5 comments about Now.

1. Maxwell will make you fall in love.(with him):-) He is very open to expressing the feelings men go through, not hiding anything. The best music out today, closest artist we'll ever get to Marvin Gaye.



2. I absolutely loooove Maxwell!!! What can I say other than this CD made me fall in love all over again.



3. Maxwell is the type of artist, who for me, as soon as he releases an album, I'll go out and purchase it without first hearing any of the album's tracks. That is how much confidence that I have in his talent and ability. So I was rather disappointed when I first listened to this album. Quite frankly, it seemed rather mediocre. It was not something that I expected from someone with his caliber of talent and ability. Initially, I had considered filing this album away or selling it. But I decided to give it another chance and I EVENTUALLY grew to like it-which was the problem I had with this album. At times I wish he would have pushed himself farther and been a little bit more adventurous as he had been on "Embrya" (a criminally underrated and unappreciated album). But I guess he was still reeling from the chastening he received from critics on his last album, and perhaps he decided to keep it simple. Overall, it's a decent album-not mind blowing, not spectacular-just a decent album. Some of the stand out tracks are, 'Lifetime', 'Get to Know You', 'W/as My Girl' and 'This Woman's Work' (a classic Kate Bush track, from the She's Having A Baby Soundtrack).



4. this was a great CD for me and my wife. bring back wonderful memory of our love to each other



5. because of the style of song writing and music but, I think all his cd's are good.

5 comments about Ledbetter Heights.

1. After KWS put on a fantastic show at a fest, I had to buy his first 3 albums. Now I know why is rated one of the best guitarists. I rate him up there with Eric Clapton. This CD is a must buy.



2. when I first heard of Kenny Wayne Shepherd didn't think I'll end up buying his CD's till I heard 10 Days Out Blues from the Backroads CD and DVD an Excellent album so been listening to his music since and Ledbetter Heights is another Great CD recommended .



3. This is an excellent CD. I was suprised how intense that it is. I would really recommend this to serious music listeners



4. Kenny Wayne Shepherd, in his first CD, is amazing. There will be the inevitable comparisons to Stevie Ray Vaughan (and perhaps Jonny Lang), but the tone and style of his super guitar playing are different than SRV. (Note that I did not say better than....) There is a wide range of SRV style blues and playing along with acoustic, slide and such. I am glad that I bought this thoroughly enjoyable CD and can recommend it to all who like electric guitar blues, Delta blues and more!



5. Shepherd is reminiscent of the great Stevie Ray Vaughan, and therefore makes Stevie's fans yearn for the real deal. This makes a review by a confirmed SRV fan somewhat suspect and potentially unfair to Kenny Wayne, who is an accomplished blues guitarist - just not in Vaughan's class.

5 comments about 12 Play.

1. there's a couple of tracks that i skip over, but for the most part this was a great debut. another classic to anyone's cd collection.



2. Well, I did not order this one from Amazon. Actually, I picked this up way before I was even shopping on Amazon. But Amazon is still the bomb! Anyway, I picked this cd up when it first came out in the 90's and it is STILL on rotation in my cd changer. The ladies love it and so do I. Now, I realize that R. Kelly is in a little trouble but hey, no one is perfect and we've all done things we are not proud of so, I'll continue to support his music. I'm not sure what he does in his personal life but I'll say this; what he does inside the studio allows me to do what I gotta do inside the crib. YMMV! Neosoul06....



3. R. Kelly has always been a great producer and songwriter and at least a plausible if not extraordinary singer. Though numerous legal woes have hampered his success over the past several years, he nonetheless got off to a really great start with his first album, which has a plethora of sexual undertones but still manages to sound more stylish than trashy. Contains the #1 hit "Bump 'N Grind" and the urban radio favorites "Your Body's Callin'" and "It Seems Like You're Ready". There is also a brilliant remix of "Bump 'N Grind" on the single for that song, entitled the "Definition Of A Hotti Remix". This was played a lot on my local radio station, and for those of you who haven't heard it, I strongly recommend. It is more blissful and sensual than the original in my opinion.



4. i would say that i like 40% of this album. to me that's not enough. but i would purchase it b/c the 3-4 i like on there is worth the purchase



5. There's nothing bad I can say about this album.R Kelly is a musical genius.If you're looking for an album to make love off of ,this is the one.''12 Play'' is the best sex album of all time.I've nothing else to say.

5 comments about Country Ghetto.

1. There are several songs on this CD that are great including "A Woman ..." I first heard it at a Southern Miss baseball game and decided I wanted it. More songs like this one in another CD would be appreciated! If you like southern music this is the CD to get!



2. I was introduced to Mofro less than 2 years ago and they have quickly become one of my favorite bands of all time. K. Sullivan's reviews hit the nail on the head. There is not much more I can add, except that these guys are even better on stage, and if you get a chance to see them, do NOT miss them - ever. Many wonder why they aren't big time stars, and they absolutely should be, but lucky for us who get to see them in small, intimate blues bars mere feet from the stage. I've seen them about 6 times in the past 18 months, and JJ's soul and passion never cease to amaze me. Every time, he sings each song as if it's the first time, and his charisma and stage presence know no bounds. The chemistry between him and his band is genuine, and the fun they have on stage translates into transcending tunes.



3. JJ Grey and Mofro are one of the best live shows I have ever seen. Buy this album and the two previous and you will not be disappointed. I would go see them live again and again.



4. If you're reading this you probably already know who they are, but just buy the album, it's worth it.



5. Couldn't have selected a better gift.
   Now I have to buy another for myself

5 comments about Soul Serenade.

1. Derek Trucks has proven that there is still room for improvement on the creative platform. He and is super talented band are the best I've heard in a long time. These boys use the full musical palette of colour...it aint just BLUE!!



2. Soul Serenade (Columbia) by the Derek Trucks Band is one of the best albums I have heard this year(2003). It won't matter how this album is classified, either, because it has it all. For those who liked Allman Brothers guitarist Trucks on his eponymous band's major-label debut, 2002's Joyful Noise, will find this CD to be even more impressive. Soul Serenade was actually recorded three years ago, before Joyful Noise, but is being released only now. It's been worth the wait because the Derek Trucks Band is hitting on all cylinders from start to finish.
   
   The album begins with covers from two musical music legends-King Curtis and Bob Marley. Trucks uses "Soul Serenade" by Curtis and "Rasta Man Chant" by Marley to deliver one of the more exhilarating musical moments of the year. Trucks' guitar-sling and the fine work of his band show that the difference between the rock-steady beat of Jamaican reggae and Afro-American soul is so slight that it hardly matters. The next track, "Bock to Bock," is even better. Bassist Todd Smallie and drummer Yonrico Scott set the table for the band to deliver a powerful yet subtle swinging blues number. Trucks is on the case with his ax, and his band stays tight and focused at all times, letting the guitarist roam where he needs. The magic of this album doesn't end there although the first two songs will leave you awestruck.
   
   The Derek Trucks Band then pumps the soul classic "Drown in My Own Tears," with Gregg Allman providing a heavy, blues-drenched vocal, which is followed by a tricky version of Mongo Santamaria's "Afro Blue." By this point you will have no doubt about the importance of Derek Trucks and his band. They defy category. They challenge those preconceived conclusions that often muzzle music, and they will leave you wondering why this album had been held up for so long.
   
   -Brian Gilmore



3. I read most of the reviews and the words 'jam band' crop up way too often. And to try to pigeon hole this stuff as jazz/fusion/southern rock doesn't do it justice. "Derek should use his fingers to play". Believe me, he uses his fingers! He's obviously 'cut the umbilical' to Warren and the ABB. He stays with them because he loves it. I believe he can play/sit in with anybody. To say it's 'courageous' is not quite accurate either, since the ABB has fooled around with Soul Serenade quite a bit; not to mention some jazz licks, etc. Words that come to mind when I listen to this album: range, eclectic, inventive, stretching, synthesis, experimental. I listen to it and imagine this may be very similar to what Duane would have done. My only concern is that Derek throws in licks from Mountain Jam a little too often. The ensemble is tight and this CD has a laid back feel. A righteous effort. A definite 'buy' rating.



4. Derek Trucks continues to blur the lines between jazz, blues, and world music. His slide playing, always among the best around gives several standards a new twist and the bands playing is first rate.
   
   The record starts with a sweet taste of King Curtis' Soul Serenade seguing into Rasta Man Chant. Bock to Bock slides into cool jazz and afro Blue is a trip to the heart of Coltrane country. the two are sandwiched around an outstanding take on Ray Charles' Drown in My Own Tears featuring Gregg Allman doing some of his best singing in years.
   
   As the disc moves toward conclusion it takes some interesting turns. The band plays (pun intended) tribute to Elvin Jones in the original Elvin. A sweet turn on Wayne Shorter's Oriental Folk Song leads to the acoustic Sierra Leone which takes the band out with the same mood altering dubro turn that Duane Allman lent to Eat A Peach with Little Martha.
   
   Definately a record for those who love good playing on good songs.



5. The unexpected tradgedy of Duane Allman left the band with a continuation of what they were left with, and the Band did its best, which was Jam! Wth defined Soul, and Blues, the Allman Brothers Band strived for this continuance for many years. Dicky Betts, was obvioulsy a limiting factor in the Allman Bros. Band's later progression, and then came Warren Haynes, form Gov't Mule with a reinvigorated "Southern Rock 'n Roll"!
   
   However, what Derek Trucks passionately embraces is the brilliant diversity of what Duane Allman was searching for (Remember Duane Allman An Anthology), continuing to incorporate the diversity of appreciation and foundations from which they learned, within the defined already successfull style of The Allman Brothers Band>>> Never forget how it was Duane Allman who was the creative spark, and intuitively so, Derek Trucks is running with the torch in a way that will make Duane Allman proud of how magnificent Coltrane's AFRO BLUE could sound with the smooth manifesto of a slide guitar. An hey, what's wrong with a flute intro???
   
   This "KID", which is a joke for calling him young, for discerning his musical appreciation, as well as his bravado for attempting to record measures fromm the brilliance of John Coltrane, deserves a more acute measurement in the dimension the Derek Trucks Band is presenting here in the 21st Century.
   
   This Band is a deserved embodiment of how the blues, jazz, and pure rock 'n 'roll can all come together. An amalgum of music is what every musician strives for in there fortitude of composition!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 comments about Motown.

1. After three mediocore albums in the 1990s. Michael McDonald chose to go back to his roots. Having been a long time admire of Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye as well as other artists he seems to top the originals.
   Despite the fact that following the release of this album he had been ridiculed on TV (Family Guy), moviesThe 40-Year-Old Virgin (Unrated Full Screen Edition) and the popular Internet series Yacht Rock he doesn't seem to mind at all and that's why he did a second one. Don't let the cover fool you, there is an earlier American pressing.



2. As a child growing up in the 1960s, I have memories of us kids sitting in the back seat of the family car and listening to "The Motown Sound" on the car's AM radio. Berry Gordy, Jr.'s Motown Records empire dominated AM radio playlists in the sixties, and you didn't have to wait very long to hear a Motown song. Dad always drove, Mom rode shotgun and us kids were all in the backseat. We had a lot of fun back in those days, and the world seemed dependable and carefree. The sweet and soulful "Motown Sound" made it all that much better.
   
   Michael McDonald takes us back to Motown's glory days and the 1960s and 70s with his excellent album, Motown (2003). Not every singer could do a Motown tribute album like this, but Michael not only does a respectable job here, he gives a lot of these songs a lift right into the 21st century. It's a wonderful tribute! Now, some of you will say that the original versions are better, and I'll be the first to admit that in most cases that's true, but that's not really "what's going on" here. This is Michael McDonald doing an album of updated versions of Motown songs (although most of the arrangements are true to the originals). The production is pristine, full of pop orchestration and soulful female backing vocals just like the original Motown, and in most instances the only difference between the songs on this album and the originals is Michael is doing the singing. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's Ain't No Mountain High Enough and Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing are both notable, but certainly not the only highlights here. Stevie Wonder's All In Love Is Fair gets an emotionally soulful interpretation from Michael and sounds great, even rivaling the original. The cover of Marvin Gaye's I heard It Through The Grapevine is excellent, and I like this heartfelt version of The Temptations' Since I Lost My Baby, too.
   
   No, these aren't the originals, but if you like Michael McDonald and you like Motown, you get both with "Motown". Plus a trip back to a magical time in popular music history.



3. This man has the kind of voice which sends chills up your spine. He is such a talent - how can you possibly ever get sick of listening to him. This CD features all the most popular Motown titles and Michael certainly does a good job of it. Do yourself a favour and purchase it.



4. Wow - some mixed reviews here. Have to say if you are a fan of "the voice" you will be a fan of this. Great music to sing along to and a smooth voice singing it. If you want the originals, buy the originals! If you want a nice grouping with a superb voice, this is it.
   
   Look for a new group of R&B covers with 3 new originals from Michael 3/11/8. "Soul Speak" has already charted 3 songs simultaneously on Billboard the first week of singles release so once again - you'll like it.



5. People. I forgot to mention that during my stay at the beach this summer, there came a hoard of baby-boomers who took up residence at this exclusive beach house not far from beloved sand castle. It did not take me long to realize that they were going to party until 3 o'clock in the morning everyday (sometimes 4 or 5!). I was invited once, and given a potent martini to mellow me into a party mood. I admit I was lost. With Guido being in California and the rest of my guides attending to saving Britney, my concerns were of no concern! Needless to say- I stayed and partied. If I am being all things to all people- then I had to. Maybe I should run for political office. Hmmmm....maybe it could work. Anyway- one selection that they seemed to love was this one. And, as you know, Metamorpho is not opposed to any music (unless he hates it-of course). But, since I don't have a hateful bone in my body - I took it all in good stride.
   But, let's get to Michael McDonald, shall we? I think this album is NOT really reflection in it's highest form. However, that said, he makes a concentrated stab at classic Motown tunes and does a more than respectable job at that. You all may think it's a sell-out and that nothing could compare to the originals. But, I don't think that is the point of the album. I think, instead, he gives a lift to the originals, making you realize what a glorious wealth of music Motown produced. Alot of these tunes are classics and, undeniably, an essential part of American music that was produced in an incredibly fertile time.
   Expertly produced, and with the distinct voice of Michael, you wind up with an album that satisfys on every level. I could never have imagined "Reflections" sung by anyone but the Supremes. But, he does it, and very well at that. He's got the back-up singers and everything shines through with amazing accuracy. This is not only very listenable- but at times a positive charge to the system and you find yourself glady giving up your spirit to the groove.
   I see the advantage of this album in many ways. If anything- if you don't own the originals, you will seek them out. He brings your attention and his talent to wonderful arrangements of classic songs. It is a nice excursion and a very listenable c.d. He has picked a genre for his inimitable voice-soulful,smokey, and with all the nuance you would expect.
   The downside for me is that these can't compare with the originals. They are for all time. But these are respectable covers done extremely well. It is a joy in many respects and, I can tell you, after a few martinis it only gets better and better. (Well, doesn't everything? :)). It falls short of 5 stars, but not by much- and if you're having a party- it is a good slection to play. It is not a classic-but a good reflection of the classics and Michael deserves accolades for the effort.
   I guess that's it for now. I must go and figure out what album I will review next and find those guides who have deserted me. They mean well-but just haven't learned that my needs come first! Oh well...
   Ain't no mountain high enough...
   to keep my reviews getting to you.....Cheers-Metamorpho

5 comments about Command Performance.

1. GREAT CD!!!! ALMOST like being there! Great jams by great artists! Pick this one up for a great time!!!! Should be in every cd player for a long trip to be shorter or for every party to be started!



2. Great blues Cd.
   Always a joy to hear music,when various artists get together and jam it up.
   The artists sound like the were just having a ball playing together



3. Pros - I first heard a few cuts off of this album on Sirius and was truly impressed with this collaberation of fantastic artists. They really turn it up and 'rock the joint'.
   
   Cons - The recording quality is lousy - plain and simple. There is so much distortion from the recording levels being set too high it really takes away from a great album. I hope mine is just a bad CD, but I don't think so. I did contact Delta Groove Productions and am awaiting their response.



4. I saw the show at BB King's in Manhattan about 2 months ago (before the official release of the disc). Grabbed one on the way out, and have been listening ever since. Been a fan of Tommy Castro and of course the incomparable Magic Dick for years (when are he and Peter Wolf gonna get together again !!). They are both in fine form. The ensemble cast is great, with guest Curtis Salgado ripping through a cover of the Jimmy Reed tune It Ain't Me. Great stuff throughout. Highly recommend this disc. From beginning to end--you will not be disapointed.



5. The Tommy Castro Band (with associates and friends) delivers a Stax/Volt Caribbean vacation workshop on how to play the blues! This is a live powerhouse set from the best of the best including the mouth harp of J.Geils frontman "Magic Dick," the piano and sax stylings of the east coast "Girl in the Band" Deanna Bogart and the Chicago guitar bluesman Ronnie Baker Brooks who sounds like Otis Redding himself reincarnated on the soulful "See You Hurt No More."
   
   The best of the blues is the "Shuffle" beat and Castro regulars Scot Sutherland-bass and Chris Sandoval on percussion are simply "smokin" throughout the entire CD particularly on the CD's best number "I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On."
   
   Deanna Bogart is a real treasure as she nails the piano and then fills in with a "FAT" Tenor Sax on the closing number "Sea Cruise" with the added attraction of Louisiana swamp keyboardist Marcia Ball and Castro stalwarts, Trumpeteer Tom Poole and sax phenom Keith Crossan. The CD also features San Fran sideman Mike Emerson on the Hammond B-3.
   
   This is one terrific CD featuring the blazing guitar and vocals of the best of the new generation of bluesmen Tommy Castro...six minutes of "If I had a Nickel" just wasn't enough.
   
   Five stars for the CD and two more stars for Ronnie Baker Brooks when he opines the nasty "She's Nineteen Years Old!"
   
   My next vacation will be aboard the Rhythm and Blues Cruise!

5 comments about Recapturing the Banjo.

1. Man.
   Between Mavis Staples's new Ry Cooder produced album and this new piece of awe-inspiring artistry from Otis Taylor and friends, I'm just not sure which album lands in my top spot for the past year. But it has been an amazing year for Roots Music.
   Buy this. You won't regret it. Even if you aren't a Banjo Fan (and didn't grow up in a little town that had yearly Banjo and Fiddler's contests, like I did,)...you'll love this album. Even if you aren't aware of THE OTIS TAYLOR and the fact that he left music for 20 years only to come back and make my idiot self cry with joy and sadness over his content on the first album back. Buy this disc.
   
   Even if you aren't sure you could enjoy a Blues album? Buy it.
   
   ***Mavis? If you or Mssr. Cooder are reading this, I'll buy This Amazing Disc for each of you. You guys decide. Otis? If you or Cassie are reading this, I'll buy The Mavis Album for you both. Then you guys decide. Until then, It's a tie. Buy both.***
   We'll Never Turn Back



2. otis taylor continues to reinvent the blues in his own personal way. with this album, he does it again, featuring the banjo. it's haunting and beautiful. otis is one of a few artists whose cd's i will buy before i even hear them.



3. The rest of this review really speaks to the musicians other than the Great Don Vappie. Vappie's music reflects the tradition of four and six-string banjo and guitar playing that remained among Creoles in New Orleans as well as on the musics shared between African American Creoles in New Orleans with Afro-Caribbean Creoles on islands like Haiti, Martinique, and Guadaloupe. Vappie who was once one of the leading Jazz and R & B recording session guitarists and Bassists returned to the four and six string banjos played by the great banjoist of Jazz. In doing so Vappie is playing very authentic roots music in fact rooted in the very neighborhood in New Orleans he grew up in, yet he has become a world-class music.
   
   Recapturing the Banjo is not chiefly about repeating or even elaborating on the traditional banjo styles created by Black traditional five-string banjoists or the great Jazz banjoists of the 20s and 1930s. Rather, it is about using the banjo for new styles and new music of African Americans today. Very few of the recordings here follow the traditional finger or frailing styles used by the last generations of Black banjoists who can be found on field recordings like Black Banjo Songsters or Black Appalachia. This terrain has been explored by traditionally oriented Black string bands like the Carolina Chocolate Drops or the Ebony Hillbillies or individual players like Sparkey Rucker,
   Sule Greg Wilson, Rex Ellis, or my humble self.
   
   Rather, the artists here use the banjo for the mostly blues related music that they have all been creating for years. All of these musicians are not new to the banjo. Otis has told me that the banjo was his first instrument and he plays his other instruments, the guitar and the mandolin, the way he plays the banjo, not the standard ways. There is a famous picture printed in the Denver Post in the early 1960s on his web site. A younger slimmer Otis Taylor is seen riding a unicycle and playing the banjo on his way to high school! You can find some great traditional banjo playing on older CDs by Corey Harris and Alvin Youngblood Hart.
   
   What we have hear is blues and trance music and ballads influenced by this. What we have here is the creative use of amplification both in recording the banjo and in use of electric banjo and banjos with electric pickups. We have new rhythms for new times.
   
   The importance of this is that in African American popular and folk culture, the arrival of Blues and the forms of pop and folk Ragtime and Jazz that were associated with the Blues was what led to the demise of the five-string banjo among Black folk. For reasons I will elaborate in a book forthcoming from Duke UP called _Lost in the Mix__ (I am just writing one chapter) the actual five string banjos available at the time the Blues rolled in at the turn of the century were not as suitable for Blues playing as the inexpesnive steel-stringed guitar that had become available to southern folk just as the blues spread at the turn of the 19th to the 20th Century.
   
   The contemporary experience of Blues as a kind of caberet or concert music obscures the fact that Blues was a dance music. Blues singers like Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, or Lightnin' Hopkins, may have played in the street at times, but they made their money playing for dancers in juke joints and at house parties. Rather than the two or three minute Blues performances we get from recordings and reproductions of recordings, these actual Blues performances were often fifteen, twenty, or even thirty minute dance numbers.
   
   The five-string banjo was not condusive to playing the rhythm that Black folks danced these blues to. So, it retreated to smaller enclaves where the older music persisted, especially in the Piedmont and Appalachians of the Upper South. Even there, Black five string banjoists played the Blues, but blues that moved to the rhythm of the old dance movements. Very much of the revival of traditional Black banjo playing has been playing these old dance tunes and rhythms.
   
   Yet, we live in a world whose musical culture has been transformed by the Blues and the musics it has spawned. In its Africanness, the five-string banjo provides a great platform for playing blues. The dance demands of a 1900 juke joint and the limitation of gut stringed banjos are gone. Steel stringed tone ringed banjos and modern amplication create different possibilities for the banjo. Blues rhythm has become more complex. These musicians expert in the Blues and in the Black banjo tradition, reverse history and bring back the Blues to the Banjo and the Banjo to the Blues.
   
   The result is powerful music that returns the banjo to the arsnel of comtemporary African American music. It lives, not as a recreation of a lost past, but as a living expression of the present



4. Otis Taylor's songwriting typically takes me to places I normally wouldn't venture. This cd is no exception. An excellent inside cover with history of the banjo and description of the musicians and their playing styles (in regards to the banjo). Thanks otis, Definition of a Circle and this follow-up are two of my favorite back to backs of any musician. p.s Cassie (his daughter) kicks it on bass.



5. This isn't a bluegrass CD. You obviously don't know bluegrass from a hole in the ground.

5 comments about Luther Vandross: Greatest Hits.

1. As with any Luther VanDross Cd, this one was fabulous. Most of his greatest hits were on it, with the exeption of just a couple. All in all,
   I would recommend this CD to all Luther fans.



2. This is an excellent CD. It has most of my favorite Luther songs on it. I love it.



3. This CD is a terrific collection of some of his best songs, with one great classic after another and it's put together well.



4. It arrived in excellent condition - sealed, although for the shipping fee rate I would have expected it a little sooner.



5. I was never really a Luther Vandross fan because my sister played him so much. I do have to say that this is a Great CD and he was a wonderful singer. I would buy more of his CD's.

5 comments about I Want My 80's Box.

1. The 1980's really was the golden age of music videos. It was so much different then. Most teens didn't own that many albums. Albums were expensive if you were a kid living at home with your parents, and no one could download songs from the internet. Most kids watched MTV all day. These songs represent a more peaceful time to me. Ronald Reagan was President, and the Cold War between America and the former Soviet Union was coming to an end. Most of these are love songs. All of them were hits during the 80's. I always assumed that many American singers were influenced by punk rock. Punk-rock bands were popular in Britain. There were a lot of popular British singers during the 1980's. I do wish Phil Collins had been part of this collection. I would trade "Luka" for one of his songs any day of the week. I like all of the songs in this box set except for that one.



2. This boxed set has all of your favorites from the 80s. I bought it for my sister for Christmas and we listened to it over and over again on New Year's Eve and beyond. Every song brought back a memory from the "old days" and made us smile. What a great way to start the new year!



3. GREAT CD, a must have if you are into the 80's music.



4. I luuuuv some of these songs, but some of them suck. hoever, if u like these songs u should totally get it!



5. I mix 80s dance music and the number of times when mixing that I find myself reaching for either this compilation or its companion, "Hit Me With Your 80s Box," is extraordinary. These are two outstanding collections. They are pricey, but worth every penny. For many people, owning these two will be all the 80s music you'll ever need.
   
   Fidelity is outstanding, the tracks are well organized more or less chronologically, and the sequences in which tracks are placed is excellent. The "box" itself in which the 3 CDs come is sturdy, it is easily folded out in part or in whole to access any of the CDs quickly and easily (unlike many multi-CD offerings). Liner notes are extensive and interesting.
   
   This offering is a class act all the way. Highly, highly recommended. 7 stars.