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Posted in Classic Rock (Monday, December 1, 2008)
The artist is Artist is Robert Calvert. By Bgo - Beat Goes on.
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5 comments about Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters.
- The CD bought through Amazon was exactly as I hoped it would be.
I was inspired to buy the album by watching a program on collectors of historic aeroplanes - one collector was a passionate advocate for Lockheed F104. He said "the fair-weather fighter" was fantastic to fly, but somewhat unforgiving of pilot errors. It reminded me of the Hawkwind Album and the memorable re-branding by Lockheed's adaptation of the plane for the Luftwaffe of the 1960s - the Starfighter F104G (for Germany).
I believe Lockheed is now building the Fifth Generation fighter for US Airforce, which Australia has perhaps unwisely signed up to by for billions of dollars.
That reminded of Calvert and the F104G, too. "Catch a falling Starfighter ... you can use it as a cigarette lighter!"
I could only have found it on Amazon and the favourable $A to $US exchange rate makes shopping in America very economical.
Amazon provides a great service. Efficient, fast and reliable.
- Bob Calvert, one of the driving forces behind English space rock band Hawkwind, cobbled together this excellent comedic rock album based on the German Government's misguided purchase in the 1960's of over 700 Lockhheed F 104 G Starfighters.
That's F104 G, G for Germany - over half of them crashed.
Interpersed among various comdey skits such as the Last Minute Cockpit Check "Ground control to Pilot: ... Largactyl 5 milligrams, Valium 10 mg, Haloperidol 5 mg, Pheno Barbitone 5 mg, Disipel 5 mg, glass of water, Our Father who art in heaven, mea culpa, mea culpa...".
There are some excellent heavy rock/space rock classics including Aerospace Age Inferno, Widow Maker, The Right Stuff, Song of the Gremlin ("...My blade was the cause of many a prang - in the early days of stick and string, I am the gremlin, I was there m m m m making mischief in the air, and always will be, when ever Man flies in the face of creation's plan..."), Hero with One Wing, Ejection, Gremlin Pt 2. and Catch a Falling Star Fighter.
This CD includes a reproduction of the original Album boolet with lyrics and sketch dialogue.
Highly recommended
- When I heard this CD reissue for the very first time,I thought,"what the...?".Originally released in 1974,the purchaser SHOULD keep in mind of course that 'Captain Lockheed...' is a concept lp by Robert Calvert,who was the resident poet for Hawkwind through out the '70's.Maybe to conceptual for some.For one thing,there's plenty of dialogue.This may be so,but there are some tunes here,that truly hold the test of time.The ORIGINAL versions of "Aerospaceage Inferno","The Right Stuff","Ejection" and "Song Of A Gremlin,Part 2".This may not technically be a Hawkwind lp,but the players backing Calvert(R.I.P.) on this effort are:Dave Brock,Nik Turner,Lemmy,Del Dettmar and Simon King.Need I say more?A great Calvert solo title to have.
- I just recently bought this album on cd and I'm really enjoy-
ing it.This is one of the most entertaining concept albums I've ever heard! The story behind it( a TRUE story, as one of my co-workers told me) is tragic and almost unbelievable, yet CALVERT and his co-horts make it humourous! The dialogue is VERY funny and very MONTY PYTHON-like(and slightly HOGAN'S HEROES- LIKE); I keep waiting for the SPANISH INQUISITION to show up while I'm listening to it! The songs themselves are terrific and very HAWKWIND-like; this is no surprise considering how many HAWKWIND members perform on it! My favorite song at the time is AEROSPACEAGE INFERNO, a very heavy rocker which shares almost the same bass line as the song MOTORHEAD. WIDOWMAKER is another hard rocker and it's VERY similar to ORGONE ACCUMALATOR.EJECTION and THE RIGHT STUFF should be familiar to HAWKWIND fans; both of them show up on the HAWKWIND compilation LORD OF LIGHT and live versions show up on CALIFORNIA BRAINSTORM and THE BUSINESS TRIP. This album has a great sense of humour about it, a sense of hu- mour not found on HAWKWIND albums. If you liked HAWK- WIND during their LEMMY days, you'll love the music for this. IT'S THE GREAT STUFF, BABY, THE GREAT STUFF!
- Bob Halford a rare and vastly underestimated talent! To his close relation, a great poet in his own right, I am proud that you carry my vinyl version of this masterpiece.
The fact that I am re-united with this brilliant work will bring back those oh so happy memories of the Crown, that Penny whistle and the radical verses !! "Does anybody want to buy a Starfighter?" "Then buy an acre of ground, and wait !" Cheers Sparky !!
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Posted in Classic Rock (Monday, December 1, 2008)
The artist is Artist is Lee Hazlewood. By Smells Like Records.
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5 comments about Requiem for an Almost Lady.
- This is THE Greatest break-up album never heard. It goes form start to finish in twenty minutes. He is a magiacian and a master of his word.
- This is a brilliant recording. I had purchased it for 15 dollars from a mailorder place. It took 6 weeks to get it, and when it came, I found out that it was only 25 minutes long. I was kind of pissed, and I didn't play it for a month or so. Luckily, I finally played it, and it's now one of my favorite albums. It may run a mere 25 minutes, but it manages to say more in those 25 minutes than most artists say in their whole careers. This album was advertised as "the heaviest breakup album ever made" when I decided to buy it, the advertising was right on the money. It's a brilliantly honest record, sparingly arranged, quite beautiful, angry, sad, and depressing, all at the same time. Lee Hazlewood is known mostly for his colloborations with Nancy Sinatra (he wrote These Boots Are Made for Walkin'), but his solo work is becoming more available nowadays, and thank goodness. Some people have written about Lee..."you either get him or you don't". It's like that. Either you love this album, or you'll think it's a waste of time. It's the former. It's an amazing piece of art.
- Having recently bought the "Cowboy In Sweden" album and thoroughly enjoyed it, I had high hopes for this CD, unfortunately I found it slightly disappointing. As noted elsewhere, the album is very sparsely arranged - dare I say, too sparsely? Good though they are, I wonder how much better songs such as "If Its Monday Morning" and "I'll Live Yesterdays" would have sounded with Hazlewood's customary inventive arrangements. The more uptempo songs in particular don't work - the song that seems best suited to this spartan approach is the spooky ballad "Come On Home to Me". Nonetheless, it is still Lee and he's on good form vocally and lyrically (even if the spoken intros are a bit corny). One more thing, the whole album lasts just over 25 minutes, which once you remove the intros means about 20 minutes of music!
- Now...most people have no idea who Lee Hazlewood is. He's the man who brought Duane Eddy to fame, who produced tons of bands, including Dino, Desi and Billy (offspring of the more famous Dean Martin and Desi Arnez), and writing such hits as "These Boots Are Made For Walking." And that's all well and good. You may have heard him on a Nancy Sinatra album, the deep bass voice gravelling along on songs like "Sand" or "Some Velvet Morning." Now you're getting closer.
There is no way to describe the genius of Lee Hazlewood. And this is the album to get if you want to understand it. An album all about a breakup, with narrative asides before and after every song. From the lovely menace of "I'm Glad I Never" to the rueful regret of "I'd Rather Be Your Enemy" this album is pure greatness through and through. Not country. Not rock. Not folk. Sort of like all of those, but oh so much more. It's the music you get when someone who knows a lot of things about a lot of things gets behind the boards and in front of the mic. I mean it...everything about this album is pure and golden and can never age. Yes. Lee Hazlewood is the man I want to grow up to be. You should want to be him too. Listen to this and you will.
- great music, great lyrics and what a voice ! This is Hazlewood at his best !
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Posted in Classic Rock (Monday, December 1, 2008)
The artist is Artist is Disney. By Walt Disney/EMI.
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5 comments about Classic Disney, Vol. 1.
- The CD arrived in good time and was of excellent quality for a used product.
- This CD is a wonderful collection of some 25(!) of the most beloved Disney hits. Indeed, the songs on this CD are all songs from the great Disney movies that you remember from your childhood. There's "Someday My Prince Will Come" from Snow White, "Colonel Hathi's March" from the Jungle Book, and "Chim Chim Cher-ee" from Mary Poppins. What's also wonderful is that the hits are from the great Disney movies right up to the present, with such songs as "Beauty and the Beast" from the movie of the same title.
My whole family loves these songs, and often sings along with them. As a wonderful bonus, we were not aware of "Minnie's Yoo Hoo!" which sounds like a 1920s, snappy little tune, and my children often play it twice and even three times in a row.
Buy this CD you won't regret it!
- I purchased this to keep my kids occupied on vacation, and it performed beautifully! I can recommend it fully.
- I have all 5 CD's and it is an awesome collection! All of my favorite songs are on the 5 CD's and every Disney fan like I am should have this collection!
- There isn't one single song from the 1977 classic "The Rescuers" included in this collection, I don't see why Disney chose not to include any of those songs which are all gorgeous, when they did include unmemorable and weak songs instead, I've seen these CD's with songs that aren't half as good as "Tomorrow is Another Day," "The Journey," "Someone's Waiting for You" or "Rescue Aid Society."
Very disappointing, The Rescuers is a fine Disney classic and it should be included with all of the others.
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Posted in Classic Rock (Monday, December 1, 2008)
The artist is Artist is Various Artists. By Hip-O Records.
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3 comments about 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the 60's.
- I bought this for my mom. She loves it and listen to it all the time.
- 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the 60's is yet another CD that just doesn't fulfill the promise of the title. You think you're going to get a lot of great music from the 1960s, but the number of tracks from the early `60s is woefully short. You do get good sound quality; and we get some good songs. However, it's just not a retrospective that is true to the title of the album.
The Angels start the CD off with a bang as they do their "My Boyfriend's Back." I believe that the other reviewer is right when they mention that this is the only track recorded before 1965! The Angels, however, do sing this really well and the tune has a catchy, upbeat flavor to it that I really like.
Fontella Bass does great with her classic "Rescue Me;" Fontella sings this with all her heart and soul and it shows when you listen to this ballad. "Rescue Me" rocks really well with some great lyrics that a lot of people can relate to when they're feeling alone and unloved. Fontella sings "Rescue Me" to perfection!
The Mamas & The Papas perform their "California Dreamin'," a number that inspired so many young people to move westward to California in search of inner peace and a better quality of life. Awesome tune! Procol Harum also are here with their classic entitled "Whiter Shade Of Pale." I really like "Whiter Shade Of Pale."
Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World" does come off the Adult Contemporary charts; but this is just so darn good that I'll happily let it stay here anyway. Joe Cocker also does a great cover of "With A Little Help From My Friends," too.
Steppenwolf has the final cut with their "Born To be Wild;" I really like this rockin' tune and it makes a strong ending for this album. The electric guitars work very well.
The liner notes have basic information about the songs; but that won't rescue this album. The problem here is that there just isn't enough from the early 1960s to call this a "best of the 60's" CD. What a shame. This is purely for the casual fan who happens to like the tunes on this CD.
- I've given up arguing against MCA's continued swindling of the American record-buying public with these Millennium series collections, so let's just take a look at the music, okay? At just over 40 minutes, this 12-song cd is a little more generous than most. Are these songs the "Best of the 60's" as the title implies? That's a bit open to interpretation. After all, the title isn't "No. 1 Hits of the 60's" (although four of these songs are). It's not even called "Top Ten Hits of the 60's" (because two of these songs never reached the Top Ten, and it wasn't until 1972 that "Nights in White Satin" reached No. 2 in the U.S.--five years after Days of Future Past was released).
The other two non-Top Ten songs are "With a Little Help From My Friends," which was a U.K. No. 1 but peaked at only No. 68 in the U.S. Its inclusion can, however, be justified because of Joe Cocker's spell-binding performance of the song at Woodstock. The other is "What a Wonderful World." While Louis Armstrong knocked the Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" from the top spot in 1964 with "Hello Dolly," Armstrong--who was born in 1901--was hardly embraced by the flower child generation in 1967 when "What a Wonderful World" hit No. 12 on the Adult Contempory (old fogeys) chart. The song no doubt makes the list after its chart success (No. 32) when it was rereleased as a single from the Good Morning Vietnam soundtrack. The rest of the songs were huge hits and for the most part are representative of the era. The biggest flaw is how do you represent an entire era with a mere twelve songs? On the plus side, there's only one pre-1965 song: the Angels' "My Boyfriend's Back" from 1963. The rest of the songs are from the Sixties rock era, although Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild" and Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody To Love" are the only songs here that really rock. But how do you argue with such choices as "My Girl," "California Dreamin'," or arguably the best pop single ever recorded--Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"? The U.K.'s ACE label put out a similar release last year called Chartbusters U.S.A. for about the same price, but ACE packed thirty songs onto a single disc. Why can't MCA be as generous? [Okay, I know I said that I was going to stick to looking at just the music, but I couldn't help myself.] So who would buy this album? My guess is that MCA is relying heavily on impulse buyers. These albums usually get a high profile display in the discount stores and if there are several songs on here that you absolutely have to have the price isn't too bad, but unless MCA slashes their list price in half you're better off sticking with your favorite Classic Rock radio station. It's cheaper and you get a better song variety.
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The artist is Artist is The Frost. By Vanguard Records.
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5 comments about Frost Music.
- Okay, admittedly The Frost was not the greaest band on rock history, or even Detroit rock history. And I will freely admit that when I proposed a member of my band that we bcome a Frost tribute band, I got a pretty good laugh out of it.
But back in 1970, we thought they were pretty darn good, and you know what? They were. Great live act, and they had a couple of really good songs that still sound good after 30+ years.
I wouldn't try to talk anyone who didn't grow up into Detroit into buying this album. But of you were in High School when "Mystery Man" was playing on CKLW, you really owe it to yourself to buy this album and share it with your grandkids ;-)
- I thought that just because one of the guitarists had played with Lou Reed this album would be good. I was wrong. I've discovered that just because someone does good guitar work in one instance doesn't mean he can play at all in another. And it certainly doesn't mean that just because someone can play a song well, that he can write songs himself. This is bottom of the barrel songwriting. I can imagine the CD being very useful as a tea cozy! The people who would buy this on their own would be the kind to retire to bed early and drink tea maybe! Okay, I'm jestin' But seriously, I woun't recommend this band to anyone outside of a 60's fanatic or collector, and definitely not to someone who loves rock and roll. If you like the 60's and only want to listen to that, or to go into depth in researching the 60's that's fine, this album is okay. But the Frost is no better than your average bar band. The song Jenny is the best here, but it's still hard to pay attention to, and the entire album is mostly pretty boring. I would suggest to the guitarist and bassist to practice their scales because their playing is loose. But the drummer is pretty good. All in all, this is good for someone's high school band, or bar band after work.
- Well, the name "The Frost" sais they are not the most emotional unit. They are a heavy metal band, but with acoustic moments reminiscent of Led Zep, or the Guess Who. MC5 may be their biggest influence. They point the way to Grand Funk Railroad. They are not so high energy, actuallly. The acoustic songs are nice breaks from the heavier moments, but don't stand so great on their own. The feel of the metal moments is one of longing, an emotional feeling, which is not the most appropriate way to do metal. When they just rock out, that's when they're at their best. They draw on blues, but also soul, for influences on the heavier tunes. Grand Funk/MC5/Guess Who, done as metal before metal was clearly defined. know what I mean?
- I absolutely love this album. I bought it a few years after I first heard of this band. A friend had the Rock and Roll Music album and I liked what I heard but never saw any of their albums in the stores until I went to Torrejon Air Base in Spain. I picked this, their first album up for about 90 cents in the base exchange and was quite surprised when I listened to it. The songs are bright sounding and very well played. I especially like Jenny Lee, Take My Hand/Mystery Man, and Standing in the Shadows. Dick Wagner is one of my favorite guitar players and ever since I heard this album, I have closely followed his career from the Bossmen up to his work with Ursa Major, Lou Reed, and Alice Cooper. Dickie and the guys, you rock!
- Dick Wagner was the man back in the late 60s, every midwest guitarist was trying to emulate his guitar style. Great singer, songwriter and guitaist--he had it all. Jenny Lee is one of my all time favorite pop songs.
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The artist is Artist is The Temptations. By Motown.
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2 comments about #1's (Eco-Friendly Packaging).
- With a group that has been over-compiled, often unsatisfactorily, a very interesting exercise is to open up the iTunes store (I should probably also suggest using the Amazon music store too), and listen to the different versions of the songs on the various anthologies, for example "My Girl" or "Get Ready" which are on almost all of them. The mixes on this CD (#1's) seem to be unique to this release, with very interesting accents on horns, background vocals, and other instrumentation too often buried in the mix, especially in the Anthology release, where many of the early songs are inexplicably presented in their mono form.
- These are great songs but..........this compilation was put out purely with corperate ideals in mind and you can pick between it and The Ultimate Collection,Anthology-The Best of The Temptations,Gold,Psychedelic Soul or the boxed set Emperors of Soul and be more satisfied.These songs are victims of pure oldies radio ware and tare.
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The artist is Artist is The 13Th Floor Elevators. By Snapper UK.
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3 comments about The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators.
- It seems to be almost unanimous among fans of hardcore 1960's rock that this, the first 13th Floor Elevators album, was their best.
I disagree. Why is another question, but I believe it comes down to the fact that there's too much Roky Erikson and too little Stacy Sutherland, and also because Tommy Hall is just too prominent (that so-called electric jug shtick is interesting at first but eventually becomes a slight irritant). Having said all that, it's still a classic of sorts. It includes the only two songs that anyone outside of their fan base will likely ever hear (and of course even that's facing long odds), the single 'You're Gonna Miss Me' and the outstanding 'Splash 1'. The former is one of the all-time magnificent garage tunes of the era, and became a very minor hit. The problem there was the fact that the song has little in common with anything else the band was doing. I can imagine it confused listeners at the time, and likely sealed their commercial fate, but who cares now? The album is interesting, intermittently brilliant but ultimately disappointing. As for being 'psychedelic', I'm not convinced much of the material is, but these wackos were indeed ahead of the curve on that score as this was a 1966 release.
I'd have to recommend their third and final album "Bull Of The Woods" easily over this debut and slightly more than their second disc "Easter Everywhere". Start with their 1969 swansong.
- I love the 13th floor elevators but the descritpion specifies this is a 3 disc CD set when there actually only is one CD.
- The Elevators' catalog has had some rough treatment over the years. There are several CD versions of this album on the market, including a U.S. reissue from Collectables that's gotten bad marks for its fidelity, and several imports. This latest is from Snapper's Charly label out of the UK, and in addition to the album's original eleven tracks, it includes eight live tracks (all but two from an oft-issued Avalon Ballroom performance), and both sides of the pre-Elevators' single by The Spades.
The album tracks sound about as good as they're likely to get, given that the original master tapes were lost some time ago, and the bonuses, likewise sound similar to other issues. This is an excellent 70-minute package, fleshing out the classic original album with a host of live covers ("Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" "Before You Accuse Me" "I'm Gonna Love You Too" "You Really Got Me" "Roll Over Beethoven" "The Word" "Gloria"), one live original ("She Lives (In a Time of Her Own)"), and Roky Erickson's originals of "We Sell Soul" and "You're Gonna Miss Me."
Digipack reproductions of the original album art are sharp but small enough to be virtually unreadable. Luckily the enclosed booklet reproduces the album's back cover notes, and includes new liners from Jon "Mojo" Mills along with several period photos. 21 tracks on a single disc - a great buy! [©2005 redtunictroll at hotmail dot com]
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The artist is Artist is Vanilla Fudge. By Sundazed Music Inc..
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5 comments about Rock & Roll.
- ROCK & ROLL was ORIGINALLY a typical Vanilla Fudge album. Their extended length covers ("Windmills Of Your Mind" and "If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody") had representation, as did painful introspection ("I Can't Make It Alone" and "Church Bells Of St. Martin's"). There were also heavy rockers ("Street Walking Woman" and "Need Love") and spirituality ("Lord In The Country").
The original LP of ROCK & ROLL was a fine way for the band to bow out. This CD release however, is quite flawed, due to tampering. The "original mix" of both "Windmills..." and "...Woman" are simply awful-- particularly the latter. The snap and fire of this song is just not there. Sometimes a band has REAL reasons to choose later takes for their albums.
Finally-- the bonus track ("Break Song") really doesn't belong on this set. For these reasons, rate the Vanilla Fudge's farewell album/reconstituted CD 3½ stars, and try to find the original record or cassette tape.
- As we well know, this was Vanilla Fudge's last studio album. The band was coming apart by this time, and you can kind of tell it on this album. Some of the songs seem edited together from various sessions. On the liner notes, the band members state that most of them were doing their own sessions, and there was little cooperation between the band members. In spite of that, this is still a great album, with special mention going to the songs Need Love and The Windmills Of Your Mind, which exemplify everything the Vanilla Fudge did well. They are excellent, and the rest of the material is very good, too. The 4 albums (I don't count The Beat Goes On, which, by all reports, was an umitigated disaster) that they put out during their heyday are all excellent. The studio version of The Break Song is pretty good, but the live one off of Near the Beginning is the better of the two. The studio version is a bonus track that was never released on the original album. Buy their 1st album, Renaissance, Near the Beginning, and this one. They're all worth it.
- This is undoubtably the heaviest of all albums cranked out by this group. It's acutually good for a swan song album for a group. It kicks off with a tough number called "Need Love" which makes me think of ZZ-Top listening to this to get the melody for "Tush". "Lord In The Country" is a good timey song, but it's got some edge to it, "I Can't Make It Alone" is as soulful as it gets, and also "If You Got To Make A Fool Of Somebody". The covers are still therewith "The Windmills Of Your Mind" a show tune from where I don't know, and they have the unissued "Break Song" as it's done in the studio, and have shaved 3 and half minutes off the live version on "Near The Beginning". This unfortunately spelled the end for the Fudge as Carmine Appice would be the most visible of the four, and play with Black Sabbath, and Blue Murder, and Jeff Beck. They would reform in 1984 for the "Mystery" album and tour.
- This is Vanilla Fudge's best album, and their last. Fudge was a very important band in heavy rock in the late sixties. They had a sound similer to Grand Funk Railroad with more Hammond organ worked in. Influenced Deep Purple and every heavy group who followed.
- This album was my first experience with Vanilla Fudge. When I was younger (in the late 80s) I would check this record out from the public library all the time when visiting my Grandmother. I was attracted not only to the drumming of Appice but also to the soulful/"heavy" sound of the band. This is their final album but it sounds great and definitely does not sound like they "wore out" at the end. In fact, it sounds fresh and hard to me. It's funny how older music sounds more vibrant and original than the new things we are subjected to. I recommend listening to this album if for no other reason than to hear a band who made a mark on music. Rock and Roll will never die but it is fading away. It's hard to believe that at one time you could turn on MTV and see videos of groups like Black Sabbath and Fudge on Closet Classics and the sorely missed Headbangers Ball. The same channel, now mostly directed toward teenage girls, has turned into a repetitive, sloppy mess of so called pop music that suffers from such a lack of variety and originality that it sounds like every artist went to the same producer for their beats. Any way get Vanilla Fudge or something with some stature and introduce it to someone with a brain that hasn't been washed yet by MTV.
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The artist is Artist is Harry Nilsson. By Bmg Int'l.
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5 comments about As Time Goes By.
- When Nilsson released this in '73, it confused a lot of his fans, and most everyone else. There wasn't a big market in American nostalgia of the pre-WWII period. The arrangements by Gordon Jenkins (whom Nilsson specifically sought out) were considered old-fashioned and syrupy.
But there is an honest deep yearning, a tenderness and affection, in Nilsson's voice, and in the way he reaches to the interior meanings of these songs, that transcends fashion, time, and changing tastes. It's as if he knew that all that separates us from all other humans in all other times are changing mores of fashion, food, and current events. The big meaningful things and the big emotions are always the same.
Thus these songs, which meant so much when first written and then fell into a trashbin labeled "Not relevant", become the way Nilsson connects himself and all his listeners to the eternal feelings and verities that really do make us all human, starting with the sweetness, pain, and longing of love between two people. These are truths that no amount of overproduced Diva music can ever begin to emulate.
Give this to a quiet teenager. It will change the way they feel about themselves and their feeling, and may just change how they bear themselves through life.
Harry, you are still missed. You died much too young. But in this recording, your spirit still sings for us.
- Long before Rod Stewart, George Michael and others got on the old standards bandwagon, Harry Nilsson recorded "A Little Touch of Schmilsson In The Night" which was played all over San Francisco in the 1970's in elegant cafes. This cd has been retitled, but is basically the same music he recorded back in the 70's. It still holds up. Harry Nilsson fans will love hearing him again, and those not familiar with his unique voice and style will enjoy it also.
- Nillson outdid himself with this recording. Great selections with amazingly sincere vocals. His falsetto is truly unbelievable.
- Great album. Excellent interpretation of classic melodies released long before everyone else started doing classics. Buy this before you spend money on more recent releases by artists paying homage to great american songs.
- This is one of the best cds ever. I can't think of any that I enjoy listening to more.
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The artists are Artist is Roky Erickson and The Explosives. By SteadyBoy Records.
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No comments about Halloween (Live 1979-1981).
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