WAT [Enhanced]

Product Description
Wat is Laibach's first new album in 7 years, since 1996s Jesus Christ Superstars. 12 tracks of proto-industrial indifference from the Slovenian collective. Slipcase. Mute. 2003.

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Average customer rating: Awsome Instrumental Music The Bing Crosby songs are very good but.... AMAZING! Hauntingly beautiful... A great soundtrack for a lover of WKW films as gorgeous as the film!

In the Mood for Love (2000 Film) Various Artists - Soundtracks Manufacturer: Higher Octave OmTown ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Indie Music | Stores | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Indie Music | Stores | Music Pop | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Soundtracks | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Classical | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music All Blowout Music | Blowout Music | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 25% Off | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: In the Mood for Love - Criterion Collection 2046 2046 Mis Mejores Canciones: 19 Super Exitos 2046 ASIN: B000050G51 Release Date: 2000-11-06

Tracks:

1. Yumeji's Theme - Umebayshi Shigeru
2. Mo-wan's Dialogue - In The Mood For Love ST
3. Angkor Wat Theme I - Michael Galasso
4. ITMFL I - Michael Galasso
5. Aquellos Ojos Verdes - Nat King Cole
6. Shuang Shuang Yan - Deng Bai Ying
7. ITMFL II - Michael Galasso
8. Radio Zhou Xuan Announcement/Hua Yang De Nian Hua - Zhou Xuan
9. Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps - Nat King Cole
10. Bengawan Solo - REBECCA PAN
11. ITMFL III - Michael Galasso
12. Si Lang Tan Mu - Tan Xin Pei
13. Shuang Ma Hui - Zhang Yun Xian/Hou Li Jun
14. Blue - Michael Galasso
15. Hong Niang Hui Zhang Sheng - Zheng Jun Mian/Li Hang
16. Li-zhen's Dialogue/Te Quiero Dijiste (Magic Is The Moonlight) - Nat King Cole
17. Angkor Wat Theme II - Michael Galasso
18. Yue Er Wan Wan Zhao Jiu Zhou - Chiu Wai Ping
19. Casanova's Flute - Michael Galasso
20. Yumeji's Theme/Li-zhen's Dialogue - Umebayasi Shigeru
21. Angkor Wat Theme Finale - Michael Galasso

Amazon.com

Soundtracks are a mixed bag at best. Some are little more than an assortment of pieces, but others hang together effectively on their own, like this one. The idea of Chinese music--both popular and operatic--juxtaposed with the sounds of Nat King Cole performing Latin music might seem bizarre, but it works beautifully, sustaining a lush, romantic mood created both by the strings and the '40s Chinese music, itself a tinkling Hollywood pastiche. But as atmospheric as all this is, one track stands out above the others: "Blue," actually a version of the classic "St. James' Infirmary," takes on another dimension in Chinese hands. While familiar but completely alien at the same time, the slithering Asian sonorities mesh perfectly with the African-American form to create something evocative but with a sadness that goes beyond blues. The movie is of a time and place; the soundtrack is of a mood and yearning. Listen at night, with someone you love close by. --Chris Nickson

Customer Reviews:

Awsome Instrumental Music.......2007-03-09

The soundtrack is really good; I didn't like some of the songs (the Chinese ones) but there are only 3 in the whole CD. The instrumental music is awesome making the soundtrack an average good.

The Bing Crosby songs are very good but...........2006-07-17

In my opinion it`s the Bing Crosby-songs that makes this album worth buying, but these songs can be bought on compilations. The rest of the music is for people with special interest for backgroundmusic in films.

AMAZING! Hauntingly beautiful..........2006-05-09

So beautiful and emotional, it makes you want to cry! The score for the film and the collection of music together is absolutely breathtaking....

A great soundtrack for a lover of WKW films.......2006-03-22

I loved the film, so I love the soundtrack, which brings back memories of the film. WKW uses period music to evoke the emotions and feel of the time period of the film.

as gorgeous as the film!.......2006-02-11

Film soundtracks are often disappointing---there are songs from the movie that are not on the CD, songs on the CD that were not in the film, different versions of songs on the CD than in the film, etc.

Happily, this soundtrack is absolutely faithful to the film, and it is masterfully interwoven with dialogue excerpts from the film which complement and build on the music instead of being obtrusive. I don't understand a word of Chinese but still enjoyed listening to the actors' voices, and also liked the bits of traditional Chinese music as well. There are some tracks that I don't remember from the film but they are not throw-away filler in any way, just beautiful extras in the same vein.

Average customer rating: Good , club-stomp Laibach Best EBM cd of that year, AT LEAST. Yet Another in a Phenomenal Series of Glorious Musical Triumphs by Laibach fails to do anything innovative, just like I'd hoped Since when...

WAT Laibach Manufacturer: Mute U.S. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt Industrial | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Industrial Dance | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Alternative Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Anthems Opus Dei Laibach - The Videos Jesus Christ Superstars Let It Be ASIN: B0000B1A4B Release Date: 2003-09-23

Tracks:

1. B Mashina
2. Tanz Mit Laibach
3. Du Bist Unser
4. Achtung!
5. Ende
6. Now You Will Pay
7. Hell: Symmetry
8. Das Spiel Ist Aus
9. Satanic Versus
10. The Great Divide
11. Wat
12. Anti-Semitism

Album Description

Wat is Laibach's first new album in 7 years, since 1996s Jesus Christ Superstars. 12 tracks of proto-industrial indifference from the Slovenian collective. Slipcase. Mute. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

Good , club-stomp Laibach.......2007-04-27

Laibach has always produced varied work (from stomping dance tunes to overblown soundtrack melodrama), but this album is definitely for the fans who prefer the EBM-style Laibach. It's a solid album with not much filler.
My one complaint: there are some very good tracks on here that feature very silly choruses of female singers. As soon as the chorus comes in, it sounds like Laibach is just making a joke of the song. What were they thinking?

Best EBM cd of that year, AT LEAST........2005-11-28

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The comparisons to stuff like Nitzer's 'That Total Age' I can see, except this is a much more interesting, stronger album. TTA wears thin after repeated run-throughs, it really shows its age. WAT manages to be both minimalistic yet modern, stripped down, but evolving. This is Laibach's strongest cd since Kapital, and a cd that buries the type of crap currently masquerading as electronic body music. Laibach has been marching to its own drum for decades now, since the guys in Rammstein were in summer camp. WAT is no different, except now Laibach is schooling all their contemporaries in the "scene" in obvious piss-takes...'Tanz mit Laibach' comes to mind. This cd is %90 golden good times, you'll either love it or hate it.

Yet Another in a Phenomenal Series of Glorious Musical Triumphs by Laibach.......2005-08-16

This is one of the very finest albums I have ever been privileged enough to hear, let alone Laibach's single best effort to date (I've been a fan since 1989, when an eccentric skinhead with a genius-level IQ and a nearly 4.0 GPA, attending a party I went to during college, insisted on playing "MacBeth," and I approached him in order to find out who we were listening to, for some context on that remark i.e., I'm not a recent fan who just loves their newest album).

The positively glorious first track, "B Mashina," which is worth the price of the album alone, is in constant conflict with "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" (the quintessential bluegrass instrumental) for the position of my favorite popular music piece of the post-Second World War era. There is a truly excellent tune (I'm unsure of the title or track number; it appears near the middle of the album, in any event) in which Laibach vigorously and courageously ignores contemporary tabus in order to savagely dissect the suicidal insanity which calls itself "multiculturalism," with particular emphasis on the present trend towards mass immigration from the Islamic Middle East into Europa. Its the kind of song that could get them banned in a country like Canada, and I salute them for releasing it anyway.

I don't think there's a track on this album I don't derive a disproportionate level of enjoyment from. It is truly a magnificent, brave, and unique piece of auditory art. Purchase it now!

fails to do anything innovative, just like I'd hoped .......2005-01-25

WAT arrived in my music collection over a year ago and has enjoyed more or less constant CD changer time ever since.

Picture a dancier Opus Dei, or perhaps a more ominous Let it Be, and you'll have some idea what's going on here. It's as if the whole alpine aesthetic that was discarded for Kapital, NATO, and Jesus Christ Superstars (their creative nadir, I think most fans would agree, and an obvious attempt to cash in on the whole mid-90's industrial metal thing, the ONLY time they've ever done anything involving trends other than setting them)has returned, mutated to incorporate the techno aesthetic of their mid-period stuff, as well as the omnipresent foreshadowing of doom of their most recent work. Not that I don't agree with their assessment.

B-Maschina is the only cover, and since I don't know the original and doubt anyone else will either, it barely counts as such, and is, like every other cover they've ever done, distinctly Laibach. It's easily my favorite song on the album. Just try to get the chorus out of your head.

The rest of the album is also excellent. Tanz Mit Laibach is an obvious appeal to the goth/industrial DJs of the world (with its DAF-pastiche stomp), as is much of the album. Overall, it's not quite as good as some of the classic material from the late 80's, but compare it to the recent work of the roughly contemporary Front Line Assembly, and its easy to see who still has some artistic integrity. WAT stacks up nicely against anything in its genre being done today, including the utterly brilliant new offerings from fellow industrial dinos Skinny Puppy, Front 242, and Klinik. This really is a great time to be an electronic music fan; even Kraftwerk have had a reasonably credible new offering.

If you are a fan, you already own this, if not, you can feel comfortable about purchasing it if you're curious about the band and want to know what they're about. It's a great bridge to the somewhat more inscrutable (but ultimately more rewarding) early to mid period stuff like Opus Dei and Let it Be, and almost accessible enough to be given to Rammstein fans...

Since when..........2004-03-30

...did Laibach feel that they had to resort to ripping off Rammstein or Nitzer Ebb circa "That Total Age"?? Truth be told, groups like Rammstein ripped off Laibach. But what happened here??

Ok, so the cold-war may have long since ended, the wall came down and the impact of lp's (yes, lp's) like "Laibach," "Rekapitualacija," "Occupied Europe Tour," "Nova Akropola," or "Ljubljana-Sagreb-Beograd" has subsided. But still, I am old enough to remember wondering, "what the h*ll happened" when "Let it Be" was first issued. So, if you understand that, perhaps you can understand my opinion of this cd (even though I realize I'm probably in the minority).

Anyway, yes, this cd is very uncharacteristically Laibach. To some newcomers, perhaps that's a welcomed thing. But I long for the days of Laibach as it was...as I watched and listened wide-eyed in my BUNDESWHER fatigues memorizing drills of the LUFTWAFFER and Fallschirmjager.

Get this for what its worth should you feel so inclined. Otherwise, save your dough and go get anything Laibach released in the mid to late 80's, anything by COIL, anything (old) by SPK, or, should you feel like dancing to your so-called "industrial," anything by DAF. Oh, and, shame on me, let's not forget anything by Einsturzende Neubauten (yes, even their newer stuff...forgive me, but they're still EN).

Enjoy kiddies. Erstellt euch!

Average customer rating: Nemeth is Big Time!

Come and Get It John Nemeth , and Junior Watson Manufacturer: John Nemeth featuring Junior Wat ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music Similar Items: Jack of Harps Magic Touch Harpburn Live in Germany 10 Days Out (Blues from the Backroads)/ (CD/DVD) ASIN: B000CAGNEA Release Date: 2004-06-01

Tracks:

1. She Belongs to Me
2. Aint Too Old
3. Come and Get It
4. Bring It on Back
5. What Have I Done Wrong
6. Romance with out Finance
7. I Don't Think I Could
8. Don't You Talk
9. Late Night Hour
10. Let Me Hold You
11. I'm Gonna Drop You
12. Love in Vain
13. Yes, My Darlin'
14. Careless Love
15. She's Gone Away But, She'll Be Back

Customer Reviews:

Nemeth is Big Time!.......2007-01-04

John is big time, BIG TIME. Come and Get Its song list is a well picked mix of standard and Nemeth's own tunes.

With Junior Watson at his side, John's powerful voice and harp playing, swing, bop, and jump work to make this disc great fun. He has a classic old style sound and although Mr Nemeth is still a young man his years on stage in bars in Idaho and Califronia have helped hone is talent. If you are a fan of the blues, you will not go wrong buying this disc.

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Van Eyck: Der Fluyten Lust-Hof (Selections) Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Recorder: 4 Centuries of Recorder Music Frans Brüggen Edition Vol. 2 - Italian Recorder Sonatas Jacob van Eyck: Der Flyuten Lust-Hof The Art of the Recorder Handel: The Complete Sonatas for Recorder ASIN: B0000AQVLS Release Date: 2003-11-11

Average customer rating: A must have for any Danny Lohner fan.

When Obscenity Becomes the Norm / Corpus Christi Angkor Wat Manufacturer: Metal Blade ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000008QNK Release Date: 1995-06-27

Tracks:

1. Innocense '89
2. Something To Cry About
3. Seat Of Power
4. The Search
5. Awake!
6. Under Lock And Key
7. Emotional Blackmail
8. Warsaw
9. Circus Of Horrors/Civilized
10. Indestructible: Innocence 1990
11. Corpus Christi
12. Turn Of The Screw
13. Golden
14. Ann Marie
15. Birdsong (Earth)
16. Ordinary Madness
17. Sinking
18. Schizophrenic Storm
19. Sour Born (Driving Wheel)

Customer Reviews:

A must have for any Danny Lohner fan........2007-05-16

Yes, these are the ablums that Danny Lohner and co. released when they were in high school. Awesome, what more can I say?

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Alles Wat Ik Voel Helmut Lotti Manufacturer: Bmg/RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Vlaamse Nachten Caterina Just for You ASIN: B00005Q4VD Release Date: 2005-06-07

Tracks:

1. Ze Is Mijn Lief
2. Jij
3. Nooit Meer Alleen
4. Je Doet Maar
5. De Liefhebber
6. Alles Wat Ik Voel
7. Mijn Hele Leven
8. Ik Wist Niet Waar Ik Het Had
9. Gek Op Haar
10. De Son In M'n Leven
11. Vergeef Me
12. Verdween In De Nacht
13. Vertel Me Waarom
14. What Kind Of Friend (Bonus Track)

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Blues for Piano Manufacturer: Nm Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music All Works by Rzewski | Rzewski, Frederic | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Blues | Imports | Stores | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00004TYAN Release Date: 2000-06-28

Tracks:

1. Gejaagd Door de Kwint (Dronesome Blues)
2. Ragtime from 'Westen'
3. Golden Shoe
4. Blauwbrug
5. Blues from 'The Road'
6. Distance of Jazz: Far
7. Distance of Jazz: Near
8. Base
9. Otis Plays Arnold
10. Barpianist
11. Honky Blues
12. Wat Volgt
13. Touch of the Blues
14. Marinella's Blues
15. ..."Monsieur Bee Line-Eccentric"
16. Bass Blues
17. Moldavian Blues
18. Worms Is Back!

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Bordesholmer Marienklage 1475 or 1476 Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000001TXZ Release Date: 1993-05-11

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The English Nightingale: Virtuoso Recorder Music 1590-1830 Manufacturer: Albany Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Baroque Dance Suites | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music | Allemandes | Courantes | Gigue | Sarabande All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Corelli | Corelli, Arcangelo | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Telemann, Georg Philipp | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Fantasies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Telemann, Georg Philipp | Composers | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Flute | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Recorder | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000049MV Release Date: 2006-10-24

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The Distant Hills Manufacturer: North Star ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Lullabies & Berceuse | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000003LUL Release Date: 1994-06-14

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