE:)


title: great 60"s guitar selection

text: My dad had this record when I was 10 and I loved it then and still do! our records were ruined in a flood in "72 so this is the first I heard of it in 41 years. The copy I purchased is in good condition and arrived within 10 days. very pleased


title: Wonderful customer service

text: Fabulous, arrived very fast and in excellent condition. Highly satisfied thank you!


title: Five Stars

text: Excelente...!!!


title: Please release the audio book as a CD or as an Audible download.

text: This is actually a review for the audio book by Stockard Channing.  Channing's reading of this book is awesome.  Her tone is perfect. Some day if I've been very, very good, Stockard Channing's audio book performance will be available on CD or as an Audible download.


title: Great songs on this!  A favorite of mine.

text: I have recently discovered how much I love listening to Liberace's piano arrangements.  So I have bought several CDs in the last few months.  I recently purchased this one and it is one of my very favorites.  Each song on this CD seems to be a favorite of mine.  The sound is great.  There is a variety of types of music included.


title: Thigh-slapping comedy for the historically minded

text: This is brilliant, thigh-slapping comedy for the historically minded. Includes pseudo-serious recordings of Pavlov hating his dogs, Nietzsche going off the deep end in a class full of nervous students, Marconi's wife vacuuming some tubes for his wireless experiment, and Cochise and Sitting Bull trying to schedule an attack around the Thanksgiving holidays.


title: Picture ?

text: Can you upload a picture of the vinyl?? I'm interested but I just don't want to buy it without seeing if it's good.


title: Highly disappointed in this cd. Great songs but...

text: Very good cd, however the extra songs were sometimes there or not. I paid alotta money for this poorly recorded cd with the extra songs fade in n out. Highly disappointed


title: Love spyro gyra

text: Great cd. Fast service


title: Greta Van Fleet CD

text: I would have given you 5 stars BUT I took off a 1 Star for each discrepancy. 1 Star for a cracked case, 2nd Star for a small scratch on cd.


title: Recorded in same studio as Led Zepplin

text: When I learned that ZZ Top wanted to record in this studio because they liked the sound that studio got from their recording sessions from Led Zepplin, I had to check it out.  This is a raw and edgy recording as we expect from ZZ Top.  a great recording and the bonus live versions are a nice addition.  Recommended listen and a must for ZZ Top fans.


title: Music great, but that price sticker...

text: I originally had this set on cassette, and was happy to see it available on CD, even if used. Everything so far is fine in terms of the CDs and the sound. The case was a bit of a disaster, with cracks and stickers, so I put the CDs in double CD jewel cases of my own, and removed the "cover" and song list from the original case to attach to the new ones.<br />I do have a suggestion for the seller however: if you're going to sell something on Amazon for $9.99, you may want to remove the $1.99 price sticker from your item!


title: Five Stars

text: Excellent lyrics and music!


title: My Favorite Record

text: I’ve had this record since 1970. I’ve learned how to play several of the pieces on it on the piano over the past 50 years. One side has developed a skip on one track and the cover got water damaged, so I was thrilled to find this replacement copy. I also have this on CD, but it’s not as good. When Sony music acquired the rights to this record they added some tracks, left others out, and changed their order. I still like the original, vinyl version the best. I got to see Igor Kipnis perform at Florida State in the 1970s when I was there. I’m thrilled to have this record. I’m playing it on my dad's stereo console he got for Christmas in 1969, which I’ve just had restored.

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title: It came damaged

text: I just love this singer and this cd, but product came damaged with scrathes and I could not listen any song, I think it was old in stock, so I returned it.


title: Great Price. You cant go wrong!

text: I bought this for my older Sister as a surprise because she wanted it.  She loves it.


title: rolling stones in a bottle.

text: Well lets face it, the Rolling Stones are the greatest R"R band in the world, so this cd is great too!!!!!


title: Five Stars

text: very good jazz


title: Love love love

text: Doesn’t get any better than this one


title: Nice:)

text: Got it today, nice:)


title: Garifuna Rhythms

text:
I purchased this CD at Lebeha Drumming Center in Hopkins Belize when it first came out.
It is an outstanding example of traditional Garifuna rhythms and songs.
A must have for any serious student of drumming.  I found the translated lyrics and examples of the rhythms featured on the CD at Lebeha.com.  Wow!


title: Disappointed... No free Gift

text: Kinda disappointed. I didn't get any free gift.


title: Great songs

text: Love Johnny Rivers songs, excellent voice and been listening to him for years


Excellent music- songs that touch the heart. Was given this CD as a gift to bring me solace as I battle blood cancer.


title: Five Stars

text: Great item and good customer service.


title: Five Stars

text: I love anything that Leann Rimes dose.


title: Don't buy!

text: First song had a 5 second skip in it. Did not play last four songs. Sound is nothing special. Don't waste your $$$


title: gift to a friend

text: gave this gift to a friend who loves Charlie brown and only does vinyl and she absolutely loved it.


title: Five Stars

text: Haunting...


title: CLASS

text: THERE IS NOTHING BETTER THAN LISTENING TO CLASSICAL MUSIC..I RECOMMEND IT WHOLE HEARTEDLY..BRAHMS IS ONE OF THE VERY BEST TO LISTEN TO.


title: I believe in Line Drive

text:
1. Get the Funk 2. That is Why 3. You've Gotta Believe in Something 4. And I would Do Anything 5. Higher Place 6. Western Skies 7. Always & Forever 8. Sweet Memories 9. I Just Can't Wait to Be With You 10. Goodbye Manhatten 11. Do Ya Wanna Get Funky

With a broad appeal across all age groups, Line Drive was a mainstay of the Jersey Shore music scene, with a fan base in the tens of thousands. Their soulful sound is an urban blend of contemporary rhythm & blues, spicy horns, and spine-tingling vocals, with melodies and lyrics that are clever and intelligent, and seasoned with well crafted solo work. Like a well oiled machine, that 'in the pocket', which only comes from years of experience playing together, always manages to make you dip your hip!

"This band is so good, they should change their name to 'Home Run' or 'Grand Slam!'" -Grover Washington Jr.

During their history Line Drive has performed with major label acts including Grover Washington Jr, Tower of Power, Phoebe Snow, Spyro Gyra, Noel Pointer, and Special EFX, as well as two national appearances by Jose Loo on Star Search. Kathy Washington comes to the band after a contract with Atlantic Records.

Line Drive has performed extensively throughout the Northeast to enthusiastic audiences, including various music festivals, colleges. and television appearances. They have lent their talents to various studio projects in the form of producing, writing, arranging, and performing, including commercials and jingles both local and national. "This band is so versatile and talented, there's no way you're not going to love them." -Two River Times Their first CD, "We Could'a Been Contenders" achieved outstanding critical acclaim. This CD, produced by Gary Dates, is just a another step up.


title: grew up with father in church choir and local opera ...

text: grew up with father in church choir and local opera where ever we lived.  I grew up with this music.  a few pieces are rather new, but most are very old favorites.  thank you for putting your music out there in this format.  Mother still has 5? albums as well.  all time fav is 'Figaro'.  a Waldo classic!


title: Enchanting Music - A Hard to Find Gem

text: This is one of my favorite albums! I picked up this cassette many years ago in Santa Barbara and have nearly worn it out. There are love songs, dance tunes, and Kate Price's original compositions along with traditional Breton, Irish, Swedish, and Russian tunes. The melodies will linger in your head and the dance beats will get your feet moving in spite of themselves. Great music!


title: Memories of the past

text: Had a copy of this vinyl back in the 70's. loaned it to a friend and never got it back. Got the album from the group at a summer concert in Montana in 1978


title: Great buy for sure

text: I got this for my girlfriend a while ago and she loves it. Great buy for sure.


title: Five Stars

text: Big voice, big music.


title: great music

text: a timeless collection of segovias great music.


title: A must have when driving the goat to Hana

text: if you plan on taking the road to Hana don't go without. We would have been lost without it. My only regret is that we forgot the disc in the rental car. Hopefully it comes in handy for the next person renting the car


title: Love It!

text: I recently heard that the Barrel House Mamas are no longer together which makes me sad! I love this CD - I listen to it when I'm working, when I'm cooking, when my friends and I are drinking wine. It is the ultimate "chill" CD. Beautiful vocals.


title: They Sound Good To Me

text: I am a Sinatra fan, but have cared least for his earliest recordings on Columbia.  I haven't compared these "New Recordings" directly with the original versions on Columbia but, on this disk, they sound great.  Kind of a pricey disk but - what the heck - it's Sinatra!!!


title: Schubert Impromptus

text: I am not a Schubert expert, but I find the performances wonderful, the sound good, and the price all one could ask for.


title: Well I have to sayyy…

text: This is absolutely not worth 30$ I’m pretty disappointed not gonna lie! I think I coulda gotten more at Walmart or the dollar store, for my money.<br />:(


title: Horrible sound quality

text:
Love the songs, but the sound quality is truly horrible.

I'd buy something else ... there are lots of "Motown Hits" albums.


title: Great album

text: I bought this for Hit or Miss, but the rest of the album is amazing. It's a shame you can't get it anywhere else.


title: Best Album of 2008

text: Best album of 2008 by a long shot.  If you like dark synth bands, this will blow your mind.  Lots of synths and analog sounds.  My copy came with a DVD of an amazing show.


title: Five Stars

text: My favorite Leonard Cohen CD


kick ass! if you don't like it you don't deserve to listen to it!


Just what i ask, in the time that they say, i very happy with the item and is exactly like the picture


title: Five Stars

text: Excellent CD


title: Greatest hits

text: Great collection of hits, sounds great


title: SUBLIME!!!

text:
Drawing upon the old cliche, if I had only 10 albums that I could listen to for the rest of time, this would be one of them. For the other spots I would juggle contenders like DC Talk, Third Day, All Together Separate, Jimmie Black's "Darkness Into Light", Mercy Me, SonicFlood maybe or Delirious? perhaps, and maybe one or two others, but this one is a solid lock. Let's start with the fact that every single track on the album is a rock soild, tightly crafted piece of art. Two things stand out: first the voices in this brother-sister trio are clear, powerful, soulful, and inspiring...they interact and weave together in sheer beauty. Secondly, the production quality on this album is simply outstanding--at times it brings to mind Phil Spector's famous "wall of sound", but in ways that are even more spectacular, gripping, and emotionally captivating. Also, each song has its own clear personality and kick, drawing out a wide spectrum of musicality.

I suppose I should have said that there are three things that stand out, because as fabulous and enthralling as the two aforementioned characteristics are in tandem, they alone would not make it onto my top 10 list. These engaging and sweeping tunes are accompanied by unabashedly worshipful lyrics that are are creative, magnifying, humble, and always honoring. This album dares you not to sing along, every single word clearly enunciated and presented in explicit praise. But as I said, while you might often find yourself joyfully singing along with great gusto, you are as likely to just sit listening with your ears wide open, drinking in every single note, whether measured or driving. This album is incredibly well-balanced, each song presented having both complexity and simplicity. It's not uncommon for me to listen to this album two or three times each time I cue it up, even though I've listened to it dozens of times...it's that good.

Which brings me to my complaint--it is an absolute CRIME that this album didn't get more attention when it was released because the world was ROBBED of the second, third, and fourth albums by this impressive and incredibly talented trio. It was executive produced by Toby Mac & Bill Gaither, so I don't know why it didn't garner more attention. The thing that really surprises me is how far off the radar this album and this band have dropped--they have very little internet presence at all--nothing on Youtube that I could find...it's hard to even get a search engine hit.

In this case, I suppose, it is somewhat fitting, because the rarity associated with this disc isn't related to it being a diamond in the rough--instead, it is a gorgeous, magnificently cut 50-carat gem! You can be one of the lucky few to partake of the Joy!

Click buy and be blessed.

P.S.--I did find this one video of ThreeStrand on Youtube. This song, "Row Upon Row", is nice but I feel that all of the songs on "Famished" are better in quality. [...]


title: Absolutely Superb!

text: Outstanding performance.  My favorite version of this classic.


title: Product not as pictured, even after vendor admitted to posting incorrect cover.

text:
CD arrived not as pictured. Prior to purchase, I asked the vendor if this was the "censored" cover. The vendor did confirm it was the censored cover and not the one as pictured. With that knowledge, I did buy the CD as much of a collector's item as not.

What arrived was intact, but not a collector's item. It had a number of fingerprints. The booklet appeared to have been removed several times and creased on re-insertion.

So, for $30, I would expect pristine quality not what I received. I will keep this, but not buy from the vendor again.


title: Bad #18 Track: The Pick-Up and End Credits

text: The quality of the CD is pretty low for costing over 20$.  The last track can't be entirely read (CD player hangs on it).


title: great

text: thank you


title: Love the original artists.

text: Love the original Peaches and Herb music.


title: Excellence

text:
I Am The Revolution - The third offering from Voyager is a somewhat subdued affair from it's predecessor UniVers. Which is a great thing. In some cases less IS more and Voyager delivers.

However I caution you to look for the imports whereas if you order directly from Amazon you'll get DVR copies thru the mail. The sound quality on those copies are decent, but they're not the originals.


title: Just buy it

text: This album is great from beginning to end.


title: Fantastic Irish Band and this CD is as Good as Any!

text: My friends and I -- all Irish -- spent many a Fri/Sat night listening to this band at Sally O'Brien's in Ft. Lauderdale. Bobby O'Donovan and Bob Noble were the key bandsmen, and they put on a great show every time. As musicians, they are first rate. In one long instrumental sequence, Donovan would put a fiddle bow in his mouth and a another fiddle player (a Chinese immigrant woman who plays classic violin with a local orchestra) would put the bow in her mouth. O'Donovan would then move the fiddle across the bow with his hands. If you weren't watching you'd think it was regular fiddle playing. Either way, this is an excellent CD.


title: Remember back when Disney attempted serious movies?

text:
That Disney produced this movie is one of the oddest parts about it. People gave them a hard time about The Black Cauldron, but Night Crossing is far more disturbing, mainly because so many elements are true. I liked the fact that the movie begins with historical information (for those ignorant or unaware of the times or situation)--this makes the movie much more a product for all times, and not just an early 80s propaganda project. I'm sure that, like most movies "based on a true story," only about 5 to 10% of the movie is actually accurate, but I can tell you that the mood and the feel of what it was like to be in East Germany is about as close as can be put on film without actually having been there. The next closest movie would be "The Lives of Others."
The DVD has minimal special features, but I honestly don't care. I very much doubt, however, that this would appeal to children, or that they would even understand it. Rather, this is a drama for adults.
Jerry Goldsmith's score is wonderfully strange and oppressive, providing a good emphasis on the disturbing and malevolent harshness of life under the KGB and Stazi, and any hope of escape.


title: On time Delivery

text: Product exactly as described


title: Quality made! i've searched for a Native American style ...

text: Quality made ! i've searched for a Native American style bridge for a long time, and people, this is it ! i can't wait to install it !


title: Five Stars

text: Beautiful songs! I love it.


title: Five Stars

text: Oh wow the songs are amazing I love it!


title: Unlimited

text: Love it!! ♡


Despite the expected delivery date telling me this would arrive long after Christmas, it got here in time to make my daughter very happy.  The shipping was incredibly fast.  The items were exactly as described.  And a bonus... the randomly selected autographed photos happened to include my daughter's favorite band member.  I was very pleased with my order!!!!


title: Guy Penrod

text: I thought he was awesome when he belonged to the Gaither Vocal Band, but when I ordered this cd through Guy's site and heard it for the first time, I never realized what an awesome singer and gift he truelly has. It makes me enjoy all his music that much more. I highly recommend this cd to anyone who enjoys a mix of country and christian music.


title: miley cyrus

text: This is one of her best cd's yet. my daughter absolutely loves the quality of the songs alot. She listens to it all the time.


title: Didn't like. Sorry

text: No, not clear music not clear.  Didn't like. Sorry. I love Motown. However the quality of disc's extremely poor. :(


title: Five Stars

text: AA


title: Another bluegrass gospel gem from Sparks

text:
A relatively rare CD, this is worth tracking down.  Larry's voice and playing are top-notch here, and the songs are all very good.  At 27 min 30 sec, I would have liked to have a few more songs, but the recording quality is good, and there are some real gems on this album that aren't available on other CDs (to my knowledge).  The tracklist:

1 New Highway 3:31
2 Gotta Move 2:12
3 Mr. Jesus 2:16
4 Hold On To Your Dreams 2:54
5 Blood Stains On The Cross 2:46
6 Jesus Walks Ahead Of Me 3:11
7 Just A Closer Walk With Thee 3:31
8 When The Savior Reached Down For Me 2:37
9 I Wasn’t There 3:10
10 The Old Love Letter 2:23

"Hold on to Your Dreams" immediately caught my attention, and "Gotta Move" are both unique to this album, and are at least 4-star songs for me. Every song on this album at least gets a 3.5 star rating, and there are none that I'm inclined to skip. "New Highway", the title track appears on the albums, "40" and "New Moon Over My Shoulder", and is a wonderful song, but "Hold on to your Dreams" could have just as easily been the title track.


title: Driving Bluegrass from Larry Sparks

text:
This is an awesome album that I'm glad is available on CD.  Another reviewing lambasted the fidelity, but I've certainly heard worse from Bluegrass albums from this period that aren't yet remastered. (EDIT: I've since listened to the streaming version on Amazon HD, and that version is indeed quite bad.  My ripped CD to 320kbs is far superior in quality on the same listening hardware.  Maybe the compression in EAC helped in this case...)

The track listing is as follows:

A-1. That lonesome old feeling 3:50
A-2. These old blues 2:25
A-3. Brand new broken heart 2:35
A-4. Memories of the past 2:07
A-5. Long journey home 2:05
A-6. Going up home (to live in green pastures)  2:40
B-1. Why did you wander 2:13
B-2. Faded love and winter roses 2:27
B-3. As long as I live 3:45
B-4. How will I explain about you 2:54
B-5. Billy in the low ground 2:25
B-6. Mother is gone 3:19

Larry Sparks on Guitar and lead vocals
Dave Evans on Banjo and tenor vocals
Wendy Miller on mandolin
Ralph Meadows on fiddle
Art Widner on bass

Recorded in 1973, this is one of my favorite lineups of Ramblers.  Dave Evans had one of the best bluegrass voices of all time.  You can find videos online of their performances together, and it will give you a good idea of what to expect with this album.  You can't go wrong with any Larry Sparks album, really.  But this one is one of my favorites.  Evans infused the band with more drive than any other period of Spark's recording career IMO, and his signature tenor harmony and banjo rake is present throughout this album.


title: A mellow Xmas CD

text: Was sad to hear that he passed away and they’ll be no more music coming from him. I have all of his CDs.They are difficult to find now. He’s playing provides hours and hours of beautiful music. If you find one, buy it!


title: Will do

text: To me the piano is the key - is it part of the sound or dominating?  Hubeau sets the gold standard but this is not annoying.  Refreshing music for any time of the day :)


title: beautiful music clearly recorded

text: I already had the cassette version of these CDs from years ago, and I am very happy that I was able to replace them with the CD versions.


title: Great Product

text: Wish it had duet with Bocelli on it :-(


title: There’s better out on the market.

text: Not worth the $. Not as expected.


title: Good

text: Same in good condition and cute freebies


title: Just a little dent.

text: I love the whole album, but a had a little dent which hurt me. I waited for a little time only, it came quick, but the dent was the only thing!! Otherwise, the album came extraordinarily packaged, and the extra gift was AWESOME!


title: I was ripped off

text: Didn’t even get the cd only a dvd and I can’t even get a refund


title: Sticker shock, but a great album.

text: Honest old school drum and bass. Started catering a dungeon and dragons group at work, and thought about playing this in the background for them. My copy sadly skips. Came here to buy a new copy and regretting not taking better care of my copy. This album got expensive!!! it's worth every penny if you love classic dNb.


title: everything was perfect

text: it came in with everything as described and the music and books are in tacked


title: minor inconveniences but good

text: the cover had pen markings on it and the sides were dented. satisfied because i could get the markings off easily


title: the BEST! Songs like Navajo Rug and the Road to ...

text: I've been a fan of Tom Russell for many years and though he has several compilations out there, this compilation of early versions and unreleased demos is in my opinion, the BEST!  Songs like Navajo Rug and the Road to Bayamon have more raw energy than the originally released versions. It's hard to touch the original version or U.S. Steel, but this demo version is quite good.  I don't think there was a single track that I didn't enjoy.  I loved Tom's demo of Denver Wind with Nanci Griffith, but then I love everything Nanci does. Highly recommended!


title: Just What I Wanted

text: When one gets a particular song running around in ones head the only remedy is to get the album. That's what I did and this brought back many memories. A good collection although some tracks I can skip with no decrease in the enjoyment.


title: Five Stars

text: Great dance music. ...up beat and something to get your blood boiling.


title: Goin' down is appropriate

text: Pedestrian lyrics. Wanna-be rapper attitude. Lame generic recycled beats. Not enough talent to stuff into a bacterial nucleolus. Admirable, though, to try to prove you have versatility. Or is it simply assuming that adoring fans will love you no matter what you do--even if it means straying way out of your league, releasing a CD that reeks of backlot manure, trying to add more greenbacks to the clump spilling out of every pocket?<br />Okay, I digress. This CD doesn't merit a review. Or anyone's attention. It's a cheap promotional attempt to either make more money or add to a muddled fan base. Based on the skill of the rapper in question, I'd argue that Shaq needs to stay in the key, where he scores oodles of points despite five-second violations and constant offensive charges. He can continue to wrack up the cash as a trash-talking athlete who denies being a role model even though he's scrutinized by millions. It's a sad testimony to America's skewered priorities that athletes make millions of dollars playing a sport they love, keeping their bodies in pristine shape, yet still griping about contracts. And these egotists expect to be cheered on by idolizing fans who pay hundreds of dollars for tickets. My opinion: put a salary cap on them, and if they don't like it, let them do something else. They can choose between being overpaid little kids or working blue collar jobs like the majority of U.S. citizens. Or they can bomb out releasing cruddy albums that only their celebrity status allows them to record. If any other artist had released this CD, they'd be exiled to Siberia...


title: Five Stars

text: Great!!


title: Excellent collection

text: This is part of the essence of the Blues and Rock and Roll.  3 CD set!  Look also for Cadillac Records, a film on Netflix, the Chess Records era, featuring Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James, Chuck Berry, and more.<br />This set features little Walter the excellent harmonica  player.  The sounds that are created by Muddy and Walter are remarkable--I found myself how they got those instruments to make those sounds.  Listening to this music is hypnotic.  We don't get that much into a discussion of "why" the blues works, but here there is the ability to be immersed in it.


title: Five Stars

text: Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson - great!  Feel Right feat. Mystikal -absolute crap.


Have purchased several of the Music Matters Blue Note reissues and the pressings have been dead quiet and flat. Have not  compared to the original Blue Note pressings, but the sound quality of these reissues is magnificent. Midnight Blue is a wonderful album  Never get tired of listening to it.


title: Soothing and

text: Soothing and Beautiful


title: Five Stars

text: one of my favorite recordings from this fine vocalist


title: Fantastic Live Album!

text: In terms of the interaction between performers and crowd, this is the BEST live album I have ever heard.  The interaction, the singing, even the screams that are often in tune are all just amazing. (Clearly, the Irish know how to be an audience!)  And Chris DeBurgh's "Don't Pay the Ferryman" with the audience singing the choruses completely blows away his studio, hit version of the song.


title: Five Stars

text: Ok listened to it put back on shelf where it will stay forever mcl lol


title: Five Stars

text: A wonderful bit of music history!

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title: Great CD....!

text: Eros Ramazzotti always surprises his fans with all his music and the least to say this a great CD to own.........!<br />If you are fan, a must CD on your collection, recommend to buy it.


title: Can’t go wrong with Taemin

text: As usual Taemin doesn’t disappoint. Excellent album.


title: one good song, "Court of Love

text: one good song,"Court of Love,the rest not good,I think they were a one hit wonder,that being said,I did purchase for the one good song,so I was ok with that


title: Five Stars

text: great cd


David McCullough really can get it. There is so much more I now know about the Wright brothers that we never learned in school. We have it as a book on tape. It made the trip so much faster, David McCullough has a great narrative voice. I recommend it to any one that likes to see where we have been and the determination that is the American way.


title: The Liturgical Year in Gregorian Chant Vol. 10

text: This is such a wonderful addition to my collection of The Liturgical Year in Gregorian Chant Cds I currently own. I'm glad to have this volume in my collection; it's just so wonderful! I'm so happy to be able to say I truly recommend this collection to anyone who wishes grow deeper in the rich history & tradition of the Catholic faith. God bless!


title: The Liturgical Year in Gregorian Chant Vol. 11

text: This is such a wonderful addition to my collection of The Liturgical Year in Gregorian Chant Cds I currently own. It lifts the soul and it's so great to be ble to listen to the chants that are from the traditional Catholic faith. I'm so happy to be able to say I truly recommend this collection to anyone who wishes grow deeper in the rich history & tradition of the Catholic faith. God Bless!


title: "Totally Old School"

text: What can i say? This CD is awsome!!! I'm reminded of my childhood days listening to my older siblings play this album and i used to love the songs on it. I received this a couple of days ago and man does it sound great. This is a replacement CD for one of the many albums i recently had stolen from me. Thanks to amazon.com that i can replace all of my old school music thru them.


title: Entrancing Sound!

text: My 4-year-old grandson and I listened to this artist play live at the Seattle Space Needle while I was visiting, and were entranced by his playing.  We got a copy of this CD right there, and when I left, my dear boy said he would listen to it and think of me and love me always.  So of course I ordered a copy off Amazon as soon as the plane landed at home.  And I will listen to it and think of him and love him always.  So this may somewhat color my appreciation of the music.  My feeling is that the flautist’s in-person performance showed growth and maturity since the CD, and yet there is real charm and feeling in the recordings, which are covers of songs that were popular in my younger days.  I especially enjoyed Sparrow, and Dust in the Wind.  There must be something special there if a four year old and a 60+ can both find the music compelling and expressive and entrancing, and the CD measures up to all that.  Now can someone please tell me the artist’s name?


title: I love this

text: I bought this on tape at a wal-mart when I was 19 for my daughter before she was born.  I would play it for her every night when I put her to sleep.  We played it every night before bed until she was about 8 years old when both tape decks on my old stereo finally died.  She is turning 18 soon and listening to it brings back so many memories of her sleeping while I held her.


title: My children's (and MY) favorite album!

text: My kid's LOVE this CD.  Their absolute favorite song is "God made you special" (track 2)- we sing it all day long.  Happy, wholesome, fun!  You have GOT to check out this album!!!!


title: Beautiful harmony

text: The music on this CD took me back to the mid 1980s. This group sang at revival services in Rhodhiss NC. I could close my eyes and be transported back to those services. This family has the sweetest harmony and a humble sweet spirit when they sing. It is a joy and encouragement to hear them use the talents that the Lord gave them to bless many. Depending on the song you will rejoice and on others you will cry. But listen to this CD a few times and you will be singing along.


title: EXCELLENT PRODUCT

text:
Came to me in a really good condition. No damage at all.
Official Poster plus Benefit Photocard.
The shipping time was fast cause it took only 2 weeks 😊


title: Repackage Album

text: This album is great! I really love how they designed it, sort of looks like a planner or notebook, but inside its filled with pictures and messages from EXO. I like that it arrived ahead of time and well. The box it came in tore a little from the sides, so the poster got bent, but its still in good condition. Its also huge since it fits all twelve members in it! The photo card I got was of EXO K leader Suho and I loved it he looks sweet!


title: Still amazing! I believe they were ahead of their time ...

text: It was many years ago (maybe a decade?) that 10K Flying came to do a concert for our youth group for a weekend event out in the middle of nowhere in Southwest Texas - and I drove to work this morning in Colorado listening to their CD. Still amazing! I believe they were ahead of their time and are modern day Psalmist. I was a youth leader back then and still enjoy their music. Their style is timeless and I love how they put Scripture to music. I don't know where they are today or what they are doing now, but I pray blessings on their ministry!


title: Waste of Money

text: I dint like the CD. Not much useful. You have to pause it every time before you come to the next spot. The navigator always have to keep looking at the map and start and stop the CD so that you get the information at right time and misses all the scenic things on the road. I was really hoping for this CD to work as i got it against my wife advice.<br />Will not recommend this purchase and don't waster you money in buying this CD when there is better & cheaper option out there on your phone.


title: I should have bought the one-cd greatest hits.  Fewer less good songs.

text: Little Richard  and Chuck Berry are the giants of Rock and Roll.  This cd brought back pleasant memories of seeing Little Richard perform live.


title: A great Training For Any  Entrepreneur

text: Dale Calvert never disappoints me with the value he provides in his trainings.  MLM Mindsets is one of the best mlm recruiting trainings because you realize anyone can do network marketing if your mindset is correct.  Dale tells it like it is and this training will help anyone understand the power of the mind.  I do not get tired of listening to these CDs. Some of the best on the market.


title: Great Training For any Network Marketing Recruiter

text: This was the first product I purchased from Dale Calvert.  Since then I have purchased several of his trainings.  Start Right MLM, like all of Dale's products, has valuable content for anyone looking to build a network marketing home business.  You will not be disappointed by any training Dale offers.  He is one of the best in the industry.


title: Five Stars

text: Love this group.


title: No photo cards!

text: Album/photo book in good condition, but did not come with any photo cards!


title: Very excited to get this!

text: Shipped really well and everything was included (correct PC’s and everything!) very happy!


title: Looked for this album for over 20 years

text: A local radio station played this album complete without interruption one night at midnight. I recorded it on a reel to reel recorder, Loved it and looked for the record. Never heard it on the radio again. Couldn't find it to buy or even order.<br />20 years later walked into a used record store. Asked the counter help if they had it. No! Couldn't find it as ever being produced.  The owner walked in and I cornered him. He went into the back and 10 minutes later returned with the record. Upon inspection I found the radio station name in pencil on the label. It was the same original vanguard copy I had recorded 20 years earlier, probably played once. I played it again to burn a CD. The album now resides in a special place in my vinyl collection.


title: amazing guitarist

text: Great performances of great music.  Phenomenal talent.


title: sealed but no poster

text: exactly what I expected except it came without a poster still enjoyed the album and its contents :>


title: This is really fun for the kids

text: This is really fun for the kids, especially as an arrival activity in Sunday School and we are waiting for other kids to come in.


title: Five Stars

text: We loved it ad lent it to a neighbor who felt the same


title: Must have for Tammy Trent fans!

text: As a Tammy Trent fan I was so stoked to finally get this! Features eleven 1990s Pop tunes that still sound great today!


title: Curiosity piece?

text: This compilation includes some very old and, unfortunately, very poor quality recordings of brilliant opera singers. There are some more recent pieces included as well, but the raspy, scratchy recordings - though great as a historical reference - are not pleasant to listen to.


title: no preorder cards

text: Everything came in nice but instead of a preorder 9 cardset I Got 3 flimsy cards c'mon now


title: This video has lot of good information.

text: I like how it is organized. You can choose the chapter that you want to listen to without starting from the begin each time.


title: Rane ones are busted.  Serato ones are better.

text: The Rane records work but they're thin and tend to warp easier in my opinion.  Cop the Serato ones (yes, there is a difference) and they're far more reliable.


title: Track great. Must have for DJs

text: Not warped.  Track great.  Must have for DJs.  You know, otherwise there won't be any sound.


title: Awwww the memories

text: I had this album when I was growing up it was fun to play it on my thorens turntable and hear it as it was meant to be


title: Five Stars

text: Beautiful box with small poster included<br /> Good quality playback.


title: A terrific performance of both trios

text: You can't beat either Beethoven, or the Beaux Arts Trio.  A terrific performance of both trios.


title: Great songwriting, great harmonies, great sonic landscape

text: From the opening piano notes by Red and the great slide guitar from the Little Feat-esque opening title track, right into the 80's chestnut New Potato Stew, and then the awesome story song and strongest new song of the bunch Georgia Angel, the opening trio of songs kills it.  Then we move into a couple of new songs Shine and The Whisper.  As we get into the back half of the album we go right back to the 80's with perhaps the best previously unrecorded NPC song Hey Now Julia.  The pair of 90's tunes Brave New World and Weed sound spectacular here.  For the home stretch, we're hit with three incredibly catchy tunes: What's The Real, Duke Of Awesome, and the (relatively) stretched out opus Accidental Ecstasy.  We've been waiting since 1989 for the second album and it actually lives up to expectations.  Do yourself a favor and make the buy.  Get loose with the Caboose...  Barefootin's so much better when you got the groove for the throw rug blues...


title: Five Stars

text: awesome Floyd !!!!!!!!


title: You can't beat the Cotton Mounth Kings!!

text: Saw this band in New Orleans at the Spotted Cat.  Absolutely fantastic.  Great CD.


title: Excellent Sound for 1920's Blues

text: These are all recordings from 1928, transferred from metal parts. The sound is excellent, clear and quiet. The Tommy Johnson tracks are my favorite, followed by the Furry Lewis ones. The disc is long out of print, but still available at a reasonable price.


title: Five Stars

text: Enjoy it immensely


title: So much bang for your buck!

text: If you like it you like and man do I love it!


title: I'm glad the price finally went down

text: I'm glad the price finally went down.  I love this CD but it's not worth forty dollars.  This time it was down to four dollars. Yay!!


title: Love it

text: Great item and arrived earliest than expected


title: Five Stars

text: nice book


title: Warped

text: Yet another 180 gram "audiophile" record that came severely warped even though it is brand new. Very disappointing. It seems to sound just fine despite the warping, but when you pay top dollar for something brand new, is it unreasonable to expect something decent?


I have read the books, but I really enjoy just listening to Rush read them.  They are soooo good!


title: KLGLIGTFLIUGT

text: ;LHUGLIU


title: whammed by the holy

text: At first I was disappointed by this disc, as the first six cuts are of chants. What did I expect - the title after all is "Chants of the Russian Orthodox Church." I had purchased it because I was attracted to the composer, Pavel Chesnokov, who had written many inspiring vocal arrangements for male choirs. A translation of his "Salvation is Created" is a popular number sung in many schools. Also, the choir "Valaam" is just terrific. There are just 16 singers, so they are crisp and precise in their singing; Vadimir Miller, the bass soloist, is as good as any operatic bass I've heard. However, as chants go, these are dandy, but they're chants. Asking for blessings on Nicholas and Alexandra doesn't exactly inspire. I was considering donating the disc to the Salvation Army. Lucky for me, I sat still and listened until we got to the last cut, number seven on this disc, "Many Years." In short, it's the kind of thing you want to hear over and over, with the volume turned up. I'm not often inspired, but this brought tears to my eyes. I give the disc five stars based on this single number.


title: Five Stars

text: Love this cd.


title: Four Stars

text: Awesome songs truly glad I got this tape


title: Great Christmas gift

text: The shipping time and price was great


title: Five Stars

text: The Music is great


title: Great product

text: Perfect addition to practicing dharma.


title: Great

text: Came new and in good shape.


title: Recipient Love It

text: The CD came in great shape. A hard find at a fair price. totally loved by recipient.


title: Three Stars

text: it came ripped from the sides but overall great purchase


title: good, but doesn't capture enough of his skill

text:
This is definitely an interesting concept album, but I wish it captured more of his skill.  He's got a great voice, an excellent sense of humor, and is an outstanding guitarist.  That said, there's really no stand-out track on this album to force friends to listen to: it's all very talented, but just never hits that second gear.

I bought this album after seeing an excellent live show of his: I'd definitely give a second album of his a try: I think he's got a lot more and better work in him.  Hopefully some of his current work gets recorded: there are some nice gems in there.


title: If you can get your hands on this get it. Great list of CHRIS REA FAVORITES!

text: This is a great CD combo for anyone who does not want a complete library but will get the best of what Cris recorded. The CD I received was beat-up a bit, if not almost UNSELLABLE !  But since it is rare to get I kept it.


100%


title: Five Stars

text: great product!!!!!!!!!


title: good music

text: this is the essential, live, golden earing. a must have for all golden earing fans.


title: Very well constructed and love the back inflate

text: I've only used this BCD twice so far, but am very impressed with how solid it is. The back inflation and weight pockets definitely help me maintain a comfortable and almost effortless trim position throughout a dive.<br />No complaints yet!


title: Hot music...

text: Hot, fast music.. Perfect for the lake and party...


title: Five Stars

text: This is a hit with everyone that I've let hear it...they all want it...


The vocals and music are perfect for the commute... I've actually had a cpl friends ask where I bought it... It's not your everyday slacker stash...


title: Five Stars

text: Excellent


title: Great Product

text: Great Sound


title: a little known band with great music

text: I saw these guys play live in Boone, NC in 1999 or 2000. The live show was great and the CD is great. The music is not rock, not blue grass. not jam. Not any genre really, but it is very, very good. I've never even heard of them before or since but I have the CD and I still listen to it from time to time. I would guess there are a limited number of these CDs floating around still. so if you came here looking for one, better get one while you can. It is a great set of music.


title: A GREAT GREAT BAND 👍🏻

text: TO LISTEN 🎧 TOO


title: Wonderfull stuff from this now overlooked conductor.

text: This will be a welcome addition to your collection.


title: Reference playing and sound in these symphonies.

text: The version of choice for Dave Hurwitz of ClassicsToday.com .  If you want these works, you won't be disappointed.


title: Awesome seller and my father loved his gift

text: Bought it as a bday gift for my father. He loves it and it plays with no issues. The seller was great.


title: Marillion At Their Epic Best

text: I'm actually stunned to see any negative reviews. The beauty of this album is hard to properly describe. Everyone will have different favorites but will share the same belief. F.E.A.R. is simply stunning. The textures, the layers of sonic perfection, fused and woven into a brilliant masterpiece of music. Marillion fans are extremely loyal for good reasons. These five individuals put so much effort into every nuance of every note, every word, taking no short cuts. Perfection is difficult to achieve in a complete album but Marillion manages that tall task on a regular basis!


title: Happy

text: My mom is happy, everything is in great working order!


title: A really great CD

text: This is one really great CD.  The music is just easy to listen to- a great gift for others too.  I like listening to mixes of music and this is one that can be listening to over and over and over!


title: Great

text: Great


title: Mostly early songs

text: Was not happy with the early songs.


title: Excellent Album

text: Grew up with this music. Really takes me back.


title: Absolutely awesome. Old school prog

text: Absolutely awesome.  Old school prog.  Caution:  Haters of 'pretentious, overblown, pompous' music will not like it.  "Simply too many notes", they will cry.  Not me.  Love it.


title: Good Songs

text: Good songs. Good quality


title: Fiddle playing at it's finest!

text: Heidi is the most amazing fiddle player and clogger and on top of that has a great voice totally suited for some "old timey" singing. You can't beat her fiddle playing on the tunes selected for this CD. She drives it hard all the way through to the end on the tunes that call for it, yet makes it sing sweetly when it fits best. This is by far one of my favorite fiddle CDs by one of my favorite fiddle players. After listening to this, you will want to go see her in action.


title: Five Stars

text: Excellent seller, no problems, A + + + + + +


title: Very clear sound cd

text: Item came quickly and perfect.


title: Five Stars

text: The music for this performance is better than I can say!!!!!


title: Wrong thing received

text: I received the vinyl album instead of the audio cd so I couldn’t listen to the music.


title: Repetitions

text: I loved this format. Clearly heard


title: Came with everything a great album!!

text: Love it


title: Fast delivery

text: I 📥 my 📦 faster than 📈, so I'm enjoying my 💿 before 🤚🏼, which means I'm 🕺🏻 my 📻 as we 🗣 & ❌ next 🗓!😌🤔


title: The Best of Stas Myhaylov

text: These are 2 fabulous CDs, the music is upbeat and romantic. His voice is very pleasant, I highly recommended it!


title: Five Stars

text: Great songs from the eighties


title: I like it old schooll

text: Blast from the.pass


title: I love Aretha franklin music she went through a lot when she was a child.

text: I really like her music, I don't dislike nothing about her music.


title: Wow

text: This sounds so much like a Moody Blues  recording  its unbelievable . They sound just like them. I'm predicting big things for the song on here about nights in white satin.....you just watch


title: Very pleased!

text: Very well done set of lectures by Professor Greenburg.  Product came unscratched and intact from shipper.  Very pleased!


title: Helix Christmas

text: Fast shipping, excellent quality merchandise, dependable seller

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title: Five Stars

text: Love this DVD!


title: Five Stars

text: Awesome


title: The album came as I wanted it.

text: The product came as I ordered it. It can with a lot more photocards than I had expected. It is high quality, and both the album and the poster came in good condition.


title: It's hard to find new 45's  and the price is low.

text:
The sound of the Motown 45's where great.
However, I have to take one star off as one record could not be used safely in an old Juke Box due to warpage.

Thicker records at a higher price is Ok as we want them to last, but still a good deal !


title: Five Stars

text: Donna has a very amazing voice. Love these CD.


title: A must

text: Good pack


title: So Many Good Songs

text:
Kygo's last album Cloud Nine was spectacular, but this one, Kids in Love, is just as good. Just like the last album, Kygo still has that Tropical vibe going on with this album. The thing that makes this album special are the lyrics he brings to his songs....and the fun beats.

I fell in love with majority of his songs! My top favorites would have to be "Stargazing" and "Permanent". The lyrics within these songs were very meaningful to me. My other favorite songs from the album are "Riding Shotgun", "Kids in Love", "First Time", "Sunrise" and "Stranger Things". Like I said, I enjoyed many of the songs. The ones that I have mentioned are worth checking out.

Hope this helps!


title: Pretty brown!

text: I love this single. The b sides are the best thing about it! I want more Ween so badly that I have to resort to finding rarities like this to get my fix


title: MUST HAVE FOR EVERY SHAWOL !!!!!

text: If you are a SHINee fan then you are in for a TREAT!! Hours of clear video unlike some youtube quality uploads and short teaser clips :(  MY FAVORITE IS THE COMMENTARY..... unbelievable PLUS that you get to hear their beautiful voices commenting about their trip! MUST HAVE FOR EVERY SHAWOL<3 <3


title: Love

text: Love all of the old songs


title: Five Stars

text: Lovely voice and wonderful music.  I admired it very much.


title: Case

text: When we received the product, the casing had been broken. Thankfully the CD itself was not.


title: Two Girls and a Sailor (DVD) ~ Van Johnson

text: Great Movie. I wish I could get more June Allyson and Van Johnson movies. There are just not enough on DVD. They work so well together. If they are in a movie together it is a movie not to be missed.


title: Christmas Music

text: I am a Christmas Music fan! I simply love all the songs and the feeling it creates. This record is no exception.


title: 15 Minutes with Simon Cowell

text: I am fascinated with Simon Cowell and what he has accomplished in a very short time. This interview is "historic" now 3 years later but I believe it shows Mr Cowell's humour, intelligence and professional skill.


title: NO WHERE NEAR as dark and cool sounding as Welcome to my nightmare.

text: Im really surprised Alice titled this album Welcome 2 my nightmare,WHY?, its NOTHING like the more very cool,creepy and sinister masterpiece from 1975. At least he should of made some effort to make this album sound like part 2 and i'm not talking about playing some of the same melodies at times, im talking about new compositions IN THE EXACT SAME VEIN as Welcome to my nightmare part 1 as dark sounding,cool and heavy as if it was recorded during that same time period sounding like the Black widow, Cold Ethyl, Welcome to my nightmare and Devil's Food, but no, this album sounds like a normal 90's Alice rock album like Constrictor,Trash or Last Temptation. And please Alice, stop that punky guitar sound that guitarist plays at times. To add even more of an insult he choosed Poison as one of the live bonus songs. That to me seemed like a joke. But the 4th bonus song,the black widow live was great. Finally this live song was with Alice singing on it as rough as the original instead of the instrumental version he kept playing live for what seemed a lifetime. I thought finally a truely cool dark 70's heavy metal song with Alice in full sinister vocal and wished the whole album sounded like that as well as the ever so cool Devil's Food but no. Whats next, Love it 2 death that sounds like another normal 90's rock album? I hope not.


title: The Best Band You've Never Heard Of

text: I don't even remember buying this album. I was converting my vinyl to MP3 when I rediscovered this group. Frankly I wasn't expecting much, but I was pleasantly surprised! All the songs are good, I especially like 'Talkin' To Myself' The quality of the recording on vinyl is outstanding. Don't bother looking for this group on CD or MP3 since they don't exist. I liked them so much that I ordered their only other album 'New Day' on vinyl as well. If you want to hear their music, you can find them on Youtube.


title: ALMOST AS GOOD AS VERTIGO

text: I love Herrmann's score for Obsession almost as much as I love the Vertigo score which I consider his masterpiece. Vertigo is my alltime favorite<br />film score


title: whitney houston,live cd in ny 1991

text: I haven't got the CD live yet,until it come available I will buy it...I love Whitney Houston, I miss her singing.. One of the best singers of all time...


title: Very old

text: This was recommended by a friend and it is pretty laughable. Not very comparable with what is out now for kids vbs music.


title: Plays beautifully and very hard to find

text: Exactly as described. Plays beautifully and very hard to find.


title: Goldy Records Is Awesome !!

text: Goldy Records offers an awesome quality recording at a great price . The service is very fast !!


title: Great piano music to calm the stress and get working.

text: Bought this years ago on a cold winter day when he was going door to door selling CDs. Don't regret the purchase a bit. :)


Original case with a perfect condition original vinyl record.  Fantastic sound quality and was delivered a week ahead of time.  Fantastic service.


title: Made a great gift

text: I framed this 45 and gave it as a gift to my husband- it’s our wedding song! Was so happy to have found it!


title: The music is awesome. The vinyl is not

text: The music is awesome. The vinyl is not. Get a digital copy of these albums instead. It's so quiet that you have to turn it up twice the usual volume, and by that point, you're hearing so much surface noise that it's nearly unlistenable. It's fine, perhaps, if you aren't an audiophile.


title: Steve and Eydie

text: I love the music of Steve and Eydie, this compilation is terrific , brings back alot of memories


title: Early Heart fans will not be disappointed...

text: Dreamboat Annie and Magazine fan favorite songs are featured. Great performances from the original lineup. Get it while you can, this is a rare find!


title: Returning customer

text: Beautiful matches and good price. I buy matches from this company often. I had an order that got lost in the mail and they sent me three packages to make up for it!


title: Beware of faulty CD’s

text:
The CD will not play in car or home devices with “DISC ERROR” message.
It was bought as a gift with delivery to a family member who lives hundreds of miles away.
It’s not right that she should have to return her own gift and I’m not sure when I’ll be driving down there. I can’t get a replacement until the dud is sent back. She just lost her husband so is not feeling up to the task. It sucks that the one thing she asks for during her mourning is Snoop Dogg and it don’t play.


title: I love it!

text: I have a uniform for reviewing this CD and it's shiny and lush and bold, like the recording. I am just gorging on this and what a sweet delight it is.


title: Stan ateez

text: Hi, stan ateez for clear skin


title: Great

text: Arrived perfectly


title: Album

text: Arrived perfectly


title: Great

text: Arrived perfectly!


title: Excellent Example of Groove Oriented Metal

text: I admit it, I'm biased and for good reason: Lenny Vertucci was my guitar teacher and is still a friend of mine. I witnessed Shockbox from it's inception and can say as good as the album is, the band was even better live. It was a band that really had the makings of something HUGE. The songs were written and articulate: good phrasing, good choice of notes for the solos, melodies were tight and the tone was KILLER. Lenny and Sean Ostos, the other guitar made a formidable team. Having been around Lenny in educational environments, the studio / rehearsal and live shows, I can say (and say this really about the whole band), that they ought to have been a really big act. Droppin the Bomb was the successor to the extremely rare 'Damned' Demo which featured tunes like "Man on a Mission", "Talk it Up", "Damned". The singer Dave, in addition to being a super nice guy, had a really good voice -- it fit the music and times well. The bass -- there were two different bass players the latter, was the fellow who recorded the album had a nice, big sound and the drums were handled by the very competent Louis. If you're into heavier music that still retains a melodic bent, this is a great album to have. Fans of later Skid Row and Pantera will love this release. Get it while you can, it's truly a classic.


title: Five Stars

text: George Shearing and his arrangements are wonderful and relaxing for the Christmas season!


title: Five Stars

text: Love Christian Kane, music is great!!!


title: Amazing live album cd dvd

text: Amazing live album


title: Someone could sell thousands of these just in St. Louis, MO

text: Outstanding album. Fly At Night was a big hit here and the entire album was very popular. Something Better is one of my favorite songs of all time.


title: Long overdue CD release finally available!!

text: When the great composer, arranger and conductor Morton Gould was invited to view the initial rushes of this television event, he eventually turned to one of the producers and asked if the production needed any music at all. That's just how powerful the drama was. Well, music was needed in certain spots, and Gould proved flawlessly how less can be so much more. This is probably the entire score, and there's even room for a musical epilogue which is not actually part of the scoring, but rather the composer's own personal statement on this tragic chapter in history. Moving, emotional, powerful in every way, Gould's award-winning music is one of the many high points in his outstanding career, and a landmark achievement in television scoring.  Don't miss it!


title: Not what I expected at all. Just rain and ...

text: Not what I expected at all. Just rain and not even interesting rain. i guess if you want to be put to sleep it might work.


title: I love BTS, however...

text: I was excited to order this CD because stores near me do not have BTS's earlier music. So when I found this, I was excited to order it. However, it arrived after being delayed twice, and the spine of the case is dented like it was dropped. When I opened the wrapper the CD just fell out, so it wasn't secured in the actual case. While it came with the photo book, I did not receive the complimentary photo card like I do in other albums I have purchased. Makes me alittle sad, but as long as the CD works fine, I will be happy the purchase. .


title: Great for autism.

text: I love this swing because my ten year old severely autistic daughter loves it. This is actually our second one and we only purchased it as a secondary while the other is being washed. We bought the original one EIGHT YEARS AGO and it still looks and functions like new. I have even been machine washing the net swing at least once per month in warm water on a normal wash cycle and hanging them to dry. My daughter has been using her net swing at least 50% of each day and she swings pretty vigorously. The swing has held up wonderfully. She is very tall for a ten year old but is still able to completely stretch her legs out inside of the net. I believe the net swing will last forever depending on how supportive the swing frame or ceiling brackets are.


title: new and on time

text: good service...cd was new and came on time


title: Five Stars

text: Love these cds!


title: Two Stars

text: Great music.  Looking for dvd


title: Trash

text: Thrash


title: A great gift

text: It was a gift for my sister...she loved it!


title: Wonderful

text: Wonderful performance full of power... Of course... AC/DC


title: RECKLESS KELLY HAS DONE IT AGAIN!!

text: I have been a RK fan for so long and they never seem to fail when it comes to music or making a CD. I love just about every song on everyone of there CD's. For some reason I leave each of RK's CD's in the player and it stays there for months. I just get into my car and once it begins to play I am overcome with happiness and it always makes driving so much more enjoyable. I LOVE RECKLESS KELLY!


title: Five Stars

text: thanks


title: Five Stars

text: Very funny and uplifting


title: Great music

text: Love this CD😎


title: Praise God!!

text: I love it!! Very anointed! Praise God! Praise God! Praise God! For He is good! He is so good to me!!


title: Great singer and great songs on this cd

text: I make picture videos with music and Tears in Heaven was perfect for my video


title: Perfect

text: Awesome


title: forgettable then, forgettable now

text: I bought this album not long after its original release on vinyl.  My own opinion:  Arthur Lee didn't have much of a voice, his lyrics had all the subtlety and poetry of a jackhammer, David Angel's arrangements are some of the cheesiest ever recorded, and The Red Telephone and You Set the Scene are among the most embarrassingly awful songs in rock history.  I'll never understand why many people now think this is a great album.  It was undeniably creative in places but also hopelessly heavy-handed, and most of it literally makes me cringe.  Other than Alone Again Or, I really *never* want to hear any of these songs again.  To put this on the same footing with the best of Tim Buckley and Nick Drake is laughable in my view, let alone the Beatles and Dylan.

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title: This is beautiful music. I didn't think it was still available ...

text: This  is  beautiful  music.  I  didn't  think  it  was  still  available  and  am  so  happy to  have  been  able  to find it.  I'd  be  interested  in  more  of  his  Sedona  Music


title: Five Stars

text: VERY GOOD CD>


title: PERFECT STORIES- GREAT FOR CAR RIDES AND AS GIFTS

text: We LOVE this CD and the Spring and Summer CD.  The stories are so lovely, and the telling so perfect.  I wish we could find more CDs like these or that Jacqueline Houston would make more!  We keep them in the car and listen to them whenever a long car drive or a long wait for the ferry is happening.  The whole family loves them. And they make great gifts for others starting around age 2.  My son is almost 7 and still we love them.


title: Four Stars

text: Not sure I liked the songs on this disc.


title: Four Stars

text: Charlie Shaffer has an excellent touch on the keyboard, CD was well worth the price.  Thank you.


title: Bought the wrong cd.

text: This cd is only one song and it's remix.  So not worth the price!  Make sure you get their full album because I heard it is good.  I was disappointed with this one.  It is not even the best song off the full cd.


title: John Denver shared history

text: The box set contains original recordings and concert versions that satisfy any John Denver fan. From the lesser known songs to the commercial blockbuster hits, this is a very good collection.


title: Calm Background Music

text: Be aware that this CD was originally sold at Hallmark stores; you're not getting masterpieces. The tracks can be a little heavy on the "woodland sounds," (e.g., birds, leaves).  For a pretty cheap price, though, you can get nice, relaxing songs you can meditate or even fall asleep to. You could try listening to it while working, but I never have. There are a couple of songs that are actually really pretty, even with all the New Agey bird noises.


title: Best way to learn Bible verses

text: As a new mom I'm excited to share GT and the halo express with my son.  As an adult I still can sing many of the Bible verses turned into songs.  There have been times as an adult when I was struggling and one of the songs would pop into my head bringing a calm with it.  But this is more than memory.  The way they mix the verses into a story gives the listener context, meaning, and application of the Bible verse.  Great for the car or to use in a playroom.  You won't regret this purchase!


title: Five Stars

text: Really good, this more for suposto like this aftor


title: Five Stars

text: Quality records and good collection, thanx


title: Total content not worth the cost

text: Some of the content was as expected.  However, a lot was "fill" material.  I would buy a few of these songs again if offered as MP3s, but would not bother with 75% of what is on the CD.  It is not that the music is used in the TV show is not well written and performed - the problem is that the quality stuff is only about 25% of what is on the CD.


title: One Star

text: I`m belgian, can`t underdstand them at all, my english husband likes them, sorry


title: Finally found what I've been looking for, for forever! Beautiful Israeli folk songs, Beautiful vocals and instrumentals.

text: I have looked for this album for what seems like forever. I grew up listening to this (Thanks, Mom!), and loving the music. My kids have grown up hearing me whistle the songs. Now they can hear the music I have loved all my life! Times like this, I absolutely LOVE Amazon. Beautiful renditions of Israeli folk songs that will brighten your day, and make your heart happy. My mom would clean house while cranking this to 11. I am so thrilled to have found this, words fail me.


title: Rocking since l was 10

text: I have the original LP from 1968, l do love the digitally remastered version & l saw them for the 1st time at a YMCA dance in 1967(l was 10).... the Power of Love grabbed me then & l have been rocking n rolling ever since......Rock on☆


title: Agincort

text: Great historical novel. Very interesting story about European history. Bernard Cornwell is one of my favorite writers! I have read several of his books.


title: Wonderful Music

text:
I ran across this band while they were performing at the Ann Arbor Art Fair back in 1994. As one who loves South American music, I picked up a copy of this album on cassette, as I did not have a CD player at the time. I listened to the cassette a lot over the years. Unfortunately the cassette finally wore out and became badly warbled. After a while of searching for another copy, I finally found a copy listed on Amazon and ordered it.

I really wish this melding of members from two groups ("Antara" and "Del Pueblo...Del Barrio") had put out more than just this one album, as the music is wonderful. While most of the album is very soothing and relaxing, one song ("La Musica Es") is very upbeat and has some happily expressive panpipe playing.


title: Five Stars

text: Awesome classic


title: Beautiful music

text: This album has beautifully arranged and produced music.  Kim Hyun Joongs voice is smooth and sweet.  His 1st released video on YouTube "Why" is a beautiful and melancholic song that will mesmerize you. You won't be disappointed with the quality of music on this album.  I highly recommend it.


title: Love it!

text: Bought this one for a Christmas gift.  I bought one for myself a couple of years ago and I love it. Makes opening a wine bottle so easy. Get it, you'll love it.


title: Queen of soul music

text: Cd in good condition... cover was damanged though...


title: Wonderful praise and worship!

text: This is my favorite of my many praise and worship cd's. I have given away at least 20 as gifts to family and friends,<br />Some struggling with cancer...and it offers such encouragement...especially...My Hope is in The Lord!


title: It is not the best of its kind

text: Just Ok. I have listened to many guided meditations, progressive relaxations, body scans, binaurals etc. This is basically a progressive relaxation of tensing and releasing muscles. It is not the best of its kind, there are many better out there on youtube or for free downloads. Save your 10 bucks. I was expecting more based on reviews. The harp music was nice.


title: I love the music and my only disappointment is I did ...

text: I love the music and my only disappointment is I did not realize that there were only 4 recorded songs on this particular CD. I'll be checking into his other work!


title: Front Line Dylan

text: Essential CD if you're a fan of Dylan. Best version [by anybody, including Bob] of SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES ever. Rare, but definitely worth the chase. All doubters are forwarded to YouTube to hear for yourselves. The selection is eclectic and may only appeal TO Dylan fans... but FOR Dylan fans, this little gold mine is a gem.


title: The best

text: LOVED this soundtrack as a kid! One of my all time favorites. A time when Christian material was cool and awesome.


title: Excellent!!

text: Excellent!!


title: Great

text: Great


title: It is what I wanted

text: The product was in new condition


title: love-a-byes quiet songs of God's love

text: I love the product.  I had one twenty years ago,and am so sorry that the product is out of print. I have to take care of it since i have two  other children who have not  had any children as yet. the service was great.


title: Five Stars

text: Learned some new fun songs fort the kids at church.  Great CD


title: A dream of an LP

text:
If you ever come across this LP, buy it regardless of the shape it is in.

Mundell Lowe, Guitar with George Duviver, Bass; Jack Greenberg, English horn. , vocals: with Billy Taylor, piano; Johnny Windhurst, Trumpet; Jimmy Shirley, guitar; Earl May, bass; Percy Brice, drums. Tony Burrello, piano solos.

SIDE 1
1. This Could Lead to Love
2. Come Rain or Come Shine
3. A sinner Kissed an Angel
4. Polka Dots and Moonbeans
5. Thinking of You
6. I Guess I"ll Have to Dream the Rest

SIDE 2
1. Wonderful One
2. I didn't Know About Your
3. I Remember You
4. It's Always You
5. A Woman Alone with the Blues
6. I Hadn't Anyone 'Til You

Burrello's selections were originally part of the Riverside album titled, "Polka Dots and Moonbeams"; and Miss Lea's songs originally appeared in the album "A Woman in Love."

Very nice jazz on this album! Burrello, Lowe, Lea, Taylor, and Windhurst have their own wikipedia pages, and Lowe has his own web pages worth seeing.


title: Poor CD

text: Order this CD for four songs.....guess what??? Those four songs don't play....CD just hangs and skips.....not worth the money I paid.


title: The History behind the record

text:
The Chase and Sanborn Hour was the umbrella title for a series of US comedy and variety radio shows, sponsored by Standard Brands' Chase and Sanborn Coffee, usually airing Sundays on NBC from 8pm to 9pm during the years 1929 to 1948.
The series began in 1929 as The Chase and Sanborn Choral Orchestra, a half-hour musical variety show heard Sundays at 8:30pm on NBC. When Maurice Chevalier became the show's star, he received a record-breaking salary of $5000 a week. Violinist David Rubinoff (September 13, 1897 - October 06, 1986), became a regular in January 1931, introduced as "Rubinoff and His Violin."
With Chevalier returning to Paris, Eddie Cantor was chosen as his replacement and the new 60-minute program, The Chase and Sanborn Hour, was launched September 13, 1931, teaming Cantor with Rubinoff and announcer Jimmy Wallington. The show established Cantor as a leading comedian, and his scriptwriter, David Freedman, as "the Captain of Comedy." When Jimmy Durante stepped in as a substitute for Cantor, making his first appearance on September 10, 1933, he was so successful that he was offered his own show. Then the world's highest paid radio star, Cantor continued as The Chase and Sanborn Hour's headliner until November 25, 1934.
With a new format, The Opera Guild, hosted by Deems Taylor, began December 2, 1934, Sundays at 8pm, on The Chase and Sanborn Hour, and that concert series continued until March 17, 1935. Major Bowes' Amateur Hour had the slot from March 24, 1935 until September 11, 1936, followed by Do You Want to Be an Actor?, with Haven MacQuarrie, broadcast from January 3, 1937 until May 2, 1937, a series that continued Sundays at 10:30pm as a half-hour show from December 5, 1937 until February 20, 1938.


title: Giorgio Moroder 80's Electro Dance Vibe

text: People don't realize these are produced by GIORGIO MORODER,  includes all the songs from New Dimensions and 3D lps  on one CD,  80's Giorgio,  includes Givin Up Givin In, The Runner


title: Ordered an "audio disc", which was a higher price ...

text: Ordered an "audio disc", which was a higher price than mini disc, but still received a mini disc which is a single Robotech episode... huh? Not worth the effort of returning for the price.


title: DOO WOP GREATS LIVE

text: Great live versions of DOO WOP hits from the Original groups! Excellent CD! Some songs were cut a little short but no big deal. A must have for your CD collection!


title: TEENAGE JAZZ

text: Not the best from Kenny Vance but ok to listen to. Songs are from other CD's. Was still a bargain.


title: Super

text: Great CD.  I love Prince's recordings.


title: Prince is superb.

text: Great CD, quick delivery.  Very happy.


title: Treasure!

text: This spectacular CD contains a masterwork that is the equal of most of the great masses of Mozart and Haydn, except for for the greatest of the great. What a wonderful thing to have listened to great music  for more than half a century and still find great masterworks to discover, in performances like this one that do it absolute justice, even with the boys choir, which  in this case is  mercifully non-squawky. Life is good! This is a total treasure!


title: Densely Inspired!

text: I can't think of a better CD to represent the phenomenon  of music you never have heard before that is actually great, and incredibly well performed  at once. All the works are so tight musically and well constructed, that the super energetic performances make them sound like masterpieces you are sure you could have heard as many times  as the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, but in fact, this is the first time you heard it. Raff's other works, especially the symphonies are not nearly so densely inspired. This CD contains the treasures for this composer.  as the cello must have especially brought out the best in him!


title: One of the Great Works of Church Music.

text: This is one of the great works of church music. It compares favorably with all the greatest  examples, and I mean all of them. If you love such works, you will be astonished you never encountered  this masterpiece  before. A first rate performance just increases the astonishment. I don't know what else to say, it would seem superfluous to embellish the simple aesthetic  fact.


title: Harum -Scarum in the Best Sense!

text: I think some of the best performances of Rousel's music have a somewhat harum-scarum vibe to them. Of course to pull that off, and still play the music persuasively and technically well, this harum-scarum quality has to be a rather studied and purposeful intent. It speaks of a kind of cleverness, and feeling for this jaunty music. This recording has really got all that. It is so enjoyable.


title: Better than the Beatles!

text: Ever since I read Paul Fussell's funny comment years ago --- that if you think the Elgar symphonies are better than a Beatles song, you are s snob--- I have wanted to like the Elgar symphonies. I have really tried. I love the Cello Concerto, and the wonderful Introduction and Allegro, which is sublime, and of course the Enigma Variations. But the symphonies  in every performance I had heard just sounded utterly ungainly and bombastically sappy, in the worst way. Well, I just got a lot of BBC cds from an auction, and this great CD was in it. And incredibly it is just the right take on this music to make me really like it. It is a somewhat sardonic, and edgy, and poignantly world-weary reading of this score. Instead of the usual heaving and marshaling of forces in this work,  which sounds so ridiculous to my ears. It is great. And I finally have actually enjoyed an Elgar symphony. Will wonders never cease?! (And yes there were some fun Beatles songs)


title: Superbly "Neurotic" Schumann Concerto!

text: To my ears, Russell Sherman seems to have specialized at best in giving superbly "neurotic" performances of great masterpieces. I love his Beethoven Appasionata Sonata from the early 80's, as it evokes a kind of nervous intensity with the utmost elegance, like a psychological complex understood and overcome. This Schumann concerto is in the same vein. It is a bit gruff, and petulant and on-rushing. It is so persuasive as a "neurotic" statement of a composer that certainly can plausibly bear that interpretative heuristic, and perhaps even more. This could not be more poignantly indicated than in the opening piano themes of the second movement, where in place of the usual elegant little incursions most pianists offer, Sherman give peevish iterations which almost deflect continuity. It is quite a genius take on this great work, and one that really adds to the many, many great readings of this masterpiece. Any new insights on this great work are  appreciated. Silverstein's solid support perhaps makes the whole labile reading possible.


title: Surprisingly Subtle and Dramatic

text: Pesek is not a conductor who has thrilled me in the past. So here is a real surprise. The Schmidt Third Symphony, written for the famous Schubert competition, is a work that invites very plangent interpretations. With reason, for if any work has a exquisite plangency this is it, yet needs a curvy shape. This performance is simply much in the same vein , but has more drama than others. Thrilling reading of a gorgeous score. And if you are like me you cannot listen to this great and touching work, which seems to be a incredible balm or salve to the spirit, and not marvel that it did not win that famous prize.


title: Finally, An Echt "Expansive" Reading of the First Movement

text: This is fine version of this very popular concerto. What really sets it apart is that the very expansive reading of the first movement, which according to Jan Swafford was supposed to be Brahms' evocation of Schumann's attempt to throw himself into the Rhine, finally gets a successful attempt in this recording. Quite a few pianists have attempted to perform the first movement as a broad and expansive poetical tone poem. It almost never works in that fashion. The result ends up making the pianist sound like a quixotic character tilting at one musical windmill after another. Thus, that take on it has swallowed myriad performances whole, and made the more straightforward Sturm  und Drang type reading seem infinitely more reliable and worthy. So this is a unique performance precisely because the vast-canvas approach is actually a winner here with these forces. Marturet makes the score seem almost fantastical with craggy depths, and soaring colorful peaks; and the pianist participates in it wonderfully in almost obligatto and not "solo"-istical fashion. . I can't help but feel that the the old "Art of the Fantastic" tropes putatively appropriate for much of Latin American visual art of a certain period has somehow been creatively transmogrified into a workable and very interesting way of performing Brahms-- of all composers! Who knew it would be possible.! Yet as the sole actually successful version of the more expansive tack for the famous first movement of the first concerto (in my memory), whatever the unique melange it required,  it deserves plaudits. And as someone who grew up in Miami, I am happy that the conductor from that de facto Capital of Latin America (in the US) is the locus for such a unique laboratory of musical thought. Even if it it got recorded in Berlin!


title: Wow!

text:
Unlike the other reviewer here, I know many other recordings of this work. From the Boston Chamber Players, to the Lincoln Center Chamber Players with James Buswell, with a great apotheosis in Szell's orchestrated version, issued by the Cleveland Orchestra in a private series. As the Szell version makes slightly painfully clear, this is not easy music to play. The really harsh and noticeable horn flubs in Szell's famous brass section are proof of that in the Cleveland version. This music does not sound terribly virtuosic, but manifestly is. This helps us get what is special about this version. This version with Collins is by far and away the most virtuosic performance I have ever heard. It is really deft, and made to sound effortless. It is simply a tour de force. Wow!

In the past, used CD stores would not buy these BBC cheapie CDs, and thus did not sell them, and thus many I have not heard. . Now thanks to online auctions, I am getting to know them. There are clearly some gems.


title: Outstanding Martinu!

text: I bought over eighty of these BBC Cds recently in an auction lot, and boy has it been fun going through them. I love the surprises. Jiri Belohavek's studio recordings of Martinu have been real duds, to my ears. Not this time, live. The Brahms Second here is consistent with that dud aesthetic, though. But then there is the Martinu Frescoes, and somehow the conductor became really inspired. Maybe it is because, as the other reviewer mentions, that this was a  premiere  for the Proms with the Martinu Frescoes. Is that what it takes to engage these elite musicians?? Some special "event"?? Go figure.  At any rate, somehow this is just a vibrant and carefully shaped reading of the Frescoes, and the orchestra is coaxed into playing with real vigor and shimmering energy. You would never guess the orchestra or conductor had it in 'em after listening to the Brahms. Just skip over that, and get straight  to Arezzo.


title: A Strong, Quick Pace  for Byrd

text: There just are not that many really fine performances of the Byrd Mass for Four Voices. The composer Bo Holten gives an admirably straight-forward and brisk rendition of this great work of Byrd, maybe his greatest work. The relatively fast pace chosen allows the harmonies to cohere in unexpected ways, compared to other readings. But other moments like the plangent "jesu Christi" interjections in the Gloria simply don't have the prominece here that some older performances give the musical phrase. The incredibly beautiful  and dolorous Dona Nobis Pacem is aural proof that the faster tempo does work. There is touching sadness and it is fleeting, truly, in this rendition.


title: Gorgeous Serenade for the  Maiden's Eclipse

text: It seems to me that nearly all performances of the very famous "Death and the Maiden" quartet are based on the same sort of reading. That is, a very high -drama reading, which emphasizes the anguished contours of the work. It makes utter sense with the work, and every recording I acquire of the work delivers the same sort of punch, and the cheapie of the Endellion Quartet from the BBC Magazine a while ago was the  most recent of this kind. By contrast,  the  Verdi Quartet's traversal here, which I just got, is uniquely different, and so gorgeous in a special way. The Verdi players read the work more like a dramatic serenade. There is still an edgy impetus to the whole approach, but there is also a very desirable analytic thoroughness that often is lost in other performances, with many lines becoming much clearer than in other readings. A big plus is also related to the fact that by contrast the high-drama readings make it hard to listen to this very great work often. It is t00-too much, even if great.  Because there is just so much high-drama I can take. But the Verdi Quartet's serenade- type of reading is much more pleasurable long-term  and still seriously engaging to listen to more often. And so I have been listening to it often since I got it. What a treat, unexpected with a work I thought I would never hear differently.


title: Evoking a Great Precedent!

text: This outstanding CD, made when Major was a young man, is especially notable for evoking, to my ears,  the playing style of the great Fernando Germani, one of my favorite organists of all time. Major has here the almost uncanny timing that I loved so much from Germani, where every note whisks by in a gossamer wind, and yet there is a kind of frontal urgency that keeps it from being the much more common  sound of  church organ-noodling, locked in a stasis seemingly.  The readings shows a truly remarkable musicality and technique, and almost as importantly, the sound is so clear that things somehow are not lost in an echo or reverb. I have lived in DC for almost three decades and never had seen this CD, and I feel lucky to have gotten it in my collector's peregrinations.


title: A Great Schubert Third!!!!

text: I recently have been so happy with the many live performances I have downloaded conducted by Hans Vonk from concert. He was such a gifted conductor, with very persuasive insight and zero pretension. A Shostakovich 10, for instance which I downloaded with the Minnesota orchestra is just exquisite for its perfect combination of Soviet razzmatazz and searing profundity. The performance put me in mind of this great Schubert Third which I completely love and used to play incessantly. It has a similar blustery vibe mixed with charming Gemuetlich edges. Just a gorgeous take on Schubert. The only thing is that the 9th symphony here is kinda dull. But there are a lot of great performances of that work. A great third is more important, and this is it!


title: Musically, Not Philosophically, Special!

text:
I have very much appreciated Gerard Schwarz's conducting for a long time. Every time we have gone to Seattle for something I have managed to hear him conduct live. But somehow I didn't hear his Thus Spake Zarathustra till recently when I bought a whole big lot of these Musically Speaking CDs. The Zarathustra is really special for the great feeling of coherence and connectedness that Schwarz give this very difficult tone poem. It is a work, so strangely, that almost never gets good performances. It is a work that seems to tempt the most laid-back or meticulous conductors to great over exaggeration. It is so hyperbolic in most readings, that after each climax there is no place to "go". It sounds disjointed and very coarsely bombastic. And of course being  once used in a movie only made this fate worse for this great piece of music.

But in general I don't think it was the movie that did the work in. It was the fact that it is based on the work of a famous madman, Nietzsche. Somehow conductors feel that they have to react philosophically in some way, to say that they "get" it. Or they react against the Nietzschean inspiration, and still end up giving some sort of extra-musical commentary. I have no other explanation of why a work of rather straight-forward dramatic points, and dynamic contrasts, is played  in a wacky way usually. It is as if they thought they were reading  not fortissimo and piano in the score, but "Die Faehne Hoch!" and thus thought they had to over-compensate in some way.

Well, Schwarz's reading is the exact opposite. What a delight! It is played musically and not philosophically. This means in fact that its connections with anything "Nietzschean" seem rather remote. If it "sounds" like any thinker here , it is Goethe! Perhaps Schwarz was even consciously making some points in all these regards, one is tempted to think given how different this sounds. This is especially noticeable in the dance of life motif, where Karajan read it (I must say enjoyably for once) as a heaving Dionysiac orgy dance. By contrast, Schwarz give it the most sly otherness. It sounds suddenly, delightfully, and improbably  like a slick "Salon Orchestra" of Strauss' own day. Indeed, one cannot help thinking of the salon orchestra arrangement of Der Rosenkavalier that the composer did for a movie. Could the conductor possibly  have had this in mind?? The dance theme is thus given a kind of wry decadence that almost sounds like a curious reflection on the banality of culture that produced the mad over-reaction of a Nietzsche. Whatever the case, the reading works from start to finish, and each part relates, as it should. It is wunderbar!