Gin and Nothing

Editorial Reviews
Steve Lemcke, The Burlington Free Press
The Burlington-based pop-rock band The Halogens is one bulb that's trying to keep original music burning brightly.

Colin Clary, The Vermont Times.
Two thumbs up for quality and content. Bring your own lime.

Album Description
Combining a haze of heavy Brit-rock inspired guitars with stomping and swimming bass and drum work, The Halogens create a lush musical landscape - an aural palette colored with intelligent lyrics and thick vocal harmonies.

Gin and Nothing

Gin and Nothing, Music, The Halogens
Kung Fu Hustle
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • What about the dialogue?
  • Loved it!!!
  • great CD, but incomplete...
  • Fantastic Soundtrack
  • There comes a time when you find a soundtrack that's...
 Kung Fu Hustle

Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0007XT7T0
Release Date: 2005-03-29

Tracks:

  1. Kung Fu 1 - Kung Fu 1
  2. Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained - Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
  3. Fisherman's Song Of The East China Sea - The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
  4. Ambush From All Sides - The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
  5. Allegro Molto Vivace From Zigeunerweisen, Op.20 - Ivan Fischer
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  8. Midnight Assassin - Midnight Assassin
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  11. Sabre Dance - Sabre Dance
  12. Daring General - The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
  13. Casino Fight - Casino Fight
  14. Realization - Realization
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  16. Dagger Society Suite - The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
  17. Fisherman's Song Of The East China Sea - The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
  18. Buddhist Palm - Buddhist Palm
  19. Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained (Huang Sheng Yi) - Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained (Huang Sheng Yi)

Album Description

Set amid the chaos of pre-revolutionary China, small time thief, Sing, aspires to be one of the sophisticated and ruthless Axe Gang whose underworld activities overshadow the city. Stumbling across a crowded apartment complex aptly known as "Pig Sty Alley," Sing attempts to extort money from one of the ordinary locals, but the neighbors are not what they appear. Sing's comical attempts at intimidation inadvertently attract the Axe Gang into the fray, setting off a chain of events that brings the two disparate worlds face-to-face.

The exotic original score by Raymond Wong is complemented by the film's classical pieces, notably Sarasate's acclaimed "Zigeunerweisen" and Khachaturian's famous "Sabre Dance."

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars What about the dialogue?.......2006-04-08

I have a question about the dialogue on this CD... is it interspersed on separate tracks between songs, or do they talk during the songs?

5 out of 5 stars Loved it!!!.......2005-10-21

As a Chinese, I love this soundtrack and the movie very much! There is no more I can say. However, it's a good soundtrack and I love it very much.

4 out of 5 stars great CD, but incomplete..........2005-09-20

This is the soundtrack released to the U.S. Just so you know, the soundtrack sold in Asia features a few more songs. Most notably missing is a song preformed by Huang Sheng Yi, called "Zhi Yao Wei Ni Huo Yi Tian" which comes toward the end of the movie. It might be my favorite song in the movie, and it's too bad it's missing from the U.S. soundtrack.

5 out of 5 stars Fantastic Soundtrack.......2005-08-20

If you have seen this unbelievable movie, then you know how incredible the music is. It matches the mood of the movie and everything the previous reviewer said I agree with. It has great sweeping scores with an extremely cool "oriental/chinese" sound and presence to it. I mostly bought it for a few cool songs I fell in love with when I saw the movie and the whole album is great. You will recognize a few of the songs used in a lot of other chop socky/martial arts movies and you'll really enjoy having them along with all the other great music on this soundtrack and it goes without saying, but if you haven't seen or bought this movie yet, get it. We need to encourage Stephen Chow and support him in his endeavors to make more great movies instead of the same old rehashed formulaic, cookie cutter, boring(need I go on?)"Hollywood Entertainment" fare.

5 out of 5 stars There comes a time when you find a soundtrack that's..........2005-06-14

...Absolutely perfect!

As a collector of various movie soundtracks, there are many times when I am utterly dismayed by how unrelated they are to the movies they are supposed to complement.

The Kung Fu Hustle CD, however, is far from any of that! I watched this movie four times in the theater, and every time, the music just mesmerized me from start to finish! The movie was great, and the music was even better!

I quickly ordered the soundtrack from Amazon.com, and when it arrived, I was far from disappointed. This CD is fantastic! It does not leave anything out. What you hear in the movie is what you hear in the CD from beginning to end. The tracks are even in order of which they appear in the movie!

If you enjoyed Kung Fu Hustle, then the soundtrack is definitely for you. Go forth! Purchase the soundtrack, and prepare to be pleasantly entertained by the delightful music!
Purcell: Theatre Music
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Fine reissue of a classic set
 Purcell: Theatre Music

Manufacturer: Decca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001Y4JHA
Release Date: 2004-10-12

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Fine reissue of a classic set.......2006-05-24

Think about the stupidest, most formulaic Hollywood movies you can think of: cheesy action pictures, fluffy, unfunny comedies, big but stiff epics. Now imagine that one of the greatest living composers was working in Hollywood, turning out astonishing, hauntingly beautiful and stirring musical scores for these throwaway movies. That's what you get with this set: music Henry Purcell composed for some two dozen often utterly forgettable plays (trust me--I've read a number of them!) Occasionally, when he teams up with a playwright worthy of his stature, such as John Dryden, Aphra Behn, or William Congreve, the results are even better, but for the most part you can enjoy the music here without knowing anything about the original plays.

This set originally appeared as separate LPs in the 70s and 80s, and has been long out of print. That's a pity, since Purcell spent a good deal of his short professional life in the theatre, either writing the incidental music contained on these CDs, or the music for his larger works, the semi-operas (King Arthur, The Fairy Queen, and the like). Almost all of these works are enjoyable gems; certainly, they represent a pinnacle of English 17th century music. Purcell had a genius for spinning musical gold out of the most leaden lyrics (check out his Odes and Welcome Songs on Hyperion if you don't believe me), and he does the same with the song texts in these plays.

Hogwood and the AAM offer clean, listenable performances, and the sound on these old analog discs has been cleaned up and brightened--although they were pretty good, even in the late 70s. As with most Hogwood, emotional extremes are kept to a minimum, so the "otherworldly" nature of late 17th century music, so often emphasised in more recent Baroque performances, doesn't come across here. It would be interesting to see what a group like The King's Consort would do with this music, but this set fills the major gap in the Purcell canon quite nicely.

My only beef with the reissue, as with many reissues, is that the liner notes are rather thin for a 6-cd set--the lyrics to the songs, for example, are especially missed. Still, it's a worthwhile set, and a must for fans of Purcell, English Baroque music, or anyone who just wants to experience a taste of the last days of the Restoration stage.
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    Gin and Nothing
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    1. Round & Round
    2. They Say
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    Album Description

    Combining a haze of heavy Brit-rock inspired guitars with stomping and swimming bass and drum work, The Halogens create a lush musical landscape - an aural palette colored with intelligent lyrics and thick vocal harmonies.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars A great band.......2001-04-22

    The halogens are one of the greatest bands i have ever heard. I first heard them on the radio as an underground band and they just grew on me after a while of listening to them. Even though very few bands out of Burlington really shine, the Halogens really did and are truely the greatest.

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