Is This What You Want? [Import]

1. Speak to Me

2. Is This What You Want?

3. How Can You Say Goodbye

4. Sunset

5. Sour Milk Sea

6. Fall Inside Your Eyes

7. Little Yellow Pills

8. Take My Word

9. Eagle Laughs at You

10. Baby You're a Lover

11. You've Got Me Thinking

12. I Just Don't Know

13. New Day [*]

14. Won't You Come Back [#][*]

15. Going Back to Liverpool [#][*]

16. Thumbin' a Ride [*]

17. How the Web Was Woven [*]

Is This What You Want?,Jackie Lomax,EMI Int'l,Popular Music,Rock,Rock/Pop

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Is This What You Want? [Import]

Average customer rating: Fabulous for any Broadway-lover Top Shelf TERRIFIC CD'S Great Collection of Broadways greatest Songs Great Compilation!

Broadway - The American Musical (PBS Series) Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gershwin | Gershwin, George | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Porter | Porter, Cole | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Weill | Weill, Kurt | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mancini | Mancini, Henry | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Classical Instrumental Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Musicals | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Best of Broadway - The American Musical (PBS Series) Broadway: The American Musical Broadway: The American Musical Broadway - The American Musical (PBS Series) Somewhere over the Rainbow: The Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals ASIN: B00064ADMK Release Date: 2004-10-19

Tracks:

1. Give My Regards To Broadway- Joel Grey
2. Swanee- Al Jolson
3. When The Moon Shines On The Moonshine- Bert Williams
4. A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody- John Steel
5. My Man- Fanny Brice
6. Fascinating Rhythm- Fred Astaire, Adele Astaire
7. If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)- 78rpm Version Eddie Cantor
8. Someone To Watch Over Me- Gertrude Lawrence
9. Bill- 78 rpm Version Helen Morgan
10. Ol' Man River- Paul Robeson
11. Ain't Misbehavin'- Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
12. Ten Cents A Dance- Ruth Etting
13. Body And Soul- Libby Holman
14. Brother, Can You Spare A Dime- Bing Crosby
15. Night And Day- Fred Astaire
16. Heat Wave- Ethel Waters
17. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes- Tamara
18. You're The Top- Ethel Merman
19. Summertime- Anne Brown
20. September Song- Walter Huston
21. My Heart Belongs To Daddy- Mary Martin
22. It Never Entered My Mind- Shirley Ross
23. Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered- Vivienne Segal
24. Oh, How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning- Irving Berlin
25. Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'- Alfred Drake

Tracks:

1. New York, New York- Cris Alexander,Adolph Green,John Reardon
2. If I Loved You- John Raitt,Jan Clayton
3. Come Rain Or Come Shine- Ruby Hill,Harold Nicholas
4. There's No Business Like Show Business- Ensemble
5. How Are Things In Glocca Morra? From "Finian's Rainbow"- Ella Logan
6. Once In Love With Amy- Ray Bolger
7. Wunderbar- Alfred Drake,Patricia Morison
8. Some Enchanted Evening- Ezio Pinza
9. Lost In The Stars- Todd Duncan
10. Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend- Carol Channing
11. Luck Be A Lady- Robert Alda,Guys
12. Getting To Know You- Gertrude Lawrence
13. Who Cares?- Jack Carson,Betty Oakes
14. Stranger In Paradise- from " Kismet" Doretta Morrow,Richard Kiley
15. Ballad Of Mack The Knife- Gerald Price
16. Hey There- from "The Pajama Game" John Raitt
17. Whatever Lola Wants- Gwen Verdon
18. I Could Have Danced All Night- Julie Andrews
19. Standing On The Corner- from "The Most Happy Fella, 1956" Shorty Long,John Henson,Alan Gilbert
20. The Party's Over- Judy Holliday
21. Glitter And Be Gay- Barbara Cook
22. Tonight- Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence

Tracks:

1. Seventy-Six Trombones- Robert Preston
2. I Enjoy Being A Girl- from "Flower Drum Song, 1958" Pat Suzuki
3. Everything's Coming Up Roses- Ethel Merman
4. My Favorite Things- from "The Sound Of Music" Mary Martin
5. Put On A Happy Face- from "Bye Bye Birdie" Dick Van Dyke
6. Try To Remember- Jerry Orbach
7. Camelot- from "Camelot" Richard Burton
8. Love Makes The World Go 'Round- Anna Maria Alberghetti
9. I Believe In You- Robert Morse And Co.
10. The Sweetest Sounds- Diahann Carroll,Richard Kiley
11. Comedy Tonight- Zero Mostel
12. What Kind Of Fool Am I?- Anthony Newley
13. As Long As He Needs Me- Georgia Brown
14. Hello, Dolly!- Carol Channing,Cast
15. People- Barbra Streisand
16. Anyone Can Whistle- from "Anyone Can Whistle" Lee Remick
17. If I Were A Rich Man- Zero Mostel
18. Night Song- Sammy Davis, Jr.
19. The Impossible Dream- Richard Kiley
20. If My Friends Could See Me Now- Gwen Verdon
21. Open a New Window- from Mame Voice

Tracks:

1. Willkommen- from "Cabaret" Joel Grey
2. Let The Sunshine In- James Rado,Lynn Kellogg,Melba Moore,Cast
3. I'll Never Fall In Love Again- Jill O'Hara,Jerry Orbach
4. The Ladies Who Lunch- from "Company" Elaine Stritch
5. Tea For Two- Roger Rathburn,Susan Watson
6. I'm Still Here- Yvonne De Carlo
7. I Don't Know How To Love Him- Yvonne Elliman
8. We Go Together- Adrienne Barbeau,Barry Bostwick,Walter Bobbie,Cast
9. Corner Of The Sky- John Rubinstein
10. Send In The Clowns- Glynis Johns
11. Ease On Down The Road- Stephanie Mills,Tiger Haynes,Ted Ross,Hinton
12. One- from "A Chorus Line" Cast
13. All That Jazz- Chita Rivera,Ensemble
14. Tomorrow- Andrea Mcardle
15. Don't Cry For Me Argentina- Patti Lupone
16. Come Follow The Band
17. Lullaby Of Broadway- Jerry Orbach
18. And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going- Jennifer Holliday
19. The Bells Of St. Sebastian- Raul Julia

Tracks:

1. Memory- Betty Buckley
2. I Am What I Am- George Hearn
3. Move On- Bernadette Peters,Mandy Patinkin
4. Do You Hear The People Sing?- Michael Maguire,Cast
5. The Music Of The Night- Michael Crawford
6. You're Nothing Without Me- James Naughton,Gregg Edelman
7. The American Dream- Jonathan Pryce,Cast
8. Doctor Jazz- Gregory Hines,Company
9. With One Look- Glenn Close
10. On Broadway- Adrian Bailey,Frederick B. Owens,Ken Ard,Victor Trent Cook
11. Le Jazz Hot- Julie Andrews,Ensemble
12. Seasons Of Love-
13. Hakuna Matata- Max Casella,Tom Alan Robbins,Scott Irby-Ranniar,Jason Raize
14. I Wanna Be A Producer- Matthew Broderick,Ensemble
15. Dancing Queen- Louise Plowright,Jenny Galloway
16. Good Morning Baltimore- Marissa Jaret Winokur
17. Movin' Out- Michael Cavanaugh,Band
18. I Go To Rio- Hugh Jackman,Company
19. Defying Gravity- Kristin Chenoweth,Idina Menzel

Customer Reviews:

Fabulous for any Broadway-lover.......2007-01-30

Packs into 5 CD's a sampling of Broadway tunes from the 20's thru (almost) today, mostly from original cast recordings. Includes not just well-known hits, but also some lesser-known gems. Sound quality is first rate, booklet is informative too. Have given this as a gift to several friends with rave reviews.

Top Shelf.......2007-01-04

This is THE definitive collection of Broadway hits. I have other collections, and none of them measure up. A great deal of care was obviously taken in compiling and presenting this box set. It covers a lot of ground, starting with some long-forgotten but still very enjoyable hits from the days of yore, and finishing with present-day favorites. To the best of my knowledge, the recordings are by those who made them famous. You won't be disappointed.

TERRIFIC CD'S.......2006-03-23

THESE BROADWAY MUSICALS CD'S ARE A BROADWAY LOVERS DREAM. WITH EACH SONG, MEMORIES COME FLOODING BACK. BOTH THE FAMILIAR AND THE FORGOTTEN SONGS ARE A TRUE LISTENING PLEASURE. IF YOU LIKE BROADWAY, YOU'LL LOVE THIS SET.

Great Collection of Broadways greatest Songs .......2005-06-14

This Collection was perfectly made it has almost all the most famous Broadway songs on this 5 cd set. The Music is great and has Broadways greatest treasures like "Memory""People""With One Look""Give my regards Too Broadway" just to name a few of this numerous cd set with over 100 songs. This is a great buy if you like musicals or The music of Broadway

Great Compilation!.......2005-01-17

If you are a fan of the Broadway Musicals, this is a collection that you should purchase. Since I got the 5 disc set I've enjoyed listening to it. The majority of the songs are done by the original singers. The collection is priceless considering that you will have over 100 songs from popular musicals since the beginning of Broadway

Average customer rating: A nice little band Jackie, Paul, George & Ringo A great debut A Great Unknown A GEM!

Is This What You Want? Jackie Lomax Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Doris Troy Home Is in My Head That's the Way God Planned It Encouraging Words Those Were the Days ASIN: B000008HTI Release Date: 2004-05-31

Tracks:

1. Speak to Me
2. Is This What You Want?
3. How Can You Say Goodbye
4. Sunset
5. Sour Milk Sea
6. Fall Inside Your Eyes
7. Little Yellow Pills
8. Take My Word
9. Eagle Laughs at You
10. Baby You're a Lover
11. You've Got Me Thinking
12. I Just Don't Know
13. New Day [*]
14. Won't You Come Back [#][*]
15. Going Back to Liverpool [#][*]
16. Thumbin' a Ride [*]
17. How the Web Was Woven [*]

Customer Reviews:

A nice little band.......2007-07-25

When you have George Harrison on rhythmic, Eric Clapton on lead guitar, Nicky Hopkins on Piano, Ringo Starr on drums, and Paul McCartney on bass, you have a little band that you cannot afford to miss!

Jackie, Paul, George & Ringo.......2007-01-30

I was playing frisbee at college when I stopped in my tracks. I thought I could hear Beatles music coming from the next dorm. I was a huge fan, and caught a lot of poop for it, but I believed in the music, or so I said.

I ran up three flights of stairs, knocked on a door, and a startled student opened it, and I just strode in.

"It's my room-mate's record - I don't know!"
But he did say his roommate was a huge Beatles fan, and sure enough, the label was one big Apple. It was Jackie Lomax, and indeed, George had been playing guitar on the track I heard from the street.

"I've still got it!", I announced to no one in particular. But I did rush out and get IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT? What a great record! This came out around the same time Apple also released JAMES TAYLOR's first solo album.

Ahh, the good old days!

This is a secret gem. If you like the Beatles, or Joe Cocker, Jackie will do you just fine. The production is very Apple......

A great debut.......2006-01-21

Apple Records was a bold but ultimately failed experiment by the Beatles that managed to introduce some excellent artists to the musical world. Badfinger, Billy Preston, James Taylor, Mary Hopkins and Jackie Lomax all had their debut albums on the label. Lomax's "Is This What You Want" was the best and it's too bad he didn't fair better in his recording career and get the acclaim he deserved.
The album highlights his unique soulful rock voice on his strong original songs that cover a range of styles from jazz to ballad to soul to rock. The album was expertly produced by George Harrison and he assembled a great backup band that included Eric Clapton, Ringo, Paul McCartney, Klaus Voorman, himself and other solid musicians and singers. There really isn't a bad song on the album but the true classic is the Harrison penned "Sour Milk Sea" featuring a back and forth guitar solo by George and Eric Clapton, a driving beat, and a Beatle-like Get Back fade out.

A Great Unknown.......2005-09-28

Jackie Lomax is a great, Beatlesque artist, who for some reason never hit it big. "Sour Milk Sea" is my favorite on the cd, and is written by his pal George Harrison. But the whole album is worth the cost, and is deffinetly recomended.

A GEM!.......2005-04-30

Jackie Lomax has been one of my favorite songwriters and recording artists since i picked up his debut Apple lp in the late 60's. A unique voice full of soul and passion along with a "one-of-a-kind" sense of phrasing makes his catalogue stand tall among the best rock records ever/ If their were justice in rock and roll, Lomax would be a Hall of Famer with the recognition and respect that accompany same. As it is, we have the music and he has the admiration of countless fellow musicians and others lucky enough to be in the know. God bless Jackie Lomax

Average customer rating:

Broadway: America's Music 1935-2005 Manufacturer: Decca Broadway ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gershwin | Gershwin, George | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Morton Gould | Gould, Morton | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Porter | Porter, Cole | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Weill | Weill, Kurt | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Broadway - The American Musical (PBS Series) Grey Gardens - A New Musical (2006 Original Broadway Cast) The Drowsy Chaperone (2006 Original Broadway Cast) White Nights Spring Awakening (2006 Original Broadway Cast) ASIN: B000B8I93Q Release Date: 2005-10-18

Tracks:

1. Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'
2. Summertime
3. I Could Write a Book
4. It Never Entered My Mind
5. I Can Cook Too
6. Make It Another Old Fashioned, Please
7. If I Loved You
8. My Heart Belongs to Daddy
9. Thou Swell
10. I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen
11. There's No Business Like Show Business
12. South American Way

Tracks:

1. Shall We Dance
2. Ohio
3. Luck Be a Lady
4. Mack the Knife
5. There's a Small Hotel
6. Once in Love with Amy
7. Yodel Blues
8. Lazy Afternoon
9. There Must Be Somethin' Better Than Love
10. You're Just in Love
11. Now Is the Time

Tracks:

1. Impossible Dream
2. Love Makes the World Go 'Round
3. Try to Remember
4. Put on a Happy Face
5. I Say Hello
6. Happiness
7. She Loves Me
8. What Kind of Fool Am I?
9. Shy
10. Consider Yourself
11. Poor Little Person

Tracks:

1. Magic to Do
2. They're Playing My Song
3. I Don't Know How to Love Him
4. I Won't Send Roses
5. Good Morning Starshine
6. Don't Cry for Me, Argentina
7. Hard Candy Christmas
8. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
9. Won't You Charleston with Me?
10. Applause

Tracks:

1. Phantom of the Opera
2. Memory
3. On My Own
4. Muddy Water
5. How Could I Ever Know
6. American Dream
7. I Know Him So Well
8. Dr. Jazz
9. Me and My Girl
10. Suddenly Seymour

Tracks:

1. Mamma Mia!
2. Popular
3. Seasons of Love
4. Oh, the Thinks You Can Think
5. Whatever Lola Wants
6. Crazy
7. How Deep Is Your Love
8. Stars
9. People Like Us
10. I Go to Rio

Average customer rating: Johnny Rotten * Genius Nonsensical tripe from Lydon and Atkins. You are now entering an Underrated Zone these are not love songs Best PIL album ever

This Is What You Want...This Is What You Get Public Image Ltd. Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Post-Punk | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alternative Dance | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Alternative Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Public Image Happy? Second Edition Metal Box 9 ASIN: B00000733R Release Date: 1995-03-09

Tracks:

1. Bad Life
2. This Is Not A Love Song
3. Solitaire
4. Tie Me To The Length Of That
5. The Pardon
6. Where Are You?
7. 1981
8. The Order Of Death

Customer Reviews:

Johnny Rotten * Genius.......2007-06-22

This guy (Band PIL) John Lydon.
Musical genius in the way Captain Beefheart was/IS.
Listen to the strain in Solitaire!
Very MODERN , like Television's-Marque Moon......Great sound.

Nonsensical tripe from Lydon and Atkins........2005-06-15

This is What you want (1983) was a terrible album from John Lydon and Martin Atkins. After an rift between Keith Levene and John Lydon occured during the recording of the demo tracks, Atkins and Lydon ran Keith off and he quit the band. Instead of keeping him on the finished tracks, Atkins and Lydon removed Levene and Pete Jones (the band's studio bassist) from the audio tracks and re-recorded them
with members from their Holiday Inn band (Lydon hired members from a covers band who performed at a New Jersey Holiday Inn).

The new tracks and horrible. All of the guitar riffs and rhythm
section that were originally recorded for the future album were erased. Noise and other unwelcomed sounds were added to the tracks. The original tracks were far superior (even in their basic state) to what was released. To hear them you'll have to find the Commercial Zone LP. The failure of this disc and the bickering between Atkins and Lydon would cause the band to become a solo project for the former anarchy king.

Not recommended.

You are now entering an Underrated Zone.......2004-10-23

Generally regarded as PiL's worst studio album. While this is probably true - it is undeniably patchy - it's far from awful and in fact boasts some great moments ("Bad Life," "Solitaire," "The Order Of Death" - incidentally, the album's title is a lyrical motif recurrent on "Bad Life" and "The Order Of Death"). At the time, "This Is What You Want" was PiL's biggest stylistic shift yet - from edgy avant garde to (edgy) disco funk, re-recorded after the departure of original guitarist Keith Levene (who released his mix of the original album tapes as the semi-legit and largely better-liked "Commercial Zone"). The horn section is only really obtrusive on the horrid remake of "This Is Not A Love Song" (the infinitely superior 1983 single version was PiL's biggest chart hit to date). That and two other numbers - "The Pardon" and "Where Are You" - form a severe lapse in quality that drags the album down. The original PiL sound is aching to emerge from underneath the sinister camp of "Tie Me To The Length Of That" (admittedly, a good track, with Lydon assuming the persona of a traumatised newborn: "When I was born the doctor didn't like me/He grabbed my ankles/Held me like a turkey/Dear mummy/Why'd you let him hit me/This was wrong/I knew you didn't love me"). "1981" serves as an epitaph for the UK-based PiL ("I'm leaving England/We're near the ending/You gave me nothing/No more pretending"). Like "Flowers Of Romance" (which, aside from a couple of tracks, it doesn't at all resemble musically), "This Is What You Want" is unsatisfying overall, but it has enough interesting tracks to weigh out its shortcomings.

these are not love songs.......2004-09-30

This is not the death of PiL that many fans are calling it. There are some great songs here. "1981" is cool - great drums, great lyric , reminds me of the Flowers of Romance album, which i love . "Tie me to the Length of That" has a spooky Vincent Price vibe to the lyric and vocal, and a welcome return to a hooky bassline. "The Order of Death", despite being featured in an episode of Miami Vice - uuuugh - is one the best Pil songs ever, its chants of "this is what you want, this is what you get" becoming more and more bitter and sarcastic the more they are repeated. Even the then-current Brit-funk experimentations of "Bad Life" and "This is Not a Love Song" cannot hold them back. They have an undeniable energy, despite their somewhat dated sound. This is, after all, 1983. And a sight better than Kajagoogo or A-ha.

Best PIL album ever.......2004-08-27

After the awful Flowers of Romance Public Image releases their masterpiece. This is really just Johnny Lydon solo. The rest of the band all quit during the recordings and our hero plays all the instruments...

The song "Where are you" is to his missing band mates.

"This is not a love song" is a wonderful dancy pop song. They hadn't had a hit since "Public Image" and this corrects the problem. The record companies kept telling Johnny to write a love song and he decided not to and it was a top ten hit in England.

"Bad Life" is another highlight. I heard this song as "Mad Max" on a bootleg live album from 1982. They must have been not allowed to use the original lyrics.

"This is what you want" was featured on the episode of Miami Vice.

The inflections of Johnny voice are great throughout the album. There are keyboards and saxophone. All great stuff.

This is the middle ground PIL. Not as commercial as later stuff not as inaccessible as earlier stuff.

Average customer rating:

Red Hot (From Mystic Music, As Seen On TV) Crowded House , Level 42 , Rick Astley , Sheriff , Billy Ocean , Pat Benatar , Eddie Money & Ronnie Spector , Robert Palmer , Sheena Easton , and The Power Station Manufacturer: Mystic Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000MZSVMC

Product Description

MYSTIC MUSIC Presents RED HOT. AS SEEN ON T.V. Disc 1 1. SOMETHING SO STRONG CROWDED HOUSE 2. OBSESSION ANIMOTION 3. SOMETHING ABOUT YOU LEVEL 42 4. IS THIS LOVE WHITESNAKE 5. EVERY ROSE HAS ITS THORN POISON 6. ALL I NEED JACK WAGNER 7. MORE THAN WORDS CAN SAY ALIAS 8. SOME LIKE IT HOT THE POWER STATION 9. TOUCH ME (I WANT YOUR BODY) SAMANTHA FOX 10. NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP RICK ASTLEY 11. TOUCH ME CATHY DENNIS 12. NEED YOU TONIGHT INXS 13. THE FLAME CHEAP TRICK 14. BLACK VELVET ALLANAH MYLES 15. SAVE YOUR LOVE GREAT WHITE 16. WHEN I'M WITH YOU SHERIFF 17. CAN'T STOP AFTER 7 18. ADDICTED TO LOVE ROBERT PALMER DISC 2 1. FEEL LIKE MAKIN' LOVE BAD COMPANY 2. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS FOREIGNER 3. SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER THE MOTELS 4. TOO SHY KAJAGOOGOO 5. SHATTERED DREAMS JOHNNY HATES JAZZ 6. WE BELONG PAT BENATAR 7. CARIBBEAN QUEEN (NO MORE LOVE ON THE RUN) BILLY OCEAN 8. I GET WEAK BELINDA CARLISLE 9. TAKE ME HOME TONIGHT / BE MY BABY EDDIE MONEY WITH RONNIE SPECTOR 10. HOLD ON TO THE NIGHT RICHARD MARX 11. LISTEN TO YOUR HEART ROXETTE 12. MISSING YOU JOHN WAITE 13. I TOUCH MYSELF DIVINYLS 14. SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE ROBERT PALMER 15. SUGAR WALLS SHEENA EASTON 16. I CAN DREAM ABOUT YOU DAN HARTMAN 17. FREEWAY OF LOVE ARETHA FRANKLIN

Average customer rating: It's wonderful to have Bernstein back, but the performances fall short Come back Lennie, we need you For Bernstein enthusiasts, it's like owning a gold mine Bernstein's Early American Recordings

Leonard Bernstein: The 1953 American Decca Recordings Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Beethoven | Beethoven, Ludwig van | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Brahms | Brahms, Johannes | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Dvorák, Antonín | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Robert Schumann | Schumann, Robert | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Romantic | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Deutsche Grammophon: Music | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Karl Böhm Conducts Mozart and Strauss Leonard Bernstein Conducts Haydn (Collectors Edition) Pierre Monteux Decca & Philips Recordings, 1956-1964 Shostakovich: The Golden Age The Complete 1950s Chopin Recordings ASIN: B00067GKF6 Release Date: 2005-02-08

Customer Reviews:

It's wonderful to have Bernstein back, but the performances fall short.......2006-11-26

These 1953 mono recordings catch Bernstein a decade after his famous debut with the NY Phil. and five years before he became their youngest-ever condcutor. It's great to hear that warm, comforting voice again, although his analyses--especially the longest one devoted to the Brahms Fourth--aren't as polished as they would become. He gets pedagogical at times and runs us through a rote example-and-explanation formula. Even then, howeer, colorful Bernstein touches peek out, and we are reminded of the man who taught an entire generation to venerate classical music.

For me, the performances themselves fall short. They were often recorded in a rush, sometimes late at night after a summer concert. I know that the Stadium Sym. is actually the NY Phil., but they don't sound particularly fine, and Bernstein's interpreatations, though vigorous, often border on the slapdash. Plowing through Beethoven's 3rd, Dvorak's 9th, Schumann's 2nd, Brahms' 4th and Tchaikovsky's 6th, I found few sparks of originaity, much less genius. This is a tough admission from one of LB's geat admirers, but there you are. The original recorded sound is also a bit thin and harsh.

Come back Lennie, we need you.......2006-02-22

This box is worth its price just for the five talks. Bernstein at this stage had a teaching style rather more stilted than the chatty sage of later years, but the combination of authority, insight and infectious enthusiasm is unique. Entertainingly offhand about the New World, he's at his best on the music he reveres most, i.e. Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms, the first movement of whose Fourth Symphony gets a particularly in-depth analysis that left me yearning for more. Practically anyone could enjoy and learn from these talks - they're fascinating fun without a whiff of down-dumbing. When the classical and the popular cross over nowadays, the results are usually compromised and crass, but with Bernstein there doesn't even seem to be a gap to be crossed over - just a passion to share these wonders with as many people as possible. We need his all-embracing talent and vision today more than ever.

Then there are the performances. I'm not the biggest fan of mono symphonic recordings, but these positively leap down your ears, unmannered, committed and electric. It's hard to believe what was achieved under the hasty recording conditions described in the booklet. The sound is a little fierce, but good enough to make this set a wonderful gift for any open-minded but symphonically ignorant acquaintance. I can easily imagine it turning someone on to classical music.

For Bernstein enthusiasts, it's like owning a gold mine.......2005-06-19

This new album set is something that I had heard of, but never dared to hope would be released on CD. It consists of Leonard Bernstein's very first recordings of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 (the "Eroica"), Dvorak's "New World Symphony", Schumann's Symphony No. 2, Brahms' Fourth Symphony, and Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony. They are all conducted by Bernstein and played beautifully by an orchestra which bills itself as the New York Stadium Symphony Orchestra, but which is really the great New York Philharmonic, using the name that they gave themselves during summer concerts.

The performances are a revelation, because they demonstrate conclusively that Bernstein did not always "exaggerate" or "overinterpret" great music, as critics frequently claim. His performances here are very, very direct and straightforward, more like Fritz Reiner or Toscanini than like Bernstein.

If this album contained only Bernstein's early performances of these symphonies, it would be interesting, but it might not really attract that much attention, since he re-recorded all of these pieces in stereo in later years, and with the same orchestra.

What makes this set so valuable is that it contains his long out-of-print lectures on these symphonies, and far from what the previous reviewer claims, they never become boring and monotonous. No musician in our time, or maybe even in the history of music, was a better or more articulate and sensitive lecturer on music than Leonard Bernstein. His legendary appearances on the "Young People's Concerts" did more for the appreciation of classical music than all the "Beethoven's Wig" albums combined. (If you don't know what "Beethoven's Wig" is, check it out and shudder at how far music appreciation has fallen since Bernstein's death.)

Bernstein had a unique ability to make classical music accessible to everybody, without ever condescending to the listener or cheapening the music. His lectures on this album, previously only available to 1950's Book of the Month Subscribers (except for part of the Beethoven lecture, which is the only one that Bernstein did re-record in stereo), are invaluable both to music students and to those who are willing to listen. All of the lectures included cover all four movements of the symphonies discussed, except for the Brahms; that one is just as extensive as the others, but it covers only the first movement of the symphony.

However--be warned, the lectures do have a flaw that the symphonies themselves do not, and that is why I have subtracted one star.

The symphony recordings are obviously remastered from magnetic tape, but the lectures have been transferred from LP's. Thus, you will be able to hear an occasional click or pop from time to time, and there is a clearly audible "skip" on the Brahms lecture. It is NOT the CD being defective, or the laser beam on your player skipping; it is clearly the lecture recordings themselves. Deutsche Grammophon, which released this CD set, is very honest about the source of the transfers to compact disc, and is to be commended for this. (They mention it in the last page of the accompanying booklet.) But this shouldn't deter anybody from buying this enormously important Bernstein set.

Bernstein's Early American Recordings.......2005-04-02

The most recent batch of DG's "Original Masters" box sets boasts several titles that will leave classical collectors rejoicing, "Leonard Bernstein: The 1953 American Decca Recordings" foremost among them. This 5CD set features Lenny in his earliest recorded performances of some of his trademark works -- Beethoven's 3rd, Dvorak's 9th, Schumann's 2nd, Brahms' 4th and Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphonies. Bernstein would later re-record all of five these symphonies with the NYPO (btw, the Stadium Symphony Orchestra of New York IS the NYPO) to greater acclaim for Columbia, but these early accounts capture a brilliant young conductor at the threshold of greatness. Also after each performance, Bernstein offers a musical analysis, simplifying what the listener just heard as only he could, which is again something the conductor would become famous for in years to come. Well then, if this is such a great set, why the four-star rating? First, while the performances sound very good, these are 1953 mono recordings and the casual fan needs to be aware that analog and digital stereo recordings of these works by the conductor do exist, and are generally preferable. Second, the musical analysis is a nice touch, but certainly does not warrant repeated listenings, as does the music. In fact, nearly half of the contents of these five discs is LB talking, and it could have been filled with music instead, or simply sold as a less expensive 3CD set. However, these shortcomings aside, "Leonard Bernstein: The 1953 American Decca Recordings" is another outstanding release in a fine series.

Average customer rating: The best ever version The Golden Cast of D'Oyly Carte! The Definitive Recording

Gilbert & Sullivan: Patience Philip Potter , Kenneth Sandford , Mary Sansom , Jennifer Toye , and D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Sullivan | Sullivan, Arthur | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers ASIN: B0000041VE Release Date: 1989-07-21

Tracks:

1. Overture
2. Act One: Twenty love-sick maidens we
3. Act One: Still brooding on their mad infatuation
4. Act One: I cannot tell what this love may be
5. Act One: Twenty love-sick maidens we
6. Act One: The soldiers of our Queen
7. Act One: If you want a receipt for that popular mystery
8. Act One: In a doleful train two & two we walk all day
9. Act One: Twenty love-sick maidens we
10. Act One: When I first put this uniform on
11. Act One: Am I alone & unobserved?
12. Act One: If you're anxious for to shine
13. Act One: Long years ago-fourteen, maybe
14. Act One: Prithee, pretty maiden-prithee
15. Act One: Though to marry you
16. Act One: Let the merry cymbals sound
17. Act One: Now tell us, we pray you
18. Act One: Heart broken at my Patience's barbarity
19. Act One: Stay, we implore you, before our hopes are blighted
20. Act One: Your maidens hearts, ah, do steel

Tracks:

1. Act One: Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity
2. Act One: We've been thrown over, we're aware
3. Act One: And are you going a ticket to buy?
4. Act One: Hold! Stay your hand!
5. Act One: True love must single-hearted be
6. Act One: I hear the soft note of the echoing voice
7. Act One: But who is this, whose god-like grace
8. Act One: List Reginald, whilst I confess a love
9. Act Two: On such eyes as maidens cherish
10. Act Two: Sad is a woman's lot who, year by year
11. Act Two: Silvered is the raven hair
12. Act Two: Turn, oh turn in this direction
13. Act Two: A magnet hung in a hardware shop
14. Act Two: Love is a plaintive song
15. Act Two: So go to him & say to him
16. Act Two: It's clear that the mediaeval art
17. Act Two: If Saphir I choose to marry
18. Act Two: When I go out of the door
19. Act Two: I'm a Waterloo House young man
20. Act Two: After much debate internal, I on Lady Jane decide

Customer Reviews:

The best ever version.......2002-06-07

The wonderful cast transports you to the realms of Gilbert and Sullivan, to make you feel that you are experiencing a first night in 1881! John Reed, as Bunthorne, an aesthetic poet is superb, camp, subversive and a complete fraud. If anyone is not aware, the story of the opera is based upon the idiosyncracies of the Aesthetic movement in England of the 1880's and Gilbert used the public parodies of his friend Oscar Wilde as his major source. The rest of the cast, chorus and orchestra , under the long experienced 'Goddie' are superlative and make for one of the finest line-ups in D'Oyly Carte history. Revel and enjoy, for this is quite the best.

The Golden Cast of D'Oyly Carte!.......1999-04-13

My wish had always been to see John Reed and the D'Oyly Carte Company in a performance of Patience. My mother had done so, remarking that, 'You'd need patience to watch it', she was coloured in her opinion, since she wanted to see 'The Mikado', but had gotten the wrong tickets! The recording, made in 1961, is superb in every detail. You are with the cast, on stage, in the auditorium, it is such a 'live' performance. The dialogue is delivered exquisitely, whilst the singing is uniformerly of the highest standard. I recently portrayed 'Bunthorne' and throughout my performances, I felt that I was continuing the legacy of Gilbert and Sullivan. All the past history of performers were there. I feel that Patience is a magical Savoy Opera. Do not miss the opportunity to own such a definitive performance. Maybe the subject of the 'Art Nouveau' periodof Victorian England is dated, but as one critic has already stated, every generation 'throws up' its poseures, to be knocked. 'Ah, me! lack aday!' BUY IT!

The Definitive Recording.......1998-12-09

For those who prefer the traditional Savoyard renderings of the G&S canon, this is far and away the best recording of this parody of the cult of celebrity. John Reed leads the cast as a delightful Bunthorne, and the recording contains all of the opera's dialogue. "HMS Pinafore," "The Mikado," and "The Pirates of Penzance" may be better known, but "Patience" is deserving of a wider audience.

Average customer rating: Excellent ... but ...

Vintage Gilbert & Sullivan Manufacturer: Sanctuary ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Sullivan | Sullivan, Arthur | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Gilbert & Sullivan Favourites Gilbert & Sullivan - Highlights from The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Yeomen of the Guard, Trial of Jury ASIN: B000AA5XFW Release Date: 2005-10-03

Tracks:

1. A Wand'ring Minstrel 1
2. Behold The Lord High Executioner
3. Three Litttle Maids From School
4. Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze
5. A More Humane Mikado
6. Flowers That Bloom In The Spring
7. On A Tree By A River A Little Tom-Tit
8. There Is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast
9. When U Good Friends Was Called To The Bar
10. We Sail The Ocean Blue
11. I'm Called Little Buttercup
12. I Am The Captain Of The Pinafore
13. When I Was A Lad I Served A Term
14. Never Mind The Why And Wherefore
15. Carefully On Tiptoe Stealing
16. He Is An Englishman
17. Oh Better Far To Live And Die
18. Poor Wand'ring One
19. I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General
20. Then Fred'ric Let Your Escort, Lion Hearted When The Foeman Bares His Steel
21. When A Felon's Not Engaged
22. With Cat-Like Tread
23. I Cannot Tell What This Love May Be
24. If You Want A Receipt For That Popular Mystery
25. So Go To Him And Say To Him
26. Loudly Let The Trumper Bray... Bow Ye Lower Middle Classes
27. Love Unrequited Robs Me Of My Rest.... When You're Lying Awake With A Dismal
28. If You Go In You're Sure To Win
29. My Boy You May Take It From Me
30. When The Night Wind Howls
31. When Maiden Loves She Sits And Sighs
32. When Our Gallant Norman Foes
33. I Have A Song To Sing, Oh!
34. Were I Thy Bride
35. List And Learn
36. In Enterprise Of Martial Kind
37. There Was A Time
38. Do Not Give Way... Then One Of Us
39. Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes
40. Dance A Cachucha

Customer Reviews:

Excellent ... but ..........2007-02-07

As a vintage G&S listener, I appreciated this collection but I think it would mostly appeal to the specialist-completeist. A newcomer to the genre would do well to get a full operetta DVD. (I prefer the OK BBC performances to the tarted up & modernised Australian ones.)

Old-comers probably already have all these tracks as part of their collection of vintage full operetta recordings.

But don't let my idiosynchratic views deter you if you really like G&S... but not to the extent of buying all the vintage full operetta versions.

Average customer rating: 5 STAR CLASSIC

Is This What You Want? Jackie Lomax Manufacturer: Apple ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music All Apple | Apple | Computers Brands | Computers Features | Electronics ASIN: B0009EVI8K Release Date: 2005-07-04

Tracks:

1. Speak to Me
2. Is This What You Want?
3. How Can You Say Goodbye
4. Sunset
5. Sour Milk Sea
6. Fall Inside Your Eyes
7. Little Yellow Pills
8. Take My Word
9. Eagle Laughs at You
10. Baby You're a Lover
11. You've Got Me Thinking
12. I Just Don't Know
13. New Day [*]
14. Won't You Come Back [#][*]
15. Going Back to Liverpool [#][*]
16. Thumbin' a Ride [*]
17. How the Web Was Woven [*]

Album Description

Japanese only Paper Sleeve pressing will feature five bonus tracks. This is one of seven in the Apple Paper Sleeves campaign issued through EMI. 2005.

Album Details

24bit Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork. Includes Lyrics in Both English and Japanese. The Album was Produced by Beatle George Harrison, who also Contributed the Song "Sour Milk Sea".

Customer Reviews:

5 STAR CLASSIC.......2006-05-14

What you get here is an album by a budding mega star that never connects with the masses. A true mystery of pop music. George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton all appear here and each and every cut is a standout. This is a 2005 re-release with a cardboard Lp style jacket. Include lyric sheet and bio (bio in Japanese). It is not a new remaster however, but is a great addition to the collection as it has a number of bonus tracks not on the original album. Also available in standard jewel box as a US release. Thankfully Jackie's albums are now on Cd. It's been a long wait for those of us who have been wearing out vinyl all these years.

Average customer rating: Negro Spirituals from a Soprano, Jeanette Thompson

Negro Spirituals Manufacturer: Pavane ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Give Me Jesus | Spirituals by Barbara Hendricks and The Moses Hogan Singers Wade In The Water, Vol.1:African American Spirituals:The Concert Tradition Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit: Spirituals Great American Spirituals, Vol. 9 Go Down, Moses ASIN: B000001MRX Release Date: 1994-04-20

Tracks:

1. I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
2. My Lord, What A Mornin'
3. I Wanna Be Ready
4. There Is A Balm
5. Ain'a That Good News
6. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
7. This Little Light Of Mine
8. Sweet Little Jesus Boy
9. Every Time I Feel The Spirit
10. City Called Heaven
11. Were You There
12. Didn't My lord Deliver Daniel
13. Hold On
14. Done Made My Vouw
15. Take My Life And Let It Be
16. Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley
17. Nobody Knows
18. Oh Freedom Sometime I Feel A Motherless Child
19. Oh Freedom I Want To Be Ready
20. Kumbaya

Customer Reviews:

Negro Spirituals from a Soprano, Jeanette Thompson.......2006-02-09

I realy enjoyed this cd. It kinda took me back in the day. Although, I wasnt born during the time of the Negro Spirtituals, my spirit naturally gravitates to the calls of my ancestors. Jeanette Thompson brings a strong energy to the songs on the cd. If you like the Negro Spirituals from back in the day, you will enjoy this cd. If you like the sound of a Soprano, that will be a bonus. Sit back, relax and let your Soul remind you of just how far we have come, since the enslavement of a Afrikan people. Our Faith Is Unshakeable!!!We Are Here To Stay!!

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