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I'm A Woman: 30 Years Of Maria Muldaur
by Maria Muldaur | MusicPrice: $8.39 to $11.98 Compare PricesApril 29, 2004
An amazing talent
2 of 3 Yahoo! Users found this review helpfulPros: outstanding female vocalist in jazz, folk & blues
Cons: Midnight At The Oasis
ONLY 30 years of her career? Ms. Muldar (formerly DeAmato) started back in the mid-60's singing folk with The Jim Kweskin Jugband, and in the early 70's distinguished herself with Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen, and again in the late 70's with Jerry Garcia Band. Her latest albums have been in the Jazz/Blues formula, and sound every bit as good as her earlier work.
If your only exposure to her is "Midnight At The Oasis" or that perfume commercial: "I can take home the bacon, fry it up in a pan...", you won't know how diverse she is. Take a chance and buy this one. ... -
November 18, 2003
How doth the little crocodile...
Pros: killer new "Across The Universe"
Cons: WAY too short *20 minute* bonus disc?!?!?!
O.K. For those of you who's studiously collected the Day By Day Series, the Nagra B-Rolls and the scores of other discs you need for as complete a set of the Get Back/Let It Be sessions as it is (so far) possible to compile, you already know you're not going to find much that's new here. Half the LP is as previously released, two songs were cut, and the vocals on the rooftop section were repaired/remixed so John doesn't screw up the lyrics.
For those of you who haven't had the benefit or opportunity of hearing the 100+ discs I mention above, you're probably in for a very nice treat.
Apple Records must walk a fine line between the bulk of casually die-hard Beatles fans who've bought all the legitimate records/CDs, and the Tru Faithful Die-hards who have spent hundreds if not thousands of bucks buying various bootlegged Get Back discs for 30 years. This release trys to please everyone, but this falls rather short of the mark. With the (literally) 100+ hours of materials available, the two abandoned "naked" Glynn Johns "Get Back" LP mixes, and all, they could ONLY give us 20 minutes on the Bonus Disc? There's still another HOUR they could have EASILY tacked on.
As John Lydon once remarked: "Ever feel like you've been cheated?" After a 30 year wait, we should have had a MUCH better package than this. And where the heck is the release of the Let It Be DVD??? ... -
Pancho & Lefty [Bonus Tracks]
by Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson | MusicPrice: $5.42 to $6.99 Compare PricesOctober 15, 2003
Pancho & Lefty
0 of 2 Yahoo! Users found this review helpfulPros: Willie's finest
Cons: Ain't none.
As David Allan Coe said it so well:
"If that ain't Country, you can kiss my a$@."
Even better now, with bonus tracks. -
June 9, 2003
Thunder of the Gods!
2 of 2 Yahoo! Users found this review helpful At LAST! Led Zeppelin the way their fans have known they sounded ALL ALONG! THIS, dear friends, is *why* Led Zep became legendary, their LIVE shows.
Previously, you'd have had to have spent up to $150 (or more) for a limited edition Japanese bootleg to hear this kind of material. Yes, that *does* sound a little steep! But one listen to this amazing 3 disc set that combines 2 concert dates to make one amazing show, and you'll see why. Nobody could touch them.
FORGET "The Song Remains The Same"!!! Plant's voice isn't trashed here from touring, Jimmy's health for these shows sounds like it was good, and both Bonzo and Jonesy put in fine performances as well. This CD, and its DVD counterpart, contribute more to the band's legacy than anything else released since their breakup in 1980, including their long-anticipated Live at the BBC release a few years ago. Those performances were a good overview of the beginnings of the worlds arguably most popular Rock and Roll Band, but THIS CD shows that band in its stride, at the very apex of their collective talent, showing what an ensemble performing group they were capable of being.
Thank you, Frater Jimmy Page, for this. You've ensured that your legacy will long survive you. ... -
April 2, 2003
Best of Beatles and Threetles
This is the best this set has ever been!
The only way you'd have seen this set in any form in near as superior sound and picture was if you were one of the 500 or so people who actually owned a Laserdisc Player in the 1990's, and spent the $120 for that box set when it was originally released seven years ago. The superior 5.1 surround sound remixes and digital picture speak for themselves, and inclusion (finally) of the Threetles "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love" music videos would have been enough to merit even the replacement of the Laserdisc set in any serious fan's collection, but the new extra disc of previously unreleased footage of Paul, George and Ringo, as filmed in George's garden, their rememberances of times past and their performance of several Beatles numbers recall the magic that caused the whole hubbub surrounding the Fab Four in the first place.
Other than the extra disc, and inclusion of Real Love, I will not go into the differences between this DVD and the VHS release or the TV Special release, as that is already being worked upon by amateur Beatlesologists, and their efforts will no doubt appear on their various websites. If you've only seen this when it aired as a special on TV, you are in for a real treat! If you've seen the VHS, you'll still find suprises! Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy! ... -
March 20, 2003
After 36 years, it's about time!
1 of 1 Yahoo! Users found this review helpful I don't see any track listings for this CD yet.
I've owned a number of Cream's BBC appearances on various bootlegs. They're in glorious mono, of course. BBC didn't broadcast in stereo back then!
Here's a list of Cream's BBC Sessions for us to drool over..wonder which of them they'll be including on this set?
Live Session: BBC Radio, 8 November 1966. BBC Studios, London.
Wrapping Paper: RADIO BROADCAST
Sweet Wine: RADIO BROADCAST
Steppin' Out: RADIO BROADCAST
Live Session: BBC Radio, 9 December 1966. BBC Studios, London.
Cat's Squirrel: RADIO BROADCAST
Traintime: RADIO BROADCAST
Lawdy Mama: "CROSSROADS" Clapton Box Set/RADIO BROADCAST
I'm So Glad: RADIO BROADCAST
The above recording of "I'm So Glad" features Clapton playing part of Tchaikovski's
"1812 Overture" in his solo.
Live Session: BBC Radio, 10 January 1966. BBC Studios, London.
Four Until Late: RADIO BROADCAST
I Feel Free: RADIO BROADCAST
N.S.U.: RADIO BROADCAST
Live Session: BBC Radio, 30 May 1967. BBC Studios, London.
Strange Brew: RADIO BROADCAST
Tales of Brave Ulysses: RADIO BROADCAST
We're Going Wrong: RADIO BROADCAST
Take It Back: RADIO BROADCAST
Live Session: BBC Radio, 24 October 1967. BBC Studios, London.
Outside Woman Blues: RADIO BROADCAST
Born Under a Bad Sign: RADIO BROADCAST
Sunshine of Your Love: RADIO BROADCAST
Live Session: BBC Radio, 9 January 1968. BBC Studios, London.
Politician: RADIO BROADCAST
Steppin' Out: "CROSSROADS" Clapton Box Set/RADIO BROADCAST
Swlabr: RADIO BROADCAST
Blue Condition: RADIO BROADCAST ... -
December 19, 2002
Don't get too excited, it's a re-re-rele
From what I'm able to gather from the Official Frank Zappa Site, this is merely a cheesey re-re-rerelease of "The Cucamonga Years", the singles Frank recorded or produced during his pre-Mother days at the old Studio Z. If you're a fan, you've probably bought most if not all of these singles on one of the other compilations that have been kicking around on LP or CD for the past 22 years or so as "Rare Meat", "The Cucamonga Years" or one of several bootlegs. It appears that the label in question is notorious for cheesey retitled rereleases, and it looks like they've spewed forth another one, this time exploiting Frank's fanatical fan base. Don't overrate this until you know what is, Kids. M'kay?
That said, that motherf*(ker who wrote the first "review" obviously suffers from a psychocermanic rectal-cranial inversion, and ain't no Freak. So intercourse the blastard, and the steed upon which he rode. ... -
December 3, 2002
Leave it to Hollywood...
The saddest thing about this soundtrack is thinking about what it might have been. The original Broadway Score was superior in every way, and the film's cast was very appealling; if only the original score had been included instead of the numbers wrote specifically for the movie; "All Shook Up" is 10 times the musical number "You're The One That I Want" was. The original score was clever in imitating 50's mega-hits, "Rock & Roll Party Queen" could have *been* a Ricky Nelson number, and most people couldn't probably tell the difference between "Born To Hand Jive" and "Willie and the Hand Jive"...why they had to cut so many superior numbers for the inferior CRAP that this movie soundtrack is infused with is still beyond me. ... -
December 3, 2002
OUTSTANDING!!!
Posthumous releases are so often a disappointment...but THIS is something else again. As fine an album as George has made since his days with the Travelling Wilburys.
Be SURE to get the boxed edition with the DVD (which is admittedly rather short), poster, sticker & guitar pick, the few extra bucks are money WELL spent--I haven't taken this disc out of my CD player, except to take it from the house to the car to work and back... ...
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Invaluable companion to Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Pros: All the singles
Cons: The Floyd weren't a singles band...
I wish I knew what chemicals the professional reviewer was on, neither "Scream Thy Last Scream" OR "Vegetable Man" are on the release pictured above. Neither of those cuts have EVER been legitimately released. The release pictured is the disc of extra material from the "Shine On" box set. It has never been commercially available as a separate CD.
This is not the "Pink Floyd Singles Sampler". That mid-90's release had only the first three singles and B-sides.
Here's the actual track listing:
1. Arnold Layne
2. Candy And A Currant Bun
3. See Emily Play
4. Scarecrow
5. Apples And Oranges
6. Paint Box
7. It Would Be So Nice
8. Julia Dream
9. Point Me At The Sky
They are all monoaural. The stereo mixes for several of these cuts first appeared on a Canadian Import LP called "Masters of Rock" in 1973.
They are not here. ...