The Coolest Cuts [Import]

The Coolest Cuts [Import]

ASIN: B0000073QM

Track Listings

1. Down on the Street

2. Invitations

3. Livin' in the U.K

4. Stranger

5. Slip Away

6. Brazilian Dawn

7. Steppin [Live]

8. Easier Said Than Done

9. Watching You

10. Don't Blame It on Love

11. Night Birds

12. Streetwalkin'

13. Dark Is the Night

14. City Rhythm

15. Rio Nights

16. Walk the Walk

17. Mr. Manic and Sister Cool

18. You'll Never Know

19. Shakatak Megamix

Tracks:

Heartbeats
Girls' Night Out
Pass This On
One For You
The Cop
Listen Now
She's Having A Baby
You Take My Breath Away
Rock Classics
Is It Medicine
You Make Me Like Charity
Got 2 Let U
Behind The Bushes
Hangin' Out
This Is Now
Handy-Man
The Bridge
Pass This On (Dahlback And Dahlback Remix)
Heartbeats (Rex The Dog Remix)
You Take My Breath Away (Mylo Remix)

Customer Reviews:

Deep Cuts.......2007-06-05

Deep Cuts~ The Knife is a great album filled with well-produced electronic music. They sound like a mix of early 80's minimal synth-music like early human league and mix this up with sounding like Goldfrapp and other more modern synth bands. The lyrics are ok but one will never confuse the knife with great lyricists such as Martin Gore or Marian Gold. I love the sounds and they seem to have been picked by hand since every sound is just right for the track. The cover-art ( if you now can call it art, I have my doubts) is terrible and looks like a failed high-school project. The photo is terrible and the font is way to small and some of the colors make it even harder to read. Even so this is a great album and it definetely deserves its 4 stars. I highly recommend this album.

Worth it for "Heartbeats" alone.......2007-05-07

The album is all downhill after that first track, but what a hill to slide your way down! More than anything else, this strikes me as a hybrid of Black Cherry-era Goldfrapp and Teagan & Sara. In other words, driving electro backdrops plus girl vocals ranging somewhere between Marlene Dietrich and pouty adorability. The Swedish accent also puts some of this in Björk territory, though the song structures here are more traditional. Also lurking not too far in the background is 80s technopop stars Berlin; although "You Take My Breath Away" is not a cover, the keyboard line in "Girls' Night Out" owes a huge debt to "The Metro," and the generally tinny timbre of the electronics also hearkens back to the early days of digital synths.

So, in short: (Goldfrapp + Teagan & Sara) x Berlin ÷ Björk = The Knife. Enjoy!

Your mind will be reshaped.......2007-04-10

It's easy to find this music enthralling. The way it affects your senses, your mood, is completely different from anything you'll experience any time soon. The Knife is completely original.

While some tracks, like "The Cop," are too strange for my liking, tracks like "Heartbeats" and "Rock Classics" and of course the youtube hit "Pass This On" will truly stick with you. You never want to press skip on those.

I hope this helps.

not as good as Silent Shout but still worth listening.......2007-03-09

Nothing beats Silent Shout (an album with no bad tracks in my opinion and one of my favorite albums ever), but there are some great cuts on this album (Heartbeats, 3 remixes of tracks, You Make Me Like Charity, The Bridge). Deep Cuts is a bit more poppy and not nearly as refined as Silent Shout. Definitely worth buying though if you're a fan of The Knife. Do anything you can to see them live.

Choice Cuts: The Capricorn Years 1991-1999

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Choice Cuts: The Capricorn Years 1991-1999
Widespread Panic
Manufacturer: Volcano
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Big Hits and Nasty Cuts: The Best of Twisted Sister

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Very Pleased
Blast from the past
Cover doesn't say "GREATEST HITS"
Twisted Sister Rocks!
It is what it says it is.

Big Hits and Nasty Cuts: The Best of Twisted Sister
Twisted Sister
Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
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ASIN: B000002ITK
Release Date: 1992-03-17

Tracks:

We're Not Gonna Take It
I Wanna Rock
I Am (I'm Me)
The Price
You Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll
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I'll Never Grow Up, Now!
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It's Only Rock 'N' Roll (Live Version)
Let The Good Times Roll/Feel So Fine (Live Version)

Customer Reviews:

Very Pleased.......2007-05-14

I would buy from here again, my Cd came perfectly and on time. Thanks Very much.

Blast from the past.......2007-01-09

This is a great collection of Twisted Sister. I definitely would recommend this to any fan of Twisted Sister. You can't find this type of good rock n' roll anymore!

Cover doesn't say "GREATEST HITS".......2006-11-21

I have been a huge Twisted fan for over 25 years. I watched them evolve from their small club dates in upstate New York to their immense popularity in the mid eighties. I sadly watched as internal turmoil tore this band apart in the late eighties, was pleasantly surprised by their collaboration for "Heroes Are Hards To Find" from Dee's Strangeland movie and impressed by their reunion after 9/11. It was like they never left. However, for those of you who disapprove of this recording, please see that the cover does not say "Greatest Hits". Twisted was not about "greatest hits". They were about great music. Sure, they could have included great cuts like "Come Out And Play" or "Wake Up (the Sleeping Giant" (which may be, admittedly, one of their best tracks). However, they included several "live" tracks which is what makes them special. If you have never seen a "live" show, catch them before it is too late. They are the rare band who are amazing "live". Studio recordings do not do them justice. Okay, so not all of their best songs are included here. If you want all their great music, suck it up and buy their other CD's. You won't regret it. But, what IS here is what they were all about... great band and great music. Live on SMF's...

Twisted Sister Rocks!.......2006-08-30

In continuation of the so-called Reagen Rock years, this compilation lives up to its name. Who doesn't love the groove from "I Wanna Rock"?

It is what it says it is........2006-01-26

People, the name of the CD is "big Hits and Nasty Cuts", not "Twisted Sister's Greatest Hits and Nothing else." As a loooooong time Ts fan, I love the fact that this CD represents the full picture of the band. Sure, they had some huge hits in the hayday of hair metal, but in the late 70s and early 80s, they were one of the most vicious live acts around in terms of their intensity. the live tracks recorded at the Marquee Club in London show just how intense they were before their radio-friendly hits were recorded. I think the name of the CD says it all and no one should be surprised at what they are getting when they buy it. The Cd has equal helpings of their most well-known hits, as well as just enough early live stuff to show you what they sounded like before they were the darlings of MTV.

The Carl Stalling Project: Music From Warner Bros. Cartoons, 1936-1958

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Best compilation CD ever
Here we go.
Stallings CDs
The Carl Stalling Project
Warner Brother's King of Music

The Carl Stalling Project: Music From Warner Bros. Cartoons, 1936-1958

Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002LJE
Release Date: 1990-07-17

Tracks:

Putty Tat Trouble Part 6
Hillbilly Hare
Early WB Scores: The Depression Era
The Good Egg
Various Cues From Bugs Bunny Films
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For fans of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, et al., this is the essential cartoon soundtrack as well as a monument to surrealism. During his 22 years as a composer for Warner Bros. animated shorts, Stalling invented the musical vocabulary of cartoons. Producer Hal Willner has lovingly assembled a sonic collage that showcases Stalling's compositional genius and uncanny ability to borrow a tune. It's a whirling collection of random moments, chock full of music you never knew you knew, from Bugs Bunny's theme from "Rabbit Fire" to Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" to Stalling's own "Woo! Woo!" Also included in the mix: outtakes from recording sessions, and several complete scores. --Heidi MacDonald

Customer Reviews:

Best compilation CD ever.......2007-02-18

Carl Stalling gave me the best musical education I ever had. I'm spending the rest of my life learning the titles and composers of all the hundreds of tunes I first heard in his cartoon scores. I've had this CD ever since it came out, and it still is one of my favorites.

Only a handful of tracks are a complete score from one cartoon; most are snippets from several cartoons edited together with a common theme.

This CD is about a composer and his music, more than about the cartoons for which he composed it. To drive home this point, it includes the score from, of all things, 1939's "The Good Egg." No one would consider "The Good Egg" to be among the best Warner cartoons, but the score, heard by itself, turns out to be a tour de force that is highly representative of Stalling's work. That's what makes this CD such a great listening experience: It was pieced together by musicologists who chose the music based on its auditory qualities, and not on the relative fame of the cartoon associated with it. It is not merely a trip down memory lane (although it is that, too), but is a great creative work in its own right.

Despite the vast amount of Stalling music that exists, this CD provides as ambitious and exhaustive an overview as can be given, and its 1995 follow-up, while also worth having, is but a pale afterthought. There's no following this act.

Here we go........2006-11-16

This CD features music from the Warner Brothers cartoon film scores by Carl Stalling. There are some complete scores and also some "medleys", with clips from various cartoons strung together. Carl Stalling was a master at writing music for cartoons, but something is lost when you just hear the music without seeing the cartoon.

Stallings CDs.......2006-11-10

If you harken back to the days when you snuggled on the couch on a Saturday morning with your little ones, and ate donuts and drank juice and watched "Bugs Bunny" you will love these CDs. You'll recognize all the characters and their entrances and their pratfalls...and laugh and say "I've heard that!"...it's a walk down memory lane and a very special one, at that. I highly reccommend these to anyone who loves B Bunny.
Not to mention these are some of the finest musicians you will ever hear...a lesson in classical music, and cartoons.

The Carl Stalling Project.......2005-09-12

Music from Warner Brothers cartoons "Golden Years" (1936-1958).
Carl Stalling was the chief music arranger for Warner Brothers cartoons from 1936 to 1958. He was one of the foremost composers of cartoon music. This disk is much better than "The Carl Stalling Project Volume II."

Warner Brother's King of Music.......2003-12-02

Even if you do not recognize his name, Carl Stalling is a very familiar composer. He wrote the soundtrack for many of our young lives as the composer for Warner Bros.' "Merrie Melodies" and "Looney Tunes" cartoons from late 1930's to late 1970's. Hal Willner has compiled this CD that for the first time lets you hear the music on its own, and lets you realize just how much of the cartoons' impact came from Stalling's music.

Willner sifted through hundreds of cartoons to choose about 40 with the most significant music. He presents the music in a variety of formats. A few tracks provide the soundtrack for a single entire cartoon. Others are medlies from a certain period in Stalling's career or pieces that set a particular mood (such as the "Anxiety Montage"). There are also tapes from recording sessions for 1951's "Putty Tat Trouble" that give insight on how this music was recorded. I couldn't recommend this CD any more highly. (After you've given it a listen, check out a Raymond Scott "best of" album like "Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights" to see just how many of its tracks are familiar from various cartoons.)

Stalling's music, instead of following the traditional rules of musical structure (exposition, development, theme, variations, etc.), was written to follow the rapid action of cartoons. Stalling would not compromise on this, even if it meant having the 50-piece orchestra play fortissimo for five seconds and then having only one piccolo playing the next four seconds. To ensure a perfect correspondence between the sound and the image, Stalling and the cartoon's directors would agree on a few sketches and on the timing of the action. This enabled Stalling to compose and record the music without even seeing the movie. Carl Stalling was also a master at telling a story through music, with gestures so clear, that there is never any doubt as to his intentions.

Stalling once said, "One problem with cartoons today is that they have so much dialogue the music doesn't mean much." Unfortunately, this statement rings true as we move into 2004. But keeping Carl Stalling from rolling in his grave is not why you need to buy this CD. You need it because it is IMPOSSIBLE to maintain a bad mood while this CD is playing. You need this to listen to as a stress reducer on those tough days. You need this because it is complete childhood in a disc.

I challenge you to turn on your television and watch some Looney Tunes. Turn up the volume and listen while doing something else (wash dishes, write a paper perhaps.) I guarantee you will know exactly what is happening, and to whom. This was the comedic skill and genius talent of Carl Stalling.

As Porky Pig would say: "abieh-abieh-abieh... That's All Folks!"

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Real Blues for Real People
Rare but fine Country Blues of the Highest Caliber
Mississippi Blues

Mississippi Blues: Rare Cuts 19
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Jsp Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000MTOLNG
Release Date: 2007-04-03

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Cottonfield Blues Part 1 - Garfield Akers
Bedside Blues - Jim Thompkins
Mississippi Bottom Blues - Kid Bailey
Poor Boy Blues - Sam Butler
I'm Leavin' Town - William Harris
Hittin' The Bottle Stomp - Mississippi Jook Band
Last Kind Words Blues - Geeshie Wiley
Third Street Woman Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds
Muddy Water Blues - Freddie Spruell
Fare Thee Well Blues - Joe Calicott
That Won't Do - Arthur Petties
Four O'Clock Flower Blues - Willie '61' Blackwell
Evil Devil Woman Blues - Joe McCoy
The Jail House Blues - Sam Collins
Black Spider Blues - Robert Lockwood
Traveling Riverside Blues Take 1 - Robert Johnson
Baltimore Blues - Charlie McCoy
Down The Big Road Blues - Mattie Delaney
You Scolded Me And Drove Me - Mississippi Bracey
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Ten Pound Hammer - Mose Andrews
Noiseless Motor Blues - Willie '61' Blackwell
Jailhouse Fire Blues - Walter 'Buddy Boy' Hawkins
4A Highway - Freddie Spruell
Times Has Done Got Hard - King Solomon Hill

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Mississippi County Farm Blues - Son House
When The Levee Breaks - Joe McCoy
Ninety Nine Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds
Snake Doctor Blues - Jelly Jaw Short
Little Girl In Rome - Otto Virgial
It's Cold In China Blues - Mississippi Moaner
Bald Eagle Blues - Willie '61' Blackwell
Boodle-De-Bum Blues - Bogus Ben Covington
Bull Frog Blues - William Harris
Dangerous Woman - Mississippi Jook Band
Shaggy Dog Blues - Buddy Boy Hawkins
Devil In The Lion's Den - Sam Collins
Quarrellin' Mama Blues - Arthur Petties
Devil And My Brown Blues - Sam Butler
Take A Little Walk With Me - Robert Lockwood
Last Time Blues - Charlie McCoy
Dough Roller Blues - Garfield Akers
The Crowing Rooster - Walter Rhodes
Motherless Child Blues - Geeshie Wiley
Married Woman Blues - George Torey
She's Young And Wild - Willie '61' Blackwell
Cherry Ball - Mississippi Bracey
Bad Notion Blues - Otto Virgial
Don't Cry Baby - Freddy Spruell
Rowdy Blues - Kid Bailey

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My Buddy Blind Papa Lemon - King Solomon Hill
Snatch It Back Blues - Walter 'Buddy Boy' Hawkins
Machine Gun Blues - Willie '61' Blackwell
Revenue Man Blues - Arthur Petties
Mr Freddie's Kokomo Blues - Freddie Spruell
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Barefoot Blues - Jelly Jaw Short
Jumpin' And Shoutin' Blues - Garfield Akers
Look Who's Coming Down The Road - Georgia Pine Boy
Traveling Mama Blues - Joe Calicott
Leavin' Here Blues - William Harris
Got The Blues About Rome - Otto Virgial
Young Heifer Blues - Mose Andrews
Skippy Whippy - Mississippi Jook Band
Yellow Dog Blues - Sam Collins
You Can't Keep No Brown - Sam Butler
Tallahatchie River Blues - Mattie Delaney
Stered Gal - Mississippi Bracey
Motherless And Fatherless Blues - Mississippi Mudder
Don't Misuse Me, Baby - Willie '61' Blackwell
I'm Gonna Train My Baby - Robert Lockwood
Out On Santa Fe Blues - Arthur Petties
It's Hard Times - Joe Stone
Your Good Man Is Gone - Freddie Spruell
Cold Woman Blues - Blind Joe Reynolds

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Clarksdale Moan - Son House
Adam And Eve In The Garden - Bogus Ben Covington
Lonesome Man Blues - George Torey
Leaving Home Blues - Walter Rhodes
Loving Lady Blues - Sam Collins
Early Mornin' Blues - William Harris
Number Three Blues - Walter 'Buddy Boy' Hawkins
Tell Me Baby - King Solomon Hill
Little Boy Blue - Robert Lockwood
Cottonfield Blues Part 2 - Garfield Akers
Chalk My Toy - Willie '61' Blackwell
Barbecue Bust - Mississippi Jook Band
Two Time Blues - Arthur Petties
Back Door Blues - Joe Stone
Way Back Down Home - Freddie Spruell
Skinny Leg Blues - Geeshie Wiley
Meat Cutter Blues - Joe McCoy
Mississippi Moan - Mississippi Moaner
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Jefferson County Blues - Sam Butler
Rampaw Street Blues - Willie '61' Blackwell
I'll Overcome Someday - Mississippi Bracey
Good Boy Blues - Arthur Petties
Grand Daddy Blues - Jelly Jaw Short
Let's Go Riding - Freddie Spruell

Customer Reviews:

Real Blues for Real People.......2007-06-16

This is the way it is supposed to sound. Why some people think that old 78's will magically sound like current digital recordings is beyond belief! That aside, this is a GREAT collection of country delta blues played by real people who lived the blues. This is the real deal for a very reasonable price. The neat thing about collections like this is that you hear real blues from different people with different styles. This is how you expand your appreciation. This is how you learn. This is how your grow. Get over the occasional nicks and scratches in the sound; think of it as adding to the experience, and appreciate what is being performed. This stuff is really great!

Rare but fine Country Blues of the Highest Caliber.......2007-05-13

JSP continues to challenge Yazoo and Document records with their re-releases (with very good mastering to boot) of country blues and this set is no exception. For 25 bucks you get some of the finest and rarest country blues put to shellac (this set was mastered from 80-year old 78's where in some cases, only 1 or 2 copies is known to exist).

Unfortunately, some of these artists recorded for Paramount records, a company notorious for manufacturing records that would self-destruct after 20 plays.

Don't be discouraged by the sound quality; in most cases on this set, it is exemplary considering that the bulk of this material was recorded before 1930. What we have here are some of the earliest examples of country blues (i.e. Freddie Spruell), pure and unaffected because it preceded the advent of radio airplay and music company marketing hyperbole.

Those who have not reveled in the fabulous bottleneck playing and tortured singing of Sam Butler (Bo Weevil Jackson) or King Solomon Hill (Joe Holmes) are missing the origins of much popular "roots" music and the regional musical styles that existed before the depression.

Similarly, listen to the late Robert Lockwood's earliest acoustic sides before he went on to embellish Sonny Boy Williamson's (Willie Rice Miller) and Little Walter's most famous Chess material, and Otis Spann's beautiful recordings for Candid records.

This set has too many superlatives to mention in an Amazon review, but it must be said that these recordings, although performed when the term "indigenous music" could be applied without exaggeration, were to become a major influence on so much of the popular music that followed it 10 and 20 years later.

As always, JSP has delivered a lot for a little. If you have any interest in pre-war country blues, it doesn't come any better than this.

Mississippi Blues.......2007-05-12

We were anxious to receive the CDs as we are avid listeners of Blues and Jazz music. However were disappointed at the quality of the music. It was scratchy and difficult to hear. We thought it would have been digitally updated but found it was not. We are sorry we purchased the CDs.
D. Pritchard Arizona

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The Archies sing Sugar, Sugar.
very grovy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Decent Quality, but...
A budget collection of the bubblegum hits of the Archies
Sugar, Sugar

Archies - Greatest Hits
The Archies
Manufacturer: Prime Cuts
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ASIN: B000002V5D
Release Date: 1995-07-14

Tracks:

Sugar Sugar
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Rock N' Roll
You Little Angel You
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Customer Reviews:

The Archies sing Sugar, Sugar........2005-09-11

When I was serving my country in South Viet Nam, I would hear this song every morning at about the same time. It would make me smile and think about the one I loved back in the states. I grew to love this song very much and still do. It's a shame that the stations do not play fun music like this on a regular basis.

very grovy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-02-22

cool,grovy,great,fantastic this cd is good you can hear the classic song of sugar,sugar,but the others are good too, dont forget jingle jangle,bang shang-a-lang,rock 'n' roll and the other songs

Decent Quality, but..........2004-11-25

There are better collections out there but it's good to hear "Time For Love" on this one. At least until the 'official' release comes out.

A budget collection of the bubblegum hits of the Archies.......2004-01-13

This budget collection of the "Greatest Hits" of the Archies only has 10 tracks recorded by faux-group spawned for the Saturday morning cartoon show. This is a decent collection of bubblegum music ("bubblegum" music was labeled as such because of its childish qualities, mass production values, and instant disposability), but since the Archies put out six albums you might want something with more sticks to get longer lasting flavor. I never watched the cartoon show (and read the comics only when every other comic book in my cousins' house had been consumed) so all I really remembered was "Sugar, Sugar," which is, of course, the one Archies' song that everybody remembers. I vaguely recalled there was another "hit" from the group, which turned out to be "Jingle Jangle" (well, gee, that should have been obvious).

Anyhow, everything in the Archies oeuvre might not be here, and certainly one has to be in the mood for this distinctive subset of pop music, but this is pretty good bubblegum music: "Bang Shang-a-Lang" could be your next guilty pleasure song. Most of the songs are written by Len Barry and Andy Kim, and performed by Ron Dante (who co-writes a couple as well). This is not first-rate bubblegum music, which would be Tommy James & the Shondells (and some stuff by the Monkees", but once you get to the second tier this is as good as it gets. Besides, Wilson Pickett did a soul cover of "Sugar, Sugar," so there must have been some pink gold here.

If you really like bubblegum music than the greatest hits albums by the Archies and Tommy Roe would be the only collections of individual artists in this genre worth having. Everything else worth having, such as "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" by the Ohio Express and "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" by Edison Lighthouse, you can pick up on one of the various bubblegum hit collections.

Sugar, Sugar.......2002-12-16

Sugar, Sugar is the only song on the whole CD which is GREAT. The Other songs sound like [garbage]!!!!!!

Prime Cuts: The Best of Suicidal Tendencies

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A great cross-section
Strange selection of "best" ST songs
amazing!
Duh!
Suicidal Tendencies - 'Prime Cuts:Best Of' (Sony)

Prime Cuts: The Best of Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies
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Join The New Army
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Customer Reviews:

A great cross-section.......2006-12-06

"Prime Cuts" is a best-of album so, you either like ST or you don't. Being a 20-year ST fan, I love having a cross-section of their material. (Personally, I was surprised the "Controlled by Hatred" didn't make the cut (no pun intended). If you're not a ST fan, then this is a great introduction. They never really made it big but they had some great material. Any interest in skater-thrash or metal? If so, ST is for you.

Strange selection of "best" ST songs.......2006-11-16

This album only gets three stars from me because I genuinely believe they could have gone for a much better "best of" selection than they did. Gotta Kill Captain Stupid and Lovely wouldn't touch my top 20 ST songs. Having said that, it's still ST so it's gotta be great.

amazing!.......2006-11-08

I had this album years ago when i was in high school, for some unknown reason (young and stupid is probably a good guess), i sold it. For years i've missed the sounds of ST and wished i had it still. I'm glad i bought it again.

Duh!.......2006-01-03

Pedants would be forced to admit that this band is class. They're awesome live and are still trying to keep it real despite the detractors who want to criticise everything these guys do! Suicidal have provided just about everything to music and never get the appreciation.

At least they were bothered re-recording songs instead of just re-releasing them. The quality of music is high.

The variety is awesome.

Suicidal Tendencies - 'Prime Cuts:Best Of' (Sony).......2005-12-16

Well,what do you know?I was rummaging through some CD's I haven't heard in awhile and I came across this.'Prime Cuts' features tunes from five out of eight(at the time of this release,anyway)S.T. albums,plus two new songs "Beserk" and "Feed The Addiction".I've never been all THAT huge of a Suicidal fan,but I've always liked some of their better known material,here like "Institutionalized",their total ass kick-in-the-groin "Pledge Your Allegiance" and "How Will I Laugh Tomorrow".An added bonus to this disc is the art that appears on the back cover.Top of the line punk/thrash.Check it out.A should-have.

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So much potential...
Energetic, but a bit samey
Perfect CD
Get this now!!!

Cuts Across the Land
Duke Spirit
Manufacturer: Vagrant Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000EDWLFA
Release Date: 2006-03-07

Tracks:

Cuts Across The Land
Love Is An Unfamiliar Name
Darling, You're Mean
Win Your Love
Hello To The Floor
Bottom Of The Sea
Fades The Sun
You Were Born Inside My Heart
Lion Rip
Lovetones
Stubborn Stitches
Red Weather
Take A Look Around
So Good To Hear
Boot Hill (Demo)

Customer Reviews:

So much potential..........2007-01-04

I bought this after hearing the title track on radio. I never quite warmed to the rest of it, but I still love the title track anytime, and it is a truly talented bunch for a change. For reference: I had hoped this band would be "The Dandy Warhols meet Edie Brickell" and it almost delivered, sort of. In fact, they not only met Edie, but also seemed to give a nod to Grace Slick, a hint of Cowboy Junkies, and, possibly, Neco from Velvet Underground. Leila Moss is a haunting vocalist, and at times, this work comes so close to ripping something delicate inside. But not quite.
I give it a "2" 'cause you can't dance to it, and I didn't understand it.

Energetic, but a bit samey.......2006-11-14

Duke Spirit is supposed to be the "latest greatest" emerging British band. Their songs are lively and highly energetic, the band is fun to watch (on YouTube, anyway). The down side is, I find I can't listen to the whole album without getting antsy. They're certainly likable, with a sound derived perhaps from Souxie and the Banshees. But all the same, the tracks fly by and are indistinguishable from one another. A cut or two from Duke Spirit is a great way to spend a few minutes, but after that I start flipping through CDs looking for something else. "Love Is an Unfamiliar Name" is my favorite track, but if you don't like that one, well there are 14 more that sound just like it--take your pick. All in all, Cuts Across the Land has its charms, just not five stars worth of them.

Perfect CD.......2006-06-11

A review of a record and a group that caught me completely unawares and then was listened to for an entire month making me a total screaming fan by the time I saw them live in Ann Arbor? Not a balanced one anyway. I love this band. They are original with stirring music to go with intelligent lyric. A new force in my mind that should be better known and recognized. There are NO weak tracks on this album. Leila moves like Axl Rose and sings like a cooler, female Jim Morrison. How's that for an incoherent raving fan review?

Get this now!!!.......2006-06-11

This is probably my favorite new British band. They have been kicking around the scene for two years ago. I saw them play in New York City at the end of 2004. It took a while for the American release. It's been worth the wait. Liela Moss is a great singer and a star. She is the closest thing we have now that is like Nico and Patti Smith. Their music is like Primal Scream meets the Gun Club. "Cuts Across The Land" and "Darling You're Mean" are brilliant songs. There are a lot of songs on this version. There are no weak tracks. Some other favorites are "Bottom of The Sea" and "Lion RIP." This band may be one of the most exciting bands ever.

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Life could be dream
CREW CUTS MEDIUM WELL DONE
A very good collection of a very underrated group's work
Best of the Crew Cuts
FANTASTIC CREW

Best of the Crew Cuts
The Crew-Cuts
Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1998-05-17

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I Spoke Too Soon
Oop Shoop
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Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)
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Customer Reviews:

Life could be dream.......2007-04-05

If you wish to dive deep into the 50's this disc should be your choice. I was not familiar with The Crew Cuts before and was relying solely on their hit "Sh-boom (Life could be dream)" Their music is satisfying to those who love 50's. However, if you not sure if you totally in love with this kind of music try a CD with variety of artists.

CREW CUTS MEDIUM WELL DONE.......2006-08-02

THIS CD HAS A LOT OF SONGS THAT OTHERS MADE HITS. THE CREW CUTS VERSIONS OF THOSE SONGS ARE DISAPPOINTING. HOWEVER THEIR SIGNATURE TUNES ARE GREAT.

A very good collection of a very underrated group's work.......2004-08-12

The Crew Cuts were a Canadian group which had a number of hits back in the 1950s. The songs were, by and large, "covers": songsthat had been done by rhythm & blues groups,which they redid in a style better suited to the majority's tastes of the day. As such, they are badly vilified by r&b devotees, who seem to treat the cover versions as desecrations of holy objects. Well, I was, back then, one of that big majority that preferred the covers to the r&b original, and I still, 50 years later, do. This CD includes all the big Crew Cuts hits, including "Sh-Boom" and "Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)" which were the biggest. It also includes aome covers that never charted (where other artists had the hit version) like "Young Love" and "Two Hearts, Two Kisses (Make One Love)." And it includes some songs I've never heard by any artist before. I've always liked the Crew Cuts' sound, and as I've already said here, thought their covers were better than the originals, so, no surprise, I like this album. If you're into r&B, you won't. But if your taste agrees with mine, you'll be happy if you buy this CD.

Best of the Crew Cuts.......2002-04-29

Actually, I have the best of the Crew Cuts. My Husband, Pat Barrett, is one of them and, of course, I think he is the best.
I was very happy to be able to find a CD as I have not been able to do that in this area
We both enjoyed listening to the tape. There are a few songs that Pat was not crazy about, but, all in all, it was great.
I am going to order more for my friends and relatives.
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FANTASTIC CREW.......2001-04-22

GO NORTH YOUNG MAN (AND LADY), UP TO CANADA, AND YOU WILL BE TREATED TO SOME OF THE GREATEST VOCAL GROUPS OF ALL TIME. THE DIAMONDS, THE FOUR LADS, THE CREW-CUTS, JUST TO NAME A FEW. THIS COMPILATION OF THE CREW-CUTS IS ABSOLUTELY FIRST RATE. WHEN ROCK WAS YOUNG, THESE GUYS WERE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL. HIGHLY POLISHED, DANCABLE, AND JUST PLAIN GOOD ROCK HARMONIES TO LISTEN TO.

Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack: The Legendary Sessions, Vol. 2

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Boring bar music
Rythm and Blues Master
Enjoyable Dr. John
Fantastic album

Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack: The Legendary Sessions, Vol. 2
Dr. John
Manufacturer: Clean Cuts
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ASIN: B000E5KQRI
Release Date: 2006-02-21

Tracks:

Saddled The Cow
Boxcar Boogie
The Brightest Smile In Town
Waiting For A Train
Monkey Puzzle
Touro Infirmary
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The second of back-to-back solo albums cut in the early '80s, Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack: The Legendary Sessions Volume Two (originally released as The Brightest Smile in Town) presents a more balanced mix of vocal and instrumental tracks than its predecessor, Dr. John Plays Mac Rebennack. While it's fun to hear the great New Orleans pianist romp through "Box Car Boogie" and patiently work his way through the twilight blues of "Pretty Libby," the unexpected treats are the best: a heartsick version of Jimmy Rodgers's "Waiting for a Train;" a Doc Pomus cover, "Average Kind of Guy," that sounds like Randy Newman on a particularly good day; and "Marie La Veau," a highly syncopated bow to one of the Crescent City's many voodoo queens. By the time Rebennack ends Brightest Smile with two gorgeous instrumentals--a lovely take on Harold Arlen's "Come Rain or Come Shine" and "Suite Home New Orleans"--you're reminded just how encyclopedic his knowledge of American music is. (The 2006 reissue adds six previously unreleased bonus tracks.) --Keith Moerer

Customer Reviews:

Boring bar music.......2007-04-12

I bought the CD because I was looking for piano music and this one was highly recommended by reviewers. Well, it sure is one boring piece of work! I somehow missed reference on the music style. So, to you all who may be doing the same mistake: it is a blues music for bars. Go out Friday night and you'll have a great chance to hear the same music: the never-ending stream of notes to make you feel unworried and thirsty. Nothing great nor "legendary" about it really. It has something specifically American about it that I find difficult to relate to: too common, too simple, too simpleminded, too shortcoming. Sorry, but using piano for instrument doesn't make the music great; the melodies could have been played on harmonica or accordion instead and sold as folk-music.

Rythm and Blues Master.......2006-11-26

Somewhere in the mid-eighties Dr John released plays Mac Rebennack. Where a lot of the good doctor's studio work was at times plagued by mediocrity that release was suddenly a more than solid effort. Mac Rebennack is of course the Night Tripper himself, doctor John was suddenly playing out of his "own" songbook, although a lot of the compositions here are actually originated from some one else's pen. Plays Mac Rebennack gives you the good Doctor at his most pure, just the man and his rolling and funky piano, his rough and gruff voice and a great assortment of songs and instrumentals. The original release focussed on instrumental work, the vol. 2 companion of the re-release with outtakes from the original sessions focuses more on vocal outings of Dr. John from that time.

Plays Mac Rebennack was a highly intimate late night album; the outtake sessions featured here in vol. 2 are much in the same vein. This is not a bad thing at all, listening to this album one can only conclude that the Doctor is much more powerful and compelling when playing all by his lonesome. The album features a lot of different shades, from uninhibited joy to dark melancholy. With tracks like Marie La Veau some of the Night Trippers mystic creep into this album, Boxcar Boogie is a bar room brawl, Touro Infirmary is a strong adaptation of the familiar st. James, Come Rain or Shine is spine chilling.

Every single selection here is played in the Doctor's signature style, highly indebted to Professor Longhair yet very recognisable as Mac Rebennack. Doctor John has long been one of the most eccentric individuals in Rhythm and Blues; Plays Mac Rebennack shows us he's a master. There's not a note to many, during the record he plays his strengths en weaknesses very well. This release and the re-release of the original album were long overdue.

Enjoyable Dr. John.......2006-08-18

This CD features really good blues piano. Sometimes soft and quiet and at other times quite strident. For me,this is really the way the piano should be in this genre. Dr John's vocals (not on all tracks) adds to the authenticity.

Fantastic album.......2006-03-23

A great way to revisit classic Dr. John. Remastered for amazing sound with a TON of bonus tracks...this is a fantastic album for any Dr. John fan or someone looking to get into his stuff. Definitely pick it up!

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