Connection
Editorial Reviews
Online review, December 2002
"Bjork meets Natalie Merchant. It is rare these days to hear a woman's voice so gripping…"
Garageband.com, October 2002
"underneath sexy sweet sunbathing vocals … a tantalizing tortured angel in love. Mazzy Star- with sweet emotional sincerity…wow. "
Album Description
Legend has it that Jo first learned to crawl out of her crib to change the albums on her record player. Today, she is making her own albums. This record, a full-length pop CD, titled Connection reaches you this now. Compared by critics to Sarah McLachlan and Dido, Jo’s voice has been described as smooth, sweet, and captivating.
Connection
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- good, classic Elton!
- Tumbleweed Connection- Elton John
- Must Have, Great from Begining to End
- Not Yellow Brick Road
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Tumbleweed Connection
Elton John
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ASIN: B000001EG4
Release Date: 1996-02-20 |
Tracks:
- Ballad Of A Well-Known Gun
- Come Down In Time
- Country Comfort
- Son Of Your Father
- My Father's Gun
- Where To Now St. Peter?
- Love Song
- Amoreena
- Talking Old Soldiers
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Tumbleweed Connection is part of the early catalog of Elton John's work that Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose reportedly once said he would love to own the publishing rights to as a work of art. Indeed, it does contain some of John's most expressive work as an artist, but with the showy stage presence and pop melodicism still under construction. Tumbleweed is characterized by John's balladeer approach, with John at his storyteller best on songs like "Burn Down the Mission." Even if the lyrics were generally written by Bernie Taupin, John's voice and inflection made every song seem deeply personal. The beautiful "Come Down in Time" displays the subtleties and sophistication of his talent, with the piano not yet serving as the instrumental focal point it would later become. The album also features the favorite "Ballad of a Well-Known Gun" and "Where to Now St. Peter?" --Steve Gdula
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good, classic Elton!.......2007-05-13
I used to have this album in the LP form when a teen. It has some great stuff on it, particularly "country comfort" and "my father's gun". The latter was recently featured in "Elizabethtown" and was just perfect. The songs are long, as some were in the 70's, but many of Elton's were such masterpieces. Some of the other songs are pretty good, but none as good as the ones I mentioned, at least for my taste. However, Madman across the Water is a great song, and has some fantastic electric guitar, if you are a fan of that. The 70's sure was a good time for electric guitar! enjoy this excursion into the 70's with Elton.
Tumbleweed Connection- Elton John.......2007-05-12
Una agradable sorpresa!, conocía "Madman Across the Water", para mi el mejor disco de Elton, "Tumbleweed Connection" es de un estilo más country/folk/blues, con un gran trabajo de Elton en el piano y sin los arreglos orquestales de Madman. Un Elton John inspirado y sin presiones comerciales. Temas como Amoreena, My Fathers Gun y Burn Down The Mission justifican todo el trabajo. Muy recomendable
Must Have, Great from Begining to End.......2007-04-04
Most reviews get hung up on comparing artists or styles. Well laets face it all that matters is the music. If you want a cd that you can put on, and enjoy it from start to finish then search no longer. We can discuss different styles during different periods in eltons career all day, but most will agree that around this period he was becoming his most productive. Nowadays it is customary to have a hit single or two, and have them on a cd. Yet things were not as corporate at the time, Elton and Bernie went for the music. Not really trying to theme anything, yet Bernies love of America, and the american west does come thru. Otherwise this is a collection of simply great songs. Granted each will not be your favorate, but you will enjoy them nonetheless. Simple basic, not overly produced, but not unplugged either. Love songs, heartfelt songs with yearning, and vibrant lyrics. Weaving a tapestry in sound. I won't cover individual songs because they are to your taste. But there is something for everyone, and taken as a whole, you will be surprisingly happy at the time spent.
Not Yellow Brick Road.......2007-03-15
I have most of Eltons albums and this is the one I've played the most over the years. Heavily influnced by The Band, this captures Elton at the start of his golden period. I don't think he's ever beaten this album. However Yellow Brick Road this is not! Country/blues/folk is where this album takes its roots from.
Eltons Piano playing is heard at its best on this album, high in the mix a lot of the time, and not drowned by other keyboards as on later albums. Listen to Amoreena which has plenty of great Piano playing on it. Another favourite on this album is My Fathers Gun, not to mention Burn Down The Mission which Elton still plays to this day (37 years later).
This could almost be classed as roots music now. It sounds absurd doesn't it, Elton John roots music, but people forget that behind the glitz and the showman, Elton is primarily a songwriter and musician. Listen to this album and forget the newspaper headlines!
elton's best. a masterpiece from 1971........2007-03-13
lately elton has awaken from the slumbers of about 30 years in the land of mediocrity, having released three good albums in a row (last years "captain and the kid" was very fine, in particular). that said, however; he still stands miles away from the 1971 masterpiece "tumbleweed connection," which is easily his best album. a gritty, soulful set of fantastic songs, with blues and country overtones, "tumbleweed" is a high point of the early seventies music scene. powerful and alive with his most outstanding vocal performances, this would prove an achievement he could never match again. elton made other excellent albums in that era, most notably "honky chateau," "madman across the water," and "goodbye yellow brick road." "captian fantastic & the brown dirt cowboy," from 1975 is pretty darn good, too; but "tumbleweed..." is his most satisfying album through and through. anyone out there who thinks of elton as an overproduced popster, and has yet to hear this recording, would do themselves a favor by purchasing a copy. great stuff.
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- Classic P-Funk
- Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip
- Legendary
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- Make mine the P-Funk
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Mothership Connection
Parliament
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ASIN: B00008RV1A
Release Date: 2003-04-08 |
Tracks:
- P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)
- Mothership Connection (Star Child)
- Unfunky UFO
- Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication
- Handcuffs
- Tear the Roof off the Sucker (Give up the Funk)
- Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples
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Classic P-Funk.......2007-07-17
A must have for all concerned. This is uncut funk. Buy this CD now!
Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip.......2007-06-20
I'm by no means a funk expert. I spend most of my time listening to the likes of Rush, Porcupine Tree, and Pain of Salvation. But we all have the urge to explore and from time to time get our groove on. The Mothership is the place to do it. This was my first venture into Gearge Clinton's world and it still remains my favorite. From the opening "Do not attempt to adjust your radio," To the closing "Ga Ga Do Ga's" of Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples, This is a masterpiece. Clinton's skills as a songwriter, producer, and band leader are impressive to say the least. Through layers of vocals, horns and Bootsie's bouncing bass he guides his creation on a flawless musical journey. Philosophically he shares a great deal with the practitioners of progressive rock exploreing far and wide, relying on the virtuosity of his bandmates,incorporateing all styles he can get his hands on, and lets face it Bernie Worrell reaches stratospheres Rick Wakeman only dreamed of. The end result is a groove laden voyage to a place somewhere between Shaft and The Outer Limits. It's very strange, very out there, and very satifying.
Legendary.......2007-05-10
No other funk album of this era or any other moved me the way this one did,I not only had the pleasure of seeing this tour twice during that time but also actually had the pleasure of hanging out with these guys after one of the shows!, little did I know at the time just how significant this would be, Glen Goins was my all time favorite not to mention the fact that I play guitar as well.
Mike Hampton gave me a couple of picks, I still to this day have them.
Space Is The Place.......2007-01-10
This is funk the way it should be, as Parliament keeps the groove going strong in the original seven cuts, plus one bonus track.
Released in February 1976, the album and the single - Tear The Roof Off The Sucker - charted on both the Billboard pop (album, #13; single, #15) and black charts (album, #4; single, #5). Yes, gotta give a shout out to that music industry segregation!
With Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley adding more power to the horn section - which also featured the Becker Bros. - the trio of George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell pen three dynamite numbers; P-Funk, Mothership Connection & Give Up The Funk.
The album is also the debut of Starchild - a character based on Sun Ra's Black Noah - in the P-Funk Mythology. Starchild's life is explained further in the 1976 album, The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein.
Arguably the greatest Parliament album ever, you will wear out the CD before growing tired of the rhythms on Mothership Connection.
Make mine the P-Funk.......2006-12-26
In 1975, the Mothership touched down. Sure, there had been Parliament albums before this, but none had been remotely like this. It's a concept album, but don't let that scare you off, because the concept is funk from outer space that had been stored in the pyramids and was being retrieved by "Star Child". And the whole thing is as utterly goofball as the concept suggests. Okay, onto the music...
Things open with P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up), an excellent intro to the band's new direction if there ever was one. It's eight minutes of groove, with George (and Sir Lollipop Man, alias the long-haired sucka)'s hilarious, offhand spoken comments about how Funk can save your life - but only P-Funk, that is funk played by station WEFUNK, which of course comes from space. The next song, Mothership Connection (Starchild) is arguably the best of the bunch. Of course you can dance to it, and you'll probably end up singing along with the "swing low, sweet chariot stop and/let me ride" bridge. Hell, you might even burst out singing it randomly when it isn't playing. It's happened to me.
You don't hear much about the next three tracks, but they're all worth hearing, too. First off is the ironically funky Unfunky UFO, about saving a "dying world" from its "unfunkiness", which to me means "its lack of peace and unity" - it's amazing just what Clinton could do with the "funk" metaphor. Madcap genius, or what? Anyway, great message, even better song. Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication (The Thumps Bump), one of the coolest titles ever (its only rival being Parliament's own Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadooloop)), follows. To me, this stretches the metaphor from last tune - maybe I'm overanalyzing, but if I am I like what I'm picking up. Anyway, this is another unforgettable lost classic. Next is Handcuffs, perhaps the weakest song here, but a great tune that would've led the pack on a lesser disc. It's by far the most traditional thing here, a love (okay, sex) song not related to the concept, and a charming, clever one at that - sort of like Wizard of Finance.
Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker) is anthem central. Sure, the lyrics are simple, with just a couple phrases repeated for six minutes. But it's more about the groove than the lyrics - rap would probably NOT have happened without this song, and though I wouldn't complain about that, why blame Parliament for their followers? Anyway, it's a great song - subtle horn arrangement, heavy bass, drums and keyboards (the Bernie Worrel show!), unforgettable intro sung in baritone over percussion (sound like rap to anyone?) Classic stuff. Lastly is Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples. It's hilarious, a chant that begins with "I am high/we are high...". Hilarious!
Of course, Parliament was dominated by George Clinton, but it wouldn't have happened without Bernie Worrell or Bootsy Collins. Long live George, Bernie and Bootsy, everybody's favorite utterly goofball geniuses!
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- Beatles
- Beatle Hootenanny
- When the tradition of Western polyphonic singing meets the Beatles - there is much to enjoy
- without time
- Wonderful blending of voices and imagination!
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The Beatles Connection: The King's Singers
King's Singers , Paul McCartney , and John Lennon
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ASIN: B000002RQM
Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
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Beatles.......2007-06-27
A very impressive version of the Beatles songs, again all very tight and professional, a beatle purist should be proud.
Beatle Hootenanny.......2007-05-22
As an inveterate Beatles' fan, I admit I am very picky when it comes to Beatle covers. However, as far as cover versions go, this one is decent. The voices harmonize well and, objectively speaking are good. This collection is like a folk hootenanny treatment of the Beatles' classics.
The only arrangement I didn't like was "A Hard Day's Night." I felt it deviated from the standard Beatle format and I also didn't like the tempo of this arrangement. I would have preferred that the background singing on "Help!" had been omitted; I felt it "cluttered" the song.
All in all, decent. It is what it is - cover versions of timeless Beatle classics. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" was the best performed song on this collection. If you like folk as I do and you enjoy a good hootenanny as I do, then you might enjoy this one.
When the tradition of Western polyphonic singing meets the Beatles - there is much to enjoy.......2007-01-07
The previous reviewers have rightly extolled the virtues of this disc, recorded in 1986. With the King's Singers "Beatles Connection", the tradition of Western polyphonic singing, harking back to Jannequin, Monteverdi and the English Renaissance, meets the art of song writing that the Beatles brought to a degree of perfection.
The results are outstanding. Unlike the "Beatles Go Baroque" collection published by Naxos, in which both traditions are so watered down in the encounter as to loose all spine, here we get the best of both worlds. The full flavour of the original Ballads is there (many of the Greatest Hits are included), as well as the polyphonic art of the King's at its best. One of the nice things about the arrangements is not only that the vocal lines are polyphonically distributed between various singers (achieving results that are oftentimes far more elaborate than the originals), but that the five singers also assume vocally the bass, percussion and instrumental support as well, thanks to an array of da-dams, tshik-tshik and other scat effects. Try trak 9 and 10, it's hard to believe - and great fun to hear!
The disc's liner notes remind us of how far back the relationship between the King's Singers and the Beatles goes: their first album for EMI was produced by no less than the "fifth" Beatle, producer George Martin, and the bass guitarist in that original album became, twenty years later, the producer of the present one. The King's Singers also made the frog chorus in McCartney's "We All Stand Together", and the father of Jeremy Jackman, one of the group's two countertenors (whose brothers are also arranger and sound engineer for the album), was the clarinettist of "When I'm Sixty Four" (in the Sgt. Pepper Album).
There is much to enjoy here, both for the connoisseur (of the Beatles and/or of classical) and for the "layperson".
without time.......2007-01-06
B as Beatles is a guarantee. till the end of time their songs will be sung.
also without music as these. compliments to the King's Singers!!!
Sergio
Italian Beatles fan
Wonderful blending of voices and imagination!.......2001-02-02
So you think you've heard just about every interpretation of the Beatles there is? Even in the remotest possibility that were indeed the case, you shouldn't miss out on this one.
For the hitherto uninitiated, King's Singers is a famous group of six Englishmen who sing a cappella (without accompaniment). They are at home performing a wide range of material, from classical to popular music.
In this recording, you'll hear many Beatles stand bys, as well as a few not-so-familiar ones-all of them taking a magical twist from the King's Singers rendition. Whether it's their heartwarming strains of "And I Love Her" and "Girl" or their amusing innovations in "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da" and "Lady Madonna," the King's Singers take no prisoners here. This is one album every home should not be without!
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The French Connection/French Connection II
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ASIN: B0006SSPYO
Release Date: 2005-01-11 |
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- Main Title [From the French Connection]
- Charnier [From the French Connection]
- Copstail [From the French Connection]
- Old Fort [From the French Connection]
- Staking Out Sal [From the French Connection]
- Car [From the French Connection]
- Popeye Blues [From the French Connection]
- Bugging Sal and Angie [From the French Connection]
- Hotel Chase [From the French Connection]
- Subway [From the French Connection]
- Shot [From the French Connection]
- This Is It [From the French Connection]
- Lincoln Blues [From the French Connection]
- Rocker Panels [From the French Connection]
- Revoir [From the French Connection]
- Last Roundup [From "The French Connection"]
- Frog One Is in That Room [From the French Connection]
- End Title [From the French Connection]
- Main Title/Waterfront [From French Connection II]
- Boat Ride [From French Connection II]
- Popeye's Montage [From French Connection II]
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- Hit [From French Connection II]
- Heroin [From French Connection II]
- O.D. [From French Connection II]
- Pain [From French Connection II]
- Rehabilitation [From French Connection II]
- Revenge [From French Connection II]
- Boat Bottom/Drydock [From French Connection II]
- Stalking/Here Come the Cops [From French Connection II]
- Big Chase [From French Connection II]
- Exhaustion [From French Connection II]
- End Title [From French Connection II]
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- snider finds his true form
- Not the best work
- Todd Snider ROCKS!
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- new connection - same results
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New Connection
Todd Snider
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ASIN: B000065T36
Release Date: 2002-05-14 |
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- New Connection
- Vinyl Records
- Rose City
- Beer Run
- Easy
- Crooked Piece Of Time
- Anywhere
- Stuck All Night
- Statistician's Blues
- Class Of 85
- Broke
- Close Enough To You
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Todd Snider's fifth disc opens with a pleasant, chugging roots-rock sing-along--the title track--then kicks into a jokey folk number, "Vinyl Records." In a tongue-twisting tumble of a chorus, Snider shuffles through his record collection, name-checking classic rockers and country stars, longhaired hippies and softheaded folkies. The balance of the disc bears out these diverse influences: New Connections is a stylistic smorgasbord, serving up earnest introspection ("Rose City," "Class of 85") and heavy-hearted ballads ("Close Enough to You," "Waco Moon") alongside wisecracking novelty cuts ("Beer Run," "Statistician's Blues"). There's even a taste of clarinet-addled swing in "Broke" and a cover of John Prine's "Crooked Piece of Time," to which Prine himself adds his unmistakable vocal scrape. In all, its occasional flaws--production that's sometimes too rich, arrangements a tad too dense, a couple of middling tunes--don't derail a solid, likable album. --Anders Smith Lindall
Customer Reviews:
snider finds his true form.......2003-03-09
On his first albums Todd Snider sounded like the new Tom Petty. There were some promising songs though, like Joe's Blues and Doublewide Blues, that had their own sound. On this new album New Connection, everything fits like a glove. Great songs, easy, laidback singing, beautiful arrangements, a band that has just the right feel for "near perfect" (that is: not too smooth). A masterpiece that reminds me of Eric Andersen's Blue River.
And it's one of those rare records that grow on you: it gets better with each spin.
Not the best work.......2003-01-16
Fans of Todd Snider's previous work are likely to be disapointed. His voice is slow, often unintelligible - like he just got out of bed. Lyrics and wit are not the quality of "Daily Planet" or "Happy." I really want to like this alblum, but "Vinyl Records" is one of the silliest songs about nothing I have ever heard. In fact most of this album is just forced. Looking forward to next album. In the mean time I will spin up Happy to Be Here" one more time.
Todd Snider ROCKS!.......2003-01-04
I tried to pick a favorite song on this CD but I just can't... They are ALL so good. Truly a couple of the best love songs I've ever heard (Anywhere, Close Enough to You). They are just so plain spoken, or sung, and down to earth. Tug at the heartstrings. Speaking of tugging heartstrings, Waco Moon will do that to you - quite the ode to a friend who's gone. A lot of the reason I listen to Todd Snider's music is cause he makes me smile (and sometimes grin), like in Vinyl Records (I've got about a quarter of it memorized and I've listened to it over and over..). I can just see him flipping through all his old albums. Statistician's Blues amd Broke have so much humor and so much truth in them. Both are funny, and not, cause their just too damn close to home. I love singing with Todd at the top of my lungs driving down the road and his songs make that so easy to do. Crooked Piece of Time is brilliant. New Connections just makes me feel good. And of course I'm learning to play Beer Run for around the campfire this summer.
Great surprise.......2003-01-03
I had never heard of Todd until I saw him open for John Prine.
I enjoyed his songs so much that I bought this album and have enjoyed it immensly. Stand outs are, New Connection, Waco Moon
and Crooked piece of time.
new connection - same results.......2002-10-24
Top to bottom this album has it all - makes you laugh , makes you think , makes you want to dance. I can't wait till mainstream finally catches up and the music industry finally recognizes what a gift Todd Snider is and the talent he posseses. His music will inspire you to move something whether it's your brain or your bottom! Check him out.
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- Killer connection
- Gangstas Make The World Go Round
- One of the last great West Coast HipHop Albums.........................
- Great album from west coast's supergroup
- Great album that made it's point to the East Coast
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Bow Down
Westside Connection
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Release Date: 1996-10-22 |
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- World Domination (Intro)
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Customer Reviews:
Killer connection.......2007-05-21
This album gets five stars for the following reasons. 1. It doesnt betray its purpose with silly records like Get Ignit and Lights Out. 2. The production was hard. None of that street party music the second album had. 3. Ice Cube was always on point, and WC and Mack10 shine right along with him. This album reminds of NWA's N***az4Life. Uncompromising gangsta rap at its finest. Standout Track: BOW DOWN, GANGSTAS MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND, ALL THE CRITICS IN NEW YORK(NYC needs to be dissed for giving a talentless stoolbucket like Puffy a pass), THE GANGSTA THE KILLER& THE DOPE DEALER, DO YOU LIKE CRIMINALS, CROSS EM OUT AND PUT A K (Cube and Mac10 take shots at Cypress Hill and Q-tip), KING OF THE HILL(continued assault on Cypress Hill on this dope diss record), 3 TIME FELONS etc. Filler: None. Bottom Line: Westside Connection's Bow Down is one the best rap albums from a group in 96. Hard edged rhyming over gritty beats. Just a great album period. BOW DOWN!
Gangstas Make The World Go Round .......2007-02-20
That song Gangstas Make The World Go Round, alone is reason to buy this CD.
One of the last great West Coast HipHop Albums................................2007-02-13
Cube was already a hiphop legend and screen star when he assembled WC and Mack 10 to form Westside Connection. This album dropped at the height of the West Coast-vs-East Coastal rap war. These dudes come hard and get their point across that these 3 West Coast Gs aint nothing to mess with!
Dub C is off the hook on here, dude is the knockout punch for real.
Top Joints:
Bow Down (Classic)
Gangstas Make The World Go Round (Classic)(Mack's blasphemous verse kills it)
All The Critics In New York
Do You Like Criminals
The Gangsta, The Killa And The Dope Dealer
King Of The Hill (Vicious Cypress Hill Diss)
3 Time Felons
Westward Ho (Where we Going?)
Great album from west coast's supergroup.......2006-11-12
Westside Connection united three of the west coast's strongest rappers in 1996 for their first album, "Bow Down". "Bow Down" is great because it is one of the hardest, most unapologetically gangsta rap albums released from the west coast since the days of NWA and Compton's Most Wanted. While Ice Cube doesn't rap in the stunning consciousness or social relevance as he did on his solo albums, he is well surrounded by fellow vets Mack 10 and WC, who display a great chemistry and play off each other's verses. Consistent is the word to describe this album. Every track is just as hard-hittin' as the last one, with threatening lyrics and chanted hooks that'll have you yelling along with them. The production fights against the reign of g-funk that had taken over the west coast in the nineties, using simple, hard drums and synths to create a vibe reminiscent of an earlier west coast sound. While this was not the most original album to emerge from the west coast, it's a great album to ride around to or play at any time, it's an angry and entertaining ride with three of the west coast's greatest, and the whole feel of the album is great. I recommend it to any fan of west coast hip hop or 90s rap, it's a really underrated album.
"Bow Down" is a great start, the trio drops threatening, murderous lyrics with a great hook over an awesome, super-tough beat. "Gangstas Make the World Go Round" represents their style and coast, it has good production and a funny chorus. They throw in their two cents on the east-west coast beef in "All the Critics in New York", which is followed by the entertaining "Do You Like Criminals". "The Gangsta, the Killer, and the Dope Dealer" has the best beat on the album, another ultra-rough song where they straight-up represent. "Cross 'Em Out and Put a K" will have you chanting along with the hook, guaranteed, an awesome song. On "King of the Hill" and "3 Time Felons", WSCG ignites the beef with Cypress Hill that would ensue for the next few years. Both are good songs too. "Westward Ho" is a humorous and funky song about dealings with women, I really like it. "Hoo-Bangin'" is an awesome song, I love the hook and beat, one might call it a classic.
Granted, "Bow Down" is not the most artistic or original album ever created, and listeners looking for another "Death Certificate" or album of that nature should look elsewhere. But this album has some of the most entertaining, roughest, and menacing music hip hop has ever had to offer. The supergroup of Mack 10, Ice Cube, and WC has rarely been passed in terms of talent, and this album shows why. Highly recommended to any hip hop fan.
Great album that made it's point to the East Coast.......2006-07-11
I only picked up Bow Down a few months ago and at the time I wasn't expecting that much from it, but I ended up being surprised at how good Westside Connection's debut effort was. I already owned most of Ice Cube's other work and I believed (like most others) that he hadn't really done anything significant since Lethal Injection. However in 1996 at the height of the tension between the East & West, Ice Cube, Mack 10 and WC dropped this gem of an album. On this site and on some other sources I have seen some fairly negative reviews of this album and they are unfair in my opinion. I suspect most of the bad press towards this album was from East Coast critics, the very people this album was targeting, and i'm not surprised they didn't like it, about half the tracks on the album are disses or have references to the East Coast. Whether the East Coast will admit it or not though, there was a lack of respect given to the West, and this album legitimately adressed that.
The album itself has several great tracks, Bow Down, All The Critics In New York, Do You Like Criminals?, The Gangsta The Killa and The Dope Dealer and the Cypress Hill diss, King of The Hill (which WC refused to take part in) among the best. The beats are seriously heavy and sound like a post G-funk era of music, there is not a bad beat on the album, and though it only has 10 tracks there is really nothing you could call filler on here. As for the emcees themselves, Ice Cube is definetely a cut above, and despite what some say, he was still clearly relevant in 1996. I hadn't heard much of Dub C before listening to this album, but his flow is great though he can't match Cube's lyrical intensity, and though I haven't always been a great fan of Mack 10, he does a good job on this album. Overall a great album, may have angered New York but the West Coast had good cause to be upset with their treatment from the East, and this album made that point, when some others were trying to diffuse the situation. 4.5 stars, only misses out on a 5 because a few of the songs are only O.K (though not bad), I also would have liked to see Westside Slaughterhouse on here, as I don't own Mack 10's debut album and it was their first song together, otherwise highly recommended.
Average customer rating:
- Gershwin via Grusin
- The best heartfelt rendition!
- One of My All-Time Favorites
- Spontaneous Arranging (and James Taylor's new Xmas album)
- ONE OF THE GOOD ONES
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The Gershwin Connection
Dave Grusin
Manufacturer: Grp Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B0000001OB
Release Date: 1991-09-17 |
Tracks:
- That Certain Feeling
- Soon
- Fascinating Rhythm
- Prelude II
- How Long Has This Been Going On?
- There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York
- My Man's Gone Now
- Maybe
- Our Love Is Here To Stay
- 'S Wonderful
- I've Got Plenty O' Nuthin'
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Medley: Bess You Is My Woman/I Loves You Porgy
Customer Reviews:
Gershwin via Grusin .......2006-06-21
I am not familiar with the genius of the Gershwins beyond some Bio - documentary footage and word of mouth. So I would not recognize many of his works. However, I am familiar with the sound of Dave Grusin.....and as happens in his past works.....he delivers....with what has to be called "The Grusin Touch !". His Gershwin translations to modern Jazz interpretations are so exquisite.....they embrace you and take you on a sublime musical journey. Kudos to you Dave Grusin......YOU ARE THE JAZZ MAN !!!!
The best heartfelt rendition!.......2005-09-23
This musical rendezvous offered by Dave Cruisin surpassed all my previous expectations.
From the first bars of any track randomly elected, you will be immersed immediately in the most sincere and idiomatic surrounding. The arrangements are simply exquisite and every musician was enraptured to his own. John Patitucci confirms why he was on the top of the line in the list of the best bassists of his generation. Eddie Daniels is simply gorgeous in Clarinet in the track Soon. Gary Burton in the vibraphones, singly spectacular. Chick Corea and Dave make an unforgettable duet in ¨S wonderful. The established Chemistry between Eric Marienthal in Alto Saxophone and Sal Márquez Trumpet, is unequalled. Dave Weckl and Sonny Emory are terrific in the drums too. Finally it' s meritorious the collaboration of Lee Ritenour in Our love is here to stay.
There is no hole in any track. But between you and me if you required my opinion about the three best racks of this golden album I would choose I've got plenty of nothing, in first place, Maybe and Fascinating Rhythm.
The idea of open the CD with the same composer playing himself (That certain feeling) was fascinating, it is like to relive to Gershwin and imagining him smiling and happy with this homage of a group of friends.
I beg you earnestly to acquire this supreme tribute to George Gershwin and if you are a classic music lover - as I do - , the petition would be double.
Recommended without reserves. The best Smooth Jazz album of 1991. And the sound is simply out of this world. GRP made a superb mastering effort.
One of My All-Time Favorites.......2005-02-19
I have been a Gerswhin fan for many, many years, and have several CD compilations of his music. This recording by Dave Grusin, however, is perhaps my favorite. It was actually the first Gershwin collection I purchased (on a cassette tape back in the early 1990s), and I still listen to it so much that I've worn out the tape and two CDs.
Dave Grusin is a true master, and he and the all-star cast of musicians he has assembled on this recording are respectful of Gershwin's music. The creativity of the musicians is astounding. The music flows from them effortlessly, but it all feels well-considered and "tight." Even though there are improvisational stretches in some of the pieces, they fit in to the score so seamlessly that you'd think Gerswhin had placed them there himself.
The final track, "Bess You Is My Woman/I Loves You Porgy" is simply breathtaking. If you buy this CD for no other reason than to hear the final track, it will be worth your money.
Spontaneous Arranging (and James Taylor's new Xmas album).......2005-01-17
America's greatest musical arranger Nelson Riddle confided to a friend, (toward the end of his life in 1985) that he would have traded ALL of his hundreds of arrangements (the absolute favorites of Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and other musical giants) in exchange for having written just ONE of the hit songs composed by his contemporary Henry Mancini. (`Hank' wrote numerous award-winning melodies, including two consecutive "Best Song" Oscar-winners --- with lyricist Johnny Mercer.)
Well 20 years later, if he were still with us, I believe Nelson Riddle would express that same longing about the music of Dave Grusin - who like Mancini, is an Oscar-nominated, award-winning composer and arranger. Grusin's evergreen "Cinemagic" album recorded in 1991 with the incomparable London Symphony featured 14 of his movie themes including award winners like "On Golden Pond," "Heaven Can Wait," and "It Might be You" -- the love theme from "Tootsie" (with lyrics by the Bergmans, Alan & Marilyn). What is more, Riddle -- who arranged painstakingly at the piano (not his instrument; he was a trombonist) -- would surely have envied Grusin's command of the piano. And Dave's pianistic prowess was never better displayed than here . . . on this splendid tribute to George Gershwin.
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If I listen long enough to the greatest of jazz pianists (Oscar & Bill) eventually I tire of improvisations (having heard everything in their `bag of tricks' --- their repertoire of favorite phrases) and I find myself craving melody, pure and simple. Or else, thematic variations on strong melody -- `counter melodies' if you will --- which are the personal amusements of all great arrangers including (especially) Nelson Riddle.
I think of Dave Grusin as `spontaneous arranger' (my term) rather than a jazz pianist. And I simply adore off-the-cuff, melodic `variations' of the great pianists/composers/arrangers --- such as Henry Mancini. (Andre Previn is another composer/arranger and accomplished pianist). And, in that stratosphere of `eagles' carried aloft by all three abilities --- Dave Grusin I believe, flies the highest of them all. And the nice thing about this is for all of us? Dave is alive and well and doing his best work these days: He's "one of us" -- he is `happening here-and-now.' And still very much in demand as an arranger.
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Most recently, Dave orchestrated a Christmas album for composer/singer/guitarist James Taylor. And I would give that CD a five star review --- if only I could! Alas, this Grusin-arranged treasure was released "only in stores" - belonging to a certain well-known greeting card company, long-famous for Christmas musical/TV specials (and which this year carried a large line of "Polar Express" products).
His new "Christmas Album" is JT's best recording in years --- especially as it showcases Dave Grusin's sparkling arrangements (for large orchestra and chorus). Its many delights are capped by a `retire-the-trophy' version of Frank Loesser's "Baby It's Cold Outside" (a simply delicious duet with Natalie Cole). In addition to arranging the album, Dave provided (as he often does) literate liner notes --- commending Taylor as "an incredible American icon." Taylor returned the compliment, saying: "It was a delight to work (play, really) with Mr. Grusin."
Incidentally, the "James Taylor Christmas Album" culminates with a song previously performed only by Dave Grusin --- as a piano solo on the first of three, "GRP Christmas" (various jazz artists) compilations. The hauntingly beautiful song is, "Some Children See Him" (composed by Wihla Hutson and Alfred Burt, who never wrote another song of note). Grusin's much earlier performance of "Some Children See Him" - plus one other "GRP Christmas" solo effort on the traditional "Lo, How a Rose E're Blooming" (my Mom's favorite carol) are my personal, all-time favorite, solo piano recordings.
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After those earlier GRP compilations, this album --- "The Gershwin Connection" --- provides listeners with the best Grusin arrangements of great piano music --- superb solos by Dave, small jazz combo arrangements . . . plus lush, and lovely (and huge) orchestral presentations of some of Gershwin's best melodies.
The album opens, incidentally, with a snippet of Gershwin himself --- an amazing player-piano transcription which, through digital technology, conveys in all its shading, the composer's prodigious technique: It is as though Gershwin is in the same room with us today, playing a beautifully engineered concert grand piano. What little there is of it, amounts to a powerhouse performance of Gershwin's obscure, early composition -- "That Certain Feeling." The thrilling energy of his pianistic `stride' fades after less than a minute - replaced by the pure liquid tones of a modern piano (superbly recorded); Grusin, plays a short solo and is supported in the first chorus by clarinet, bass and drums, an enchanting celebration of a lesser-known, but oh-so-beautiful standard -- "Soon." [At the time of this recording (1991) approximately no one had played this song in decades. Recently, Natalie Cole revived it `in style' on her "Ask a Woman Who Knows" CD/DVD.]
Actually, this entire album lives up to the song title `S'wonderful' . . . and the Gershwin tune of that same name, provides this album with the finest, unaccompanied piano performance by anyone in years - a duet, actually, featuring Grusin and jazz great Chick Corea. `Alone together' -- they exchange riffs with such obvious glee and utter abandon, one would think it's the best four-handed piano performance of modern times. (Only duets by Tommy Flanagan and Hank Jones -- arguably the two best piano accompanists of them all --- could rival this.) "S'Wonderful" played here emerges as a melodic / harmonic fountain of jazz brilliance that Gershwin would have loved! Not least for its subtle humor: Five seconds after the song ends, Grusin adds one sardonic `thunk' -- a single, gratuitous, bass note. You can picture Chick and Dave chuckling at the perfection of it all - including that solitary last note!) Other highlights include a pensively beautiful solo by Grusin on "Nice Work If You Can Get It" followed by the best orchestral treatment I have ever heard of two of Gershwin's finest from Porgy & Bess --- "I Loves You Porgy" (and) "Bess, You is My Woman" intertwined as I always imagined they should be. Breathtaking!
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A recording like this one provides musicians (those of us who play instruments OTHER than piano) with a vivid reminder of why the keyboard will always be the `king'- especially when, as here, it is played by a musical genius. In the 14 years since this one was released, there've been very few `piano/orchestra' recordings that begin to approach this pinnacle of greatness. So while we wait for another great `spontaneous arranger' to appear - we'll still have Dave Grusin's "latest project" to look forward to. Whatever it is, we may be sure it will be good!
ONE OF THE GOOD ONES.......2003-11-19
There are many tributes albums devoted to GERSHWIN.Should you choose only one,DAVE GRUSIN's certainly won't disapoint you.It starts with a ragtime version of THAT CERTAIN FEELING that gently fades out,and ends up with a beautifully orchestrated medley of numbers from PORGY AND BESS.My personnal favorite is I GOT PLENTY OF NUTTIN'with it's change of tempo that really clicks.Listen to that cd at least twice to get you hooked.Grade A for an inspired project.
Average customer rating:
- This is a good cd
- Great mixing, but so dated
- Dated hard house CD
- BBB and R"H"V dropping the bomb!!1
- BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! --SWITCH!
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House Connection
Richard Humpty Vission , and Bad Boy Bill
Manufacturer: V-Wax Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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| Dance & DJ
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| Dance & DJ
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ASIN: B000003QDM
Release Date: 1997-05-06 |
Tracks:
- Rock the Beat - Tony B!
- Big O Booty - Fast Eddie
- Down With It - Mercury Man
- The Party - Cassanovas
- The Way You Touch Me - DJ Juanito Feat, Sunshine
- Sugar Is Sweeter - CJ Bolland
- Stand Up - Love Tribe
- Restricted - CZR
- Butta - Pampa & DA
- To The Three - Sp-1200
- Feel The Rhythm - Gruv Station
- Now This - Dem Rats
- Spark Da Meth - Da Mongoloids
- No One Can Love You More Than Me - Hahnah
- Ohh Baby - Steve Spinnin Santovo
- Music Is My Life - Gee Zone
- Horns - DJ Louis Love & DJ EDD
- Mami - Artle The One Man Party Feat, Vienna
- BeTrue To Tour School - DJ Apollo
- Music Is Pumpin' - Underground People
- Get Down - Tony, Toni, Tone
- The Grace - DJ Lonz Luv
- WorkThat Body - DJ Funk
- I Found Something Real - Sandra Stephens
- Pump - SP 1200
- Nobody ToLove - Dynamic Duo
- Runaway - Nu Yorican Soul
- Jazz It Up - Reel 2 Reel
- In Love With Love - Kelly M
- Get Up - Byron Stingley
- You Used To Hold Me - Xavier Gold
- That Sound - Pump Friction
- Keep Pushin - Boris Diugosch
- Sax Mania - Mijangos
- Let's Go Disco - Southern Comfort
- Somebody Knew - Rick Garden
- We Can Make It - Mone
- Wishing On A Star - 88.3 Feat, Lisa May
- Bonus Track 1 - Richard 'Humpty' Vission & Bad Boy Bill
Customer Reviews:
This is a good cd.......2005-10-01
This is a good mix compilation.but you know they do it in the studio so It's all cleaned up. But RHV has some clean mixing skills. Also bad boy bill with that scratching.Overall it was released back in the day,but it's still the ish!!!!
Great mixing, but so dated.......2004-04-04
I love Richard Humpty Vission and Bad Boy Bill for their heavy beats. This CD truly shows off how great they are at mixing House together. However, these songs are terribly dated. It's 2004... don't go buying CDs from 1997.
Dated hard house CD.......2003-08-15
Excellent mixing, lots of different tracks, classic hard hosue CD. BUT, a lot of the tracks are dated sounding and some have cheesy vocal samples that take away from the quality of the driving hard house sound (cheesy as in cheesy bad, not cheesy good). The sound of this CD is less energetic and more funky than other CDs. Its OK. I might have loved it in 1996, but its kind of boring now.
BBB and R"H"V dropping the bomb!!1.......2001-12-08
HOUSE CONNECTION is an awesome hard-bangin house Cd that all dance music fans should check out. I bought this Cd when it was first released and I still continue to listen to it all the time. BBB and RHV keep the music flowing and their mixing here is flawless. I like to mess around on the truntables, but I wish I had the talent that these 2 guys have. One just has to check out the quality of this Cd and you can see why these 2 guys are probably the best house Dj's in the country right now
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! --SWITCH!.......2001-07-15
I enjoy listening to this album a lot. From the start, the DJs kick off some very catchy beats and samples, and they just won't quit. Their live shows must also rock, and I definately want to see one before I die. This album contains more than just the usual beat mixing and turntable tricks. On most house music CDs, the DJ(s) would mix similar beats and styles the whole way through, but Richard "Humpty" Vission and Bad Boy Bill never mix the same beat twice, and their styles seem limitless. Anyone who does not like house music because of its repetative and monotonous nature, would probably change their mind when they hear this CD. Even though the music is repetative, the DJs keep the music changing very quickly with perfect timing, keeping the energy high all the time. I have not yet gotten bored over this CD, and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes to dance.
Average customer rating:
- So Many Rappers In Love
- Good not great
- This is weak boring unlistenable crap
- How did this get any low reviews?
- WESTSIDE!!!
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Terrorist Threats
Westside Connection
Manufacturer: Priority Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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Gangsta & Hardcore
| Rap & Hip-Hop
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ASIN: B0000UJLJG
Release Date: 2003-12-09 |
Tracks:
- A Threat To The World
- Call 9-1-1
- Potential Victims
- Gangsta Nation
- Get Ignit
- Pimp The System
- Don't Get Outta Pocket
- Izm
- So Many Rappers In Love
- Lights Out
- Bangin' At The Party
- You Gotta Have Heart
- Terrorist Threats
- Superstar (Double Murder = Double Platinum)
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Throwing up the "W" just isn't as ghetto glamorous as it once was as the triple vets of the Westside Connection have ended up third fiddle behind a resurgent New York and upstart Southern scene. Though the events of 9/11 and the national paranoia that followed are part of the inspirational fuel behind this album--their first since 1996's Bow Down--there's something quaintly anachronistic about the Connection's gangsta posturing, especially with Ice Cube, whose attempts at righteous fury on "Call 911" seem a pale shadow of the days of The Predator. As such, Terrorist Threats at times feels less than "condition red," but WC, Mack 10, and Cube still show some bite with their bark: "So Many Rappers in Love" is a hilarious slap at the Ja Rule school of R&B/hip-hop crossover, while the single "Gangsta Nation" bumps with irrepressible energy. It's nice to know that even if the sun might be setting in the West, the Connection refuse to go quietly into the night. --Oliver Wang
Customer Reviews:
So Many Rappers In Love .......2007-02-19
That song "So Many Rappers In Love" was the reason I bought this CD. In that song they're talking about the sickening love songs you pretty much ONLY hear on the radio now adays.
Other good songs are Call 911, Izm, and Gangsta Nation.
Good not great.......2006-10-03
Standout tracks:CALL 9-1-1(deep), POTENTIAL VICTIMS, PIMP THE SYSTEM(anther deep record), SO MANY RAPPERS IN LOVE(funny hip poppers diss), YOU GOTTA HAVE HEART(deep plus the ending made it worthwhile), TERRORIST THREATS and SUPERSTAR(Deep and funny). Filler: Izm(stupid song with a stupid hook), Get Ignit(WTF?), Lights Out(deadly dull filler), Bangin at the party(screams filler), Dont get outta pocket and Gangsta Nation(lame single that killed their buzz). Bottom line: Its not garbage but its not better than the first WSC album. The only thing this album has over the first WSC album is that it has songs with gems in them(Call 9-1-1, Pimp The System, Superstar and You gotta have heart) and thats way more than the first album. But for every serious song they make they have songs like Get Ignit. Izm, Gangsta Nation and Bangin at the party that bring the album down a few stars. Its a great companion piece to Bow Down but with a litle more songs like Call 9-1-1 and Superstar and a lot less songs like Izm and Bangin at the party this album could have been way better than Bow Down.
This is weak boring unlistenable crap.......2006-01-28
I have been listening to WSCG since I was too young to even be listening to them. I can go back and listen to the first album and realize that it wasn't just me being a pre-teen liking anything I shouldn't listen to; it really was a hard album with serious bangers. I was amazingly pumped for this new album, especially after hearing Gangsta Nation, sick sick sick. That track is the only reason I give this album 2 stars. I honestly listened to the album maybe one more time since I bought it. Unlistenable for the most part. The choruses are embarassing on almost all the tracks, period. What happened?
How did this get any low reviews?.......2005-11-14
How the hell this CD got any bad reviews is beyond me... I swear, people need to scrape the crap out of their ears.. this CD is one of the most bangin released in the past 2-3 years, and I might even be so ballsy as to say this one is BETTER than Bow Down. All these haters never cease to amaze me with their horrible reviews.. giving 1 star to incredible CD's.. get this one yourself and then make up your mind, cuz the cats who write these reviews don't know what they're talking about half the time. This is a TIGHT cd.
WESTSIDE!!!.......2005-10-16
Westside Connection. Definitely one of the greatest gangsta rap groups ever are comeback, with this album. 8 years after "Bow Down" hits the charts finally they came with this one. I hope that they release their new album, because they are so talented and amazing. Although sometimes they can't even understand themselves.
As if Ice Cube didn't have enough going on in the first few years of the 21st century with his successful and prolific film career, the rap superstar unveiled TERRORIST THREATS, the second Westside Collection album, in late 2003. Reuniting with fellow West Coast rappers WC and Mack 10, Cube leads the Connection on tunes that pull topics from the headlines, such as the title track and "Call 9-1-1," where lyrics remind listeners that "911 ain't an area code/it's a gangsta mode." Whether riffing on terrorism or espousing the virtues of gin, the Connection crew gets its point across with the subtlety of a sledgehammer--and they wouldn't have it any other way.
This view is driven home on the scathing "So Many Rappers in Love," which takes a brutal swipe at romantic R&B-oriented rappers and mockingly features strings and falsetto vocals. However, the G-funk-approved singing of Nate Dogg turns up on "Gangsta Nation," a tune that simultaneously bounces like it's the early-1990s gangsta-rap heyday, and proves that these West Coast rappers are still major contenders in the hip-hop world.
A TREATH 2 THE WORLD Intro
CALL 9-1-1 4/5
POTENTIAL VICTIMS 4/5
GANGSTA NATION +5/5
GET IGNIT 3/5
PIMP THE SYSTEM 5/5
DON'T GET OUTTA POCKET 4/5
IZM +5/5
SO MANY RAPPRS IN LOVE 3.5/5
The lyrics aren't good enough, In addition the song was contradictory, because they did a LOVE song with Mariah Carey, and they sound (As they said) like Fake a*s thugs...
LIGHTS OUT +5/5
BANGIN' AT THE PARTY +5/5
YOU GOTTA HAVE HEART 4/5
TERRORIST THREATS 4/5
SUPERSTAR (Double Murder=Double Platinum) +5/5
ENHANCED CD FEATURES:
The "Gangsta Nation" video plus interviews and footage
Average customer rating:
- These Guys Should Be Superstars
- Lowen and Navarro at their best
- Fantastic
- Wow!
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Lowen & Navarro Live Radio
Lowen & Navarro
Manufacturer: Oarfin Records
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Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000068RME
Release Date: 2002-02-04 |
Tracks:
- What I Make Myself Believe
- Crossing Over
- Broken Moon
- Someone Like You
- Pendulum
- Avalanche
- Weight Of The World
- When The Lights Go Down
- Just To See You
- Constant As The Night
- All Is Quiet
- Until The Well Runs Dry
- Rapt In You
- Nobody Knows
- Waltzing The Shadows
Album Description
Collected from four shows on Roz & Howard Larman's FolkScene radio program in Los Angeles, these warm and stirring performances were aired as you hear them here. No re-takes or re-mixing. Includes the previously unreleased "Waltzing the Shadows" and such Lowen & Navarro classics as "Just To See You", "Until The Well Runs Dry" and "Broken Moon".
Customer Reviews:
These Guys Should Be Superstars.......2006-02-22
I have now purchased all of their albums, and I can't pick a favorite - each is excellent: thoughtful lyrics and wonderful harmonies. Dan Navarro's voice is so smoothe and Eric Lowen's high harmonies just fit perfectly. I've been lucky to see them in small venues three times in the last six months - and can not believe they don't command more of a following. They joke about being a non-profit organization (not by design). If you have a chance to see them live - don't miss it: the music is wonderful, they are both witty and intelligent and they have a real connection to the audience. If you can't make their show, this disc is the next best thing. Next, you will want to buy "All the Time In the World" and then "Walking On a Wire." Then, you will be like me, saying "Why the hell aren't these guys SUPERSTARS!!!"
Lowen and Navarro at their best.......2003-11-19
L&N combine terrific harmonies with an accoustical backdrop. The quality of the album demonstrates their strength as musicians and singers, capture the qualities of a live show with nearly the production values of a studio recording. Their music touches the heart and appeals to people young and old.
Fantastic.......2002-09-30
I feel like I've been missing something for many years. Heard L&N on NPR this past summer and then ordered Live Radio on line. I can't get enough of this CD. Usually after a while the newness fades but with this gem there is something different to hear all the time. Their songwriting is superb, the playing totally clean, the harmonies powerful, and the production on this CD perhaps the best I've ever heard. Hard to imagine it wasn't done in a studio with numerous takes. These guys must be fabulous live and I'm looking for them to come anywhere near here. Can't recommend this CD enough. It's 6+ stars.
Wow!.......2002-08-30
I first heard about these two very talented songwriters/singers during an interview on NPR's Morning Edition. I thought I'd buy the CD after they played two of the tracks from it. I haven't been disappointed. In fact, I listen to it every day at work and plan to purchase the rest of their CD's. They are so good that it is hard to believe that these recordings are live performances. Great lyrics, amazing harmony, solid tunes.
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