Drift
Drift
Track Listings
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1. Me
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2. Empty Air
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3. Pick A Window
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4. 12 Year Old With A Gun
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5. Missing
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6. Blindside
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7. Remember
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8. Destructive Signs
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9. Smoked Out
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10. Poet's Tell
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Drift,Flotsam & Jetsam,Mca,Heavy Metal,Popular Music,Rock,Speed Metal,Thrash
Average customer rating:
- *** if you've seen the movie, but some songs missing
- If you liked the movie...
- Decent...
- whats that song?
- Great Movie, Cool Tracks!
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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Original Soundtrack
Manufacturer: Motown
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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- The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift [Original Motion Picture Score]
- The Fast and the Furious - Tokyo Drift (Widescreen Edition)
- 2 Fast 2 Furious
- Fast and the Furious
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ASIN: B000FUH3KK
Release Date: 2006-06-20 |
Tracks:
- Teriyaki Boyz - "Tokyo Drift (Fast & Furious)"
- DJ Shadow feat. Mos Def - "Six Days"
- 5,6,7, 8's - "The Barracuda"
- Evil Nine - "Restless"
- Far East Movement - "Round And Round"
- N.E.R.D. - "She Wants To Move (DFA Remix)"
- Teriyaki Boyz - "Cho Large"
- Dragon Ash - "Resound"
- Julez Santana - "There It Go(The Whistle Song)"
- Don Omar - "Bandaleros"
- Don Omar - "Conteo"
- Brian Tyler feat. Slash - "Mustang Nismo"
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This soundtrack serves up a collision of musical styles, as if the coolest radio stations of Tokyo and New York had suddenly melded into a giant hybrid. The Teriyaki Boyz' opening title track is typical: brilliant production by the Neptunes, East-meets-West mood, more hipness than you can shake a stick at. The Japanese hip-hop group's other offering here, "Cho Large," isn't quite as good but fortunately it's the rare lame-ish track on a CD that overall keeps things on overdrive. Highlights include DJ Shadow's collaboration with Mos Def, "Six Days (Remix)"; Japanese girl surf experts 5.6.7.8's (already familiar to Kill Bill fans) and their uproarious "The Barracuda"; Evil Nine's "Restless," which has the kind of monstrous bass line the Chemical Brothers would kill for; and Atari Teenage Riot's awesome display of digital-hardcore aggro, "Speed" (have these guys ever been used in Dance Dance Revolution?). Even a reggaeton track like Don Omar's "Conteo" somehow fits in this universe, fueled as much by gasoline as by testosterone. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
Customer Reviews:
*** if you've seen the movie, but some songs missing.......2007-06-18
I wouldn't have bought this without having had the sentimental attachment that goes with associating the songs with scenes from the movie [which isn't exactly Gone With The Wind, but the acting is great (albeit hokey at times); the action non-stop, the stunts amazing and the big "message" (aside from achieving it via mass casualties) is good.].
Unfortunately, like the other reviewers, I'm bummed that some of my favorite songs weren't included in the soundtrack. Which brings me to the real reason for posting here: Does anyone know the name of the song that is playing when Shawn arrives in Tokyo?
If you liked the movie..........2007-06-10
...you'll definitely like the soundtrack. A few songs that were in the movie got left out as you can tell by previous reviews which is why it gets a 4.
What is the name of the song that is playing when the credits start to roll? It's a techno song and the lyrics I can hear are, "I rock, irock, irock, iroll..iroll..iroll, i rock i roll
Decent..........2007-05-08
This soundtrack is pretty good except for one flaw that many other soundtracks tend to have, as well. They put tracks on the CD that you really don't hear too much in the movie, and the cool songs that you like and hear in the movie aren't on the soundtrack. Like what was the deal with the Spanish songs? The movie takes place in TOKYO! That's Japan for anybody who is geographically challenged. Why is Spanish music in an American/Japanese soundtrack? I would much rather have replaced those songs by Kid Rock or the Whisper Song that you hear in the movie, but they just so happened to leave them out.
whats that song?.......2007-05-03
What is the song at the very end at the start of the credits right before "conteo" by don omar starts. It only plays for like 5-10 seconds, then it cuts off and don omar butts in, but the song is much longer. It goes something like, I rock (echo), I roll (echo). It is a techno song.
Great Movie, Cool Tracks!.......2007-04-10
I'm not under 13, but the movie was tight and action packed. The sound track from the movie was great as well. One song most of you might not know about, was when Shawn and Han was riding together on the highway was called Mamacita by the one and only Skateboard P known as Pharrell. Its not on the soundtrack which sucks. But still a great soundtrack to buy.
Average customer rating:
- Art as Exorcism
- One Swanky Record
- ...depraved, diabolical and devastating...a sensory assault!
- Soundtrack to the Apocalypse
- Definitely an Album that you'll either LOVE or HATE....!!!
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The Drift
Scott Walker
Manufacturer: 4ad / Ada
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000EZMPEU
Release Date: 2006-06-06 |
Tracks:
- Cossacks Are
- Clara
- Jesse
- Jolson and Jones
- Cue
- Hand Me Ups
- Buzzers
- Psoriatic
- The Escape
- A Lover Loves
Album Description
It's been nine years since Walker's last album. "An increasingly revered figure, Scott Walker is a singular craftsman, one of rock's few individuals to demonstrate a willingness to both embrace elements of the unfashionable and ignore prevailing trends, yet also display an acute awareness of contemporary sound" - Pitchfork.
Customer Reviews:
Art as Exorcism.......2007-08-01
Otto Dix, the early 20th-century German expressionist artist once said: "All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time."
Not all art may be exorcism, but Dix's statement certainly seems to apply to Scott Walker's most recent sound-with-text album, Drift. Since it is an exorcism, many pieces in the album address the issues that were troubling the artist. Some issues are more universal whereas some issues are more personal. On the whole, the Drift seems to deal with humans' cruelty and brutality against their fellow humans.
Examples: "Cossacks Are" ironically expresses the culture industry's unabashed commodification and reification of an artist; "Clara" dramatically tells the story of how a street mob treated of the dead bodies of Mussolini and Claretta Pettacci -- as objects like pork or beef ("The breasts are still heavy/ The legs long and straight/ The upper lip remains short ...") as manifested in Benito Mussolini's dream (I think Claretta is compared to the loyal Swallow in Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince" - "Clara" does not present a simplistic world view); "Jesse" addresses the horrific event of 9/11 as a nightmare dreamt by Elvis Presley, representing American masses (I wonder if Scott Walker was inspired by Jean Baudrillard's statement: "That we have dreamed of this event, that everybody without exception has dreamt of it, because everybody must dream of the destruction of any power hegemonic to that degree, -- this is unacceptable for Western moral conscience, but it is still a fact, and one which is justly measured by the pathetic violence of all those discourses which attempt to erase it" - translated by. Rachel Bloul); "Jolson and Jones," with a beginning stanza evocative of the famous first stanza of Eliot's The Waste Land, conveys the human brutality hidden under the banality of everyday social exchange in a place permeated with death, disease and decay instead of rebirth of the springtime.
I highly recommend this album to anybody who appreciates a challenging artistic experience.
One Swanky Record.......2007-05-18
Psst. With The Drift, Scott Walker has made the best record of the new century. Psst. That's in keeping for the man who made some of the best records of the last century, especially Scott 3 and Tilt. Psst. These aren't waltzes for dodo's. Psst. The strains of eeriness heard even on his recordings with The Walker Brothers are now fullblown and realized. Throughout this bleak soundscape, there are touches of absurdist humor that certify an artist at his peak dealing with an inane and indifferent world. Psst.
...depraved, diabolical and devastating...a sensory assault!.......2007-05-14
Any piece deemed "disturbing" by Opeth's frontman Mikael Akerfeldt is worthy of a listen...and i'm none the worse for wear after relenting to this visceral barrage of the senses.
I can't speak for Tilt or any other of Walker's "works" but this "particular" construction of sound hits with the "subtlety" of a jackhammer. That a man of 63 years can harbor such cynical views of life "and" the ability to harness it in "said" manner is quite disturbing.
Ironically, nearly all reviews offer critical acclaim for this sinister segue into the mouth of madness. The "method" involves maniacal bass and string orchestrations alongside "certain" aural perversions of meat, wood, cinderblocks, (brayed) donkeys, and "other" matters of dissonance in sound.
Walker offers no apologies, compromises or comfort throughout this disparate, disjointed and claustrophobic soundscape. For sixty-eight minutes, the listener is pummeled black and blue with a relentless and palpable sense of danger. It seems the precise attempt of "The Drift" is to unearth the primordial terror lying just beneath the surface and to unhinge the listener with frightening theatrics amidst the apprehension of dead silence.
For this mental deconstruction to manifest itself, one must first be careful to set the appropriate listening level for this analog recording. You'll get the point rather quickly. And if you are feeling particularly bold, pass those sixty-eight minutes with a good pair of headphones after midnight in a dark room. This will be an experience you won't soon forget...if you make it through to the end that is.
In summary, "The Drift" is a shameless, avant-garde presentation of Walker's singular vision, delivered with a certain degree of malice and measured tenacity. And while this disc will certainly be an acquired taste, it is interesting enough to own and peruse on "fitting" occasions. In a word...a keeper.
Soundtrack to the Apocalypse.......2007-03-28
I've heard a lot of sinister music before, whether it be the sado-synth of Pig, the pure noise of Delta 9, or the shlock of most modern death metal. None of it has scared me. Enter like this album. Though I've only known Walker's voice from his poppier stuff from decades ago, it seems to be the perfect vehicle to portray whatever horrific stories he's telling on this disc. The first time I listened to this album, I thought I'd downloaded some pompous, self-absorbed singer's lame attempt at over-emoting. But upon further listening, I realized that Walker expertly forces the listener to empathize and experience the unfortunate darkness that seems to be overtaking much of life in the modern world. If you're interested in a challenge, want to experience pain, suffering, regret, and longing through music, pick up this album. And please, PLEASE listen to it more than once. You won't regret it.
Definitely an Album that you'll either LOVE or HATE....!!!.......2007-02-20
Considering he started in the music business in the late 50 and early 60's, as a teen idol, with the sort of original tunes and covers, which also features sweeping, bloated orchestral arrangements. His steady progression from teen crooner, and subsequent metamorphosis into an Avant-garde, Experimental, unrelenting singer/ songwriter of some the bleakest, and downright disturbing arrangements in his whole career, is one of the strangest career choices in recent memory. Hints of this drastic musical shift were gleamed on "Climate of Hunter", but it's real purpose and potential came to bear on the astonishing "Tilt". Now, considering that there is a 11 years gap between "Tilt" and "The Drift", what would be eventually (given Scott's erratic career) be released, was anyone's guess?? But in the end, this is continuation, or evolution of the broad themes, arrangements and loosely orchestrated compositions of "Tilt". But it is worth noting that this is a darker, more sprawling, claustrophobic, distraught and less arranged, alternately suffocatingly dense piece of work, and ultimately resembling something more akin to avant-garde horror film or possibly a harrowing modernist opera.
If you haven't had the opportunity to hear either this album or "Tilt", it's strongly advised that if you do decide to buy this, that you hold onto your receipt, just in case. Do you like songs that are tightly composed arrangements?, tracks that have a strong melody or Chorus?, strong songwriting with catchy or memorable lyrics?....then unfortunately you're in the wrong album, my friend. Because, this album, is most definitely not a user-friendly album. Instrumentation is a combination of improvised sounds, mixed with traditional instruments, that clatter and bang relentlessly one minute, and then ebb and flow the next, without much consideration for structure or melody, and guitar/drums frequently burst in and out of songs, without much warning. It's jarring and occasionally insular and impenetrable, and yet frequently thrilling. Scott's vocals....still just as amazingly atmospheric and deep and cavernous at is has always been, is truly breathtaking in that it's still as potent and expansive after all these years. With Scott one minute singing in a slow register, at an almost funeral-paced dirge, and then just as capably bursting forth with a intense wailing, probably more suited to operatic stage performances, than on a album.
It's not easy listening that's for sure....and if you want an album, to clear everyone out of a party, this is probably the record to do it. Reviewing this album objectively...on one hand it's shamelessly overblown, and probably incredibly self-important and pretentious. With a manifesto to laugh-in-the-face, of anything approaching regular song structure, and performance. It's an album that revels in its nightmarish imagery, it's unrelenting indulgent, with a level of songwriting that on paper, is largely incompressible and impenetrable (I've still yet to truly understand the meaning behind the songs). And the jutting and jarring shifts in volume/mood/singing are complex, multilayered, densely plotted, wordy, and wholly inaccessible to all but the most adventurous or determined listeners. So why am I giving it 5 stars??.....well, on the flip side, it's frequently challenging listen, unquestionably unlike any similarly released album, uniquely different, and when was the last time you listened to an album that actually had you on the edge of your seat?? For all it's perceived pretensions, its still an album full of emotional power, that is a fractured collection of a labyrinth of sounds and imagery, that leaves an indelible impression whether you like it or not, and even those that cant get into this album, cannot deny that Scott's vocals are still a thing of wonder...powerfully booming one minute, and then as delicate and considered the next, it's his voice that is the central axis, on which this all balances, and without his exceptional ability to manipulate sounds and expression, this album would have fallen flat on it's face.
"The Drift" is an album, that you'll either Love or Hate....this seems to be one of those albums, where there is no middle-ground. For every person (such as myself), that is enthralled by it, they'll be two people that think it's the most shamelessly portentous piece of garbage, to have been released in recent years. If you have fond memories of Scott's adult-pop work in the 60's, and you thought you'd give this a try, then your in for a rude-awakening, (and a trip back to the record store, to get your money back) If you loved Scott's "Tilt" album, than this is whole-hearted recommend, as it takes the premise of Tilt, and darkens the moods, warps the arrangements every more, and feels a little more abstract, and leftfield than before. Although I personally think Tilt, just has the edge over this (Tilt felt more groundbreaking, and slightly more cohesive, overall)...this is easily one of the most memorable things I've had in the last year or so. And I'll admit that isn't an album that I regularly listen to....more, one of the albums to bring out every so often and get immersed in, but this is worth the extensive wait we've had to wait for new Scott Walker material, let's hope the wait for another album isn't quite so long.
Average customer rating:
- Finalmente!! No Rap Just Great Songs Sung By A True Artist!!!
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Drift Away and Other Classics
Dobie Gray
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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- Best of Dobie Gray
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ASIN: B00062149S
Release Date: 2004-10-19 |
Tracks:
- Drift Away
- I Can See Clearly Now
- Cupid w/ Jimmy Griffin
- Wonderful World
- Slip Away
- Got My Heart Set on You
- Aint That Good News
- The In Crowd
- Lean on Me
- Loving Arms
- Its Not Because We Didnt Try w/ Lisa Gregg
- Slow Rain
- We Had It All
- Im Only Speaking My Heart
- Until the Dream Becomes Real
- Its Over
Album Description
This new collection, produced by Dobie himself, finds him singing carefully chosen classics culled from the songbooks of Sam Cooke, Johnny Nash, Clarence Carter, and Bill Withers, as well as more recent self-composed triumphs, and as a bonus fresh versions of some of his time-tested signature smashes.
Customer Reviews:
Finalmente!! No Rap Just Great Songs Sung By A True Artist!!!.......2005-07-02
This album is a rarity these days because it features a black guy who ACTUALLY SINGS instead of just talking fast like he was wired on Benzedrine in the mistaken belief that Rap consitutes music. My favourite track on this album is the soulful and mournful "We Had It All". This album wa released at a time when a music artist was judged solely on the quality of his songs instead of how many half naked women with big breasts he could fit into a 3 minute so called "Music Video".Dobie my man, you ROCK!!!
Average customer rating:
- Completely amazing score from Brian Tyler
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The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift [Original Motion Picture Score]
Brian Tyler
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
ProductGroup: Music
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- The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
- 2 Fast 2 Furious
- The Fast and the Furious - Tokyo Drift (Widescreen Edition)
- Mission Impossible 3 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
- Fast and the Furious
ASIN: B000FUF6VS
Release Date: 2006-06-27 |
Tracks:
- Touge (:46)
- The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (7:05)
- Saucin (4:28)
- Neela Drifts (3:27)
- Preparation (1:10)
- N2O (:49)
- Mustang Nismo (2:21)
- Underground (1:33)
- Hot Fuji (1:55)
- This Is My Mexico (1:23)
- Welcome To Tokyo (Written by Slash & Brian Tyler) (1:54)
- DK vs. Han (3:32)
- Downtown Tokyo Chase (2:33)
- Aftermath (1:22)
- Empty Garage (1:01)
- DKs Revenge (1:09)
- Journey Backwards (:58)
- Sumo (1:37)
- Shauns Crazy Idea (2:44)
- Dejection (1:12)
- Kamata (1:32)
- Two Guns (1:29)
- I Gotta Do This (1:14)
- Megaton (2:16)
- Neela Confronts DK (1:47)
- Winner Gets Me (1:21)
- War Theory (1:54)
- I Dont Need You To Save Me (:57)
- Neela (1:44)
- Symphonic Touge (6:50)
Customer Reviews:
Completely amazing score from Brian Tyler.......2006-06-28
This score for The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is one of the best action scores I can remember. The opening tracks are intense and full. Brian Tyler's scores for Timeline, Children of Dune, Constantine, and The Hunted are also really great but I was really surprised by this CD. It is some of the craziest action music in years (I also really like "The Bourne Identity"). Check out the title track or "Downtown Tokyo Chase" with its pounding drums and powerful orchestra. The melodic side is cool too. The haunting "Neela Drifts" is probably my favorite track with its memorable acoustic guitar melody and its beautiful sound. There are guitars on here too including a track that both Tyler and Slash play on called "Mustang Nismo" which is from the section of the movie where the main character combines a Nissan motor and a Ford Mustang chassis. Great music for driving of course!
Average customer rating:
- Upper percentile of (pigeon hole coming) Chill Genre
- Great chilled groove CD
- Full of images and smooth, solid grooves
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Uplift Drift
Magic Sound Fabric
Manufacturer: Spiralight
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00007EFIR
Release Date: 2002-11-04 |
Tracks:
- Levitation Groove
- Photonic Phonic
- Astro Dream Stream
- My Thoughts Have Become Visible
- Fire Within
- Dimension Shift
- Octave Surfing
- Galaxy Rise
- Space Traffic Control
Album Description
1 hour of Chilled 0ut Hi-Fi Downtempo Ambient Groove.
Customer Reviews:
Upper percentile of (pigeon hole coming) Chill Genre.......2006-11-11
This guy does not have the industry, spin, and following of genre masters like thievery company, but this is every bit as good. However you characterize this music it is in the top 5% the genre. If you like Zero 7, thievery company, air supply, or radiohead, then you will like this. Other reviewers have done a good job of describing the technical quality...I couldn't do that anyway. The used price reflects the current market value of the music.
Great chilled groove CD.......2003-03-19
This CD is great for a myriad of occasions - it's the perfect type of background music, but can be in the "spotlight", too. It's ambient in the way that while you're listening, you feel like you should be watching a really cool movie - perfect soundtrack music. But it's also "groove" because you can't help but want to move your body to the beat at many occasions when listening.
I have listened to this CD many, many times and honestly am NOT at all tired of it. It's a true "classic" for me because it never gets old - I continue to discover more interesting elements every time I hear it. Highly recommended!
Full of images and smooth, solid grooves.......2002-11-20
Uplift Drift, is a cinematic journey that "Lifts you up and takes you higher" Full of images and smooth, solid grooves that transport the listener to a place where you have the freedom to lean back and float or get up and move to the ambient groove.
This CD is very good in the audio sense also... Clean tight mixes, an obvious amount of work went into the recordings presented here. Terms like "attention to detail" come to mind. It seems a lot of attention was also paid to the psyco-acoustic realm, where sound images drift in, out and past the listener during their journey. Check this one out on headphones !!
The orchestration and rhythms are top notch and totally original. I think Magic Sound Fabric has carved out a signature sound here. Working in a genre where there is precious little "Dub" oriented music that smoothly blends elements of Ambient, Reggae, Experimental Electronic and good old Space Music, I would think this CD is poised for major exposure and acceptance in an otherwise cluttered music industry.
The CD features full art work and professional packaging unlike many indie artists. The label, Spiralight, has really pulled out all the stops in quality indie music distribution. I hope to see it grow as well.
All in all, Uplift Drift is a valued addition to any CD collection regardless of musical taste, but especially to those of us who enjoy good electronic music!
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- One of my favorites and best Flotsam and Jetsam album.....Drift is a 10 star album!!!!!!!
- awesome album!!
- Better late than sorry!
- 10 years old and still refreshing.
- '' ONE OF THEIR VERY BEST '' !!
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Drift
Flotsam & Jetsam
Manufacturer: Mca
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ASIN: B000002OVG
Release Date: 1995-04-25 |
Tracks:
- Me
- Empty Air
- Pick a Window
- 12 Year Old with a Gun
- Missing
- Blindside
- Remember
- Destructive Design
- Smoke Out
- Poet's Tell
Customer Reviews:
One of my favorites and best Flotsam and Jetsam album.....Drift is a 10 star album!!!!!!!.......2007-02-16
Every song on Drift is AWESOME!!!! From the Me to Poet's Tell...ALL SONGS ARE SUPERIOR!!!!! This was the last album by F&J to be on a major record label...MCA Records. Drift sadly did not get as notice as it should have rightly did during '95(album's release year) ,because grunge was still somewhat dominate . Knowing this though it amazes me that this EPIC GEM did not get noticed or even probably promoted. One these records labels namely MCA/Universal definitely needs to bring back Drift(Cuatro+When The Storm Comes Down too) back for sale in stores, as it has sadly been out of print probably since '96-'97. I ask how could anyone could ignore this EPIC is beyond me!!!! I am in the wrong profession!!! BRING FLOTSAM AND JETSAM DRIFT BACK!!!!
awesome album!!.......2006-12-08
ever has someone who is supposed to love you totally mess you around this is your album!! espessially "Smoked Out" amazing song!
Better late than sorry!.......2006-02-12
I've always been very dedicated to the metal of Flotsam and Jetsam. This album is roughly somewhere in the middle of their period, counting backwards from now. If you've never heard about them before and you would like to begin a flying start. I would strongly recommend "Drift" as I believe this is one of their strongest (if not the strongest) album ever! Everything adds up for these guys! The tracklist consists of 10 songs. Normally when you decide and opening for an album you would like a track to catch the listener from the start. I believe the discussion in the Flotcamp took ages! Glad i'm not to decide! All 10 tracks are simply highest standard! Truly solid quality!
10 years old and still refreshing........2005-03-08
In the fold-out of 'High' at the end of the thank-you's there's a line: "lesson learned: it's okay to be metal." This album is proof of why it's okay.
'Drift' was ahead of its time when it came out. It stands strong today against anything coming out. Flotsam got a little experimental in some places and it seemed to be that they peeked about a decade into the future and channeled some of that energy.
'Missing' is one of the stand-out pieces for me as one of the most mature songs on the album both lyrically and musically. They weren't afraid to search for answers, point out their shortcomings and open their souls to the listener. And they were not afraid to veer slightly from the typical foundations of what constitutes a metal composition. Yet all of those alterations still produced a powerful and heavy song that drives forward without flinching.
A.K. produces an aggressive vocal without sacrificing inflection and melody. What he started moving towards on 'Storm' and 'Cuatro' he refined on 'Drift.'
'Drift' is Flotsam's greatest album and one of the very best metal albums of all-time.
'' ONE OF THEIR VERY BEST '' !!.......2004-02-22
I HAVE BEEN A VERY BIG FAN OF THESE GUYS SINCE DAY ONE..AND THEY NEVER STOP CEASING TO AMAZE ME EVERY TIME.. HOW GOOD THEY REALLY ARE, AND WHO NEEDS JASON NEWSTEAD ANYWAY!THEY SURE DON'T AS EVERY SONG ON THIS CD IS SHEER BRILLIANCE AT BEST! !THEY ARE VERY CATCHY , ANS SO VERY STILL '' FLOTSAM '' , AND ERIC'S VOCALS ARE AMAZING!!PLUS THE WAY HE BELTS OUT THE TUNES, KEEPS YOU LISTENING TO SEE WHAT HE'LL DO NEXT..THEIR LAST 2 ALBUMS WERE OK , BUT THIS IS THEM AT THEIR VERY BEST! ALSO CHECK OUT THEIR OTHER AWESOME RELEASES '' HIGH '' AND '' CUATRO''SO YOU CAN TRULY REALLY EXPERIENCE '' THE FLOTSAM EXPERIENCE ''!!THEY ARE WHAT GREAT METAL WAS ALL ABOUT , WHEN METAL WAS METAL ..AND REAL , NOT A CLONE BAND , THAT SOUNDS JUST LIKE ALL THE REST..! MAYBE THEY WILL DO ANOTHER GREAT CD LIKE '' AGENT STEEL '' AND BLOW EVERYONE AWAY!!!SO IF YOU ARE TIRED OF THE CLONE METAL BANDS OUT THERE , THEN TAKE A TRIP BACK IN TIME TO WHEN METAL WAS REAL, PURE AND SIMPLE...THEY ARE TRULY THAT GOOD!!
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ASIN: B0009SOFXG
Release Date: 2005-08-01 |
Tracks:
- Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer (CWM Rhondda) - Caerphilly Make Voice Choir
- Land of My Fathers - Caerphilly Make Voice Choir
- Dies Irae
- Men of Harlech
- You'll Never Walk Alone
- Cadwyn O Emyn Donau Cymreig: Joanna (Trad./Elfion Wyn)/Crugybar (Trad.
- Old Folks at Home
- Il Liza Jane
- Faust/Soldier's Chorus - Caerphilly Make Voice Choir
- Vergine Degli Angeli
- Ballard of Rourke's Drift - Cwt-Y-Collen Choir
- My Hero
- God Bless the Prince of Wales - Caerphilly Make Voice Choir
- German Mass/Gloria
- German Mass/Sanctus
- Misbles/Master of the House/On My Own/Drink with Me/Empty Chairs at
- All Through the Night - Caerphilly Make Voice Choir
- Arwelfa
- Invictus
- Softly as I Leave You
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- Diolch l'R L
- Hine E Hine (Maori Lullaby)
- Pererin Wyf (Amazing Grace)
- Tribute to the USA: America the Beautiful (Ward/Bates)/God Bless ...
- Memories of Martha
- I Lombardi/The Crusaders' Chorus - Treorchy Male Choir
- Myfanwy - Treorchy Male Choir
- Tales of Hoffman/Barcarolle
- Creation's Hymn
- In the Spirit!
- Shall We Gather at the River
- Nos a Bore
- Very Best Time of Year
- Soon Ah Will Be Done
- Thanks Be to God
- Flower That Shattered the Stone
- Rhys - Treorchy Male Choir
- Where Shall I Be?
- Bywyd y Bugail
- Lord's Prayer
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- Ave Maria
- Pearl Fishers/Divine Brahma
- She Was Beautiful (Cavatina) - Treorchy Male Choir
- Cymru Fach
- Nidaros
- Jacob's Ladder - Treorchy Male Choir
- Watching the Wheat
- Pan Ddaw y Saint (When the Saints Go Marching In)
- Misbles/Stars
- Rachie
- Pirates of Penzance/With Cat-Like Tread - Treorchy Male Choir
- There Is a Balm in Gilead
- Rise Up Shepherd and Foller
- My Lord, What a Mornin'
- Bryn Myrddin
- Jesus Christ Superstar/Medley: Jesus Christ Superstar/Hosanna/The Last
- Finnish Forest (Suomen Salossa)
- Nabucco/The Glory of Israel
- Ride the Chariot
- Tydi a Roddaist - Treorchy Male Choir
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- Y Nefoedd
- Phantom of the Opera/Think of Me
- Morte Christe (When I Survey the Wondrous Cross)
- By Babylon's Wave
- I'm Gonna Sing
- Where Could I Go But to the Lord?
- Holy City - Treorchy Male Choir
- Mefistofele: Ave Signor, Degli Angeli
- Senzenina (Zulu Chant)
- That's All I Want from You
- Deep Harmony - Treorchy Male Choir
- Give Me Jesus
- Just a Closer Walk with Thee
- My Wish for You
- Jeptha/Waft Her Angels
- Mose in Egitto/Prayer
- Be Still My Soul (Finlandia Hymn)
- God's Choir in the Sky
- Floral Dance - Treorchy Male Choir
- Smilin' Through
Tracks:
- Calon Lan
- True Love
- Mor Fawr Wyt Ti (How Great Thou Art)
- Aberystwyth
- Comrades in Arms
- Cats/Memory
- They Led My Lord Away
- State Fair/It's a Grand Night for Singing
- When I Fall in Love
- Let's Face the Music and Dance
- Windmills of Your Mind
- How Soon
- Non Nobis Domine
- Rhythm of Life
- Kalinka
- Sound an Alarm
- Neapolitan Trilogy: It's Now or Never (Di Capua/Schroeder/Gold)/Mo ...
- Turandot/Nessun Dorma
- Christus Redemptor
- Ann Evening's Pastorale
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Choirs Include the Morriston Orpheus Choir, the Pontadrddulais Male Voice Choir, the Caerphilly Male Voice Choir, the Cwrt-y-gollen Choir, the Treorchy Male Choir and the Lucknow Male Voice Choir.
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- Choral Music of Frederick Delius
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Delius: Sea Drift/Songs of Farewell/Songs of Sunset
Frederick Delius , Richard Hickox , Bryn Terfel , Sally Burgess , and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
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ASIN: B000000AT3
Release Date: 1994-03-15 |
Tracks:
- Sea Drift
- Songs Of Farewell: I. 'How Sweet The Silent Backward Tracings!'
- Songs Of Farewell: II. 'I Stand As On Some Mighty Eagle's Beak'
- Songs Of Farewell: III. 'Passage To You! O Secret Of The Earth And Sky!'
- Songs Of Farewell: IV. 'Joy, Shipmate, Joy!'
- Songs Of Farewell: V. 'Now Finale To The Shore'
- Songs Of Sunset: 'A Song Of The Setting Sun!'
- Songs Of Sunset: 'Cease Smiling, Dear! A Little While Be Sad'
- Songs Of Sunset: 'Pale Amber Sunlight Falls'
- Songs Of Sunset: 'Exceeding Sorrow Consumeth My Sad Heart!'
- Songs Of Sunset: 'By The Sad Waters Of Separation'
- Songs Of Sunset: 'See How The Trees And The Osiers Lithe'
- Songs Of Sunset: 'I Was Not Sorrowful, I Could Not Weep'
- Songs Of Sunset: 'They Are Not Long, The Weeping And The Laughter'
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These are choral works from Delius's mature period and tend to dwell on the more fleeting aspects of life. Sea Drift (1904) is for baritone and orchestra and is set to the Walt Whitman poem of the same name. Songs of Farewell (1929-30) were written in Delius's last years when he was blind and crippled; however, there aren't any elements of pity to be found in these beautiful songs for double chorus and orchestra. More characteristic of Delius's true flowering are the Songs of Sunset (1906-7), also based on the poems of Walt Whitman. Both the recording and the performances are stellar. --Paul Cook
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Choral Music of Frederick Delius.......2006-07-16
There is a rather unkind Tee shirt often sold at music festival in the summer, a shirt with the statement 'Dull, Duller, Delius'. Yes, Frederick Delius did compose some rather ponderous music, but the three works here represented (among a throng of others including his opera 'A Village Romeo and Juliet') go a long way in testing that criticism.
'Sea Drift for baritone, chorus & orchestra is one of the unique works for soloist and massed forces. The settings of poems by Walt Whitman are bathed in Delius' water music and majestic manner of addressing the voice with orchestra and chorus. Byrn Terfel is the baritone of choice for this work and he is magnificent. Richard Hickox conducts the Bournemouth Sinfonietta and Bournemouth Symphony Chorus is a deeply moving performance. Terfel not only is in glorious vocal estate but also enunciates the texts clearly for maximum communication.
Included are two other choral 'Songs of Farewell, for double chorus & orchestra', here performed by Bournemouth Sinfonietta and Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Southern Voices with Waynflete Singers, with Sally Burgess.
'Songs of Sunset, for mezzo-soprano, baritone, chorus & orchestra', with Sally Burgess and Bryn Terfel is once again based on Walt Whitman's poetry and while it is not as dramatic a work as 'Sea Drift' it is beautifully performed. In all this is a clearly fine recording. Grady Harp, July 06
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- Narvel and John Berry are unbeatable!
- Sadly underrated artitst!!!!
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Drift Away: The Best of Narvel Felts 1959-1973
Narvel Felts
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ASIN: B000001B0S
Release Date: 1996-04-16 |
Tracks:
- Drift Away
- Before You Have To Go
- All In The Name Of Love
- Rockin' Little Angel
- When Your Good Love Was Mine
- Fraulein
- Until The End Of Time
- She Loves Me Like A Rock
- I Want To Stay
- (I Can) Wrap My Arms Around The World
- Reconsider Me
- Foggy Misty Morning
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- Blue Suede Shoes
- Somebody Hold Me (Until She Passes By)
- Away
- Lonely Teardrops
- Lonely Kind Of Love
- My Prayer
- Garden Of Eden
- The Feeling's Right
- Moments To Remember (Blueberry Hill/I Don't Hurt Anymore/Don't Worry)
- To Love Somebody
- Stirrin' Up Feelin's
- One Run For The Roses
- Never Again
- Everlasting Love
- The End
Product Description
1. Drift Away
2. Before You Have To Go
3. All In The Name Of Love
4. Rockin' Little Angel
5. When Your Good Love Was Mine
6. Fraulein
7. Until The End Of Time (& SHARON VAUGHN)
8. She Loves Me Like A Rock
9. I Want To Stay
10. Wrap My Arms Around The World
11. Reconsider Me
12. Foggy Misty Morning
13. Funny How Time Slips Away
14. Blue Suede Shoes
15. Somebody Hold Me (Until She Passes By)
16. Away
17. Lonely Teardrops
18. Lonely Kind Of Love
19. My Prayer
20. Garden Of Eden
21. The Feeling's Right
22. Moments To Remember
23. To Love Somebody
24. Stirrin' Up Feelin's
25. One Run For The Roses
26. Never Again
27. Everlasting Love
28. The End
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Narvel and John Berry are unbeatable!.......2004-11-15
Saw Narvel perform first in 1980 and he blew me away! Bought an album then which he autographed for me. Over the years I've found his music here and there. Found him on tour three and a half years ago and travel to see him whenever we can. Fabulous entertainer and a wonderful person. Do yourself a favor and treat yourself to Narvel Felts! After all, "Who deserves it more than you?"
It's about time you hear what you've been missing........
Sadly underrated artitst!!!!.......2003-08-21
Growing up on the country music of the '70's.....you could'nt escape this powerful artists' incredible voice. There were two great recognition crimes in the music then. Narvel Felts and the great Gary Stewart. This volume picks the best of the best of Narvel's output from this period. No true music lover's library is complete without it. None of Bear Family's disc's are inexpensive. This is worth ever red cent. While you are at it, pick up "The Essential Gary Stewart". Now, your country music collection is complete..
Drift Away Best of Narvel Felts.......2002-04-10
This is a must have cd for Narvel fans. His depth of feeling on these selections is felt in your soul. His voice can and will send chills up your spine and tears in your heart It' a great cd, what else can I say.
Drift Away Best of Narvel Felts.......2002-04-10
This is a must have cd for Narvel fans. His depth of feeling on these selections is felt in your soul. His voice can and will send chills up your spine and tears in your heart It' a great cd, what else can I say.
Narvel "The Marvel" Felts.......2000-11-30
I have been a fan of Narvel's since 1975. I have seen him perform 5 times and he still has that magical voice! "Drift Away" is a collection of Narvel's greatest hits starting in 1973 with "Drift Away". The C.D. offers slow tearful ballads as "Somebody Hold Me (Until She Passes By"}, to the Disco, upbeat tempo song "Everlasting Love". Narvel has a voice that no other artist can match. In this C.D. "Drift Away" his voice is all that you will remember. I highly recommend this C.D. to any one who wants to sit back and relax and hear a "Marvelous" voice.
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- excellent but uncomplete
- To call it music may be a bit limiting.
- A worthwhile collection
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OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music
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ASIN: B00004T0FZ
Release Date: 2000-04-25 |
Tracks:
- Valse Sentimentale - Clara Rockmore
- Oraison - Ens D'Ondes De Montreal
- Etude Aux Chemins De Fer - Pierre Schaeffer
- Williams Mix - John Cage
- Klangstudie II - Herbert Eimert/Robert Beyer
- Low Speed - Otto Luening
- Dripsody - Hugh Le Caine
- Forbidden Planet: Main Title - Louis Barron/Bebe Barron
- Elektronische Tanzste: Concertando Rubato - Oskar Sala
- Poem Electronique - Edgard Varese
- Sine Music (A Swarm Of Butterflies Encountered Over The Ocean) - Richard Maxfield
- Apocalypse-Part 2 - Tod Dockstader
- Kontakte - James Tenney/William Winant
- Wireless Fant - Vladimir Ussachevsky
- Philomel - Milton Babbitt
- Spacecraft - MEV
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- Cindy Electronium - Raymond Scott
- Pendulum Music - Sonic Youth
- Bye Bye Butterfly - Pauline Oliveros
- Projection Esemplastic For White Noise - Joji Yuasa
- Silver Apples Of The Moon, Part 1 - Morton Subotnick
- Rainforest Version 1 - David Tudor
- Poppy Nogood - Terry Riley
- Boat-Woman-Song - Holger Czukay
- Music Promenade - Luc Ferrari
- Vibrations Composees: Rosace 3 - Francois Bayle
- Mutations - Jean-Claude Risset
- Hibiki-Hana-Ma - Iannis Xenakis
- Map Of 49's Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals: Drift Study '31/69 c.... - La Monte Young
Tracks:
- He Destroyed Her Image - Charles Dodge
- Six Fants On A Poem By Thomas Campion: Her Song - Paul Lansky
- Appalachian Grove - Laurie Spiegel
- En Phase/Hors Phase - Bernard Parmegiani
- On The Other Ocean - David Behrman
- Stria - John Chowning
- Living Sound, Patent Pending Music For Sound-Joined Rooms Series - Maryanne Amacher
- Automatic Writing - Robert Ashley
- Canti Illuminati - Alvin Curran
- Music On A Long Thin Wire - Alvin Lucier
- Melange - Klaus Schulze
- Before And After Charm (La Notte) - Jon Hassell
- Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills) - Brian Eno
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Opening with Clara Rockmore's reworking of Tchaikovsky with the theremin, and finishing with one of Brian Eno's ambient soundscapes, OHM artfully succeeds in its goal of giving a representative (as opposed to the impossible, comprehensive) overview of the first several decades of electronic music. Over 3 discs, 42 compositions, and 96 pages of notes and photos, OHM clearly illustrates the producers' and contributing writers' point that early electronic music is much of the foundation of contemporary music. Herein lies the connective tissue bridging musique concrète, 20th-century classical, electronic experimentation, and the theoretical avant-garde to psychedelia, ambient, dub, techno, electro, and synthpop and the globalization of sound. The groundbreaking uses of loops, sampling, drones, remixes, and cut-and-paste technology are put fully into context. The diversity of music included makes any sort of summation impossible, but that is also the point: electronic music is not really a genre, but an open field of endless possibility. From John Cage's famous "William's Mix" of tape snippets to Karkheinz Stockhausen's electronic orchestral compositions, from David Tudor and Holger Czukay's experiments in unrelated blendings of audio elements to David Behrman's supremely peaceful duet between computers and musicians, the aural renegades on OHM tread where none (save a few of their contemporaries) had gone before. The liner notes convey the incredible amount of hard work and experimentation it took to stitch together many of these pieces in the predigital era. Putting aside the inevitable quibbles about what's missing (much of it due to legal and/or logistical issues), a more complete collection of musical eggheads, eccentrics, and visionaries is hard to imagine. --Carl Hanni
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excellent but uncomplete.......2006-11-12
Althought most of the music here is an excellent collection of electronic music history, this 3 CDs lack of the important contribution given by the RAI phonology studios of Milan, Italy in the 50s
(which was bigger than Koln's WDR studios) with Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio and Luigi Nono.
This is a big mistake. Milans studios were the biggest of europe and produced many important electroacoustic pieces.
If the collection aim to describe faithfully electronic music history, it should include this artists too.
To call it music may be a bit limiting. .......2006-10-24
Some of the tracks on here are "music". That is that they contain all the bits we're trained to experience as music -- melody, etc. Some are not, and the composers would be the first people to tell you that. A lot of these works are reactions to ingrained rules, so they're bound to be jarring.
A more successful way to approach such a broad and varied collection of audio experimentation is to think of it as curated sound. This isn't something to wash the dishes to, or to seduce someone to (although if you did manage to seduce someone with the recordings on this anthology, HOLD ON TO THAT PERSON, because they've got to be a keeper). These are unique sound textures that deserve a close, probably solitary listen, and I think if you're in the right frame of mind, it can be a very rewarding listen.
My main complaint is sequencing: each dicrete piece follows it's own internal logic, so there are more than a couple rough gear changes. However, since each piece is so different, and the collection is so varied, I'm not sure that you could totally escape that.
A worthwhile collection.......2006-01-11
The OHM collection contains some of those ground breaking electronic compositions that have shaped today's styles, from the early electronic instruments of Theremin and Martenot, through Pierre Schaeffer's Music Concrete tape music and the electronic music of Stockhausen and Subotnick, to the mainframe computer output of Risset and Chowning.
It is unfair to mark this collection down due to the production quality and 'musicality' of its contents, to do so would be to staggeringly miss the point of the development of electronic music through the 20th Century. What this collection shows is the ideas behind those at the cutting edge of the genre before many could even conceive of such output. That said it is hard going at points, as experimental music can be.
Highlights for me are no doubt Olivier Messiaen's 'Oraison' on CD 1, David Tudor's 'Rainforest Version 1' on CD 2 and on CD 3 David Behrman's 'On the Other Ocean' and Maryanne Amacher's 'Living sound Patent Pending'.
OhMyGodHowDreadful.......2005-08-15
Ok, this collection is supposed to be early works and, thus not expected to be very sophisticated or polished. But the OHM collection sounds like the first attempt of a spastic cat turned-loose on a Moog keyboard. When it is not boreing, this collection of random and dissonant sounds (I can't call it music) is without any redeeming qualities to make it worth while. Don't get me wrong, I am a long-time fan of Wendy (nie Walter) Carlos and some other real pioneers of electronic music. However, I find that the Ohm collection has no similar qualities and is a major disappointment.
Kid Stockhausen.......2003-01-17
This is required listening for anybody interested in the history of electronic music. Although implicitly aiming for the techno music audience, this audio history is overwhelmingly focused on the classical avant-garde of electro-acoustic composers. The closest you'll get to pop electronica is the Brian Eno track at the end of the third disc. No Kraftwerk, no Moroder, etc. Instead "OHM" manages to point to the continuities between, say, John Cage and artists currently working at the experimental edges of electronica (so-called IDM). It seems to be saying, "You think Kid 606 is visionary? Well check out this Stockhausen track from '59!"
Admittedly, some of the songs are much more interesting to think about than they are to listen to. Some of the early pieces that were made through thosuands of hours of pains-taking tape-splicing could be made today in an afternoon with a digital audio editor and a few effects plug-ins.
It is a beautiful package, containing a 90 page booklet of essays, quotations from the featured artists, and photographs. What all music should be: an education in daring.
Music Track:
- Early Works
- Earthshaker [Import]
- Effigy of the Forgotten/Pierced from Within [Explicit Lyrics]
- Enemy of the Sun
- Equator [Import]
- Exposures: In Retrospect & Denial
- Født til å Herske
- Feel [Import]
- Forlorn
- Friends of Hell [Import]
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Travel With Me
Cheryl Studer - A Portrait
Bernstein: West Side Story; Gershwin: Preludes
Music: Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Bugs Bunny on Broadway [Cast Recording]
Been Around the World [CD-single]
Beach Boys' Party!/Stack-O-Tracks [Extra tracks] [Original recording remastered]
Boogie On
Arriesgare La Piel [Import]
Berg: Violin Concerto; Three Orchestral Pieces, Op. 6
Chances Are It Swings
Beat Latino [Import]
Beginning of the End [CD-single]
Women Be Wise
Another 700 Miles