Soiled Life

1. Black Cactus Choir

2. Death Knell For Paper Children

3. Hot Siberian Heart

4. Fuck This Nest

5. Accelerator

6. Soiled Doves

7. Hunter Gatherer - The Saga Continues

8. Soiled Life

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
2003 album from Seattle's Soiled Doves on the GSL label features 8 tracks.

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Soiled Life

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What do I know?
Phantom, YO!
The shoot
good stuff
Indie music that makes you dance!

Soiled Life
Soiled Doves
Manufacturer: Gold Standard Labora
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000D96K2
Release Date: 2003-10-28

Tracks:

Black Cactus Choir
Death Knell For Paper Children
Hot Siberian Heart
Fuck This Nest
Accelerator
Soiled Doves
Hunter Gatherer - The Saga Continues
Soiled Life

Album Description

2003 album from Seattle's Soiled Doves on the GSL label features 8 tracks.

Customer Reviews:

What do I know?.......2006-01-28

1.) Crimes
2.) Neon Blonde
3.) The Vogue
4.) Burn Piano Island Burn
5.) Soiled Doves

But in no way do I mean to imply that you should avoid this--by all means do not miss out. Here Johnny is doing the screams and howls that seem more absent from The Vogue, but yeah--these guitars are all kind of twangy here like the Blood Brothers on some bad pills. It works though once you hear Johnny Whitney's work in order. Now I guess it's time I go back and get the first two Blood Brothers. It's over--I'm a J. Whitney completist now. This is the music me and my wife listen to on our hoot rides home from the mexican restaurant. We saw Blood Brothers in concert too and I must say that it was the ONLY concert I ever went to sober that could compete with seeing Prince at The Pyramid in Memphis on acid. That's really saying something people!!! I hope Johnny keeps making this kind of racket for as long as he lives. he's the most unique vocalist of all time and I can only imagine what the future holds. Crimes is like a Picasso painting!!!!!

Phantom, YO!.......2005-01-19

Better than The Chromatics but not as good as The Blood Brothers. If that doesn't help, think of Blood Brothers adapting their music so it would be more suitable in a Jazz club. Either way it's a pretty good album and worth a listen. Johnny's voice is as good as ever and really gets focal point with the mostly laid back instrumentals. *BONG!

The shoot.......2004-12-20

hey i also bought this cd because im a big fan of the blood brothers. i gave this cd 5 stars because it has great sounding vocals, and it incorporates jazz with the blood brothers sound. and if you get this cd i guarantee that you will love crimes by the blood brothers.

good stuff.......2004-06-23

I bought this album as a big fan of The Blood Brothers. I was worried at first that it would be some terrible knock off sounding cd, but I was wrong. Though it lacks the amazing fast paced drumming and powerful bass riffs of Burn Piano Island Burn, it definately has a flavor of its own. Instead it contains unique guitar riffs that just fit awesomely as well as the occasional vocal distortion. You still get that classic Blood brothers high pitched screetch with little less screaming which makes it easier to focus on the great music. All and all I think it is a good purchase and I enjoy the cd more each time I listen to it.

Indie music that makes you dance!.......2004-03-14

I must admit it: it took me 3ish times to like this album. But once I did... I was sooo hooked. A very unique and fun album, I love every song on this album. I cant find a best song on this but some stand outs were Hunter Gatherer: The Saga Continues and Soiled Doves (I can spend a whole day chanting "Yeah! Yeah! Nanananana..."). Too bad they're done for because the world can use such great and unique bands.

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An AntiWar Masterpiece
Visceral power & beauty coupled with stunning performances!!
One of the best and most easily grasped of modern operas

Tippett: King Priam

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000AXV
Release Date: 1995-11-14

Tracks:

King Priam: Prelude
King Priam: Hecuba: What Is It, Nurse?
King Priam: Priam: Old Man Of Troy, You're Welcome
King Priam: Hecuba: Then Am I No Longer Mother To This Child
King Priam: Priam: A Father And A King
King Priam: Priam: The Queen Is Right
King Priam: First Interlude - Nurse, Old Man: Thus Shall A Story Begin
King Priam: 1st Huntsman: The Bull Is Away Over There
King Priam: Paris: They Have Taken My Bull
King Priam: Hector: Father, He's A Shepherd Boy
King Priam: Priam: So I'd Hoped It Might Be
King Priam: Second Interlude - Nurse, Young Guard, Old Man: Ah, But Life, Life Is A Bitter Charade
King Priam: Helen, Paris: Ah, Ah ...
King Priam: Hermes: Divine Go-between, That's Who I Am
King Priam: Paris: Lady Athene, If I Honor You ...
King Priam: Paris: Lady Hera, If I Honor You ...
King Priam: Paris: Aphrodite, If I Honor You ...
King Priam: Hector: So You've Given Up Fighting!
King Priam: Priam: So Trojans Honor Menelaus ...
King Priam: First Interlude - Old Man: Hermes, Hermes, With The Winged Feet Come Quick!
King Priam: Achilles: O Rich-soiled Land
King Priam: Achilles: Why Are You Weeping, Patroclus?
King Priam: Second Interlude - Old Man: O, O, What A Threat To Troy
King Priam: Hermes: A Hero In Achilles Armour ...
King Priam: Hector: All Trojans, All Fought Bravely

Tracks:

King Priam: Serving Woman: Lady Andromache, Should We Not Light The Fire?
King Priam: Hecuba: Daughter Andromache, You Must Go Out ...
King Priam: Andromache: Did You Hear?
King Priam: Helen: Let Her Rave
King Priam: Hecuba: O That My Ears Should Hear Impiety So Gross!
King Priam: Andromache: Now You Shall Go
King Priam: First Interlude - Serving Women: No ... No ... No ... We Have It From The Runner
King Priam: Priam: What Is Happening?
King Priam: Young Guard: A Crime
King Priam: Nurse: The Soul Will Answer From Where The Pain Is Quickest
King Priam: Second Interlude
King Priam: Achilles: Priam! Here! What Is This?
King Priam: Priam: I Clasp Your Knees, Achilles
King Priam: Achilles: Old Man, I Am Touched
King Priam: Third Interlude -
King Priam: Paris: Where Is My Father, Where Is Priam?
King Priam: Chorus: Ah, Ah! Ah, Ah!
King Priam: Chorus: Ah, Ha, Ha, Ha
King Priam: Chorus: Ah, Ah!

Customer Reviews:

An AntiWar Masterpiece.......2002-08-26

Tippett and Britten were composers who, though very different in temperment and style, had many interests in common. One of the overiding concerns with both composers was the moral response to war and it's horrors. For Britten, the War Requiem and Owen Wingrave are his very clear moral response to war. Tippet, in his fashion is much more psychological in this work, which must rank as one of Tippett's best and most powerful operatic statements.

King Priam is a dramatic tour de force. Based on the Illiad as seen through the eyes of the Trojans, the work is a meditation on the inevitability of fate in mass movements like war. Priam, though illdisposed to the war, is unable to stop or control it as it takes both of his sons, his kingdom and then finally his own life. He emerges as a figure of moral power and grandeur, but ultimately as impotent and tragic. This libretto is one of Tippett's best and most clear statements.

Musically, Priam is a powerhouse, inaugurating Tippett's second major style. Priam is constructed in a mosaic style. Small chamber groups of instruments with defined musical content are assigned to characters. As the work develops, these small groups combine and recombine in a shifting maze of patterns that seems to endlessly reinvent itself. The music starts out as largely tonal, but the tonality breaks down as Fate takes over and dooms the Trojans. The work is never serial, but it takes an almost Bergian view of tonality, sometimes more and sometimes less tonal as the dramatic situation warrants. The vocal lines are mostly declaimed, but with moments of lyricism that are unfogettable, such as Priam's first aria, A Father and a King, or the beautiful scene between Priam and Achilles in the third act. And Achilles war cry at the end of act two is bone chilling!

This is a great performance of this piece. Many of the singers originated the roles and sing them with power and authority. Phillip Langridge is terrific as Paris. Robert Tear is a marvelous Achilles. David Aetherton conducts this difficult score with precision and a fine ear for balances.

This is a profound opera by a major 20th century composer. If you like Britten, you should own this as well. It is increasingly looking like Tippett's masterpiece.

Visceral power & beauty coupled with stunning performances!!.......2001-06-13

I bought this on a whim, having heard only the slightest bit of Tippett's orchestral music and none of his operas. I expected the music to be "difficult," and the performances stilted, but I was oh so wrong! Yes, this is definitely late 20th century music -- often dissonant and atonal, but it is utterly beautiful, emotionally moving music. I'm a huge fan of Britten's operas, and judge all modern opera composers by his standards, and (pardon my gushing) Sir Michael is more than up to the challenge. First of all, he takes on the daunting task of adapting the Iliad into a opera libretto and manages to compress the drama beautifully into 3 acts that tell the story imaginatively, comprehensively and in a wholly theatrical manner. Second, he uses the music to heighten the sense of character by giving each persona a unique style of vocal line and orchestration (yes, this is what all composers do, or try to do, but Tippett succeeds in a way few others do). Several of the characters are accompanied by solo instruments (bravura parts of concerto-like difficulty performed brilliantly) -- Achilles by solo guitar, Helen by solo cello, King Priam by violin, etc. Three characters form a sort of Greek chorus who comment on the action and bring a sense of questioning morality to the whole.

All of the solo singers are astutely cast and sing with amazing power. Standouts (difficult to single out any of them, they're all so brilliant): Phillip Langridge is first-rate as Paris, Priam's second son -- he sings with enormous power and pathos at the same time. Felicity Palmer is velvety sex personified as Helen. Norman Bailey as Priam has a raw edginess to his sound, which lends such a sense of reality to a man pushed to the edge by fate and his warring sons. The London Philharmonia gives a virtuoso performance, led sensitively and intelligently by David Atherton. The digital sound is crystal clear and beautifully engineered: the sound couldn't be better live at the Met! Take a chance on this one, and enter into an operatic world you will never forget.

One of the best and most easily grasped of modern operas.......1999-02-27

Contemporary opera was never the same after King Priam, a suitable irony given that the Opera is perhaps the most easily grasped by the listening public of the 5 Tippett Operas. Even so, the "crisis of King Prian" stylistically and emotionally is the germ-seed for the eccentrism yet to come in "The Knot Garden", "The Ice Break", and "New Year". Tippett's theme is the futility of choice and the nature of the impact of choice on humanity in the micro-sphere of the individual and the macro-sphere of the community and history. Tippett's unusual yet perfectly conceived recasting of the Iliad from the Trojan persepctive does more than summarize plot, but pauses to comment on the universal human potential implicit therein. A must-buy for Tippett fans and for anyone who likes opera, Greek Mythology, classical music, or a good story.

--Justin Laird Weaver

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Manufacturer: Halo Productions
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CA9U5E
Release Date: 2002-08-06