title: This is a great CD! I purchased it because it had the ...

text: This is a great CD!  I purchased it because it had the song "I Love the Nightlife" by Alicia Bridges. There are a number of other songs that I have had a hard time finding, that are on these two CD's


title: Great Service. Great Product.

text: Happy with the purchase. The seller, Rose & Thyme "NYC" USA,  is doing a good job. Thumbs up!


title: Elkie Brooks is really good!

text: I discovered this veteran British singer not long ago when I heard someone's version of "Pearl's a Singer" and did a You Tube search. Little did I know what an illustrious career she's had in Britain over these many years. This is (for me) a good compilation of her songs and gives you a taste of her amazingly versatile voice and song selection. I highly recommend her if you're not already familiar with this singer.


title: Toddler loved it!

text: Our 3 y/o LOVED this Kindermusik class and the music from the CD!  She still asks to listen to it over and over again, even though the class is over.  The only reason I didn't give it five stars is because there ARE several songs that she's not interested in (me either) and that we usually skip over.


title: five star✨

text: five star✨


title: Five star✨

text: Five  star✨


Great item, reliable service. Recommend!


title: Lots of Good Johnny Mathis

text: Has all my favorite Johnny Mathis songs on it.


title: Big Band Music

text: Completely satisfied with this purchase - This along with a couple of other discs completed my collection which I did not get done when they were issued - Great music!


title: Five Stars

text: very nice music.


title: problem

text: I recieved  an unrecorded disk.


title: A favorite Singer from the 50’s

text: I love this CD and listen to it to relax and remember the good ole days.


title: Outstanding

text:
How do you make a classic recording better?
Double the amount of terrific Cole Porter songs performed.
A must-have for any fan of the Great American Songbook.


title: This was a gift, so I personally can't rate ...

text: This was a gift, so I personally can't rate it. Several songs on the cd are ones we sing often in church.


title: Love

text: This worked well for 75th Birthday.


title: Jessye Norman Christmastide cd not tape

text: This is a very nice cd. Everyone who likes classical music, Christmas, and Jessye Norman should consider getting it, if not for yourself, for children or a library.


title: don't know

text: A very good collection. My favorites are Boston, Jethro Tull, Cheap Trick, and Golden Earring.


title: whatta deal!

text: I have not listened to all 12 albums yet, but what I have heard sounded great! I paid less than$12 for the 12 albums, including tax and shipping. I'm happy!


title: great

text: I am so happy with this purchase  hours of thoughtful, beautiful, soul-enriching music


title: it's who you know  or is it whom  i don't know

text: i bought this without knowing anything about guildhall. i have liked the music for a long time and the price was good. i am very pleased with the purchase. the sound and the musicianship are very good, and these works by handel are beautiful and make me happy  they are among my favorite classical works


title: It was great

text: It was great. I thought that there was more songs it.


title: Nice

text: Very nice


title: Not worth the price

text: Don’t care for many of the songs.


title: LOVE IT, GREAT selection of music primarily from George.

text:
LOVE IT! GREAT selection of music primarily from George Harrison.

Oh and his son both sounds and looks like him.

Would recommend it.  Michael


title: A Sad Story Well Told

text: I highly recommend this documentary.  Homelessness is a significant problem in our nation today. One that is all to often glossed over in the news and soon forgotten when it is reported on.  This documentary puts a human face on this tragic situation.  You see and feel the hoplessness of those experiencing homelessness and also the joy and thankfulness of those who have overcome.  This should be required viewing for all of our public officials.


title: Two Stars

text: Not enough good


title: Very pleasent music

text: ALl of Russell Cook music is very well done. Thanks.


title: Four Stars

text: Another great cd by Fishbone, keep up the good work


title: A great cd from the late singer

text: FINALLY!!! I have been searching for this on a cd, had to settle for MP3. A great cd from the late singer, he died too soon.


title: Outstanding Production Values

text: Albeit Buble has one of the most moving singing voice I have ever heard, the musical accompaniment is outstanding. The CD plays with a full, rich encompassing presence. It is a delight to listen to.


title: Food for the soul!

text: Exceptional harmony and inspirational quality!  I never tire of it and often set it to "repeat" while I sing along! I'm seeking their first album, or any made since this one.


title: A favorite background cd!

text: I discovered this at a book sale some years ago, and it quickly became a favorite for relaxing, driving, and when I have a houseful of guests.  Gentle Native American flute with some symphonic accompaniment--unlike other Native American flute cds, no talking or animal noises or storm sound effects, you just get to hear the flute, in both traditional and modern original arrangements.  However, it burned up in a car fire with a number of other cds and I couldn't find it in music stores--but someone put it on Amazon, and I'm so happy I thought of looking there!  :-)


title: This is it! Time to sleep

text: The best CD I've ever purchased.


title: Another Tim Hawkins great!

text: Great songs to use with young kids.  They are funny and playful.  Thanks, Tim!  Can't wait for your next album.


title: Love, laughter but not on 10/30/21

text: Love Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. Uplifting, humorous, educational. I was surprised that on 10/30/21 that I didn’t make it past 8 minutes before having to find a new episode to listen to. The number of times “so, like” and “like” were used by the guest host and the valley girl vibe just did me in.  Not an enjoyable connection for me personally.


title: Five Stars

text: I enjoy tso so this was just more to enjoy


title: Scandinavian dance music

text: I was looking for Scandinavian polka and schottische music. This was more traditional, but well done. The musicians are talented but it got a little boring before the end. I recommend it to anyone who likes chamber music or traditional music.


title: I like the music

text: I like the music


title: Positive experience!

text: I've been missing something when listening to 440 HZ.....But, discovering this music has inspired me afresh!


title: Missing

text: VERY disappointed.  Did NOT come with book. It was for my granddaughters birthday!


title: Happy

text: I am very pleased with this product; it met my expectations and is a great lullaby CD for any baby.


title: Five Stars

text: love this tape thank you so much


title: Pop Rock Goddess

text: I discovered Crewe via my following the late, great Tommy Keene. It goes without saying that if Crewe was writing and releasing such strong, smart rock like this a few decades earlier, she'd easily take her place alongside Hynde, Jet, Exene, etc. I'd humbly submit that she could have very well dethroned more than a few of them. But let's not just corral her into the "female section" of the whole "New Wave / Punk / Power Pop" ranch. Her crunchy, jaunty, melodic & lyrical eloquence puts her up there with Costello, Jackson, Parker, Squeeze, XTC, etc. She remains a great, hidden gem - the closest contemporary I can compare her to is the equally deserving Erik Voeks.


title: Imagine Dragons!

text: All 3 CD's came in perfect condition.  No issues with packaging or the disc itself.


title: Five Stars

text: WOW is all I can say ....


title: Kid’s Anerican history

text: Good kids history


title: Review I purchased

text: A awesome purchase, THEY GO ABOVE AND BEYOND. Deserves A++ love it.


title: Grest addition

text: if you're a billy joel fan, well worth having..


title: Good music

text: love this music great group


title: VERY COOL

text: Not too cool......VERY COOL, late 70's, one of a kind!!!!


title: Classic music

text: I had forgotten just how good this group is.


title: Unique and invaluable

text: A marvel of musicality and keyboard virtuosity.  A great last gift from this unique and beloved artist of the past 50+ years.


title: Highly recommended.

text: Tip-top disc despite the scary cover art.


title: one of his best

text: absolutely the best of all mixes


title: a treasure

text: Hats off to EMI for making this set available and a no-brainer for any lover of Poulenc's music or anyone else for that matter. The performances are all superb and as another reviewer noted many of them are reference recordings, but for my money the real treasure in this set is the complete melodies, featuring not only some of the last century's leading vocalists and accompanists but several cameo appearances by Poulenc himself. Stellar performances of fantastic music.


title: A great deal for such amazing songs

text: I just loved Johnny Mathis and always reminded me of the songs I heard when I was young. I was originally only looking for one particular song, which was on another of his albums, but when I realized it was also on these Cd’s, I decided to get them for all the other beautiful songs I recognized.


title: Disappointed

text: I ordered this DVD so I could watch it but unless you have internet you can't watch it and you are out of luck if you don't have internet. My favorite movie and I can't watch it


title: marvelous Soft Machine Hopper and Wyatt. for jazz large group.

text:
steve ( *see a PS note below on Steve*) the softmachine head since 1968  BEATS ME BY TWO YEARS - plus:  he is totally Absolutelly Right.  perfect Canterbury MoonJunista Professional Musical heart work.  a french ensemble did such work with Thirds. (similar cover !! )-  my  album now maybe Lost - i do hope i left a/my Ámazón review.
now:  most pieces are the challenging Hugh Hopper compositions:  not for the weak  YES for SM/Zappa warriors.  frank also was not "comercial".  serious italian classically jazzically educated musicians.
  -  your pudding desert will Beee:  a 13 min Moon In June.
if i had the money i would set up these guys to Please Proceed w the catalog plus your own - like the great Prelude - a longer Fanfare for SM.
coincidentally it arrived a couple of days after a new Beautiful box set of IAN CARR NUCLEUS.  the italian jazz orchestra reminds the ignorant like me of the Carr Nucleus big ensemble masterpiece  ( where IS the live performance ‽)  Labyrinth:  jazz lady vocals Top Canterbury -  though not necessarily in the Hatfield National vein.  more in the King Crimson Sailor's Tale.
also fans of Miles/Gil Evans fine 'serious'  :  ) work.
the MoonInJune is reminiscent of the fine version by a brazilian moonjunista group leader whose name escapes me - esp since my recent enforced homelesness/music/library/trees/heart destruction.  harekrishna  :  )

  grab this -  i only have listened to two days. my reviews are sent to Ámazon moonjunistas only after three/four days non-stop spins.  =  i will return.

  i have  Not Yet composed the Ian Carr Nucleus  on Vertigo GiveAway 6 CD "Torrid Zone" box.  but, kids:  grab that  also Please - esp if "iancarr-jenkins-holdsworth-chrspedding-jclyne-jmarshall-rbabbington-davemacrae-kwheeler-geoffcastle- .. (apology to names/masters also i am not listing)  ring any bells.

oh  on this orch SM/ Artchipel Orchestra:  too short: only 60 min.
on Da Vinci jazz.

  tante grazie per le belle note anchè nel libretto:  ci aiuta pratticare l'italiano.  forsè repiterò la lettura ad alta voce.  ricommendata.  :  )

*  on Steve:  i was pleasantly surprised and very gratified by your heartfelt Notes on this very special album.  so  i took an ámazón peek at your other reviews -  which is how i often shop Ámazón - wow, sir:  i admire you:  a true honest Terry Riley listener -  like the Soft Machine themselves.  could not find those Terry with Don Cherry albums, but youtebeski has passable samples.  'nough respek'  haré krishchnaaa  :  )  jorgie


title: a treasure chest  of  Peter Banks

text:
ok.  when i got  and played this collection to enjoy Wonder..  my life went caput  home demo etc  i forgot to write a review  and  am not ever sure i managed to save this album from the rubble...  the other reviewers are more better efucated: trust them please..
  meanwhile:  to the reviewer that did Not derive  Instant Gratification:  we understand.
grab it again  and play each one CD for two-three days at a time  each.  no other music are you allowed to hear.
  if you undergo  any changes  correct update your review -  don't  erase your original review!  it has value.
  if you still don't like the album  i shall buy it  out of your hands  :  )  fair ?  everglades jorgie

  ps  someone out there Must have  early Early original  yes  doing covers!!  and concerts taped  on historical cassettes.  whip them out.
  time for an ammends,  jon


title: amazing serious cool unique honest dub

text:
fantastic extra excellent. human music with roots from here and beyond. I'll get back here - but meanwhile:
as some can tell from my reviews/name: I am half Basque. the Basque language is unique in Europe because it is from "before" . The only language in this planet sharing vocabulary with Basque is: the JAHpanese language - and I suspect those Japanese/basque words come from the Ainu. an ancient people from "before" - likely had a large extension of human occupation. In today's"China" anthropologists have dug out ancient mummies with red hair and wearing Tartans!!. Indeed this amazing reggæ-dub album's classical Ainu instrumentation sound like the Celtic harp. The singing is a chanting - likely an invocation. Chanting we can hear from North American remaining peoples is kinda like that. Wonder if the Sami ("Lapland") would find themselves perfectly at home with the Oki Dub Ainu Band.
These guys are high octane high brains great heart ultra-crucial and Take No Prisoners. They beat the Basque ska I have heard ( some got too political ).
grab this treasure. Super cool serious rhythms - cyclic elements. Hendrix-y. If you like Jr Marvin and Familyman Aston Barrett's Wailers Band. The early UB40s, The Specials, Rico Rodríguez. Celtic musics - Alan Stivell's Renaissance of the Celtic harp....  Musics with honest strong heart - fun and crushal. Live these guys must be wild. Juju, Mbalax and other African music: all above mind-expanding: try The Ainu Dub Band. Wonder what would happen if JAHmaica's pianist Monty Alexander jumped in. or Jimi - for that matter. Mother Earth is happy to re-boot these Ainu people and sounds.
other details: the JAHpanese in general seem to have both respect  and awareness of the serious physical weakeneses of the CD format. Beautiful but Very Protective cover. CD actually arrived with both outer sleeve And a soft CD sleeve. Evocative band photos. Small one page Note. "made in Aynu". 😃. Shipped to me from Kazu Japan Shop: The Aynu Dub came jet-propelled. So: Just ordered two more Oki albums. Will keep you posted. Saw in google a poster for a promotional one night only performance of the material here: Let's Hand It Over.
Ps just amazoned Uki & Kila: amazing soul-hunter totally natural joining of Oki and his tonkori with an extremely cool Irish band Kila - amazing. 4th World. highly recommended
 let's have the concerts please.


title: a springboard to classical indian music: and a glimpse of adventures to come

text: no Amazon image - am guessing maybe because: the image that arrived as the album 's cover - the trio performing live - differs from the cover that pops up if you put the CD in a computer. That looks much prettier! This is from a concert in Switzerland October 1988. Has two compositions. The first is a mellow I think late afternoon mood. 15 minutes. The second gets fiery. 45 minutes. And I think here you see a freer Krishna Bhatt. Pointing to his further explorations. I think now he makes his own hybrid sitars. I got to know or this Krishna through a more recent album of his with our own master Terry Riley. - which would get Ten Stars from me.<br />Mr Bhatt is from a family with deep Indian classical musical roots. I can glimpse from this album both a mastery the instrument and a spring-board to adventures in this soul expanding music.


title: Shri Camel variations in Total Joy. PRICELESS! wild sitar here

text:
How wonderful. How lucky that this lovely music is being shared (😊  also Just Now In from Amazon: Jon Hassell Fascinoma 😃)  Terry shines on piano connected from A Source to our planetary heart. Seems stream of consciousness - not a "jam" - on Shri Camel melodies. In those days I'd have Shri Camel in a cassette  and bicycle endless dirt roads in The Everglades. Remarkably as you got to turns etc the music seemed to do The Same. !!. It just Connects. It's very mind and heart expanding music. Here he has  sitar and tabla friends in perfect compliment. Krishna Bhatt adapts his instrument just like Mr Riley. reminds of the way Collin Walcott delivered in his sitar. and: even Jimi Hendrix did On Sitar in the remarkable Cherokee Mist. Zakir Hussein percussion. Some prog jazz outfits in those days did Terry Riley inspired music [and they Still Today Do]: Soft Machine. one Soft composition Chloë and The Pirates gets the favor returned here. Extra cool.
Maybe one day we can get some of Terry Riley's "all night concerts".  would be nice: I haven't taken this CD album out of the spinner in now three days..
oh: a slight return: besides the various keyboards  Mr Riley gives us a treat of his voice (not on the"credits") . Around that time there was a Major "new music" festival. NPR broadcast many of the concerts. on the night of Terry's performance the fans were ready for church - but Terry at the last minute declined broadcast permission ---- .
Our NPR affiliate had a Real Serious fan: so he got his revenge by broadcasting an extremely rare Pundit Pran Nath:  "Journey from a death of a friend"... wow. oyeshuharekrishna.

Fans Of: mind expansive music. XXth Century American Masters. XXIth Century American Master 😊. Acoustic and electronic keyboards "stretched" .Just Intonation. Music that is Inclusive as opposed to "exclusive": Guys here include from Indian raga/ percussion to North American rag - always in their way. Riley uses "just intonation". Reich, Miles, Jon Hassell, some Brian Eno, Coltrane, Beethoven, Space Raga Booggie Groove, Bill Laswell., Canterbury Sound, fractals...
I haven't seen the film some of this music was made for. However: I did see «Le secret de la vie» - a dutch-Swiss SciFi movie with very effective Terry Riley soundtrack...  done maybe in the early 1980s - with a subject often in today's Science News. L'aventure de la vie.


title: invaluable. Eddie Kramer  homework.

text:
I lost my copy. started looking in my First Choice: Amazon.  a review now not visible was disparaging: sometimes we Do see some disparaging reviews here. 😊
Then!: I just yesterday found my ancient copy: Fantastic valuable. not just a historical for expert electric guitar players.
Description above of contents is Correct.
Wanna hear a seven minute Cherokee Mist with Jimi on SITAR jimi's way? and Mitch on unequaled Experience percussion? I suspect you do.
Any tapes or even an old copy should be Immediately Surrendered to master engineer Eddie Kramer. you have a right to hear this


title: totally amazing samurai K Crimson / Jo-do

text:
Well: I understand now that I am an old Crimson / Fripp / crimso gang fan since 1970 - who actually bought tearfully the McDonald and Giles amazing album as it came out. - and - I guess I am privileged to have the 2 CD Roppongi tour de force album.
Like the other invasion into the JAHpans - the other time with David Cross! - I would say that MEL COLLINS indeed brings a grounding to Stick Men that makes the liquid stellar and starless sounds TOTALLY SUPER!!
why is this so scarce?
the friggin' Brit govmint should be funding KC. XXIst Century. Fripp, Jakko, all survivors and the widows...
Indeed: in JAHpan the Art of the stick is respected ( I studied aiki-jo for a while 😃)


title: Crimson heads: grab this esp 2 CD set! D Cross!

text: Wonderful - control and discipline exercised in the King Crimson / Fripp Starless Red tradition. The Grounding from David Cross is likely the pivotal point.<br />wonder what Jakko and Robert and these guys whip into shape hopefully Soon! Bill Bruford: HEADS UP.


title: crucial message of melodies for God- real reggæ

text:
ok. 😊. I never received it - somehow. understanding partially the extremely high spiritual power of Augustus Pablo - he intends to give us the Love of God, with the understanding of our human position in this purgatory planet - I aimed in my mind to taste this nectar. I was able to somehow get a recording of one concert.
I am an old-time fan of Mr Augustus Pablo. I actually met him and his band personally while on the way to JAHpan. This was not just a band out for fun: this seemed more like a pilgrimage with a mission: to impart this taste of love of God in humility and human blues-reggæ: the music onto the King. 😊
That said: He plays all his distilled nectar.
Going back on these notes: He went with his herbalist doctor: armed with beautiful powerful herbs to help a dying Horace Brady/Augustus Pablo deliver this Crucial Message to JAHpan. this is I guess a vague idea of the instruction/communication imparted.
That said: rhythm section are headhunters: these guys ain't jokin'. Difficult to mike and mix the melodica - but we get it. JAHpanese engineers must have been blown away. 😊
addition: (seems to go up in price : ) )
fans of: God: the JAHpanese Archipelago, refined"spaghetti" westerns depicting the struggle between Good and Evil - the good..- Pablo!: many quotes we recognize of Pablo's melodies as sung!: "Africa must be free" even Wailers' and many Studio One / Lee Perry recorded melodies: as Pablo was at home there. A hundred JAHmaican melodies here. after a few listens I am sure I'll catch the Cuban Archipelago"Peanut Vendor / El Manicero".
The extremely high material price does Serious Misjustice to both the Messengers and the Potential Receivers
pss: indeed: on multiple relistens you hear I-JAHman Levi"s "Early in the morning"...
This album should be sitting comfortably between I-JAHman's Haile I Hymn and Rico Rodríguez's Man from Wáreika. tops


title: recommended for fans: cleaned up footwear.

text:
ok: you don't have this. 😊. am listening to it now, first spin. live audience tapes cleaned up pro or semipro: NOT EddieKramerized. very worthwhile though. confident in your face but friendly confident Experience. long Tax Free - diff improv Jan 1969. am not yet at the very promising long Spanish Castle Magic - 9.5 min. Most material from 10jan69. - (sound getting better, and of course our ears adjust for better appreciation)
Last: Freedom Sept 1970. two weeks bef Check Out.
Historical.


title: a masterpiece. robert wyatt some vocals. looks like vinyl

text:
a total masterpiece. contains several tracks with Robert Wyatt vocals. Evidently this is a vinyl LP  - which I have. How about a CD!?

Half of the album is John Cage mini masterpieces. Tremendously evocative sounds and spiritual singing will transport you to the Hidden But Neighboring reality. Beautiful.
Update: Wikipedia has an article on this album. Still: we don't have a CD. am gonna have to fix that turntable.
update June 2017:
"I hear
 the sound
of water
flowing
underground..."
(from memory )
Please: don't wait until we are all dead.


title: Caravan on USA tour

text:
sounds like part of an fm broadcast / board recording of a USA performance
A very valuable addition to Caravan for Canterbury fans. For Richard is here 😊
wonder what the tour with Status Quo sounded like! Maybe The Quo let them use recording capability 😃
No Davoli synth 😢 get this please
Short - but still 5 star for Caravan fans
Viola here


title: what a Canterbury document

text: Treasure. Canterbury historical.<br />I remember wondering What happened to Steve Miller after Caravan's Waterloo Lilly ? We all love Dave Sinclair - but Steve really pitched great keys...


title: great. indeed many seem from axis contemporary work

text: Five stars: A must for the fans not familiar with the"off the beaten Hendrix" Lo track. Many pieces already came in other foot-wear, often sounding better. But on this 4th of July Cherokee Mist/America The Beautiful... the extended thoughtful Three Little Bears. Some pieces you've heard faded off, here you get to the end. The cover: Jimi Indian Chief Spiritual Psychedelic definitely would please the artist. Two CDs. Wish Kramer and Janie and McDermott et al. would have been on board: with technical equipment and know-how. We are getting older - and some of the footwear out there is outstanding.<br />Prepare also for uneven sound. Hopefully soon the Real Axis outtakes will come brilliantly out.


title: required for Quantum Jump Rupert Hines fans. super seriously funnt

text: Friggin' brilliant. Very funny and intelligent twist to the Quantum Jump Rupert Hines "forbidden" classic hit. A must for Quantum Hines fans. Intelligent disco: Very fitting with the"Tonto doesn't mind". South Beach Miami would have closed due to disco riots! A classic, fresh today as in the time. Impossible to say about disco in general. Maybe it's Rupert's revenge on the idiots that killed his band: Too intelligent funny professional prog.


title: a young master electric guitarist's swan song

text: Surpriiise: I was there. Tommy Bolin was truly on fire that night. He was opening for The Jan Hammer Band, which was backing Jeff Beck. :) .poor Jeff Beck didn't at that moment have a big enough paper bag to cover his head. Am sure Beck left the concert traumatized.<br />This very likely is a copy of a cassette stolen from our local master live taper: Who used to lend his original live recordings just to share. Some creep refused to return the original. The recording is very good. CAN be improved. Thanks for sharing 😊. Waited over 40 years for this. God bless Tommy and all the loving people involved. And: Lower the price guys.


a great follow up to the Music from a Round Tower.
both are must-have for progressive music fans: even the not-so-Canterbury.
i


title: get this now

text:
amazing. so short. so condensed.
hoping that more material from this group and time comes to the surface

lovely 'quotes' of the 'canterbury masters'.


title: Perfect gift!

text: This was a gift for a dance instructor and she is extremely happy with it. Actually, she told me what she wished for. LOL.  Such fun making others happy, you know. ☼


title: Great lp

text: Can't Express how good it is


title: Excellent CD

text: This my favorite CD. It is like new. Seller shipped promptly and took extra care to make sure it arrived undamaged. Seller really takes care of his customers.


title: John Williams Does It Again

text: This is a beautiful John Williams score.


title: Sorry

text: Sorry, not what I wanted and expected.  No choir.  It's a casual, contemporary church music group.


title: This is a GREAT record..

text: I do not know how the other reviewers did not get that. I have had this record for 40 plus years and every song os great. An anthology with several great real deal New Orleans musicians. I wish it was on you tube. Buy this if you get the chance.


title: Amazing voice

text: I love her music


title: DEFINITELY A 10 STAR

text: I was very hesitant in buying this CD as I have all of Prince music but because I am a fan and the price was very exceptional i had to get it. Now as I'm listening to it I'm so very happy with this purchase because this CD would be compared to Prince Ultimate CD. The music is mostly 12 inch remixes. The CD box says 4 remixes but there more remixes on this set. Not sure of how many because im listening to it as I'm writing this. This was definitely an EXCELLENT purchase. Although I have it all but nice to have it on a CD. This CD may not be better than Prince Ultimate but its definitely worth the purchase. The sound quality is EXCELLENT and the delivery service was very good. Thankyou


title: THE ROYAL BADNESS

text:
This is the 1st Prince album I bought some 30+ years ago and the album that made me a fan of his music. This was definitely worth the purchase to find it on Amazon for 50 dollars. I just couldn't purchase it for the 200+ mark.
 Now for the review :
An AMAZING album by Prince  and to me the best one he ever recorded. This was the new wave , purple punk, funk album. So the extra tracks from the vault was just a bonus on the cds. I especially like the different version of How come you don't call Me anymore as this is better than the original track. The DVD concert was I wanted to truly see as I couldn't see this show back in the day. Concert was good but I thought it should have been longer. This was definitely an EXCELLENT purchase. Only complaint i would have is the they should have designed this set as they did the Sign Of The times. Now that designe concept is AMAZING but overall its definitely worth it if you can find this set at an affordable price. Thankyou to Amazon and the seller for an AMAZING quick delivery service.


title: AMAZING

text: This is a great album by Santana. He definitely stepped out of his original music that he does but any great artist have to experiment with different styles of music. This is probably why he had Nas on this album. Nas is also a great artist but I didn't expect to find him on a Santana album and alot of people don't know he is on this album. Nas and the rest of the artists did an amazing job on this album.  This is one of my favorite Santana albums.


title: Would recommend

text: Love Dino


title: Wonderful

text: We will be visiting Maui soon and the cd sounds like it will be great for us as we explore this beautiful area. Thanks


title: good for rush hour traffic music

text: Very relaxing, good for rush hour traffic music.


I just finishing hearing the piano sonatas and they are beautiful!<br />Thank you for the delivery of this beautiful sonatas.


title: Extremely dissatisfied,

text: The dvd is useless!!  It’s a foreign product that will not play in dvd/Blu-ray players purchased in the U.S.<br />Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to play it until now so it’s too late for me to return it. I feel the seller should have been upfront and advise that their product wouldn’t work in the US.


title: CD replacement

text:
Jessye Norman is wonderful on this CD.
My favorite musical selection is Jessye's Carol;
it's the whole reason why I replace my original CD
after I wore it out.


title: Oreck upright vacuum bags.  Fits perfectly.  Will reorder

text: Good price  and well made to Oreck standards


title: Five Stars

text: Beautiful music. Very lovely voice. Awesome praise.


title: Ultra Naté Quentin Harris Inaya Day

text: And more! This is pure house at its finest.


title: Sublime Rendition of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet

text: This rendition of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet is sublime.  It's one of my favorite classical pieces of music, and this recording does it for me.  It's  so far my favorite. Very lyrical. The clarinetist is beyond wonderful.


I love this music for meditating or reading my bible.  It is very relaxing and I enjoy listening to the rain and the sounds of the waves.


title: The Baddest!

text: My favorite artist of all time. P🤘🏾💜 this CD collection is a must have for Prince fans.

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title: AMAZING SINGER/SONG WRITER/PERFORMER!

text: Cliff Glenn is a remarkable singer/song writer/performer!  Truly a gifted Christian singer!  If you have the chance to listen to and own any of his music you will not regret it!


title: Love this, first one disappeared glad amazon had it!

text: Music is so relaxing


title: Macy is the best

text: Macy is the best......fast shipping.  Thank you.


title: In good condition

text: as advertised


title: Singing along in my car!

text: Okay, I'll never make a talent show or a choir, but these are the songs my parents sang to each other and that I remember as a kid. Great memories and surprised at how many songs I remembered. Fun CDs for a long car ride.


title: Three Stars

text: good


title: Nice compilation album -- but no liner notes

text:
I bought this album because it has cuts by both Amazing Blondel and Renaissance.  I love both groups and I am always looking for CD's featuring either.  There is nothing new on this CD for either group.  But I went for it anyway.

A compilation album is supposed to cross-pollinate the fan bases of several groups.  This one succeeds in my case.  I was not familiar with Tempest Ride, Wild Turkey, Juicy Lucy or Lyadrive.  And they seem like interesting bands.  I have listened to the entire CD and the tunes are all pretty good. But where are the liner notes?  Most compilation albums have liner notes with a paragraph or two about each band.  The better ones also have a few photos.  Nothing like that here.  The front is some non-descript dude playing a guitar. We can't see his face.  We have track listings and a few ads for other CD's.  Nothing else.  This is second rate packaging.  And packaging is all that separates CD's from downloaded MP3's. This is why I gave it 3 stars.  Had someone cared enough to spend a few hours on some decent liner notes it might have earned 4 stars.


title: A 40/60 Proposition

text: I could never understand whe the Rolling Stone Record Guide slammed David Byron all those years ago.  Disc 1 & 2 here will enlighten you.  Songs are average, the sound is very good soundboard and the singing is brutal! Disc 3,4 & 5 redeem things a bit.  Musically, much better.  However the sound quality does leave much to be desired, especially for radio broadcasts.  Pretty much a collection for hardcore fans only.


title: Great Value, But........

text: Considering bootlegs used to run you $25 for a single disc, this is a great value.  The sound is very good to excellent soundboard throughout.  I can't be sure, but it may be mp3 sourced....it just sounds a bit compressed. Excellent tracklist and great performances.  Says recorded in 1990, and Tyler does say "Hello Philedelphia", but that is all the venue, date infomation available.  Pretty much for fans only.


title: Friedman's Heaviest Effort?

text: I don't really care for the growling, brutal, grunting  metal vocals....just not my frosty mug of brew.  The vocals on this album are  rough, gruff, and growling; however, they are sung in Japanese. I can't put my finger on it, but they just sound flat out sound cool.  They seem to blend in and flow with the music almost like they are another instrument in the band.  Now, you add Marty Friedman's slashing, ripping and whirling fretwork and you have one "awesome" metal album.  Arguably some of Marty's heaviest work, but not at the expense of being melodic.  I got this after seeing Marty on "That Metal Show" and am happy I did.<br />If you have enjoyed any of Friedman's past work, this is  a "doh" no brainer.


title: Overkill And Loving It!

text:
If you've made it this far, you are obviously a fan of Status Quo.  And while this box is pricey and contains several versions of the same tracks over and over, it is a must have for any dedicated Status Quo fan.  The music speaks for itself and the dvd included is most excellent also.
The key is the great sound.  These are not bootleg quality recordings like many other box sets. The sound is top notch throughout each disc.
Highly recommened.


title: I'd dance with Mr. Astley any day.

text: Great song! Love the hair on the cover too.


title: Shake That TAMBO!

text: Finally managed to score this rare CD-Single from England. Nice remixes too.


title: Beautiful Music

text: Beautiful! I've looked for this sound track for a while. This was the first one I found that I could afford to gift myself. Arrived quickly. Thank you.


title: Five Stars

text: Awesome Album


title: Country charm.

text: My brother really likes the album


title: One of the best musicians of all time.

text: Took a while to get here but worth the wait  Thank you  fantastic miss c


title: Midnight  is a ONE of a kind.

text: All of these negative reviews were obviously written by those with the luck of those too young to get it, or, too closed minded to appreciate all of these beautiful writings and musicians who Midnight hand picked to collaborate on this monuumental Fair well to Music... And Life.


title: Bad sound quality.

text: Sound quality is POOR


We listened to this audiobook while on an extended tour of the<br />Southwest. The inspiring sights we saw seemed a fitting counterpoint to the inspiration of the book. I'm sure if I drive by certain natural rock formations or other sights in the future, my mind will flash back to what was happening in the audiobook at the time we saw them on this trip. For me, the book ranks right up there with the best books written in the last 50 years.


title: Lovely collection

text: If you like Mozart but find he can get too frisky at times, this is the CD for you: it's Mozart on Xanax .. very relaxing, and as beautifully written as all his work.


title: Exquisite

text: I love this--I play it often at night while getting ready for bed. It is one of my favs!


title: One Star

text: Nothing came up -- seeds were dead


title: When the group was floundering and it sounds like it

text: Probably their worse musical concoction


title: Contains KFOG'S weekly "Weekend Salute" song

text: KFOG San Francisco radio was the soundtrack of my life for so many years.  As a true "Foghead", I was really sad when the station changed its format.  But I can revisit it, making my home feel more like home when I listen to these Archive albums.  Live From The Archives 4 has a great compilation of familiar and newly discovered artists and tunes.  And of course this particular album is special because it has The Toys "Smoke Two Joints".  This is the song KFOG played every Friday at 5 p.m. as their "Weekend Salute".


title: uh.. no.

text: CHEEEEEEEESY


title: Five Stars

text: Love her


title: Five Stars

text: The green vinyl was so cool to have in our collection.  The sound quality was really great.


title: Lovely presentation of familiar music

text:
It’s beautifully done
I appreciate the Artist’
effort to present familiar
songs in the way it’s given
me pleasure
I get anyone can enjoy this nice CD
even if it’s a younger person not that familiar with these songs
Thank You so much


title: One of the best original Latino bands to ever come out fron the ...

text: One of the best original Latino bands to ever come out fron the great southwest with syles ranging from a fusion of rock,soul,funk,mambo,cumbias. They say one shouldn't live and dwell in the past, but i'll tell you amigo,-it's hard not to do that when you start listening to this "classic Ray Camacho" talented musicians. Nothing but memories!


title: Boring

text: Not his best


title: Worth the price

text: Its got most of his hits


title: Consistently too slow, badly recorded and amateurish playing...people think this is good?

text:
First off a disclaimer - I didn't buy the set, but I did listen to the entire thing on Spotify using my standard listening setup.
So I haven't written a review for a music CD on Amazon in many many years, but I just felt the need to here.....because the positive reviews (at least the two longer ones at the time of this writing) actually make me legit angry.

Now, I don't claim to be any sort of 'expert'. I'm not even a very good piano player. But I will claim to be a lover of Scott Joplin's music since I was nine years old or so, and I know every piece on this recording intimately. I also has a bachelor's degree in music history, so I certainly know SOMETHING of what I'm talking about.

The main concern with this recording as a whole is that for the most part the tempos are way too slow. Let's go back to the root of the discussion and see what the entire issue is here. In some of the publications of Joplin's rags, there is a notation that states: 'Do not play this piece fast. It is never right to play "Ragtime" fast. Composer'. So what happened is that many people ove the years go it into their heads that ragtime should be played the opposite of fast, that being slow. But the problem with this is that it removes the context of what Joplin was talking about. See, back then, performers would end up playing ragtime (and other music, 'ragging it up') at truly breakneck speeds. We're talking perhaps a BPM of 140 or higher. THIS is what Joplin was warning again. And what's more, there's even proof that the dirge-like tempos implemented here by Appling and others before him are completely wrong.
Go look up the score for Fig Leaf Rag on IMSLP. It contains the warning noted above, but its speed is marked as "Slow March Tempo, quarter note = 100". Ponder that for a second. 100 beats per minute is what's recommended for this piece. That is a great deal faster than Appling plays pretty much anything here, and in fact is even fast for Fig Leaf Rag (it fits much more comfortably around 92BPM). Sugar Cane and Pine Apple Rag also both have the 100BPM note, though one can grant Eugenia does have an indication of 72BPM – though that one is a much slower piece by its nature.
The conclusion from all of this is that those who decide that ragtime should be played like a dirge are pretty much doing it wrong. Despite anything else, ragtime IS dance music, so it should be moving. It should flow. There needs to be energy in the music.

So, back to Appling. The majority of his playing is just, for lack of a better word, plodding. Not only does he just go in general at such slow tempos as to cause the music to lose momentum, he doesn't even play that well. Really, the general feel I get from his performances is one of a young teenager who is performing their first somewhat difficult piece. Yes, he plays all the right notes, and keeps his rhythm together. But at the same time, he lacks the lightness of touch that this music needs. This is, after all, 'light music', not Beethoven. I find it odd how other reviews talk about the music 'speaks to them', etc...but honestly based on these recordings I don't detect any sign of a 'fine musician', only a competent one. And then there's the issue of pedaling – some of the music includes very clear directions for pedaling. Appling apparently had an accident which caused him to be unable to work the pedals right. This affects the music more than one might imagine,
And even disregarding everything above, there's also the issue of the fact very often you can hear vocalizations from Appling along with the music (though, I guess some people find that a sign a genius considering how popular Glenn Gould is?). Plus, the recording itself also sounds pretty amateur. It almost sounds like one of those bonus tracks you hear of a musical or film composer demoing their tracks on piano, not a proper recording of proper piano music.

Getting in to some of the specific pieces. I won't touch every one, just a the ones that stand out more. Sugar Cane, which opens the recording, is already a great example of just why everything is just so unenjoyable. Slow tempo and bad accenting, etc. Gladiolus Rag, considering by some to be Joplin's masterwork, especially suffers from the heavy-handed touch and almost sounds like a dirge in Appling's hands. Leola  -- which similar to Gladiolus has a similar strain A to Maple Leaf -- actually isn't too bad, as it (like Eugenia) tends to lay a bit more slowly; but like most of the rest of the recording just feels like the notes are being thrown out with no regards to musicality. And then we get to the original, Maple Leaf Rag itself. Another reviewer called this recording beautiful – to that I say....really? In fact, this is definetly one of the worst performances in the whole set. Quite a number of times the rhythm is off, the balance of the voices is wrong, and there's at least a couple wrong notes in there. This one is just a mess. And again, while sure it can be played too fast....it still should be moving along.
The Easy Winners is another faster rag, but unfortunately Appling's plays it the tempo the slower ones SHOULD be played at. And as usual, he just throws out left hand accents with no regards to balance. Ironically, if he played the next piece, Eugenia (one of my favorites) at this speed, it would have been good. But nope, he still manages to plink plonk that piece along with no regards to any sort of musical feel. As noted in another review, Euphonic Sounds is especially bad with Appling's vocalizations, which is even more so a shame given this is probably one of the best played pieces on the set – this one actually is supposed to have some heavy accenting and so on, and is played at a pretty good tempo.The Chrysanthemum is subtitled 'An Afro-American Intermezzo', and through does have some syncopation isn't really a rag so much a character piece with ragtime elements. In this piece one can feel like lack of pedaling on Appling's part.
For some reason, an outtake track is included called 'Prelude to "The Sycamore'. I find stuff like this pretty dumb, and especially in 2017 could easily just be a little bonus video on a website, not an actual track of music within an anthology – it has no place here, breaks up the music, and is something I wouldn't want to listen to more than once. As for the performance of the piece...it's one of the better ones, which as you know by now isn't saying much. And then we come to The Entertainer. It seems like Appling was actually trying his best here, perhaps because of the piece's popularity, and I do feel it's a bit more musical than most of the rest....but still pretty slow. And Fig Leaf Rag of course comes nowhere near that 100 BPM discussed above (or even the 92 that seems to fit it well).
Stoptime Rag is supposed to have a 'stoptime' effect, which means one is supposed to stamp one's heel on the ground through the piece. Appling does this at the musical pauses, but not while playing – though sometimes he replaces them with vocalizations. It's all pretty silly, though I can forgive it if it's because of his injury, but the actual comments (similar to the The Sycamore outtake before it) aren't necessary. And at the end is Solace. This well known piece is actually a habanera, not a rag, though there is syncopation. This was supposedly Appling's introduction to Joplin (many years before he knew of the rest), and ironically it's perhaps the piece he plays best. Since this piece is, by nature, much slower than everything else, it works so much better. But still, the lack of pedaling hurts it, as does the vocalizations and the recording in general.

But even if we can forgive all of the above for varying reasons, I still can come up with even more wrong. Not all of Joplin's music is actually ragtime, his six marches and five waltzes, are also recorded here (As noted above The Chrysanthemum and Solace aren't really rags either). I might – MIGHT – be willing to forgive Appling for the slowness of the rags if he actually played these eleven pieces like they should be. But they, too, are just all too slow  and not very musically played. Augustan Club, for instance, almost sounds like a machine with the way the chords are plonked out. You wouldn't play Chopin that way, why Joplin? And every single one of the marches isn't played like a march, as if Appling didn't even realize these weren't rags so decided to treat them the same. Perhaps the best of the bunch is Harmony Club Waltz, but at the same time, similar to Maple Leaf, Aplling seems to fall over the notes which makes it just sound...messy. And there's definetly a couple wrong notes in there.
I'll end this analysis with a bit of a surprise -- Scott Joplin's New Rag, like Euphonic Sounds, is actually played at a pretty good tempo. In general, it's one of the faster rags -- in fact the tempo is actually marked 'Allegro moderato' -- but if it's actually amazing how the faster speed really does make it that much better. The issue of heaviness of touch is still there, but overall the movement just allows the music to 'flow' that much better. I would say almost the same of Weeping Willow, which is already a bit of a slower rag.

Now onto the liner notes – these are available free from the official Appling site. It has a lot of claptrap about how Joplin supposedly played and how Appling gets into the heart of the composer or whatever, not to mention how he plays "with extreme attention to dynamics, rhythm and articulation" which is really complete hogwash, as I've noted many times above. And they make a big deal about how Appling is the first African-American to recording the "complete Joplin" – first off, that's a really oddly specific disambiguation, and secondly, it's pretty misleading. As noted in another review, the set doesn't have any collaborations –there's no Heliotrope Bouquet, no Swipesy , and so on (Though I suppose I should be happy to not be subjected to how Appling might have ruined Heliotrope...). It does however, at least, include School of Ragtime which is missing from many of the other complete sets.
And speaking of other complete sets, there is one thing I find extremely positive about the production as a whole – the order is the pieces isn't chronological like at least four other sets I know of. Also as a side note, seven of these pieces were released on the CD 'William Appling Plays Joplin and Bach'.
But in the end, there's just so much better options out there. Dick Hyman's set, sadly only about 1/3 of it on CD is still one of the best options but requires tracking down vinyl for all of it. Guido Nielsen's set is in general of high quality though a bit on the 'academic' side (and for some reason doesn't have the 'stoptime' effect) – but it does include the songs and even a fragment. But the new winner is probably the just-released set by Richard Dowling, who seems to completely 'get' the music – on top of being the best recorded set and including some fantastic notes that actually talk about the music.


Thoroughly enjoying the CD in my car.  Am even learning the words to the songs.  Lovely music by Webber and great vocals.


title: It's The Beatles First Big Hit In This Country

text: Where were you on that Feburary Night in 1964 ?  This Hit Changed everything.  Charlie  1234  Two minutes later the world changed.


title: No one does it like Teddy Wilson

text: A great box set of my favorite pianist of all time, Teddy Wilson.  Many of these songs are only available on this compilation.  The sound is great on all cds except for one with some shaky live recordings.  It's still totally worth it though.


title: It was a very good aid to quitting smoking

text:
I was skeptical of the claims made by the creator of this CD, which was given to me by a friend.  But I was desperate to quit my smoking habit of 40 years.  Without any expectations I began listening to this CD while falling asleep at night (used an old-fashioned walkman with ear plugs) and found it soothing and actually pleasant to listen to.  I listened to it almost every night for four months.  One morning, to my surprise, I knew I was ready.  I said "I'm done" and I was.  This isn't a miracle cure and I definitely went through some pretty rough withdrawal symptoms, but I believe that listening to this CD nightly gave me the jump-start I needed to actually commit to quitting.

I still listen to the CD on occasion (always while falling asleep) and I believe it reinforces my decision to be smoke-free.

I purchased this CD from Amazon to give to my niece, who also wants to be smoke-free and asked for my help.


title: Hard to find

text: I have wanted this CD for so long. It has a classic track the cover of Hungry like a wolf. Which was not on iTunes.


title: Welcome live performance by Neds

text: Great to have a live performance by a great band.


title: Truly Magnificent

text: Revo truly shines on this story and is among some of his best works


title: Good, but not great...

text: I picked this one up, because I already have Reks' debut album, Along Came the Chosen.  This one just wasn't as good.  Sure, it's still better than most of the stuff out there today, but not what I expected out of Reks.  Listening to his latest album, Gray Hairs, now that's the maturity I was looking for.  If you're a fan of Reks, and want everything he does, pick this up.  If you only want the very best stuff, skip it.


title: Great Condition!

text: Love all her music. This is my favorite. Great condition!


title: If you Love the Gorillaz, you should own this album.

text: I had wished it would have been a hard cover but the artwork is wonderful and the CD play great in my Van.


title: Another great cd by Stray Kids

text: This cd was a gift for my niece who loves Stray Kids. The songs on this cd are great! She's making a Stay of the whole family!


title: Wonderful CD

text: My late husband from Arkansas had introduced me to "Harmony" ages ago but finding their music has always been a challenge for me.  I was extremely glad to find this CD.  I have always been interested in the sad story of the Sultana and was glad to have finally found a copy of this song.


title: ... why the lyrics are so touching he was a great man should be more like hime never will have ...

text: One of the hardest songs to find do not understand why the lyrics are so touching he was a great man should be more like hime never will have the older generation represented in today's music bring back the oldies when music was music


title: Love it!

text: So happy Amazon.com is getting in on providing Korean albums!<br />Came packaged very well and received everything in perfect condition!


title: Three Stars

text: Great album but it came damaged and dirty. Other than that, it's fine!


title: Still good!

text: Not what I expected. Still good!


title: Five Stars

text: Great cd


title: Get pumped up for Derby!

text: I love this CD, we play it every year when we drive to the Derby and can't get enough of it!  Colt Ford's song is the best


Took a while to arrive, very good contents but no way to tell what music was included until it showed up


title: Good recording

text: Very nice CD  good quality recordings


title: Simply the Best

text: If you looking for some great music, then look no further. This is a replacement cd for one that I had many years ago. Brings back all the old memories.


title: What this country needs is more Don Lonies who speak unpolitical truth

text: It’s alright but it’s not as good as his first 2 recordings. I have no issues with who sold it to me.


title: Four Stars

text: I like the songs on this CD just wish you did not have to buy on two separate discs


title: Three Stars

text: I like this CD a lot, but does not sound very good.


title: Five Stars

text: A good product, sold by a good supplier. Recommended!


title: Best Astro Album

text: I was so excited to open this and see all the photo cards and posters! I love the album set and how it looks. Of course the actual music is amazing too.<br />Astro is by far my favorite KPop group and I will continue to support them!


title: It was my first colored album I couldn't wait to ...

text: It was my first colored album I couldn't wait to get and is exactly what I hoped it would be.


title: Bad recording!!

text: I don’t know why they try and sell these CDs as originals because they are NOT! Redone and sound horrible!<br />I am a huge fan of Gloria Gaynor and all disco and this CD was a copy. I have Bose players and this sounds really BAD! Want a refund!!


title: More great music

text: A fitting collection to match Volume I and II


title: Charming piece of baroque whimsy

text: A rare piece of baroque zarzuela and totally charming.  Written entirely for women's voices.  Too bad it's not better known.


title: I've always loved Mac Davis

text: My favorite album by Mac Davis. Such nostalgia, and I like every song. Beautiful.


title: Five Stars

text: This recording is very rel;axing.


title: however still fun to play

text: Not what I thought I was getting. For some reason I thought it was a trivia board game, but it just had a dice and cards, however still fun to play, just not what I thought I had read in the descriptions.


title: Five Stars

text: Cd and signature was perfect and it was cheap.


title: CD

text: It a wonederful CD, have enjoyed it,music by Mark Tindle is one of my best,very relaxing music<br />good transaction, thanks


title: Five Stars

text: sugoi!!!


title: Five Stars

text: good item


title: Dont beleive the hype

text:
The sound is very good on this CD, I have no idea what the negative reviewers are listening to.
You should see the reviews on the Amazon UK site ( where you can also sample the music if you so wish)
Dont beleive the hype


title: An excellent later period LF show

text: An excellent later period LF show - shortly befroe the passing of Lowell George - its been said that this period he was in bad shape, but while that may be the case his palying and vocals here are superb, making for one of the best Feat live CDs Ive heard


title: CUTE,FEEL-GOOD SUMMER TRACK

text: I haven't listened to the radio at all in months but I did happen to catch the video for this drop dead beautiful young lady's single on television recently.Well her name is Amerie Rodgers and the single is called "Why Can't We Fall In Love".<br />Produced by Rich Harrison,"Why" is a feel-good,catchy,pop-R&B summer ditty made for those sunny afternoons on the afternoon.Like Tatyana Ali or even Toya,Amerie seems to be a pretty young thing with a breezy,radio-ready type of voice.Lightweight pop-R&B never sounded this refreshing.


title: Bought for the artwork

text: I thought this was an original Joni Mitchell painting.  Seems I was mistaken.  After listening to the music, I've given up visual arts and became a musician (self-taught jazz).  It's amazing what can become of a folly


title: Perfect relaxation

text: One of my favorite compilations.  As good as Starbucks CDs get


title: Beatles by jazz folk feliciano

text: Familiar done favorably


title: Not all live music.... not all ...

text:
Not all live music....not all Charlie Rich (various artists performing songs mixed in with Charlie Rich live songs and studio sides)

Very weird product

Not the live Charlie Rich album I was looking for...

Beware


title: Five Stars

text: good condition nice!


title: Great CD!!!

text: I was there for this recording and it was awesome!!!  I made the mistake of lending my cd to someone who never gave it back so I decided to get another one.  It's everything I remember it to be.  Absolutely wonderful!!


title: These guys were the Pioneers of the NJ Hardcore scene ...

text: These guys were the Pioneers of the NJ Hardcore scene, most of them were listed in the book & movie "American Hardcore". A must have for every collection if you can find it.


title: Now we are embracing, out in the lunatic (conformist) NY night

text:
Very unlikely we'll be hung in a tree. Never, in fact. Instead, the corporate Me, Too movement will enlist the blonde female as an heroic, heralded Sojourner of Truth by stating, that man drugged then assaulted me.

Eyes will burn, as women and men from all walks of life wonder what-else the man has done; men like him, filling the News and social-media cocktail party with fearful tales, from dreams (Liz Phair) about those awful men, who dare not to speak for big money politics but act as leaders themselves.

Mingus of course is just an icon now, just another decal to affix to Current Affairs.

Top album, and Joni Mitchell always received snickers and hoots, while still used as a general icon. Mingus of course personally requested her involvement as musical partner, but one would never know from the Rolling Stone, etc. reviewers. Conformist, professorial sorts.


title: Music yes, Presentation no.

text:
Every song, Acuerdan Uds? We could have humbly accepted the Nobel each year, but we deliver these prizes to you. So much sentiment.

Begins with shots of numbers of bottles, glasses and more bottles and more glasses.


title: Treasure-trove from their first few releases of the seventies.

text: Majority of songs, 25 of 33 total are from 1973 beginning to 1974, and a few, six, from 79 to 82. The first song was used in a Heinz commercial, The Star And The Wiseman, from 1992. No notes but all titles are given, plus an English meaning.


title: is just fine, on Capitol Records

text: This edition on vinyl is how, up to 2016 at least, you get a clear, Stereo version on vinyl of the complete album, as is well known, the 1967 Stereo edition (this is the German, from 1971) relied on masters lacking stereo mixes, after Strawberry Fields on Side 2, accounting for the weak, Duophonic Sound of the last three numbers. Hear them complete, with these true stereo mixes made after 1967.<br />The mono LP, should you find it, is just fine, on Capitol Records, etc.


title: I found an unmarked thrift tape and went searching these ...

text: I found an unmarked thrift tape and went searching these Unknown Tom Petty, some Byrds-like hits I'd never heard of. This is where my search ended, though I have what is a private compilation of 13 tunes. It could have been a hit where I come from, especially in my high school-college years, around 1978-83 plus or minus...


title: GEM CD sounds much clearer &punchier

text: If you have been accustomed to the Polydor LP sound through the years, you may want to search for the GEM edition, rather than this newer re-master which sacrifices the sonic glow & impact.


title: Unbelievable Disappointment

text:
Tom Petty was one of the greatest artists with one of the greatest bands of my lifetime. I hold Lucinda  in such high regard that I pre-ordered this without question months ago and was really looking forward to it.

I popped it into the old Oppo and the first few bars of the first song sounded great. Then the vocal started. It sounded like she'd just pulled a needle out of her arm. Dull, dissipated, everything TP was not. And she never changed gears through the whole album. I don't get it. I really thought it would be great.

Stream before buying.


title: Nahhhh...

text: the acoustic versions are better!


title: My favorite version

text: Best version.  Beats the movie soundtrack by a mile.


title: Great Album!!

text: Great album, good service. Came within the time described and no problems with the CDs. I’m happy!


title: On my radio, top hits of the 1970's -50 anniversary.

text: This is a must for any oldies lover, great cd.


title: Everything Elton!

text: From the beginning with Skyline Pigeon and other early songs to many of Elton's most popular songs. A well chosen collection of songs across the decades. You'll enjoy Diamonds if an EJ fan. Maybe not if looking only for Elton's well known hits. As for me, very glad to have Diamonds in my collection.


title: NOT GOOD

text: The flavor was dull and not plea. Taste was dry, like its been sitting in a warehouse for too long. Price was ok. It was not giftable. Will buy it from somewhere else.


title: Five Stars

text: Awesome Record, Arrived Fast and Exactly as Described. Thanks


title: Wonderful disc

text: This double CD of Arvo Part piano works (with occasional accompaniment) is amazing. The playing is extremely spacious and moving. The pieces are excellent. I highly recommend it.


title: Wonderful Score for a Wonderful Film!

text: I have owned this soundtrack since 2003, and I must say it is one of my favorites.<br />The chilling score by Trevor Jones is so very relaxing as it whisks you away to another world. 5 Stars all around!


title: Second Prize

text:
I'll keep this brief.

Relative to For Hero: For Fool, Exiting Arm deserves a somewhat underwhelming 4 stars.  Relative to everything else I've heard in the past 6 months, Exiting Arm deserves an enthusiastic 5 star rating absolutely.

It's an easier listen than FH:FF... less complex, fewer "wow" transitions from one distinct sound to another, and for whatever reason it feels like Exiting Arm just lacks the emotion that FH:FF had, but this is still a great album and well worth the cost of admission.  For me it will probably prove to be an "only when I'm in a certain mood" album, but I certainly wouldn't knock anyone for falling in love with it either.


title: Real enthusiasm and feeling that comes out in the performance

text: I am Greek-American and not always sure of what are good albums to buy.  I have seen recent performances by Tsaligopoulou on YouTube and she is an amazing singer.  She has a real enthusiasm and feeling that comes out in her performance.  She sings both "folk" and popular songs with both traditional and modern art rock arrangements.  Melina Kana is also a fine singer.


title: Excellent

text: excellent thank you


title: Five Stars

text: Excellent CD thank you so much


title: Five Stars

text: Excellent thank you


title: Five Stars

text: Thank you so much


title: Five Stars

text: Excellent thank you again so much


title: Five Stars

text: Excellent thank you so much


title: Five Stars

text: Excellent album thank


title: Wonderful

text: Liked everything


title: Great

text: Shower music


title: Five Stars

text: Excellent condition. Better than described!


title: Works well

text: Awesome


title: Great songs

text: This present was a perfect gift


title: Revieww

text: Love this album been listening to it since I was very little 😁❤ God Bless!


title: Five Stars

text: As promised.


title: This album arrived in excellent condition! I am thankful that I was able ...

text: This album arrived in excellent condition! I am thankful that I was able to find this treasure of which I have been searching for many years!


title: Love this group

text: Great southern gospel style music and boy can these guys really belt it out. If you get a chance...go to their concert! "I just can't wait" is my favorite!


title: Overall, a great listen for not-so-early Chicago fans.

text:
Like others, I was excited to find this album, one of the few professionally recorded, Kath-era Chicago live concerts that we can enjoy.  I'm relatively new to Kath-era Chicago and I'm very partial to the oldest Chicago style, found on CTA and Chicago II, and to their performances from those early days.

That being said, the SET LIST on this album is a bit on the late side for me (not complaining, I expected it).  More recent releases around this concert obviously dominate the set (if you count "Ballet" as one song) and their '75 style is not my favorite.  I would trade one of these later Cetera ballads for "Questions 67 & 68" or for an extra Kath rocker like "In The Country", "Listen", or "It Better End Soon".  But the performances seem spirited to me and the band does sound pretty tight.  They do a great job with the oldies and new songs alike and everyone's voices and playing are on par; the glaring exception here, "25 Or 6 To 4", is too laid back and doesn't impress me... but it is outweighed by great moments like the awesome Beatles cover.

The SOUND on this album is great, but not perfect.  Overall it's a clean listen with relatively good balance--I disagree with others on this--if not a bit bass-heavy but that's fine :) I do feel, however, that some of the CLARITY is lost, particularly in Danny's drums and Kath's solos.  If you love listening to Kath pluck those notes so superhumanly fast as he did, you might be a bit disappointed that his sound is a little muddy (again, "25 Or 6 To 4" is an example).  Same for the drums in some cases although they sound great during solos.  Overall it could be better but it is certainly good to great, and is nothing like a "bootleg" especially one recorded in 1975, in my opinion.

A final note on the sound, I feel compelled to compare this recording to other live albums I know well from the same time, "Wings Over America" (the original release), "Here At Last...Bee Gees Live", and "Seconds Out" by Genesis.  Side by side by side by side, I think they all have similar sound quality.  Considering these other examples were recorded in arenas and this album was open-air, I can't expect more.  This recording somewhat more cavernous and echo-y... then again, an open-air stadium IS more cavernous and echo-y!

"Live In '75" is a clean, authentic sounding recording from a selection of great shows performed by a hard-working band trying to please thousands of fans.  If you can get a halfway decent price, I think you'll be satisfied with this gem.


title: Love love love this music relaxes me a beautiful beautiful ...

text: Love love love this music relaxes me a beautiful beautiful to hear from our Lord.......:)


title: an interesting departure from their first two releases

text: this recording was done in '75 and hasn't been released until recently.  the style is quite different from the first 2 releases as this is more of the rock and funk song-oriented cd.  the music is good if you're into that style and certainly shows the diverse talents this band carried (this line up: andy goldner, thommy balluff and fred braceful). this is a conny plank production.  there are a couple tracks I like: "full moon again" (which has a Can with D. Suzuki on vocals sound to it), and "walkin' on ice" which harkens back to the first cd.  I can see how this cd would alienate the fans of the first 2 releases, yet it is good enough to start a new fan base who this would appeal to.  this is the problem with 3, is it's not going to appeal to everyone.  anyway, it's good if you keep an open mind to it's diversity, but if you enjoy the first 2, then this'll disappoint.


title: 74 minutes of totally fun music

text: Passed Normal project is a series of compilations of alternative independent music from all over the world.  punk, rock, spoken word, jazz, rap, it's all here in one form or another.  i believe the person doing the series has passed on years ago, but the comps he left behind have left their mark in the independent scene.  artists include: shockabilly, snakefinger, blitzoids, peter blegvad (sounding like dylan), tom cora, zozobra to name a few.  songs were collected from '84 - '90.  the music is very diverse and often humorous.  my favorites are the snakefinger live material "save me from dali and 8 1/4".  Shockabilly adds a couple short tunes: "i keep the kkk in line, and shockabilly weekend".  i highly recommend all the volumes in this series.  there is something for everyone and all the musicians offer top quality performances whether tongue-in-cheek or not.  many of the bands in here are on a variety of independent labels such as Cuneiform Records.  buy this and support the independent musicians who contribute a lot towards creativity and freedom of speech.


title: excellent cd

text: of the two re-issues by esoteric (the other, Mighty Grahame Bond), Love is the Law, has faired the tides of time better.  originally issued on the pulsar label in '68, this was one of two solo releases recorded in the u.s.  Graham Bond plays all instruments and is only accompanied by a drummer, Hal Blaine.  the 10 tracks on this cd are excellent.  they sound fresh, the drumming is great and bond's singing is superb.  if you're reading this review, you're probably familiar with his musicial history and troubled lifestyle.  bond's songs continue in the cabalistic, crowleyian themes.  i'm glad to see this release finally re-issued.  the liner notes are good so is the remastering.  no bonus material has been added.


title: a monster jam!

text: live recording from '08 with hopper/didkovsky/roulat aka bone.  this is a great, power trio concert.  reminds me of the trio earthless and their output.  bonus material is a long studio song sung by daevid allen (with bone) remembering hugh hopper.  all proceeds go to hopper's family.  a fantastic live recording and equally fantastic performance.  highly recommending recording to be played LOUD!


title: good old fashioned chicago blues

text: recorded in october of '77, this has harmonica player bill boy arnold with the groundhogs backing him up.  this cd should appeal to fans of both persuasions.  the line up is billy boy, tony mcphee, alan fish, and wilgar campbell (rory gallagher) on drums.  there are 15 blues songs on this cd.  strong playing by all participants.  great music and informative booklet.  i highly recommend this cd if you are into the blues.


title: PUFFY AmiYumi's best kept secrets

text: PUFFY AmiYumi does it again! An great collection of songs, and music videos... including PUFFY's 1 and only Holiday track R.G.W. P.S. You can not play the DVD in most North American players (both DVD, & Blu-ray)


title: PUFFY POWER!!!!

text: Awesome collection of PUFFY's number 1 hits, and rare singles.


title: The most amazing voice

text: Beautiful album that is well worth seeking out. Grace Griffith has one of the most soulful voices and the song choices are excellent.


title: Shirley Horn Never Disappoints

text: Love my Shirley Horn CD I simply think she is amazing my only sadness is I was not familiar with her til after her death !!!


title: Rocking it!

text: Awesome album


title: AMAZING

text: AMAZING!


title: I'm not quite sure what to make of this product

text:
I'm giving this product three stars on the virtue that it was promptly received and it was fresh leaves.

However....

The product is marketed as Hawaii grown, and is show as a bag of leaves with a label of all the "Hawaii" information.  The bag of leaves I received was in an unmarked ziplock bag, and was shipped from Cypress, Texas.... leading me to believe that I received "curry" leaves grown in someone's back yard.  A quick Google trace of the shipper's address, turns up a residence... not a business address.  I wouldn't have a problem with curry leaves grown in someone's back yard, but market them as such. The product had better look like the advertised version, and that includes the packaging.

For the next issue, I must confess that I am not 100% qualified to judge, but something seems a bit off.  The "Curry" leaves I received, are absolutely void of any unique flavor, and void of any aroma.  I dried a portion of them in the oven on the bread proofing setting (100°), and those too were completely void of any unique flavor. The only flavor I could detect in either a fresh or dried version, was a grassy flavor .... the same flavor I can get by chewing on a few blades of grass.  I will say that the leaves I received, appeared to be young.  Perhaps they need to be more mature to reach peak flavor... I don't know.  What I do know, is that for culinary use, what I received won't add a bit of flavor.  Maybe there's something about curry leaves I don't know.

What I'm going to do next, is visit a few local Indian food markets, and seek out some curry leaves, to better educate myself as to what they are supposed to taste like.  If I have made the wrong call on these, I will definitely update this review.


title: Panthers on vinyl!!!! Most Excellent

text: One of the best Thrash metal albums...


title: Great music!

text: I bought this for the song, Angels among us, but all the songs were great. Thanks Alabama!!


title: LOVE ME SOME DAC!!

text: If easily offended....walk away!! I have loved DAC since I was a teenager, does not disappoint


title: A trip down memory lane.

text: A musical delight. Listening to this CD was like meeting an old friend .


title: good delivery service

text: your product is great your delivery service sucks


title: Five Stars

text: Best Songs for Children


title: SRV...

text: Thank you very much. I enjoy anything I can find when it comes to Stevie Ray Vaughan.He has always been a favorite of mine since I was young. This is an awesome CD of his early days.


title: SRV....

text: Beyond awesome!  Stevie Ray Vaughn was the greatest guitarist and I am so glad I purchased this CD. The sound is phenomenal like you were right there in the audience.


title: Beautiful!

text: Great music!  I love it!  My dementia patients loved it also!


title: Good salsa

text: Nice 2020 Sony 3 CD, 1 DVD set, 44 tracks (about 210 minutes); good music selection, most 90s, going back to 1986 & to 2012 (same for 14 videos DVD, but I’ve not watched so I do not know quality). Tempo of the songs is (only slightly) mellower than salsa I’m familiar with. Only drawbacks are somewhat varying playback levels between tracks (not horrible), & discs 1&2 metadata is not recognized by my computer. Each disc slips into a cardboard sleeve, housed in a flapped box. No booklet, but some info for each track on back of the sleeves, including date & length.


title: what's on here?

text: Since songs are not listed on Amazon, search "driven by the 60s" at the website allmusic. I did not buy this set after looking at the track listing since there's not much new here for me, but I've based my 5-stars on the tracks listed. I own others in this series, so I can tell you this is a Rhino European release; some of the songs those in the U.S. may know are done here by U.K. artists. The discs are slid into individual tight open ended pockets (so you have to have very clean, non-oily fingers to pull them out) in a 5 panel, 4-fold cardboard case, & if it's like others in the series, each panel will list artist, song, song writer, , year, & label. For the price, you'll be able to rip/burn a personal favorites playlist(s); & if like others in the series, Windows Media Player correctly identifies everything.


title: Obscure garage "Nuggets" from Europe & Down Under

text: If you’re a fan of garage rock (’65-’67 era – think a bit earlier Nuggets), do not pass up this great sounding (digitally remastered) mono 5 disc, 80 track box set from Rubble, originally released as 16 track separate volumes in ’97 & ‘98 (there is also a vinyl-only vol. 6 released for 2018’s Record Store Day). I grew up during that era in the U.S. & never heard any of these tracks, all from Europe, Australia & New Zealand (disc 5 is all from Down Under); even one from S. Africa. Disc lengths: 41 minutes, 44, 41, 43 & 38. An amazing 68 page booklet has a short bio, including country of origin, of each artist/track w/a picture of the band and/or the 45 RPM record/ picture sleeve. A 5 1/8 x 5 x 7/8” clamshell box holds 5 cardboard sleeve reproductions of the original albums. If interested, Windows Media Player gets most of embedded disc info (a few mistakes) on discs 1-4, nothing for disc 5.


title: lackluster, dull, lifeless, uninspired...

text: Yawn!! When did they take the POWER out of power pop? As a huge fan of power pop since 1964 (long before it was called power pop), I’ve been collecting these International Pop Overthrow comps for 21 years now, and it seems like each year they get more boring. Remember the “olden days” of great power pop, like the Yellow Pills collections, the influence of The Ramones, Yum Yums, DM3, Velvet Crush, Teenage Fanclub, Raspberries, Spinning Jennies & The Well Wishers, Rockpile, Cheap Trick, the British Invasion...? It's doubtful most of these 69 artists ever heard of any of the former bands, and most songs will put you to sleep if you sit down to listen with headphones. If you are new to power pop, don’t judge the genre by this extremely tepid compilation – there’s tons of new and veteran bands out there not to miss (Dahlmanns, Allrightniks, K7s, Caddy, Elvyn, Forty Nineteens, Nick Piunti, Propeller, Sick Rose, Tommy Sistak, Wellingtons, Kurt Baker (in his many forms), Connection, New Trocaderos, On & On’s, Tommy & the Rockets, plus MANY more.... and if you like POWER pop, DO NOT PASS UP the criminally neglected rock-the-house-down 2001 God Bless the Go-Go's if you've never heard it!!!). Unlike this compilation, the power pop genre is NOT dead; in all fairness, I really like 22 of the tracks (that just leaves 47 throw-aways). None-the-less, I will continue to support the yearly I.P.O. releases for as long as they are released on CD - there's always new music to discover. If you still like CDs, don't forget to check out Ray's KoolKat website where everything is in that format (including many that are normally downloads and not available anywhere else). And not a slam against the music, but nearly EVERY YEAR all of the inside teeth of the jewel cases are all broken off so all the discs are loose – after 21 volumes you think they’d get it right.


title: Great sounding Latin jazz master's early work

text: Excellent value w/great sound, the majority in stereo (except for '54's Mambo With Tjader, '50's Dave Brubeck Trio, and a few other scattered tracks), w/even playback levels between discs (great for making playlists of favorite tracks). Each of the 10 discs has 2 albums on each (not in chronological order, probably so they could optimize space on each disc), partially covering Tjader's 1954-62 output. Flip-open cardboard box houses 10 cardboard sleeves; back of each has album name, song, composer, track length, personnel listed for each track, thus no booklet. Total times for each disc from 1-10: 68:21, 73:28, 74:06, 78:33, 74:29, 78:12, 77:57, 77:34, 71:18, 73:20. You can see which albums are included by enlarging the box back on Amazon's info page. Not sure if each album is complete - I checked about 8 of them, and those were all complete, but in different track order from the original release. No original album pictures - each disc's cover is what you see on the box cover of Amazon's info page.


title: Overlooked Finnish jangle/ power pop gem

text: Poverty Stinks were a fantastic Finnish jangle pop/ power pop band with wonderful vocal harmonies from the 90s, very popular in Scandinavia & Japan, with 6 studio albums from 1990-98 (they even played New York’s CBGB’s). Lead vocalist/ rhythm guitarist Jarmo Laine’s vocals are reminiscent of The Three O’Clock’s Michael Quercio, and the band’s mainly mid-tempo music brings to mind Let’s Active, Game Theory, early REM, DM3 and The Someloves. This 1995 release is their 5th of 6 studio albums (all out of print); all are well worth any power pop fan’s attention. Also check out the compilation of their 1st 3 albums still available at Amazon: L’Epoque du Pop.


text: Poverty Stinks were a fantastic Finnish jangle pop/ power pop band with wonderful vocal harmonies from the 90s, very popular in Scandinavia & Japan, with 6 studio albums from 1990-98 (they even played New York’s CBGB’s). Lead vocalist/ rhythm guitarist Jarmo Laine’s vocals are reminiscent of The Three O’Clock’s Michael Quercio, and the band’s mainly mid-tempo music brings to mind Let’s Active, Game Theory, early REM, DM3 and The Someloves. This is their 4th of 6 studio albums; all are well worth any power pop fan’s attention. Also check out the compilation of their 1st 3 albums still available at Amazon: L’Epoque du Pop.


title: Excellent Finnish jangle/ power pop band; a must have!

text: Poverty Stinks were a fantastic Finnish jangle pop/ power pop band from the 90s, very popular in Scandinavia & Japan, with 6 studio albums from 1990-98 (they even played New York’s CBGB’s). Lead vocalist/ rhythm guitarist Jarmo Laine’s vocals are reminiscent of The Three O’Clock’s Michael Quercio, and the band’s mainly mid-tempo music brings to mind Let’s Active, Game Theory, early REM, DM3 and The Someloves. This 15 track compilation selects choice tracks from their 1st 3 albums (Gargle Blaster, Getting Deeper and Gobbledygook), plus lead off track Summer Will Never End which was, prior to this comp, only available as a 1993 single.  Since all of their stuff (including this) is out of print, this is a nice collection to have.


title: music 5 stars, volume playback levels 3 stars

text: This Japanese Rhino box set of the J. Geils Band’s first 4 studio albums (1970-73) plus their ’72 live album Full House is, for me, well worth the higher than normal price for other sets in Rhino’s 5 album “Original Album Series” because, IMHO, their first 3 studio albums were there best:  more grounded in their rawer blues/ R&B sound.  I subtract 1 star for the volume playback levels: the 4 studio albums play back at even levels (great for making a personal playlist), but unfortunately the live album will blow your ears out compared to the rest.  There is no re-mastering info listed anywhere, but all the songs sound very clean & crisp.  As is standard w/these Rhino releases, each disc slips inside of a cardboard mini replica of the original vinyl album (front/back cover only; any gatefolds are absent), which in turn all slip inside of a slightly larger ½” thick box, nice for taking up limited shelf space; the back of this box has a picture of each album & lists all songs on each; & as usual, absolutely no frills, such as bonus tracks or written info (other than the original tiny print on the replica covers).  If you buy this set, look for their next set in the Rhino series (not a Japanese import, so much cheaper) containing their next 3 studio albums, next live album, & the unneeded greatest hits album.


title: Five Stars

text: Love it. It's just like the tapes I lost.


title: Very good listening from Jeff Hyde

text: I learned to appreciate Jeff Hyde's talent while watching him play various instruments at an Eric Church concert.  I later noticed he co-writes lots of songs everybody hears on mainstream radio and it was too tempting not to get his own music.  Very good listening.  The lyrics do not disappoint.


title: Five Stars

text: Great music


title: Five Stars

text: ok


title: Five Stars

text: Really enjoyed the music!  I look forward to more music from this artist!


title: Great Spititual uplifting mudic

text: Great old album - great memories attached


title: Beautiful classical spiritual songs.

text: Beautiful classical spiritual songs.


title: Bryan Duncan at his best.

text: This album is so original.  It is Bryan Duncan at his best!


title: A tenor's tenor

text: This CD came from Disco 100 in Spain, in quick order, very thoughtfully packaged. (though it needed a signature upon delivery.)<br />The excerpts from Verdi's Otello are hair-raising.


title: Love Alte Kameraden

text: This is a collection of German military marches.  Most of them sound very similar to each other and are pretty forgettable, unless you were a Prussian marching into yet another country you were invading.  Alte Kameraden, however, is a sparkling, beautiful, inspired gem of music that I love to hear over and over.  For me, it was worth buying the whole album just to have this recording of Alte Kameraden, very well performed by the Berlin Philharmonic brass.  The Radetzky March at the beginning of the list is a good one, and so is Under the Double Eagle ... aka "Under dem Doppeladler" in its German guise.


title: all right!

text: Good quality cd and nice selection.


title: Five Stars

text: Excellent for those of us  raised in that era.


title: Five Stars

text: Almost best CD ever. Love their individual passion that they meld in their performance


title: My daughter loves this.

text: My daughter had this record when she was a little girl, and she loved it. She is now in her late forties and was so excited when I found this on Amazon and bought it for her.


title: Mediocre Album from a Northern California Bluegrass Great

text: This is a perfunctory set of bluegrass songs by an otherwise stellar bluegrass singer and composer.  Kallick's solo sound is intact but the songs lack memorable melodies or lyrics.  The playing is unremarkable.  The musicians sound as uninspired as the songs.  Skip this one.


title: Video Killed the Country Star

text: In this one-off, Lori Yates abandons her country roots for synthesizer-heavy, electronic drum beat freighted pop.  Lori's stellar voice gets buried in clattering backing tracks.  The songs are awful.  The music sound druggy and dreamlike.  It's unlistenable and you can't dance to it.


title: American Country with a Russian Flavor

text: Larissa Tormey is a classically-trained Russian emigre living in Ireland and singing American country music with a thick Russian accent.  So you're thinking, "Can this work?"  And of course the answer is "No, it can't."  It's tempting to give two stars to Ms. Tormey for the old college try.  She has a warm, pleasant alto and is clearly courageous--there's nothing she's not willing to tackle.  The first song on the album is an adapted version of John Denver's "Thank God, I'm a Country Boy," which Ms. Tormey changes to "Thank God, I'm a Country Girl."  As this song unfurls, the listener starts to marvel.  Is this for real?  Then comes the sobering realization that it is.  Way down on the end of the song list, Ms. Tormey launches into "Danny Boy," which is strangely out of place on a country record.  After the first verse in English, Ms. Tormey sings the next several verses in emphatic Russian.  It's a bit of a jar for the listener.  This album sounds like Eva Gabor from "Green Acres" somehow escaped the farm and cut a country record.  It's definitely for the fans of the unusual.


title: Take His Advice: Save Yourself

text: On this melancholy collection of songs, Holbrook casts himself as a sensitive singer-songwriter.  Unfortunately, Holbrook has a wooden ear for a rhyme and a tin ear for a melody.  The minimal, self-produced, mostly acoustic arrangements do little to enhance the lifeless songs and the instrumental decoration has a predictable, irritating quality.  The cliche-ridden lyrics encapsule half-baked ideas for songs.  In the title track, Holbrook says to his erstwhile significant other: we're both drowning; I have no help to give; save yourself.  Why write a song about what a jerk you are and how little you have to offer?  Save yourself the $8.99 for the digital download and ignore this bad music.


title: Loved the movie

text: I was disappointed with the soundtrack. It wasn't offered with its audio format, so I don't think it was a good value for the price.


title: great

text: love their songs...


title: Waylon fans will love it

text: What's not to love about Waylon?  Love it. Just so bummed he's gone.


title: Epitome of Ambient Industrial

text:
Easily my favorite PGR recording, and one of the most listenable, and I would say accessible, examples of Ambient Industrial in existance.  When a friend wants to know what I mean by the term, this is the CD I pull out.  At one time, this was the sort of thing simply known as "Industrial" until Trent and a few others coopted the term for their angst-ridden diatribes.  This recording is nothing like that-- instead, distant factory ambiance that washes over you like ocean waves.

If you want ultra-edgy ambient industrial, pick up "Will" by Hunting Lodge, or any early SPK.  The Chemical Bride is at the opposite, mellow end of the spectrum, and nicely so I would say.  So much so, that some may consider this merely "Ambient" and not "Industrial" at all, and I might agree if it weren't for the fact that the ambience has a subtle machinery-tinge to it...


title: Shades of the Deadbeats...

text: Imagine 1978 punk band "The Deadbeats" LP played at 45 RPM so the vocals sounds like Alvin & the Chipmunks, sprinkle with a little Merzbow or the Boredoms in the cracks and you have Melt Banana's "Charlie."


title: Classic hard-edged noise-industrial.

text:
This CD is essential if you like the early hard-ambient-noise-industrial works such as those by SPK (Information Overload Unit, Leichenschei), Einsturzende Neubauten, Esplendor Geometrico, or Japanese noise ala Merzbow with the bass cranked.  As an afficionado of the genre, I consider most of those classics, but  if I had to pick just one to have on a desert island, it would be Will by Hunting Lodge.  Amp the 1950s Forbidden Planet soundtrack way past overdrive into an array of subwoofers, or record an execution on the electric chair and play it back at 1/10th the speed, and you have a coarse approximation.  Cataclysmic.

Track listing for the CD on Dark Vinyl (DV #10):

1. NA VILAVILAIREVU (6:17)
2. WE ARE THEY (6:02)
3. HAND OF GLORY (4:31)
4. SHUGENDO GYOZHA / YOU ARE OF ME (6:33)
5. ICEPICK METHOD (4:42)
6. SOUNDS LIKE A PICTURE (4:33)
7. S/M OPERATIONS (3:39)
8. WILL (3:50)
9. BANISHING DIRGE (8:18) (Full length encore killing version)
10. HE DONE IT THE WAY HE DONE IT (1:13)
11. HE DONE IT THE WAY HE DONE IT - II (5:26)
12. ATUM (5:46)
13. RIP YOU TO SHREDS (4:05)

Only 1-8 are on the LP.  10 & 11 were used on Exhumed, a cassette-only release.  12 & 13 are demos that were recorded in 1990 & represent the last recordings done by Hunting Lodge.


title: Refreshing and Insightful!

text: I had originally rented this CD at a Cracker Barrel Restaurant when I was on a long drive.  However, the trip wasn't long enough for me to finish listening to it, and I was enjoying it so much I decided to buy my own copy.  My 7-year-old granddaughter was with me on a few occasions while it was playing, and she said, "I can't believe you're studying about going through people's backpacks!" I had to laugh at her take on some of Leanne Tuohy's parenting methods.  Anyway,  I immediately loaned it to my daughter who is on the road a lot with her job.  And when she's finished I'll be listening to it again.


title: Great Music

text: Loved it. Bought this one for a friend.


title: Another great Artist from Boston with a voice that can't be duplicated

text:
Tracy Chapman has an awesome voice that can't be duplicated and being another great Artist from Boston, you can't go wrong.
Call me old School but purchasing CD's with hopes that the Artists get a small taste of the profits, while being able to play CD's at Home, is a Win.
And listening to Tracy's voice is a Win Win. Love that Girl!!


title: What can I say?

text:
What can I say? My first memories of this great Album was when I was a little Boy delivering papers and went to this house with their Newspaper and heard from the inside playing loud was American Pie.
Classic song and if you realize what the song is about, you love it even more.
If you’re an older person like myself and still enjoy the old School way of playing music via Vinyl or Cd, this Album should certainly be in your collection.


title: A must own for Dalaras fans

text: One of his best. Innovative and sophisticated. Emotional, passionate music.


title: Play it again

text: This is an incredible concert. If you love these two artists, you need to hear this. It's a live recording, sound quality is pretty good and you get the usual clapping. The song selection is fabulous. Popular, melodic, well known .


title: Some great 12" mixes on this set - check out the tracklist !

text:
This is a 2 cd set - here is the tracklist:

1-01 –a-ha Stay On These Roads (Extended Remix)
Remix – John Hudson
6:09

1-02 –Spandau Ballet True 6:01

1-03 –Bronski Beat Smalltown Boy 9:03

1-04 –Visage Fade To Grey (12" Version)  6:42

1-05 –Trans-X Living On Video 6:12

1-06 –Real Life Send Me An Angel '89 (Dance Mix)
Remix – Nigel Wright
6:15

1-07 –Pat Benatar Love Is A Battlefield (Special Extended Remix)
Remix – John "Jellybean" Benitez
6:29

1-08 –Duran Duran The Wild Boys (Wilder Than Wild Boys)
Producer – Nile Rodgers
7:59

1-09 –Frankie Goes To Hollywood Relax (New York Mix - The Original 12")
Producer – Trevor Horn
7:25

1-10 –Talk Talk Such A Shame (Extended Mix)
Remix – Steve Thompson
6:25

1-11 –Deacon Blue Real Gone Kid 7:05

2-01 –Wham! Young Guns (Go For It) 5:12

2-02 –Men Without Hats Safety Dance (UK Remix)
Remix – Mick Evans, Neil Lockwood
5:20

2-03 –Thompson Twins Hold Me Now (Remix)
Co-producer – Alex Sadkin
Remix – Phil Thornalley
7:07

2-04 –Yazoo Don't Go (Re-mix / Re-re-mix)
Co-producer – Daniel Miller
8:27

2-05 –Alphaville Sounds Like A Melody (Special Long Version)
Producer – Orlando (2)
7:42

2-06 –Prefab Sprout The King Of Rock 'N' Roll
Producer – Thomas Dolby
4:24

2-07 –Camouflage The Great Commandment (Extended Dance Mix) 5:58

2-08 –Nik Kershaw Wouldn't It Be Good (Special Extended Mix)
Producer – Peter Collins
6:42

2-09 –Assembly, The Never Never (Extended Version)
Guitar – Clem Clempson
Vocals – Feargal Sharkey
5:52

2-10 –Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Maid Of Orleans (The Waltz Of Joan Of Arc)
Co-producer – Richard Manwaring
3:32

2-11 –Art Of Noise, The Moments In Love 10:17


title: standard issue 12" stuff ...there are several volumes...this is vol 10

text:
Tracklist
–Shannon Let The Music Play 6:03
–Man Parrish Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don't Stop) 5:36
–Full Force Alice I Want You Just For Me 6:09
–Whodini Haunted House Of Rock 7:42
–Hot Streak Body Work 8:23
–Break Machine Street Dance 6:28
–Bar-Kays Sexomatic 6:24
–Herbie Hancock Rockit 5:19


title: track list provided...good stuff !

text:
1 -Daryl Hall & John Oates- Maneater 4:31
2 -Cyndi Lauper Girls- Just Want To Have Fun 3:51
3 -Dan Fogelberg- Language Of Love 3:40
4 -Toto- Rosanna 4:02
5 -Journey- Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) 4:26
6 -Asia- Heat Of The Moment 3:49
7 -Pat Benatar Love Is A Battelfield 4:10
8 -Quiet Riot Cum On Feel The Noise 3:26
9 -Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson Say, Say, Say 3:54
10 -Michael Jackson Human Nature 4:07
11 -Police - The Every Breath You Take 4:12
12 -Men At Work  -Down Under 3:43
13 -Billy Joel - Tell Her About It 3:49
14 -The Cars - You Might Think 3:05
15 -Nena 99 - Luftballons 3:50
16 -Olivia Newton-John Twist Of Fate -time not listed