Music of Yesterday & Today

Music of Yesterday & Today

Music of Yesterday & Today

ASIN: B00005BCAM

Track Listings
 
1. Heart and Soul
2. You Are My Sunshine
3. Things I Love
4. Yam
5. Garden in the Rain
6. Do You Care
7. Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider
8. Does Your Heart Beat for Me
9. I Guess I'll Have to Dream the Rest
10. Bluebirds in the Moonlight
11. At Long Last Love
12. I'm Fit to Be Tied
13. Scatterbrain
14. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me
15. I Wanna Wrap You Up

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Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow the Greatest Hits of Kenny Loggins
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Loggins bloggins
  • Great CD!
  • It could've been better
  • LOGGINS FANS THIS IS THE ONE!
  • My boyfriend loves it
 Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow the Greatest Hits of Kenny Loggins
Kenny Loggins
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002BVB
Release Date: 1997-03-25

Tracks:

  1. This Is It
  2. Whenever I Call You 'Friend'
  3. Footloose
  4. Heart To Heart
  5. Danger Zone
  6. Meet Me Half Way
  7. I'm Alright (Theme From 'Caddyshack')
  8. Return To Pooh Corner
  9. Don't Fight It
  10. Forever
  11. Conviction Of The Heart
  12. The Real Thing
  13. For The First Time
  14. Celebrate Me Home
  15. The Rest Of Your Life

Amazon.com essential recording

The term "middle of the road" was virtually invented for Kenny Loggins, whose brand of plain and pleasant pop/rock has always managed to find a place on the charts. This 15-song set has most of the hits you'll need, including the soundtrack singles ("I'm Alright," "Danger Zone," "Footloose") and the duets with Stevie Nicks and Steve Perry. One thing is for sure: the man certainly knows a good hook when he hears it. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Loggins bloggins.......2007-06-09

I was surprised by the tunes on this CD. I am very glad to add it to my collection. Loggins is a very talented musician.

5 out of 5 stars Great CD!.......2007-04-10

This is a wonderful CD! It contains all of Kenny Loggin's greatest hits so it's fun to listen to on the road. Well worth the money!

4 out of 5 stars It could've been better.......2007-03-25

I really like this CD, but I am really disappointed that the original song "House At Pooh Corner" isn't on it. That's the only reason I don't rate this a 5. This was a bad decision by whomever compiled this CD.

5 out of 5 stars LOGGINS FANS THIS IS THE ONE!.......2007-02-27

THIS CD IS THE BEST, WHY, BECAUSE IT IS CHEAP AND IT CONTAINS ALL THE SONGS BEST PERFORMED BY K.LOGGINS THE MUSIC IS GREAT UPLIFTING AND JUST A LOT OF FUN FOR EVERYONE, I RATE THIS A #1 SONG SELECTION (J.RUSSELL).

5 out of 5 stars My boyfriend loves it.......2007-02-07

While I haven't listened to it, my boyfriend really wanted it for his birthday, so I bought it and he loves it. No complaints here.
Younger Than Yesterday
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • 4 1/2 stars.
  • Just to make one point...
  • Byrd Changes!
  • Awesome introduction to all the Byrds' eras at once
  • The Byrds Had Never Flown Higher Than In '67
 Younger Than Yesterday
The Byrds
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002ACR
Release Date: 1996-04-30

Tracks:

  1. So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star
  2. Have You Seen Her Face
  3. C.T.A.-102
  4. Renaissance Fair
  5. Time Between
  6. Everybody's Been Burned
  7. Thoughts And Words
  8. Mind Gardens
  9. My Back Pages
  10. The Girl With No Name
  11. Why
  12. It Happens Each Day
  13. Don't Make Waves
  14. My Back Pages (Alternate Version)
  15. Mind Gardens (Alternate Version)
  16. Lady Friend
  17. Old John Robertson (Single Version)

Amazon.com essential recording

Four of the five original Byrds were aboard for this folk-rock landmark. Within months of its release in the summer of 1967, David Crosby would move on and the group would enter a permanent period of flux. Younger Than Yesterday, however, finds songwriters Crosby, Roger McGuinn, and Chris Hillman prodding one another with varied but complementary triumphs. "My Back Pages" is one of their best Dylan covers (and the Byrds had plenty of them), while "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" (written as a jab at the Monkees) represents two minutes of compressed pop cynicism that's as valid today as it was when it hit the airwaves. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars 4 1/2 stars........2007-03-19

one of my three favorite byrds albums (the other two being "mr tambourine man" and "the notorious byrd brothers"), this is like a crossroads for all the byrds leanings in sound. the 12-string guitar is still present, the heavy psychedelia is in full bloom, and there are touches of country shadings. all in all, though, this is their most hippy oriented outting (the notorious byrd brothers album does give it a run for its money), with all the psychedelic trappings present, including reversed tapes and all that jazz. the songs are top notch, and the whole recording has a fresh playful quality that time has not diminished. this album is a must for all fans of 60's music, and highly recommended to all lovers of pop/folk/rock in general. the remasterd version is highly preferrable in sound to the first cd version, so buyer beware. the six bonus cuts could well have been left off. they add nothing to impact of the original 11 cuts.

5 out of 5 stars Just to make one point..........2007-01-22

If you read anything about the song So You Want To Be A Rock and Roll Star - including here - you'll see the claim that the song is about The Monkees, usually in a dismissive tone. It is true that one of the band members has been quoted as saying that he was thinking about The Monkees at the time. However, a simple listen to the lyrics once through would tell you otherwise. The song is about the rapid rise to stardom available to ALL bands at the time. In fact, I don't see how it could be anything other than a reflection of the Byrds own experience, screaming girls and all. There's certainly nothing in the song about television shows, or not writing your own songs, or any other criticism of the Monkees. And anyway, what's wrong with The Monks? They had great songwriters and great production, along with damn good vocalists.
While I'm at it, this is a great album. I was just a bit too young to anything more than the singles that got played on Top 40 radio, and they were gone before I started buying records. It was obviously my loss - this was a stellar band.

5 out of 5 stars Byrd Changes!.......2007-01-06

This, the fourth album from the Byrds, is often regarded as their strongest. This is mostly a matter of taste and opinion, but considering that most Byrds albums are great and near-masterpieces, it's not really that interesting if a particular is hailed as the best, the second best or third best.

This is a great album and an intersting one in several respects. For the first time the Byrds made an album without contributions from their original main-songwriter, Gene Clark. Clark had already left the band after the second album, but he is actually featured on "Fifth Dimension" as song-writer and possibly also playing on some tracks.

His absence gave place for a very interesting rise of bass-player Chris Hillman, who suddenly became the most prolific song-writer of the Byrds. Contributing four first-class songs, and four co-written with McGuinn ( 2 of them bonus-tracks ) his importance on his album obviously is immense.

"Have You Seen Her Face" was even chosen as a single, and though it did not fare very well (#74), it's one among many standouts on the album. Great guitars and vocals. "Time Between" is just as strong, and interestingly featuring future Byrd-member Clarence White on his easily recognizeable guitar. He's also featured on the short but nice "The Girl With No Name"

On the Beatles inspired "Thoughts and Words" McGuinn delivers some great psychedelic guitar-licks. Hilmann sing lead on his own songs and Crosby is delivering some breathtaking high pitch harmony vocals.

David Crosby is also showing strengths as a song-writer. Whereas Hillman's songs are mostly up-beat, Crosby's are mid-tempo or ballads. Strongest songs here from Crosby are "Everybody's Been Burned" and "Renaissance Fair" ( co-written with McGuinn). He also delivers the album only miss, the atonal time-piece "Mind Gardens".

Vocally usual lead-vocalist Roger McGuinn is up-front on the hit-singles ( #29 & #30 ) "So You Want to Be a Rock'n Roll Star" and Bob Dylan's "My Back Pages". Both great tracks; the former a satirical comment to the music-industry and the latter is classic Byrds with 12-strings and out-standing vocals.

The bonus-track are mostly nice additions. Crosby's "It Happens Each Day" would have been a nice swop for the weak "Mind Gardens".

The rare B-side "Don't Make Waves" is interesting though unsignificant. The other B-side "Old John Robertson" is much better. An different version was included on the band's next album "The Notorious Byrd Brothers".

Crosby's flop A-side "Lady Friend" does not really sound like anything the Byrds recorded before. Big, slightly chaotic production. Some fans consider the song an over-looked masterpiece. At any rate, the album as a whole is one the greatest and most important records that was released in 1967.

5 out of 5 stars Awesome introduction to all the Byrds' eras at once.......2006-10-27

I personally am a relatively new Byrds fan - I'm pretty sure I don't like most of the stuff after this album (country-rock was never really my thing anyway), but this album is absolutely amazing! While I agree that maybe it wasn't the most radical statement of 1967 by any stretch of the imagination, it was certainly one of the most consistently great albums of the year and the decade, and for that reason I'd also say it's also one of the most underrated.

Personally I've never been a David Crosby, but I actually like all of his songs here, even "Mind Gardens," which is a bit hippy-drippy, but not bad at all. In fact I think the album benefits from its presence - it's weirdness adds diversity to the album, as does "C.T.A.-102," which would otherwise be a good but indistinguishable song without the whooshes and alien voices. "Renaissance Fair" is also a hippy-drippy timepiece lyrically, but it's also a really great song - the guitars manage to be atonal and melodic at the same time, which is a difficult effect to describe.

I like "Why" a lot, too - it highlights the most direct connections between the Byrds and their more punk-influenced power pop followers in the late 70s, 80s and 90s - although I'm interested to hear that there is a better version out there. Is it available anywhere?

To be cliche, the cream of the crop is "So You Want To Be A Rock N' Roll Star," where the verse predicts, strangely, Can and Talking Heads' polyrhythmic textures, world percussion and odd time signature while being a great classic Byrds song, awesome psych sound effects (crowd screaming cutting through the mix) and having a great trumpet part at the same time. Had the whole album had songs as unprecedented as this one, the album might have been a VERY radical statement. Not that any of the songs are slack at all, but it makes me wonder what would have unleashed had they not broken up.

I love "Thoughts and Words," although I question if they couldn't have written a slightly less clashing/forced sounding chorus, which seems awkward next to the haunting, rolling guitars of the verse. The backwards tapes are awesome, by the way. "My Back Pages" is also awesome, especially the alternate take, where the Leslie really fleshes the sound out, making it more expansive where the original feels a slight bit anemic. "Everybody's Been Burned" is haunting, beautiful and wistful in a Nick Drake sort of way - along with "Lady Friend" probably the only two songs by Crosby I can say I really love.

The country rock tracks are my least favorite on the album, but even they are top-notch for the genre. I already mentioned I'm not a huge fan of the genre (at least, not up until No Depression alt-country - but I absolutely loathe the Eagles and am not a big CSN fan either), but I still don't skip these songs, which speaks to their strength.

I haven't purchased the other early albums yet (soon I will) - so I won't pretend to be a Byrds expert enough to say this is their best or not. But I will say it is not only a great introduction to new Byrds fans, as all of the bands eras (folk-rock, psychedelia and country-rock) are present in one album with some of the strongest songwriting and playing in any of these genres. Amazing and underrated.

5 out of 5 stars The Byrds Had Never Flown Higher Than In '67.......2006-06-04

The thing that's most impressive about the Byrds' best album - namely "Younger than Yesterday" - is that both Hillman and Crosby are finally afforded a greater opportunity to strut their stuff as up-and-coming singer/songwriters rather than continuing to play reluctant sessionman roles to group leader McGuinn. In other words, a more "democratic" approach is employed on this stellar 1967 document ...

The best cases in point include the irresistable harmonies of Hillman's "Have You Seen Her Face" and his melodic country-rocker "Time Between" as well as Crosby's wistful "Everybody's Been Burned" (this reviewer's favorite Crosby composition, by the way) and HIS dreamy yet up-tempo "Renaissance Fair." Incidentally, two more excellent Crosby tunes are added to the reissue - the ethereal "It Happens Each Day" and the melodically rollicking "Lady Friend." It does seems rather strange that the latter song features a Boyce-and-Hart-style horn section that nonetheless works brillantly - even for a Crosby composition!

As for McGuinn, his satiric opener "So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star" (which features Good Ol' "Grazin' In The Grass" Himself, Mr. Hugh Masakela on brass) and the hard-rocking "Why?" are first-rate, as is the inclusion of another Dylan classic ("My Back Pages"), also sung by McGuinn. Unfortunately, though, the continuing efforts of each band member to have their own writings included on subsequent albums would eventually trigger the band's legendarily acrimonious break-up (especially on "The Notorious Byrd Brothers"). If all this is too painful to even think about, then stick with Good Ol' YTY - one of The Byrds' (and 1967's) finest pop releases. CIAO ...
Twice Removed From Yesterday/Bridge Of Sighs
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • top 10
  • Bridge of sighs
  • Trower at his peak
  • Two for One
  • Classic Album
 Twice Removed From Yesterday/Bridge Of Sighs
Robin Trower
Manufacturer: Bgo - Beat Goes on
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ASIN: B000005RPW
Release Date: 1997-03-04

Tracks:

  1. I Can't Wait Much Longer
  2. Daydream
  3. Hannah
  4. Man Of The World
  5. I Can't Stand It
  6. Rock Me Baby Right
  7. Twice Removed From Yesterday
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  11. Bridge Of Sighs
  12. In This Place
  13. The Fool And Me
  14. Too Rolling Stoned
  15. About To Begin
  16. Lady Love
  17. Little Bit Of Sympathy

Album Description

Remastered from the original master tapes, this two-on-one features his Chrysalis albums 'Twice Removed From Yesterday'(1973) and 'Bridge Of Sighs' (1974). 17 tracks total, including 'Can't Wait Much Longer', 'Daydream', 'Bridge Of Sighs' and 'Too Rolling Stoned'. 1996 BGO release. Also features extensive sleeve notes and faithfully restored artwork.

Album Details

Classic Two on 1, features Some of his Best Material Including I Can't Wait Much Longer, Rock Me Baby, Day of the Eagle and Too Rolling Stoned.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars top 10.......2007-07-01

Come on.........everyone knows Bridge of Sighs is in the top ten and it includes the first album. Can't go wrong.

4 out of 5 stars Bridge of sighs.......2007-02-12

I loved "bridge of sighs" the first time I heard it. I found many of the other songs enjoyable as well. There are a few songs on this (double) album that are below par for Robin Trower, but it is still a good addition to anyones collection.

5 out of 5 stars Trower at his peak.......2007-01-07

Bridge of Sighs and Twice Removed From Yesterday represent Robin Trower at his peak. Combining with Reg Isidore on drums and the vocals of James Dewar, Trower creates an atmosphere filled with dreamy guitar riffs, while still allowing the vocal talents of Dewar to shine.
The Hendrix influence is obvious, yet this is not a Jimi clone. Trower remains one of the most under-rated guitarists of his generation.

4 out of 5 stars Two for One.......2006-11-04

Classic Trower, including his most well known work Bridge of Sighs. Can't go wrong for the price.

5 out of 5 stars Classic Album.......2006-09-27

Classic album is a term often used in the music industry, but just what defines a classic album? Is it reaching certain sales figures? Is it decided by respected music critics or is it just plain old public opinion. If it is the latter, then in the humble opinion of this member of the public Bridge of Sighs is a classic album, certainly as far as the blues/rock genre is concerned. It contains only eight songs, which was about par for the course back in the early seventies, but each one is a gem and where I'm tempted to skip tracks on some CDs, I have to listen to all the tracks on this one.
It opens with the energetic Day of the Eagle and there's more energy with The Fool and Me and Little Bit of Sympathy. Balance this with the beautiful slow ballads In This Place and About To Begin, add the catchy Lady Love, the rumbling Too Rolling Stoned and the haunting title track and you have all the necessary ingredients for a classic album.
This package also includes the Robin Trower bands debut album Twice Removed From Yesterday. This contains a couple of weaker tracks, notably Ballerina, but also contains a couple of classics, in I Can't Wait Much Longer and Daydream, a personal favourite.
What more can I say! Well, after sampling the virtuoso guitar playing of one of Britain finest, have another listen, to someone who had one of the best voices in music, the late great James Dewar. You'll love it!
Once Upon A Mattress (1959 Original Broadway Cast)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • "Mattress" CD was excellent
  • an oldie but a goodie
  • Nothing like the original --
  • Awesome
  • I saw the original on Broadway
 Once Upon A Mattress (1959 Original Broadway Cast)
Marshall Barer
Manufacturer: Decca U.S.
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ASIN: B000002ONH
Release Date: 1993-04-13

Tracks:

  1. Overture - Orchestra
  2. Many Moons Ago - Harry Snow
  3. An Opening For A Princess - Joe Bova and Ensemble
  4. In A Little While - Allen Case, Anne Jones
  5. Shy - Carol Burnett, Joe Bova And Ensemble
  6. Sensitivity - Jane White, Robert Weil
  7. The Swamps Of Home - Carol Burnett, Joe Bova And Ensemble
  8. Normandy - Harry Snow, Matt Mattox, Anne Jones
  9. Spanish Panic - Jane White
  10. Song Of Love - Carol Burnett, Joe Bova And Ensemble
  11. Quiet - Jane White And Ensemble
  12. Studio Dialogue - Carol Burnett
  13. Happily Ever After - Carol Burnett
  14. Man To Man Talk - Matt Mattox, Joe Bova
  15. Very Soft Shoes - Matt Mattox And Ensemble
  16. Yesterday I Loved You - Allen Case, Anne Jones
  17. Nightingale Lullaby - Ginny Perlowin
  18. Finale - Joe Bova, Matt Mattox, Jack Gilford And Ensemble

Amazon.com

Based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale The Princess and the Pea, Once Upon a Mattress opened in May 1959 and was a solid success, if not a huge blockbuster. It did well enough, in any case, to warrant a 1997 revival starring Sarah Jessica Parker. The show was far from revolutionary, but it provided a really fun vehicle for a cast of top stage personalities, including black actress Jane White, who played Queen Aggravain (a part originally written for comedienne Nancy Walker) in whiteface. But of course, Once Upon a Mattress's heart and soul was Carol Burnett, who, in her Broadway debut created the part of Princess Winnifred and delivered two of Mary Rodgers's best songs, the hilarious "Shy" and the spunky "Happily Ever After," which sounds a bit like Jule Styne at his most rhythmic. Burnett's timing and performance remain as sharp as they were 40 years ago. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars "Mattress" CD was excellent.......2007-01-09

I've really enjoyed this CD. I only wish the play was available on DVD.

5 out of 5 stars an oldie but a goodie.......2006-03-15

Loved Carol Burnett then and love her now. This original cast CD is a lovely trip down memory lane.

5 out of 5 stars Nothing like the original -- .......2006-01-30

No offense to any of the subsequent "Freds" but Carol Burnett OWNS this role. The recording is as fresh and funny as anything being done today and this is the version musical theatre fans should have in their library. Get it.

5 out of 5 stars Awesome.......2006-01-22

My school did this musical last year (Spring 2005) and I had never heard of it before, so I bought both the Revial and the Original Cast Recordings. Fell in love. I was Sir Harry and loved both songs that I sang in. In my opinion, those are the two best songs in the entire musical, but then again, I'm biased.

Once Upon A Mattress OCR is by far the best out there. Don't get me wrong, the Revival Cast did a wonderful job (soundtrack at least) But There is something about Carol Burnett. She was meant to sing be Fred. But one thing that I didn't like is that "The Minstrel, the Jester & I" wasn't in this recording. But that is really the only problem I had with this.

My fav songs include:
In a Little While (because I sang it)
Yesterday I Loved You (again, I sang it)
Many Moons Ago
Shy

Would I recomend this CD? YES I WOULD!! I would shout it from the rooftops that people should by this CD! It's a funny, quaint little musical that people need to know about. I LOVE IT!

5 out of 5 stars I saw the original on Broadway.......2005-12-19

Once Upon a Mattress was one of the first Broadway shows that I ever saw and I was totally mesmorized and laughed so hard that my side hurt. Carol Burnett was the perfect person to play Fred and it was one of those magical performances that stays with you for a lifetime. The original cast album captures the fun and spirit of the show.

Later during the run of the show a friend of mine joined the chorus and when we talked about the experience, he told me that the joy that was on stage was similar to that felt by the cast and that was apparent on the album. They especially liked working with Ms. Burnett as she was a giving and caring actress.

I recommend this album to anyone who wants to spend some time just feeling good.
Funeral for Yesterday
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Kittie rules!!
  • Great music, but DRM means no computer play
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  • Kittie's best yet
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 Funeral for Yesterday
Kittie
Manufacturer: X Of Infamy
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ASIN: B000MQ55HK
Release Date: 2007-02-20

Tracks:

  1. Funeral For Yesterday
  2. Breathe
  3. Everything That Could Have Been
  4. Slow Motion
  5. Will To Live
  6. Never Again
  7. Sweet Destruction Interlude
  8. Summer Dies
  9. Flower of Flesh and Blood
  10. Around Your Heart
  11. This Too Shall Pass
  12. Last Goodbye
  13. Witch Hunt
  14. The Change

Album Description

Includes bonus DVD with 45 minutes of exclusive footage, interviews, and videos. It also features behind the scenes content in the studio making the album, Funeral For Yesterday.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Kittie rules!!.......2007-06-27

Im Kittie Fan, even I like this CD (and the DVD) I think is a little more comercial and easier to hear, Im still thinking Lander sisters rules, if you are begining in the Speed metal you could begin with "Funeral For yesterday" and "in to the Darkness" (previous CD)

3 out of 5 stars Great music, but DRM means no computer play.......2007-06-20

I loved the music on all of this, but somebody decided I shouldn't be able to play the disc on my computer or convert the disc for my mp3 player. I wouldn't mind so much if there was a notice of this restriction. To call this a compact disc (and it's not since it doesn't adhere to the standard) is false advertising and my only real knock about the release.

Get me one I can rip to mp3 and I'd make that a 5 star rating.

1 out of 5 stars Oh, looky here...........2007-06-04

When you look at a band like Kittie, you think: "Well, they can't be all that bad. I mean, four decent-looking chicks trying to play heavy metal, a decent-yet-ironic band name, decent music, what could go wrong?" Well, let me tell you, almost everything can go wrong into purchasing a Kittie album. Everything that this band releases is garbage, but let me tell you, their latest release "Funeral for Yesterday," is BAD!!!!

What do I mean by "bad"? Is it the worst Kittie album yet? Oh, undeniably! Although I have no clue how anything could be as worse as "Spit," which was already a horrific album in its own way. You see, every Kittie album has a formula, and it is this: washed-up guitar + no bass + intolerable drumming + whiny vocals + laughable lyrics = the perfect Kittie album. FfY is no different from the trash that Kittie releases, and it needs to be sent off to Iraq where it can be used as a torture device. Really....

Well, you might be saying, "That's your opinion." Well, yeah, it is my opinion, but I think it is also a FACT that Kittie is the absolute worst band ever! They're competing against Limp Bizkit right now for the position of the "Worst Band Ever" award. I don't think I can name a band, besides Limp Bizkit, that could surpass the awesomely badness of this band. I hope this album is it for them! I hope that once this album falls off the charts (oh wait....) that this disgrace of a band will never walk the face of the earth again! There are so many things I can say about this band that would get me banned from the site, which is the only reason I'm not going to say them (I love reviewing here, besides the bagillion rules they have on here!).

I'm just going to stop here. There is nothing else I can say about this band. They suck, they're a disgrace to music itself, and I hope they rot for eternity in the underworld!

4 out of 5 stars Kittie's best yet.......2007-05-31

Kittie formed in 1999, and their debut, "Spit," met with overall positive acclaim. But six years later, the Canadian all-female alt-metal quartet had gone through a great deal of problems. In 2005, when they parted ways with longtime label Artemis Records, and lost two of their band members (Jennifer Arroyo and Lisa Marx), many skeptics thought the end of Kittie was near. But the Lander sisters (Morgan and Mercedes - the two founders of the group) choose to think of it a different way - a new beginning. In 2006, Kittie emerged from the ashes with a new bassist (Trish Doan), a new lead guitarist (Tara Mcleod), new record label (their own label, X of Infamy Records), a new album (this year's very aptly titled "Funeral For Yesterday"), and, more-or-less, a new sound, too!

"Funeral For Yesterday" is doubtlessly Kittie's most mature, melodic, accessible, realized, confident-sounding, well-written, and polished release to date. "FFY" is living proof that Kittie's sound has changed dramatically since the days of "Spit." The new album boasts a crisp, clear, almost squeaky-clean production job, and a wealth of memorable songs, infectious hooks, and clean singing from Morgan. Morgan explores her singing voice so much that her growls and screams have been put on the back burner, and are only occasionally brought out to offset the melodic vocals. In fact, we don't even get a single growl until track four, "Slow Motion," and track seven, "Sweet Destruction," is an ultra melodic interlude track that even finds Morgan crooning things like "Life is good." As other reviewers have already pointed out, "Funeral" is slightly hindered because Morgan can sometimes come dangerously close to sounding like an Amy Lee (of Evanescence) clone, but those moments are few and far between.

And despite all of the melodic touches, these fourteen songs pack enough muscular, meaty rhythms, crunching, ofteh thrashy riffs, propulsive, leads, and even occasional blazing solos to make the album typically quite heavy. The final sound is very dynamic, diverse, well-balanced, and well-textured. "The Change" is remarkably heavy and hard-hitting, and "Last Goodbye" and "Witch Hunt" (the heaviest songs of the bunch) are also quite brutal. Elsewhere, tracks like the title track, "Breathe," and "Slow Motion" are bolstered by strong, crunchy guitars and humming bass lines, and "Never Again" and "This Too Shall Pass" evoke industrial metal - their churning riffs, and repetitive, lumbering rhythms wouldn't sound completely mismatched if they came off of a Prong or Ministry record. Also of note are the third track, "Everything That Could Have Been," which is highlighted by excellent singing and almost doomy riffs; the kind of spacey chorus and ripping, wailing solo of "Flower of Flesh and Blood"; and the hooky, galloping rhythm that bolsters "Around Your Heart."

Kittie remain an acquired taste for some listeners, and "Funeral For Yesterday" won't change your mind if you're not already a fan, but no matter what your opinion of them is, one should at least give them props for overcoming such adversity to release their best album to date. To conclude, "FFY" is a very satisfying, eminently memorable, and extremely solid album that gets better with repeat listens, and it is sure to become a favorite among fans and critics alike. Nicely done, girls.

5 out of 5 stars Kittie growing up nicely.......2007-05-14

I've seen a few other reviews here that suggest kittie has lost the plot. This is simply not the case, the sound of this album is more mature, and a progression into sounding "more metal". They have still kept their heavyness, just check out "Flower of Flesh and Blood". This is definately a great album for a die hard Kittie fan. Good music usually comes from hard times.
A New Day Yesterday Live
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • A New Day Yesterday Live (my review from BARCELONA)
  • ***************** JOE SMOKING BONAMASSA ****************
  • Joey B Live
  • more raw than his studio work
  • The show is 6 stars; the disc production is 1 star
 A New Day Yesterday Live
Joe Bonamassa
Manufacturer: Premier Artists
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ASIN: B0002LE9VI
Release Date: 2005-02-22

Tracks:

  1. Jam Intro
  2. Cradle Rock
  3. Steppin Out/Rice Pudding
  4. A New Day Yesterday
  5. Miss You, Hate You
  6. Walk In My Shadows
  7. I Know Where I Belong
  8. Colour & Shape
  9. Trouble Waiting
  10. If Heartaches Were Nickels
  11. Don't Burn Down That Bridge

Product Description

1. Jam (Intro) - 3:21 2. Cradle Rock - 3:37 3. Steppin' Out/Rice Pudding - 5:31 4. A New Day Yesterday - 8:05 5. Miss You, Hate You - 7:20 6. Walk in My Shadows - 5:57 7. I Know Where I Belong - 10:14 8. Colour and Shape - 6:12 9. Trouble Waiting (Bonamassa/Tyrell/Tyrell) - 4:36 10. If Hearaches Were Nickles - 7:42 11. Don't Burn Down That Bridge - 8:22

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A New Day Yesterday Live (my review from BARCELONA).......2007-04-06

I'm impressed, what a guitar. I totally agree with Harris Gershman's phrase "GREAT MUSIC, TERRIBLE PRESSING" but not with the 3 stars. I think this record deserves 4 or 5 stars at least even if it is more a rock record than a Blues record. In spite of that, it reaches stellar moments of Blues for instance in "Steppin out/Rice pudding" (the Bluesbraekers of Jonh Mayall play a great cover in its LP featuring Eric Clapton) or "If heartaches were nickels" (in Kenny Neal LP Hoodoo Moon there is a good cover of this piece too) or Free singer's Paul Rodgers's Blues "Walk in my shadow". Bonamassa's guitar level is absolutely great, It is even exceptional. By the way, the title record "A new day yesterday" is a great Jethro Tull singer's Ian Anderson's composition, what a great band, and in this record Joe makes a sensational cover which includes a guitar demonstration with plenty of feeling, just like the rest of the record. Highly recommended to all guitar lovers.

5 out of 5 stars ***************** JOE SMOKING BONAMASSA ****************.......2007-01-11

WHEN I FIRST HEARD J.B IT WAS LIKE BEING BORN AGAIN ,, JUST BUY IT IT CANT BE BETTER THAN THIS BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY AND JOE YOU BETTER COME TO SWEDEN SOON BEST REGARDS RONNIE

5 out of 5 stars Joey B Live.......2007-01-11

A very clean live recording. Joe is an incredible talent. While I love his studio work also, he is at his best live. This recording captures the auditory portion of the show well. His playing is fast, clean, and artful.

5 out of 5 stars more raw than his studio work .......2006-08-15

Like many live albums this takes away the studio gloss and we hear jb tear things up.In this case this is a good thing.I love all his work, but this really captures the energy jb can whip up.I do love the blues and joe can rock with the best also.It is hard for me to pick a favorite jb cd this may be the one.

3 out of 5 stars The show is 6 stars; the disc production is 1 star.......2006-03-31

Joe Bonamassa is truly a gifted individual. This live recording from early in his solo career (2001) is absolutely wonderful! The man (and his band) can flat out wail. It's just incredibly dissapointing that the disc production was so gawd-awful. I've purchased (and then returned) this disc 5 times. I've never been able to get a clean version. The disc usually plays fine until "The Colour and the Shape" or "Trouble Waiting". After that, it skips, scratches, pops, and sometimes just stops because of the errors.

Have tried different players, different computers, different encoding software, different vendors (actually bought another copy of the disc last night at the JB show in Annapolis). All have the same problem. It's absolutely maddening!

Would suggest getting the DVD instead... includes the same material (and a bit more), but the DVD doesn't leave you frustrated by poor CD production AND let's you experience what live Joe Bonamassa can be like... a truly wonderful thing!


A New Day Yesterday
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • ***************The Next King**************************
  • A nice start
  • Good Energy
  • Disappointing
  • The best debut album of the decade!
 A New Day Yesterday
Joe Bonamassa
Manufacturer: Premier Artists
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ASIN: B00005NVYF
Release Date: 2001-08-28

Tracks:

  1. Cradle Rock
  2. Walk in the Shadows
  3. A New Day Yesterday
  4. I Know Where I Belong
  5. Miss You, Hate You (Rock Radio Remix)
  6. Nuthin' I Wouldn't Do (For a Woman Like You)
  7. Colour And Shape
  8. Headaches To Heartbreaks
  9. Trouble Waiting
  10. If Heartaches Were Nickels
  11. Current Situation
  12. Don't Burn Down That Bridge
  13. Miss You, Hate You (Original Full Length Version)

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars ***************The Next King**************************.......2007-04-01

Yeaa Joe is gonna be the next king ..i have bought all hes records not in cronological order so i heard the live album before this one ( the live album is based on this one )this one is not gonna let you down. the beat on I Know Where I Belong sounds like billy cobham (spectrum)so cool and a very tasty solo more than 2min on it cant be wrong ..so for you ho havent heard Joe.B before buy this before you buy the live album .its a great album.,PS you must buy the live its awsome.,.,

3 out of 5 stars A nice start.......2006-08-29

The guest visits by Leslie West, Rick Derringer, and Greg Allman were wasted. Uninspired work on their part. The backup vocalists for Miss You, Hate You though worked out well.

Very promising stuff on his originals. His Albert King cover Don't Burn Down the Bridge is puzzling to me as he elsewhere nails the Albert thing. Stevie Ray had no problem doing a very reverent rip of Albert when he covered him. Don't know if I would go as far as saying the cover evoked memories of Spinal Tap BIG BOTTOM.

The guy even at this point has wonderful chops but is still figuring out who HE is. His latest You And Me is a lot more even and still as eclectic. His synthesis of influences is more complete and personalized as you would expect.

One wonders what the guy will be like a decade from now presuming he is still at it. His thing seems to work much better as a live trio than studio. This suggests the live version of this CD might be better, albeit more indulgent.

3 out of 5 stars Good Energy.......2006-07-15

This album is good to just throw in your car CD player and fire up a couple of songs while you drive.

As a guitar player he has good energy and lays down a nice guitar sound. The vocals are pretty strong on about half the songs.

My favorite track at this point is the title track.

2 out of 5 stars Disappointing.......2006-01-31

I bought this disc because my brother is a big fan of this guy. He's also very much into Stevie Ray Vaughn. Trouble is, Joe Bonamassa is basically a Stevie Ray clone here. Lot's of hard driving blues rock with the guitar front and center. But there is nothing new here that wasn't done better earlier - like Stevie Ray or Buddy Guy etc. The songwriting is a bit weak. My big complaint is the lack of variety in the music. I expect guys who are basically "guitar heros" to mix it up a bit - a la Jeff Beck or Eric Johnson. There is an all too brief flourish of acoustic guitar playing that only leaves you wanting more. Sadly the album just winds up being repetitive.

5 out of 5 stars The best debut album of the decade!.......2005-12-23

I don't know what rock I was under when this album came out in 2001, but I missed enjoying a great artist for about four years. This guy is an amazingly soulful (and shredding when he feels like it) guitarist. AND, he has a great voice and great songs. If you're only familiar with his single "Miss You Hate You", you're underestimating the quality of his music, because that's the weakest song on this album, in my opinion. Any blues-rock guitar fan will not be disappointed if he or she buys every one of Joe's releases. Keep it up, Joe!
Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops Play the Beatles
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Could have been better
  • awesome music
  • AMAZING!
  • Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops do the Beatles
  • Some Moments - but doesn't live up to expectations
 Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops Play the Beatles

Manufacturer: RCA
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ASIN: B00004KH76
Release Date: 2000-03-07

Tracks:

  1. Eleanor Rigby
  2. And I Love Her
  3. Ob-La-Di, Ob-la-da
  4. Hey Jude
  5. With A Little Help From My Friends
  6. Yellow Submarine
  7. I Want To Hold Your Hand
  8. Penny Lane
  9. A Hard Day's Night
  10. The Fool On The Hill
  11. Yesterday
  12. Michelle
  13. I Want To Hold Your Hand
  14. And I Love Her
  15. A Hard Day's Night
  16. I Want To Hold Your Hand

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Could have been better.......2006-08-22

Not the best treatment of Beatles music from the classical point of view. London Symphony was much better.

5 out of 5 stars awesome music.......2006-03-10

Hearing the Beatles music arranged in classical format shows what great musicians and composers Lennon and McCartney were.

5 out of 5 stars AMAZING!.......2005-01-08

I cannot help but smile when I listen to the beautiful arrangements on this album. It blends the Beatles' genius for melody with the great percussive sound and incredible energy of Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. I've heard other orchestral versions of Beatles songs, but none has compared to this one (if anyone has found a better CD, please post a note here). Any Beatles or Pops fan should definitely own this CD. I can't stop listening!

4 out of 5 stars Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops do the Beatles.......2005-01-01

As conductor of the Boston Pops for almost half a century, Arthur Fiedler brought popular classical music and pop music with a classical twist to the people. Leonard Bernstein was providing an intellectual and more glamorous musical education for Americans, but Fielder was coming into our living rooms on a weekly basis with his Boston Pops concerts. Fielder and the Boston Pops produced a lot of records, mostly with RCA in the 1950s through the 1970s, most of which offered everything from classical overtures and ballet pieces to movies themes and the hits of the Beatles.

It was inevitable that with over a hundred albums the Boston Pops would do the Fab Four. They were the first orchestra to perform the songs of the Beatles in 1964 when Fiedler returned from a trip to Liverpool ("I Want to Hold Your Hand" was the first one they ever did). These are not just these songs played by a classical orchestra but rather arrangements done for this purpose. You will notice that one of the standard ways of arranging these songs is to use the chorus as the introduction for the song (e.g., "Eleanor Rigby," "Hey Jude"). If you can guess from the drumming at the beginning of "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" or "Yellow Submarine" what those songs are then you are way ahead of me, but that is the sense of fun that Fiedler brought to these songs by giving them the John Phillip Sousa treatment.

Sometimes it is such the simple elegance of doing the guitar parts with strings, as with "And I Love Her," or even the staccato strings of "Penny Lane," that makes the songs enjoyable. Then there are the mood chances invoked by turning "A Little Help From My Friends" into a work of minor chords. My assumption is that if you pick up this album you will know the songs, but not these arrangements, so you should just forget about looking at the play list and just listen to the music.

There are a quartet of bonus tracks on the album, featuring live versions of "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "And I Love Her," and "A Hard Day's Night." These are not different versions of these songs, which is too bad because I thought it would be interesting to see if the Pops arrangers could come up with different classical ways of doing the same songs. The final track is actually Fiedler talking about how the Pops came to play the Beatles music, as a "novelty." I have not listened to this sort of music for a while, but it makes for nice background music and there are more albums out there. Remember "Saturday Night Fiedler"?

3 out of 5 stars Some Moments - but doesn't live up to expectations.......2004-09-30

During the 20th century, Arthur Fiedler was one of the most celebrated conductors of orchestral music. He is most famous for being the longtime conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. As someone who is a novice to classical music, I have found Arthur Fiedler's music very easy to get into. Namely, Fiedler made classical music easy - for the everyday fan to enjoy. One way Fiedler accomplished this is through doing popular tunes in the classical style. Fiedler's style often added a new gusto to classical music concerts by including not only popular music, but also Broadway tunes, jazz, folk, and advertising jingles - all done in the classical style (in the late 70s, he even did Saturday Night Fever tunes - 'Saturday Night Fiedler'). One might get very excited to hear that there is a collection in which Fiedler does Beatles tunes. I've always thought the Beatles' music would lend itself perfectly in the classical music arena - especially their later works. On this particular collection "Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra play The Beatles", it does have it moments where things work very well. However, overall this collection did fall short on my high expectations that I had.

There are several things that disappoint me about this collection. For starters, there is only a total of two songs from the Beatles best three albums: "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" has one song ("With a Little Help From My Friends"), The "White Album" has one song ("Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da"), while there is no songs from "Abbey Road". As mentioned above, I thought the Beatles' later material lent itself well to being played with an orchestra. These albums are really the cornerstone of this period, yet there is two songs between these three albums. I understand that Fiedler's "Play the Beatles" was put together in 1969, but I still expected much more of a presence from these albums. I think many of the tunes on these albums could have lent itself very easily to classical music. For example, songs such as "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", "When I'm Sixty-Four", "Day in the Life", "Come Together", "Golden Slumbers", "Carry That Weight", "Birthday", and "Helter Skelter" would have sounded wonderful being played under the classics. I don't know if the Fiedler and the Boston Pops ever did these songs, but if they did - they should have been included. If they were done, it would be nice to hear them on an updated version of this collection. Some of these tunes are available on other classics collection, but Fiedler's Orchestra was the best at playing this music, so I would have liked to have heard it here.

The other thing that disappoints me are some of the selections themselves. Most of the tunes do keep to the sound you would expect from the Beatles, but some do not sound as good as I would expect. "With a Little Help From My Friends" just doesn't sound much like the original tune. The song that I consider the signature song by the Beatles - "Hey Jude" is an extreme disappointment - it just doesn't capture the magic of the original song. Songs like "Michelle" and "And I Love Her" do keep to the Beatles sound, but they somehow miss the mark. Perhaps these two songs aren't the best songs to be done with a Classical Orchestra.

However, this collection is not all bad. There are some positive points that do shine. There are several songs which surprise me on how well they sounded being played in the classical sense. "Eleanor Rigby" is one of those. You can feel a lot of power and emotion with that song. Another song that surprises me how well it sounds being played as a classical piece is "Penny Lane". Fiedler is also able to demonstrate a lot of power by playing by playing "Penny Lane' as a classical piece. In "Yellow Submarine", Fiedler puts a military and marching band spin on the song. It gives the song a whole new dimension. As for my favorite piece on the collection - it has to be "Fool on the Hill". Somehow I almost like "Fool on the Hill" played as a classical piece better than how the Beatles do it. Other songs that sound good are a couple of the Beatles' earlier tunes - "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "A Hard Day's Night"

It is worth noting that there are some live versions of these songs included with Fiedler's studio recordings. In particular there are live versions of "And I Love Her" and "A Hard Day's Night". There are also multiple versions of the same song included. You will hear three different recordings of "I Want To Hold Your Hand" (one from 1964 and two from 1969 - you will hear a change in tempo). There are also two versions of "A Hard Day's Night" (the live 1965 version and a 1969 studio recording). Counting the live and studio versions - there are also two versions of "And I Love Her".

It is also worth noting that on the final song (the third version of "I Want To Hold Your Hand"), there is a spoken introduction by Arthur Fiedler which is about 1 minute long in which Fiedler explains why he started playing Beatles music. The liner notes contain a one panel writeup by Peter Dellheim that discuss a little more background about the success Fiedler has had playing the Beatles.

Overall, this isn't a bad collection. I had higher expectations knowing how good a conductor Arthur Fiedler is as well as knowing how good many of the Beatles' songs would have sounded. This might appeal to the Beatles fan wanting to hear songs Classical, and possibly even vice versa - but if you want to go deeper with the Beatles being played classical, you may have to go elsewhere.
Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Tomorrow will be brilliant...
  • Igloo Magazine's REVIEW
 Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK
Múm
Manufacturer: Morr Music / M.M.
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ASIN: B000AGK9XC
Release Date: 2005-10-18

Tracks:

  1. I'm 9 Today
  2. Smell Memory
  3. There is a Number
  4. Random Summer
  5. Asleep on a Train
  6. Awake on a Train
  7. The Ballad of a Broken Birdie Records
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  9. Sunday Night Just Keeps on Rolling
  10. Slow Bicycle

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Tomorrow will be brilliant..........2007-01-03

Múm's debut album is subtle in its excellence, but hypnotic when its at its best. The Ballad of Broken Birdie Records will surely tickle your spine and leave you gasping for more.
The future is oh so bright...

4 out of 5 stars Igloo Magazine's REVIEW.......2005-12-01

Review by: R_Garcia, Igloo Magazine (www.igloomag.com)
(10.09.05) I will begin this review with a paraphrase from the included one-sheet: "This album was recorded very shortly after me and Gunni met Kristin and Gyda and became a four people band... It was originally released on an Icelandic label called Thule but early on a number of disputes came up which ended up dragging on for many years... We have the rights for the record back now and are really happy to be re-releasing it on our friends label where it seems to fit in like home."

If not for that disclaimer, one might take this re-release as new compositions from Múm (which I accidentally did when I tossed the CD in my car's player without reading a word.) If this indeed was to be a new release for Múm, it would most certainly be a step back. The sound quality is not exactly on par with what a Múm fan might be used to, and the major-scale over clicky-click beats thing has been beaten to death by a zillion aspiring laptop rockers in countless indie and net-releases for the last five years.

But... this release was recorded in 1999, which if memory serves, was around the time that the clicky movement was first being born (that would place Múm at the vanguard, where they belong.) This disc also provides a candid look into the Múm toolbox; the clean, patient sounds, ethereal keyboards, live instrumentation and pulsing rhythms are all there in infancy, offering up a missing link in the evolutionary story of Múm.

Highlights are "Asleep on a train" which features a hypnotic drum loop, melodica, and bells weaving in and out of a sinewave bass and water-drop melody; "The Ballad of a Broken Birdie Records" which highlights a wispy female vocal over lethargically crunchy clicks and synths; and "Sunday Night Just Keeps on Rolling" which forces the user to wait in anxiety for six of eight minutes before delivering an ejaculatory, up-tempo, bit-degraded drum rush.

All in all, this disc will find its way into my car collection and will most definitely get spins alongside other Mum discs like Summer make good and Finally we are no one. It will also serve as a stopgap until the next collection of new Múm tunes is born.
The Best of Spooky Tooth: That Was Only Yesterday
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Spooky Tooth: That was Only Yesterday
  • Folk Metal
  • Get This And SPOOKY TWO First
  • Good introduction to a great band, but incomplete
  • A True "Best of" Collection
 The Best of Spooky Tooth: That Was Only Yesterday
Spooky Tooth
Manufacturer: A&M
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ASIN: B00000JNMZ
Release Date: 1999-07-27

Tracks:

  1. Sunshine Help Me
  2. Tobacco Road
  3. Society's Child
  4. Watin' For The Wind
  5. Feelin' Bad
  6. Evil Woman
  7. Lost In My Dream
  8. That Was Only Yesterday
  9. Better By You, Better Than Me
  10. Hangman Hang My Shell On A Tree
  11. Prayer
  12. I Am The Walrus
  13. The Wrong Time
  14. Something To Say
  15. Son Of Your Father
  16. Cotton Growing Man

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Spooky Tooth: That was Only Yesterday.......2006-02-02

A fond memory, blast from the past. Remembering the two "hits" (at least in my mind) :"Waitin' for the Wind" and "Evil Woman" I was struck with how two voices can cooperate and augment a band's vocal sound. Overall, some of the material is weak, but their ideas and presentation deserve credit. Luther Grosvernor on guitar has some moments as do vocalists Gary Wright(later "Dreamweaver") and Mike Harrison.

5 out of 5 stars Folk Metal.......2006-01-07

Though not as complete as a "Best Of" should be (it has nothing from "Witness" or "The Mirror"), still it contains most of "Spooky Two" (excluding only "I've Got Enough Heartaches") and all the highlights from "It's All About", and "The Last Puff". It also includes (an edited) "Prayer" which is a snippet from "Ceremony" (and probably all you need) and last but not least: "Cotton Growing Man" from "You Broke My Heart, So I Busted Your Jaw".

5 out of 5 stars Get This And SPOOKY TWO First.......2005-01-05

This CD and SPOOKY TWO are the first two CDs to buy by English rockers Spooky Tooth. Combining the influences of Traffic, The Band, Procol Harum, Cream, Hendrix, and the Jeff Beck Group, and boasting two great singers- Mike Harrison and Gary Wright- who took the Memphis-Chicago-Texas-St. Louis-Muscle Shoals-Detroit-New Orleans-Kansas City blues/R&B/soul vocal sound, blended in a bit of the Band's Richard Manuel, and topped it off with the influences of other English rock singers like Jack Bruce, Steve Winwood, Gary Brooker, and Rod Stewart, Spooky Tooth created an original, progressive sound that displayed their affinity for black music while pointing towards something totally new, influencing such AOR bands as Foreigner. These guys could have stayed together for ages, but individual egos drove them apart quickly, and although they reunited for a couple of albums in 1973-74, they were never better than in their original incarnation.

4 out of 5 stars Good introduction to a great band, but incomplete.......2003-01-08

I would have made this a two-disc set and included a LOT more material from You Broke My Heart, Witness and The Mirror, the band's last three albums with Gary Wright (who WAS Spooky Tooth} and Mick Jones (who founded Foreigner after Spooky Tooth split). Leaving off the early, pre-Spooky Two stuff like Society's Child would have left more room for the later material, which is far superior. If you can afford it, I would recommend getting Spooky Two along with the import releases of You Broke My Heart and Witness. If that's too much of a financial strain, then by all means, buy this CD, since it includes almost all of Spooky Two and will introduce you to one of the greatest hard rock bands ever. One listen and you will know right away where Foreigner and Journey came from.

5 out of 5 stars A True "Best of" Collection.......2002-07-24

For those unfamiliar with Spooky Tooth (and there are a lot of you out there), think of a cross between the psychedelic-soul of Traffic and "Beggar's Banquet"-era Rolling Stones. Spooky Tooth was one of the most underrated bands on the British blues-rock scene.

Fortunately, "That Was Only Yesterday" is the perfect sampler of Spooky Tooth's sound. Unlike most "Best of" collections, this CD takes more material from better albums (including all but one track from their masterpiece "Spooky Two") and less material from weaker ones. The result is truly the BEST of a great unknown band.

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  1. New York City, Birdland Club February 21, 1954 [Live]
  2. Now Is the Time: Live at the Knitting Factory [Live]
  3. Nu Bop
  4. Nuages
  5. Offset Rhapsody
  6. Oscar Peterson Quartet [Import] [Original recording remastered]
  7. Our Man in Amsterdam [Original recording remastered]
  8. Our Shining Hour [Import] [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered]
  9. Out Here in There [Import]
  10. Parte de Volar [Import]

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