Everything's OK

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The great soul singer made his secular comeback with 2002's I Can't Stop, but Everything's OK is truly Al Green's return to form. Green left the concert stage for the pulpit in 1979, and while his pretty falsetto reading of Joe Cocker's "You Are So Beautiful" could easily be holy praise, he makes it clear in his asides that he's keeping things on a strictly earthly plane this time. Twenty-eight years after "Love and Happiness," these satisfying songs glide on those emotions as Green celebrates joy and carnal desire. He couldn't be clearer than in numbers like "I Wanna Hold You." When he sings about lovemaking his voice seems buoyed by helium, it's so light, high, and soaring. Green and producer Willie Mitchell made magic together at Memphis's Hi Records in the '70s with their mix of Green's buttery tones and ecstatic cries and deep percussion-, horn-, and keyboard-swathed grooves. They do it again here repeatedly, capturing the élan of their heyday on numbers like the title track and "Build Me Up." If Green's new missionary work is putting a little love in our hearts during these turbulent, conflicted times, this reassuringly titled CD is a great start. --Ted Drozdowski

Everything's OK,The Reverend Al Green,Blue Note Records,Pop,R&B,Retro-Soul,Smooth Soul,Soul,Soul/R & B,United States of America

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Average customer rating: Good tunes!! Some hope for rock? Fantastic debut. Recommended for those bored with pop! What an Experience! FANTASTIC~!!!!

Everything Will Never Be OK Fiction Plane Manufacturer: Mca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Emo | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Post Grunge | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music $7.99 and Under | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Pop | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Rock | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Alternative Rock | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music All Blowout Music | Blowout Music | Stores | Music $7.99 and Under | Prices | Blowout Music | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 25% Off | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Left Side of the Brain The Police (2CD Anthology) One Train Later: A Memoir The Police - Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out You Still Touch Me ASIN: B00008J2L7 Release Date: 2003-03-11

Tracks:

1. Listen To My Babe
2. Everything Will Never Be OK
3. Cigarette
4. Hate
5. Soldier Machismo
6. I Wish I Would Die
7. Fallow
8. Real Real
9. Everybody Lies
10. Sickness
11. Silence
12. Wise

Customer Reviews:

Good tunes!!.......2007-06-27

I bought this after hearing only one song from the cd. I'm a huge Sting fan and wanted to see how his son compared, and I wasn't let down. While Joe Sumner isn't quite up to par with his dad their voices are similar enough that if you're a Police fan you'll probably appreciate it.
I also enjoy the style of music FP seems to gravitate towards. They're sort of mildly dark, a grey feel, and they tell stories without telling stories. I dunno, give em a listen and decide for yourself.

Some hope for rock?.......2005-05-26

Opening Sting's intimate Irving PLace May 14th show in NYC (So as to not close the tour on Friday the 13th) I got my first introduction to Fiction Plane.

I knew they were "Sting's son's band", but I am a jaded 54 year old who has seen it all starting with my first concert being Hendrix in the fall of 1968. I went in early to see.

There is so much junk being passed off as popular music these days, heck Philadelphia even lost its only decent Alt Rock station earlier this year. Sons of popular performers have really done very little but coat-tail on daddy's name.

In spite of or because of his Father's influence Joe has put together a band that really impressed me. Live they were an opening act that you didn't really want to get off the stage. I bought the album at intermission (sorry, Amazon) and have been listening to it since, wishing I had been familiar with them prior to seeing them. Interestingly enough, I recognized nearly every track from the live performance first time round.

An occasional sophomoric lyric belies Joe's youth, but generally for a debut from a famous son this is a very hopeful album that is damn good as a stand-alone. Somewhat remininsent of the energy and pathos that forged the Police and the occasional uncanny resemblance of Joe's voice to Gordon's (especially "Silence"), this band is its own and by any standard of rock a band to be eagerly followed.

I look forward to what is hopefully to come and the next opportunity to see them in a live show.

Fantastic debut. Recommended for those bored with pop!.......2005-05-18

While not usually a fan of this kind of music, I was initially struck by Fiction Plane's manic energy, which all but forced me to make closer inspection. On the surface, many fair-weather music fans would be too quick to write-off FP as yet another in a string of faceless COLDPLAY / RADIOHEAD knock-offs, however that would be a big mistake. FP wields a characteristic that is uncommon among self-pitying, melodramatic, pompous Brit Rock: a dynamic sense of fun.

While my evaluation was initially instigated by seeing the band perform, opening for Sting at 2 shows, actually listening to the CDs brings FP's package together. The band's lyrics shower the listener with an array of emotions, while the musical dexterity displayed by each member launches them into a genre all their own. Yes, FP has its share of faux-ballads discussing relationships and life-lessons, however they are subversively concealed behind boisterous and genre-leaping songwriting. While the band itself cites NIRVANA as a distinct influence, I am more inclined to believe that FP's style is a monstrous hybrid of RADIOHEAD, MAROON 5, early POLICE, PORCUPINE TREE (check out the `ghost track' following "Wise", loaded with esoteric, progressive rock overtones) and a touch of early DURAN DURAN (especially in the lyric department). I would guess that FP wanted to get out of the gates and show the world a little bit of everything that comprises them, and this debut CD does just that. That in itself is probably the album's one downside - the fact that they move in so many different directions during the course of one disc that the listener is not offered a solid impression of what the band is truly about.

However, one cannot hold that against a young band on its debut release. New acts are usually pressured by labels to create one or two strong `radio-friendly' cuts, leaving the rest of the album for the band to noodle with as filler. However, rather than play that game, FP went out on a limb and broke down walls that would otherwise limit them to one sect of listenership. As there may be one or two songs on the disc that I would chalk up as `growing pains', there are still ten very strong tracks showing the range and intensity of a band that is primed for evolution and success. Excellent standout tracks, in addition to the aforementioned ghost track, include the funky "Listen To My Babe", the incredibly cynical "Hate", and the mixed metaphor "Cigarette". I implore you, check out FICTION PLANE; the best band you've never heard on the radio!

What an Experience!.......2005-05-05

I just went to see Sting perform a couple of nights ago, having no idea there was an opening band. I was extremely impressed with Fiction Plane. They had such a new sound, and my husband was particularly impressed by the drummer. I asked the girl next to me if she knew who they were, and she didn't have a clue either. I am very embarrassed by my ignorance, and I couldn't wait to get my hands on the paper the next day to find out who they were. I had to get their CD right away. It was a fantastic concert, and I was sorry I couldn't hear more of Fiction Plane. Sting was pretty awesome himself.

FANTASTIC~!!!!.......2005-05-04

I saw FP live on 05/02/2005.. opening for Sting...

once i found out who was opening for sting, and to find out that it was his son... i'd figure i'd wait and see how he sounded before getting the albums... Joe's voice is fantastic.. a nice cross between early sting and bono... and with good looks to boot!!.. thank god for nearly front row seating right in line with the mic... as soon as his set was done, i had to rush right out and get both albums (this and the ep) before they sold out...

"cigarette" is definitely one of my fav's...

definitely really great original music...

Average customer rating: As Good As..... Surfing with the Astronaunts/Everything is AOK We have liftoff! The Best Surf Group---Ever. Rock At Its Best!

Surfin' With The Astronauts/Everything Is A-OK! [2-on-1 CD] The Astronauts Manufacturer: Collectables ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Surf Rock | Oldies & Retro | Rock | Styles | Music Surf Guitar | Rock Guitarists | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Oldies & Retro | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Rock Guitarists | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Competition Coupe/Astronauts Orbit Campus Surf Rider!/Surf Drums Beyond the Surf: The Best of the Tornadoes Two Sides of the Chantays/Pipeline Lost Legends of Surf Guitar, Vol. 1 ASIN: B0000008BM Release Date: 1997-10-21

Tracks:

1. Baja
2. Surfin' U.S.A.
3. Misirlou
4. Surfer's Stomp
5. Susie-Q
6. Pipeline
7. Kuk
8. Banzai Pipeline
9. Movin'
10. Baby Let's Play House
11. Let's Go Trippin'
12. Batman
13. Bo Diddley
14. If I Had A Hammer
15. It's So Easy
16. Dream Lover
17. Wine, Wine, Wine
18. Money
19. Big Boss Man
20. Stormy Monday Blues
21. Shortnin' Bread
22. I Need You
23. What'd I Say

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If surf music's all-time heavyweight champions the Trashmen can hail from Minneapolis (where the lake swell wouldn't wipe out a canary), why shouldn't a landlocked cowabunga powerhouse emerge from Boulder, Colorado? That would be the Astronauts, whose lead guitarist, Rich Fifield (with the aid of legendary L.A. producer David Hassinger) wrung from his axe the wettest reverb known to humanity. Workmanlike vocals are split between Fifield and bassist Stormy Patterson, but stellar versions of "Misirlou" and "Pipeline" on Surfin' that are what set the group apart from the pack. The second record included on this CD, A-OK, attempts a little genre splicing, surfing up versions of Trini Lopez's hit "If I Had a Hammer" and Buddy Holly's "It's So Easy." Surprisingly, the concept holds water. --Jud Cost

Customer Reviews:

As Good As............2007-05-12

It was back in 1966!.......While I don't care much for the vocal aspect of this 2 record CD the Instrumentals are superb! and pure Astronauts. Deep Reverb and great guitars. If you Love Real surf music....This is it. It's hard to believe that these guys were out of Boulder Co. 40+ years havn't dulled this album in the least.

Surfing with the Astronaunts/Everything is AOK.......2007-01-06

How great to hear the music of my youth. The sounds are great & what wonderful memories. The fact that it won't wear out like the albums did is even better.

We have liftoff!.......2006-11-07

Well, the countdown to buying this CD took a few years as I bought all the pre Pet Sounds Beach Boys CDs, Jan & Dean stuff, Pet Sounds, Dick Dale, Space Cossacks, some other surf stuff, and finally wore all that stuff out and in a continuing search for new surf rock ordered a CD by The Austronauts.

Well, it isn't as polished as the Beach Boys, and The Austronauts seem more like a cover band than anything else, but I must say that the sheer authenticity of this band makes it great fun to listen to. I thoroughly enjoyed this CD and look forward to another orbit with The Austronauts.

The Best Surf Group---Ever........2005-03-02

In the 60's every chance I had I would go to the University of Denver Student Union or Eliche's to dance to these guys. Unlike groups like the Beach Boys, The Astronauts were as good in person (actually better given the true sound)as on the LP's. Buy it if you like the surf sound, it won't disappoint.

Rock At Its Best!.......2001-06-25

As a lifelong fan of these guys I had to replace my worn out vinyl of these two LP's, which I purchased in 1963 and '64! Polished really doesn't describe their performances! Electric is more like it! Inspiration to a hundred "garage bands" these guys knew how to turn on a crowd. Incidentally, they were the No. 3 band in Japan for many years, right after the Beatles and the Ventures! This CD has some of the best Surf Genre music ever recorded - timeless! Buy it - you'll love it!

Average customer rating: Disappointing... GREAT SOUL ALBUM R. Kelly's Collaboration Would Help Great to hear him again Everything really is okay

Everything's Ok Al Green Manufacturer: Blue Note Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Classic R&B | R&B | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Blue Note Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: I Can't Stop Make Do With What You Got Gets Next to You I'm Still in Love With You The Absolute Best ASIN: B00006I8LO Release Date: 2005-03-15

Tracks:

1. Everything's OK
2. You Are So Beautiful
3. Build Me Up
4. Perfect To Me
5. Nobody But You
6. Real Love
7. I Can Make Music
8. Be My Baby
9. Magic Road
10. I Wanna Hold You
11. Another Day
12. All The Time

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The great soul singer made his secular comeback with 2002's I Can't Stop, but Everything's OK is truly Al Green's return to form. Green left the concert stage for the pulpit in 1979, and while his pretty falsetto reading of Joe Cocker's "You Are So Beautiful" could easily be holy praise, he makes it clear in his asides that he's keeping things on a strictly earthly plane this time. Twenty-eight years after "Love and Happiness," these satisfying songs glide on those emotions as Green celebrates joy and carnal desire. He couldn't be clearer than in numbers like "I Wanna Hold You." When he sings about lovemaking his voice seems buoyed by helium, it's so light, high, and soaring. Green and producer Willie Mitchell made magic together at Memphis's Hi Records in the '70s with their mix of Green's buttery tones and ecstatic cries and deep percussion-, horn-, and keyboard-swathed grooves. They do it again here repeatedly, capturing the élan of their heyday on numbers like the title track and "Build Me Up." If Green's new missionary work is putting a little love in our hearts during these turbulent, conflicted times, this reassuringly titled CD is a great start. --Ted Drozdowski

Customer Reviews:

Disappointing..........2005-10-30

I was thrilled with Al's first soul album in almost 30 years ("I can't stop"), and I was happy to know that he and Willie had another new effort. Unfortunately (IMO), this CD is over-produced and way too slick. The songs are uneventful, and nothing really stands out. I haven't listened to this CD since the first week I bought it. Sorry, I love Al and I have all of his music, and I hope he keeps recording, but he's capable of SO much better than this.

GREAT SOUL ALBUM.......2005-10-10

Al Green returns with one of the best soul albums I heard in a long time. His voice sounds like it is still the seventies and the music is beautiful. His version of You Are So Beautiful grips to me and Green makes it his own. Magic Road is a great song that has some funk in it. This is a true soul album done by the one and only Reverend Al Green. I can't wait till the next album because I'm wanting more. Favorites include Everything's OK, You Are So Beautiful, Build Me Up, Nobody But You, Real Love, I Can Make Music, Be My Baby, Magic Road, I Wanna Hold You, and All The Time. Highly Highly Recommended.

R. Kelly's Collaboration Would Help.......2005-10-10

This album is truer to Al Green's form than his last come back album I Can't Stop, but it's still just okay. Maybe Al Green should collaborate with R. Kelly on some good music material. Not that Al needs to change his style, but R. Kelly is the master of writing soulful, gospel infused ballads. R. Kelly writes songs that reaches the heart and soul, the kind of songs that Al use to sing in the past. I think R. Kelly's touch may be just what Al needs.

Great to hear him again.......2005-09-16

Although his last album of a couple of years ago was his "comeback" to secular music, I think this one really represents a return to form for him. It's great to hear those danceable grooves again, and he's in great voice.

Everything really is okay.......2005-07-12

The Reverend Al Green - Everything's OK (Blue Note, 2005)

Unlike other people, I enjoyed Rev. Al's last comeback album, I Can't Stop, more than this one. The only problem that I had with that album was that a few songs sounded exactly like the title track. On this album, it's even worse. A little variety in production would have made this a more enjoyable album. Al's voice is still in tip-top shape but he does resort to screaming and wailing a little too much. The only song I really enjoyed was his remake of "You Are So Beautiful". I'll probably have to listen to this album again to get a better feel for it but for now, Everything's OK is the most appropriate album title ever. -EJR

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Everything's Ok Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music R&B | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0007IO006 Release Date: 2005-04-05

Album Description

Japanese pressing of 2005 album. Scheduled to included bonus material TBA.

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The Sound Masters Revisited The Sound Masters Manufacturer: Julet Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA7FTC Release Date: 2005-10-04

Tracks:

1. I Can't Stand It
2. Beleive in Me Baby
3. I Want You to Be My Baby
4. Come on Let Me Love You
5. Lonely Lonely
6. Dreams
7. Wash It Would Rain
8. Take Me
9. Is It True What They Say

Average customer rating: The best Queers EP this is one of the queers' best ep

Everything's OK The Queers Manufacturer: Hopeless Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk Revival | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Punk Revival | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Punk Revival | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Alternative General | Alternative Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Pop General | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Punk Revival | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Today Munki Brain Total ASIN: B000006OPP Release Date: 1998-05-19

Tracks:

1. Everything's OK
2. Queerbait
3. Get A Life And Live It Loser
4. I Enjoy Being A Boy

Customer Reviews:

The best Queers EP.......2002-02-13

The Queers most short-lived lineup (Joe Queer plus a few New Hampshire highschool kids) produced four awesome songs that make this the best of the many Queers EP's out there. The first song is an alternate version of Punk Rock Confidential superhit Everything's OK, which has a different second verse. Secondly is Queerbait, a nice, fast, new song with a lot of attitude. Next comes Get a Life and Live It Loser, a kick-ass song kept from full length album release until Pleasant Screams arrives in April 2002. Lastly, is an alternative version of the Queers' cover of Banana Split's catchy song I Enjoy Being a Boy. This EP has a good mix of love and attitude songs, be sure to pick it up!

this is one of the queers' best ep.......1999-01-15

this is a great EP! The best song on it is "Everything's OK". It rocks!!!!If your a fan of punk, than you'll love this!!

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Everything Else Is OK Edisyn ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000FSMN20 Release Date: 2006-01-31

Tracks:

1. Faking The
2. Banquet with Guido (Scary Clown Music)
3. Amaranth
4. How to Give Up
5. Circles Block the Sun
6. Nothing Is Changing
7. Plans and Commitments
8. On the Climb Back

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Everything Is A-Ok! Astronauts ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000561JK

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Tu Do Bem (Everything's OK) Chris Boardman Manufacturer: Domo Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000I419 Release Date: 1999-02-23

Tracks:

1. Tu Do Bem
2. Jerry's Funk
3. Paris
4. #1
5. Round & Round
6. Far Away
7. Gimme A Break
8. Memories (Of What Might Have Been)

Average customer rating: My favorite record so far this year Not Just Another Eliot Smith

Everything's OK Mark Helm Manufacturer: Not Lame Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000056L0L Release Date: 2001-02-13

Tracks:

1. So Faraway
2. Galaxy Of Cars
3. What Holds The World Together
4. Haircut
5. Dismantling The Sun
6. Lemons Limes And Flying Saucers
7. Week Of Days
8. Suite: #1
9. Everything's OK
10. Aeroplanes And Radiosignals
11. Isolation Day
12. Sweet Dreams Baby
13. Audrey Hepburn
14. Nevermind
15. O Lay Me Down
16. Bonus Track 1

Album Description

A moving, deeply personal recording that will seep into your soul, exposing bitter struggles, life-threatening weaknesses and, ultimately a break in the clouds. Evoking the spirit of such artists as Badly Drawn Boy, Elliot Smith, Mark Eitzel and The Eels. Helm wrote and recorded these songs in various kitchens, bathrooms, boats and studios over a period of four years while traveling around Europe.

Customer Reviews:

My favorite record so far this year.......2001-07-13

I picked this up because Mark's label, Not Lame Recordings, always puts out great power pop records. But this just hit me over the head and dragged me home by my hair. Amazing record. Somehow, he manages to use dead-on elements from the Beatles (a piccolo trumpet a la Penny Lane, Mellotron from Strawberry Fields), the Beach Boys (Pet Sounds-era percussion and vocal harmonies), Neil Young (grungy guitars and country acoustic gems), Alex Chilton (a lot of this reminded me of Big Star 3rd), and others (Nick Drake comes to mind) but NEVER sounds like he's ripping anybody off. The lyrical content of the songs AND the fragile honesty of the vocal performances are so original you never feel like he's being derivative. Something like, say how james Joyce was able to allude to all the great literature he loved but always sounded only like, well, James Joyce. This is high praise, but in a time when possibly lesser talents than Mr. Helm (Robert Pollard, Eliot Smith and Built to Spill come to mind) are lauded to the heavens....well, this guy deserves it. Buy this record. You'll come to cherish it.

LOVE and MERCY.....

Not Just Another Eliot Smith.......2001-04-03

very cool record. I'm not giving it 5 stars cause some of it seems a little lo-fi.....but this is a really, really good artist in the vein of Eliot Smith but a lot less angry and a lot more personal. This is the sort of material that would really benefit from the backing of a big label, some solid promotion and more time in a top-notch recording studio. Not that it doesn't sounf good--it does. many tracks are quite good, fidelity-wise. Just a few sound like they were recorded on the ol' 4 track in the basement. In an era where that's considered cool, there's probably nothing wrong with that. Many of the lo-fi artists aren't as strong at songwriting as Helm and I'm sincerely hope he gets his due.

I checked out his website and he seems photogenic enough for some mainstream success, so we'll see. In the meantime, i strongly recommend adding this to your collection if you're a big fan of neil young meets alex chilton on a beach boys/beatles bender.

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