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Ambrosia - Ambrosia (CD)

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Album Details: Ambrosia

Release Date:02/01/2000
Label:Wea International
UPC:4943674009305

Track List: Ambrosia

  1. Nice, Nice, Very Nice
  2. Time Waits For No One
  3. Holdin' On To Yesterday
  4. World Leave Me Alone
  1. Make Us All Aware
  2. Lover Arrive
  3. Mama Frog
  4. Drink Of Water

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User Reviews: Ambrosia

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    Ambrosia

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Aug 23, 2001

    To this day, it amazes me how this album has somehow slipped through the cracks. Even the posers at Warner Bros. finally realized they had a good back catalogue by a band named Ambrosia. Unfortunately they forgot to release their last and probabably ...best album Road Island. Their first album is still their most creative and daring album though. Somewhere..is good but David's guitar is heard more throughout most of this album and the arrangements are more in the "standard" rock vain rather than the Zappa like arrangements of the second album. Hands down the most impressive rock debut album by any band. Even better than Freak Out! which is no small feat and about 10,000 times better than Boston's debut which I can't for the life of me understand why that album is still spinning on the radio everyday. Yes it is a classic, but sounds rather out of date compared to this album. The music still sounds fresh on this album and is a must for any American that loves Kansas and has enjoyed English bands like Camel and Parson's project over the years. I think critics shunned this band much in the same way as they have shunned Porcupine Tree, a fairly new band that has incredible elements of pop arranged in a very avande-gardish way. Progressive sounding but not very progressive, very much like Ambrosia's debut. I am still waiting for this album to make a comeback on Classic Rock radio stations. Most DJ's seem rather content that they have the "list" for every classic rock fan. Me, well I am still waiting to hear "Nice, Nice Very Nice" on the radio. Till then, this album will be forever treasured by the elite few who understand it's significance. For everyone else, they are truly missing out on a gem of an album... Read more Less

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    Excellent initial album from Ambrosia

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Apr 4, 2000

    Produced by Alan Parsons, the eight songs on this album are emblematic of Ambrosia's style. The Grammy single, "Holdin' on to Yesterday", is perhaps the weakest song on the album, but the one closest to mainstream taste. The lyrics to "Nice, Nice, V...ery Nice" were penned by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and appear in his novel "Cat's Cradle", as well as provding a central inspiration for the first song (and some might say the rest...) of the album. Another song "Mama Frog" contains a recital of the poem "Jabberwocky" within a musical cacophony in the middle of the tune... The group also uses a wide variety of instruments and rhythms within each song to good effect, changing tempos within most of the songs, and ignoring most of the rules of conventional pop music while creating aural sculptures that stretched the bounds of the music scene of the time. Personal faves are: "World Leave Me Alone", "Time Waits for No One", and "Lover Arrive", but each of the songs are amazingly good! A must listen to album. Read more Less

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Pro Reviews: Ambrosia

  • All Music Guide

    Although they would become better known for smooth AOR ballads like "How Much I Feel," Ambrosia first made their name with this album of progressive rock with a pop music twist. Its songs skillfully blend strong melodic hooks and smooth vocal harmonies with music of an almost symphonic density. Good examples of this crossbreeding are "Drink of Water," which sounds like the Beach Boys tackling a Pink Floyd space rock epic, and "Nice, Nice, Very Nice," which utilizes a combination of stately close-harmony vocals and dynamic instrumental breaks to put forth a clever lyric derived from a Kurt Vonnegut novel. The complexity of the music is further highlighted by its crystal-clear sonic landscape, mixed by Alan Parsons, which highlights unique touches like the use of a Russian balalaika ensemble and 300-year-old Javanese gongs on "Time Waits for No One." Despite this prog rock ambitiousness, the group is smart enough to avoid letting their instrumental chops take precedence over their music'...s melodic content: They keep their songs succinct and punchy (nothing extends over six-and-a-half minutes) and they infuse tunes like "Lover Arrive" and the radio favorite "Holdin' on to Yesterday" with a delicate sense of pop songcraft that makes the group's cinematic sound easy for listeners to assimilate. The end result is an album that is intricate enough to please prog rock addicts but catchy enough to win over a few pop fans in the process. Though Ambrosia would go on to score bigger hits later in their career, this is definitely their most cohesive and inspired album. - Donald Guarisco, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Ambrosia

Los Angeles quartet Ambrosia, whose founding members included guitarist/vocalist David Pack, bassist/vocalist Joe Puerta, keyboardist Christopher North, and drummer Burleigh Drummond, fused symphonic art rock with a slickly produced pop sound. The group was discovered in 1971 by Los Angeles Philharmonic conductor Zubin Mehta, who featured Ambrosia as part of a so-called... Read more
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