Jokers & Wildcards

Jokers & Wildcards

ASIN: B000008NNQ

Track Listings

1. Chicken in Black - Johnny Cash

2. Don't Squeeze My Sharmon - Charlie Walker

3. Ten Little Bottles - Johnny Bond

4. I Never See Maggie Alone - Kenny Roberts

5. Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back - Billy Edd Wheeler

6. White Knight - Cledus Maggard

7. Front Row Seat to Hear Ole Johnny Sign - Shel Silverstein

8. I'm a Nut - Leroy Pullins

9. Big Bruce - The Country Gentlemen

10. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes - Bob Atcher

11. I'm My Own Grandpaw - Lonzo & Oscar

12. All over Again, Again

Tracks:

Fever Beats
Saviours and All
Holding Your Hand
This Girl is Taking Bets
Take Me Home
Apparition No. 12
St. Luke's Summer
The Things We Never Said
Seen It All Before
Benzedrine
Movie Kisses
Keep Up
Saying Nothing
Inverigo

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Rules for Jokers is the third CD from Thea Gilmore, a British singer-songwriter who is equally at home with delicate acoustic ballads and stinging, electric-guitar-driven songs. Gilmore's lyrics are full of dense, poetic imagery, and she delivers them with an urgency that wouldn't be out of place in a punk band. Even when she sings a melodically gentle song like "Holding Your Hand" or "Take Me Home," with its suggestively swaying rhythm, her fierceness is never far from the surface. And when she lets loose and cranks up the volume on "Fever Beats" and "This Girl Is Taking Bets," the words flow from her with a bitter wit that recalls Elvis Costello in his younger, angrier days. Thea Gilmore wrote and recorded these songs when she was only 21 years old. If she sounds this good now, how much better will she be when she's had a chance to see more of the world? --Michael Simmons

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I've been waiting for this..........2003-02-08

...for a long time. Thea Gilmore's US debut is wonderful. If you like folk music with a twist (like Ani Difranco), this CD is for you. She's similar to Ani, but not the same. She has many differences but she is still awsome. I particularly liked Saviours and All, This Girl is Taking Bets, Holding your Hand, and Movie Kisses. This record is great, pick it up.

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TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT
A Masterwork
UNMISTAKABLE VOICE THAT BLOWS YOU AWAY
Absolute Class!
Hot Damn!

Wild Card (Jokers Edition)

Manufacturer: Sananda
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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TTD's Vibrator
Terence Trent d'Arby's Symphony or Damn

ASIN: B00007EBAG
Release Date: 2003-01-07

Tracks:

O Divina
Designated Fool
My Dark Places
The Inner Scream
SRR 636
Drivin Me Crazy
Suga Free
What Shall I Do
Testify
Shalom
Girl
Evrythang
Sweetness
Some Birds Blue
Be Willing
Goodbye Diane
And They Will Never Know
Sayin About You
Shadows

Album Description

Originally released in 2001 this album is now released with new artwork and a different tracklisting including 4 new songs. 19 tracks. Sananda Records. 2002.

Album Details

2002 Reissue of his 2001 Release with Different Artwork plus Four Additional Songs.

Customer Reviews:

TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT.......2004-12-16

Let me preface this by saying that I am a total TTD fan (Sananda)and that I wanted so badly to like this cd however, it was a total disappointment.

Every song on here is dull... tired... low energy. What happened to the raw passion... the funk... the voice that when heard, evoked a mixture of Otis Redding and Janis Joplin with a just let it RIP!!! sound.

Sounds like he is holding back on every song and what is up with this band... even when he does try to give you a sampling of what was, the band falls short.

True story... my newphew who his 16 years old (totally into RAP... I don't think he has every heard any of TTD music) was riding with me in my car.. I poped in Vibrator.. Holding on to You to be exact, and my nephew made the statement... "who is that... he sho nuff sound like he is holdin on for dear life!"
That's the TTD (Sananda) that would make you listen... even if you didn't want to!

Don't get me wrong, I don't knock spiritually, evolution, change, etc. however, seems like he has MORPH into the run of the mill POP singer.

Whoa is me!!!! Where did the funk... the stank go. Bring it back please!

A Masterwork.......2004-06-22

It's all come together on this record. Without question an artistic benchmark for Sananda. Simply excellent songwriting that is heartfelt, diverse, and much else besides. One can definitely tell that years of introspection, life, love, and release have gone into this art...and that this time he means it.

The "Hardline" years almost seem like another lifetime ago, as well as the famous boast that it was the "best new record since Sgt. Pepper." Ahh, the confidence of youth. But in my mind, he's finally gotten there with this record. Yes, it's that good.

On a personal note, I saw Sananda in Austin at the (now gone) Liberty Lunch back in 1995, during the Vibrator tour, where for some reason the people let my friend and I in for free because they thought we were part of the band! (Welcome to Austin! they said!)....ahhh please forgive the reminiscance....

I'm delighted and excited with this record, and with Sananda's excellent and open website as well. Pay it a visit! www.sanandamaitreya.com

The twenty first century has gotten off to an excellent start, that's for sure.

UNMISTAKABLE VOICE THAT BLOWS YOU AWAY.......2003-12-10

I was very surprised to find out that Terence Trent D'Arby had
changed his name altogether (to Sananda) and made this all new album. It seemed sort of like a disguise to me, or that Terence was trying to avoid being pigeon-holed by his former career. This is a very novel idea-to come back and show everybody that it is his talent , not his name, that takes him places musically. It also shows incredible confidence in his abilities. To me it seemed far-fetched though, since you can not possibly hear him sing and not immediately know who it is. He's got a classic powerhouse voice that will probably always harken back to his former hits, but on Wildcard, he continues to excell in his art. I was not at all sure what this new cd with so many tracks on it would sound like, and I was so blown away by it after just one listen. It appears that this album has been an incredible effort for the artist to make a truly great cd, and I think he has certainly done it. His style shows through in every track ,and the songs take you places you have never been before. Every track is unique and original to me, and once again his voice just couldn't be more amazing in range and texture and maturity. If you at all liked D'Arby's earlier work, this one will be an unexpected treasure. I hope that more people catch on to this album and it becomes as appreciated as it really deserves. This one should have spawned a number of commercial hits if the music scene weren't so fickle.

Absolute Class!.......2003-10-17

This CD is simply CLASS! From start to finish there is never a dull moment with more melodies & hooks than you have any right to expect from one CD.
TTD has never failed to impress with each comeback. Get this album if you are a lover of music!

Hot Damn!.......2003-07-04

What a great CD! Sananda has got it going on from start to finish. This is the best cd of the year! I've been waiting for an album to really move me. I can't put it down. I've heard an extended tour of the US will be coming up (it's about time). Couldn't make it to the Chicago show. Great Performance of Designated Fool on Jay Leno! Hopefully Sananda will hit Minneapolis next time around...

Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right: 1970-1982

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You have to take what's available
Magnificent Gerry Rafferty complilation!
Baker Street is excellent.
A great collection of songs from a great artist!
Missing some key songs!

Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right: 1970-1982
Gerry Rafferty
Manufacturer: Raven [Australia]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Best of the Dream Weaver
North & South
City to City
Firefall - Greatest Hits
Dance With Me: The Best of Orleans

ASIN: B000003IXE
Release Date: 1997-03-25

Tracks:

Please Sing a Song for Us
Blood & Glory
Rick Rack
Steamboat Row
Can I Have My Money Back?
New Street Blues
Mary Skeffington
Sign on the Dotted Line
Stuck in the Middle with You
Everyone's Agreed That Everything...
Who Cares?
Benediction
Right or Wrong
Baker Street
Right Down the Line
Night Owl
Get It Right Next Time
Take the Money and Run
Royal Mile (Sweet Darlin')
Bring It All Home
Sleepwalking

Album Description

1997 collection on Raven featuring 21 tracks from the singer/ songwriter's most profitable & productive period, 1970-1982. 75 minutes of cuts from The Humblegums, Stealer'sWheel & his solo albums in the '70s. Includes 'Stuck In The Middle With You', 'Baker Street', 'Right Down The Line', 'Night Owl', 'Can I Have My Money Back?', 'Get It Right The Next Time', etc. The full title is 'Clowns To The Left, Jokers To The Right 1970-1982'.

Customer Reviews:

You have to take what's available.......2006-02-23

This is a decent representation of Rafferty's work from his early folk duo,The Humblebums (partnered with Billy Connolly, no less) to his early 80's solo work and the wonderful "Baker Street." There are a number of quality tunes here and the chatty liner notes proved to be an interesting retrospective of Rafferty's career, but as another reviewer noted, this package is lacking some key songs. At least try to collect all the singles from the time period. I am ofetn disappointed by the lack of completeness with these greatest hits sets, but sometimes you have to take what's available.

Magnificent Gerry Rafferty complilation!.......2005-10-05

This Gerry Rafferty compilation is everything it should be and more! It has his work with The Humblegums, Stealer's Wheel and his solo work! It is the most comprehensive compilation of Gerry Rafferty that you can get, to date. The sound is great and you couldn't ask for better, in a compilation, really. This is a must for Gerry Rafferty/70's pop/rock fans!

Baker Street is excellent........2005-05-10

My comments regard only the song "Baker Street" from this record.
Of course I love Baker Street. There is a lot going on in that track, sophisticated and excellent. Comparing it with the (obscenely bad) Foo Fighters cover shows both the weaknesses of the Fighters' arrangement as well as the talent, polish, intelligence, and diligence of Rafferty's producer.

I personally don't like solo sax much and so it doesn't touch me as much as it seems to touch others, but even so I can see that the sax intro and other sax parts are electrifying. I respect this production choice because for so many people the sax is the only part of the song they identify and according to some reviews the sax bought most of that copious radio air-time in 1978. On the other hand, it's a shame to see this overstated sound overshadow the rest of the beautiful song in peoples' minds.

The swooping guitars are awesome and yet subtle and fill a crucial spot in the intro melody. The guitar solo is masterful. Much of the time in the solo is taken up with only a few sustained and repeated notes and the bulk of the solo is made up of bends, trills, swoops, dives, and inventive tremelos. Each note of the minimal note count speaks out to us in important ways. It reminds me of lyrics that say volumes with only a few words. It's one of my all time favorite guitar solos.

The two featured analog synthesizer sounds are way cool. The synth during the verse sounds like falling leaves or water. The bass synth sound that counterpoints the vocal during the chorous, again, is inventive: an interesting, unusual sound, delightful instrumental melodic counterpoint to the vocal, a melodic sound in this region of the bass territory is also unusual in pop. You usually have the bass drum and the bass guitar in the bass region and that's about it. This synth sound and melody is something like a `cello line, lending an orchestral feel while still using pop instruments.

The lyrics to Baker Street are good, but I wouldn't say great. They give an overall impression of loneliness, futility and yearning for something better in the future. What's there is good but it's not great because the song does not tell a complete story. The "City to City" album from which this song is taken is a concept album and every lyric addresses these issues of loneliness and itinerant living on the road. Considering the entire album's lyrics as a whole pushes them up a notch as ambitious, intelligent, very good, and maybe you could consider the whole as a complete story. They fall short of something blisteringly great like "Eleanor Rigby" (The Beatles) or "She Always a Woman" or "AllenTown" (Billy Joel).

Regarding the Foo Fighters' cover version: The Foo Fighters skip the swooping guitars during the intro melody and you can hear it as dead space, causing a drop in intensity there resulting in an undesirable volume pumping effect. The Fighters copy the guitar solo note for note, what's the point? We've heard that already, and much better, so why bother? Granted I'm not that familiar with post 1989 Pearl Jam clone musical styles so I might be missing something, but to me the Fighters' guitar version of the sax intro melody is just plain wrong. The rhythm is wrong and corny, the accents are in the wrong place, and the guitar sound is so anemic when compared to the sax. Why would a band of the Fighters' stature cover a song anyway? The whole thing is just wrong.

A great collection of songs from a great artist!.......2003-08-05

Being a Gerry Rafferty fan, this is a great collection of songs from a great artist. However, I wished there would have been more songs from his "North and South" and "Snakes and Ladders" albums. Better yet, I wished they could be rerealsed to Cd. Thanks for the great music, Gerry!

Missing some key songs!.......2002-09-21

It seems that many of these "best of" compilations always leave out one or two of an artists hits and replace them with some forgetable deep track. I don't understand what they are thinking when they do this. This collection is more guilty of this than most. They left off 3 top 40 hits - Star (Stealers Wheel), Home & Dry and Days Gone Down - and the album classic City to City! Gerry and Stealers Wheel only had a total of 7 top 40 hits and they leave off nearly half of them!?! Come on now, somebody wasn't paying attention when they put this collection together!

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Instrumental, spacey, and very psychedelic jams
Landmark Album.
Mind Blowing Surf Music
Cosmic Jokers - self-titled (Spalax)

Cosmic Jokers
Cosmic Jokers
Manufacturer: Spalax
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Para Dieswärts Düül
Galactic Supermarket
Ash Ra Tempel
Faust/Faust So Far

ASIN: B000024V1Z
Release Date: 2002-02-26

Tracks:

Galactic Joke
Cosmic Joy

Album Description

French reissue of the krautrock supergroup's 1974 album. Digipak. Spalax Music.

Customer Reviews:

Instrumental, spacey, and very psychedelic jams.......2006-06-26

This 1974 release marks the first in a total series of five albums that feature "pirated" instrumental space jams recorded by this German experimental "supergroup". The musicians on this album include electronic master composer himself Klaus Schulze (synthesizers), members of Wallenstein (Jurgen Dollase - organ/spoken words and Harald Grosskopf - drums); and a single member of Ash Ra Tempel (Manuel Gottsching - guitars). Deiter Dierks produced the album and also played bass guitar - he actually does a pretty good job too. I really like Harald's drumming - he is an exceptionally creative drummer and does a great job of "filling in the blanks". This music is essentially space/psych/prog rock comprised of very spacey, loose, and completely structureless jams that are spread over two lengthy tracks (Galactic Joke = 22'39"; Cosmic Joy = 19'25"). The first track features more in the way of guitars and drums, while the second track essentially consists of "music drifting in from the deep cold and vacuum of space" and reminds me of very early Tangerine Dream.

For those of you that can't get enough of this stuff, five albums were cranked out in 1974 including: (1) The Cosmic Jokers; (2) Galactic Supermarket; (3) Sci-Fi Party; (4) Gilles Zeitschiff; and (5) Planeten Sit In. Of these albums, Gilles Zeitschiff is not all that great.

The eponymous debut is the best of the lot, although Galactic Supermarket is pretty good too. This is truly cosmic bliss - recommended.

Landmark Album........2006-06-12

The Cosmic Jokers were never a real band; in 1973 Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser offered several prominent 'Cosmic' Musicians (style was later called "Krautrock" by the UK press) all the psycedelic drugs they could consume for a recording session. Afterwards he mixed the album together and released it under the title The Cosmic Jokers.
The album is amazingly fluid despite its origins, and it wasn't until the second album was released that many of the musicians that made up The Cosmic Jokers realized they were a part of this so called 'Supergroup'.
Originally only Rolf-Ulrich was credited with this album, but it stands as a landmark album in any sense for its conception and birth under such unique circumstances.

Mind Blowing Surf Music.......2006-06-11

I recently went on an Indonesian boat trip and brought this recording along, and I will tell you this: the music contained on this recording is a heavenly landscape beyond explanation. I cannot put into words what it made me feel, what it made me think about, or what it made me see. Whether you are a musician, a surfer, a philosopher, a tripper, a traveler, a stoner, a driver, or someone who just plain likes music with a higher force, I strongly recommend you check this out. They just dont make it like they used to.

Cosmic Jokers - self-titled (Spalax).......2005-06-20

Originally released in 1974,as this was Cosmic Joker's very first release,out of five(5)lp's.Ironic enough,all five were put out that same year.Cosmic Jokers were a krautrock super-group.Made up of musicians Manuel Gottsching(Ash Ra Tempel),Klaus Schulze(Tangerine Dream),two members from Wallenstein and top-of-the-genre producer Dieter Dierks at the mixing board.CD has just two tracks.Both are lengthy spacy,cosmic,trippy freak-out pieces(call 'em what you will),"Galactic Joke"(22:30)and "Cosmic Joy"(19:24)should fully satisfy any fan hungry for this sort of music.To some of us,there IS no other music.None that matters anyway.Recommended.

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From a Former Member of The Band.

Real Live Girl & So Much a Man Can Take
Marlboros , and Jokers Six
Manufacturer: Collectables
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000087L
Release Date: 1995-10-20

Tracks:

Real Live Girl
Get Ready
Ooh Baby Baby
May I
Beg Me
Before Six
So Much A Man Can Take
The Monkey Time
I Do Love You
Good Lovin'
Stubborn Kind Of Fellow
Land Of A Thousand Dances

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From a Former Member of The Band........2003-10-18

This album was originally recorded in 1966 when the group had just been together for about 6 months. All of the members at the time were really just out of high school. Contrary to the "Live" claim on the cover, it was recorded in a small recording studio in Winston Salem, NC with primitive equipment. There was only one recording engineer, and there were few re-takes. The engineer added a lot of reverb to cover any mistakes and give it a "Live" effect. This group eventually dropped the Jokers 6 from the name and just became "The Marlboros". Over the years following this album, the vocalists and musicians improved tremendously and they became one of the top "Beach" bands in the Southeastern U.S. They mainly performed "Motown" and "Beach" cover tunes that were popular in the late 60's. The sound quality of this album does not do justice to the true "Live" performances that this group gave up and down the East Coast. This is a great collectable, especially for those who got to see this group perform in the late 60's and early 70's.

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Jokers & Wildcards
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Chicken in Black - Johnny Cash
Don't Squeeze My Sharmon - Charlie Walker
Ten Little Bottles - Johnny Bond
I Never See Maggie Alone - Kenny Roberts
Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back - Billy Edd Wheeler
White Knight - Cledus Maggard
Front Row Seat to Hear Ole Johnny Sign - Shel Silverstein
I'm a Nut - Leroy Pullins
Big Bruce - The Country Gentlemen
I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes - Bob Atcher
I'm My Own Grandpaw - Lonzo & Oscar
All over Again, Again

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Conversations With the Jokers
Katie Bull
Manufacturer: Corn Hill
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Music Is the Magic

ASIN: B0002537YO
Release Date: 2002-11-05

Tracks:

I Remember You
My Little Boat
See Through You
Moonlight Becomes You
You and the Night and the Music
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Wave
Now's the Time
I'm Glad There Is You
You're Everything
Like Someone in Love

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Unnamed II

Manufacturer: KNG
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B00037FMR6

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10 Tracks

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Wild Card (Jokers Edition)

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000A2Q4IA
Release Date: 2003-01-07

Album Description

Originally released in 2001 this album is now released with new artwork and a different tracklisting including 4 new songs. 19 tracks. Sananda Records. 2002.

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Cosmic Jokers - 'Gilles Zeitschiff' (Spalax)

Gilles Zeitschiff
The Cosmic Jokers
Manufacturer: Spalax
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Cosmic Jokers
Galactic Supermarket

ASIN: B00000767D
Release Date: 2003-12-02

Tracks:

Tim Bleibt bei Uns
Downtown
Lord Krishna
Power Drive
Bei Tim
Right Hand Lover
Cosmic Courier Bon Chance
Swiss High Lands
Der Magier
Electronic Scene
Electronic Rock Zeitalter
So Beautiful
Queen of Sunshine
Meine Kosmische Musik

Album Description

French reissue of the prog-rock act's 1974 album. 14 tracks including, 'Tim Bleibt Bei Uns', 'Downtown' & 'Lord Krishna'. Digipak.

Customer Reviews:

Cosmic Jokers - 'Gilles Zeitschiff' (Spalax).......2006-10-12

Yet,another 1974 title of the Cosmic Jokers.Although it isn't quite AS good as either the self-titled Cosmic Jokers effort or the 'Galactic Supermarket'(see my reviews of both),it's still decent.Obviously not a krautrock classic,but most fans of such should get something out of this CD reissue.Tracks I dug the most were "Cosmic Courier Bon Chance",the eleven-minute adventurous "Electronic Rock Zeitalter" and "De Magier".Line-up:Klaus Schulze-electronics,Gille Lettman-vocals,Manuel Gottsching-guitar,Jurgen Dollase-keyboards,Dieter Dierks-bass and Harold Grosskopf-drums.Good to take out for a spin occasionally.

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