Men Without Women/Voice of America

Men Without Women/Voice of America Artist: Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul
Label: Beat Goes On
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5017261206954
ASIN: B000BKJ5QO


Release Date: 2005-12-08

Men Without Women/Voice of America


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Tracks:

  1. Lyin' in a Bed of Fire
  2. Inside of Me
  3. Until the Good Is Gone
  4. Men Without Women
  5. Under the Gun
  6. Save Me
  7. Princess of Little Italy
  8. Angel Eyes
  9. Forever
  10. I've Been Waiting

Tracks:

  1. Voice of America
  2. Justice
  3. Checkpoint Charlie
  4. Solidarity
  5. Out of the Darkness
  6. Desaparecidos
  7. Fear
  8. I Am a Patriot
  9. Among the Believers
  10. Undefeated

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  1. Dedication/On the Line
  2. Born Again Savage
  3. Hearts of Stone
  4. Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul - Greatest Hits
  5. I Don't Want to Go Home/This Time It's for Real

Album Description

These two albums from Little Steven are from 1982 and 1984. Little Steven, aka Steven Van Zandt, continues to record and is still involved with Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band. This CD has been digially remastered and is housed in a slipcase. BGO. 2005.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Edition Combining Two Original Albums on a Single Disc from the Long-time Bruce Springsteen Guitarist and Southside Johnny Collaborator. These Albums were First Released in 1982 and 1984 Respectively. Hailed for their Allegiance to Pure Rock N Roll, Van Zant Showed He is as Impassioned as his Best Friend and Recorded These Albums on his Own Terms. Two Songs from "Voice of America" were Covered Notably by Black Uhuru ("Solidarity" on their Album "Anthem") and Jackson Browne ("i Am a Patriot" on his Album "World in Motion". It Remains a Staple of his Concert Repertoire.). Van Zant Would Go on to Record Two More Solo Albums Before Returning to the E Street Band and Embarking on a Successful Acting Career, Where He Achieved his Greatest Fame as Silvio on the Long Running Hbo TV Series "The Sopranos".

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great Double-Disc Set Of Little Steven.......2007-04-02

MEN WITHOUT WOMEN/VOICE OF AMERICA is a great double-disc set of Little Steven Van Zandt, who achieved fame as Bruce Springsteen's guitarist, as a solo artist. The MEN WITHOUT WOMEN disc is a great example of 80s blue-eyed soul that was refreshing in an era when synth-op such as ABC and Duran Duran ruled the roost. This disc contains a great mix of soulful horns, guitars, keyboards, and vocals. The VOICE OF AMERICA portion of this anthology, finds Van Zandt taking on the role of a committed human-rights activist, protesting against both leftist and right-wing dictatorships and calling for people to take charge of the world around them, a theme that is, alas, even more relevant today. Van Zandt's belief that the young Australian tourist jailed in Indonesia since 2005 for drug-smuggling was unjustly convicted also makes this collection an essential purchase for both your ears AND your conscience.

5 out of 5 stars STEVE VAN ZANDT AT HIS BRILLIANT BEST - AN ALL TIME GREAT RECORDING.......2006-03-26

Yes, Sopranos is fun & Steven's very funny in it, a natural actor.

More important, he's a strong reason Bruce Springsteen is such an immense success with the E Street Band. Little Steven is a superb musician & songsmith -- great melodies, beautiful words.

The Men Without Women disc is a great one, sure joy compared to a lot of the drivel taking up the space in your brain today.

But in VOICE OF AMERICA, Little Steven Van Zandt was touched by the greatest spirits in the universe. It's simply ONE OF THE GREATEST collections of songs on a disc EVER MADE, yowzuh, right up there with Dylan, Lennon, U2, R.E.M. & the others who fill out your top ten. And thank gawd IT'S FINALLY RE-ISSUED! A mint condition copy of VOA sold on Amazon for $160 as recent as last week. My original copy was borrowed and never returned.
I've been aching to get this sound back.

The songs VOICE OF AMERICA, I AM A PATRIOT (absolutely the best arrangement ever produced, notwithstanding the covers of it by great singers all over the world), JUSTICE, SOLIDARITY -- they're all superbly crafted songs, real works of art that will stand up to be cheered a thousand years from now.

You should be sold. You should buy a couple of copies so you can give one to the most special person in your life.
Thank you Steve, for this great gift to the world.

xox0xox
Hutch

ps: 15 years ago I produced 4 half-hours on the radio, called "Dear Abbie! A Celebration of the Words of Abbie Hoffman."
I was permitted to use Steven's songs from VOA, and all the songs on the series except two were from VOICE OF AMERICA.
Best series I ever produced.

5 out of 5 stars Out of the Darkness.......2006-03-10

A great many viewers discovered Little Steven/ Miami Steve Van Zandt from The Sopranos. Time Warp backwards, he was a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. In between he was a social activist, and created the (Don't Play) Sun City album project encouraging artists to boycott the South African resort in an effort to bring an end to apartheid.

I've heard Men Without Women and own Born Again Savage, but I think Little Steven's Voice of America is not only his best work, it's one of the best early '80s albums period. Checkpoint Charlie was prescient in predicting the fall of the Berlin wall: "Wall so high, gotta come down baby." If the news knew anything about popular culture, they would have played that (or The Walls Came Down by the Call) as the soundtrack of that historic moment. The list of great songs goes on and on: "Los Disparacidos (The Disappeared,:" "Undefeated," and especially the piece de resistance, "Out of the Darkness," one of the few songs which, like U2's One, manages to combine relationships aned spirituality. The Boss wrote "Blood Brother" when Steve left the band to pursue these various pursuits. How sad that just when Born in the USA gained the questionable honor of making the cover of Time magazine, his bandmates' best album slipped into obscurity. Hopefully with this double release the Voice of America will for the first time be heard.

5 out of 5 stars Outstanding.......2006-01-09

If you are a fan of Steven Van Zandt you are of course familiar with these two albums. Here is your chance to get them both together (this comes as a two cd set, not both albums on one cd).
The remaster job is excellent, there are also some great liner notes and pictures, BGO did a first class job on this reissue.
There is not much need to go into the music as I am sure that any reading this already know how great these two albums are. Little Steven is great, pure and simple. He writes terrific songs, he is an outstanding singer/guitar player, the band is top notch. and the production is tight.

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