Life, Love and Leaving

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Like the Dirtbombs or the Screws, the Detroit Cobras are an underground rock & roll act that pays homage to the decades of artists who have hit the vinyl before them. These Motor City garage rockers combine gospel, soul, R&B, and '50s rock & roll to create a unique mix of retro innocence and tight, danceable music overflowing with rhythm and grit. Frontwoman Rachael Nagy croons with class and soul, with a low, hearty voice that sounds husky and warm. On the band's second album, Life, Love and Leaving, the Cobras cover songs by everyone from Otis Redding and Ike Turner to more obscure acts like Clyde McPhatter (the amazing ballad "Let's Forget About the Past") and Ronnie Mack (the mind-blowing "Cry On"). While a band that only does covers may sound like a one-trick pony, the Cobras manage to mine the hidden parts of bygone eras, coming back with gems that might go otherwise unheard to the next generations, and creating a great style of their own in the process. --Jennifer Maerz

Product Description
Motor City bad-asses the Detroit Cobra's 2nd album, (Sympathy For The Record Industry) with a new line-up. Led by vocalist Rachel Nagy and guitarist Maribel Restrepo, the band charges through fourteen tracks of classic soul and R&B delivered with ferocious garage-punk energy. Includes songs by Mickey Lee Lane, Jackie Deshannon, Ronnie Mack, Mary Wells, Ike Turner, Clyde McPhatter, Otis Redding, and more. Includes Eddie Harsch of the Black Crowes on bass.

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Life, Love and Leaving

Average customer rating: Play twice! "Got a song in my mind" A GREAT TIME OF R'N'R God's Favorite Bar Band If you are cool, you will own this CD.

Life, Love and Leaving The Detroit Cobras Manufacturer: Sympathy 4 the R.I. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Garage Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Mink Rat or Rabbit Baby Tied & True If You Don't Already Have a Look Ultraglide in Black ASIN: B00005B4FN Release Date: 2001-05-15

Tracks:

1. Hey Sailor
2. He Did It
3. Find Me a Home
4. Oh My Lover
5. Cry On
6. Stupidity
7. Bye Bye Baby
8. Boss Lady
9. Laughing at You
10. Can't Miss Nothing
11. Right Around the Corner
12. Won't You Dance With Me
13. Let's Forget About the Past
14. Shout Bamalama

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Like the Dirtbombs or the Screws, the Detroit Cobras are an underground rock & roll act that pays homage to the decades of artists who have hit the vinyl before them. These Motor City garage rockers combine gospel, soul, R&B, and '50s rock & roll to create a unique mix of retro innocence and tight, danceable music overflowing with rhythm and grit. Frontwoman Rachael Nagy croons with class and soul, with a low, hearty voice that sounds husky and warm. On the band's second album, Life, Love and Leaving, the Cobras cover songs by everyone from Otis Redding and Ike Turner to more obscure acts like Clyde McPhatter (the amazing ballad "Let's Forget About the Past") and Ronnie Mack (the mind-blowing "Cry On"). While a band that only does covers may sound like a one-trick pony, the Cobras manage to mine the hidden parts of bygone eras, coming back with gems that might go otherwise unheard to the next generations, and creating a great style of their own in the process. --Jennifer Maerz

Album Description

Motor City bad-asses the Detroit Cobra's 2nd album, (Sympathy For The Record Industry) with a new line-up. Led by vocalist Rachel Nagy and guitarist Maribel Restrepo, the band charges through fourteen tracks of classic soul and R&B delivered with ferocious garage-punk energy. Includes songs by Mickey Lee Lane, Jackie Deshannon, Ronnie Mack, Mary Wells, Ike Turner, Clyde McPhatter, Otis Redding, and more. Includes Eddie Harsch of the Black Crowes on bass.

Customer Reviews:

Play twice!.......2007-06-27

The Detroit Cobras have a healthy disregard for musical fashion and play almost exclusively brilliant, scorching covers of favourites from their vinyl collections from the fifties onwards, paying welcome particular attention to artists with a Detroit connection. There have been a number of line-up changes over the years but always with Rachel Nagy's vocals backed up with Maribel Restrepo on rhythm guitar and backing vocals, and on this record with Dante Aliano (guitar), Eddie Hawrsh (that's how it is spelled on this record)(bass and keyboards) and Damian Lang (drums).

Although fourteen songs are thoroughly dealt with, the whole album is over in half an hour because when a song is done, it's done, and sometimes this only takes a minute and a half. If only more bands would adopt this policy!

Hey Sailor is actually Mickey Lee Lane's Hey Sah-Lo-Ney, which he cut for Swan back in 1965. The Ronettes are an obvious source of inspiration and for He Did It the Cobras reach back to their pre-Spector days at Colpix, and a song co-written by Jackie DeShannon (now a Cobras' fan after hearing their versions of He Did it and Breakaway). Find Me A Home is more properly known as Home In Your Heart when first recorded by Solomon Burke, who also had the original of the much-covered Stupidity. Oh My Lover may be known to you if you ever turned over your copy of the Chiffons' He's So Fine and played the other side. Cry On is a cover of an early Irma Thomas hit written by Allen Toussaint (contrary to other reviews it has nothing to do with Ronnie Mack). Mary Wells wrote Bye Bye Baby for Jackie Wilson but when Berry Gordy heard it, he had Mary Wells record it herself at United Sound in Detroit for his new Motown label, her first single in 1960, making her sing it in a hoarse voiced style which makes it a natural for Rachel's naturally throaty vocals.

Boss Lady is the band's re-interpration of local band's Davis Jones and the Fenders' Boss With The Hot Sauce. Laughing At You takes us back to the Gardenias (not the Guardinias as printed in the booklet), who wrote and recorded it for Detroit's Fortune label in 1957 as I'm Laughing At You. Bob Dylan played it on his Theme Time Radio Hour special on laughter. Ike and Tina Turner had a regional R&B hit with You Can't Miss Nothing That You Never Had (disguised here as Can't Miss Nothing) in 1963. That leaves Right Around The Corner originally by the Five Royales in 1956, written by Charlie Singleton and Rose Marie McCoy; Won't You Dance With Me was by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels when they were still known as Billy Lee and the Rivieras; Let's Forget About The Past was on the flipside of Clyde Mcphatter's huge 1962 single Lover, Please; and finally Shout Bama Lama, possibly the definitive version of this song, was by Johnny Jenkins' Pinetoppers in 1961, featuring a novice singer called Otis Redding.

This is a great album, over too soon, but short enough to play all over again straight away, even louder, which I recommend you do.

"Got a song in my mind".......2007-01-09

Very cool album. Nagy's got pipes. "Hey Sailor" is flat out powerful. A couple of the other tracks have an ampling Big-Bopperesque beat that is a little too simplistic...maybe could have been amped up a bit more...just not as strong as some of the other tracks, and pale slightly by direct one after another comparison.

In any event, I bought 5 very good CD's this month and this is the one getting all of the time in the player. I will be picking up more Cobras. I also want to see them live, but haven't seen where they make the trip over to GR very often.

Goes nicely with city that is re-inventing itself as we speak.

A GREAT TIME OF R'N'R.......2006-08-16

Nothing fancy here but this band does whirl up an enticing atmosphere of 50's-60's style rock n roll and makes it sound real fresh and invigorating. I had a real pleasant time listening to this disc. Totally blows away all of that modern day alternative fake rock crap.

This material is truly invaluable. RACHEL is hot!!!

God's Favorite Bar Band.......2005-12-08

Forget everything you've heard and read about the White Stripes for a minute. Oh, sure, they're cute in their red and white togs and all, despite Jack White managing to look like he's just vomited in almost every photo you see of him, but on a grass roots level, they barely register on the radar in their hometown of Detroit. I should know - I live there...

And despite Meg White's ability to master her drum kit in much the same way a left-handed pre-schooler masters tying his shoelaces, it's women like Wendy Case of The Paybacks and Rachel Nagy of the Detroit Cobras who are the real queens of the roost around here. Live with it.

Although they've been tied up in my own back yard since 1994, it wasn't until an on-line acquaintance sent me a mix CD last year that I got my first taste of The Detroit Cobras. Quite simply put, Nagy's voice, whether she realizes it or not, is a gift from above.

"Shout Bama Lama," a cover of the old Otis Redding shouter, just may be the best thing the Cobras have ever done. It's stop-and-start cadence and churning glam/punk guitars, Nagy purring "She's bustin' bricks now," actually forced me to pull my car over to the side of the road the first time I heard it.

We may be dirty and broke here in the Murder City, but we're also smart. Look no further than the Detroit Cobras for proof positive.

If you are cool, you will own this CD........2004-05-18

OK, I have this rule about playing music that is real popular or well known: I don't do it.

Certainly it doesn't mean I don't like good music.

I devote alot of time trying to find "underground" music to enjoy.

So I came across this album a couple days ago, and it was my best score in some time.

A beautiful rocking collection of 50's and 60's songs, redone in a modern "garage" style. Awesome!

So when you are become tired of The Strokes, White Stripes, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and The Kills, check out THE DETROIT COBRAS!

Average customer rating: breathless Beatles Like I've Never Heard Before Interesting Cover, but Bad CD Beautiful and Relaxing Lovely and powerful

Imagine Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Opera & Vocal | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Revolution: A Rock Tribute to the Beatles Beatles Vivaldi: Complete Cello Concertos Beatles for Harp Nothing's Gonna Change My World ASIN: B000003G0A Release Date: 1996-03-26

Tracks:

1. Free As A Bird
2. Eleanor Rigby
3. Here, There And Everywhere
4. In My Life
5. And I Love Her
6. When I'm Sixty-Four
7. Michelle
8. Nowhere Man
9. Yesterday
10. Girl
11. Across The Universe
12. Here Comes The Sun
13. Norwegian Wood - For No One
14. She's Leaving Home
15. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
16. Octopus's Garden
17. Imagine
18. Hey Jude
19. Golden Slumbers - Carry That Weight - The End

Customer Reviews:

breathless.......2006-05-31

The sound from harnoy;s cello is enough to make me cry. she produces such tone and anyone that doesnt agree is uneducated. what can i say elanor rigby the phrassing outstanding ofra has been and still is one of my favorite cellist.

Beatles Like I've Never Heard Before.......2005-02-10

I borrowed this CD from the library out of curiosity and what a delightful suprise. The interpretation of Beatles music is wonderfully simple - I especially love the different variations done with the same tune in some of the pieces giving them a fresh sound. Harmonies between cello and violin in "Norwegian Wood", "Across the Universe" and "Girl" are mesmerising. Mostly played with a slow tempo, this is great soothing music after a stressful day. This CD is definitely worth purchasing for a twist in popular Lennon-McCartney compositions.

4 stars for song selection, otherwise 5 stars for interpretation.

Interesting Cover, but Bad CD.......2004-06-05

I can not believe that Ofra is even famous. Her playing is so stiff and lacks phrasing. Her tone quality is horrible. The only reason that she makes recordings is because her father is rich and he bought her a several million dollar cello and paid symphony orchestras to let her play solos with them. But, it is interesting to hear a cellist play the Beatles. Only buy this CD if you have boughten every cd on this webstite and have a little money left over.

Beautiful and Relaxing.......2004-05-21

The Beatles and Ofra Harnoy! The best of both worlds! What more could you ask for? A friend gave me this CD, and I have enjoyed listening to this right before bedtime every night. Ms. Harnoy, I applaud you for making some of the finest renditions of my favorite Beatles tunes. If you're a semi-professional classical musician like me and you don't have this in your CD collection, you're missing out--Big Time!!! 5 + stars for a wonderful CD!!!!

Lovely and powerful.......2002-01-01

Before you write this off as another attempt to "muzak" the Beatles, listen to Harnoy's lovely playing on "She's Leaving Home," "Across The Universe" and "Girl" and see if you still feel that way once you've heard them. A great set of interpretations by a most evocative cellist.

Average customer rating: Very nice cover of beatles music 'Norwegian Wood' the BEST Beatles tribute album ever! Strong Music In Its Own Right Well crafted and beautifully rendered A must-have CD.

Norwegian Wood Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classical | Styles | Music Opera & Vocal | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Working Classical: Orchestral and Chamber Music by Paul McCartney Imagine Standing Stone London Town Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio ASIN: B000003ESX Release Date: 1995-04-11

Tracks:

1. Elanor Rigby
2. Yesterday
3. Here Comes The Sun
4. Because
5. Day Tripper
6. Michelle
7. And I Love Her (Harp Solo)
8. Blackbird
9. In My Life
10. For No One
11. All My Loving
12. Here, There And Everywhere
13. I Am The Walrus
14. She's Leaving Home
15. The Fool On The Hill
16. Norwegian Wood

Customer Reviews:

Very nice cover of beatles music.......2004-08-03

This is a very nice adaptation of Beatles music. The arrangements are quite original with just enough of the familiar melodies to feel comfortable. This is a nice companion to "Friends".

'Norwegian Wood' the BEST Beatles tribute album ever!.......2001-07-24

Danish insturmentalists Trio Rococo's absolutely stunning and beautiful 1995 album "Norwegian Wood" is one of those hidden treasures, a diamond in the rough, waiting to be discovered by YOU. Simply, it is the best Beatles tribute album ever. For any fan of string/woodwinds, insturmental trios, and the Beatles of course, this is absolutely an ESSENTIAL album to have. Stunning arrangements of such Beatles hits as "Eleanor Rigby", "Here Comes The Sun" (my favorite), "Daytripper", "I am the Walrus", and "Blackbird" are recreated with the same inginuity and creativity in which they were originally written and created, and in such a incredible fashion that it's absolutely... beyond words. I strongly recommend getting this album, at any cost or expense. It's WORTH IT!

Strong Music In Its Own Right.......2000-02-26

This album is most immediately recommended to those who already know the songs. Putting on "Because" and filling in the words in your own mind while the instruments play the classic song in a whole new way permits you whole new insights into how it is that, because the world is round, it turns me on -- insights the Beatles themselves may not have had when they first recorded the tune. On the other hand, this is strong classical music with a character all its own, and can be enjoyed entirely as that as well -- my girlfriend Sarah and I like to put it on for our romantic moments.

Well crafted and beautifully rendered.......2000-02-20

This is not some sappy boiled down elevator music. But rather, these are interestingly arranged and artfully performed renditions of some of the Beatles' most enduring tunes. The Trio Rococo plays them like the classics that they are.

A must-have CD........1999-01-06

Norwegian Wood is a wonderful CD to have in your collection. It is a collection of Beatles songs redone in a classical style. Even if you are not a Beatles fan, the music is wonderful to relax to. And if you are a Beatles fan, you'll enjoy your favorites in different way.

Average customer rating:

Colouring Book Manufacturer: El Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Goodwin, Ron | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Porter | Porter, Cole | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music King's Singers | ( K ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Baroque Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Sacred Bridges The King's Singers Original Debut Recording Kids' Stuff Thomas Tallis: Spem in Alium [Hybrid SACD] Landscape & Time ASIN: B000A6AB7Q Release Date: 2005-09-26

Tracks:

1. She's Leaving Home
2. Game
3. I Love You Samantha
4. Windmills of Your Mind
5. After the Goldrush
6. Life on Mars
7. Watch Me
8. Ask Yourself Why
9. Michelle
10. Penny Lane
11. Eleanor Rigby
12. I'm a Train
13. Morning Has Broken
14. Building a Wall
15. My Colouring Book
16. Orange Yellow Ochre
17. Taste of Honey
18. Strawberry Fields Forever

Album Description

From quintessentially English mid-sixties origins as select choral scholars at King's College, Cambridge the King's Singers are today one of the most influential and enduring vocal groups in the world. Colouring Book features 18 tracks. EL. 2005.

Album Details

The King's Singers were the First to Apply Choral Technique to Popular Material and 'colouring Book' Concentrates on their Unforgettable Arrangements of International Hits of the Sixties and Early Seventies. No Less Than Seven Selections Are Drawn from their Important 1972 George Martin Produced Album Including the Remarkable 'she's Leaving Home'. Their Success with Compositions of Lennon and Mccartney Culminated in One of their Most Popular Titles 'the Beatles Connection' which is Well Represented Here Alongside Songs Written by the Other Giants of Contemporary Pop; Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, David Bowie and Neil Young. To These Diverse Writers, the King's Singers Bring their Beautiful Tone, Balance and Synchronisation with Equally Marvellous Effect.

Average customer rating:

Romantic Piano Manufacturer: Madacy Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Fauré, Gabriel | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B000056CEU Release Date: 2001-01-23

Tracks:

1. Catch A Rising Star
2. Those Eyes
3. Impressions On Faure's Pavane
4. Leaving
5. Little Flower
6. Pretty Lady
7. The High Tide Of My Life
8. With You In Mind
9. Seasons Of Love
10. I Always Knew
11. Reflection
12. Early Morning Light
13. Garden In The Sky

Average customer rating: IT'S SINKING! VERY GOOD! James Horner's Best Masterpiece!

Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture (1997 Film) Celine Dion Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Contemporary | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music Soundtracks | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ASIN: B00004ZDOV Release Date: 2001-08-14

Tracks:

1. Never an Absolution
2. Distant Memories
3. Southhampton
4. Rose
5. Leaving Port
6. Take Her to Sea, Mr. Murdoch
7. Hard to Starboard
8. Unable to Stay, Unwilling to Leave
9. Sinking
10. Death of Titanic
11. Promise Kept
12. Life So Changed
13. Ocean of Memories
14. My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme from "Titanic") - Celine Dion, Skyler Jett
15. Hymn to the Sea - Celine Dion, James Horner

Customer Reviews:

IT'S SINKING!.......2001-10-22

This is a great CD if you are really into buying soundtracks of movies that create a false sense of meaning in your life or if you live through movies insted of the real world. And Celine Dion?? I could barely listen to the song the first time I heard it. Now it's really annoying, just like any other song they over-overplay on the radio, on television, and at weddings. Help! I'm stuck in the mainstream nothingness! repeat repeat repeat

VERY GOOD!.......2001-03-03

A perfect soundtrack (only I have the video of Titanic, not the soundtrack). The soundtrack REALLY sets the mood. Very touching and emotional, and uplifting, with Celine singing the final song. I like it very much, though Enya would also be perfect to put in the soundtrack also, considering her soulful "Watermark" and "A Day Without Rain."

James Horner's Best Masterpiece!.......2000-11-19

Happy to say that I'm a proud owner of this soundtrack on CD.But because of James Horner's sweeping masterpiece,I decided to get it on the SACD format.His music involves you in the story of the fateful R.M.S. Titanic and furthermore brings joy,happiness and sadness in this beautifully crafted CD edition.Calling all Titanic fans out there,this is one CD not to be missed! Two thumbs up!

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