Something Real [CD-single] [EP] [Import]

Track Listings

1. Something Real [Shinichi Osawa Remix]

2. Something Real [Shinichi Osawa Remix] [Instrumental]

3. Something Real [the Superfunk Remix Edit]

4. Be Thankful for What You Got - Omar, Angie Stone

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Japanese exclusive EP for the British urban/dance artist. This four track pressing includes three mixes of 'Something Real', all of which are not on the Euro single, 'Shinichi Osawa Remix', 'Shinichi Osawa Remix - Instrumental', & 'The Superfunk Remix Edit'. Also included is an amazing duet with Angie Stone on William DeVaughn's classic blaxploitation tune, 'Be Thankful'. 2001 release.

Something Real,Omar,Japanese Import,5" CD Singles,Club/Dance,Dance-Pop,Pop,R&B,Urban

Tracks:

Monster
Roses
Tell Mary
Indiana
Masterpiece
Rebecca
Nineteen Stars
Cardigan Weather
Getaways Turned Holidays
Courage, Robert
Setting Up Sunday

Customer Reviews:

Blown Away.......2007-08-04

I first heard "Monster" when i bought the warped '07 compilation cd at wal-mart. i figured it was only five dollars and i would find a couple of groups i havn't heard before that i really liked. Monster was the first song i heard that blew me away. I quickly looked them up on myspace and after hearing a few more songs downloaded Something Real from itunes. When i realized the song Rebecca was based on a book and movie i read/saw my junior year of highschool i did some research and found out some of there songs are based on classic literature that Dia read and fell in love with. The songs make me want to read the books, which is huge as i'm not generally a fan of the genre, but being able to relate to the song on a deeper level would be really nice.
I love the songs off of this CD. Masterpiece and Nineteen Stars are my favorite tracks. Their lyrics feel really deep to me and i can relate to them on alot of levels. Plus the songs make me want to read classic literature. i can't say that about any other songs.

A Guilty Pleasure.......2007-05-24

This is an amazing CD. I am amazed that they are not more famous, they are like Avril but better. They do have a lot of pop influences but I would consider them much better than any pop group right now. Standout tracks in my opinion are Monster, Tell Mary, Indiana, and Masterpiece but the whole CD is great.

Decent for teenies.......2007-05-08

Overall, this sound is unoriginal, but a few songs do have something extra, a little special, that I like. It's poppy and fun, even if it is something I will only listen to alone in my car. Excellent alternative to Britney and Jessica swill, and these ladies are naturally beautiful.

Great CD for listening!!.......2007-04-04

I am pretty new to the whole Meg and Dia scene. I ordered this CD on a whim, and I was really pleased. Popped this CD in my car and listened to it through, over and over again. Every song is well made and catchy.

This CD sort of flows with a rhythm, meaning that the first track starts off with a hard, rock-ish sound (Monster) and then the next song slows down into a more mellow, nice sounding song, and so forth. My favorites? Cardigan Weather (best song ever of course), ROSES!!!, the haunting and delightful melody of Rebecca, Setting up Sunday, and Nineteen Stars. Hell, I like the whole CD :).

The Meg & Dia Band.......2007-04-01

The first time I listened to a few songs I was already hooked. I then found out about their first album "Our Home Is Gone". Now, I can't go a day without listening to these beautiful girls. Every song on their album "Something Real" is awesome.

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Tragically ahead of their time
Feeling Something On
The Masterpiece ****1/2
Genius
guud

How It Feels to Be Something On
Sunny Day Real Estate
Manufacturer: Sub Pop
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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The Fire Theft
World Waits
Live
Perfect From Now On
Keep It Like a Secret

ASIN: B00000C3ZQ
Release Date: 1998-09-22

Tracks:

Pillars
Roses In Water
Every Shining Time You Arrive
Two Promises
100 Million
How It Feels To Be Something On
The Prophet
Guitar And Video Games
The Shark's Own Private Fuck
Days Were Golden

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Sunny Day Real Estate broke up in 1995 when bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith left to join the Foo Fighters or when frontman Jeremy Enigk converted to Christianity, depending on whom you ask. The band got back together in the summer of 1997 (minus Mendel, replaced by former Mommyheads bassist Jeff Palmer) to jam, and a full album blossomed. The result, How It Feels to Be Something On, is nothing short of stunning. Poking their heads into the gaping jaws of yearning, Enigk and company unravel tight, atypical rock songs to reveal a shimmering spool of uncertain longing. Almost sounding like an unlikely hybrid of the Smiths and Yes, How It Feels... is the grandest slab of musical sympathy since Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream, equal parts intensity and sadness for the sing-along set. One of 1998's best albums. --Jason Josephes

Customer Reviews:

Tragically ahead of their time.......2006-06-15

Of the first three SDRE albums, I find this one the most fascinating. It has very little in common with the first two, which tangled sometimes jarringly with emo and stoner rock. Diary and LP2 are both important documents of 90s music, but they don't have the confident polish and grace of How It Feels. While the first two often used chugging rhythms and voice-cracking vocals, How It Feels comes off as an indie rock album that could have come out last week (and I mean that in a good way).

Enigk's voice seemed to have leathered up considerably during the band's breakup, and he's capable of a haunting falsetto that imprinted "100 Million" on my brain from the first listen. The muddy bass of before is now melodic, strummy and very tight with Goldsmith's kit. The giutars do a lot more jangling and picking and less hammering. To call it more "refined" would be a disservice to Diary and LP2, so I'll just say it's a cleaner production. In fact, the mix is fantastic, as another reviewer noted.

It seems that How It Feels was a snapshot of a band in significant stylistic transition only a few years into its career, like Radiohead or the Beatles. And I think this style of music is more suited to Enigk's vocals. It's more affecting. The title track and closing track are excellent examples. It's a little processed, but this never actually sticks out. In their previous work, I felt that Enigk's vocal range was SDRE's weakest link, but he's almost like a different singer here.

What will stick out to listeners of their earlier work is the superior production that lends the album a much wider sonic stage. The muffled living room has become an auditorium, and the haunting How It Feels soars with hope, wistfulness, hurt, and joy. It's not quite like anything I've heard before. Certainly not an album's worth, at least. Every song is, at the very least, pleasant background music, except perhaps for "Prophet," a foray into Eastern-tinged prog that others have done much better, in my opinion.

Feeling Something On.......2006-01-04

Best Sunny Day Real Estate Record. Period.

The Masterpiece ****1/2.......2005-11-02

SDRE is a two sided coin. The first side encompasses their first two albums; raw, bleeding-heart, tortured, love-obsessed, low-fi. The flipside represents the latter half of their albums; grandiose, poetic, sweeping, accomplished, passionate. Both sides have a common theme; emotion.

The first album after the band's break, "How It Feels to be Something On," stands as their most accomplished and possibly best album. Jeremy's vocals have improved. His lyrics: more thematic. Surprisingly, the band sounds tighter than they ever did during their emo-pioneer days. They introduce their progressive rock roots here, as well, something they had only previously hinted. As a result, the album plays very much like a rock opera. If the song lyrics were linked by a story, it could rank with "Tommy" and "The Wall" as one of the great concept albums. Regardless, it still FEELS like a concept album and as a result, requires some attention.

The arena ready opener "Pillars" reintroduces us to the band. And the progressivness of "100 million" and the mid-Eastern tinged "Roses in Water" reveal the band's new game plan. Though lyrically not as Christian-based as LP2, Jeremy is still obviously influenced by religion on the aforementioned "Roses" and "Prophet." There are a few tunes that sound like first era leftovers (Days Were Golden and Two Promises) but the band had never really branched out in this way before. They even attempt what can only be described as a break-out-your-lighters acoustic ballad with "Every Shining Time You Arrive." Taken as a whole the album is amazing. Oddly, the band sounds ready for stadiums, even though radio-friendly songs like "8" and "In Circles" are nowhere to be found. But that's a small quibble. The album is great.

Overall: 9 out of 10.

Genius.......2005-02-19

I like the idea of "Proggressive Rock" but I don't like most Prog Rock bands, because they're always mired in some pseudo-classical grandiloquent schlock that plods for days. How It Feels to Be Something On is what Prog Rock should be; complex without being complicated, powerful without being raunchy, lofty without being bloated. This album is an emotional journey bordering on religious experience. And the production is some of the best I've ever heard, which as a musician I'm probably stealing ideas from constantly. No recording can ever be perfect, but this one comes close.

guud.......2005-02-18

I'm not an expert on SDRE and I've never seen them live or anything like that, but I thought I'd add my input on this album.
When I listen to "How It Feels to Be Someting On" I wonder why I don't have more SDRE. Then I think about it and I guess that I am afraid that their other albums will end up feeling a bit cheap. I know this doesn't make sense, so let me explain.
HIFTBSO starts out really really solid. The first 4 songs contain strong drive and are very well thought out, balanced and flow well- even with driving guitars, etc. Really good.
Then the album goes away for a bit... choppy, a bit more experimental for the sake of being different I felt... until "guitar and videogames" (song 8). This song is SDRE at their best, an eerie harmony on top of the same sweet, driving, hallow crescendos.
Overall, this is a good album. Although the middle section of the album doesn't catch me as much as the rest of the album, you shouldn't let that deter you from listening to it. Again, I can't say that I have heard any of their other stuff, but if you have (and like it) this album certainly won't disappoint.

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OK I'm gonna put it simple
Monster, indeed.

Something Real
Meg & Dia
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000QTCXV4
Release Date: 2007-06-19

Tracks:

Monster
Roses
Tell Mary
Indiana
Masterpiece
Rebecca
Nineteen Stars
Cardigan Weather
Getaways Turned Holidays
Courage, Robert
Setting Up Sunday

Customer Reviews:

OK I'm gonna put it simple.......2007-08-06

They are very pop which I really don't like at all not into it but Monsters is a great song honestly the only one I really like on the cd but I looked at it this way if I'm gonna pay 1$ on itunes for it anyway why not pay 1$ here n get the whole cd right just do it monster is awesome n I don't care who you are you can't lie to yourself and say it isn't

Monster, indeed........2007-07-26

I've heard this all before. Whiny voice, no substance, emo haircuts and have you ever seen them dance? Really, this is just something you can pass onto your teenage sister to "rock out" to. I've read so many reviews on how great their music is and how "intelligent" they are, but I suppose posing in a photo with a copy of "House of Leaves" in your hands makes anyone smart and deep these days. I'd really love to see them create something that somebody hasn't already done. Yes, I'm a little pissed in this review because with all the hype Meg & Dia have received, I really expected "something real."

These girls have nothing on Tegan and Sara. There's a reason why this CD is only selling for $0.01

Rodgers & Hammerstein: Songbook for Orchestra (Orchestral Suites)

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Irresistible
"Some Enchanted Evening" with Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops
Excellent!
Great Arrangments

Rodgers & Hammerstein: Songbook for Orchestra (Orchestral Suites)

Manufacturer: Telarc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Classics of the Silver Screen

ASIN: B000003CXQ
Release Date: 1992-01-28

Tracks:

Oklahoma!
Carousel
State Fair
South Pacific
The King And I
Cinderella Waltz
Flower Drum Song
The Sound Of Music

Customer Reviews:

Irresistible.......2005-07-29

From beginning to end this CD is pure delight. A great recording has great music, a great performance, and great sound; this one scores on all three counts.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's musicals dominated Broadway in the 1940s and 1950s, and American musical theater has produced no more consistently eloquent and durable voice than Richard Rodgers. From his fertile genius flowed a surprising number of memorable songs, many of which have passed into and become an accepted and beloved part of modern American culture.

This well-filled CD (77:36) features symphonic arrangements (all but two by Robert Russell Bennett) of the music from Oklahoma (1943), Carousel (1945), State Fair (1945), South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951), Flower Drum Song (1958), and The Sound of Music (1959). All the great tunes are here in suites from each musical that average 10-12 minutes in length. The arrangements are expert: rich, varied, and colorful. The performances are polished, idiomatic, and irresistible; Kunzel and this orchestra are thorough masters of this kind of material. And Telarc's sound (recorded 1991) is state-of-the-art (engineer Michael Bishop deserves to take a bow).

In short, there's nothing here to cloud your listening pleasure (the only quibble I can imagine is that some of your favorites may not last long enough), so it's hard for me to envision anyone with ears and a taste for music who wouldn't enjoy this CD. Warmly recommended. Finally, if you like this one as much as I do, you might want to know that the same team has produced a companion volume, the Lerner & Lowe Songbook for Orchestra.

"Some Enchanted Evening" with Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops.......2003-12-26

Erich Kunzel's Rodgers and Hammerstein anthology with the Cincinatti Pops Orchestra is one of the best and most ravishing instrumental Rodgers and Hammerstein albums of all time. With sumptuous arrangements and warm, natural Telarc recording, this glorious 77-minute CD presents sweeping, melodic arrangements of over 60 Rodgers and Hammerstein selections, spanning eight scores, and Kunzel allows the Pops to play with a characterful and polished understanding of the Rodgers and Hammerstein idiom. The disc is enough to cheer you up on a dull day and make you smile, and it might even want to make you feel like a convert to Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals.

This CD has all the scores arranged chronologically. The OKLAHOMA! suite that opens this disc promises a feast for the senses, Kunzel ably evokes the territory's "bright, golden haze" in the way he conducts the various excerpts, until you feel the atmosphere of the country charm of the show, and the love-affair between Curly and Laurey. Then, in CAROUSEL, he ably evokes the pathos of this tragic R&H masterwork, especially in the truncated Waltz, but he leads a wonderfully melodic "June is Bustin' Out All Over" and a devotional "You'll Never Walk Alone." Although this suite does not include Billy's pivotal Soliloquy, it includes "If I Loved You" as an expression of his love for Julie, and within minutes you could be soaked in the ups and downs of the show's mood.

After a brief STATE FAIR suite, with sweeping renditions of "It Might As Well Be Spring" and "It's a Grand Night for Singing", we are brought into the disc's showstopping highlights. These highlights are the excerpts from SOUTH PACIFIC, THE KING AND I, and THE SOUND OF MUSIC. But yet Kunzel conducts the rest of the disc until the various suites amount to a series of showstoppers. These three suites present wonderfully-arranged versions of their many familiar classic songs, with well-played solos. The SOUTH PACIFIC suite presents the songs in chronological order, yet preserves the atmosphere of the show at the same time. Kunzel ably brings out the romance in "Some Enchanted Evening" and "Younger than Springtime," and contrasts it with the exotic and dreamlike "Bali Hai'i" and the comic "There is Nothing like a Dame" and "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair". Although the suite ends quietly with a reprise of "Dites-Moi" rather than the reprise of "Some Enchanted Evening," within minutes we are swept into the KING AND I suite. Kunzel ably brings out the Oriental pathos in this score, and he captures the warmth of Anna's rapport with the King's Siamese children in "Getting to Know You", and with the King himself in "Shall We Dance." There is also romance in the love ballads "I Have Dreamed" and "We Kiss in a Shadow." Similarly, in the selection from THE SOUND OF MUSIC, Kunzel conducts this until the orchestra soaks itself in the atmosphere of this Austrian R&H score. This SOUND OF MUSIC suite has more of a feel of the score compared to the bonus track on Sony's reissued version of the Broadway recording. You can almost feel as if you are following the progress of the Trapp family and how it lifts its spirits with the joy of music. Kunzel gives us a soaring version of the title song, and spirited versions of "Do-Re-Mi" and "My Favourite Things." He balances it with the open-air quality of "Edelweiss" and "The Lonely Goatherd." Although this suite could have included "Something Good," the love ballad written for the film, the three recollections of the songs that were cut from the movie only last for a while. And, the towering version of "Climb Every Mountain" crowns this portion of the disc, and this sumptuously-produced recording. But, I should also mention the infectuous FLOWER DRUM SONG medley, where Kunzel turns this underrated score into a work of art, until it convinces you to buy the cast recording. And, don't forget about the brief CINDERELLA WALTZ, too, when Kunzel conducts it magically, until you feel like you are in the company of Cinderella and the Prince. He is able to show how this R&H score marked a comeback for R&H after the failiures of Me and Juliet, and Pipe Dream.

Overall, this glorious Rodgers and Hammerstein recording is guarunteed to make you want to pucker your lips out for a whistle or sing along (to paraphrase another revew for Kunzel's Disney Spectacular disc) - even if this recording is music only, and as long as you know the words to the songs (and you might know a large handful of them already.) There is always a certain magic in this fine CD that makes you feel like you're sitting in the theatre watching these musicals, until it makes you feel like it is truly, to borrow two R&H song titles, "Some Enchanted Evening" and "Something Wonderful" to be in Kunzel's company for this R&H offering. It would certainly be one recording that could make you feel willing to buy the complete cast recordings of the shows. And I guaruntee that it will make you feel willing to pull out your existing copies of the cast recordings to listen to them again. I also guaruntee that it will be a cornerstone in any Rodgers and Hammerstein collection, just as it is in mine. Recommended heartily to any Rodgers and Hammerstein enthusiast and to fans of Erich Kunzel's work. And, you can play it while reading the Richard Rodgers biography, Musical Stages, until Rodgers himself would count this as his favourite disc in the afterlife.

By the way, most of the arrangements for the suites on this CD were done by the veteran R&H orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett, and it surely adds to the appeal of this recording. This itself is enough to amount to the icing on the cake, since Kunzel conducts them well on here, and since this recording still allows the suites to have the original theatrical atmosphere. And, although this recording is like the Mauceri collection of the Rodgers & Hammerstein overtures in compiling orchestral suites of Rodgers & Hammerstein, I think that I like the Kunzel recording even more because Kunzel has more magic in his conducting of these suites.

Excellent!.......2003-04-08

This is one of the best Erich Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops collections we own! A must for Rodgers and Hammerstein fans, too.

Great Arrangments.......2001-09-02

This is a first rate album with great arrangments and orchestrations. If you're a Rodgers and Hammerstein fan, you can't afford to miss this specatacular album

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Snow as a pop rock princess
Her comback survival!
A CLASS ACT ALL THE WAY! ! !

Something Real
Phoebe Snow
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
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ASIN: B000002H6Z
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Something Real
Mr. Wondering
Touch Your Soul
We Might Never Feel This Way Again
I'm Your Girl
If I Can Just Get Through The Night
Stay Away
Soothin'
Best Of My Love
Cardiac Arrest

Customer Reviews:

Snow as a pop rock princess.......2001-11-02

This album seemed so long coming that I had begun to wonder if I had heard the last of Phoebe Snow. Since Snow is eclectic to say the least one never quite knows what to expect, but she is certainly right at home here. Pop is what its all about - latherings of catchy melodies and exuberant and slick playing and production from Ricky Fataar and others. Snow's vocal control is a always exemplary and she makes it all seem so easy - today's pop princesses could do worse than to take some lessons out of this classy demonstration of power pop Think Bonnie Raitt's Nick of Time and you'll be in the right territory but like Raitt, Snow's voice is very much her own and comparisons are odious.

Her comback survival!.......2000-08-17

Phoebe sang alot of comercials and deep jazz cuts like Thankful And Thoughtful in the 80's. She had a AC hit with Dave Mason titled Dreams I Dream. By the end of the 80's she had suffered a heart attack, hence the song Cardiac Arrest, and comeback to the pop/folk scene with this CD. It's a combination of her traditional thoughtful folk writing like the title track to the the spirited single If I Can Just Get Through The Night. She even went as far as recording an updated version of the Emotions disc classic, Best Of My Love, very effectively! Also listen to Mr.Wondering, We May Never Feel This Way Again and the jazzy Soothin'.

A CLASS ACT ALL THE WAY! ! !.......2000-06-04

Phoebe Snow means Talented and gifted. What a truely amazing woman, I wish I had half her talent, Id be rich and famous, but alas I can only dream!

Phoebe has a unique voice that is easily distinctive from the rest, the music is not harsh, allowing her voice to drift over you in all its lyrical beauty is wonderfully satisfying.

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Please Say You Will - Richard Zimmerman
A Picture Of Her Face - Richard Zimmerman
The Great Crush Collision March - Richard Zimmerman
Harmony Club Waltz - Richard Zimmerman
Combination March - Richard Zimmerman
Original Rags - Richard Zimmerman
Maple Leaf Rag - Richard Zimmerman
Swipesy - Cake Walk - Richard Zimmerman
Sunflower Slow Drag - Richard Zimmerman
Peacherine Rag - Richard Zimmerman
Augustan Club Waltz - Richard Zimmerman
The Easy Winners - Richard Zimmerman
Cleopha - Richard Zimmerman
The Strenuous Life - Richard Zimmerman
I Am Thinking Of My Pickanniny Days - Richard Zimmerman
The Ragtime Dance - Richard Zimmerman
A Breeze From Alabama - Richard Zimmerman
Elite Syncopations - Richard Zimmerman

Tracks:

March Majestic - S. Joplin
The Entertainer - S. Joplin
Something Doing - S. Joplin
Weeping Willow - S. Joplin
Little Black Baby - S. Joplin
Palm Leaf Rag - S. Joplin
The Favorite - S. Joplin
The Sycamore - S. Joplin
The Cascades - S. Joplin
The Chrysanthemum - S. Joplin
Rosebud March - S. Joplin
Bethena - S. Joplin
Leola - S. Joplin
Sarah Dear - S. Joplin
Binks Waltz - S. Joplin
Eugenia - S. Joplin
Antoinette - S. Joplin
Snoring Sampson - S. Joplin

Tracks:

Gladiolus Rag - S. Joplin
Searchlight Rag - S. Joplin
The Nonpareil (None to Equal) - S. Joplin
When Your Hair Is Like The Snow - S. Joplin
Rose Leaf Rag - S. Joplin
Heliotrope Bouquet - S. Joplin
School Of Ragtime - S. Joplin
Fig Leaf Rag - S. Joplin
Sugar Cane - S. Joplin
Pine Apple Rag - S. Joplin
Wall Street Rag - S. Joplin
Solace - S. Joplin
Pleasant Moments - S. Joplin
Country Club - S. Joplin
Paragon Rag - S. Joplin
Euphonic Sounds - S. Joplin
Stoptime Rag - S. Joplin
Felicity Rag - S. Joplin

Tracks:

Highlights From Treemonisha - Richard Zimmerman
A Real Slow Drag - Richard Zimmerman
Prelude To Act 3 - Richard Zimmerman
Frolic Of The Bears - Richard Zimmerman
Lovin' Babe - Richard Zimmerman
Scott Joplin's New Rag - Richard Zimmerman
Kismet Rag - Richard Zimmerman
Magnetic Rag - Richard Zimmerman
Reflection Rag - Richard Zimmerman
Silver Swan Rag - Richard Zimmerman
Lily Queen - Richard Zimmerman
Sensation - Richard Zimmerman

Customer Reviews:

Available at retailers for about $18.......2006-12-21

Excellent collection - but there are re-sellers listed here that are selling this for as much $50 or $60. Yikes, most major retailers are selling this complete set for $18 - so beware.

A classic compilation.......2006-10-07

This collection is one of my most treasured possessions. (My father gave me the original 5-album set in the 70's when it was originally released on vinyl.)

This is the definitive collection of Scott Joplin's work. Richard Zimmerman provides wonderful performances that accurately reflect Joplin's intentions. (As evidence beyond my personal opinion, I submit the recent releases of digital recordings made from Joplin's piano rolls.)

A few points to consider regarding negative comments you may encounter in other reviews:
* This is a digital recording from an analog master. Lack of quality in the recording does not imply a lackluster performance.
* This is a complete collection. Some similarity is due to Joplin re-exploring melodic themes. But some is due to the fact that these are "rags". One might as well complain that all 50's doo-wop (or all 70's disco) sounds the same.
* Many pieces of the period exhibit formal musical structures, such as the marches of John Phillips Sousa. (Both Sousa and Joplin performed at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis.) Actually, Joplin is responsible for extending the formal boundaries of ragtime to concert waltzes (Bethena) and opera (A Guest of Honor, Treemonisha)
* This is probably one of the few collections which will include selections from "Treemonisha". It is my understanding that after the initial release, one of Joplin's descendants made a copyright claim that was upheld in court. (I presume the issue was that Joplin had to finance "Treemonisha" himself, and therefore the customary performance clearances did not cover those selections.)

For ragtime students and enthusiasts, this is a "must-have" collection at a very affordable price.

A dis-service to Joplin.......2006-02-01

Sadly, the only virtue this set possesses is completeness.

The pianist does not play Joplin's pieces "as written", the piano is of poor quality, and not properly in tune.

This is emphatically NOT the set to buy. A far better set, beautifully annotated and well played on a good concert grand piano, is the complete works played by Guido Nielsen on the Basta Label.

This set is a dis-service to Joplin and his music. He deserves better, and gets it elsewhere.

Unique .......2004-10-19

I have several cd sets of Joplin's music: Rifkin, Arpo, Nielsen, and Zimmerman. All have their excellent qualities. What sets Zimmerman's set apart is the inclusion of excerpts from Joplin's opera, Treemonisha---especially "A Real Slow Drag." Why the other sets do not include excerpts from Treemonisha, I don't know---because they are some of his most beautiful and joyful pieces of music. Of course, you can hear the orchestrated version of Treemonisha in the Houston Grand Opera recording, and it is spectacular. But Zimmerman's piano version, especially of "A Real Slow Drag," is not to be missed.

Great set.......2001-10-16

I guess this will be a rather one sided review. I have been a fan of Scott Joplin since I first learned to play a piano.

I was shocked to see that one reviewer thought it all sounded the same. How silly. All of Frank Sinatra's music sounds like Frank Sinatra. All of Led Zeppelin sounds like Led Zeppelin. So, if the songs were drastically different, I would question if the same author composed them. As it is, though, each song on this set is fantastic!!

I don't know that I have heard of Richard Zimmerman, and I was a little leary as to what I would be getting, I certainly was impressed. Without a doubt the best renditions of "Weeping Willow" and "Bethena" I have heard, and at least a dozen songs I didn't know Joplin wrote.

Without a doubt, this album is fantastic. A very good price, as well.

Gimme Something Real
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ASIN: B000CAH114
Release Date: 2002-12-10

Tracks:

Bend Me
Time
Have You Ever Tried It
Gimme Something Real
Can You Make It Brother
I'm Determined
Ain't That Good Enough
I Need Your Light
Anywhere

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Classics Explained: Rite of Spring
Stravinsky , Rahbari , and Brt Po Brussels
Manufacturer: Naxos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00007FPFN
Release Date: 2003-07-15

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Overlooked Gem
Stupendous!

Something Real
Stephanie Mills
Manufacturer: Mca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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If I Were Your Woman
Home
Born for This!
Great Songs from MGM Classic Films, Vol. 2
The Power of Love: A Ballads Collection

ASIN: B000008IHE
Release Date: 1992-11-24

Tracks:

Never Do You Wrong
All Day, All Night
Somewhere in This Broken Heart
Stone Cold Woman
Love the Hurt Away
Heartache
Policy of Love
I Found a New Love
All in How Much We Give
24 Hour Woman
Never Gonna Give You Up
I Just Want Love

Customer Reviews:

Overlooked Gem.......2006-11-14

This wonderful cd got lost when MCA was going through a management change, the first two singles 'All Day, All Night' & 'Never Do You Wrong' got good airplay but there was no promotion for the cd, which is one of Stephanie's best cd's, a nice mixture of uptempo songs and nice strong ballads, if this cd slipped past you, do yourself a favor a get a copy! Other hightlights 'Somewhere In This Broken Heart', 'All In How Much We Give' and my favorite 'I Just Want Love'.

Stupendous!.......2006-04-18

Miss Mills let the world know that she's ontop of her game.
This album rocks! After I bought it,my mother bought it too!
My faves are Heartache, Never Do You Wrong, This Broken Heart
All In how Much We Give, 24 Hour Woman and All I Want Is Love!

Get This yall!

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Great lyrics
Sing Along
It is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOW! Smooth real Woman sound.
Inspirational lyrics combined with beautiful music

Uninvited Guests
Debra Davis
Manufacturer: Fma Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000009OF2
Release Date: 1998-07-28

Tracks:

This Old Man
Uninvited Guests
I Don't Wanna Be That Cool
Moon Upon My Shoulder
Stella
Love Is Never Wrong
What's A Girl To Do
Love's A Funny Thing
Takin' The Wheel
Happy Ending

Album Description

"Uninvited Guests" establishes Debra Davis as a quality Singer/Songwriter. It has had success at "Americana" radio. Her music is very accessible to a broad audience and fits right in with the popular Lillith Fair sound perfect for pop radio.

Customer Reviews:

Great lyrics.......2000-05-17

I heard Debra Davis perform live recently and, as far as this CD goes, I wanted to say that the title track, "Uninvited Guests" is one of the most insightful, beautiful songs that I've heard. Enjoy!

Sing Along.......1999-12-05

This CD is the twangier of the two, but it is definitely a good one. It is the type that you will be singing along to after about two rounds through. Kids love it too. I have had it for a few years now and I'm still not sick of it. I definitely reccomend this CD to any folk/rock fans out there.

It is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......1999-05-28

Debi, We think your CD sounds GREAT!!! The quality is super and your voice is like an angle. IT WAS GREAT!!!

WOW! Smooth real Woman sound........1999-05-23

I heard the Debra Davis Band at EAT'M in Las Vegas; what pros! Despite the sound problems she was right there with her songs. It was obvious these were her songs, her sounds. If I had a hat I'd take it off for the really hot drummer/bass player combo solo, Right On!

Inspirational lyrics combined with beautiful music.......1999-03-16

Debra Davis will be on the top of the charts very soon I am sure. This is one of the best CDs I have heard. The combination of her voice and the stories she tells is breath-taking and will speak to your soul. Wonderful!!!

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