Ghosts: The Best of Bill Mumy

Artist: Bill Mumy
Label: Renaissance
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 630428024021
EAN: 0630428024021
ASIN: B0002CH2NE

Release Date: 2005-01-02

Ghosts: The Best of Bill Mumy

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Product Description

This is a best of collection from 4 Bill Mumy solo albums. Bill was the star of TV's Lost In Space and Babylon 5. Track listing: 1. Always Open 2. She'll Never Know 3. The Climb 4. You Were There 5. Yes, You In The Blue 2 6. Woe, The Lover's Tune 7. Nero's Fiddle 8. Take It Back 9. The Dog That Caught The Car 10. Can't Win This Game 11. Pandora's Box 12. Taken By The Light 13. Done Me Little Good 14. Dave Guard's Up 15. It's Not The Same 16. The Recalcitrant Princess 17. Dying To Be Heard 18. I Don't Know You 19. Just A Drop Of Rain In The Ocean 20. The Great Domain

Customer Reviews:

These are a few of my favorite Ghosts.......2006-11-16

Ghosts is the very first Bill Mumy CD I bought when I went to see his band The Jenerators in 2003. Little did I know how many times I would be listening to this CD. The first four songs on this CD immediately captured my attention - Always Open, She'll Never Know, The Climb and You Were There. Soon I noticed a couple of other tracks, It's Not The Same and The Recalcitrant Princess, that I started liking a whole lot! Not very long after that I just gave up on picking my favorites and fell in love with each and every song on this CD - all 19 of them. I highly recommend this album for anyone to start their Mumy Music collection. Ghosts is a very nice reflection of Bill's other albums. 19 stars for this one and counting!

Make that 20 stars - I didn't scroll down at IndiEclectic to catch The Great Domain!

A SAMPLE FOR STARTERS!.......2006-11-15

Ok...this is too hard to do, choose a Best Of album of Bill's, but this is a very good song selection! You can't stop here though. You have to have them all! This album is like a tease that you will want more of, that is for sure. It is a very good sample of what kind of music he has to offer which is some of the greatest songs of our lifetime! We should be thankful that he decided to share so much beauty with us all! It also features four new songs never before released you can only find here. ALWAYS OPEN, TAKE IT BACK, JUST A DROP OF RAIN IN THE OCEAN and my personal favorite Bill Mumy song THE RECALCITRANT PRINCESS. This cd is highly recommended! It sounds like it's digitally mastered with better power in the sound than ever. Bill's voice is back and better than ever as well.
20 STARS ********** And that still isn't enough!

Bill Mumy gave me a free copy of this CD........2006-02-06

This "best of" CD features songs from the four albums Bill Mumy released between 1997 and 2001, plus previously unreleased songs recorded in 2003. Bill wrote all the songs himself, and played (almost) all the instruments (his daughter played vibes and marimba on one song). This is the serious Bill Mumy, not the goofy guy from Barnes & Barnes who did "Fish Heads". He really is an excellent musician. Most of the songs are thoughtful ballads, but he does throw in a few more upbeat tunes. If you only know Bill from his acting on sci-fi shows, or from Barnes & Barnes, give this CD a listen and hear his sensitive side.

Nothing "Roly-Poly" Here...........2004-08-25

I'll make this review short and to the point. Okay. When I think of Bill Mumy and music I think of "Fish Heads". Yes, roly-poly "Fish Heads". In my mind it was Bill's claim to fame in the music world. Remember MTV "when it was good"? Well, it turns out that there's much more to Bill's music endeavors than a novelty song and video. And listen: The guy can pick a guitar.

My first thought when listening to "Ghosts", Bill Mumy's best-of compilation, was Cat Stevens- a mellow cat Stevens. Right when I figured I had Bill pegged, a faster paced tune had a little more of an Eric Clapton sound. Wait. Doesn't "Can't Win This Game" (song #10 out of 20 tunes on this CD) sound like Bob Dylan? Are these the ghosts that haunt this recording? Yes, Bill definitely shows his 60's roots here. Nothing "roly-poly", just slow rock and roly (sorry!).

"Ghosts" is deep and inspired, and if ever there was an album with that "late night" feel, this is it. Images of misty moonlight and long stretches of lonely highway kept creeping into my mind. Say, planning a long overnight road trip? Bring this CD along. Call it reflective. Call it shadowy or far-away feeling. Maybe even call it "ghostly".

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