Buzz

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Any Given Sunday was film composer Paul Kelly's first foray into feature films as a music composer. A New York-based commercial film editor who has composed music for years - including commercial scores for Calvin Klein and Miller Lite - Kelly has self-produced four CD compilations to date: Soundings in Film, Buzz, Drive, and Subterranean Noise.

Each CD, offers up instrumental tracks that stylistically run the gamut from dark, ethereal hauntings to hot, pumping funk-rock.

Album Description
Film Score, Soundtrack, Ambient

Tracks:

It's Been A While - Staind
Lightning Crashes - Live
Jumper - Third Eye Blind
Hemorrhage (In My Hands) - Fuel
Glycerine - Bush
If You Could Only See - Tonic
A Long December - Counting Crows
Hanging By A Moment - Lifehouse
Santeria - Sublime
Doll Parts - Hole
The World I Know - Collective Soul
Wasting My Time - Default
Here's To The Night - Eve 6
Everything You Want - Vertical Horizon
Linger - Cranberries
What It's Like - Everlast
Desperately Wanting - Better Than Ezra
Someday - Sugar Ray

Customer Reviews:

Not as seen on TV........2007-03-12

Firstly, this is not the two-disk set you've seen on TV. It is just one CD. So bear that in mind when pondering your purchase. That said, it is a decent compilation of some memorable hits from the last eight or ten years and makes an excellent gift for that friend or family member we all have who just can't move on from their highschool days. A solid C.

Somewhat happy.......2007-02-13

I thought this was the same CD version as the one I have seen on the TV commericals. This is the shorter version. I wasn't aware of that until I opened it.

Wrong CD Listed Online.......2007-02-07

I bought this CD thinking it was the 2 CD set I saw in the commercial, and I was wrong. It is a single CD with only half of what the TV version has.

good.......2007-01-22

the songs are great, but its not the 2 cd music from the tv. it was dissapointing in that sense but other than not having all the songs. its great.

upset.......2007-01-20

When making the purchase I was unaware that there was both a double disc and a single disc version of this product. When i researched it I only found the double version. I thought I was buying the double version and did not see any disclaimer that there are different versions and I needed to check which one I was buying. Had I known this was a single disc version, knowing only about a double disc version being available I would not have made the purchase.

Average customer rating:

Not stellar
Wonderful Young Child's Music
The buzz on Buzz Buzz
Buzzing with Laurie Berkner
Great for interacting with kids!

Buzz Buzz
Laurie Berkner
Manufacturer: Two Tomatoes
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Sing-A-Longs | Children's Music | Styles | Music
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We are . . . The Laurie Berkner Band
For The Kids

ASIN: B00004S36S
Release Date: 2001-01-01

Tracks:

I Really Love To Dance
The Pretzel Store
Pig On Her Head
I've Been Working On The Railroad
Bumblebee (Buzz Buzz)
Telephone
There's A Little Wheel A-Turnin' In My Heart
Monster Boogie
In The Clouds
The Cookie Bakers Of The Night
The More We Get Together
I'm A Mess
Ice Cream Cone
Clean It Up
Little Red Caboose
Rum Sum Sum
Magic Box
The Valley Of Vegetables
Popcorn Calling Me
Lots Of Little Pigs
The Erie Canal
I Had A Friend

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Anybody who's gotten a boogie-inducing earful of Buzz Buzz will back the claim that Laurie Berkner sailed right past the sophomore slump. On this, her 1998 release, the Ani DiFranco of kids' music, as she's been tagged, inspires still more hands-in-the-air at-home hoe-downs among the 6-and-under set with her evenhanded blend of zany, zingy original songs and well-chosen traditional numbers. Crying out for special mention in the former category are "The Pretzel Store," on which a gang of "twisty, curly, hole-y, and straight" salty characters escape from the clutches of eager snackers in a variety of inventive ways; "Bumblebee (Buzz Buzz)," a surefire vehicle for revving up round-the-living-room arm-flappers; "Ice Cream Cone," a handy directive for Ben and Jerry's beginners ("You can eat it from the side / You can eat it from the top / You can lick it round and round / Like you're never gonna stop"); and "The Cookie Bakers of the Night,"which is bound to get a brood of wannabe cookie monsters mixing pretend batter and waving wooden spoons in the air. Traditionals, especially the rocking rendition of "The More We Get Together," the voices-only "Rum Sum Sum" with its souped-up lyrics, and the bass- and alto-sax enhanced "Erie Canal," roundly impress. Berkner's much-lauded flair for firing up little ones' imaginations aside, what's perhaps best about her is her sharpshooting when it comes to crowd pleasers. Her smooth singing and can't-be-denied guitar chops keep Barney-bombarded grownups from wanting to climb out the car window. With the right sort of luck, the buzz on this record will transcend its title and win Berkner an extended band of intergenerational admirers. --Tammy La Gorce

Customer Reviews:

Not stellar.......2007-07-25

My daughter is growing to like this CD as she listens to it, but it took a while. Perhaps it's not "boppy" enough? But it has cute songs and as she gets older she may like it more and more.

Wonderful Young Child's Music.......2007-07-05

Catchy tunes, educational, wonderful improvisation. I play it for the children on my school bus, the teens, the children and the in-between.

The buzz on Buzz Buzz.......2007-06-28

Based on warm reviews on Amazon I bought the CD Buzz Buzz to play when our grandkids come over. 7-year-old Rachel and 5-year-old Josh really enjoyed it. Therefore I recommend it.

Buzzing with Laurie Berkner.......2007-05-13

My daughter loves this cd. Her music is so in tune with preschoolers.

Great for interacting with kids!.......2007-05-12

I heard this yrs ago and finally found it again! I'm a nanny and have heard dif cds for kids and this is my fav! Lots of harmony, dif instruments, easy to catch on to, but not flimsy written songs. I enjoy it when I'm kid free, too!

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The Buzz
Another Compilation Hit
Really bad, don't waste your money
great music
Great

The Buzz
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Razor & Tie
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Buzz Ballads
Non Stop '90s Rock
Forever 90s
Billboard Top Hits of the 90's
Monster Ballads: Platinum Edition

ASIN: B0001Z370Y
Release Date: 2004-05-04

Tracks:

What I Got - Sublime
What's The Frequency, Kenneth? - R.E.M.
All Mixed Up - 311
How's It Going To Be - Third Eye Blind
Zombie - Cranberries
Inside Out - Eve 6
Take A Picture - Filter
Shine - Collective Soul
Closing Time - Semisonic
Good - Better Than Ezra
Far Behind - Candlebox
You Get What You Give - New Radicals
What It's Like - Everlast
Cumbersome - Seven Mary Three
One Week - Barenaked Ladies
Feed The Tree - Belly
All I Want - Toad The Wet Sprocket
Runaway Train - Soul Asylum

Customer Reviews:

The Buzz.......2007-01-10

I'm so unhappy with this CD. the songs are edited and I never saw anything telling me that it would be as such. Did I miss something? Just really makes one feel like they didn't get what they paid for, and was quite disappointing.

Another Compilation Hit.......2007-01-09

Again, love this album as well. All the tracks are awesome and my son loves it as well. My husband and I fight over who gets it in their vehicle.

Really bad, don't waste your money.......2006-11-10

The sound quality sounds like it was recorded off the radio. Plus there are words bleeped out.

great music.......2006-11-03

I feel like we waited forever for one album with all these great songs on one!

Great.......2006-08-11

I really enjoyed it. It had the songs I listened to in high school.

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This band rocks!
their best yet!
It's great!
New Sound with Strong Roots in early Rock
Walking away

Walking Off the Buzz
Blessid Union of Souls
Manufacturer: V2
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Home
Perception
Hey Leonardo
Into the Light

ASIN: B00000IJQH
Release Date: 1999-04-27

Tracks:

The Last Day
That's The Girl I've Been Telling You About
Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me For Me)
Standing At The Edge Of The Earth
Stone Glass Window
If She Couldn't Sleep
South Hampton Avenue
What Have I Got To Loose
The Rest Of My Life
Walking Off The Buzz
Real Good Friends
Bonus Track

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On Walking Off the Buzz, Blessid Union of Souls skate from adult contemporary soul to roots rock, failing to do either well. Lead singer Eliot Sloan has a fine R&B-suited voice, but he attempts to add unnatural depth, ache, and character. It sounds like every few seconds someone tightly grips his neck then releases it. With forgettable jangly acoustic-guitar rhythms, uninspired keyboard support, and ho-hum love lyrics and pointless pop-culture references, these songs are about as deep as a kiddie pool (which makes their by-the-sheet-music cover of the Beatles' "Revolution" insultingly misplaced). With the exception of "Stone Glass Window," which flashes an attractively toothy Southern-rock smile, this album is Mellencamp without the melodrama, Skynyrd without the scrotum, Kravitz without the charisma, P.M. Dawn without the poetry. --Beth Massa

Album Details

Blessid Union of Soul Are Currently One of the Biggest Up and Coming Acts in the Us and have Just Scored a Billboard Top 40 Hit with their Single 'hey Leonardo' Taken from the Album 'walking off the Buzz'.

Customer Reviews:

This band rocks!.......2005-05-05

Man I had never heard of this guys before last night, almost no one at the show had. But I am pretty sure they got quite a few new fans including me. They played a free show for the soldiers and man were they good. There are only a few bands out now a days the interest me but these guys do, I am more into bands like Led Zeppelin and older bands. These guys put on a great show. The singer was jumping around the stage and was very energetic and great at entertaining. The drummer was great and even played a drum solo which is rare these days. Both guitarist had incredible skill and one played an incredible solo over top of a Led Zeppelin song and the bassist keeps the rythym going great. They even did a cover of a queen song and man did the singer nail every note, he did justice to freddy mercury. They even started throwing out free cds of there new and upcoming album perception which is due out in a few days. Then at the end of the show they made sure to stick aroung and sign autographs and I got to meet the band. Right after the show I went home and ordered all of there cds. check these guys out people. Another cool band to check out is silvertide who has a very 70's sound.

their best yet!.......2002-07-19

This album is, in my opinion, absolutely spectacular. Eliot Sloan has a voice that is so beautiful,if you just sit and listen to it, you're gonna cry..Eddie's beats are just KICKIN. Tony is GREAT on the bass.. and Jeff is extraordinary on the guitar. CP plays... ok.. just about EVERYTHING. Bass... Drums..Guitar...Keyboard... AND he does backing vocals. the only thing bad i can say about the guy is that he hates RENT. they're really nice guys too.. i've known em since i was 13....

It's great!.......2001-09-13

Great CD, great music, touching lyrics and vocals. I was angered by the editorial on this CD. I almost doubt that the writer of that ever heard the CD, or even likes this type of music. Regardless, this is a great CD, don't be turned off by the editorial. Give it a chance, you'll love it. I do.

New Sound with Strong Roots in early Rock.......2001-08-13

Love this CD! Lead singer Elliot Sloan has a terrific voice, and co-wrote a lot of the songs too! I had only heard a couple of their songs before I purchased the CD, but was not disappointed. They have created their own unique sound and show a lot of influence from early rock & roll history, blending acoustic & electric strings with strong vocals and meaningful lyrics. Enjoyed both the slow and fast songs, Standing at the Edge of the Earth is a beautiful ballad where Elliot Sloan really excels in vocal talent. Without thinking about it you catch yourself singing along. Great Pop Sound, unique group with a sound all their own - these guys are leaders not followers in the contemporary pop music/easy listening scene, and new sounds are often greeted with scepticism. Some love 'em and some hate 'em - I love 'em!

Walking away.......2001-06-07

If you've never heard BUOS before and love the new "pop" sound coming out of every other artist on the radio, this is the album to buy-- plenty of catchy tunes and funky rythems. Very little of this album actually carries the deeper musicality that can be heard on their earlier albums, a good starter album for new listeners, but older fans will find little to like and much to be disapointed in.

Congotronics 2: Buzz 'n' Rumble from the Urb 'n' Jungle

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WOW-IF YOU LIKE TO SMILE...
music that makes people want to dance and sway and move, eyes closed, getting lost in the mesmerizing repetition

Congotronics 2: Buzz 'n' Rumble from the Urb 'n' Jungle
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Crammed Disc Us
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Congotronics
Roots of Rumba Rock: Congo Classics
Boulevard de l'Independance
Take One
Dimanche a Bamako

ASIN: B000E6EJK2
Release Date: 2006-02-21

Tracks:

Wa Muluendu - Kasai Allstars
Koyile/Nyeka Nyeka - Kasai Allstars
Kiwembo - Sobanza Mimanisa
Kabuangoyi - Kasai Allstars
Soif Conjugale - Kisanzi Congo
Le Laboureur - Masanka Sankayi
Bosamba Ndeke - Bolia We Ndenge
Mulume - Basokin
T.P. Couleur Cafe - Konono N.1

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The follow up to Konono No. 1's fantastic Congotronics, Congotronics 2, has the same heavily distorted thumb pianos, chattering hand percussion, gritty homemade amplification, and driving rhythms. This amazing sound clash was an unlikely hit in 2005 that captured the imagination of musical thrill seekers, world music enthusiasts, and hipsters into dance and electronic music. Now five other Congo bands join Konono on this two-disc set that offers nine audio tracks on CD and six videos on an accompanying DVD. While the video serves as a reminder that this music is generally meant for dancing and drinking, the audio proves that this unique approach and sound can have many more mutations than the one hit upon by Konono. The sound ranges from Kasai Allstars' warm African high-life feel to Sobanza Mimanisa's hard metallic shuffle. This is a must for those who fell under the spell of Konono's hypnotic grooves and want to hear more. --Tad Hendrickson

Album Description

Hot on the heels of Konono N°1, Congotronics 2 - Buzz 'N' Rumble From The Urb 'N' Jungle offers a fresh selection of even more remarkable sounds, courtesy of seven electro-traditional bands from Kinshasa, Congo. These bands draw on traditional trance music to which they've incorporated heavily distorted sounds generated by do-it-yourself amplification...much like, except that these musicians come from various regions (Kasai, Lake Mai Ndombe, Bacongo province), they use diverse rhythms, timbres and instrumentation. The trademark electrified thumb pianos and megaphones are joined by an array of buzzing drums, swirling guitars and hypnotic balafons.

Includes a 41-minute bonus DVD of material filmed in Kinshasa!

Customer Reviews:

WOW-IF YOU LIKE TO SMILE..........2006-03-19

Great CD. Traditional sounds with an edge of basic electronic processing. Like the thumb piano that sounds like an electric guitar. The DVD takes this package over the top. Have a look at the African communities, performers and dancers. Don't hesitate to get this one Siamak, and everyone else.

music that makes people want to dance and sway and move, eyes closed, getting lost in the mesmerizing repetition.......2006-03-05

You'd have to have been living under a rock for the last year to not know about Konono No. 1, but for those of you who have been, let's recap shall we? Konono No. 1 formed over 20 years ago in Kinshasa (the capital of Zaire) and have been performing their own version of Bazombo trance music, incoporating into their sound, more out of necessity than any avant garde aspirations, home built amps and microphones, hand made instruments, all assembled from old car parts and batteries, pieces of wood and various found bits of scrap material. Performing in the city and thus forced to compete with the din of cars and people and city sound, they built their own PA and speaker system, making their sound much louder but also lending it a buzzing distorted sound that became as much a part of the music as the insturments themselves.

The main instrument though, and the one which defines their sound, is an amplified likembe, a sort of thumb piano, which when run through the homemade pickups and ramshackle PA speakers buzz and distort and the melodies end up sounding like some strange sixties psych fuzz guitar. So those distorted melodies atop a wild festive bed of tribal percussion, hand drums, whistles, call and response vocals, it's like African highlife music but infused with all manner of, well like the title suggests BUZZ and RUMBLE.
But it would be naive to think a band like Konono No.1 developed in a complete vacuum. And one would assume that the music scene in Kinshasa would at least in some ways be like any place else, with loads of bands, all playing together, swapping members, that sort of thing, and this record demonstrates that for sure. While Konono No.1 ended up being the worldwide ambassadors for the Kinshasa sound, they are most definitely just one of many groups creating an amazingly vibrant scene. In fact some of the groups on Congotronics 2 take some of my favorite parts of Konono's sound and take them even further!

All of the bands on Congotronics 2 sound at least similar, employing the same basic song structure and same basic instrumentation. Cyclical repetitive rhythms, bells and hand drums locked in dense pulsing frameworks, loose but definitely the backbone of the music, the vocals are festive and wild, a single voice joined by a chorus. Each track is typically one part, maybe two, repeated and repeated with subtle variations, being as that it is an offspring of trance music, this hypnotic quality definitely defining all of these bands, a buzzing looped joyful noise, the sort of music that makes people want to dance and sway and move, eyes closed, getting lost in the mesmerizing repetition.

All of the bands also seem to employ the electric likembe as well to different effect. Sobanza Mimanisia up the distortion, their thumb pianos practically growl, super percussive and blown-out, definitely the heaviest band of the bunch. Whereas the Kasai Allstars employ their likembes as a swirling delicate percussive background, not at all distorted, gentle, lilting and pretty, sounding the most like traditional high life music. The one way in which many of the bands differ from Konono is their use of guitars, the interplay between a distorted thumb piano and a distorted guitar can be beautifully dizzying.

While all the bands are different, those differences are subtle enough that this could very well be a record by a single, albeit quite varied band, almost as if Konono No.1 decided to expand and explore a little for record number two. If you loved Congotronics, then this will for sure hit the spot, and actually the more I listen the more I think this might be even better than the first one.

Konono No.1 have a SOUND, and that sound is amazing and beautiful and practically perfect, but they truly traffic in trance music, every song a subtle variation of the song before, almost like they have ONE hour long song that just happens to be split into parts, which I love, like most droning repetitive music, if there was a way to have each track last for six hours I would, but by the same token, one has to be in the right frame of mind to bliss out and trance out. So while this collection is still most definitely trancey, it's a bit more varied, with more instrumentation (one group even incorporates accordion!) and thus ends up being a bit more engaging, especially to the casual listener.

And as if another disc of buzzing rumbling joyful trance music wasn't enough, there is also a DVD featuring live footage of 6 of the bands, including Konono (so for those of you who missed their recent visit to the US, here's your chance to see what you missed). Each band performs live, surrounded by throngs of families and children, often performing in houses, on street corners, people dancing, smiling, embracing, this is truly happy joyful music. And the footage is amazing, allowing us a glimpse not only of these amazing bands, their individually customized instrumentation, sardine cans, milk crates, springs, lengths of PVC pipe, hubcaps, film canisters, wooden boards, tin cans, thier costumed and face painted dancers, their dramatic introductions to performances, but also a look at the people, and the city, and the houses, and the streets of Kinshasa, and the culture that inspired such an amazing music.

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AMAZING CREATIVE WILD FUSION METAL
10/21/06: "Suspended Animation Review" day
Baby please..
Awesome mind blowing!
CARTOON MADNESS!!

Suspended Animation
Fantômas
Manufacturer: Ipecac Recordings
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ASIN: B0007PHAKQ
Release Date: 2005-04-05

Tracks:

04/01/05 Friday
04/02/05 Saturday
04/03/05 Sunday
04/04/05 Monday
04/05/05 Tuesday
04/06/05 Wednesday
04/07/05 Thursday
04/08/05 Friday
04/09/05 Saturday
04/10/05 Sunday
04/11/05 Monday
04/12/05 Tuesday
04/13/05 Wednesday
04/14/05 Thursday
04/15/05 Friday
04/16/05 Saturday
04/17/05 Sunday
04/18/05 Monday
04/19/05 Tuesday
04/20/05 Wednesday
04/21/05 Thursday
04/22/05 Friday
04/23/05 Saturday
04/24/05 Sunday
04/25/05 Monday
04/26/05 Tuesday
04/27/05 Wednesday
04/28/05 Thursday
04/29/05 Friday
04/30/05 Saturday

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%@#$!!? Brace yourself, super group Fantomas is back with a vengeance on their fourth album SUSPENDED ANIMATION. Unlike the epic DELIRIUM CORDIA, SUSPENDED ANIMATION likens itself with Fantomas' first record (self titled) punctuated with cartoon escapades.

The first edition (Limited to 25,000) is a spiral bound 30 page eye popping package illustrated by world famous Japanese painter Yoshitomo Nara. The theme is a calendar, the month of April, the tracks appropriately named the days of the week.

Customer Reviews:

AMAZING CREATIVE WILD FUSION METAL.......2007-07-09

I think in YOU respect a good musician, you new to buy this one, incredible wild experimental fusion metal, I download it from a share music page, but they always recomend to buy it if you want it, I BUY IT.

If do you expect regular radio pop music, why you still reading at it.

Experimental any patton and Fantômas song makes you think why, whats that, I think the evolution of a great master musician, with a taste of old horror movie, eight thumbs up, if I was a octupus. hail patton.

10/21/06: "Suspended Animation Review" day.......2006-10-22

Mike Patton has proven himself to be one of the most prolific and unpredictable musicians in show business in his post Faith No More/Mr. Bungle career. Although I don't even begin to attempt to collect everything he puts out I do like to take a listen to what he's up to now and then.

SUSPENDED ANIMATION is packed with hundreds of ideas, of varying degrees of success. Some "days" have better moments than others, like the spooky intro for "04/11/05 Monday" that sounds like a room full of gurgling ghosts, or "04/27/05 Wednesday" 's sleigh-ride in outer space. Most of the other intriguing moments on this CD involve some manipulation of found sounds or electronic toys.

Patton's former band, Mr. Bungle, was also a band renowned for it's musical spontaneity, but whereas Bungle's songs worked through it's own inner logic and fluidness, making it easier to digest, the disparate elements of SUSPENDED ANIMATION doesn't hang together nearly as well as the best of Bungle work. It's progression is more akin to rapid-fire channel-surfing than an epic motion picture.

Despite the low rating I'm assigning this release, I must admit that I'm not sorry I bought it. I rarely reach for this CD to play, and when I do it's just to seek out a handful of random tracks, just enough to satisfy a need to hear something wild and chaotic. Perhaps the calendar concept of the song titles was meant to be followed literally, to listen to one track each day. Compressing an entire "month" in 43 minutes is too demanding a listening experience.

Baby please.........2006-07-13

The technique of cutting and pasting strange sounds and bizarre segments into songs was used by Frank Zappa already during the 70's. But Fantomas succeds better at making listenable music out of it, and they add their own unique sound to it, much thanks to Mike Pattons vocals.

But I agree that a full disc of it (or at least 40 minutes) becomes a little bit annoying after a while. I found that the songs worked a lot better when I made a compilation tape, mixing the songs with other Patton related work, such as "Director's Cut" and Mr.Bungle.

"Suspended Animation" was the album that got me into Fantomas and Mr.Bungle. I was surprised to find out that Mike Patton once was the singer of Faith No More, a band I really tried to like many years ago, but that I found very boring and uninspiring. He has come a long way.

Awesome mind blowing!.......2006-06-13

I wouldn't expect anything less from Mike Patton and Co. A piece of art crafted from cartoon insanity. Their sound is like a kid making a "Mystery Pie" in the kitchen a mixture of cookie dough, paprika, OJ, Milk and Cap n' Crunch mixed in a pie tin and burned in the oven. Ingredients that don't mix. Some gag on the concotion others see the brillance of developing artist. I see the latter. I was left speechless after a listen to it. I love the damn thing! Not everybody's cup of tea and thats too bad.

CARTOON MADNESS!!.......2006-06-08

1. The entire record is metal and cartoon music/effects thrown together and spit at your bleeding ears.
2. Because of that some tunes are certainly better than others but the album as a whole is rad.
3. Perfet driving music when you're getting irritable with traffic.
4. Also good when whiskey is involved.
- a lot of whiskey.
5. Honestly only good if you are into crazy music.
6. ALthough not my favorite Fantomas (director's cut is still the best) it seriously just kills the first one and delerium cordia..
7. And no it doesn't sound anything like Mr. bungle sorry..

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You never know where the twain shall meet
Buzz Aplenty
Subtle Poison To Alter Your Mind

Buzz Factory
Screaming Trees
Manufacturer: Sst Records
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Clairvoyance
Invisible Lantern
Even If and Especially When
Other Worlds
Uncle Anesthesia

ASIN: B000000M5S
Release Date: 1990-07-17

Tracks:

Where The Twain Shall Meet
Windows
Black Sun Morning
Too Far Away
Subtle Poison
Yard Trip #7
Flower Web
Wish Bringer
Revelation Revolution
The Looking Glass Cracked
End Of The Universe

Customer Reviews:

You never know where the twain shall meet.......2007-07-22

Buzz factory was first exposure to the Screaming Trees.1989,I was at Western Washington U. partying all the time,A friend of mine was playing buzz factory 24-7

It's one of those cd's that you listen to the whole disc over and over again.It never get's old!
Buzz Factory in my opinon is the Screaming Tree's Best Cd's!buy them all!

Mark Lanegan is one of the best singer/sonwriter's.Gary lee Conner guitar work is amazing and his Brother Van Conner Bass playing on where the twain shall meet awesome!

Buzz Aplenty.......2002-01-25

"Buzz Factory" was the Screaming Trees' final recording for SST, but not their last stand as independent recording artists. They would follow up by spending a little quality time with Sub Pop prior to the release of their major label debut, "Uncle Anesthesia," two years later. Produced by the Trees and Jack Endino, "Buzz Factory" lives up to its title with buzz aplenty thanks to Gary Lee Conner's muscular guitar playing. The album is a solid send-off, which should come as little surprise--history will remember the Trees as one of the Northwest's most consistent bands. If they never had a hit on par with "Nevermind," nor did they ever release any lackluster (or uncharacteristic) recordings in a career spanning over 15 years. Opening track "Where the Twain Shall Meet" and "Black Sun Morning" are two of the strongest selections. The latter doesn't just have a Soundgarden-style title--a lá "Black Hole Sun"--but even sounds a little like that hard rockin' Seattle quartet (who were also aligned with SST at the time), which is to say: more anthemic than usual. A sample from an interview briefing is slipped between "Yard Trip #7" and "Flower Web" ("The question will be what kind of trees you are; the reply will be 'Screaming Trees'").

Subtle Poison To Alter Your Mind.......1999-12-04

With Invisible Lantern and Uncle Anesthesia, Buzz Factory makes up the trilogy of masterpieces in which the Screaming Trees create the perfect combination between garage punk, hard rock and psychedelia. And mark the word create, because this is music of undeniable originality, despite its well known roots. Never in history has a band channeled sounds of such intoxicating and ragged beauty; mesmerizing melodies and stories from other dimensions are buried under layers of fuzzed guitars, intricate fills and, of course, Mark Lanegan's glorious, post-apocalyptic drawl. Don't worry about the sometimes inadequate production. These songs will throw themselves at your throat and never let go, while releasing a subtle, reality altering poison into your unsuspecting mind.

Mark Lanegan is the Lion King of rock. Gary Lee Conner is the lost link between Ed Kuepper and Jimmy Page. Mark Pickerel is the reincarnation of the thunder god. Van Conner has the bottle of superglue. A!nd Buzz Factory is a distorted marvel.

MTV Buzz Bin Volume 2: The Future of Buzz Clips

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Buzz Bin 2 Brings More 1990's Classics
buzz buzz buzz
Every MTV- Made One Hit Wonder of the 90's!
This CD ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MTV Buzz Bin Volume 2: The Future of Buzz Clips
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Mammoth / Pgd
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000004ATM
Release Date: 1997-11-04

Tracks:

Down - 311
Lovefool - The Cardigans
Popular - Nada Surf
Natural One - Folk Implosion
Mr. Jones - Counting Crows
Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth - Primitive Radio Gods
The Distance - Cake
Naked - Goo Goo Dolls
Pain Lies On The Riverside - Live
She Don't Use Jelly - The Flaming Lips
Setting Sun (Instrumental) - The Chemical Brothers
Brown Sugar - D'Angelo

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Buzz Bin 2 Brings More 1990's Classics.......2005-01-17

Since Amazon.com does not provide the correct track listing, here it is:

1. 311 - "Down"
2. The Cardigans - "Lovefool"
3. Nada Surf - "Popular"
4. Folk Implosion - "Natural One"
5. Counting Crows - "Mr. Jones"
6. Primitive Radio Gods - "Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth"
7. Cake - "The Distance"
8. Goo Goo Dolls - "Naked"
9. Live - "Pain Lies On The Riverside"
10. The Flaming Lips - "She Don't Use Jelly"
11. The Chemcal Brothers - "Setting Sun"
12. D'angelo - "Brown Sugar"

Now, back to the review. MTV Buzz Bin Volume 2 picks up where Volume 1 left off, delivering more 1990's hits. You get mostly alternative artists, with the two last songs being left for techno and r&b artists. Overall it is a great compilation put together from MTV's 1990's glory days.

buzz buzz buzz.......2000-06-16

no matter if people like these songs or not, they certainly do fit the buzz worthy title. they may not be the best songs from the artists, but they are the songs that got the artists noticed. this cd is a good example of the changes that took place in the mid 90s. it's an interesting listen that doesn't have the same tired, overplayed songs frequently found on other 90s complilation albums.

Every MTV- Made One Hit Wonder of the 90's!.......1999-03-25

The majority of the artists on this album are one hitters: Nada Surf, the Cardigans, Primative Radio Gods, the Flaming Lips, etc. If that's your cup of tea, then buy it, otherwise save your money.

This CD ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......1998-12-09

This CD is soooooooo good!!! I would recommend it to EVERYONE!!!!!!!! It's definately one of my favorite CD's!! My favorite songs are: Down, Naked, and The Distance. It has something for everyone on it.

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First exposure to Ben grabbed my attention ...
Composer of new jazz
They Are At It Again
Accessible but forward thinking ...
Thanks Ben, for the Buzz you created.

Buzz
Ben Allison & Medicine Wheel
Manufacturer: Palmetto Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00022GK3M
Release Date: 2004-05-25

Tracks:

Respiration
Buzz
Green Al
Mauritania
Erato
R&B Fantasy
Across the Universe

Customer Reviews:

First exposure to Ben grabbed my attention ..........2005-06-07

Amazing -- a bassist leading a session without a single solo. A great mix without four contact mics attached to the big fiddle. This guy gets a major "bravo" just for that.
Allison still puts himself out front, but only in the best possible way: with his fabulous compositions! Made me think of Charles Mingus a couple of times as I listened. Great stuff, and truly progressive without getting into obnoxious dissonance or "free jazz." That, friends, takes some talent.
Any drawbacks? Well, the playing time won't blow you away; but personally, I'd rather have quality than quantity.
I've withdrawn a full star, however, for the clunking anti-climax to this great recording; it's a real letdown of an attempt (apparently) to find some high artistic merit in "Across the Universe." Why do even the most ingenious musicians wreck their own work by indulging some Beatles fixation? I've never understood why so many people cling to this ancient junk.
Oh well, If I were putting out the kind of killer music Allison is, I suppose I'd expect an occasional indulgence myself, so big props to the guy and his whole band.

Composer of new jazz.......2005-03-06

I first heard about Ben Allison from Amazon. I had a chance to see the group at Birdland while I was in town last year. The musicians and performance were great, but that was only part of it. The real story was the construction of the pieces. Ben Allison is one of the most inventive composers on the scene today. The structures of these tunes are original and eternal. My wife the classical scholar says it is chamber jazz/ Bach, but that to me suggests more sedate music. If comparisons can be made, I agree with the earlier reviewer that there is something of Radiohead as Brad Mehldau plays them. The potential of jazz is boundless. The players are incomparably talented, and there are no limits to the ideas and idioms they can express. Some of the other great players of today have brought the music forward with their own contributions, Danilo Perez with his melodies and rhythms from Panama and the Caribbean, Joshua Redman with his inventive blues progressions and dynamic compositions, Roy Hargrove with the amalgam of hip-hop and gospel with fusion, Pat Metheny with his soundscapes, Walt Weiskopf with his arrangements of 12 piece ensembles. Ben Allison and his New York Jazz Composers Collective peers are creating compelling accessible music. I have great love and enthusiasm for all of his albums; Buzz the most recent is a good place to begin.

They Are At It Again.......2004-06-16

I have vey little to add to the other reviewers excellent remarks BUT as a listener to the Jazz Composers Collective for about 10 years I encourage you if you enjoyed this challenging yet accessible music to explore other excellent "partnerships" under their individual names.Anything by Ben Allison is great but check out Peace Pipe.Ted Nash' latest Still Evolved is excellent and includes Wynton in a cameo.Michael Blake's Drift is his best and Frank's Kimbrough Quickening is excellent piano trio stuff. Another of of their "clan" is Matt Wilson who released an inventive quartet cd Humidity last year.Lastly they put out theier masterpiece in my opinion with The Herbie Nichols Project[the best] Finally please SUPPORT these guys they ARE modern jazz.No cliches.Just taking chances creatively.

Accessible but forward thinking ..........2004-06-14

Buzz opens with an electric piano riff that wouldn't sound out of place on either a Radiohead or Brad Mehldau record. No coincidence that Mehldau's piano trio covers Radiohead tunes frequently then, is it? This is modern jazz, albeit jazz more often influenced by its pop contemporaries than it is constrained by bygone traditions.

A plethora of styles abound on bassist and leader Ben Allison's new album. There are up-tempo cookers, sumptuous ballads and world music fusions, but they never drift into the sort of eclectic genre hoping that ruins many a similar effort. Allison's writing is very distinct and that comes across very strongly in these pieces. Playing music that is both beautiful and intense is not easy, yet for this ensemble it almost seems like second nature.

A key point can be made with the closing track, a cover of the Beatles tune Across the Universe. Allison has gone and converted this familiar tune into a fuge. The melody is stated by the horns, accompanied by the rhythm section and repeated, with minor melodic variations, over and over again. Does this make it jazz? Or is it some sort of classical hybrid? Or is it instrumental rock? It doesn't matter, it's simply gorgeous. It is one of the few Beatles covers performed by a jazz ensemble I've ever wanted to hear more than once. And that is a rare treat indeed.

Thanks Ben, for the Buzz you created........2004-06-10

Beautiful music from Medicine Wheel featuring innovative and sophisticated compositions by Ben Allison, artistic director of Jazz Composers Collective. These guys are definitely at the peak of their career, producing better and better music with every new release. "Buzz" as an album is totally approachable, yet intriguingly detailed and masterfully crafted. All the solos are smart, musical, not self-centered and they blend perfectly into the arrangements. (I wouldn't mind some more from Michael Blake though, I think his solo in "Peace Pipe" from Allison's previous album is one of the best pieces of improvised music I have ever heard)

The more I listen to Ben Allison's music, the more I think of Charles Mingus. Well, he is a very advanced bass player with sharp composition skills, so the resemblance is obvious. But there is also a textural similarity, the occasional two tenors and especially the recent addition of trombone in the ensemble plus the contrasting dark and light nature of the tunes keeps reminding me of "Ah Um", one of my favorite albums. So if you like that period of Mingus then you will most probably like this album.