Red Roses [Import]

Red Roses [Import]

ASIN: B0000071A8

Track Listings

1. Red Roses for a Blue Lady

2. Almost There

3. Blue Midnight

4. Sentimental Journey

5. Stardust

6. Dream

7. Wonderland by Night

8. Moonglow

9. Three O'Clock in the Morning

10. Happy Trumpeter

11. Swingin' Safari

12. Wimoweh

13. Afrikaan Beat

14. Zambesi

Tracks:

Steps To the Door
I'm Not Here
And Then the Rain
Hollywood Holiday
Lucifer Sam
It's About Time
Throw Away the Key
You
Look Around
At Night They Speak
Speak Easy
Shot You Down
What About You
Hold On
And Then the Rain
Backroad Bridge Song (What Could I Say)
Ain't No Hangman
Morning Light
Burn the Roses
Look Around
Throw Away the Key

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Television Meets Psych Rock Meets Spaghetti Western.......2007-06-19

Each of the Paisley Underground bands seemed to have their own little slant on the sounds of the movement, which was about bringing guitar-driven, psychedelic music back to the fore in the synth-heavy 80s. True West's bent was a little hard to figure. There were the duelling guitar wizards, Tolman and McGrath, who sounded more like Verlaine and Lloyd than any 1960s guitarists. There was the feeling of the old West, not just in the band's name but in their sound and feel - something that put you in mind of tan chinos, shoe boots with spurs, shots of rye at the local saloon, and lots of dirt. Then there was the psychedelic thing - the cover of Pink Floyd's "Lucifer Sam," the sometimes trippy lyrics, the spiralling guitar lines . . . In the liner notes to this compilation of True West's best material, it is suggested that they hit their peak on the full-length album, Drifters. But that album, despite its excellent opening track, "Look Around," pales in comparison to the EP, Hollywood Holiday. The eight songs on the EP represented all of the best elements of True West - the songs seem fresh, they keep you guessing what might come next, each one has its own little angle on the whole picture the band was presenting then. The album, meanwhile, gets tired after the third or fourth track, and feels like a labor from there. And the three tracks produced by Tom Verlaine thrown on at the end are notweworthy for historical reference, but otherwise pretty unremarkable. If you were into the Paisley Underground thing when it was happening, or if you just like guitar-heavy psychedelic rock, you will absolutely want to pick up this CD. Just be prepared to hear a combination of inspired gems and sludge.

Making The World Safe For Guitars.......2007-06-15

Back in the early-mid '80s, there was talk that the electric guitar was going to go the way of the dinosaur and the dodo bird to replaced by keyboards, computers and things. Bands like True West took a stand and helped save the six-string from the onslaught of the MIDI monster. The dueling guitar duo of Richard McGrath and Russ Tolman was on par with Television's Verlaine and Lloyd, in fact Tom Verlaine was so impressed with True West that he produced three tracks, which are luckily included as bonus tracks on this two-for reissue of the band's first two albums: Hollywood Holiday and Drifters. Drawing inspiration from Syd Barrett era Floyd, 40s film noir, the Beck and Page era Yardbirds, late night 80s cable TV, the San Francisco Sound, and the Mercury space program, True West created a couple classic albums that sound fresh and vital today.

Great 80's psychedelic.......2007-06-11

I own both the original EP and LP on vinyl, the EP is more feedback laden, the LP was, I don't know, more laid back, but w/good dual guitar songs. Both EP and LP appear to be on this CD, so enjoy!

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The Pogues RULE!
Four Roses
FIVE KILLER TUNES WORTH THE PRICE OF THE ALBUM; A BLESSING FROM IRISH HEAVEN
I'll have a pint with you sir!
Like A Breath of Ale-Soaked Air

Red Roses for Me
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ASIN: B000H8SFM0
Release Date: 2006-09-19

Tracks:

Transmetropolitan
The Battle Of Brisbane
The Auld Triangle
Waxie's Dargle
Boys From The County Hell
Sea Shanty
Dark Streets Of London
Streams Of Whiskey
Poor Paddy
Dingle Regetta
Greenland Whale Fisheries
Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go
Kitty
The Leaving Of Liverpool
Muirshin Durkin
Repeal Of The Licensing Laws
And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Whiskey You're The Devil
The Wild Rover

Customer Reviews:

The Pogues RULE!.......2007-05-15

I really like the way The Pogues combine a classic Irish sound with their own style. These are great songs for partying and gambling, and in general just being festive.

Four Roses.......2007-01-20

Grab yourself a pint of four roses --don't walk-- run for the roses--the Pogues best discs are back in print with this great remastered re-release--and raise a frosty mug with me to this delightful brew.

FIVE KILLER TUNES WORTH THE PRICE OF THE ALBUM; A BLESSING FROM IRISH HEAVEN.......2007-01-04

I moved from one double wide to another one across the street and never got to opening all of my literature boxes, until late at night a wee leprachaun, no wait, it was the voice of Shane MacGowan or whatever croaking about the Leaving of Liverpool and forcing me to open up all these boxes and put everything away and find me once again to hold you in your lonesome exile.

Not only do you get two great old tunes made big by Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers, here done rowdy like they ought, but you get That Auld Triangle, about back when the British Empire controlled their surplus Irish colonial population under the blessing of that devil Malthus by stealing all of their food and claiming famine (there was plenty of food in Ireland at that time all going to London), or transporting everyone to Australia and the penal colonies, or jailing all the men for ridiculous charges like wearing green or refusing to get evicted from their own lands and homes as if they were Palestinians.

But do not get me started. Listen over and over to the Auld Triangle.
And cheer up with the Leaving of Liverpool, especially that wild shout after One More Time is called. This is music, man. Hear it now.

And of course Down underground deserves to be heard a few times, although the creepy sound effects grow wearisome.

And then play the Clancy Brother songs and remember the tears of your old dad. I just wish A Parting Glass was on this collection so I didn't have to pull out the other disk! I guess that's what some folks use their iPod for, but hey . . .

A great comfort in exile or any time. What else has been recorded this late; what else is there to listen to? Def Leperd? Dear god!

That Auld Triangle is calling me even now.

I met Spider while filming ALex Cox's Walker in NIcaragua twenty years ago, and did not realize then who he was. Otherwise I'd have begged him to play that Triangle on the tin whistle he ever carried with him, and one which he shines so clearly and truly on this album.

By the way, the title comes from Dublin playwright Sean O'Casey. Check him out, too.

I'll have a pint with you sir!.......2006-11-26

Red Roses for Me was the first Pogues album I bought. It was a used import CD and the quality was horrible. The songs were great, but the sound on the album left much to be desired, probably due to sourcing from a poor master. So for years, I was waiting for a remastered version of this excellent album. Here, Rhino delivers.

This album can now be heard in all its glory. It's still amazing to here Shane Macgowan's tracks sit beautifully among traditional Irish fare. Yet MacGowan has punk sensibilities peaking into his tracks, notably on Boys From the County Hell. It's here that we get to see how good a songwriter Shane can be on the Dark Streets of London, where's he shows some of the emotional depth he's capable of. Others might be surprised to find the lovely original Streams of Whiskey, which makes a great pub song.

But the band comes together to create a great welcoming sound that both pays tribute to Irish music while breathing new life into traditional classics. Waxie's Dargle shows how much fun the band can have, which sounds like two Irish lads having a few pints, as they describe in the song. It's a lot of fun.

The bonus on this reissues is of course the quality. There are also a handful of extra tracks. The Pogues shine on a few more traditional songs while instroducing us to their rendition of Eric Bogle's And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda. This version is good, but pales in comparrison to the powerful version on Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash.

There are no misses on this album. A lot of people feel the Pogues magic wasn't fully realized until their followup album, but this album has the band sounding fresh and raw. Hearing this for the first time was a lot of magic for me as this is where I disocvered the Pogues, so I maybe a little biased, but this is close to their best.

Like A Breath of Ale-Soaked Air.......2006-11-04

Here is one very good reason for the re-issue program that is inundating music fans. Every now and then, an album reappears that you missed the first time around, and might otherwise have been unlikely to purchase. I'm a Pogues fan, but I incorrectly assumed that I already owned their best stuff. Call it ignorance, but I didn't even know that "Red Roses for Me" existed. This re-issue from Rhino Records has solved that problem and I'm thankful for it, but I sure do wish I heard this album when it was released. What a breath of fresh air this must have been! Imagine Irish punks readdressing the traditional folk music of their country by writing a new batch of their own, at a time when processed keyboards and canned rhythms ruled the airwaves. Musically, the year 1984 lived up to its apocalyptic implications, but the Pogues provided an escape from the "Safety Dance" of that awful time.
Dig through your `active' collection and find something that you bought in 1984.....I'll wait right here.........still waiting..........I bet you can't find anything, can you? So much music from the mid-`80s has grown old and outdated. Echo-laced production and noise-gated drums poison so much music from that era, but "Red Roses for Me" could have been released yesterday. It captures the Pogues as a fresh-faced bunch of drunkards, with a swagger to match their energetic performances. You can take a punk out of Ireland but you can't Ireland out of the punk, so these songs figuratively reek like an Irish pub on Saturday night. Shane MacGowan spits out his words with the flourish of a drunken uncle at a wedding, even when his compositions stand on wobbly legs. "Streams of Whiskey," "Poor Paddy" and "Transmetropolitan" are meant for a sing-along bash, with pints spilling because you can't stand still. It may be a waste of ale, but "Red Roses for Me" is definitely not a waste of cash. The six bonus tracks are like getting a free round, too. A- Tom Ryan

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It's lovely - But not newly recorded!
Yet another compilation
how precious!
Disappointing Duplication
If you like this sorta thing

Song of America
Charles Tomlinson Griffes , Erich Wolfgang Korngold , Charles Naginski , Ned Rorem , American Traditional , Elinor Remick Warren , Kurt Weill , Haydn Wood , Michael Parloff , Jay Ungar , Armen Guzelimian , Craig Rutenberg , David Alpher , Evan Stover , Garrison Keillor , and Mark Rust
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The Very Best of Thomas Hampson
Christmas with Thomas Hampson
Long Time Ago - Copland / Dawn Upshaw & Thomas Hampson
American Dreamer: Songs of Stephen Foster; Thomas Hampson; Jay Unger; Molly Mason
Leading Man

ASIN: B000BGR0TW
Release Date: 2005-11-08

Tracks:

As Adam Early In The Morning
Ah! May The Red Rose Live Alway (1850)
Shenandoah (Traditional)
Beautiful Dreamer (1864)
Danny Deever
Roses Of Picardy
Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair (1854)
Hard Times Come Again No More (1854)
Molly, Do You Love Me? (1850)
An Old Song Resung
Tomorrow (When You Are Gone)
The Erie Canal (Traditional)
We Two
The Nightingale (Traditional)
Comrades, Fill No Glass For Me (1855)
Luke Havergal
To What You Said
Look Down Fair Moon
Dirge For Two Veterans
Ethiopia Saluting The Colors

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Thomas Hampson is a persuasive advocate for these treasures from the Library of Congress' vast collections, so this CD's generous sampling leaves you wanting more. It covers the American songbook in all its variety, from traditional "folk" items like Shenandoah to Stephen Foster to the immigrants Erich Korngold and Kurt Weill to Leonard Bernstein and contemporary composers. Hampson adjusts his flexible, light baritone to fit each song. The voice is full and resonant on Danny Deever, simple and direct in 19th-century traditional songs and ballads, and nuanced in songs like Ned Rorem's "As Adam Early in the Morning," one of several on the disc with texts by Walt Whitman. A standout is the last song in this recital, one that leaves you with thoughts about music, history, and our nation's continuing issues, "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," by Henry Burleigh. Most of the selections are performed with piano accompaniment, but several are with a small ensemble of traditional instruments. A word of caution: everything was recorded in the 1990s and presumably was available piecemeal on previous releases, although few are likely to have more than a handful of these 20 gems. --Dan Davis

Customer Reviews:

It's lovely - But not newly recorded!.......2006-10-04

I don't think this recording deserves One Star ratings or that the artist deserves such crude bashing. And re: Hampson's eye-colour.... Uh, these aren't lenses? He has blue eyes. I met him many times and...indeed, they are dark blue.

Anyhow, this is what Hampson is focusing on right now, American song. While those aren't exactly my thing I have to say that he sings them beautifully. I wish he'd stick to that rather than heavy Verdi and Wagner which his voice isn't right for.

Yet another compilation.......2006-06-13

I am a huge Tom fan. I go to his concerts and buy all of his CDs. I must say that I have been disappointed by this CD because it's entirely made of old recordings. There's a new photo on the cover, but that's all that is new here. So if you've bought your share of Tom CDs over the years, you want to check out the track info before you guy this one.

Now, Tom has been on tour and I STRONGLY recommend that you go see him next year when he comes through your city.

The other thing really annoying is that on the CD where you'd expect information about the music or the recording co., you instead get a large warning label from the FBI on pirating.

how precious!.......2006-05-08

Thomas Hampson swoons and croons to monotonous effect throughout this tired collection; again displaying his ego and faux scholarship in ample measure. Oi-vay, what a disaster! And what is with the blue contact lenses in the Jacket phot? Hampson's eyes are brown. What an unbelievably vain Diva!

Disappointing Duplication.......2006-01-17

I have not even heard the album, and I will not. Although I revere Mr. H. in just about everything he does, especially in song and Lieder, I am very disappointed that so many of these songs appear on other cds of which I already have about 19 of him. I think he and the producers should have chosen totally NEW material for this instead of drawing on his past achievements. I have no reservations about his performances, for I have seen him at the Met in opera and at Carnegie Hall in Mahler. I value them and all of his past cd productions.

If you like this sorta thing.......2006-01-17

Here Mr. Hampson is in his element. Unlike his less than viable attempts at Opera, Mr. Hampson is a thorough and intelligent singer of songs. His affectations, so fully inappropriate in bigger operatic literature, work well with the intimate nature of these sweet and personal songs. If you are Hampson fan, this album will thrill you.

(Not) Your Standard Spike Jones Collection

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Great set of wartime rarities
Cure for the Blues
Standard Transcription Collection

(Not) Your Standard Spike Jones Collection
Spike Jones
Manufacturer: Collector's Choice
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Spike Jones - Greatest Hits
Fonk
Spiked!: The Music of Spike Jones
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ASIN: B00007JR3K
Release Date: 2003-04-08

Album Description

Holiday blues comin' on? Well, put a spike in `em! Here's the zaniest, wildest and just plain sickest Collectors' Choice Music exclusive yet—79 tracks from Spike Jones and his City Slickers! These represent Spike's complete Standard Transcription sides, but these tunes are anything but standard; Mr. Jones brought his full bag of tricks for these non-commercial recordings (made in Hollywood during the early `40s). Add to that the fact that most of these have never been on CD or even LP, and any lover of Spike's mayhem-filled mixture of laughs and hot licks is going to flip over this set! Notes and great pictures accompany this 3-CD walk on the wacky side from the greatest novelty band of all time.

Customer Reviews:

Great set of wartime rarities.......2003-05-14

Spike Jones was the king of the novelty song performers, with hits like "Der Fuehrer's Face" and the parody version of "Sheik of Araby" becoming huge hits during World War II. This is a swell 3-CD set, gathering a full eighty-one of Jones' best tracks from his 1940s heyday, drawn from an extensive archive of radio broadcasts made for the Standard Transcription service. The tightness of his City Slickers band is amply demonstrated in these manic, kookily orchestrated performances. Toots, squonks, blatts and bleats whiz by at lightning speed, as one daffy song after another will delight devoted fans. Amazingly, Jones had the unusual, almost unique ability to perform a repertoire almost entirely made up of comedic material, and yet still be quite listenable and engaging. His jazz chops were hardly in question, and from time to time Jones would dash off a non-novelty ballad or two, just to give the rubes something to think about. Of course, just as often he would perform a song that *sounded* like a straight ballad, but would turn out to be another goof. (One great example of this is the sultry "Serenade To A Jerk," sung in slinky, burlesque tones by Myrtle Horwin.) This collection may seem a little overwhelming, but like his studio recordings, these radio performances have a certain brilliance and joie de vivre about them that will leave you enchanted. Definitely worth checking out!

Cure for the Blues.......2003-04-25

Here's the zaniest, wildest and just plain sickest Collectors' Choice Music exclusive yet-79 tracks from Spike Jones and his City Slickers! These represent Spike's complete Standard Transcription sides, but these tunes are anything but standard; Mr. Jones brought his full bag of tricks for these non-commercial recordings (made in Hollywood during the early `40s). Add to that the fact that most of these have never been on CD or even LP, and any lover of Spike's mayhem-filled mixture of laughs and hot licks is going to flip over this set! Notes and great pictures accompany this 3-CD walk on the wacky side from the greatest novelty band of all time.

Standard Transcription Collection.......2003-04-12

This collection has remastered material from the large stack of Standard Transcription discs from the early 1940's. There are many songs not recorded on RCA, many on the theme of wartime ("48 Reasons Why"), and the quality is excellent. The packaging is threadbare but this is an essential CD package for true music lovers.

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A brilliant explosion
The Pinnacle of the Pogues
The First and the Best
The Pogues brilliant debut
On The 1st Day of March

Red Roses for Me
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Rum Sodomy & the Lash
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The Snake

ASIN: B0006957RQ
Release Date: 2005-01-11

Tracks:

Transmetropolitan
The Battle Of Brisbane
The Auld Triangle
Waxie's Dargle
Boys From The Country Hell
Sea Shanty
Dark Streets Of London
Streams Of Whiskey
Poor Daddy
Dingle Regetta
Greenland Whale Fisheries
Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go
Kitty
The Leaving Of Liverpool
Muirshin Durkin
Repeal Of The Licensing Laws
And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Whiskey You're The Devil
The Wild Rover

Customer Reviews:

A brilliant explosion.......2006-02-22

Sometimes things seem to connect with a past they don't actually belong to, but perhaps should have. Desiderata might seem to have been the work of a seventeenth century monk, but we now know it to have been written by a lawyer in 1927. The Ploughman's Lunch conjures visions of medieval farmworkers relaxing from their heavy toil over a wholesome refreshment, but was apparently conjured up by the English Country Cheese Council in 1960.

Red Roses For Me, with its organic marriage of Shane MacGowan's brilliant compositions and rowdy performances of traditional Irish drinking songs and rebel balladry, played on predominantly acoustic instruments, seems to embody hundreds of years of Ireland's musical history, but nobody has managed to come up with any recorded precedents.

The former Shane O'Hooligan is the first to acknowledge his debt to such as the poets Brendan Behan and James Clarence Mangan, and musically to the Dubliners. However great they were, however, no Dubliners record could be mistaken for one by the Pogues, unless the Pogues were playing on it.

This astounding debut appeared fully-formed and gloriously unique, preceded only by their single Dark Streets Of London (in a slightly different version to that on the album), its surface shambolics belying a solid musical and lyrical depth and maturity. Red Roses For Me was produced by Stan Brennan, who ran Rocks Off Records in West One, where Shane sometimes served behind the counter. It was his long term mission to get the band off the ground, and he managed to pour the Pogue magic, unspilled and distilled, into the flagon at Wapping's tiny Elephant Studios.

The Anglo Celtic sound of the Pogues, fermented in London's glamorous King's Cross, is a mixture of pub and punk, both Shane and Mancunian Maestro Jimmy Fearnley having been veterans of punk band the Nips (formerly the Nipple Erectors), but played with an exuberance and an excellence that proved impossible to resist, despite the dark rising tide of New Romanticism, except by an old guard who thought the Pogues represented the stereotype of the drunken Irish paddy they were trying to escape. To be fair, it is rumoured that Shane likes a drink.

The album is embellished with six vital bonus tracks. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, Eric Bogle's chilling account of Gallipoli, was revisited on Rum, Sodomy And The Lash, but this is the original flipside of their debut single. You may know the song by Eric Bogle or June Tabor, but not like this. Repeal Of The Licensing Laws was the B-side of the (cleaned-up) Boys From The County Hell. The band returned to Elephant in 1985 to record the B-sides Whiskey You're The Devil and Muirshin Durkin, both for the single A Pair Of Brown Eyes, and The Wild Rover and The Leaving Of Liverpool backed up Sally MacLennane. Those last two A-sides are from Rum, Sodomy And The Lash, your next essential Pogues acquisition after this one.

The Pinnacle of the Pogues.......2006-01-14

When you're listening to this album, it's hard to place your finger on it, but at least for me, this is the height of the Pogues, and in fact it is the hight of the genre of music that they created. I tend not to buy the first album of many bands, because they are usually still trying to find their niche. The Pogues, however, obviously never had this problem, as the album immediately jumps into an amazing track in Transmetropolitan. In ever single track you can hear the undiluted, raw talent that make The Pogues singular and quite revolutionary. All I have to say is that if you've liked anything by The Pogues or any of the bands that followed in their footsteps, you will be doing yourself a favor by buying this album. Really, that's all I have to say about this album, but I'll add a sentence or two about each song, even though I think it'll be hard to put what you hear into words.

Transmetropolitan-Upbeat and lyrically amazing (I'll probably be saying that often). This song gets the album started wonderfully.

The Battle of Brisbane-Another upbeat song, this time an instrumental. Quite well done. I especially like the percussion used. I doubt it's a drum, but I don't know what it is. Spider Stacey does an excellent job on the tin whistle.

The Auld Triangle-This song is haunting. It has taken me a while to appreciate this, but now that I do I have a deep respect for the amount of emotion that Shane pours into this simple arrangement.

Waxie's Dargle-I love this song. It is upbeat and a classic Irish tune, executed impeccibly.

Boys From the County Hell-I've read that The Pogues arranged this song in five or ten minutes. This song sounds like it, in a good way. Everything comes together here. There is nothing superfluous and yet it retains a complexity that is simply stunning. It is sure to be a favorite.

Sea Shanty-An song firmly rooted in folk tradition but with the distinctive punk twist that made The Pogues famous.

Dark Streets of London-A mid-tempo song, with amazing lyrics. I think this song epitomizes what The Pogues are. This also happens to be the first song that they released as a single.

Streams of Whiskey-Once you've heard this song you'd be amazed to hear that it isn't a traditional Irish song. I think that's the best way to describe it. Of couse, it's well executed, but lyrically, it sounds like one the classics, and by now, I believe it is.

Poor Paddy-This one really is a traditional tune. It starts of slow before jumping up to a very fast pace. Hearing Shane shreik, "In eighteen-hundred-forty-two..." is well worth the price of the album alone.

Dingle Regetta-Another instrumental piece that does well to show the competence of all The Pogues. It's a nice, coherent track that does the album justice.

Greenland Whale Fisheries-A traditional ballad that The Pogues perform wonderfully. Being an avid airmchair historian of the age-of-sail period, this is another personal favorite. "Overhaul, overhaul / Let your jib-sheets fall!"

Down in the Ground Where the Dead Men Go-In interesting intro that rapidly turns into a duet with every bit of attitude that you'd expect from The Pogues.

Kitty-A traditional song that I believe Shane said he grew up with. It is slow paced and again Shane proves that from the beginning he was like superman, he could do it all.

The Leaving of Liverpool-More(acoustic)guitar in this one than in most other Pogues songs. I love this one, especially for the chorus.

Muirshin Durkin-A fast paced traditional song. Perfect for your drive home from work on Friday afternoon, "Goodbye Muirshin Durkin / I'm sick and tired of workin'"

Repeal of the Licensing Laws-I especially like the banjo in this piece. It isn't in the forefront of the track, but if you listen, it's quite good.

And the Band Played Waltzing Maltida-I played this song for an Australian friend of mine, and he said that it was strange to hear an Englishman/Irishman singing an Australian song. However strange it may be, it's certainly a moving piece. Like The Auld Triangle, it is a haunting song that. This has to be another favorite.

Whiskey You're the Devil-I love this song, if not for it's origins in the Napoleonic Wars (the ones where Napoleon was soundly beaten at a little town in Belgium) then for it's the energy that The Pogues put into it.

The Wild Rover-The closing track for this album fits very well. I say it fits because that is the only word that I can think of. It's a sense of closing that the song has. How does it do that, you say? I suppose you'll have to listen to find out.

The First and the Best.......2005-03-11

I first discovered The Pogues back in the mid 80's and once owned this album on cassette. I'm glad to see the extra tracks, particularly The Leaving of Liverpool, which is one of my favorite Irish tunes of all time. If you have even a drop of Irish blood in your veins this album will have you dancing in the streets. Excellent. Can't reccommend this one highly enough. Slainte!

The Pogues brilliant debut.......2005-02-07

The debut album by the Pogues sounded like nothing else of its time. This album was the Pogues at their most raw, with such songs as "Transmetropolitan, The Boys From the County Hell, Sea Shanty, The Dark Streets of London, Down In the Ground Where the Dead Man Goes and Streams of Whiskey." However, beneath the sheer raw power of this release was a songwriter of major vision and talent named Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan. It was Shane's poetic nature that was the driving force of the Pogues. This album contains seven of MacGowan's best penned tracks, plus the traditional reworkings of "Waxie's Dargle, Poor Paddy, Greenland Whale Fisheries, and Kitty." The Pogues haunting version of Brendan Behan's "The Auld Triangle," to the Jem Finer/traditional track "Dingle Regatta" are all standout tracks on this album. Overall, a sheer brilliant London-Irish album from the best band of the 1980's and Irish rock.
The new remastered version contains the traditional reworkings of "The Leaving of Liverpool, Whiskey You're the Devil, Muirshin Durkin, and the Wild Rover" The Spider Stacy penned instrumental "Repeal of the Licensing Laws, to the original single version of "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" round out the bonus tracks.

On The 1st Day of March.......2005-01-23

It's about time. And, yes the bonus tracks sweeten the deal & make this one worth buying again. This just about blew away everything else I was listening to in the 80's. It made my Smiths records cower in fear. They bee-yatch slapped REM. Justly gave the finger to Goth acts like Bauhaus & The Cure while being more death obsessed than either. If they had a showdown with post London Calling Clash, The Pogues would have outdrew them at the time of this release. It was a breath of fresh, foul air.

I'd say their version of "The Auld Triangle" remains definitive, leaving the Clancy Brothers choking in the dust. The same goes for "Kitty". As for the originals, Shane MacGowan was on the top of his game. And would remain so for 2 more albums. "Boys From Country Hell" remains one of my all time favorites. The same goes for "Down In The Ground". Instrumentals like "Repeal" go to show that the rest of the band were no joke.

Far from a novelty act, they had a knack for making old songs sound new & new ones old. Listening to it again some 19 years later, Red Roses still doesn't sound dated. Truely the sound of a bunch of drunken pirates setting their ship on fire. Their pistol blarin' best next to RUM SODOMY & THE LASH. After that, they FELL FROM GRACE & PEACE & LOVE dumped them off into HELL'S DITCH. From which they never recovered.

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Broadway Divas
Love the choices
coulda been a contender
Two words: Julia Murney

Broadway Divas
Liza Minnelli , Mandy Patinkin , Bernadette Peters , Mary Martin , Patti LuPone , Jeanne Lehman , Mark Jacoby , Madeline Kahn , Marin Mazzie , Barbara Cook , Angela Lansbury , and Julia Murney
Manufacturer: RCA Victor Broadway
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005LN5V
Release Date: 2001-08-07

Tracks:

I Got The Sun In The Morning - Ethel Merman
Sing Happy - Liza Minnelli
Mean To Me - Nell Carter
Children And Art - Bernadette Peters
Before I Kiss The World Goodbye - Mary Martin
Being Alive - Patti LuPone
Monotonous - Eartha Kitt
Shy - Sarah Jessica Parker
All That Jazz - Bebe Neuwirth
Raise The Roof - Julia Murney
Getting Married Today - MADELINE KAHN
Back To Before - Marin Mazzie
Losing My Mind - Barbara Cook
What Did I Have That I Don't Have? - Barbara Harris
Everything's Coming Up Roses - Angela Lansbury

Customer Reviews:

Broadway Divas.......2007-01-22

Wonderful selection of classic singers and songs. Special favorites are Ethel Merman and Barbara Cook.

Love the choices.......2006-08-11

This is great. Anything with Ethel, Bernadette, Barbara (both of them), Mary, and Marin is beyond words. Any one of them by themselves is awesome but these ladies together are mind blowing. All of the women sound amazing but they made a mistake on the list of songs and composers. "Raise the Roof" sung by Julia Murney (I love her)was written by Andrew Lippa, not LaChusia.

coulda been a contender.......2006-03-15

The divas are indeed divine, but the choice of music sung left me wondering why, with so many other great music selection contenders.

Two words: Julia Murney.......2001-09-03

OK, so it sounds crazy to review an album with Ethel Merman and Bernadette Peters on it and not mention them. But...tough. I've read enough about them to know how good they are.

Buy this album as a token of love to the producer who had the cajones to put Julia Murney on an album celebrating the last 100 years of Broadway divas.

Because SHE is one of the greatest voices of the decade!

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Traditional songs of the sea.

Homeward Bound
Revels
Manufacturer: Revels Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006JM8D
Release Date: 2002-10-01

Tracks:

Roll Down
Can't You Dance The Polka?
Threescore And Ten
The Maid On The Shore
Ocean
The Leaving Of Liverpool
Here's A Health To The Company
Drake's Drum
Run Th eRiggin' Again
Noah's Ark
The Herring's Head
The Fush Of The Sea/Yea Ho, Little Fish
Dance Set
Euroclydon
Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy
Boston
Blood-Red Roses
Anchor Song
Lady Franklin's Lament
The Last Leviathan
Rolling Down To Old Maui
The Jamestown Homeward Bound
Rolling Home To Old New England

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Traditional songs of the sea........2007-07-07

If one likes traditional songs created during the days of the sail ship from the U.S. and England, then this is a good cd for that. I enjoyed it very much.

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Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue
Trocadero
Manufacturer: Rooster Teeth Productions
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000J40FXY

Product Description

This 16-track CD collects music from, and inspired by, Red Vs Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles. The music was written and performed by Nico and his Boston-based trio Trocadero. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue includes four pieces of incidental music from your favorite RvB episodes (including the Intro theme), and twelve full-length tracks.

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Super

Red Roses
Bert Kaempfert
Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000071A8
Release Date: 1993-10-27

Tracks:

Red Roses for a Blue Lady
Almost There
Blue Midnight
Sentimental Journey
Stardust
Dream
Wonderland by Night
Moonglow
Three O'Clock in the Morning
Happy Trumpeter
Swingin' Safari
Wimoweh
Afrikaan Beat
Zambesi

Customer Reviews:

Super.......2003-12-30

Ever since the early 60's I've been enjoying the music of Bert Kaempfert. "Wonderland By Night' (included here) was a major hit followed by many more over the years. His signature bass guitar flowing through the melodies are something to behold. He played the trumpet himself and surrounded his music with great backup voices, pianos, strings, etc. He passed away in 1980 and though only 56 years old, left us a wonderful legacy.

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Favorite English Songs
Lott , and G Johnson
Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006ANZR
Release Date: 2002-08-27

Tracks:

So We'll Go No More A-roving
Queen Mary's Song
The Cloths Of Heaven, Op. 30 No. 3
Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 No. 1
Silent Noon
The Shawl
Fish In The Unruffled Lakes
O Lurcher-Loving Collier, Op. 53 No. 2
O Waly, Waly
The Sprig Of Thyme
Sigh No More, Ladies
Come Sing And Dance
Gavotte
Go Not, Happy Day
My Own Country
Silver, Op. 30 No. 2
The Early Morning
Sweet Chance, That Led My Steps Abroad
The Swing
Red Roses And Red Noses
Come You Not From Newcastle?
Old Sir Faulk

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