Document

Document

ASIN: B00005BKYM

Track Listings

1. Heavy Resin

2. Aliens (Ripped My Face Off)

3. Palladium

4. Johnny Swing

5. Nothing Personal

6. Minor Shuffle

Editorial Reviews
Modern Drummer Magazine, June 2001
"Many will consider this to be his best live fusion recording to date. Vinnie takes each style to new heights."

Product Description
Featuring Vinnie Colaiuta, David Garfield, Neil Stubenhaus and Mike Landau

Recorded live on tour in Europe, this CD captures the fiery creativity of a truly great band and demonstrates why each of these musicians holds a place among the most in-demand players in the world. Every song features soloing and ensemble playing of the very highest order and includes come of Vinnie's most explosive performances.

*Minor Shuffle is also available on the Modern Drummer Festival 2000 Video and DVD and there is play-along chart available for download on the Hudson Music web site.

Document

Tracks:

Finest Worskong
Welcome to the Occupation
Exhuming McCarthy
Disturbance at the Heron House
Strange
It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I feel fine)
The One I Love
Fireplace
Lightnin' Hopkins
King of Birds
Oddfellows Local 151

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Singer Michael Stipe finally confesses that even he doesn't know what he's trying to say--among the lines flying by are "tryin' to tell you something we don't know" and "there's something going on that's not quite right." But R.E.M.'s roar is at its sharpest, as Peter Buck's guitars twist up surf riffs and the Bill Berry-Mike Mills rhythm section captures the force of forebears Big Star and the Byrds. After half a decade of college-rock heroism, R.E.M. achieved its first hit album thanks to the rambling "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" and the gentle (but subtly barbed) "The One I Love." --Steve Knopper

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Customer Reviews:

Ends the I.R.S. days on a high note.......2007-07-05

After years of being virtually unknown away from the indie/college scene, R.E.M. makes a break for the pros thanks to commercial breakthroughs like "The One I Love" and "It's the End of the World As We Know It." And unlike their next album, these hits were actually pretty darn good! This is an eclectic R.E.M. at their best; consistency in sound and mood reigns over their other great albums, but this one feels thrown together with purpose and sense. It also continues the progression towards a clearer, richer production that started with Pageant; too bad the overall quality can't match the previous record.

Because this effort does a good job of straddling their indie and popular phases, this is a good entry point for R.E.M. starters (along with Automatic). No one said that message songs need to be drab and somnolent, but is the goofy pop hook on "Exhuming McCarthy" really the best choice? And thus is the quarrel with Document: it's already pushing for the slick sound when the music would be better suited with an edge. Despite the hiccups, there are several quality moments here, and still a good choice for fans and newbies alike. "Disturbance At the Heron House," "King of Birds," and the aforementioned hits are the best bets.

Best cuts: "The One I Love," "Disturbance At the Heron House," "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)," "King of Birds," "Finest Worksong," "Strange," "Welcome to the Occupation," "Lightnin' Hopkins"

Document of a Great Band at their Peak.......2007-03-06

R.E.M. one of the few good bands of the '80's (along with U2 and a few others), and this is arguably the best record of the decade, not to mention easily the best thing the group ever did. This was also the group's breakthrough, containing their first Top 40 hit: The One I Love, which can best be described as Led Zeppelin filtered through The Byrds, only without each group's bad elements - none of the former's brainless lyrics or the latter's ill-advised forays into psychedelia. The One I Love happens to be their best song, with a jangly riff, simple yet cryptic lyrics (I'm with Michael Stipe's interpretation about how it's people who use others over and over, but that's just me), and a dramatic ending. Hit #2 was It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine) - Subterranean Homesick Blues for the information age, namechecking everyone from Lester Bangs to Lenny Bruce (Right? Right!) and featuring what may very well be the best sing-along refrain of all time. There have been several, let me add. Finest Worksong also got, and deserved plenty of attention - a straight ahead rock 'n' roller that's uncharacteristic of the group's classic sound, but rocks just the same. Some of this has been unjustly overlooked, though: King of Birds is an experiment with Indian instrumentation and rhythms that works better than most others do, calling to mind similar-sounding Beatles tracks such as Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown). Continuing in the bird thing, there's also the disquieting Disturbance at the Heron House. Plus this contains one of the group's most experimental tracks, period: Exhuming McCarthy, which works in keyboards, horns and even a vocal sample of Joseph Welch damming McCarthy. Pretty creative, and one of the best here. Strange and Fireplace (both featuring Michael Stipe's ill-advised hard-rock singer impression) don't really work out, but the rest does. It's too bad R.E.M. sold out RIGHT after this release, seeing just how good it is.

REM5 Document CD.......2007-01-16

Product was in excellent shape, Item cost & shipping were reasonably priced, and arrived in a very timely manner considering I ordered it late in the 2006 holiday season. Thank you AMAZON.

The manifesto.......2006-12-01

The most aptly-titled R.E.M. album, this is really, in a nutshell, the mission statement if you will of the band. Using this album as a base of comparison, a person can listen to each of its other albums and get an appropriate read of the test subject's poppiness, or its political tone, or almost whatever angle they want to look at.
It's their manifesto, if you will, and the album which (appropriately so) everything after would be compared to due to the fact that it is the album first widely accepted by both the college radio and pop radio communities as well as critics.
Starting with the songs (almost) everyone knows, "The One I Love" and "The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" are staples of classic modern rock, and deservedly so. Michael Stipe could really be singing the alphabet in "The One I Love" and I wish that people would get over the issue of it begin a misunderstood song. It's the MUSIC and vocal melody of it that made it great. Pete Buck's guitar in that song is likely his most memorable single lick, and the dynamics of the song (from subdued verses to screaming chorus) paved the way for a lot of later pop music by many alt acts (Nirvana in particular).
"The End of the World..." has admittedly devolved over the years into a frat-party favorite, but that's not R.E.M.'s fault. It remains one of the best takes on apocalypse I've ever heard. Bring it on...
But as per usual the hits (both real and imagined) aren't the best songs on an R.E.M. album, and they're certainly not the most important ones on Document.
"Welcome To The Occupation" and "Disturbance At The Heron House", as well as "Oddfellows Local 151" and "Exhuming McCarthy" are the best examples of sociopolitical songwriting the band ever had. This is perhaps due to the fact the band became so big (and thus less on the pulse of the everyday man) on subsequent releases. These four, and in particular the first two listed, are among my personal favorites of the band's career.
1987 was a huge year for alternative rock, perhaps the biggest between 1976 and 1991. Key releases by many artists (U2's The Joshua Tree, INXS's Kick, 10,000 Maniacs' In My Tribe, The Replacements' Pleased To Meet Me) really pushed the genre toward the end of that decade with more energy than gathered at one point prior.
Document was at the center of that push, and is a must-own for not just alt. rock fans, but really anyone who studies and enjoys the development of pop music in America.

'Document' of Brilliance.......2006-09-11

'Document' is arguably R.E.M.'s best album. That's a pretty bold statement, considering R.E.M. has had the best roll of studio albums of any group since the Beatles. Now just like the latter, critics and fans could easily pick out 'Murmur,' 'Out of Time,' and 'Automatic for the People' as their magnum opus; however, there is at least enough evidence to put 'Document' at least among their top works.

It must be conceded that not all of the lyrics make sense. However, it doesn't take too much scholarship to point out that the theme of reform is in every corner on every song. (Notice, too, the image of fire is a major thread in several songs.) There's the call to justice and equality on the opener "Finest Worksong". With troubadour vocals and Peter Buck's blaring guitar, it is a majestic anthem. Then, U.S. policy in South America is addressed in "Welcome to the "Occupation," a stirring protest with beautiful, intricate guitars and spare, poignant lyrics. "Exhuming McCarthy" stirs up the smugness of the newly rich and arrogant. With bright instrumentation, it is a perfectly pleasing piece of pop music. Next, "Disturbance at the Heron House" gets confused, but it seems to speak about environmentalism, equality, and Darwinism in the same breath. Shimmering musically, Michael Stipe's needling vocals zero in on the subject matter like few songs previously. The variety is remarkable and the energy is laudable, but their next two numbers outdo both with "Strange," an honest caveat about dangerous drugs, and, especially, with "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)". The latter is played and sung like it's Armageddon. The lyrics are presented like rap with a trajectory the genre usually lacks. Bill Berry's drumming, Michael's annunciation, and Mike Mill's and Peter's playing come together synergistically for what has to be their all time best song. The second half isn't a slouch either. "The One I Love," their first top ten hit, is beautiful for its devotion, angst, and able guitar. "Fireplace" continues the theme of reform with an able commentary about the church or state, or a similar organization. The extended metaphor and the firey saxophone work together well in one their better written songs for this outing. "Lightning Hopkins" continues the firey language and skilled musicianship, delivering a scathing sermon. One of the most dramatic moments starts off slowly. The truly eloquent "King of Birds," a beautiful, soaring song articulately speaks of a vision of flight from oppression. Then, the fire of reform is also given some its most idiosyncratic treatment on the finale "Oddfellows 151," a stab at some decadent group or another.

The energy, variety, and concept all solidify 'Document'. Also, the recent acquisition of producer Scott Litt enabled the band to reach heights not known previously. What a trek they took from their brilliant debut 'Murmur' to this expert classic! 'Document' has to be one of the top ten albums of all time.

Complete Recorded Works of Son House & the Great Delta Blues Singers

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WARNING TO JSP COLLECTORS
Son House was the grandaddy of 'em all!
great, great collection
Great Stuff, Some Repeats
Awesome

Complete Recorded Works of Son House & the Great Delta Blues Singers
Son House
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Customer Reviews:

WARNING TO JSP COLLECTORS.......2007-05-30

First of all, this is a great album, but I wanted to issue a warning to those that like to get the JSP Box Sets. Songs 1-9 are on the Charlie Patton JSP Box set. Blind Joe's "Outside Woman Blues", and "Nehi Blues", as well as all of the Rube Lacy selections are on the Paramount masters JSP Box Set. I'm not really sure about the remainder of the material. Still it's a great album & a great listen (If nothing else, I could use it in my car).

Son House was the grandaddy of 'em all!.......2006-04-16

If you're interested in the blues roots of rock, you've come to the right place. Son House laid down tracks that have echoed down to this day, and he may have been the first true wellspring of what became rock. I've been a listener and collector of what's now called classic rock for more than 40 years, and I have never found an earlier or truer original source than Son House. With all the fuss being bestowed on Robert Johnson these days, here's a clue: Son House taught RJ how to play! Listen to this album and hear the foreshadowings of ALL the great music to come... Truly great guitar pickin', and a voice as rough, plain and honest as Mississippi dirt clods... You may not want to put this album on Infinite Repeat, but you will not walk away unimpressed or unmoved. IMHO, Son House truly deserves the title of Great Grandaddy of Rock!

great, great collection.......2006-02-25

son house is one of the most amazing musicians to ever live. that much has been said, and that much is true. "my black mama tracks" along with "mississippi jailhouse blues" are particularly impressive. the other son house songs are amazing as well, but you do have to get beyond the scratchy recordings. that said, i highly encourage you to take the effort; if you do, you'll treat yourself to some of the finest music ever created.

but the fun doesn't stop with son. all the willie brown and kid bailey [same person? maybe] tracks are amazing. "future blues" and "rowdy blues" are jaw-droppingly good though. you've never heard a song like "future blues." i promise. and if you have, tell me where; i'd love to get more.

other highlights, among a collection full of highlights, are joe calicott's "fare thee well blues" and blind willie reynolds "third street woman blues."

needless to say, i'd encourage anyone to get this.

Great Stuff, Some Repeats.......2005-01-30

Son House is essential to any blues collection. And as is usually the case with pre-war blues artists, Son's early stuff is better than the 60's revival stuff. That said, the company put songs on here by other artists that already appear on Mississippi Masters--which I also highly reccomend, especially for Geechie Wiley's "Last Kind Words." This CD would be 5-star and beyond if it weren't for those repeated songs.

Awesome.......2003-12-10

"Son House & The Great Delta Blues Singers" isn't entirely devoted to Son House. There are cuts by several other musicians, including Rube Lacy, Joe Calicott, and House's onetime playing partner Willie Brown, but this disc, which contains Son House's complete 1930 session, is the best place to get his earliest songs.
The sound quality is not excactly stellar, mainly due to the inferior quality of Columbia Records' original masters and horrible quality pressings, yet the power and intensity of Son House's huge voice and slashing slide guitar playing cuts through the pops and hisses like...well, a cutting thing.
Also, this CD is one of the very few which features both the previously unreleased test acetate of "Walking Blues" (the basis for Robert Johnson's song, not the other way around), and the second parts of House's three two-part singles. Listen to "My Black Mama part II", and you'll recognize it as the original version of "Death Letter Blues", complete with House's magnificent, wailing slide guitar riff.

House's seven songs are the highlights of this collection, but there is a lot of other stuff here which is certainly of interest to fans of classic Delta blues. The gruff-voiced Willie Brown's two cuts are almost as powerful as Son House's, particularly the great "Future Blues" (listen to Brown snapping the bass strings).
And fine waxings by Kid Bailey and Joe Reynolds in particular makes this a great collection of Delta blues as recorded by Paramount Records in 1929-30.

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The Complete Recordings Of Tommy Johnson
As good as it gets.
Essential!
One of the Most Unique of the Early Blues Players
The Victor tracks are worth the price of the CD

Complete Recorded Works (1928-1929)
Thomas "Snake" Johnson
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Release Date: 1994-05-27

Tracks:

Cool Drink OF Water Blues
Big Road Blues
Bye-Bye Blues
Maggie Campbell Blues
Canned Heat Blues
Lonesome Home Blues (Take 1)
Lonesome Home Blues (Take 2)
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I Wonder To Myself
Slidin' Delta
Lonesome Home Blues
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Evidence of the strange genius of Mississippi bluesman Tommy Johnson is limited to 17 recordings from two late-1920s sessions. It is the first of these, for the Victor Company, that produced the recordings upon which Johnson's lofty reputation rests. Sung in a husky falsetto, somewhere between an African field holler and an Alpine yodel, "Cool Drink of Water Blues" stands atop a pinnacle in the richly inventive Delta blues tradition with younger cousin Robert Johnson's "Hellhound on My Trail" and Skip James's "Devil Got My Woman." "Canned Heat Blues" is a bittersweet paean to the older Johnson's penchant for imbibing tins of jellied kerosene, and was a modest hit in that era's "race record" market. Also notable from his 1928 session were the influential "Maggie Campbell Blues," "Big Road Blues," and "Big Fat Mama Blues," while the recently discovered Paramount session was remarkable for "Slidin' Delta" and "I Wonder to Myself." --Alan Greenberg

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The Complete Recordings Of Tommy Johnson.......2006-11-10

Tommy Johnson was one of the most unique and influential delta blues men in the history of American music. He has inspired such artists as Howlin' Wolf, Houston Stackhouse, and Robert Nighthawk.
The Complete recorded works of Tommy Johnson is essential to all lovers of blues and American roots music.
Sadly Johnson only recorded 17 classic sided and they are all present on this collection. The sound qualitiy is also superior to previous releases of these tracks. If you only have a few Tommy Johnson tracks on various compilations, it is worth the price to have them all in chronological order as they are presented on this disc. You get to hear what a dynamic artist Johnson was and how he took the influence of Delta greats Charlie Patton and Ishmon Bracey, and even the falseto vocal stlylings of Jimmy Rodgers, and turned them into something totally unique and timeless.
A must have.
-Devon Wendell

As good as it gets........2006-05-12

I have been a blues fan for forty years, and have listened to just about everybody, from Ma Rainey to Susan Tedeschi, with Muddy Waters and Lightning Hopkins on the way. Nobody is better than Tommy Johnson. Nobody at all. Johnson's great reputation is based on a pitifully small collection of recordings, over half of which were put out on the dreaded Paramount label (Paramount is the despair of blues fans -- on the plus side, without the label we might never have had recordings from Charley Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake, early Skip James and early Son House, to name only a few: on the other hand, we are constantly tantalized and frustrated by what we might have had if the company's recording standards had been of even average quality for the time {i.e., late 1920s-mid 1930s} instead of awful beyond description). In any case, the eight Victor sides Tommy Johnson made in 1928, and in particular Big Road Blues, Maggie Campbell Blues, Cool Drink of Water Blues and Canned Heat Blues are at the absolute acme of blues recordings. In terms of emotional power, intensity and sheer brilliance, I have never heard anybody in the blues genre I have thought to be Johnson's equal. I believe that you have to go to some of the great American jazz masters such as Louis Armstrong or Charlie Parker to find adequate comparisons.

This Document Records compilation is an absolute necessity for any serious collector of the blues, and particularly of early blues. There were many great bluesmen named Johnson: Robert, Blind Willie and Lonnie to name the best known. However, if you can only take one "Johnson" record down that Big Road, Tommy's is the one to take.

Essential!.......2004-04-12

Before Robert Johnson came along, and long before Son House started spreading the rumour that he (Johnson) had sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his abilities on the guitar, a man fifteen years Robert Johnson's senior ever so often implied that his immense talent came as the result of a midnight deal with Old Scracth.

Thomas Johnson was born in 1896 down in the Mississippi Delta, and though his name is not as well known as those of Charlie Patton, Son House, and Robert Johnson (no relation), he was one of the most important prewar bluesmen, and certainly one of the most talented.
He was also an uncontrolled alcoholic, and the fact that he lived to see sixty is something of a miracle. His "Canned Heat Blues" is certainly autobiographical, and his contemporaries have told about Johnson straining shoe polish through a slice of white bread in order to extract the alcohol.

But his music is something to behold. Johnson sounds totally immersed in it, his voice possessing an eerie quality enhanched by his occational falsetto moans, and this disc includes the original versions of "Maggie Campbell Blues", "Big Road Blues", and "Cool Drink Of Water Blues" (later recorded by Howlin' Wolf as "I Asked For Water (she gave me gasoline)").

Johnson plays alone on a few songs, but on most of these seventeen sides (which comprise his entire recorded legacy) he is backed by one or more additional musicians, most often a second guitarist. The first eight sides, Tommy Johnson's Victor sides from 1928, boast amazing sound quality...much (much!) better than Charlie Patton's or Son House's contemporary recordings, they're clean and crisp with just a little static, and every phrase and every instrument is clearly heard. Johnson was a talented and quite original guitar player, and it is a delight to be able to hear him so well.

The Paramount sides, on the other hand, are...well, Paramount sides. Much inferior in sound quality to the Victor sides, they are nevertheless well worth a listen, particularly "Alcohol And Jake Blues" and the battered "Lonesome House Blues".
On the best of these songs, Johnson's voice is positively frightening, and his "Cool Drink Of Water" is the sound of pure despair. This is some of the starkest, most powerful music you'll ever hear.

One of the Most Unique of the Early Blues Players.......2004-02-10

Tommy Johnson and Charlie Patton are perhaps two of the most unique and innovative rural blues players to have ever lived. As where Patton's style is coarse and rough, Johnson's style (at least when he is at his best) is incredibly smooth. Also Johnson's unique falsetto (which is yodel like at times) is amazing. These recordings bare witness to his talent even after nearly a century. It is a shame that these recordings are all that there is.

The Victor tracks are worth the price of the CD.......2003-06-18

I agree with the other reviewers, this is a must for any serious fan of the blues, but be prepared for the songs recorded by Paramount, which I found, at first listen, to border on inaudible (which is why I am docking this CD a star). This morning, however, I was listening to them again, and got into them more. That being said, the Victor tracks are unforgettable and worth the price of the CD all by themselves. ... I suspect that when Tommy sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads, the Devil said, "Fine. I'll make you a great guitarplayer BUT half of the music you lay down is going to sound like you were playing outside in a hailstorm." Tommy probably smiled and said, "That's OK because I won't be around long. Just keep me stocked in 'canned heat,' brother." All joking aside, I urge you to check it this seminal music.

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Memphis Blues 1928-1935
Robert Wilkins
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This one's the best After Midnight

Document

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Two disc set (CD + NTSC/Region 0 DVD) documentary/interview package from the U.S. Goth Rockers. Features interviews with the band members plus archival footage. There is no Evanescence music on the CD or DVD, but there is more than enough surprises to keep the fans happy and entertained. Chrome Dreams. 2007.

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This one's the best After Midnight.......2007-07-05

This item is titled The Document on the cd case but is titled After Midnight on the the actual dvd.I was dupped into buying all three copies of After Midnight,two titled under different names Broken and The Document,all titled After Midnight when you watch the dvd.Of all,I would suggest The Document because it includes a cd with interviews from Amy Lee,Terry Balsamo,and Ben Moody.But if you want it for the cover art After Midnight is your best choice,there is an actual pic of Amy singing on the front,I can't tell if the eye on Broken is her's or not.I guess it's pretty cool.I appreciated the interview cd but was dissapointed to have my second copy of After Midnight.

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Essential Listening for Blues Lovers

Complete Recorded Works (1931)
Skip James
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Album Details

Skip James Complete 1931 Recordings in Chronological Order (18 Tracks).

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Essential Listening for Blues Lovers.......2007-02-08

Early Skip James music is paradigmatic: it was made by a unique artist with his own unique character who was not playing by the numbers or emulating someone else. He is one of the cornerstones of the blues. Listen to it carefully and you'll hear colors that no other blues musician used. Essential.

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Manchester '77
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Medley: Hound Dog/Hambone
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"It was the kind of piano playing that I had always wanted to hear, but never had. It was Ray Charles on the level of Chopin. It was all the soul, all the groove, and all the technique in the universe packed into one unbelievable player." -- Offbeat

Previously unreleased private recording--Booker fans will relish this unheard material!

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The live feeling!

"Ok, Dawg, so check it out...", as Randy Jackson would say

Agreed! Drums-strong, compositions-weak

The Ultimate Fusion Album

Drums - strong, compositions - weak.

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Minor Shuffle

Album Description

Featuring Vinnie Colaiuta, David Garfield, Neil Stubenhaus and Mike Landau

*Minor Shuffle is also available on the Modern Drummer Festival 2000 Video and DVD and there is play-along chart available for download on the Hudson Music web site.

Customer Reviews:

The live feeling!.......2007-02-06

High quality live recorded CD. Just like hearing them live at Smuget/ Oslo. Landau is great, and the rest of the pack follow closely.

"Ok, Dawg, so check it out...", as Randy Jackson would say.......2006-03-17

Someone said in a previous review, "Vinnie shows the listener that he can play this type of music too." Maybe I'm arguing for the sake of argument, but to say that is like saying, "Hey you know what? Peanut butter has recently proven that he can hang with regular butter as a compliment to jelly." He hasn't proven anything, and he has nothing else to prove. That's what he DOES. He was one of the two guys asked to play at the Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony for Steve Gadd, who, if you are not familiar, is only the greatest studio drummer to walk the face of the earth, prior to Vinnie. Vinnie is basically first call for any gig, whether it be Straight-ahead jazz, bop, jazz-fusion, rock, hip-hop, fusion, afro-cuban, pop top 40, easy listening, rap, country, you name it. He has played it. He was even on Megadeath's latest record. You getting my drift? If a real drummer is desired, so is Vinnie. He doesn't need to prove anything to ignorant listeners. You know, if you haven't heard him play this type of music before, then just say, "Man, I've never heard him play this type of music before. I love it, and I've obviously got a lot more music to listen to." But don't act like you know something nobody else does. He's played with Landau 100,000 times, and it's almost always this type of music. He studied at Berklee School of Music under Gary Chafee, alongside Steve Smith, who played with Journey, then everybody else, including their cousins, twin sisters, great aunts and pet sasquatches. THIS guy isn't even quite as accomplished as Vinnie in his struggle for world domination of the drum scene, and he's amazing. The only reason Vinnie isn't on every record out there is because he cannot be in more than one place at a time. Here are some people Vinnie has played with, and keep in mind, this is probably about a tenth of what he has actually done.
Sting
John McLaughlin
Megadeath
Chick Corea
Jeff Richman
Michael Landau
Karizma
Allan Holdsworth
Solo project
Frank Zappa
You know what? I don't really have time for this, and neither do you. I just looked up his discography online. Check it out. Seriously. There is so much I didn't know either. http://www.vinniecolaiuta.com/discography.aspx

Agreed! Drums-strong, compositions-weak.......2003-12-03

For some strange reason, I had hope that this would be different than all the other "supergroup" singular outing CDs. As the previous reviewers stated, Vinnie burns on this CD as well as David Garfield but, perhaps it's my age or the fact that I've been a musician for a long time, but I look for interesting and imaginative compositions as opposed to chops displays. If you want a CD that shows how drums are and should be played then, by all means, get this CD. Vinnie once again proves he's from another planet... absolutely mind boggling. Mr. Garfield shows his formidable talents as well but, in my opinion, that's where it ends. The compositions are what you'd expect from a group that probably just spent a couple of days composing these tunes; non-melodic, predictable and when you can't come up with any other ideas, throw endless solos in. Once again, if you want a CD just to hear what Vinnie does, then this is the one. If you want a CD to listen to good music; well... maybe the next "supergroup" will be able to do it.

The Ultimate Fusion Album.......2003-10-14

Today is 14.10.2003 and I own this amazing piece of music since it came out in 2000. I attended two shows from the 1st and 2nd European legs and cannot get enough of it.

"Nothing Personal" is worth only buying the album. Colaiuta and Garfield are aliens and their virtuosity is breathtaking.

On "Document", the four members do not forget to play with passion and feeling. This is not a chops feast for the sake of it. They all displays a huge deal of musicality and taste.

Neil Stubenhaus is the best and most tasteful bass player in the world. Period. (OK I admit I am a HUGE fan of ALL his recordings). He's the ultimate groove master and he swings like crazy. Colaiuta is just weird, wild, amazing... he's Vinnie. One of his most impressive recording from a technical point of view. Mike Landau shines throughout and David Garfield proves that he's one of the best guy who ever sat behind a keyboards. He's a beautifully melodic and emotional player.

The music on this album is a mix of pure fusion and more R&B influenced tune. The strength of "Document" lies in the fact that you do not have to be a musician to enjoy it (I am not and could not play an instrument to save my life :-). Thanks to the musician's huge experience in various styles (they played with people like George Benson, Barbra Streisand, Sting, Michael Bolton, Cher, Larry Carlton, Frank Sinatra, Seal, James Taylor amongst many others), they managed to make the music accessible to "average listeners".

"Document" is, in my opinion, the ultimate fusion album.

Check out David Garfield's solo work and other Karizma recordings at www.creatchy.com (where you can buy them) or www.davidgarfield.com

Drums - strong, compositions - weak........2003-06-20

This album is a great showcase for Vinnie Colaiuta, and his drums SOUND incredible. It is a worthwhile album on this basis. Keyboardist David Garfield, who was new to me with this album, also plays brilliantly on this album. But, with the exception of Palladium, the compositions are definitely weak. And I feel that Michael Landau's guitar is not always appropriate to the tune, and that for my taste, leans excessively towards the rock side of jazz-rock fusion. Too much emphasis on sounding like Hendrix on fire all the time, and not enough on listening to the context and doing something new.

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A Big Surprise
The most important R.E.M. work
REM's big breakthrough
A tasty transition
Average by REM standards

Document
R.E.M.
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005RQE
Release Date: 1992-05-18

Tracks:

Finest Worksong
Welcome To The Occupation
Exhuming McCarthy
Disturbanceat The Heron House
Strange
It's The End Of The World As We Know It(And I Feel
The One I Love
Fireplace
Lighting Hopkins
King Of Birds
Oddfellows Local 151
Finest Worksong(Other Mix)
Last Date
The One I Love(Live)
Time After Time Etc.(Live)
Disturbance At The Heron House
Finest Worksong(Lengthy Club Mix)

Album Description

Mid-priced reissue of the foreign edition of their 1987 landmark album with six bonus tracks added, 'Finest Worksong' (Other Mix), 'Last Date', 'The One I Love' (Live), 'Time After Time Etc.' (Live), 'Disturbance At The Heron House' (Live) and 'Finest Worksong' (Lengthy Club Mix). 17 tracks total, also including their first top 10 hit, 'The One I Love', plus the top 75 'It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)'. The album was their first to make the top 10, their first to go platinum and their last for I.R.S. Records.

Album Details

The Regular Album plus Bonus Tracks Finest Worksong (Other Mix) / Last Date / the One I Love (Live) / Time after Time etc. (Live) / Disturbance at the Heron House (Live) / Finest Worksong (Lengthy Club Mix).

Customer Reviews:

A Big Surprise.......2006-11-02

I actually owned every R.E.M. album but Document until I finally broke down. I had thought the two strongest songs would be "The One I Love" and "It's The End of The World...." Since neither of those songs are rated highly by me, I figured I would be disappointed by this album. Was I ever wrong! There are some great songs here. "Exhuming McCarthy" and "King of Birds" are personal favorites. It's definitely not up to par with what came before it, and some of what came after it, but it's definitely a worthy part of their catalogue.

The most important R.E.M. work.......2004-06-23

Following on from the difficult though rewarding "Fables Of The Reconstruction" and "Life's Rich Pageant", R.E.M.'s final independent release, "Document", stands as the best thing they ever did.

Though R.E.M. have been criticised by some as the offspring of early 1980s pop music, this criticism could never be levelled at what they do on "Document". More than anything else, the music on "Document" is proof of the eccentricity R.E.M. were developing during their years at now-defunct independent label IRS.

Often seen as R.E.M.'s effort at "power pop", "Document" really was and is much, much more than that. The amazingly thing about this album is that the band manages to be incredibly funny on the standout "Exhuming McCarthy" and at the same time develop their musicianship into waters they were never to chart after moving to Warners. The dark "Fireplace" and "Lighning Hopkins" were equally brilliant: ominous, yet amazingly powerful for that.

The more familiar, famously sly "The One I Love" might not quite compare with these three tracks, but still it marks out the direction of their best-selling "Automatic For The People" album five years before the fact. "Finest Worksong", especially in its remixed version found as a bonus track, was a superb tribute to the past folk heroes in America. One can also see just how ironic Stipe wanted to be - and WAS - on "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" - in which he describes so well the realities facing us today.

A record that, though acclaimed in its time, is now often forgotten. Nonetheless, if you can only buy one R.E.M. record, it should be this one.

REM's big breakthrough.......2003-10-26

This album introduced the world to REM. It also showed a huge growth in songwriting and musicianship from their earlier albums (Murmur, Reckoning, etc). This album is known for the huge hits "The One I Love" and "End of the World As We Know It" but top to bottom all the songs here are strong and veryd diverse. Finest Worksong begins the album with intelligent neo-metal, then you get some trademark REM jangle rock. The next curveball is the horn-driven semi-swing of Exhuming McCarthy. The stylistic experiments all work, and you still know it's REM the whole time. This album may not be REMs best (that will be debated between Out Of Time, Automatic for the people and Murmur) but it's just a notch below and a must for any fan of REM and/or rock n roll. ENJOY!!!

A tasty transition.......2002-11-15

This album deftly blends REM's firmly established mysticism with its burgeoning pop sensibilities.
Some of the band's best writing is here on such gems as "Heron House," "Exhuming McCarthy," "End of the World as We Know It" and "Oddfellows." The production is just right.I really like Peter Buck's cow-punkish fret work on this record, and you could sense Michael Stipe coming into his own as a singer. Definitely in the upper register of the REM canon.

Average by REM standards.......2001-10-14

I can understand why this album became their first big hit album. That doesn't mean to say I really like it though. In fact I think it's their second worst album. Their worst being 'Out of Time'.

Even with an average REM album you get some cracking songs. The fans favourite 'It's the end of the world' always brings back happy memories. Other highlights include 'Finest Worksong' (which I do not like personally, but can see its quality), 'Exhuming McCarthy' and one of my favourite, if not my favourite, REM songs, the stunning, 'Welcome to the occupation'.

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Customer Reviews:

holy sh*t!!!.......2005-11-21

Just recently re-released and re-mastered!!! If you ever had the chance to see pg.99 live, there is no doubt in my mind you left the show emotionally and physically drained. Punk, hardcore and grind all rolled into one giant mindfu*k of a band.

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