Madness [Explicit Lyrics]

1. Book of Life

2. Run From the Undercover

3. Nightstalker

4. Party Till Your Brains Hang Out

5. C.O.D.

6. Fuck a Bitch Fever

7. I Didn't Want to Do It

8. 86 the Madness

9. Nuthing But Props

10. Be Thankful

11. Western Hills Funk

12. Ride Your Own Dick

13. Your Brains Hang Out

14. Making That Sex

Madness,Shug,Nightstalker / Pgd,Hip-Hop,Pop,Rap,Rap & Hip-Hop,Soul/Reggae/Rhythm & Blues

Average customer rating: Not Quite A few gems but The specials were the ska wonders! madness Ultimate collection - Madness A good collection

Ultimate Collection Madness Manufacturer: Hip-O Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music New Wave | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music British Ska | Ska | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Ska General | Ska | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Rock | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Alternative Rock | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music International | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music All Blowout Music | Blowout Music | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 25% Off | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Beat This: The Best of the English Beat Specials The Essential Adam Ant One Step Beyond... Squeeze - Greatest Hits ASIN: B000051Y0T Release Date: 2000-11-14

Tracks:

1. One Step Beyond
2. My Girl
3. Night Boat To Cairo
4. Baggy Trousers
5. Madness (Two-Tone Single Version)
6. The Prince (Two-Tone Single Version)
7. Embarrassment
8. The Return Of The Los Palmas 7
9. House Of Fun
10. Our House
11. It Must Be Love
12. Madness (Is All In The Mind)
13. Grey Day
14. Tomorrow's Just Another Day
15. Shut Up
16. The Sun And The Rain
17. Michael Caine
18. Yesterday's Men
19. Wings Of A Dove (A Celebratory Song)

Customer Reviews:

Not Quite.......2007-05-21

Hearing this album really brings home not only how funny, engaging, and entertaining these boys were but also how stylistically creative- and ace songwriters to boot. My fellow Americans: why didn't we get it? Here they were mostly known as a one-hit wonder but practically every track here coulda-shoulda been a smash hit- as many of these were in the UK. All these accolades aside though I'd recommend "The Lot" or "Complete Madness" over this album since those titles give more focus to the band's earlier "nutty" sound of the Two Tone ska era. Ultimate Collection spans the whole career and in so doing seems to give more equal treatment to the less interesting later electro-pop tunes. Still this is an excellent album.

A few gems but The specials were the ska wonders!.......2007-03-13

Madness no doubt has a few classics- One step beyond Our house House of fun The prince and Embarrasment, and maybe Madness (they call it) is allright. But when it comes to British ska they are a distant second to the Specials whose recordings sounded tough authentic while madness's came off to polished and well too "white".(the Specials were interracial and had the best (riddim) section in london. This is a good way to collect the well known hits and for the money its a good buy i guess- but alot of this material sounds welldated in that bad eighties way- ive seen Madness live however and they sound better live than on recordings. This is all a casual fan would need for sure- if youre new to the first wave of british ska then pick up the Specials debut which is a true ska classic.

madness.......2006-08-11

The songs One Step Beyond,House of Fun,Our House and It Must be Love . I like very much the rest of the songs I gotta get use to.

Ultimate collection - Madness.......2006-03-21

Brings back memories of piano ties and odd fluorescent socks..... great collection!

A good collection.......2003-07-26

This collection brings you what someone considered to be the best of the British Ska group Madness.
First off, every song on this CD is good, great even. The major draw back is, as if with every "best of" album, it's only worth buying if you're not a huge fan. If you are a fan than you should already own every Madness CD in which case there is no reason to buy this CD.
If you're new to Madness, or you just want their major US hits like Our House, It Must Be Love, House of Fun, and One Step Beyond than this will be great for you.
The other draw back to this album is that it features nothing from "Wonderful," which is a 'wonderful' album but never realesed here in the states.
All that said it's still a great album featuring many great songs.

Average customer rating: Old music that does not age The nutty shot heard round the world It's perfect They went..................one step beyond!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nothing disappointing here..

One Step Beyond... Madness Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music New Wave | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music British Ska | Ska | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Ska General | Ska | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Alternative Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Specials Absolutely Too Much Pressure I Just Can't Stop It Special Beat Service ASIN: B00004SCMA Release Date: 2000-06-05

Tracks:

1. One Step Beyond...
2. My Girl
3. Night Boat To Cairo
4. Believe Me
5. Land Of Hope And Glory
6. The Prince
7. Tarzan's Nuts
8. In The Middle Of The Night
9. Bed And Breakfast Man
10. Razor Blade Alley
11. Swan Lake
12. Rockin' In A Flat
13. Mummy's Boy
14. Chipmunks Are Go!
15. Bonus Track

Amazon.com

Fuelled by the ska of Prince Buster ("Madness"), and inspired by the insanity of British music, right from the start Madness were a quintessentially English band. Two-tone more by association than fact, they came to the fore at the same time as the Specials, with a ska beat, a pop heart, and a lunatic smile (who else would update "Swan Lake" in such an unorthodox way?). While the title track lives on beyond them, there were plenty of other gems here, including "Night Boat to Cairo" and "My Girl." The Nutty Sound was infectious as measles, but a lot more fun. Chris Nickson

Album Description

UK reissue of the 1979 debut from the much loved new wave/ska act, digitally remastered with special packaging. Includes CD-ROM videos for 'The Prince', 'One Step Beyond...', 'My Girl' and 'Night Boat To Cairo'. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Album Details

The Classic, Quintessential Goodtime Boyz First Album Includes the Bonus Track 'Chipmunks Are Go!', a Maddness Army Chant. Also, the Enhanced Component features Videos of Night Boat to Cairo, My Girl, One Step Beyond and the Prince.

Customer Reviews:

Old music that does not age.......2007-04-05

I am 53 years old and just the past few months started listening to SKA. Maybe out of my love for Sublime and because my 19 year old son loved SKA so much before he was taken from me. Anyway, this CD is great. I plan to purchase another one or two. The beat is always uplifting, but not annoying like some. You can turn it up or down, it is just good.

The nutty shot heard round the world.......2007-01-20

What a record this is. What fun it generates. To be a young kid when this came out was to know pure, unadulterated, danceable bliss...

I danced to it in '80 when my little brother first brought it home.

I danced to it non-stop with Lynne in the summer of '87.

My four-year old daughter and I danced our hearts out to it last night.

This record is joyous. It's nutty. It's Madness.

It's perfect.......2007-01-13

This is the cream of the 70's Brittish ska bands.

This finds the perfect balance between the bouncy fun of this style of music with quality songwriting and musicianship. This has got to be almost 30 years old yet it still holds up. You cannot really say that about Madness's cohorts, The Specials and The Selector.

The songs are terrific. "One Step Beyond" is the perfect introduction. It totally establishes the mood. Love that squonkin sax! "My Girl" has such a catchy hook and what a gorgeous chorus. The piano really gives that song it's color. "Bed & Breakfast" is a terrific dance tune with a killer sax solo. "Night Boat to Cairo" is an instrumental for a couple of minutes and then the strum on the upstroke kicks in and the song's tempo speeds up. "The Prince" slows it down where the stye is more reggae than ska.

A greatest hits compilation is good but this album is when the band hit their peak, when they really hit their stride. "My house" is more famous but these songs have a common thread for the era.

I always loved the album cover of this. It depicts these guys having fun and I always imagined that Madness was having fun and strutting like on the cover when playing these songs.

This is a masterpiece! I am not a huge fan of all their works but it all came together/never got any better then "One step beyond"

They went..................one step beyond!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2006-03-24

Hey you!!!!!!!!!, lately Madness have come to my mind due to young advertisers for alcoholic beverages that are currently trying to introduce good taste in music to the depressing likes youth have in this days in Mexico (or maybe this advertisers are snob and try to impress ignorant fools i dont know), one of the first memories i have in music in my life is definitelly with Madness, actually i think it was the first one, before Beatles, before Zep, before Presley before Kiss or any other artist. I should have been like seven or eight years old when i liked to watch the Madness videos that were transmited saturday morning between cartoons, before all that space were filled with advertising as today, i liked that band when i was a child and i love them today cuts like "just another day" , "nigth boat to Cairo", "Michael Caine" ,"my girl" and of course "one step beyond" are timeless classics , band such as The Mighty Mighty Bostons and many others cant deny Madness influence they were plenty funny and genious, One Step Beyond is the debut album actually neither themselves were capable to achieve a bigger sucess after this one but the roots of ska punk are there untill the end of time.
HM

Nothing disappointing here.........2006-02-09

I remember first listening to this and loving every single second of it. I just listened to it about 10 minutes ago and loved every single second of it even harder.

The album starts out with a powerful track "One Step Beyond", that's 2:18 of pure two-tone skanking music. It's one of the few total instrumental tracks that I really really like. Madness produces another complete track like that later on in the album (which is better than One Step Beyond), entitled "Swan Lake".

Every tune is as melodic, catchy, and unnecessarily goofy as the last one. "'Goofy'? Is that bad?" you might be saying. Nope. Madness keeps ska simple and pleasurable, every song on this entire album keeps it fun and pleasurable to listen to, just what they interperated ska to be.

There is no doubt in my mind, that this is one of the greatest (probably the second or third greatest, with The Specials leading) album made for two-tone fans. And it's definitely one of my favorite albums of all time.

Average customer rating: The 'musically stunted mans Dream Theater'! If Lord of the Rings was put in a blender with Led Zeplin... a modern experience I'll never forget Alan Dean Foster Meets Rush! Great Album

Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness Coheed & Cambria Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Emo | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk-Pop | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Alternative Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 Vheissu The Second Stage Turbine Blade Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge Coheed and Cambria: Live At The Starland Ballroom ASIN: B000AA302A Release Date: 2005-09-20

Tracks:

1. Keeping The Blade
2. Always & Never
3. Welcome Home
4. Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial)
5. Crossing The Frame
6. Apollo I : The Writing Writer
7. Once Upon Your Dead Body
8. Wake Up
9. The Suffering
10. The Lying Lies & Dirty Secrets of Miss Erica Court
11. Mother May I
12. The Willing Well I: Fuel for the Feeding End
13. The Willing Well II: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
14. The Willing Well III: Apollo II: The Telling Truth
15. The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut

Amazon.com

There's a lot to be said for continuity and high concept, and Coheed and Cambria have invented an elaborate geeky parallel sci-fi world that spread over four CDs. If you follow the story line, it unfolds like some punk Harry Potter series; equally ambitious and didactic and almost as tightly written as the Moody Blues' "Days of Future Passed." You can also listen to each of the albums without a thought about the story and marvel at the musicianship, the intricately layered guitars, Claudio Sanchez's overwrought and rather pinched vocals and the sheer imagination displayed by these four musicians whose idiosyncratic emo seamlessly flows into prog rock. Epic, surreal, bigger than life, and utterly unlike anything you've heard in decades--even Geddy Lee expounding on free will. -- Jaan Uhelszki

Customer Reviews:

The 'musically stunted mans Dream Theater'!.......2007-07-26

As a prog and metal rock fan for over 30 years, I tried real hard to like this enigmatic release, but in my opinion it falls short on many levels. The vocalist is horrendous. He has been compared to Geddy Lee by many, but Geddy's voice has a LOT more soul, timbre, and smoothness. Comparisons to Dream Theater have also been made as well, but C&C's chord progressions and guitar work sound purposeless and disjointed, and DO have elements of the lousy 'Emo rock' genre. The fact that many here bring this up must mean many of us hear it. I applaud bands that try to 'push or break the musical envelope', but unfortunately, C&C's sound comes across as confused with no real musical direction. You can play with fervor and conviction, as these guys do, BUT if the music sounds forced and boring, there's nothing you can do to 'connect' with some listeners. Not my cup of tea.

If Lord of the Rings was put in a blender with Led Zeplin..........2007-07-17

I wasn't excpepting much from this album before purchasing. I heard the Suffering which I thought was catchy, but I thought there was no way the album could be that good the whole way threw. I was wrong. The music ranges from rythmic harder rock (Welcome Home, and some of the later songs on the album) to really out there fast beats (Once upon your dead body, the Suffering).

Were this album really succeds is in it's great stroyline. The artwork of the album as well as the music relays a sense of epic-ness. You truly will not understand the depth of this Cd until you've heard it first-hand. Buy this CD I could not have been more pleased. In the great words of Apollo I and II, tonight the night on Burning Star IV...

You also may want to check out the Special Edition of the album. The Special Edition comes with a bonus DVD.

a modern experience I'll never forget.......2007-07-09

Luis Mejia (son) - I have to admit that I am one of those guys who love proffesional and complex music but I certainly lost my hope since mid 90's, specially in prog and good rock, and stayed in the era of the 70's, a magical era wich I didn't live. I never met the band 'till I heard the genre "new prog" and Coheed And Cambria was on the main charts, I also recognized the band because my cousin told me about it so I decided to give them a try, and this was the first album I bought seen the good critics and sales. Low in hopes, even when I heard the first track I was surprised they applied that kind of instruments in a classical way. Even more than a year that I've heard this album from the first track to the last one I'm still shocked of how excellent, delicate and professional it is!

I characterize this album more as heavy metal or progressive metal, even a litle bit of alt rock, but it stays a little apart from prog, even when it has certain characteristics of the genre.

The composition of each track is simple superb, delicate, heavy and well thought. Lisetn well, EVERY track is incredible and outstanding, one of the few album you don't have to skip any track; Welcome Home, Ten Speed (Of God Blood And Burial), the four fragments of The Willing Well (specially part 4), The Suffering and Wake Up are extremelly potent tracks that show every characteristic of the album, including soft ballads (until half of the album I never imagined a soft track), rythmical and confortable tracks like The Suffering, heavy, potential tracks with escapist sounds like Welcome Home and Ten Speed, the most likely prog songs like the fragments of The Willnig Well, and so on, each track is different from the other one. The moods of the CD are quite difficult to identify; I quite agree with those reviewers who characterize this album mainly EMO, and though it has many characteristics of EMO (wich I still do not think is a defined or even real genre) it also assimilates alt rock, prog, heavy metal, and so on; within the moods the songs are very different among each other but I can say their moods are agressive, hard, soft, constantly changing, experimental and a certain level of complexity.

Among the artists the guitar of Travis Stever is the best feature in the album, he's such a talented guitarrist, Claudio Sanchez vocals are very melodic and nice to hear but it isn't a voice such talented and trained but stunning as well, Josh Eppard drums are one of those instruments that in every song you listen to them carefully, and Michael Todd bass can be heard, you don't know how it bothers me not to be able to hear a bass in a song, but he makes it sound incredible.

Viewed as a concept album, its a little weird and even a little dumb as a concept album, I trully know that they are trying to make five albums about Teh Amory Wars but it's obvious that Coheed And Cambria would have a lot more credit and much better critics if it weren't for this detail.

In conclussion this band demonstrate among a world full of pitiful new music how still it can be excellent compositions written, if they only take their time, any musician can bring back the flame of music, good music, and the CD is a masterpiece, my sincere recommendations to everyone who appreciates good music.

Alan Dean Foster Meets Rush!.......2007-05-25

As my title states, Coheed & Cambria remind me of a really good sci/fi book set to music. Like a cross between Star Wars and Dream Theatre. I got IKSOSE first and still like that album better, I think simply because it is easier to follow the storyline. This album is much more musically complex though. It took me a long time to get used to the Claudio's voice because I a fan of Doom Metal not pop (not that they are a pop band), so it actually was the storyline that got me so interested. If you like concept albums, this is like trying to solve a really awesome riddle. I love the intro to Good Apollo with the violin!

Great Album.......2007-05-09

Yes C&C is an acquired taste, everything written in other reviews for all the albums pretty much spells out what people like about them. They are just what the current scene lacks, and bring back melodic, powerful, catchy metal in spades.....call it emo(the stupidest label ever coined bar none) or any other dumb term you want.....these guys simply rock.
The reviewer below is more interested in the album art, if thats your concern stick with cereal boxes or bazooka joe wrappers, this is rock n' roll. He also claims "sub par musicianship", which is an amazingly naive statement by someone who must know little about that which they speak. Grab a guitar and write tunes anywhere near this level. Sub par my a**. These guys are at the top of their game.

Average customer rating: Still great KC Kilroy This album rocks twenty five years later Wasn't that 80s decade grand? Great band, great album, great decade!

Midnight Madness Night Ranger Manufacturer: Mca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Arena Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Pop General | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Oldies | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Pop Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Pop Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music $7.99 and Under | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Pop | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Classic Rock | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Rock | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Alternative Rock | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Hard Rock & Metal | 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: Dawn Patrol 7 Wishes Big Life Seven Damn Yankees ASIN: B000002PCO Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. (You Can Still) Rock In America
2. Rumours In The Air
3. Why Does Love Have To Change
4. Sister Christian
5. Touch Of Madness
6. Passion Play
7. When You Close Your Eyes
8. Chippin' Away
9. Let Him Run

Customer Reviews:

Still great.......2007-06-09

Needed to updat fom my 80's cassettes to C.D.'s. Amazon offered excellent prices and bulk specials. The C.D.'s arrived on time and in wonderful condition. I would use this site again and suggest it to my family and friends.

KC Kilroy.......2007-05-06

Everyone who listened to rock or watched MTV in the 80s knows the hit balad Sister Christian from this CD. But there is much more to this CD than that one song. There are no fillers here - every song on it is good. This is one of those few CDs that you can leave on and play all the way through without getting bored.

Night Ranger won me over from the start with the albumn Dawn Patrol. Their balads are catchy, their up-tempo rockers are solid. Versatility is a sign of good musicianship. Tight vocals and great guitar work made them a frontrunner band in the 80's, with a little help from MTV.

This is one of the three best Night Ranger CD's, and definately one to have in your collection.

This album rocks twenty five years later.......2007-02-05

Oh the eighties,and how we were lucky to have been a teenager.This album thanks to MTV pushed these talented muscians to the top.Classic fast paced album which seems to end quickly but never a dull track.You Can Still Rock In America,the lead track right through is non stop.These albums are hard to find in stores.Thank god for amazon!Jack Blades,Kelly Keagy and Brad Gillis gave it all.I was fortunate to have seen them perform live and WOW! Damn Yankees stuff is hard to find too. Crank this baby up and You Can Rock In America TOO

Wasn't that 80s decade grand?.......2006-12-20

You had to be there. I suppose the people who experienced the '50s have the same tough time explaining why they listened to the music they did... and why they dressed the way they did, but...

The cool thing about the 80s is we can remember it too! This CD is SO 80s. It is so fun. If these songs don't take you to somewhere really cool in your life, well you might not have 'been there'. The songs here are well crafted from front to back and bridge with fine guitar work and vocals. You can't go wrong with this CD. Touch of Madness is one that some may have forgotten--- if so, you must get this to remember!

Have fun!

Great band, great album, great decade!.......2006-11-09

Night Ranger were the perfact blend of music. Jack blades was the rockin' front man. Kelly keagy was the balladeer. Brad Gills was the excellent lead guitarist. Night Ranger were a mix of Bryan Adams AOR rock, and Hair Metal. From "YOU CAN STILL (Rock in America)"
to the ever popular "Sister Christian" to "When you close your eyes (best song), People call Huey Lewis and the News "THE 80's band"
as good as they were, Night Ranger has gotten them beat.

Average customer rating: Mr Midwood does it again!

Popular Delusions & the Madness of Cows Ramsay Midwood Manufacturer: Farmwire Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Similar Items: Shoot Out at the Ok Chinese Restaurant West Diamonds to Dust Songs of the Wild West Island Death Songs for the Living ASIN: B000KGFAWW Release Date: 2006-11-07

Tracks:

1. Ringmaster
2. I Told You So
3. Planet Nixon
4. Withered Rose
5. Jesus Is #1
6. Boxwine Ruth E
7. Rattlesnake
8. Weary Head
9. Prozac
10. When God Dips His Pen

Customer Reviews:

Mr Midwood does it again!.......2006-11-20

If you loved the first Ramsay Midwood album 'Shootout at the OK Chinese Restaurant', you'll be very, very happy with this follow-up. All the trademark idiosyncracies are there - gravelly, mumbled vocals, sparse instrumentation, a groove that's immediately infectious, single-note guitar solos and a mix of instruments which shouldn't work, but somehow does. If you never heard Ramsay Midwood before, but you like the laid-back bluesy-folky-hokey style of JJ Cale and Tom Waits, he could be right up your street, especially if your street also houses banjo, accordian, jew's harp, tuba and harmonica players. This album is a wonderful example of how to construct songs which conform to a specific template, but where the real intelligence is knowing what to omit, rather than what to include.

Average customer rating: Great mix for the 80's fan Hair Band Gems [Price] for ONE GOOD SONG! its not all good but ok

Monster Madness Various Artists Manufacturer: Razor & Tie ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Compilations | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Glam | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Monsters of Rock Monsters of Rock, Vol. 2 Monster Ballads Monster Ballads, Vol. 2 Youth Gone Wild: Heavy Metal Hits of the '80s, Vol. 1 ASIN: B00004SBV6 Release Date: 2000-04-18

Tracks:

1. Dr. Feelgood - My Cr
2. Unskinny Bop - Poison
3. I Remember You - Skid Row
4. Kiss Me Deadly - Lita Ford
5. I Wanna Rock - Twisted Sister
6. Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
7. Epic - Faith No More
8. Up All Night - Slaughter
9. Don't Treat Me Bad - Firehouse
10. Hole Hearted - Extreme
11. Bang Your Head (Metal Health) - Quiet Riot
12. In My Dreams - Dokken
13. Wait - White Lion
14. Easy Come, Easy Go - Winger
15. I Saw Red - Warrant
16. I'll See You In My Dreams - Giant

Customer Reviews:

Great mix for the 80's fan.......2005-10-25

OK I may not like all the songs on the album but I still give all my Monster albums 5 stars.
your going to konw all the songs if you ever had a radio inthe 80s\90s.
I listen to them ALL over and over and over!
I am a fan of most 80s music so I dont mind the few oddballs they through in that may not fit for others. IT is all 80s, all music that defined a generation of music.
If you were a true metal head you may not be thrilled, but if you were just a fan of 80s music you will be.

Hair Band Gems.......2004-05-07

This album is very good. It includes some of the best songs from the hair band era(1986-1991). It is a joy to listen to. Some of the songs aren't too good, so it got 4 stars instead of 5. It includes Giant's classic I'll See You In My Dreams, as well as Motley Crue's Dr Feelgood and Poison's Unskinny Bop. The only songs that doesn't really fit in is Faith No More's rap-rock classic, Epic. But it is a very good song, as well. This is some of the best songs from the hair metal era, at a low price.

[Price] for ONE GOOD SONG!.......2002-07-23

Silent Lucidity is the ONLY song that makes this CD worthy of being bought...for any sum of money.

its not all good but ok.......2000-05-29

ok now the song i really only like that sounds ok is i'll see you in my dreams im just glad i didnt waste my money on this cd so my words to you is D O N T B U Y

Average customer rating: Stare at the cover and listen with headphones. Brilliance! The most perfect album ever Brilliant early shoegazer pop A MUST HAVE!!!!

The Comforts of Madness Pale Saints Manufacturer: 4ad ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Dream Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Shoegazing | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Noise | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: In Ribbons Whirlpool Ferment Nowhere Souvlaki ASIN: B0000072RB Release Date: 1994-02-21

Tracks:

1. Way The World Is
2. You Tear The World In Two
3. Sea Of Sound
4. True Coming Dream
5. Little Hammer
6. Insubstantial
7. A Deep Sleep For Steven
8. Language Of Flowers
9. Fell From The Sun
10. Sight Of You
11. Time Thief

Album Description

1990 album for the ethereal pop band formerly signed to 4AD. 11 tracks including a cover of the Opal classic 'Fell From The Sun'. Never released domestically.

Customer Reviews:

Stare at the cover and listen with headphones........2006-05-28

Comforts of Madness is easily one of my top five favorite albums ever. After 16 years I still keep coming back to it. I usually have to listen to it 3 or 4 times to get it out of my system for a few months. "Sea of Sound" is one of the most intense and beautiful songs I know. It's my favorite moment in the album, but heck, all the songs are great. This album has one of my favorite covers, with v23's mischief all over the place. As with many 4ad releases, stare at the cover and listen with headphones, kids.

Brilliance!.......2004-03-30

This first album by The Pale Saints is sheer brilliance! Ian Masters and co. have crystallized not only the angst of youth, but the pain of existence and the existential guilt of just being, into a music of gorgeous pop melodies and beautiful, wonderful harmonies. Ever since I got this album, it has been playing in my car non-stop as a drive. This is the kind of music that changes your whole being and speaks to you as very few other albums can. Further words would be pointless. Buy the album, listen to it and hear and experience for yourself.

The most perfect album ever.......2004-02-04

I bought this CD shortly after it came out and it quickly shot to the top of my all-time favorite albums. Here we are, 14 years and hundreds of CD purchases later, and it's still at the top of my list.

As other reviewers have noted, there is not one bad song on this disc. This is pure indie dreampop at it finest. The seamless production (with short "interstitial" moments connecting the songs) makes this album feel like a waking dream.

I would point out the best tracks on the disc, but that would amount to a complete tracklisting. Most notable: "Sea of Sound," "Language of Flowers," "Sight of You," and "True Coming Dream."

Brilliant early shoegazer pop.......2003-06-19

In January 1990 I took over the job of music director at a college radio station and received this stunner of an album from 4AD. It still sounds great 13 years later. Though later dwarfed by the magnaminity of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless LP, The Comforts of Madness is an brilliant early document of what came to be called the "shoegazer" sound. Pale Saints were the first to pioneer the formula: crisp pop songwriting merged with experiments in Sonic Youth style noise and feedback. But whereas MBV's pop draws heavily on the romantic swoon of the Beach Boys, Pale Saints' pop is very jangly and much less dense.

At the time, there was no band that sounded like Pale Saints. Other, lesser bands such as Ride, Slowdive, and Chapterhouse would later borrow heavily from this pioneering album. But Pale Saints eschewed the repetitive drones that characterized these bands' sounds, focusing instead on concise songwriting with occasional dissonant chord progressions and time changes. It is something of an injustice that this album has not recieved its due, but as David Bowie has said, "It's not who does it first, it's who does it second."

A MUST HAVE!!!!.......2003-05-21

I believe that The Comforts of Madness is perhaps the most significant and yet little known recording of an equally significant musical era. It lies at the wake of what might be considered "classic" British indie, representative of bands such as McCarthy, The Smiths, Biff Bang Pow, House of Love, and many more besides. But it also is at the cusp--and perhaps birth--of shoegaze, twee, and the second wave [sic.] of British indie. To this effect The Comforts of Madness is the early crystalization of bands such as Slowdive, Chapterhouse, Lush, Ride, etc. etc. Indeed, The Comforts of Madness, much less any Pale Saints recording, captures the very essence of nearly all that was indie in Britain in the late eighties/early nineties: washing guitar sounds, mellow rhythms, whispery vocals, and somewhat sentimental lyrics. Although this may sound sappy, it is not; trust me. This album is intense and is well suited for contemplative moments and self-indulgent behavior induced by whatever turns you on.

The e.p. that came out prior to The Comforts of Madness is titled Barging Into the Presence of God, and contains 'Sight of You,' which is presumably the single track on TCOM. However, nearly each time I meet someone familiar with TCOM it is generally agreed that track number three, 'Sea of Sound,' is the strongest song on the album. Of course tastes change and this track, along with track seven, 'A Deep Sleep for Steven,' are ostensibly the more dreamy, mello, and, as I alluded to above, more sentimental of the tracks. Several of the tracks are rather upbeat yet still capture that washy/shoe-gazy sound so indicative of the period.

To be sure, TCOM is an album of an era and captures that moment in Brit-pop history perfectly. Yet, I feel that TCOM has withstood the test of time perhaps better than many of the recordings of the period. This may be due to the fact that TCOM was released prior to the buzz of the "shoegaze" bands that were soon to arrive on the scene. It is the same phenomenon that occurs when anything become popular and defined - it invariably becomes vulgar. This is not to suggest that bands such as Slowdive, Chapterhouse, Secret Shine, and The Field Mice are vulgar. Not at all. But comparatively I would argue that TCOM is a stronger, more timeless, work. Of course My Bloody Valentine was not mentioned here and deserves a great deal of credit for all the aforementioned bands, as do countless others.

If this has piqued your interest I encourage you to check out the Pale Saints. If you have and you like what you have heard, be aware that Ian Masters has, subsequent to his leaving the Pale Saints, partnered with some unlikly musicians such as Chris Trout to form Spoonfed Hybrid (a remarkable recording released on the 4AD subsidiary Guernica--find this and buy it!) and Warren DeFever from His Name is Alive to do some project whose name I forget. I have not heard this project in full but what I have heard in quite different from Pale Saints and Spoonfed.

Average customer rating: Bette at her best Just Divine WoW! is all I can say!!!!!!!!WHAT AN ALBUM! Not the same thing The best tracks from the "Divine Madness" concert video

Divine Madness Bette Midler Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Contemporary | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Broadway & Vocalists | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: No Frills Mud Will Be Flung Tonight Thighs and Whispers The Divine Miss M Broken Blossom ASIN: B000002J5E Release Date: 1995-08-29

Tracks:

1. Big Noise From Winnetka
2. Paradise
3. Shiver Me Timbers
4. Fire Down Below
5. Stay With Me
6. My Mother's Eyes
7. A. Chapel Of Love/B. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
8. A. E Street Shuffle/B. Summer (The First Time)/C. Leader Of The Pack
9. A. You Can't Always Get What You Want/B. I Shall Be Released

Customer Reviews:

Bette at her best.......2005-10-06

One of the best samples of Bette Midler's vocal qualities. Aside from singing some of the old favourites, she brings the house down in an apparently electrifying work. The musical arrangements, chorus, and recording quality, are certainly worth the price. You must like her early days, though, if you are planning on enjoying this cd.

Just Divine.......2005-06-22

This albulm is just one of the greatest soundtracks to be released and shows what an icon Miss M is

WoW! is all I can say!!!!!!!!WHAT AN ALBUM!.......2005-03-29

This is a great album!This is the best cd i have ever heard from the divine miss m.She gives a great performance
in this CD.She sings the best songs like chapel of love , Boogie woogie bugle boy,fire down below also a passionate version of STAY WITH ME BABY.This is a must have for any BETTE MIDLER FAN!!!!!THREE CHEERS! FORV BETTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not the same thing.......2003-10-19

The movie was great, but the album is not. It was re-recorded, and the songs are not as dynamic as they are in the movie. If you want the real soundtrack, you just have to listen to the movie.

The best tracks from the "Divine Madness" concert video.......2003-10-06

Given how great of a live performer she is, it is rather amazing that none of Bette Midler's live albums really capture the Divine Miss M in all of her glory. Like the others, "Divine Madness" comes close and it certainly has its moments. Although Midler starts off with "Big Noise From Winnetka," reaffirms her position as the queen of Forties boogie-woogie, the album is dominated by some emotional ballads, including "My Mothers's Eyes," "Stay With Me," and "I Shall Be Released." Those would be the Divine part of the proceedings and the Madness would come from her dramatic enactment medley of "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and "Leader of the Pack." For those who missed Bob Seger's "The Fire Down Below" not being on the soundtrack album for "The Rose," Midler corrects that omission on this 1980 album, which made it to #34 on the Billboard chart. In the end what you will enjoy the most are the medleys, the best of which is the last where Midler starts off with the Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and suddenly breaks into Dylan's "I Shall Be Released." She even manages to work in a bit of Bruce Springsteen as well. Just remember that while this is the cream of the crop there is much more on the video tape of this "Divine Madness" concert.

Average customer rating: So Where Is This Danny Draher you speak of? Warren just plain rocks! Great voice, guitar & songs! I'm waiting to be impressed I love Warren Haynes but this should not have been released. Not what you would expect and out of date

Tales of Ordinary Madness Warren Haynes Manufacturer: Megaforce ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Live at Bonnaroo Life Before Insanity The Deep End, Vol. 1 Mule on Easy Street Déjà Voodoo ASIN: B000003T9A Release Date: 1996-07-30

Tracks:

1. fire in the kitchen
2. kiss tomorrow good-bye
3. movers and shakers
4. I'll be the one
5. blue radio
6. invisible
7. sister justice
8. angel city
9. tattoos and cigarettes
10. power and the glory
11. broken promised land

Customer Reviews:

So Where Is This Danny Draher you speak of?.......2006-01-13

SSIA. Clearly the listener hasn't seen Warren and Friends at the Bowery (February 2005), or Warren live acoustic (Bowery and Town Hall (June 2004), or even Warren tearing it up with Soulive at Tribeca Rock Club (February 2004). This was an album for Warren's touring band whose members included, among others, Danny Louis, now the Keyboards for Government Mule. Musicians on this album include among others: Chuck Leavell, Johnny Neel, Marc Quinones (ABB), and Bernie Worrell.

Most notable tunes on this album: Fire in The Kitchen, I'll Be The One, Power and the Glory, and Broken Promised Land. Warren's Bonnaroo Album, and newer Deja Voodoo provide a sense of where he is going musically. Check out http://www.mule.net for more information on Warren and the Mule

Warren just plain rocks! Great voice, guitar & songs!.......2005-09-10

Don't know what some of the other reviewers had stuffed in their ears, but this is one of my favorite albums!

Yeah, this is a bit more straight ahead rock, not so much of the 20 minute improvs as in Gov't Mule, but they are all great songs, and with Warren Hayne's voice, guitar and writing, how can you go wrong?

I am a huge fan of Gov't Mule also, and I think anyone who can appreciate the incredible talent of Warren in that context will like this as well.

Some people always want an artist to make the same album over and over, can't deal with even slight changes. Too bad, they are missing out on a world of great music...

I'm waiting to be impressed.......2005-05-12

With that voice and guitar talent, Warren could, (and I say could), rule the world of blues music - but it hasn't happened yet.
Someone please write this man some good songs and make him record them so we can enjoy his talent.

I love Warren Haynes but this should not have been released........2005-05-11

I've been a diehard Govt Mule fan since 1996. Warren Haynes is without question my favorite musician. This disc does nothing for him, however. Even if you love Warren, invest in something else. I recommend Live from the Roseland if you don't have it already. It's pure, raw, rumbling mule!!!

Not what you would expect and out of date.......2005-02-09

This is Warren Haynes first official solo CD. It was recorded in 1992, between stints with the Allman Brothers. The songs are 5 to 7 minutes long, and the CD is 66 minutes. Sound quality is good.

This CD is nothing like Haynes has done with the Allman Brothers or Gov't Mule. It is done in the hard rock style of the late seventies to mid-eighties. It reminds me of people like Ronnie Montrose (at his worst) or Sammy Hagar. He even has those screaming, coporate rock vocals. He sounds most like John Butcher or Mason Ruffner.

What is really amazing is how inept and boring the guitar solos are on this album. There is nothing innovative and interesting as he would play with his other bands (Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule, Phil Lesh, etc.).

What is also surprising is that this CD was produced by Chuck Leavel, who worked with the Allman Brothers, plays on Rolling Stones tours and headed the nice jazz/rock outfit, Sea Level.

Anyway, there is a reason why this CD is virtually unknown and hard to find.

Average customer rating: A milestone in the Death Metal world... death metal milestone Among the best death metal debut albums Not as good as Blessed or Covenant Old school blasphemous metal

Altars of Madness Morbid Angel Manufacturer: Earache Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Death Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Blessed Are the Sick Domination Covenant Formulas Fatal to the Flesh Symbolic ASIN: B000083MB8 Release Date: 2003-02-25

Tracks:

1. Immortal Rites
2. Suffocation
3. Visions From The Dark Side
4. Maze Of Torment
5. Lord Of All Fevers & Plague
6. Chapel Of Ghouls
7. Bleed For The Devil
8. Damnation
9. Blasphemy
10. Evil Spells
11. Maze Of Torment (Re-mix)
12. Chapel Of Ghouls (Re-mix)
13. Blasphemy (Re-mix)
14. Immortal Rites (Bonus Video Track)

Album Description

24-bit remastered reissue of 1989 death metal classic. Includes bonus CD-Rom feature, allowing fans to view the rare early promo video for 'Immortal Rites', a live clip from the bands early UK appearance at Nottingham's Rock City in November 1989. Earache. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

A milestone in the Death Metal world..........2006-06-05

1989, the year of many great Metal albums, Beneath The Remains, The Years of Decay, Practice What You Preach, Fabulous Disaster, Slowly We Rot...you get the point, and this fits in that catagory of great Metal albums from that year.

This album is very fast and very raw, and very evil sounding too, love the production, sounds totally evil.

David Vincents vocals are different on this one, unlike the rest of Morbid Angel albums with Vincent, on this it's more of a thrashy rasp, not really a growl, wicked cool sounding.

Treys riffs and leads absolutely rule, all catchy, fast, and brutal, and the solos are out of this world.

Sandoval's drumming is superb, really fast, and hits every note.

The best songs on the album?...haha, ALL, yes ALL of them are classics, if you like old Sepultura, Obituary, and sorts, and haven't heard this, 2 words...BUY IT!!

death metal milestone.......2006-06-04

This album is a milestone for death metal and is probably the greatest effort by Morbid Angel. The guitars a little bit soft on this CD and the solos are weak as far as sound is but it still displays the guitar work of master Trey Azagthoth. David Vincent's vocals sound very demonic and raspy growling in this CD compared to his more grave and deeper vocals which would be features in the next three records by Morbid Angel. All the songs on this CD are pure mayhem and speed up so fast and the blast beating is incredible! This is definitelty a must have for death metal fans~!

Among the best death metal debut albums.......2006-04-05

This album came as quite a shock to me back in 1989 - when I was a fourteen-year-old metalhead. There was little at the time that could compare with it, wildly careening riffs provided by Trey Azagthoth and Richard Brunelle, the menacing rasp of David Vincent, and especially, the hyperactive pounding of Pete 'Commando' Sandoval. This was quite unlike anything I had heard before at the time, and it still stands as a classic and 'must-listen' today.

Not as good as Blessed or Covenant.......2005-10-25

This album sounds as good to me today as it did when I first heard it about 15 years ago. Listening to it, I am reminded how far Death Metal has come. When this album was first released, the "growl" and "blast beat" were new inventions but have now come to characterize the genre as a whole. This is a must have album for anyone who likes Metal.

Old school blasphemous metal.......2005-08-07

This album is quite possibly the greatest early death metal release. It characterizes all the stylistic trademarks of what was to come in the genre, but hadn't been done extensively yet. All the songs are great and have their own identity, making this an interesting listen. Tempo changes abound, the riffs are pure evil, and the solos are about as crazy as they come. David Vincent's vocals are great and Pete Sandoval's drumming is very fast. My only complaint is the production. Although remastered, it is still muddy, especially in the guitar area, and the solos are, in my opinion too low in the mix. This is the only downfall though. Every fan of death metal, or just metal in general, should own this.

Dance Music:

1. Making History
2. Mantronix: The Album
3. Master P Presents: No Limit All Stars [Explicit Lyrics]
4. Mi Vida Loca [Soundtrack]
5. Millennium Hip-Hop Party
6. Moodswingaz Anthem [CD-single]
7. New York State of Rhyme [Import]
8. No Limit Top Dogg [Explicit Lyrics]
9. No Limit Top Dogg [Explicit Lyrics]
10. Ol' Skool Butta, Vol. 2

Dance Music

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Dance Music

Too Much [CD-single] [Import]

Four Psalms

Get Happy [Original recording remastered]

25th Anniversary Edition

Electro Boogie, Vol. 2: The Throw Down

Flute Dreams [Import]

Ezzayakoum

Essentials [Import]

Earth & Fire [Import]

Brahms: Symphony No. 4; Beethoven: Egmont Overture

Don't Stop Dancing [CD-single]

Feed The Kitty [EP]

Estas Aqui

The Light of the World

How Come