Super Audio CD version of the UK dance act's fourth album features 10 tracks including the singles, 'Familiar Felling' and 'Forever More'. Plays on all SACD & CD players. Echo. 2003.
Statues,Moloko,Dance
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T.S.O.L./Weathered Statues
T.S.O.L. Manufacturer: Nitro Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000003J28 Release Date: 1997-10-07 |
Tracks:
- Superficial Love
- Property Is Theft
- No Way Out
- Abolish Government/Silent Majority
- World War III
- Man And Machine
- Weathered Statues
- Thooughts Of Yesterday
- Word Is
Album Description
Reissue of the legendary Orange County punkers 1981 debut EP, first released on Posh Boy, now on Nitro & digitally remastered with all 9 original tracks, including 'Abolish Government / Silent Majority' and 'Thoughts Of Yesterday'.Customer Reviews:
Part of history, but I hate this band........2006-08-03
I also hate this band.
They are grossly overrated... a band that was in the right place at the right time, knew the right people, did the right things with the right people and got a slot in the "golden age" of Cali punk... all before devolving into a masscara mess of a hairspray band that makes Poison look tough. Was it ever REALLY about the music Jack?
Oh yeah, kids: Jack is a deceptive shell of a person. I've seen him play to small turnouts at clubs that insulted his ego and let's just say he doesn't care as much as you'd want to believe. He says the right thing in the zines and hangs out with the cool punk bands, but this guy is a LOSER. Just an ex-junkie looking for a quote in any publication that will print his name.
Download the "classic" TSOL songs. Avoid "the Joykiller" albums like the plague. Appearances are deceiving.
Buy a D.I. album instead.
Old school classic tunes.......2004-09-14
The Gods of Goth Punk's Best!.......2003-06-17
Nitro has re-released two of their classic EPs: their undeniably excellant self-titled debut, and the incredible Weathered Statues EP, which were originally released on Posh Boy, a label that also included the surf punk band Agent Orange, who were equals in the influental circle with TSOL!
These guys are definatly for any punk taste. Mixing punk with hints of pop, surf, goth, and even at times pychedelica, these guys broke the many punk boundrys that no one dared break before. When people say that Sex Pistols and the early punk bands influenced everyone in punk, look into TSOL. You'll understand how they can be included on a list with Descendents, Minor Threat and even Black Flag, of underrated bands that intensly influenced punk as it is today (washed-up trash). Despite what some call "punk" today, it doesn't compare to the intensity and unforgiven ruthlessness of these two classic EPs. Deffinatly not for fans of Blink 182 or Good Charollote (the washed-up of the washed-up trash) and not for new fans to punk, this definatly one of the greatest punk albums known to man and should be heard by any true punk fan.
TEST YOUR LIMITS!!!
Awesome!.......2001-11-30
Nice to see it re-issued........2000-06-14
If you find yourself mostly listening to the tracks Weathered Statues, Thoughts of Yesterday, and Word Is, you should really pick up Dance With Me ( Their deathrock debut album ), and Beneath The Shadows ( Really artsy, with the use of synths!).
TSOL remain one of my favorite bands of the Deathrock genre, infact they are one of my favorite bands of all time.
-Tommy Demise
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Statues
Moloko Manufacturer: Japanese Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00006LIX0 Release Date: 2003-03-24 |
Tracks:
- Familiar Feeling
- Come On
- Cannot Contain This
- Statues
- Forever More
- Blow X Blow
- 100%
- Only Ones
- I Want You
- Over and Over
- Familiar Feeling [Timo Maas Main Mix][*]
- Familiar Feeling [Martin Buttrich Remix][*]
Album Description
Asian edition of the British dance-pop duo's 2003 album contains 12 tracks including two bonus tracks, 'Familiar Feeling' (Timo Maas Main Mix & Martin Buttrich Remix). Pony Canyon.Album Details
Aian Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks: 'familiar Feelings (Timo Maas Main Mix)', and 'familiar Feelings (Martin Buttrich Remix)'.Customer Reviews:
Fourth and foremost.......2007-07-03
Well, what a pleasant surprise, because what turned out to be their swansong may have become my favourite CD ever. The duo didn't just retread the past glories of kook classics Do You Like My Tight Sweater? and I Am Not A Doctor, but overshot them with a maturity which only bolstered their legendary status.
Roisin Murphy's voice is better here than ever. A friend of mine who dropped by when I was playing it said, "Alanis Morissette on weed", and while you can see what he means, the lyrical approach, while no less intelligent, has a charming idiosyncracy that's so far from the North American sensibility as to make comparisons pretty unhelpful.
And Mark Brydon's always inventive arrangements benefit from a more orchestral sweep than previously. When this is fused with electronica, as in the opener, Familiar Feeling (the version here having a two-minute, staccato intro that's pure anxiety) and I Want You, the effect is pure synesthesia - greater than the sum of its parts. Mind you, the strings on this album would make it worth a punt on their own.
Bouncy slices of dance-pop like 100% and Cannot Contain This helped maintain Moloko's undoubted club appeal, but it's the lyrics that'll have you poring over the insert. They've always been leftfield, to say the least, but these "Party Weirdos" can take on subjects such as obsession, lost love and disappointment as well as any torch balladeer - all with Roisin's brittle, delicately-phrased vocals wrapped deliciously around them.
It's one of those rare albums when you'll have a new favourite track every day. Today, that's The Only Ones (track 8).
Even the melodrama of the final track, Over And Over, at nigh-on ten minutes, manages to feel self-indulgent for the listener, rather than the musicians. Indulge yourself - you might not get as much wear out of a CD for quite a while.
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Excellent, but be warned..........2006-02-10
This album mixes different music styles from jazz to electronic and of course, Roisin's voice is amazing to say the least...this music creates a mood that will remind you of something, though you may not know what that something is. Definitely for listening and enjoying, kind of introspective. In my opinion best track: "Forever More". Music and lyrics amazing.
Brilliant album.......2005-09-25
In the classic style of..........2005-06-13
The beautiful irony of the band is that their quirky, indefinable style is definable by it's quirkiness, but at least no one else can quite muster the style with the belivable ellegance of they. This album is characteristicly, beautiful and bonkers and a joyous daliance with funky eccentricity. Bliss.
I cant erase the smile on my face.......2005-02-03
HM
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Cut Off
Rebuilding the Rights of Statues Manufacturer: Tag Team Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000RY00YK Release Date: 2007-07-24 |
Tracks:
- Die In 1997
- A Death-Bed Song
- Boys In Cage
- If the Monkey Becomes (To Be) the King
- TV Show (Hang the Police)
- Laugh From the Time
- A Vision Of Christ
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Music: Breathing of Statues
Viola Crayola Manufacturer: Radioactive ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0006V5RFQ Release Date: 2006-08-01 |
Album Description
UK reissue of highly sought after 1974 album from Texas prog/psych act. Eight tracks. Radioactive. 2004.Customer Reviews:
A lost gem refound.......2007-07-22
If it isn't clear yet, this is music made by musicians who were not garden-variety garage-band psychedelizoids (like me), but were skilled, passionate, and full of a youthful desire to be as proficient as possible while not forgetting to just plain rip it up.
One caveat: the mastering could be better, as the bass frequencies seem weak--crank up the lows and listen to it loud.
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Statues
The Open Manufacturer: Umvd Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000CR8RAQ Release Date: 2006-02-13 |
Tracks:
- Forever
- We Can Never Say Goodbye
- Moment In Time
- Lovers In The Rain
- Statues
- My House
- She's Mystery
- Seasons Of The Change
- Fallen Tree
- Alone
Album Description
The Open return with 'Statues' the follow up to their massively acclaimed debut album 'The Silent Hours'. Recorded in the south of France and produced by Rob Kerwin (U2, The Magic Numbers) 'Statues' is a huge leap forward for The Open and evokes the likes of Doves, Radiohead and even Miles Davis. The single 'We Can Never Say Goodbye' is included. Universal. 2006Album Details
The Open Return in 2006 with "Statues", the Follow Up to their Widely Acclaimed Debut Album "The Silent Hours". Recorded in the South of France and Produced by Rob Kerwin (U2, the Magic Numbers), "Statues" is a Huge Leap Forward for the Open and is Reminiscent of Artists as Diverse as Doves, Radiohead and Miles Davis. The Beautiful Album Art for this Epic was Designed by Vaughn Oliver, Whose Covers for the 4ad Label Product (Dead Can Dance, Pixies) Are Legendary.Customer Reviews:
Amazing. I feel refresh about music again..........2007-05-31
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Statues
Moloko Manufacturer: Liberation Music Oz ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0002TKWE8 Release Date: 2003-02-18 |
Tracks:
- Familiar Feeling
- Come On
- Cannot Contain This
- Statues
- Forever More
- Blow X Blow
- 100%
- Only Ones
- I Want You
- Over and Over
- Familiar Feeling [Timo Maas Main Mix][*]
- Familiar Feeling [Martin Buttrich Remix][*]
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Aux
Statues Manufacturer: Pelado ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0007KTB3K Release Date: 2005-02-15 |
Tracks:
- Fine Tuned
- Caught
- Barstool
- Division
- Roger, Copy That
- Picket
- Still, There Are The Ones
- Step Up
- Collateral
- Wishful Thinking
- Signals
- Urbania
- There Are Things I Think You Should Know
- Telecommunication
- Vintage
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Statues
Moloko ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000Y37OC Release Date: 2004-01-13 |
Album Description
Super Audio CD version of the UK dance act's fourth album features 10 tracks including the singles, 'Familiar Felling' and 'Forever More'. Plays on all SACD & CD players. Echo. 2003.
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Music of Chris Theofanidis
Manufacturer: Albany Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000049OP Release Date: 1995-11-29 |
Tracks:
- I Corinthians 13
- The Discovery
- Fantasy For Two Pianos
- Voices: Emily Dickenson
- Voices: Ezra Pound
- Voices: Adrienne Rich
- Suite For Flute & Piano: Allegro giocoso
- Suite For Flute & Piano: Andante cantabile
- Suite For Flute & Piano: Vivace
- Sikelianos
- Statues: Partial symmetries
- Statues: Eros
- Statues: Unstuck sound
- Statues: Visigoth
- Statues: Bard
- String Quartet No. 1
- Disruption For Orchestra
- The Prayer Of Saint Francis
- I Corinthians 13
Customer Reviews:
In search of an individual voice.......2007-03-27
I find much of it disappointingly lacking in originality, though.
Thoefanidis' setting of I Corinthians 13 for chorus, percussion, organ and brass is full of the bombastic fanfares one associates with Bloch and Honegger at their most tritely bombastic. Why two different recordings are offered is not explained. "The Discovery" for Chamber Orchestra goes one step backwards, to Virgil Thomson, Barber and Vaughan Williams at their most pastoral and "prairie-style". It was originally written as music for a documentary on a camp for "handicapped and non-handicapped teenagers in an environment of self-worth and interdependence", which only shows that this particular "Gebrauchmusik" (music conceived for a specific use) fails to transcend its original use and doesn't stand on its own. The reflective "Prayer of Saint Francis" sounds like some apprentice Duruflé (and the un-ingratiating chorus sounds like the congregation singing rather than like a trained ensemble).
The Fantasy for Two Pianos has snap and wit, its only but not small limitation being that it could have been written by George Antheil at his most conservative, by Satie, by Milhaud or by the young and brash Shostakovich, and the Suite for Flute & Piano is likewise very much in the stylistic wake of French music from the twenties to forties (Roussel, Poulenc...). As for the String Quartet, with its strong rhythmic contour (the composition is based on the repetition of a same melodic cell submitted to continuous changes in meter), it is stylistically reminiscent of similar pieces by Krenek, Hindemith and the kind of "mildly modernist" style of composition prevalent in the 30s to 50s.
Voices for soprano and orchestra sets to music three poems by respectively Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound and Adrienne Rich. Its musical language is more up to date, dramatic and orchestrally colorful, though not very innovative but rather neo-Romantic in a post-Britten / post-Barber sort of way. Only in the short Ezra Pound fragment can one here the glissandos and mysterious melismas that made the Violin Concerto so striking.
Its fine for a young composer to chose to ignore those innovations and advances in compositional writing introduced in the last 40 to 50 years by Ligeti, Crumb, Xenakis and the likes, provided that he discards them in favor of something of individuality. I don't hear that in the aforementioned works of Theofanidis.
Some pieces on this disc however I thought displayed the kind of originality and individuality that I had heard in the Violin Concerto. The short (3:50) "Disruption for Orchestra" is not particularly innovative in its language - it is one of those dazzling and dramatic orchestral showpieces that can open a symphonic program to good effect - but interesting and fun nonetheless in its willingness to pull no punches and produce the greatest possible racket. It must be even more impressive heard live. "Sikelianos" (title unexplained in the liner notes. Is it the Greek to Siciliana ?) is an Octet adding to Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" instrumentation (flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano) two congas and percussion. It is inspired by "Indian musical tradition" and brings to the fore those fascinating glissando melismas over abrupt punctuations by piano and congas, all organized in a 5 and ½ -minute crescendo build-up to a dramatic climax and abrupt end. It is very effective and quite fascinating. "Statues", a composition in five movements for solo piano, is also quite original in its willingness to explore the resonances produced by small melodic cells and its alternation of such mysteriously resonating chords and dramatic outbursts of awesome virtuosity. These are the two pieces that give you the impression that you are not hearing music that could have been written by so many other composers so many years before.
Sikelianos and Statues both date from 1992 and the Violin Concerto from 1997. The other pieces on this disc are earlier compositions, ranging from 1988 (Fantasy) to 1992 (Voices and The Discovery). So maybe it is that Theofanidis found his own personal voice only from 1992 onwards.
Chris Theofanidis is Brilliant!.......2004-08-14
Perfect........2001-04-13
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Now and Then: The New York Bassoon Quartet
Manufacturer: Leonarda Productions ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00004WJL3 Release Date: 2002-05-20 |
Tracks:
- Suite of Early American Tunes, arr. by Christopher Weait: General Wayne's March
- Hymn Tune "Work for the Night is Coming" (Weait)
- Waltz and Dexter's Air (Weait)
- Lady Bruce's Reel, Minor Hornpipe, Durang's Hornpipe (Weait)
- Cobbs' Superior (Weait)
- Capt. Mulligan (Weait)
- How Like Pellucid Statues, Daddy (Or like a...an engine) by John Corigliano
- Humerous Scherzo, Op. 12 bis by Sergei Prokofiev
- Quartettino by William Schuman: Ostinato
- Quartettino by William Schuman: Ostinato
- Valse (Schuman)
- Fughetta (Schuman)
- Canzonetta by John Harbison
- Last Tango in Bayreuth by Peter Schickele
- Sinfonia by Katherine Hoover: Introduction and Funeral March
- Sinfonia: Allegro Vivace (Hoover)
- Colloquy and Chorale by Alvin Brehm: Colloquy
- Chorale (Brehm)
- Concert Etudes for Four Bassoons by Vaclav Nelhybel: Allegro Vivo
- Concert Etudes: Allegretto (Nelhybel)
- Concert Etudes: Canon: Andante Moderato (Nelhybel)
- Concert Etudes: Allegro (Nelhybel)
- Contrasts for Four Bassoons by Rudolph Palmer: Moderato
- Contrasts for Four Bassoons: Allegretto (Palmer)
Album Description
Recorded Works from 1979 and 1999. 1999 recording: (Weait, Corigliano, Prokofiev, Schuman, Harbison): Marnie Hall, producer and microphones; David Smith, console. Recorded in New York City at Town Hall. Post production: Marnie Hall. DDD. 1979 recording: (Schickele, Hoover, Brehm, Nelhybel, Palmer): Joanna Nickrenz, producer; Marc Aubort, engineer. Recorded in New York City at Rutgers Church. Post production for LP: Nickrenz/Aubort. ADD. CD mastering and graphic design: Marnie Hall. Artistic coordinator: Bernadette Zirkuli.This recording is made possible with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. © 2002, Leonarda Productions, Inc. CDs made in the U.S.A. All rights reserved.
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