River Runs Red

River Runs Red

Track Listings

1. This Time

2. Underground

3. Monday

4. River Runs Red

5. Through and Through

6. Words and Music

7. Thursday

8. Bad Seed

9. My Eyes

10. Respect

11. Method of Groove

12. Stain Remains

13. Friday

River Runs Red,Life of Agony,Roadrunner Records,Alternative Metal,Heavy Metal,Pop,Rock

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Back in my Freshman year..this was part of me!!

Keith Caputo, a Lou Reed for a New Generation

the real LOA.

title of review

The ONLY great CD from LOA

River Runs Red
Life of Agony
Manufacturer: Roadrunner Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
General | Rock | Styles | Music
Alternative Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
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The Best of Life of Agony

1989-1999

ASIN: B000000H6N
Release Date: 1993-10-12

Tracks:

This Time
Underground
Monday
River Runs Red
Through The Through
Words And Music
Thursday
Bad Seed
My Eyes
Respect
Method Of The Groove
The Stain Remains
Friday

Customer Reviews:

Back in my Freshman year..this was part of me!!.......2005-11-18

Just like the first V.O.D...this was such a major part of my life!!

I can sitll jam out to this one but not as often..

''WORDS AND MUSIC''..now HAHA! THAT IS THE BEST SONG HERE!!..I love that DOOM break in there!!

Sal(ex-type o) play's drum's here...and DAMN is he amazing!! everything about this is top notch..those ''Monday'' thing's are kinda dumb though..as they were a little to unrealistic..but then again maybe not!

This is just so old to me..and you bet this was AHEAD of the pack..man when band's could write about DEPRESSION ..and MEAN it!! I can still feel this album's GLOOM!!

I can only hope some 15 year old WHITE kid out there..who hate's school and what not can find this and maybe it will help..but maybe not! it sure helped me..a very quick 14$ and this was a year long ''therapy'' session..just WOW!!

Still owning this keep's me grounded!! THEY WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND!!

GREAT LYRIC's,GREAT MUSIC, GREAT CONCEPT..BUY IT!!

''ITS THESE WORDS AND MUSIC..KEEP ME LIVING KEEP ME BREATHING''

Keith Caputo, a Lou Reed for a New Generation.......2005-07-12

Caputo's voice just haunts you even when the CD is just sitting there in its case; the CD vibrates slightly with the insane emotion he manages to pour out of what is technically a very slight voice with little or no range. Some other singers have had this amazing luck--people like Leonard Cohen for example. But Caputo has it in spades and THE RIVER RUNS RED must be his masterpiece. It's just so crazy.

The little spoken word intermissions, named after the days of the week, should have tipped you off from the beginning that you were getting your head into some pretty deep water. So often our bands just deliver straight music and never bother to think about all the other things (just ambient noise for example, or taped conversations, or just background sounds) that might be recorded and listeners might find some meaning in. Take Lou Reed delivering the uber-odd METAL MACHINE MUSIC literally banging instruments through the studio viz fuzzy feedback and still managing to capture the soul of an era even without melody. Life Of Agony updates some of these ideas casually, as though they weren't revolutionary the way they come out on RIVER RUNS RED. Listening close you get the whole back story of our hero. He's not a bad kid, he's just misunderstood--by his family, by his girl, by his teachers and friends and people at work. Or then, as you start to suspect, maybe he IS a bad kid.

At any rate he thinks so. The incendiary lyrics of "Bad Seed," to my mind the killer cut on the LP, make that very clear. Caputo sounds bemused by his own powers; it's as though a miracle had happened and he had finally traced his lineage back to some unnameable evil. Horrible, but at least you know where you are (ask Scott Evil in the Austin Powers movies, who's like the big screen equivalent of Life of Agony.)

the real LOA........2005-06-21

rrr is incredible. it really does portray the agony that keith had to deal with as a kid. i love the heaviness of the album. alan robert plays power chords on the bass to give the songs that extra chunky feel. it makes the riffs that much heavier. this time,underground,words and music,river runs red,through and through, and the stain remains make this album. hell they are all kick a** songs. if you've never heard loa. buy this album. it's loa the way they were meant to be. the next album "ugly" is pretty heavy, but keith changes his vocal style. he sounds like a wuss. by the time soul searching sun came out, keith had gone really soft. he sings like a complete wuss. ovewrall the album is not heavy at all and is a disgrace to the music world. buy river runs red.

title of review.......2005-06-14

I'm a bit puzzled by this album being considered hardcore. This is just weak grunge metal. If you want to listen to music like this you'd be much better served by picking up Alice In Chains' Dirt, Metallica's Self-titled, and Type O Negative's Slow Deep And Hard. This album is nothing more than a second rate amalgam of those albums.

The ONLY great CD from LOA.......2005-04-27

This CD was the best CD they released. Straight ahead hardcore and unrelenting. They turned into a more melodic straight forward rock band which put off alot of diehard fans. This CD and the first Crowbar CD are the highlight releases for 2003.

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Fond Affection - Works of Ernst Bacon
Bacon , Brown , Burtis , Sharp , Musta , and Burton
Manufacturer: Composers Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B0000646U4
Release Date: 2002-03-01

Tracks:

Is There Such A Thing As Day?
My River Runs To Thee
When Roses Cease To Bloom, Dear
Schilflied
The Red Rose
Gentle Greeting
Fond Affection
The Commonplace
Grand Is the Seen
Lingering Last Drops
The Last Invocation
The Divine Ship
Omaha
Its ComingThe Postponeless Creature
How Still The Bells
Farewell To A Name And A Number
Brady

Album Description

Ernst Bacon was one of that pioneering generation of composers, along with Thomson, Copland, Harris and others, who found a voice for American music. Born in Chicago on May 26, 1898, his Austrian mother gave him a love of song and an early start on the piano. Although his varied career included appearances as pianist and conductor, along with teaching and directing positions, his deepest preoccupation was always composing. His musical awards included a Pulitzer Fellowship in 1932 for his Symphony in D Minor and three Guggenheim Fellowships.

As a composer, Bacon belonged to no “school” and followed no fads. He was largely self-taught in composition, except for two years study with Karl Weigl in Vienna in the early '20s. While there, he experienced the depression of post-war Europe first hand and concluded that the European avant-garde movement, reflecting the pessimism of that era and region, was not appropriate to America. Returning to Chicago, he set out to write music that expressed the vitality and affirmation of our own country.

At the age of nineteen, while majoring in mathematics at Northwestern University, Bacon wrote a complex treatise exploring all possible harmonies, which was published by The Open Court Publishing Company (“Our Musical Idiom,” The Monist, October 1917). However, when he began to compose music in his twenties, he rejected a cerebral approach, taking the position that music is an art, not a science. He felt that its source should be intuitive and imaginative, rather than abstract and analytical.

From his first job as opera coach at the Eastman School in the mid '20s, he went on to receive a master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley and to teach at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under Ernest Bloch. During

the '30s he was director of the WPA Federal Music Project and Orchestra in San Francisco and was a founder of the Carmel Bach Festival. From 1938 to 1945 he headed the School of Music at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where he established the New Spartanburg Music Festival. At Syracuse University, he was director of the School of Music from 1945 to 1947 and composer-in-residence and professor of piano until his retirement in 1963.

In 1964 he returned to the West, settling in the small town of Orinda, California, east of the Berkeley hills. Here, as everywhere else, he drew his greatest inspiration from nature, jotting down notes as he explored local trails. His fertile imagination and constant creative efforts left little time for self-promotion, and although nearly blind in old age, he continued to compose until the very end of his ninety-one years.

Throughout his long career, Ernst Bacon's chief aim as a composer was to express the spirit of America in music as Whitman, Emerson, Melville and others had done in literature. He was deeply immersed in our country's history and folklore, as well as its indigenous music; and was inspired by the poetry, folk songs, jazz rhythms and geography of America as well as the landscape itself—which he hiked, climbed and also painted. All of these elements found their way into his music.

Those who influenced Bacon included Carl Sandburg, Thornton Wilder and Roland Hayes. Bacon's music expresses the common touch and humor of Sandburg; the profound simplicity of Wilder; and the melodic beauty that Roland Hayes expressed so movingly in his singing. As with Schubert, a large body of more than 250 art songs is the heart of an oeuvre that also includes numerous chamber, orchestral and choral works, as well as descriptive pieces for piano.

In 1998 numerous vocal-chamber concerts of Bacon's music were held in honor of his centennial. These events took place at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City; the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress; the Free Library of Philadelphia; Syracuse, New York; Evanston and Chicago, Illinois; also in Berkeley and Waln

Silence Takes Its Toll
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Silence Takes Its Toll
Phil Redrow
Manufacturer: Red Mustard Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000RV10W4