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This 2 CD set features a mix from both Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. Neil Tennant’s idea when compiling the CD was to create a sequence of music late-night listening, Sequencing electronic, ambient, classical and pop music. Chris Lowe on the other hand has chosen songs about love, friendship, sex, religion, hope and despair., starting with early 80’s electro through Italian disco, rock, gospel and ending of course with classic Dusty. DMC. 2005.

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Average customer rating: Very disappointing, considering what it could have been Always a pleaser JOHN WILLIAMS 40 Years of Film Music Movie Music Magic & Memorabilia John Williams: 40 Years of Outstanding Film Music

The Music of John Williams: 40 Years of Film Music Manufacturer: Silva America ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Star Wars | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Similar Items: John Williams - Greatest Hits 1969 - 1999 Jerry Goldsmith: 40 Years of Film Music The Essential Elmer Bernstein Film Music Collection John Barry: The Collection Summon the Heroes ASIN: B0000C6K09 Release Date: 2003-10-07

Tracks:

1. The Sugarland Express-Main Theme
2. Jaws-Main Theme
3. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind-Suite
4. Raiders Of The Lost Ark-March
5. Raiders Of The Lost Arc-The Map Room:Dawn
6. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrail-Adventures On Earth
7. Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom-Mine Car Chase
8. Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom-End Credits
9. Empire Of The Sun-Exsultate Justi
10. Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade-Indy's First Adventure

Tracks:

1. Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade-End Credits
2. Always-Follow Me/Dorinda's Solo Flight
3. Hook-Main Themes
4. Jurassic Park-Main Themes
5. Schindler's List-Main Theme
6. Amistad-Dry Your Tears, Afrika
7. Saving Private Ryan-Hymn To The Fallen
8. A.I. Artificial Intelligence-Where Dreams Are Made
9. Minority Report
10. Catch Me If You Can

Tracks:

1. The Rare Breed-Suite (Universal Emblem/Hilary's Plight/Scottish Romeo/The Hunt)
2. Jane Eyre-Suite: The Jane Eyre Theme
3. Jane Eyre-Suite: To Thornfield
4. Jane Eyre-Suite: Restoration
5. The Cowboys-Overture
6. The Poseidon Adventure-Prelude
7. The Towering Inferno-Main Titles
8. Family Plot-End Titles
9. The Fury-Main Titles
10. Superman-Main Theme
11. Dracula-Main Titles & Storm
12. The River-Main Theme & Love Theme
13. The Witches Of Eastwick- Dance Of The Witches

Tracks:

1. Born On The Fourth Of July-End Credits
2. Presumed Innocent-End Titles
3. JFK-Arlington/End Titles
4. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone-Hedwig's Theme
5. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets-Fawkes The Phoenix
6. Star Wars: A New Hope- Main Theme
7. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back-Hans Solo And The Princess
8. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back-The Imperial March
9. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace- Anakin's Theme
10. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace-The Flag Parade
11. Star Wars: Attack Of The Clones-Across The Stars
12. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace-Duel Of The Fates

Customer Reviews:

Very disappointing, considering what it could have been.......2007-04-20

Take a look at the running times:

Disc 1: 60 minutes
Disc 2: 50 minutes
Disc 3: 61 minutes
Disc 4: 58 minutes

What gives Silva? There is *MUCH* more John Williams in the silva screen back catalogue by the Prague Philharmonic than what is in this set, and thats not including their entire discs devoted to Star Wars Films, Indiana Jones Trilogy etc. Why isn't Hook "When You're Alone" included on Disc 2? There's room. Why isn't 1941 on Disc 1? There's room. Why isn't Earthquake on Disc 3? There's room. Why isn't Far and Away on disc 4? There's room. Where's the other ten minutes of the Rare Breed suite on disc 3? Why isn't Midway on disc 1? Where are the Land of the Giants, Time Tunnel and Lots In Space tv themes? Etc. Etc. Etc.

C'mon Silva, most of these 4 disc mega boxes released in the past few years are packed to the brim, but not this one, and with new recordings made after this was released (the terminal, munich, geisha, war of the worlds, star wars ep 3, harry potter 3), it only makes sense for a "re-do" in the next couple of years.

Further, with Silva releasing the 100 Greatest Film Themes on six discs in a couple of months, it's only a matter of time before we see the ultimate six disc john williams set.

This isn't a BAD set to own, but it could have been much better and when compared to the Jerry Goldsmith and John Barry sets in this same series, this one is a major letdown.

Always a pleaser.......2007-03-31

I listen to music all day with patients in my dental chair. This one is a winner with everyone. Patients always comment on how they recognize a song. Who doesn't love John Williams? His music transcends time.

JOHN WILLIAMS 40 Years of Film Music.......2007-01-10

This 4 cd pack is an anthology of all John Williams works. From his earlier works "The Poseidon Adventure" and "Jaws" right through "Indiana Jones" and the most recent"Star Wars" prequel movies are included. Williams work in thriller and horror are also included. If you are into soundtracks and love movie music this is an essential buy. The quality of the music is excellent. With ten or more tracks on each cd it's well worth the money.

Movie Music Magic & Memorabilia.......2006-12-13

This four CD set expands on the previously released John Williams Greatest Hits. It's a grand collection of nearly four hours of famous music scores from over forty years. There are many songs never before available in any collection. The short liner notes tell a great tale of musical movie history and include all of his numerous award nominations and wins. Each song (oddly enough) mentions the actors and the director, so fond are John Williams's memories of his work with these people. All of the conductors are mentioned along with specific orchestras, choirs, arrangement and orchestration specialists and even the publishers (contractual, I am sure). The only things missing are his early television scores, such as those for "Lost In Space" (by Johnny Williams back then). But with four discs, one has nothing to complain about and everything to enjoy!

John Williams: 40 Years of Outstanding Film Music.......2006-11-28

I have been a huge fan of John Williams and I have known about his music for years. However, I never actually bought any of his music on CD. I was rather skeptical about purchasing this CD but when it arrived I knew I had made the right choice. The sound quality of the compilation is outstanding. The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra do a great job under the direction of Paul Bateman. The original London Symphony Orchestra CDs of John Williams' Star Wars Trilogy CDs are marginally better but this is still a great CD compilation. If you love ET, Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Harry Potter, you will love this compilation soundtrack. Buy it, listen to these CDs in the car and enjoy every minute of the collection!!!

Average customer rating: Quoted From Wikipedia im a little confused Perfect CD for a long drive Third time's the charm Be careful

Back to Mine Röyksopp Manufacturer: Back to Mine ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD New Wave | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Dance Pop | Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Euro Dance | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Back to Mine Pocket Symphony Melody A.M. Latenighttales: Nouvelle Vague Back to Mine ASIN: B000N2G1JY Release Date: 2007-04-24

Tracks:

1. Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) - Talking Heads
2. Sphinx - Harry Thumann
3. One More Round - Kasso
4. Ma Quale Idea - Pino D'Angino
5. Above And Beyon - The Edgar Winter Group
6. Off Side - Ray Mang
7. Platinum (Part Three-Charlesteon) - Mike Oldfield
8. Meatball - Emmanuel Splice
9. That's Hot - Jesse G
10. Legs - The Art Of Noise
11. 3:am - I-Level
12. Dirty Talk - Klein & Mbo
13. It Ain't Easy - Supermax
14. Could Heaven Ever Be Like This - Idris Muhammad
15. Night People - Guy Dalton
16. Get Closer - Valerie Dore
17. Can't Be Serious - Ginny
18. I'm Never Gonna Tell It - Funkadelic
19. It's Been A Long Time - The New Birth
20. Untitled Track - Untitled Track

Customer Reviews:

Quoted From Wikipedia.......2007-07-10

As quoted from Wikipedia to hopefully clear up some confusion about the sound of this new Röyksopp album.

Back to Mine is a series of mix albums, usually (though not always) mixed by renowned DJs or composers of electronic music. The compilations usually feature artists other than the artist compiling the album, and are based on what the artist would play at home after a night out, rather than as part of a nightclub session.

im a little confused.......2007-07-09

yea, im a little confused, i understood this wasn't a new album by royksopp, but then what is it?? a tribute cd??? if so why wouldnt they say that??? the entire album is a complete mish-mosh of electronic sub-genres and it makes no sense. none of this sounds like royksopp to me so im not really that happy.

Perfect CD for a long drive.......2007-06-25

Even though none of the cuts are by Royksopp per se, the cumulative feel of the CD itself is very Royksoppian and equally delightful to the ears. I recently had the pleasure of enjoying this entry into the "Back To Mine" series during a long road trip through the Pacific Northwest. While it was playing, I was in bliss. The boredom of driving was erased with a smile on my face during every moment it was playing. What a perfect CD for the road.

Third time's the charm.......2007-06-03

I was so excited when I went to my mailbox one sunny afternoon to find that the brand new Röyksopp CD, not even available in US stores, had finally arrived. I quickly jumped into my car, ripped open the packaging and sped away on a musical joyride. As the CD played on I thought to myself: ''What is this!? This doesn't sound like the Röyksopp I know and love at all.'' After a 30 minute tour, I pulled back into my driveway sorely disappointed. I put the CD away until the next day and oh what a difference a day can make. The second time I rethought my previous loathing and the third time I was digging more and more of the songs, especially the first track. In the course of a week it had become my favorite current CD. I brought it everywhere I went: to the beach, to bed, to dates, to outings with friends. Those I played it for dug it too and I came to realize that the purchase had been well worth it. Though not Röyksopp in the form I was used to (but then again, the Understanding was a complete departure from Melody A.M.), repeated listenings started to elucidate the some Röyksoppish elements. The first Röyksopp CD took us blissfully into the future, the second grounded us in the present, and the most recent ones takes us into the past in a funky, electro-synth sort of way. So take a chance!

Be careful.......2007-05-04

Man ,oh man. This is the first negative review that I've ever written on amazon, but I really want to warn you about this one. Am I just not hip enough? Or is it the fact that I graduated high school in 1985 and have no desire to listen to bad music of that era? There are good reasons why some musical obscurities are obscure and that's because they should be. It's not that this compilation completely lacks any charms because it's occasionally vaguely charming, but it's mostly bad. It's mixed well, I suppose, so that's cool. I guess the fun of this album is to imagine that the creators of some of this music were actually serious, but I'm personally over imagining myself into actually liking cheesy music. Is it so cheesy that it's cool? If you want to find out for yourself, by all means, check this cheese platter out. In my opinion, a little cheese goes a long way, and this comp certainly goes the extra mile. I hate to use a lame pop cultural expression, but this comp makes me wonder if the previously highly esteemed Back To Mine series has jumped the shark. Avoid this comp, or at the very least, listen carefully before you buy it. No offense to Royksopp, who I've enjoyed in the past, but what were you thinking? Do you actually listen to music like this to unwind? Have you heard any other comps in this series? You've lowered the bar, gentlemen.

Average customer rating: Heir to Groove Armada's Vertigo? GA and BTM deliver again Best of the Back to Mine Series. Diverse music makes for perfect chill album This album is slick and kewl! UNEVEN...

Back to Mine Groove Armada Manufacturer: Ultra Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Trip-Hop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Back to Mine Vertigo Back to Mine Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub) Back to Mine ASIN: B00004S63M Release Date: 2000-09-05

Tracks:

1. Description of a Fool
2. Playing Your Game Baby
3. Piano Grand
4. Stanways Revenge
5. Snappiness
6. Encounters
7. Sound of Music
8. Your Song
9. Next Type of Motion
10. Light My Fire
11. I Should've Know Better
12. Schmoov!
13. Tall Stories
14. Pharoahs

Amazon.com

Prior to the breakthrough success of their second album, Vertigo, Groove Armada (Tom Findlay and Andy Cato) were better known as successful club DJs, plying their trade in clubs the length and breadth of England, from Tangled in Manchester to the End in London. For their first mix CD they eschew uptempo dance-floor tunes in favor of a far more laid-back repertoire--think "At the River" rather than "If Everybody Looked the Same." It's an eclectic mixture of classic and modern--from Barry White to Tears for Fears, stopping at all stations along the way. Unlike many of these kinds of compilations, there's not a duff track on here, and standouts like Al Green's "Light My Fire" and Tony D's "Piano Grand" make the cherry on top. Vertigo was justifiably lauded as the Best Chill-Out Album at the U.K.'s Ministry Magazine Awards in 1999; Back to Mine is a worthy heir to the throne. --Helen Marquis

Customer Reviews:

Heir to Groove Armada's Vertigo?.......2007-07-19

That is a very bold statement by the Amazon editor. This Back to Mine album and Groove Armada's legendary Vertigo are not even in the same class.

I'm a big fan of Groove Armada, and even though this is a compilation mixed from other artists' tracks, I am disappointed that their name is on the cover.

Back to Mine is a good series. They get great DJ's to actually MIX their own selection of tracks. Mixing adds a unique flavour to an industry (i.e. chillout/ambient albums) that is overly saturated with subpar releases.

Regardless, this is not one of the better Back to Mine albums. The track selection is horrible and stale. We all love Barry White and Al Green, but their particular tracks do not gel well with the others on this album. One may argue that the ablum is eclectic. This is true, but eclectic tracks don't work well if they lack even a little chemistry (other than just a slow tempo). I expected much more from this pair of very talented Brits.

2/5 stars.

GA and BTM deliver again.......2006-06-04

Alot of my fellow reviewers and the general public should note that a main tenet of the Back to Mine series is that it is a reflection of influences and musical tastes of the artists. In the sleeve notes of one of the Back to Mine series (there are at least a dozen so named CDs) I read that it's all about what they'd play at their after-clubbing party back home on their vintage vinyls and what not.

Therefore you get alot of downbeat tracks and music that isn't necessarily what the artist would normally put out. The same holds true for this BTM release. Groove Armada are already masters of the chill beats, but they put in a twist for this assortment of their favourite tunes. A direct quote from the booklet that comes with the disc: "In compiling this album, we've worked at playing all these tunes at their original speed as they're all too special to be distorted."

What you are buying here isn't necessarily a Groove Armada album - though it's definitely got their flavour. What you are buying is a truly one-of-a-kind, stellar mix tape. Seriously. Still worth the purchase, even at the more expensive CD store prices.

Best of the Back to Mine Series. Diverse music makes for perfect chill album.......2006-01-14

Having listened to several albums in the back to mine series, I have to say that Groove Armada's compilation is by far the best of the lot. Intergrating an incredibly diverse mix of musical genres and artists, GA creates a album that seamlessly transitions from one song to the next. Overall, this is a more soulful album than ambient techno, with offerings from Al Green, Barry White, and A Tribe Called Quest. As far as beats and tempos go, it's much more laid back than Everything But the Girl, The Orb, or Danny Tenaglia's versions. This is the perfect album for an evening in with close friends or a special someone, a laid back vibe with a red wine buzz, or something else that gets your mind open.

This album is slick and kewl!.......2005-03-10

Not the best output from the band but slick and smooth nontheless. Some have accussed this album of being directionless but that rather misses the point, and almost misses the point of the ethos of this great band.
Here you have a mardi gras of dance cultures, soul, funk, R+B, rap, house and ambient chill with more than a foot in the camp of black and latino culture; make this distinctly different.
Not at all a misguided album, it's like a club night out in modern Harlem and the Bronx fused; very, very different and that is the rarified joy of Groove Armada.

UNEVEN..........2004-09-23

Other than the opening track, the first third of this compilation gets off to a promising start with Barry White, is totally smokin' by the middle tracks, and whatever enthusiasm you had just dies by the time the backwoods blues version of "Light My Fire" rolls around (a real mood killer)... and it's all downhill from there. There's just no rhyme or reason to this compilation whatsoever - I shudder to think what these guys were like as deejays!

Average customer rating: The penultimate collection ... Muisic of the Spheres The Ulllllltimate Sci-Fi Music Collection SciFi Album gift Away From to be a Collectible Peace

The Science Fiction Album Various Artists Manufacturer: Silva America ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Star Wars | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Star Trek | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Similar Items: Sci-Fi Channel - Sci-Fi's Greatest Hits, Vol. 1: Final Frontiers Fantastic Journey Sci-Fi Channel - Sci-Fi's Greatest Hits, Vol. 4: Defenders Of Justice Sci-Fi Channel - Sci-Fi's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2: The Dark Side The Science Fiction Album, Vol. 1 ASIN: B000066HE5 Release Date: 2005-02-08

Tracks:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Aliens
3. Sound Effect - The Nostromo
4. Alien
5. A.I.
6. Armageddon
7. Sound Effect - Apollo 13 Lift-off
8. Apollo 13
9. Back To The Future
10. Battle Beyond The Stars
11. Battlestar Galactica
12. The Black Hole
13. Contact
14. Capricorn One
15. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
16. The Day The Earth Stood Still
17. Dune

Tracks:

1. Galaxy Quest
2. Sound Effect - Dogfight in Space
3. Enemy Mine
4. Ghostbusters
5. Gremlins
6. Heavy Metal
7. Independence Day
8. E.T.
9. Judge Dredd
10. The Last Starfighter
11. Lifeforce
12. Sound Effect - Crash Landing
13. Lost In Space
14. Mars Attacks
15. The Matrix
16. Predator
17. The Right Stuff

Tracks:

1. Moonraker
2. Robocop
3. Silent Running
4. Sound Effect - Alien Organism
5. Species
6. Stargate
7. Starship Troopers
8. Starman
9. Star Trek - TV Theme
10. Star Trek: The Motion Picture End Title
11. Klingon Attack
12. Sound Effect - Warp Drive
13. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
14. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
15. Star Trek: Generations
16. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Tracks:

1. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
2. Sound Effect - Transporter Crew
3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Main Theme
4. Star Trek First Contact
5. Star Wars
6. The Empire Strikes Back
7. The Empire Strikes Back
8. Return of the Jedi
9. Sound Effect - Battle Stations
10. Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace - The Flag Parade
11. Anakin's Theme
12. The Adventures of Jar Jar
13. Duel of the Fates
14. The Time Machine
15. Things to Come
16. The Thing From Another World
17. War of the Worlds
18. When Worlds Collide
19. Total Recall
20. You Only Live Twice
21. Superman

Customer Reviews:

The penultimate collection ..........2006-12-07

Generally I agree with Strategos in his ecstatic Spotlight Review above. It is a joy to here some of the most memorable themes and cues from some of the most memorable science fiction and fantasy movies (re)recorded in great sound and in lavish (re)orchestrations, played by renowned classical orchestras, namely the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra, no less.

I have always had a weak spot for (good, or maybe even intelligent) science fiction/fantasy and film music, especially its way of evoking mystery, grandure and wide open spaces. Call it a weakness if you want. But it was maybe really kick started off, for as far as I can remember, with Star Trek. But especially Star Trek II, III and IV - essentially a trilogy - because of their very romantic but very warm, human core, set on the broadest canvasses of unlimited and mysterious outer space. But then there was the music for adding that essential extra dimension of emotion and atmosphere. I am happy that much of the music on this album is from the Star Trek series and films, often equaling or sometimes even outclassing the original recordings.

This kind of music (for the movies) should be seen as an art on its own rights with its own merits and qualities. As such, the musical sequences on these CD's are a beautifully played cross section of some of the most evoking orchestral music for science fiction/fantasy film ever created. And I very much like the nicely blended, wide and deep orchestral soundpicture with enough reverberation to evoke a sense of wide open spaces.
I am quite thrilled by tracks like the evocative music from Dune, truly transporting one to the vastly sands of Arrakis (the music is wonderful, but to my great regret I think the movie itself is a flawed masterpiece at best, alas.). And then there is the very different, goofy music for Ghostbusters (memories of childhood), the spoofy but electrifying music from Mars Attacks (lovingly parodist music, this, with not a little touch of irony) and the happily adventurous, forward driving Theme from Galaxy Quest ('Never give up, never surrender!'), now also used for the internet-based fan-series Star Trek: The Hidden Frontier. On the other side of the spectrum we have the atmospheric music for Enemy Mine (an underestimated 'little' movie), the Theme from The Right Stuff (actually science FACT, not fiction, this film, just like Apollo 13, of course), the eerily attractive music for Species, the original End Title for Alien (not used in the theatrical version of the movie, where it was replaced by music from howard Hanson's Second Symphony), the exquisitely exotic music for Stargate, the sweet and warmly sympathetic, beautifully re-orchestrated, theme for Starman, the title cue for Star Trek: TOS (much more melodiously played than the original! If only a series nowadays could continue to be as thought provoking and as original as Star Trek was during its launch, fourty years ago ...) and a truly overpowering End Titles Suite from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. I especially like the thrillingly grandiloquent rendition here of the music for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. And how nice it is to hear the (thematic) similarities between James Horner's music for The Wrath of Khan, his great break-through as a film music composer, and his (two years) earlier music for Battle Beyond the Stars (which did indeed help him earn the job for writing the music for Star Trek II) ...

But on the 'down side', if one is looking for - for example - the gorgeously expansively played End Titles from Cocoon, it is not included here: one has to acquire the album that 'kicked it all off', so to say, namely 'Space and Beyond', also on Silva Screen. I was very pleased also with the inclusion on that album of some of the music from the series Star Trek: The Next Generation, namely where one of the characters, Tasha Yar, in one of the episodes (Skin of Evil) is saying goodbye to her crewmmates: sweetly sentimental and simple music which I have always wanted to own on CD. I guess that a few cues from the other two sequals ('Alien Invasion: Space and Beyond II' and 'Space3: Beyond the Final Frontier') didn't make it onto this 4 CD collection-album as well, but I guess that it would be the 'better part of the bargain' to opt to buy this 'The Science Fiction Album' instead of buying all three albums separately. Well, of course it is for yourself to ultimately decide what you really want ;-)

If I were to nitpick (which is not easy with such a marvellous project as this one), then I would say that while all music is performed with magnificent grandure and with style, some of it is not performed as crisply and as technically 'on the spot' as some of the original recordings: ensemble is a little slack and the playing somewhat stilted sometimes, losing some of the edge and the originality of the writing. ET and Star Wars spring to mind, but then the soundtracks for Star Wars are traditionally recorded with the magnificent London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by maestro John Williams himself, and these superior recordings (especially the ones for Episode I, II and III) can't really be bettered, IMHO. Likewise for the music from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, I believe that in the end one really has to resort to the ultimate reference, namely the original recording (which is true in many other instances of 'original recordings'), and then the 20th anniversay colector's edition of this soundtrack on Columbia/Legacy (truly unmissable, this veritable classic of sci-fi/film music soundtracks!).

But all in all this 4CD-collection amounts to probably being the penultimate high quality sci-fi music album collection (I certainly know of no other project that comes as close quality as well as quantity wise), with some of the most memorable musical moments from classic to modern sci-fi/fantasy film captured in lavish orchestrations.
Collection-wise: five *stars*. Playing: generally four *stars*, sometimes more. The recording quality: five *stars*. The music (qualified on its own merits as film music) and its (re)orchestrations: generally five *stars*. In the end this is all highly recommended, and certainly not to be missed by science fiction and fantasy film music fans. Klaatu barada nikto.

Muisic of the Spheres.......2006-11-06

You wonderful four disk collection of SF music. It startsa up the the grand master of SF music, 2001: A space Odyssey all the way to Superman. This is all American SF music and several themes I would have liked to have included are not there. All in all though, a collection you will enjoy.

The Ulllllltimate Sci-Fi Music Collection.......2005-10-23

If one person gives great gifts, it's the illustrious Codemaster Talon. I've received a fair number of gifts in my lifetime, but so far, my older sister's take the cake. Take this one for instance. I'm real big on orchestral music, to the point where I listen to them more than any other kind of music. I've got orchestral versions of video game themes, orchestral soundtracks to truck-loads of anime shows (Big O, Escaflowne, and Giant Robo are incredible), and could probably spend the rest of my life just trying to study the nuances of all the classical music I've got. Being such a huge fan of orchestral music, I also have come to believe that orchestra music produced for movies and television is the new classical music (or as someone once said, Mozart would be making music for movies if he were alive today). Being a huge sci-fi fan, that kind of music has always been particularly near and dear to my heart. But were I to buy each and every soundtrack for every sci-fi I liked it would cost quite a bundle, and would include a lot of sub-par music along with the grandiose and fantastic main and memorable themes. That's where this beauty comes in.

The moment I ripped off the shrink-wrap and popped it into my cd player was a moment of great trepidation. Believe me when I tell that I've seen my fair share of sub-par orchestral recording in my lifetime. Very often they are in those big super-packs of music, and suffer from poor direction, improper mastering, and sometime even pathetic orchestration (or worse yet have something sounding like a cheap synthesizer and a kazoo in place of a full orchestra). I needn't have worried though. This sucker is fantastic.

Many people who are not audiophiles will probably miss the point of this cd collection. It is not the original versions of the pieces. It is re-orchestrations, mostly by the phenomenal Prague Symphony Orchestra. Many of these themes didn't sound all that hot in there original versions because they were low budget films or were not recorded in high-fidelity. Here they are given the full treatment, mastered with the most loving care imaginable. Often the version found in these cds is SUPERIOR to the original.

Remember the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey? Of course you do. But how many times have you heard a cheap imitation of the original version from the movie, starting too low in volume and ending too high (and missing the essential pipe-organ that gives it that extra oomph)? Well, this first track in the entire collection is not only everything it should be instrumental and timing-wise, but it also has been oh-so-carefully adjusted during the mastering process so that at no time is the music either too low or too high in volume (surely a benchmark for every other recording ever to be made of the piece).

Or what about the theme from the (at-the-time) uber-creepy The Black Hole? The orchestration of this piece of music goes from tiumphant to terrifying and back again, with a splendor and cleanness that I CERTAINLY don't remember being in the original recording.

Then there's the new version of the theme from Independence Day, complete with a violin solo, a far more electrifying ending climax, and a chorus so thunderous that you feel like applauding at the end. Simply indescribable. Kind of like the MIND-BLOWING rendition of the theme from The Last Star Fighter. This has been one of my favorite themes for a long time now, but I've never heard it played like this. I think the original version of the theme is something like 1 minute long, but this new version doesn't just fade out (HAHAHAHA!!!!) THIS version is THREE minutes long, goes through the main theme THREE times, with the final strains being so triumphant and joyous I could not help but feel an electrifying charge the first dozen or so times (come to think of it, I still feel that way). This is superior to the original in EVERY way. AWESOME.

And let's not forget the incredible new rendition of Stargate with it's heavy use of clarinets (for Egyptian effect!) and a triumphant new ending (completely lacking the chanting from the original version. This version is so different that for the first minute it is very hard to tell that it is in fact Stargate. But then the main theme kicks in, and then you get this incredible flute solo for my favorite part of theme (the whole thing is played slower, but arguably more powerfully than the original). My goodness. At first I found the thing so different I didn't like it. But then I listened to it again. And again. And again.

I could go on and on, talking about the fantastic new rendition of Moon Raker, the ear-popping Battlestar Galactica, the classic Star Trek (First Contact has a minute or two of the theme from Star Trek:The Motion Picture before going into the main theme), or the sweet renditions of music from the Star Wars movies (or the music from E.T.).

I have to mention though that this collection was not picked based merely on what people want, or on what is popular. No, the people who made it obviously thought a GOOD music collection was better than a popular one. That's why you get a heartbreakingly beautiful theme from A.I. instead of the main theme. It's why you get music from movies that you probably never gave a second thought to the music (because the movie was lousy). It's why you get Armageddon, Judge Dredd, and Robocop (who would have guessed their music was so COOL when there was all that crazy action and bad-acting going on on-screen).

I said it before and I'll say it again. This cd-set was mastered with tender-loving-care, and it shows BIG-TIME. High-fidelity the likes of which I have not seen since the days when cds were brand-new in the world. Dolby Surround. Perfectly balanced. BEAUTIUFL orchestrations. About the only thing that makes me scratch my head is the weird sound-effect tracks (Oooookay.....). Other than that, it's PERFECT. Obviously they could not include every sci-fi theme ever (no one can), but this collection is REALLY GOOD. A lot of great themes that got away (forgotten gems :), new versions of old favorites, and under-appreciated classics aplenty, but ALWAYS the full and complete versions with nothing cut-out (the theme from Dune is quite extended).

If you love movie music (and sci-fi movie music in particular) you MUST buy this awesome collection). It is not the original recordings. Almost always the new ones are better (if they aren't better they're just equal). This is what you have been waiting for. I for one am going to be buying quite a few cds from this company in the future. Give your ears the treat they deserve. Buy it NOW.

SciFi Album gift.......2005-07-20

I bought the Science Fiction Album as a gift for my son who is twenty-one years old. He is a musician, and also a huge fan of many SciFi shows and movies. I thought this would be the perfect thing for him and I was right. He loves it!

Away From to be a Collectible Peace.......2004-12-16

If you like Sci-Fi movies and want a compilation of their important scores, this is the CD-set to buy. But let me warn you about that very few songs in the cds are from the original soundtracks. Most of them is re-recorded by The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. But the sound quality of cds are very good, because they have HDCD and Dolby Surround labels. This set is away from to be a collectible peace, but it is a good general compilation of favorite Sci-Fi movie scores.

Average customer rating: the essence of Back to Mine Nice ambient vibe to EBTG's contribution to Back to Mine series My all-time favorite compilation Amazing and Unexpected Good Back to Mine mix

Back to Mine Everything but the Girl Manufacturer: Ultra Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alternative Dance | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional & Vocal Pop | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Back to Mine Back to Mine Back to Mine Temperamental Worldwide ASIN: B00005JDC0 Release Date: 2001-05-29

Tracks:

1. Friends and Enemies
2. All Alone (No One to Be With)
3. Bayou
4. Stars All Seem to Weep
5. Flow
6. Cascades of Color
7. Do It Now
8. Wonderful Life
9. To Cry About
10. Silent Treatment
11. Funky for You
12. Someday We'll All Be Free

Amazon.com

In a market saturated by mix albums of every description, Ultra Records' Back to Mine series glows like a beacon in a fog of mediocrity. The idea is simple: artists are given a free rein to compile sets that are both intuitive and personal to their tastes, resulting in mixtures of postclub textures chiefly designed for horizontal dancing and chilled-out bonhomie. Latest recruits Everything but the Girl take to the format like ducks to water, displaying a musical pedigree that touches on house, hip-hop, and light drum & bass. Although most people have warmed to the group's shift into dance culture, what will surprise is their sublime choice of tune. Kicking off with the drum-machine jazz of DJ Cam's "Friends and Enemies," the moody hip-hop noir of Deadly Avenger's "Bayou," and their own production on Beth Orton's "Stars All Seem to Weep," the mood is stoner-paced but never drab. Follow this with a little stripped-back ambience courtesy of Carl Craig and a rousingly sanguine finale featuring Donny Hathaway's "Someday We'll All Be Free," and you have the makings of a fine night in. --Paul Tierney

Album Description

Latest installment of the successful Back To Mine series. Tracey Thorn & Ben Watt have selected and compiled their interpretation of the ultimate chill out series. Seamlessly mixed by Ben Watt, he invites you into a musical journey though his and Tracey's music collection. 12 tracks. 2001 release.

Customer Reviews:

the essence of Back to Mine.......2007-01-12

this series Back to Mine are an excellent way to showcase chill-out music. Without a doubt "Everything but the Girl" selection is my favorite album of this series. You won't regret having it in your music collection

Nice ambient vibe to EBTG's contribution to Back to Mine series.......2006-01-01

The Back to Mine series is designed to allows artists to create a mix that mirrors what they would play at home after a night out. Artists like Danny Tenaglia, Pet Shop Boys, and Groove Armada have all contributed mixes which vary widely in style, source music, and vibe. Everything But The Girl were tapped to bring their unique personal style to this series.

Everything But The Girl's BTM mix is laid back, creatively structured album that churns along at midtempo with a solid beat throughout. It makes for solid background music, but does little to stand out on its own. It literally is an "in the mood" kind of album, hence the 3 star rating. Some of the more interesting tracks inlude Deadly Avenger's The Bayou, Beth Orton's Stars Seem to Weep, and the back to back funk of Ananda Project's Cascades of Colour and Dubtribe Sound Systems' Do It Now.

This is a solid addition to fans of BTM, or for fans of EBTG that want to gain some insight into the type of music they enjoy. If you have never listened to BTM, you may want to borrow someone's first before buying. To me though, this album is a nice addition to my personal BTM fave, Groove Armada.

My all-time favorite compilation.......2005-11-25

I have listened to this hundreds of times and will still play it again. This compilation made me a faithful buyer of Back to Mine series (although some of the series collection is poor!) Ben Watt creates best vibes for a pre or after party.

Amazing and Unexpected.......2005-08-23

I was staying at a hotel in NYC a few years ago and this CD was in the player when I arrived. I instantly fell in love with it. Everything But the Girl has picked amazing songs that really get you relaxed and invigorated at the same time. The Donny Hathaway song "Someday We'll All Be Free" is a fantastic capper to an already amazing album. I highly reccomend this CD.

Good Back to Mine mix.......2005-08-22

I have heard many of the Back to Mine mixes and this is one of the better ones. Some are just too mellow, and some aren't mellow enough. This one achieves the perfect balance.

Faithless to me still has the best Back to Mine mix I've heard. To me that is the standard of the series.

Average customer rating: Crazy good almost perfect One of the better of this series this is utter crap

Back to Mine Tricky Manufacturer: Back to Mine ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Trip-Hop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music International Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Experimental Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Similar Items: Back to Mine Back to Mine Back to Mine Back to Mine Death in Vegas ASIN: B0000C7PUB Release Date: 2003-11-04

Tracks:

1. The Cure - Lullaby
2. Little Kings - How We Ride
3. Eric B and Rakim - My Melody
4. The Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom
5. Doctor John - Loop Guru
6. Rodagan and Tricka - Believe This
7. Morphine - Potion
8. The Buzzcocks - You Tear Me Up
9. Le Tigre - Much Finer (Original Version)
10. Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
11. Kat Cross - Symphony for Irony
12. Kate Bush - Eat the Music
13. Costanza - Desire
14. Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine
15. Liz Denmore - Just a Little Bit
16. Little Kings featuring Shola - Days Like This

Product Description

1. The Cure - Lullaby
2. Little Kings - How We Ride
3. Eric B And Rakim - My Melody
4. The Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom
5. Doctor John - Loop Guru
6. Rodagan And Tricka - Believe This
7. Morphine - Potion
8. The Buzzcocks - You Tear Me Up
9. Le Tigre - Much Finer (Original Version)
10. Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
11. Kat Cross - Symphony For Irony
12. Kate Bush - Eat The Music
13. Contanza - Desire
14. Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine
15. Liz Denmore - Just A Little Bit
16. Little Kings (Feat. Shola) - Days Like This

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Crazy good.......2006-06-22

The whole album flows amazingly well. It also has quite a few tracks that you cant find anywhere else. If you bought Vulnerable and watched the videos, heres where you can get the actual track of Receive Us. Anyways this really is a great CD, and buying turned me on to alot of great artists that i had never gotten a chance to listen to before, Rakim Allah for example. On top of that this CD also has a few songs by artists that havent put anything out before. Radanna and Liz Densmore mainly,two artists that Tricky signed, and there both great. Hopefully Tricky well get around to releasing both of their albums soon.

almost perfect.......2003-12-26

this album starts out perfectly and stays that way, up until the costanza song. it's strange that tricky chose her as the female vocalist on his latest "vulnerable" album, because her voice makes the entire thing sound like an obnoxious starburst commercial or something. i don't like her solo song on this album, and i could've done without the liz densmore song as well. the rest of the artists that he chose are perfect, in particular gregory isaacs, the beat, and especially the radanna song. the le tigre song is also a great choice because it is something that i never would have imagined tricky listening to, and his varied musical tastes blow my mind. this album leaps from genre to genre while still maintaining a dark feel (care of the smooth basslines carried through from song to song). i've been listening to this almost everyday on the subway, sometimes at work, and when i indulge in green sticky stuff.

One of the better of this series.......2003-11-20

Ignore poor tin-eared, spelling-challenged wretch above.

All of the Back to Mine series are worth having. Lately, it seemed as if the compiling artists hadn't given much thought to the sequence and production of their compilation. This is one of the most seamless of the batch. And of course, given that it's Tricky who is sharing his influences, it's sharp, smart and original.

this is utter crap.......2003-11-13

if u buy this load of bullocks u r a fool, total waist of money.
tricky needs to be kicked in the balls for putting this out.

Average customer rating: not to great Not so bad, 100 tunes for 4$ You get what you pay for. Now I know why there were no song samples to listen to ...

100 Favorite Patriotic Songs Manufacturer: Bci / Eclipse Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Copland | Copland, Aaron | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Dvorák, Antonín | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Elgar | Elgar, Sir Edward | ( E ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Foster, Stephen | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by MacDowell | MacDowell, Edward | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Smith, John Stafford | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Sousa | Sousa, John Philip | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Sullivan | Sullivan, Arthur | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Romantic | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Marches | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Hymns | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Psalms | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: America's Favorite Patriotic Songs United We Stand: Songs for America American Pride: Sixteen Stirring Patriotic Themes America's Bugle Calls Patriotic Country ASIN: B0000A1HT8 Release Date: 2003-08-12

Tracks:

1. America the Beautiful
2. All Quiet on the Potomac Tonight
3. Ballad of the Green Berets
4. On Top of Old Smokey
5. Coyote Warrior
6. Semper Fidelis
7. Breeze from Alabama
8. Onward Christian Soldiers
9. Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
10. Patriot
11. Sweet Betsy from Pike
12. Marines' Hymn
13. America Is
14. When Johnny Comes Marchin' Home
15. Happy the Soldier
16. American Trilogy
17. Home Sweet Home
18. Washington Post March
19. Enraptured I Gaze
20. Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair
21. Yellow Rose of Texas
22. Over There
23. Simple Gifts
24. Liberty Bell
25. Star Spangled Banner

Tracks:

1. God Bless the USA
2. Yankee Doodle Dandy
3. Katy Cruel
4. I Vow to Thee My Country
5. King Cotton
6. Beautiful Dreamer
7. America
8. American Patrol
9. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Beauty
10. Mohican Dream
11. Red, White and Blue
12. Some Folks
13. Liberty Song
14. Pomp and Circumstance
15. Hail to the Chief
16. Bennington Rifles
17. Peace on the Battlefield
18. I've Been Working on the Railroad
19. Under the Double Eagle
20. Red River Valley
21. My Country 'Tis of Thee
22. Camptown Races
23. Wild Blue Yonder
24. Hands Across the Sea
25. Fanfare for the Common Man

Tracks:

1. Stars and Stripes Forever
2. Living in America
3. Home on the Range
4. Old Colony Times
5. Clementine
6. Invincible Eagle
7. Ring Ring de Banjo
8. Yankee Doodle
9. Largo from "The New World"
10. To a Wild Rose
11. Hail Columbia
12. Alexander's Ragtime Band
13. Gettysburg
14. Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
15. Capitan
16. Prairie Daughter
17. Little Brown Jug
18. Marching Through Georgia
19. Entertainer
20. Steamboat Around the Bend
21. Revolutionary Tea
22. Cassions Keep Rollin' Along
23. Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
24. Amazing Grace
25. Grand Old Flag

Tracks:

1. God Bless America
2. National Emblem
3. Soldier, Soldier Won't You Marry Me
4. Anchors Away
5. Oh, Susannah
6. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
7. Toast
8. Dixie
9. St. Louis Blues
10. Appalachian Spring
11. Bonnie Blue Flag
12. Old Hundreth
13. Swanee River
14. Battle Cry of Freedom
15. U. S Field Artillery
16. Sidewalks of New York
17. Chester
18. Auld Lang Syne
19. Kingdom Come
20. My Old Kentucky Home
21. Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
22. Battle Hymn of the Republic
23. Shenandoah
24. Abraham's Daughter
25. This Land Is Your Land

Customer Reviews:

not to great.......2007-04-04

We were disappointed with this CD, but for the price I guess we can't expect much. I didn't care for the new style presentation of the songs. I like a more traditional rendering.

Not so bad, 100 tunes for 4$.......2005-06-22

I red the comments of two other people who have bought this 4 CD BOX SET and it is not really so bad. I will even add that there are some excellent tunes. However, I must agree with the fact that few tunes seem to have been recorded 40 or 50 years ago, mainly when you hear the scratches of an old turntable but it is just 2 or 3 tunes. Furthermore, if you do not know American music, it is a good BOX SET to buy if you consider that you received 4 CD for 4$ including 100 tunes. On these 4 CD, I have heard some orchestration that I have never heard before and I consider that they are different but interesting. Any way, after hearing these 100 tunes, you will say to yourself that you like this tune, this other tune, this other tune and so on and you will be able to buy a more expensive CD with the tunes that you like. However, I have bought many CDs in the last few weeks and as you know, there are always some tunes that you like and some tunes that you do not like on every CD that you will buy. So, don't buy it at 25$ but at 4 or 5$ dollars, it is a very good choice for 100 tunes.

You get what you pay for........2004-07-04

You get what you pay for. The singers put their own spin on the singing of each song. If you didn't hear the words you would not recognize some of them. Even some of the music sounds like a bad recording of music played on a turntable. Definitely not worth the price.

Now I know why there were no song samples to listen to ..........2004-07-04

I wish this review had been here when I was thinking of purchasing it. I guess you get what you pay for. If you are thinking of buying this, you are better off recording your own CDs (or at least buying one that you can listen to a sampling of the songs). This album includes songs that were mere recordings of the songs playing on an old record player. It's almost so unbelievable that it is funny.

Average customer rating: Oh dear me! Mixed feelings Fascinating "introspective" take on SOUTH PACIFIC Not the most excellent version but not an abomination Some shows DO NOT need a revival or a TV version!

South Pacific (2001 Television Soundtrack) Richard Rodgers , and Oscar Hammerstein II Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Contemporary | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Classic Vocalists | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Similar Items: Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific South Pacific (1958 Film Soundtrack) South Pacific (1986 London Studio Cast) The King and I (1992 Hollywood Studio Cast) South Pacific (Original 1949 Broadway Cast) ASIN: B00005ARDV Release Date: 2001-03-20

Tracks:

1. Overture
2. There Is Nothin' Like A Dame
3. A Cock-Eyed Optimist
4. Bloody Mary
5. Bali Ha'i
6. Twin Soliloquies
7. Some Enchanted Evening
8. Dites-Moi
9. Younger Than Springtime
10. I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair
11. Some Enchanted Evening (Reprise)
12. A Wonderful Guy
13. This Nearly Was Mine
14. You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
15. Honey Bun
16. Finale Ultimo
17. My Girl Back Home (bonus track)

Amazon.com

This soundtrack captures the March 2001 ABC-TV production of South Pacific, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's musical of passion, danger, and racial intolerance in the Pacific islands during World War II, based on James Michener's book. Somewhat ... mature for the role of Nellie Forbush (the spunky naval nurse made famous by Mary Martin in the original Broadway cast), Glenn Close proves an adequate singer in her renditions of "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair" and "A Wonderful Guy."

In the men's roles, Rade Sherbedgia's voice lacks sufficient richness for Emile de Becque's ballads "Some Enchanted Evening" and "This Nearly Was Mine," while as Lt. Joe Cable, jazz-pianist-turned-crooner-turned-actor Harry Connick Jr. makes "Younger Than Springtime" suave rather than wide-eyed. Robert Pastorelli and Lori Tan Chinn are fine as Billis and Bloody Mary, respectively, and the grandly romantic score is mostly intact, missing "Happy Talk" but adding a bonus track of Connick and Close singing "My Girl Back Home," which was cut from the original production, restored for the 1958 film, and cut again for this production. If you enjoyed the television film, this might be a useful souvenir, but serious fans of the score can stick to the original Broadway cast or the complete two-disc recording from JAY. --David Horiuchi

Customer Reviews:

Oh dear me!.......2006-12-07

South Pacific is my favorite musical, and always has been. I already have the original cast stage recording starring Mary Martin, but I wanted to add the original movie soundtrack starring Mitzi Gaynor, which is really my preferred version.

Unfortunately the Amazon affiliate I ordered from made a mistake and sent me this one instead, otherwise, based on poor reviews here, I would never have ordered it. So I though I would show an open mind and give it a spin anyway, but was sorely disappointed right from the get-go and had not even got halfway through the CD, before I was impelled to remove it from the disc drive. I then gritted my teeth and played it all the way through so that I could write a review.

The orchestration is weak, Glenn Close is mediocre as Nelly Forbush, and Harry Connick is really, really feeble in the lead role as Lt. Joe Cable. Quite honestly I did not realise what a weak singer he is until I heard this. I think maybe I could do as well. Rade Sherbedgia as Emile sounds like a second-rate attempt to mimic Maurice Chevalier, but without the charm.

The singing of Bali Hai (in which Juanita Hall's vocals are is so beautifully overdubbed by Muriel Smith in the movie version) was so-so, and to add insult to injury one of my favorite songs, Happy Talk, is omitted altogether.

I very rarely write such a negative review, but clearly if you want a good recording of South Pacific, either the movie soundtrack or the original cast albums are the way to go. I have also listened to the Reba McIntyre version, but in my opinion her whisky-and-cigarettes voicings are quite unsuited to the ingenue role of Nelly.

Perhaps I am a little harsh. After all this album contains plenty of enjoyable listening, but I am assuming that the point of reading reviews is to determine what is the best purchase, and the fact is that this is only a television soundtrack and that it is in competition with two of the most beloved of all stage and screen soundtrack recordings.

If you listened to this without knowing who the performers were, you would just think that it was a cheap cover version.

So even if copies of this are available so cheaply as to be almost free, it is probably worth while to fork out a few dollars more to get one of the definitive versions, parts of which are so beautiful they will bring tears to your eyes. I would get the movie soundtrack.

Mixed feelings.......2005-05-03

If you only want one version of "South Pacific", go for the Broadway cast recording. This one has its merits, but it falls short. Glenn Close handles her parts quite well and is the saving grace of this CD. Most other aspects of the recording are disappointing. The worst mistake, I think, was the inclusion of the altered, muted versions of several numbers, including the title theme.

Fascinating "introspective" take on SOUTH PACIFIC.......2004-02-08

The 1949 original Broadway cast is as definitive a recording of the original version as we'll ever likely get.

Though the stage show was one of Rodgers and Hammerstein's biggest hits, the script has not aged well. It is overlong and lacking in subtleness. The 1958 film, despite the beautiful scenery, is played woodenly.

So, in 2000, ABC TV and Glen Close produced a new TB film with a new script that weaves in most of the songs and situations of the original play while at the same time fleshing out the characters and making them more realistic.

Is the film a complete success? Well, no. For starters Glen Close is too old for the role of Nellie. She does act it well, however, and she sings with a characterful chest voice though I do detect some of her high notes might be dubbed. I have just re-watched the movie and don't find her all that objectionable. She sounds like she is having fun cutting loose in "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair" and "A Wonderful guy."

Rade Sherbedgia certainly looks the part of DeBecque but since we are so used to hearing robust Bass singers in the role, his softly sung arias take a good deal of getting used to. Instead of an outpouring of emotion in "this Nearly Was Mine" he offers a more introspective take on the role. It's actually a good idea and might work better with a stronger singer.

Harry Connick Jr acts the part of Cable quite well and shades the characters different emotions. True he is more of New Orleans than Philadelphia, and like the others he tends to pull the big musical moments inward. It is most effective in the scene after he first makes love to Liat and croons a tender "Younger Than Springtime." This is everything that the sung ought to be... passionate, sexy and filled with wonder. This is a young man caught off guard by true love for the first time and Connick communicates that brilliantly. His "crooning" is not wildly out-of-place and certainly in keeping with the types of singers he would have heard at home. Some scenes later he performs a remarkably understated "Carefully Taught" having played the intense anger in the dialogue scene that precedes the song. The result is more a case of Cable realizing what he is saying than just spitting out an angry indictment. It may not be the way it was originally done, but you can't argue with its effectiveness.

In re-writing the screenplay, the scenes and songs were re-arranged from their traditional order. In this new version we see the first meeting of Nellie and Emile at an officers club dance, and the song "A Cockeyed Optimist" is used in this sequence to establish Nellie's outlook. It's part of her charm and clearly attracts DeBecque. The structure also allows the first two scenes of the musical to unfold simultaneously.

Anyone considering a Broadway revival of SOUTH PACIFIC might do well to examine the TV film for its style and construction. There might indeed be a way to make the story work for modern audiences, clearing away some of the hoary old jokes and developing character instead.

As for the CD, well if you do not like the performances in the film you won't like the CD, but if you like the new film you will enjoy the CD which is essentially a straight transfer from the film's soundtrack.

Not the most excellent version but not an abomination.......2004-01-04

The 2001 version of South Pacific with Glenn Close as Nellie Forbush, Harry Connick as Joe Cable and Rade Sherbedgia as Emile has some nice moments. The overture was expansive though not as much involving as the original. Glenn Close should dispense common notions that she cannot sing as she shows tremendous vocal pipes here. But as big a fan as I am of Glenn Close, I just think she is perfect for Norma Desmond songs (or a musical dedicated to the travails of Cruella De Ville). Nellie Forbush is not really her thing. "A Wonderful Guy" is a great song, but she sounded a bit old here where she should be an ingenue. "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair" was much much better. Rade Sherbedgia did not have Ezio Pinza's range but his speech-voice gives a touching vulnerability to Emile. Emile was sung by Ezio Pinza and even Jose Carreras, but Rade reminded me a lot of Jon Voight who did Stanley Kowalski in one "A Streetcar Named Desire" adaptation. They both imbued a touching fragility to a character without diminishing his machismo. I am also a fan of Harry Connick, but his cloudy jazz vocal did not really flesh out Joe Cable the way Mandy Patinkin did in the near-operatic version of it in 1987. Connick sounds uncomfortable singing songs with long vocal lines. Note his initially interesting take of "Younger Than Springtime" with righteous world-weariness, then listen how the song became more like a study in geriatric plea for the hand of a maiden in the end. He fared better in "You've Got To Be Taught", but he scored major points in the last song where he duetted with Glenn Close, called "The Girl Back Home" that was not in the original production (I think). Both complemented each other. Connick longing, Close appropriately ingenuous.

Bloody Mary and the one sho sang her did not make me forget Juanita Hall's or Sarah Vaughan's versions of "Bali Ha'i". Vaughan in particular gave an unsurpassable version of "Happy Talk" in the 1987 recording.

Nice album, just the same, but I guess, people should be advised to get the Ezio Pinza-Mary Martin album or the Rosanno Brazzi-Mary Martin album or even the Kiri Te Kanawa-Jose Carreras version first before this.

Some shows DO NOT need a revival or a TV version!.......2003-11-11

Whoever cast Glenn Close as Nellie Forbush owes her a huge apology because it was nothing short of an act of cruelty. She was wrong, wrong, wrong for the part and she knew it--it shows in her wooden and totally unbelievable performance. This Rodgers and Hammerstein masterpiece did not need a shoddy made-for-TV version--the original movie was perfect and did not need anyone to try and duplicate the magic of it. Most of the soul was sucked out of it in this crappy TV production and equally yucky soundtrack. What an abomination. That whirring sound is Richard and Oscar spinning in their graves.

Average customer rating: Disappointed Better the Second Time Around Simply Amaz(on)ing wonderful Michael 's #1 Fan

Tell Her I Love Her Katherine Fink , Gerhard R. Koch , Julie Landsman , John Moses , Virgil Blackwell , and Marc Goldberg Manufacturer: RCA Victor ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Michael Amante Humbled This Is Sergio Franchi The Exciting Voice of Sergio Franchi/ Live at the Cocoanut Grove Romantic Italian Songs ASIN: B0000AM6JE Release Date: 2003-09-09

Tracks:

1. Till
2. Crying
3. Delilah
4. It Comes To This
5. Because You're Mine
6. Caruso
7. Young Girl
8. Mala Femmena
9. Last Morning Of My Life
10. Be My Love
11. Core'ngrato
12. Dicetncello Vuie
13. Back On My Feet
14. Per Niente Al Mundo

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Discovered singing in a noted New York City watering hole, the Syracuse native's successful major label debut quickly made him a rising star who garnered comparisons to Mario Lanza--from Tony Bennet, no less. But Amante's showy, soaring style and good looks seemed destined for a wider audience than opera's, and indeed this sophomore release largely delivers on the tenor's rich crossover potential. While many classically educated singers seem challenged to throw off the formal constraints of their rigorous training in tackling pop material, Amante's journeyman musical background has gifted him with a more pliant delivery. It's hard to imagine Bocelli tackling such oldies Top 40 fodder as Gary Puckett's "Young Girl," let alone imbuing it with the melodrama that Amante effortlessly imparts it here. His "Delilah" strives for the kitschy verve of Tom Jones' original, with a voice whose natural power begs comparison with the Welsh sex symbol on the opening "Till" as well. Amante mixes enough Neopolitan standards and originals into the mix to maintain its crossover appeal, but curiously it's pop standards like his soaring, emotional take on Orbison's "Crying" (in a performance that reminds us that the rock legend was arguably a crossover pioneer as well) and a cover of "Back On My Feet" that seem to best engage his considerable talents. It's an album more oriented towards Vegas than Verdi, which seems precisely the intent. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

Disappointed.......2006-01-16

I have seen Michael Amante in concert and this CD is not the best of his voice. He has a very powerful voice and it did not come out in this CD. The music he picked to record was good, mostly Tom Jones type music, but his voice is not at it's best. I think it needed better back-up or accoustics to bring out the power of his voice.

Better the Second Time Around.......2004-10-05

Michael Amante is back. Much to the chagrin of his many detractors and surely to equal delight of his many fans.

I purchased this CD not sure what to expect since Mr. Amante's first CD was a rather uneven attempt at Opera.
Luckily the old adage " It get's better with time" applies to his sophmore CD.

I find the song selection and style much more appropriate to his voice and with the exception of songs like "Young Girl" and "Delilah" this is a very nice CD.

Mr. Amante's voice seems more setteled and just a tad darker than on his first CD and he displays masterful command over the stylistic nuances of the English selections.
I particularily enjoyed the Jazz influenced styling of the Mario Lanz stanadrs "Be My Love" and " Because You're Mine" as well as the old Neapolitan fav "Dicitencello Vuie".
Also his reading of the classic "Caruso" is surpassed only by Maestro Pavarotti and even that is disputable.

Of course Mr. Amante still seems to have some trouble with the Italian language at times but nothing of the massive difficulty he displayed last time around.

Considering that his musical genre, "Popera", is dominated by Italians (Bocelli & Safina)& Brits (Russell Watson & Sarah Brightman)I think Mr. Amante deserves the credit due him as being a worthy American representative. Of course there is also the over-rated Josh Groban but that's neither here nor there.

4 stars for this CD over the 3 stars for his last effort. Couldn't give it 5 stars because in all fairness, Mr. Amante really ought to get a better understanding of the foreign languages he interprets. Other than that this is a fine CD.

Simply Amaz(on)ing.......2004-08-11

To the Music Fan in Calgary. You are living proof that the cold weather in Canada is not good for one's hearing. Dear Michael's voice is stronger than ever. All you have to do is hear him live singing in Rao's Restaurant on a Monday night without a microphone or amplification and you will realize the error in your ways.
Trashing a talent like Michael Amante is further proof of your inability to distinguish between a good voice and a great voice. Obviously with all of the positive reviews that you see herew and read throughout the world, all of our ears cannot be lieing to us all at once.
Perhaps you were in a bad mood or your stereo just couldn't handle his high notes and was distorting?
Give his first album another listen (as long as your ears are thawed out) and I believe you will reconsider. You may end up throwing your trash where it belongs. In the garbage can !

wonderful.......2004-02-03

Some of you may have read my review of his "operatic album" which I whole heartedly condemned as trash (which it is, since the music is so poorly sung and so badly interpreted), however, this is a reflection of the man and his voice doing what it should be doing. This man is NOT an opera singer and his fans should not for a moment think they are getting any understanding of opera when they listen to him, for they are not. However, singing the music best suited to his voice, he is wonderful. This album is truly enjoyable. Here his voice can shine forth in all its splendor, and we are all enriched by what he has to offer. Why so many good singers who are simply wonderful in their own area of expertese wish to sing opera when it really doesn't suit them (even if they have the notes) is something I can't understand. Michael Amante is so wonderful here, and I found listening to him simply thrilling. ONE WORD OF ADVICE DEAR MICHAEL: Stick to what you do best and let others do what they do best. This album is really a treat, and the mellow caressing sound Amante makes is truly exciting.

Michael 's #1 Fan.......2003-11-14

This album is just wonderful and I truly enjoy this album as I did his first alubmn...It's a great mix of classical and POP. I listen to all the songs on this album but especially enjoy "It's Come To This" which Michael wrote. I have 3 cd's(home, car, office) and listen to him all the time. Michael sings from the heart and feels every word he sings. He is going places. Waiting for the next CD ......

Average customer rating: It is called Back to Mine not Back to Yours for a reason Great mixtape album by my favourite musicians A visit to the underworld What's this? Good Collection of Tracks. Not a Mix

Back to Mine Underworld Manufacturer: Back to Mine ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Trance | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Back to Mine Back to Mine Back to Mine Back to Mine Death in Vegas ASIN: B0000A4GAU Release Date: 2003-08-12

Tracks:

1. Gil Scott Heron - B-Movie
2. TLC - Creep
3. Doctor Octagon - Bear Witness
4. Rave Signal - Horse Power
5. Remy and Sven - Piano Power
6. Fuse V LFO - Loop
7. Toots and The Maytals - 54-46
8. LTJ Bukem - Music
9. Depeche Mode - Barrel of a Gun
10. Aphex Twin - Didgeridoo
11. Dead Prez - Hip Hop
12. Ali Farka Toure - Machengoidi
13. Tartit - Buloululba
14. DAngelo - Brown Sugar
15. Gregory Isaacs - Public Eyes

Album Description

Back to Mine is returns with Underworld following on from most recent compilers The Orb. The latest chapter in the exciting Underworld saga continues with an invitation to party round theirs and to take a peek into their miasma of musical influences.

Ever wondered what live techno pioneers Rick and Karl listen to at home? Try the bittersweet R&B pop of TLC for size. How about a few headmessin' rave classics like "Horsepower" from CJ Bolland's Ravesignals series, Remy and Sven's "Piano Power" and even Aphex Twin's ballistic "Didgeridoo". Throw in plenty of Afro hip beat vibes and you have an un-pigeon-hole-able mix that really sums up where they've been, where they're at, and where they're going!

Album Description

Ever wondered what live techno pioneers Rick and Karl listen to at home? Try the bittersweet R&B pop of TLC for size. How about a few headmessin' rave classics like 'Horsepower' from CJ Bolland's Ravesignals series, Remy and Sven's 'Piano Power' and even Aphex Twin's ballistic 'Didgeridoo'. Throw in plenty of Afro hip beat vibes and you have an un-pigeon-hole-able mix that really sums up where they've been, where they're at, and where they're going....maaaan !!! DMC. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

It is called Back to Mine not Back to Yours for a reason.......2006-06-06

Don't listen to other reviews that say this is not a "kick back" cd. The whole concept of what is "kick back" is relative to each individual listener, just take a look at Prodigy's BTM, which hardly slows down for a second. This CD is exactly what it claims to be, a glimpse into how Underworld chills afterhours. As they say, some songs are not mixed deliberately, but the ones that are, are done masterfully and creatively as you would expect from Underworld.

Great mixtape album by my favourite musicians.......2004-07-06

Not as godlike as Underworld's own albums, but still a fine listen. Personally I enjoy B Movie and the techno tracks on side one.

A visit to the underworld.......2004-01-02

What a cool album. Quirky and delightful, though there's some tracks ripe for the skippin'. This is what the Back to Mine series is about - getting back to inspiration and influence. This album does not disappoint.

What's this?.......2003-11-03

Strange, strange album. Yes, it's a "Back to Mine" album, but its still an odd collection of tracks. The disc is all over the board. Truly, it sounds like a collection your 40-yr old uncle would put together. Yes, the songs, by themselves, are all classics in their own right. But do they flow here? Not really. Do they create a "vibe" that has anything remotely to do with Underworld. No.

Buy this album if you want a decent mix tape of a wide range of musical styles - put together by Underworld. Don't buy it because you like Underworld music.

Good Collection of Tracks. Not a Mix.......2003-10-24

This is the CD to get so you can experience the myriad of influences Underworld draws from in their own music. They say within the liner notes, some tracks were just too good to alter and mix with the next. That is why I had to knock one star off this comilation, it doesn't have the flow from one track to the next until your into the middle of the CD.

While I love Underworld's works without Darren Emerson, this CD makes me wonder what would have been if he we're still in the group. Would they have taken the chance to mix those key influential tracks?

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6. Breakbeat Science: Exercise 5
7. Café de Luna, Vol. 2: Mediterranean Chill
8. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome [Enhanced]
9. Carte Blanche 2
10. Celestial Mechanix: The Blue Series Mastermix

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Sing the Alphabet (Blister)

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