| 1. When I'm Gone |
| 2. Bright Side |
| 3. Me |
| 4. Today And Everyday |
| 5. Can you Drive |
| 6. Scotch Love |
| 7. Lazy Things |
| 8. You and Your Friends |
| 9. Jumpy |
| 10. Superider |
| 11. Celebrate Summer |
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Wendy Case is blessed with a gravelly, in-your-face voice of the sort we last heard emanating from Janis Joplin
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No doubt about it, life is hard. Fortunately, some things are better when they’re hard. For Detroit rock ‘n’ roll outfit, The Paybacks, it’s best when its "Harder and Harder." It’s with that philosophy that Detroit’s defenders of the rock return with "Harder and Harder," their second album for Get Hip Records. Brimming with the pummeling riff rock, buoyant, revealing pop and three chord punk pounders that defined the band on its much-heralded Get Hip debut, "Knock Loud," "Harder and Harder" is testament that cutting your own path through the mediocrity of fad, fashion, creeping hipsterism and music industry brainwashing is its own reward.
Harder and Harder
As Matthew Blissmer said in his review, this is a GREAT CD to put on for friends that don't want to hear the (often excessively) long versions of each of the songs. I always ran into that problem... I loved the songs but they had awkward lead-in and lead-outs. In "Why Try Harder?", ALL the songs are beautifully edited, starting and stopping at exactly perfect times for the full effect of the song. No minute-long lead-out for "Going Out of My Head", and "Brimful of Asha" (one of my favorites) is cut perfectly down to size from the 7:30 full cut.
I can put this in a CD player and hit Shuffle and not be nervous about hitting an embarrassing song. They're all great.
If you're new to Fatboy Slim, or you've been following him for years, it doesn't matter, this is your CD. Clean up all those illegally-downloaded albums and mixes you were too hesitant to purchase, because this has it all in one neatly packaged, easily-purchasable CD! Time to pay your respects to the totally awesome Norman Cook in this totally awesome collection. Why look harder?
Favorite tracks (but I like them all)
1. Many Rivers To Cross
2. Rivers of Babylon
3. Pressure Drop
4. You Can Get It If You Really Want It
5. Sitting In Limbo
But though Camera Obscura reminds one of Belle and Sebastian, the resemblence never, ever gets in the way of the music. Both bands generate a feeling of joy and delight when I listen to them.
The only complaint I have with UNDERACHIEVERS PLEASE TRY HARDER is that they have packed their very best songs at the beginning of the album. My two favorite songs on the disc are the fine "Suspended from Class" and the even finer (and very, very Belle and Sebastianesque) "Keep It Clean." My next favorite song, however, might be "A Sister's Social Agony." Mind you, the rest of the album never truly disappoints, but it seems a bit of a downer to kick things off with such great songs and then never quite get back up to that level. Of course, this might just be me. Another fan might enjoy later cuts more. But I'm in love with "Keep It Clean." It currently is in my Top 25 Most Played list on my iPod. I love everything about the song, its casual, melodic guitar work, the delicate electric piano, and most of all Tracyanne Campbell's relaxed, almost flippant singing. I delight in the way she is so patient with the words that she sometimes seems to finish a line merely as an afterthought. It is one of those songs that I sometimes will play if I'm having a tough day. It never failed to lighten my mood and make me just a little bit happier than I was.
One thing that excites me about Camera Obscura is that they apparently are improving with each album. I very much enjoyed their first album, BIGGEST, BLUEST HI-FI, but this album was a definite improvement over that. And their most recent album, LET'S GET OUT OF THIS COUNTRY (the best song off that one, the stunning "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken," has achieved some success as a single), is even better. It was better, in fact, than Belle and Sebastian's own 2006 release, THE LIFE PURSUIT. So who knows, perhaps the best is yet to come.
Anyway, there are few, if any, synths -- the warm recording and instrumentation are all they need to make their music work. The girl/boy vocals are each unlike anything sung in at least 20 years and together just make me want to melt.
Also, fans of Saturday Looks Good to Me will enjoy, but I must warn you -- this album never really rocks out. It keeps a cool melodic additude throughout. Lunar Sea is bliss.
Their best work was "Live at the El Macombo" where they opened up for the stones, sadly that album seems to be unavailable.
If you like this genre and are looking for more off the wall bands in the same vein try Fastway as well.
Fastway
That's the only way to describe it. It was just one record before the Nature Of The Beast release that brought them world wide recognition, however Harder Faster was the one that really got the ball rolling as it is indeed a very good release from a very good band.
Hip-O's 2-CD deluxe reissue couldn't really double the magic of the album's original dozen tracks, but the eighteen additions do help flesh out reggae's 1968-72 period. Highlights include Desmond Dekkar's anthemic "Israelites," Johnny Nash's pop-crossover "I Can See Clearly Now" (as well as his take of Bob Marley's "Guava Jelly"), the Maytals' biographical "54-46 (That's My Number)" (as well as their catchy sing-along "Pomp & Pride"), The Melodians soulful "Sweet Sensastion," and Jimmy Cliff's alternate take, "The Bigger They Come The Harder They Fall."
The packaging includes song lyrics, notes from director Perry Henzell and producer Chris Blackwell, and liners from reggae writer David Katz. The sound quality is sharp throughout. The deluxe edition is a bit pricey as an introduction (especially considering the nice-pricing of the original single disc), but worthwhile for anyone who's loved the original vinyl to death. [©2006 redtunictroll at hotmail dot com]
The thing that I like about the movie was the music they have and how Jamaica is.-- Christina---
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The original soundtrack featured featured five songs by Jimmy Cliff from the film in which he played the lead role along with other songs by Toots & the Maytals, Desmond Dekker, the Melodians, and Scotty with songs like "Pressure Drop," "007 (Shanty Town)," "Rivers of Babylon," and "Draw Your Breaks". The soundtrack showed reggae at its finest from 1967-1972.
The deluxe edition offers plenty of bonus material from many of the same artists on the original soundtrack and other artists as well, such as Eric Donaldson, Johnny Nash, Dave & Ansel Collins, and the Ethiopians. "The Harder They Come" set the stage for reggae in America, so if you want to find out where it all began, purchase the deluxe edition of "The Harder They Come," a crucial addition to any reggae collection.
Favorite tracks (but I like them all)
1. Many Rivers To Cross
2. Rivers of Babylon
3. Pressure Drop
4. You Can Get It If You Really Want It
5. Sitting In Limbo
When I got home, I found the new Paybacks album had landed in my mailbox.
There really is a God...
Here's where I usually get in trouble. Wendy Case has whatever the female equivalent of testicular fortitude is, the former "Detroit News" entertainment scribe packing it all in for a chance to grab the brass ring or at the very least, a cathartic opportunity to plug in, turn up, breathe stale cigarette smoke, stew in her own sweat, and sleep in her clothes.
2002's "Knock Loud" was nothing short of a cocksure roar of satisfaction, seething with ire and vitriol and smelling faintly of the barmaid's apron, Case attempting to splatter her larynx against all four studio walls and drummer Mike Latulippe, bassist John Szymanski, and guitarist Marco Delicato firing on all fours. It's one helluva beautiful wreck and in "Just You Wait," "Hollywood," "If I Fell," and "Don't Lay It On Me," contains four songs which easily stand up to anything to come out of D-town (or Hamtramck - basically the beating rock and roll heart in Detroit - for that matter) since The Mutants, The Torpedos, Elvis Hitler, and See Dick Run roamed the earth.
Although two years on this dismal rock have come and gone since the release of "Knock Loud," the band hasn't lost a step despite the amicable exit of Delicato. Danny Methric (ex-Muggs and Kingsnakes) has stepped in seamlessly on lead and as a result, "Harder And Harder" is hotter than a Death Valley barbecue, an avalanche of great songs delivered with blunt simplicity and tattooed with the breathless, God-given rasp of Case.
Unfortunately for Case, dogged comparisons to Chrissie Hynde, Janis Joplin, and, in some quarters, Slade's Noddy Holder, seem to be her cross to bear but it's probably safe to say none of them have ever purged their soul as Case does on "Today And Everyday," Methric's chicken-peck intro setting up a confession booth-worthy outpouring ("I just want the same things that you do/Somebody to hold me, someone I can hold on to") that had this hack reaching for both an air guitar to flail and a beer to cry into. That's the sound of my youth disappearing. Although over much too soon at 1:45, this is where the planets magically align for The Paybacks.
Latulippe and Szymanski grab the stop-and-start "Me" by the scruff of the neck and make it swing, Case with THAT VOICE , grunting like she's clearing an obstructed bowel before Methric, waiting patiently, chimes in on the breaks with malicious intent, a loose cannon loaded with equal parts Steve Jones, Ace Frehley, and Johnny Thunders. With all apologies to Strummer and Jones, he's my guitar hero.
"When I'm Gone," "Bright Side,"and "Scotch Love" are all red meat and arteries bursting wide open and grey matter boiling in flame, Case in the driver's seat and makin' love with the lights on along the way, perplexed about the stupefying powers of alcohol but never trying to answer the questions of the universe. "Lazy Things" cribs the stomping, chest-baring riff from The Cult's "Wildflower" (via Angus and Malcolm Young), turns it upside down and gives it a good swift kick in the cajones and when Case tells you you're going skinny dipping in the creek, you'd better get ready to drop trou.
Although "Harder And Harder's" production (by the band with help from John Smerek) is bone, gristle, and popping veins held together with sinew and hits harder than a Jack White sucker punch, it's Case's willingness to wear her heart on her sleeve, as well as various parts of her anatomy, and the band's single-minded devotion to beating their instruments to a bloody pulp that make it shake and shimmy. And let's face it, ending on an up note - a ragged, boisterous cover of Marc Bolan's "Celebrate Summer," featuring a gloriously punchdrunk solo from Methric - doesn't hurt either.
Despite critical plaudits (some would argue hype) flying the way of Detroit's much ballyhooed "garage rock scene" (quotes are mine) over the past few years, it's taken The Paybacks to finally give it some street cred, firmly planting their flag up its arse and in turn delivering the first great album to come out of this ham-and-egg, shot-and-a-beer burg this millennium.
Let this be the soundtrack to your life before some major beer company snaps 'em up for an ad campaign.
See them live if you get the chance too.
Wendy Case is blessed with a gravelly, in-your-face voice of the sort we last heard emanating from Janis Joplin
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No doubt about it, life is hard. Fortunately, some things are better when they’re hard. For Detroit rock ‘n’ roll outfit, The Paybacks, it’s best when its "Harder and Harder." It’s with that philosophy that Detroit’s defenders of the rock return with "Harder and Harder," their second album for Get Hip Records. Brimming with the pummeling riff rock, buoyant, revealing pop and three chord punk pounders that defined the band on its much-heralded Get Hip debut, "Knock Loud," "Harder and Harder" is testament that cutting your own path through the mediocrity of fad, fashion, creeping hipsterism and music industry brainwashing is its own reward.
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The Greatest Hits: Why Try Harder
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ASIN: B000FC2GBE Release Date: 2006-06-20 |
Tracks:
- Rockafeller Skank
- Praise You
- Brimful of Asha - Cornershop (Norman Cook remix)
- Weapon of Choice
- Gangster Trippin'
- I See You Baby - Groove Armada (Fatboy Slim Remix)
- Wonderful Night
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- Going Out Of My Head
- Sunset (Bird of Prey)
- Everybody Loves a Carnival
- Don't Let The Man Get You Down
- Demons
- Sho Nuff
- Slash Dot Dash
- Santa Cruz
- Champion Sound
- That Old Pair of Jeans
Album Description
The Greatest Hits: Why Try Harder brings together all the songs that made Fatboy Slim the biggest dance artist and DJ on the planet. This collection includes two brand new tracks "That Old Pair of Jeans" featuring vocalist Lateef of Blackalicious, and "Champion Sound," plus Fatboy Slim's two biggest selling remixes, Cornershop's "Brimful of Asha" and Groove Armada's "I See You Baby." The CD has every essential Fatboy Slim hit, featuring vocal contributions from Macy Gray, Bootsy Collins, Jim Morrison, Yvonne Elliman, and Five Man Electrical Band.Also available on July 18, 2006: "The Greatest Hits: Why Make Videos" DVD with all of Fatboy's genre defining and hilarious award winning videos.
Customer Reviews:
Great Best Of.......2007-03-13
Who IS Fatboy Slim?.......2007-01-12
Spectacular.......2006-11-29
Addictive.......2006-09-29
Why look harder?.......2006-09-14
As Matthew Blissmer said in his review, this is a GREAT CD to put on for friends that don't want to hear the (often excessively) long versions of each of the songs. I always ran into that problem... I loved the songs but they had awkward lead-in and lead-outs. In "Why Try Harder?", ALL the songs are beautifully edited, starting and stopping at exactly perfect times for the full effect of the song. No minute-long lead-out for "Going Out of My Head", and "Brimful of Asha" (one of my favorites) is cut perfectly down to size from the 7:30 full cut.
I can put this in a CD player and hit Shuffle and not be nervous about hitting an embarrassing song. They're all great.
If you're new to Fatboy Slim, or you've been following him for years, it doesn't matter, this is your CD. Clean up all those illegally-downloaded albums and mixes you were too hesitant to purchase, because this has it all in one neatly packaged, easily-purchasable CD! Time to pay your respects to the totally awesome Norman Cook in this totally awesome collection. Why look harder?
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The Harder They Come
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ASIN: B00005LZWR Release Date: 2001-06-26 |
Tracks:
- You Can Get It If You Really Want
- Draw Your Breaks - Scotty
- Rivers Of Babylon - The Melodians
- Many Rivers To Cross
- Sweet And Dandy - The Maytals
- The Harder They Come
- Johnny Too Bad - The Slickers
- 007 (Shanty Town) - Desmond Dekker
- Pressure Drop - The Maytals
- Sitting In Limbo
- You Can Get It If You Really Want
- The Harder They Come
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Jamaican filmmaker Perry Henzell made reggae an integral player in his gritty 1973 saga of a renegade Kingston singer who becomes a modern Robin Hood, casting one of the style's earliest stars, Jimmy Cliff, in the lead, and filling this soundtrack--here presented in a remastered version--with classics from Toots & the Maytals ("Pressure Drop," "Sweet and Dandy"), Desmond Dekker ("Shanty Town"), the Melodians ("Rivers of Babylon"), and the Slickers ("Johnny Too Bad"). Cliff himself gets pole position, however, getting in the first ("You Can Get It If You Really Want") and last ("The Harder They Come") words in this first-rate reggae primer, which also features Cliff's enduring "Many Rivers to Cross." --Sam SutherlandCustomer Reviews:
Essential Reggae.......2007-06-02
Favorite tracks (but I like them all)
1. Many Rivers To Cross
2. Rivers of Babylon
3. Pressure Drop
4. You Can Get It If You Really Want It
5. Sitting In Limbo
remastered excellence.......2007-04-04
The best from Jamaica...and Alabama.......2007-03-17
one of my favorite albums of all-time........2007-02-13
Not as reggae as I wanted.......2007-01-16
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Underachievers Please Try Harder
Camera Obscura Manufacturer: Merge Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B00015HVWO Release Date: 2004-01-20 |
Tracks:
- Suspended from Class
- Keep It Clean
- A Sisters Social Agony
- Teenager
- Before You Cry
- Your Picture
- Number One Son
- Let Me Go Home
- Books Written for Girls
- Knee Deep at the NPL
- Lunar Sea
- I Don't Want to See You
- Footloose and Fancy Free
- Teenager (Mpeg Video)
Album Description
Full Title - Underachievers Please Try Harder. Camera Obscura create lilting, sophisticated melodies that draw similarities to the work of contemporaries such as Belle & Sebastian, The Clientele or Trembling Blue Stars, but are also rooted in more classic sounds such as Nick Drake, Donovan or Petula Clark. Songs drift and linger like clouds in a summer sky, with gentle hooks and breezy vocals that stick in your head like a pleasant memory. Features 14 tracks including an Mpeg video of 'Teenager'. Digipak. Merge. 2004.Customer Reviews:
A completely enchanting, delightful album.......2006-09-15
But though Camera Obscura reminds one of Belle and Sebastian, the resemblence never, ever gets in the way of the music. Both bands generate a feeling of joy and delight when I listen to them.
The only complaint I have with UNDERACHIEVERS PLEASE TRY HARDER is that they have packed their very best songs at the beginning of the album. My two favorite songs on the disc are the fine "Suspended from Class" and the even finer (and very, very Belle and Sebastianesque) "Keep It Clean." My next favorite song, however, might be "A Sister's Social Agony." Mind you, the rest of the album never truly disappoints, but it seems a bit of a downer to kick things off with such great songs and then never quite get back up to that level. Of course, this might just be me. Another fan might enjoy later cuts more. But I'm in love with "Keep It Clean." It currently is in my Top 25 Most Played list on my iPod. I love everything about the song, its casual, melodic guitar work, the delicate electric piano, and most of all Tracyanne Campbell's relaxed, almost flippant singing. I delight in the way she is so patient with the words that she sometimes seems to finish a line merely as an afterthought. It is one of those songs that I sometimes will play if I'm having a tough day. It never failed to lighten my mood and make me just a little bit happier than I was.
One thing that excites me about Camera Obscura is that they apparently are improving with each album. I very much enjoyed their first album, BIGGEST, BLUEST HI-FI, but this album was a definite improvement over that. And their most recent album, LET'S GET OUT OF THIS COUNTRY (the best song off that one, the stunning "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken," has achieved some success as a single), is even better. It was better, in fact, than Belle and Sebastian's own 2006 release, THE LIFE PURSUIT. So who knows, perhaps the best is yet to come.
Cool.......2006-07-04
Cute 50's-60's stylings. Melodic -- Wonderful........2006-06-12
Anyway, there are few, if any, synths -- the warm recording and instrumentation are all they need to make their music work. The girl/boy vocals are each unlike anything sung in at least 20 years and together just make me want to melt.
Also, fans of Saturday Looks Good to Me will enjoy, but I must warn you -- this album never really rocks out. It keeps a cool melodic additude throughout. Lunar Sea is bliss.
Whoever wrote the frist review cannot have been listening to the same album .......2006-02-24
get this album. you will find yourself chained to it........2005-10-05
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Harder than the Rest
Culture Manufacturer: Frontline ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B00004U8S4 Release Date: 2000-10-03 |
Tracks:
- Behold
- Holy Mountain Zion
- Stop The Fussing And Fighting
- Iron Sharpening Iron
- Vacancy
- Tell Me Where You Get It
- Free Again
- Work On Natty
- Love Shine Bright
- Play Skilfully
Album Details
Digitally Remastered Reissue of Joseph Hill's First Recorded Work for the Front Line Label, Following their Stupendous Debut 'Two Sevens Clash'. Includes 'Holy Mt. Zion', 'Love Shine Bright' and 'Behold'. a Must for Any Fan of Great Reggae.Customer Reviews:
Carrying on the legacy of Robert Nesta.......2006-04-13
Back To The Roots.......2004-02-14
The greatest reggae ever.......2002-08-20
Oh Behold! the greatest ever!
wow!.......2001-04-02
solid.......2000-12-23
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Harder...Faster
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ASIN: B000008CXS Release Date: 1991-06-25 |
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- I Like To Rock
- Say Hello
- Tonite
- Ladies Man
- Before The Dawn
- Babes In Arms
- Better Do It Well
- 21st Century Schizoid Man
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Rockin 70's unknowns.......2007-06-02
Their best work was "Live at the El Macombo" where they opened up for the stones, sadly that album seems to be unavailable.
If you like this genre and are looking for more off the wall bands in the same vein try Fastway as well.
Fastway
April Wine's best.......2007-04-28
!980 release still shines. This thing ROCK'S!.......2007-04-01
Drunk on April Wine.......2006-11-10
Two Words!!.......2006-08-10
That's the only way to describe it. It was just one record before the Nature Of The Beast release that brought them world wide recognition, however Harder Faster was the one that really got the ball rolling as it is indeed a very good release from a very good band.
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Harder They Come (Deluxe Edition)
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ASIN: B0000AKY4I Release Date: 2003-08-05 |
Tracks:
- You Can Get It If You Really Want - Jimmy Cliff
- Draw Your Brakes - Scotty
- Rivers Of Babylon - The Melodians
- Too Many Rivers To Cross - Jimmy Cliff
- Sweet And Dandy - The Maytals
- The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff
- Johnny Too Bad - The Slickers
- 007 (Shanty Town) - Desmond Dekker
- Pressure Drop - The Maytals
- Sitting In Limbo - Jimmy Cliff
- You Can Get It If You Really Want - Jimmy Cliff
- The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff
Tracks:
- Israelites - Desmond Dekker & The Aces
- My Conversation - The Uniques
- Do The Reggay - The Maytals
- Viet Nam - Jimmy Cliff
- I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
- Reggae Hit The Town - The Ethiopians
- Double Barrel - Dave & Ansel Collins
- It Mek - Desmond Dekker & The Aces
- Sweet Sensation - The Melodians
- Let Your Yeah Be Yeah - Jimmy Cliff
- Cherry Oh Baby - Eric Donaldson
- Monkey Spanner - Dave & Ansel Collins
- 54-46 (Thats My Number) - The Maytals
- It's My Delight - The Melodians
- Wonderful World, Beautiful People - Jimmy Cliff
- Pomp & Pride - The Maytals
- Guava Jelly - Johnny Nash
- The Bigger They Come The Harder They Fall - Jimmy Cliff
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Jamaican filmmaker Perry Henzell made reggae an integral player in his gritty 1973 saga of a renegade Kingston singer who becomes a modern Robin Hood, casting one of the style's earliest stars, Jimmy Cliff, in the lead, and filling this soundtrack--here presented in a remastered version--with classics from Toots & the Maytals ("Pressure Drop," "Sweet and Dandy"), Desmond Dekker ("Shanty Town"), the Melodians ("Rivers of Babylon"), and the Slickers ("Johnny Too Bad"). Cliff himself gets pole position, however, getting in the first ("You Can Get It If You Really Want") and last ("The Harder They Come") words in this first-rate reggae primer, which also features Cliff's enduring "Many Rivers to Cross." --Sam SutherlandCustomer Reviews:
the original album is one of my all-time favorites........2007-03-24
Great Album, but not twice as good as the original.......2006-10-04
Double the reggae essentialness.......2006-03-04
Hip-O's 2-CD deluxe reissue couldn't really double the magic of the album's original dozen tracks, but the eighteen additions do help flesh out reggae's 1968-72 period. Highlights include Desmond Dekkar's anthemic "Israelites," Johnny Nash's pop-crossover "I Can See Clearly Now" (as well as his take of Bob Marley's "Guava Jelly"), the Maytals' biographical "54-46 (That's My Number)" (as well as their catchy sing-along "Pomp & Pride"), The Melodians soulful "Sweet Sensastion," and Jimmy Cliff's alternate take, "The Bigger They Come The Harder They Fall."
The packaging includes song lyrics, notes from director Perry Henzell and producer Chris Blackwell, and liners from reggae writer David Katz. The sound quality is sharp throughout. The deluxe edition is a bit pricey as an introduction (especially considering the nice-pricing of the original single disc), but worthwhile for anyone who's loved the original vinyl to death. [©2006 redtunictroll at hotmail dot com]
How jamaica is .......2005-02-08
The thing that I like about the movie was the music they have and how Jamaica is.-- Christina---
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The First Album to Set the Stage For Reggae.......2004-12-01
The original soundtrack featured featured five songs by Jimmy Cliff from the film in which he played the lead role along with other songs by Toots & the Maytals, Desmond Dekker, the Melodians, and Scotty with songs like "Pressure Drop," "007 (Shanty Town)," "Rivers of Babylon," and "Draw Your Breaks". The soundtrack showed reggae at its finest from 1967-1972.
The deluxe edition offers plenty of bonus material from many of the same artists on the original soundtrack and other artists as well, such as Eric Donaldson, Johnny Nash, Dave & Ansel Collins, and the Ethiopians. "The Harder They Come" set the stage for reggae in America, so if you want to find out where it all began, purchase the deluxe edition of "The Harder They Come," a crucial addition to any reggae collection.
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First Glance/Harder...Faster
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ASIN: B000QXDE68 Release Date: 2007-07-23 |
Tracks:
- Get Ready for Love
- Hot on the Wheels of Love
- Rock N' Roll Is a Vicious Game
- Right Down to It
- Roller
- Comin' Right Down on Top of Me
- I'm Alive
- Let Yourself Go
- Silver Dollar
- I Like to Rock
- Say Hello
- Tonite
- Ladies Man
- Before the Dawn
- Babes in Arms
- Better Do It Well
- 21st Century Schizoid Man
Album Description
Digitally remastered two-fer from the Canadian rockers featuring their first two albums for Capitol. Their reputation had been made with several albums for the independent Canadian label Aquarius, but the change of labels was the beginning of an international career First Glance was originally released in 1979 followed on year later by Harder...Faster. BGO. 2007.Album Details
2007 Digitally Remastered Edition of the First Two Capitol Albums from Canadian Rockers April Wine Combined on to a Single CD. Their Reputation Had Been Made with Several Albums for the Independent Canadian Label Aquarius, but a Change of Labels Marked the Beginning of an International Career. Includes Newly Penned Sleeve Notes.
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The Harder They Come (1973 Film)
Jimmy Cliff Manufacturer: Mango ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Jamaica
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ASIN: B000003QGM Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
Tracks:
- You Can Get It If You Really Want
- Draw Your Brakes - Scotty
- Rivers Of Babylon - The Melodions
- Many Rivers To Cross
- Sweet And Dandy - The Maytals
- The Harder Thay Come
- Johnny Too Bad - The Slickers
- Shanty Town - Desmond Dekker
- Pressure Drop - The Maytals
- Sitting In Limbo
- You Can Get It If You Really Want
- The Harder They Come
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Jamaican filmmaker Perry Henzell made reggae an integral player in his gritty 1973 saga of a renegade Kingston singer who becomes a modern Robin Hood, casting one of the style's earliest stars, Jimmy Cliff, in the lead, and filling this soundtrack with classics from Toots & The Maytals ("Pressure Drop," "Sweet and Dandy"), Desmond Dekker ("Shanty Town"), The Melodians ("Rivers of Babylon"), and the Slickers ("Johnny Too Bad"). Cliff himself gets pole position, however, getting in the first ("You Can Get It If You Really Want") and last ("The Harder They Come") words in this first-rate reggae primer, which also features Cliff's enduring "Many Rivers to Cross." --Sam SutherlandCustomer Reviews:
Essential Reggae.......2007-06-02
Favorite tracks (but I like them all)
1. Many Rivers To Cross
2. Rivers of Babylon
3. Pressure Drop
4. You Can Get It If You Really Want It
5. Sitting In Limbo
remastered excellence.......2007-04-04
The best from Jamaica...and Alabama.......2007-03-17
one of my favorite albums of all-time........2007-02-13
Not as reggae as I wanted.......2007-01-16
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Danish Christmas
Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Nielsen
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ASIN: B000035Q7Z Release Date: 2000-07-01 |
Tracks:
- Blomstre Som En Rosengard - Hartmann
- Julen Har Bragt Velsignet Bud - Weyse
- Julebudet Til Dem, Der Bygge - Hartmann
- I Sne Star Urt Og Busk I Skjul - Hartmann
- Kimer, I Klokker - Rung
- Der Er Ingenting I Verden Sa Stille Some Sne - Hamburger
- Det Kimer Nu Til Julefest - Balle
- Gammel Julesong - Lange-Muller
- Velkommen Igen Guds Engle Sma - Weyse
- Barn Jesus I En Krybbe La - Gade
- Her Kommer, Jesus Dine Sma - Schulz
- Mit Hjerte Altid Vanker - Nielsen
- Lovet Vaere Du, Jesus Krist - Danish Folktune
- Vor Jesus Kan Ej Noget Herberg Finde - Weyse
- Nu Vil Vi Sjunge Og Vaere Glad - Laub
- Dejlig Er Den Himmel Bla - Meidell
- Et Lidet Barn Sa Lysteligt - Balle
- I Denne Sode Juletid - Holten
- Sneflokke Kommer Vrimlende - Aagaard
- Nu Kom Der Bud Fra Englekor - Weyse
- Skyerne Grane - Borch
- Lad Det Klinge Sodt I Sky - Anonymous
- Der Er Noget I Luften - Gregersen
- Velkommen Igen Guds Engle Sma - Berggreen
- Imellem Nattens Stjerner - Hamburger
- Nu Ville Vi Os Samle - Zinck
- Det Er Hvidt Herude - Laub
- Spurven Sidder Stumt Bag Kvist - Aagaard
- Juletraeet Med Sin Pynt - Harder
- Sikken Voldsom Traengsel-Nu Er Det Jul Igen - Faber
- Vaer Velkommen, Herrens Ar - Berggreen
Customer Reviews:
A Danish Christmas Choral concert.......2007-02-13
Beautiful and rare!.......2006-12-19
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Harder and Harder
The Paybacks Manufacturer: Get Hip Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B0002CHIYM Release Date: 2004-06-22 |
Tracks:
- When I'm Gone
- Bright Side
- Me
- Today And Everyday
- Can you Drive
- Scotch Love
- Lazy Things
- You and Your Friends
- Jumpy
- Superider
- Celebrate Summer
Album Description
No doubt about it, life is hard. Fortunately, some things are better when they're hard. For Detroit rock `n' roll outfit, The Paybacks, it's best when its "Harder and Harder." It's with that philosophy that Detroit's defenders of the rock return with "Harder and Harder," their second album for Get Hip Records. Brimming with the pummeling riff rock, buoyant, revealing pop and three chord punk pounders that defined the band on its much-heralded Get Hip debut, "Knock Loud," "Harder and Harder" is testament that cutting your own path through the mediocrity of fad, fashion, creeping hipsterism and music industry brainwashing is its own reward.Customer Reviews:
Detroit: Where The Weak Are Killed And Eaten..........2004-10-28
When I got home, I found the new Paybacks album had landed in my mailbox.
There really is a God...
Here's where I usually get in trouble. Wendy Case has whatever the female equivalent of testicular fortitude is, the former "Detroit News" entertainment scribe packing it all in for a chance to grab the brass ring or at the very least, a cathartic opportunity to plug in, turn up, breathe stale cigarette smoke, stew in her own sweat, and sleep in her clothes.
2002's "Knock Loud" was nothing short of a cocksure roar of satisfaction, seething with ire and vitriol and smelling faintly of the barmaid's apron, Case attempting to splatter her larynx against all four studio walls and drummer Mike Latulippe, bassist John Szymanski, and guitarist Marco Delicato firing on all fours. It's one helluva beautiful wreck and in "Just You Wait," "Hollywood," "If I Fell," and "Don't Lay It On Me," contains four songs which easily stand up to anything to come out of D-town (or Hamtramck - basically the beating rock and roll heart in Detroit - for that matter) since The Mutants, The Torpedos, Elvis Hitler, and See Dick Run roamed the earth.
Although two years on this dismal rock have come and gone since the release of "Knock Loud," the band hasn't lost a step despite the amicable exit of Delicato. Danny Methric (ex-Muggs and Kingsnakes) has stepped in seamlessly on lead and as a result, "Harder And Harder" is hotter than a Death Valley barbecue, an avalanche of great songs delivered with blunt simplicity and tattooed with the breathless, God-given rasp of Case.
Unfortunately for Case, dogged comparisons to Chrissie Hynde, Janis Joplin, and, in some quarters, Slade's Noddy Holder, seem to be her cross to bear but it's probably safe to say none of them have ever purged their soul as Case does on "Today And Everyday," Methric's chicken-peck intro setting up a confession booth-worthy outpouring ("I just want the same things that you do/Somebody to hold me, someone I can hold on to") that had this hack reaching for both an air guitar to flail and a beer to cry into. That's the sound of my youth disappearing. Although over much too soon at 1:45, this is where the planets magically align for The Paybacks.
Latulippe and Szymanski grab the stop-and-start "Me" by the scruff of the neck and make it swing, Case with THAT VOICE , grunting like she's clearing an obstructed bowel before Methric, waiting patiently, chimes in on the breaks with malicious intent, a loose cannon loaded with equal parts Steve Jones, Ace Frehley, and Johnny Thunders. With all apologies to Strummer and Jones, he's my guitar hero.
"When I'm Gone," "Bright Side,"and "Scotch Love" are all red meat and arteries bursting wide open and grey matter boiling in flame, Case in the driver's seat and makin' love with the lights on along the way, perplexed about the stupefying powers of alcohol but never trying to answer the questions of the universe. "Lazy Things" cribs the stomping, chest-baring riff from The Cult's "Wildflower" (via Angus and Malcolm Young), turns it upside down and gives it a good swift kick in the cajones and when Case tells you you're going skinny dipping in the creek, you'd better get ready to drop trou.
Although "Harder And Harder's" production (by the band with help from John Smerek) is bone, gristle, and popping veins held together with sinew and hits harder than a Jack White sucker punch, it's Case's willingness to wear her heart on her sleeve, as well as various parts of her anatomy, and the band's single-minded devotion to beating their instruments to a bloody pulp that make it shake and shimmy. And let's face it, ending on an up note - a ragged, boisterous cover of Marc Bolan's "Celebrate Summer," featuring a gloriously punchdrunk solo from Methric - doesn't hurt either.
Despite critical plaudits (some would argue hype) flying the way of Detroit's much ballyhooed "garage rock scene" (quotes are mine) over the past few years, it's taken The Paybacks to finally give it some street cred, firmly planting their flag up its arse and in turn delivering the first great album to come out of this ham-and-egg, shot-and-a-beer burg this millennium.
Let this be the soundtrack to your life before some major beer company snaps 'em up for an ad campaign.
Follow up albumn is as solid as the first.......2004-09-25
See them live if you get the chance too.
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