USA Disco [Import]

1. Devil's Gun

2. Big City Sidewak

3. We Got Our Own Thing

4. Deadeye Dick

5. Usa Disco

6. Burnings Drums Of Fire

7. Hear Say

8. Golden Touch

9. Beware The Stranger

10. Sure Can't Go To The Moon

Tracks:

Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong
Shop Around - The Miracles
Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes
Jamie - Eddie Holland
The One Who Really Loves You - Mary Wells
Do You Love Me - The Contours
Beechwood 4-5789 - The Marvelettes
You Beat Me To The Punch - Mary Wells
Stubborn Kind Of Fellow - Marvin Gaye
Two Lovers - Mary Wells
You've Really Got A Hold On Me - The Miracles
Come and Get These Memories - Martha & the Vandellas
Pride And Joy - Marvin Gaye
Fingertips- Part 2 - Little Stevie Wonder
(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave - Martha & the Vandellas
Mickey's Monkey - The Miracles
Leaving Here - Eddie Holland
The Way You Do The Things You Do - The Temptations
My Guy - Mary Wells
Devil With The Blue Dress - Shorty Long
Every Little Bit Hurts - Brenda Holloway
Baby I Need Your Loving - Four Tops
Dancing in the Street - Martha & the Vandellas
My Smile Is Just a Frown (Turned Upside Down) - Crawford, Carolyn
Needle in a Haystack - Velvelettes
Baby Love - Supremes
Come See About Me - Supremes
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) - Gaye, Marvin

Tracks:

My Girl - The Temptations
He Was Really Sayin Somethin' - The Velvelettes
Ask The Lonely - Four Tops
Shotgun - Jr. Walker & The All Stars
Nowhere to Run - Martha & the Vandellas
When I'm Gone - Brenda Holloway
OOO Baby Baby - The Miracles
I Can't Helf Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) - Four Tops
First I Look At The Purse - The Contours
The Tracks Of My Tears - The Miracles
It's The Same Old Song - Four Tops
Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things) - Martha & the Vandellas
Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While) - Kim Weston
Uptight (Everything's Alright) - Stevie Wonder
Don't Mess With Bill - The Marvelettes
Darling Baby - The Elgins
This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You) - Isley Brothers
Greetings (This Is Uncle Sam) - The Monitors
Function At The Junction - Shorty Long
(I'm A) Roadrunner - Jr. Walker & The All Stars
Ain't Too Proud To Beg - The Temptations
What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted - Jimmy Ruffin
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) - Jr. Walker & The All Stars
Love Gone Bad - Chris Clark
You Can't Hurry Love - The Supremes
Beauty Is Only Skin Deep - The Temptations
Heaven Must Have Sent You - The Elgins

Tracks:

Reach Out I'll Be There - Four Tops
I'm Losing You - The Temptations
Standing In The Shadows Of Love - Four Tops
It Take Two - Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston
The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game - Marvelettes
Jimmy Mack - Martha & The Vandellas
Bernadette - Four Tops
Ain't No Mountian High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
More Love - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Gladys Knight & The Pips
I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
I Wish It Would Rain - The Temptations
I Can't Give Back The Love I Feel For You - Rita Wright
Does Your Mama Know About Me - Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers
Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrel
Love Child - Diana Ross & The Supremes
For Once In My Life - Stevie Wonder
Cloud Nine - The Temptations
I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
Baby, Baby Don't Cry - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Twenty-Five Miles - Edwin Starr
My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me) - David Ruffin
What Does It take (To Win Your Love) - Jr. Walker & The All Stars
I Can't Get Next To You - The Temptations
Baby I'm For Real - The Originals
Up The Ladder To The Roof - The Supremes

Tracks:

I Want You Back - The Jackson 5
The Bells - The Originals
Gat Ready - Rare Earth
ABC - The Jackson 5
Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today) - The Temptations
The Love You Save - The Jackson 5
Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours - Stevie Wonder
War - Edwin Starr
It's A Shame - The Spinners
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
Still Water (Love) - Four Tops
I'll Be There - The Jackson 5
The Tears Of A Clown - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Stoned Love - The Supremes
If I Were Your Woman - Gladys Knight & The Pips
Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) - The Temptations
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Never Can Say Goodbye - The Jackson 5
Nathan Jones - The Supremes
I Don't Want To Do Wrong - Gladys Knight & The Pips
Smiling Faces Sometimes - The Undisputed Truth
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Mavin Gaye
I Just Want To Celebrate - Rare Earth

Amazon.com

Motown did so many things well in the '60s and early '70s that this overview of the label's smashes (and some lesser-known classics) practically demands four CDs. It gets them, too, filling them with single mixes of more than 100 tracks. That the running order begins with Barrett Strong's statement of purpose "Money (That's What I Want)" and ends with Marvin Gaye's statement of concern "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" says a lot about how far the company moved in its golden decade--but no more so than what the same two cuts' differences in sound get across. The company was able to blend the smooth and the harsh in ways that few other pop entities have ever mastered, thereby getting over not only to the feet and the wallet, but to the heart. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

MONO-TOWN.......2007-02-25

HITSVILLE USA is a box set that's clearly marked as a SINGLES COLLECTION-- that means these 104 tracks are in the original monaural sound. If you're looking for stereo mixes, this isn't the collection for you. That issue aside, the only real criticism of the album is one of programming-- songs tend to be clustered by artist or group. Perhaps a more thorough shuffle was in order.

Each CD jewel case is fronted with a repro of a Gordy Co. label, including one of the very first MOTOWNs, which was pale pink in color. The accompanying 68-page long box book is quite comprehensive. Recording dates for all songs and chart positions are given. There's lots of great photos; artists and groups are given a few pages of bio each. This HITSVILLE USA four-CD box set is fairly extensive, and about all you'd ever need in a compilation of MOTOWN 45s.

TOTAL RUNNING TIMES --
DISC ONE -- 76:10
DISC TWO -- 75:21
DISC THREE -- 77:09
DISC FOUR -- 74:10

the sound of a young america.......2006-12-28

this was my true introduction to the music of motown and now i see why motown was great a lot of these song i frist heard by other artist but hearing the orginals has made appericate the motown sound so much more and i believe anyone who hears these songs will enjoy them for a lifetime and i know i am

Longer Songs.......2006-12-09

The Songs on this are FANTASTIC! I Love Mono Recording. Everyone says that if it's stereo, it "sounds better". I think NOT! It Sounds alright. But, Hey, if you want longer mono versions of the music, without the unnecessary extensions, buy this. For example, Nowhere To Run on this box set-2:58.
Motown Box-Nowhere To Run-2:46-TWELVE SECONDS!There's A Big Difference there.
Also, With Dancing In The Street, my favorite part is on this, when Martha says "Yeah", at the end, on Motown Box, 4 seconds are 'remastered'. (frown)Therefore, it is'nt there. BUT, people, There are a few notable songs missing. Quicksand, By Martha & the Vandellas, Bye Bye Baby, By Mary Wells, Playboy, by the Marvelettes, When The Lovelight starts shining through His eyes, by the Supremes, Hitch Hike, By Marvin Gaye, and others, you know what I mean? So, overall, this is the better box to get.

Pretty Much All You Need.......2006-10-17

There are so many good songs here, you can't go wrong. Don't let the whole 'mono' thing scare you away, either. With a decent stereo, these sound just fine. Just turn up the bass a little and crank it loud. I like about 80% of the songs in this collection, and for the price you can't go wrong; Nice booklet w/ lots of cool pictures included. With this collection, you'd only need to buy a handful of other discs to complete your Motown collection...

This is the Motown sound!.......2006-08-11

What is Motown all about? The answer lies within the music of this rather impressive line-up of songs on "Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971." It's the story of how a gifted songwriter, Berry Gordy, Jr., makes his way on up the ladder of success spearheading one of if not the most successful
of all R&B-based record companies during the golden age of American popular music. Detroit, Michigan, known as the Motor City, gained yet another nickname: Hitsville USA. Everyone referred to it as Motown. In this collection, all of the well-known groups (The Supremes, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Miracles, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Jr. Walker & the All-Stars, The Jackson 5) are represented as well as the known solo artists (Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Mary Wells, Brenda Holloway). Included also are some wonderful one or two-shot wonders (Shorty Long, Brenda Holloway, Eddie Holland [of Motown's hit-making songwriting trio H-D-H], The Velvelettes, The Elgins, The Monitors, The Contours) and more. What's interesting about this set is that there are many of the well-known songs along with some songs that you probably just don't hear anymore or weren't that well-known. So you get your fair share of both like the Supremes' well-known "Baby Love" and Shorty Long's rare but wonderful "Function at the Junction." The downside of this set is nothing too alarming. Not all the artists' hit songs, big and small, are included and I think that's done so that other little-known-but-definitely-worth-discovering are given a chance at spin time, too; even some from the top artists, too. Think about it: if every single Motown record that made the charts was included, this collection would just balloon up, and there'd be no telling how far. So this is a very nice general overview of those first 12 and golden years of Motown. That's what this is all about: the general overview. Granted, if you want to investiagte further about a certain artist's music, there are numerous collections out there devoted just to them like the single "Ultimate Collection" CDs, or box collections of the artist. But, back to this one. Included within is a very nice 68-page booklet containing essays and phots of ALL the artists, plus musician credits, the track-by-track listing of the whole set, including original release date, label, and chart position.
In the middle of the book the different 45s are pictured all together on a two-page spread which was neat, and on the cover are the picture sleeves. It was an unusual move to put no artists and only songs on the back of the individual discs. The same goes for the back of the box. The paper inserts of the CD cases are record labels that have just the label name: Gordy, Soul, Motown, Tamla. Still, out of all the Motown best of various artists collections, this is the big one! It's great party music and dance music. People young and old will love this. The sound on here is terrific and powerful, but, yes, it is in mono. If you look in the back of the booklet, there is noted that the original single masters were used (the 45 RPM versions), so what does that tell you? Nevertheless, the sound is strong for 1992 remastering. Together, this set is living proof that Motown wasn't just a hit-making machine of a record-company, it was a feeling!

Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1972-1992

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Not the Motown I Know and Love
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Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1972-1992
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Tracks:

Got To Be There - Michael Jackson
Floy Joy - The Supremes
A Simple Game - Four Tops
Walk In The Night - Jr. Walker & The All Stars
Ben - Michael Jackson
Papa Was A Rolling Stone - The Temptations
Silly Wasn't I - Valerie Simpson
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye) - Gladys Knight & The Pips
Touch Me In The Morning - Diana Ross
Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Keep On Truckin' (Part 1) - Eddie Kendricks
Boogie Down - Eddie Kendricks
Dancing Machine - Jackson 5
Do It Baby - The Miracles
Shoe Shoe Shine - The Dynamic Superiors
Harmour Love - Syreeta
Love Power - Willie Hutch
It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday - G.C. Cameron
Love Machine (Part 1) - The Miracles
Walk Away From Love - David Ruffin

Tracks:

Quiet Storm - Smokey Robinson
Love Hangover - Diana Ross
I Want You - Marvin Gaye
Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston
Got To Give It Up (Pt. 1) - Marvin Gaye
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
Easy - The Commodores
You Can't Turn Me Off (In The Middle Of Turning Me On) - High Inergy
Brick House - The Commodores
You And I - Rick James
Three Times A Lady - The Commodores
There'll Never Be - Switch
Heaven Must Have Sent You - Bonnie Pointer
Sail On - The Commodores
Cruisin' - Smokey Robinson
Still - The Commodores
With You I'm Born Again - Billy Preston & Syreeta
Let's Get Serious - Jermaine Jackson
I Need Your Lovin' - Teena Maria
Being With You - Smokey Robinson

Tracks:

Upside Down - Diana Ross
Give It To Me Baby - Rick James
One Day In Your Life - Michael Jackson
Square Biz - Teena Marie
Lady (You Bring Me Up) - The Commodores
Super Freak - Rick James
Right In The Middle (Of Falling In Love) - Bettye LaVette
Let It Whip - Dazz Band
All Night Long (All Night) - Lionel Richie
Time Will Reveal - DeBarge
Don't Look Any Further - Dennis Edwards
I Just Called To Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Treat Her Like A Lady - The Temptations
Ebony Eyes - Rick James
Nightshift - The Commodores
Rhythm Of The Night - DeBarge
Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
In My House - Mary Jane Girls

Tracks:

Part-Time Lover - Stevie Wonder
Who's Johnny - El Debarge
Lady Soul - The Temptations
Nail It To The Wall - Stacey Lattisaw
Talk To Me - Chico Debarge
Just To See Her - Smokey Robinson
One Heartbeat - Smokey Robinson
Dial My Heart - The Boys
Him Or Me - Today
Your Sweetness - The Good Girls
Where Do We Go From Here - Stacy Lattisaw
Rub You The Right Way - Johnny Gill
Slow Motion - Gerald Alston
Iesha - Another Bad Creation
Motownphilly - Boyz II Men
I Love Your Smile - Shanice
End Of The Road - Boyz II Men

Customer Reviews:

Not the Motown I Know and Love.......2006-07-11

I have loved the Motown sound ever since I was a little kid. So many of those songs have added pleasure to my life. A few years ago I bought the first box set and voraciously consumed it. Every song there was a classic. I only wished it included a lot more music.

I recently saw that there was a second installment to Hitsville USA. I bought it immediately, and I was encouraged by the generally good reviews here on Amazon. But, wow, I regretfully must report to you that this set does not have the Motown Sound that I know and love. Perhaps a quarter of these songs are very good, but the other three-quarters I do not like at all. They are campy, disco-like atrocities which in my mind are the antithesis of the earthy, passionate, natural sound of real Motown. I do like soul music outside of Motown, but these songs do not come close to even good, authentic soul music. Most of these are bad disco songs which have the second-generation Motown label affixed for prestige. Please don't get this expecting the classic Motown sound, because you won't find it here. Even the small percentage of good songs here don't sound like Motown; I'm not sure exactly how you would categorize them.

The remaining 75% of the music on these discs is of that category of "Music that I Affirmatively Try to Avoid." If Motown was one of the pinnacles of modern music, many of these songs are the valleys. Real Motown was silk; this is a plastic tarp. Again, I emphasize the synthetic, synthesizer-intensive foundation, with the pre-pubescent, screechy, annoying vocals. Motown is all about a thumping, plodding deep bass, with a great guitar groove, and supernaturally beatiful lyrics and voices. Even most of Smokey's stuff here doesn't do much for me, and I love Smokey. The amazing documentary film "In the Shadow of Motown" might have discussed this period in Motown's history, if it did, I'm sure it is characterized as the (steep, almost vertical) decline. The folks who were the subject matter of that film were REAL MUSICIANS, the best musicians the world has ever known; they weren't a bunch of beeping, buzzing computers and polyester-wearing prancing disco-dancers.

I will never listen to these discs straight-through again. I'll just skip over to the few good tracks. The preponderance of these songs were downright painful, they represent the worst of the 70's and 80's. I wish they had merely augmented the collection of real Motown, rather than used the songs which rode on the coat-tails of the real (and legendary) Motown.

Order from Amazon.com directly instead........2006-03-16

In the past years I have ordered from individuals via Amazon as opposed to Amazon.com directly. This time, this particular item was offered through Amazon at basically the same cost and I received the item faster than I ever had before. From now on if Amazon offers any item I wish to purchase, I'll order it through Amazon directly.

El supremo follow up to Motown V-1.......2006-02-21

Not quite as strong as the first Motown boxed set but then again I'm partial to the earlier songs during the illustrious Motown of the '60s. 4.5 stars.

CLASSIC MUSIC@IT'S FINEST!!!!!.......2004-09-06

ALL I CAN SAY IS IF YOU LIKE THE MOTOWN SOUND THEN YOU WOULD LIKE THIS CD. I LIKE IT AND ENJOY IT AND I WOULD DEFINITELY RECOMMEND ANYONE WHO LIKES THE MOTOWN SOUND OF YESTERYEAR TO BUY THIS ALBUM BECAUSE YOU WOULD DEFINITELY ENJOY IT.

Great selection.......2004-05-12

The tunes on these disks are varied in style and sound quite different from one another. The older selection from 59-71 has a real sound from yesteryear.
They are both great selections of singles from their day.

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USA Disco
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Tracks:

Come into My Heart/Good Loving
Love's Coming/Baby Love

Customer Reviews:

Midney's best?.......2001-08-07

...probably, although I'll welcome arguments favoring "Beautiful Bend" and "Evita." Of Boris Midney's druggy soundscapes for the disco round, this may be his only album that must be heard to be believed, let alone appreciated! Beyond his usual rococco string crescendos and cooing disco chorines, this album better makes better use than any other of BM's secret weapon -- silence. After building for several minutes, towering arrangements abruptly vanish...and off we segue into the next theme, which may or may not explain why. Mysterious! Side One's "Come Into My Heart/Good Lovin'" was Boris' biggest hit (a 45 rpm version actually nicked the Top 40 during the peak of Disco Madness, amazing given its nearly eight-minute length, the fact that it was a pretty crummy edit, and the overall weirdness of this material). So what does it sound like? Just imagine: you're late for that connecting flight at Heathrow, you see, and you've forgotten your Thorazine (...every DAMN PILL!) Being rhythmically blessed yet none too tightly wrapped, you proceed to... OK -words may fail me, but the music doesn't - especially the climax of side one, as grand and successful as any disco record ever cut. Side 2, "Love's Comin'/Baby Love" is a cleverly arranged, weirdo riff on early 60's girl-group na-na. Somehow, a synthesized harpsichord succssfully finds its way into the mix. As Boris saw the disco floor the way Salvador Dali saw canvas, the result is delightful - and slightly disturbing.

The Boris Midney Masters: USA - European Connection

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Richard Kleiderman disco or East European disco?
Midney's most typical
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Tracks:

I'd Like to Get Closer
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Join the Dance
There's a Way into My Heart

Customer Reviews:

Richard Kleiderman disco or East European disco?.......2001-12-20

I don't really know what to make of this album. On one hand you have at times melodies reminiscent of monumental pianist Richard Kleiderman (in "Do Me Good" for example); on the other, we sometimes hear distinct East European tunes cloacked with disco arrangements. No doubt, this is the weirdest musical mixture I have ever encountered, and I don't mean it to be read as being bashful or critical.

I enjoy "Join The Dance" and "Do Me Good" (the former in particular, which is a better track than the latter). At the 3 minute mark of the former, the lushful, excessively fresh, youthful singing is discarded at once and the song's melody structure changes to a repetitive East European routine, demonstrating what I said in the previous paragraph.
"Do Me Good" employs enjoyable tunes, however strange they might be. "There's A Way..." is of roughly the same caliber as "Do Me Good". "I'd Like To Get Closer" has a pretty good tune and melody, its beat is darn good too and it has very intense string arrangements - to a higher degree than the degree of the string arrangements on the other tracks, which is pretty high anyway.

As with virtually every Midney project, the lyrics are pretty shallow, not to mention being cartoony, childish and the schoolgirly singing. Unfortunately Midney seems to accentuate this charecteristic of Eurodisco more than any other producer of his niche.

Midney's most typical.......2001-08-07

Not as inspired than the companion "USA European Connection," this strikes me as the producer's most typical album. And it's as enjoyable as any of them in its cracked, giddy way.

It's Disney World on acid!

Frenzied as they are, the string/rhythm arrangements are beyond reproach, surpassing those of Chic and any other string-nutty disco producers I can think of, except for Celso Valli and Ashford & Simpson (if you've read this far, you probably know who they are. Your booty certainly does).

As for the much-criticized schoolgirly chorus - love 'em or leave 'em, I say, but dig this: These records are so certain in conceptualization, they might not have worked at all without them.

Side A, "I'd Like To Get Closer/Do Me Good" is the better twirl... however, "Join The Dance/There's a Way Into My Heart" is the circuit "classic," caned to death in recent years by my fave circuit dj's (AHEM, SUSANNNN ????)

The Midney Factory.......2001-07-28

Clearly influenced by the Star Wars movies of his time, Midney was fond of taking bittersweet European-style string melodies and overlaying them with electronic sci-fi burbles, then arranging the songs in dramatic, soundtrack fashion. The results could be beautiful, histrionic, or peculiar. This second USA-European Connection album is better than the boppier, bubblegum first lp, but suffers from third-grade lyrics and Saturday morning cartoon singing.

la creme de la creme.......1999-11-20

Boris Midney epitomizes sophistication and subtlety in dance music. His records transcend the medium and were years ahead of their time...in fact they are timeless for there has never been another producer remotely like him. Even Cerrone, Costandinos, Moroder and Chantereau of Voyage cannot touch him. Additionally Midney plays all keyboards and horns himself and does all the arrangements as well as mixing and cover art. His rigorous training as a classical musician in the Soviet Union is displayed in his unusual structural form as well as his Rachmaninoff-like melodies. Highly reccomended also is his album entitled Beatiful Bend which contains the masterpiece "Make That Feeling Come Again".

Boris Midney's record of the 70's on CD.......1999-07-07

I've been waiting a long time for Boris Midney's records to come out on CD. This CD has the original songs of "I'd like to get closer" and "there's a way into my heart". I learned to dance the Hustle to this music when the original record went to #1 in the days of Disco.

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Original 1993 issue in unique day-glo orange embossed, textured jewel case! TRACKS: 1. Can You Forgive Her?; 2. I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing; 3. Liberation; 4. A Different Point Of View; 5. Dreaming Of The Queen; 6. Yesterday, When I Was Mad; 7. The Theatre; 8. One And One Make Five; 9. To Speak Is A Sin; 10. Young Offender; 11. One In A Million; & 12. Go West.

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sweet..........2005-12-22

Very is quite different from the Pet Shop Boys most people are familiar with. In the past were songs like Being Boring, West End Girls, Rent, It's A Sin etc... which are for the most part, mid-tempo electronic rock. Very reminds me a lot of the direction that OMD went after McCluskey and Humphreys went separate ways, think Sugar Tax and Liberator era. Of course most people are familiar with Can You Forgive Her which was a pretty big hit back in the early 90's, but after the opening track finishes off, you're hit with I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing, a straight up dancy disco rocker. The pace of this album rarely lets up except for a few slower ballady songs (Liberation, Dreaming of the Queen, To Speak Is A Sin) and finishes off with an outstanding version of the Village People's Go West. I like this album a lot, it is one of my favorites because it is so upbeat and energetic, and of course because the Pet Shop Boys are incredible. I would recommend this album to fans of newer OMD, New Order, Erasure, Intuition, Neuropa.

So very very.......2005-09-16

This album, Very and its much more rare companion, Very Relentless, can be summed up in the Pet Shop Boys' own words (one of the lyrics taken from the song Yesterday When I was Mad) -- they've 'both made such a little go a very long way'. A very long way, indeed.

All of the songs on this album have the same feel -- the same texture, the same lyrical quality, the same 'groove' if you will -- which is remarkable for a collection of different songs, from ballads to a roaring remake of the Village People's Go West (a song Toyota still uses occasionally in advertising -- listen for the backing music). One would almost swear that the actual Village People are making up the chorus as Neil Tennant's high-pitched, flat voice calls out 'Life is peaceful there' as the gruff, deep voices growl, GO WEST!

All the songs are dancable (not true of all the songs on all the albums) -- the videos which accompany this album all have the same computer-generated motion and costume and background (someone in the Pet Shop Boys camp obviously had recently discovered computer-generated graphics and animation and decided to have some fun!). I was frankly a bit disappointed with the videos, because the idea was original, but it was the same idea for each video (and we fans are used to stylish, original videos for each song).

This album will please Pet Shop Boys fans; it may find a good home with electronic/disco music fans. As with all Pet Shop Boys songs, listen to the lyrics -- they are witty and thoughtful -- the song Dreaming of the Queen actually plays on a recurrent nightmare/stress dream that the average Brit would have but Americans don't -- the stress that the Queen drops by for a visit when you're not ready (either undressed, or dirty house, &c.) -- probably the closest equivalent stress dream in American terms would be the test-anxiety pop-quiz-you-haven't-studied-for dream.

Other songs include the poignant The Theatre, in which one can sense the frustration of struggling artists as they watch their more successful compatriots pass by; To speak is a sin, recapturing a word from a previous hit, It's a sin, something the no-longer Roman Catholic Tennant likes to muse over now and again; the first semi-hit Can you forgive her, a crashing, triumphant, psychological song that reinforces the ambiguous sexuality of this duo (later to be made less so).

So, pay attention to the lyrics, and have a Very Very good listen.

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Skip The Opening Number and Enjoy
Johnnie T.

Recorded Live At The Longhorn Ballroom
Johnnie Taylor
Manufacturer: Malaco Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Live in Dallas
Divas in the Delta: Live in Greenwood, Ms
Live with the Candy Licker
Live in Los Angeles
Teddy: Live in '79

ASIN: B0006HBL96
Release Date: 2004-11-16

Tracks:

Band Intro [DVD][Instrumental]
Who's Makin' Love [DVD]
Little Bluebird [DVD]
Still Called the Blues [DVD]
Just Because [DVD]
Last Two Dollars [DVD]
Ain't That Lovin' You [DVD] - Johnnie Taylor, Tasha Taylor
Sendin' You a Kiss [DVD]
Gotta Love Somebody's Baby [DVD]
Good Love [DVD]
Disco Lady [DVD]

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Skip The Opening Number and Enjoy.......2006-02-24

The Dvd Begins with a Long Jam from Taylor's Backing Band that is truly pointless and tiring...Utilize the Menu option and begin with Cut #2, and You will witness a stirring Live Performance, Outstanding Camera Work and many upclose views of Johnnie Taylor in impassioned Vocalization, Sweat pouring off His Face, Dirty Southern Soul/R&B at its Finest. A few Hits juxtaposed by some Excellent Blues, and a Fine Duet with Cute Daughter Tasha Taylor. I attended Taylor's Longhorn Ballroom Concert in 1996, 15 Months prior to this One, I had hoped this DVD was from THAT Show, but This one was probably better (The Show I went to had Taylor Cursing a mildly unruly crowd ("Sit Your Black Ass Down!"), and threatening to leave early, which He did, for about 10 minutes during "Cheaper to Keep Her", before returning)...Excellent Vocal phrasing, as usual, lots of quick Camera Pans that Work seamlessly to give the Viewer the feeling He is actually THERE...I Generally Disdain Live Concert Videos, but this One is Thumbs Up!!!

Johnnie T........2005-11-08

I would've given this DVD a 5 star rating but the DVD begins with the introduction of Johnnie Taylor's band performing 25 minutes before Johnie Taylor walks out on stage. That's my only negative about the DVD.

Although Johnnie does stay on stage for an hour performing songs like 'Who's Makin' Love", "Last Two Dollars", "Sending you a Kiss", "Good Love", "Disco Lady" etc. He even does a duet with his Daughter "Tasha" singing "Ain't That Lovin' You".

This DVD was recorded in 1997 when Johnnie was touring off the "Good Love" CD which was the highlight of Johnnie Taylor career at Malaco.

We all know that the "Good Love' CD is indeed a classic so you won't go wrong picking up this DVD seeing a legend at his finest.

At the end of this DVD Malaco Records honor him and give tribute to his passing on May 31, 2000.

Hitsville USA, Vol. 2: The Motown Singles Collection 1972-1992

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Hitsville USA, Vol. 2: The Motown Singles Collection 1972-1992
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Motown
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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