The Fugitive

The Fugitive

ASIN: B00008GEP8

Track Listings

1. Fugitive

2. Sing Me Back Home

3. Branded Man

4. Swinging Doors

5. I'm Movin' On

6. Silver Wings

7. Blue Yodel

8. Hobo Bill

9. I Can't Be Myself

10. Love Is Gonna Live Here Again

11. Soldier's Letter

12. Orange Blossom Special

Tracks:

Into The Sun
Wake Up Sally (the cops are here)
Afghan/Forklift
King For A Day
Your Rockin' Chair
Monsters Of The Id
Running With The Carnival
Crow Hollow Blues
Our Manhattan Moment
That Big 5-0
God Sleeps In A Caboose
Throw It Away
My Own Universe
Classic Hollywood Ending
Talkin' Wall OF Voodoo Blues Pt.1
My Rose Marie (a soldier's tale)

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Like that of many artists who came of age in the '80s, Stan Ridgway's career has often been unfairly haunted by an endless groove of MTV overexposure that's turned perceptions of his music into something akin to a skipping record. Indeed, the veteran L.A. singer-songwriter once groused he'd likely spend his twilight years onstage in a newly liberated Havana casino lounge, crooning "Mexican Radio" to blue-haired former new wavettes. But this savory trove of songs ranks with Black Diamond as one of the best albums Ridgway has recorded since his muscular reemergence as an indie artist in the mid-'90s. Mining the same electro-acoustic vein as Anatomy, Ridgway has refined his nervous balance of traditional folk-blues and ironic-modernist instincts even further here, shrewdly casting the material in a three-act dramatic structure that sharpens its dramatic focus. The usual suspects of Stan's compelling musique noir herein feature seedy, if oddly sympathetic miscreants (the wry toe-tapper "Wake Up Sally [The Cops Are Here]," "Running with the Carnival"), a familiar musician all too wise to both his past and future ("That Big 5-O," "Talkin' Wall of Voodoo Blues"), and a blue-collar warehouse worker moving mysterious cargo Middle Eastward (the dour "Afghan Forklift"). His balladeer instincts may draw him to personal interludes both bittersweet ("Our Manhattan Moment") and elegiac ("Into the Sun," "My Rose Marie"), but it's when Ridgway fuses his Johnny Cash/Ernie Ford/Mose Allison fetishes with his own compelling personal ethos (the haunting, harmonica-seasoned "God Sleeps in a Caboose," a headline-timely, appropriately creeped-out cover of Allison's "Monsters of the Id") that Ridgway again confirms his status as one of America's most consistently original songwriters and performers. --Jerry McCulley

Album Description

Echoing southern swamps and talking beercans. Lonely soldiers and voodoo chain gang ghosts. Midnight mystery trains and singing tumbleweeds. Sixteen new two fisted tales from the Wall Of Voodoo mastermind. Produced by Stan Ridgway Engineered by Baboo God

Customer Reviews:

McCABES #9 - STAN RIDGWAY Sun May 6th, 2007.......2007-05-07

Ex-Wall of Voodoo leadman turned Singer-Songwriter extraordinare Stan Ridgway ROCKED McCabe's Guitar Shop with his blend of alt. roots-rock music and more on Sunday, May 6th, 2007. It was by far to me the most 'electric' performance at McCabe's and his 'band' was simply electrifying as well. His guitarist was wired, so was his pianist-organist and violinist.. well, let's add the drummer as well (Five folks on the small McCabes' stage was a sight to see) Being my first time to a Ridgway concert, I was pleasantly surprised at his twisted humor in between sets (then again, many of his songs are that way as well) It made me at times go to the point of laughing so loud I would had to leave. His music from 'Snakebite' was as wild as the music and wicked bantor on stage - He played "Wake Up Sally (The Cops are here)" and I was laughing to the point of tears (he made strange facial movements on stage while performing) "King For A Day" Was his tribute to the non-sense we call the local modern-day televised car chase (a wild wide in a stolen car that ends up on local TV with the car smashing into the side of a house (Sounds familiar??) and "Running With The Carnival" (Those sound effects are still ringing in my ears) - I have to say the 90 minutes went VERY quick and before we knew, he was back for the encore...He did "Beneath The Green Tree" to make some 'stiff point' - The hightlight for me was when he did that song from 25 years ago that we all know all too well from his 'Wall of Voodoo' days "Mexican Radio" - The house went down at the end of the song with Stan raising his guitar screaming "25 years - I'm branded - damn this song --- I'm branded" (A clue here, folks??) Most folks out there know Stan just for that song, I can see why he feels a bit differently - For true music lovers we love Stan for his quality SOLO stuff that stand out. For those who just have 'Wall of Voodoo's greatest hits' and are reading this, please get this album and do yourself a favor. Overall, one of the best concerts I've EVER experienced at McCabe's and I got very lucky & met Stan after the concert (with Sharpie in hand) and..he was just as funny after the show (I guess that's his personality - that's cool..he's kinda like me) I also spoke to his guitarist Mike as well for a bit before Stan came down. I will most certainly see him when he comes back - you should too. It's a concert you won't forget =.) Peace - Joe "Bear"

Stan's got a lot of great ideas.........2006-04-21

and this collection shows just what an inventive, brilliant, writer he is.

That said, a lot of the songs on this album bump into his limitations as a vocalist. While his lyrics and musical puns make me laugh, some of his vocalizations make me wince.

A quirky masterpiece.......2005-10-07

Stan Ridway's music almost defies description. Using a variety of instruments (including a glockenspiel, mellotron and a 2-string jawbone!)Ridgway and his group of players has created a wonderful bit of Americana. Tales of escaping criminals bedeviled by cops and a noisy dog, a crack smoking daddy on a rampage, and life in a carnival are given inventive musical settings that really have no equivalent. If you want to know what happened to Wall of Voodoo from Ridgway's perspective, "Talkin' Wall of Voodoo Blues Part I" gives you an interesting take on the situation and you follow that with "My Rose Marie" that sounds so authentic you'd swear it was Civil War balled as opposed to a Ridgway original. I've always liked Ridgway's solo stuff, but I feel this one is where all his strengths as an artist come together.

Grade: Incomplete -- needs work.......2005-08-07

Listening to this record is a bit frustrating for me. Some of it calls to mind the best of Stan's past work, namely his albums Partyball and Anatomy. Yes, there are some fugitive songs here. Stan gravitates toward the dark underbelly of society for his subject matter. Yet, somehow this batch of miscreants seems a little more conventional, a little more sane than his usual cast of characters. Sadly, that makes them less interesting.

Into The Sun is a fine start -- about new beginnings. The music, the soaring synths and yearning in Stan's voice, delivers the goods. Other examples of atmospheric production that does justice to the songs: Monsters Of The Id, Our Manhattan Moment, maybe even Hollywood Ending.

But the carnival atmosphere of Running With The Carnival is a bit too predictable.

Talkin Wall Of Voodoo Blues is a chance for Stan to get some things off his chest about the old band, and how they all got screwed by the record business. The song itself is a bit monotonous, and lyrically not clever at all. "We made a lot of noise/For all the girls and boys/It was 1977/Now two are gone to heaven." Ahhhh, you get the picture. A lot of the rhymes on this record are a little forced, and often the words don't quite flow smoothly with the melody.

Wake Up Sally -- too sing song-y.

My Rose Marie is unusually sentimental for Stan Ridgway -- about a veteran who still pines for the gal he left behind when he went to war many years past. I thought the vocals on this song sounded a little too strained. A lighter touch was needed -- something like Stan's vocals on Partyball's Right Through You. And the synthesized orchestrations gave only a suggestion of the grandeur this song could have with acoustic instruments.

With tweaking of the lyrics, a bit of restraint on some of the cheap-sounding keyboards, more work on vocal phrasing and tone, sophisticated programming on the rhythm tracks, and you'd have a record that's a more complete artistic statement and less a glorified demo tape. That is how most of these songs strike me -- just shy of what's needed.

Other fans have obviously been wowed by the performaces on Snakebite. Perhaps they focused on some quality that I missed. I hear a lot of potential, but I can't quite give this record a passing grade. Songs: Need editing. Arrangements: Too simple. Sound: Production a bit primitive -- expand and enhance. I won't beat this to death. Amazon.com is offering a free download of Talkin Wall Of Voodo Blues. Get it. Compare it to with anything on Partyball, and you'll see what I'm complaining about.

Stan's Excellent Experimentation .......2005-06-04

Since the first analog rhythm machines combined with the frenetic wall of voodoo to this latest excellent wonderbug Blacktop Ballads and Fugitive songs Stan is always experimenting in creating wonderful songs that are rich with literary and artistic tradition while at the same time warm and human.

If Stan Ridgway was not a songwriter he'd be a poet laureate, or great American novelist. His work is always narrative, but like a roadtrip, you never know where the story will take you.

In this release Stan seems to spread himself out geographically. This latest release takes in the Americana.

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Manufacturer: Silva America
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All-Time Top 100 TV Themes
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Six Million Dollar TV Themes

ASIN: B00005Y49F
Release Date: 2002-08-27

Tracks:

The A-Team - Nic Raine
The Addams Family - Nic Raine
The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe - Nic Raine
Airwolf - Derek Wadsworth
The Avengers - Mike Townend
Barnaby Jones - Jerry Goldsmith
Batman - Nic Raine
Battlestar Galactica - Nic Raine
Baywatch - Derek Wadsworth
Beverly Hills 90210 - Derek Wadsworth
Bewitched - Nic Raine
Between The Lines - Mark Ayres
The Bill - Nic Raine
Bonanza - The Philharmonia Orchestra
Brideshead Revisited - Derek Wadsworth
Buck Rogers In The 25th Century - Nic Raine
Burke's Law - Derek Wadsworth
Cagney And Lacey - Derek Wadsworth
Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons - Mark Ayres
Casualty - Mark Ayres
Cheers - Mark Ayres
Dallas - Nic Raine
Dangerman (Secret Agent) - Mike Townend
Doctor Who - Mark Ayres
Doctor Kildare - Jerry Goldsmith

Tracks:

Doogie Howser, M.D. - Derek Wadsworth
Dynasty - Nic Raine
The Equalizer - Derek Wadsworth
Falcon Crest - Derek Wadsworth
Fireball XL-5 - Derek Wadsworth
The Fugitive - Nic Raine
Hawaii 5-0 - Mike Townend
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Nic Raine
The High Chaparral - Nic Raine
Highway To Heaven - Derek Wadsworth
Hill Street Blues - Derek Wadsworth
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Mark Ayres
The Incredible Hulk - Derek Wadsworth
Jason King - Mike Townend
Jesus Of Nazareth - Paul Bateman
Joe 90 - Derek Wadsworth
Johnny Staccato - Derek Wadsworth
Knight Rider - Derek Wadsworth
Kojak - Mike Townend
L.A. Law - Derek Wadsworth
Land Of The Giants - Nic Raine
Little House On The Prairie - Derek Wadsworth
Lonesome Dove - Nic Raine
Lost In Space - Nic Raine
Lou Grant - Derek Wadsworth

Tracks:

Magnum, P.I. - Derek Wadsworth
A Man Called Ironside - Mike Townend
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - Derek Wadsworth
M*A*S*H - Nic Raine
Miami Vice - Mark Ayres
Mike Hammer - Derek Wadsworth
Mission Impossible - Mike Townend
Monty Python's Flying Circus - Nic Raine
The Munsters - Derek Wadsworth
Murder She Wrote - Derek Wadsworth
Newhart - Derek Wadsworth
North And South - Derek Wadsworth
Northern Exposure - Derek Wadsworth
NYPD Blue - Mark Ayres
The Outer Limits - Nic Raine
Perry Mason - Mike Townend
The Persuaders - Mark Ayres
Peter Gunn - Mike Townend
Police Squad - Nic Raine
The Prisoner - Mike Townend
Quantum Leap - Derek Wadsworth
Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased) - Mike Townend
Red Dwarf - Mark Lambert
The Rockford Files - Mike Post
Roseanne - Dan Foliart

Tracks:

The Saint - Mike Townend
Seaquest DSV - Nic Raine
Space 1999 - Derek Wadsworth
Star Trek - Mike Townend
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Derek Wadsworth
Star Trek: Voyager - Nic Raine
St. Elsewhere - Derek Wadsworth
The Streets Of San Francisco - Nic Raine
Stingray - Barry Gray
Taxi - Derek Wadsworth
Thunderbirds - Derek Wadsworth
Thirty Something - Derek Wadsworth
The Time Tunnel - Nic Raine
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - The Philharmonia Orchestra
The Twighlight Zone - Nic Raine
Twin Peaks - Derek Wadsworth
U.F.O. - Derek Wadsworth
The Virginian - Nic Raine
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea - Nic Raine
Wagon Train - Paul Bateman
The Waltons - Jerry Goldsmith
The Wild Wild West - Derek Wadsworth
Young Riders - John Debney
Xena: The Warrior Princess - Paul Bateman
The X-Files - Mark Ayres

Customer Reviews:

Quantity Over Quality.......2007-01-15

As a musician myself, I know too well that one of the most important ingredients in ANY performance (live or recorded) is passion. The recordings here generally lack the same passion and sheer drama of the originals. Much of the instrumentation has been reduced to a cheezy, thin, plastic synthesized replica. The performances are simply a watered-down lackluster version of the classic originals. If it were not for the sheer volume of tracks compiled here, I would have rated the comp only "one star".

Mediocre.......2006-05-17

The sound quality for this collection isn't much better than the samples offered by Amazon.

One Hundred Greatest TV Themes.......2005-08-06

I have watched almost all the shows that are on these 4 cd's. Many were made before I started watching TV. Most I've seen once or twice before.

Pretty close to original recordings.......2005-07-24

Definitely not as good as the originals. You'll probably notice the slight differences since it's stuff you saw and listened to every week or everyday in reruns growing up, but it's still an amazing collection.

Really Good Collection.......2004-07-11

I bought this in part because it had soundtracks to tv shows that are unavailable. My husband and I watch aome British programming. Many of the theme songs are for what seems like obscure British shows. That said; it has been enjoyable to hear music that I would normally never hear. Some music does sound tinny; some are very very rich, and some music is derived from actual preformances from the original artists. I think this is worth buying because is has a wonderful blend of music. The pieces are full soundtracks so they includes the parts of the theme song which are often edited out. I think the orchestra's who preformed the music did a great job. I have MonsterMania which redoes the soundtracks to the Godzilla movies. The interpretation is less heavy and stark than the preformance we associate with the original soundtrack; but I regard it as a new way to appreciate the music and all the componets which make the song unique.

György Ligeti Edition 2: A Cappella Choral Works - London Sinfonietta Voices

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Surprising Variety in Modern A Capepella Choral works
Mostly unlistenable....
a handful of great Ligeti works.
brilliant choral music
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ASIN: B0000029OX
Release Date: 1997-01-21

Tracks:

A Cappella Choral Works: Night
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A Cappella Choral Works: Far from home 1
A Cappella Choral Works: Far from home 2
A Cappella Choral Works: Far from home 3
A Cappella Choral Works: Far from home 4
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A Cappella Choral Works: Songs from Matraszentimre 3
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Amazon.com essential recording

A vast audience received its first exposure to the music of György Ligeti through Stanley Kubrick's use of his haunting "Lux Aeterna" (despite the composer's lack of consent) in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. This collection--part of Sony's invaluable Ligeti edition--places "Lux aeterna" in the context of Ligeti's other a cappella choral works, which together provide an overview of the evolving phases of one of the 20th century's most intriguing composers. In his booklet notes to the disc, Ligeti recalls the influence of Bartók and Kodály on his early folkloric compositions, from arrangements of traditional material to free, polyrhythmically inflected inventions on Hungarian folk texts, a format that allowed him some degree of experimental freedom from the strictures of "socialist realism" before he fled the Hungarian Communist regime. The breakthrough "Lux aeterna" is a classic example of Ligeti's trademark technique of "micropolyphony," enveloping the listener in mesmerizingly dense textures of cloudlike harmonies. From Ligeti's late period comes a triptych of "Hölderlin Phantasies." Their 16-voice polyphony transcends the simplistic distinction between tonality and atonality to explore "new kinds of half diatonic, half chromatic harmonies." The resulting sound world of fragmentary, dislocated epiphanies mirrors the unfathomable richness of the great visionary poet to uncanny effect. Throughout, the acoustical balance and conviction of the London Sinfonietta Voices give vivid shape to Ligeti's genius. -Thomas May

Customer Reviews:

Surprising Variety in Modern A Capepella Choral works.......2006-08-24

This 'A Cappella Choral Works', the second volume in a collection of Gyorgy Ligeti compositions contains one of the pieces of music which contributed to making '2001, A Space Odyessy' such a profoundly interesting film. This piece, 'Lux aeterna' which is the textbook example of 'SciFi' music, is very different from many of the other pieces on this recording. In fact, one is really impressed by the wide variety of styles, where you have some peasant songs which sound a lot like sea chantys and other pieces which are definitely liturgical. One can certainly thank Stanley Kubrick for bringing Ligeti to our attention.

Mostly unlistenable...........2006-08-23

Not even good for background music/noise as the voices get really loud in certain parts and almost silent.

I bought this CD and am returning it. It's just more & more of the sameness throughout the whole CD.

I realize that Ligeti is avant garde but I heard that if you like Gregorian chant (which I do) this CD is similar. I don't think it is. It's very disquieting and full of tension (great, if that's the mood you're looking for).

a handful of great Ligeti works........2004-09-06

As a compilation, musically speaking, Edition 2 is probably my least favorite of the Sony Ligeti Edition collection. Many of the pieces come from traditional Hungarian sources, conceived while Ligeti was still in his early years. They are pretty, but also pretty straightforward and conventional, and other than their simple pleasantness and occasionally yummy dissonances, they aren't really mindblowing like the best Ligeti. They are often very beautiful though. However, Edition 2 DOES feature one of the most harrowing, apocalyptic compositions of 20th century Western music, _Lux aeterna_. The profound tension in the quiet web of micropolyphonic voices is just devastating. Also great are the other later pieces, _Drei Phantasien nach Friedrich Holderlin_, three wild polyphony pieces from German literature, and _Magyar Etudok_, three very complex Hungarian etudes for 16 voices. Those pieces are all outstanding but honestly I think everything I've heard by Ligeti is worth hearing. Check out Ligeti edition 4 for more vocal works, some of which are the best of Ligeti's works.

brilliant choral music.......2003-07-21

This cd is beautiful to listen to.From Ejszaka to Kallai Ketto
is brilliant. Ligeti choral works is the first cd have got choral music on it and i love it.Now im going to get the other two cds in the ligeti edition.
(the vocal works & le grand marabre)

Exquisite use of the voice.......2002-07-11

Bringing Ligeti's works to a wider public was one of the great services Stanley Kubrick performed for the world when Lux aeterna was included in the soundtrack for 2001: a Space Odyssey.

This album is a collection of a cappella choral works and which highlights Ligeti's great talent and skill in the use of the voice as a musical instrument. He, together with Yoko Ono, have excelled in this field though from different, sometimes conflicting directions.

When I listen to this I revel in it's glory. The sounds are ethereal and atmospheric, ghostly and angelic in a way that no-one but the composer can make them sound. I never want those sounds to end and in a way it is like having a sort of dependence.

I could go on and on and on about this but I had better stop. This is one essentila component of anyone's classical music collection yet it really defies categorisation. This is timeless, awesome music, not just for a generation but for a world. Lest Zeus strike me with a thunderbolt, these voices are sweeter and more angelic than the voices of the angels themselves.

Tracks:

This Is Love
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Say You'll Never Leave Me
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By You
At The Edge Of Night
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Moving Under
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The Genesis Keyboardist Caught Many Longtime Observers a Bit off Guard with this 1983 Solo Album that Featured Stripped Down Instrumentation and Banks Taking on the Vocal Duties Himself. While his was Not the Strongest Voice of the Band, Banks Tailored this Material to his Unique Ability to Interpret his Material Himself.

Customer Reviews:

Outstanding Banks CD.......2006-06-26

I believe this is the best of Tony Banks' solo albums. If you are a fan of 80s Genesis, you'll enjoy Banks' pop-infused efforts. He sings lead on all the songs, something I wish he would have done more often over the years. All in all, an excellent effort.

indispensable for fans of '80s Genesis.......2005-12-09

I want to start by saying that I consider all of the proper albums that Genesis put out in the 1980s to be incredible masterpieces, and the same goes for Phil Collins' solo career.

That said, certain folks will tell you that Genesis and Phil's solo career became interchangeable in the '80s. To put it more precisely, certain people will tell you that Phil took over Genesis in the '80s and that his bandmates Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford were just along for the ride and cashing in. This is an incredibly unfair statement.

Tony Banks is a genius. His level of importance to Genesis is incalculable. He's brilliant with keyboard textures, and he's a brilliant composer, and his 1983 solo album "The Fugitive" amply demonstates both of these points. Tony handles all the vocals here, and he additionally proves himself to be a unique and expressive vocalist.

If you're looking for hardcore progressive rock, you're not going to find an abundance of it on this album. On the other hand, it's an exaggeration to say this is a pure pop-rock album. The result falls somewhere in between, offering up some sophisticated pop-rock material along the lines of '80s Genesis, plus some intriguing departures from that sound. With Collins not around, Banks wisely enlisted a slew of excellent drummers to help out, including Steve Gadd, to give some real muscle to the more rocking material. Also, Genesis tour guitarist and long-time Phil Collins guitarist Daryl Stuermer handles all the guitarwork on here.

It's totally obvious that Tony wasn't merely 'passing time' between Genesis albums when recording "The Fugitive"--he wrote every track on the album himself, and he had a wealth of brilliant songs up his sleeve. "This Is Love" is an incredibly catchy reggae-fied pop-rocker with a kickass, extended middle section. Banks also rocks out on the riffy "At The Edge Of Night". The mysterious-sounding "Man Of Spells" is an irresistibly melodic, low-key tune. "And The Wheels Keep Turning" is a brilliantly melodic and haunting song with brilliant lyrics about a lover who loses interest. "Say You'll Never Leave Me" is a gentle ballad with that trademark autumnal Banks feel, plus some pretty strange lyrics. The charming, wonderfully catchy "By You" is a stately, drum machine-based tune that, in retrospect, sounds surprisingly reminiscent of Enya.

There are also a pair of really engaging instrumentals. "Thirty Three's is a really moody piece with a brief musical quoting of Genesis' "Undertow". "Charm" is rather amusing, starting off with sounds the recall the early days of video games, and it's got really catchy hooks too, although it is a little gimmicky and drags a bit toward the middle after the real drums come in.

The main album portion ends with "Moving Under", which has a nicely catchy chorus and something of an Al Stewart-ish vibe to it, but overall it's surprisingly generic, with disappointingly uncatchy verses. Likewise, the two additional songs featured on this CD release are dishearteningly generic pop songs, especially for someone of Banks caliber--it's easy to see why they were left off the original vinyl release of the album.

Overall though, if you come to this album craving more great music from this genius of Genesis, you're in for a big time treat. "The Fugitive" is a must for any serious listener.

NOT Tony Banks best solo work, but still works.......2005-09-30

The fugitive is definitely more like an experiment than anything else. A short song, strictly pop album experience. When it came out in '83 it must have shocked fans, because it was a complete departiture form his first solo album, the brilliant "A Curious Feeling". I was quite shocked myself when I first heard it. I thought it sounded awful then. But after a few listenings you end up finding yourself changing your mind. As anything Banks did solo, I must say. The Fugitive has some nice songs and grows on you every time your hear it. I still think he made better works afterwards, specially the wonderful Stricly Inc CD, but that's just my opinion. Anyway, this is the only CD Tony Banks sings all the songs (He handles the vocals very well most of the time, even if his voice has lots of effects, just like Mike rutherford in his one shot singing solo project Acting Very Strange). Different yes, but still worth the price you pay.

Great Team Player.... Not-So-Great Solo Artist.......2005-07-30

Tony Banks is the most important member of Genesis - but not the only member. It's almost as if he needs Collins and Rutherford to keep his ideas in line. Banks lacks good musical judgement: the melodies and song construction are there - but the arrangements, cheesey keyboard sounds, and poor musical choices make this album close to unlistenable. That being said, it's still nice that Banks did the lead vocals on this CD - he should have sung all his own material... Great team player, not-so-great solo artist. If you're interested in Banks solo efforts, A Curious Feeling and Bankstatement are better choices.

Tony's Solo Masterpiece.......2005-01-01

If you had to name the most important member or ex-member of Genesis, and I mean THE most important guy who contributed to Genesis throughout their history, who would it be? In my honest opinion, it would be keyboardist Tony Banks. Of course Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, Steve Hackett, Anthony Phillips & everyone else in the group at any one time has brilliantly contributed to the band---that goes without saying. But it is Tony's magical keyboard work that has always been at the very heart of Genesis' unique, distinctive sound. You take Tony's keyboards out of Genesis, and it isn't Genesis anymore. So Tony IS the band's key member. And yet, when all the current guys in Genesis split off to do solo projects, it is Tony who has the least success, which simply boggles my mind, considering all the wonderful solo music he has made since 1979's "A Curious Feeling." Tony's second stab at his solo career, 1983's "The Fugitive," just so happens to be his solo masterpiece. "The Fugitive" is a magnificent album, filled with irresistable music, brilliant keyboard work throughout by Banks, and, quite surprisingly, some excellent John Lennon-ish lead vocals from Banks ("The Fugitive" remains his only solo album where he sings all of the songs himself). Also lending Banks a hand is longtime Genesis touring guitarist Daryl Steurmer, and veteran session men like bassist Mo Foster, and drummers Tony Beard, Steve Gadd and Andy Duncan, whipping up an album that has all of Tony's keyboard trademarks, and yet is very accessible. The first single, "This Is Love," is a great pop-rocker. Other favorites include the mystical "Man Of Spells," the wonderfully catchy "And The Wheels Keep Turning," the bouncing, upbeat "By You," and the beautiful ballad "Say You'll Never Leave Me." Banks also does an outstanding job with the album's pair of instrumentals, the spooky, hypnotic "Thirty Three's" and the absolutely charming piece called, appropriately enough, "Charm." I hope that more Genesis fans out there will check out Tony Banks' solo music, as it's just as incredible as anything he recorded with the band, and "The Fugitive," Tony's best solo work to date, is a brilliant place to start.

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SImply Untrue
an extra star for all the guest artists
An Homage to a Great Artist
superb vocals

The Very Best of Thomas Hampson
Marc Barrard , Thomas Hampson , Csaba Airizer , Georges Bizet , Charles Wakefield Cadman , Stephen Foster , Charles Gounod , Edvard Grieg , Charles Tomlinson Griffes , Imre (Emmerich) Kalman , Erich Wolfgang Korngold , Franz Lehar , Gustav Mahler , Jules Massenet , Giacomo Meyerbeer , Gioachino Rossini , Franz Schubert , Robert Schumann , Johann II Strauss , Ambroise Thomas , Giuseppe Verdi , Richard Wagner , Carl Maria von Weber , Antonio de Almeida , Antonio Pappano , Eugene Kohn , and Fabio Luisi
Manufacturer: EMI Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Song of America
No Tenors Allowed: Famous Duets for Baritone and Bass
Arias - Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert
Christmas with Thomas Hampson
Samuel Ramey - Operatic Arias

ASIN: B0006VYEI2
Release Date: 2005-04-26

Tracks:

La Ran La Lera...Largo Al Factotum
O Sainte Medaille...Avant De Quitter Ces Lieux
Ce Breuvage...Vision Fugitive
C'est Toi...Au Fond Du Temple Saint - Placido Domingo
La Fatigue Alourdit Mes Pas...Comme Une Pale Fleur
Ecoute!...Dieu, Tu Semas Dans Nos Ames
C'est Mon Jour Supreme
Tout Est Desert...Son Regard
Ove Son Io?...Vada In Fiamme
Perfidi! All'Anglo Contro Me...Pieta, Rispetto Amore
Di Provenza Il Mar, Il Suol
E Sogno? O Realta?
Komm!
Der Garten Des Herzens
Lied Des Venezianischen Gondoliers
Le Lazzarone
L'Ultimo Ricordo

Tracks:

Mein Sehnen, Mein Wahnen
Wo Berg' Ich Mich?...So Weih' Ich Mich Den Rachgewalten
Wie Todesahnung...O Du Mein Holder Abendstern
Gruss Op.48 No.1
Im Wunderschonen Monat Mai
Aus Meinen Tranen Spriessen
Die Rose, Die Lilie
Ich Will Meine Seele Tauchen
Ich Grolle Nicht
Gute Nacht
Die Post
Blicke Mir Nicht In Die Lieder
Ich Atmet' Einen Linden Duft
Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen
Von Der Schonheit
O Vaterland, Du Machst Bei Tag
Als Flotter Geist
Komm, Zigany
An Old Song Re-Sung
At Dawning (I Love You) Op.29 No.1 - Armen Guzelimian
Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair
Beautiful Dreamer

Album Description

Details TBA. EMI. 2005.

Customer Reviews:

SImply Untrue.......2006-08-16

The previous review is simply a gross falsification. I have been an obsessed opera fan for a long time, and Thomas Hampson is a truly special singer. He is not the possesor of the largest or most interesting voice, which he will tell you and indeed says so all the time. His commitment to text, his willingness to search out parts to fit his voice, and his dedication to art song make im invaluable to Americans as a ture Troubador. His light Baritone was ideally suited to Figaro and to Valentin and the art song he loves. He must stretch to sing Verdi, where his voice sounds dry and small but many singers have chanced Verdi at their peril, and his innate ablity to inhabit a song, here evidenced in Di Provenza overcomes fact that it is out of his fach. You misinformed opinion of Hampson is mean and strangly bitter. I love Opera, but I do not love every singer, which doesn't mean I debase their very artistic existance. I have seen Hampson live, and have loved him (in Thias) and somewhat disliked him (in Simon Boccanegra) As for him being pretentious, somwetimes I find him mannered, but always charming. SOmetimes Intellectualism can appear pretentious, but surely you wont hold an opera singer to the charge that he must be unintellectual. what a vitriolic review, please buy this Cd, it merits repeated listening to a true American SINGER,

an extra star for all the guest artists.......2006-05-08

The title of this album is an oxymoron. Or a sick joke. I can't decide. Sure he has made millions by luring the uninitiated listener into his web of deceit and conceit, but don't be fooled any longer. How fortunate Hampson has been to sing for and with great artists to shoulder his heavy load.

An Homage to a Great Artist.......2005-10-30

EMI is wisely creating a series of recordings to gather the moments of artists that showcase the very reasons they become so highly regarded. Usually these collections are produced late in careers or even posthumously, but in the case of THE VERY BEST OF THOMAS HAMPSON the artist is still one of the more active and premiere singers of our day. Yet while he doesn't still perform all of these inclusions, it is wonderful to have excerpts from various successful recordings to remind us of the artistry that Hampson represents.

The two disc set includes arias from operas: Rossini's 'Il barbière di Siviglia', von Weber's 'Euryanthe', Gounod's 'Faust', Massenet's 'Hérodiade', Bizet's 'Les Pêcheurs de perles' (in duet with Placido Domingo), Thomas' 'Hamlet', Verdi's 'Don Carlo', 'Il Travatore', 'Macbeth', 'La Traviata', and 'Falstaff', Korngold's 'Die Tote Stadt', and Wagner's 'Tannhäuser'.

But the rewards of a Hampson recording must include his impeccable career as a lieder stylist and on this recording are excerpts from Schumann's 'Dichterliebe', Schubert's 'Winterreise', Mahler's 'Rückert Lieder' and 'Das Lied von der Erde', as well as songs by Meyerbeer, Rossini, Grieg, Kalman, and Lehar. And very importantly there are examples of American songs that Hampson has always emphasized in his recitals. Works by Stephen Foster, and two extraordinary works with the brilliant accompanist Armen Guzelimian - 'An Old Song Re-sung' by Griffes and 'At Dawning' by Charles Wakefield Cadman - round out this fine survey.

Not usually a collector of such 'recombinations', for this listener this album is so very fine that it deserves the attention of all those who appreciate the artistry of Thomas Hampson - then and now. Highly recommended. Grady Harp, October 05

superb vocals.......2005-08-07

Mr.Hampson really gets the chance to showcase his wonderful baritone voice in this "Best of" collection which includes excellent selections from his various other CDs. I like the diversity of the selections featuring operatic arias,works from classical composers, and folk songs. For Thomas hampson fans, as well as fans of the baritone voice, this CD is for them.

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Third and fourth LPs continue Haggard's streak

I'm a Lonesome Fugitive/Branded Man
Merle Haggard
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000E5LFFA
Release Date: 2006-02-21

Tracks:

I'm A Lonesome Fugitive
All Of Me Belongs To You
House Of Memories
Life In Prison
Whatever Happened To Me
Drink Up And Be Somebody
Someone Told My Story
If You Want To Be My Woman
Mary's Mine
Skid Row
My Rough And Rowdy Ways
Mixed Up Mess Of A Heart
Life In Prison (Alternate Take - bonus track)
Someone Told My Story (Alternate Take - bonus track)
Branded Man
Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive
Don't Get Married
Somewhere Between
You Don't Have Very Far To Go
Gone crazy
I Threw Away The Rose
My Hands Are Tied
Some Of Us Never Learn
Long Black Limousine
Go Home
I Made The Prison Band
I Threw Away The Rose (Alternate Take - bonus track)
Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive (Alternate Take - bonus track)

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Third and fourth LPs continue Haggard's streak.......2006-05-02

Capitol's deluxe series of Haggard 2-fer reissues takes its second step with Haggard's third ("I'm a Lonesome Fugitive") and fourth ("Branded Man") solo albums, both from 1967. This pair of releases continues to mix the electric twang of Bakersfield with the emotional directness of Johnny Cash, but with songwriting that's both increasingly personal and sophisticated. The doggedness Haggard displays in the face of romantic and personal dissolution adds metaphorical echoes to its autobiographical detail, resulting in songs that connect on first spin and reveal their layers over time.

"I'm a Lonesome Fugitive" was recorded with Haggard's band in transition. Guitarist Roy Nichols had left, and was replaced for these sessions by studio hotshots James Burton and Glen Campbell. Surprisingly, the loss of Nichols' signature licks isn't all that noticeable. Liz Anderson's title track (and Haggard's first #1 single) is the perfect opener, parlaying a fugitive's rootlessness into a metaphor for Haggard's continual run from romantic turmoil. Haggard's a drowning man, and whether it's the nostalgia of "My House of Memories," the loneliness of "Life in Prison," or the bottle of "Drink Up and Be Somebody," he's always struggling to keep from going under.

Haggard's debt to Bakersfield is heard in the Don Rich-styled harmony (provided by Glen Campbell) on "Mixed Up Mess of a Heart," and his favor for Jimmie Rodgers made its first appearance here with "My Rough and Rowdy Ways." Bonus tracks include a tougher pre-Capitol version of "Life in Prison" (recorded for Tally, but unreleased at the time), and a more straight-forward take of "Someone Told My Story" culled from discarded 1966 album sessions.

"Branded Man" continued Haggard's roll. With Roy Nichols returned to the fold, the title track complements "I'm a Lonesome Fugitive" by showing that the parolee wears a scarlet mark as damning as the stripes of the escapee. Haggard offers several new originals, including the signature "I Threw Away the Rose," but he also takes on co-writers (Bakersfield legend Red Simpson for "You Don't Have Far to Go," and Bonnie Owens for "Gone Crazy"), and picks up songs from others, including a trio of tunes from Tommy Collins.

Collins' "Don't Get Married" is more hopeful in its longing than Haggard's typical songs of incarceration, and "I Made the Prison Band" actually feels pragmatic and light. Mexicali-styled guitars add a dramatic flair to several tunes, including the prisoner's romantic lament, "My Hands Are Tied." The album's most recognizable cover, the funereal classic "Long Black Limousine," is fine, but surprisingly underwhelming in contrast to Haggard's originals. Extras include early takes of "I Threw Away the Rose" and "Loneliness is Eating Me Alive," each of which lack the delicacy of the final album takes.

"Lonesome Fugitive" is the slightly more satisfying spin, but the beauty of Capitol's reissue series is that you don't have to choose. These two-fers include both original album covers (one on each side of the booklet), color photo reproductions, and newly struck liner notes. Though Haggard fans are likely to have a lot of this material on previous single-CD reissues or box sets, the logical album pairings and remastered 24-bit sound make these sets especially attractive. The only real nits one could pick is the absence of session credits, master numbering and chart positioning, as well as a lack of detail on some of the bonus tracks. These are minor issues for such a stellar series of five-star reissues. [?2006 redtunictroll at hotmail dot com]

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Appealing to many ages - thoughtful and fun
In a world of increasingly marginal and crappy music...
The Original Desperate Housewife
she got back up again
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Little Fugitive
Amy Rigby
Manufacturer: Signature Sounds
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000A0GOYQ
Release Date: 2005-08-23

Tracks:

Like Rasputin
The Trouble With Jeanie
Dancing With Joey Ramone
That's The Time
So You Know Now
Needy Men
It's Not Safe
I Don't Wanna Talk About Love No More
Year Of The Fling
Girls Got It Bad
Always With Me
The Things You Leave Behind

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You can say one thing about Amy Rigby: Whether cowering in the dreads of despair or rejoicing in newly sprung reverie, she's the same clever, cynical and exceedingly straightforward songwriter we have come to appreciate since her 1996 solo debut, Diary of a Mod Housewife. On record number five, the 40-something New Yorker once again turns life's observations, both humdrum and vital, into tightly wound, three-minute pop diaries. In "Like Rasputin," Rigby staggers to her feet from the evil man just in time to grapple with "The Trouble With Jeanie," her new husband's peach of an ex-wife. As usual, she finds levity in any situation, and this time she fanaticizes about "Dancing With Joey Ramone," calls out the absurdities of "Needy Men" and explains how the woman in "The Year of the Fling" was "running fast from the past (and) hell bent on having a blast." Like any great author, Rigby is content enough in her craft to expose the imperfections as comfortably as the triumphs. And as with any great songwriter, she always manages to pull it off. --Scott Holter

Album Description

Renowned songwriter Amy Rigby's fifth album finds the singer, who began her solo career as the Mod Housewife, bringing it all back home. Hailed for her keen eye and sharp wit in tracing the vagaries and victories of modern romance, her new release finds Rigby promising "I Don't Want To Talk About Love No More." But, of course, she does - getting to the heart of the matter and the punch line in due course.

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Appealing to many ages - thoughtful and fun.......2006-02-23

This CD is a thoughtful reflection on the peculiarities of life and love. The lyrics are witty and easy to relate to, and the melodies are fun. Amy Rigby is my nine year old daughter's new favorite performer - Rigby sings about topics at the center of all of our lives.

In a world of increasingly marginal and crappy music..........2005-11-30

...Amy Rigby just keeps getting better. I thought she had really hit one out of the park, topping her usual already high standards, with "Till the Wheels Fall Off", but this one is, amazingly, even better...You'll laugh, you'll cry. Nobody does this kind of tragicomic poignancy better, with the exception of Loudon Wainwright III.

Also, if you get the chance to see her live, don't pass it up. She puts on an incredibly rockin', generous and rambling show...

And, if all the above isn't enough to sell you, remember: the woman danced with Joey Ramone!

The Original Desperate Housewife.......2005-11-15

Her best writ since marriage, despair and growing up made her debut a masterpiece a decade ago, and her coolest vocal as well, diary number 5 tackles ex-husbands, ex-wives of new husbands, needy men, dreams of Joey Ramone, all while feeling an infinity with Rasputin. If only Oprah understood the complexities of real womanhood. A songwriter nonpareil, with only Lucinda as a peer. Sheryl Crow could learn a few [dozen] lessons. Why isn't this woman a star with 8 Grammy's and 10 million in the bank? Oh, yeah...the better for her lovers, like me. My grade: A

she got back up again.......2005-09-08

I didn't think she could top her last album but she did. INCREDIBLE. "Rasputin" is the kind of song Lou Reed should be writing. And it gets better and better from there...one killer track after another. This is her most powerful album yet. Every song is right in your face. It's fun, yet serious. Hooks galore. Great production. Super-tight band. Complete success.

Rolling Stone Magazine Review.......2005-09-01

For nearly a decade, this divorced, middle aged New York mom has been turning out pop-wise confessionals with the consistancy and charm of a Nashville Pro - most notably on her 1996 debut "Dairy Of A Mod Housewife". On her fifth album she makes pretty, witty out of brutal honesty and some apparently deserved bitterness. Wether comparing herself to Rasputin or dreaming of quality time with Joey Ramone, her biting humor and often bouyant melodies ensure that "Little Fugitive" never gets mopey or precious.

Billboard Magazine Review

On the first track of singer/songwriter Amy Rigby's fifth album, the one-time "mod housewife" wittily compares herself to czarist Russia's most infamous and rakish character. Odd entrance? Seemingly so, but the sly humor and infectious melody of "Like Rasputin" demands repeat spins. The rest of the 12-song package is equally rewarding, whether Rigby is questioning why her new husband's ex-wife has become a friend ("The Trouble With Jeanie"), dreaming of punk dancing with Joey Ramone or brilliantly tapping into the psychedelic sonics of "Revolver"-era Beatles ("So You Know Now"). Rigby's raw-rockin' delivery and fed-up-with-cheap-crap themes are most prominent, yet she also plays it jaunty on "Needy Men," Roche-like folky with the harmony-rich "Girls Got It Bad" and nostalgic on "Always With Me." Recorded in two days in New York with guitarist Jon Graboff as co-producer, "Little Fugitive" is one of the best pop/rock albums of the year. -Dan Ouellette

Nelson Eddy: Operatic Arias and Concert Songs

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Nelson Eddy-Operatic Arias & Concert Songs
Eddy Sings Opera!...Mozart...Haydn...Wagner..and More!..Fabulous Find For Fans
Nelson Eddy's operatic recordings
Nelson Eddy : The Opera Years

Nelson Eddy: Operatic Arias and Concert Songs

Manufacturer: Pearl
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004WZTF
Release Date: 2000-11-28

Tracks:

The Marriage Of Figaro: Non Piu Andrai
The Marriage Of Figaro: Se Vuol Ballare
The Creation: Rolling In Foaming Billows
The Creation: Now Heaven In Fullest Glory Shone
Die Meistersinger: Jerum! Jerum! (Cobbler's Song)
Tannhauser: Evening Star
Allerseelen (All Souls' Day)
Zueignung (Devotion)
Schwannengesang No.4: Ser (Standchen)
Ave Maria, Op.52 No.6
Faust: Song Of The Flea
The Nursery, No.5: Child's Evening Prayer
Hopak
Legend: Christ Had A Garden, Op.54 No.5
Pilgrim's Song: O Bless You Forests, Op.47 No.5
None But The Lonely Heart, Op.6 No.6
Don Juan's Ser, Op.38 No.1
Danse Macabre
Herodiade: Vision Fugitive (Fleeting Vision)
Carmen: Chanson Du Toreador

Customer Reviews:

Nelson Eddy-Operatic Arias & Concert Songs.......2006-08-22

A very good sampling of Nelson Eddy's operatic and concert work.
DVD in good condition.

Eddy Sings Opera!...Mozart...Haydn...Wagner..and More!..Fabulous Find For Fans.......2006-07-20

Fans of Nelson Eddy's classic musical films, will be in heaven when they hear his golden tones on this collection of the Operatic Arias and Concert Songs recorded between 1939 and 1944.
Eddy was not what you would call a booming Baritone, but wow, what a voice. Sweet, smooth, breathtaking. Gorgeous!

His masterful rendition of the Arias, and Concert Songs in Italian, English, German and French are impeccable. Whatever the emotion, sadness, joy, etc, Eddy captures it. You will feel the story in the words.Some are very solemn and moving, others are upbeat and will leave you smiling. Enjoy 2 from Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro"(Non Piu Andrai/Se Vuol Ballare), Haydn's "The Creation",2 from Wagner("Jerum! Jerum"/"Evening Star") ,Moussorgsky, several from Tchaikovsky including "Don Juan's Serenade. You can see the complete list of 20 tracks in the buying info, but some of the other highlights, I thoroughly enjoyed are Schubert's "Serenade" and "Ave Maria", "Chanson Du Toreador", Bizet(from Carmen)and "Hopak"(Moussorgsky).

The original recordings are over 60 years old. This CD is a wonderful digital transfer. The album will give you over 70 minutes of enjoyment. It also come with a nice little bio booklet, detailing the singing career of Nelson Eddy, and the track listings, with the composer and the year Eddy first recorded it. The only thing it is missing, is the credits for the fine orchestras and musicians accompanying Eddy. I would have liked to have known who they were. None the less a fabulous and 5 star find for fans of Nelson Eddy, and a nice taste of some familiar Operatic pieces.

Enjoy....Laurie

Nelson Eddy's operatic recordings.......2004-01-07

This CD contains all of Nelson Eddy's recordings of classical music. However, given that he recorded over 200 songs, this is a small amount of his recorded legacy. Also note that, other than the Mozart (Italian), the Strauss (German), and the last 4 selections in French, the rest of these selections were recorded in English, although Eddy could and did sing them in the original languages. Despite what the previous reviewer said, these recordings are not from "the early years", when Nelson Eddy was an opera singer. These recordings are from the 1940's. Nelson Eddy had performed in his last operas in 1935, and he was almost never associated with actual opera on film. He performed yearly in concerts, solely of classical repertoire, from before his national fame, until the early 1950's. He was a very popular radio performer in the 1930's and 1940's. He sang many more operatic pieces/classical songs on radio (usually in their original language) which he never recorded. I, for one, regret that he did not record more from his classical repertoire, because that essential part of appreciating his art is mostly gone forever. My point is, that these songs do not give a full sense of the wide range of Eddy's work in the non-popular areas of song.
The liner notes are pretty good, although there are some errors in them.

Nelson Eddy : The Opera Years.......2001-10-01

Ah Sweet Mystery. A trip back in time. Is there any music medium Nelson Eddy did not excel in? First opera, concerts, movies, radio, tv, nightclubs. He was the master of them all. This is a great introduction to the early years when he was opera's leading and most exciting baritone.

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A bit of pop and screaming is all you need
Catchy but original
WOW
I'd give it more stars if I could
Must Have

There Will Be Blood Tonight
The Divorce
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ASIN: B000095J11
Release Date: 2003-05-20

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The Man Moan
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Knife And Kids
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Samoa's Revenge
Redcoats
The Force Of The Iron Cobra
Save It For The Judge
The Acadamy
Breaker Breaker

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Mixed for radio play, this is a very stylized debut with a lot going on for it, though little seems to cohere. This Seattle-based trio has the Das Damen problem: They have good ideas, they're just too young to make them work yet; meanwhile they're not dumb enough (or sure enough in their abilities) to just sit down and write straightforward pop songs. "Redcoats" underlines the basic struggle of this band: the strident, Fugazi-ish vocal delivery in the song's verses doesn't jibe with the herky-jerky, Gang of Four-ten-times-removed rhythms. The song's chorus, meanwhile, is pure pop-punk genius. One hopes that with time, they'll be able to deliver more than There Will Be Blood Tonight's mostly-pleasant, though often haphazard, collage of emo, punk rock, and New Wave clichés. --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews:

A bit of pop and screaming is all you need.......2005-09-13

I've seen The Divorce several times (8 times to be exact)and these boys know how to entertain an audience. Their sound is a far cry from what the Seattle music scene was labeled as, grunge. The anthemic chorus line of Breaker Breaker makes me want to raise my fist in the air. One of my favorite tracks on the album is Samoa's Revenge, a hard rock guitar driven madness backed up by bassist Jimmy Kurran's infectious screaming. This debut album is a non-stop headbopping machine and I highly recommend it.

Catchy but original.......2005-06-16

I got this CD from my sister for christmas. I was skeptical at first, but then after i listenend to it for a while i fell in love. The bands music really sticks with you. Its an awesome CD to listen to when you wanna rock out, but its not super hardcore headbanger stuff. I love it, especially the lyrics because they are so rightous and original.

WOW.......2005-02-21

I just saw them live last night while they were opening for Vendetta Red and My God they were amazing. I had only heard of them when I saw them and I had never heard one of their songs. Perhaps that's why I have such a huge appreciation for them. They sound 10x better live, but they're great. Redcoats is by far my favorite, but they're all amazing. They're just fun and energetic in both their music and their live performance. A great album.

I'd give it more stars if I could.......2004-09-18

This is an AMAZING CD...after listening to it a couple of times it gets better and better and you always want to hear it playing. I have seen them live-they are a great band to watch. Save it For the Judge is my favorite song, but it's hard to pick a second one because they are all good. This is one of the few CDs I listen to without skiping over a song or two.

Must Have.......2004-06-22

This is an amazing album. It may take a few listens to really begin to enjoy it. But once you do it will be HARD to take out of your CD player.

The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology

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The Best Country Singer Ever! (and a GREAT CD)
Authentic, enjoyable, and classic Country-Western music
probably the 2nd best Merle Haggard collection
Good Overview
The best Merle Haggard collection from his best period

The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology
Merle Haggard
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Release Date: 1995-03-21

Tracks:

Sing A Sad Song
Sam Hill
Just Between The Two Of Us
(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can
Swinging Doors
The Bottle Let Me Down
The Fugitive
Someone Told My Story
I Threw Away The Rose
Branded Man
Sing Me Back Home
The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde
Today I Started Loving You Again
Mama Tried
I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am
Hungry Eyes
Workin' Man Blues
Okie From Muskogee
The Fightin' Side Of Me

Tracks:

Street Singer
Jesus, Take A Hold
I Can't Be Myself
Sidewalks Of Chicago
Soldier's Last Letter
Someday We'll Look Back
Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
Carolyn
Grandma Harp
It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
I Wonder If They Ever Think Of Me
Everybody's Had The Blues
If We Make It Through December
Things Aren't Funny Anymore
Old Man From The Mountain
Kentucky Gambler
It's All In The Movies
The Roots Of My Raising
Cherokee Maiden
A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today

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Of the 40 songs included in this two-CD overview, 39 made the country charts and a remarkable 22 peaked at No. 1. The collection opens with four early Tally hits, but Haggard truly hits his stride when he begins penning his own songs for Capitol in 1965. Songs of family and faith accompany honky-tonk drinking anthems, incendiary (if not sarcastic) anti-hippie rants, and poignant stories of rebellion, prison life, and loneliness. Backed by the talented Strangers, Haggard created an emotionally honest and directly delivered style of country that, along with Buck Owens's work, came to define the Bakersfield sound. The drawback of focusing on Hag's original hits, however, is the omission of his inspired tributes to legends such as Jimmie Rodgers. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

The Best Country Singer Ever! (and a GREAT CD).......2004-11-18

This is a terrific CD! It's so good that it will make you want to buy more of Merle Haggard. He is, in my opinion, the best country music singer ever. Goodbye Hank Williams, goodbye Johnny Cash, goodbye Waylon Jennings, and goodbye Tracy Byrd. Merle Haggard is the best!

Authentic, enjoyable, and classic Country-Western music.......2004-02-03

As country music has grown in popularity, my dislike of it has grown. As the public has embraced such performers as Garth Brooks and all those who followed in his wake, the more the genre has loosened its grip on my imagination. For me, real country music means George Jones, Left Frizzell, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams (not Jr.), Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Snow, the Louvin Brothers, the young Dolly Parton, and a host of other classic country performers.

Today's country music strikes me as rootless, as emanating from nowhere in particular. Most of my relatives come from Arkansas hill country, as rural as they come. If they had decided to leave for California in the 1930s, they could easily have passed for the Arkies in THE GRAPES OF WRATH. But there was a genuine, visceral connection between the music they listened to and their lives. Not so today. What real connection do Brooks and Dunn have with country folk? I admire the Dixie Chicks for their political stand, and I don't dislike their music, but they seem more urban than country.

Merle Haggard is the real deal. You listen to him and you are convinced that he knows about picking cotton and driving a tractor. He sounds like one familiar with outhouses and tin roofs and gravel roads an army of flies on a front porch in the middle of July. The experiences are real, and the emotions are real. Perhaps he has never been himself a hunted fugitive, but his background and life helps him sell it.

This isn't polished country, not by today's all-too-slick standards. But it is tremendously real. I won't defend every song on the album. Some of the songs border on corn; "Okie from Muskogee" represents the worst form of patriotism (though he has largely redeemed himself in this regard with his recent song about the injustices done by the current government in sending the troops to Iraq for unjustified reasons). But the songs are consistently good, and several are great, and Merle's singing always strong and deeply emotional.

Not all of the current generation of country singers have forsaken the country tradition. Iris Dement would have been marvelous in whatever decade she was in (a fellow Arkie, I might add). But I think by and large most young performers would produce better country music if they took Merle Haggard as their inspiration rather than the pabulum performers infesting the airwaves today.

probably the 2nd best Merle Haggard collection.......2002-11-04

this collection covers Haggard's Capitol recordings very well, but the "Down Every Road" box is more comprehensive and a better value

Good Overview.......2001-09-29

Merle Haggard is experiencing a major revival in the music world. It began with the release of two tribute albums recorded by many of the new generation of country artists. Now a slew of reissues have been released - one of the most comprehensive of which is this two-disc ANTHOLOGY. Its forty tracks covers his formative years on the small Tally label from 1963-1964 and his subsequent move in 1965 to the Capitol label where Haggard became one of the greatest artists in country music history. Nearly every single from this period was included, along with a few well-chosen B-sides, such as his oft-covered "Today I Started Loving You Again."

At Tally, Haggard was merely an interpreter (especially the work of Liz Anderson). Upon joining Capitol, Haggard the writer immediately began to emerge. His early writing was firmly rooted in the standard country themes of cheating ("Swinging Doors") and drinking ("The Bottle Let Me Down"). From here he moved on to more autobiographical fare. "A Branded Man" and "Sing Me Back Home" brought attention to Haggard's stay in San Quentin while "Mama Tried" and "Hungry Eyes" captured his turbulent youth. With "Okie From Muskogee" and "Fightin' Side Of Me," Haggard spouted some right-wing anthems (the former which may or may not have been written in jest).

As the second disc reveals, Haggard really came into his own in the '70s as a highly observant writer. He covered religion ("Jesus, Take A Hold"), lost love ("Someday We'll Look Back," "It's All In The Movies") and surrogate love ("It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad")), and even working class struggles ("Working Man Blues," "A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today"). He also created some colorful country characters with "Daddy Frank (the Guitar Man)," "Grandma Harp," and "The Old Man From The Mountain." Including the inane "Cherokee Maiden" (not a Haggard original) lowers the quality of this collection quite a bit, but overall ANTHOLOGY is a very satisfying overview of Haggard's early and peak musical years.

The best Merle Haggard collection from his best period.......2001-09-22

Merle Haggard is one of the true giants of country music; if they built a Mount Rushmore of male country legends, he'd certainly be one of the heads, along with Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, and George Jones. Of all the anthologies out there, the best and most concise choice has to be this collection, "The Lonesome Fugitive."

First of all, it collects all the major singles from his years with Capitol Records. I should warn you that his tenure at Capitol is considered to be one of the greatest, most consistent bodies of work in country music, and real die-hard fans of Merle often end up buying most if not all his albums from this period. But, if you want a "best of" that skims the cream of the crop, this is the place to go.
The title track, "Okie From Muskogee," "Working Man Blues"...almost all these tracks are country music classics of the traditional sort. No countrypolitan, no orchestral arrangements...this is rootsy music with a hard kick to it (some critics like Dave Marsh and the compiler, Jimmy Guterman, even qualify this stuff as rock music). Lyrically, Haggard proves himself to be on the best in country. He sings about the working class, politics ( "Okie From Muskogee" can either be seen as satire or a right-wing anthem, depending on your view), and even criminals. In all of his songs, he uses eloquent words and sings a hard truth without embellishing too much or getting too sentimental. On top of all that, this collection has great sound, thanks to that amazing audiophile, mastering engineer, Steve Hoffman.

One may wish to get the three CD box set that covers the same time period, or even pick up the albums themselves (Merle made great tribute albums, and you'll definitely want to check out the ones he made to Jimmie Rodgers and Bob Wills). But, if you just want a good overview or a good entry point, you can't possibly go wrong with "The Lonesome Fugitive" collection.

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