More of Moore

Track Listings

1. You Should Have Been Good to Me

2. Who Can the Winner Be?

3. Lie to Me

4. Our Favorite Song

5. Knee Deep in a River

6. It Ain't over 'Til Your Heart Says Goodbye

7. I'll Spend My Life Lovin' You

8. Why Is Leavin' You So Hard to Do

9. Daydreamin'

10. Stop What You're Doing to Me

11. One Heartache Too Late

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More of Moore

Tracks:

Edges (Christian Wolf)
Six (John Cage)
Six for New Time For Sonic Youth (Pauline Oilveros)
+ - (Takehisa Kosugi)
Voice Piece For Soprano (Yoko Ono)
Pendulum Music (Steve Reich)

Tracks:

Having Never Written A Note For Percussion (James Tenney)
Six (John Cage)
Burdocks (Christian Wolff)
Four (John Cage)
Piano Piece #13 (George Maciunas)
Piece Enfantine (Nicolas Enfantine)
Treatise (Cornelius Cardew)

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Wildly influential four-piece Sonic Youth have self-released their version of a tribute to the 20th century: two discs of noisy interpretations of modern, experimental classical scores. The group has chosen composers whose works leave a great amount of innovation open to the performer. This chance-embracing approach--typified and in some senses originated by John Cage--is one of the crucial turning points of "new" music. What's great about this CD is that it demonstrates the freewheeling, decidedly unserious spirit behind this music, essentially combining the legacies of punk rock and out-sound. In addition to three late works by the chance-loving Cage, there are pieces by current Merce Cunningham collaborator Takehisa Kosugi, minimalist giant Steve Reich, "deep-listening" drone lover Pauline Oliveros, and Fluxus founder George Maciunas. Longtime collaborator Wharton Tiers, the young everything-ist Jim O'Rourke, and even some of the composers themselves join in on these exercises. The result is messy, fun, and anarchic, with occasional revelations (notably James Tenney's "Having Never Written a Note for Percussion"). It's not a disc to play all the time, but it is a challenging, enthused record that ideally will point listeners toward some of the most vital music of the last half of the last decade of the second millennium. --Mike McGonigal

Album Description

1999 & fourth release on their own SYR label. 13 tracks. The CD format is a double disc set that's enhanced with the CD-ROM video to George Maciunas' 'Piano Piece #13 (Carpenter's Piece) For Nam June Paik'. The album contains music composed by abstract artists like Yoko Ono, Steve Reich, John Cage and Christian Wolff. Gatefold slipcase. 1999 release.

Customer Reviews:

a tribute with poor feedbacks.......2006-04-14

The best thing with this product is undoubtly the names to whom it is contributed. One should really sincerely appreciate the good taste of SY to lift up and include such grand modern masteur composers as Wolff, Cardew, Cage and etc. Less successful however is the attempt to translate these 40 or so years old, mainly score, compositions and replace their original instrumentations and to attempt to change their structure to "rock".

Sometimes it does get endurable but at other times it completely falls out to miss the mark. Even if Wolff himself appears at times and also the renowned Marclay contributes it doesn't even come close to the originals at any time. It may be said that some of the tracks more demolishes than recaptures them.

Most of those who reviews here or rate are diehard SY fans and would probably give five stars to anything that SY put out, whatever it is. If they recorded an album of silence in hommage to Cage they would give it five stars too and call it great and important and other such stuff. We all know how that works, it is just sensual and silly.

But for those with commited interest in the musical field that is quite so misrepresented here it is but foolish to give this set of recordings too much attention.

Better is to try to get the original recordings themselves, or to get recent re-recordings of these, such like of California Ear Unit or Ars Nova ensemble etc. Pass this thing if you already know the composers work, and if you're new to these composers through this release, get the originals and compare.

I wish I could give three stars for this project, but I can't, the structures are too much weakened and the whole original soundwalls are too much torn down. If one wish to perform these works, which may not be too easy, than one should learn how to do so properly first. Otherwise, write a book...

"Keep it new".......2005-04-03

I came across this CD at my local library while searching for the works of Cornelius Cardew. My only criticism is that liner notes were not included. Liner notes would have been appreciated not only as explanations of this admittedly esoteric music, but as an opportunity for the performers to respond to potential criticism and explain their intentions. They are to be commended for taking the risk of alienating their commercial base with this collection of recent aleatoric compositions and performance art. The other reviews merely prove the point that despite their posturing, many fans of popular music are as conservative and hidebound as their great-grandparents, uncomfortable in their day with any composers after Brahms. A scan of the FM dial reveals little change in popular music over the past 50 years - lots of 3-minute songs in 4/4 time. Witness the proliferation of stations endlessly broadcasting the same 1960s to 1980s standards.

For this audience, this CD is just what was needed - a slap in the face of convention. If this sparks in anyone an interest in searching for "what else is out there," the exercise will have been well worth the effort.

Classical avant-garde experimentalism from.....a rock band?.......2004-11-21

It's hard to believe, but it's true.

The 4th CD in the SYR experimental series (titled Goodbye 20th Century, appropriatly) of Sonic Youth Records, is a fantastic double album soundscape of the finest kind. The CD has reinterpretations of post 50's era classical pieces (by such illustrious names as John Cage, Steve Reich, Christian Wolff), and they sound great for the most part. But Sonic Youth was not alone in recording this double album. They enlisted the help of many people, like Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon's daughter Coco Hayley Gordon Moore (who screams out Yoko Ono's Voice Piece for Soprano), and...surprisingly...Christian Wolff collaborates on his pieces with the band. There are many other contributors, but I can't recall them at the moment.

Judging from all the other tracks, the one that stands out the most (to me, anyway) is Pauline Oliveros' Six For New Time (composed specifically for this project). Thurston intones lyrics over rising and falling drone guitars. Genius. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of other tracks that are as great, such as Steve Reich's Pendulum Music (swinging microphones over amps, creating a pendulum effect of feedback), and George Maciunas' Piano Piece #13 (hammering down the keys of a piano till they no longer produce sound).

The centerpiece of the album, though, is John Cage's Four6. There are 2 other John Cage songs on the album (Six, performed twice) but this one stands out the most. It may seem like random banging and aimless instrumental wandering, but give it a chance, and it will slowly reveal its beauty.

Overall, this album is a fantastic piece of avant-garde, and will certainly entertain the artier person in you.

If you enjoy this record, why not try other CD's in the SYR series, Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, or seek out the works of the composers on this album?

Can you guess what it is yet?.......2004-06-11

Well this is one Sonic Youth's more experimental releases ( if you hadn't gathered by now ) and it's fair to say that this is a challenging listen. You'll need to keep your wits about you and a sense of humour to contain this on first listen. It's quite possibly one of those " gets on your nerves " sort of album at first albums. But give it time and you appreciate the album that it sets out to be. You're not going to absolutely love this but you can enjoy it for what it is or yank it out of your stereo system and criticize Sonic Youth as bulls**t poseurs. It all means the same thing - nothing!

lost me as a fan.......2003-03-10

i used to love sy. during the washing machine tour they played the academy friday night, saturday afternoon for matinee and saturday night. i was at all three shows. i saw them a lollapalooze twice. the thousand leaves show at irving plaza? i was front row. those days are gone.
i had the first syr disc and liked it. not great but it was ok. after that this band died. maybe my tastes change and i mourning this whole thing because i truly was proud to be an sy fan. i felt they were alive here and now and i got to enjoy them now. not like beatles fans or zepplin fans who can no longer see them live. i mourn the loss of the smashing pumpkins, the death of kurdt cobain, the death of mia zappata, death of layne staley, breakup of soundgarden, as well as many other bands i adore so for me to love sy and they are still here and making vibrant music meant alot.
then they came out with the syr discs. i liked the first a little but after that, this disc, the 4th in this series, i was forced to leave my fanship behind. this dics is long, boring, to long, uninterseting and way too long. 30 minutes for one song which interests me not at all is too much to ask.
i see their new direction and like it not. it is pretentious in the worst way. aimless, drifting, and uninteresting. like i said, someone email me and explain me what is so good about this

milkboydanny@hotmail.com

"Rudy Ray Moore - Raw, Rude & Real: More Greatest Hits"
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Classic Rudy Ray Moore

A Very Worthy Sequel

"Rudy Ray Moore - Raw, Rude & Real: More Greatest Hits"
Rudy Ray Moore
Manufacturer: The Right Stuff
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ASIN: B00005Q3A7
Release Date: 2001-10-09

Tracks:

Silent George
Zodiac For Men
The Sensuous Black Woman
Pool-Shootin' Monkey
San Antonio Rose
Stack-A-Lee
Dangerous Dan
The Streaker
Have You Seen My Mule
The Player

Customer Reviews:

Classic Rudy Ray Moore.......2006-01-11

One of my all time favorite Comedians.Bro Man always has some Bomb Albums to just sit&Get your laugh on to.Bro Man always keeps it Hood.His story telling&the way He breaks things down is classic.dig me some Dolemite Movies as well.Bro Man is the First Rapping Comedian as well.He always keeps it real.

A Very Worthy Sequel.......2002-05-25

As devotees of Mr. Ray Moore's work might have noticed, I only rated his Greatest Hits album at 4 stars, which could be criticized as unfair. My only excuse for doing so is that the present work is actually superior in a number of respects. While the pieces on "More Greatest Hits" lack some of the sophistication and overall public familiarity of "Dolemite," "Petey Wheatstraw," Signifying Monkey" and "Shine and the Great Titanic," the ones here, particularly "Pool Shootin' Monkey," "Have You Seen My Mule?" and "San Antonio Rose" are actually funnier and more powerfully delivered. [The first four are probably of a higher literary character with more completely developed characters and intricate plot lines, but do not match the musical enticements or brash shock performance value of the selections on this disk.] Certainly no serious Ray Moore enthusiast would limit his or her collection to only one of these two albums. Indeed, each of these two represents a different aspect of his "toasting" career, i.e. the literary and the didactic. I recommend Raw, Rude & Real enthusiastically.

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If you missed this series upon release, you missed a lot...
Get your dancing shoes on!

Big 12 Inches: More, More, More
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Buddha / BMG
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000IPYI
Release Date: 1999-05-18

Tracks:

Everybody, Everybody - Black Box
Shame - Evelyn 'Champagne' King
Pow Wow - Cory Daye
More, More, More - Andrea True Connection
To Each His Own - Faith, Hope And Charity
Standing Right Here - Melba Moore
I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) - Daryl Hall & John Oates
If My Brother's In Trouble - Jeffrey Osborne
Love Is Always On Your Mind - Gladys Knight & The Pips
Inside Out - Odyssey
Hold Tight - Vicki Sue Robinson

Customer Reviews:

If you missed this series upon release, you missed a lot..........2005-08-05

This is pure 12" heaven with clean, excellent mastering. Just wish there had been more than 3 volumes, and more popular track selections. Other two volumes are titled "So Excited" and "groovin You." Track times:

1. everybody everybody (5:20)
2. shame (6:31)
3. pow wow (7:14)
4. more more more (6:17)
5. to each his own (5:18)
6. standing right here (6:58)
7. I can't go for that (6:05)
8. if my brother's in trouble (7:21)
9. love is always on your mind (10:09)
10. inside out (6:23)
11. hold tight (11:05)

Get your dancing shoes on!.......2000-06-11

Finally, a series that REALLY has the full length remixes! Most compilations have 2 or 3 extended versions tossed in with the rest of the radio versions. Every song on this CD is the full length club mix we heard in the discos.

With great tunes like Shame, and More, More, More this CD hits the mark.

But the BEST song on the compilation is Vicki Sue Robinsons "HOLD TIGHT". If this tune doesn't get you up and dancing, you're dead! And it times in at over 11 minutes!

If you remember these songs, order this CD before it disappears. It's a great deal.

Proverb/Nagoya Marimbas/City Life
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Fine Examples of Modern Music

From meditative to chilling--a study in pattern and sound

compelling

Composer-journalist's observations become chilling prophecy

Credit where credit is due...

Proverb/Nagoya Marimbas/City Life

Manufacturer: Nonesuch
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005J4E
Release Date: 1996-10-15

Tracks:

Proverb
Nagoya Marimbas
City Life: 'Check It Out'
City Life: 'Pile Drive - Alarms'
City Life: 'It's Been A Honeymoon - Can't Take No Mo'
City Life: Heartbeats - Boats And Buoys
City Life: 'Heavy Smoke'

Customer Reviews:

Fine Examples of Modern Music.......2007-05-16

When I listened to Reich's 'City Life' tracks, I had to do a quick check on the dates on which the piece was written, to see whether composer Reich had anticipated the styles of Rap and Hip-Hop, or had appropriated them. Turns out, I believe, to be a bit of both, in the fine tradition of virtually every other major composer who borrowed from the popular (or liturgical) music of the day.

This is the most interesting piece on the CD, but 'Proverb', especially with the assistance of choral great Paul Hillier conducting, is a fine beginning in a very traditional sound, but moving on to more and more modern tempos and vocalizations. The short 'Nagoya Marimbas' is like icing on the cake. Excellent, and not totally 'autre' modern works.

From meditative to chilling--a study in pattern and sound.......2003-12-18

This CD was my first venture into the works of Steve Reich, and is probably my most frequently listened to. I have to say, these are some incredibly striking and graceful pieces to listen to. Rather than relying on traditional chordal progressions and arrangements to progress the piece, this is instead a study in pattern and melody, and (during City Life) the use of everyday sound. Being a rock fan as well as classical, I find it interesting to see the latter entering into classical music as well as where I've experienced it before (in Pink Floyd, Rick Wright, and other rock artists' works).

"Proverb" is a very interesting, mellow piece with a single lyric: "How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life." This piece recalls the medieval forms such as the organum--but with rhythms and dissonances that the ancients would have never dared explore. The lyric itself seems to be a statement of the principles of minimalism...something upon which the listener is compelled to meditate during the course of this piece. "Nagoya Marimbas", while not the most striking statement is a very interesting study of patterns--the changes are subtle and occur just in time to prevent the piece from becoming monotonous. I imagine that to play this piece would require great concentration on the part of each player, to stay with their individual contribution to it.

By far, "City Life" is the most compelling piece, and the one I initially bought this CD for. The use of sampled sounds, combined with the textures of the music itself, truly evokes the image of New York City, from the frenzied rush of cars in the first movement to the brooding ambience of the harbor, and finally, the potential for disaster reflected in the last movement. I bought this CD in the fall of 2001, and it was quite chilling to realize that the recordings Mr. Reich used in the last movement were from the *first* World Trade Center bombing...but it could just as easily fit the more recent tragedy.

compelling.......2002-05-19

The first piece on the cd, Proverb, is 14 minutes that don't seem like more than 2. A step beyond Reich's earlier Tehillim, it seems to make use of the influence of medieval composer Perotin & modernise it by adding a minimalistic keyboard which serves mostly to give form to a driving rhythm (fast pace, not cars). This piece will turn the space its flowing sound envelopes into a sort of digital cathedral. Then, Nagoya Marimbas might bring you back to reality. It's a classic Reich fabric of repetition with deliberate & slow changes. Then the title piece, which spans 5 tracks from 3 to 7 on the cd for a total of 23:07, features, on top of sparse instrumentation, some great vocal loops & tapes that are almost reminiscent of his early Come Out but more compelling, to be sure. Great cd, diverse Reich, offers a sense of protean experimentation more than compositional evolution.

Composer-journalist's observations become chilling prophecy.......2001-09-17

For the past twelve years Reich has labored in the shadow of his unassailable masterpiece, "Different Trains." Both its concision and its monumentality made that sampling exposition of Holocaust testimony the standard for the work Reich has accurately if immodestly claimed he was "born to do."

His more recent recorded compositions such as "The Cave" and the three works on this disc-- less visceral and emotional, perhaps, but no less powerful of insight-- have been less uniformly well received. In particular, "City Life" has been marginalized by some as a found-sound exercise in banality, utilizing performance techniques that sounded dated when the piece premiered in 1995.

The reason critics need to give it another listen has little to do with the awful coincidence in Reich's climactic choice of the earlier World Trade Center bombing aftermath as a sample source. It has a lot more to do with the sobering atmosphere progressively achieved throughout the first four movements-- a precarious balance of despair and indifference, equipoise and terror. Had this music reflected the events of 2001 rather than 1993, its composer needn't have changed a note.

With almost surgical understatement, Reich distills his stylistic hallmarks-- crystalline architecture, slow-burn intensity, razor-sharp asentimentality, and inexhaustable rhythmic drive-- into a musical observation of urban rage, unsparingly linking individual discontent to mass destruction.

No sides are taken here. Often skeptical of a composer's entitlement to expression for its own sake, Reich has always despised and successfully avoided musical agitprop. And just as he has from "Come Out" to "Different Trains," in "City Life" he provides something better, something more necessary: an indelible reflection of the ghost face of violence at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Perhaps if one tenth of the people rushing to purchase Lee Greenwood's "American Patriot" listened carefully to Reich's "City Life," there might be a measurably clearer consciousness of what has changed life in the United States, and the resentments and complacencies that have fueled those changes.

Credit where credit is due..........2001-07-03

While I have listened to most of this cd and have thoroughly enjoyed everything I heard on it, this is mainly a response to the Good Doctor's comment about the piece Nagoya Marimbas. I would say he is correct in his description that upon hearing the piece, it isn't overly dynamic and it doesnt sound like there is much going on of abundant interest. However, a percussionist myself I started learning Nagoya to perform with a colleague later this year, and I must say the doctor may have been a bit narrowminded in his assessment. Nagoya Marimbas demands pinpoint accuracy in timing (the two contrasting parts are very easily confused, mainly because they are virtually the same at the core) and synchronization (or syncopation) with your fellow performer. When you actually put the music on the instrument, it also takes amazing accuracy, leaping from one register to the next with very little time and, of course, no room for error. So I urge the good Doctor, and anyone else, to think again before you brush aside this piece as being uninteresting. I think if you really look at what the piece entails and how it can be portrayed visually, not just musically, you could find a greater appreciation for this Reich opus. We may have a difference in opinion as to what qualifies as "virtuostic" (I am, after all, merely a college student persuing a life in music) but with the selectivity of attention one needs to be able to lock in with his or her colleague and perform Nagoya Marimbas well, it certainly is more difficult than one might initially believe. Kudos Mr. Reich!

Greasy Kid Stuff 2: More Songs From Inside The Radio

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Greasy Kid Stuff 2: More Songs From Inside The Radio
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Get your hanky....this is very, very emotional music
The best relaxing and inspirational CD in my collection.

Music for the Soul

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Release Date: 1997-03-25

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Get your hanky....this is very, very emotional music.......2003-08-03

This is very emotional music that may easily bring a tear or many
to your eyes.....this is very powerful music .....know that going into
it.

The best relaxing and inspirational CD in my collection........1998-08-10

I'm back to buy this CD for a friend who writes while listening to this type of music, as I do. The CD inspires and presents consistent selections of music that take you "out of it" and allow you to think. I've purchased many CDs looking for this type of music, and I listen to this one most often. It's a rare find.

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Symphony No. 1 is great!
great piece of music
Absolute sh*t
puh-lease

Branca: Symphony 1

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Album Description

For Fans Of: Sonic Youth, Swans, Helmet, Rhys Chatham, Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, LaMonte Young, Noise Bands, Guitar Driven Heavy Metal. Recorded July 18 & 19, 1981 at The Performing Garage, NYC. Produced by Lee Ranaldo.Digitally Remastered By Glenn Branca and Wharton Tiers June 1998!

Performers: Glenn Branca (Soprano and steel-wire guitars) with:
Craig Bromberg:

Tenor, soprano, bowed; Richard Edson :Trumpet and octave guitar; Dave Buk: Trumpet, baritone horn; Ned Sublette:Soprano, tenor and steel-wire guitars; Ann DeMarinis:

Keyboard, percussion: Barbara Ess: Baritone and bass guitars, percussion; Robert Harrison: Soprano, tenor and bowed guitars; Thurston Moore: Tenor, soprano and bowed guitars; Lee Ranaldo: Soprano and steel-wire guitars; Wharton Tiers:Keyboard, soprano and steel-wire guitars /percussion; Gail Varchon:

Keyboard; Fritz Van Orden: Tenor saxophone; Stephan Wischerth: Drums, percussion; Margot Zvaleko: French horn; David Rosenblum: Baritone and Steel-wire guitars

What the press had to say about Glenn Branca and "Symphony No. 1" released as a ROIR cassette in 1983:
"Symphony No. 1 is the acme of what recent New York art rockers have yet accomplished. This may be the loudest piece of music this writer has ever heard." John Rockwell, New York Times. July 19, 1981

"Imagine a lion roaring and put your head in its mouth. Then you might get close to the impact of Branca's music. All the flesh of pop music is hacked away, but the terrifying bones still remain." New Musical Express, UK, January 14, 1984

"He succeeds in turning over the so-called evil sexual powers of rock music in its primitive state into a form of resistance." Kim Gordon, Art Forum, January 1983

"Awesome orchestral impact of Branca's massed minimalist heavy metal mantra." Michael Shore, SoHo News, August 8, 1981

"Those who heard Symphony No. 1 in 1981 knew it left them all shook up. This recording shows there was method in the mayhem. Huge and brutal and utterly magnificent." Jon Pareles, New York Times, Liner Notes, 1983

Customer Reviews:

Symphony No. 1 is great!.......2005-12-30

This symphony by Glenn Branca is great! Each movement is as powerful and rockish as the last while managing to be quite different from the one that proceeds it. The first movement is a rocking tour de force based around a simple E chord and its harmonies, dissonances, etc. The drums are pounding and primal on this one. The second movement is like psuedo-gamelan music, with lots of choked cymbals, chimes, horn blats, and things of that sort. The third movement builds around a throbbing guitar-and-horn, um, (I'm at a loss for words) which is eventually accompanied by rolling, thudding drums, crescendoing and becoming more and more startling in its power until it ends abruptly at about 17 minutes and 30 seconds. The fourth and final movement starts with simple, thudding percussion (including metal barrels), accompanied by low-pitched guitars, and slowly, gradually begins to change, and is all in all, a great finish to the piece.
Branca has composed a near-masterwork with this symphony, and to the reviewer who claimed you could do this with your kid brother and his buddies in your basement, I'd like to see him try. I look forward to purchasing more of Branca's compositions in the future.

.......2005-02-13

the comments of the people before have been very disapointing and very ignorant. This peice is a masterwork of giagantic porportions very itricitly composed. The ignorant narrow-minded naysayers below me just dont understand anything that pushes the limits

This is a must have for anyone that isnt an ignorant narrow minded naysayer but even for them it is truely a must have

great piece of music.......2004-11-10

I have no idea where some of the other people reviewing this album are on, especially the one that likes to go around giving instrumental bands 1-star reviews and praising Nickelback and Creed. With that being said, this CD is awesome! This is definetly at the top of Branca's list along with The Ascension and Lesson No.1. The sound on this CD is massive, I believe he had 16 musicians on this symphony. This is music for people with open-minds. Excellent.

Absolute sh*t.......2004-10-20

I've heard so many people tout Glenn Branca as the single most important artist in the past 2 decades. That's a pretty loft claim to live up to. Laughably, he falls ENTIRELY short. This is amassed, dissonant ("out-of-tune" would be the more appropriate phrase here), amusical GARBAGE. What Branca has composed here is utter crap, and the crappiness of the music itself is only augmented by the musicians involved with performing it, in particular, Stephan Wiscerth's awful drumming. I understand that Thurston Moore, Lee Renaldo, Michael Gira, and (less importantly) Page Hamilton have all played with him, but do not let that fool you -- Branca's music is completely unredeeming, humorless, and pretentious to the point of ridiculousness. Don't be fooled!

puh-lease.......2003-09-23

To call Branca a composer is like calling someone's nose-picking Art. He is without a doubt the most talentless, the most uninteresting, the most humorless tertiary affiliate of the music scene, a man comfortable neither in the world of progressive rock (he has no rhythm, no chops, no ear) nor that of serious, i.e., classical music (he has no understanding of composition--I doubt he even knows how the circle of five works). It really doesn't matter how many guitarists he's got for this particular recording. They all sound terrible because the music Braca "wrote" is terrible. Just one monotonous strum on all six strings after another, with no rhyme or reason. You can do this with your kid brother and his twelve-year-old buddies anytime of the day in the luxury of your own basement. And you'll have more fun listening to the result taped on your beat-up radio afterward.

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Eat Out More Often
Rudy Ray Moore
Manufacturer: Traffic Entertainment/RND Muzak
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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21st Century Dolemite
The Crap Shootin' Rev

ASIN: B000BM6AR4
Release Date: 2005-10-25

Tracks:

Dolemite
The Great Titanic
Ballad Of a Boy and Girl (With Jeanie Marie)
Not Too Long,Not Too Hard
So Glad I Could Come
Pimpin' Sam
You Could Be Ugly Too

Product Description

Rudy Ray Moore, the worlds first comedian to take a bold approach at comedy using the many expressions of the ghetto in great monologues, thus making these expressions a form of art (with all due respect to Redd Foxx). Mr. Moore is to be commended for his presentation of this first album, with such great monologues as The Great Titanic, a tale about the great shipwreck during the turn of the century. Pimpin Sam, another gem done with vitality and deep expression, which gives you a very good picture of one of the forms of night life around the world today. Even with all the comedians in the world today, everyone should agree that Rudy Ray Moore is still the king. And after listening to Dolemite, and the dynamics with which this tale is delivered, Im sure youll place it among your favorite monologues. Mr. Moores most famous quotation is All my jive is original Jack, if you hear it somewhere else, somebodys a copy cat. To all of his fans and listeners, he extends the invitation to Eat Out More Often. Do your thing Mr. Moore.

Album Description

Rudy Ray Moore, the world's first comedian to take a bold approach at comedy using the many expressions of the ghetto in great monologues, thus making these expressions a form of art (with all due respect to Redd Foxx). Mr. Moore is to be commended for his presentation of this first album, with such great monologues as 'The Great Titanic', a tale about the great shipwreck during the turn of the century. 'Pimpin' Sam', another gem done with vitality and deep expression, which gives you a very good picture of one of the forms of night life around the world today. Even with all the comedians in the world today, everyone should agree that Rudy Ray Moore is still the king. And after listening to 'Dolemite', and the dynamics with which this tale is delivered, I'm sure you'll place it among your favorite monologues.

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Good solid release
The Real Deal

More of Moore
Dorothy Moore
Manufacturer: Malaco Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Misty Blue

ASIN: B000001L2G
Release Date: 1997-06-24

Tracks:

You Should Have Been Good To Me
Who Can The Winner Be?
Lie To Me
Our Favourite Song
Knee Deep In A River
It Ain't Over 'Til Your Heart Says Goodbye
I'll Spend My Life Lovin' You
Why Is Leavin' You So Hard To Do
Daydreamin'
Stop What You're Doing To Me
One Heartache Too Late

Customer Reviews:

Good solid release.......2003-03-10

Moore's Misty Blue is a classic. She owns that song. I really had not heard much from this singer since that release. I took a chance on this CD. It is a solid release of pure southern soul. No knockout punches, but a strong, consistant work. Her voice has matured into a deep, husky bluesy richness. A voice like Mavis Staples that honey drips with soul. I loved Kathy Mattea's version of Knee Deep, but Ms. Moore gives it a rawer, more gospel tinged rendition. I play this cd from beginning to finish because all the material is first rate soul and blues. Discover or rediscover this fine singer. Highly recommended.

The Real Deal.......2000-10-07

Dorothy Moore is a classic soul singer and Malaco have surrounded her with real musicians and a clutch of songs whose lyrics mean something. Listen to the bittersweet regret of 'Knee deep in a river' or the defiant way she demands that her reluctant lover 'Lie To Me'; hear the dirty blues of 'One heartache' and the proof that retro sould can also hit a danceable groove with 'Stop what you're doin'. All 3 of her comeback cds on Malaco are superb and you'd be doing yourself a serious disfavour to be without any of them.

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In complete agreement
beauty from the woodwork

George Walker: Orchestral Works

Manufacturer: Albany Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000049RM
Release Date: 1998-02-03

Tracks:

Serenata for Chamber Orchestra: I. Quarter Note = 63
Serenata for Chamber Orchestra: II. Quarter Note = 40
Serenata for Chamber Orchestra: III. Quarter Note = 52
Serenata for Chamber Orchestra: Lyric for Strings
Serenata for Chamber Orchestra: I. Eigth Note = 88
Serenata for Chamber Orchestra: II. Eigth Note = 72
Serenata for Chamber Orchestra: III. Eighth Note = 120
Orpheus for Chamber Orchestra: I.
Orpheus for Chamber Orchestra: II.
Orpheus for Chamber Orchestra: III.
Orpheus for Chamber Orchestra: IV.
Orpheus for Chamber Orchestra: V.
Orpheus for Chamber Orchestra: VI.
Orpheus for Chamber Orchestra: I. Going to lay down my sword and shield
Orpheus for Chamber Orchestra: II. And they crucified my Lord
Orpheus for Chamber Orchestra: III. My Lord, what a morning
Orpheus for Chamber Orchestra: IV. O Peter, go ring dem bells

Amazon.com

Although George Walker was the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize in music (for his Whitman-inspired cantata Lilacs in 1996), his compositions are not nearly as well known as they deserve to be. This release of orchestral selections--much like the 1994 compilation Portrait--offers an inviting entrée into Walker's musical world. It includes the piece that marked the composer's debut in 1946, Lyric for Strings, along with examples of more recent projects, such as the tone poem-cum-narrator Orpheus from 1994. Walker's music is often a rich amalgam of formal design with disparate elements--folk idioms, serial techniques, jazz rhythms, unusual collages of timbre--that are fused into a highly personalized, questing voice. Lyric, with its hint of Samuel Barber, seems to announce a gently guarded elegiac quality that recurs in various guises within subsequent compositions, such as the lovely Poème for Violin and Orchestra. Orpheus draws on one of music's central myths for a tautly constructed musical narrative adorned by Walker's imaginatively fluent orchestration. An excellent example of Walker's modus operandi can be found in the Folk Songs for Orchestra. These moving transformations of simple melodic elements--encased like gems within Walker's sensitive, original, meditative settings--into far-ranging statements invite repeated listening. --Thomas May

Customer Reviews:

In complete agreement.......2002-02-06

I completely agree with Richard's assessment of this composer. My first exposure, sadly, was the same as his, having heard George Walker only for the first time when WNIB signed off for the final time. Walker's work is deserving of widespread acclaim. It is difficult to place importance on work of our time. We all lack distance in our perspective. But Walker's mind is brilliant and his work on "Lyric" is enormously complex, compassionate, emotive and equal to the works of many past masters. Vaughn Williams comes to mind. High praise? You bet. At the time I type this, this particular disc is not available. But search it out and you will not be disappointed.

beauty from the woodwork.......2001-02-15

this is a fantastic cd, and it really is a shame walker isn't any more well known. when chicago radio station WNIB switched from classical, Walker's peice Lyric was the one that filled in their final classical slot. thus was my introduction to walker so i bought the cd. it's gorgeous and saturated with emtotion, all the works on this cd have huge climaxes and are thick with inner orchestral voices. none of that superficial first violin dominance. Lyric (for strings) is almost Adagio for Strings-esque, in fact when i heard it played on WNIB i almost mistook it for that, but it's a bit less ominous. this comes highly recomended. time to spread the works of walker

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