Sheet Music

1. Wall Street Shuffle

2. Worst Band in the World

3. Hotel

4. Old Wild Men

5. Clockwork Creep

6. Silly Love

7. Somewhere in Hollywood

8. Baron Samedi

9. Sacro-Iliac

10. Oh Effendi

11. Carat Man of Means

12. Gismo My Way

Sheet Music,10cc,Originals,Album Rock,Pop,Pop/Rock,Prog-Rock/Art Rock,Rock

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Simple Yet Highly Effective
Mark is my friend.
You cant kill whats already dead, but i wont blame you for trying
ugly sunday afternoon
The best Lanegan ever

The Winding Sheet
Mark Lanegan
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Ocean of Confusion: Songs of Screaming Trees 1989-1996
Desert Sessions Volume 7 & 8

ASIN: B0000035EH
Release Date: 1992-05-22

Tracks:

Mockingbirds
Museum
Undertow
Ugly Sunday
Down In The Dark
Wild Flowers
Eyes Of A Child
The Winding Sheet
Woe
Ten Feet Tall
Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Juarez
I Love You Little Girl

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The singer for the Screaming Trees, Lanegan here choses to substitute his band's psychedelic yawp for the moody introspection of modern blues. His smooth croon transforms into an angry growl when the music turns stormy. "Mockingbirds" features a treacherously descending piano melody; "Wild Flowers" allows for an out-of-tune guitar to explain its world-weariness. "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" is noted for being the first time a Seattle grunge-rocker tackled the old Leadbelly classic. (The second Seattle guy to tackle it, Kurt Cobain, can be heard on electric guitar and on backing vocals for "Down in the Dark.") --Rob O'Connor

Customer Reviews:

Simple Yet Highly Effective.......2006-05-24

After enjoying Lanegan's sophomore effort "Whiskey For The Holy Ghost", I decided to go back to the beginning with his menacing debut 'The Winding Sheet'. After a few listens to this album I thought it was decent, and a solid singer/songwriter effort. However, with repeated listens over the years, this album has become right up there with my favourites, and probably my favourite late-night melancholy outing.

What Lanegan did for this solo debut was take his whiskey soaked, emotionally charged voice, write some earnest lyrics about love, longing and mental frailty, and lace it all with simplistic and mellow acoustic guitars. A tried and tested formula, and it works. His later albums would add more instrumentation and more complex structures, but to me, this is his best album.

For one thing the album is extremely consistent, something necessary with its stripped down style to keep the attention of the listener. The opener "Mockingbird" is probably the most layered song on the album, with drums, acoustic and electric guitars, and piano thrown into the mix. It's a great opener, and sets up the moody style of the album, with Lanegan's husky croons of "your voice is a mockingbird, telling me where I'm going wrong". The album just continues with this style, albeit slightly stripped down. My personal highlights from the rest of it include the extremely calming "Eyes of a Child" in which Lanegan really shines, almost whispering the beautiful chorus lines of "see through the eyes of a child...". The title track creates mental toil through Lanegan's desperate voice, a really powerful song, it flows through its entirety with distant echoing guitars and Lanegan's haunting lyrics, peaked by the shimmering line "I am sick in my soul". "Wild Flowers" is another favourite of mine, essentially a very simple track evolving around the most basic of chord progressions and, to be honest, a rather simple vocal melody. But it is just a great listen, mostly due to Lanegan's calming vocals.

And that is the general theme for this album, simple yet effective...man and guitar.

Mark is my friend........2006-03-17

So Screaming Trees were as we all very well know-great. But Mark Lanegan solo has this erie quality to his voice. He sounds older than he did with Screaming Trees.. and the songs are unlike what I thought they'd be. It's a great cd. Mark Lanegan is great. Just greatness all around. There aren't even words for me to tell you why its great.. just that it is.. Great.

You cant kill whats already dead, but i wont blame you for trying .......2005-12-27

The Winding Sheet is Lanegans first effort to give himself to his folk influences , to become a respected songwritter and an individual musician without the other "trees" this Lanegans solo album is quite different to his previous work with his Seattle Grunge emblematic band Screaming Trees , its depressive, melancholic, intense, troubled and beautifull, this album opens with "mocking birds" and a sad but appealing at the same time environment sorrounds the space, cuts like "juarez" are kinda funny in the middle of the grey atmosphere,"loveyou little girl" is another nice short track, "where did you sleep last night" were recorded in the days were Kurt Cobain still were in this world and you can hear his voice in the backing vocals as well Novoselic bass, later Nirvana did their own version of this song a good one too, The Winding Sheet
may be the darkest album in Lanegans discography but is one of the most appealing.

HM

ugly sunday afternoon .......2005-11-09

mark lanegan's first solo album with the yet unknown artist kurdt cobain under his wing, singing backing vocals and guitar on a couple of tracks but this is not about kurdt this is about mark lanegan and his brilliant first solo album only surpress by the beautiful sombre "bubblegum" that was released in 2004 to rave reviews
this album has all the trademarks of an artist finding his feet and giving a middle finger to anyone who doesn't care,
this album features the classic cover which nirvana would remarkably cover nearly 5 years later yes you know what i'm talking about the classic blues/artist leadbelly huddie leadbetter aka leadbelly "where did you sleep last night" i'm not saying i hate the nirvana version but mark's voice sorts it better
well the cover out the way there's more classics
musuem mockingbirds ugly sunday, eyes of a child, WOE,
and juarez
mark lanegan the gravely voiced genius puts a notch on his belt..
A FANTASTIC DEBUT AND CLASSIC country/grunge

The best Lanegan ever.......2005-05-28

Soothing, disquieting, unbelievably subtle work by this amazing performer. Serpentine guitar solos, acoustic crooning, melodies that remain etched in the brain.
Contains the acoustic version of the Leadbelly classic Where did you sleep last night, and a young Kurdt Cobain is credited on guitar. Kurt will not forget this arrangement and, three years later, a megastar on the verge of suicide, will give his fans the gift of his raw, fantastic interpretation in the Unplugged show.

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Sheet Music - 10CC
No Sophmore Slump
The thingamajig got lost in the Wall Street Shuffle.
Sheet Music

Sheet Music
10cc
Manufacturer: Repertoire
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The Original Soundtrack
10cc
How Dare You!
Deceptive Bends
Bloody Tourists

ASIN: B000042OR9
Release Date: 2000-02-28

Tracks:

The Wall Street Shuffle
The Worst Band In The World
Hotel
Old Wild Men
Clockwork Creep
Silly Love
Somewhere In Hollywood
Baron Samedi
The Sacro-Iliac
Oh Effendi
18 Carat Man Of Means
Gismo My Way

Album Description

Digitally remastered, German reissue of 1974 album featuring'The Worst Band In The World'. Includes 2 bonus tracks '18 Carat Man Of Means' & 'Gismo My Way'. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Edition of the Godley-creme-stewart Led Group's Second Full Length Album that Produced the Minor Top 40 Hit "The Wall Street Shuffle" and the Satirical "The Worst Band in the World.

Customer Reviews:

Sheet Music - 10CC.......2005-10-21

Further to the other reviews, which I agree with, I bought this CD version of Sheet Music for the bonus b-side tracks "18 Carat Man Of Means" and "Gizmo My Way".

18 Carat Man Of Means is as good as anything on the album...it starts off like a basic 12 bar blues/rock song, then morphs into a heartbreaking multi-harmonied classic.

Gizmo My Way is merely a hawaiian sounding instrumental, and not entirely essential but still pleasant.

Anyone who likes the spontaneous nature of this album should check out the album simply titled "L" by Godley&Creme from 1981 and prepare to be blown away with it's weirdness.

(it is also interesting to note the major similarities between "Somewhere In Hollywood" and Queen's subsequent mega-hit "Bohemian Rhapsody" released the following year. Freddie and Co. must have been studying it, surely).

No Sophmore Slump.......2005-03-17

10cc was a band that got better with every album, up until How Dare You! any ways: I've only heard Deceptive Bends and Bloody Tourists after this (though Look Hear and Ten out of Ten are in the mail) so I can't really judge those albums. But while the first album was a perfect mix of goofy jokes, innovative song writing and playing, and great satire, this album not only one ups that album musically, but ten ups it! sorry, bad pun.

The music gets much more complex on this album: the strange styles have amagalized into a style of complex genre changes, complex chord changes and harmonies, multiple parts, and on somewhere in hollywood, a sweeping, dramatic feel.

The lyrics are good too: funny, catchy, very great word play. Not my main focus in the band: gotta love those songs!

Pick up the Double Disc Uk Records Collection. It has this album, plus the first, all their b-sides from the two albums, and the single versions of the singles, plus some cool liner notes. It's easy to find if you live in america, and a steal!

The thingamajig got lost in the Wall Street Shuffle........2004-02-01

I have long admired the innovative music of 10CC. When I first heard this vinyl recording, I couldn't believe the unique lyrics, musicanship, and down right hummable tunes. All there work is stellar. This may be the best debut album ever. It is more than "I'm not in Love"; their only hit in the states. Pity that they broke up into separate projects, I prefer the Godley&Creme recordings. Do yourself a favor and BUY this and all their work, while they are still available. They are the thinking man's R&R band.

Sheet Music.......2003-02-08

This is a pop classic that many critics have hailed as one of the best releases of the 7o's, that not alot of people know about. Its not 10cc's fault. Their popularity at the time was still growing after the colossal success of their first album (1973's 10CC). When I say colossal I mean this. In 10cc's career from 1973 - 1976, they were rarely out of the Top 10 charts in Europe, with quite a few No. 1's. By 1975 that success repeated in the States. They were virtually the most successful of the 1970's British 'pop' groups. And practically no one knows.

I first picked up SHEET MUSIC on a whim in 2001. Being familiar only with their songs 'The Wall Street Shuffle', Í'm Not In Love',and 'The Things We Do For Love' I was not sure what 10cc's other material sounded like based from these 3 selections from different albums & years. By the time I heard the third track from SHEET MUSIC 'Hotel' I couldn't believe I was listening to an album that had sounds of the 80's in 1974. These musicians in the studio were years ahead of their time, and certainly influenced what came out of Europe and later America with the 4 albums they released with the band line-up of Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Lol Creme and Kevin Godley. That Stewart & Gouldman later went on to write one of the most played songs in the world Í'm Not In Love', and Creme & Godley later went on to direct some of the most familiar and groundbreaking Videos of the 80's should tell you that there was an incredible amount of talent & vision in this band.

That they were one of the few bands, if not only, to run their own studio, and have complete control over their recorded output says something else. Everything they did was ín-house'and performed,produced,engineered & mixed by 10cc from the debut album onwards. SHEET MUSIC is the high watermark of this collaboration between four musicians when songwriting partnerships hadn't quite been cemented, and wider success was around the corner.

Think of the writing teams in that old cliche style --- Stewart & Gouldman were the McCartney, Godley & Creme were the Lennon. I hate having to use expressions like these, but it generalises and gives you, as someone not familiar with the music, an idea of the difference. The Wall Street Shuffle by Gouldman & Stewart is pure pop, and a top 10 single in Britain and still gets circulated around today for Stock market reports on TV. Gouldman & Creme's The Worst Band In The World is a witty and very ahead of its time indictment of pop ego and the music business. Musically it sounds very little like 1974. It sounds ahead. Hotel is one of the most unique songs I have ever heard. Blending a very 80's sounding introduction with island Calypso, Hollywood 1930's backing vocals, and a twisted tale told with alot of humour, Hotel is an undeniable classic written by Godley & Creme. Again, it sounds nothing like what was going on in 1974 or before. I heard just about every 80's synth pop band in the introduction of Hotel. Old Wild Men is a beautifully played and sung homage to the ageing rocker and marks the debut of the Godley/Creme invented ínstrument enhancer'The Gizmo' which could be placed on the bridge of a guitar to make it sound like a multitude of instruments, primarily strings (violin, cello etc.) . This Godley & Creme composition is further enhanced by the dual vocal team of Godley & Stewart, in my mind, two of the best singers Britain has produced. Clockwork Creep also by Godley & Creme is a tour de force of effects, tempo changes, inventiveness all behind the story told by a bomb. Stewart, Godley & Creme play different roles in this all too brief saga. Stewart as the Passenger, Godley as The Plane, and Creme as The Bomb.

(?) Side two kicks off with Stewart & Creme's 'Silly Love'. Sheet Music is the start of identifying songwriting partnerships in 10cc. Stewart & Gouldman paired off, as did Godley & Creme, but success was also had by pairing Godley & Gouldman, and Silly Love became a hit song with the Stewart & Creme combination. Silly Love is a rocker like other rockers but with a twist. Imploring that those Valentine's consumers opt for their OWN way of saying I love you rather than seek out tired old cliche's, Silly Love is original, funny and it jams. Godley & Creme's Somewhere In Hollywood follows. This is where the inventiveness of this writing team shows itself fully, but also shows the talent all 4 possessed in contributing to a song. Godley & Creme's explorations and obvious eccentricities were harnessed in and made clarified by Stewart & Gouldman's pop sensibilities. It really was a near perfect marriage of two different visions.
Stewart & Gouldman's 'Baron Samedi' has a Santana/afrocuban backing but with (again) ahead of its time recording and quality. Godley & Gouldman''s 'The Sacro-Iliac' should have been a single, it is that catchy. Telling the tale of a dance that everyone can do if you can't dance. And the final song Oh Effendi by Stewart & Godley tells the tale of very current events (USA/French/Middle East relations) in a no holds barred humourous way, giving a little diplomatic relations history as it does.

Tracks:

I'll Be Near You (Performed by Ivy)
Prologue/Main Titles
Spelling Suite
Confidence
Fresno Hotel
What's A Mystic
I Start Out Hearing It In My Head
Washington
Abulafia's Path
Partita II In D Minor, BWV. 1004 Chaccone (Excerpt)
You're Not Coming With Me?
Vessel Of Light
Orange Sheet
Origami
Shefa
The Nationals
Light

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Bee Season is wonderful..........2006-06-03

Bee Season is a score that is remarkably relaxing. It's one of those scores that you just listen to on your portable CD player in your car, as your taking a long drive. It's so peaceful. The score is filled with fast paced strings that give it a fair beat. Piano mixes in with the strings to give it a pretty good sound. Ivy's "I'll be near you" is a wonderful slow song, that has beautiful lyrics and suddenly relaxes you. The music fits perfectly with the scene in the movie that its in. Don't miss out on this one folks.

1. I'll Be Near You Performed by: Ivy 5/5
2. Prologue/Main Titles 5/5
3. Spelling Suite 4/5
4. Confidence 3/5
5. Fresno Hotel 4/5
6. What's A Mystic 3/5
7. I Start Out Hearing It In My Head 4/5
8. Washington 5/5
9. Abulafia's Path 3/5
10. Partita II In D Minor, BWV. 1004 Chaccone (Excerpt) 5/5
11. You're Not Coming With Me? 4/5
12. Vessel Of Light 5/5
13. Orange Sheet 3/5
14. Origami 4/5
15. Shefa 5/5
16. The Nationals 5/5
17. Light 5/5

I highly recommend the movie along with this. I hope you enjoy!

Jordan
Overall grade* B+

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The reason I never "fit in" as a teenager!
Pop-tastic!

Sheet Music
10cc
Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Visi
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ASIN: B00004W9FY
Release Date: 2001-01-08

Tracks:

Wall Street Shuffle
Worst Band in the World
Hotel
Old Wild Men
Clockwork Creep
Silly Love
Somewhere in Hollywood
Baron Samedi
Sacro-Iliac
Oh Effendi
Carat Man of Means
Gismo My Way

Album Description

French reissue of the 1974 album. Packaged in a standard jewel case housed in a special digibox. 2000 release.

Album Details

The Series 'the Originals' Brings Together Original Artists and their Albums in a Special Package with Cardboard Boxes.

Customer Reviews:

The reason I never "fit in" as a teenager!.......2001-05-05

In 1974 - at the impressionable age of 14, while most of my peers were steeped in bands like Led Zep, Floyd, Sabbath, & Yes (not that there's anything wrong with that), I was fine-tuning my teenage outsider status with 10cc's "Sheet Music", perhaps one of the best tongue-in-cheek, topically demented power-pop LP's of all time! This record is probably one of my all-time top 10 - and I still play it constantly - it has never sounded dated - it is simply brilliant - lyrically (perhaps one of the greatest lyrics ever, from "Worst Band In The World": "Up yours, up mine, but up everybody's that takes time"), musically ("Wall Street Shuffle") & technically ("Hotel", to name but a few). If you enjoy great rock & roll, served-up with a skewered sense of humour and melodies & harmonies as wonderful as anything rock has to offer, check out this LP - simply a masterpiece, and a major reason why I am still as "off-center" today as I was when I was a young punk, not that any of you should care!

Pop-tastic!.......2000-12-16

Amazon readers will know that I don't award 5 stars easily, but this is, in my view, 10cc's finest album by a long distance.

10cc, like Steely Dan, was a name chosen for its penile association. The band began as a backing group for Neil Sedaka, although in 1970, minus Graham Gouldman, the other three (as Hotlegs) had a hit single in the form of 'Neanderthal Man'.

The first eponymous album contains the single 'Donna', a parody of 50s doo-wop (apparently), but sounding very similar to a Beatles song. In fact, 10cc of this period played very much in the same musical space as the Beatles, and all four members had strong backgrounds in the Manchester beat scene of the 60s, and one wonders why 10cc didn't make it bigger. Were they just not photogenic enough? Too individualistic to be persuaded into identical suits? Or just five years too late?

But 1974's 'Sheet Music' is their classic. Foot-tapping rockers 'Wall Street Shuffle' and 'Silly Love' opened sides one and two of the original LP. 'Clockwork Creep' features the dark humour that makes all air travellers feel uncomfortable -- it's about a bomb waiting to go off, but it's a catchy tune. But the pure-gold classic track on this album is 'Somewhere in Hollywood', which was too complex ever to be an A-side single. No compilation of intelligent 70s popular music should be without this.

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The acid's in the musik, not the liner notes

perpetually essential electronica

Plastikman's techno beat-fest. Sheet One

Nice

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Sheet One
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Consumed

Closer

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ASIN: B000003Z7H
Release Date: 1993-11-16

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gak
okx
helikopter
glob
plasticine
koma
vokx
smak
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For the Plastikman concept, Plus 8 founder Richie Hawtin sought to create an all-encompassing sonic environment, a slowly evolving "plastic world," in which the listener could commune with the machines. On Sheet One, the classic Roland boxes that made Detroit techno possible are placed front and center, bringing to light the psychedelic subtext of modern dance music. Meditative and hypnotic rhythms mingle with the distinctive undulating pulse of the TB-303 synthesizer, extracting and highlighting the essence of dance music. But unlike a dance-floor stormer, Sheet One's tension is not dramatically built and released; the point here is to slow down and listen closely, noticing change only after the fact, if at all. The ideas laid out in this album are later explored in the two subsequent Plastikman LPs as well as the limited-edition Concept series of 12-inches. But Sheet One is the most conceptually solid (as well as the most listener-accessible) LP of them all. --Matthew Corwine

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The acid's in the musik, not the liner notes.......2007-04-25

From klikety-klak minimal tracks like "helikopter" to the wide-open minimal spacious acid-trance that is "Plasticine", this album storms. "Plasticity" & "Glob" are worth the price of admission right there; a breakthrough album in every respect.

perpetually essential electronica.......2006-11-24

I've had it for almost 10 years and I will keep it forever. One of those that you really should have. It's like an old school textbook that taught you everything you know, deserves respect, and the occasional listen on into perpetuity...

Plastikman's techno beat-fest. Sheet One.......2005-03-28

I'm actually intrigued by this CD, spellbinding beats meets ambient soundscapes. Power meets ambience. I decided to check-out 'Sheet One' based on a Mojo Magazine reference to 'brilliant psychadelic music', and psychadelic and mezmerizing this is, in a techno sense that is. Plastikman's arrangements are actually minimal, just think a more danceable 'Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2', speaker-shredding throbbing beats meets techno/post-rock type soundscapes. Ambient music that you can dance to, but cerebral enough to expose a high degree of musical aptitude. Really interesting stuff.

Nice.......2004-11-03

How do you listen to it when you are surfing? You must have some awesome technology. Or be speaking bollocks

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I've been listening to this since I first purchased it back in 94-95. There aren't too many albums that I can say that about.

I pop it in when I am working, surfing, sleeping, driving, eating, and all other activities that one can go about doing during a 24 hour period.

The Heroes of Parlor Town - Volume 1
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Great stuff!

Great classic ragtime and early jazz

The Heroes of Parlor Town - Volume 1

Manufacturer: Rivermedia.TV
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ASIN: B0007W4N6S
Release Date: 2005-03-01

Tracks:

Maple Leaf Rag (Joplin)
Swipesy Cakewalk (Joplin/Marshall)
Sun Flower Slow Drag (Joplin/Hayden)
Peacherine Rag (Joplin)
The Cascades (Joplin)
Hilarity (Scott)
Eatin' Chocolates (Henry)
Carbarlick Acid Rag (Wiley)
Magnetic Rag (Joplin)
Ragtime Nightingale (Lamb)
Cataract Rag (Hampton)
Bantam Step (Jentes)
The Mule Walk (Johnson)
Poor Katie Redd (Blake)
The Charleston Rag (Blake)
Mamanita (Morton)

Album Description

The Parlor. America's "entertainment center" from 1880 to 1920. Before TV, before radio - when a piano and sheet music opened the world to new sounds and new composers.

Who were the heroes of Parlor Town? Men of color who defined musical culture for white America. Men who challenged racist stereotypes by creating some of the most sophisticated and eclectic music the world has ever heard.. White composers who valued and were influenced by these men.

Iowa native Brent Watkins traces the musical development of Ragtime. Featuring the music of Scott Joplin, obscure ragtime composers from Iowa, seldom heard classics from ragtimes twilight years, and composers who were instrumental in the transition to jazz: James P. Johnson, Eubie Blake and Jelly Roll Morton.

When our Heroes came….the music of America was forever changed.

Customer Reviews:

Great stuff!.......2005-06-15

This guy plays piano with a lot of pizzazz. I especially like his thoughtful "Ragtime Nightingale" and his fresh yet conservative take on "Maple Leaf Rag." He adds few new twists to keep the ubiquitous "Maple Leaf" fresh - a godsend to those of us who have heard this rag billions of times. Thankfully, these twists are not too extreme - Watkins is neither a stodgy ragtime conservative nor an eccentric iconoclast. A tasteful ragtime interpreter in my opinion.

My favorite track is "Eatin' Chocolates," an obscure Iowa rag from 1903, written for a local candy company. Kudos to Mr. Watkins for discovering this rare gem.

My only complaint is that the CD cover is misleading. It shows a bunch of men sitting in a parlor, looking like they are falling asleep. What are they listenbing to? Maybe Satie, maybe Debussy, maybe Kenny G. They are certainly not listening to Brent Watkins, because if they were, they'd be tapping their feet or swaying.

Great classic ragtime and early jazz.......2005-04-03

For the "Heroes of Parlor Town," pianist Brent Watkins has put together a mouthwatering selection of well-known and obscure ragtime and early jazz piano solos. In sixteen selections, the disc covers twenty-five years of ragtime, from Scott Joplin's "The Maple Leaf Rag" (1899) to Jelly Roll Morton's "Mamanita" (1924). The pieces are roughly arranged in chronological order, allowing the listener to hear how ragtime developed into jazz. Unfortunately, there are no liner notes with the disc outside of a brief couple paragraphs on the tray card which explain that the "heroes of Parlor Town" were the "men of color who defined musical culture for white America."

The disc is very well recored on a great-sounding grand piano. No sore ears from out-of-tune honky-tonk uprights here! In general, Watkins's performances are excellent: he tackles the uptempo pieces with vigor and pep, and the gentler pieces are a little more relaxed. Watkins rips through Clarence Wiley's fiery "Carbarlick Acid" (1903) particularly well; it just leaps out of my stereo with fantastic energy (and some audible foot stomps from Watkins) -- it is my favorite track on the disc, one I find myself playing over and over. Scattered throughout the disc are a few rhythms which feel a bit unstable, and a few "messy" notes (and anyone who knows how difficult some of these pieces are can easily forgive those). On the whole the pieces are played with great skill and Watkins's passion for the music shines through.

Fans of ragtime and early jazz will enjoy this disc. I notice that it's listed as "Volume 1." Let's hope that Volume 2 isn't far off! Recommended.

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Sunrise
Michael Hayes
Manufacturer: Taegee Ko Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000T2JGPO
Release Date: 2007-06-18

Tracks:

Forest Rains
Safe Passage
A Thousand Words
Sunrise
Arch
Five P.M.
Castles
Shamans Staff
Chill
Abstraction
Bachs Trot
One Red Rose
Morning Light
Chill Radio Edit

Product Description

Sunrise is a sensuous uplifting fusion of world beats, new age, chill, classical, and jazz . . . music without boundaries. Majestic vocals blend with acoustic and electric instruments to create tranquil and serene yet uplifting grooves that will energize the soundtrack of your life. If you enjoy Yanni, Enya, Pat Metheny, Denny Jiosa, and excellent contemporary instrumental music then you ll want to play Sunrise over and over again.

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Pleasant easy listening but no blockbuster!
Bedsores From These Sheets
Nancy Sinatra singing love songs in the manner of her father
Nancy with the Lovely Voice
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Sheet Music
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ASIN: B000006NGJ
Release Date: 1998-06-09

Tracks:

Light My Fire
Something [#]
Fell in Love With a Poet
In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning [#]
Kind of a Woman
Kinky Love
Easy Evil [#]
Imaginary Lover [#][Demo Version]
California Dreamin' [#]
Tired of Waiting for You [#][Demo Version]
Call Me
Nice 'N' Easy
Until It's Time for You to Go
Here in the Palm of Your Hand [#][Demo Version]
True Love
The Shadow of Your Smile
When I Look in Your Eyes [#]
I'm Just in Love
Maybe I'm Amazed [#]
Flowers
We Can Make It

Album Description

Sheet Music has Nancy Sinatra giving unique, mostly mellow readings of a wide variety of her favorite popular and romantic songs.

Customer Reviews:

Pleasant easy listening but no blockbuster!.......2005-05-26

If you can get this for a good price and have no problem with Nancy's vocals I'd highly recommend this CD. Nancy does a decent job with several remakes (though I didn't care for "Light My Fire") and even throws in a couple of pop's hits to boot. Her voice has never been very strong, hence the critical reviews, but I find the whole compilation nice to listen to while relaxing or driving. "Kinky Love" is an intriguing number which I've become quite fond of.
My only criticism of the the CD is the cover photo. Nancy looks like she just returned from her plastic surgeon after a session of lip enhancement. Out of all the flattering photos of this woman which are available I'm not sure why anyone would have picked this to grace an album cover. A real turn-off!

Bedsores From These Sheets.......2004-08-27

If you enjoyed this disc, you don't ask for much.

If Nancy Sinatra enjoyed recording these songs, I'm happy for her. But not for me, because I listened to them. Some words I would use to describe this disc are: flat, lackluster, naïve, and vacant. And these apply to the music itself as well as Nancy's singing.

Since she recorded her popular tunes many years ago, Nancy's voice never matured, never got richer or fuller. Her range remains about as wide as the distance you can spread your toes. She is no stylist, making the simplest of musical choices because her ability does not allow any real vocal exploration. And this isn't a case of a vocalist who had talent that is now fading with age (like her father's later recordings.) Nancy never had it, and never will.

A previous reviewer comments: "the artful arranging never taxes her vocal talent." That's because she has no vocal talent and the arranger was trying hard not to highlight that point. The arranger was artful in presenting continuous drab music that does not rise above Nancy's competence.

Why is the tempo of all these songs so slow? Couldn't Nancy read the words fast enough? Or is it that the arranger thought slow equals torchy? The lack of orchestration is not simply to set a mood. It is because Nancy's voice can not compete with a full-bodied musical approach.

Another reviewer called this cd "audio foreplay." Only if you're into necrophilia. These arrangements are depressing and gloomy. The recording is muted and muddy. My wife said it had the quality of a 45 rpm record, and further said it sounds as if Nancy laid down her vocals over the prerecorded music. The atmosphere of this disc is not one of sensuality or seduction, but rather that of wearing flannel pajamas in summer: tight, hot and overwhelmingly oppressive. Dismally oppressive.

Some individual song impressions:

Light My Fire -- Nancy tries to imitate her father's annoying rewording of lyrics to suit the interpretation. It fails. The Muzak version of this Door's hit had more verve.

Fell in With the Poet - sounds like a Carpenters rip-off without Karen's vocal confidence/control.

In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning - probably the best on the album, which isn't saying much, with background singers a la the sixties. But listen to Frank's version instead.

Kinky Love - Very cute and catchy melody wasted on insipid lyrics that don't explore or even hint as to what it's supposed to imply. "Let the honey slide?" Eeeeeewwww!

Easy Evil - Nancy talks, as she always does, through these embarrassingly poor lyrics.

Tired of Waiting for You -Nancy sounded so tired I hoped she'd mercifully pass out. It's bad when the backup vocalist impresses you more than the lead or the music.

Here in the Palm of your Hand - Was she drunk or stoned when she recorded this? This is possibly the worst cut on this disc. Her voice was flat and cracking, with the backup singers put in to cover all the flaws.

Flowers - I know this was supposed to be some intense and dramatic piece, but what the hell was it about? The first musical bridge made me imagine something stalking me, the whole song was creepy and it left me feeling dirty. My wife said it sounded like some drunken middle-aged woman in a tavern rambling at her drunken boyfriend. My wife acted this out as well. It fit so perfectly that the ensuing laughter was the only thing that got me through this "song."

Someone with Nancy's limited ability would never have passed the karaoke contest. But then, the music industry is not built on talent, but money. And it appears that bearing the Sinatra name is enough to convince a producer that there's money to be made.

This audio-enema is a slap in the face to any vocalist of talent. My only consolation in hearing this disc is that I didn't pay any money for it, but I'm afraid the experience will haunt me for

Nancy Sinatra singing love songs in the manner of her father.......2003-09-01

I was greatly enamored with Nancy Sinatra in the late 1960s, mainly because she looked great in white go-go boots but also because my mother's favorite singer was Frank Sinatra and listening to Nancy allowed me to assert that she was the only decent singer in the family. When my father was stationed in Japan I can remember finding solace in the strange new world in which I had been dumped listening to "Some Velvet Morning" every time it came on Armed Forces Radio. My favorite Nancy Sinatra songs have always been her duets with Lee Hazzlewood, after which I liked her rock covers. So it is rather ironic that in this 1998 album "Sheet Music: A Collection of Her Favorite Love Songs," is that Nancy has put together 21 tracks where she is often singing songs in a style we would all associate much more with her father than the tunes on her greatest hits collection.

The other great attraction here are the nine unreleased songs, featuring covers of songs by George Harrison ("Something"), Paul McCartney ("Maybe I'm Amazed"), and Ray Davies ("Tired of Waiting for Young"). On that last one the liner notes inform us that nobody remembers who produced and arranged the song or when it was recorded, so there was some serious cleaning out of the music vault for this one (Billy Strange did a lot of the arranging, but that song is clearly not in his style). There is a low keyed cover of "California Dreamin'" but the one I liked whas "When I Look In Your Eyes," which few would remember as being sung by Rex Harrison to a seal in "Dr. Doolittle" (the final lyric is rewritten). Add ot this another four singles, including "Nice 'n' Easy" and "True Love," and those who have all of Nancy Sinatra's albums are going to find that over half of the tracks on "Sheet Music" are "new."

These songs are not for the casual Nancy Sinatra fan, but for those people who collected her albums in the Sixties, patiently waited for them to be remastered as DVDs, and even picked up a popular men's magazine simply because it had a pictorial spread of the woman in all her glory. This is not a great album but it is still a welcome addition to our Nancy Sinatra music library.

Nancy with the Lovely Voice.......2003-01-15

I always think of Nancy Sinatra as a special hidden treasure. The world knows her for all those hit records but most people have no idea what a technically excellent, rich-voiced, smartly interpretative singer she is. I've played this album for friends without identifying the singer. They say, "The girl is terrific," then are totally surprised when I reveal they are hearing Nancy Sinatra. Invariably people think of the tough chick from the first hit records, music they love by a singer they love. But they have no idea she has a much wider musical picture in her history. This is a wonderful album start to finish with intriguing songs, beautiful arrangements and a singer who is first-rate by any measure.

Nancy as Torch Singer.......2001-09-03

Here's a wonderful collection of love songs with very little duplication from Nancy's earlier albums. No gags, no duets - just 65:18 of marvelous, wistful, loving songs in her typically simple arrangements. There are a couple of special treasures: "Flowers" - a Bobby Cole tune from 1970 - is a tour de force and short story all in about three and a half minutes. Nancy's cover of Jim Morrison's "Light My Fire" is marvelous and perfectly set toward the bottom of her smoky alto range. All in all, this is a terrific album.

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Sheet Music
10cc
Manufacturer: Glam / 7t's
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000NVIWVU
Release Date: 2007-04-16

Tracks:

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Hotel
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Clockwork Creep
Silly Love
Somewhere in Hollywood
Baron Samedi
Sacro-Iliac
Oh Effendi
Carat Man of Means
Gismo My Way

Album Description

2007 digitally remastered and expanded pressing of the quirky British Rock band's 1974 sophomore album featuring three bonus tracks: '18 Carat Man Of Means', 'Gizmo My Way' and 'Worst Band In The World' (Radio Version). Formed by songwriters Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, 10cc weren't quite Art Rock, Pop Rock or Progressive Rock. They took only the best aspects of each style and created a unique sound of their own and were nearly impossible to pigeonhole. Sheet Music features the hits 'The Wall Street Shuffle', 'Silly Love' and 'Worst Band In The World'. 13 tracks. 7Ts. 2007.

Album Details

2007 Remastered Reissue of the 1974 Classic. Includes the British National Chart Hits 'silly Love' and 'the Wall Street Shuffle' plus the 'worst Band in the World' Single.