| 1. One Night In Bangkok (Vinylshakerz Screen Cut) |
| 2. One Night In Bangkok (Marcus Levin Re-Cut) |
| 3. One Night In Bangkok (Vinylshakerz Xxl Mix) |
| 4. Tekkno Trash (Vinylshakerz Pay No Cash Mix) |
| 5. One Night In Bangkok (Snippet) |
| 6. One Night In Bangkok (Video For Pc & Mac) |
| 7. Making The Video |
| 8. Wall Paper |
One Night in Bangkok,Vinylshakerz,Edel Germany,Dance,Dance Music,Pop
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Chess
Bjorn Ulvaeus , and Tim Rice Manufacturer: Decca Broadway ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000002GLR Release Date: 1996-07-23 |
Tracks:
- Merano - The Ambrosia Singers/Anders Eljas/Murray Head
- The Russian And Molokov/ Where I Want To Be - The Ambrosia Singers/Anders Eljas/Tommy Korberg/Denis Quilley
- Opening Ceremony - The Ambrosia Singers/Anders Eljas/Bjorn Skifs
- Quartet (A Model Of Decorum And Tranquility) - Elaine Paige/Tommy Korberg/Denis Quilley/Bjorn Skifs
- The American And Florence/Nobody's Side - Elaine Paige/Murray Head
- Chess - LSO/Anders Eljas
- Mountian Duet - Elaine Paige/Tommy Korberg
- Florence Quits - Elaine Paige/Murray Head
- Embassy Lament - Tommy Korberg/The Ambrosia Singers/Anders Eljas
- Anthem - Tommy Korberg
Tracks:
- Bangkok
- One Night In Bangkok
- Heaven Help My Heart
- Argument
- I Know Him So Well
- The Deal (No Deal)
- Pity The Child
- Endgame
- Epilogue: You And I / The Story Of Chess
Amazon.com
Chess is a musical that sounds like it shouldn't work but instead succeeds surprisingly well. This is the original concept album that was recorded before the musical was staged in London. Chess is the story of a love triangle told against the backdrop of an international chess tournament during the height of the cold war. The composers are Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus (the Bs in ABBA) and the lyrics are by Tim Rice, who supplied the words for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, as well as Disney's Aladdin (with Howard Ashman), The Lion King, and Beauty and the Beast. The six-member cast does a beautiful job with the songs, which are a combination of ballads, rock, and operatic choruses. Murray Head's version of "One Night in Bangkok" became a surprise hit in the mid-'80s and it still turns up on the turntables in dance clubs around the world. --Michael SimmonsCustomer Reviews:
This should never have worked at all.......2007-06-18
While "Chess" may be a document of an era that no longer exists, there's a lot more going on than the surface metaphor. It holds up very well indeed. When it aims for humor, it generally succeeds, and likewise when it aims to devastate. What more can you ask for?
A GREAT AND OFTEN OVERLOOKED MUSICAL FROM THE 80-IS.......2007-03-04
This concept album is the main reason why the show has so many ardent fans until this day. Tim Rice wanted to write the show with the main plot revolving around chess for years and after his long time partner Andrew Lloyd Webber remained uninterested, he found the new collaborators in Ulvaeus and Andersson. The subject matter follows two international chess players in a championship, a Russian (Tommy Körberg) and an American (Murray Head) and a woman called Florence (Elaine Paige) who is a manager to the American but falls in love with the Russian. The story also draws a parallel between the game of chess and the cold war/real life situations.
This concept album was recorded in 1984, two years before the original London production took place. As the authors noted in the accompanying booklet, it was a work in progress and thusly the story is not quite readable here from the musical numbers alone. Despite that fact (which is amended by the synopsis included in the booklet), this album remains a winner. The score (played here by the London Symphonic Orchestra) itself makes an intriguing bland of the famous ABBA sound, the classical; the rock and the pop enhanced by the orchestral solo passages and the strong choral parts. The lush orchestrations add an epic touch to it and on the whole it is melodic and hummable, packed with great tunes. Some of the songs achieved huge success outside the musical: `I know him so well', a duet between Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson, held the number one spot on the UK singles charts for 4 weeks in February 1985 and won Ivor Novello Award as the Best Selling Single; Murray Head's `One night in Bangkok' became one of the biggest dance hits of its time, often heard today. Some other notable tunes include `The Anthem' (Russian's deliberation on his homeland); the soaring rock songs `Where I want to be' and `Pity the child' (in the former, the Russian reflects upon his life under the spotlight; in the latter, the American ponders about his own unhappy childhood) or the gentle `Heaven help my heart' (in which Florence weighs up her relationship with the Russian).
A special reference must be made to Tim Rice's excellent lyrics. With `Chess' he managed to keep up to the high standards he set himself in `Jesus Christ Superstar' and Evita'. Again in this case he shows he is a lyrical wizard, with his familiar cynical touch. `The story of chess', in which he gives a history of the game in a couple of crafty verses, is a pure masterpiece. The same can be said of the song `I know him so well', where the two women reexamine their relationship with the same man. As a whole, `Chess' owes a lot of its appeal to Tim Rice's written word.
The cast on this album ranks the high standard of the material. The principal parts (sung by Elaine Paige, Tommy Körberg and Murray Head) are delivered in a strong and impeccable fashion.
This 2-disc edition comes with a booklet containing a note from the authors, a text about chess, a full synopsis and a libretto, together with the photos of the principal singers.
Anyone interested in the modern musical theatre should find `Chess' to be a great score with great lyrics, which should be enough to satisfy any aficionado.
Chess.......2007-01-15
One of my favorites!.......2007-01-12
Concepts get better with practice.......2006-11-27
With most Broadway musicals, the musical numbers tell the basic story of the show. If you listen to the recordings of Phantom, Mama Mia, Beauty and the Beast, you can discern the basic storyline of the show. Listening to this particular recording of Chess, though, will leave you wondering "What was that?" The Broadway arrival of Chess saw a much needed reworking of the storyline and arrangement of the musical numbers. This recording seems too much like a mish-mash of songs that don't really relate to each other.
For musical fanatics (like myself), I say "yes, you should have this recording in your collection", if only to understand how much work went into the show before it opened on Broadway.
If you are only buying the album because of "One Night In Bangkok", purchase the Broadway recording instead; you'll be much happier with the performance by Phillip Casnoff rather than Murray Head.
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One Night in Bangkok
Robey Manufacturer: Hot Productions ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000001RPK Release Date: 1996-02-20 |
Tracks:
- Killer Instinct
- Tighter, Tighter
- Bored And Beautiful
- Moth To A Flame
- Turn My Head
- The Right Combination
- One Night In Bangkok
- One Monkey Don't Stop No Show
Customer Reviews:
Star of TV's Friday the 13th, an early career effort worth having.......2006-05-08
On "Bangkok," she collaborated with producer Joel Diamond, who since then has accumlated 36 gold and platinum recordings and has produced hits for many artists, from Laura Branigan, Gloria Gaynor, Jay Black, Sister Sledge, Helen Reddy, and Australia's The Deadly Nightshades, to the more mundane Lorna Luft, Engelbert Humperdinck, Milton Berle, and Britt Eckland. Diamond's name came up in conversations over the years with other show biz people I've met who were happy with his work, including Dick Clark, Dr. Hook, Mike Doublas, Soupy Sales, and my good friend and Las Vegas star Clint Holmes. Often, a more successful career will stimulate interest in the earlier works, good or bad. In the context of 1984 when "One Night in Bangkok" was released, this is an excellent first album for Louise.
The title song is a cover of the Murray Head recording from the Broadway show "Chess." Robey's version hit number one in the dance clubs and various mixes of the song have circulated, but America was in an anti-disco mood by the mid-80s trying to cast off the musical vestiges of the 1970s. Prince, Madonna, Huey Lewis, a reinvented Tina Turner, even the unlikely pop dual of Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney signaled that music was trying to write a new chapter. Movie soundtracks were in ("Footloose," "Ghostbusters"), Broadway show tunes were out. While this album will have you dancing, it did not get enough promotion to find it's niche in 1984. Had it been released during the run of "Friday the 13th," along with the show's theme song, it might have hit the upper levels of the pop charts.
Still, "Moth to A Flame," a song co-written by Robey, is an edgy, infectious song that should have been the first track leading off on this digitally remastered CD. Many artists underestimate the importance of the first three-tracks on a CD, but in 1984, artists will still pushing vinyl and cassettes, so it didn't matter. "L. Robey" also co-wrote her femme fatale track, "Killer Instinct," not bad for a new artist having two writing credits on an album. Besides "Moth" and "One Night," "Turn My Head" and "The Right Combination" are two other great dance songs, although I would have suggested a better orchestral arrangement for the intro of "Right Combination." Covers of the hits "Tighter, Tighter," and "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show," are excellent arrangements and full of the energy and the sexy wink of a young singer who had an uncanny awareness of her potential at the time. The one quality that comes across on this album is that Robey seemed to be having fun recording this album and her positive energy comes across in her recordings. I would have left off one song--"Bored and Beautiful," a tongue-in-cheek satire of the boring and beautiful and replaced with something more primal or danceable...maybe a cover of Branigan's "Gloria," Bowie's "Let's Dance" or a hundred other songs, just not this one.
You have to remember to judge this album in the context of 1984. The technology and the way albums are produced and recorded have changed. Audio engineering and computers today can make a few instruments sound like a full orchestra and slight glitches in vocal efforts can be smoothed out with a few electronic tricks. With Robey's album, what you hear is what you get, but still a well produced album given what was possible more than two decades ago. Once "Friday the 13th: The Series" becomes available on DVD or replayed on TV, or, as I suspect, she returns to entertainment from her intermission as a mother and real countess, Louise will bring new interest in this early effort. If you're a fan of Louise Robey as I am, then having this momento of her career is a must.
Robey Fan.......2001-07-16
Yuck!.......2001-02-23
it was great.......1999-02-23
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One Night in Bangkok
Vinylshakerz Manufacturer: Edel Germany ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0007UARSI Release Date: 2005-03-21 |
Tracks:
- One Night in Bangkok [Vinylshakerz Screen Cut]
- One Night in Bangkok [Marcus Levin Re-Cut]
- One Night in Bangkok [Vinylshakerz XXL Mix]
- Tekkno Trash [Vinylshakerz Pay No Cash Mix]
- One Night in Bangkok [Snippet]
- One Night in Bangkok [Video for PC & Mac]
- Making the Video
- Wall Paper
Customer Reviews:
this is the best song ever.......2006-10-09
A Travesty! If I could give it a lower rating I would!.......2006-06-29
It's OK.........if you like that stuff........2005-12-13
Reasonable - not great.......2005-09-09
Wow!.......2005-05-25
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Chess In Concert (1994 Swedish Concert Cast)
Bjorn Ulvaeus , and Tim Rice Manufacturer: Import [Generic] ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000006XK8 Release Date: 1996-07-15 |
Tracks:
- Merano - Anders Glenmark,
- Russian and Molokov/Where I Want to Be - Tommy Korberg,
- Opening Ceremony - Chorus
- Quartet (A Model of Decorum and Tranquility) - Karin Glenmark, Tommy Korberg, ,
- American and Florence/Nobody's Side - Anders Glenmark, Karin Glenmark, Chorus
- Chess - Chess
- Mountain Duet - Karin Glenmark, Tommy Korberg
- Florence Quits - Anders Glenmark, Karin Glenmark
- Someone Else's Story - Karin Glenmark
- Embassy Lament - Tommy Korberg
- Bangkok/One Night in Bangkok - Anders Glenmark, Chorus
Tracks:
- Anthem - Tommy Korberg
- Soviet Machine
- Heaven Help My Heart - Lena Ericsson
- Argument - Karin Glenmark, Tommy Korberg
- I Know Him So Well - Lena Ericsson, Karin Glenmark
- Deal (No Deal) - Anders Glenmark, Karin Glenmark, Tommy Korberg,
- Pity the Child - Anders Glenmark
- Endgame - Lena Ericsson, Anders Glenmark, Karin Glenmark, Tommy Korberg, , Chorus
- Epilogue: You and I/The Story of Chess - Benny Andersson, Tim Rice,
Album Details
The Musical by Benny and Bjorn (Abba) in Collaboration with Tim Rice was Performed by the Gothenburg Orchestra and Chorus Conducted by Anders Eljas plus Principals Karin Glenmark, Tommy Korberg, Anders Glemark, Lena Ericsson and Johan Schinker and Recorded Live at Eriksberghallen in Gothenburg, Sweden in August 1994.Customer Reviews:
Not great.......2007-03-29
Mate in Sweden!.......2007-02-07
Not that good.......2006-04-05
An ok album........2003-07-02
All of these have their strenght and weaknesses, but as for completeness, one have to go for the Swedish or Danish recordings. As it is, I dislike the Swedish one, and the Danish is hard to get. That makes this Concert Recording the most complete of the remaining Chesses, but not necessarily the best sung.
I would not have bought this if it was not because I found it in a second hand cd store at a very low price. If you have the Danish album, you don't need it.
If you are a Chess virgin and cannot find the Danish album, chose this for near completeness or the Original Concept Album for best cast.
Avoid the Broadway Cast (extremely incomplete, though well sung) and the Swedish Cast (kind of complete, but otherwise weird and lacking the Chess spirit) if you don't happen to be a total Chess nut.
If you like "Chess: the Musical", you need this CD.......2002-06-28
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24 Hours: One Night in Bangkok
Various Artists Manufacturer: Drop It Ent Llc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000B5KRGQ Release Date: 2005-10-25 |
Tracks:
- Love on My Mind - Freemasons
- In My Arms - Mylo
- Midnight Magic
- All Night Long [Roland Clarke Remix] - DJ Jeroenski
- Feel the Need [Erick Decks Remix] - The Pleasure Barons
- Big Stand Up [Juan Magan Remix]
- Milk
- Freek U [Full Intention Dub][Dub] - Bon Gar
- Ain't Gonna Change [DJ Touchix]
- Rocker [Eric Prydz Remix]
- Shake It - DJ Rooster, Sammy Peralta
- Lapoema - Olav Basoski, DJ Roo
- Countdown - Les Schmitz
- I See Girls (Crazy)
- Zoomin' [Original Mix] - Dave Gardner
- Intro [DVD]
- Intergalactic Voyager [DVD] - Christian Alvarez
- Ganja [DVD] - Ziv Shalit
- Just F**k [DVD] - Tom Neville
- Lapoema [DVD] - Olav Basoski, DJ Roog
Product Description
1. Love on My Mind - Freemasons
2. In My Arms - Mylo
3. Midnight Magic
4. All Night Long [Roland Clarke Remix][Mix] - DJ Jeroenski
5. Feel the Need [Erick Decks Remix] [Mix] - The Pleasure Barons
6. Big Stand Up [Juan Magan Remix] [Mix]
7. Milk
8. Freek U [Full Intention Dub] [Dub] - Bon Gar?on
9. Ain't Gonna Change [DJ Touche Mix] [Mix]
10. Rocker [Eric Prydz Remix][Mix]
11. Shake It - DJ Rooster, Sammy Peralta
12. Lapoema - Olav Basoski, DJ Roog
13. Countdown
14. I See Girls (Crazy)
15. Zoomin' [Original Mix] - Dave Gardner
16. Intro [DVD]
17. Intergalactic Voyager [DVD]
18. Ganja [DVD]
19. Just F**k [DVD] - Tom Neville
20. Lapoema [DVD] - Olav Basoski, DJ Roog
Format: Vinyl
Customer Reviews:
Fast-paced Bangkok.......2007-03-21
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One Night in Bangkok
Sodom Manufacturer: Steamhammer Us [Spv] ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00009V7NJ Release Date: 2003-08-12 |
Tracks:
- Among The Weirdcong
- The Vice Of Killing
- Der Wachturm
- The Saw Is The Law
- Blasphemer
- Sodomized
- Remember The Fallen
- I Am The War
- Eat Me!
- Masquerade In Blood
- Agent Orange
- Outbreak Of Evil
- Track 13
Tracks:
- Sodomy And Lust
- Napalm In The Morning
- Fuck The Police
- Tombstone
- Witching Metal
- The Enemy Inside
- Die Stumme Ursel
- Ausgebombt
- Code Red
- Ace Of Spades
- Stalinhagel
Album Description
2003 live release from the German thrash metal act featuring 25 tracks including a brand new song 'The Enemy Inside' plus a videoclip for 'Among The Weirdcong'. Steamhammer.Customer Reviews:
Pure European Thrash!.......2005-08-31
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One Night in Bangkok
ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0009E6JOS Release Date: 2006-08-22 |
Product Description
New factory sealed. Great mix by Shadow of hip hop his genius a must have for the fan or the DJ. 12 smashing new songs/mixes but no track listing with the CD.Customer Reviews:
Not a Genuine DJ Shadow Album.......2005-09-20
"A few weeks ago, Solesides mentioned about the DJ Shadow bootleg "Live in Bangkok". Note that only the first 18 minutes of this release are mixed by DJ Shadow.
Once again we need to tell you not to buy it. This is what Shadow himself says about this bootleg;
"It's basically a mix I did for the BBC in late '99 or early '00 along with someone else's jazz music (?) Now people are putting anything on a CD and saying it's me. This is exactly what they did to Hendrix after he died throughout the '70s. It sucked then and it sucks now.
-Shadow"
THIS IS AN ILLEGAL BOOTLEG.......2005-08-18
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One Night in Bangkok
Erazor Manufacturer: Zyx ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000667SW Release Date: 1992-05-04 |
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One Night in Bangkok
Sodom Manufacturer: Crown ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000DJW4J Release Date: 2003-12-01 |
Tracks:
- Among the Weirdcong
- Bice of Killing
- Der Wachtturm
- Gan Is the Lan
- Blasphemer
- Godomized
- Remember the Fallen
- I Um the War
- Eat Me!
- Masquerade in Blood
- M-16
- Agent Orange
- Outbreak of Evil
Tracks:
- Godamn & Lust
- Napalm in the Morning
- Fuck the Police
- Tombstone
- Witching Metal
- Enemy Inside
- Die Stumme Ursel
- Ausgelbombt
- Code Red
- Ace of Spades
- Stalinhagel
- Among the Weirdcong [Multimedia Track]
Album Details
24 track live release.
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One Night In Bangkok
DJ Shadow Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000N0TRUQ Release Date: 2005-04-12 |
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