Fun House

1. Cathy & Pappy

2. Working

3. Harrassaway

4. Fred

5. Marge & Paula

6. Skeleton

7. Mom

8. Pull My Finger Charlie

9. You Can Be Mean to Me

10. Pallbearer

11. Feminine Hygiene

12. Douche Commercial

13. CH-Ch-CH-Chick

14. Girl Like You

15. Pictionary, etc.

16. Hockers

17. Sexy Trekkie

18. Harry & Miss Universe

19. He Said, She Heard

20. Spit Take Theater

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Best Stooges Album
Hot animalistic rock and roll at its best...
The loudest record ever made, and one of the best.
The animal is loosed and stalking you thru the FUN HOUSE
Manic masterpiece

Fun House
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ASIN: B0009SOFFY
Release Date: 2005-08-16

Tracks:

Down On The Street
Loose
T.V. Eye
Dirt
1970
Fun House
L.A. Blue

Tracks:

T.V. Eye (Takes 7 & 8)
Loose (Demo)
Loose (Take 2)
Loose (Take 22)
Lost In The Future (Take 1)
Down On The Street (Take 1)
Down On The Street (Take 8)
Dirt (Take 4)
Slide (Slidin' The Blues) (Take 1)
1970 (Take 3)
Fun House (Take 2)
Fun House (Take 3)
Down On The Street
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Album Description

Long before the raw power of punk icon Iggy Pop became legend, his first incarnation as Iggy Stooge of proto-punk trailblazers The Stooges roared into being. The essence of punk years before the genre existed, The Stooges' furious music was a howling, visceral, fuzztone-drenched, and unprecedented vortex of sound, as evidenced on their revolutionary self-titled, John Cale-produced 1969 debut album. Their bracing follow-up, Fun House portrayed their evolution into a fiercer, stronger band with Iggy's primal vocals and mad brilliance more potent than ever. Each immortal album is now remastered and twice as amazing with a second disc of rarities and previously unreleased tracks.

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Best Stooges Album.......2007-07-25

I recieved this, along with "The Stooges," for my birthday very recently. I had had Raw Power for a while, and had enjoyed that. The first album I also like and recommend it. But this is certianly the best. Very rarely do I really like an album on the first listen, and I knew immediatly that this one was going to be amazing as soon as I heard the opening guitar part to "Down on the Street." Every track is great. My two favorites are the opening track and "TV Eye" and I love the saxophone (being a sax player myself) on side two. And it all ends chaoticly with "LA Blues" which appealed to the side of me that likes experimental, psychedelic, fusion noise like Pink Floyd, King Crimson, and the Beatles "Revolution 9." If you liked the debut album, you MUST own this.

Hot animalistic rock and roll at its best..........2007-05-28

This has to be one of the hardest hitting albums ever released. The fact that it came out in 1970 is amazing, only confirming that the Stooges were ahead of their time. (This album pre-dated the punk movement of '77 by seven years.) Also confirming that "Fun House" was a work of genius is the fact that Elektra records dumped the Stooges from their roster after they released this album, which proves the theory that genius is rarely understood, accepted, or recognized in it's time and is only appreciated in hindsight. This album wipes the floor with what is considered "heavy" today, you put it up next to a band like Nickelback or another band in that genre and it makes the other band look emotionless and weak by comparison. The first three songs on this disc don't let up a bit, "Down On The Street", "Loose", and "T.V. Eye" are all relentless grooves that capture the Stooges throbbing rhythm section, buzzsaw guitar, and Iggy's over the top vocals and gutteral screams and yelps. (I once read Iggy's explanation of what the "T.V." stands for in "T.V. Eye", and it doesn't stand for television, and thats all I can say on Amazon.) "Dirt" stands as one of the Stooges best slow songs, and doesn't lag for a seven minute dirge. The onslaught continues with "1970" which was later to be covered by many punk bands years later, most notably The Damned, who released it as "I Feel Alright" on their debut album. "Fun House" has one of my favorite Iggy vocals and a struttin' vamp of an arrangement by the band, including a honking sax. I can remember blasting it in college and having people walk by my door and asking, "What the hell's that noise?". "L.A. Blues" is like a free jazz blow out where the band implodes on itself. Unbelievable. This album sounds as fresh today as it probably did back then, and will remain timeless. It is amazing to me that the Stooges combined a punk attitude and aggressive music this way in the late sixties and early seventies, when hippies ruled the music scene. I spoke to a guy once who saw the Stooges live during this period and said it was the most inspiring thing he ever saw. If you are a rock fan and haven't heard this one, don't hesitate, just buy it. This disc never gets old and should be an essential for everyone's CD collection.

The loudest record ever made, and one of the best........2007-03-11

This second, astonishing album by Detroit's The Stooges is one of the great, unadulterated, balls-out moments in rock music. This is the first--and last-- time that rock, punk, metal and psychedelia would all organically coexist on one record, and the album remains a touchstone for punk, metal and radio-rock bands. ALthough many have tried, the intricate and living fusion of hormonal scream, deep groove and self-sconsciousness has never been re-attained. In this, their supreme moment, the Stooges wander through the drugged and adrenal detritus of the '60s with both distortion AND wah-wah pedals way up, and the result is simply intoxicating.

What appears to be on first listen simple three-chords-and-a-scream protopunk turns into something much more interesting. Don Galucci's production makes "Fun House", unlike their eponymous effort, really open up and breathe. Galucci creates a dark hint of space behind the lumbering swagger of "Down on the Street," and on the buzz-saw "T.V. Eye," the scream-and-howl sequence at the song's climax echoes eerily as the rhythm section shakes the listener buy the throat. Guitarist Ron Ashton uses wah-wah, fuzz, distortion, echoes, layered lines and everything from scratching to full-on howling feedback to give the songs layers and suprising intricacy. The rhythm section is as heavy as it is wiggly-- Dave Alexander throbs when necessary and noodles when possible.

Riding this monster wave are Iggy's vocals. From quiet moaning of "Hurt" to the twisted screaming at the end of "T.V. Eye," Pop is almost as mesmerising on record as, fights and broken glass antics and huge see-your-soul eyes, playing live. The music avoids the macho and sexist cliches of what would become metal and punk by not identifying Pop's Id with any political or social agenda. Pop, unlike the metalheads he so inspired, is not afraid of mocking himself, leading to an odd and yet captivating emotioanl vulernability. Mix this with the lumbering swagger of f*ck-me tunes like the animal-out-of-the-cage "Loose" and you get a kind of stoner sonnet cycle. You get the feeling listening to this disc that Iggy is coming to you straight and effortlessly from the unconscious-- from the straightforward tunes like "Loose" to the paranoia and simple weirdness of "She's got a T.V. eye on me..."

The songs are heavy and groovy, sometimes tightly structured ("Down on the Street"), here and there touching ("Hurt"), and sometimes, as Henry Rollins once said, housewreckers that just beg you to pick things up and destroy them ("L.A. Blues"). This is deeply sexy, groovy and massively, MONSTROUSLY loud stuff, like its cover a maelstrom of sound, since unsurpassed. Like "Exile on Main Street" and "Zen Arcade", this record works as both beer drinking and dope-smoking music, equal parts adrenalin and groove. The Stooges, like Curt Cobain, felt hugely "stupid/and contagious", and mananged to infect all of subsequent musical history. This is THE loudest record yet made, heavy, groovy, nasty and totally sexy.

The Stooges grab your neck. They pound your head into the wall. You begin to bleed. And then you find yourself begging for more. What else is there to say? Get it and turn it up, way up.

The animal is loosed and stalking you thru the FUN HOUSE .......2007-02-16

With the follow up to their eponymous debut, THE STOOGES make that "quantum leap" one often reads about, and in this case, FUN HOUSE is, in a word, stunning! Never pleasantly or hilariously "dumb" like the debut, FUN HOUSE is an amazing and perplexing advancement from that debut record which of and by itself would have sealed THE STOOGES' reputation. This band was even better than anyone could have ever guessed (though their record sales quickly relegated their two Elektra releases, the debut and FUN HOUSE, to the bargain bin). FUN HOUSE is jaw-droppingly unforgiving, a punch in the gut, a splash of acid in the face, hard power and hot metal, a lurching monster, referred to as "proto-punk" because of its influence on every Punk and Grunge band since, but really, such bands are belittled and reduced to mere "poodles" by this far-end risk that in fact is the most unique record of its era and a hybrid of 50s rock, 60s psychedelia, and that which was as yet unnamed (Punk) and no band has yet matched the achievement. Few records have predicted the coming decades as FUN HOUSE did in 1970, though typically unrecognized in its time. As Iggy Pop (a.k.a. Iggy Stooge) himself said, and to paraphrase, THE STOOGES could "eat all those poodles for breakfast." With a scorched earth policy that leaves no listener unscathed, this record is probably one of the most challenging records in the Rock n' Roll catalog, and not for the faint of heart, such as those moments all over the record when one hears Iggy blatantly snorting. If you ever listened to CAPTAIN BEEFHEART's TROUT MASK REPLICA you might get a shred of an idea of the accessibility of some of this record, particularly "L.A. Blues" which is a non-song cacophony of horror with the carnivorous animal Iggy loosed, roaring, and stalking the complacent world. But for the student and lover of Rock n' Roll, this record is a must. I think the primary reason Rock critics and diehard fans continue to cite THE STOOGES, especially FUN HOUSE, is because of the foresight of this material. The experimental aspect of the record is indicative of its era (it is completely un-commercial, but many bands included such material on their records in those days, though, frankly, lame by comparison) yet, like all three of THE STOOGES albums, FUN HOUSE never sounds dated. Tracks like the sustained tension of "Down On The Street", the superbly nasty and compelling "Loose," the luscious blues of "Dirt," the burping, mesmerizing "T.V. Eye," and the sucker-punch "1970," in which Iggy shrieks "...I feel alright" ending with a major snort (the sequel to "1969" when Iggy had "nuthin' ta do") are supremely realized and uncompromising, and if it weren't for their shocking effect, I'd be wearing a s**t eatin' grin. One of Rock's great romps, FUN HOUSE is not for the uninitiated, the timid, or uninspired. That being said, FUN HOUSE is one of the greatest records of Rock, a whole hell of a lot of fun, possibly my all time favorite, and one of the very few records of Rock that upon listening to for the first time I said to myself, "WOW!" In another word, a masterpiece.

Manic masterpiece.......2006-10-24

This is it, look no further: Fun House is The Stooges' manic, excessive, drug, alcohol and sex-fuelled homage to everything and anything that yer bona fide very naughty boy could ever do to have fun fun fun. Nihilistic madness, the lot of it, but not yer sophisticated New Yorker dressed in black sort of nihilism. More of yer trailer trash rebel who doesn't want to miss a minute of it.

Picture this album as the unfolding story of a weekend's rampage, beginning with the opportunistism of "Down on the Street" and ending up with the come-down of "L.A. Blues". The musical mayhem in between describes pretty candidly what he gets up to. Probably a cracking party, but one that few of us could survive intact. Some pleasures are better experienced vicariously, methinks.

Itzhak Perlman - Live in the Fiddler's House

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A great collection of klezmer favorites!
Best Klezmer album
This was a fun C.D.

Itzhak Perlman - Live in the Fiddler's House
Itzhak Perlman , Klezmatics , Andy Statman , Klezmer Conservatory Band , and Brave Old World
Manufacturer: Angel Records
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A great collection of klezmer favorites!.......2006-09-30

Premiere violinist Itzhak Perlman is joined live in concert by four premiere klezmer groups: Brave Old World, The Klezmatics, Andy Statman, and the Klezmer Conservatory Band. Vibrant, poignant and distinctly old-world, klezmer is the musical style that developed among Eastern European Jews. Featuring the soulful fire of violin, clarinet, accordion, mandolin and vocal leads, accompanied by cimbalom (a hammered-dulcimer), piano, drums. There are a few soulful slow tunes mixed in amongst the fiery dances, but most of the selections on "Live in the Fiddler's House" are fun and up tempo, full of the instrumental virtuosity one would expect both of this genre, and of a concert violinist of Itzhak Perlman caliber. Klezmer is some of the world's best good-time music, right up there with Irish jigs, Cajun two-steps and country banjo pickin'. But it's not all sweetness and light; inherent in the mournful, minor mode of this traditional music is blend of opposites--both the sorrow of persecution and defiant sense of fun-in-the-moment inherent of a culture displaced, trying to maintain its identity in an ever-changing and often hostile world. And therein lies klezmer's appeal to the soul. For more great Jewish music, try any of the separate releases by Brave Old World, The Klezmatics, Andy Statman and his band, and the Klezmer Conservatory Band. You might also enjoy "The Hidden Gate: Jewish Music Around the World," the traditional Sephardic music of the group Voice of the Turtle, and the unplugged world fusion of Basya Schechter and Pharoah's Daughter in "Out of the Reeds."

Best Klezmer album.......2004-11-16

To me, this is the best klezmer album I've ever listened to (and I have quite a few). And it's a live album. Although it's a kind of live version of "In the Fiddler's House", the repertoire is not the same (they only share one or two songs). The bands accompanying Itzhak Perlman are at their best (they are the best klezmer performers!). I prefer, personally, Andy Statman's clarinet and mandolin (Andy's Ride and Meron Nign/In the Sukke are my favorites); then there are great moments with Brave Old World (Doina Naftule and A Hora mit Branfn are beautiful pieces) and the Klezmatics, of course. The 12 minute finale is an absolute well crafted medley, under Klezmer Conservatory Band's leader, Hankus Netsky. I did'n want it to end.
I don't like at all the women voices of Klezmer Conservatory Band, although the instrumental pieces (like Khosidl) are amazing.
There is not a second in this album which is not top klezmer.

This was a fun C.D........1999-01-16

For people who are into Klezmer music this is the finest C.D.! For Klezmer music lovers, this is a masterpiece.

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THE GREATEST ROCK RECORD EVER!!!!!
Fun House
Add A Little FIRE To Your FUNHOUSE
Thee Sound of Hell
Wow

Fun House
The Stooges
Manufacturer: Elektra / Ada
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Raw Power
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Lust for Life
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ASIN: B000005IU2
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Down On The Street
Loose
T.V. Eye
Dirt
1970
Fun House
L.A. Blues

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Of course the Stooges were stupid, that was the whole point. Three chords were okay, two were even better, one or none (the cacophonous "L.A. Blues") was best of all. Drunk on their own testosterone, Iggy Pop and Co. kept things simple, loud, and brutal--and he's been coasting on the band's rep ever since. Slow and thuddy as it sounds now, almost nobody had ever made rock as primal as this second album. Iggy howled like a psycho, the band sounded like they could barely play the elementary riffs, and occasionally a moment of bone-headed poetry made it through the glorious muck. --Douglas Wolk

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THE GREATEST ROCK RECORD EVER!!!!!.......2007-07-28

I know this for a fact because Jack White and Anthony Bourdain both said so......who's going to argue with them????

Fun House.......2007-04-12

Iggy And The Stooges-Fun House ****

Fun House was the second Stooges album. Released in 1970 Fun House along with The Stooges two other albums Raw Power and the self titled The Stooges became what is now known as proto-punk. The stooges were the precursor to punk. But what is interesting about that is the band had the punk attitude but their music was sometimes lengthy and often contained horns, and jazzy time signatures, all of which are not in the punk genre usually. But that in itself is what makes it punk because The Stooges did what they wanted weather it was acceptable or not.

Iggy Pop, Dave Alexander, Steven Mackay, Sott and Ron Asheton are at the top of their game here. While this was Steven Mackays last album with the band he sure went out with a bang. Mackay wasnt an official member of the band really but he was always listed on the album up until Raw Power. But anyways the band was nothing less then amazing here.

On the bands debut, The Stooges, they had a song called '1969' which went on to become a classic, well here they have '1970' which while not as good as 69, is an excellent song and what do you know it also went on to become a classic. 'Down On The Street' which opens the album and does so brilliantly. It's a hard rocker with lots of energy and great guitar. 'Loose' is a lot like 'penatrate' from Raw Power. The titled refects the feel of the sound of the album. The song is about sex obviously. 'T.V Eye' is one of the better songs on the album, and Iggy gives a fantastic performance. 'Dirt' drags on a little long but is still a great song. 'Fun House,' the title track is one of the best songs on the album. It is rich in Saxophone. This is a longer song as well, almost eight minutes in length. But it never gets boring. The album ends with 'L.A. Blues' is well just noise. The album could have been better with out it. Iggy just growls and the band just plays random notes and scales as if it is a jazz improvision. Completly aweful way to end a otherwise great album.

Fun House has gone down in history as one of the all time greatest albums in punk, rock n' roll, and music in general. Fun House is an album that no collection should be without, and an album that no collection is complete without. If your a fan of Iggys solo work then you will love this. If you are a fan of punk you will really love this because you can see where they all drew influence from. Truly a great record that I would recomend to all who are interested.

Add A Little FIRE To Your FUNHOUSE.......2007-04-02

The sound of FUN HOUSE never gets old. The Stooges 2nd album, Fun House, was first released in 1970. They sound so much more ALIVE w/ POWER and agitated aggression, than on their debut self-titled release in 1969. FUNHOUSE is just mind blowing Sure-fire in your face ferocity!
On the front cover of the album it looks like Iggy is basking in the flames of Hell and the music portrays such a passionate deep, fiery kind of mess and rage.
Don Gallucci was FUNHOUSE's producer and directed the band members to capture the intensity felt from The Stooges live shows; and showcase it in the studio. What resulted from the studio sessions brought out a much more maniacal side to Iggy Pop, it just sounds like he was having so much fun making this album. JAZZ fused w/ Blues and Punk attitude all around.
Unfortunately in 1970, the majority record buying public wasn't interested in The Stooges or FUNHOUSE. They felt it's Hellish nature depicted a darker world of sex and drugs. I guess it was just ahead of it's time.
My favorite songs are: "Loose" - "1970" - & "Funhouse" - I do prefer RAW POWER's(Stooges 3rd album)version of "Dirt" better than the FUNHOUSE one.
The Stooges along w/ Iggy Pop and their three albums did inspire a lot of artists. Thanks to Iggy Pop's vision he influenced the proto-punks in London as well as New York. Such influence can be seen on Sonic Youth's earlier work: Confusion is Sex(their second full-length)
The Stooges also directly influenced Black Flag, Richard Hell, The Birthday Party, & in the later '80s, one of my Favorites - Mudhoney.
Rage Against the Machine - covered the opening track on FUNHOUSE -"Down On the Street," for their last album 2000s Renegades.
To Me FUNHOUSE sounds fresh even after the 37 years it has been released! And Rolling Stone named it one of the TOP 500 albums of ALL TIME(191)!

Yep - I give it 5 stars!

Thee Sound of Hell.......2007-03-22

This is what hell sounds like. Forget the dumb reviews talking about bad musicianship, sludge etc. This is a fantastic album that grinds along, and implodes at the end like a rocket in the sky. Buy it buy it buy it.

Wow.......2007-02-25

I bought this album about 10 years ago. I hadn't heard "1970" for a while (until earlier this evening) and almost forgot what a perfect piece of chaos it is. The sax player deserves serious praise (as well as whoever suggested putting sax on a Stooges album in the first place).

Funhouse is one of the most compact, cohesive, crazy albums ever recorded. The whole thing is quite an experience.

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Gets you pumped!
ONE OF JOHN BARRYs MOST OVERLOOKED 007 SCORES
Remains a Good John Barry Bond Score to this day
John Barry's worst entry in the Bond series...
Haunting score by the magnificent John Barry!

The Man With the Golden Gun
Various Artists , and John Barry
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Main Title - The Man With The Golden Gun
Scaramanga's Fun House
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Return To Scaramanga's
End Title - The Man With The Golden Gun

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Gets you pumped!.......2006-01-12

Regardless of the fact that the title song does not garner an artist with the stature of a Paul McCartney, Carley Simon or Nancy Sinatra, it's effect is one of the most upbeat title songs in James Bond history! It really compliments the movie opening segment to a climax that gets you totally pumped up to watch more. Trying to follow up Paul McCartney's Live and Let Die is a tough act for anyone, but this definitely delivers!

ONE OF JOHN BARRYs MOST OVERLOOKED 007 SCORES.......2005-01-24

Back in 1974 many fans wanted John Barry back after his one film hiatus from the Bond series. Barry returned with a score to THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, Roger Moore's second outing as 007. Track-1: "Main Title: The Man With the Golden Gun" is very good. Lulu has an incredibly strong voice and the song has a certain rock element that was in contradiction to Binder's titles, yet it is very upbeat and sets the tone of the entire film. On this CD it sounds great and has improved with time. A beautiful girl on an isolated beach towels down Scaramanga as he emerges from the water in a surrealistically exotic locale. This sets up Track-2: "Scaramanga's Fun House" where Scaramanga lures gangster Rodney Hood into the funhouse in a duel to the death. This is a great track brimming with Barry's unique sound where the music first reflects the opulence of Scaramanga's domicile and then as they enter the fun house Barry creates a spiraling `stalking theme' mixed with source music from a Western saloon and Chicago Roaring 20s era gangland back alley. This `stalking theme' is central to the Scaramanga character and his deadly profession as the listener immediately associates the music with the character. Track-8: "Hip's Trip" is an excellent example where Barry is able to write suspense music using a repeating dynamic melody that builds in intensity. This is a technique he developed and has mastered ever since the safe-cracking scene in ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE. This technique is probably the most identifiable stylistic trademark in John Barry's music. Track-3: "Chew Me in Grisly Land" is rich in oriental flavor and includes an effective slow paced rendition of "The James Bond Theme." John Barry does here for Roger Moore what he did for Sean Connery and George Lazenby giving them each their own unique musical rendition of "The James Bond Theme." Track-9: "Kung Fu Fight" features a good oriental motif and ends with a very catchy instrumental version of "The Man with the Golden Gun." One of the best cuts on the CD is Track-6: "Goodnight Goodnight" which is a very slow and haunting nocturnal version of "The Man with the Golden Gun." Track-7: "Let's Go Get `Em" is a tour de force of John Barry's new orchestration of "The James Bond Theme" identifiable with his Roger Moore scores. This track has a lot of punch behind it as it melds the very catchy instrumental version of "The Man with the Golden Gun" with a rousing rendition of "The James Bond Theme." Track-10: "In Search of Scaramanga's Island" is a great background composition to Bond's impressive solo flight through the uprooted rock formations near Phuket, Thailand to Scaramanga's island. Track-11: "Return to Scaramanga's Fun House" mixes Nick Nack's theme, the `stalking theme' and elements of "The James Bond Theme" as Bond is now lured into Scaramanga's game of death. This is an excellent climatic piece of scoring. Track-12: "End Title: The Man With the Golden Gun - Reprise" is in the tradition of the YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE album. The last track begins with a beautifully orchestrated version of the main title, which leads into Lulu's strong vocal rendition. I like this CD. It contained quite a bit of music from the film for once, running close to 45 minutes. When EMI reissued THUNDERBALL, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER and LIVE AND LET DIE with extra tracks it was rumored that they had also uncovered the original THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN score as well. Unfortunately, EMI was over their budget for this project and those extra tracks never made it onto the reissue of this soundtrack. Perhaps the length of music already on the album influenced this decision. Of coarse this is just speculation. On the positive side this soundtrack did not spare in its use of "The James Bond Theme" which most fans can't get enough of. My favorite cuts are Track-6: "Goodnight Goodnight" and Track-8: "Hip's Trip." "Goodnight Goodnight" stands its ground alongside Barry's best Bond compositions. "Hip's Trip" even though lightly orchestrated as already mentioned represented a new technique of repeating a dynamic melody that builds in intensity. This is a very interesting and satisfying James Bond album.

Remains a Good John Barry Bond Score to this day.......2004-02-05

This is an interesting album for several reasons. John Barry's music in general seemed to be going through a state of transition around 1974 and this album is a good example of that. Also, THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN was the first James Bond score that Barry composed for Roger Moore as Bond. Moore at this point was trying to define his own interpretation of the character. Moore actually tried to reverse his performance from LIVE AND LET DIE, this time delivering his version of James Bond as a more stoic 007 within a script full of comedic trappings. Added to this director Guy Hamilton wanted an even lighter score than he had previously pressed John Barry into delivering in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. Considering all these factors, what we get is probably the most unique score from the James Bond series. Some people were pleased, some were not and some were indifferent. I happen to enjoy this CD quite a bit. It sounds great, having the same technical qualities the DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER album has, and it really contains quite a bit of the background score which you can never get enough of from any James Bond album. I really enjoy the main title that Barry composed for THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN. Lulu's vocal renditions are strong but the really power of this composition is demonstrated in the many instrumental variations that Barry composes using this theme. "Goodnight Goodnight" and "In Search of Scaramanga's Island" are very beautiful sounding tracks. Also, if you like the James Bond theme, Barry composed whole new variations utilizing the power of the orchestra giving the theme a whole new dimension and sound. You can hear these on "Chew Me in Grisly Land" and "Let's Go Get 'Em." All in all I think this is a great sounding album. It is well presented and balanced and is a good representation of the music heard in the film. It was a shame they could not find more music as they did for THUNDERBALL, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, OHMSS and DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. I still like this one just the same.

John Barry's worst entry in the Bond series..........2004-01-19

Maybe it's just me, but I think 'The Man With The Golden Gun' was truly a sign that Barry was getting tired of arranging Bond film scores, especially after coming out with the magnificent 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' and 'Diamonds Are Forever' as his latest contributions prior to this 1974 entry. Perhaps the storyline had much to do with it, but the music here is uninspiring, the theme song not one of my favorites and as others have pointed out, lacking in any extra tracks.

If there is one remastered CD to potentially avoid it is this one, but Barry would make another wonderful effort 5 years later with 'Moonraker'

Haunting score by the magnificent John Barry!.......2003-04-07

The Man With The Golden Gun is not one of the better films in the series. One however, cannot say the same about the music. While it is not considered to be the best work of John Barry, it is still good. The new CD has been remastered, but due to money restrains, no new bonus tracks have been added. The inner booklet has also been spiced up to include a few nice photos. The Man With The Golden Gun was performed by Lulu. It was one of the very few title tracks that didn't chart at all in the US or Britain. True that her voice was a little off and the lyrics are odd, but it is still a fine song. John Barry brought a far east flavor to the music that works very well in the film and on the CD. Scaramanga's Funhouse has the tension slow brass in it as does Return To Scaramanga's Funhouse, which is slightly longer and haunting. These tracks also include the honky-tonk interludes in them. Hip's Trip is a wonderful track that has a dark moody fell to it and works ver well. The Jazz Instrumental The Man With The Golden Gun is a Dixieland honky-tonk blast of crazy music and sounds in a fun rendition of the title song. This track is not featured in the film. My personal favorite and many others on the CD is In Search Of Scaramanga's Island. It is filled with a mysterious fell to it and a far eastern flavor. Very haunting and full of riveting tension. The CD ends with the end-title version of the title song in a much slower tempo. All in all, The Man With The Golden Gun is a good James Bond soundtrack filled with 12 wondeful tracks. A must for all Bond fans!

Give Your Body Up: Club Classics & House Foundations, Vol. 2

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House Rockers Please enter the Club!!!
Jersey is in the House
Save your money
stood the test of time....
A Thoughtful Series

Give Your Body Up: Club Classics & House Foundations, Vol. 2

Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
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ASIN: B0000033NZ
Release Date: 1995-09-19

Tracks:

Just Us - Two Tons O' Fun
Baby I'm Scared Of You - Womack & Womack
Somebody Else's Guy - Jocelyn Brown
Touch And Go - Ecstasy, Passion & Pain
Love Is The Message - MFSB
Running Away - Roy Ayers Ubiquity
Now That We Found Love - Thirld World
Bra - Cymande
Down To Love Town - The Originals
Over And Over - Sylvester

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House Rockers Please enter the Club!!!.......2004-05-16

If you are or were in my case, a serious house music aficionado, this CD is a must! If you were just a casual listener then don't buy, pick up a Donna Summer album or something to that effect. If you can identify with Womack & Womack, Weather Girls, Brothers Johnson, Roy Ayers, Sylvester, Jocelyn Brown etc. you got the right CD!!!
This is not for "percolators", Old School Rockers only!

Jersey is in the House.......2003-05-24

Now if you grew up in Jersey especially North and Central Jersey you know that we love underground club classic hits one song you will always hear if you are drving around Newark is BABY I'M SCARED OF YOU by WOMACK AND WOMACK reminds me of my childhood and watching your parents dance in the basement parties when the kids were supposed to be sleeping Great memories!

Save your money.......2003-02-24

Touch and Go and Love is The Message was the only reason to give the cd 2 stars, it is really not worth buying maybe you can find other cd's w/ above listed songs w/ better choices.
Save your money!

stood the test of time...........2002-05-06

First, get all 3 volumes, put 'em on your multi-disc cd player, then let these dancefloor gems do their thaaang... Can be played at a bbq on Memorial Day, July 4, Labour Day, etc... or while you're playing Twister (tangled up in a pretzel position while trying to grab that Bacardi & Coke that's waaaay on the other side of the mat ;) whatever... you get the idea. Your cooler friends will scream and shout when their favorite joints get those memories flooding back.

A Thoughtful Series.......2001-09-08

Give Your Body Up is an interesting collection of discs. It achieves its aim of preserving foundational songs essential to the progression of modern dance club music. The discs contain rareties that are difficult to find elsewhere. Each disc in the series, this one in particular, may cover too much ground and have too much variety. There was a good bit of difference stylistically between the Philly Sound and string/horn drenched dance music of the 70's on the one hand and the synth-based, drum machine sound of the early and mid 80's on the other. Both decades are intermixed, not in chronological order. So we find the organic, gospel-inflected "Over and Over" next to the electronic "BRA," the orchestral "Love Is The Message" alongside the reggae-laced "Now That We've Found Love." As a source for songs, however, this series is definitely different from those "Disco" sets that focus on radio hits.

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Getting Better? How about Get Back.
WHAT AN IDIOT
WEIRD NAME FOR A SOUNDTRACK

The Cat in the Hat
David Newman
Manufacturer: Decca
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Release Date: 2003-11-18

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Getting Better - Smashmouth
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Hollywood's typical formula (Well-Known Literary Property + Star Power + Mega Marketing Muscle=Box Office Dynamite) is anything but a sure thing, as the merciless reviews for this Mike Myers take on the Dr. Seuss classic attested in droves. But lost beneath the cat-suited Myers endless schtick and a creative tack that even dared forego Seuss' patent rhymes is a wonderfully inventive, endlessly exuberant orchestral score by David Newman. Essentially treating the material as live-action cartoon, Newman has concocted an updated take on the traditional animation score that consistently bristles with energy and musical surprises. While young Newman's cues here occasionally lean on some of brother Thomas' patent rhythmic hoodoo and a little of cousin Randy's bittersweet pastoral arrangements, the whole is distinctive and entirely his own: a great score for a lousy movie. Smashmouth contributes a faithful, equally upbeat cover of the Beatles' "Getting Better" while Myers musical mugging is kept to a merciful minimum. --Jerry McCulley

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Getting Better? How about Get Back........2005-05-12

The 'Getting Better' Beatles cover is a disgrace. I brought a young child to the movies to see this film, which is my excuse for attending this piece of doody, and I was horrified to hear 'Getting Better', a Beatles cover, which was performed by Smashmouth.

I don't know about any other Beatle fans but when I hear their songs being used in advertisements or movies, I immediately take a mental note to never buy their product. I suppose they're trying to target 59 year old housewives that will go "god I used to love that song ..volvo huh"

This is all topped off by the fact that the guy from Smashmouth has got the most annoying voice on the planet. It's almost as if he's TRYING to sound like he's got his privates chopped off in a woodchipper.

God help all of us. Down with large corporations. Buy from the Amish. They contribute to society through spreading peace, so instead of rushing out to Wal-Mart to buy the Cat in the Hat soundtrack, take a ride up Lancaster County PA instead and buy some apple pies to throw at war mongers and homophobes.

WHAT AN IDIOT.......2004-04-12

That kinda crap? What are you people thinking?? The Cat in the Hat Motion Picture Soundtrack?? sheesh... For one, this Cat in the Hat's a complete disaster! and for two, they've recently made an excellent Cat in the Hat cartoon in 1994, and I found it a perfect cartoon. to whomever disagrees and loves this piece of mindless bullshi*, find something more constructive to do.

WEIRD NAME FOR A SOUNDTRACK.......2003-12-07

WEIRD NAME FOR A SOUNDTRACK

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Depraved Radio Comedy
Funniest thing I've ever heard!

Fun House
Bob & Tom
Manufacturer: Bob & Tom Records
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Harrassaway
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Hot Coffee
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Depraved Radio Comedy.......2006-05-26

These guys are depraved but they are very good at what they do. What they do is poke fun at everything, if possible, they invoke bodily functions and fluids. They take nothing serious. It is what Howard Stern would be if he were funny and had a great support staff. Bob & Tom are funny (if you like sick humor) and they have a great staff to put together their gags.

Its not for those who are easily offended but if you have a thick skin and are a bit warped, it might be your cup of tea. This is not their best album but it is still pretty good.

Funniest thing I've ever heard!.......2000-09-18

This is the most hilarious CD ever made. I laughed til I cried and then some! Pick this one up if you like to laugh (and who doesn't?), it never gets old!

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Let me take you to a place I know that I know you'll want to go
Prance Ladies, Prance!
big fun, i know someone else said it, but it's the bomb
We're Having Big Fun!
We're Having Big Fun!

Big Fun
Inner City
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ASIN: B00000DR5R
Release Date: 1992-06-29

Tracks:

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Paradise
Ain't Nobody Better
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Big Fun
Do You Love What You Feel
Good Life
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Secrets of the Mind

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Budget Collection of the Hits of Paris Grey and Kevin Saunderson, Including their all Time Hits 'good Life', 'big Fun', 'paradise' and More.

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Let me take you to a place I know that I know you'll want to go .......2006-08-28

when this album came out I was hypnotized by the song good life and to this day consider it to be in the top three of favorite songs. This is the type of music a house party has to have in order to a real house party.Big Fun.

Prance Ladies, Prance!.......2005-10-02

When this album first came out, I was only twenty-two and the club scene was my life. "Big Fun" and "Paradise" were staples every single night. In fact, one night the DJ played tracks 1-10 all the way through and NOBODY left the dance floor. This album was just that popular. My own copy was lost in a move and I thought Inner City would be a thing of the past.

At a friend's 40th birthday party this year, all of a sudden "Ain't Nobody Better" was played. Let me tell you, these dinosaurs (including myself) got their carcasses up and began flailing themselves about as if it was 1989 all over again. I had to find this album.

There is not one single disappointing track. "The Power of Passion" may be a bit much, however, it's better than any Trance song ever forced on the unsuspecting public. "Do You Love What You Feel" to me is the best on this imcomparable CD. "Big Fun" and "Good Life" just dare you to keep sitting down without wanting to walk the runway. It's hard to believe that only two people made this classic.

Dance music today is soooo ordinary. If you want a reason to dance buy this CD! THIS is what dance music is supposed to be!

big fun, i know someone else said it, but it's the bomb.......2005-09-13

hi,

great to see others wrote reviews, though an old album, it's appeal seems timeless. i haven't listened to this cd in years now, and i put it in to drive to and WOOOOOOOO, i forgot the connection i made in my mind when i first heard them, and still kinda hear (though it's a reverse comparison), it would be, don't get angry, dee-lite(shh did he? oh my? how dare you!), this in the sense that dee-lite in essence were an electronic soul dance group, that ventured into breakbeats, trance, dnb, but in the beginning on world clique some of the ambitions heard THERE can be heard realized HERE.

great sound, good to drive to, her voice is more soulful than usually heard on electronic dance albums, it adds ummmppphhh.

We're Having Big Fun!.......2004-10-29

What a team - Paris Grey and Kevin Saunderson! Paris had been on the Chicago circuit for a while. When "Big Fun" was spotted as background music for a TV commercial those of us who were househeads went berserk! The whole album is a treat. Track one lays the foundation of original Detroit Techno: the coming together of all people and the preservation of the inner city (by the way, that same theme was reflected in some earlier Chicago records) Track four is a really interesting tune especially being of a slower tempo. Track six is a definite favorite, as it is such a "happy" tune. Track seven is basically a Chicago favorite that dominated the college radio stations. My absolute favorite track is the last one. "Secrets Of The Mind" is very hypnotic and it has the subtle Chicago flavor mixed with the upfront Detroit industrial sound. This is an album you can trust!

We're Having Big Fun!.......2003-03-06