Viva

Track Listings

1. Heart Still/Beating - 2 the Night

2. Buddha's Flower

3. Morning Arrival in Goa

4. Snake Charmer

5. Buleria (Intro)

6. Black Stone Buleria

7. Duen de del Amor

8. Santa Fe

9. Barcelona Nights

10. Soma

11. Lush

12. Dream

Viva,Ottmar Liebert + Luna Negra,Sony,Adult Alternative,Ethnic Fusion,Flamenco,Jazz Music,New Age / Meditation,Pop

Viva

Tracks:

Mattinata - Romano Ledenzio And His Orchestra
Mala Femmena - Frankie Fanelli
Canto D'Amore - Romano Ledenzio And His Orchestra
Guaglione - Carlo Savina And His Orchestra
Lary Mary(Luna Mezza Mare) - Lou Monte
Anema E Core - Perry Como
Funiculi Funicula - Romano Ledenzio And His Orchestra
Soldi, Soldi, Soldi(From 'Boccaccio '70') - Sophia Loren
Santa Lucia - Gino Del Vescovo And His Mandolins
Hey Gumbaree(Bibadee Bobadee Bu) - Lou Monte
Come Back To Sorrento - Romano Ledenzio And His Orchestra
Volare(nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu) - Domenico Modugno
A Man Without Love(Quando M'Innamore) - Sergio Franchi
O Sole Mio - Romano Ledenzio And His Orchestra
Forget Domani(From 'The Yellow Rolls Royce') - Perry Como
Mama - Lou Monte
O Mio Bambino Caro - Romano Ledenzio And His Orchestra
Non Dimenticar(Don't Forget) - Lou Monte
Al Di La(From 'Rome Adventure') - Frankie Fanelli
Arrivederci Roma(Goodbye To Rome) - Romano Ledenzio And His Orchestra

Customer Reviews:

Italian Amercans--a must buy.......2007-07-28

As an USAF Air Attaché, I played this music at many a dinner party with a surprising amount of interest and positive comments from my foreign colleagues--often asking for copies of the music.

As a child of the 60's, these songs resurrected long-lost memories of great Italian music that was at one-time almost prevalent in the entertainment industry. I am proud that our culture produced these great songs, hope you are too! I still often listen to this music at dinner while enjoying a glass of great Italian wine.

Bob Silvestri, USAF, Retired

ITALIAN LISTENER.......2007-07-16

This was a great cd. it came on time and was as promised in good condition. I would recomend the seller again.

Terrific!.......2007-05-30

I bought this CD because I missed listening to the music my grandfather played. This CD brought back a flood of memories for me. Wonderful compilation of my favorite italian classics.

So-So CD.......2007-04-06

This is more cafe style but still worth listening to.
Great dinner background music.

This CD will put you to sleep.......2007-02-26

We bought this CD for our daughter's wedding. After reviewing it, we could have saved our money. The version of Funiculi sounded like the Salvation Army band and it was totally lifeless. Lou Monte's Hey Gumbaree (it is actually Eh Cumpare in Italian--that should have given it away) was awful, and he consistently butchers the Italian language in all his other songs (annoying, I mean, couldn't he have learned the right pronunciation?).

While Perry Como and others have melodic voices (and very wisely sing in English because they don't know Italian), these are '50s versions of the songs, for the most part. While you have to appreciate them, they are really old and reflect the '50s type of instrumention and style. Would have loved to have heard all these songs done in a fresh and original way. Soldi Soldi was our favorite by far, and that is why we gave the CD two stars.

Could have gone to the library for this one.

Thanks for letting me voice our opinion. We are a big Italian family and just spent hundreds of dollars buying every CD out there for our daughter's wedding and figured we would share our opinion with others.

Average customer rating:

RCA, please do better
Viva Las Vegas Cd
enough

Elvis Viva Las Vegas
Elvis Presley
Manufacturer: RCA
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ASIN: B000RIWAWQ
Release Date: 2007-07-31

Tracks:

Viva Las Vegas
See See Rider
Wonder of You
Polk Salad Annie
Release Me
Let It Be Me
I Just Can't Help Believin'
Walk a Mile in My Shoes
Bridge over Troubled Water
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Customer Reviews:

RCA, please do better.......2007-08-03

I give this 5 stars because of the music, which is awesome. It shows Elvis once again re-inventing himself, this time concentrating on his live performances. RCA could have done so much better, though. There are no unreleased performances that they could package and put out for the fans? Well, there are. They are on the FTD (Follow That Dream) label. The CD's range from live concerts to versions of songs never before heard. They are like bootleg CD's, but done professionally. I recommend them over the stuff RCA puts out every year.

Viva Las Vegas Cd.......2007-08-01

I am a uk Elvis fan and this has been released here as a double cd! The cd listed here is disc one, and is playing on my cd player as I write and is a good selection of Elvis tracks, however I see that this listing on Amazon has 3 tracks missing that are on mine, and even just in this form I would recommend it, but if you can get the double then go for that as it has a concert recorded live at the International Hotel on August 21st 1969, and is an amazing concert cd, which makes it a must have purchase! I have not looked hard on Amazon to see if that version is there, if not go to Amazon Uk's site and get it there! The quality of the recording is really good as well on both the disc listed here, and the concert one!
I still voted it 5 stars as it is still a really good selection by the king, so how could it be anything but a 5?

enough.......2007-07-31

I give it five stars because the music is good,but enough is enough.They did not have to get very creative to package this one.Not much different in content from last years Elvis Live except one of these songs is a studio track.I give it 5 stars for the music and 2 stars for the companys creativity.Surely there must be a live version of Viva Las Vegas in their vaults.This rehashed collection is only for the die hard fan or for those who don't already own his other live cds.I just believe for a thiriteth anniversary they could have done better.

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TAKES ME BACK
jerry jeff walker
One of My Favorite Albums of All Time...
Still timely...
Texas Music

Viva Terlingua
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Tracks:

Gettin' By
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Sangria Wine
Little Bird
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Up Against The Wall Red Neck
Backsliders Wine
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Amazon.com essential recording

It's no accident that among the great albums Jerry Jeff Walker has made, most of them have been recorded in front of a live audience. If you want to get the feel of the rowdy Texas music scene of the early to-mid-'70s, look no further than ¡Viva Terlingua!, a rowdy, goat-ropin' classic of sing-along mayhem recorded in the tiny town of Lukenbach in the summer of 1973. Walker marshals his Lost Gonzo Band through a number of tunes that went on to become classics, including Guy Clark's "Desperados Waiting for the Train," Ray Wiley Hubbard's anthemic "Up Against the Wall Redneck," and his own "Sangria Wine" and "Gettin' By." The highlight, though, is an extended take on Gary Nunn's "London Homesick Blues," better known to casual Jerry Jeff fans as the theme song for the long-running PBS show Austin City Limits. --Daniel Durchholz

Customer Reviews:

TAKES ME BACK.......2007-07-25

Takes me back to my highschool days when I first heard it on vinyl. Love it.

jerry jeff walker .......2007-06-19

think of austin texas in the 70's...cool longneck beer and tubing down the comal river...this album was popular than and now..classics such as up against the wall redneck mother are still fun...a must for third coast music lovers

One of My Favorite Albums of All Time..........2007-06-02

I don't even consider myself a country music fan, yet this album is in my top five favorites of all time, easily. You really can't categorize Jerry Jeff Walker as "country" anyway...

I think some call his brand of music "outlaw", "gonzo", etc. -- but whatever you want to call it, it is timeless.

Back in the early 70's, my parents used to have big parties, and they would put this album on -- and that was when the party really started. We kids would all be upstairs, listening to the songs and also to our parents getting rip-roaring drunk while shouting out "Up Against the Wall Red Neck Mother". Hearing those songs over and over, I knew all the words by the time I was about 7 years old!

After my dad died in 2002, I was going through his extraordinary album collection, and spotted this gem. I was so excited to find it, and took it quickly before my brother could get to it, LOL.

Other reviewers here have done a much better job at describing the songs, but I just wanted to add an "amen" to the chorus. I also wanted to confirm that you do NOT have to be a country music fan to love this music.

My husband (alternative rock fan) gave me a smirk and a "yeah right" when I told him it was not your ordinary country music. Needless to say (to JJW fans) he has changed his tune, and is now a big fan himself.

Nobody, and I do mean NObody, could play it like Jerry Jeff. Long live Terlingua!!

Still timely..........2007-05-07

My wife and I listened to Jerry Jeff (even drove once for 5 hours through a mid-western snowstorm to hear him in a small Chicago club!)when we were married over 30 years ago... then recently discovered at a college graduation crawfish boil at our daughter's home that many of her friends listen to him now. I decided that it was time to upgrade the LPs, which I still have, to CDs. Hearing these songs again in a pristine, clear state, without the bumps and scratches of the years brings back many memories. I'm on a campaign to encourage friends to do likewise so we can party again like we used to - now with our grown kids and thier friends!

Texas Music.......2007-03-20

OK. So, Jerry Jeff Walker isn't a native Texan. As the saying goes, he got here as soon as he could. With "Viva Terlinguia!" he stamped his Texas credentials for all time. It's rather odd that one of the signature anthems on this Texas Music masterpiece isn't a Jerry Jeff song at all! "London Homesick Blues" by Gary P. Nunn is reason enough to own the album. (I have the vinyl from back in the 1970s.) Jerry Jeff Walker burst into the music world in the late 1960s with "Mr. Bojangles," but that was before he came to Texas. This CD is Texas Music with "Sangria Wine" and "Little Bird" penned by Walker. And, he leans heavily on Texas songwriting legend Guy Clark's "Desperados Waiting for the Train" (another reason to own the CD) and Ray Wiley Hubbard's "Up Against the Wall Red Neck." Hubbard once said, don't record a song unless you're prepared to sing it at every gig. "Red Neck Mother" is one of those songs, and Jerry Jeff pulls it off so very well. "Viva Terlingua!" came out in the '70s country cross-over music surge, but this music--This Texas Music--has a life of its own transcending genres and decades.

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It's good
Revolutionary times
Black Dove
makes me want to dance
Enjoy!

Frida

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She was famous as both artist and model, infamous as political revolutionary and social libertine, and Frida Kahlo's controversial life couldn't help but seem the stuff of great musical theater. Her story is brought to the screen by director Julie Taymor, whose musical compatriot here is also her husband; Elliot Goldenthal, student of both Copland and Corigliani, shrewdly sublimates his modernism in service of the rich, evocative music and songs of Mexico and Central America. Utilizing performers that range from the contemporary (Lila Downs) to the folk-classic (Costa Rican legend Chavela Vargas; Brazilian star Caetano Veloso) and traditional (Los Cojolites, El Poder Del Norte, Trio Huasteca, Caimanes de Tanquin, and others), Goldenthal generously displays the true breadth of Mexican folk music, while seamlessly infusing it with the minimalist corners of his own underscore and some winning songwriting of his own. The result is one of 2002's most compelling soundtracks. The enhanced CD features include musical film excerpts, as well as a video conversation between Goldenthal and star Salma Hayek and text interviews with the composer and director Taymor. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

It's good.......2007-07-22

But I don't think it's all it's hyped up to be on the other reviews, but, I do like it to the point of keeping it. It's the perfect 4star rating.

Revolutionary times.......2007-05-14

I absolutely love this soundtrack! Everytime I listen to it, I feel as though I am in Mexico during the revolution and Frida's life. Everyone should choose their own life soundtrack and this one allows us to see into Frida's life more clearly.

Black Dove.......2007-05-13

Fell into the movie trying to avoid study and hang out with a jilted housemate. If I'm honest, Salma Hayek was the main draw. Wafer thin.
However, I was enraptured by the story of Frida and the amazing performance (no wonder she was oscar nominated).
I bought the soundtrack the next morning. It really got to me.This is a great soundtrack and, yes, it does help if you have seen the movie but not necessary. I loved the latin passion (highs and lows). Chervala Vargas as Elliot Goldenthal describes in the slieve was once Frida's lover. I loved her Paloma Negra. So powerful.
There is something for everyone in this long soundtrack.
Do as i have: watch the movie and buy the soundtrack. Worth the time and money.

makes me want to dance .......2007-05-07

I really enjoyed the CD, the musical selection is great and it seems very authentic.

Enjoy!.......2006-12-30

I purchased this CD after seeing the movie. The music is enjoyable to listen to and passionate as I would think Frida was. I purchased this CD a second time to give to a female Hispanic artist who identifies with the trials and tribulations of Frida. This artist now paints while listening to this CD. Her artwork not only has improved but has become popular. I defiantly recommend its purchase.

Way Out West: The Essential Western Film Music Collection, Vol. 2

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Not My Style
Rockin' Western Collection
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A great follow-up

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Shane-Main Theme: The Call Of The Farwaway Hills
The Shootist-Main Title
The Unforgiven-The Need For Love
Viva Zapata-Gathering Forces
The Virginian-Main Theme

Customer Reviews:

Not My Style.......2007-05-11

This CD has a lot of good songs on it, but it just too bland for our taste. We prefer Western music to sound as though genuine cowboys are singing it - not a fancy chorus!

Rockin' Western Collection.......2006-08-28

For anyone who likes movie/tv music from westerns should purchase this CD. What a wonderful collection of both film and tv with great renditions of each piece. I'm about to purchase Vol. 1 to complete my collection.

Hard to Find Great Western Themes .......2006-03-16

This CD has a number of great western themes that are not in some of the standard lists. For example it includes "The Hallejuah Trail", "Blazing Saddles", and "Giant". This CD also has what I consider the true theme of "The Comancheros". I have been disappointed with some other CDs I have purchased listing "The Comancheros" which had a song rather than this theme. Many of the tracks on this two disk CD go beyond the main theme music and are actually suites. The "Big Country" and "How the West Was Won" are just a couple of examples. It may be a little more expense than some CDs, but not bad for a two disk set. I am really happy with my purchase.

Western Music.......2005-07-29

I enjoy this CD. It has many familiar melodies. Good background for reading, nice to listen while driving. It is also the only CD I've ever found that has the great theme from the movie "Giant."

A great follow-up.......2003-08-29

This is the second collection by SilvaScreen, who are also responsible for "The Wild West: The Essential Western Film Music Collection" (see my review). And it's just as good as the first. There are themes in here that everyone will recognize ("Bonanza," "A Fistful of Dollars"), themes that may not be so familiar ("Duel in the Sun," "The Hanging Tree," the lively "Blazing Saddles"), and even themes you may not associate with Westerns at all ("The Friendly Persuasion"). And no duplication either: when this disc includes a piece from one of the same sources covered in its predecessor, it's a different piece. One great treat: the full lyrics to "Gunfight at OK Corral," which I've never heard outside the soundtrack of the movie itself. The arrangement from "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid" includes not only the familiar song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" but an overview of the music--seguing almost seamlessly into Bernstein's magnificent "The Comancheros," a rare find indeed. An expensive item, but if you love Western film music, well worth it.

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BAKATARE - MIEYDA - UMA KAKATA - E:COLI - YOKO OH NOOOOO!!!
Addictive, but not for everyone...
Quirky + Charming + Weird
good for one song
Wierd

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From the melting pot of New York's East Village come two ultrahip and very tasty expatriate Japanese music-makers, Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda, calling themselves Cibo Matto. That the name (pronounced "cheebo motto") means "food madness" in Italian is appropriate: the female duo sings about things to eat (apples, beef jerky, artichokes, birthday cakes) on all 10 tracks of their debut album, Viva! La Woman. And even if the record's lyrics are generally nonsensical, food makes for a great text: ripe with metaphors, it's sensual, colorful, irresistible, and quite universal. But as in another East Asian export--the 1994 Taiwanese film Eat Drink Man Woman--food is the canvas on which the artists paint their story, and not the story itself. Cibo Matto could just as easily stand for "sample madness." Sound, not taste, satisfies their appetite, and the disparate ingredients they pop in the blender--ambient bursts, random noises, hip-hop breakbeats, trip-hop swirls and churns, Afro-Cuban percussion, muted cool jazz trumpets, funky bass and keys--produce a sonic collage of rhythms and melodies that makes for some of the most successful sampler-based songwriting to date. Like Soul Coughing --a similar-minded downtown New York outfit--Cibo Matto don't replace real playing with sampler loops, they just bring the sampler into the mix as a limitless source for all the crazy sounds their conventional instruments can't get to. And like the Beastie Boys, Cibo Matto compose music the way kids play with toys--so naturally and so ecstatically it makes us all want to come out and join in their irrepressible fun. --Roni Sarig

Customer Reviews:

BAKATARE - MIEYDA - UMA KAKATA - E:COLI - YOKO OH NOOOOO!!!.......2006-12-30

Two Japanese girls experimenting with their $99- casio keyboard
and attaching ridiculously silly teeny infantile lyrics, primarily
about food: They get a recording contract, in NYC no less.. .the same city
that pays Katie Couric $75 million for smirking and souring my morning
coffee... Only in New York! One of the girls dates (sadly, but expectedly
... with a mom like Yoko Ono, would you expect any different?) untalented
Sean Lennon... and Sean (about 50 lbs overweight and blind as a bat)
plays bass in the group... Stupid me, I bought this album thinking
(ok, it was an impulse) I'd get another Pizzicato Five group. BOY WAS I WRONG!!!
NOT ONLY DOES THIS P.O.S. STINK TO HELL, UNEXPLICABLY IT SOLD 500,000 COPIES
ENCOURAGING THIS PAIR OF BUBBLEHEAD ASEXUAL UNTALENTED YOKO-ONOS TO
RECORD A FOLLOWUP ALBUM!!! They even had the nerve to appear at the
latin rock stage only becuase they could sing 1 stupid song in Portuguese.
To be fair, Geggy Tah also showed up, but they played much better songs.
I was very happy and satisfied when Cibbo matto was booed off the stage in Central Park.
I HOPE THESE TWO BYATCHES NEVER SET FOOT IN A RECORDING STUDIO AGAIN
AND THE NEXT TIMJE I SEE THEM IT'LL BE TO ASK ME IF I WANT TO SUPERSIZE
MY ORDER OF CHICKEN LO-MEIN!! - AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO GIVE THEM 5 STARS
AND WRITE ABOUT "BOSSA NOVA" AND "HIP HIP" INFLUENCES, PLEASE SEEK
DRUG REHABILITATION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. If you;re not on drugs, then you
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turd and want to con others into buying it from you by writing positive reviews.

Addictive, but not for everyone..........2006-02-28

Cibo Matto's first release, Viva! La Woman (1996) is a strange concoction - a unique mix of Hip Hop, alternative, electronic, dance, jazz and popular music influences that deosn't sound quite like anything you (or at least I) have heard before. Before I launch into my opinion on this astonishingly addictive and catchy album, I will make it very clear that I absolutely love it. I own a lot of CDs; some I have grown out of entirely, some I bought for only a couple of songs (or even one), some that were ultimately forgettable. Viva! La Woman, however, has remained one of my very favourite CDs - a kind of talisman to which I continually return for relaxation, escape, or inspiration for my own pursuits in music.

It also has to be said that it is not a CD for everyone. People with conservative tastes in music will see the ostensibly nonsensical lyrics to be nothing more than, well, nonsense. Others may listen to a track like 'Apple' and discard it as dissonance. I suppose you have to approach a pairing (Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda) like Cibo Matto with an open mind. We're not talking John Cage or Kraftwerk here, but it has to be said that Viva! La Woman is radically different to the music that you will hear in the charts. The Australian charts, anyway...

I first came across Cibo Matto in an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and again in Michel Gondry's fantastic music video for 'Sugar Water', and the love affair grew from there. It is hard to describe exactly what I find so addictive about Viva! La Woman. From the perspective of an audio production student, the album is an excellently-produced blend of the aforementioned musical genres, where sampled accoustics meet electronics to create some ridiculously catchy tracks that will stay in you head for... Well, its three years and counting for me, so far.

Then there's Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda's incredible vocals. The lyrics will at first seem whimsical, even childish. The more I've listened, however, the more the lyrics have combined with the music to articulate such feelings as love, sadness and jubilation better than any other album I own. Perhaps it's just me, but Viva! La Woman takes me on an emotional ride, stimulating my imagination all the while.

There's something more though. Like the cult TV show on which I discovered Cibo Matto, Viva! La Woman is just effortlessly cool. There's no better way of putting it. It's anything but ordinary, maddeningly catchy and really, really addictive. Highly recommended, and a worthy purchase for anyone who likes electronic and alternative music.

For the record, the 1999 follow up, Stero Type A, is brilliant as well.

Quirky + Charming + Weird.......2005-09-19

when this first came out, it was interesting and unique and different. but to me, it has not held up very well over time. there are some pretty cool songs on here, but the nonsense lyrics tend to make it very gimmicky and Cibo Matto always seemed to me as more of a novelty item than a functioning musical unit. a curse that this band never seemed to escape. but they can be charming and i found myself warming up more to their later releases after this one.

good for one song.......2005-08-04

I know the song Sugar Water from Buffy and was hoping the others would be along the same lines. To put it nicely, they did not fit my tastes.

Wierd.......2005-07-13

Japan is a strange place, Just listen to this album and you'll agree,
After being introduced to Cibo Matto by mom (you heard that right,she listes to everything from green day to Gorillaz)
Everything on this Album is great but the highlights have to be
Beef Jerky-Irreverant and funny, plus the say "A horse's ass is better than your's"

Birthday Cake-After about 15 seconds of silence you hear a click and someone yelling some incoherent thing followed by some wierd squeling and "SHUT AND EAT-TO BAD NO BON APPETITE-SHUT UP AND EAT-you know my love is sweet" gets blared in your ear so loud that the first time i litterally had to throw my headphones off(due to the max sound due to 15 seconds of silence)Propbably the best song on the album,irreverent.

Chicken-Quirkiest song on the album, hard to explain need to listen to this one yourself.

Artichoke-A double entrendre fest topped of with the line "Can you squeeze a Lemon on me?" Zed Zeppelin anyone?

Like i said this album is great all aroud(though theme is a little long) For those of you that have been to japan this is probably not that wierd to you
for the rest of us this is the best thing to come out of japan since video games.
Too bad they've broken up though
*Yuka's got Miho to do stuff on her second album eucademix probably the closest thing to a reunion fans will get

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Viva LOVE....
Morrissey's superb first solo album....
Viva Hate ~
Some moments muddle the brilliance
Very good, but should have been better

Viva Hate
Morrissey
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Customer Reviews:

Viva LOVE...........2007-05-27

With a rush, a push and then bang! It landed. Morrissey's first album. With such a successful first solo album, one would have thought that happiness is around the corner for Manchester's Black Sheep son, but alas, this is only the first cut of the many wounds he would inflict with his later album releases. It was inevitable and all so sad that the Rogers and Hammerstein of the 80's, Morrissey and Marr, were to break up. But Morrissey must walk the path of gloom alone and this first album is ominous of everything else that was to come.

With youth still on his side, sadness and anger was oh so fresh, vibrant and inspired. Morrissey takes the back seat of the internal revolution of life's chaos and misery and pours it out in one, big, voluptous and elegant sigh with this debut album.

Welcome to Morrissey's musical misery tour.........

Morrissey's superb first solo album...........2007-04-23

This is a great debut by the brilliant Morrissey. This is probably the solo album that came closest to the Smiths sound, probably due to the fact that Stephen Street, the engineer on many Smiths albums, wrote the music for this album. The opener, Alastain Cousin, is a powerful song. I love the melancholy and beauty of Everyday is Like Sunday (which Morrissey performed in concert when I saw him). Suedehead is a funny, pop masterpiece, but the final song, Margaret on the Guillotine, is a haunting, sad, acerbically hilarious song, reported written with then PM Margaret Thatcher in mind. Morrissey was actually "investigated" by the U.K. secret service for this song, as they thought he was making threats against Thatcher, but no charges were filed. Some people really diss Morrissey for some reason, but I haven't any idea why. His lyrics are full of acerbic wit, sarcasm, anger, love, basically, all the elements of our world. I'd rather listen to Morrissey's "whining" than any of today's modern rock acts.

Viva Hate ~.......2007-03-12

Morrissey is a very talented individual and this cd is my personal favorite of his after the break-up from The Smiths. 'Margaret on the Guillotine' is an amazing track with the lyrics and instrumentals. I dont believe you can find it on any other Morrissey albums. A true talent like this deserves much credit.

Some moments muddle the brilliance.......2006-10-01

After leaving his first band "The Smiths," Morrissey embarked on a solo career, and instantly become one of the most distinguished talents in college-pop rock. His first album, "Viva Hate," is far from perfect, but features a good number of galvanizing and danceable tunes; all orchestrated with Morrissey's poetry, and clearly decisive voice. From the first song Alsatian Cousin, in which a sifting bass-keyboard sound fires, this solo-debut heralds something special. The music and lyrics corrosively develop into a melee of Morrissey's frustration with someone in his life, in which he asks them the direct question, "Were you and he lovers?" It is these themes of love, heartbreak, nostalgia, political bashing, suicide, and lines that speak of wanting an Armageddon, that make this album nearly break from its downpoints.

Most noticeable about this debut is the inclusion of the keyboard, and this sharp sound somewhat makes up for the absence of the stunning instrumental work, and musical construction of guitar wizard, Johnny Marr. The great number of stylistic strokes in many songs could have a meaning, like the bashing cymbals on "Little Man, What Now?" that seem to match the song's themes about childhood dreams squashed, appropriately, and add more heart to the beautiful voice of Morrissey. While images of nothingness, leading to a bitter depression are in the next song, "Everyday is Like Sunday," a piece about a derelict and dangerous coastal town with dread-ridden lyrics like, ""How I wish I was not here/ in the seaside town. /...That they forgot to bomb." It is by this grasp on human loneliness, and regret, that makes Morrissey's songs so fascinating, as they inhibit a serene feel of a summer breeze, with a nagging sensation of developing tragedy.

When "Viva Hate's" forth song hits your ears, the album begins to stem some instantly forgettable songs. Bengali in Platforms seems underdeveloped, and lacking Morrissey's brutal emotional punch. While others are well intentioned, bad ideas; such as Hairdresser on Fire, a social satire that just ends up feeling empty, and too obvious. Many of the next songs jut between moments of greatness, (Suedehead is a corky rocker) and soft-pop rock misfires (Last Night, Maudlin Street, a well-written song that sadly goes on a bit too long.)

While "Viva Hate" never deteriorates into below average music, it does not quite reach the level that Morrissey has put forthright with "The Smiths" albums. However, Morrissey's skill has not diminished, as both a songwriter, and a singer. Despite a few underwhelming missteps, "Viva Hate" is an album that is still essential in every music fan's collection.

*** (Out of 5)

Very good, but should have been better.......2006-07-15

This album played by The Smiths lineup, might have surpassed The Queen is Dead or Meat is Murder.

As it stands it is very good. Probably the most Smiths like of his solo albums which isn't suprising given it was released soon after the regrettable demise of The Smiths. The main difference is that Johnny Marr is irreplacable, though Stephen Street is competant and compliments Morrissey well.

My favorites on this album are Angel, Angel..., which might be the most haunting and beautiful songs he ever penned. Every day is like Sunday, Suedehead, Hairdresser on Fire and Alsatian Cousin. The rest are just so-so, but not bad.

If you are new to The Smiths or Morrisey, check out The Smiths, as his work with Johnny Marr and co is unbeatable, and then start with this and go through his solo catalog.

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If you love beautiful voices...
If you want to know Corelli's art, this is the right CD
excellent gift
Greatest Tenor of This Century!
Ah... Franco :}

The Very Best of Franco Corelli

Manufacturer: EMI Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008V5VV
Release Date: 2003-04-22

Tracks:

A Te, O Cara
Meco All' Altar Di Venere... Me Protegge, Me Difende
Ah Si, Ben mio...De Quella Pira
Se Quel Guerrier Io Fossi!...Celeste Aida
Pur Ti Riveggo, Mia Dolce Aida
Intanto Amici... Viva Il Vino Spumeggiante
Mamma, Quel Vino E Generoso
Recitar!... Vesti La Giubba
No, Pagliaccio Non Son
Colpito Qui M'avete...Un Di All'azzuro Spazio
Credo A Una Possanza Arcana
Legray!... Andrea Chenier!...Si, Fui Soldato
Come Un Bel Di Di Maggio
Vicino A Te

Tracks:

Donna Non Vidi Mai
Recondita Armonia
E Lucevan Le Stelle
Non Piangere, Liu... Ah! Per L'ultima Volta!
Nessun Dorma
Favorita Del Re!... Spirto Gentil
Cielo E Mar
L'anima Ho Stanca
Non Lunge Della Torre... Bianca Al Par Di Neve Alpina
Ange Adorable
L'amour, L'amour.. Ah! Leve-Toi, Soleil!
O Nuit Divine!
C'est La! Salut! Tombeau!
Fronde Tenere... Ombra Mai Fu
Ave Maria
Domine Deus
Core 'Ngrato
Torna A Surriento

Customer Reviews:

If you love beautiful voices..........2007-04-30

and passionate singing, you won't be disappointed. While Corelli certainly had his flaws, they are minor in the larger picture of this unique, magnificent force of nature. Then get this set for your friend who thinks Andrea Bocelli is a great tenor.

If you want to know Corelli's art, this is the right CD.......2007-03-10

Franco Corelli had one of the powerful tenor voices of the twentieth century. Think Mario del Monaco with more beauty and grace; think Richard Tucker with a smoother voice. He had annoying touches in his singing, such as those "catches" here and there. But, with Tucker, he is, in my estimation, one of the two most powerful and attention riveting tenors in the past century. Other tenors were more artistic, provided better characterization (think Domingo, Gigli, Pavarotti, Gedda, Caruso, and some others).

But Corelli was a wonder of nature! Some samples: "Ah si, ben mio. . .Di quella pira." If there were an aria made for Corelli, this would be it. His big, rich, powerful voice fits this cut nicely. Not much subtlety here. In "Di quella pira," he hits the high notes in a stentorian manner. There are those mannerisms, but they are so easily forgiven, taking into account that rich, lustrous voice.

"Celeste Aida" is another representative cut. This is a powerful version. Also, note how he goes from forte to piano at the end of this aria. A powerful effect indeed.

Then, there are the twin arias from "Tosca." In "Recondita armonia," his rich voice is well manifest. He exhibits a smooth line in his singing. This is a powerful version of this well known aria. "E lucevan le stele" displays again that rich voice. At one point, he goes from forte to piano in a mesmerizing manner (Who'd have thought it?). His final "la vita" grabs one's attention.

Finally, "Nessun dorma." Well, smoothly, and powerfully sung. The final "vincero" is powerfully rendered, leaving goose bumps on the spine.

This is the very best of Franco Corelli. Those who want to get a sense of the vocal prowess of one of the most powerful tenors of the 20th century should attend to this double CD set.

excellent gift.......2007-02-09

I gave it to my father and he says Its an amazing cd.

Greatest Tenor of This Century!.......2007-02-03

Franco Corelli is the greatest tenor of this century. Although there are many fine tenors including Carlo Bergonzi - no tenor comes close to singing with the pure heart and animal magnetism of Franco Corelli. Surprisingly, he was also quite comfortable with bel canto, listen to the incredible "A te o'cara". I've heard "Nessun Dorma" sung by many excellent tenors and hands down, none can touch the sublime beauty of Corelli's version. This 2cd set of his greatest arias is a wonderful gift for any opera fan. "Recondita Armonia" is my personal favorite. His thrilling vocal beauty and intensity of performance is truly unforgettable.

Ah... Franco :}.......2007-01-10

Such a pleasing voice. I can't believe the clarity and perfection. He was well before my time and others have become more 'popular' since then, but for some reason his voice seems better than the more current singers. I do not know much about opera so I will have to rely only on my own ears. I happily recommend this double album. I like to have it playing on the 5 CD changer with other opera cds, mixing through them...it is a perfect saturday morning accompaniment. enjoy.

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Great Southern Rock

Get Yr Blood Sucked Out
Viva Voce
Manufacturer: Barsuk
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Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Believer
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Customer Reviews:

Great Southern Rock.......2007-02-26

I knew I was going to dig this album about thirty seconds into my first spin. The opening track "Believer" combines classic stoner rock, Beatles psychodelia, and a good old fashioned southern stomp. What follows is just as inventive and fully realised of a rock album as I've heard in recent years. The Albama rock paired with the smooth female vocals (think Azure Ray) combine to make something truly special. The biggest comliment I can give this album is that it is unlike anything I have heard of before. It is an unussual combination of sounds that, if your anything like me, will leave you with a huge smile.

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Pretty good
A Must-Buy!
The Bonus DVD
a great various artists cd
an essential for....well, everyone

Viva la Bands
Various Artists
Manufacturer: 456 Entertainment
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ASIN: B0009PLMMQ
Release Date: 2005-06-21

Tracks:

The King Of Rock 'N Roll - Daniel Lioneye
Soul On Fire - Him
Lost Boys - The 69 Eyes
Cold Black Days - Atrocity
Guilty - The Rasmus
Rock'n Roll - The Sounds
In My Heaven - Negative
King - Fireball Ministry
All My Friends Are Dead - Turbonegro
Blacken My Thumb - The Datsuns
Mice And Gods - Clutch
Familiar Realm - CKY
Sleeping My Day Away - D-A-D
I Don't Care As Long As You Sing - The Beatsteaks
Big Shot - Kill Hannah
English Fire - Cradle Of Filth
Skull Heaven - Viking Skull
Route 666 - Helltrain
C'mon Let's Go - Bend Over
Needled 24/7 - Children Of Bodom
Good Morning Headache - Smack

Customer Reviews:

Pretty good.......2007-05-15

Most of the songs are pretty good. Some are a little too screaming metal for me. The first few songs are really good.

A Must-Buy!.......2007-04-02

I was looking for a CD to listen to on my way to work, so I stopped by a music store and started looking. And I came across this little CD. I like Viva La Bam, and I knew that Bam has good taste in music, so I bought it. And boy am I glad that I did! HIM, The 69 Eyes, Cradle of Filth, and Children of Bodom are all bands that I love! But I heard this CD, and now I like Negative, The Sounds, KillHannah, and D-A-D!
If you love music, and also love listening to new music, buy this CD! You won't regret it.

The Bonus DVD.......2007-03-06

The song collection on this CD is pretty good.
However, if you're like me, and are planning to buy the CD mainly for the DVD [especially the "lost episode" of Viva La Bam] save your money.
It's not worth it.

a great various artists cd.......2007-02-11

this is one of the best cds i have bought in a long time. i hope bam puts together another cd like this one. every song on this cd is good. i would highly recommend buying this.

an essential for....well, everyone.......2006-07-22

*****Viva La Bands is a must-buy. Pretty much for all tastes, whether you like the more melodic stuff of HIM or Negative, the catchy girlie-vocals of the Sounds, or the screaming death-metal of Cradle of Filth or Children of Bodom. I originally bought this because I am ridiculously obsessed with HIM and knew that Bam Margera was too, so I figured he must have good taste in music.
*****And he does. Even if you glance at the list and see band after band that you don't like, consider getting it anyway if there is even one band you haven't heard. This CD has so many different types of music you are sure to find something you adore. I like the songs from 69 Eyes, Negative, and the Rasmus the best, but I actually got hooked on Cradle of Filth and Children of Bodom which surprised me.
*****And if all fails, get Viva La Bands for the DVD. The Bam stuff is hilarious (hint: a claustrophobic person going over a waterfall in a stolen barrel from a chemical plant) and the music videos are worth watching as well. If anything, get this so you can watch the "And Love Said No" music video. The "Lost Boys" video is also one of my favorites.
*****So run out and buy this before they're all gone. You get good music regardless of your preferences, a chance to watch Bam & crew do absurdly stupid things like smash rental cars and apartment windows, and of course you get to watch all the hot people in the videos (yes, there are girls in some of them as well). SO BUY IT!!!!

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