Laughter [Import] [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered]
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Album Description
Japanese remastered reissue of 1980 album that's out-of-print domestically. Packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve.
Laughter, Music, Ian Dury, Disco, New Wave, Pop, Pub Rock, Rock, Rock/Pop
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- Sedaka Sings Elevator Music
- Great Collection, Though I Have One Reason To Question Its The Best.
- This Truly is the Best of Neil Sedaka
- 1970s MOR Pop Poster Boy
- "Sedaka's Back"
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Laughter in the Rain: The Best of Neil Sedaka, 1974-1980
Neil Sedaka
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
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ASIN: B0000014V5
Release Date: 1994-09-27 |
Tracks:
- Laughter In Rain
- Love Will Keep Us Together
- That's When the Music Takes Me
- The Immigrant
- The Hungry Years
- The Queen Of
- Rock And Roll Wedding Day
- Bad Blood
- Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
- #1 With A Heartache
- Lonely Night (Angel Face)
- Standing On The Inside
- Love In The Shadows
- The Other Side Of Me
- Steppin' Out
- You Gotta Make Your Own Sunshine
- Little Brother
- Solitare
- Should've Never Let You Go
- Our Last Song Together
Customer Reviews:
Sedaka Sings Elevator Music.......2007-04-05
Listening to this, I truly realized that Sedaka made his greatest contributions to pop music in the '50's and '60's. Aside from the few hits (Laughter in the Rain, Bad Blood, Lonely Nights, etc.) he produced in the '70's, Sedaka's M.O.R. "Second career" mainly produced songs for the Geritol set. Buy yourself a good early Sedaka compilation (Sings the Hits comes to mind) and give this one to your grandparents.
Great Collection, Though I Have One Reason To Question Its The Best........2007-03-26
My favorite song of Neil Sedaka's is "Amarillo". I can still picture when I saw him on a Midnight Special doing the song, smiling cheerfully, pointing his finger for the two quarter beats on the chorus. How can I seriously consider this to be his greatest hits without "Amarillo"?
Aside from that, I enjoyed it. I either was unaware or had forgotten he wrote "Love Will Keep Us Together", "Lonely Night (Angel Face)", and "Solitaire", three songs I enjoyed when performed by the Captain and Tenille and the Carpenters. I remember one day I had the flu, and I was lying down, listening to Captain Tenille's "Lonely Night" and Sedaka's slow version of "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do". (One problem I had with some of his hits was thinking it was a girl singing at first.)
It was a treat to hear my second favorite hit of Sedaka's, "You Gotta Make Your Own Sunshine."
This Truly is the Best of Neil Sedaka.......2006-03-18
This truly is the best of Neil Sedaka. I hadn't heard alot of these songs in so long, it is very nice to enjoy his music and remember years past. If you are a Neil Sedaka fan, this is a "must have".
1970s MOR Pop Poster Boy.......2005-10-08
Karen and Richard Carpenter's music ("Greatest Hits," the CD and its LP predecessors) was deservedly among the most purchased and listened to MOR Pop recordings of the 1970s. But for me, no American LP album is more representative of the time period than "Sedaka's Back" -- in a sense, the 1970s MOR Pop Poster Boy. It is one of those historical asterisks that Neil Sedaka (during his 70s comeback), was once a highly popular opening act for the Carpenter's Lake Tahoe appearances (often pushing back Karen and Richard's start times due to ovations).
The Carpenters' ballads have sometimes been unfairly scorned as suburban, white, conservative middle class culture (which isn't all bad, is it?); whereas, Sedaka's music is painted as gritty, ethnic, urban inner city, and politically sensitive. If these comparisons have some validity, it may be because the mom and pop music of the 1940s probably peaked with the Carpenters in the 70s; and Sedaka's edgier ballads were a transition to the pop - rock, musical mélange -- the social and cultural diversification -- thereafter. Of course, the Beatles invasion, from across "the pond," was no small influence on US musical culture.
"Sedaka's Back" (Rocket Records MCA 4963 - 1974) is maturation and broadening for Sedaka - influenced by his relationship with Carole King and other contemporaries, and subsequent contact with Elton John (a positive musical force for many) - overcoming inner city isolation reflected in his songs of the 1950s - 60s. But this is still typically Sedaka, as we shall always remember him -- sentimental, innocent, and with his heart fully exposed on his shirtsleeve. The music is upbeat (even the sad songs) and memorable - "Love Will Keep Us Together" is a favorite for my wife and me, for obvious reasons. "Sedaka's Back," with his biggest all-time hit, "Laughter in the Rain" has too much energy to be time capsule material, though it can evoke reminiscences and nodding smiles.
The CD, "Sedaka's Back" is available under separate listing with four additional tracks, while this CD, "Laughter In The Rain, The Best Of Neil Sedaka, 1974 - 1980," omits three tracks from the original LP, "Sad Eyes," (done well by Maria Muldaur), "The Way I Am," and "A Little Lovin'." The original LP is best - "Sedaka's Back" (CD) is an acceptable substitute.
"Sedaka's Back".......2005-07-23
This is an excellent collection of Neil's 70s songs. It should be a 2-disc set, the 1st CD being his 50s & 60s singles. Is that too much to ask? Apparently, it is. I am also perplexed as to why this CD was not released on his 70s label, Rocket, which was a subsidiary of MCA Records (still a major label). Although I am pleased with the songs themselves, the CD quality was indeed lacking, to my ears. They should've "re-remastered" it. I have heard better audio quality on many cassettes and vinyl. I recommend it if you are a fan of this very talented artist!
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- Relax and enjoy
- Nice find!
- A beautiful record but....
- Rosie Thomas
- talent but missing content
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Only With Laughter Can You Win
Rosie Thomas
Manufacturer: Sub Pop
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B0000C0FJX
Release Date: 2003-09-23 |
Tracks:
- Let Myself Fall
- I Play Music
- Red Rover
- Sell All My Things
- Crazy
- One More Day
- All My Life
- You And Me
- Tell Me How
- Gradually
- Dialogue
Album Description
Only With Laughter Can You Win, Rosie's second full-length, elaborates on the quietly affecting intensity of her critically lauded debut. On it, she ads considerable emotional and instrumental depth with performances by family members and friends (including Iron & Wine's Sam Beam).
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Relax and enjoy.......2007-04-15
After reading one of the reviews below and subsequently buying the CD, I set out to find those horribly offending religious verses. My conclusion? The music is not religiously offensive unless you truly want to find such offense. I am not 100% positive, but I think God was mentioned twice and Christ was mentioned once. Sadly, many people curse in average conversations using His name irreverently more than that, which is where the true offense exists. So anyway, what about this music?
Overall the CD was good but not spectacular. Rosie's voice is one of those throaty, intentionally breaking on certain notes, yet kind of wispy and wandering new-age type of voices that for some of the songs left me straining to listen so that I might catch more of the words. I personally prefer singers whose every word I can understand, unless it is someone like Emma Shapplin (Re. "Carmine Meo" CD...superb). I had a couple favorites on the "Only with Laughter" CD, and overall it is easy to listen to, but I had hoped for more songs like the couple that came pre-loaded on my new HP laptop (which is why I chased down the CD in the first place). I'll stretch it from 3 to 4 stars, realizing that some listeners will really like her style and music.
However, unless you are fairly sure that you will like her music I would avoid buying the companion CD that is offered: "When We Were Small." In spite of some distracting additions of irrelevant chatter to try to give you the feeling that you are sitting in her living room with friends, I did like the first song on it (this one song had just a little light country western flavor and was very well done), but the other songs all started to sound the same, which in some ways is the same criticism that I could offer for the first album. Nevertheless, if this is the flavor that you like in abundance, then you'll really like her music.
Just a suggestion, if you are leaning to Rosie's CDs, you also might want to give a listen to Eva Cassidy (Re. "Songbird"). I think Amazon allows you to listen to a sample. Eva is gone now--taken at an early age due to cancer, but her singing has something very special about it. I can say with full confidence that if you like Rosie Thomas that you will also like Eva Cassidy. I took four of Rosie's songs from two CDs and four of Eva's songs from one CD to put together a great CD for quality listening.
Nice find!.......2007-01-11
I stumbled on this artist while playing around in iTunes and purchased the CD from Amazon. Rosie has a sound very similar to Sarah McGlaughlin, very soothing. Highly recommended
A beautiful record but...........2006-07-19
This is a beautiful sounding recording. But some of the content turns off those who don't believe in folklore and fairytales. Don't get me wrong, that has a place in "atmospheric music." But those who take it literally are viewed by rational people as a bit insane, at best.
To the Reggie Dobalina's of the reviewers who actually have the gall, and naivete to mention "Satan" to those who don't buy into superstition, I'm sorry, but leave the fairytales and mythology to those less talented, and insane.
Rosie Thomas has the talent to be a major talent. I hope she decides to use it.
Rosie Thomas .......2005-09-07
This CD is absolutely beautiful. I only bought it because I heard one of the songs was played in the background of Alias, but it was definitely worth it. The music is relaxing, and she has a beautiful voice.
talent but missing content.......2005-08-22
She has a great voice and her sound in general is amazing. But, there just isn't much going on here. She's very young and that probably has a lot to do with it. She is quite expressive about her religion in a way that is distancing. I like many other artists who write from a place of spirituality like Innocence Mission, Van Morrison, etc. This seems fundamentalist and loses me rather than inspiring me. Many of her themes strike me as adolescent and pretty much played out by so many other people. I have great hopes for her in about 10 years.
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- This..
- I love this album
- Ugh
- funky
- Sadly not "Living in Clip" part Two
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So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter
Ani Difranco
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ASIN: B00006EXEE
Release Date: 2002-09-10 |
Tracks:
- Swan Dive
- Letter To A John/ Tamburiza Lingua
- Grey
- Cradle And All
- What All Is Nice
- What How When Where
- To The Teeth
- Revelling
- Napoleon
- Shrug
- Welcome To:
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- Comes a Time
- Ain't That The Way
- Dilate
- Gratitude
- Rock Paper Scissors
- 32 Flavors
- Loom/ Pulse
- Not A Pretty Girl
- Self Evident
- Reckoning
- My IQ
- Jukebox
- You Had Time
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Who besides Ani DiFranco would begin an album with a piercing buzz and a muttered "I don't know why the f**k I play acoustic guitars"? But then who else would release a double-disc concert set only five years after the last one? Like 1997's Living in Clip, her latest live document is sublimely packaged and messily recorded, and features the backing of a howling audience and a hot jazz-rock band. Highlights include a funky, almost gangsta take of her best New York song, "Cradle and All"; Julie Wolf's grinding organ on "Napoleon"; and the previously unreleased post-9/11, antiwar poem "Self Evident." The performances (culled from venues across the U.S., as well as France and Canada) feature lots of witty soap-boxing (apparently no one told Ani that Clear Channel's infamous banned song list doesn't exist... does it?) in addition to some gorgeous guitar picking and inventive horn lines. In the end, all the flaws, giggles, stumbling starts, and risky arrangements are a testament to how much she trusts her audience and how much they trust her. Do her fans really need another double live album? When the performances brim with this much charisma, adventure, and conviction, yes, they do. --Roy Kasten
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This.........2006-12-22
is the funk. Ani 70's. Doin it with Horns. Talkin to the audience in a way that would enrAgE some. Dig important right on crusAder songs lliKe "Letter tO a John" aNd the first song..
I love this album.......2006-12-09
I bought dialte and really liked it. I took a chance and bought this.
Wow! I normally listen metal and rock. This has become one of my favorite albums of all time. I read some of these reviews and saying stuff like sloppy recording and other negative comments. Give me a break it's pure
artistry. Ani un edited. The lady has an opinion and has something to say.
The lyrics are great the musicianship of her and her band are as good as any. Every time I listen to it I hear something new. I'm guy and am touched to near tears on several songs and am not afraid to admit it. Gratatute and welcome to in perticular.
This girl can get an emotion accross in a song like few can. So many styles combined. I needed some thing differnet and was bored with the same 50 classic rock songs and stations playing the same 20 new songs for 4 months. Just what I needed. Refreshing.
Ugh.......2006-01-11
You MUST be a fan to enjoy this. One of the worst guitar sounds I've ever heard in a professional recording. I knew Ani was a love her/hate her performer, but a couple of her full acoustic songs I had heard weren't too bad. I got this record from
Swaprocks.com (thankfully I didn't pay for it). Very disappointing. The songwriting is quirky, and the lyrics intricate, but didn't work for me. If you're sure you like her music you may have a better chance at finding this release enjoyable.
funky.......2005-09-27
This album is amazing! I am a huge Ani fan and this double disc is one of my favorite Ani releases. It is a collection of a lot of her great songs[32 Flavors, Dilate, and my favorite, Jukebox] but with a funky spin. Every note is harder and has more emotion then the versions you will find on her CDs. She performs with her 6 piece band which is made up of some horns, keyboards, and a booming bass. A lot of the songs sound completely new because of the passion in the performance. It also has 3 previously unreleased songs on it. I strongly recomend this CD to anyone, from obsessive fans to first timers!
Sadly not "Living in Clip" part Two.......2005-01-29
This album will do much to increase the "Ani is the female Dylan" hype. Like his Bobness, Ani often tries to reinvent herself, tours relentlessly, inspires loyal dedication in her fans and now (as this release proves) can't choose a good live set of tracks to save herself.
I loved Ani's last live release (Living in Clip) which I picked up before I had the chance to see her live. I gave LIC four stars but then I had no point of comparison. When this release was announced I was looking forward to hearing some of the inspired versions of great songs that I had seen at live shows. Sadly the songs here do nothing to inspire the way "Clip" did and leave me fondly remembering concert highlights that for some reason were overlooked in favour of the dud tracks presented here. This is definitely Ani's version of "Dylan and the Dead" and is best overlooked in favour of the far superior concert releases avaliable on her official site.
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- quick empty rock
- The Best
- Best of third generation punk rock
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Maniacal Laughter
The Bouncing Souls
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ASIN: B00005T60T
Release Date: 2001-12-11 |
Tracks:
- Lamar Vannoy
- No Rules
- The Freaks, Nerds, & Romantics
- Argyle
- All Of This And Nothing
- The BMX Song
- Quick Chek Girl
- Headlights... Ditch
- Here We Go
- Born To Lose
- Moon Over Asbury
- The Ballad Of Johnny X
Customer Reviews:
quick empty rock.......2006-11-15
Speed guitars and anthemic chants aside, one realizes the Bouncing Souls just don't have much to say. And it's disappointing. The big, dumb hooks wear off and you get the feeling they're just a bunch of lazy, idle hedonists. Dedicated to music? Yeah. But just how good IS the music? I mean, listen to it, most songs are about themselves, each other, and getting drunk and partying. It was a party record for mid-90s teenagers. Don't be tricked into thinking they're social outcasts and rebels because honest they're just like everybody else. They like to drink and party and rock. Kind of sounds like KISS or something eh? Which would be fine, if there was some social consciousness here.
Now, in their support they still manage to sound raw and gritty after all these years and they haven't become superstars (although their stuff is sold everywhere). In this way, you can appreciate the dude-next-door vibe all their songs give off. It's genuine and down-to-earth, but there's not much beyond that. If you're looking for a good time, stop here. If you like some meat to go along with your potatoes, move along.
The Best.......2002-01-01
This was the first Bouncing Souls cd i ever got, and it's the best. The other albums are awesome, don't get me wrong, but this album is the best. Poppy enough to sing along to, hardcore enough to mosh to. It's over all a great cd, u can listen to it from beginging to end without stopping, My only complaint is it is extremely short.
Best of third generation punk rock.......2001-12-24
this album and 'the good the bad and the argyle' are two of the best punk rock albums ever put out by a band in the 90's. in a time filled with political punk rock and an ever-growing list of punk rock sub-geners (crust, grindcore, street, etc.) these guys made punk rock fun again. lyrics about beer girls and tv. the first two bouncing souls albums are better than their entire Epitath output combined. "Ballad of Johnny X" is my favorite song on this collection.
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- Conniff's tribute to the 70's!
- Conniff at His Best
- An Obvious "Five!"
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You Are the Sunshine of My Life/Laughter in the Rain
Ray Conniff
Manufacturer: Collectables
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ASIN: B000784WWC
Release Date: 2005-02-22 |
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- You are the sunshine of my life
- The twelfth of never
- Dueling Voices (Dueling Banjos)
- Neither one of us (Wants to be the first to say goodbye) 5. Sing 6. Peaceful 7. Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree 8. There was a girl/killing me softly With his song 9. The right thing to do 10. The night the lights went out in Georgia 11. Bah Bah Conniff Sprach (Zarathustra)
- Laughter in the rain
- I honestly love you
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- feel like makin' love
- (You're) having my baby
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Conniff's tribute to the 70's!.......2007-05-13
One of the talented musical arrangers is Ray Conniff, hands down in my opinion. This collection proves that in these selections of songs popular in the early 1970s. I especially enjoyed his renditions of Dueling Voices and the theme from 2001:A Space Odyssey! A nice two fer set of Conniff's best!
Conniff at His Best.......2006-04-26
If you like the 1970s sound of Ray Conniff then "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" is the one to get. It's Ray's BEST and MOST POLISHED album from the seventies. "Peaceful" and "The Right Thing To Do" are two of my favorite tracks. You also might find "Dueling Voices" quite good if you can somehow get yourself to stop thinking about the movie "Deliverance"- oink. Percy Faith's "Corazon/My Love" cd is a nice companion to this cd with many of the same songs covered.
Although Conniff's "Laughter in the Rain" album has an impressive track listing for the connoisseur of easy listening seventies music, the quality just isn't there, and consequently is unbearable to my ears.
Conniff's "I Can See Clearly Now" cd is a close second in quality to "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life", and definitely worth pursuing.
An Obvious "Five!".......2006-04-11
At a time where almost all of Ray Conniff's CD collections earn very high ratings, this "two-fer" is an obvious "Five." These are some of Ray's most memorable and mellow seventies and eighties offerings, and well deserving of the true fan's attention and investment.
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- Andrew Dice Clay - 'Day The Laughter Died' (Warner Bros.)
- No Material...No Fear....No Guts, No Glory
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Day the Laughter Died
Andrew Dice Clay
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ASIN: B000002L08
Release Date: 1990-03-16 |
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- First Kiss
- Holiday Season
- Tree
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- Places to Meet Chicks
- Gift
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- Personal Deliveryservice
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- Under 2 Minutes
- Kids
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- 1990
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Customer Reviews:
Andrew Dice Clay - 'Day The Laughter Died' (Warner Bros.).......2006-12-25
Right along with the late Sam Kinison's debut CD,'Have You Seen Me Lately?'(see my review),this 2-CD release by the 'Diceman' himself is an absolute must-have comedy title. I listened to these two discs SO much,I'm amazed they still play. Simply love this New Yorker's extremely dry/sick sense of humor. Some of my favorite lines are, "Here's a nice family sitting down up front. Mom and the two daughters have the SAME haircut. Very nice!Dad..., he too has the same ****ing silly haircut". Another one: "So,you don't like fat chicks,pal? Check back with after you turn thirty. Ever date a 600 pound woman? It's like a ride at Wet&Wild...unbelievable, you know what I'm saying? So,I'm at this dive in the Bronx and I spot this cow of a woman, standing against the wall, like she's actually holding up the building. She's got six chins,her legs look like one(I dunno)and she has an eye patch and a neatly trimmed beard. So,I lure her back to my apartment with a bag of hershey kisses". You get the idea. Honestly, a laugh a minute. Get it!
No Material...No Fear....No Guts, No Glory.......2004-12-12
Dice was at the top of his game when he decided to make this double album, affectionatly known to fans as TDTLD. He stood on stage for a few nights at Dangerfield's with no material whatsoever....and made a comedy classic not unlike Pryor's That Nigger's Crazy and Sam Kineson's Have You Seen Me Lately?
Dice made a ballsy move in doing this album. He wasn't yet the comic who sold out Madison Square Garden, nor the man who went crazy with TDTLD Part II...avoid that one, BTW. The album was perfectly stated in his routine "...Laughter verses comedy...you don't have to laugh to enjoy it." If you love Dice, and you want his albums, then this is the one to get.
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- SAIL ON, KURT!
- Not at All Vile Weill
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ASIN: B000055YBR
Release Date: 2001-02-12 |
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Here's a disc of 19 familiar and unfamiliar Kurt Weill songs arranged for dance band and played by an expert group of specialists in Roaring Twenties band music. They're led by singer-conductor-composer H.K. Gruber, whose previous recordings include Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper. The result is a start-to-finish delight. From the first notes, you're beamed back in time to one of those sleek transatlantic passenger liners, sitting in an art deco ballroom watching elegant couples in tuxedos and ball-gowns swirl by while the band plays hits from Weill's German and Broadway triumphs. Sure, the venom is leached from the originals, but who needs agitprop when you're on a dance floor? The arrangements are by a variety of hands, hired by Weill's European and American publishers with his approval to get more mileage from his musical theater works. They're delightfully square rhythmically and formulaic in transferring Weill's music to conventional dance bands, but the music still holds up and is fun to hear in its new clothes. A special treat is the eight tracks with Max Raabe, whose light tenor and falsetto singing preserve the spirit of Weill's songs, as well as perfectly mimic the boy band singers of times gone by. --Dan Davis
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SAIL ON, KURT!.......2006-04-23
I wouldn't take offence here oh, Weill purists! These reconstructions are charming and harmonically reverent to their originals, more than could be said for many versions of the Weill Songbook through the decades, including Lou Reed's friendly `adaptation' of the September Song's chord progression and melodic line!
Shoenberg and Webern expressed their disdain of Weill's music; curiously, Arnold had also disclosed a secret wish of having his own audiences walk back home "whistling his tunes", oh, don't ask why... You can certainly whistle, hum and sway your partner now, as the transatlantic's bouncy dancehall sails on just as Kurt, Lotte and the lot of them did when escaping the lethal hounds of early 30s Berlin.... the-next-little-dollar bound.
Not at All Vile Weill.......2001-08-13
The ever versatile HK Gruber has done it again digging up these gorgeous dance arrangements for Weill's music--proving, if anything, Weill's versatility. Anyone familiar with the Capriccio historical Weill recordings will be aware of the long tradition of dance bands taking Weill's music as the lead for dance music or pop music incarnations (all the way up through the more obvious appropriations familiar to Americans: Mack the Knife and September Song). Hardly MUZAK arrangements (listen to the delicate violin in track 17's "What Good Would the Moon Be" to hear what I mean), this generous helping of 19 songs offers a chance to see Weill through a delightfully different but entirely compatible lens. Max Raabe provides the ideal vocal compliment on 8 of the tracks, his tenor floating effortlessly into his head voice suggesting a "period" sound reminiscent of Bing Crosby. The import title for this disc is "Charming Weill," and that modest adjective expresses the least of its virtues.
ELEVATOR MUSIC.......2001-05-23
This is a very strange CD: why would anyone want to take the quirky rhythms and melodies of the great Kurt Weill and "tame" them into dance arrangements? Certainly one has listened to (& even perhaps admired) dance arrangements of composers from Victor Herbert to Cole Porter to Jerry Herman, but these are all, if you will, main stream composers-- men whose music sounds good in original Broadway or Hollywood arrangements and just as good (or almost as good) as played by a dance band...think "Begin The Beguine" as done by Fred Astaire on film or "Begin The Beguine" done by Jo Stafford with the Paul Weston Orchestra.
But Weill was an innovator: a man who can still be listened to experiencing the thrill of something fresh and new. One immediately thinks of his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht in Germany: "Threepenny Opera" and "The Rise & Fall Of The City of Mahagonny" or "The Seven Deadly Sins", etc. his American opera, "Street Scene" with Langston Hughes or his American musical plays: "One Touch of Venus" with Ogden Nash or "Love Life" with Alan Jay Lerner, etc. The songs on this CD all deserve great recordings from the "Alabama Song" to "September Song" but they turn into a kind of flattened elevator music instead of having fresh interpretations or even more traditional ones. What happens is that the longing in "What Good Would the Moon Be" and the romance of "Speak Low" and the raucousness of "Bilbao Song" are all much too similar and much too easy.
It's a little weird to think of husbands whispering to their wives," Listen, honey, they're playing 'As You Make Your Bed' from "Mahagonny".........let's fox trot!"
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- Great Bill Hicks Comedy but nearly same skits as Flying Saucer CD
- Bill Hicks is brilliant, this CD blows
- Its All Brilliant, Leave It Aone!
- The Rodney Dangerfield of Bill Hicks CD Releases?
- doesnt deserve all the negative reviews
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Love Laughter & Truth
Bill Hicks
Manufacturer: Rykodisc
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ASIN: B00006LEPB
Release Date: 2002-11-12 |
Tracks:
- Intro / Smokers Vs Drinkers
- Drunk Driving
- New York Apartment
- My One Man Show
- Pot Smoking
- Drugs Are Bad
- Children on Airplanes
- 50 Year Smoker
- Smoking in Heaven
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Album Description
Compilation of previously unreleased material culled from a multitude of live performance recordings Bill made for his personal use from the mid 80s until his death in 1994. Ryko. 2002.
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Great Bill Hicks Comedy but nearly same skits as Flying Saucer CD.......2006-07-01
This Album is funny, and im sure i would have loved it more had it not been the same act as the flying saucer tour.. i know this one is older but still very similar material.. If you do not have Flying Saucer Tour this is worth picking up.
Bill Hicks is brilliant, this CD blows.......2005-03-13
This CD should be called "Cutting Room Floor" or "I'm Dead and Have No Control Over The Release of My Material." Don't believe the reviews that tell you not to believe the reviews that don't like this CD. Rant in E-Minor, Relentless, Arizona Bay and Dangerous are what you are looking for. This one is a compilation of not very good bits in no particular order. If you are just getting into Bill, this will make you wonder what all the fuss is about, and you won't look further (a big mistake).
As for the reviews:
* ""LoveLaughterAndTruth" deserves more respect than it has been granted by some of the other customer reviewers."
No no no...
* If anyone calls themselves a true fan, they MUST own all of his albums.
Spoken like a collector, not a fan.
Its All Brilliant, Leave It Aone!.......2005-01-11
Bill Hicks was a genius. Period. To Date there are only 8 cds you can buy, thats not alot. If anyone calls themselves a true fan, they MUST own all of his albums. There are other reviews for this cd that complain about the quality. If these twits had gone to school and learnt how to read the enclosed CD booklet, they would have seen that this CD is not 100% because Bill recorded the material himself for his own personal archives!
If you love Bill Hicks, you will love this album. Bills impression of Australia and England, plus his opinions on Heathers two mommys is classic!!!
Buy this cd, It will grow on you, just like Flying Saucer Tour will grow on you!
The Rodney Dangerfield of Bill Hicks CD Releases?.......2003-05-28
"LoveLaughterAndTruth" deserves more respect than it has been granted by some of the other customer reviewers. While they are right to criticize its lack of continuity as well as the inconsistency of its sound quality, this has some genuinely brilliant material on it--and for that alone, it is worth the price of admission. It's nice to have some of these bits without having to find them online. Hicks is at it again, railing against non-smokers, anti-drug legislation, children on airplanes, the insipidity of American comedy club audiences and arch-conservative politicians like Jesse Helms and Bob Martinez. "Children on Airplanes," "Australia" and the vividly distasteful "You Can't Get Bitter" are as good as anything in his repetoire. Let's be honest: "LoveLaughterAndTruth" is funnier than "Dangerous" and/or "Relentless" (which drags in the middle). Obviously the must-haves are "Arizona Bay" and "Rant in E-Minor," and this disc, because of its scattershot sequencing, cannot match the power of them. The new "Flying Saucer Tour Vol. 1" disc is also a worthy addition to the Hicks cdiscography. Believe it or not, "LoveLaughterAndTruth" just might be the place for neophytes to start getting acquainted with Hicks.
doesnt deserve all the negative reviews.......2003-02-28
yes, this release is a collection of random bits, and the sound quality is sketchy in some spots. however, you must realize what you're getting- 45 minutes, of essentially "unheard" Bill Hicks material! owning every bootleg, i had heard alot of these bits before, but there was some stuff on here that was new even to me. i wouldnt recommend this disc before his first 4 albums, or the excellent "Flying Saucer Tour, Vol. 1", but if you own those albums already and enjoy them, you MUST own this.
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Release Date: 2000-10-24 |
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VIENNAFEST A FEAST FOR THE EARS!.......2000-11-07
Erich Kunzel is the baton and the heart of the Cincinnati Pops. I am fortunate enough to live in the Cincinnati area and have seen and heard the Pops in person. It is an awesome experience. However, if you cannot get to Cincinnati or to one of his on-tour performances, the Telarc CDs are as close to live as you can get! Viennafest is no exception. The care that is so evident on every Cincinnati Pops release is meticulous. The waltzes and marches are melodious and true to the theme of the CD. I eagerly await the release of each Erich Kunzel CD--BRAVO!
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- A Great Album..Claudia Brucken Rules!!!
- eighties oddity- claudia brucken meets late style council
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Digitally Remastered Expanded Edition of a Short Lived Project from Propaganda's Claudia Brucken and Thomas Leer. This Album Appeared after the Original Breakup of Propaganda.
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A Great Album..Claudia Brucken Rules!!!.......2005-06-23
A really great album. Claudia sounds wonderful as always and the bonus tracks are perfect.
eighties oddity- claudia brucken meets late style council.......2004-04-20
This previously impossible to find cd has been remastered and reissued from ztt records in 2003. 22 tracks and nearly 80 minutes worth of music. Post Propaganda project for german pop chantuese claudia brucken who carries the album over the once complex but now dated sounding late eighties electronic production from wizard partner thomas leer. Still its a great guilty pleasure and reminds me of a more electronic version of the style council-paul wellers allover the place popjazzsoul band that dabbled with house and syncopated eighties techno late in its career. Theres the same intelligent well written map explored by both- and claudia brucken is like an avantegarde new wave diva whose voice is unique-very german though the words ofcourse are in english. Theres hints of lounge-house-techno pop funk rock jazz-over the top at times but always interesting. Act shines where the style council failed late in its career-with synths and drum machines perfectly at home with bruckens past- it just seemed laughable behind the once angry guitar hero weller. This new version is worth the money for the original album plus all extra cuts including a very cool stab at white rabbit(grace slick classic). The other boxset version seems silly but i guess hardcore wants would want it all. For the newbie or old fan looking-this is perfect. Booklet is nice with history text and pictures of the beautiful brucken. A must for propaganda fans and fans of lost eighties classics and newwave alternative. Looking back a weller/brucken collaboration would have been a good idea. Also recommended is Claudias rare solo album love and a million other things cd and the style council collection import.
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