Let's Get Started

Let's Get Started

ASIN: B00000G4NT

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
On his list of accomplishments, Japanese drummer Gota Yashiki lists programming, playing, or arranging credits with acts from Simply Red and Sinead O'Connor to Depeche Mode and Massive Attack. On Let's Get Started, a nicely diverse assortment of contemporary jazz targeted squarely at a smooth-jazz radio audience, Gota exercises his ability to compose and perform multi-instrumental audio environments that range from banal to stylishly interesting. Oddly, his album's title track is one of his most undistinguished works, whereas selections such as "Riding the Dawn," distinguished by smart sax lines and a polite but addictive groove, and the romantic, sax-fueled "We'd Better Move On" demonstrate his facility at sculpting above-average (and occasionally very worthwhile) fodder for smooth-jazz playlists. --Terry Wood

From Jazziz
Since both contemporary and acid jazz focus on smooth, groove-oriented music, it was just a matter of time before the underground movement's programmed rhythms found their way into contemporary-jazz studios. Gota's Let's Get Started (Instinct) is a perfect example of how these styles have come together. The album finds drummer and programmer Gota Yashiki mixing retro dance grooves with David Sanborn-esque saxophones and Lee Ritenour-flavored guitars.

Tracks:

Let's Get Started
Time, There Will Always Be Time
In The City Life
If I Could
Riding 'Til Dawn
We'd Better Move On
Will You Ever Know
Don't You Tell (It's Too Late)
Island Farewell
No More Tears

Amazon.com

On his list of accomplishments, Japanese drummer Gota Yashiki lists programming, playing, or arranging credits with acts from Simply Red and Sinead O'Connor to Depeche Mode and Massive Attack. On Let's Get Started, a nicely diverse assortment of contemporary jazz targeted squarely at a smooth-jazz radio audience, Gota exercises his ability to compose and perform multi-instrumental audio environments that range from banal to stylishly interesting. Oddly, his album's title track is one of his most undistinguished works, whereas selections such as "Riding the Dawn," distinguished by smart sax lines and a polite but addictive groove, and the romantic, sax-fueled "We'd Better Move On" demonstrate his facility at sculpting above-average (and occasionally very worthwhile) fodder for smooth-jazz playlists. --Terry Wood

Customer Reviews:

Another Great Gota CD.......2006-02-10

This is another great cd of music! Smooth jazz at it's best again, great arrangements & musicianship! Gota is such a great musician it's a shame his music doesn't get much airplay on smooth jazz stations. 'In The City Life' was the jam that got me hook on this cd, this is a must for Gota fans!

Gota - Let's Get Started.......2004-03-19

Gota - Let's Get Started.
Lofty Holloway
London - UK

An enjoyable CD, spent much time listning to this on the old UK radio station, Jazz FM on 102.2 FM, but always wondered if the version that Jazz FM was indeed, the version that was featured on the CD, unless you know diferent @ 4.06".

I could never be that certain as I thought that the version that Jazz FM played had similar intor, and some where alog the track, the rythem and tempo changed, or did it?. Can any one offer their thoughts please?.

ONE OF THE BEST.......2003-06-09

I had almost forgotten about Gota after relocating to another city. After hearing European Comfort (from his first CD) I ordered this one and it instantly has become my favorite Jazz cd.The title cut is infectious and the rest of the set is memorable--only Gota can make a flute sound sexy! An instant classic in my book along with his DAY AND NIGHT cd.

Let's get started... But not with this album........1999-11-13

There's a few catchy tunes here, which in-it-self is a great step forward from the patchy, very disappointing and deeply uninteresting earlier album 'It's so different here' (one or two tracks excepted). Individually played - as on the radio - many of these tracks appear to stand up as a worthwhile listen, but as a whole, this album becomes very tiring. For the most part, Gota appears to set up a straight 4/4 pattern, then simply go at it hammer and tongs for the duration of the track. Many non-drummers do better with tape loops or drum machines, at least making an effort to include some variety and thus create/maintain interest. In these days where many smooth jazz artists resort to mechanical drum machine patterns, it seems a great shame Gota seems quite content to emulate one, rather than use these opportunities as a showcase to demonstrate some true 'live drumming' talent - i.e. playing with feeling. Better examples of Gota's drumming exist elsewhere, although to his credit, Gota has at least written these tunes.

an incredible mood-lifting compilation.......1999-09-16

If you need to unwind after a stressfull day why not sit back and enjoy the sweet sounds of Gota? This is one of my favorite CD's. Don't forget to set the repeat mode!

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Every rich rapper and rap executive owes their life to Mr. Stanley Burrell aka MC Hammer
Oaktown's Best..
Fun, danceable first album!!!!!
Hammer Gets It Started (3 Stars)
Genius

Let's Get It Started
MC Hammer
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000007PSQ
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Intro: Turn This Mother Out
Let's Get It Started
Ring'Em
Cold Go M.C. Hammer
You're Being Served
It's Gone
They Put Me In The Mix
Son Of The King
That's What I Said
Feel My Power
Pump It Up (Here's The News)

Customer Reviews:

Every rich rapper and rap executive owes their life to Mr. Stanley Burrell aka MC Hammer.......2006-12-20

It makes me sick to think that these so called hiphop purist dissed Hammer for going commercial in the early 90's. Everybody dissed Hammer from 3rd Bass to Tribe Called Quest to Ice Cube. Yeah, Mr. "Are We There Yet" Ice Cube. Hammer was not the best lyricist but he was and still is one of the best entertainers hiphop ever had. These dudes dissed and tore down Hammer then went even further than he did. Every rapper that has commercials, cartoons, label deals, merchandise all got it from Hammer because he did it first. The guys that break ground first are always the one that pay the price for everything that comes after it.

Peace to MC Hammer, 2 Big MC and Oaktown's 357 (Juicy still got me going crazy).

Oaktown's Best.........2006-07-21

I have been looking for this cd for years. The stores do not carry this title and cannot order it because it is out-of-print!!!Listening to this cd took me back to 1988, dancing in front of the t.v., and those famous "hammer pants"! You can't find this cd anymore so grab as fast as you can!!

Fun, danceable first album!!!!!.......2005-07-17

I still can't find this album in stores, because it's still a hot selling item! This debut from MC Hammer was fun and danceable all the way through! Hammer loaded this album with some very funky grooves, grooves that would have fit on James Brown's later albums! And there's a new jack swing feel on some cuts, similar to what Teddy Riley of Guy was doing. And he proved to be a West Coast alternative to the gangsta rap of NWA that also dominated the charts in late 1988/early 1989. Many songs still percolate such as Pump It Up, Let's Get It Started, Cold Go MC Hammer, the inspirational Son Of The King and my favorite on here, the bells heavy Feel My Power (Yeeaaahhh---Like a nuclear shower!). I have played Feel numerous times just like the others--I couldn't stop rewinding the tape on most songs because the album's so very catchy! And I'll do the same with pushing the buttons when I get that CD version of it!!!! This really set the tone for his second album's massive worldwide success in 1990. Hammer has the sound of a preacher preaching all morning at church and someone partying all night on a stage at an arena or stadium all throughout this album. He balances secular and spiritual feelings all within this album, a rarity for a rapper. This is still a classic party album, a dynamite effort in rap's golden late 80s era.

Hammer Gets It Started (3 Stars).......2005-02-12

Okay, let's not get carried away here people. While this album is good, it's definitely not a 4 or 5 star album. There are some tight joints on the album, but most of the songs are nothing more than average. There are classic joints on the album like "Let's Get It Started", "Pump It Up", and "They Put Me In The Mix", but most people fail to realize that, with exception of "Pump It Up", the remixes for the previously mentioned songs were 10 times better. Think about it, the remix for "Turn This Mutha Out" is WAAAAAAAAY better than the album version and the same could easily be said for "Let's Get It Started". It's the remixes that everyone was buying in '88 and that's why this album didn't really sell like it should've. The album versions are still dope though.

There are most definitely some suspect joints on the album. The ones that come to mind are "You're Being Served", "It's Gone", and "Son Of The King". And "Feel My Power" is just plain wack. Also, the fact that MC Hammer produces every song on the album makes most of the songs sound alike.

This album isn't bad at all, but it's not the awesome thrill ride that the other reviewers say it is. I would have to say that the good songs definitely make this album worth owning. There are some great songs on this album that got the party started back in '88 and they might still get your party started today. I'd reccomend buying it.

Standout Tracks: Let's Get It Started, Pump It Up (Here's the News) (My Favorite), They Put Me In The Mix, Cold Go MC Hammer, That's What I Said, and Turn This Mutha Out

Genius.......2005-01-25

This IS Hammer. I'm an old school Hammer fan, 2 Legit and Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'em are so weak compared to this lyrical assault by the baggy panted one. He is the toughness of Rakim meets the smoothness of Kool G Rap meets the edge of Donny Osmond. I remember getting a Hammer doll and having it fight my GI Joe figures when I was 19 living at home with my parents. I would seem like the Joe's would have the upper hand until Hammer would unleash a dance assault on the GI Joe airplanes since he was a foot taller than they were. He would say, "Turn this mutha out!!" and dance over the armies trying to fight him. There was this one time where I borrowed my sister's strawberry shortcake dolls and had hammer set their hair on fire with his dancing. It smelled like someone was baking a dang cake. Someone was and it was Hammer.

There was this other adventure where Hammer threw about three cabbage patch dolls in a freezer for three days. When he felt like it was time to let them out, he dropped them from Mt. Dancestep(a pile of blocks I had made) and their heads blew up. Some of my friends thought this was odd behavior for a 19 year old, but I was popular and didn't care.

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Let's Get Started
Jillian Michaels
Manufacturer: Genius Entertainment
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000BYMIC8
Release Date: 2005-12-20

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Just because someone is "ok" with it, doesn't make it "ok"
Hats off to the BEP's for Selling Versions of their Music for Kids ears
No, Let's Get Retarded!
Good Music
Review for "Let's Get It Started" by Black Eyed Peas

Let's Get It Started, Pt. 1
Black Eyed Peas
Manufacturer: Umvd Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002AYG0S
Release Date: 2004-06-22

Tracks:

Let's Get It Started [Spike Mix]
Way U Make Me Feel [Album Version Explicit]
Let's Get Retarded [Album Version]

Customer Reviews:

Just because someone is "ok" with it, doesn't make it "ok".......2005-12-08

"Cursing" is wrong weather you think it is ok or not. Just because societies sway like the waves on right and wrong doesn't mean that right and wrong don't exist - for all peoples for all history. How then is right and wrong established...maybe the following will help:
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Ephesians 4:29
29Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
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Hard to image what our world would be like if we would listen to the God who created us and loves us like a perfect father, giving us advice to make it a better place.

BEP, Rap, Hip-Hop, society - lets start lifting up instead of tearing down.

Hats off to the BEP's for Selling Versions of their Music for Kids ears.......2005-10-29

Alan Pounds and D. Brown should be ashamed of themselves. There is a reason lyrics are edited for radio, it's call children. If you were a parent, you would understand the reason for removing curse words. Perhaps that is what is wrong with the young people in society today, they lack respect for those around them. I want to be able to drive my 8 year old to school and listen to the radio without hearing the F word. I'm aware that she's going to hear it from other kids, but I don't need to condone it or let her see that I condone it. Perhaps if there were less people like these 2 music listeners, there would be less kids walking the streets spewing obscenities in the presence of young children. It's not cool to cuss and no, it's NOT a part of life. Have some self respect.

No, Let's Get Retarded!.......2005-04-07

I'm not a huge fan of the term "sell-out". I've used that term way to loosely as a teenager. But this song is the epitome of selling out. I love Black Eyed Peas' first 2 albums; especially "Behind The Front". I even liked "Elephunk", for the most part. It seems that the Black Eyed Peas are now only interested in getting paid. Their new music is way overproduced, and holds no weight or feeling as it once did. "Let's Get It Started" proved that in a big way. I just want to puke when I see these glitzy MTV whores prancing around in their videos, as their true fan base is steadily depleting. You can't deny that these guys aren't all about the money. They just re-released their "Elephunk" album which now includes this horrible remake. And to add more onto the heaping pile of crap, they have an even worse video on MTV now, "Don't Funk With My Heart". That song is even more lame and poppy than anything on "Elephunk". Worse yet, they changed the title of the song from "Don't F*** With My Heart" to "Don't Funk With My Heart", just to please the corporate radio stations and corporate labels that they have now sold out to. It's just too bad that these soulless record labels are all about the charts and the money. If they weren't, radio wouldn't suck! I would like to give this single 2 stars for the song "Let's Get Retarded", but my conscious will only allow 1 star, by principal.

Good Music.......2005-02-17

I hate to say it people, but curses are part of language. People COULD make music without curses, but why? You may not know this, but there are people who grow up in cultures where they hear cursing all the time. Some don't even think of it as being a bad thing. And why should it? A curse is a word! Just a WORD!

Some words may MEAN bad things, but we have plenty of subject matter that is allowed out there because they don't use the magical "bad words". On TV you can say you had sex with someone, but uppon using the F word to say the same thing, it's not allowed. I find it obsurd that people want to actually CENSOR the English language. If you don't like it, don't listen to it. You have your pick from TONS of artists who don't curse, so pick those albums up instead.

The song "Let's Get Retarted" is not to make fun of themselves. It's a saying... as in let's get "CRAZY" or "Let's Get WILD".

Review for "Let's Get It Started" by Black Eyed Peas.......2004-12-31

"Let's Get It Started" is a great song in general. It fits into the Rock genre and the R&B genre. You can't have a party without this song. It just rocks. That's all there is to it.

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Kids Rock: Let's Get It Started!
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Bci / Eclipse Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Children's Music | Styles | Music

Compilations | Children's Music | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000A3DFOK
Release Date: 2005-08-23

Tracks:

Beverly Hills
Hey Ya
Do Somethin'
Leave (Get Out)
Let's Get It Started
What You Waiting For?
Beautiful Soul
My Boo
Mr. Brightside
Pieces of Me
Breakaway
Lose My Breath

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lets get it started

Let's Get It Started
Black Eyed Peas
Manufacturer: Umvd Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B0002FQBD8
Release Date: 2004-08-24

Tracks:

Let's Get It Started
The Way U Make Me Feel
Bridging The Gaps
Let's Get Retarded

Customer Reviews:

lets get it started.......2005-06-16

i thought that it was really good. i am thirteen, not under. now that radio disney (radio station) plays black eyed peas on the radio, they ply "lets get it started" and also "let's get retarded" they shouldnt play "let's get retarded" on a childs radio station. my sister, who is 9 years old, listens to "let's get retarded" and even sings the lyrics. half of the words she doesn't know what they mean.

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Greg Murphy Let's Get Started
Greg Murphy's New CD

Let's Get Started
Greg Murphy
Manufacturer: The Orchard
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B0002VYQM0
Release Date: 2004-08-31

Tracks:

Let's Get Started
Little Miss Tigerfish
Snap Happy
Fique Bem Rapido
Stranded
Little Miss Tigerfish (alt. take)
Fique Bem Rapido (alt. take)

Album Description

An eclectic acoustic & electric mix of high-energy improvisational jazz. Let's Get Started is an enjoyable selection of music that rewards the ears of the jazz cognoscenti, while remaining immensely enjoyable to the wider audience of music lovers.

Customer Reviews:

Greg Murphy Let's Get Started.......2005-01-24

At last! Internationally renowned modern jazz genius, Greg Murphy, finally takes pity on jazz hungry ears with the release of Let's Get Started. After a career spanning two decades, taking him from the States, across Europe, to Japan, China and back again, Murphy offers his unique talent to the public in this, his first album recording as a leader of his own band. Starting out in Chicago and New Orleans in the 80's, where he studied with prominent pianist Ellis Marsalis after winning a National Endowment study grant, Murphy has been a part of, and worked with some of the best names in the business; Percussion incorporated, The Fusicians, The New Orleans Jazz Couriers, Carlos Santana, Cindy Blackman, Raphael Cruz, Archie Shepp and the unmistakable Rashied Ali. Already featured on five successful albums, including Meditations, No One In Particular, Heart-Sound, and A Mano, Let's Get Started is a delicious showcase of swinging Murphy originals, enriched by the talented Dale Robbins and the rock-steady beat of John Brown on the drums. Electrifying bass, percussion and counter-melody tease through sophisticated tunes like "Little Miss Tigerfish" or the haunting re-work of "Stranded," shaping a finger-snapping, foot-tapping feast for us all. And the icing on the Snap Happy, jazz sizzled cake? You can currently catch Greg at The Ritz-Carlton on Nanjing Lu, where he indulges the public with hot shifting tunes in the Second Floor Lounge Bar, every Tuesday-Sunday evening. Go on; treat yourself to that groovin' jazz-funk fusion.

Greg Murphy's New CD.......2005-01-08

Let's Get Started is full of driving energy and lyrical beauty. It swings and surprises. Just when you're nearing your fill of one of the trio's complex rhythms, they switch tempo or return to one of the lovely melodies that make this CD thoughtful and haunting. Just when you think this CD is about technical mastery, you notice the harmonious blend that gives each player an essential role. I can't classify Let's Get Started by style. I just know that when I listen to it I feel I'm in the hands of people (composer Greg Murphy on piano and keyboards, Dale Robbins on electric bass and John Brown on drums) who know what they're doing, and they do it very well indeed. Let's Get Started is complex but accessible to anyone who recognizes original work done with love and skill.

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Let's Get Started
Louie Louie
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000008HWS
Release Date: 1993-02-09

Tracks:

Let's Get Started
Thought of It
Walk With Me
Get Blue
Brother Louie
You're So R & B
Too Much Pressure
All I Do Is Toss & Turn
All in One Breath
Dance Unto the Rhythm
Aggression

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Let's Get This Party Started (Enhanced)
Zena
Manufacturer: Universal
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Pop | Styles | Music

General | R&B | Styles | Music

CD Singles | R&B | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00009XG7H
Release Date: 2003-07-07

Album Details

The 21 Year Old Former Fourth of Mis-teeq Steps Forth on her Own, Following in the Footsteps of Janet, J-lo, Aaliyah and Beyonce. Remixes Come from the Likes of Redzone (Destiny's Child, Mya) and Big Brovas.

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Let's Get The Party Started (Karaoke)

Manufacturer: Pocketsongs CDG
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Karaoke | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B000096AZ1
Release Date: 2004-10-18

Tracks:

Hero (in the style of Enrique Iglesias)
Get The Party Started (in the style of Pink)
Family Affair (in the style of Mary J. Blige)
You Gets No Love (in the style of Faith Evans)
Whenever, Wherever (in the style of Shakira)
Only Time (in the style of Enya)
Superman (It's Not Easy)(in the style of Five For Fighting)
Caramel (in the style of City High)
#1 (in the style of Nelly)
Girls, Girls, Girls (in the style of Jay-Z)

Product Description

Title: Hero; Artist: Iglesias, Enrique w/Vocal; Track: 1| Title: Get The Party Started; Artist: Pink w/Vocal; Track: 2| Title: Family Affair; Artist: Blige, Mary J w/Vocal; Track: 3| Title: You Gets No Love; Artist: Evans, Faith w/Vocal; Track: 4| Title: Whenever, Wherever; Artist: Shakira w/Vocal; Track: 5| Title: Only Time; Artist: Enya w/Vocal; Track: 6| Title: Superman (It's Not Easy); Artist: Five For Fighting w/Vocal; Track: 7| Title: Caramel; Artist: City High w/Vocal; Track: 8| Title: #1; Artist: Nelly w/Vocal; Track: 9| Title: Girls, Girls, Girls; Artist: Jay-Z w/Vocal; Track: 10| Title: Hero; Artist: Iglesias, Enrique; Track: 11| Title: Get The Party Started; Artist: Pink; Track: 12| Title: Family Affair; Artist: Blige, Mary J; Track: 13| Title: You Gets No Love; Artist: Evans, Faith; Track: 14| Title: Whenever, Wherever; Artist: Shakira; Track: 15| Title: Only Time; Artist: Enya; Track: 16| Title: Superman (It's Not Easy); Artist: Five For Fighting; Track: 17| Title: Caramel; Artist: City High; Track: 18| Title: #1; Artist: Nelly; Track: 19| Title: Girls, Girls, Girls; Artist: Jay-Z; Track: 20|

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