Man-Made

1. The Day I Was Made
2. Somebody Like Me
3. It Ain't My Fault 2
4. Ghetto Rain
5. This Is 4 My
6. Commercial One
7. You Know What We Bout
8. I Want To Be With You
9. All Because Of You
10. No Limit
11. End Of The Road
12. We Won't Stop
13. Mr. '99
14. It Takes More
15. If It Don't Make $
16. It's Going Around Outside
17. Put It On Something
18. Commercial Two
19. Southside Niggas
20. Get It Up

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Made Man.......2007-03-10

this was alright.......2006-02-17

2.5 star 3rd solo from Silkk.......2005-08-20

THE BEST CD IN THE WOLD.......2004-08-15

Misplaced Homoeroticism.......2004-05-26

If you're really into graphic descriptions of wrong-end loving, then this is the rapper for you. If you aren't hopelessly obsessed with unnatural penetration between two "homeys" then I suggest you skip this one and buy Slicey Dice's greatest hits compilation, which should be out next month. THAT album is definitely worth the wait.

Average customer rating: Arguably "The Best" English "Merry Widow "

Léhar: The Land of Smiles; The Merry Widow; The Count of Luxembourg (Highlights) Manufacturer: Class. for Pleas. Us ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Lehár, Franz | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus; The Gypsy Baron (Highlights) Offenbach: La Belle Helene; Orpheus in the Underworld; La Vie Parisienne (Highlights) Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld / Burgess, Watson, etc (Highlights) The Best of Operetta, Vol. 3 The Best of Operetta, Vol. 2 ASIN: B00009KHY2 Release Date: 2003-09-02

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Arguably "The Best" English "Merry Widow ".......2006-09-12

Average customer rating: Great Album Amazing voice - Average songs Randy does it again! Still No. 1 in my Book -- It's the Voice! Takes me to another world

A Man Ain't Made of Stone Randy Travis Manufacturer: Dreamworks ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Similar Items: You and You Alone High Lonesome This Is Me Wind in the Wire Always & Forever ASIN: B00001QGNB Release Date: 1999-09-21

Tracks:

1. A Little Bitty Crack In Her Heart
2. A Little Left Of Center
3. A Man Ain't Made Of Stone
4. The Family Bible And The Farmer's Almanac
5. A Heartache In The Works
6. No Reason To Change
7. Where Can I Surrender
8. I'll Be Right Here Loving You
9. Once You've Heard The Truth
10. In A Heart Like Mine
11. Day One
12. Thirteen Mile Goodbye

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Great Album.......2003-07-05

Amazing voice - Average songs.......2002-10-19

Randy does it again!.......2001-08-23

Still No. 1 in my Book -- It's the Voice!.......2000-09-16

Takes me to another world.......2000-03-03

Average customer rating: Tribute to operetta

A Tribute to Operetta - A Franz Lehár Gala / Carreras, Domingo, Hampson, Lind, Rost Franz Lehár , Emmerich Kálmán , Carl Zeller , Marcello Viotti , José Carreras , Plácido Domingo , Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra , Thomas Hampson , Eva Lind , and Andrea Rost Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Lehár, Franz | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Classic | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000J9FQ Release Date: 1999-06-15

Tracks:

1. Die Csardasfurstin: Tanzen mocht' ich - Die Csrdasfurstin
2. Die lustige Witwe: Lippen schweigen - Die lustige Witwe
3. Der Zarewitsch: Es steht ein Soldat am Wolgastrand - Der Zarewitsch
4. Giuditta: Freunde, das Leben ist lebenswert - Giuditta
5. Zigeunerliebe: Hor' ich Zymbalklange - Zigeunerliebe
6. Die lustige Witwe: Da geh' ich zu Maxim - Die lustige Witwe
7. Die lustrige Witwe: Vilja, o Vilja Die Lustige Witwe
8. Der Vogelhandler: Schenkt man sich Rosen in Tirol - Der Vogelhandler
9. Grafin Mariza: Komm, Zigany - Grafin Mariza
10. Giuditta: Meine Lipen, sie kussen so heiss - Giuditta
11. Paganini: Gern hab' ich die Frau'n gekusst - Paganini
12. Die lustige Witwe: Wie die Blumen im Lenze erbluhn - Die lustige Witwe
13. Das Land des Lachelns: Wer hat die Liebe uns ins Herz gesnkt - Das Land des Lachelns
14. Medley: Von Apfelbluten einen Kranz - Niemand liebt dich so wie ich - Komm in den Kleinmen Pavillon - Liebe, du Himmel auf Erden - Immer nur lacheln- Du bist meine Sonne - Ja, das Studium der Weiber ist schwer
15. Das Land des Lachelns: Finale: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz - Das Land des Lachelns

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Tribute to operetta.......2000-08-23

Average customer rating: De do do do, de da da da Best Fanclub Album in Years 5 stars!!!!!!!! 5 stars!!!!!!!! 5 stars!!!!!!!! 5 stars!!!!!!!! 5 stars!!!!!!!! This is a Great disc, so all of you idiots shut you dirty rotten traps!!!!, fans of teenage fanclub

Man-Made Teenage Fanclub Manufacturer: Merge Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | British Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britpop | British Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music Scotland | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Grand Prix Songs from Northern Britain Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Six Seconds: A Short Cut to Teenage Fanclub Bandwagonesque Howdy! ASIN: B0009G3BEC Release Date: 2005-06-07

Tracks:

1. It's All In My Mind
2. Time Stops
3. Nowhere
4. Save
5. Slow Fade
6. Only With You
7. Cells
8. Feel
9. Fallen Leaves
10. Flowing
11. Born Under A Good Sign
12. Don't Hide

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De do do do, de da da da.......2006-08-08

Best Fanclub Album in Years.......2006-01-30

5 stars!!!!!!!! 5 stars!!!!!!!! 5 stars!!!!!!!! 5 stars!!!!!!!! 5 stars!!!!!!!!.......2006-01-11

This is a Great disc, so all of you idiots shut you dirty rotten traps!!!!, .......2006-01-11

fans of teenage fanclub .......2006-01-02

Average customer rating: Great renditions excellent representation of an unknown 20th century master

Rebecca Clarke: The Cloths of Heaven Manufacturer: Guild ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Rebecca Clarke: The Complete Choral Music Rebecca Clarke: Chamber Music Rebecca Clarke: Midsummer Moon, Passacaglia, Rhapsody etc. ASIN: B0000542IP Release Date: 2005-01-17

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Great renditions.......2004-11-10

excellent representation of an unknown 20th century master.......2004-02-24

John Masefield was not yet Poet Laureate of Great Britain when Clarke met him in 1925 to discuss her settings of his writings. "June Twilight" and "The Seal Man" both evoke undulating scenes of nature, but there the similarities end. "June Twilight" is rapturous in its joy of a country scene, wistful only at the temporal finiteness of that beauty. A prose text from Masefield's A Mainsail Haul, Clarke set "The Seal Man" in 1922. Based on the Celtic myth of the seal who takes on the form of a man in order to lure women to their death in the sea, the legend reverses the genders of the Greek myth of the Siren. This declamatory prose setting is one of which she always spoke of as being one of her favorites.

W. B. Yeats was a favorite poet of composers of Clarke's generation. She dedicated "Shy One" "The Cloths of Heaven" to the famous English tenor Gervase Elwes, who was one of the first to champion her music, and who sang her music in New York City just days before his 1921 death in a Boston train accident. Clarke's setting of "Shy One" is warmly tinged with modal flavor and a strongly profiled melody; yet the Musical Times attacked its use of dissonance.

With its imagery of flowers and romance, Anna Wickham's poem "The Cherry Blossom Wand" might at first glance seem to be cheerful, but closer reading reveals a dark cynicism. The poem was widely read when it was first published in 1915, but although labeled "To be set to music" (Wickham herself trained as a singer), Clarke's is the only setting. Clarke knew the poet through their mutual friend, cellist May Mukle.

Clarke would go on to set three more works by women poets to music, the resulting songs a small but distinct part of her output. Ella Young, an Irish poet and novelist, settled in California in 1925. Clarke's setting of Young's "Greeting" is a small but strongly chiseled lyrical expression. Starting with rolling waves and buoyant melody, the mention of a lost love darkens the mood and leads to harmonic twists and shifts of texture.

The poet of "God Made a Tree," Katherine Kendall, is unknown in literature and was a British friend of Clarke, and a devout Catholic. Rebecca and her siblings were raised "in the strictest irreligion," as one of her nieces recalls, but did gain an informal interest in western religion and Christianity as shown by her Psalm settings of the early 1920s, and this setting of the Kendall text, and also the setting of Chesterton's wry but profound Palm Sunday text, "The Donkey"; interestingly, none of these religious-themed works were published. Clarke dedicated "The Donkey" to the Danish dramatic soprano Povla Frijsch in 1941. Frijsch had long championed Clarke's songs, naming her in a Musical America interview as among her favorite American composers. Frijsch's release of "Shy One" on a recording, the first of Clarke's music, may have motivated the dedication.

Clarke's setting of Psalm 63 was one of the works she showed to Gustav Holst in 1921 in order to receive his opinion and advice. It reveals the influence of Ernst Bloch, as well as Clarke's exposure to Jewish chanting through her London friends the Bentwiches.
While many of Clarke's British contemporaries set texts from A. E. Housman's early publication A Shropshire Lad, Clarke was the first to turn to his Late Poems, from which "Eight O'Clock" is drawn. Clarke illustrates the concise text in a work of devastating impact.

The anonymous poem "Tears" (labeled by Clarke as "Old Chinese Words") reveals Clarke's fascination with the Far East, which had grown since encountering a Javanese Gamelan at the World Exposition in Paris in 1900. The spacious span of its opening, and its use of wholetone scales create an austere and exotic atmosphere.

"Come, O Come my Life's Delight" offers a rapturous view of love. Based on words set by the seventh-century Thomas Campion, Clarke based this 1924 song on her own earlier choral setting. Claude Flight, author of "The Aspidistra," was an artist and friend of Clarke's. Parodying the conventions of the Victorian Parlour, "The Aspidistra" is a bold statement in its outrageous humour.

The Blake settings "Cradle Song" and "Infant Joy," evoke the traditional maternal position. Since Clarke had no children, these works might be understood as a musical expression of her perceived feminine role. "Cradle Song" employs clarity of structure and rhythm, and accessible poetic scansion; these are enriched by the impressionist vocabulary of chordal parallelism. Also a Blake setting, "Infant Joy" is a gem, a radiant outburst of devotion. Clarke also wrote several instrumental lullabies, with one for violin and voice included here.

"Tiger, Tiger" also sets Blake, a text that Benjamin Britten would turn to in the 1960s in his much more reserved setting. Clarke's work is her darkest song, with swirling chromaticism bordering on the expressionist, matching the text's evocation of the erotic and the unknowable subconscious realm. Clarke probably wrote "Tiger, Tiger" with John Goss in mind, as she relentlessly revised it during her romantic entanglement with him (ca. 1929-1933); she was also discouraged by a publisher's rejection of the work; they no doubt preferred lighter fare, especially from women. The disturbing power of "Tiger, Tiger" suggests that Clarke deserves consideration as a major composer of twentieth century song.

Like most violists, Clarke started on the violin as a child, switching to the viola while at the Royal College, and at the suggestion of Stanford. Yet, she sometimes still played the violin, in family or informal settings, or in her role as a versatile freelance musician. A former teacher and suitor, Percy Miles, died in 1922 leaving Clarke a Stradivarius violin, which she occasionally played in subsequent years.

"Midsummer Moon" was dedicated to Adila Fachiri, with whom Clarke often performed in ensemble concerts in England. "Starting a fiddle piece using some old scraps," she wrote of the work in February of 1924, a vivid description reflecting Clarke's hobby as an avid sewer. The Musical Times noted the brilliance of the work, while determined to consider it only as representative of the "'new' woman composer."

The arrangements of Old English Songs, and Irish Folk Songs for voice and violin were among Clarke's most popular pieces, which she sometimes played for pleasure as well as in concert settings. Their folk and traditional themes remind us that Clarke should be squarely placed in the mainstream of the English Musical Renaissance, since they both suggest her influence by Holst's settings of the same unusual combination, and her possible influence on Vaughan Williams who would write for voice and violin in 1928.

Liane Curtis

Average customer rating: Highly Recommended

Man Made Machine Carptree Manufacturer: Inside Out U.S. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Milliontown Second Life Syndrome The Art of Navigating by the Stars A Place in the Queue Paradox Hotel ASIN: B000AJRJHI Release Date: 2005-09-05

Tracks:

1. Titans Clash Aggressively to Keep an Even Score
2. Sunshine Waters
3. Weakening Sound
4. Tilting the Scales
5. Man You Just Became
6. Man Made Machine
7. Burn to Something New
8. In the Centre of an Empty Space
9. Recipe
10. This Is Home

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Highly Recommended.......2005-09-13

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Music of Jerome Kern Manufacturer: Collectables ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Orchestral Pop | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Music of George Gershwin Music of Cole Porter/Music of Vincent Youmans The Music of Irving Berlin ASIN: B00002CEYH Release Date: 1999-11-09

Tracks:

1. (When Your Heart's On Fire) Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Yesterdays
2. I've Told Every Little Star - The Song Is You
3. The Night Was Made For Love - She Didn't Say Yes - All The Things You Are
4. Look For The Silver Lining - They Didn't Believe Me - Long Ago (And Far Away)
5. I Dream Too Much - The Jockey On The Carrousel
6. Why Was I Born? - The Way You Look Tonight: Who?
7. Make Believe - Bill
8. Why Do I Love You? - You Are Love - Ol' Man River

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This Is the Army & Call Me Mister Manufacturer: Jasmine Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Broadway & Vocalists | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Spring Awakening (2006 Original Broadway Cast) ASIN: B00006J9M1 Release Date: 2002-11-19

Tracks:

1. Overture: This Is The Army, Mr. Jones/I Left My Heart At The Stage Door/Canteen/That Russian Winter/This Is The Army, Mr. Jones (Reprise) - All-Soldier Chorus
2. This Is The Army, Mr. Jones - Irving Berlin & Chorus
3. I'm Getting Tired So I Can Sleep - Private Stuart Churchill
4. I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen - Corporal Earl Oxford
5. Dialog With Staff Sergent Ezra Stone, Corporal Philip Truex & Private Julie Oshins - Staff Sergent Ezra Stone
6. The Army's Made A Man Out Of Me - Staff Sergent Ezra Stone
7. What The Well Dressed Man In Harlem Will Wear - Corporal James 'Stump' Cross
8. How About A Cheer For The Navy - All-Soldier Chorus
9. American Eagles/With My Head In The Clouds - Soldier Chorus
10. Oh, How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning - Irving Berlin
11. My British Buddy - Irving Berlin & Chorus
12. This Time - Cote Glee Club
13. Going Home Train - Lawrence Winters & Male Chorus
14. Along With Me - Danny Scholl
15. Little Surplus Me - Betty Garrett
16. The Red Ball Express - Male Quartet
17. Military Life - Harry Clark
18. Yuletide, Park Avenue - Betty Garrett
19. When We Meet Again - Paula Bane
20. The Face On The Dime - Lawrence Winters
21. South America, Take It Away - Betty Garrett
22. Call Me Mister - Bill Callaghan

Average customer rating: HIS BEST YET! A fantastic CD from an original bluesman!

Self-Made Man Studebaker John & the Hawks Manufacturer: Avanti ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chicago Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Blues | Styles | Music Electric Blues Guitar | Blues | Styles | Music Modern Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Similar Items: Between Life and Death Road to Rio Full Circle Working Man Rattleshake ASIN: B000FS2VSG Release Date: 2006-06-13

Tracks:

1. Ride, Ride, Ride
2. So Happy Together
3. Back In Your Town
4. Self-Made Man
5. Fast In The Slow Lane
6. The Hard Way
7. All That I Know
8. All Aboard (The Streamliner)
9. Hoo Doo You
10. Walkin' In The Rain
11. Where Are You
12. Rockin' Like Crazy
13. Hey Little Mama
14. Highway King
15. Ride With Me Baby

Customer Reviews:

HIS BEST YET!.......2006-10-01

A fantastic CD from an original bluesman!.......2006-07-14

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