Press Play is an album of seventeen re-edits compiled, tweaked, twisted, touched up and re-worked by Idjut Boys.
Covering house, mutant disco, R&B, techno, electro, hip hop, pop and soul, Press Play is a breathless, eclectic run through some old school nuggets, cult classics, future heroes, lost gems and Haircut 100.
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Press Play
Diddy Manufacturer: Bad Boy ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000GPI2EA Release Date: 2006-10-17 |
Tracks:
- Testimonial (Intro)
- We Gon' Make It
- I Am (Interlude)
- The Future
- Hold Up
- Come To Me
- Tell Me
- Wanna Move
- Diddy Rock
- Claim My Place (Interlude)
- Everything I Love
- Special Feeling
- Crazy Thang (Interlude)
- After Love
- Through The Pain (She Told Me)
- Thought You Said
- Last Night
- Making It Hard
- Partners For Life
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Sean "Diddy" Combs has spent so many years as an entertainment/fashion mogul and tabloid celebrity, that it's easy to forget that he also makes music. Press Play, his first album since 2001's The Saga Continues, is a reminder that whether he's named Puff, Puffy, or Diddy, Combs has a keen sense of what makes a good pop/hip-hop song but that he's also a middling rapper. Listening to Diddy rap in the same monotone flow he's had for years--not to mention his anemic songwriting--is a distracting sonic drag on an otherwise fluidly produced album. There are some excellent tracks, however. Mobb Deep deliver the dark and sinister "The Future" while Rich Harrison knocks out another vigorous workout of a beat for "Making It Hard." The best songs like "Everything I Love" (featuring Nas and Cee-Lo) and the fast, frenetic "Wanna Move" (with Big Boi, Ciara, and Scar) allow Diddy to play a secondary role rather than the main attraction. He's still a savvy mind behind the scenes, but there's not much gained in putting him in front of the mic. --Oliver WangAlbum Description
No one says it better than Diddy himself--"Press Play is based on all my musical experiences - from the Uptown era, when I was working with Jodeci, Mary J. Blige, and Heavy D...to the Biggie, 112, Mase, Total, and No Way Out era. As time evolved, and I started traveling around the world and going into dance and techno clubs, I began to see music from a global point of view. It all came together on Press Play, all those sounds in my head. I've evolved, studied the game, been a part of it, had success. It all comes down to press play. After you press play, it's gonna make or break you in this game." A year in the making, Press Play finds Diddy joined by a who's who of contemporary artists and producers. Among the guest performers are: Christina Aguilera, Mary J. Blige, Jamie Foxx, Big Boi, Brandi, Keyshia Cole, Nas, Fergie, Avant, and Pharoah Monch. Diddy was joined on the production side by the likes of Kanye West, Just Blaze, Pharrell Williams, Havoc from Mobb Deep, Will.I.Am, Rich Harrison, among others.Customer Reviews:
welcome back diddy.......2007-07-17
Probably the best beats of 2006! And no, I'm no fan of Diddy's!!.......2007-06-26
Testimonial (intro) - 9
We Gon' Make It - 6.5
I Am (interlude) - 7.5
The Future - 6.75
Hold Up - 5.5
Come To Me - 8.5
Tell Me - 7.25
Wanna Move - 7
Diddy Rock - 6.25
Claim My Place (interlude) - 7
Everything I Love - 7.5
Special Feeling - 6.25
Crazy Thang (interlude) - 7
After Love - 8 (solid, could be a single)
Through The Pain (She Told Me) - 7.25 (Mario comes off as whiny)
Thought You Said - 7.5 (really loud and different)
Last Night - 8.5
Making It Hard - 7.25 (Sounded like a B'Day reject. Not that that's bad but...)
Partners For Life - 6 (Probably the second worst song on the album)
7.184210526= 3.5 stars
Top 5
Testimonial (Intro) 9
Come To Me 8.5
Last Night 8.5
After Love 8
Thought You Said 7.5
2-1/2 stars -- Why? Why? WHY?.......2007-06-23
Now, Diddy has been known for bringing a slew of guest stars on his albums, especially since his first and third releases credit some variation of "and the family". At first glance, it appears that he is trying to roll for dolo this time around (although that didn't work on Forever), but in actuality, this album is also littered with guest stars, and their performances really aren't that great. And as far as the Bad Boy influence, I can conversely compare this release to posthumous Biggie releases: Biggie was paired with artists he'd probably never work with if he were alive, while here, you'll find people that normally wouldn't be paired with Diddy, like Nas ("Everything I Love") and Big Boi ("Wanna Move").
There are a few tolerable tracks like "After Love" and the necessary song with Mary J. Blige on the hook, "Making It Hard". The best songs, though, would have to be "Come to Me" (with Nicole Scherzinger -- I don't know WHY I like that song so much) and the latest single, "Last Night" featuring Keyshia Cole (but it should really say Keyshia Cole featuring Diddy because Diddy is only on the chorus). But other singers seem to make bad songs even worse, like Brandy ("Thought You Said") and, unsurprisingly, Mario Winans ("Through the Pain"). And if 2006 wasn't such a bad year for collabos, the Christina Aguilera-assisted "Tell Me" would have easily been in the running for my most hated collaborations.
That song also suffers from a hectic beat, which points out another downfall on the album: the production. The beat from the aforementioned "Wanna Move" sounds like it came straight from a Yamaha drum machine, and "Special Feeling" sounds like it was made with a My First Sony. But other songs are just garbage, like "The Future" and especially "Diddy Rock" (and that's also a wack title). Also skippable is "Hold Up", which features Diddy saying that when it comes to foes: "They disturb me, but it's love like tennis." What?
And this damn album is 79 minutes long, too. Basically, as other reviewers have said, the only button you'll really be pressing after listening to Press Play is STOP/EJECT.
Anthony Rupert
This album is hot........2007-05-26
I'd give this C.D. ZERO Stars, if that were possible...P. Silly.......2007-05-24
Does P Silly have any friends in his life, you know, the kind who are bruatally honest who will pull him to the side and really tell him the truth.
ALSO, if I here that god awful song last nigh one more time, I'm gonna hurl. P. Silly must be paying radio stations to play this garbage.
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Press to Play
Paul McCartney Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000005RPV Release Date: 1993-08-16 |
Tracks:
- Stranglehold
- Good Times Coming - Feel The Sun
- Talk More Talk
- Footprints
- Only Love Remains
- Press
- Pretty Little Head
- Move Over Busker
- Angry
- However Absurd
- Write Away
- It's Not True
- Tough On A Tightrope
- Spies Like Us
- Once Upon A Long Ago
Album Details
Digitally Remastered Reissue of the Original Album with Press and Footprints, plus Two Bonus Tracks Added: Spies Like Us and Once Upon a Long Ago (Long Version).Customer Reviews:
MUCH BETTER THAN I FIRST THOUGHT.......2007-06-05
plus i love the cover and the bonus tracks are fine.
One of McCartney's Best.......2006-06-23
Its certainly not his most commercial work, but that's this album's charm. For decades, critics have chided the man for being too commercial. Here he finally branches out a bit, with song-writing collaboration on several songs for the first time (credited anyway) since Lennon.
This is only his 3rd effort since the disbanding of Wings so what you get is honest McCartney creativity. Taken in context, there isn't really a bad song included. As with many McCartney albums released in the past 20 years or so, the cuts that were remixed and released as singles sound very different than the album versions.
Press To Play (1986).......2006-06-09
THE MOST UNDERRATED ALBUM IN HISTORY!.......2006-02-24
what a let down.......2006-01-11
I also really dislike 'talk more talk' with the ridiculous vocals and the actual melody is so tuneless I still can't remember it.
'Good times coming' is also directionless in my head and 'press' is cheesy, and not in a good way...probably one of the most vomit inducing songs, particularly lyrically and instrumentally.
I really like the songs where Paul plays it 'safe', in other words, goes back to playing what he is good at-
Namely- 'Only love remains', a beautiful piano orchestrated ballad, as good as anything he has written, and the gorgeous 'tough on a tightrope', that is extrmely melodic and could have fit on one of his albums from circa 1982-1984.
'Footprints' has a nice acoustic guitar arrangement and I really like it, but the melody is a bit weaker.
As for the bonus tracks, 'Spies like us' is a shallow bit of harmless fun. Nothing great. But, 'once in a lifetime' is a beautiful song, one of the best from his career.
The most puzzling thing is that Paul hadn't lost the ability to write great songs. Around 1985-1987, he recorded some brilliant demoes, which easily could have made it onto a revised track listing and hence relaced 'press to play'. Listen to the beautiful, extrodinary 'lindiana', or the ballad 'yvonne'. Paul also wrote some songs that later were to make b-sides, but are exceptional songs nonetheless, such as 'loveliest thing', 'love come tumbling down' and the incredible piano ballad 'same love', all from this period.
Unfortunately, Macca seems to have the inability at times, to know when a song is good and what to subsequently put on each album. As this album is, it should be titled
'PRESS TO DELETE...'
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Press Play
Diddy Manufacturer: Bad Boy ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000I5X7ZM Release Date: 2006-10-17 |
Tracks:
- Testimonial (Intro)
- We Gon' Make It
- I Am (Interlude)
- The Future
- Hold Up
- Come To Me
- Tell Me
- Wanna Move
- Diddy Rock
- Claim My Place (Interlude)
- Everything I Love
- Special Feeling
- Crazy Thang (Interlude)
- After Love
- Through The Pain (She Told Me)
- Thought You Said
- Last Night
- Making It Hard
- Partners For Life
Customer Reviews:
Press Eject.......2007-07-16
Press Play is terrible.......2006-12-21
I Had To Press "Skip" A Few Times Before "Play" (Rating 4 out 10- -2 stars).......2006-10-25
Now as for the songs themselves, some of them I could listen to, like the "Testimonial (Intro)", he spits a pretty decent rhyme on that song, then it goes down hill from there from here on his behalf. I do dig the hit single "Come To Me". Most of the beats are bangin' throughout this album is why people will like it. "Diddy Rock" is one of those songs I'm describing, despite the corny hook by Timbaland. I like the song "Through The Pain (She Told Me)" with Mario Winans as it holds a nice beat. "Hold Up" shows there is little suspect that he can carry a song by himself. The innovation stops here.
As for the bad, the majority of these tracks I believe shouldn't have seen the light of day. I believe "Last Night" was one of them as he sings with Keisha Cole, thats right he SINGS (...oh and you have to hear what he says at the end of the song). Towards the end of the album, he starts getting pretty bad as he has a lot of songs talking about females causing the lack of subject matter throughout this album. I barely got through the second track "The Future" without hitting the skip button. I believe "Special Feeling" is a joke to everybody that listens to that song. And "Tell Me" with Christina Agulera is unbarable beat wise and with a pathethic hook.
Some of the guests couldn't save this album. Nas and Cee-Lo couldn't revive the dead song "Everything I Love". And Shawnna and Twista doesn't add to the "Diddy Rock" song. Big Boi of Outkast swaps verses with Diddy outshining him on the song "Wanna Move"
So I believe a lot of people got what they expected. A some horrible songs mixed in with some songs with dance beats. Pop listeners and Diddy fans will eat this up. Believe it or not, I admire Diddy for his work and how successful he is, becomming an icon in rap music. I just believe that he shouldn't come stay far as possible from the microphone, seriously. If you're curious to hear this, give it a listen, just know what you're expecting from it.
Lyrics: D
Production: C
Guest Appearances: A
Musical Vibes: D-
Overall:C-
Favorite Tracks: Come To Me, Hold Up, Everything I Love, Diddy Rock, Partners For Life, Wanna Move
Peace!
Workout to this all day long.......2006-10-19
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People Press Play
People Press Play Manufacturer: Morr Music / M.M. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000PC1O5S Release Date: 2007-07-17 |
Tracks:
- Girl
- Always Wrong
- These Days
- That Walk
- Hanging On
- Frail
- Studio
- Before Me
- Everything
- Stop
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Press to Play
Paul McCartney Manufacturer: Capitol ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000DQSQ Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
Tracks:
- Stranglehold
- Good Times Coming/Feel the Sun
- Talk More Talk
- Footprints
- Only Love Remains
- Press
- Pretty Little Head
- Move over Busker
- Angry
- However Absurd
- Write Away
- It's Not True
- Tough on a Tightrope
- Spies Like Us [*]
- Once upon a Long Ago [Long Version][*]
Customer Reviews:
Press it like McCartney.......2005-01-07
See, by this time, the world was truly turning its attention elsewhere and Paul was still making the same formulaic music that was his strength in the 1970s except the world had moved on to the 1980s and was fixin to get ready to start changing for the 1990s... and that, my dear review reader, is the progression of time. See, time waits n\for no man (and only 10 minutes for a woman) and Paul was kind of caught in a time warp with his music. I happen to like this album a lot, but even when it came out it was dated.
I ain't got much to say about this one, except that the twins particularly like the album due to the nice sepia tone cover artwork that features Paul and the late Linda looking like a couple from the 1940s. They refer to this one as "the romantic album" because they think the photo looks romantic. Me and Mama listen to it now and again, but not nearly as much as his other stuff.
If you absolutely have to have everything he ever done did - then go ahead on and get this one. If not, then there are better album from which to start discovering McCartney.
Press To Play.......2004-03-01
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G-Unit Radio 22 Hip-Hop Is Dead 50 Cent DJ Whoo Kid (Mixtape)
Prodige, 40 Glocc, Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks, Diddy, Hot Rod, Fergie, Jazze Pha 50 Cent ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000JZFKIS |
Product Description
You're all invited to the funeral for something we all used to love: hip-hop. 'Hip-Hop Is Dead' is theme of this mixtape. It was taken from us over time and it's time to give it its proper due. Leading the eulogy will be DJ Whoo Kid and 50 Cent aka. Rap's Grim Reaper (the two have a few special shout outs before they get started). With some recent developments, the G-Unit ringleader has taken up a disliking for Diddy, and he's willing to explain if you'll let him...We thought you might. This mixtape features a slew of new music from Curtis Jackson aka. "The Man That Killed Hip-Hop" (that's what the mixtape's Intro says, we ain't say it!) as he takes aim at Bad Boy's main man (and old enemies) and debuts new G-Unit music from Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo, Hot Rod, Prodigy & 40 Glocc. TrackList 1 - Hip Hop Is Dead Intro 2 - 50 Cent - Hip-Hop (Dissin' Diddy) 3 - 50 Cent feat. Prodigy, 40 Glocc -Serial Killer 4 - 50 Cent feat. Tony Yayo - Watch Yo Back 5 - Lloyd Banks - Survivor 6 - 50 Cent - Skit 7 - Diddy New Sh** 8 - 50 Cent feat. Tony Yayo, Hot Rod - Get Down (Dissin' Diddy) 9 - 50 Cent - Don't Front 10 - 50 Cent feat. Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks, Hot Rod - Girl Gimme Yo Number 11 - 50 Cent - Superstar 12 - 50 Cent feat. Fergie - London London 13 - 50 Cent feat. Hot Rod - I Got Ho*s [produced by Whoo Kid & DJ Dirt T] 14 - 50 Cent - Mind Sex 15 - 50 Cent - Puppy Love 16 - Young Buck feat. Jazze Pha - If You Want Some 17 - Drunk Diddy OutroCustomer Reviews:
you know i really care much for fitty but this is a good one.......2006-11-24
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8 Minute Meditation Guided CD
Victor Davich Manufacturer: 8 Minutes ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0006HTYZE Release Date: 2004-07-21 |
Tracks:
- Welcome
- How 8 Minute Meditation Works
- Setting up for 8 Minute Meditation
- Meditation Posture
- Operating Instructions, I
- Operating Instructions, II
- The 8 Meditation Techniques
- Beyond 8 Minute Meditation
- Week One: Just One Breath
- Week Two: Naked Sound
- Week Three: Noting Body Sensations
- Week Four: This Magic Moment
- Week Five: Gracious Declining
- Week Six: Private Screening
- Week Seven: Lovingkindness Meditation
- Week Eight: Combination Plate
Album Description
The 8-minute a day meditation program that Time Magazine calls "The most American form of meditation yet" just got easier. Just press "play" and Victor guides you through your daily 8-minute meditation with minimum intrusion. No muss. No fuss.
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Press Play
Various Artists Manufacturer: Instinct Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00005J6X8 Release Date: 2001-06-12 |
Tracks:
- 426 Phenomenon (Camityville Remix By DJ Cam) - Koji Sekiguchi
- Shakatakadoodub - Kruder & Dorfmeister
- Innerscar (Belleville Meditation Blues Mix By Kid Loco) - Shinju Gum
- Scram - Curtis & Cujo
- The Far East Coast - Exodus Quartet
- The Greatest - DJ Cam Revisits Goo
- Stiff Jazz - Abe Duque & Richard Dorfmeister
- Something Stronger - Saru
- Electric - Hybrid Device
- Basement Music - Moodorama
- Joyride - Mujaji
- French Riviera - Super Pulse
- Le Dub Monochrome - Blend
- Inspire - Greg Long
Customer Reviews:
You heard the man, press play already!.......2001-07-03
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Press to Play
Paul McCartney ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000009GH4 Release Date: 1998-02-23 |
Tracks:
- Stranglehold
- Good Times Coming/Feel The Sun
- Talk More Talk
- Footprints
- Only Lovr Remains
- Press
- Pretty Little Head
- Move Over Busker
- Angry
- However Absurd
- Write Away
- It's Not True
- Tough On A Tightrope
- Spies Like Us
- Once Upon Along Ago(Long Version)
Album Description
Digitally remastered reissue of his top 30 1986 EMI albumfeaturing the hits 'Press' & 'Stranglehold', plus two bonustracks: the title hit from the 1985 Dan Akroyd/ Chevy Chasefilm 'Spies Like Us' & 'Once Upon A Long Ago' (LongVersion). 15 tracks total. 1993 EMI release.Customer Reviews:
A Lost Gem!!!!!.......2006-03-03
Press to Play , Only Love Remains which is a great Ballad and Pretty Little Head ( The Video is Awesome) plus Bonus tracks Spies Like Us & Once Upon A Long Ago !!! Overall a good album that gets overlooked!!!
Press it like McCartney.......2005-01-07
See, by this time, the world was truly turning its attention elsewhere and Paul was still making the same formulaic music that was his strength in the 1970s except the world had moved on to the 1980s and was fixin to get ready to start changing for the 1990s... and that, my dear review reader, is the progression of time. See, time waits n\for no man (and only 10 minutes for a woman) and Paul was kind of caught in a time warp with his music. I happen to like this album a lot, but even when it came out it was dated.
I ain't got much to say about this one, except that the twins particularly like the album due to the nice sepia tone cover artwork that features Paul and the late Linda looking like a couple from the 1940s. They refer to this one as "the romantic album" because they think the photo looks romantic. Me and Mama listen to it now and again, but not nearly as much as his other stuff.
If you absolutely have to have everything he ever done did - then go ahead on and get this one. If not, then there are better album from which to start discovering McCartney.
THE MOST UNDERRATED ALBUM IN HISTORY!.......2003-12-24
Press To Play - Paul McCartney.......2003-06-14
Album tremendamente incomprendido.......2002-11-24
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Paul McCartney (Self Titled) / Press To Play
Paul McCartney ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000RAARVA |
Product Description
Import. Two albums on one CD.Album Review:
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