Sinner

Amazon.com's Best of 2001
Intense, dynamic, and full of seething rage, Drowning Pool's powerful debut finds ardent (and sometimes screaming) vocalist Dave Williams mining topics ranging from religion ("Sinner") to relationships ("Reminded") to fine effect, creating a nu-metal opus that's rock-solid from start to finish. "Bodies" boasts an irresistible, insinuating growling chorus ("Let the bodies hit the floor"), with the tune's melodic, suspenseful verses providing the perfect buildup for the cathartic chorus. Williams's impressive whisper-to-a-scream delivery in "Tear Away" and the unbridled energy of "Told You So" are also striking. The Texas quartet's post rap-rock heaviness is aggro yet melodic, not to mention believable, credible, and intelligent. Their smart lyrics, chunky rhythms, and punchy production (by Jay Baumgardner of Papa Roach fame) make this music for the Ozzfest generation. --Katherine Turman

Product Description
Dallas four-piece Drowning Pool set the rock world on fire this summer with their debut album SINNER. Even before the album's release date, the band has been named to perform on the OZZFEST tour, and their "Bodies" video has gone into BUZZWORTHY rotation on MTV.

The album, produced by Jay Baumgardner (Papa Roach, Coal Chamber, Orgy), combines Drowning Pool's serious heaviness with the energy of their live shows. The single "Bodies" is destined to become THE moshpit anthem for the youth of today, and there's a lot more where that came from!

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Sinner

Average customer rating: one hit wonder Excellent & Powerful album that stands out from the pack Drowning Pool's Debut into the Nu-metal scene Nu metal at it's best Am I the only one who realizes how bad they really are?

Sinner Drowning Pool Manufacturer: Wind-Up ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Post Grunge | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Alternative Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Desensitized The Sickness Awake Believe Godsmack ASIN: B00005JXQU Release Date: 2001-06-05

Tracks:

1. Sinner
2. Bodies
3. Tear Away
4. All Over Me
5. Reminded
6. Pity
7. Mute
8. I Am
9. Follow
10. Told You So
11. Sermon

Amazon.com's Best of 2001

Intense, dynamic, and full of seething rage, Drowning Pool's powerful debut finds ardent (and sometimes screaming) vocalist Dave Williams mining topics ranging from religion ("Sinner") to relationships ("Reminded") to fine effect, creating a nu-metal opus that's rock-solid from start to finish. "Bodies" boasts an irresistible, insinuating growling chorus ("Let the bodies hit the floor"), with the tune's melodic, suspenseful verses providing the perfect buildup for the cathartic chorus. Williams's impressive whisper-to-a-scream delivery in "Tear Away" and the unbridled energy of "Told You So" are also striking. The Texas quartet's post rap-rock heaviness is aggro yet melodic, not to mention believable, credible, and intelligent. Their smart lyrics, chunky rhythms, and punchy production (by Jay Baumgardner of Papa Roach fame) make this music for the Ozzfest generation. --Katherine Turman

Album Description

Dallas four-piece Drowning Pool set the rock world on fire this summer with their debut album SINNER. Even before the album's release date, the band has been named to perform on the OZZFEST tour, and their "Bodies" video has gone into BUZZWORTHY rotation on MTV.

The album, produced by Jay Baumgardner (Papa Roach, Coal Chamber, Orgy), combines Drowning Pool's serious heaviness with the energy of their live shows. The single "Bodies" is destined to become THE moshpit anthem for the youth of today, and there's a lot more where that came from!

Customer Reviews:

one hit wonder.......2006-12-31

We- eeelllll...not much to say. Just a stupid one hit wonder band. ''Bodies'' was their one, big time hit. After ''Bodies''...nothing. All that stupid, poser, wannabe hardass song is good for is for stupid, overly cafenated15 year olds to make InuYasha, Elfen Lied, and The Ring AMV's to. And if you don't believe me, go to youtube.
My cousin emails me stuff like that every day. Only idiots who like poser punk, and Elfen Lied (the most failed atempt at gore ever) will love this, and be uploading ''LUCY - LET DA BODIEEZ HIT DA FLOOR!!!'' as fast as this *snaps fingers*

Excellent & Powerful album that stands out from the pack.......2006-09-30

Drowning Pool's 2001 debut is perhaps one of the most underrated, under appreciated and unrecognized albums of the decade. The strong fan base was there and still listens, but with the death of lead singer Dave Williams in 2002, the garnered steam that was launching this band out in front of the pack suddenly stalled. Drowning pool went from almost a household name to an afterthought in many musical circles. While bands like Godsmack, Disturbed, and System of a Down kept climbing the charts, the rest of us were left wondering what might have been with Drowning Pool.

Regardless, it doesn't take away from the intricate mixture of gripping vocals, heavy guitars and groovy beats that create an atmospheric yet simple style that stays with you long after you stop listening.

The title track opens the album and has some superb vocals that are epic and vast reaching through a forefront of heavy guitars. Despite being less than three minutes long, the song has some depth as well as bite and is one of my favorite on the whole album. "Bodies" is the next track and is a signature single from the band. The chorus chants "let the bodies hit the floor" gave them some supreme notoriety in metal and rock circles at the time of its release, and is well on its way to being a classic rock anthem. Track four is "All over me" and is another great single that stands out. Driven with a powerful guitar part, the lyrics and tempo of the song are catchy yet intense at the same time.

If your looking for an overall great record that can execute harsh, intense sounds as well as progressive metal style approaches but retain a varied structure of lyrics and overall great musicianship, then look into Sinner by Drowning Pool. 11 songs in all, there isn't a bad track on the album. I feel this was a band that despite moving on with another lead singer could have become a great overall rock/metal band going into the rest of this decade. This listener will miss knowing what future music Dave Williams and Drowning Pool might have brought to the table.

Drowning Pool's Debut into the Nu-metal scene.......2006-09-27

The first time I ever heard of Drowning Pool was during a WWF live event in 2004 when their song 'Bodies' headlined a LIVE wrestling event. I found the song to be catchy and a cleverly designed song. So I went ahead earlier this year and purchased the entire album 'Sinner' from Amazon.com. After listening to this delightful album a number of times it is time for me to share my feelings on this nu-metal band.

Firstly the artwork is pretty interesting and different. The girl looks alittle like Amy Lee of Evanescence at first. The scope of the album pretty much matches the artcover, the mood of this album ranges from discussing religion in earnest in the first song 'Sinner' to relationships in 'All Over Me' and 'Reminded'. The better songs of this album are 'Bodies', 'Mute' and 'Follow'. 'Bodies' quickly became a moshpit favourite in concerts and dancefloors and 'Follow' became a BBQ song to be played with a loop with friends.

Drowning Pool is a band with promise. The band had a death in the lead singer after this album so this album pretty much is the original sound of Drowning Pool. The later albums have a new sound and atmosphere. (See my Desensitized review). I like this Drowning Pool sound best.

Fans of Staind, Linkin Park, Godsmack and Dishwalla will like the offerings of this album. Check it out, you will be surprised to find you like the songs and the sound of Drowning Pool's debut album.

Nu metal at it's best.......2006-06-03

I love Drowning Pool. Even if I am a metalhead(Kataklysm, Nile, In Flames, Dark Throne, Dimmu Borgir etc) I still love this band. The leader singer just...to put it bland...rocks! His voice never gets annoying like a few bands(Otep, Limp Bizkit, Audioslave) Great CD. Now here's the track by track.

1. Sinner - 5/5 - Used to be my favorite. Lost interest but still deserves a 5/5 because the song is so beautifully played.
2. Bodies - 3/5 - Overrated too much. The chorus gets on my nerves horribly but I'll listen to it every once and a while
3. Tearing Away - 5/5 - Awesome song. That guitar sounds pretty clean and nice. You gotta download this if you don't have the CD
4. All Over Me - 4/5 - Great track but the chorus lyrics are stupid.
5. Reminded - 4/5 - Pretty good song. Love that intro.
6. Pity - 5/5 - Awesome song. I like the "served on a plate...for all of you to eat" Second best song on this CD
7. Mute - 2/5 - Meh...snore. Not worth downloading if you must download the cd.
8. I Am - 1/5 - Horrible. Bad. The musicianship is good but the singing is gross. It's like the lyrics faded out.
9. Follow 10/5 - This is why this Cd gets 5 stars. Because of this song. This song is just...F#$%%ING GREAT! You MUST have this!
10. Told You So - 5/5 - Love the intro. Good song, telling everyone to shut up.
11. Sermon - 4/5 - Sounds to me like a religious song in the beginning. I don't believe in a god(no I'm not a satanist, I'm an evolutionist) and well that's what ruins it. Other then that it's pretty good.

One thing about this CD is how the lyrics get worse over time. Start at Sinner then skip to I Am and Follow. Then go back to Sinner. See the difference? Yeah that pissed me off. If you need to download this album, save your hardrive space by only downloading: "Follow" "Sinner" "Reminded" "Tearing Away" "Pity" and "Told You So"

Overall it's a great nu-metal CD...coming from a metal head!

Am I the only one who realizes how bad they really are?.......2006-04-26

This band sucks! There is no other way to say it! Give me a second and I will provide you with all their lyrics..."Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor, one, nothing's wrong with me, two, nothing's wrong with me, one, something's got to give, two, something's got to give, reminded of you, reminded of you, all over me, all over me, Pizza Pizza". I got this CD a few years ago because I didn't know much about music and didn't know any better. I seriously think I lost brain cells every time I listened to it. The lyrics are weak, the music is not catchy, nothing stands out, it's booooooorrrrrrrrrring!!!!! The only thing this disc does for me is make me want to shoot myself in the head with a nail gun. Drowning Pool is just a bunch of posers who think they have talent, think they are hard core, when in fact they are not. Beethoven would have puked if you told him this was music. Listen to bands that actually have talent and actually write good music. Ex., Deftones, Tool, Incubus, Lacuna Coil, System of a Down, Dream Theater, 10 Years, In Flames...I could go on. For anyone who gave this worthless piece of junk a five star review because it "rocks all the way through", listen to some of these bands above and compare them to your "amazing drowning pool" before you judge me.

Average customer rating: She's Back! Jett brings back great rock Sweatie Edgie Rock N Roll A Disappointment I love it

Sinner Joan Jett & the Blackhearts Manufacturer: Blackheart Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Fit to Be Tied: Great Hits by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Bad Reputation I Love Rock N' Roll Rockford Up Your Alley ASIN: B000FKP40G Release Date: 2006-06-13

Tracks:

1. Riddles
2. A.C.D.C.
3. Five
4. Naked
5. Everyone Knows
6. Change the World
7. Androgynous
8. Fetish
9. Watersign
10. Tube Talkin'
11. Turn It Around
12. Baby Blue
13. 100 Feet Away
14. Bad Time

Customer Reviews:

She's Back!.......2007-05-14

Joan Jett is back, hotter than ever. This is a true must have cd. It's good to see real Rock & Roll again. No hype or gimick, just real music by someone who knows what it is. Her playing (both guitar AND lyrics) is great. Joan Jett trully is one of the best.

Shawnfrommoigh
Highland Creations

Jett brings back great rock.......2007-01-08

I got this album just a week ago and I cant stop listening to it. I checked out this album after hearing A.C.D.C on the radio and I am so happy that I did. This album is so great and the female emprowering lyrics are nice to hear again. Its rock and roll at its finest with great lyrics that really make you think. If you know of a young women who enjoys rock or punk music I would suggest you get them to check out this album. Jett shows all women that they can rock just as well as the men if not better.

Sweatie Edgie Rock N Roll.......2006-12-08

This CD rocks - ACDC is a great rock song. Change the World - very Ramone's like and a great little punk song. FIVE & FETISH WILL ROCK YOUR SOCKS - After 30 years of Joan Jett rocking - she gets better and better - Seeing her LIVE is a must for any fan. Those who are not fans, become fans after seeing one live performance. The band is tight - great stage performance - edgey - Joan Flirts with everyone in the audience as she flicks her sweat at them - Very interactive show and the songs from Sinner ROCK!! BUY THIS CD - They don't make ROCK n ROLL Cds like this anymore!!!

A Disappointment.......2006-11-22

I've been a Joan Jett fan for years. This CD was a disappointment, though. It begins with a venomous Bush-bashing song, then slides into a song about bisexuality, and takes a few more turns around that subject before the end of the CD. There are a couple catchy tunes--A.C.D.C. & Androgynous--but it hardly measures up to her fine earlier work.

You can see this bargain-basement activist-consciousness manifesting on her superior prior release, Pure and Simple, which included more than a couple songs co-authored with Karen Hannah, a predicably knee-jerk radical leftist who seems to interpret everything in terms of *yawn* gender-oppression, but with the acumen of a junior high school student; and while the melodies that Jett wrote with her were catchy and enjoyable, I can't help wondering if that whole Riot Grrrl movement influenced her a bit more than was good for her, because there is a lot more of that sort of nonsense on this album. A.C.D.C. works because in it Joan Jett is being Joan Jett--saucy/vulgar, gutteral and loud. There is no faux revolutionary silliness. She simply doesn't do that well.

See product discussion at the bottom of the main page for my more comments that Amazon wouldn't let me include here.

I love it.......2006-11-10

Joan. You don't love me. Because I'm a guy. But I have loved you since 1976. Ok so I'm an old man (age 43). So what. She's just the best rock and roll female on the planet. I like the young ones like Sahara Hotnights and the Donnas as well but they just don't measure up to Joan Born To Be Bad Jett. This album - like most of her other albums - consists of a mix of old and new songs. Doesn't mattar. I love it. And the video... well it confirms what we have always known. Not that it matters. The music matters.

Average customer rating: WoW exuberant and powerful jazz. Mingus At the Top of His Game Everything Churning, intense

The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady Charles Mingus Manufacturer: Grp Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop & Post-Bop | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music GRP | Verve Music Group | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Mingus Ah Um Pithecanthropus Erectus Blues and Roots Out to Lunch Speak No Evil ASIN: B000003N81 Release Date: 1995-11-07

Tracks:

1. Solo Dancer
2. Duet Solo Dancers
3. Group Dancers
4. Trio And Group Dancers

Amazon.com essential recording

This 1963 recording occupies a special place in Mingus's work, his most brilliantly realized extended composition. The six-part suite is a broad canvas for the bassist's tumultuous passions, ranging from islands of serenity for solo guitar and piano to waves of contrapuntal conflict and accelerating rhythms that pull the listener into the musical psychodrama. It seems to mingle and transform both the heights and clichés of jazz orchestration, from Mingus's master, Duke Ellington, to film noir soundtracks. The result is a masterpiece of sounds and textures, from the astonishing vocal effects of the plunger-muted trumpets and trombone (seeming to speak messages just beyond the range of understanding) to the soaring romantic alto of Charlie Mariano. Boiling beneath it all are the teeming, congested rhythms of Mingus and drummer Dannie Richmond and the deep morass of tuba and baritone saxophone. This is one of the greatest works in jazz composition, and it's remarkable that Mingus dredged this much emotional power from a group of just 11 musicians. --Stuart Broomer

Customer Reviews:

WoW.......2007-05-29

One of the greatest recordings I've ever heard. The horns just wail and the music is wonderful. Enjoy.

exuberant and powerful jazz........2007-02-21

you get a lot of sounds for your money on this short album (the whole thing clocks in at just over 38 minutes). an inventive set of mingus composition that may be his best (though i'm not completely committing myself, because he released several classic albums and my mood changes week to week). certainly this is a classic all jazz fans need. there is lots of wonderful wild aggressive playing on this recording, at times the players seem hyper with the joy of it all, and their exuberance is catchy, like a roomful of creative madmen unleashing an ecstatic fury that you want to be a part of. fun and challenging, this is the deep waters of jazz. don't miss the party.

Mingus At the Top of His Game.......2007-01-13

Out of my Mingus Big Four (Mingus at Antibes; Oh Yeah; Mingus Ah Um; and this one), this is probably the weakest, though I love it all the same. Mingus' love of bizarre melodies and key signatures are best expressed on this album-long ballet; if you've got a thing for ensemble soloing (which is often fascinatingly chaotic) and great playing, this one's for you. Bonus points for the hilariously weird song titles, and the liner notes, written by Mingus' psychotherapist: all in all, one of Mingus' better albums.

Everything.......2006-12-27

This music is so emotional. I refuse to listen to this CD any other way than from start to finish. I get the same feeling from this piece as i do when listening to Rite Of Spring or Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. This is the kind of music that even at 40 minutes long never seems boring looses my attention. I'm so glad that i bought this CD.

Churning, intense.......2006-12-10

"Black Saint" opens with a bluesy sax solo over a distressed two chord pattern. The music slows, and then it's back to the churning. The rest of the CD continues this pattern in different ways. This isn't easy-time stuff, but it's excellent. Some have called this Mingus' best album. I still like Ah Um the best, but this might be next-best. Since this is a larger band, with 10 or 11 players (there's a few moments of flamenco guitar), the individual voices of the soloists get covered up to a certain degree. Everyone plays very well, and in true Mingus fashion many of the notes are slid into, not just played straight. The album is Mingus' long-form composition masterpiece. I recommend this to anyone who likes Mingus, the blues, or jazz big bands. As a bonus, the liner notes were written by Mingus' psychologist.

Average customer rating: The greatest songs ever? A musical treasure-box a beautiful journey into melancholy

Dowland - The Collected Works / The Consort of Musicke, Rooley John Dowland , Anthony Rooley , Emma Kirkby , Christopher Wilson , The Consort of Musicke , Colin Tilney , Anthony Bailes , Jakob Lindberg , Nigel North , Glenda Simpson , Peter Holman , and John Donne Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pavanes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Byrd, William | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Dowland | Dowland, John | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Holborne, Anthony | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by White | White, Robert | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sacred & Religious | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems Ballets & Dances | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Recorder | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Lute | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Psalms | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Solo Instrumental | New Age | Styles | Music Classical | Box Sets | Stores | Music Blowout Box Sets | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 20% Off | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Byrd, William | ( B ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Dowland, John | ( D ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Holborne, Anthony | ( H ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music White, Robert | ( W ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Bargain Box Sets | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Bargain Box Sets | Opera & Vocal General | Opera & Vocal | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Opera & Vocal General | Opera & Vocal | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Dowland: Complete Lute Works, Vol.1-5 William Byrd: Consort Songs Bach: The Landowska Recordings Britten Conducts Britten Janácek: Operas ASIN: B000004CYV Release Date: 2007-03-13

Tracks:

1. First Booke Of Songes: I. Unquiet Thoughts
2. First Booke Of Songes: II. Who Ever Thinks Or Hopes Of Love
3. First Booke Of Songes: III. My Thoughts Are Wing'd With Hopes
4. First Booke Of Songes: IV. If My Complaints Could Passions Move
5. First Booke Of Songes: V. Can She Excuse My Wrongs
6. First Booke Of Songes: VI. Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part
7. First Booke Of Songes: VII. Dear, If You Change
8. First Booke Of Songes: VIII. Burst Fourth My Tears
9. First Booke Of Songes: IX. Go Crystal Tears
10. First Booke Of Songes: X. Think'st Thou Then By Thy Feigning
11. First Booke Of Songes: XI. Come Away, Come Sweet Love
12. First Booke Of Songes: XII. Rest Awhile, You Cruel Cares
13. First Booke Of Songes: XIII. Sleep, Wayward Thoughts
14. First Booke Of Songes: XIV. All Ye, Whom Love Or Fortune Hath Betray'd
15. First Booke Of Songes: XV. Wilt Thou Unkind Thus Reave Me
16. First Booke Of Songes: XVI. Would My Conceit
17. First Booke Of Songes: XVII. Come Again: Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
18. First Booke Of Songes: XVIII. His Golden Locks
19. First Booke Of Songes: XIX. Awake, Sweet Love
20. First Booke Of Songes: XX. Come, Heavy Sleep
21. First Booke Of Songes: XXI. Away With These Self-Loving Lads

Tracks:

1. Second Booke Of Songs: I. I Saw My Lady Weep
2. Second Booke Of Songs: II. Flow My Tears
3. Second Booke Of Songs: III. Sorrow, Stay
4. Second Booke Of Songs: IV. Die Not Before Thy Day
5. Second Booke Of Songs: V. Mourn, Mourn, Day Is With Darkness Fled
6. Second Booke Of Songs: VI. Time's Eldest Son
7. Second Booke Of Songs: VII. Then Sit Thee Down
8. Second Booke Of Songs: VIII. When Others Sing Venite
9. Second Booke Of Songs: IX. Praise Blindness Eyes
10. Second Booke Of Songs: X. O Sweet Woods
11. Second Booke Of Songs: XI. If Floods Of Tears
12. Second Booke Of Songs: XII. Fine Knacks For Ladies
13. Second Booke Of Songs: XIII. Now Cease My Wand'ring Eyes
14. Second Booke Of Songs: XIV. Come Ye Heavy States Of Night
15. Second Booke Of Songs: XV. White As Lilies Was Her Face
16. Second Booke Of Songs: XVI. Woeful Heart
17. Second Booke Of Songs: XVII. A Shepherd In A Shade
18. Second Booke Of Songs: XVIII. Faction That Ever Dwells
19. Second Booke Of Songs: XIX. Shall I Sue
20. Second Booke Of Songs: XX. Toss Not My Soul
21. Second Booke Of Songs: XXI. Clear Or Cloudy
22. Second Booke Of Songs: XXII. Humour Say What Mak'st Thou Here

Tracks:

1. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: I. Farewell, Too Fair
2. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: II. Time Stands Still
3. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: III. Behold A Wonder Here
4. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: IV. Daphne Was Not So Chaste
5. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: V. Me, Me, And None But Me
6. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VI. When Phoebus First Did Daphne Love
7. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VII. Say, Love, If Ever Thou Didst Find
8. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VIII. Flow Not So Fast, Ye Fountains
9. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: IX. What If I Never Speed?
10. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: X. Love Stood Amazed
11. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XI. Lend Your Ears To My Sorrow
12. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XII. By A Fountain Where I Lay
13. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIII. O What Hath Overwrought
14. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIV. Farewell, Unkind
15. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XV. Weep You No More, Sad Fountains
16. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVI. Fie On This Feigning!
17. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVII. I Must Complain
18. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVIII. It Was A Time When Silly Bees
19. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIX. The Lowest Trees Have Tops
20. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XX. What Poor Astronomers Are They
21. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XXI. Come When I Call

Tracks:

1. A Pilgrimes Solace: I. Disdain Me Still
2. A Pilgrimes Solace: II. Sweet Stay Awhile
3. A Pilgrimes Solace: III. To Ask For All Thy Love
4. A Pilgrimes Solace: IV. Love, Those Beams That Breed
5. A Pilgrimes Solace: V. Shall I Strive Wih Words To Move?
6. A Pilgrimes Solace: VI. Were Every Thought An Eye
7. A Pilgrimes Solace: VII. Stay, Time, Awhile Thy Flying
8. A Pilgrimes Solace: VIII. Tell Me, True Love
9. A Pilgrimes Solace: IX. Go Nightly Cares
10. A Pilgrimes Solace: X. From Silent Night
11. A Pilgrimes Solace: XI. Lasso vita mia
12. A Pilgrimes Solace: XII. In This Trembling Shadow Cast
13. A Pilgrimes Solace: XIII. If That A Sinner's Sights
14. A Pilgrimes Solace: XIV. Thou Mighty God
15. A Pilgrimes Solace: XV. When David's Life
16. A Pilgrimes Solace: XVI. When The Poor Cripple

Tracks:

1. A Pilgrimes Solace: XVII. Where Sin Sore Wounding
2. A Pilgrimes Solace: XVIII. My Heart And Tongue Were Twins
3. A Pilgrimes Solace: XIX. Up Merry Mates
4. A Pilgrimes Solace: XX. Welcome Black Night
5. A Pilgrimes Solace: XXI. Cease, Cease These False Sports
6. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Lachrimae Pavane
7. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Can Shee
8. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Paduana
9. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: The Frogge
10. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Frog's Galliard
11. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavana And Galiarda
12. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Paduana Lachrymae
13. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Can She Excuse
14. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavion Solus cum sola
15. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Dowland's Almayne
16. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Piper's Paven And Galliard
17. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavan Lachrymae

Tracks:

1. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: I. The Lamentation Of A Sinner
2. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: II. Domine ne in furore
3. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: III. Miserere mei Deus
4. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: IV. The Humble Suit Of A Sinner
5. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: V. The Humble Complaint Of A Sinner
6. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: VI. De profundis
7. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: VII. Domine exaudi
8. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Antiquae
9. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Antiquae Novae
10. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Gementes
11. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Tristes
12. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Coactae
13. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Amantis
14. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Verae
15. Lachrimae: Mr. John Langton's Pavan
16. Lachrimae: Mr. Nicholas Gryffith His Galiard
17. Lachrimae: Sir John Souch His Galiard
18. Lachrimae: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens
19. Lachrimae: Mr. Giles Hobies Galiard
20. Lachrimae: The King Of Denmark's Galiard
21. Lachrimae: Sir Henry Umpton's Funerall
22. Lachrimae: Mr. Henry Noell His Galiard
23. Lachrimae: The Earl Of Essex Galiard
24. Lachrimae: Mr. Bucton His Galiard
25. Lachrimae: Mr. George Whitehead His Almand
26. Lachrimae: Captain Digorie Piper His Galiard
27. Lachrimae: Mr. Thomas Collier His Galiard
28. Lachrimae: Mrs. Nichols Almand

Tracks:

1. Sacred Songs: Sorrow, Come!
2. Sacred Songs: I Shame At Mine Unworthiness
3. Sacred Songs: An Heart That's Broken And Contrite
4. Psalms: Psalm 100: All People That On Earth Do Dwell
5. Psalms: Psalm 38: Put Me Not To Rebuke O Lord
6. Psalms: Psalm 130: Lord To Thee I Make My Moan
7. Psalms: Psalm 104: My Soul Praise The Lord
8. Psalms: Psalm 100: All People That On Earth Do Dwell
9. Psalms: Psalm 134: Behold And Have Regard
10. A Prayer For The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty
11. Instrumental Music: Solus cum sola pavan
12. Instrumental Music: Lachrimae
13. Instrumental Music: Galliard
14. Instrumental Music: Pipers Pavan
15. Instrumental Music: Lachrimae
16. Instrumental Music: Lady Rich Galliard
17. Instrumental Music: Earl Of Essex Galliard
18. Instrumental Music: If My Complaints
19. Instrumental Music: Lachrimae Doolande
20. Instrumental Music: Lord Willoughbie's Welcome Home
21. Instrumental Music: My Lord Chamberlaine His Galliard
22. Instrumental Music: Comagain
23. Instrumental Music: Pavan Lachrymae
24. Instrumental Music: Sorrow Stay

Tracks:

1. Lute Music: Preludium
2. Lute Music: Lachrimae
3. Lute Music: Can She Excuse
4. Lute Music: Dr. Case's Pavan
5. Lute Music: Melancholy Galliard
6. Lute Music: Sir John Smith, His Almain
7. Lute Music: Fantasia
8. Lute Music: A Dream
9. Lute Music: Almain
10. Lute Music: The Queen's Galliard
11. Lute Music: Coranto
12. Lute Music: Resolution
13. Lute Music: Mrs. Vaux Galliard
14. Lute Music: Almain
15. Lute Music: Mr. Dowland's MIdnight
16. Lute Music: Fantasia
17. Lute Music: Loth To Depart
18. Lute Music: The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, Her Galliard
19. Lute Music: The Earl Of Essex, His Galliard
20. Lute Music: Pavan
21. Lute Music: John Dowland's Galliard
22. Lute Music: Aloe
23. Lute Music: The Lady Clifton's Spirit
24. Lute Music: What If A Day
25. Lute Music: Mr. Giles Hobie's Galliard
26. Lute Music: Come Away (Song arrangement)
27. Lute Music: Galliard
28. Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)

Tracks:

1. Lute Music: Lachrimae (Basic Version)
2. Lute Music: Galliard To Lachrimae
3. Lute Music: [Jig]
4. Lute Music: Galliard On 'Wasingham'
5. Lute Music: Complaint (Ballad Setting)
6. Lute Music: Mignarda (Galliard)
7. Lute Music: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens (Pavan)
8. Lute Music: The Frog Galliard
9. Lute Music: A Fancy (Fantasia)
10. Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)
11. Lute Music: Piper's Pavan
12. Lute Music: Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard
13. Lute Music: Lady Laiton's Almain
14. Lute Music: Dowland's Galliard
15. Lute Music: Dowland's First Galliard
16. Lute Music: Tarleton's Jig
17. Lute Music: Walsingham (ballad Setting)
18. Lute Music: Lord Willoughbie's Welcome Home (Ballad Setting)
19. Lute Music: Sir Henry Guilforde, His Almain
20. Lute Music: Pavan (Related To 'Lachrimae')
21. Lute Music: Mr. Langton's Galliard
22. Lute Music: Mrs. Clifton's Almain
23. Lute Music: Galliard
24. Lute Music: Lady Hunsdon's Puffe (Almain)
25. Lute Music: Galliard
26. Lute Music: Go From My Window (Ballad Setting)
27. Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)

Tracks:

1. Lute Music: Pavana Johan Douland
2. Lute Music: Mrs. Brigide Fleetwood's Pavan (Solus sine sola)
3. Lute Music: La mia Barbara
4. Lute Music: Sir Henry Umpton's Funeral (Pavan)
5. Lute Music: Lachrimae
6. Lute Music: Farewell Fancy (Chromatic Fantasia)
7. Lute Music: Farewell (On The 'In Nomine' Theme)
8. Lute Music: The King of Denmark's Galliard
9. Lute Music: Mrs. Vaux's Jig
10. Lute Music: Mrs. Nichol's Almain
11. Lute Music: Galliard
12. Lute Music: Lord Strang's March
13. Lute Music: Mrs. Winter's Jump
14. Lute Music: Can She Excuse (Galliard)
15. Lute Music: The Shoemaker's Wife, A Toy
16. Lute Music: Mrs. Norrish's Delight
17. Lute Music: Galliard
18. Lute Music: Mrs. White's Thing (Almain)
19. Lute Music: Mrs. White's Nothing
20. Lute Music: The Frog Galliard
21. Lute Music: Solus cum sola
22. Lute Music: The Lord Viscount Lisle, His Galliard
23. Lute Music: Orlando Sleepeth (Ballad Setting)
24. Lute Music: Robin (Ballad Setting)
25. Lute Music: Galliard (On A Galliard By Daniel Bacheler)
26. Lute Music: Forlorn Hope Fancy (Chromatic Fantasia)

Tracks:

1. Lute Music: The Lady Russell's Pavan
2. Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)
3. Lute Music: Sir John Langton's Pavan
4. Lute Music: Earl Of Derby, His Galliard
5. Lute Music: A Coy Toy
6. Lute Music: Fortune My Foe
7. Lute Music: [Almain]
8. Lute Music: Mr. Knight's Galliard
9. Lute Music: Sir John Souch His Galliard
10. Lute Music: Tarletone's Riserrectione
11. Lute Music: The Lady Rich, Her Galliard
12. Consort Music: Lachrimae Pavan
13. Consort Music: Can She Excuse Galliard
14. Consort Music: Captain Piper's Pavan And Galliard
15. Consort Music: The Frog Galliard
16. Consort Music: Round Battell Galliard
17. Consort Music: Fortune My Foe
18. Consort Music: Dowland's First Galliard
19. Consort Music: Katherine Darcie's Galliard
20. Consort Music: Tarleton's Jigge
21. Consort Music: Almain a 2
22. Consort Music: Mistress Nichols Almain a 2
23. Fullsack And Hildebrandt: Auserlesener Paduanen und Galliarden: Susanna Fair (Galliard)
24. Haussmann: Rest von polnischen und andern Tanzen: Mistress Nichols Alman a 5
25. Opusculum: Mr. John Langton Pavan And Galliard
26. Opusculum: La mia Barbara Pavan and Galliard
27. Opusculum: Lachrimae Antiquae Novae Pavan and Galliard

Tracks:

1. Consort Music: Mistress NIchols Almain
2. Consort Music: Volta a 4 ('Ioh. Douland')
3. Consort Music: Were Every Thought an Eye
4. Consort Music: Lady If You So Spite Me
5. Consort Music: Pavan a 4
6. A Musicall Banquet: I. My Heavy Sprite (Anthony Holborne)
7. A Musicall Banquet: II. Change Thy Mind Since She Doth Change (Richard Martin)
8. A Musicall Banquet: III. O Eyes, Leave Off Your Weeping (Robert Hales)
9. A Musicall Banquet: IV. Go, My Flock, Go Get You Hence (Anon.)
10. A Musicall Banquet: V. O Dear Life, When Shall It Be? (Anon.)
11. A Musicall Banquet: VI. To Plead My Faith (Daniel Bacheler)
12. A Musicall Banquet: VII. In A Grove Most Rich Of Shade (Guillaume Tessier)
13. A Musicall Banquet: VIII. Far From Triumphing Court
14. A Musicall Banquet: IX. Lady, If You So Spite Me
15. A Musicall Banquet: X. In Darkness Let Me Dwell
16. A Musicall Banquet: XI. Si le parler et le silence (Pierre Guedron)
17. A Musicall Banquet: XII. Ce penser qui sans fin tirannise ma vie (Pierre Guedron)
18. A Musicall Banquet: XIII. Vous que le Bonheur rappelle (Pierre Guedron)
19. A Musicall Banquet: XIV. Passava Amor su arco desarmado (Anon. Spanish)
20. A Musicall Banquet: XV. Sta notte mi sognava (Anon. Italian)
21. A Musicall Banquet: XVI. Vuestros ojos tienen d'Amor (Anon. Spanish)
22. A Musicall Banquet: XVII. Se di farmi morire (Domenico Maria Megli)
23. A Musicall Banquet: XVIII. Dovro dunque morire? (Giulio Caccini)
24. A Musicall Banquet: XIX. Amarilli mia bella (Giulio Caccini)
25. A Musicall Banquet: XX. O bella piu (Anon, Italian)

Customer Reviews:

The greatest songs ever?.......2007-07-26

I heard 'clear or cloudy', from this recording, on the radio recently and had to purchase it. It is strange but it is the sort of song that makes life prior to listening to it different from life after. I find it sad that so many people haven't heard it. There are also many other wonderful works in this collection. Given you get twelve well recorded CDs with top quality performances, this has to be one of the bargains of the age.

Please buy it.

A musical treasure-box.......2006-09-10

Both the music and this actual product are masterpieces. John Dowland's collected works here - covering 12 compact discs - exhibit the depth and power of this composer, a composer who many now regard as suffering from clinical depression. I doubt that the issue of the diagnosis of Dowland's depression can ever be settled, however, it is certainly obvious from his music, so completely on display here, that he was a man with very dark depths and corners in his mind. Dowland's various manifestations and "takes" on his own tune, "Flow my tears"/"Lachrimae" are here. This tune has haunted me ever since I first heard it when I was a child. It seems to sum up Dowland's feelings - at least Dowland seems to have thought so.

The First, Second, Third and Fourth Bookes of Songes, A Musicall Banquet, the keyboard transcriptions, all the lute music, consort music are here and virtually everything else written or supposedly written by John Dowland. Anthony Rooley and The Consort of Musicke perform this music with style and feeling throughout. This 12 CD set is something of a monument to the ensemble - I only wish they'd finished their collection of Monteverdi madrigals, which was equally good (La Venexiana are currently doing a magnificent job of recording all Monteverdi's books of madrigals for the GLOSSA label).

This is an expensive set, however, you will probably never need to buy another John Dowland CD again after buying and listening to this collection.

I bought this CD set on a mild Summer evening of 1998 and listened to it while sitting in my sun room - which a glorious orange sunset in progress, and a glass of wine. It brought back so many memories.

a beautiful journey into melancholy.......2001-06-15

I'm amazed at how many people tend to associate John Dowland's music with a tragic sense of drama. While no doubt this is art highly based on sadness, the "tragic" sense of it is more a legacy from the Romantic period. During the Renaissance, however, sadness was undestood as a very aesthetic way of approaching life. That is also the reason why Shakespeare's tragedies appear more sophisticated than his comedies.

Dowland, a contemporary of Shakespeare, discovered that meditating on a sad theme is, at the same time, a way of discovering a special beauty that we tend to avoid (maybe because of the "tragic" heritage of the Romantics). So, in the end, meditating on sadness is an uplifting experience! This box set is a journey into melancholy that includes songs, chamber music, pieces for lute, some rare sacred music and -as a highlight- Dowland's beautiful collection of seven pieces for viola which he called "Lachrimae" (Tears).

Average customer rating: The Better of the two Not as good as version 1 in this series Same as 'Goostly Psalmes: Anglo-American Psalmody 1550-1800'

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Customer Reviews:

The Better of the two.......2006-06-03

I have both disc in the series. I liked the music on this disc much more than the first. The selections seem more focused and the sounds are much clearer. Also, the particular pieces fit better together. I love the sound of this group and hope they make more in the future.

Not as good as version 1 in this series.......2004-09-03

This is by the same group who did the wonderful & engaging Early American Choral Music 1. Somehow this CD did not live up to its predecessor in some ways. The performance is still top notch, but somehow the CD as a whole isn't quite as engaging to listen to as the first. Perhaps version 2's strength is also its weakness. Its diversity of composers allows you to pear past the shadow of William Billings and sample other notable early American hymn writers. That exposure is valuable & appreciated. I just couldn't get into it as much.

A final note: many of the texts are beautiful (and available from the publisher's web site). However, I would criticize "Who is this that cometh from Edom?" as dwelling just a bit too much on the Jews' rejection of Jesus. Among other reasons & issues, Christianity says that we are all sinners & there is no cause to single a particular group out negatively.

Same as 'Goostly Psalmes: Anglo-American Psalmody 1550-1800'.......2004-02-21

Please note this CD is a duplicate of His Majestie's Clerkes's "Goostly Psalmes: Anglo-American Psalmody 1550-1800" -- identical contents but a different name and cover. I ordered both and was irritated to discover this. This CD is cheaper, so I recommend this one. It is a lovely choral work from a little-known period of sacred music.

Average customer rating: "Lord, How Come Me Here" WOW! uhm......yeah right!! scadalise my name Broadway takes on the spiritual ...

Spirituals in Concert Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Deutsche Grammophon: Music | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Amazing Grace: Jessye Norman The Essential Leontyne Price: Spirituals, Hymns & Sacred Songs Kathleen Battle · Wynton Marsalis ~ Baroque Duet / Anthony Newman · Orch St. Luke's · Nelson Kathleen Battle & Christopher Parkening ~ Pleasures of Their Company The Best of Kathleen Battle ASIN: B000001GDC Release Date: 1991-03-08

Tracks:

1. In That Great Getting Up Morning
2. Sinner, Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass
3. Over My Head/ Lil' David
4. Oh, What A Beautiful City
5. Lord, How Come Me Here
6. I Believe I'll Go Back Home-Lordy, Won't You Help Me
7. Ride On, King Jesus
8. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot-Ride Up In The Chariot
9. You Can Tell The World
10. Scandalize My Name
11. Great Day
12. Oh, Glory
13. Calvary-They Crucified My Lord
14. Talk About A Child
15. Gospel Train
16. My God Is So High
17. There Is A Balm In Gilead
18. He's Got The Whole World In His Hand

Customer Reviews:

"Lord, How Come Me Here".......2007-06-18

I must add, to the praises above, that Kathleen Battle's "Lord, How Come Me Here" is the best "quick" explanation of the long-lasting effects of slavery that I can think of. The line, "They sold my children away," says it all.

And the VERY funny "Scandelize My Name" is also worth the price of the total album!

Alinde O'Malley

WOW!.......2007-03-22

You know, after owning both the CD and VHS of this performance, and having been coached by Sylvia Olden Lee herself, it is no wonder why spiritual mean so much to me. And these two ladies bare their souls and bring these masterpieces to life! WOW!!!

uhm......yeah right!!.......2006-06-21

Clearly you are mistaken. I don't know who that guy is-the person below recommended-but there is NO COMPARISON to JESSYE NORMAN AND KATHLEEN BATTLE!!!! Jessye Norman herself has *30* HONARY DOCTRATES from places like Harvard, Juliard, Yale, Cambridge....I mean HELLO!!!! That guy had no where near the ease, the musicality or even the breath support as these two veterans show!! It is a beautiful CD though it came out in 1991 and I HIGHLY recommend it.

scadalise my name.......2004-10-29

this isn't that good specially after hearing William Warfeild sing it. You can find him at www.wlym.com

Broadway takes on the spiritual ..........2004-01-29

... takes it on and puts it on the canvas by the end of the first round.

I'm going to be the dissenting voice here: thank goodness I signed this disk out of the public library 'cause I'm sure not going to listen to it twice.

There is nothing wrong with the performances. Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle sing beautifully, and there's no problem with the pick-up orchestra under James Levine.

The problem, and it's huge, is the conception of the show and the musical arrangements. To make the video marketable, I suppose, the producers decided that the concert had to be big: big names, big arrangements, big effects. So we have eighteen spirituals given the musical theatre treatment, with a philharmonic chorus providing chain-gang sound effects, big brass, and big percussion -- including a chinese gong. A chinese gong in a spiritual??? Spare me! Almost every track turns out sounding like either a curtain-raiser or a big, end-of-act production number with cute and predictable modulations between some of the stanzas and the sort of curly-cue orchestral ornamentation typical of Broadway shows.

And you know what? It all kills the spirituals stone dead. The spiritual is one of those musical forms where less is more and very little is best of all. That's how they started, after all. That's how and why they worked for their original audiences, and that's why they were powerful enough to make the transition from folk song to art song. If you want to hear Battle sing spirituals that are irresistible, listen to the set on her Salzburg recital CD, also with Levine (ASIN B00000E31B). There, the music speaks for itself and speaks with a strength and a beauty that the tracks on this disk never approach.

Average customer rating: The Price Club A living legend not your daddy's old timey spiritual Immaculate Vocals of Leontyne Price Great Gospel Stuff

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Tracks:

1. Ev'ry Time I Feel The Spirit - Various Artists
2. Let Us Break Bread Together On Our Knees - Various Artists
3. His Name So Sweet - Various Artists
4. 'Roun' About The Mountain - Various Artists
5. Swing Low , Sweet Chariot - Various Artists
6. Sit Down, Servant - Various Artists
7. Were You There - Various Artists
8. He's Got The Whole World In His Hands - Various Artists
9. Deep River - Various Artists
10. Honor! Honor! - Various Artists
11. My Soul's Been Anchored In De Lord - Various Artists
12. On Ma Journey - Various Artists
13. A City Called Heaven - Various Artists
14. Ride On, King Jesus - Various Artists
15. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free - Various Artists
16. Sinner, Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass - Various Artists
17. Sweet Little Jesus Boy - Various Artists
18. There Is A Balm In Gilead - Various Artists
19. Let Us Cheer The Weary Traveler - Various Artists
20. Ev'ry Time I Feel The Spirit - Various Artists
21. My Way Is Cloudy - Various Artists
22. Nobody Knows The Touble I've Seen - Various Artists
23. I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray - Various Artists

Tracks:

1. Holy, Holy, Holy - Leontyne Price
2. Lead, Kindly Light - Leontyne Price
3. Blessed Assurance - Leontyne Price
4. Ave Maria - Leontyne Price
5. What A Friend We Have In Jesus - Leontyne Price
6. Amazing Grace - Leontyne Price
7. The Lord's Prayer - Leontyne Price
8. Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior - Leontyne Price
9. The Church's One Foundation - Leontyne Price
10. Bless This House - Leontyne Price
11. I Need Thee Every Hour - Leontyne Price
12. Schlesische Volkslieder: Fairest Lord Jesus - Leontyne Price
13. I Wonder As I Wander - Leontyne Price
14. Ave Maria - Leontyne Price
15. Porgy And Bess: Summertime - Leontyne Price
16. America The Beautiful - Leontyne Price
17. Lift Ev'ry Voice And Sing - Leontyne Price
18. A Mighty Fortress Is Our God - Leontyne Price
19. Battle Hymn Of The Republic - Leontyne Price

Customer Reviews:

The Price Club.......2005-04-28

"I am here," said Leontyne Price when interviewed as she opened the new Metropolitan Opera with Samuel Barber's underrated ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, "and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to." Back in the 1960s Price was one of the greatest divas in all of opera, and it wasn't just her voice but her magnificent stage presence, combined with her social activism. All of the above come into play in this collection of secular songs and ditties, some of them traditional plantation chanties and others, art songs and a scattering of pop music. And some of them, like Gershwin's "Summertime," cross the ever-permeable boundaries between Broadway and classical. These recordings were made at different times in Price's career, and her voice, while always angelic, has different shadings and reaches a different range of timbre in each separate recording date, but there is no question that, as time goes by, she is able to impart a richness of life experience noticeably absent from some of her earlier work.

"Ave Maria" sounds heavenly no matter which way you slice it, and as for "I Wonder As I Wander," it brings tears to your eyes. If you have a heart that's beating you will be moved by this rendition. "Ein feste Burg" is pretty strong, but Price seems more comfortable with the traditional spirituals, though perhaps it is the slightly off-kilter sounds of the Ambrosian Singers (what a name) who back her up on many of these tracks, that detract slightly from the experience. Compare "Lead Kindly Light" for a clear sense of what constitutes authority vs. what is a wee bit overproduced. If you had this compilation, and perhaps one of Leontyne Price's Christmas albums, you could attain nirvana any time you wanted to, just flip a switch and close your eyes, let her lift you up on wings of song.

A living legend.......2005-03-10

Leontyne Price (still alive) and already passing into immortality amongst vocal artists, both classical and popular. Leontyne Price stands at the pinnacle of her classical art, but those who only know her work in La Forza del destino or the Verdi Requiem are in for a heart rending treat with this album where Leontyne Price goes home to her roots in Mississippi and gives an unabashed account of the classic spirituals she sang as a young woman. Like John Mc Cormacks rendering of Irish songs there is a personal longing and devotion expressed here that reveals a side of the artist not known in the bulk of their "classical" repetoire. A sense of going home like Citizen Kane's rosebud, or as Dorothy Gale observes at the end of the Wizard of Oz "everything I could ever have wanted was right in my own backyard "

not your daddy's old timey spiritual.......2004-06-23

Agreed this is a good cd for a beautiful voice, but this is not, repeat not, for someone who wants to hear that old-timey religious fervor that you think of when you've been to a Black Baptist hand-clapping, standing, swaying, and singing service.

Immaculate Vocals of Leontyne Price.......2003-12-31

IMMACULATE, SUPERB vocal range and style! There's no other words that can complement Miss Leontyne Price's vocal arrangements. Miss Price's voice is strong, and shrills very nicely to the instruments played on many songs listed on this double CD which is a joy to treasure; every song listed are songs I was raised to hearing and singing. Miss Price is the reason why many of these songs remain in popularity and presently used. Miss Leontyne Price has been incredible in many of her past performances. This is my fourth CD of Miss Price and I am glad to own this particular CD forever and ever. Many thanks to the executors who found this remarkable album and upgraded it to a CD format! **Angi**

Great Gospel Stuff.......2001-04-12

This is a great CD. The only problem I have with it is that on some of the selections there is a boy's choir screaming in the background, and this takes away (a bit) from her performance. That said, her best selections are those that are either unaccompanied or those where her voice is not buried. Songs that strike me are - His Name So Sweet, He's Got The Whole World, Were You There, I Wonder as I Wander, Lift Every Voice and Sing, and my all time favourite Summertime. Enough said.

Average customer rating: eye gougingly wunderbar bagpipes, lutes and headbanging guitars... Medival history, music, and intruments Refreshingly Different Sünder ohne Zügel

Sunder Ohne Zugel: Unbridled Sinner In Extremo Manufacturer: Metal Blade ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Verehrt Und Angespien (Worshipped & Spat At) Weckt Die Toten Mein Rasend Herz Hochzeit 5 ASIN: B000066JGH Release Date: 2002-06-04

Customer Reviews:

eye gougingly wunderbar.......2006-12-07

They have done it again. On this cd they changed their sound a bit which might anger you or please you depending on how you felt about their other cd's. There are slight industrial elements thrown in, there are quite a few ballads, the songs aren't as raw sounding and the bagpipes aren't all over the place. Also there are more songs sung in German than before, they also have songs sung in Icelandic, Hebrew and Latin. The ballads are very beautiful and they really grab at you even if you don't understand the lyrics. I think it's because the medievel instrumets like the bagpipes and harp bring out the emotions of the song. There are also some good headbanging songs with fast catchy guitar riffs
If you put the disc in the computer you will be able to see a music video for Vollmond and you get to see clips from concerts and interviews, there's also a biography, discography and pictures.

So if you would like to hear In Extremo's more evolved sound then you should get this cd right now, no questions asked.

bagpipes, lutes and headbanging guitars..........2004-07-20

I own two previous albums by In Extremo- "Verehrt and Angespien" and "Weck die Toten" and I play them all the time. I love the mix of medieval instruments and modern electric guitars and drums. They blend seamlessly together, creating very melodic but powerful songs. They usually start mildly, then gather tempo, and by the end of the song your whole body is vibrating with the rhythm. And the bagpipes are just awesome, they make you want to dance around the fire!
I got finally my hands on Sunder Ohne Zugel, and I am a tiny bit disappointed. It seems that In Extremo is steering toward mainstream hard rock sound, which is OK, but they are loosing some of their originality. The album is heavy on guitar riffs, fast and powerful. It has some tender moments, the ballad "Die Gier", then there is Merseburger Zaubersprüche II (the first opens Verehrt and Angespien and it's fantastic!) sounding like a hymn. My favorite track is No. 8 Omnia Sol Temperat - where In Extremo sounds just glorious.

I give this album 4 out of 5 stars (the first two being 5, they come close to perfection). This is a great rock album, very enjoyable and with enough class to stand out from the crowd of rock bands. And if you ever have a chance to see them live, go for it! They put up a fantastic show, complete with fire, lights and great costumes. They look like they should be wielding swords not guitars, but they give all they have and then some!

Medival history, music, and intruments.......2004-01-09

Sunder ohne Zugel is by far one of the best albums i've heard yet. it's a colage of different languages and music. most songs are in German, though there's also Icelandic,Latin, Hebrew,and what i think is old French. most of the tracks are a headbangin' good time (as long as you like bagpipes, but there are also some sweet ballads mixed in. most of the songs have roots in Medieval history, and the guys of In Extremo have done an amazing job searching them out. I highly recomend this album, and any other album by In Extremo to anyone who is in the least bit interested.

Refreshingly Different.......2003-11-19

Excellent CD from beginning to end, If they ever tour the US in the future I WILL be there. All songs are in German and even if you don't understand it doesn't matter, the feelings are the same. To say that they are talented and enjoy their music would be an understatement.

Sünder ohne Zügel.......2003-11-19

Homeade innstruments and an unparalleled medieval apeal to a strange soul like me make these german minstrials hands down my favorite band.
A bit less medieval and more industrial than the two earlier releases I own ("Verehrt und angespien" and "Weckt die Toten"), I loved this cd all the same.
It opens with "Wind", a great song that you can feel throbbing through every fibre of your being.
Most of my friends really feel "Vollmond". I get the feeling that this song is supposed to be the comprehensive song on the cd. If In Extremo was mainstream, they probably would have chosen "Vollmond" for radio play. I like the song, to, but it is a little too electronic for my taste.
My personal favorite would have to be the stunning ballod "Die Gier". I love the way the percussion builds up from the end of a verse to the chorus.
All in all, this an excellent example of what these guys are capable of, but I highly recommend obtaining some of these metal gods' earlier releases. Fünf Sterne!!!

Average customer rating: Bride From Anderson Silva - dotgospel.com Bride knocks this one out of the ballpark This Album CRANKS!!!!!!

Skin for Skin Manufacturer: Retroactive Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock & Metal | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Fist Full of Bees Live to Die Nineteen Eighty Seven (2005 Re-Recording!!!) As Above - So Below Scarecrow Messiah ASIN: B000JV598S Release Date: 2007-06-12

Product Description

Twenty years has past, a Dove Award, more than a dozen CDs, thousands of miles of touring throughout the world playing to hundreds of thousands of fans on the globe and Bride is back full throttle, all metal! Skin for Skin is a CD to be celebrated. But most of all fans should not loose sight of the true theme of all Bride CDs. That is Christ and Him crucified. TRACKS 1. The Calm 2. Skin For Skin 3. End of Days 4. Take the Medication 5. Inside Ourselves 6. Hard to Kick 7. Fuel and Fire 8. Breathless 9. Prodigious Savant 10. Bang Goodbye 11. Rise Above 12. The Government 13. Super Ego Star 14. Hang On

Customer Reviews:

Bride.......2007-04-28

OK let me just say I was totally blown away by this Cd. I was not even aware that this CD existed until just recently. This is the guys best work really since Snakes.

From Anderson Silva - dotgospel.com.......2007-01-10

I am a fan of BRIDE since 1992. I watched them live in BRAZIL in 1993. This CD is defintely their heaviest. It is no "Snakes in The Playground," but it is an awesome CD! I hope they stick around for another 20 years!

Bride knocks this one out of the ballpark.......2007-01-05

For those of you who've not enjoyed the albums released by these classic rockers during the latter half of the 90's well listen up. Bride is BACK and back harder than ever.

Bride goes back to their roots and early days with their hard driving drums, hard hitting bass groves, blistering guitar work from Troy and Dale's classic vocals.

This new album is a mix of 'Silence is Madness' and 'Snakes in the playground' and 'Jesus Experience' and some of 'This is It'

The title track kicks off into an aggressive pounding of the double bass line and machine gun style guitar work. Dale's vocal work really sets the tone for the whole album from this one song.

'End of Days' takes the album into a direction that mixes modern style a la Marilyn Manson's 'Beautiful People' Dale shifts from his traditional growling vocals in the verses to a semi-high falsetto for the chorus. Driving pounding drums and a tight bass rhythm dominate this song.

'Inside Ourselves' deals with the subject of how we only live to please ourselves (feeding our lust, etc) but points to a Way out of that deception. This is one of the 'themes' of the album name 'Skin for Skin'

'Fuel and Fire' is reminiscent of the Red Hot Chili Peppers song (you know the one where you see people bouncing up and down during that song in concert footage). Again, Bride goes back to the 'Silence is Madness' days and combines a hard hitting, pounding drum rhythm mixed with rhythm guitar that sets the pace for the entire song. Dale pulls the same low, almost mumbly vocal section towards the end of this track like he did with 'Everybody Knows My Name' (Kinetic Faith).

'Breathless' has that 'radio friendly' feel to it - long droning guitars for most of the verse with barely a change in notes, simple sounding drumming and straight forward vocals. However, when it gets to
the chorus, the tempo is kicked up some notches and the drums and guitars show their stuff. Think of some of Skillet or Kutless style radio friendly songs. Dale should make this either the 2nd or 3rd
radio release. I think this one will catch quite a few people by surprise and make people notice.

This album is just chock full of Bride goodness I can't cover all the songs in this review.

Lyric wise, they are very bold in some of the songs, others you have to dig just a little deeper. But that has always been one of the trademarks about Bride. At least they don't make you have to dig so deep that you loose your way around the lyrics.

My Favs: End of Days, Inside Ourselves, Breathless, The Government.

This Album CRANKS!!!!!!.......2006-11-30

I`ve been a Bride fan since 1995, and, definitly this is the VERY BEST album, after Scarecrow Messiah of course. The double bass in drums gives an energic taste and the bass chops are just great. There is no comparison, this is all different like any other Bride album. My favorites are:

- Skin for Skin: This song comes straight to your head, saturating all your senses at maximum level. I think this is the heaviest Bride`s song since Kinetic Faith.

- End of Days: I love the bass sound here! The Falseto vocals in the chorus are just thriller...When i listen it it just reminds me of a big scary spider climbing in a black background...Just Haunting!!!

- Inside Ourselves: Classical Bride sound. The bridge with double bass is so killer...

- Fuel And Fire: Play this track at high volume, and you will feel like a trailer knocking you down.

- Rise Above: "Living not dead...giving i say" This part is so refreshing...

- The Government: You cannot listen this song without closing your eyes tight and banging your head like a frantic. Beautiful chorus where Dale performs his low scales abilities, but then you hear him tearing his throat like never before.

Last, if you want to scare your neighbors and get struggled with them, BUY IT!

Average customer rating: A Band That Changed My Thoughts About Christian Music The Legacy of Truth

Rockin' Revival Manufacturer: Retroactive Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Similar Items: Shallow Water World of Sand + 2 Caught In the Act of Loving Him Perfect Timing (Limited Edition) Hearts of Fire / Cutting Edge (Limited Edition) ASIN: B000GF1TOK

Product Description

Servant's 1981 sophomore release on Canadian label Tunesmith Records was a huge progression in the band's sound, adding the keyboard wizardry of Matt Spransy for a richer, fuller sound. They avoided cliches and truisms in an effort to reach the un-churched. Their edgy, keyboard-infused, driving rock music was coupled with a high-energy stage performance that left the audience sweating and cheering, but also reflecting on the biting social commentary and insistence that the Kingdom of God was upon us. A very young Doug Pinnick (later of King's X fame) wrote for them the rockin' anthem 'I'm Gonna Live,' which garnered significant radio airplay, and became the band's signature song for years. It was produced by Bob Rock (pre Metallica, Skid Row, Motley Crue), and after being digitally re-mastered was released as a Limited Edition re-issue on Retroactive Records May, 2006, the first time it has ever been available on CD. Liner notes, including reflections on the band's history, are written by founding member Owen Brock. For fans of Rez, Barnabas, Jerusalem, and all fans of AOR/arena rock. Songs include: 'Look Out Babylon,' 'Rockin' Revival,' 'Isolated,' 'Heidelberg Blues,' 'Listen,' 'Jealousies,' 'Suburban Josephine,' 'Ad Man,' and 'I'm Gonna Live.'

Customer Reviews:

A Band That Changed My Thoughts About Christian Music.......2007-03-12

While I was at Bible college, I attended two concerts on consecutive nights. One was at a church, while the other was at a high school auditorium. One was worshipful by Terry Talbot. The other was Servant, complete with loud music, special effects, and great choreography. You're right: Servant was the band that played at the church.

The concert was before the release of "Rockin' Revival". The band said you could be the first on your block to have the album. Considering that my Bible college was pretty traditional, I wasn't sure at that time I wanted to be that kind of trendsetter. After a few years, though, Servant became my favorite band.

My favorite songs on the project were . . . no, let me tell you my least favorite songs on the project, because only two songs fall into that category. One was the first song on the project "Babylon", and the other was "Suburban Josephine". The former was a little too pacifist for me, and the latter hinted at a doctrinal position that I disagree with. I will say, though, that I prefer Christian musicians who feature bad doctrine than those who avoid doctrine.

The rest? Excellent. In particular, I relate to "Isolated". Unfortunately, I don't think I'm "Isolated" in relating to "Isolated." And the church hasn't changed much in the 25 years since the song came out.

One last thing I'll add. This is the first album that includes my all time favorite keyboardist in the band (Matt Spransky).

The Legacy of Truth.......2006-07-25

Let me admit the biases first: Servant was our band, by that, I mean part of our commune, managed and formed by my dad, and all the people in it close friends of mine. So I am going to be pretty supportive.

For many the music of Servant was too cutting and dangerous to listen to, for who wants to hear a call to repent, that you, the church, are not actually following Jesus Christ? Isn't contemporary Christian music supposed to just make Christians happy, and be a safe outlet to dance?

Servant was cutting edge- the first Christian band with an extensive light show, the first to use lasers, and the band that gave Petra their start. The lyrics speak to the foundational elements of our commune, the Highway Missionaries. The Jesus Movement never produced a tomb like the Westminster Confession; for us, our theology was expressed in our music. Even today, when I contemplate an ethical action, I consult the Bible, and the music I grew up with.

Look Out Babylon is amazingly prescient for our times. "Wear the oil flows the most, is where the tension lies." To hear prophetic lyrics like "Soldiers in Afghanistan; sanctions in Iraq" from 1981 is just scary. It's a call against war, to see that Babylon, representative of the evil in humanity, is actually us in the West.

Isolated speaks to how a Sunday and Wednesday church, as Keith Green also spoke of, is not what Christ had in mind. Lonely Christians, isolated Christians, these are the antithesis of Christ's message- he calls us into community. Ad Man has got a fun ring to it, speaking of the mammon of advertising that calls us to a different god- there is no god but money.

The two finest songs on this album are perhaps the finest songs Servant ever produced. Suburban Josephine was sung by Sandie Brock and written in part by my mom. One day while they were in the van, she looked over, and said, "That looks like a suburban Josephine." And the lyrics just started tumbling out. A story of a woman sung to the old shooby-doo-wah 60's sound, she desired, ever since she could remember, to serve Jesus. But one day she fell in love with someone else, that she could touch and see. Now she has soap operas for breakfast, and a 21" colour television, and needs to get her hair done right because her husband comes home soon. She has traded in the dream Christ gave her for the American dream. But you can't serve two masters. And one day, while watching the Price is Right, she saw three friends fly by, up into the sky...

I'm Going to Live is a song that I think of again and again throughout my life. It's lessons were omnipresent in my thoughts the last time I was held up at knife point, and influencing my words. Bob Hardy tells the story of two guys who came up to him and demanded some cash, or they would kill him. He told them that they could have his money (what does that matter anyway?) but they couldn't have his life, for his life belongs to the Lord, and he was going to live forever. Then the song begins.

There's no way we can lose. Our life is not forfeit, for we are already dead. To live is Christ, to die is gain. In the end, the robbers get all the cash, and a whole lot more as well.

And at the end of every concert, the audience rises to it's feet, yelling out in unison the ballad "I'm Gonna Live Forever", over and over, till the beat became part of the blood of our veins.

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