Alive and Well [Live]

Alive and Well [Live]

Alive and Well [Live]

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. "Kodak Moments"
2. Restoration
3. Black Pearl
4. Supposed Soul Saver
5. Wondering
6. "Camping in Trenton, NJ?"
7. Slow Burn
8. Dying Man's Wish
9. Kinda Like
10. "The Rehearsal"
See all 12 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2
1. Hold on Me
2. "Take Off Your Shirt"
3. Grass Is Green
4. "Everybody Already Knows..."
5. Different Kind of Self Love
6. Waitress' Lament
7. Caught in the Rain
8. Lillian
9. "I'm Bitter and Jealous"
10. Growing Pains
See all 14 tracks on this disc

Alive and Well,Doria Roberts,Hurricane Doria,26 track double live CD including 14 previously unreleased songs from singer/songwriter Doria Roberts and her band plus storytelling, spoken word, five re-tooled favorites and a studio track.,Folk & Traditional,Folk-Rock,Pop,Rock/Pop,Singer/Songwriter
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1966 Original Off-Broadway Cast)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Jaques Brel still lives
  • Fabulous Show
  • Jacques Brel lives on through English Translation of his songs
  • A Little Night Music....
  • Fine Singer / Actors Do Brel Justice
 Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1966 Original Off-Broadway Cast)
Jacques Brel , Ocr , Elly Stone , and Mort Shuman
Manufacturer: Sony
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ASIN: B000067AS5
Release Date: 2002-05-28

Tracks:

  1. Marathon
  2. Alone
  3. Madeleine
  4. I Loved
  5. Mathilde
  6. Bachelor's Dance
  7. Timid Frieda
  8. My Death
  9. Jackie
  10. Desperate Ones
  11. Sons Of.
  12. Amsterdam
  13. The Bulls
  14. Old Folks
  15. Marieke
  16. Brussels
  17. Fanette
  18. Funeral Tango
  19. The Middle Class
  20. You're Not Alone
  21. Next
  22. Carousel
  23. If We Only Have Love

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At the time of this show's 1968 Greenwich Village debut, French singer-songwriter Jacques Brel's body of theatrically insightful ballads was already an obscure but deeply influential treasure trove for many American musicians. The revue's success would go on to influence artists as diverse as Leonard Cohen, Bowie (who covered "Amsterdam" shortly thereafter), and Sinatra, and it may even be responsible for one-hit wonder Terry Jacks's revival of "Seasons in the Sun".

More important, the pioneering musical-without-a-book helped introduce Brel's oft-brooding, ever evocative art to a wider American audience--and arguably had an evolutionary influence on Broadway itself. This complete reissue of the 1968 boxed set cast album offers up a rich cross-section of Brel's songs about life, death, and love--and typically sharp-eyed observations about the human follies that season them--deftly performed by a cast that includes Elly Stone, Alice Whitfield, Shawn Elliott, and, crucially, rock pioneer, Brel associate, and co-producer Mort Shuman. This new edition fleshes out the set with the sessions' only unreleased song, a sprightly take on the deliciously cynical "The Middle Class." --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Jaques Brel still lives.......2007-04-02

The CD of the original cast is still fresh and still gives Brel's music the most fitting rendition

5 out of 5 stars Fabulous Show.......2007-02-22

This compilation of Brel's songs remains one of my favorite musicals. I would recommend it to everyone!

5 out of 5 stars Jacques Brel lives on through English Translation of his songs.......2007-02-12

Although I've never heard but one Jacques Brel song in French (song by he, himself on the DVD - which is a MUST BUY), I heard this "album" shortly after it came out, in the early 70's. My dad got me turned on to this music and it's stayed with me all these 40+ years. This is very special music to me and I'm thrilled to have both the CD and the DVD.

5 out of 5 stars A Little Night Music...........2007-01-23

I can't explain why I might review this...it's been a long while since listening. Yet it was a show that was transformative obviously not just for me. I'm thinking Bowie and other thoughts that way...and it shaped my hopes and dreams and now, older and not so well, I listened to this tonight at 2AM, not sleeping again, recalling how I heard it then, how I hear it now.
I had a good friend who was in the show for one summer, maybe 79 or 80. Just a sad staging in a little town in Appalachia trying on some Paris. We had a dinner theater in our town, which meant an old building , some tables, small area and a stage kind of and some curtains. Rather ambitious for the town, they staged summer shows of Brel. And other things too, finally. My girlfriend as she often did hooked me into her evenings and I made drinks there as well as gave a few musical efforts and some easily forgotten attempts at choral support. On nights someone didn't show. You actually also made the food and sang the show, in those days for your audience, who tended to tip fairly poorly and be the local lawyers and med school doctors dragged out by wives seeking a cultural night of dinner theater. It was a kind of starving kids for ten bucks sing, act, cook, serve vodka/tonics, smoke and tell you the story of Boheme life while mixing blue cheese from packets of powder and creme in a frenzy preparing to figure out who plays the piano well enough as the player won't being pissed over low wages and a remark made about his big derrière. That kind of a summer. Songs probably wasted on the young.

All that said, it was/is a lovely collection of songs. Even better an experience when you learn and sing the French and can then argue incessantly about the translations and "feel" of the shows on two continents. I loved then to sing them, and find a tune floating in my head tonight from no where-just there- when "No. Love You're Not Alone" actually woke me. The American film was awful, the show best seen in revival and smoky nights in clubs. Then, in 1980 or so, it made my life richer, it's probably a good thing Susanna was such a friend...though I didn't understand, we dragged ourselves to a lot of meaning.And that rather odious experience in the Bahamas.

I think this worthy of time and listening. And a big moon would be cool, to walk on the shore and hear it once more. Think I'll slip out awhile.

5 out of 5 stars Fine Singer / Actors Do Brel Justice.......2007-01-15

In 1966, an American producer named Nat Shapiro introduced Eric Blau to Mort Shuman. Five years earlier, Mr. Shapiro had introduced Mr. Blau and his wife, Elly Stone, to the songs of Jacques Brel. After hearing a recording of one of Brel's concerts, Elly Stone informed her husband that Brel was the greatest songwriter of the 20th century, and she induced him to be the very first to translate Brel into English. Shortly thereafter, Elly Stone premiered Brel's love song, Ne me quitte pas (Don't Leave Me) to American audiences in the off-Broadway revue, O Oysters, along with the first English Brel translation, Carousel, showcasing Brel's melody for La valse a mille temps (The Waltz A Thousand Times As Fast) and loosely translated lyrics.

Unbeknownst to them, about the same time Elly Stone heard her first Brel recording, Mort Shuman was undergoing something of a revelation across the Atlantic. In the midst of a successful career writing rock and roll songs (including hits for Elvis Presley, and the ubiquitous teenage anthem, Save The last Dance For Me), Mort Shuman had been wandering restlessly around Europe, and came to settle for a time in Paris. There, he became acquainted with Brel's music, and, later, with the man himself, and the two became close friends. Shuman convinced Brel that he should be allowed to translate some of his better-known songs into English, and bring them to America. More on the strength of their friendship than Shuman's reputation as a songwriter, Brel agreed, but a problem soon emerged. Although Shuman had mastered French surprisingly well, he was finding the task of translating Brel's songs quite daunting. After several attempts, Shuman found his English versions sorely lacking. He realized that it was not only that he had become too enraptured with Brel's work to find the objectivity required to do them justice, but it also became apparent that Brel's songs reflected too much of the French philosophy and politics to appeal to an American public largely besotted on syrupy, trite love songs.

Shuman returned to America, vowing to find a way to introduce Brel's songs to an English speaking public. By this time, Nat Shapiro had heard Elly Stone perform Eric Blau's first translations of Brel, and wanted more. In November 1966, Nat Shapiro persuaded Mort Shuman to hear Elly Stone perform at Julius Monk's Plaza 9, despite Shuman's reluctance, which derived from his belief that only a male singer could do Brel justice. At a table with Shapiro and a very nervous Eric Blau, Shuman applauded politely. "She's good", he told Blau, "the translations are real good". It must have rankled him somewhat that it was Blau and not Shuman who first successfully translated Brel to English.

Nat Shapiro also had the idea for the perfect venue to introduce Brel to America - an off-Broadway show. Not exactly a revue, since that implied that the songs had been heard before, what eventually took shape was the first "libretto-less" musical, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. In addition to Elly Stone and Eric Blau's enthusiasm for Brel's music, Elly's amazing talent had won Shuman over and convinced him to work with Blau on the translations. Two years later, their labor of love finally introduced Brel's songs to an American public that was as ready for Brel, as Brel's songs were ready for America.

I am somewhat puzzled by the negative reviews by those who insist that Brel's songs can never be appreciated in anything but the original French. When Eric Blau realized, as Mort Shuman had earlier, that Brel's songs could never be translated exactly to American English (steeped as they were in French life and politics), they agreed to go for the next best thing. They opted to translate Brel's songs as closely as they could, but, when this was not possible, they kept Brel's melodies while attempting to retain the spirit of his writing, if not his actual words. What resulted were often very good translations indeed. One only has to compare the French text of songs that became Jackie, the Old Folks, Brussels, the Middle Class, Madeleine or Amsterdam to realize that, for the most part, the narrative and spirit (and sometimes even the lyrics) closely matched Brel's originals. Two additional translations, Song For Old Lovers and My Childhood, which also resembled the originals, were recorded by Elly Stone on her (now very rare) self-titled Columbia album. Miss Stone also recorded Goodbye My Friends for her second album, which was arguably a superior version of Brel's Le Moribond than the dreadful version by Rod McKuen, Seasons In the Sun.

In other cases, the translations altered Brel's songs in such a way as to make them more palatable to American tastes, while retaining Brel's concept. Thus, Jef, a song in which a man tries to cheer up a drinking buddy who has lost a great love, becomes a love song, in which one partner attempts to bolster the melancholy spirit of their beloved. In fact, some would argue that the beautiful prose of No Love You're Not Alone not only equals the poetic imagery of Brel's original lyrics quite adequately, they are actually an improvement. Conversely, When We Only Have Love was transformed from a love song to an anthem for brotherly love, yet did not destroy Brel's concept or his "poetry", but successfully built on it. Brel, by the way, often pointed out that, in his culture, it would be unforgivably vain for a songwriter to compare himself to a poet. To the French, poetry is not only a much higher art form than songwriting, Brel did not consider songwriting an art at all, but merely "a craft". All told, there are, in fact, only a few songs in this show where the lyrics, content, spirit, tone and / or subject matter were completely altered from Brel's originals.

When the show premiered in Canada, the creators were terrified that they would be taken to task by the French Canadian press for daring to present Brel in English there, as Brel is highly prized in Canada. Instead, it was the English Canadian press who savaged the show. But the French Canadian journalist, Rudel-Tessier (a bi-lingual writer, quite familiar with Brel in French) stated flatly that, although in translating the work, some of Blau / Shuman went in and some of Brel came out, he found it marvelous to have Brel in English at all. And, he gently chided his peers by pointing out that, while Shakespeare is quite popular in French, the Bard will never be quite the same in French as he is in English. So, to those who say you cannot appreciate Brel's songs in anything but French I reply, this show was written for those who never have, and never will, understand a single word of French. Does anyone really think that those who only speak French should be deprived of Shakespeare?

Even if none of this were true, I would like to point out that Jacques Brel himself, armed with exact French translations of the English lyrics, personally approved every song that was written for the show before the decision to produce it was finalized.

Besides, the passion and reverence that these performers feel for Brel and this material is evident in every song, and to those who claim that this show is an insult to Brel, I answer that it's an insult to the efforts of this fine cast to suggest that they had anything but his best interests at heart, and, as someone who is quite familiar with Brel in French, I believe they succeeded brilliantly. And as fine a songwriter as you can argue that Brel is in French, well, Elly Stone is equally as fine a singer in any language, and I bemoan the fact that she virtually squandered the balance of her career championing Brel's work, when she could have made a major name for herself, based solely on her own talent. Having seen Elly Stone perform live many times (in and out of this show), I will attest to the fact that, in her prime, she had the most impressive voice I have ever heard in a concert hall.

And in the end, it was Brel himself who gave the supreme complement to this effort. At one point, Eric Blau fretted when, in order to more closely translate Brel's lyrics to la Mort (My Death), he and Shuman had to alter Brel's melody. When they sent the new song to Brel, he responded, "You have improved it; it's better than mine". A year after the show opened, Brel flew in to New York to see it. That night, he led a standing ovation for the performers, and modestly told Blau and Shuman repeatedly that they had not only exceeded his expectations, in many instances, they had improved his work. He also told Elly Stone that she was, "the finest lady performer" he had ever seen (including Piaf, whom she was often compared to unfairly) and he told her that he wanted to write new songs specifically for her. Unfortunately for us, he never had time, but it was a testament to her talent and artistic integrity that Brel offered.

And if Brel himself was pleased with the translations featured in this glorious production, why should anyone quarrel with that?
Still Alive and Well
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Just About His Best
  • Pure Art!
  • I love this album!
  • This album came out before i was born!!!!!!!!
  • Polished , Hard And Maybe His Best Circa 1973 and 1974
 Still Alive and Well
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ASIN: B000002ARV
Release Date: 1994-09-06

Tracks:

  1. Rock Me Baby
  2. Can't You Feel It
  3. Cheap Tequila
  4. All Tore Down
  5. Rock & Roll
  6. Silver Train
  7. Ain't Nothing To Me
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  9. Too Much Seconal
  10. Let It Bleed
  11. Lucille
  12. From A Buick Six

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5 out of 5 stars Just About His Best.......2007-07-10

Johnny Winter made a lot of great albums but, to me, "Still Alive and Well," produced with Rick Derringer, stands out as even better than the rest. This album marked tbe high point of his career.

"Rock Me Baby," "Rock N' Roll" and the title track are probably his most remembered from this album, but "Cheap Tequila" has always been my favorite. Another great track is the country and westernish "Ain't Nothing to Me": Like most great C&W tunes, it's all in the lyrics. And I don't want to leave out mention of the two covers of Rolling Stone songs, "Let It Bleed" and "Silver Train." Although it appears on the Stones' "Goats Head Soup" album, "Silver Train" was actually written by Jagger and Richards specifically for Johnny Winter.

There isn't a weak song on the album and, with the CD, you get two excellent bonus tracks that weren't on the original LP: "Lucille" and a kick a** version of Bob Dylan's "From a Buick Six."

Bye the way, Johnny Winter is still alive and well, although every now and then I think it's kinda hard to tell...

5 out of 5 stars Pure Art!.......2007-04-04

Johnny Winter made the mean and nasty blues/rock gutair sound a staple. No other can compeat. Excellent recording.

I just wish the bonus songs had Johnny's signature gutair tracks on them, but hey, still superb!

5 out of 5 stars I love this album!.......2007-01-05

This album / CD rocks! Can't stop playing it! Nuff said.

5 out of 5 stars This album came out before i was born!!!!!!!!.......2007-01-03

And it is one of my all time favorites!!!!!!
I got it when Wherehouse music was going out of business-all the cassettes were 1/2 off. I got it just because I had "heard of" Johnny Winter. So I drove home with about 7 tapes and listened to this one and then the next........ A week later I was thinking of the songs on it and have been a fan since. Its got that vibe that great records have. I was floored by the slide work.I love this album. It is unlike his other albums as he is avid blues player. But on this album and another he lets go and rocks with the best. Give this one a chance and see what you think.

5 out of 5 stars Polished , Hard And Maybe His Best Circa 1973 and 1974.......2006-12-25

Johnny Winter was poised and achieved heavy acclaim at the time of this release and his next "Saints @ Sinners" which also should not be missed for relative tight blues rock so in tune at the time....hailed as "comeback", Indeed, Still Alive and Well is a solid recording and this fine sounding CD featured tight blues from this Powerhouse Trio...An occasional mellotron (Todd Rundgren), piano and flute sweeten out the mix as the Winter band never strays from it's roots covering usual old blues covers, new tunes from the band and the occasional Stones (and bonus Dylan Cover) covers, in this case a really fine reworking of "Silver Train" that was heavily played on FM radio in New York at the time of "Goats Head Soup" while also covering the Stones "Let It Bleed"..
Dylan's 'From A Buick 6" (Highway 61 Revisited)is an added workout,Rick Derringer's "Still Alive And Well" is a kicker and the sweet "Cheap Tequila" and low down accoustic "Too Much Seconal" are the standouts.
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Jacques Brel 2006 production - terrific
  • JACQUES BREL AND GAY MARSHALL
  • Not the original... better
  • Superb
  • Well I don't know about the CD...
 Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

Manufacturer: Ghostlight
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ASIN: B000JCETBK
Release Date: 2006-11-21

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  21. Carousel - The Company
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Jacques Brel 2006 production - terrific.......2007-05-19

The 2006 production of this show was excellent, and the CD is also excellent. Some thrilling and some very moving performances by a very talented group of singers.

5 out of 5 stars JACQUES BREL AND GAY MARSHALL.......2007-02-15

I had heard of Jacques Brel, and I knew two songs from the show. But what made me buy the CD was the performer Gay Marshall who I had seen in Las Vegas when she performed the role of DIANA in A CHORUS LINE in the 1980's.
Surprise surprise! She was terrific, of course, and I fell in love with the rest of the show, which I will recommend to community theatres to produce here. I am also buying the DVD---break a leg, Gay! Teri

5 out of 5 stars Not the original... better.......2006-12-11

It should be noted that this is NOT the original, or even a revival (though I believe they call it that). This is a reworking of the original. It has deleted many of the songs from the '60s version, including "Marathon". Now before you wail too loudly, the replacement will knock your socks off: the powerfully rendered "Ca Va" sets the tone with an even darker humor than the original. There are other additions and deletions, but I swear, you won't mind. And you won't have to decide which version is better, because they are different. Also having seen this production (the week before this recording was made), sitting in my living room in Kansas I was transported back to the Zipper Theatre and the magic created by this spectacular cast and their incredibly talented musical director (you hear him singing on the "The Middle Class"). Sit back, close your eyes and enjoy!

5 out of 5 stars Superb.......2006-12-02

I may be slightly biased because i've seen this show with this cast seven times so far, but it is utterly magnificent. the cast album is beautiful and the vocal ranges are spectacular. Each song is a complete story, some dealing with love, despair, anguish, war, ageing, joy and just about all aspects of human emotion.

If you saw the show in the sixties or have the CD from that show, you will totally disregard it after you have heard this cast. These performers are so talented that they are thrilling. You owe it to yourself to experience the joy of this cast album.

5 out of 5 stars Well I don't know about the CD..........2006-10-11

...but the off-Broadway revival of which it's a recording was fantastic. Like unbelievably fantastic. I was raised on Brel (a younger brother was named after him), and this is simply the finest I've ever heard. Buy it, but it, buy it.
Everyone involved should be very, very proud. Kudos!
Alive and Well
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • England's Love For Country's "Alive and Well"
Alive and Well
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Manufacturer: Triple T
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ASIN: B000M4RFSE
Release Date: 2007-01-23

Tracks:

  1. Love Is Stonger
  2. The Perfect Girl
  3. Texans Hold'em
  4. Club Paradise
  5. Nothing But Love
  6. Redneck Anthem
  7. Stick To Your Guns
  8. The NRA Song
  9. It Must Be Colorado
  10. Livin' The Dream

Album Description

Ty England may have struck out on a solo career in 1995, but to most country fans he is most recognizable as Garth Brooks' touring guitarist. His last albums have scanned over 200,000 units.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars England's Love For Country's "Alive and Well" .......2007-02-27

Prime Cuts: It Must Be Colorado, Nothing But Love, Stick to Your Guns

Country music has carved a niche out of bounds to other genre. The bucolic charm of small town living, the high jinks of paternal nurture, and the civilities of honest blue-collared labor are some cardinal traits of "traditional values" indispensable to country music. Heralding such a venerable tradition is England on his first release in years. Once touted as a poster boy of the hat-wearing craze of the nineties, regretfully England did not live up to expectations. Subsequently, after misfired singles, both RCA and Capitol Records dropped England, a double contretemps for this Oklahoma native. "Alive and Well," released under his own self-financed imprint, Triple T Records, with its shoe string budget does not look like the third time charmer. However, radio's myopia is its loss, as this CD finds England pumping his heart over paeans that affirm the chronicles of the working class folks with vivacity.

Jaw jutting moments, though they do not come in spades, come closest with Tony Arata's "Nothing But Love." A smothering ballad with an inspirational ode to love's prowess, "Nothing But Love" has such an entrenching melody that it does not pass as a surprise why England fought teeth and foot for a decade to finally record it. Though not as arresting, the other Arata composition "Love Is Stronger," is thumping guitar driven number that could well serve country radio. "Stick to Your Guns," an England and Tim Russell ballad, recounts one of those priceless father-son moments that flourishes on its emotional details. While the descriptive ballad "It Must Be Colorado" is an idyllic love song to the Centennial State.

However, moving away from the emotionally hefty material, "Texas Holdem" and "Club Paradise" are both average entries about guys trying to pick up gals situated in Texas and Vegas respectively. With the latter having some Caribbean jibes a la Kenny Chesney. However, not everything works: lead single "Redneck Athem," which starts with some borrowed riffs from "Star Spangled Banner," is cliché galore. After Jeff Foxworthy's dismissive redneck jokes and ditties, do we need another song about rednecks? Also, "Perfect Girl" like a lame pick-up line is a shallow and silly ode to a girl.

Compared to England's previous efforts, "Alive and Well" faults at England and his partners Tim Russell and Tim Condict contributing too many tracks. Although some of their ballads pull on the heartstrings, but in the uptempoes there's still room for growth especially in the development of song's ideas, word choices and more input from the heart. Nevertheless, with all said, "Alive and Well" is England's most country record; there are enough songs that give eloquence to the everyday folk who embrace the traditional values of family, love and integrity.
Year of the Cock
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • These guys should be huge...
  • Cock rock has been reborn
 Year of the Cock
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5 out of 5 stars These guys should be huge..........2007-02-25

Big Cock should be the biggest rock band on the planet. I think a name change could help that as nobody in their right mind will ever say the name on the radio or TV. I love every song on this CD and Robert Mason is a great singer and front man. There is no lack of attitude on this CD and these guys walk it like they talk it.

5 out of 5 stars Cock rock has been reborn.......2006-01-29

This is an absolutley amazing album. Not one bad song. All melodic 80's inspired, inuendo packed, hard rockin' sing along songs. A must have. I heard about it on the net at Sleezerocks.com and then on the www.hairballjohn.com net radio show. These guys don't let you down...EVER.
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Still Alive and Well/Captured Live!
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • these 2 are classics
 Still Alive and Well/Captured Live!
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Manufacturer: Bgo - Beat Goes on
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ASIN: B00004T2JQ
Release Date: 2002-03-09

Tracks:

  1. Rock Me Baby
  2. Can't You Feel It?
  3. Cheap Tequila
  4. All Tore Down
  5. Rock & Roll
  6. Silver Train
  7. Ain't Nothing to Me
  8. Still Alive & Well
  9. Too Much Seconal
  10. Let It Bleed

Tracks:

  1. Bony Moronie
  2. Roll With Me
  3. Rock & Roll People
  4. It's All Over Now
  5. Highway 61 Revisited
  6. Sweet Papa John

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars these 2 are classics.......2003-05-19

if you like johnny winter, you must already have these two; at his peak with his gibson firebird; i was in high shool in the 70's and these two were a key component; if you are reading this, you already know: if there is a rock and roll heaven, johnny winter and these albums are there
Still Alive... and Well?
Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
  • awesome new live songs!
  • Megadeth - 'Still Alive... And Well?' (Sanctuary Records)
  • sigh
  • I'll answer the question: NOT WELL. Not here, anyway.
  • one of the last albums
 Still Alive... and Well?
Megadeth
Manufacturer: Sanctuary Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006HCSW
Release Date: 2002-09-10

Tracks:

  1. TIME/USE THE MAN
  2. CONJURING (LIVE)
  3. IN MY DARKEST HOUR (LIVE)
  4. SWEATING BULLETS (LIVE)
  5. SYMPHONY OF DESTRUCTION (LIVE)
  6. HOLY WARS (LIVE)
  7. MOTO PSYCHO
  8. DREAD AND FUGITIVE MIND
  9. PROMISES
  10. THE WORLD NEEDS A HERO
  11. BURNING BRIDGES
  12. RETURN TO HANGAR

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Hot on the heels of the speed-metal dandies' first-ever live retrospective, Rude Awakening, comes this most unusual (contract fulfilling?) release. Featuring six previously unreleased live songs captured in November 2001 during what's described as the band's last concerts, Still Alive and Well concludes with an additional six songs lifted wholesale from 2001's The World Needs a Hero, the group's last studio recording. The live tracks ("Time/Use the Man," "Conjuring," "In My Darkest Hour," "Sweating Bullets," "Symphony of Destruction," and "Holy Wars") are up to snuff--fast, bruising, and furious--but of little interest to anyone other than die-hard fans, who doubtless already own The World Needs a Hero. --Kim Hughes

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars awesome new live songs!.......2007-01-31

the three new live songs, conjuring, time and use the man are worth for it...the conjuring is the best performance by this line up!

3 out of 5 stars Megadeth - 'Still Alive... And Well?' (Sanctuary Records).......2006-03-30

Since I've seen Megadeth perform live something like at least ten times over the years,I've pretty much gotten burned out on them.I'll still take out a CD of theirs time and again for a spin in my CD player.I thought that 'Still Alive...' is pretty much aimed toward the die-hard fans.It's got half live tracks,including "My Darkest Hour","Sweating Bullets","Symphony Of Destruction",the always nice to hear "Holy Wars"+ two more.Then you get six previously unreleased cuts.If you're a real big Megadeth fan,you'll obviously get more out of this CD than I did.Overall,it's decent.

1 out of 5 stars sigh.......2004-07-12

Whatever happened to that raw energy of the 80's???

Don't get me wrong, I dig Dave and the boys. But, I believe old age is catching up. Is it just me, or does his vocals sound worse??? Where's that trademark GROWL?!? Sounds like a little kid with his nose pinched.

I think Marty needs to come back, too!

Peace Sells... but I'm no longer buying.

1 out of 5 stars I'll answer the question: NOT WELL. Not here, anyway........2004-06-15

I'm a huge fan of Megadeth, and have been for a few years; I'd even go as far as saying I'm a completist (I own both the original AND the reissue of KILLING IS MY BUSINESS...). However, this is one Megadeth "album" that I will never waste my money on.

Even more absurd than most so-called "best-of" collections, STILL, ALIVE...AND WELL? is simply pointless. We have several tracks from one of the best albums from one of the best thrash acts ever, THE WORLD NEEDS A HERO, and two--count 'em, TWO--unreleased live tracks. Okay...why?

Indeed, I'll agree with other fans, this COULD have been another HIDDEN TREASURES, but instead it is a waste of money and time.

Trust me, just get THE WORLD NEEDS A HERO and as for the live tracks, you're not missing much. If they're THAT important to you, just look for them as downloads somewhere.

LUCKILY, Megadeth has re-formed, with a new bassist and drummer, and a suprising return of the almighty Chris Poland on guitars. Dave's arm is all better, and he's refreshed...and determined. NEW ALBUM COMING SOON!

Peace.

5 out of 5 stars one of the last albums.......2004-04-27

first of all people that are new to megadeth don't know that hte band split, dave called it quits and released this for a memorial of megadeth not a new album. This albume features recorded songs from there last and I mean last concerts. So it's a great cd if you actually know what it is and why it's an honer to have to a real megadeth fan. Now lets hope dave's solo career is just as good.
Spencer the Rover is Alive and Well
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Cornell Univeristy Rocks!
  • Cornell Univeristy Rocks!
  • Finally on CD
 Spencer the Rover is Alive and Well
John Roberts and Tony Barrand
Manufacturer: Swallowtail Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

British FolkBritish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B00005LDQC
Release Date: 2001-05-15

Tracks:

  1. Spencer the Rover
  2. Creeping Jane
  3. I Wish They'd Do it Now
  4. Rambleaway
  5. What a Mouth!
  6. The Knight and The Shepherd's Daughter
  7. Silicosis
  8. The Coachman
  9. The Lincolnshire Poacher
  10. Warlike Seamen
  11. Dahn the Plughole
  12. Shine Your Buttons With Brasso
  13. Martin Said to His Man
  14. Fanny Blair
  15. So Green As The Leaves
  16. Babylon is Fallen
  17. Thyme

Album Description

Originally released in 1971, Swallowtail Records is pleased to release "Spencer the Rover is Alive and Well" on CD for the first time. John Roberts and Tony Barrand are true ambassadors of traditional English folk music.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Cornell Univeristy Rocks!.......2003-08-09

This really brings me back! These fellas were teaching assistants at Cornell University in the early 1970's ... when I was a nerdy engineering student. Now I'm a nerdy physician. I enjoyed the music then and I find it just as enjoyable now. I'm no expert on British folk music, but this is a nice album.

4 out of 5 stars Cornell Univeristy Rocks!.......2003-08-09

This really brings me back! These fellas were teaching assistants at Cornell University in the early 1970's ... when I was a nery engineering student. Now I'm a nerdy physician. I enjoyed the music then and I find it just as enjoyable now. I'm no expert on British folk music, but this is a nice album.

5 out of 5 stars Finally on CD.......2002-11-29

One of the best Brit Folk albums of all time, finally out on CD. I grew up listening to these guys at east coast folk festivals and clubs, and they did a lot of good stuff in the 70's but this first one is still the best, with all of your favourite Tony and John songs.
Alive and Well
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • great cd
  • One of the best finds out there
  • intro to her great music
 Alive and Well
Doria Roberts
Manufacturer: Doria Robert
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006AO0V
Release Date: 2002-08-13

Tracks:

  1. "Kodak Moments"
  2. Restoration
  3. Black Pearl
  4. Supposed Soul Saver
  5. Wondering
  6. "Camping in Trenton, NJ?"
  7. Slow Burn
  8. Dying Man's Wish
  9. Kinda Like
  10. "The Rehearsal"
  11. Exodus
  12. "Last Song. HMMM..."/Perfect

Tracks:

  1. Hold on Me
  2. "Take Off Your Shirt"
  3. Grass Is Green
  4. "Everybody Already Knows..."
  5. Different Kind of Self Love
  6. Waitress' Lament
  7. Caught in the Rain
  8. Lillian
  9. "I'm Bitter and Jealous"
  10. Growing Pains
  11. Coming Rain
  12. Moment of Silence w/Iguana
  13. What's the Matter [Post 9/11 Lyrics]
  14. S.O.S. [Studio Track]

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars great cd.......2006-05-07

this is another great album from doria roberts. she is a very talented artist...after all...she did write one of the best lesbian love songs ever..."perfect" buy this album if youre a lesbian or a fan of doria roberts...you wont regret it.

5 out of 5 stars One of the best finds out there.......2003-06-11

I just saw Doria in concert in D.C. this weekend ( June 15th). She sang three of the songs off this live cd. I immediately went down to her booth and bought her cd without listening to anything else. Just for the one song "perfect" was worth the money....however, I was not disappointed with the rest of the album. She has one of the freshest, and charming styles of singing and playing guitar that I've heard in quite awhile. There was not one track on the entire 2 cd set that I didn't like. A kind of 90's folk/rock Armatrading/Chapman mix only better.....all original work....from the heart...love songs,social statements, fun songs...all very melodic...great lyrics! Try it...I guarantee you'll love it. As an aside, she was also quite charming and friendly in person..one more reason to support such a wonderful artist.

4 out of 5 stars intro to her great music.......2003-01-11

a great live CD, with mistakes, audience participation and a wonderful, gifted performer!!
recommend to anyone who likes to listen to good music over and over and get something new from the songs each time...
Jesus Is Alive and Well
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • No. 1 Gospel Quartet
  • The Best I have Heard
  • Your music ministered to a co-worker at my job.
 Jesus Is Alive and Well
Spiritual QC's
Manufacturer: E&J Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000003N1V
Release Date: 1996-07-15

Tracks:

  1. Jesus Is Alive And Well
  2. You Been Good To Me
  3. Somebody Touched Me
  4. Jesus Is Coming Again
  5. Love Will Go All The Way
  6. I Can't Give Up
  7. Good Time
  8. I've Learned To Lean
  9. Reprise (Jesus Is Alive)

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars No. 1 Gospel Quartet.......2002-07-02

I purchased this CD because I wanted to hear what The Spiritual QC's were saying back in 1996. I found out they are a geniune gospel group with a message to the world; one that will truly lift you up in the Lord! "Jesus Is Alive and Well" ministers to my soul daily as well as "Good Time" and "Love Will Go All The Way" CD's. I can't listen to them enough. I play their music everyday (vidoes & CD's). When I leave home on an errand, I leave it playing for my children. They can relate to the words of the songs because they have been taught the word of God. If you want to be blessed through the music ministry, you must have not only this CD, but all of Lee Williams & The Spirtual QC's releases. Don't past up the opportunity to see them in concert. I have been blessed to see them in concert twice. The trips out of town were well worth it!

5 out of 5 stars The Best I have Heard.......2001-08-25

From California. I seldom comment on music but "Lee Williams and the Qc rank amoung the best groups I have heard. All of he songs have a strong message and are uplifting and upbeat. Not one filler song on the list. Being on the west coast we seldom hear of these groups but I have order every CD recorded since hearing it. I am sure you will agree with me "It's Just Good GOSPEL singing.

5 out of 5 stars Your music ministered to a co-worker at my job........1999-07-25

I want you all to know that I got the chance to hear your music over the radio 1410-a.m. The Light and it really ministers to a co-worker. The man that listens to the radio enjoys the song " I've learned to lean and depend on Jesus"

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