Dwarf

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Nandina is a musical force of nature with unforgettable performances and intense songwriting. Dynamic, insistent and frequently freaky, they dfy genre and engage audiences with their constant mood manipulation. A melting pot consisitng of rock and bohemiam rhythms, a hint of punk, a dash of techno all fused with acoustic-based sounds, soaring vocals and the occasional spasm of guttural angst. Their live show lures you away from the back of the room and pulls you in tthe alternate universe that is their world.

Nandina currently resides in Greensboro, North Carolina and works under the Snapdragon Productions label.

Performers
Megg Isaac -Lead Vocals, Guitars, Programming Elizabeth Ramsey -Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals Sal Burnette - Backing Vocals, Drums

Album Description
Danceably, ambient femme noir, an electronic exploration into the feminine psyche. Not for the faint of heart. Warning: turn your subwoofers down!

Dwarf

Average customer rating:

More coffee, warden?
functiional brain required
Hubba hubba George, what a suit!
On a Scale of 1 to 5, This is a 27!
Everything You Know Is Wrong

Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers!
Firesign Theatre
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005T7IS
Release Date: 2001-12-04

Tracks:

This Side
The Other Side

Customer Reviews:

More coffee, warden?.......2007-05-13

If you have time for only one Firesign album before you die, make sure it's this one. A prescient, strangely psychedelic (no drugs involved) dissection of America & life in general that will leave you awake all night wondering about who or what's really in charge of this whole peculiar shebang anyway? But of course all their albums are like that. Must be those Canadian writers. The Firesign Theater is the closest thing America ever had to Monty Python, and we owe them a LOT for holding up an unflinching mirror to our loony culture.

functiional brain required.......2007-03-31

this is possibly the best comedy cd of all time. if one wishes to experience a delightful active mental journey as opposed to a more passive "the guy tells a joke and i listen to it" comedy club performance, this is the correct choice.
if you don't have the adventure gene in your body, you might find the performance to be scattered, difficult to follow, and more weird than funny.
one more thing. don't try to listen to this while driving. you will either miss the good stuff on the cd, or miss something important on the road. it would be a waste either way.

Hubba hubba George, what a suit!.......2006-08-28

Firesign Theater has been dismissed as a 60s relic, but listening to DCTD,HMTP repeatedly made me realize it's about the members' nostalgia for the pop culture of their childhood (the Henry Aldrich radio series, Archie comics, Korean War B-movies, etc.)rather than drugs and hippies. Little wonder that at the end of the second side, George Tirebiter reverts to a child running after an ice cream truck. It's also incredibly funny and compulsively quotable, their best sustained effort.

On a Scale of 1 to 5, This is a 27!.......2006-08-14

Being their third release, and the first three albums being their tightest work, Dwarf is often misunderstood. Disjointed snippets? Not in the slightest! Dwarf is the story of an aging George Leroy Tirebiter sitting in front of the television, flipping through the channels only to find each station is showing a story about different phases of his life (complete with commercials). I'm uncertain if George was about to die and this is how his life flashed before his eyes. Regardless, this fine piece of work is often quoted, including an apartment complex near a freeway in Indianapolis posting a sign stating, "If you lived here, you'd be home now." Some material has dated better than other, but still an album that bears repeated listening in order to "catch" half of the jokes, puns, and one-liners that are woven into the text of the album. Buy this album, it is a requirement of the (aptly named) Department of Redundancy Department.

Everything You Know Is Wrong.......2006-07-15

OK. For the uninitiated, apologies for the arcane Firesign reference in the title. As for Dwarf, this is a fabulous CD. It is funny. It is smart. It is subtle. It is stupid. It is arcane. It is endlessly self-referential. It is nonsense.

Here's the problem with translating Dwarf to 21st century sensibilities: nobody has the time to figure out a 45-minute comedy routine that requires repeated listening. And yes, it requires figuring out.

I love this material, as obviously dated as it is. But if you don't have the patience to go with it, if you're looking for easy laughs, it's probably not for you. If you loved it once and aren't sure if you're going to love it again, you might find it ages as well for you as Pixie Stix. (Gak.) But if you got below the surface the first time, or you're willing to spend time with it now, go for it. Go back and don't crush that dwarf one more time.

And just for the record, it would've been five stars--if only this weren't a CD. Part of the original joke was the vinyl medium.

Average customer rating:

Two tracks I really like
Quantity Over Quality
Mediocre
One Hundred Greatest TV Themes
Pretty close to original recordings

One Hundred Greatest TV Themes

Manufacturer: Silva America
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005Y49F
Release Date: 2002-08-27

Tracks:

The A-Team - Nic Raine
The Addams Family - Nic Raine
The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe - Nic Raine
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Dallas - Nic Raine
Dangerman (Secret Agent) - Mike Townend
Doctor Who - Mark Ayres
Doctor Kildare - Jerry Goldsmith

Tracks:

Doogie Howser, M.D. - Derek Wadsworth
Dynasty - Nic Raine
The Equalizer - Derek Wadsworth
Falcon Crest - Derek Wadsworth
Fireball XL-5 - Derek Wadsworth
The Fugitive - Nic Raine
Hawaii 5-0 - Mike Townend
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Nic Raine
The High Chaparral - Nic Raine
Highway To Heaven - Derek Wadsworth
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The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Mark Ayres
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Jason King - Mike Townend
Jesus Of Nazareth - Paul Bateman
Joe 90 - Derek Wadsworth
Johnny Staccato - Derek Wadsworth
Knight Rider - Derek Wadsworth
Kojak - Mike Townend
L.A. Law - Derek Wadsworth
Land Of The Giants - Nic Raine
Little House On The Prairie - Derek Wadsworth
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Lost In Space - Nic Raine
Lou Grant - Derek Wadsworth

Tracks:

Magnum, P.I. - Derek Wadsworth
A Man Called Ironside - Mike Townend
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Derek Wadsworth
M*A*S*H - Nic Raine
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Mike Hammer - Derek Wadsworth
Mission Impossible - Mike Townend
Monty Python's Flying Circus - Nic Raine
The Munsters - Derek Wadsworth
Murder She Wrote - Derek Wadsworth
Newhart - Derek Wadsworth
North And South - Derek Wadsworth
Northern Exposure - Derek Wadsworth
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The Outer Limits - Nic Raine
Perry Mason - Mike Townend
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The Prisoner - Mike Townend
Quantum Leap - Derek Wadsworth
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Red Dwarf - Mark Lambert
The Rockford Files - Mike Post
Roseanne - Dan Foliart

Tracks:

The Saint - Mike Townend
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Space 1999 - Derek Wadsworth
Star Trek - Mike Townend
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Stingray - Barry Gray
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The X-Files - Mark Ayres

Customer Reviews:

Two tracks I really like.......2007-07-21

The Mission Impossible theme is performed well.
The Fireball theme is actually much improved on this version. I prefer the orchestra and the vocals over the original.

Quantity Over Quality.......2007-01-15

As a musician myself, I know too well that one of the most important ingredients in ANY performance (live or recorded) is passion. The recordings here generally lack the same passion and sheer drama of the originals. Much of the instrumentation has been reduced to a cheezy, thin, plastic synthesized replica. The performances are simply a watered-down lackluster version of the classic originals. If it were not for the sheer volume of tracks compiled here, I would have rated the comp only "one star".

Mediocre.......2006-05-17

The sound quality for this collection isn't much better than the samples offered by Amazon.

One Hundred Greatest TV Themes.......2005-08-06

I have watched almost all the shows that are on these 4 cd's. Many were made before I started watching TV. Most I've seen once or twice before.

Pretty close to original recordings.......2005-07-24

Definitely not as good as the originals. You'll probably notice the slight differences since it's stuff you saw and listened to every week or everyday in reruns growing up, but it's still an amazing collection.

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Dwarf
Zemlinsky , and Conlon
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B00000DNTX
Release Date: 1997-02-25

Average customer rating:

Genius that trancends genre
"Dwarf" is 5 stars - this CD is 0
More Science for Morescience High!
Stop calling me Fred....My name's Adolf!

Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers
Firesign Theatre
Manufacturer: Mobile Fidelity
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005Q7F7
Release Date: 1970-01-01

Tracks:

Tingings: This Side
Tingings: The Other Side

Album Details

Reissue. Originally Released on Columbia in 1970. Their Best Stoner Classic Album.

Customer Reviews:

Genius that trancends genre.......2002-01-15

My personal favorite FST album. Although it is necessary to listen to them in chronological order (in particular you must hear "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once" before this one) this one is an absolute must. "Comedy" is simply and inadequate term to describe this.

"Dwarf" is 5 stars - this CD is 0.......2001-12-03

I'm listening to this right now, and I have to say that I'm sorry I didn't wait for the Sony reissue. This is obviously "remastered" from a not-too clean vinyl pressing, with little attempt to disguise the turntable rumble, clicks and pops, and distortion due to wear. Worse, the CD case was shattered when I received it, though Amazon thoughtfully included another broken CD case that combined made a semi-functional case. I've read on the firesign newsgroup that at least one other person received a broken case from another retailer, so I suspect that the fault likes with Evangenline Records.

I just had to turn this off because the distortion was so bad. What a disappointment, and a waste of money. Go with the Sony reissues; they've got to be better than this.

More Science for Morescience High!.......2001-11-28

As per Bruce's review (strange thing: as I was originally listening to this wonderful record, 1970, I was good friends with a guy named Bill Strang), this is a long lost treasure. I sold my Firesign collection in the mid 1970s to help pay for school textbooks. Hooray, finally a college student at age 23!! Anyway, just buy it, light up (you know what I mean), pop it on the turntable, uh, in the drawer, turn out the lights, and be transported. Now where are the rest of their damn albums from '68 through '71?

Stop calling me Fred....My name's Adolf!.......2001-11-24

Well pass the groat clusters, but be sure to use your entrenching tools! After an altogether too long a hiatus from the shelves, the Firesign classic 'Dwarf' album returns to cd form. I had a friend in the mid 80's who told me that these new fangled cd's are replacing old vinyl, so I had better get me one and toss out my albums. So I did, including my entire Firesign collection. Fifteen years later I have finally gotten 'Dwarf' on cd. It was worth the wait. Within the first thirty seconds of Pastor Flash's return to earth, I was in heaven. A classic returns! Vive le George Tirebiter!

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phenominal if you can stand the slow tempo and English

Wagner Twilight Of The Gods

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ASIN: B000000AA5
Release Date: 1994-07-26

Tracks:

Introduction-You Drove The Game Away From Us
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Customer Reviews:

phenominal if you can stand the slow tempo and English.......2000-04-07

Opinion is very sharply divided on Reginald Goodall's Wagner conducting, people either find it revelatory or insufferable. I personally found it very difficult to listen with sustained attention to his complete Ring, but it was worth the effort. This issue presents only the last two scenes of Act III of Twilight of the Gods, but still takes a full hour under Goodall's direction. It is a studio performance and has fewer lapses in intonation than his live recording of the complete opera. The singing is excellent; Rita Hunter has a classic Brunnhilde voice and the rest of the cast is very strong too, although they require prodigious breath control to match Goodall's tempo. The orchestral playing is beautiful and many details in the woodwind, which often get buried elsewhere, are clearly heard. The finale, although again very slow, has crushing power. I first heard this recording on the Unicorn-Kanchana label, both on record and on cassette, and thought it had some of the best sound engineering ever for this music, it really is quite enthralling. For those who object to the translation of the original text into English, I would say that Wagner himself authorized the Ring to be performed on tour after the 1876 Bayreuth Festival (by Angelo Neimann as I recall) and the translation was approved if it meant the difference between getting his music performed or not. Andrew Porter's translation comes as close to the German text as possible in rhythm and word meaning; it does lack some poetic subtleties. The singers enunciate the English text well and for a change it is nice to hear and understand everything that is sung without a libretto. The documentation is very good too. Overall, this is a fine release, although it may not appeal to everyone.

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Giant Normal Dwarf
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Complex, diverse and often compelling........
Long-time favorite
Incredible Voice
This one lives under my skin
Great music

Painting Sidewalks
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Release Date: 1994-08-16

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My Heart Might
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Customer Reviews:

Complex, diverse and often compelling...............2003-12-14

Wendy Bucklew is one of those rare female artists who can mix emotional subtlety with straightforward honesty and create a listening experience that is both comforting and bracing in turns...

Wendy's songs are complex, diverse and often compelling.... describing a compassionate but uncompromising engagement with life's relational vignettes and sagas.....

she also displays her acoustic guitar chops on several songs, most notably on the final cut, the instumental "Different Everytime," which is turning out to be one of my favorite songs on this album--puts me in the mind of Dick Rossmini, a 12-string acoustic virtuoso of yore.....

if people are still selling this disc for around a buck (or less), it not only is a shame, it's an absolute steal, and no way you should pass it up....

I'm sure that you will find that one--or several--of the songs on this disc will turn out to be worth that much (and more!) to you.....stone guarantee!

trust me on this one........

Long-time favorite.......2001-06-16

I've been a fan of Wendy's for many years. I lived in Atlanta and discovered her wonderful voice by accident and instantly feel in love with her sound. I regularly check to see if she has a new album since I know it will be wonderful. Now that I've moved, I hope she will travel to Boulder, CO so I can hear her again in person.

Incredible Voice.......2000-04-28

Wendy's voice is literally amazing. I hit the repeat button like 20 times on "I know the feeling". This is my personal favorite cd by her, but they're all great!

This one lives under my skin.......2000-02-18

I love this disc. Wendy Bucklew's winning voice drips soul, and her song writing gets straight to the truth. I can't stop listening to "Road Trip", and "Ode to Over" is another killer track. Wendy, please come to Rochester!

Great music.......1999-01-09

Wendy's music and talent always stir up a lot of emotion for me. Look for a re-release of Rage in the Ring from her soon. I'm one of her loyal followers here in Atlanta and want to tell you all if you listen to anything of hers and like it, you'll like all of it.