Jungle & Sky/GrooveLily Sampler (Back Issue Series)

Daniel Gewertz, The Boston Herald, December 6, 1996
"helium-powered pop-rock with enough ingenuity to take thrilling flight"

Product Description
"Jungle & Sky/GrooveLily Sampler" is the 2004 reissue of 2 CDs combined: "Jungle & Sky," which was originally released in 1996, plus the 5-song EP "GrooveLily Sampler," originally released in 1997. The 10th-anniversary GrooveLily "Back Issue Series" CDs include special re-releases, with bonus tracks, of: "Inhabit My Heart" (1994), "Jungle & Sky/GrooveLily Sampler" (1996-1997), "Brendan & The Extenuating Circumstances" (1998), and "Little Light" (2000).

"GrooveLily is the last type of group one expected to find in the rough-and-tumble Manhattan rock scene of the mid-'90s -- a world dominated by its grunge, industrial, punk, funk-rock and gothic music. Rejecting anger and aggression in favor of a softer and consistently melodic -- yet edgy -- pop/rock approach, lead singer/violinist Valerie Vigoda, keyboardist Brendan Milburn and drummer Max Langert (who left the group in late 1996) earned a small but seemingly loyal following. Full of enticing melodies and a strong harmonic punch, Jungle & Sky sometimes brings to mind 10,000 Maniacs -- not because the bands sound anything alike, but because its approach so often sounds like amplified acoustic music. One of the things that makes GrooveLily distinctive is Vigoda's unorthodox use of the violin. But even without it, Vigoda's expressive singing and the trio's poignant, often introspective lyrics would have made the album a winner." Alex Henderson, All-Music Guide, 1996

Jungle & Sky/GrooveLily Sampler (Back Issue Series)

Jungle & Sky/GrooveLily Sampler (Back Issue Series),GrooveLily,QMR Records,Adult Alternative,Folk,Folk & Traditional,Pop,electric violin-driven smart pop, with a mix of contemplative and celebratory moods: Paula Cole meets Bruce Hornsby.

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Average customer rating: I DON'T LIKE IT (It needs a negative review) o.0 should appeal to ---- 2007? Try 2307 Sophisticated Artistry in Electronica Pur

The Foley Room Amon Tobin Manufacturer: Ninja Tune ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Drum & Bass | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Trip-Hop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: Pocket Symphony Supermodified I'll Sleep When You're Dead Permutation Out From Out Where ASIN: B000N0QXHQ Release Date: 2007-03-06

Tracks:

1. Bloodstone
2. Esther's
3. Keep Your Distance
4. The Killer's Vanilla
5. Kitchen Sink
6. Horsefish
7. Foley Room
8. Big Furry Head
9. Ever Falling
10. Always
11. Straight Psyche
12. At the End of the Day

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With Foley Room, Montreal's Amon Tobin throws his torch in with the blazing tradition of full-length works composed in the majority with found sounds. Having formerly made his name as a craftsman of vinyl samples into towering rhythmic dynamos like his fin-de-siècle LP, Supermodified, Tobin tries sampling the world for himself. With microphone in hand and his tape console slung over his shoulder, he captures the timbre of factories, a massive satellite dish, and local avant-garde improvisers with equal zest. One loping highlight comes early in "Big Furry Head," when during a token trip-hop lead-in--all reverb, squiggle, and over-compressed drumbeat--a tiger's hungry growls tears new life across the frequency spectrum, signaling the abyss-deep thump of Tobin's next new groove. Whether he's wandering through lush, meandering string workouts ("Bloodstone") or more aggressive avenues toward beauty ("Ever Falling"), Tobin's gait is ever informed by the beat. But where some contemporary found-sound sculptures like Matthew Herbert's Plat du Jour keep a more strident sampling ethos in the service of musical politics, Tobin's approach clearly reeks with a love of sound manipulation as its own reward: every process an adventure, each completed work a revelation. --Jason Kirk

Album Description

Electronic beatmaking legend Amon Tobin reinvents himself on Foley Room, an album meticulously created from field recordings and other found sounds. Still very much an Amon record, but with fresh new underlying sounds. Includes bonus DVD documenting the process.

Customer Reviews:

I DON'T LIKE IT (It needs a negative review).......2007-07-12

I don't like this album, it is extremely boring. I'm not holding it to comparison to anything prior by Amon Tobin. I don't like it because I found myself fast fowarding through parts in search for something more.

I wanted the grass to get greener and this was never the case. I also search for something in music that I might enjoy, or even a singular sound that I can sample and exploit.

This album failed to entertain me, or make me feel energized. Even with the hope of discovering some cool sounds it is a total let down.

o.0.......2007-07-08

I wonder if he played all those random instruments. The percussion sounds very natural, I would find it hard to believe they were all from a computer program, it would probably be easier to just record the drums and edit them afterwards. There's lots of stuff you miss listening to this the first few times around, lots of little details in the sound.
There's some symphony stuff going on as well, guitars too, chimes, synthesizers, vocals, pretty much everything... and none of it sounds familiar. Once all this settles in you have a very replayable CD.

When I first heard Amon Tobin I listened to Out From Out Where and then bought his others. They were all good, but this one stands out a little because the structures of the songs are pretty random, but they make sense somehow. I barely notice any repetition on Foley Room. If I listen to Permutation or Bricolage it is very noticable by comparison.

Electronic music is a genre with a lot of sub-genres and is expanding all the time. It's difficult because like computers themselves, electronic music is always getting updated and you have to keep up with the times. However some people are continually able to bring something fresh that has a new sound. This is one of those cds that actually gets better the 4th or 5th time around.

should appeal to ----.......2007-05-18

conceptual work combining manmade and natural found sounds with conventional music,if this project was just a experiment I hope that the artist was keeping notes,we need more !!

2007? Try 2307.......2007-05-09

Foley Room is an industrial breakbeat / drum-n-bass symphony. Amon Tobin not only improves but he vastly raises the bar every single time he releases an album. You know this is the man who made Out from Outwhere and Permutation right away but what you cannot prepare for is the epic nature in which he rings in 2007 with music that is 2307.

I have a deep love for the album format and 'Foley Room' further defines this affection. It allows for structure and limitations to encourage discipline and creativity. The music here is like the intensity of a beautifully emotional 500 lb. beast trapped within a metal cage where he barely fits and has only one small air hole. He is angry and dents the structure while trying to free himself. He becomes hopeless realizing this is impossible. He ponders his life, becomes bitter and angry again. Somehow, we feel like he got himself into this.

Take that for what you will, but the only album I can compare this to is 'Endtroducing...' and that is a stretch because this is much more intense and the songs are mostly shorter in length (my only gripe because these songs could be of brilliantly epic length to match the mood). But the darkness and emotion is evident and delves deeper into actual human psyche than I'd say nearly ALL of, at least, electronic music.

Amon Tobin has officially been ordained into the vanguard of music's elite.

Sophisticated Artistry in Electronica Pur.......2007-04-17

Having been a fan of the Art of Noise in the 80's, it is a very high bar that reaches my ears these days, and Amon Tobin has done it. His incidental style, combined with crafty rhythms and a high degree of acoustic precision create something between acid jazz and techno, a very listenable, wordless play on the human spirit.

Average customer rating: Amazon Review Jungle Book this favorite lives on One of life's bare necessities! Jungle Book Movie Song CD

Jungle Book Richard M. Sherman , and Robert B. Sherman Manufacturer: Disney ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Children's Music | Styles | Music Disney Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Mary Poppins Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Aladdin: Special Edition Soundtrack The Little Mermaid: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Cinderella ASIN: B000056QDT Release Date: 2001-01-30

Tracks:

1. Overture
2. Baby
3. Colonel Hathi's March (The Elephant Song)
4. The Bare Necessities
5. I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)
6. Monkey Chase
7. Tell Him
8. Colonel Hathi's March (Reprise)
9. Jungle Beat
10. Trust in Me (The Python's Song)
11. What'cha Wanna Do
12. That's What Friends Are For (The Vulture Song)
13. Tiger Fight
14. Poor Bear
15. My Own Home (The Jungle Book Theme)
16. The Bare Necessities (Reprise)
17. Interview with the Sherman Brothers
18. Baloo's Blues
19. It's A Kick
20. Brothers All (Demo Recording)
21. The Song of the Seeonee (Demo Recording)

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At the height of Beatlemania, the Disney folks were teaching kids how to really swing with this soundtrack to their adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. Of course, it's Phil Harris (the voice of everyone's favorite hipster bear Baloo) who steals the show with the original slacker anthem, "The Bare Necessities," but his scat match with an inspired Louis Prima on "I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)" is also not to be missed. Songwriters Richard and Robert Sherman--who clearly enjoyed playing the irony card on songs like "Trust in Me (The Python's Song)" and "That's What Friends Are For" (The Vulture Song)"--offer entertaining reminiscences about the project in a 12-minute bonus track. George Bruns's wonderful underscore, a couple early song demos, and two post-soundtrack Baloo numbers round out a collection that suggests, in the most charming way imaginable, that it really is a jungle out there. --Bill Forman

Customer Reviews:

Amazon Review .......2007-04-05

This product came before the sender said! It also came in excellent condition!!

Jungle Book .......2007-01-10

This music does not include the lyrics from the animated movie. A disappointment. Whats the point of this album if you can't sing along to the tunes?

this favorite lives on.......2006-08-31

This was my favorite movie and now it is my son's. This CD is the musical sound track so it has background music. Sometimes my son wants to listen to it (he know's the scene sequence pretty well) and sometimes just the big hits. The CD has allowed me to redirect the Jungle Book demand/chant from movie to music and we can avoid getting plugged into the TV all day. The interview at the end is pretty interesting too.

One of life's bare necessities!.......2006-04-04

As much as I try to think of one, I can't picture a more fun Disney soundtrack than "Jungle Book". As a matter of fact, it's even hard to think of a happier soundtrack altogether. And the truth is, the music is so much at the heart of this amazingly fun Disney classic, that they are almost one and the same. There's no listening to the songs in here, without jumping up and down like Baloo, Mowgli and Bagheera. It is a highly recommendable album and movie combo, indeed one of those "bare necessities"! :)

Jungle Book Movie Song CD.......2006-03-24

It was as I expected, my daughters both enjoy this CD

Average customer rating: What A Ride A Definte Comeback It's Jeff Beck!! A W E S O M E The Greatest Guitarist Ever

Jeff Jeff Beck Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Drum & Bass | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Big Beat | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Guitar Gods | Rock Guitarists | Rock | 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 General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Electronica | Dance & DJ | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Electronica | Dance & DJ | 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 CDs $7 - $10 | Rock Guitarists | Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Rock Guitarists | Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classic Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Dance & DJ | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Hard Rock & Metal | 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 Similar Items: You Had It Coming Who Else! Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop There and Back Wired ASIN: B00009MGQL Release Date: 2003-08-05

Tracks:

1. So What
2. Plan B
3. Pork-U-Pine
4. Seasons
5. Trouble Man
6. Grease Monkey
7. Hot Rod Honeymoon
8. Line Dancing With Monkeys
9. JB's Blues
10. Pay Me No Mind (Jeff Beck Remix)
11. My Thing
12. Bulgaria
13. Why Lord Oh Why?

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Calling fabled guitar god Jeff Beck "mercurial" doesn't do justice to the word - or the legend himself. While this latest blast of maniacal Beckology seems to form a loose techno-centric triptych with its predecessors, by no means is the guitarist resting on his laurels here. If anything, his continuing collaboration with You Had It Coming producer Andy Wright (aided and deliciously sonically subverted by Splattercell's David Torn and Apollo 440) has yielded one of Beck's most muscular--if willfully challenging--collections of musical future shock. Save for the elegant, orchestra-backed take on the traditional folk of "Bulgaria" and introspective respite of "Line Dance with Monkey' and "JB's Blues," the guitarist seems to have little interest in traditional lyricism here, instead coaxing an inventive maelstrom of unearthly, metallic timbres and alien modalities from his instrument on the angular "Trouble Man," the hypnotic grooves of "So What" and the Torn-icated, melodic minimalism of "Plan B." On "Grease Monkey" and "Hot Rod Honeymoon," Apollo 440 playfully fold Beck's notorious car-culture fetishes into an ironic sonic origami of retro-samples and tense electro-rhythms, the latter highlighted by his neo-country chicken-pickin' and incomparable slide work. That track may be cast as mock Beach Boys car tune, but there's definitely nothing nostalgic about the evocative, often hard-edged mood here; it might as well be subtitled "Beck to the Future." --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

What A Ride.......2007-07-25

This is one of my all-time favorite Jeff Beck albums. It kicks butt and keeps on kicking. My favorite cut is "So What," which ignites the album and sets the tone. I can listen to this album over and over and over. As in previous albums, he names many of the songs after garage talk, and the rev'd up music is as snarling as some of the cars he tinkers with. "Grease Monkey," "Hod Rod Honeymoon," and "Trouble Man," are all sizzlers. I highly recommend this album if you want something to blow the cobwebs off your pipes as you fly down the freeway. If you are looking for Rod Stewart, you've come to the wrong garage.

A Definte Comeback.......2007-07-12

It took him awhile but Jeff Beck reestablished himself in my eyes with this album . After just Blowing me AWAY no pun inteneded with Blow by Blow , I was disappointed by Wired. But this album more than reestablishes Mr. Beck as one of the preeminent guitarists of his time. With fast paced fun hard-hitting licks on such songs Hotrod Honeymoon, Jeff makes it fun to listen to him again . I've enjoyed the cd so much I keep playing it over and over

It's Jeff Beck!!.......2007-06-24

I bought this CD two days back and had time yesterday to tune in the night expecting some classical outfit with blues-rock just like what Jeff comes up with in his solo efforts which is purely classical!

But this one is absolutely different as Jeff had taken care of each and every arrangements being one many army. The album starts off with a number called "So What" which will rock you down the bottom with high-pitched guitar and electronic sounds followed by other tracks like "Plan B" "Pork-u-pine".

I am mainly into Jazz, Blues, Rock, Funk and have a large extensive and varied collection of music listening for past 17 years. This album is something very different which I enjoyed the most albeit it's heavy!!

You don't have to think twice to buy an album of Jeff as all Jeff's freak are aware of what he can do. So try it out!! That's all I have to say.

Ciao and and enjoy folks!!!!

A W E S O M E.......2007-03-04

All I knew about Jeff Beck before this album was one song I heard on the radio.
This guy is awesome! He ranks up there probably above Joe Satriani!
Sometimes he is a little "hard" for my taste but his virtuosity is astounding. Steve Vai would drool in envy.
Haveing found out that Jeff is no newcommer to the art it makes sense that this kind of quality playing comes with age and maturity in the art.

YES - go buy it now!

The Greatest Guitarist Ever.......2006-09-10

This is not a review of this album, rather it is a statement about the artist. This guitarist has been simply the greatest of a long list of great ones.From rock and blues in the early days of The Yardbirds and the Jeff Beck Group to the jazz-fusion period with Jan Hammer to the current phase of Industrial/Techno no other guitarist has been able to produce the sounds that emerge fom Mr. Becks guitar. His last three albums are a must for any serious student of the guitar. I saw him with Jennifer Batten a while ago. My wish is for these two brilliant guitarist to continue to collaborate
I give 5 stars to all of these
Guitar Shop
Who Else
You Had It Coming
Jeff

Average customer rating: Not perfect, just almost perfect insane symphonic noise Great Album Well worth having if you like AFX

Richard D. James Album Aphex Twin Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Drum & Bass | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Hardcore Techno | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music IDM | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Innovators | Warner Brothers Records | Stores | Music Similar Items: I Care Because You Do Drukqs Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2 Come to Daddy EP Windowlicker ASIN: B000002HOF Release Date: 1997-01-28

Tracks:

1. 4
2. Cornish Acid
3. Peek 824545201
4. Fingerbib
5. Corn Mouth
6. To Cure A Weakling Child
7. Goon Gumpos
8. Yellow Cal X
9. Girl/Boy Song
10. Log N Rock Witch
11. Milkman
12. Inkey $
13. Girl/Boy (18 Pound Snore Rush Mix)
14. Beetles
15. Girl/Boy (Redruth Mix)

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If techno ever does become the sound of young America, don't expect Richard James to be its poster boy, deserving though he may be. A native of Cornwall, England, James is obsessed with the mechanics of music making: As a kid, he took apart and reassembled the living room piano. Under the names Aphex Twin, Polygon Window, AFX, and other aliases too numerous to mention, he showed that he could make entire tracks with the sounds produced by tapping on a Coke can. Like the indie rockers of yore, he revels in his marginality because of the creative freedom it gives him. His full-length U.S. debut, Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994), includes some of the most serene sounds this side of the Orb, but his favorite hobby is the not-at-all-blissful pastime of driving a Daimler Ferret Mark 3 tank through his parents' backyard.

None of his recordings have captured the competing impulses to lull you to sleep and blast out your eardrums as well as Richard D. James, his third and best album. As the title indicates, James has turned inward for inspiration, painting aural pictures of real and imagined scenes from his west country childhood. "Goongumpas" is a fanciful, playful tune that wouldn't sound out of place on the soundtrack to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. As his adventures with the family upright indicate, James was a bit of a devil even as a child. "Beetles" is the sound of a boy frying bugs on the sidewalk with a magnifying glass, and "To Cure a Weakling Child" shows flashes of the sort of sadism found only on preschool playgrounds. If you still doubt that young Richard developed early on, the romantic Nino Rota-style strings on "Girl/Boy Song" are just made for passionate seductions, and the tune appears in three mixes, each one hot and hornier than the one before.

The raucous undercurrents of even his calmest tunes and the sources of many of his most common sounds are what link James to the rock tradition. With Richard D. James, the artist solidifies his position as an electronic music mastermind who has earned a spot beside such well-respected innovators--whether or not he's destined for stardom. --Jim Derogatis

Customer Reviews:

Not perfect, just almost perfect.......2007-06-07

Besides the award for one of the worst covers ever, Richard D. James Album is actually really good. Granted, I failed to see what's so ______ good about it, but I still think it's essential. It shows that electronic music actually takes talent to create.

THe music? Like I say, samples always HELP, but they sure don't always means it's bad or good. Fortunatly, I had no trouble picking up the music. It's got good atmosphere, especially on songs like Beetles and Milkman. I still haven't figured out how they relate to himself and his life. That's the main theme, hence the title. The songs are a hit or miss basically, you will either like them or you won't THe beats aren't regular beats (like Fatboy Slim

It's really really cool, but it's still not exactly the best album ever. I like You've Come A Long Way, Baby, a lot better, but this is great electronic music. _____ electronic music haters. It's a great (very great) genre. It's not poppy either. It's the opposite. So don't expect any ____________ songs like We LIke To Party.

9.0/10

insane .......2006-11-05

This guy is insane and awsome. The music is polished, yet insane. Crazy insane!

symphonic noise.......2006-10-02

I first discovered this cd while working in a music store. This cd is not for the weak hearted. One major thing I noticed in titles such as the Boy/Girl song is that he never uses the same loop twice. The background will stay steady but everything around it will move all over the place, like putting bethoven in a cement mixer. I don't want to scare you away from this album because it is a definate worth while buy but to truely do this cd justice you need to strap on a good set of headphones and hang on for a glorius ride.

Great Album.......2006-07-10

Between this one and drukqs, this is one of my favorite albums. I can say that I like every song on this CD. Especially the last half.

If your new to aphex twin, this is an excellent starter album.

And if your already a fan, I dont know why you haven't bought this yet

Well worth having if you like AFX.......2006-06-22

The other reviews say it all really - good, but not as esential as Selected Ambient Works (and not really in the same vein either). I just wanted to answer the reviewer's question about the gravestone: Richard D James's parents had a stillborn child some years before he was born, also called Richard, and the image is that of his brother's gravestone. (This also explains the significance of the middle 'D'.)

Average customer rating: JUSTICE I would buy from this seller again in a second

Waters of Nazareth Justice Manufacturer: Vice Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Drum & Bass | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music 4-for-3 Dance & DJ | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 International | 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: The Looks Justice Idealism Cross We Are Your Friends ASIN: B000FGFUIQ Release Date: 2006-06-06

Tracks:

1. Waters of Nazareth
2. Let There Be Light
3. Carpates
4. Waters of Nazareth (Justice Mix)
5. Let The Be Light (DJ Funk Mix)
6. Waters of Nazareth (Erol Alkan Mix)

Album Description

This twenty-something boy duo from Paris finds a way every time of making audiences dance frantically, with a discreet tear in the eye (because of the keyboard's chords) while raising their fists (well, because of everything else). This record contains the groundbreaking title song, the harmonically ambitious yet extremely catchy "Let There Be Light", and the up-tempo Dancing Vampire-like "Carpates". The EP is already a fave, played by Laurent Garnier, Trevor Jackson, Tiefschwarz, James Holden, Andrew Weatherhall, Optimo, Benny Benassi, and such.

Customer Reviews:

JUSTICE.......2007-07-24

Although its different from Justice's hits of D.A.N.C.E. and We Are Your Friends, this album showcases that justice has their own unique style that will blow you away, it will take some getting used to but the songs on this album are quickly becoming a song that every club will play.

I would buy from this seller again in a second.......2007-05-07

*FAST* delivery and easy to deal with, highly recommended seller, A++ (Thanks!!)

Average customer rating: Glad They Were Found ! It's Not Enough ! L.A.M.F.--It's Not Enough! i shoulda been rich... Johnny Thunders&The Heartbreakers - 'L.A.M.F.:The Lost '77 Mixes' (Freud-Jungle) Second Review

L.A.M.F.: The Lost '77 Mixes Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers Manufacturer: Freud-Jungle Full ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music American Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: New York Dolls Hard Night's Day Too Much Too Soon Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood All Dolled Up ASIN: B00007MFGI Release Date: 2003-03-03

Tracks:

1. Born to Lose
2. Baby Talk
3. All by Myself
4. I Wanna Be Loved
5. It's Not Enough
6. Chinese Rocks
7. Get off the Phone
8. Pirate Love
9. One Track Mind
10. I Love You
11. Going Steady
12. Let Go
13. Can't Keep My Eyes on You
14. Do You Love Me

Album Description

2002 reissue of classic 1977 album includes a bonus video, 'Chinese Rocks', & a bonus disc, 'Alternative L.A.M.F.', featuring 16 previously unreleased alternate mixes, demos & rehearsals including, 'Born Too Loose', 'Chinese Rocks', 'Let Go', 'Goin' Steady' (Instr.), 'Baby Talk' (Instr.), 'Pirate Love' (Instr.), 'Born To Lose' (Instr.), 'Chinese Rocks' (Instr.), 'Do You Love Me', 'Can't Keep My Eyes On You', 'Get Off The Phone', 'All By Myself', 'It's Not Enough', 'One Track Mind', 'Too Much Junkie Business', & 'London Boys'. Packaging includes a 24-page booklet with complete lyrics, song comments by Walter Lure, & slipcase. Jungle Records.

Album Details

Includes a 24 Page Booklet and a Bonus CD.

Customer Reviews:

Glad They Were Found ! It's Not Enough !.......2007-03-15

I LOVE THIS CD !!!! Such a GREAT addition to my collection, especially with such lack of this sound these days!
Unfortunately...I did not appreciate their music "back in the day."
I had many opportunites to see them,living in NYC in the late 70's - late 80's. Soooo glad they found these lost mixes! I repent!
A MUST OWN for anyone that appreciates raw, classic, gritty rock + roll.
This collection should be held in the highest regard,along with the other classics like The Stones, Yardbirds, The Seeds, The Kinks, + The Ramones.
Johnny Thunder's guitar solo + vocals on It's Not Enough...WOW!!! Reminds me of The Stones, Child of the Moon, but BETTER! He really "goes out" + gives his all. GREAT piece of Rock + Roll with JT's emotions on his sleeve! It's bone chilling!
Chinese Rocks, Born to Lose, + Do You Love Me are rare treats for those who love the "old sound rock + roll."
These classics can NEVER be duplicated, + are so impotant for anyone who appreciates only the finest !
J.T. + Heartbreakers will never again be lost to me!
I hope many people discover this CD.
Written In Loving Memory of Johnny Thunders + band.

L.A.M.F.--It's Not Enough!.......2007-03-01

Up from the red-leather remains of the New York Dolls rose the Heartbreakers, founded by ex-Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders (né Genzale) and handsome-devil drummer Jerry Nolan in 1975. Leaving their former band members in Florida with some guy named McLaren so they could score smack back in the Big Apple, Johnny and Jerry tapped proto-punk poster-boy Richard Hell for their new ensemble. CBGBs and Max's Kansas City were their battlefields and they were an integral part of this febrile, fertile spawning ground. You know the litany of names: the Ramones, Television, Blondie, Talking Heads, etc. etc. Though Hell froze up and departed, the Heartbreakers, eventually released only one album, the sonically-challenged "L.A.M.F." in 1977. This recent mix, from re-discovered tapes, sounds wonderful, less muddy, and all sleaze.

What makes the Heartbreakers great is simplicity. They reduced twenty years of rock and pop and rhythm and blues into 3 minute rave-ups that always leave the listener wanting more. Johnny's guitar-slinging rings true, always teetering on the edge of collapse: it's chaotic and exhilarating. Blistering leads, solos that sound like a strangling cat, chugging rhythms like the subway trains roaring beneath the city streets.

Songs like "Get Off the Phone," "Going Steady," "Baby Talk," and "Let Go" are trashy rock'n'roll rave-ups, with all the requisite elements: catchy choruses, sleazy good-time lyrics (the ones that make sense, anyway; Johnny weren't no English perfessor), driving drums, and immediate gratification. A song like "One Track Mind" is a beautiful thing, all irresistible chorus and air-guitar glory. "It's Not Enough": is a reflective ballad-sorta thing, with Johnny lamenting how "You can give me this/You can give me that" but it's not enough. Man it's good! "Pirate Love" exists only for the dual-guitar solo that rivals anything the Dolls ever laid down.

Then there are the classics, the signature tunes that no Johnny Thunders performance was complete without: "Born to Lose," (or, alternately "Born Too Loose") which opens the album: with some out-of-tune guitar whines, and the lyrics reveals again just what a poet of the streets Johnny was: "Nothin' to do/Oh nothin' to say/Only one thing that I want/It's the only way/I said hit it!/Baby I was born to lose."

"Chinese Rocks" is perhaps Thunders' most famous song even though it was written by fellow junkster Dee Dee Ramone. Anyone unsure as to what the song refers can be sure, it ain't nothing like Pop Rocks.

"The plaster's fallin off the walls
My girlfriend's cryin in the shower stall
It's hot as a bitch
I shoulda been rich
But I'm just diggin a Chinese ditch
I'm livin on Chinese rocks
All my best things are in hock
I'm livin on Chinese rocks
Everything is in the pawn shop"

These songs depict the downside of downtown and how the jungle could eat you alive. Johnny's status as a stylish, decadent loser who strutted those mean streets is legendary. As Wayne Kramer (MC5) said of Johnny: "He could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory."

The Heartbreakers weren't really a punk band, even though they rounded out the legendary Anarchy tour of the UK in late '76 with a couple bands you mighta heard of, the Sex Pistols and the Clash. Rumor has it--actually, it's more than rumor, it's fact--that the Heartbreakers introduced heroin to the much younger and more naive UK punks, and Nancy Spungen went looking for Jerry Nolan and followed them there. You know what happened after that.

The band was never able to secure a record deal with an American label due to their, uh, extracurricular activities, so eventually they broke up. Johnny would put out a decidedly mixed solo album a year later ("So Alone") and continue to travel the world as a performer. Shows were plagued by his drug use, his attitude, his poor guitar-playing. I never got to see him perform, and odds are that if I had, I'd've seen a shambles of a set. Although a friend saw him in the mid-80s and remembers the acoustic set Johnny did as particularly entertaining. In April of 1991 Johnny Thunders was hauled out of a grimy New Orleans hotel, his lifeless body doubled over from the effects of countless drugs. It's not enough, is it, Johnny? No, I guess it never is.

Well, all that don't matter. What does matter is that if you care about real rock'n'roll you need this album. It rocks like nothing else I know, but fits kinda between the Stones and the Replacements (whose "Johnny's Gonna Die" is an ode to Thunders), G'n'R, Hanoi Rocks, very early Crue and other hard rock of the '80s. Practically every hard-rock/glam/metal guitarist that tosses a mane of out-of-control hair with a sneer and screech copped it from Johnny (who of course copped it from Keith Richards, let's be honest here). Johnny deserves to be remembered for his single-minded rock tunes, his dedication to the rock'n'roll lifestyle, and also for one of the coolest rock "nom de guerres" ever--I mean, "Johnny Thunders" how cool is that?! Thanks Johnny Rock on RIP!

i shoulda been rich..........2007-02-06

This album was the eye opener for me in '77. These guys rocked it, and lived it, like nobody else's business. Walter's guitar style complimented Johnny's like they were twin brothers. And, it's fun to figure out who played what on which track, although Johnny (the musical genius) is almost always evident. What the world really needs is more bass and drums like Jerry and Billy played it. Simple, powerful, succinct. I was lucky enough to see The Heartbreakers live. They changed my life for the better.

Johnny Thunders&The Heartbreakers - 'L.A.M.F.:The Lost '77 Mixes' (Freud-Jungle).......2006-11-05

This is maybe the third Johnny Thunders CD I've ever heard.Certainly can see WHY there have been so numerous titles of his put out.The late New York Dolls guitarist can certainly give the fans what they want.Total of fourteen good old school All American tracks here to wet appetite with.Most impressive cuts are "Baby Talk","It's Not Enough",the very NY Dolls-ish "Pirate Love",the rocking "Let Go" and the Berry Gordy cover "Do You Love Me".Line-up:Johnny Thunders-guitar&vocals,Billy Rath-bass,Walter Lure-guitar&vocals and fellow Dolls alumni Jerry Nolan-drums.Do check it out.

Second Review.......2006-05-16

After giving this album a second run, I change my opinion. This is a pretty good album, and the newer mix brings it all together. And while I still believe that "So Alone" and the Dolls first album are superior, I've come to appreciate this album on its own terms. Better than most other punk. High level of musicianship on Johnny's part (no pun intended.)

Average customer rating: Changed My Listening Amazing It was downhill from here for Roni Size Great Album Drum and Bass 101

New Forms Roni Size & Reprazent Manufacturer: Fontana Island ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Drum & Bass | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: In the Mode Timeless Logical Progression, Level 1 Mysteries of Funk The 6ixth Session ASIN: B000001EYA Release Date: 1997-10-28

Tracks:

1. Railing
2. Brown Paper Bag
3. New Forms
4. Let's Get It On
5. Digital
6. Matter Of Fact
7. Mad Cat
8. Heroes
9. Share The Fall (Full Vocal Mix)
10. Watching Windows
11. Beatbox
12. Morse Code
13. Destination

Tracks:

1. INtro
2. Hi-Potent
3. Trust Me
4. Change My Life
5. Share The Fall
6. Down
7. Jazz
8. Hot Stuff
9. Ballet Dance
10. Electricks

Amazon.com

For his debut album on Talkin' Loud/Polygram, Bristol, England's Roni Size keeps with the label's tradition of releasing grandiose, song-oriented dance albums. Size teams up with DJs Krust, Die, and Suv; MC Dynamite; and vocalist Onalee to weld the rough-and-ready sounds of British drum & bass to the soul vibes of their hometown. On New Forms, the jazz concepts laid out on his earlier singles are expanded into song form, with live instrumentation and full vocals. The album never fails to be interesting; there's serious musical credibility underlying every track, but New Forms, with its straightforward pop sensibilities, is clearly aimed at the listener. Fans of the Bristol sound will appreciate the "Watching Windows" and "Share the Fall" singles, whose subtle melancholy blends seamlessly with Size's trademark drum assaults. Despite its length (23 tracks spanning 140 minutes), New Forms remains perfectly balanced and eminently listenable. --Matthew Corwine

Album Details

Japanese Renewal Edition featuring Two Bonus Tracks.

Customer Reviews:

Changed My Listening.......2007-04-22

I first borrowed New Forms four years ago with a view to hearing more lush beats driven sounds like displayed in the #8 Heroes track, but without the vocals. On first album listen I didn't get it, the sound, or the form. Left alone for it to settle, on later reflection I realized I had just been taught how to listen to music anew.

Aside from the nice but deceptive sounding #1 Railing (no other track was as conventional) this album struck me after three long borrows, so I now recommend you this double bass jazz step manifesto.

Track wise, I found some parts to be cinematic - # 4 Lets Get It On, #6Matter Of Fact, #7 Mad Cat.
Other times like an epic score - #2 Brown Paper Bag.
I felt it had hype sounding manifesto lyrics like - #1Railing,(`Direct, believe me you ain't heard nothing yet!') #3 New Forms, #8 Heroes.
Into a formulated, and natural sounding blends of jazz step with eerie effects-#5Digital, # Mad Cat.
Killer buildups, and infinite ride through- #12 Morse code, and #13 Destination,
In my opinion very anti-pop, yet deserving of it's hype.
In short a new form.

Of all tunes most notably #6 Matter Of Fact, I found as the plethora point. A python of a song which sounds to me like an invite into the never ending openings of Roni sizes/reprezent Pandora's box. No preparation is enough for this one.

Some people have described Roni's album as a mantra- with its ever-cycling repetition of beats, which can never truly be absorbed by just a few listens. I think Roni Size's/Reprazent New Forms especially disc2 (Roni's own cerebral suite?) has the potential of a lifetime of listens. With the result that the rhythms may get under your skin in such a way that will leave you coming back for more like the track `Mad cat', and `Morse code', do to me ad infinite.
`Change my life' indeed. Leyman

Amazing.......2006-04-07

"New Forms" was, is, and always will be the best Drum N Bass album out there.

Its not easy listening, its not very dancable, it is just pure music, and - I am afraid it sounds cheesy - it is really art. Its Jazzy, funky, very smooth, minimalistic, and its so subtle that you cannot express its quality in words.

Just let me tell you, you have to spend a little time on it - many songs are over 8 minutes long - but once you warm up to the album, you will listen to it over and over again, and you will find somthing new everytime you put it on.

This is as much 5 stars as it can get.

It was downhill from here for Roni Size.......2006-01-22

New Forms won the Mercury Prize in the most abundant year in techno music history. That year being 1997. The Mercury Prize is given to the top British album of the year (yes, beating out Radiohead's OK Computer), so obviously that must mean that New Forms is one of the all-time great albums electronica has to offer right? Barely. Although disc 1 has the highlights: "Brown Paper Bag", "Let's Get It On", and "Morse Code", disc 2 maybe the best drum-and-bass cd ever recorded: a consistent onslaught of vocal-less soundscapes that keep the listener interested. Although the songs were written by Roni Size, the songs on disc 2 have an improvisatory feel to them, there's even a track called "Jazz". Disc 2 is ingenius, it is like Roni Size has a whole drum-and-bass opera in his head. But Reprazant deserves a lot of credit as well; the touches they put on every song are subtle and satisfying. "Brown Paper Bag" might be the greatest drum-and-bass song ever recorded and is a touchstone of tempo changes and intensity. It is truly a breathtaking ride of a song. The filler on disc 1 prevent New Forms from being an absolute masterpiece, but still recommended. B+

Great Album.......2006-01-10

Funky, Jazzy, Hard Hittin' Classic DnB. Just outta curiousity though, from reading all the other DnB artist reviews around Amazon, How many "Kings Of Drum & Bass" are there? I've personally counted like 4-5 undisputed "Kings" Roni being one, but also Grooverider, who is a definate contender, also Goldie another heavy weight. Then you get into some of the other so called "Kings" like Dieselboy, don't get me wrong I loved Dungeoun Master and he's a great DJ, that's just it though, he's just a DJ. Roni is a true producer & a DJ as well. Hell, I'm a DJ that sometimes plays DnB, does that make me "King" of DnB? Hell NO!!! Roni's been around for quite a while now, he's always updating his sound, while never compromising, all of Roni's stuff is undenyably Roni. Andy C is another member of the DnB royal family, now he has produced some stuff, pretty good stuff even but he's still made his name a DJ. I personally think the crown is about to be passed to the new guys on the block "Pendulum". Until then though, ALL HAIL RONI SIZE!!!

Drum and Bass 101.......2006-01-04

i cant say enough about this album... this is the kind of album that requires and open mind, and time to spare.. it is truly a drum and bass journey through all forms of the derivative style we call "breakbeat". i wont go song for song here because as a whole i feel the album is a complete gem with something for anyone who truly appreciates that art of drum and bass. i bought this back in 97, and it still gets heavy rotation on my ipod. thealbum leans into different moods throughout making it an enjoyable experience. im a heavy listener of drum and bass. iwas in the party scene for 6 yrs and people still talk about how influentual this album is till this day... give it a shot, im my opinion, top 5 cds ive ever purchased....

Average customer rating: Excellent second album! Not as great as the first. But it's OK. Great work! Soulful I LUV U VAN BABY, U MAKE CURTIS MAYFIELD PROUD!*U HAV MY SUPPORT (SEXXY CARAMEL)!!

On the Jungle Floor Van Hunt Manufacturer: Capitol ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Contemporary R&B | R&B | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Van Hunt 3121 SOULidified Ain't Nobody Worryin' Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship ASIN: B000EMGJM2 Release Date: 2006-04-04

Tracks:

1. Intro
2. If I Take You Home (Upon...)
3. Hot Stage Lights
4. Daredevil, baby
5. Ride, Ride, Ride
6. Being A Girl
7. Suspicion (She Knows Me Too Well)
8. Mean Sleep
9. Priest Or Police
10. Character
11. Interlude
12. No Sense Of Crime
13. At The End Of A Slow Dance
14. The Thrill Of This Love
15. Hole In My Heart
16. The Night Is Young

Amazon.com

Here's something you didn't know about Van Hunt: Randy Jackson is his manager. Which says a lot about the "American Idol" judge's prime-time panning of pitchy would-be Stevie Wonders-- mainly, that he knows what he's talking about. If there is still a neo-soul show to be stolen, Van Hunt, for sure, has made off with it: This sophomore effort, with well-spaced nods to Prince, Curtis Mayfield, and the Isley Brothers, is way weightier than anything Maxwell or D'Angelo ever attempted and every bit as stylish… maybe more so. But what's most surprising is the disc's depth. Van Hunt knows his way around a smooth seduction--look no further than track two, "If I Take You Home (Upon ...)," which earns an A in that category--but he also has a little something to contribute to the modern rock conversation (the Kravitz-esque "Ride, Ride, Ride"), and he won't duck associations with disco ("The Thrill of This Love"), either. Even '80s-revivalism, as demonstrated here by "At the End of a Slow Dance," doesn't prove too great a challenge. Tie it all up with a bow (or, this being Van Hunt, maybe an ascot) and you still get a solidly singular vision. That is the magic of Van Hunt and what makes him, in alt-soul circles, the man. --Tammy La Gorce

Customer Reviews:

Excellent second album!.......2007-07-25

This is probably the best album that no one heard last year. Between Van Hunt and Rahsaan Patterson, I don't know who is more overlooked.

This talented singer/writer/producer has been producing solid work since he penned Dionne Farris's hit "Hopeless." Just like his much-overlooked first album, this one delivers and soulful mix of R&B, Rock and Funk. There are so many great tracks on this release, that there is something for everyone. Although Hunt mixes different musical styles, he still puts a cohesive stamp on it that makes them flow well together.

My favorite tracks are Priest or Police, Daredevil Baby, Being a Girl, At The End Of A Slow Dance, If I Take You Home, and Hot Stage Lights.

I can't wait for the new EP.

Not as great as the first. But it's OK........2007-05-31

The only songs I really don't care for here are probably Ride, Ride, Ride and At The End Of A Slow Dance. They're definitely not my style.

But I do like Daredevil, Baby. I've had this CD since May 13th, 2006 and when I first heard it, I didn't know what to make of it, but a while later, I ended up liking the song. The production on No Sense of Crime is nice and playful, the lyrics, somewhat relatable. Mean Sleep is a decent song (though I can't compare to Lenny's because I've never heard it before) and Hot Stage Lights has a killer vibe during the chorus (or pre-chorus, I'm not sure :P). I can't get enough of it.

Another note that I must get through to you is that Van Hunt's lyrics have always been amongst the best and most descriptive (when he tries). See the intro to The Thrill Of This Love which has a slightly dreamy feel to it. It's not the greatest song otherwise, but it's decent. The album closes with The Night Is Young where Van Hunt struggles with the thought of where he is at the point of his life: getting older, reminiscing about the past, etc. It has a bit of a melancholy feel to it, but not overly so.

Things that could've been left off the album completely:

Ride, Ride, Ride and the intro as well as the interlude; the latter two are pretty much Van Hunt and some guy being as silly as possible. Not bad, but not necessary either.

Overall, there are about 4 songs that I enjoyed thoroughly (minus the intro and interlude).

If you want to get to know Van Hunt, I'd start with his far superior album, Van Hunt and then if he grabs you, get On The Jungle Floor. Be warned though, this album is much edgier, if that's your thing. To be honest though, I think this CD is a BORDERLINE sophomore slump. Fewer songs here grabbed me like they did with his self-titled album.

Final rating: 3.5 stars

Bye. ^_^

Great work!.......2007-05-19

Others have given better reviews and descriptions of this album. But I must say that this guy is really talented and I hope you soul music lovers out there will check this album out. He uses various different musical styles to good effect(not too many artists can pull that off when you think about it). I love "Character", "Being a Girl" (I'm surprised I haven't heard this playing on the radio), and "If I Take You Home" (this track is strangely reminds me of a Prince record). I stumbled on this album and I strongly recommend it.

Soulful.......2007-02-11

We definitely need more soulful artists like Van Hunt recognized and listened to more. It's music that's deep and fun at the same time.
Most people are living their lives without any substance. This kind of music helps bring substance back into our lives without sacrificing any of your enjoyment.
As much as I enjoy this cd, I don't think it's as good as Van Hunt's self-titled first album. That probably has to do with the fact that he aligned himself with American Idol Randy Jackson to help produce this album.

I LUV U VAN BABY, U MAKE CURTIS MAYFIELD PROUD!*U HAV MY SUPPORT (SEXXY CARAMEL)!!.......2006-11-20

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>VAN THAT'S SUPERB BABY!!!! < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < <<

.....I KNOWN ABOUT VAN FROM HIS DEBUT ALBUM "VAN HUNT" MOST MEMORABLE SONG

WAS "SECONDS OF PLEASURE"! WHICH ALSO CAN BE HEARD ON THE "SOMETHING NEW"

SOUNDTRACK. VAN IN MY EYES & MANY OTHERS "STANDS ALONE" BUT IN HIS MUSIC

I CAN HEAR THAT HE HAD "GREAT TEACHERS", MANY GREAT INFLUENCES SUCH AS:

THE GREAT CURTIS MAYFIELD, DONNY HATHAWAY, LENNY KRAVITZ & A LITTLE

JIMMY HENDRIX! WHAT TURN ME ON 2 "ON THE JUNGLE FLOOR" WAS NOT ONLY HIS

NAME BUT AFTER WATCHING "SOMETHING NEW" & HEARING SONG #2 "IF I TAKE U

HOME" WHILE THE END CREDITS WERE ROLLING... 4 THOSE OF U THAT DIDN'T GET

IT VAN DOESN'T SKIP-A-BEAT! #8 FEATURING Nikki Costas IS THE ONLY DULL

SONG BUT THE WORDS ARE SIGNIFICANT... I CAN PLAY IT STRAIGHT THROUGH!!!!

TO NOT APPRECIATE THIS ALBUM MEANS THAT THIS MUSIC CONFUSES U & "THIS

JUST ISN'T 4 U"!! SOME OF US OWN DEPTH & MANY DOESN'T!!LOOOK GO GET IT!!!!
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1....INTRO "VAN JUST HAVIN FUN"
2....IF TAKE U HOME (WILL U RESPECT ME IN THE MORNIN?)"DON'T KISS & TELL"
3....HOTT STAGE LIGHTS (I RATHER BE SUBTLE, DON'T NEED ALL THE EXCITEMENT)
4....DARE DEVIL BABY "SOMETIMES W/ THE MOST VALUABLE THINGS WE GAMBLE"
5....RIDE,RIDE,RIDE "CRUISE CONTROL, ENJOY THE RIDE"
6....BEING A GIRL "SISTAS LUV 2 HAV FUN EVEN MORE"
7....SUSPICION (SHE KNOWS ME 2 WELL) "YES I KNOW U HAVE MOTIVES" >ICU<
8....MEAN SLEEP f/Nikki Costas My only least favorite. "BECAUSE OF U"...
9....PRIEST OR POLICE "IF THE SHOE FITS SPORT IT"
10..."CHARACTER" R U WHO U PRETEND 2 ME 2 BE?" WHAT'S NATURAL?
11...INTERLUDE "VAN HAVIN FUN ONCE AGAIN"
12...NO SENSE CRIME "THIS 1 IS SENT FROM CURTIS MAYFIELD" I LUV IT!!
13...@ THE END OF A SLOW DANCE "WHAT'S LEFT 4 US 2 DO?" THINK ABOUT IT!!
14...THE THRILL OF THIS LUV "I'M ON THE CLOUDS & I'M DON'T WANT 2 FALL"!
15...*HOLE IN MY HEART* "OH BABY HEAL ME WHERE-EVA IT HURTS" LUV IT 2!
16...*THE NIGHT IS YOUNG "IT'S 2 EARLY CALL IT A NIGHT"! HAV FUN*
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Average customer rating: Baxterful! Not what I thought it was Trip hop/ electronica classic Baxter Roxors Very Good Album

Baxter Baxter Manufacturer: Maverick ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Drum & Bass | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Trip-Hop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Love in the Time of Science Sweet Shadows Breath from Another Details A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular ASIN: B00000AG8D Release Date: 1998-09-15

Tracks:

1. Television
2. Fading
3. Love Again
4. I Can't See Why
5. Ballad Of Behaviour
6. Political
7. Possible
8. All Of My Pride
9. So Much I've Heard
10. Oh My Love

Customer Reviews:

Baxterful!.......2007-06-24

This is one of the best trip-hop cd's I've ever heard...This Cd is an awesome combination of Drum'n bass and trip hop beats...Trust me you won't regret this purchase...Get this cd right away if you can find it...

Not what I thought it was.......2007-05-14

I had high hopes after all the good reviews. I was disappointed with this cd. I've only listened to it once. It reminds me of underground club music of the early 90's.

Trip hop/ electronica classic.......2006-12-19

Baxter, one of the best female trip hop artists I've ever heard of in my life.
I remember when this album was released and couldn't stop listening to it, and still listen to it frequently..

Like a cross between Frou Frou meets Esthero with some Spicy Thievery Corp!
excellent.
=S=

Baxter Roxors.......2006-07-03

Ordinarily, I don't care much for vocal drum and bass or jungle, largely because I felt that many artists did not fit the vocals to the music well, but simply layered them on. Baxter is an excellent exception in that regard. The voice of Nina Ramsby blends wonderfully with the darkly energetic music.
Overall, I wanted to give this 4.5 stars. I reserve the perfect rating of 5 for an album that I will play all of the way through whenever I play it, whereas this has a couple of songs I didn't much care for and tend to skip. I definately recommend this album to anyone that likes vocal D&B, jungle, or darker trance(s).

Very Good Album.......2006-05-05

I Like this CD a lot because it is unique. Interesting songs and interesting use of electronics. I like her voice a lot. I would consider this one of the more advanced albums in the Trip Hop genre. I listen to the album in its entirety, and can't say one song is better than an other. It's a rare occasion when I buy a Trip Hop disc and almost every song is purely great and beautiful. The smooth performance, delicate lyrics and simple melodies are backed up by a great beat and deep bass programming. I would like to get more by them.

Average customer rating: Little Green Man Sucked in. Gotta B on druqks to undestsnde unnerstudit unistoou ......? Never mind Wacky. try it, start to finish....

Drukqs Aphex Twin Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Drum & Bass | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music IDM | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Richard D. James Album I Care Because You Do Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2 Windowlicker Come to Daddy EP ASIN: B00005QD9N Release Date: 2001-10-23

Tracks:

1. Jynweythek
2. Vordhosbn
3. Kladfvgbung Micshk
4. Omgyjya-Switch 7
5. Strotha Tynhe
6. Gwely Mernans
7. Bbydhyonchord
8. Cock/Ver 10
9. Avril 14th
10. Mt. Saint Michel Mix/St. Michaels Mount
11. Gwarek 2
12. Orban Eq Trx 4
13. Aussois
14. Hy A Scullyas Lyf A Dhagrow
15. Kesson Daslef

Tracks:

1. 54 Cymru Beats
2. Btoum-Roumada
3. Lornaderek
4. Penty Harmomium
5. Meltphace 6
6. Bit 4
7. Prep Gwarlek 3b
8. Father
9. Taking Control
10. Petiatil Cx Htdui
11. Ruglen Holon
12. Afx237 V7
13. Ziggomatic V17
14. Beskhu3epnm
15. Nanou 2

Amazon.com's Best of 2001

Often proclaimed as electronica's one true genius, Richard James, a.k.a. Aphex Twin, returns with a double CD that showcases his cleverness as well as his inevitable inscrutability. Still, amid macabre birthday songs, unsettling screams, and other bizarre touches, Drukqs offers the most technically accomplished and beautiful tracks of Aphex Twin's career. Every aspect of the Aphex brain is on display here, from stark pieces performed on sampled piano and zither to Squarepusher-styled drum & bass implosions, all informed by that peculiar Aphex treatment of bittersweet melody and unparalleled programming. For an artist once engrossed in homages to his dead twin brother and grotesque videos, Drukqs shows James getting by purely on music alone.

"Mt. Saint Michel Mix" starts as maddening drum & bass, but is soon transfixed by glowing tones, hand drums, and police sirens. "Vordhosbn" is all acid beats and mad synths matched with fart-bombs and haunted cries. "54 Cymru Beats" sounds more like the tweaked-out, goofball techno of Wagon Christ than Aphex, while "Taking Control" goes metaphysical with cerebral synth-drums and muddled vocals. If Drukqs is the result of medication James has been imbibing during his three-year hiatus, then this is indeed better living through chemistry. Regardless, his music is still as beautiful and frothy as ever. --Ken Micallef

Customer Reviews:

Little Green Man.......2007-06-29

A deeply tragic portrait of the British Isles 50 years after the light went out.

Draw the line.

Sucked in........2007-04-23

Avril 14th was the first song I heard off of this album. That was the reason I bought it. I had owned other Aphex Twin albums such as "Richard D. James Album" and the "Come To Daddy EP." But neither of those are as mysterious and beautiful as "Drukqs."

This album flows together very nicely if played continuously through. There are about ten electronica tracks, 10 piano pieces and a few scattered ambient tracks. Some of the trip-hop tracks really slap you in the face with how involved they are... But the piano pieces are truly beautiful.

Definitely my favorite Aphex Twin album.

Gotta B on druqks to undestsnde unnerstudit unistoou ......? Never mind.......2006-10-31

This Richard James album is another example of why I struggle to understand his intentions. Sometimes, he plays soft pleasant pieces (that no IDM fanatic needs), and then he goes off into some spastic brain hemorrhaging instrumention (which I actually find comforting). But, I guess he has to do this so that the album, as a whole, doesn't just sound like a whole lotta insane noise. Many of his more spastic drum and bass implosions (as it's been refered to) is some of his best work on this album. Richard James has come along way since I first heard of him with his "Selected Ambient Works" album that I bought many years ago. I was slow to accept and understand this album because there was nothing else like it at the time. I played it alot, got bored with it, and then just gave it away to a friend. Little did I know, that Aphex Twin was going to re-introduce himself to me in the near future.

A few years ago, I saw a movie called "Pi". It was a low budget black and white film based on the subject of intelligence and insanity, and the soundtrack that supported this film had a series of artists that I have never heard of before. Watching the film, I just loved all that strange electronic music playing in the background, so I knew I just had to find the CD soundtrack of the film "Pi".

On the soundtrack, I saw that Aphex Twin had a track on it. I don't remember this track in the film ("Bucephalus Bouncing Ball"), but I sure loved this bizarre electronic collage of dissonant noise. Plus, this CD soundtrack introduced me to alot of new artists, all making a new sound in electronic music that I have never heard before. This new music is called IDM, which means "intelligent dance music". But, I think it should be called ADM meaning "addictive music", because that's what this new music has become to me. I have a hard time listening to regular music anymore. This IDM is very motivational music to listen to. This music gives me all sorts of nervous energy which has turned me into a healthier, more physically toned, workaholic. When I'm in an IDM music euphoria, I can't sit still. After buying the soundtrack of "Pi", I ended up looking for more CD's with this new IDM sound.

This could easily be anyone's favorite CD from Aphex Twin. It doesn't really matter which Aphex Twin album you buy first (although, "Selected Ambient Works: Volume Two" would not be a good idea). But, you know, you can't just allow yourself to be satisfied with this one CD. However, if you don't have a lot of music like this, than it can seem to become too repetitious and become tiresome rather quickly if you just let yourself play this CD too much. Even I don't care to sit through the entire playback of just the one CD. But, I have determined that this music from Aphex Twin should be played within a mix of other Ambient Dub and other various glitch and IDM related electronica. To just play these 30 songs over and over, end to end, can get dull rather quickly. But if you listen to these songs mixed in and shuffling with about another hundred IDM instrumentals than you will truly appreciate Aphex Twin's participation in the overall bigger picture of today's electronic instrumentals.

I have these two Aphex Twin CD's shuffling amongst others in my 200 CD carrousel. These tracks by Aphex Twin are being mixed up with tracks by Autechre, Gescom, Phutureprimitive, Squarepusher, Pete Namlook, Biosphere, The Orb, The Higher Intelligence Agency, Sounds From the Ground, Electric Skychurch, Plaid, Boards of Canada, and various other similar artists of which Aphex Twin belongs with.

I also have these songs and other IDM and Ambient Dub tracks burned onto ATRAC CDR's that is made through the SonicStage program made available only by Sony. (Check out some of Sony's ATRAC CD players and find out why burning hours of your favorite tunes onto a single CDR is better than just loading an ipod with mp3s) Burning hard copies is definitely better than just floating your music in a temporary storage unit like an ipod. (You can make 32 hour CDR's, and as many as you want from all your CD's and mp3s. How many songs can your single ipod hold?)

Anyway, Kudos to you for discovering this Aphex Twin CD, but now, explore some of the other artists I've mentioned above. You will love this new world of sound that you've discovered. It is more vast than you could ever imagine.

Wacky........2006-09-04

If this is your first Aphex Twin/"IDM" purchase, this will be the weirdest thing you've ever heard in your whole life. It's probably not accessible to a lot of people. Actually, it's kind of annoying at first, but after a while it might grow on you.

try it, start to finish...........2006-07-21

i've read all the bashing reviews of this album, not up to par, a little shallow, etc... richard james has fooled the sheep. these disks have been designed to play together, try it, start to finish. i read this somewhere else online and was a little sceptical but a few minutes into the first track(s) was completly convinced. i ripped both disks onto the computer under two different formats and used two different media players timed to start at exactly the same time. a lot of work to enjoy an album but remember rdj is a computer geek and a jokester, probably gets off on the the bum reviews. enjoy!

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