Green House

Track Listings

1. Har Har Har Har Gobinday

2. Har Haray Haree Wahe Guru

3. Har Haray Haree (Adagio)

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About the Artist
Arranged by Ferenz Kallos for Rootlight, Inc.

Product Description
These sound vibrations on Green House develop the psycho-electromagnetic field and extend thepower of projection and protection in the personality of the chanter or listener. They work with the creative forces of the universe to protect one from negativity and misfortune, while helping you achieve a productive and fulfilling life. They help develop personal confidence and convert anxiety and fear into determination, while bestowing spiritual growth and radiance.

All music on the Rootlight label has been created during the most positive and healing phase of the moon to magnify the beneficial impact upon the listener.

Green House,Joseph Michael Levry (Gurunam)

Green House

Tracks:

The Man from Snowy River (Bruce Rowland)
The Winds of War (Bob Cobert)
Blue Velvet (Angelo Badalamenti)
Witness (Maurice Jarre)
Raising Arizona (Carter Burwell)
Pee Wees Big Adventure (Danny Elfman)
Halloween (John Carpenter)
A Nightmare On Elm Street (Charles Bernstein)
The Fly (Howard Shore)
RoboCop (Basil Poledouris)
The Empire Strikes Back (John Williams)
The Right Stuff (Bill Conti)
The Final Conflict (Jerry Goldsmith)
The Abyss (Alan Silvestri)
Brainstorm (James Horner)
Peggy Sue Got Married (John Barry)
My Left Foot (Elmer Bernstein)
The Dead (Alex North)
Stanley & Iris (John Williams)
The Milagro Beanfield War (Dave Grusin)
Driving Miss Daisy (Hans Zimmer)

Tracks:

Steel Magnolias (Georges Delerue)
Unforgiven (Lennie Niehaus and Clint Eastwood)
Raggedy Man (Jerry Goldsmith)
The Grifters (Elmer Bernstein)
Green Card (Hans Zimmer)
City Slickers (Marc Shaiman)
Father Of The Bride (Alan Silvestri)
While You Were Sleeping (Randy Edelman)
Babe (Nigel Westlake)
The Adventures Of The Great Mouse Detective (Henry Mancini)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (Laurence Rosenthal)
The Secret Garden (Zbigniew Preisner)
A Little Princess (Patrick Doyle)
Rudy (Jerry Goldsmith)
Iron Will (Joel McNeely)
Memphis Belle (George Fenton)
Eye Of The Needle (Mikl)
Total Recall (Jerry Goldsmith)
Back To The Future Part III (Alan Silvestri)

Tracks:

To Die For (Danny Elfman)
The Player (Thomas Newman)
Black Robe (Georges Delerue)
Medicine Man (Jerry Goldsmith)
2001 (Alex North)
Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire (Joel McNeely)
The Crow (Graeme Revell)
Blade (Mark Isham)
The Omen (Jerry Goldsmith)
Vertigo (Bernard Herrmann)
Scream (Marco Beltrami)
The Sixth Sense (James Newton Howard)
Xena: Warrior Princess (Joseph LoDuca)
Air Force One (Jerry Goldsmith)
Starship Troopers (Basil Poledouris)
The Matrix (Don Davis)
The Iron Giant (Michael Kamen)
Youve Got Mail (George Fenton)
A Little Romance (Georges Delerue)
Pleasantville (Randy Newman)

Tracks:

Sunset Boulevard (Franz Waxman)
L.A. Confidential (Jerry Goldsmith)
Rounders (Christopher Young)
The Score (Howard Shore)
The Replacements (John Debney)
Gone In 60 Seconds (Trevor Rabin)
The Bourne Identity (John Powell)
Rush Hour 2 (Lalo Schifrin)
XXX (Randy Edelman)
Die Hard (Michael Kamen)
The Last of the Mohicans (Trevor Jones)
Moby Dick (Christopher Gordon)
The Mists Of Avalon (Lee Holdridge)
Cleopatra (Alex North)
Life As A House (Mark Isham)
Emma (Rachel Portman)
In The Bedroom (Thomas Newman)
Cast Away (Alan Silvestri)
One True Thing (Cliff Eidelman)
Unfaithful (Jan A.P. Kaczmarek)
Far From Heaven (Elmer Bernstein)
Ice Age (David Newman)
Shrek (Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell)

Customer Reviews:

A good value.......2007-05-17

I wasn't expecting to have 4 discs for this price, and the music is a quality selection of film music, giving a good scope of the genre, and a very listenable transfer.

The Sound Track Since Bernard Hermann.......2006-07-25

This collection is bound to capture your heart and evoke a tin ear on successive tracks. I found much to like and some duds - easy to skip over.
Very good value.

Good mix of film music.......2006-07-02

Good mix of films!
I'm a big fan of this soundtrack music and will be looking for more CD's like this.

A mixed collection of movie music.......2006-02-23

For the price, this CD is a great bargain. The musical selections, as you might expect, are mixed in quality ranging from extraordinary to so so, the balance being worthwhile and interesting. Sonically the CD is excellent.

Uplifts your soul, takes your mind into the heavens.......2006-01-06

I have been listening to great scores for many years and this collection is truly inspirational in so far as the choice of different scores takes you on a journey of listening pleasure matched by only a few collections.The price is incredibly reasonable for hours of listening pleasure. Don't pass this one up

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All the Greatest hits of the 90's
an appointment with disappointment
Green Velvet does more with less !
Ridiculously Good
This disc really grows on you

Green Velvet
Green Velvet
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
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ASIN: B00004S7KA
Release Date: 2000-04-25

Tracks:

Flash
Answering Machine
The Stalker
Coitus (Remix)
Land Of The Lost
Thoughts
Water Molecule
Leave My Body
Destination Unknown
Percoolator 2000
The Red Light
Abduction

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Chicago's Curtis Jones (a.k.a. Cajmere and Green Velvet) is, by far, on of the top producers of house music in the world. In the mid-'90s, his self-run record labels, Cajual and Relief, spearheaded the continuing renaissance of the genre with distinctive tracks that delivered a powerful dance-floor rush and gave DJs a deep arsenal of guaranteed crowd pleasers. While his Cajmere tracks are upbeat vocal workouts, it's his work as Green Velvet that continues to fascinate and gain legions of new devotees. Jones sets his GV material on a bed of dark, relentless, dirty beats, while adding his own twisted vocal flourishes that are one part Gary Numan and one part Bauhaus. Each track has a distinct narrative (i.e., a tour of a night club or an imagined reincarnation as a drop of water); the results are both frightening and hilarious. Long out-of-print on vinyl, the new Green Velvet CD combines such "classics" as "Flash," "Leave My Body," and "Answering Machine" with more recent material, including the fantastic Giorgio Moroder-inspired drive of "Coitus." --David Prince

Customer Reviews:

All the Greatest hits of the 90's.......2005-12-04

This is great. It contains most of his classic cuts from the 90's.

an appointment with disappointment.......2003-04-16

I've been collecting house music for over a decade now. I own tracks from Genesis P. to Carl Cox and everything in between. And just as any avid music collector, there are times when you by an album with the hope of finding the next phat groove for your audio enjoyment. I cannot relay my disappointment when I picked up this CD.

The tracks never really seem to take hold. It borderlines monotonous at times. I love phat DC, Philly, Chicago house. But this lack of feeling and over all vibe, if you will, was a stark contrast to everything I love about house. I've heard GV's tracks on many other compilations and each sounded promising.

Since my initial time of purchase, I've only listened to it 4 or 5 times, just to be sure my tastes haven't changed and my ears haven't deceived me. But alas, it sits among the rest, out of my personal rotation, collecting dust.

Perhaps another listen is now in order.

Green Velvet does more with less !.......2002-07-03

The album takes a bit of getting used to at first, but the more you listen to it the more conviced you will become of the briliance behind the music.
The album is a very good example of minimalistic house music, with that typical Chicago techno sound.
It is a rare thing when you hear so much music being made with so few sounds, extreemly minimalistic.
Minimalistic though it may be, but when you sit down and realy listen to it the compositions turn out to be more complex than I thought possible.
Combine this sound with some hillarious (sometimes) explicit samples and you have yourself an album by Green Velvet.
Very dancable, extreemly good for freaking out and great to listen to too.

Enjoy!

Ridiculously Good.......2001-08-15

"Velvet, this is your landlord calling. I am calling to notify you that we are, uh... evicting you... we've been getting a lot of noise from your space recently, and, uh... the naked girls running down the hallway yesterday certainly didn't help." ~("Answering Machine")

This is one of the most refreshing, witty, hard, dark, creepy, funny, unrelenting electronic albums I have bought in a long time. Don't play this for your radio-fanatic friends, they'll be scared by Green Velvet's (a.k.a. Cajmere's) goofy voice. (Does anyone else hear the ghost of Slick Rick in here?) But if you're in the mood for something that stimulates your head and your toes at the same time, I can't think of anything better.

Like many, I was introduced to Green Velvet by the standout track "Flash" on Timo Maas's "Music for the Maases." Based on the strength of that track, and the cover art which features GV with a neon feather on his head, I bought this album. If you liked Flash, which is a romping, frolicking narrative through a club filled with "naughty" drug-takers, you're in for more. The beats here are dark and selfish. I can't tell you how many times I rewound the CD, asking myself, "Did he just *do* that with the track?"

While your body is uncontrollably contorting into a variety of positions, you can't help but notice Velvet's weird, weird lyrics. Most of them are rambling narratives on a particular subject, as found on "The Stalker", "Water Molecule" and "Abduction." "Land of the Lost," though it doesn't fit into that category, is one of my favorites. There are some great instrumental tracks here, too.

Velvet is one part stand-up comic and two parts hard, dark house producer of the century. I seriously reccomend this to almost any listener of electronic music.

This disc really grows on you.......2001-01-24

I bought this CD while in a Christmas-induced music buying spree not expecting a whole lot other than "Flash". However, I was pleasantly surprised to find a lot of other good material on the disc, such as "Answering Machine", "The Stalker", "Land Of The Lost", "Water Molecule", and "The Red Light". The beats are minimal but catchy almost all the time, and the narratives that often show up are hilarious (and I do mean hilarious; "The Stalker" is literally laugh-out-loud funny in a disturbed sort of way!). Not everything is outstanding, but there's much more than "Flash" or "Answering Machine". If you liked either of those two, this is probably a good buy.

Kurt Weill: Life, Love, & Laughter--Dance Arrangements, 1927-50

Average customer rating:

SAIL ON, KURT!
Not at All Vile Weill
ELEVATOR MUSIC

Kurt Weill: Life, Love, & Laughter--Dance Arrangements, 1927-50
H.K. Gruber , and Palast Orchestra
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ASIN: B000055YBR
Release Date: 2001-02-12

Tracks:

Mile After Mile
Bilbao Song
Stay Well
Life, Love And Laughter
My Ship
Green-up Time
The Little Gray House
Blues Potpourri
September Song
All At Once
Le Roi d'Aquitaine (Waltz)
Foxtrot Potporri
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Lied Der Jenny
Speak Low
It Never Was You
What Good Would the Moon Be
Tango Ballade
Kanonen-Song

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Here's a disc of 19 familiar and unfamiliar Kurt Weill songs arranged for dance band and played by an expert group of specialists in Roaring Twenties band music. They're led by singer-conductor-composer H.K. Gruber, whose previous recordings include Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper. The result is a start-to-finish delight. From the first notes, you're beamed back in time to one of those sleek transatlantic passenger liners, sitting in an art deco ballroom watching elegant couples in tuxedos and ball-gowns swirl by while the band plays hits from Weill's German and Broadway triumphs. Sure, the venom is leached from the originals, but who needs agitprop when you're on a dance floor? The arrangements are by a variety of hands, hired by Weill's European and American publishers with his approval to get more mileage from his musical theater works. They're delightfully square rhythmically and formulaic in transferring Weill's music to conventional dance bands, but the music still holds up and is fun to hear in its new clothes. A special treat is the eight tracks with Max Raabe, whose light tenor and falsetto singing preserve the spirit of Weill's songs, as well as perfectly mimic the boy band singers of times gone by. --Dan Davis

Customer Reviews:

SAIL ON, KURT!.......2006-04-23

I wouldn't take offence here oh, Weill purists! These reconstructions are charming and harmonically reverent to their originals, more than could be said for many versions of the Weill Songbook through the decades, including Lou Reed's friendly `adaptation' of the September Song's chord progression and melodic line!

Shoenberg and Webern expressed their disdain of Weill's music; curiously, Arnold had also disclosed a secret wish of having his own audiences walk back home "whistling his tunes", oh, don't ask why... You can certainly whistle, hum and sway your partner now, as the transatlantic's bouncy dancehall sails on just as Kurt, Lotte and the lot of them did when escaping the lethal hounds of early 30s Berlin.... the-next-little-dollar bound.

Not at All Vile Weill.......2001-08-13

The ever versatile HK Gruber has done it again digging up these gorgeous dance arrangements for Weill's music--proving, if anything, Weill's versatility. Anyone familiar with the Capriccio historical Weill recordings will be aware of the long tradition of dance bands taking Weill's music as the lead for dance music or pop music incarnations (all the way up through the more obvious appropriations familiar to Americans: Mack the Knife and September Song). Hardly MUZAK arrangements (listen to the delicate violin in track 17's "What Good Would the Moon Be" to hear what I mean), this generous helping of 19 songs offers a chance to see Weill through a delightfully different but entirely compatible lens. Max Raabe provides the ideal vocal compliment on 8 of the tracks, his tenor floating effortlessly into his head voice suggesting a "period" sound reminiscent of Bing Crosby. The import title for this disc is "Charming Weill," and that modest adjective expresses the least of its virtues.

ELEVATOR MUSIC.......2001-05-23

This is a very strange CD: why would anyone want to take the quirky rhythms and melodies of the great Kurt Weill and "tame" them into dance arrangements? Certainly one has listened to (& even perhaps admired) dance arrangements of composers from Victor Herbert to Cole Porter to Jerry Herman, but these are all, if you will, main stream composers-- men whose music sounds good in original Broadway or Hollywood arrangements and just as good (or almost as good) as played by a dance band...think "Begin The Beguine" as done by Fred Astaire on film or "Begin The Beguine" done by Jo Stafford with the Paul Weston Orchestra.

But Weill was an innovator: a man who can still be listened to experiencing the thrill of something fresh and new. One immediately thinks of his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht in Germany: "Threepenny Opera" and "The Rise & Fall Of The City of Mahagonny" or "The Seven Deadly Sins", etc. his American opera, "Street Scene" with Langston Hughes or his American musical plays: "One Touch of Venus" with Ogden Nash or "Love Life" with Alan Jay Lerner, etc. The songs on this CD all deserve great recordings from the "Alabama Song" to "September Song" but they turn into a kind of flattened elevator music instead of having fresh interpretations or even more traditional ones. What happens is that the longing in "What Good Would the Moon Be" and the romance of "Speak Low" and the raucousness of "Bilbao Song" are all much too similar and much too easy.

Tracks:

On The Town: New York, New York
On The Town: Lonely Town
On The Town: Carried Away
PETER PAN: Build My House
PETER PAN: Plank Song
Trouble In Tahiti: I Was Standing In A Garden
Trouble In Tahiti: What A Movie!
Wonderful Town: Conga
Wonderful Town: Ohio
Wonderful Town: Wrong Note Rag
Candide: Best Of All Possible Worlds
Candide: Oh, Happy We
Candide: Glitter And Be Gay
Candide: Make Our Garden Grow
West Side Story: America
West Side Story: Maria
West Side Story: Tonight Quintet
West Side Story: Somewhere
Mass: Hymn And Psalm: A Simple Song
FINALE: ON THE TOWN: Some Other Time
ENCORE: 1600 HUNDRED PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE: Take Care Of This House

Customer Reviews:

A great "first step" to the magic of "The Great White Way".......2006-11-26

With the Thanksgiving passing of songwriter Betty Comden, I recalled that I had, in my album collection, this album, not just featuring her songs but Comden singing on "Carried Away" and "Some Other Time" from the Tony-award-winning "New York." Two other songs from the play are featured, culled from a 1960 recording.

This compilation has some of the best of Broadway, not just the songs but the performers as well. Familiar names like Boris Karloff, the legendary Rosalind Russell, Nancy Walker, Chita Rivera, and Carol Lawrence are showcased in various selections from the likes of "Peter Pan," "Trouble in Tahiti," "Wonderful Town," "Candide," "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," and, in this writer's opinion, the best musical in the history of the stage, "West Side Story."

The liner notes provide brief but insightful descriptions of the various plays, including an introduction from Comden and her longtime collaborator Adolph Green, also heard on the album.

The music is definitely Bernstein with his uniquely American style, coupled with Old World influences.

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Loved this CD
I LOVE this CD!
Costello Partners with Hubris and Yields Variable Results
what's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?
No life in her (pop) art

For the Stars
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Tracks:

No Wonder
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Rope
Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
Broken Bicycles / Junk
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Like An Angel Passing Through My Room
Green Song
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At a time when popular music has been micro-marketed to the far side of ad nauseam, Declan MacManus, a.k.a. Elvis Costello, has traded on his reputation as the brightest songwriter to emerge from the new wave era to foster any number of delightful, cross-genre/generation musical surprises, including soundtracks and collaborations with the Brodsky Quartet, Paul McCartney, jazz artist Roy Nathanson, and songwriting legend Burt Bacharach. The latest fruit of that generous, insatiably curious artistic spirit is this elegant partnership with Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne-Sofie von Otter. Though an admitted pop novice, Otter couldn't have picked a better confederate than Costello, an artist whose taste in songs has seldom been tainted by trend.

Together, they weave material from disparate sources--including a slate of compelling Costello material, a pair of Brian Wilson's evocative "Pet Sounds" confessionals, a Tom Waits song from Francis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart (oddly, though effectively, coupled in medley with McCartney's "Junk"), an Abba song, and the Beatles' "For No One"--into a musical tapestry of stately power and grace. Costello sparingly uses his voice as seasoning throughout, though his masterful touch is everywhere. Otter's novice pop singing reveals an easy knack for jazz phrasing that should tempt further explorations and a warmth that belies the rigidity that's so often a byproduct of classical training. Most gratifying of all, this album ultimately achieves what's become one of the loftiest plateaus in Pop music: common ground. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

Loved this CD .......2006-06-13

Who would pair Costello and an opera singer?? Elvis, and somehow it works. I really love the tone and moodiness of it and lyrics that talk about love and life, failure and success. It's soulful, in a contemplative way, music for those tucked away, rainy days .

I LOVE this CD!.......2005-09-01

Finally, an opera singer who knows how to channel her Classical training into a sound that is, as one critic aptly described it, "what pop singers would sound like if they could actually sing"! Although Elvis Costello does not join Ms. von Otter very often in the vocals, when he does they harmonize beautifully. With great melodies (some beautiful, some catchy) and sensitive (but not sappy) lyrics, this album makes a fine addition to any CD collection.

Costello Partners with Hubris and Yields Variable Results.......2005-05-08

Having just heard Elvis Costello's masterful collaboration with Burt Bacharach, "Painted from Memory", for the first time this past month, I had high hopes for this equally unusual partnership with mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter released in 2001. This time, however, Costello acts as arranger and producer, and it is von Otter who is front and center on vocals. She is among the most revered of singers on the opera and recital stages, and she has impressed me in the past, in particular, with her Dejanira in the 2002 Marc Minkowski-led performance of Handel's "Hercules", among many other roles she has embodied. Here she is called upon to be a pop chanteuse, and while the beauty of her voice is inarguable in any setting, her ability to interpret the diverse lyrics in these songs is far more debatable. This is where a Marianne Faithfull, a Blossom Dearie or even a Joni Mitchell could capture more of the underlying feeling with a fraction of the vocal power von Otter can provide but with twice the nuance. There is a rather sterile sameness to the performances here, somewhat jazz-inflected in a cocktail lounge manner at times and at other times, rather morose and dirge-like.

Take, for example, her rendition of Brian Wilson's "Don't Ask (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)" from the legendary "Pet Sounds" album. It moves so glacially that it actually extricates the romantic subtext almost surgically. The same can be said for Jessie Mae Robinson's "The Other Woman", which has at least Magnus Persson's vibraphone to provide relief from the tedium. She's better on the other "Pet Sounds" classic, "You Still Believe in Me", where she cannily soars with the chorus, though Costello damages it by adding some odd, muffled rapping in the background. Ironically, it is on the Costello compositions where the recording most noticeably flails. The opener "No Wonder" starts as a "Greensleeves"-like madrigal and then turns into Beatlesque pop; "Baby Plays Around" seems to suffer from exhaustion by all parties; the two Fleshquartet collaborations, "Rope" and "Just a Curio", sound somewhat like extraterrestrial hymns done in a series of minor keys; and the closing title track, "For the Stars" includes peppy, Beach Boys-sounding harmonies which escape her grasp. In fact, "Just a Curio" would have been a more appropriate title for this entire recording.

On the other hand, the Gallic flavor of Benny Andersson's accordion effectively informs her rendition of Tom Waits' "Broken Bicycles", which melds perfectly with Costello's vocal on Paul McCartney's "Junk". Speaking of Andersson, a fellow Scandinavian, von Otter admirably covers a piano-led ABBA ballad, "Like an Angel Passing Through My Room". She also displays a meticulously casual bounce on Lennon-McCartney's "For No One", though it stops rather abruptly. Von Otter acquits herself surprisingly well on the jazzy "Shamed into Love", written by another unlikely duo, Costello and Rubén Blades, and performed as almost a smokier variation of Bacharach's "Alfie". And speaking of Bacharach, she does a nice turn on the lovely "This House Is Empty Now" from the 1998 Bacharach-Costello disc. Costello and von Otter are masters of their craft, but I think some of the collaborations reflect simply irreconcilable differences. While Costello seems to have an insatiable desire to expand musically, his hubris here appears to constrain the often preternatural vocal skill von Otter displays on the opera and recital stage. Consequently, what we have here is a nice album, a generous one with eighteen tracks, that doesn't seem to capitalize on either contributor's talent fully.

what's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?.......2004-04-22

Nothing's funny about this boring duo. I picked this up FREE at my library and it didn't take me too many tracks to see why it was donated. The musical arrangements are hapless and dull, and her voice is Dion without the Vegas power finale. Come to think of it, the lyrics remind me of Dion; they are as saccharine as anything Dion has ever sung. I wasted a blank CD on this limp, sleepy pairing of two otherwise good artists.

No life in her (pop) art.......2004-03-15

I am a big fan of both artists and wanted very much for this combination to work. It avoids the traditional trap of "oversinging" the pop material. But a few years after its release, in these American Idol era, is that really such a terror for pop music any more? So-called oversinging seems pretty popular these days!

The big problem is that von Otter has not found a way to communicate any emotion in this scaled-down form of singing. All her classical techniques are stripped away, and there's nothing to replace them. Sure, her voice is gorgeous, but it sounds exactly the same no matter what the lyrical content. The songs could have been made up of nonsense syllables for all the emotional life she communicates.

Tracks:

Theway
Firedup!
Noticiasuno
Somekindoflove
Untiltheday
Noticiasdos
Sogood
Why?
Pigsty
Noticiastres
Icametostomp
Ride
Nightofthefunkygreendogsfromouterspace

Customer Reviews:

Intelligent dance-oriented songs.......2004-11-06

Funky Green Dogs' debut album "Get Fired Up" is an awesome album of Progressive House with some Tribal beats in the mix. Includes the awesome hits "The Way", "Fired Up", "Some Kind of Love " and "Until the Day." The vocals are very good as well as the lyrics. This was only the beginning of what of what the Murk boys could do. Recommended.

Dont hate on this album!.......2004-01-19

There are more hot tunes than not on this album! All the haters of this album were the very ones shakin their a** all night long on the dance floor whenever they played it in the club. The very ones who can sing "Fired Up" and "The Way" and even "So Good" word for word. Ok, I admit the lyrics aren't that difficult to learn after listening for 45 seconds of play but still! They're catchy!! Hot beats! As far as composition the interlude tracks made no sense to me, however this album still gets me moving. The tribal sounds are still as fresh today on this album as they were back in the mid 90's when it released. And Pamela Williams vocals are strong and evoke a feeling of freedom and empowerment from within on every track. I feel that this is definately a upbead, feelgood cd worth having in your collection.

okay effort........2000-01-14

i first became aware of fgd in the early 90's with a track called "reach for me". the group was actually called "funky green dogs from outer space" at the time and their sound was fresh and live. when i saw that they had a full-length album, i snapped it up immediately - i was thrilled to find it. however, i wasn't thrilled, but not exactly disappointed by the album when i first listened to it. it just did not contain songs with the same drive and energy as their earlier works. admittedly over time, the cd has grown on me and makes good background music, but i don't ever select it as a "warm-up" cd for getting me in the mood for dancing and it is far from being a favourite.

Repetitive, monotonous.......1999-02-25

I bought this because of the fabulous singles, "Fired Up" and "Until the Day". I now know why that's all we heard in the clubs. The same dull lyric over and over again, along with the same dull beat. And what is with the almost nil mention of their only asset, vocalist Pamela Williams, in the credits.

These Green Dogs are'nt funky enough!.......1998-08-25

This Cd was a real disapointment after I heard good things about the two dj's that comprise the funky green dogs. I was expecting something original and off the wall. This Cd is a collection of R&B songs not groundbreaking dance music. It was just not funky enough for me.

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awsome

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Sessions
Sessions 4: DJ Sneak
Sessions: Andy Cato
House of Om
Sessions: Josh Wink

ASIN: B000IHYTZM
Release Date: 2006-10-03

Tracks:

Say U Will - Cajmere, Dajae
Old Man Groan [Keyz Remix] - Jovonn
Safari [James Holden Remix] - Schad Privat
Brighter Days [Underground Goodie Mix] - Cajmere, Dajae
He Is [Ferrer & Sydenham Inc Vox Mix]
Crowd Control - Trouble Men
I Need U [Mark Grant Remix] - Cajmere, Dajae
Ju Ju Beat - Jeff Kellner
Closer to Me
S2 - DJ Gregory
Shake & Pop - Green Velvet, Walter Phillips
Front 2 Back [Switch Remix] - KC Flightt,
Midnight - Cajmere, Walter Phillips
There for Me [Soul Bounce Vocal] - Mark Grant, Russoul
Chocie - Green Velvet, Jamie Principle

Tracks:

Acidtraxx 2 - Green Velvet
Flash - Green Velvet
Accidents & Compliments - Soulwax
Spin Spin Sugar [Armand Van Helden Mix] - Sneaker Pimps
War on the Saints - Green Velvet
I Need - Jerome Baker
Move - Hugo Moya
House Work [Green Velvet Mix] - Cajmere
Three Is One
Put Your Hands Up for Detroit - Fedde Le Grand
Erotic Discourse - Bobby Peru, Paul Woolford
First Second - Olivier Giacomotto,
La Land - Green Velvet
Electricity - Green Velvet
Zeta 1 - X24 Marrer

Album Description

The 9th installment of the acclaimed Sessions Series sees Ministry of Sound (UK) really pulling one out of the bag with CAJMERE VERSUS GREEN VELVET. The legend himself Curtis Jones gives us the two sides of his musical character from his Cajmere moniker of the finest house music to the twisted but quirky beats and vocals of Green Velvet (massive club classic La La Land) This compilation has the lot & is a must-have addition to the Ministry UK Sessions collection

Album Details

The Ninth in the Acclaimed Sessions Series Sees Ministry Really Pull in Out the Bag with Cajmere Vs. Green Velvet. The Legend Himself, Curtis Jones, Gives Us the Two Sides of his Musical Character Courtesy of his Cajmere Moniker of the Finest House Music to the Twisted but Quirky Beats and Vocals of Green Velvet. This Compilation Has the Lot.

Customer Reviews:

awsome.......2007-01-30

this mix has almost all of the best cajmere green velvet songs with the exeption of the percolator, plus some other great tracks. I have been waiting for green velvet mix cd for a long time and my wish has finally come true.

Average customer rating:

Awesome cd
Fresh Sounds from Chicago!!
Fresh Sounds from Chicago!!

New Chicago House Sound
Cajmere , Green Velvet , and Dajae
Manufacturer: Cajual Records
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Percolator
Paris Is Burning

ASIN: B000001ZUO
Release Date: 1995-04-16

Customer Reviews:

Awesome cd.......2005-01-21

Tracks...
1) CAJMERE feat. DAJAE - Brighter Days (Louie's Masters At Work Mix)
2) WORKIN' HAPPILY - Feel It (Cajmere's Underground Goodie Mix)
3) CAJMERE feat. DAJAE - Brighter Days (Cajmere's Underground Goodie Mix)
4) HARD COREY & WRAY - Love Train (Cajmere's Underground Goodie Mix)
5) DAJAE - U Got Me Up (Cajmere's Underground Goodie Mix)
6) CAJMERE - Percolator
7) OUTHERE BROTHERS - Whip Dat P---Y*
8) CAJMERE feat. DERRICK CARTER - Wet Dream*
9) GREEN VELVET - Conniption
10) JUMP "CHICO" SLAMM - Feel Free
11) DAJAE - U Got Me Up (Danny Tenaglia's Club Version)
12) CAJMERE - Let Me Be

Fresh Sounds from Chicago!!.......2004-10-15

In 1992 there was a new sheriff in town and his name was Cajmere. He had already been working with the Underground Crew and Clubhouse Records for the previous couple of years but he sounded so unique that it seemed evident that he would create a new phenomenon in Chicago. That phenom would become Cajual Records. What was so special about Cajual Records? Deep house vocals, driving beats and rythms, and a slick logo! The spotlight on underground dance music had essentially come back home to Chicago. This album illustrates how that was possible. Cajual, like any great label, already had a potential "star" in the form of Dajae -- check "Brighter Days" and "U Got Me Up"! Cajmere also offers his own material including the ever popular "Percolator". There is also the alter ego of Green Velvet, courtesy of the newly created sister label Relief. Add in the new artist development (another trait of a great label) and a couple of remixed records and you have an excellent compilation which is a breath of fresh air (as it was at the time of release).
If you find yourself longing for some feel-good music then this is the album for you!

Fresh Sounds from Chicago!!.......2003-09-03

Product Description

Anthology of 18 songs written by Richard Thompson and performed by various artists for Green Linnet Records in 1993. 1. The Knife Edge by The Hokey Pokey Strings 2. Pharoah by The Hose Band 3. How Will I Ever Be Simple Again by Christine Collister 4. It Don't Cost Much by Marvin Etzioni 5. Down Where the Drunkards Roll by Martin & Jessica Simpson 6. Wheely Down by Ian Kearey & Ivor Cutler 7. Reckless Kind by Victoria Williams 8. The Edge of the Rainbow by Tom Robinson 9. I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight by Ron Kavana 10. Love Is Bad for Business by Men and Volts 11. Dimming of the Day by Gregson, Hewerdine, Reader 12. Waltzing for Dreamers by The Keith Hancock Band 13. The World Is a Wonderful Place 14. Night Comes In by Full Moon Fair 15. Sisters by The Fraser Sisters 16. The Shame of Doing Wrong by Peter Blegvad 17. I Misunderstood by Sally Barker 18. Galway to Graceland by Plainsong

Customer Reviews:

an obscure gem.......2006-09-22

Although he's never achieved the popular success he richly deserve, Richard Thompson is loved by many fans, for many things - among them his superb songs. I picked up this tribute album long ago on a whim, and I'm glad I did. This album is full of pleasant surprises... Henry Kaiser's free take on "Night Comes In", Victoria Williams' gender-bending of "The Reckless Kind", Martin Simpson's sophisticated guitar work on "Down Where the Drunkards Roll", and a surprise hidden track by some obscure British folksinger and his ex-wife. If you ever see a copy of this, jump on it! Hopefully, Green Linnet will reissue it someday.