Subject to Change

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Asian Exclusive Version featuring a Bonus Video CD with Three Videos: 'destiny', 'white Bird', and 'subject to Change'

Subject to Change,Vanessa-Mae,EMI,New Age,Popular Music

Subject to Change

Tracks:

Yantra
White Bird
Picante
Destiny
Night Flight
Clear Like Ice
Laughing Buddha
Pasha
Solace
Love Is Only A Game
Deep South
Jamais

Album Description

2001 album for the international artist who's conquered the classical music world as well as pop. Teaming with producer Youth (Fine Young Cannibals, Bananarama, James, Crowded House, the Orb) to create this trance/dance infused album. Highlights include the first two singles, 'Destiny' & 'White Bird'.

Album Details

The Violin Player Returns with More Hybrid Classical Music to Cross Over to the Masses, Including a Spirited Version of It's a Beautiful Day's 'white Bird'.

Customer Reviews:

Not as good as some prior albums but good either way!.......2004-07-20

I like a few other reviewers felt that some of Vanessa Mae's prior albums were better in originality and use of the violin than this album. It seems like she's trying to move even more toward a pop tilt on this album, but overall this album is definitely worth the purchase. Also, even though the violin is not predominant like prior albums her voice really shines through on the songs with vocals. I particularly like White Bird. Either way if you're a fan of hers I don't think you'll be disappointed because I really think it's an album that you just pop in and listen to!

WHERE STORM LEFT OFF.........2003-09-29

Quite simply, Mae's latest album takes off where her last one left off. She makes you wonder why rock and roll is associated with guitars, not violins.

Once again, she weds a dizzying array of synthesized and generated sounds with violin playing of great warmth and dazzling virtousity. Expect beat-driven songs that combine her spiffy ability at the strings with various subgenres, as well as softer, more introspective pieces. The arrangements are classy as usual, and together with the well produced combinational elements, make for an entertaining album.

Caveat: it may get a little monotonous, but if you enjoyed Storm you will likely find something on Subject To Change to keep you interested.

Violin music on steroids.......2002-01-17

The new album by Vanessa Mae marks a return to her first work. Unlike "Storm", "Subject to Change" offers more instrumental tracks, and does not sound as eclectic.

Pros:
* The album is full of energy and catchy and simple tunes.
* It is rare to see such a packed album (65 minutes) these days.
* The tracks "Destiny" and "Laughing Buddha" are like "Red Hot", Mae's signature tune, on steroids. The album is worth its price for these two tracks; the rest is just a bonus.

Cons:
* Vanessa Mae still thinks that when she sings in French, it will sound nicer. Among all those high-energy tracks, her singing feels a little out of place.
* The import version is a little pricey; you may want to wait for the US release.

Overall, Vanessa Mae has proven with her third pop album that she is here to stay, so get used to it.

some good stuff in it........2001-12-07

Unlike Storm in which every song was distinct and unique, Subject to Change seems rather vague and hazy. Most of the songs are quite similar and seem to run around the same themes. Can't tell them apart. They could have been the same song for all i knew and they are good only as background music when i'm reading or studying. Her violin playing in this cd wasn't very obvious; often drowned out by the other instruments. Definitely not up to the standards of Storm and The Violin Player. Seems like she got so caught up with experimenting that she has neglected the violin.

The songs with vocals were more outstanding, particularly White Bird. Though the lyrics themself seemed a bit cliched at times (ok i'm not much of a literary critic so maybe you others might not feel the same) i like the song and her style. The other tracks with vocals were quite nice too even though i don't understand the language. I found track 10 and 12 really sexy and fun. V-Mae's voice isnt that great, but like I said, she has her own distinct style and it's worth listening. That's why i gave this cd 3 stars.

Oh yeah, the excessive photos of her in the booklet inside really put me off. Call me a prude or whatever: What is she selling? Her music or her looks? It reminds me way too much of boybands plastering their faces all over posters and magazines in order to attract fans. C'mon V-Mae, you don't need that. What we want from you is your _music_ not your pretty pictures.

Major Disappointment.......2001-11-26

Although I'm a fan of her other works, I found this album extraordinarily flat and unexciting. The music is mostly trite, with little energy or passion, and much of it sounds like it was turned out on a cheap keyboard synthesizer. Most disappointing of all, the focus here is not on her violin work, which is sometimes hard to pick out-- if it's there at all -- but on vocals and other pieces which are pleasant in their own way...but not what you buy a Vanessa Mae album for. Pleasant background music, inoffensive, but with none of the spark that makes her other albums so great, and many pieces that are little more than violin-assisted disco

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Awsome!
Don't listen to the idiots people!!!!!
It didnt waste my time!
Waist of time...
Left of Center is Right

Subject To Change
Switched
Manufacturer: Immortal
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000060NUM
Release Date: 2002-02-26

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Amazon.com

While Switched fit neatly in with the nu-metal milieu, they are a bit left of center, and put a unique stamp on the 11 discrete and heady songs on their major-label debut. Much of the credit goes to Ben Schigel's dramatic vocals, which range easily and well from melodious to irate. While some songs are intense yet melodic rock like a more soaring Nickelback ("Inside"), other aural offerings are more metallic, like the furious "Exterminate," which nearly does Slayer proud. Then there are moments that recall Linkin Park and conjure up dark rock roots, while the intense layers of sound and powerful musicianship on songs like "Darkening Days" and "10 Dead Fingers" add almost a modern-cool progressive musical tinge, also evidenced on the System of a Down-meets-King's X "Anymore." With Subject to Change, this Ohio-bred five-piece proves that Cleveland does indeed rock, and hard, too. --Katherine Turman

Customer Reviews:

Awsome!.......2006-04-01

Ben's vocals make this album what it is. I hated the single these guys put out 'Inside' because it sounded like a rejected Creed song, but then a friend said "the rest of the album is so different" and so I picked it up and skipped to track two and was proved wrong. These guys FAR from suck...they are actually one of the coolest bands around. Ben has been described as the Jeckle/Hyde of nu-metal and thats so true. Just listen to 'Anymore'...his voice goes from screams to whispers to singing to whispers and then back to screams. It's brilliant. The best tracks here are the aformentioned 'Anymore', '10 Dead Fingers' and 'Exterminate'...'Wrongside' has a great opening and the closing track 'Darkening Days' gets you ready for their sophmore album...which is out now and I have yet to buy...can't believe that...so I'm going to have to buy it today! Anyways, the entire album is great, except for 'Inside' and it's really weird but theres a hidden track at the end of 'Darkening Days' but it's just 'Inside'...exactly the same track as the opener so it's strange they'd do that. ANyways...buy this, you'll love it. Any fan of Disturbed and bands alike will love this.

Don't listen to the idiots people!!!!!.......2006-03-24

These people on here are saying this band is weak! I don't know what more they could want. This album is comprised of heavy moshing songs to softer but not weak songs you can just sit back and jam to. I'm not saying you should listen to me, all i'm saying is the people on here are not telling you what the cd is really like. There are at least 5 or 6 songs on here that these guys could play at ozzfest and no one would care, they would just go wild. The day I received this cd, I popped it in and was fu**ing blown away! These guys are so talented and it is a shame I haven't heard of them before now. All I'm trying to say is these reviews that are negative do not tell you what this cd is and that is a heavy/melodic great cd to mosh to. Go and buy it if you like heavier nu metal cuz these guys hang with the best of them my friends! Check it out for yourselves.

It didnt waste my time!.......2005-10-18

Yeah the first time I heard Inside i knew right away that the band is great. So i went out and bought the album and all the songs were good especially Dead Fingers and Four Walls. I can't wait till the new album.

Waist of time..........2005-03-10

When I first heard the song inside it got stuck in my head for a long time, and everytime i heard it after that it would get stuck in my head even longer... so i decided to go buy the album.. which was one big mistake.. the vocals are horrid and theres not one good song to get into.. It doesnt even deserve 1 star but i give them one for some how making it to tv..So dont waist your time or money on this band, go for bands like From Zero, Pillar, or Thousand Foot Krutch.

Left of Center is Right.......2004-08-18

I was introduced to Switched by their song "Inside". On their debut cd called Subject To Change they displayed massive riffage and very moody vocals. A lot of people will label them as Nu-Metal, but I don't believe in labels. I feel like I need to back up Switched becuz I believe they're going to be going places in the future. Stand out tracks to me were: "Inside", "Religion", "Anymore", and "Exterminate". But my all time fave out of the 4 is "Exterminate" that sounds rocks hard. Keeping your eye out for Switched in the future and don't close your mind off to newer music.

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Undiscovered Gold
MASTERPIECE!!!!!!!
CREE WHERE ARE YOU?
Folk Grunge Rock w/ Great Solos

Womb Amnesia
Subject to Change
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Binding: Audio CD

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Customer Reviews:

Undiscovered Gold.......2005-08-01

This Album is simply fantastic. The vocals the musicianship is nothing short of awesome. Why this album has recieved so little publicity is beyond me. I suggest purchasing this album along with Street Fairie. Both great albums. I only hope Cree decides to record again.

MASTERPIECE!!!!!!!.......2005-01-27

rock and r&b combined together
to make a great album.i have
nothing but positive things
to say about this record.the
music is great,the lyrics
are shocking but yet meaningful.
this release never made it to
the stores offically,but fortunately
those of us who want it are able to get.

CREE WHERE ARE YOU?.......2005-01-22

THIS IS CREE SUMMER'S DEBUT WITH SUBJECT TO CHANGE
AS HER BACKING BAND,WHO PROVIDE THE ROCK-EDGE AND
BACKGROUNG VOCALS AND ASSISTANTS ON LYRICS
THIS ALBUM HAS CREE SUMMER WRITTEN ALL OVER
IT.SHE WROTE ALL THE MATERIAL.IF YOU'RE
DIGGING THIS,YOU'LL LOVE CREE SUMMER'S
SECOND ALBUM "STREET FAERIE" WHICH IS ALSO
A GREAT ALBUM.THE MUSIC ON BOTH ALBUMS
ALONG WITH GREAT LYRICS AND VOCALS
PROVIDE EACH ALBUM WITH BEING
CONSIDERED CLASSICS BY MYSELF
AND THEY'RE BOTH IN SERIOUS
NEED OF PROMOTION AS WELL
AS ATTENTION.IM ASKING
MYSELF HOW DID CREE SUMMER
PASS US BY WITH BOTH OF HER RELEASES?
CHECK THEM OUT THEY WONT WONT DISAPPOINT!!!!!

Folk Grunge Rock w/ Great Solos.......2003-02-23

What if Ani DiFranco had come out of the Seattle Grunge scene & then fallen in with some rockers? You'd have something like Womb Amnesia. Moments of gentle peek their flowering heads abouve a boulder strewn slope of rockin' licks. It's a combination that works well.

My biggest complaint is that the instrumental sounds seem to dominate the vocal solos. But that instrumental work is nothing to complain about. Traditional rock, grunge, and even a bit of funk--this is a blend you don't want to miss.

Alter
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Albums progressively worse...

Floater Evolves Further

Alter
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Customer Reviews:

Albums progressively worse..........2004-10-26

Since high school, I have grown up with Floater, both in my CD player and live on the stage. I must say, although their stage act impresses me every time I've seen it (going on 15 shows), their albums have gotten progressively worse after Angels of the Flesh, Devils of the Bone (my favorite).

"Alter" is no different. I really had been looking forward to this release and really wanted to love it, but I was sadly dissapointed. Although some of the tracks are fun, the majority of the album seems like filler to bridge the gaps between solid tracks with mediocrity. There are two or three tsongs on this CD that seem like they were written in about 20 minutes.

Floater will always remain one of the most unique and enjoyable bands I have ever experienced, but I don't recommend "Alter" to even the most rabid fan.

Floater Evolves Further.......2003-10-16

Floater returns and returns with a vengence with Alter, the band's fifth studio effort. This album shows Floater's devotion to musical progression, rather than the stagnation of a group like Metallica who (don't get me wrong- I dig Metallica) have not written an origianl note in a decade. Not Floater- no way! On this album you'll find influences such as country/honky-tonk in songs like Crusatyr or Hollywood, a power ballad in Safety, something more funky with Come See Everything, some straight rockers with Luddite and Long Gone, or even something a little more dreamy (think a vague Radiohead influence) with 4 Down (A Toast). The album tells stories of change. I believe that it is a story of one man's changes, but others think that there are many characters rather than just one. Bassit/vocalist Rob Wynia flexes his lyrical muscle yet again with this album, thus proving that he is (however in the limelight) at the absolute top of his trade. Dave Amador's guitar is, yet again, inventive and never repetetive. He is truly one of the only guitarists who understands the word 'accompanyment'. Pete Cornett is always cool- with his own unique style on the drums. If you have ever found yourself enjoying Floater (and really, if you hadn't why would you be here- what with as obscure as they are?), this album is a certain must own for you. The band continues to grow in new and exciting directions, and this album is a wonderful example of that. See you at a show (Brickworks- here I come)!

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Subject to Change
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Hidely-ho, neglectarinos!
I simply can not believe...

Subject to Change Without Notice
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ASIN: B0000TG97Y
Release Date: 2003-11-25

Tracks:

Gooch
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Driver's Bread
Carl vs. the 10,000 LB Shadow
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HMG
Tits of War
Answer the Chicken
Mash the Sandwich
Randall
Two Twinkies Deep
Burlinolinol

Customer Reviews:

Hidely-ho, neglectarinos!.......2005-02-07

I must say, I've heard some unfairly neglected bands in my time, but these guys have to be at or near the top of any list of all-too-well-kept secrets. Keelhaul play a mostly instrumental, classic rock-tinged brand of tech-metalcore that absolutely slays the work of most of their contemporaries in the heavy-music field. The vastness and pummelling heaviness of their sound invites comparisons to such bands as Mastodon, High on Fire, and Neurosis, especially on the mountainous, dynamic-laden epics Driver's Bread and Answer the Chicken. The shorter pieces Mash the Sandwich and Randall demonstrate the band's flair for complexity and head-spinning musicianship, while Shackleton is a litany of pained shouts, searing guitar work, and rifle-shot drum fills. Relatively short, sharp, and to the point, Subject to Change Without Notice is a worthy addition to your extreme music collection, if of course you happen to have one.

I simply can not believe..........2004-10-13

...that I am the first person to review this monsterously heavy album a full year after it's release. Keelhaul take straight out rock and mix it into a style of music so retardedly heavy that the first time you see them live they'll lay you flat out on your back without so much as a wink. The songs can suddenly launch into full-out grinding metal and just as quickly drop into a mild groove or some tasteful southern rock licks. Keelhaul has no qualms in switching between material as dense and heavy as any death metal band your likely to ever hear and a bit that might recall some lynard skynard. If you consider yourself a fan of such acts as Clutch, Neurosis, the Melvins, Mastodon, Spaceboy, Godflesh, or even f**king Led Zeppelin then you owe it to yourself to score some Keelhaul albums and appreciate

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The Best Of Vanessa Mae

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Album Details

Asian Exclusive Version featuring a Bonus Video CD with Three Videos: 'destiny', 'white Bird', and 'subject to Change'

Customer Reviews:

The Best Of Vanessa Mae.......2002-12-24

I have been Vanessa Mae's fan since 1996. I have all the collection of CD and tape.One of them is Subject to Change.I have read Vanessa's article this album.I found it is a special album especially Destiny, Yantra and white bird.I hope everybody owns this album. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any single video CD about this Album..