| 1. Christmas |
| 2. Thy Will Be Done |
| 3. Great Unknown |
| 4. Permanent |
| 5. Vertigo |
| 6. All That I Want |
| 7. Oh Yeah |
| 8. Suprise |
| 9. Caught in the Middle |
| 10. Holy Water |
Southpaw,Southpaw,Z Records,Gangsta Rap,Hardcore Rap,Hip-Hop,Pop,Rap & Hip-Hop
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Southpaw Grammar
Morrissey Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000002MZF Release Date: 1995-09-12 |
Tracks:
- The Teachers Are Afraid Of The Pupils
- Reader Meet Author
- The Boy Racer
- The Operation
- Dagenham Drive
- Do Your Best And Don`t Worry
- Best Friend On The Payroll
- Southpaw
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Pop stars who last more than a decade often survive but change: U2 goes from righteous to cartoonish, Sting from new wave to adult contemporary, Prince from purple to nameless. Morrissey, though, survives by staying the same, by pushing the flashing-red alienation buttons of each new year's crop of outsider adolescents. So while fans tend to grow out of the great Moz sometime after they lose their virginity, there's always a new, larger batch of pubescent mopers to take their place. For older listeners, it may seem Morrissey hasn't written a consistently incisive or catchy album since his first solo effort, 1988's Viva Hate, which itself pales next to his classic work with the Smiths. Since going solo, he's completely abandoned evocative poetry, opting instead for funny titles (remember the empty tease of "Hairdresser On Fire"?). Southpaw Grammar, Morrissey's fifth studio record, has a number of stellar song names--"Best Friend on the Payroll," for instance--but musically, adds up to just another indistinguishable mush of groaned haiku ready to be heaped onto the pile of other cleverly titled but otherwise forgettable releases. To be fair, Southpaw Grammar is not all bad. A moody epic like the 11-minute orchestrated opener "The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils," a classic Morrissey modern-day crucifixion tale, at least balances the recycled MTV-fare of "The Boy Racer" and "Dagenham Dave." There's even a hint of career development: Long instrumental sections, such as in the 10-minute finale "Southpaw," plus an overall heavier rock sound, indicate more creative input from the band. But would anyone put on a Morrissey record to hear a two-and-a-half minute drum solo like the one that starts Southpaw's "The Operation"? Then again, perhaps we should just be thankful Morrissey didn't use the moment to berate us with more shameful triteness like Southpaw's "Do Your Best and Don't Worry."And yet, the man's popularity steadily grows. For grown-up, former fans, it seems the more we ignore him, the closer he gets to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. --Roni Sarig
Customer Reviews:
Your Arsenal pt II - Southpaw Grammar is Great!.......2007-06-03
The whole band is ace as well, with a recording mix to match. Just listen to the drums smash down your apartment walls during "Do Your Best and Don't Worry."
Morrissey goes prog, and it works..........2007-04-23
Rock !.......2007-01-29
I'm a fickle fan!.......2006-12-09
Well, I was listening to Pandora(the internet radio site)earlier this week and they played "The Boy Racer" and I thought 'my god this is good'. I listened to samples of the entire cd and decided I needed to have it in my collection. I'm listening to it now as I write this review and am loving it. I also had read some of these reviews on Amazon as well. When I realized "Southpaw Grammar" was a major diversion from usual Morrissey fare, I had to check it out myself. I sure am glad I gave it a chance!
This is Morrissey at his most inventive and creative. Some have called this prog rock, which it might be to some extent but I think there's definitely some glam rock influences and even some psychedelia like on "The Teachers Are Afraid Of The Pupils" and "Southpaw" with the amazing guitar and bass work and the atmospheric noises in the background. Some reviewers have stated that they dislike both of these songs because they are overlong and overwrought but I find them fascinating because they're so different from anything Moz has done before. I enjoy more offbeat unusual songs and artists anyway so this is right down my alley.
"Reader Meet Author", "Dagenham Dave" & "Best Friend On The Payroll" are more succinct pop songs and catchy but with a bit more rock in their sound. "The Operation" is another unusually long song for the Moz that starts out w/a long drum solo that is hypnotizing at the beginning but it rocks as well once the melody starts. Of course "The Boy Racer" is what drew me to this cd in the first place and is a great song as is "Do Your Best & Don't Worry".
If you like more experimental/progressive music then you will enjoy this cd. I think perhaps if this cd were released now it might be better recieved initially due to the rise of prog rock groups like Coheed & Cambria, et al. But then again, as long as some of us secretly long for The Smiths to reunite(me included), there will be that expectation that Morrissey has to make up for the gap in the universe where The Smiths once were. Now that "Southpaw Grammar" has won me back over I think I've finally accepted Moz on his own terms. It's about f'n time eh?
A Tired Album From Morrissey.......2006-11-02
When I listen to songs from this album, something about Morrissey just sounds wrong. Almost as if he is just going through the motions, not too concerned aobut making this album worth the money.
And it isn't worth the money.
First off, the cover art is dreadful. This was in the period where Morrissey pulled away from the cover art aspects of his album, and this one is second in badness only to Maladjusted. The color schemes are terrible, and the typeface is bad, and it is an affront to graphic design that the peach motif actually went through. Then there is the fact that they fail to credit sampling from Shostakovich's 5th Symphony.
The truly great songs is limited to "Boy Racer" and "The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils" (which sampled from Shostakovich's 5th Symphony without any credit being given, a point I feel actually does hurt the album - give credit where it is due). Only on those two songs does Morrissey seem to have something to sing about, only there is the passion.
The biggest problem with most of the songs is that they run on too long. Take "Do Your Best and Don't Worry", despite never rising above cliche lyrically, it's biggest failing is that it spends 2 of it's four minutes ending the song with a boring guitar part.
And that leads to the biggest problem with the album - too often the music is meant to carry a great deal of the weight of the song and keep the listener interested, and it fails to meet that need. So, where a good chunk of the songs could be cut in half and nothing lost are instead forcing us to dredge through another boring musical interlude.
With every Morrissey album, there is at least one song that gets into constant rotation. Here, it is not so. Morrissey never hits that high that he usually gets.
Overall, you'd best ignore this Morrissey album. He has done much better and none of these songs are really missed.
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Southpaw
Gilbert O'Sullivan Manufacturer: Jvc Japan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00005L9BS Release Date: 2001-08-14 |
Tracks:
- Intro
- You Got Me Going
- No Telling Why
- Tomorrow Today
- Best Fun I Ever Had
- I Remember Once
- Intro
- I of Course Replied
- That's Where I Belong
- My Love and I
- If I Can't Have You All to Myself
- Miss My Love Today
Album Details
Digitally remastered Japanese reissue.
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Southpaw
Dryewater Manufacturer: Radioactive ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000EHS7BI Release Date: 2006-02-20 |
Tracks:
- Winterground
- Trouble
- Give Yourself Time to Live
- Don't Let Her Sleep Too Long
- Let Me Take You
- Thunder
- See Them Run
- Revelation
- Set out on the River
- After All
Album Description
Now a highly regarded release among the collectors of early 70's u.s. Rock, dryewater's southpaw album was privately released to little Fanfaron on the j.t.b. label in 1974 the North Carolina based four piece pressed just 500 copies of the album (fewer still with actual covers!) and the rarity value of this initial release has since increased as it's since become known that the band destroyed the copies they failed to sell at the time. Check out the melodic don't let her sleep too long, the riff-heavy track 2, and rolling rhythms of track 10, dryewater were certainly overlooked at the time a limited vinyl run released by void records in 1996 briefly led to a renewed interest In the band, but thankfully radioactive can now finally pull the album from obscurity as it makes its digital debut here. Radioactiv. 2006Album Details
Now a Highly Regarded Release Among the Collectors of Early 70's Us Rock, this Album was Privately Pressed (500 Only) on the J.t.b. Label in 1974.Customer Reviews:
Unknown gem.......2007-01-19
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The Unknown Ives
Manufacturer: Composers Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000I0TA Release Date: 1999-02-09 |
Tracks:
- 3-Page Sonata: Allegro Moderato
- 3-Page Sonata: Andante
- 3-Page Sonata: Allegro-March Time
- Study No. 6
- Study No. 7
- Study No. 8
- Study No. 9 'The Anti-Abolitionist Riots'
- Study No. 15
- Study No. 16 19
- Study No. 23
- Set of 5 Take-Offs: The Seen and Unseen or Sweet and Tough
- Set of 5 Take-Offs: Rough and Ready or The Jumping Frog
- Set of 5 Take-Offs: Song Without (good) Words
- Set of 5 Take-Offs: Scene Episode
- Set of 5 Take-Offs: Bad Resolutions and Good One
- Study No. 20
- Study No. 22
- Study No. 21 'Some South - Paw Pitching'
- Evocations, Four Chants for Piano: Largo (To Harriette Miller)
- Evocations, Four Chants for Piano: Andante con fantasia (To John Kirkpatrick)
- Evocations, Four Chants for Piano: Moderato appasionato (To Charlotte Ruggles)
- Evocations, Four Chants for Piano: Adagio Sostenuto (To Charles Ives)
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"Unknown" Ives? Not quite, but indispensable nonetheless.......2007-05-16
Indeed Berman was one of Kirpatrick's preferred students, so much so that, in 1989, two years before his death, he handed out the book to Berman, suggesting that he complete the editing job. Among the pieces played here, some were edited solely by Berman "proceeding from the work initiated by Alan Mandel in the 60s", some by Kirpatrick with occasional changes and revisions by Berman, and some result in a joint effort of both. So what we have here is a direct line from the composer to the performer.
Ives had numbered the pieces contained in the book with the idea of adding up to 27 works, presumably intending them to form a cycle mirroring Chopin's 27 etudes, though there were gaps in Ives' collection - pieces he remembered having composed but had misplaced, apparently. If I understand Berman's thoroughly informative notes, not all the existing pieces comprising the books are played on the disc (Berman refers to a # 27 "Chromâtimelôdie" written for piano and brass). Anyway, the collection presents "a variety of styles and musical experiences in the vein of a diary of experiences written over time".
As Berman further writes, "the Studies and other short works for piano can be considered some of Ives' most abstruse and difficult music". Indeed, it is Ives at his most demanding and uncompromising, adept of the clash and crash, replete with multilayered accumulation of sound to the point of rambunctious near-cacophony, crashing chords and clusters, dissonant counterpoint, twelve-tone rows (study 22), conflicting tonalities, polyrhythms sometimes so complex that they foreshadow Conlon Nancarrow's studies for player piano, thus placing daunting demands upon the human performer. But there are also moments of hauntingly hazy dreaminess (as in studies 6 and 7, or the middle movement of the "Three-page sonata, with its reminiscence of the Westminster Chimes). The fascinating thing with Ives is how much his music is steeped into both the Western, German Romantic tradition (by way of his teacher at Yale Horatio Parker) - much more than, say, the early music of Henry Cowell - as well as in the trite American vernacular of Church hymns and popular songs, while at the same time saucily eager to dynamite these traditions from the inside with a no-holds-barred enthusiasm. In comparison, Carl Ruggles' stark and rugged Four Evocations - an appropriate coupling, considering its shared approach to dissonant counterpoint and the personal ties between both composers - seem almost tame.
The music is so rich and complex as to warrant a diversity of approaches (besides the three Cowell-edited pieces, the Studies have been recorded here and there by others than Alan Mandel, most notably by Dona Coleman as complements to her recordings of the two Sonatas for Etcetera: Piano Sonata/Studies/Varied Air & Variations and Ives: Sonata for piano No2; Three-Page sonata). Berman is up to the music's power and complex poly-rhythms, with always fine control and clarity of articulation (more than Coleman, for instance), but he tends to favor moderate tempos, going for the massive at the expense of the frenetic (as in the first and last movements of the Three Page Sonata or the 16th-note chromatic runs in Study 22). For the hectic frenzy that is so integral to the spirit of this music, go to Coleman. On the other hand, in "Some Southpaw Pitching" (Study 21), he misses the point of the acceleration and deceleration process that Ives has embedded in the music (and which Roger Shields on Piano Music In America 1900-1945 and Alan Mandel do capture), because he launches in too fast, too soon.
Still, considering the coherence, interest and relative rarity of the program, the amount of scholarly work involved and the superiority of the recording over Mandel's poor sonics, this is an essential contribution to our knowledge of Charles Ives and an indispensable disc, belonging to every serious Ives collection, along with (to limit myself to the piano music) the pioneering recordings of Ives by himself (Ives Plays Ives The Complete Recordings of Charles Ives at the Piano, 1933-1943), of Alan Mandel (Vox Box), William Masselos for the First Sonata (only his second recording for RCA from 1967 is CD available: Tribute to Ives, Satie, Brahms, Schumann) and John Kirpatrick for the "Concord" (two recordings, from 1945 an 1968, none reissued on CD), to which one might add a number of modern recordings, among which Marc-André Hamelin's two recordings of the "Concord" (Ives: Sonata No.2 "Concord, Mass" and Ives: Concord Sonata; Barber: Piano Sonata)take pride of place.
Ives will always remain "unknown" his music implies this.......2003-10-24
This is marvelous playing inspired by Mr. Berman. The "Three-Page Sonata" its elegant structure is well-thought through with great sensitivity to the works interpretive nuances,simply allowing the "magical" timbres to work themselves, as the "floating" pedal-point-like middle section of this work surrounded by atonal disquiet. These various Studies are all well played with a great detail of spirit. It's odd but usually Europeans as pianist Herbert Henck for instance haven't heard the ragtimes,hymn-tunes, Folk and Pop Songs inside Ives' textures, so frequently the "spirit" is missing. Berman however understands the import of the Ttnes,that it is there to serve Ives's penchant for collecting the lifeworld within his music. Sometimes this musical welter/assemblage can overspend itself, or accrete beyond the works borders as in "Study No.20" where it seems everything is here almost similar to Joyce's Finnagan's Wake""everybody comes. . . " "Alexander" the ragtime tune is heard,along with great violence, cluster chords as accompanimental figues, and Ives's great atonal declamations.In the early Fifties Pierre Boulez was brought around New York City by Morton Feldman, and Ives was the subject, Boulez had referred to Ives excesses as conceptual "mud", meaning there is a threshold point where no one can decipher the musical threads in Ives.To a large degree Boulez was right technically, however, if Ives had "edited" this "mud"he would have lost his spirtual conviction, something Boulez would perhaps find extraneous to the practicing artist.
Well piano"studies" are suppose to function as a conceptual assemblage, a catalogue of timbre. I don't think Ives knew Debussy's fascinating set, but perhaps he did know Chopin's more concert-performative extroverted ones.But there is much in these Ives piano "Studies" that is extraneous,predictable,unfinished, and redundant, yet deeply interesting and compelling in what they contribute to the timbral history of the piano, and ones perception of music, its frame and structural dimensions. Although Ives was no great structural innovator. He adopted traditional genre as a strength,latering its insides for contemplation. Certainly the piano music of Carter, Geo.Flynn, and Christian Wolff owes a debt to Ives here.
The "Set of Five Take-Offs" are also fascinating.A collection under one-leaf of stylistic small-scale differences,much like the genre of the "Piano Album" a genre quite vibrant within middle class Europe,the latter 19th Century, which found its way to the Eastern USA middle class. Every home had a piano.One of the five here is "Song Without Good Words" an obvious reference to Mendelssohn's great set, but in Ives it is more a reflection a contamination(through atonality) of the simple melodic gestures.This actually is remiiscent of Mahler. There really is no direct melody here only fragments,gestures of music already written.Ives merely furnishes an afterthought, a postmodernist as well here. Ives then simply adds disquiet reflection.
Additionally the Ruggles miniatures, the "Evocations" are simply an incredible contribution of music on these shores, Americana. Ruggles' music as well seems to have pre-dated much of the violent 20th Century with his massive orchestral tone poems "Sun-Treader",and more elegant refined quiet"Angels" for muted brass. He himself had lived in many parts of the USA Minnesota,Florida,New York. And again Berman reveals his sensitivity to these introspective lifeworlds of Ruggles,the first "chant" exhibits the sustained timbre leading to violence of unencumbered rawly exposed dissonance minor ninths, and major sevenths,timbres we find today quite tame.Ruggles was a cranky arrogant,opinionated and visually disheveled-like man, and he had worked on these piano "chants" literally all his life with a frequently rented spinet piano, out-of-tune with the typical thin cheap sound, (so eyewitnesses tell.)
I can't get this out of my CD drawer.......2001-03-24
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Piano Music In America 1900-1945
Manufacturer: Vox (Classical) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000001K6M Release Date: 1994-09-06 |
Tracks:
- 5 Movements From Woodland Sketches, Op. 61: A Deserted Farm - Roger Shields
- 5 Movements From Woodland Sketches, Op. 61: From Uncle Remus - Roger Shields
- 5 Movements From Woodland Sketches, Op. 61: At An Old Trysting Place - Roger Shields
- 5 Movements From Woodland Sketches, Op. 61: By A Meadow Brook - Roger Shields
- 5 Movements From Woodland Sketches, Op. 61: Told At Sunset - Roger Shields
- Two Movements From Roman Sketches, Op. 7: The White Peacock - Roger Shields
- Two Movements From Roman Sketches, Op. 7: The Fountain Of The Acqua Paola - Roger Shields
- Second Sonata 'Airplane': As Fast As Possible - Roger Shields
- Second Sonata 'Airplane': Andante moderato - Roger Shields
- Exultation - Roger Shields
- Invention - Roger Shields
- Aeolian Harp - Roger Shields
- Advertisement - Roger Shields
- Three Preludes: Allegro ben ritmato e deciso - Roger Shields
- George Gershwin: Andante con moto e poco rubato - Roger Shields
- George Gershwin: Allegro ben ritmato e deciso - Roger Shields
- Harlem Rag - Roger Shields
- Possum and Taaters - Roger Shields
- Bohemia Rag - Roger Shields
- The Entertainer - Roger Shields
- Maple Leaf Rag - Roger Shields
- Reflection Rag (Syncopated Musings) - Roger Shields
Tracks:
- Pastime Rag No. 4 - Various Artists
- Ragtime Oriole - Various Artists
- Cataract Rag - Various Artists
- Rialto Ripples - Various Artists
- Pork And Beans - Various Artists
- Castle House Rag - Various Artists
- Troublesome Ivories - Various Artists
- Impromptu - Various Artists
- Piano Sonata No. 3 - Various Artists
- Two Movements From Ten Etudes: Parallel Chords - Various Artists
- Two Movements From Ten Etudes: Ragtime Bass - Various Artists
- Nocturne, Op. 33 - Various Artists
- Fuga, From The Piano Sonata Op. 26 - Various Artists
- Passacaglia - Various Artists
- Six Movements From 'New And Old' - Various Artists
Tracks:
- Evocations, 4 Chants For Piano - Various Artists
- The Anti-Abolitionist Riots - Various Artists
- Some Southpaw Pitching - Various Artists
- 'The Alcotts' From The Sonata No. 2 (Concord, Mass.) - Various Artists
- Piano Sonata, Op. 1 - Various Artists
- From My Diary - Various Artists
- Three-Score Set - Various Artists
- Piano Variations - Various Artists
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Rock Action
Mogwai Manufacturer: Southpaw ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00005AQCB |
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Southpaw Jones Starter Kit
Manufacturer: Seesaw ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000CA7O6G Release Date: 2000-05-09 |
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Tales From the Happy Townsfolk
Southpaw Manufacturer: Southpaw ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000MFUBEI |
Product Description
10 tracks
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Southpaw
Southpaw Manufacturer: Orchard ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00001O2WP Release Date: 1999-08-24 |
Tracks:
- Christmas
- Thy Will Be Done
- Great Unknown
- Permanent
- Vertigo
- All That I Want
- Oh Yeah
- Suprise
- Caught in the Middle
- Holy Water
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The Southpaw
John Leitham Manufacturer: USA Music Group ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000000QUW Release Date: 1994-03-22 |
Tracks:
- Stick It In Your Ear
- Scrapple The Apple
- Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
- My Shining Hour
- Turkish Bizarre
- Fee Fi Fo Fum
- Jitterbug Waltz
- I'm Old Fashioned
- Poonin
- So Many Stars
- Bohemia After Dark
Dance Music:
- Spectrum Instrumental [Import]
- Sports Drugs & Entertainment [Import]
- Stone Cold Rhymin' [Explicit Lyrics]
- Str8 Up Loco
- Tear Yo Club Down [Explicit Lyrics]
- Temple of Hiphop Kulture: Criminal-Justice from Darkness to Light [Explicit Lyrics]
- Temple of Hiphop Kulture: Criminal-Justice from Darkness to Light [Explicit Lyrics]
- Testimonies of the Misunderstood
- Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha [Clean] [Extra tracks]
- Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha [Explicit Lyrics] [Extra tracks]
Dance Music
King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Gary U.S. Bonds [Live]
Modern American Classics Vol. 4
Jazz In Film (Film Score Anthology)
Steppin' Out [Extra tracks] [Original recording remastered]
Messiah (Hybrid) (Hybr) [Hybrid SACD]
Roberto Maida Canta Sus Exitos [Import]