Back in '98

1. Heaven
2. Faceplant
3. Vegas & Death
4. Too Hot for Radio
5. People, News & Views #2
6. Uncle B.S., 1836
7. Guyarga
8. Stiffer Image Catalog
9. Weed-Eze
10. Airline Travel
11. Friggemall Phone Co.
12. I'm Fat & I'm Forty
13. Chick McGee School of Masturbation
14. Doctor's Visit
15. Farmageddon
16. People, News & Views #3
17. Kung Fu Clinton
18. Clinton Speech
19. I Want a Date with Monica Lewinsky
20. Marge & Ken
See all 29 tracks on this disc

Back in '98,Bob & Tom,D.C. Ventures,Comedy,Morning Radio,Novelty,Pop,Shock Jock,Sketch Comedy,Spoken / Comedy / Radio Shows,Spoken Word Comedy

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GOTTA HAVE IT!

Back in '98
Bob & Tom
Manufacturer: D.C. Ventures
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

General | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

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Bob & Tom Gone Wild
Radiogram
Fun House
Sideshow
Bob & Tom Show - Vol. 1-Greatest Hits

ASIN: B00003ZL1Y
Release Date: 2000-01-27

Tracks:

Heaven
Faceplant
Vegas & Death
Too Hot for Radio
People, News & Views #2
Uncle B.S., 1836
Guyarga
Stiffer Image Catalog
Weed-Eze
Airline Travel
Friggemall Phone Co.
I'm Fat & I'm Forty
Chick McGee School of Masturbation
Doctor's Visit
Farmageddon
People, News & Views #3
Kung Fu Clinton
Clinton Speech
I Want a Date with Monica Lewinsky
Marge & Ken
Advice from a Candidate
Ken Starr Trek
It's Who You Know
Cleaner
You Don't Give Me Hummers
Uncle B.S., One Hour BC
White House Christmas Album Offer
Harry & Dracula
Thanks for the Seventy

Customer Reviews:

GOTTA HAVE IT!.......2000-01-16

This is a must have for anyone who has too much stress in their life. These guys can get a laugh out of anybody -- you don't have to worry about being singled out and offended -- everyone gets picked on so it's all good!

Leonard Bernstein: The 1953 American Decca Recordings

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It's wonderful to have Bernstein back, but the performances fall short
Come back Lennie, we need you
For Bernstein enthusiasts, it's like owning a gold mine
Bernstein's Early American Recordings

Leonard Bernstein: The 1953 American Decca Recordings

Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Deutsche Grammophon: Music | Specialty Stores | Music
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ASIN: B00067GKF6
Release Date: 2005-02-08

Customer Reviews:

It's wonderful to have Bernstein back, but the performances fall short.......2006-11-26

These 1953 mono recordings catch Bernstein a decade after his famous debut with the NY Phil. and five years before he became their youngest-ever condcutor. It's great to hear that warm, comforting voice again, although his analyses--especially the longest one devoted to the Brahms Fourth--aren't as polished as they would become. He gets pedagogical at times and runs us through a rote example-and-explanation formula. Even then, howeer, colorful Bernstein touches peek out, and we are reminded of the man who taught an entire generation to venerate classical music.

For me, the performances themselves fall short. They were often recorded in a rush, sometimes late at night after a summer concert. I know that the Stadium Sym. is actually the NY Phil., but they don't sound particularly fine, and Bernstein's interpreatations, though vigorous, often border on the slapdash. Plowing through Beethoven's 3rd, Dvorak's 9th, Schumann's 2nd, Brahms' 4th and Tchaikovsky's 6th, I found few sparks of originaity, much less genius. This is a tough admission from one of LB's geat admirers, but there you are. The original recorded sound is also a bit thin and harsh.

Come back Lennie, we need you.......2006-02-22

This box is worth its price just for the five talks. Bernstein at this stage had a teaching style rather more stilted than the chatty sage of later years, but the combination of authority, insight and infectious enthusiasm is unique. Entertainingly offhand about the New World, he's at his best on the music he reveres most, i.e. Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms, the first movement of whose Fourth Symphony gets a particularly in-depth analysis that left me yearning for more. Practically anyone could enjoy and learn from these talks - they're fascinating fun without a whiff of down-dumbing. When the classical and the popular cross over nowadays, the results are usually compromised and crass, but with Bernstein there doesn't even seem to be a gap to be crossed over - just a passion to share these wonders with as many people as possible. We need his all-embracing talent and vision today more than ever.

Then there are the performances. I'm not the biggest fan of mono symphonic recordings, but these positively leap down your ears, unmannered, committed and electric. It's hard to believe what was achieved under the hasty recording conditions described in the booklet. The sound is a little fierce, but good enough to make this set a wonderful gift for any open-minded but symphonically ignorant acquaintance. I can easily imagine it turning someone on to classical music.

For Bernstein enthusiasts, it's like owning a gold mine.......2005-06-19

This new album set is something that I had heard of, but never dared to hope would be released on CD. It consists of Leonard Bernstein's very first recordings of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 (the "Eroica"), Dvorak's "New World Symphony", Schumann's Symphony No. 2, Brahms' Fourth Symphony, and Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" Symphony. They are all conducted by Bernstein and played beautifully by an orchestra which bills itself as the New York Stadium Symphony Orchestra, but which is really the great New York Philharmonic, using the name that they gave themselves during summer concerts.

The performances are a revelation, because they demonstrate conclusively that Bernstein did not always "exaggerate" or "overinterpret" great music, as critics frequently claim. His performances here are very, very direct and straightforward, more like Fritz Reiner or Toscanini than like Bernstein.

If this album contained only Bernstein's early performances of these symphonies, it would be interesting, but it might not really attract that much attention, since he re-recorded all of these pieces in stereo in later years, and with the same orchestra.

What makes this set so valuable is that it contains his long out-of-print lectures on these symphonies, and far from what the previous reviewer claims, they never become boring and monotonous. No musician in our time, or maybe even in the history of music, was a better or more articulate and sensitive lecturer on music than Leonard Bernstein. His legendary appearances on the "Young People's Concerts" did more for the appreciation of classical music than all the "Beethoven's Wig" albums combined. (If you don't know what "Beethoven's Wig" is, check it out and shudder at how far music appreciation has fallen since Bernstein's death.)

Bernstein had a unique ability to make classical music accessible to everybody, without ever condescending to the listener or cheapening the music. His lectures on this album, previously only available to 1950's Book of the Month Subscribers (except for part of the Beethoven lecture, which is the only one that Bernstein did re-record in stereo), are invaluable both to music students and to those who are willing to listen. All of the lectures included cover all four movements of the symphonies discussed, except for the Brahms; that one is just as extensive as the others, but it covers only the first movement of the symphony.

However--be warned, the lectures do have a flaw that the symphonies themselves do not, and that is why I have subtracted one star.

The symphony recordings are obviously remastered from magnetic tape, but the lectures have been transferred from LP's. Thus, you will be able to hear an occasional click or pop from time to time, and there is a clearly audible "skip" on the Brahms lecture. It is NOT the CD being defective, or the laser beam on your player skipping; it is clearly the lecture recordings themselves. Deutsche Grammophon, which released this CD set, is very honest about the source of the transfers to compact disc, and is to be commended for this. (They mention it in the last page of the accompanying booklet.) But this shouldn't deter anybody from buying this enormously important Bernstein set.

Bernstein's Early American Recordings.......2005-04-02

The most recent batch of DG's "Original Masters" box sets boasts several titles that will leave classical collectors rejoicing, "Leonard Bernstein: The 1953 American Decca Recordings" foremost among them. This 5CD set features Lenny in his earliest recorded performances of some of his trademark works -- Beethoven's 3rd, Dvorak's 9th, Schumann's 2nd, Brahms' 4th and Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphonies. Bernstein would later re-record all of five these symphonies with the NYPO (btw, the Stadium Symphony Orchestra of New York IS the NYPO) to greater acclaim for Columbia, but these early accounts capture a brilliant young conductor at the threshold of greatness. Also after each performance, Bernstein offers a musical analysis, simplifying what the listener just heard as only he could, which is again something the conductor would become famous for in years to come. Well then, if this is such a great set, why the four-star rating? First, while the performances sound very good, these are 1953 mono recordings and the casual fan needs to be aware that analog and digital stereo recordings of these works by the conductor do exist, and are generally preferable. Second, the musical analysis is a nice touch, but certainly does not warrant repeated listenings, as does the music. In fact, nearly half of the contents of these five discs is LB talking, and it could have been filled with music instead, or simply sold as a less expensive 3CD set. However, these shortcomings aside, "Leonard Bernstein: The 1953 American Decca Recordings" is another outstanding release in a fine series.

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Superhits: 1967 (Time Life Music)
The Bee Gees , Stone Poneys , Harpers Bizarre , Bobby Vee and the Strangers , The Casinos , Petula Clark , The Monkees , Bobbie Gentry , The Young Rascals , and Spanky and Our Gang
Manufacturer: Time Life Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000SJUXGE

Product Description

Released by Time Life Music . SONG LIST :1. Up-Up And Away---The 5th Dimension 2.Happy Together--The Turtles 3.Daydream Believer--- The Monkees 4. Dedicated to the One I Love---The Mamas and The Papas 5. How Can I Be Sure---The Young Rascals 6. Sunday Will Never Be the Same--- Spanky and Our Gang 7. I Second That Emotion---Smokey Robinson and The Miracles 8. 98.6--- Keith 9. I Say a Little Prayer--- Dionne Warwick 10. To Love Somebody---The Bee Gees 11. Tell It like It Is--- Aaron Neville 12.Windy---The Association 13.Don't Sleep in the Subway--- Petula Clark 14. Come Back When You Grow Up--- Bobby Vee and The Strangers 15. Different Drum--- Stone Poneys 16. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)--- Harper's Bizarre 17. The Rain, the Park And Other Things---The Cowsills 18. Love Is Here And Now You're Gone---The Supremes 19. (The Lights Went Out In) Massachusetts---The Bee Gees 20. Green, Green Grass of Home---Tom Jones 21. Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye--- The Casinos 22.Ode to Billie Joe- Bobbie Gentry

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The Review

Bartók & Kodály

Manufacturer: Albany Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

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Improvisation | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

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Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

A Cappella | Folk | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000049LP
Release Date: 1995-04-16

Customer Reviews:

The Review.......2000-06-30

It is okay. The CD cover can show more imfo.

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AMANDA' 98 : Follow Me Back In My Arms

Manufacturer: BMG Ariola
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B0007ZOVGM

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THE SAINT
Great CD, wrong name AMAZON!!
Hard Rock With Good Taste
Simon Barr Sinister is the best band ever!!
These guys rock!

Unmastered
Simon Barr Sinister
Manufacturer: Surf Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Psychobilly | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

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Tracks:

Bad Boyz 4 Hire
Inside
Directory Asst. (Instr.)
Dial South For Pain
Edmund Fitzgerald '97 (Arrangement S.B.S)

Customer Reviews:

THE SAINT.......2004-08-27

This CD has some good tunes on it. The production is not bad at all for the amount of time and $ spent recording it. If you would like to here more, better produced Simon Barr Sinister, check out www.simonbarrsinister.com. There is an e-mail link to me and I'll inform you on how to get the latest from S.B.S.
How do I know this? Because I AM the SAINT... the co-founder of the band and the ONLY true voice of SIMON BARR SINISTER!!!

Great CD, wrong name AMAZON!!.......2004-04-07

This is Simon Barr Sinister (see 2nd review for explain) the new group, as cover of CD reads, not the band it's listed under. Amazon is wrong. Rocks hard though!!!

Hard Rock With Good Taste.......2000-04-20

This album rocks!I originally heard Edmund Fitzgerald 97' on the homegrown show on 98.9 the Bear and I loved it.That was one of my favorite songs while growing up and they gave it a little more edge.I still love the orginal,but SBS's version rocks and is in good taste.Rock On!

Simon Barr Sinister is the best band ever!!.......1999-10-23

I have been a Simon fan (and part of the "Simon family" for more than five years. This CD, Unmastered, definitely rocks hard. Kind of in your face, you ain't going to sit down for the show sort of CD.

Please keep in mind that this CD is the old Simon. There is a new Simon Barr Sinister, (same band minus Donny, add Troof), shall we call it a "Millenium Simon?". They still rock hard, maybe even harder. I have a limited edition copy of the new CD and it kicks my ***.

I also do some PR for the new Simon Barr Sinister, so if any of you need some up-to-date info of where they are or how to get hold of the new CD, email me. I'll get you hooked up.

These guys rock!.......1999-07-31

Simon Barr Sinister kicks ass! It's a shame that they are so hard to come by because they have great music. I saw them open for King Diamond...or was it Mercyful Fate? Anyways, check dis cd out because it's metal (hear dis) It's metal with a purpose! That's right. Metal with a purpose.