My Machine [Explicit Lyrics]

1. Intro Via the Telepath

2. I Like It a Lot

3. Classroom

4. Famous

5. Dolly's Duplicants

6. On Top Bubble

7. Mysterious Hanger

8. Bad Girls N.Y.C.

9. 10,000 Hits

10. Quitting Smoking Song

11. Sex, Drugs & Drugs

12. Initially

13. I'm So Out of Control

14. Coochie Coo

15. World Council Entertainment Dicktatorship

16. Perfect

17. What Do You Want?

18. Push, Make It Work

19. What You Gonna Do?

20. My Machine

See all 25 tracks on this disc

My Machine,Princess Superstar,K7,Club/Dance,Pop,Rock,Underground Rap,United States of America

Average customer rating: Awesome CD, not for the closed minded. Not for Outsiders Beep Beep... The flip-side of Claudio...highly addicting album! I have a serious problem

My Brother's Blood Machine The Prize Fighter Inferno Manufacturer: Equal Vision Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Electronic Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Last Supper: Live at the Hammerstein Ballroom Coheed and Cambria: Live At The Starland Ballroom In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star, IV, Vol. 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (From Feat Through the Eyes of Madness) String Quartet Tribute to Coheed and Cambria in Keeping Secret ASIN: B000IU381K Release Date: 2006-10-31

Tracks:

1. The Going Price for Home
2. The Fight of Moses Early & Sir Arthur McCloud
3. Our Darling Daughter You Are, Little Cecilia Marie
4. A Death in the Family
5. The Margretville Dance
6. Accidents
7. Run, Gunner Recall, Run! The Town Wants You Dead!
8. Who Watches the Watchmen?
9. Wayne Andrews, The Old Bee Keeper
10. The Missing McCloud Boys
11. Easter 78. 78

Album Description

My Brother's Blood Machine further develops and expands the concepts established in the Coheed and Cambria albums with such recurring themes as the McCloud Family and references to its missing children. The primary difference is that this album is being told from the point of view of a character known as "The Prize Fighter Inferno" a.k.a. Jesse from the story of Coheed and Cambria.

Of the 11 songs on the album, we hear a softer side of Sanchez, enveloped in mellow electronic grooves and gentle compositions. Some tracks adopt dance rhythms while others are hypnotizing in melody and verse.

Customer Reviews:

Awesome CD, not for the closed minded........2007-05-17

Honestly, not for close minded people. If you're not open minded you probably won't like this. Many different genres mixed in here, awesome CD.

Not for Outsiders.......2007-03-09

I really enjoyed this album, from the art on the cover, to the tarot card lyric sheets, to the songs themselves. i don't think that i would have loved this album as much as i do, however, unless i was already a Coheed and Cambria fan, and bought it with the knowledge that it was a different story in the same universe. So unless you are a HUGE Co & Ca fan, listen to it before you buy it.

Beep Beep..........2006-12-22

There are some great mysteries of the universe. For example, is there a single unifying theory of physics? Or is there life on other planets? To those I'd like to add one: who thought it would be a good idea to release this rubbish?

On first impressions, this CD looks quite promising. It's a digipak done in fake leather finish with gold embossing. Perhaps it's a Black Metal album. Inside, the lyrics are printed on a pack of tarot cards. OK, perhaps it's a Doom or Folk-inspired album. On the back are a bunch of long winded song names like "Run, Gunner Recall, Run! The Town Wants You Dead!" and "Wayne Andrews, The Old Bee Keeper". Now the smart money is on a Prog Rock concept album. This would have been a good place to stop.

However, this is a review of the music on the CD, not of it's packaging, so I gotta listen to it. Stick in the CD. Press play. Listen to a little bit. Hmm...something's not quite right here. Press eject to make sure I've got the right CD. Yep. Put it on again. Check the lyric sheet to make sure it's not a mistake from the CD pressing plant. Nope. Oh dear...

First track "The Going Price For Home" sounds like the demo track of a Casio keyboard with one of the Bee Gees singing over it. WTF? Perhaps the next track will be better. "The Fight Of Moses Early And Sir Arthur McCloud" has an acoustic guitar and a synthesized violin with one of the Bee Gees singing over it. Yuck! Quick, skip to the next track! Um, OK, so now it's Simon And Garfunkel singing a B-side for "Scarborough Fair" on the most pretentiously named song ever, "Our Darling Daughter You Are, Little Cecilia Marie". Argh! Next track, quick! Damn, that keyboard is back again, this time accompanying the Jackson Five, complete with "Doo doo dah dah" lyrics. The title? "A Death In The Family"...

OK, so the obvious conclusion is that `My Brother's Blood Machine' by The Prize Fighter Inferno is awful, and I'm not going to torture you or myself by describing the rest of the album. This album gets marks for it's packaging, because it's one of the best presented CDs I've ever seen. Apparently it took seven years to record. This is a misprint. It was recorded by a seven year old.

The flip-side of Claudio...highly addicting album!.......2006-12-20

I knew Claudio had a side-project to Coheed and Cambria, but I kind of just dismissed it until the guy at the music store threw it in for a discount at the music store when I bought the Live at Hammerstein. Hesitant of my purchase, I threw it in on the way home from the store and after the first track I wasn't really interested, I wanted to see my beloved Co&Ca live on DVD!

WARNING: GIVE CD A SECOND CHANCE...

On the 3 1/2 hr. ride home from school this break though, I was listening to the whole CD...wow!!! Back in the day (1998-ish) I used to love industrial and trance music like Meat Beat Manifesto and Orbital, since I got into playing electric guitar in 2000 I never listen to them anymore and turned myself into a rock maniac. While this not so much trance or rock, The Prize Fighter Inferno tingles the part of my brain that is not all rock and roll, and some of the tracks -- specifically "Fight of Moses Early..." and "Run, Gunner Recall..." -- show off Claudio's acoustic guitar skill. Some of it sounds a bit amateur, but some of these songs (as the liner notes/tarot cards say) are 7 years old! Most of the songs are well-mastered and put together, and are highly addicting and you'll hear yourself singing the catchy-as-hell choruses of "Who Watches the Watchmen?" and "The Margaretville Dance" much to your own chagrin.

Overall this is a great light album to listen to, as opposed to the in-your-face rock that is Coheed. Even though they're two different genres, the dark subject matter and even some of the melodies are really reminiscent of Coheed...but some of these songs have some extreme bass and are just plain weird to people if they're not used to Claudio's voice, make sure you pump it up in "Who Watches The Watchmen?" and put a hole in your floor from your subwoofer.

What everyone has to remember though, is this is NOT a rip-off of The Postal Service. Like I said before, the clever little tarot cards in the CD case say that this album has been written and recorded over 7 years, which makes some of these songs even older than Co&Ca itself (the tone of Claudio's voice in "The Missing McCloud Boys" is really similar to that of "IRO-bot", which was recorded in the Shabutie days).

To sum it up: You can see where Coheed songs like "Once Upon Your Dead Body" come from...just imagine a couple songs like that, a couple like "IRO-bot", but mostly Claudio lyrics set to Casio-style keyboard beats and acoustic guitar, and you got yourself The Prize Fighter Inferno.

I have a serious problem.......2006-12-12

I can't stop listening to this album. Well, that's not entirely true. I did start listening to Coheed & Cambria after my first couple of listens because I hadn't heard them in a while and got "in the mood." However, aside from that one afternoon where I listened to In Keeping of Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 and Good Apollo, I have had a steady addiction to this album. Normally it wouldn't be a problem, but all of my friends hate it. (Luckily, I can't hear their complains through the headphones) My friends like Coheed and Cambria by the bye. That being said, just because you like Co&Cam, don't expect to like this. The first few seconds of "The Going Price of Home" says loudly "This is NOT Coheed & Cambria, and don't expect it to be!"
I bought and it upon first listen, I found myself repeating and repeating the CD, devouring the lyrics (cleverly places on the back of tarot cards), and annoying my friends with music they cannot stand.
To compare this sound seems a disservice, but for lack of better explanation, I feel I must. I would call it a folksy-Postal Service sound with Bram Stoker style lyrics. My friend always complains that Claudio sounds strikingly similar to Michael Jackson, and in the song "The Margretville Dance," I can't argue with him. Though, that song is one of my favorites. It is electronica and it is folk and it is acoustic and it is indie. I'm pretty sure I even heard a washboard in "Run, Gunner Recall, Run! The Town Wants You Dead!"
Normally, I do not find a album released as a side project taking this much of a hold on me, but I would dare say that this is one of the best albums released in 2006. Still, I would buy this album for "Who Watches The Watchmen?" alone.

Average customer rating: A good value The Sound Track Since Bernard Hermann Good mix of film music A mixed collection of movie music Uplifts your soul, takes your mind into the heavens

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Tracks:

1. The Man from Snowy River (Bruce Rowland)
2. The Winds of War (Bob Cobert)
3. Blue Velvet (Angelo Badalamenti)
4. Witness (Maurice Jarre)
5. Raising Arizona (Carter Burwell)
6. Pee Wees Big Adventure (Danny Elfman)
7. Halloween (John Carpenter)
8. A Nightmare On Elm Street (Charles Bernstein)
9. The Fly (Howard Shore)
10. RoboCop (Basil Poledouris)
11. The Empire Strikes Back (John Williams)
12. The Right Stuff (Bill Conti)
13. The Final Conflict (Jerry Goldsmith)
14. The Abyss (Alan Silvestri)
15. Brainstorm (James Horner)
16. Peggy Sue Got Married (John Barry)
17. My Left Foot (Elmer Bernstein)
18. The Dead (Alex North)
19. Stanley & Iris (John Williams)
20. The Milagro Beanfield War (Dave Grusin)
21. Driving Miss Daisy (Hans Zimmer)

Tracks:

1. Steel Magnolias (Georges Delerue)
2. Unforgiven (Lennie Niehaus and Clint Eastwood)
3. Raggedy Man (Jerry Goldsmith)
4. The Grifters (Elmer Bernstein)
5. Green Card (Hans Zimmer)
6. City Slickers (Marc Shaiman)
7. Father Of The Bride (Alan Silvestri)
8. While You Were Sleeping (Randy Edelman)
9. Babe (Nigel Westlake)
10. The Adventures Of The Great Mouse Detective (Henry Mancini)
11. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
12. The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (Laurence Rosenthal)
13. The Secret Garden (Zbigniew Preisner)
14. A Little Princess (Patrick Doyle)
15. Rudy (Jerry Goldsmith)
16. Iron Will (Joel McNeely)
17. Memphis Belle (George Fenton)
18. Eye Of The Needle (Mikl)
19. Total Recall (Jerry Goldsmith)
20. Back To The Future Part III (Alan Silvestri)

Tracks:

1. To Die For (Danny Elfman)
2. The Player (Thomas Newman)
3. Black Robe (Georges Delerue)
4. Medicine Man (Jerry Goldsmith)
5. 2001 (Alex North)
6. Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire (Joel McNeely)
7. The Crow (Graeme Revell)
8. Blade (Mark Isham)
9. The Omen (Jerry Goldsmith)
10. Vertigo (Bernard Herrmann)
11. Scream (Marco Beltrami)
12. The Sixth Sense (James Newton Howard)
13. Xena: Warrior Princess (Joseph LoDuca)
14. Air Force One (Jerry Goldsmith)
15. Starship Troopers (Basil Poledouris)
16. The Matrix (Don Davis)
17. The Iron Giant (Michael Kamen)
18. Youve Got Mail (George Fenton)
19. A Little Romance (Georges Delerue)
20. Pleasantville (Randy Newman)

Tracks:

1. Sunset Boulevard (Franz Waxman)
2. L.A. Confidential (Jerry Goldsmith)
3. Rounders (Christopher Young)
4. The Score (Howard Shore)
5. The Replacements (John Debney)
6. Gone In 60 Seconds (Trevor Rabin)
7. The Bourne Identity (John Powell)
8. Rush Hour 2 (Lalo Schifrin)
9. XXX (Randy Edelman)
10. Die Hard (Michael Kamen)
11. The Last of the Mohicans (Trevor Jones)
12. Moby Dick (Christopher Gordon)
13. The Mists Of Avalon (Lee Holdridge)
14. Cleopatra (Alex North)
15. Life As A House (Mark Isham)
16. Emma (Rachel Portman)
17. In The Bedroom (Thomas Newman)
18. Cast Away (Alan Silvestri)
19. One True Thing (Cliff Eidelman)
20. Unfaithful (Jan A.P. Kaczmarek)
21. Far From Heaven (Elmer Bernstein)
22. Ice Age (David Newman)
23. Shrek (Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell)

Customer Reviews:

A good value.......2007-05-17

I wasn't expecting to have 4 discs for this price, and the music is a quality selection of film music, giving a good scope of the genre, and a very listenable transfer.

The Sound Track Since Bernard Hermann.......2006-07-25

This collection is bound to capture your heart and evoke a tin ear on successive tracks. I found much to like and some duds - easy to skip over.
Very good value.

Good mix of film music.......2006-07-02

Good mix of films!
I'm a big fan of this soundtrack music and will be looking for more CD's like this.

A mixed collection of movie music.......2006-02-23

For the price, this CD is a great bargain. The musical selections, as you might expect, are mixed in quality ranging from extraordinary to so so, the balance being worthwhile and interesting. Sonically the CD is excellent.

Uplifts your soul, takes your mind into the heavens.......2006-01-06

I have been listening to great scores for many years and this collection is truly inspirational in so far as the choice of different scores takes you on a journey of listening pleasure matched by only a few collections.The price is incredibly reasonable for hours of listening pleasure. Don't pass this one up

Average customer rating: Awesome Top of my CD stack for 2 months Good Stuff Global and Generational Appeal An enjoyable time-capsule of a dance album

Soft Machine Teddybears Manufacturer: Big Beat Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Electronic Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alternative Dance | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Alternative Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Dance & DJ | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music All Bargain Titles | Alternative General | Alternative Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Similar Items: Carnavas The Good, the Bad & the Queen Return to Cookie Mountain (with Bonus Tracks) Fresh The Information ASIN: B000ICL3D8 Release Date: 2006-09-26

Tracks:

1. Intro
2. Different Sound (Feat. Malte)
3. Cobrastyle (Feat. Mad Cobra)
4. Yours To Keep (Feat. Neneh Cherry)
5. Are You Feelin' It (Feat. Elephant Man)
6. Black Belt
7. Punkrocker (Feat. Iggy Pop)
8. Ahead Of My Time (Feat. Daddy Boastin')
9. Automatic Lover
10. Magic Kraut
11. Little Stereo (Feat. Daddy Boastin')
12. Riot Going On (Feat. Ebbot Lundberg)
13. Alma

Amazon.com

With Sweden's Teddybears, big-beat electro pop is alive and well. Of course, the insanely poppy vibe of "Cobrastyle," with dancehall kingpin Mad Cobra setting up the "my style is the bomb" chorus, is the band's most recognizable episode--boasting and hip-swiveling and carefree. And even though the tune appeared in 2004 on the After the Sunset soundtrack, it's vital mood lighting here--setting up the infectious, airy pop of "Yours to Keep," with Neneh Cherry on vocals, and Iggy Pop's chugging paean to fashion and poise, "Punkrocker." Oh, it rocks. Only in Sweden could you find an electro-pop band--helmed by a guitarist from garage rock champions the Caesars--inviting Mad Cobra, Cherry, Iggy, and Ebbot Lundberg (from Soundtrack of Our Lives) to consort across 13 tracks. Ear candy in spots, the album is perfect for heavy rotation, melodic and then more melodic. By the way, Iggy and Ebbot sound awesome--elevating the tunes with their distinctive rock yowls and drawing attention to a band that's been toiling away on the fringes for more than a decade. It bumps, it jiggles, and it swirls psych-like. --Andrew Bartlett

Album Description

Teddybears whip together a giddy, mixed-up sonic mash of international styles, resulting in their own indescribably delectable sound. Collaborators on this release include Iggy Pop, Neneh Cherry, Elephant Man, Annie, and the Soundtrack Of Our Lives' Ebbot Lundberg. The result is an awe-inspiring collection of genre-hopping modern pop that's inventive, irresistible, and impossible to pin down. The Stockholm-based trio's effervescent pop has already been featured in a variety of films and commercials. Most recently, the fab funk of "Cobrastyle" was heard on HBO's "Entourage" as well as in the Tab Energy Drink ad campaign, and will be featured in trailers for the upcoming film, "Employee Of The Month", starring Dane Cook and Jessica Simpson.

Customer Reviews:

Awesome.......2007-07-03

As good, if not better than all their previous work. It is however mostly remixes of previous songs- they're all awesome though. Well worth owning.

Top of my CD stack for 2 months.......2007-06-02

Absolutely awesome! Propulsive, tight and addictive. Plus, it's not just me -- I've played this at my house parties, and EVERYONE asks me who this is.

Every time I fall in love with a track, the next track makes me re-think my position. Each time I listen, I'm amazed at their ingenuity.

Good Stuff.......2007-04-08

All the songs are different from each other and many are good, some are great, none are awful!!!!

Global and Generational Appeal.......2007-03-03

Normally I avoid Punk,Techno-Dance, types of music like the plague. But after purchasing and listening to TeddyBears "Soft Machine," I'm sold and this is coming from a 43 year old American male. Good music like all art spans the Globe, Cultures, and Generations.

An enjoyable time-capsule of a dance album.......2007-02-21

Like many Americans, my first exposure to the this Teddybears album was through the Iggy Pop-voiced single "Punkrocker". I've always had a fondness for European techno (unlike Americans, the folk on the other side of the pond seem to understand the idea of using variation to keep their mixes interesting), and the synthesized background tracks were catchy, so I went to check out the whole album. The results were a little different than I expected - while "Punkrocker" is definitely in the same vein as the rest of the songs, it's definitely not representative of the album as a whole. There is a wide range of themes and attitudes here, as evidenced by the myriad guest vocalists. What ties it all together, however, is the persistent dance sound that will have you moving to the music almost subconsciously.

Whether or not you'll be into the album as a whole depends mostly on whether you're open to revisiting the 80s early-techno genre. For those who appreciate the style, there's much to like - old-school primitive synthesizer tracks are overlaid with some excellent vocal turns (other standouts include Elephant Man's "Are You Feelin' It" and Neneh Cherry's "Yours to Keep"). The experimental time-capsule nature of the album verges on self-awareness at times, with results ranging from biting (the lyrics of "Punkrocker") to amusing (the vocal appearance of the Fred voice of the Macintosh Classic in "Automatic Lover"). And while the lyrics are hardly multilayered, the tracks themselves are more than enjoyable enough to justify repeat listening.

"Soft Machine" may be a bit simplistic in scope and execution, but this is a nonetheless enjoyable album that makes a nice alternative to much of the other bubblegum-pop ear candy on the radio today.

Average customer rating: One Of The Best Metal Albums, Period. pointless music with no heart A classic to throw up the horns to Sorry, But 'Burn My Eyes' Isn't 5 Star Material You Morons Wow

Burn My Eyes Machine Head Manufacturer: Roadrunner Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Alternative Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: The More Things Change Through the Ashes of Empires Burning Red Supercharger The Blackening ASIN: B000000H6G Release Date: 1994-08-09

Tracks:

1. Davidian
2. Old
3. A Thousand Lies
4. None But My Own
5. The Rage To Overcome
6. Death Church
7. A Nation On Fire
8. Blood For Blood
9. I'm Your God Now
10. Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies
11. Block

Customer Reviews:

One Of The Best Metal Albums, Period........2007-03-07

Machine Head's 1994 debut stands the test of time as one of the best debut metal albums ever, and as a classic example of how powerful metal can be. An absolute classic in the genre which has withstood the test of time...even Machine Head can't replicate the pure fury of this album.

If the one-two punch of album-opener "Davidian" and second track "Old" won't convince you of the sheer heaviness and intensity of this band; nothing will. I still get chills over how cool "Old" is when I listen to it...genius metal songwriting. The vocals aren't quite as good as many of the more polished current metal releases out today, but are nothing to dismiss, and become sort of secondary to the righteous indignation of the political and social commentary of the lyrics and the crushing thunder of the uber-heavy riffs, many of which are quite complex, and lay down serious groove. This album signalled the beginning of metal trying to throw off the whole grunge scene and step it up to the next level...the roots of the modern "extreme" metal scene. Very cool, and still amazing after all these years. If you are a metalhead and don't own this disc, shame on you.

pointless music with no heart.......2006-09-01

Metalcore - the epitome of mainstream garbage that Americans love.

Pass on this and move onto bands that matter; such as Kreator, Death, Dismember or Suffocation.

A classic to throw up the horns to.......2006-08-03

I couldn't leave you with a poor MH CD without making up for it with a good one. The band will probably never match up to the debut. This CD has it all: crushing riffs, quirky, cool solos, agressive vocals, heavy bass, and powerful drumming. Standout tracks include "Davidian", "A Thousand Lies", and "Nation on Fire". If you want an alternative to Pantera(though I don't know why you'd want that), then check this out. If you want old-school, killer metal, then you should also check this out.

Sorry, But 'Burn My Eyes' Isn't 5 Star Material You Morons.......2006-04-23

It's 5.196 star material (the extra .196 comes from adding pi/16 to 5.)

Onto less stupid antics, 'Burn My Eyes' really is everything most say it is: a classic that, unfortunately, Machine Head will unlikely ever surpass or even match. One reason this album is great is because even now (12 years later), there is little in the metal field that is similar to it. It possesses a technical intensity that transcends most nu-metal, yet it isn't like many other talented metal bands who are so bogged down with their music that it's hard to listen to (like death metal tends to be.)

Instead, 'Burn My Eyes' is a nostalgiac version of 80s metal, but with a more modern and evolved sound than most 80s metal. It is aggressive enough to be taken seriously as a modern metal band, yet structured enough to always provide the listener with a clear sense of purpose in each song.

One great feature of this album is the innovative combination Machine Head pioneered with quiet, slow melody and faster, more-aggresive thrash. Songs like 'I'm Your God Now,'Death Church,' and 'None But My Own' are good examples of this. They start off quietly, then just when you think the song is going to be boringly slow the whole way through, it piques your interest by getting louder and becoming angrier. These songs alternate between softer melody and louder aggression until they more or less climax with the aggression at the end.

There are, however, other songs, such as 'Blood for Blood,' and 'Block,' which are fast through almost the entire song, and others, such as 'Old' and 'Davidian' which are a bit slower for their duration (but not by much.)

Lastly, this is one of two albums where vocalist Robb Flynn's voice is actually decent (as his voice seems to only get worse with each release.) He is more than capable of delivering the needed aggression to each song.

If you're a metal fan (especially thrash), it's hard to go wrong with this. Buy it, listen to it, and enjoy it, because it's one of the few in its class.

Wow.......2006-04-23

This is why I listen to heavy music! Intensity, for lack of a better word, this is what the entire album is made up of! Favorite songs, Davidian, old, A Nation on Fire.

Average customer rating: Perfect This CD is great. So is their second one, "Wallflower." FEEL THE POWER

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Tracks:

1. Hands And Feet
2. Pain
3. I Hate You
4. Wasting Time
5. Love And High Speed
6. I'm Sorry
7. Walk All Over You
8. Sunday
9. Monster Box
10. Diva

Customer Reviews:

Perfect.......2005-07-05

I remember hearing this in '92. "Hands and Feet" followed by "Pain" on WNHU West Haven Conn.. The album is solid all the way through and I am as picky as they get. I thought this and Pantera's Vulgar Display were the best that year. The follow up was really lame. I'm glad I have this one though for sure. One of my all time faves, along with Mind Bomb and Spread Eagle, for those who rocked briefly then disappeared. It had to have been brutal to be known as a "metal band" in the early 90's. Not many survived.

This CD is great. So is their second one, "Wallflower.".......1999-06-01

This CD came roaring out of the "Seattle Scene" in 1991. This same year, My Sister's Machine was voted the best new band of 1991 in the Northwest at NAMA (Northwest Area Music Association). From 1990 to 1992 this band was filling up the local clubs in Seattle when Pearl Jam could not. Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Mother Love Bone, and My Sister's Machine were at the top of the Seattle scene. They toured around the US and Europe and headlined with Smashing Pumpkins, White Zombie, Pantera, King's X, and many others. This band simply will blows the doors off the joint with its aggressive vocals and guitars.

It's a shame that My Sister's Machine was the victim of label trouble; Caroline in '92 and Chameleon in '94. Both labels folded when the singles were being released for each album. We will never know what they could have accomplished, but luckily we still have two albums to enjoy!

FEEL THE POWER.......1999-04-04

IF YOU LIKE HEAVY GUITARS AND HEAVY HITTING DRUM TRACKS YOU WILL LOVE THIS CD. THE LEAD SINGER IS SIMILAR TO MOLLY HATCHET'S LEAD VOCALS-THIS BOY CAN WAIL. YOU WILL LOVE EVERY SONG ON THIS AND IT WILL LEAVE YOU WANTING MORE.

Average customer rating: More of a party princess than a wallflower !

Wallflower My Sister's Machine Manufacturer: Chameleon / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Alternative Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Grunge | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Sweet Oblivion Black Stone Cherry ASIN: B00005ARQ2 Release Date: 1993-08-10

Tracks:

1. Inside of Me
2. Broken Land
3. This Is Fear
4. Steamy Swamp Thang
5. Feed
6. Empty Room
7. 16 Ways to Go
8. Enemy
9. I Slip Away
10. Burn
11. Mockingbird
12. Cracking New Ground

Customer Reviews:

More of a party princess than a wallflower !.......2005-09-10

My Sister's Machine are one of the inexplicably unsuccessful bands of the early nineties grunge scene. In seattle, they were club-fillers along with Nirvana , Mudhoney and green river at the turn of the decade, and their first album "Diva" was a fine, more conventionally hard rockin' album, albeit with cartoon-terribly lyrics.
Wallflower followed two years later after label problems.

This album is much darker and takes itself less seriously that its predecessor. More melody and slightly less silly lyrics marked out a definitive runge groove. Nick Pollock's vocals a magnificent mix of Max Cavalera's growl and Chris Cornell's range and musicality raisd "Wallflower" to the quality levels of neighbours Alice In Chains. Walls of guitars, everywhere, particularly "crackin' new ground" and "Inside", lots of light and shade seasoned with power riffing in tracks like " Enpty Room" makes THIS listener wonder why they never made it HUGE. Better tunes by far than Pearl Jam for example, and barely a riff stolen from anywhere else over the whole album.

Still a staple in my card CD player more then ten years after release.

If you listen and enjoy, and want more of the wonderful singer/guitarist as Nick Pollock , try the new Soulbender album with Queensyche guitarist Michael Wilton. It is like a modern My Sisters machine album and NOTHING like Queensryche !

Wallflower and My Susters Machine Highly recommended !

Average customer rating: Great set of wartime rarities Cure for the Blues Standard Transcription Collection

(Not) Your Standard Spike Jones Collection Spike Jones Manufacturer: Collector's Choice ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Contemporary Comedy | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Novelty Music | Comedic Music | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Comedic Music | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Strictly for Music Lovers Spike Jones - Greatest Hits Fonk Spiked!: The Music of Spike Jones The Spike Jones Story ASIN: B00007JR3K Release Date: 2003-04-08

Album Description

Holiday blues comin' on? Well, put a spike in `em! Here's the zaniest, wildest and just plain sickest Collectors' Choice Music exclusive yet—79 tracks from Spike Jones and his City Slickers! These represent Spike's complete Standard Transcription sides, but these tunes are anything but standard; Mr. Jones brought his full bag of tricks for these non-commercial recordings (made in Hollywood during the early `40s). Add to that the fact that most of these have never been on CD or even LP, and any lover of Spike's mayhem-filled mixture of laughs and hot licks is going to flip over this set! Notes and great pictures accompany this 3-CD walk on the wacky side from the greatest novelty band of all time.

Customer Reviews:

Great set of wartime rarities.......2003-05-14

Spike Jones was the king of the novelty song performers, with hits like "Der Fuehrer's Face" and the parody version of "Sheik of Araby" becoming huge hits during World War II. This is a swell 3-CD set, gathering a full eighty-one of Jones' best tracks from his 1940s heyday, drawn from an extensive archive of radio broadcasts made for the Standard Transcription service. The tightness of his City Slickers band is amply demonstrated in these manic, kookily orchestrated performances. Toots, squonks, blatts and bleats whiz by at lightning speed, as one daffy song after another will delight devoted fans. Amazingly, Jones had the unusual, almost unique ability to perform a repertoire almost entirely made up of comedic material, and yet still be quite listenable and engaging. His jazz chops were hardly in question, and from time to time Jones would dash off a non-novelty ballad or two, just to give the rubes something to think about. Of course, just as often he would perform a song that *sounded* like a straight ballad, but would turn out to be another goof. (One great example of this is the sultry "Serenade To A Jerk," sung in slinky, burlesque tones by Myrtle Horwin.) This collection may seem a little overwhelming, but like his studio recordings, these radio performances have a certain brilliance and joie de vivre about them that will leave you enchanted. Definitely worth checking out!

Cure for the Blues.......2003-04-25

Here's the zaniest, wildest and just plain sickest Collectors' Choice Music exclusive yet-79 tracks from Spike Jones and his City Slickers! These represent Spike's complete Standard Transcription sides, but these tunes are anything but standard; Mr. Jones brought his full bag of tricks for these non-commercial recordings (made in Hollywood during the early `40s). Add to that the fact that most of these have never been on CD or even LP, and any lover of Spike's mayhem-filled mixture of laughs and hot licks is going to flip over this set! Notes and great pictures accompany this 3-CD walk on the wacky side from the greatest novelty band of all time.

Standard Transcription Collection.......2003-04-12

This collection has remastered material from the large stack of Standard Transcription discs from the early 1940's. There are many songs not recorded on RCA, many on the theme of wartime ("48 Reasons Why"), and the quality is excellent. The packaging is threadbare but this is an essential CD package for true music lovers.

Average customer rating: Moved to tears Nonesuch delivers.Again harmonia in excelsis Our greatest living composer Wonderful CD

The John Adams Earbox: A 10-CD Retrospective Manufacturer: Nonesuch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Adams | Adams, John | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ives, Charles | ( I ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Ives, Charles | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | ( S ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Minimal Techno | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Classical | Box Sets | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Box Sets | Stores | Music Similar Items: Steve Reich 1965-1995 John Adams: The Dharma at Big Sur/My Father Knew Charles Ives Naive & Sentimental Music 25 Years: Retrospective Century Rolls ASIN: B00001SID1 Release Date: 1999-10-19

Tracks:

1. Lollapalooza
2. John's Book Of Alleged Dances: Judah To Ocean
3. John's Book Of Alleged Dances: Toot Nipple
4. John's Book Of Alleged Dances: Dogjam
5. John's Book Of Alleged Dances: Pavane: She's So Fine
6. John's Book Of Alleged Dances: Rag The Bone
7. John's Book Of Alleged Dances: Habanera
8. John's Book Of Alleged Dances: Stubble Crotchet
9. John's Book Of Alleged Dances: Hammer & Chisel
10. John's Book Of Alleged Dances: Alligator Escalator
11. John's Book Of Alleged Dances: Standchen: The Little Serenade
12. John's Book Of Alleged Dances: Judah To Ocean (Reprise)
13. Slonimsky's Earbox

Tracks:

1. Two Fanfares For Orchestra - Tromba Lontana
2. Two Fanfares For Orchestra - Short Ride In A Fast Machine
3. Common Tones In Simple Time
4. El Dorado - Part I. A Dream Of Gold
5. El Dorado - Part II. Soledades

Tracks:

1. Harmonielehre - Part I
2. Harmonielehre - Part II The Anfortas Wound
3. Harmonielehre - Part III Meister Eckhardt And Quackie
4. Violin Concerto - Part I
5. Violin Concerto - Part II Chaconne:
6. Violin Concerto - Part III Toccare

Tracks:

1. Chamber Sympony - Mongel Airs
2. Chamber Sympony - Aria With Walking Bass
3. Chamber Sympony
4. Hoodo Zephyr - Tundra
5. Hoodo Zephyr - Dissappointment Lake
6. Hoodo Zephyr - Hoodo Zephyr
7. Gnarly Buttons - The Perilous Shore
8. Gnarly Buttons - Hoe-Down (Mad Cow)
9. Gnarly Buttons - Put Your Loving Arms Around Me

Tracks:

1. Ensemble - I Was Looking At The Ceiling And Then I Saw The Sky
2. A Sermon On Romance
3. Consuelo's Dream
4. Mike's Song About Arresting A Particular Individual
5. Tiffany's Solo
6. Song About The On-Site Altercation
7. Song About The Bad Boys And The News
8. Your Honor My Client He's A Young Black Man
9. Leila's Song; Alone (Again Or At Last)
10. Three Weeks And Still I'm Outta My Mind
11. Crushed By The Rock I Been Standing On
12. Dewain's Song Of Liberation And Surprise
13. !Este Pais! / This Country
14. One Last Look At The Angel In Your Eyes
15. Finale

Tracks:

1. Lollapalooza
2. John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Judah To Ocean
3. John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Toot Nipple
4. John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Dogjam
5. John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Pavane: She's So Fine
6. John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Rag The Bone
7. John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Habenera
8. John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Stubble Crotchet
9. John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Hammer & Chisel
10. John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Alligator Escalator
11. John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Standchen: The Little Serenade
12. John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Judah To Ocean (Reprise)
13. Slonimsky's Earbox

Tracks:

1. Harmonium - Negative Love
2. Harmonium - Becuase I Could Not Stop For Death
3. Harmonium - Wild Nights
4. Shaker Loops - Shaking and Trambling
5. Shaker Loops - Hymning Slews
6. Shaker Loops - Loops and Verses
7. Shaker Loops - A Final Shaking

Tracks:

1. The Chairman Dances - Foxtrot For Orchestra
2. Grand Pianola Music - First Movement
3. Grand Pianola Music - Second Movement
4. Grand Pianola Music - Third Movement: On The Dominant Divide
5. Fearful Symmetries

Tracks:

1. Nixon In China - Opening
2. Nixon In China -
3. Nixon In China -
4. Nixon In China - Landing Of The Spirit Of '76
5. Nixon In China -
6. Nixon In China -
7. Nixon In China -
8. Nixon In China -
9. Nixon In China - Cheers
10. Nixon In China -
11. Nixon In China - Opening
12. Nixon In China -
13. Nixon In China -
14. Nixon In China -
15. Nixon In China -
16. Nixon In China -
17. Nixon In China -
18. Nixon In China -
19. Nixon In China -
20. Nixon In China -
21. Nixon In China -
22. Nixon In China -

Tracks:

1. The Wound-Dresser
2. Christian Zeal And Activity
3. Five Songs - Thoreau
4. Five Songs - Down East
5. Five Songs - Cradle Song
6. Five Songs - At The River
7. Five Songs - Serenity
8. Eros Piano

Amazon.com

Having earned his composing stripes after the 1960s, John Adams had the pioneering work of Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and Terry Riley close at hand as he ventured into his trade. And, while minimalism's historical continuum helps place Adams, he used Reich, Glass, and Riley (among others) only as a starting point. And here's proof: a 10-CD retrospective of nearly all Adams's recorded compositions on Nonesuch Records, the label that also issued Steve Reich 1965-1995 and Kronos Quartet: 25 Years. Adams's Harmonium, a choral work of startling energy and effervescence, appears here in a new recording, as do distillations of both The Death of Klinghoffer and Nixon in China, two path-clearing operas. Over the span of a career covered by Earbox, Adams has returned minimalism to traditional instrumental ensembles as well as to projects that at once advanced a political commentary and took that commentary back to orchestral audiences. And so, in far less time than his predecessors, Adams created works that now play like standard repertoire pieces: The Wound Dresser and Shaker Loops and the Violin Concerto--all of them are here. What these works demonstrate is a fierce creativity on the one hand and perhaps a hunger for commercial advances on the other. Adams may at times be a bustling free thinker, but he sounds ever conscious of what audiences are listening to. As for the works themselves, they remain every bit as daunting as when written.

Some may object to particular selections. I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, for example, hardly ranks with Adams's best work. But this box isn't a mere best-of; it's an almost-all-of. At times terrifically American--especially in the news-aware operas and their narrative pragmatism--Adams well deserves a major box set, and its coverage is appropriate to his varied, stylistically diverse output. As with any large-scale retrospective, Earbox--which fairly bristles with Adams's new composition, Slonimsky's Earbox--has spots where fans might balk at the quality of the composer's writing. But it's got a fantastic accompanying booklet along with its many hours of inarguably modern and thoroughly listener-friendly music. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

Moved to tears.......2004-03-18

Never before in my life was i moved so intensely and directly by classical music. I put the first cd in my player and a few minutes later tears are flowing. I find myself dancing and moving to a rythm i already seem to know. Wow, i just have to share that.

Nonesuch delivers.Again.......2002-11-27

John adams is one of the most popular living composers of"modern" classical music[I believe the cutoff point, though arbitrary is usually WWII}.I came to him late, through my husband. Modersn classical music , I said? What the hell is that?My husband kept playing bits and pieces of adams for me, and more and more i found myself amazed. and swayed. His operas have been groundbreaking{Nixon in China} controversial{Death Of klinghoffer},his compostions sublimely beautiful{shaker Loops or harmonium].HIS STATURE IS WORTHY THEN OF SUCH A MONUMENTAL CAREER SPANNING BOX SET.This 10 disc set[great value, again from NONESUCH}encompasses Adams' entire career,and though there are some misses here{I was looking at the ceiling and then i saw the sky doesnt quite fit},it is still magnificent. the Highlights are ,{for me} the Wound Dresser, Chamber symphony,Violin Concerto, of course, Shaker Loops and Harmonuim are wonderful. The true jewels here are Nixon in China,the Chairman dances and the Death of Klinghoffer,which is simply a masterpiece. The set comes with a wonderful book, which contains essay's by Robert Hurwitz {An Uncommon Man}renaud Machart[John adams as seen from europe} and Essays before an earbox by Adams himself.A Chronology and dicography are included. A wonderful study of an American original,worth the investment, Highly highly recommended

harmonia in excelsis.......2001-11-12

I must agree with Mr. Bartlett, particularly with regard to "Ceiling." It may well be because his Violin Concerto and Harmonielehre are so powerful. 4.5 stars.
Interesting, and likely intentional, is that two names in the extensive liner book fail to mention two great and glaringly obvious precursors: Carl Orff and Raymond Scott. Without "Carmina Burana," there would be no "Harmonium." Orff has his mark all over Adams's gifted and epic compositions. Similarly, though there are glib references to "cartoon music," the polymath engineer/musician Scott is a seminal figure in American music, and casts a large shadow over the witty juxtapositions and sense of play one loves in Adams's work. In all, an excellent career overview.

Our greatest living composer.......2001-07-22

As a composer, I'm staggered that anyone could fail to be gripped by this music.

That anyone can use the words "spoiled, overrated" amazes me. I emphatically disagree with "A music fan"'s review.

I don't think it's "mind-numbing"; I think it's spiritual and exciting. To me it's the most substantial music being created in our times.

I'm really sorry that anyone could fail to enjoy it, and really recommend others to listen for themselves.

Wonderful CD.......2000-04-02

This compilation should turn even the most curmudgeonly listerner into a fan. Beautifully recorded, great notes -- and it's a heck of a bargain!

Average customer rating: NOT A GREAT SHOW, BUT FUN, NONETHELESS . . . .

Hazel Flagg (1953 Original Broadway Cast) Manufacturer: Sepia Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Make a Wish (1951 Original Broadway Cast) Two's Company Curtains (2007 Original Broadway Cast) Spring Awakening (2006 Original Broadway Cast) Sugar (Original 1972 Broadway Cast Recording) [Enhanced CD] ASIN: B0007ULKSY Release Date: 2004-09-27

Tracks:

1. Overture - Orchestra
2. A Little More Heart - Benay Venuta
3. The World Is Beautiful Today - Helen Gallagher
4. The Rutland Bounce - Jule Styne
5. I'm Glad I'm Leaving - Helen Gallagher
6. Hello, Hazel - Benay Venuta
7. Every Street's A Boulevard In Old New York - Jack Whiting
8. How Do You Speak To An Angel? - John Howard
9. Autograph Chant - Chorus
10. I Feel Like I'm Gonna Live Forever - Helen Gallagher
11. You're Gonna Dance With Me, Willie - Helen Gallagher
12. Who Is The Bravest? - Male Chorus
13. Salomee - Dean Campbell
14. Everybody Loves To Take A Bow - Jack Whiting
15. Laura De Maupassant - Helen Gallagher
16. Finale - The Entire Company
17. Bonus Track: How Do You Speak To An Angel? - Eddie Fisher
18. Bonus Track: I Feel Like I'm Gonna Live Forever - Sunny Gale
19. Bonus Track: Salomee - Dinah Shore
20. Bonus Track: I Feel Like I'm Gonna Live Forever - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians
21. Bonus Track: Hello My Baby - Benay Venuta
22. Bonus Track: When Frances Dances With Me - Benay Venuta
23. Bonus Track: Waltz Me Around Again Willie - Benay Venuta
24. Bonus Track: Come Josephine In My Flying Machine - Benay Venuta
25. Bonus Track: Rings On My Fingers - Benay Venuta
26. Bonus Track: After The Ball - Benay Venuta

Customer Reviews:

NOT A GREAT SHOW, BUT FUN, NONETHELESS . . . ........2007-06-20

HAZEL FLAGG is a curious animal. The show, ' . . . a satire on the manipulation of people, especially the general public," is based on Ben Hecht's screenplay for the 1937 Carole Lombard/Frederick March vehicle, "Nothing Sacred," itself based on a story by James Street. Hecht is also responsible for the musical's book, with lyrics by Bob Hilliard. Jule Styne, fresh from the success of HIGH BUTTON SHOES and GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES, not only wrote the music but acted as the show's producer as well.

HAZEL's disappointing 190 performances (compared to over 700 for each of the previous shows) can be blamed on that old Broadway bugaboo: bad book. "The show did lose something in its transformation to a musical. The songs and dances tended to drag what was originally a fast moving story and, as many other show writers have found, satire is something that rarely works as a musical. Ben Hecht, who was successful as a playwright, was not at ease with a libretto and the inexperienced producer should have recognised this and brought in help. Even so, Jule Styne's score, whilst not quite top notch Styne, does include the enchanting 'How Do You Speak to an Angel?' and the popular 'Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York." (from the liner notes by Rexton S. Bunnett)

Marc Miller, writing in "The TheaterMania Guide to Musical Theater Recordings," says HAZEL FLAGG was " . . . intended as Helen Gallagher's stepping-stone to stardom in the title role of a Vermont lass who's thought to be dying of radium poisoning and is transported to New York by EVERYWHERE magazine for a supposed last fling. (Guess what happens to her prognosis.) Gallagher works very hard here, and her contralto belt is strong and secure. She's supported by such Broadway reliables as Benay Venuta, Jack Whiting, . . . and Thomas Mitchell (who doesn't sing a note but took home a Best Musical Tony anyway). . . . the show does sport amusingly elaborate vocal arrangements by Hugh Martin."

The score is not nearly as dull as Mr. Miller would like us to believe. In addition to "Angel" and "Every Street," the score includes "I Feel Like I'm Gonna Live Forever," "You're Gonna Dance with Me, Willie," and the rather bizarre "Laura de Maupassant," all delivered in fine style by Ms. Gallagher. And "Salomee," here sung by Dean Campbell, became a minor hit for Dinah Shore.

The CD is blessed with a bunch of fun bonus tracks: a young, in-wonderful-voiced Eddie Fisher singing "How Do You Speak to an Angel?", Dinah Shore's recording of "Salomee," Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians performing "I Feel Like I'm Gonna Live Forever," and six tracks by Ms. Venuta, including "When Frances Dances with Me" and "Waltz Me Around Again, Willie" ("Willie Fitzgibbons who used to sell ribbons/and stood up all day on his feet/Grew very spooney on Madeline Mooney,/Who'd rather be dancing than eat./Each evening she'd tag him, to some dance hall drag him,/And when the band started to play,/She'd up like a silly and grab tired Willie,/Steer him on the floor and she'd say,/Waltz me around again, Willie . . . " What fun. The bonus songs alone are worth the price of admission.

Average customer rating: STRATOSPHERIC Refreshing! Hark! The Princess doth make malodorous stew. Just got this CD for Xmas...AWESOME!! Crude Rhymes for the Synth pop generation

My Machine Princess Superstar Manufacturer: K7 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Rap & Hip-Hop General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Rap & Hip-Hop General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Similar Items: Is Last of the Great 20th Century Composers CEO Perfect Witching Hour ASIN: B0009JK1CY Release Date: 2005-09-13

Tracks:

1. Intro via The Telepath
2. I Like It A lot
3. The Classroom
4. Famous
5. Dollys Duplicants
6. On Top Bubble
7. The Mysterious Hanger
8. Bad Girls N.Y.C.
9. 10,000 Hits
10. Quitting Smoking Song
11. Sex, Drugs & Drugs
12. Initially
13. Im So Out Of Control
14. Coochie Coo
15. World Council Entertainment Dicktatorship
16. Perfect
17. What Do You Want?
18. Push, Make It Work
19. What You Gonna Do?
20. My Machine
21. The Death Of The Superstar
22. Artery
23. The Great Brain Revolution
24. The Happy
25. The End

Album Description

Princess Superstar's fifth album My Machine is a 25 track, nearly 80-minute concept album. Princess presents a vision of the future in order to critique the present and reinvents herself as a sassy and smart anti-hero. In a world where stars are manufactured and not born she questions where the relationship between art and commerce is headed and attacks the current "Extreme Makeover" culture that turns people into imitations of a nonexistent ideal by promising to make them better versions of themselves, a theme she explores in "Perfect," the first video from the album. At times crazy and hilarious, hideous and alluring, deranged and compelling, she has mapped out an alternate universe on which to provoke and entertain.

Recorded over the past three years in Costa Rica, London, New York, Brazil, New Jersey, Mexico, and Berlin, this is Princess' most ambitious work to date. The album was executive produced by her and the legendary Arthur Baker and also features production work from Jacques Lu Cont, Junior Sanchez, Armand Van Helden, and Todd Terry. She takes her cut'n'paste aesthetic to a new level as she effortlessly switches from the straight up hip-hop of "Famous" to the power punk of "I Like It A Lot" to the sinister electro of "My Machine" to the moody rock of "Artery" and her signature comedic style on "Quitting Smoking Song."

This should come as no surprise from a woman who, while working on this album, found the time to be a coach on MTV's hit show "Made,", join Mensa, tour the world with her 4 turntable act "DJs Are Not Rockstars", have a weekly radio show on London's Kiss FM, and be profiled in everything from the New York Times' Style Section to Crain's Business Magazine! NYC's rhyming juggernaut is back with a love letter to independence, guaranteed to make brains and dance floors more active than they've been in a long time.

Customer Reviews:

STRATOSPHERIC.......2007-04-24

Can't find much to move you on the present comatose music scene? Princess Superstar works on a stratospheric level no one else can touch (leaving aside Faithless).

Don't be put off by comparisons with Gwen Sfefani or Christina Aguilera.
This is no rambling r'n'b. The Princess is pure gutsy hiphop.

At least she was. But My Machine clashes hiphop head on with dance beats par excellence. Not since the great days of Blondie, T'Pau or The Avalanches has pop-dance had such an exhilarating outing. But it still works as intelligent fireside company.

The last album Princess Superstar Is is in the top ten greatest pop albums ever, its subtlety and class outstripping everything else around. Only an artist of exceptional talent could follow up that successfully but Concetta has walked it.

At first listen the ambition has been scaled down. This album might be designed for fun. But after a few encounters the shear quality, invention, production finesse and verbal prowess comes shining through.
Only complaint is the bit pretentious concept. This leads to a few lesser tracks at the start but with 25 on offer there is plenty left that is pure gold.

Look out for the great contributions from Ashley Stevens. A progeny?

Refreshing!.......2006-12-21

You cannot go into this album with anything but an open mind. You also cannot go into this album expecting a listen that could accompany any sort of mentally-involved task. This album requires you to sit and listen. It requires you to pay attention. And it requires you to stop being so critical and just have fun.

As the initial review states, this is a concept album. A man comes from the future to explain to us about a tale a child is telling in her "speaking" class (the people of the future have no tongues, and must go to class to learn to speak without using telepathy) about her great-great-great-great x 50 grandmother, the Superstar. The Superstar was a woman who was tired of being nominally famous, so she froze her consciousness in 2005 after a super-MRI scan to awaken at a time in which she could take advantage of cloning to make an army of Duplicants, making her the ONLY celebrity. My Machine as an album is like a story written on paper, so I won't give away the ending.

Musically speaking, the production and rhymes are tight. This woman has skill! She tackles multiple roles on the album with ease, and she even makes "confronting herself" sound normal, like it could happen. Throughout my listen, I was impressed and eager to hear more. I think you will be too.

To mention any specific tracks is doing you, the listener, a disservice. You don't read chapters out of a book first before reading the book as a whole, and Princess Superstar's album is much the same. Enjoy!

Hark! The Princess doth make malodorous stew. .......2006-05-10

In releasing a concept album set in the future, you have to give Princess Superstar credit for her ambition. And she might be the first rapper to actually say
"Mazel Tov." No matter how you boil it down though, she's still a grown woman talking about her "coochie." ("Coochie Coo")
"Initially and "Perfect" could've been produced by Giorgio Moroder, and sound like disco anthems from 1978. But everything else is almost as torturous as listening to the President speak. (I said almost)
"Famous" has incredibly grating child-like voices yelling, "I want to be famous!" On "On Top Bubble," she brags that she's "unstoppable," "undroppable," and even "On Top bubble." I did not know that.
"Quitting Smoking Song" is so silly, you expect the Tim Burton Ooompa Loompa's to come out dancing dressed like Amish people.
At one point, she says, "It sounds like s#@t!" That about sums it up.

Just got this CD for Xmas...AWESOME!!.......2005-12-28

I just got this as a christmas gift form a hipster friend of mine...you know goes to the casbah a lot and worshipper of pitchforkmedia.com...she knows i'm into alternative rap so she got me this. my current favorites are anticon members passage and why? but you know what, EVERYONE has got to check out PRINCESS SUPERSTAR. She is SOO DOPE!! Cuz she's got all this flava right from the start with "I like it a lot" and it's just infectious throughout the CD. I mean later on when I found out that Arthur Baker oversaw the whole thing I realized why it was so tite. SO DEFINITELY CHECK OUT THIS CD. YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT! PEACE~~~

Crude Rhymes for the Synth pop generation.......2005-10-29

This album is more of an epic tale with 26 songs that move through an assortment of contemporary topics mostly dealing with pop consumerism and the commodification of the human. This being my first introduction to Princess Superstar i was amazed by her roots and where they have taken her since. My favorite track is "Coochie Coo" because in combines a melodic sense with fun rhymes that allude to our dirtier sides. Dirty is deffintely my thing, and there is a lot of that here. And i mean that in the sense that there is someone just saying the things that are on everyone's minds and applying it to themes and textures that bring them to life. Overall this is a great album and can offer different reads on every listen. Pick it up and offer up your comments as i would like to see what other fans have to say.

Dance Music:

1. N It 4 the Chips [Explicit Lyrics]
2. Next Lifetime [CD-single] [Import]
3. Now Dance '95
4. O.P.A. Sur La Rue
5. Order in the Court [Clean]
6. PNC 3 [Explicit Lyrics]
7. Pony [CD-single] [Import]
8. Psycho & The Chargepartnaz [Explicit Lyrics]
9. Pure & Uncut [Explicit Lyrics]
10. Queens of Rap

Dance Music

dance music

Dance Music

Sandie Shaw/ Petula Clark - Greatest Hits [Import]

Bush: Relinquishment/Nocturne/Lyric Interlude/Voices Of The Prophets/English Suite

Die Grossen Erfolge [Import]

When the Night Is Through

Elegant Slumming [Import]

Excess of Free Speech

Champions [Import]

Dreamtime

Everything's on TV Pt.2 [CD-single] [Import]

Bernstein: The Age of Anxiety and Other Works

Bunker

Down on the South Side

Basico [Import]

Jump5

Winter Solstice