Tropico

1. No Te Me Vas a Escapar

2. Hasta Que Llegaste Tú

3. Si Comprendiera

4. Quiero Enseñarte a Ser Mujer

5. Me He Enamorado de Tí

6. No Cambio Tu Amor Por Nada

7. Yo No Quiero Amarte Más

8. He Decidido Olvidarte

Tropico,Pedro Arroyo,Musical Productions,Latin,Latin Continuum,Latin Music,Puerto Rico,Salsa,Tropical

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Unique and Woderfully Piratey
Not what I expected
good pirate music, but hardly text
Solid Cd
Perfect pirate playing

Battle Songs of the Toucan Pirates
Toucan Pirates
Manufacturer: Tropico
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Pegleg Tango

ASIN: B00004GP0R
Release Date: 2000-01-01

Tracks:

) Ships Are Sailing / Far From Home
) The Lilting Fisherman
) Jack A Tar
) Pigeon on the Mast
) The Staines Morris
) Colonel McBain
) The Crow's Nest / Blast of Wind
) Rakes of Kildare / The New Rigged Ship
) The Groves of Blackpool
) Lockjaw / Blackberry Blossom
) The Reconciliation
) The Scandy Set
) The Secret Set
) Fortune My Foe
) Hag at the Churn

Album Description

This album of traditional Irish instrumental music with authentic pirate sound effects will take you along on a wild Toucan Pirate adventure! Jigs, hornpipes, slip jigs and reels played on accordion, concertina, pennywhistle, guitar, mandolin, bozouki, bass guitar and bodhran, with a steel drum added in for texture and flair, all embedded in a soundscape of pirate adventure on the high seas. This 15-song, 40-minute album comes highly recommended by step-dancers, sailors and scallywags; it's a treat for Irish music lovers and pirate fans alike!

Customer Reviews:

Unique and Woderfully Piratey.......2007-01-14

I really enjoy the way the Toucan Pirates put a new twist on traditional Irish music. I am very interested in the whole pirate lore, and found that this and the other Toucan Pirate albums are very good at creating a pirate mood and setting. I highly recommend it.

Not what I expected.......2007-01-09

I was looking for sea chanties (shanties) for my husband. This is all instrumental and more Irish/Celtic in spirit. I like the music and will continue to enjoy it (more than I personally would have like the sea chanties), but it was not what I expected.

good pirate music, but hardly text.......2006-07-29

i can agree to the other reviewers that the music is good and fitting for pirates but i wanted something more lyric like. they hardly have any text. if your fine with that good cd, if you wanna more of a sdong rather than instrumental tune dont get it.

Solid Cd.......2005-10-19

This is a very solid showing in the pirate music catagory. Pirate music is hard to find and good pirate music is almost impossible to find. Worth the money. Arg.

Perfect pirate playing.......2004-12-14

If you want piratey music that isn't a children's sing-along album, this is perfect! Good music. Sound effects and "story" just set the mood.

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Great CD for a pirate party!
The Answer to a Pirate's Prayer
Pirate Jigs for Every Gig
Yo Ho!

Sea Changes of the Toucan Pirates

Manufacturer: Tropico
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B0000859QG
Release Date: 2003-01-01

Tracks:

Whiskey Before Breakfast
Turpin Hero
The New-Rigged Ship
The Flowing Tide
The Jib Polka
The Dingle Regatta
Square Da Mizzen
Out In The Ocean
The Rolling Wave
The Swaggerin' Jig
The Blackthorn Stick / Lock The Door
The Pirate's Hornpipe
The Nine Points of Roguery
The Battle of Brisbane
I'll Buy Boots For Maggie
Pirate's Cove Medley (Mairi's Wedding, Piper's Cave, Lakes of Sligo)
Farewell To Whiskey
Yo Ho, Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life For Me)

Album Description

Set sail with the Toucan Pirates for a musical adventure on the high seas! Make merry with the Captain and his scurvy crew as they play traditional Irish, Scottish, and Shetland folk tunes. Featuring a treasure chest of instruments including concertina, bouzouki, pennywhistle, accordion, tenor banjo, and an old West Indian steel drum.

You can even sing along with the bonus track, Walt Disney's "Yo Ho, Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life For Me)", from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland and Disneyworld!

This 40-minute album contains over 75 authentic pirate sound effects.

Customer Reviews:

Great CD for a pirate party!.......2007-07-16

This was a great CD for my daughter's birthday party. I played it throughout the party.

The Answer to a Pirate's Prayer.......2007-01-14

I very much enjoy listening to this album and the other Toucan Pirate Albums. They have taken a very clever and entertaining approach to presenting traditional Irish music. This is a fun album.

Pirate Jigs for Every Gig.......2005-09-27

A fun, musically adept and atmospheric selection of tunes, this album added lots to my "Talk Like A Pirate Day" celebrations, both at work and at a dinner party at home. Hilarious to watch my co-workers drop by for a lime square ("Keeps off the scurvy, matey!") and end up dancing a little jig to the Toucan Pirates as they served themselves fruit salad. We listened to this CD several times over in the course of the day, and it kept up our spirits and pro-pirate attitude. Heartily recommended to lubbers and salts alike.

Yo Ho!.......2004-12-15

Just as good as Battle Songs of the Toucan Pirates! (If you want piratey music that isn't a children's sing-along album, this is perfect! Good music. Sound effects and "story" just set the mood.)

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If You're a Pat Benatar Fan, Buy This!
Two good Pat B. Lps- deserve better treatment...
BGO Come on....
SONGS ARE EDITED!!!!
I WANT THIS CD!

Tropico/Seven the Hard Way
Pat Benatar
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Precious Time/Get Nervous
Live from Earth/Wide Awake in Dreamland
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Go
Get Nervous

ASIN: B00000GWZW
Release Date: 1998-12-28

Tracks:

Diamond Field
We Belong
Painted Desert
Temporary Heroes
Love In The Ice Age
Ooh Ooh Song
The Outlaw Blues
Suburban King
A Crazy World Like This
Takin' It Back
Sex As A Weapon
Le Bel Age
Walking In The Underground
Big Life
Red Vision
7 Rooms Of Gloom
Run Between The Raindrops
Invincible (Theme From The Film 'The Legend Of Billie Jean')
The Art Of Letting Go

Album Description

The hit vocalist's fifth & sixth studio albums together on one CD. Respectively released on Chrysalis in 1984 & 1985, the platinum 'Tropico' reached #14 & 'Seven The Hard Way' peaked at #26. The two offer a combined total of 19 tracks, including the top five 'We Belong', the top 10 'Invincible',the top 40 hits 'Sex As A Weapon' & 'Ooh Ooh Song', and the single 'Le Bel Age'. All tracks are digitally remastered from the original master tapes. Also features the original cover art of each record, plus additional sleeve notes. 1998 release.

Album Details

Another Twofer Remaster.

Customer Reviews:

If You're a Pat Benatar Fan, Buy This!.......2007-03-09

This British two-fer is a very good collection, sans the editing choices. I never bought these albums when they originally came out because I was a little kid, though my older sister did own "Heat", "Crimes", and "Precious Time." I never heard the original versions, so I don't know how much I'm missing: You can tell that "Diamond Field" is cut off before it could be over, which is unfortunate...other reviewers are correct, good song, great vocals! "We Belong" we all know about..."Painted Desert", excellent song (great guitar intro by Neil Geraldo), why wasn't this a single?! "Temporary Heroes" great vocals...there are no bad songs on the album..."The Outlaw" has great guitar work and vocals..."Suburban King" seems like probably the most shortened song in the group, still, what's here is good to listen to...This album, "Tropico" also has to have the best cover art of all the Benatar albums. I love evocative, theatrical covers like that (don't think I've ever seen an album with an owl on the cover); the liner notes say it's "Kate Bush-like"; to me, it's more "Stevie Nicks-like" -- look at "Belladonna", then look at "Tropico." Surprised that more hits didn't come from the album. It's a mellower album, and a welcome change from the concertedly- "New Wave" "Get Nervous"(still, a pretty good album)...it was good that Pat went for a more adult-contemporary, pop-rock route, which expanded her range...remember, people, she was not originally training for Rock N' Roll at Julliard. Note: The one drawback of the Brit. Two-fers is that they don't feature lyrics for both albums...only the first album, "Tropico" gets printed lyrics, due to lack of CD space, which is so annoying for any music lovers in to lyrics, or what the singer was saying. But, that's better than the great new domestic remasters (mindblowing sound!) that don't feature any lyrics whatsoever, WHY??? The sound is great for both albums. "Seven The Hard Way" is just as good an album, but more rocking...Pat's voice doesn't age from 1979 to 1985 at all, it's only stronger! Highlights, "Le Bel Age", "Walking...Underground" "Seven Rooms" (Note, this song was probably covered, at the suggestion of Mike Chapman, since he was already familiar with Blondie's live cover from the 70s (who he was producing while working with Pat), not an attempt at falling back on R&B because she was at a loss of what to do.) Yet, again, the b-sides or album tracks are just as good, if not better than the singles released, remember that. Enjoy!

Two good Pat B. Lps- deserve better treatment..........2005-11-10

I agree with the previous reviewer in that the inclusion of Love is a Battlefield is a moot point here. That single version is available everywhere and does no justice to the song and really doesn't fit in here. La Bel Age is one of my fave tracks and to have it faded so soon on a full length CD release is just stupid. The other edits aren't quite as noticeable, but they really should have stuck to the American release versions instead of cramming edits just to get more tracks here. Otherwise, the two-fer approach is always a good idea when it works.

fhc

BGO Come on...........2005-06-30

Just to let you know, this is now available only as a pro-pressed CD-R. I opened my copy today and was a bit miffed, though it sounds decent. Just full price is not worth a pro-pressed CD-R,....

SONGS ARE EDITED!!!!.......2005-04-16

La Bel Age loses a whole minute!!!! Painted Desert is 20 seconds shorter than on the original CD, and Invincible is 10 seconds shorter. The bonus track, Love is a Battlefield, it is the 7" version, not the full length version on her Live from Earth CD (this due to the fact that Love is a Battlefield was released at a very different time overseas, and this import matches that version of the releases). They should have just left it off the CD and given us back the time stolen from the other tracks!!! What a bummer. Otherwise, I'm all for this 2 in 1 compilation idea.

I WANT THIS CD!.......2002-11-14

An admitted Benatar junkie, I have to buy this CD. THese are two incredible albums whose highlights, in my opinion, are the strong album cuts, not the singles released. This is a GREAT start to a fine Benatar collection. Her versatility as a singer is very apparent in these albums and you will not regret getting this.

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please give it a chance
it doesn't get much better.
A Murder Scene Through the Lenses
A great band...from San Diego?
black heart procession is good

Amore Del Tropico
Black Heart Procession
Manufacturer: Touch & Go Records
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Another Desert, Another Sea
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ASIN: B00006JSSU
Release Date: 2002-10-08

Tracks:

The End Of Love
Tropics Of Love
Broken World
Why I Stay
The Invitation
Did You Wonder
A Sign On The Road
Sympathy Crime
The Visitor
The Waiter #4
A Cry For Love
Before The Pepole
Only One Way
Fingerprints
The One Who Has Disappeared

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This album unfolds an intriguing tale of murder & mystery, broken hearts, failed schemes & twisted memories worthy of David Lynch film. The flavor varies from swinging tropicalia on 'Tropics of Love' to the slow almost Dr. Dre production style groove on 'Sympathy Crime'. Violin & cello flesh out many of the tracks, as well as the trademark BHP piano lines, but perhaps most striking is the chorus of female voices that provide back-up on several of the tracks on this 55-minute record. Touch & Go. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

please give it a chance.......2006-02-13

I must admit, when i first heard the samples for this album, i was rather dissapointed. I felt like they had changed their sound, and i didnt like what they changed into. I admit that this album is much busier than their previous material, but after giving the samples another try, i changed my mind. This album is their first with a real concept, or storyline. And i have come to realize that it still has all the components of their earlier stuff, it is just a more full sound. It is still very downbeat, not at all as downbeat as "2", but i have grown to love their faster stuff too. I truely think that these samples do not give justice to this music. And i believe that this is their most mature release yet. So if you are a BHP fan that is not quite sure if it is as good as their old material, do yourself a favor and buy this, because you will not be dissapointed.

it doesn't get much better........2005-12-05

these guys nailed it on this one i'm thinking. if someone can't appreciate this, then something must be right with them.

A Murder Scene Through the Lenses .......2005-10-26

Something went wrong on the ballroom dance floor. Mysterious and cinematic in nature, The Black Heart Procession's Amore del Tropico carries the feeling of an old movie at the brink of a murder scene. Highlights in this album are "Tropics of Love," a seducing salsa-meets-jungle song; "Broken World," a tale of hopelessness and ultimate sadness within a world gone mad; and "Fingerprints," which parallels crime evidence to the aftermath of a love affair. Genre-wise, I'd put the group vocally and often stylistically in tune with Radiohead, with a cynical romantisism comparable to Fiona Apple. You'll never hear these guys sing about the butterflies of a first kiss; their version of love is that of conquest and anguish. The Black Heart Procession's Pall Jenkins (vocals, guitar, synths) and Tobias Nathaniel (piano, guitar, organ) are from San Diego, but the album's influences range from South America to southern America, often encompassing old saloon melodies combined with modern trip-hop flavors. A refreshing style.

A great band...from San Diego?.......2005-03-27

This band is a glorious antidote to all (and I do mean ALL-OT) the san diego bands who think they 'have their own sound' or worse, think punk is justified without bodily harm. When the indie fops and dandy goths finally get together to wash out the nostalgia gutters...
they listen to The Black Heart Procession.

black heart procession is good.......2005-01-27

This music is good. I think that they have influnced many bands including, Modest Mouse, Pinback, and I think Radiohead. All of which Ive been in to for a long time. I look forward to picking up more Black Heart Procession releases. And thier drummer is good. Thank you,that is all.

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M-ARRRRRRR-velous!
Buy this CD or walk the plank!
Great for kids or museums. Not for a pirate party for grownups.

Buried Treasure of the Toucan Pirates
Toucan Pirates
Manufacturer: TropiCo Records
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ASIN: B00079RBH4
Release Date: 2004-12-24

Tracks:

Down by the Ocean Tide (Air)
Dunse Dings A (Highland)
Scotch Cap / Road to Lisdoonvarna (Single Jigs)
Valencia Harbor (Air)
Da Galley Watch (Reel)
Forefit of the Ship / Hand Down the Tackle (Hornpipes)
Freedom for Ireland / Little House in the Glen (Polkas)
Childgrove (Air)
Porthole of the Kelp (Reel)
Song of the Mermaids
Siubhan Ni Duibhir (Air)
Three Captains (Long Dance)
Garryowen (Double Jig)
Drops of Brandy (Slip Jig)
Maggie in the Woods (Polka)
Music in the Glen (Reel)
All the Way to Galway (Air)
The Adventure Theme
Yo Ho Ho & A Bottle of Rum (from Treasure Island)

Album Description

Arrr, mateys! The brave lads of the Toucan Pirates return from their third voyage to Ireland, Scotland, England & the Shetland Isles with another boatload of musical gems.

Each salty tune has been recovered from the holds of many a sunken treasure galleon, or discovered on faraway West Indian islands using dusty old treasure maps.

The sequel to Sea Changes of the Toucan Pirates, this rollicking album contains authentically piratical instrumentals played on Concertina, Tin Whistle, Irish Bouzouki, Tenor Banjo and Button Accordion.

The Toucan Pirates add in a treasure chest of pirate sound effects to heighten the adventure. There's even a West Indian steel drum, for that "Pirates of the Caribbean" flavor! Kids love it!

Customer Reviews:

M-ARRRRRRR-velous!.......2007-05-17

The Toucan Pirates are a great little pirate band, and BURIED TREASURE is one of their best. If you are planning a pirate party for your young ones (and who wouldn't want to dress her or his kids up with buckles, sashes, and eyepatches?), or even yourself (and who doesn't want to dress up in buckles...) then this could be your soundtrack. A mix of traditional Irish jigs and reels, as well as a few slower tunes, the music is punctuated with some delightful pirate sounds, and ends with a nice rendition of "Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest," probably the most piratey of all the songs.

Buy this CD or walk the plank!.......2007-01-03

This "Buried Treasure" belongs in your booty! Top-notch all the way!

Great for kids or museums. Not for a pirate party for grownups........2006-06-28

The musicianship on this CD is quite nice, as is the selection of songs. The Toucan Pirates have certainly done their homework in terms of researching the traditional music of the British Isles and playing it on period instruments, along with some good background sound effects, movie samples, and a hint of Caribbean steel drums. If you're looking for pirate music for an exhibit on pirates or are having a pirate party for kids, this is the perfect CD for you. It's reasonably lively and the pacing changes enough to keep it interesting as background music.

If, however, you are an adult who is going to have a pirate party for adults (poker, drinking, etc.) then this CD may be a bit plodding and tame for you. For that purpose, I would instead recommend bands like The Pogues (particularly about half the tracks on "If I should Fall From Grace with God") and select cuts from Flogging Molly, Tears for Beers, The Chieftains, and The Dubliners.

This is actually a very good CD, just not for the wild Pirate Party I'm planning on thowing! My favorite cut is the Garryowen, which still makes my hair stand on end because of my associations of it with poignant scenes from the movie, "Little Big Man," where it's played by General Custer's band as they march into battle.

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Tropico
Jose Luis Rodríguez
Manufacturer: Sony International
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ASIN: B000ROAL80
Release Date: 2007-07-24

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In the Heat of the Night (Original Release)

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In the Heat of the Night (Original Release)
Pat Benatar
Manufacturer: Chrysalis Records
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ASIN: B000NFK912

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This is the original 1984 release on the Chrysalis label. Tracks are: 1. Heartbreaker 2. I Need A Lover 3. If You Think You Know How To Love Me 4. In The Heat Of The Night 5. My Clone Sleeps Alone 6. We Live For Love 7. Rated X 8. Don't Let It Show 9. No You Don't 10. So Sincere

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The Sound Changes

Tropico
Pat Benatar
Manufacturer: EMI Distribution
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Gravity's Rainbow

ASIN: B000008DDF
Release Date: 1989-09-27

Tracks:

Diamond Field
We Belong
Painted Desert
Temporary Heroes
Love In The Ice Age
Ooh Ooh Song
The Outlaw Blues
Suburban King
A Crazy World Like This
Takin' It Back

Customer Reviews:

The Sound Changes.......2007-04-11

Between Get Nervous and Tropico Pat Benatar released the live album called Live From Earth which contained 8 songs from a few live shows over the 82-83 tour, also on the album were two new studio tracks, more synthesized pop that what she had done before, the two songs "Lipstick Lies" and a little ditty named "Love Is A Battlefield" showed Pat heading into a different direction. As her "Love" single took over the airwaves and MTV in late 1983, Pat started recording a new album. She also found out she was pregnant, so the whole process took on new meaning for the girl. Gone were the crunch hard rock attitudes of albums like In The Heat Of The Night and Crimes Of Passion, and even the new wave pop of Get Nervous was replaced by a sound a tad more organic. Going with the vein brought out in "Love Is A Battlefield" there were more acoustic instruments and ironically (perhaps) more drum machines. The hard pumping was gone and replaced with melody. Not necassarily a great seller compared to her other albums Tropico still launched some top 40 singles including "Ooh Ooh Song" the only pseudo rocker on the album and "We Belong" which became her second biggest selling single of all time. If you're familiar with either of the songs you can get an idea of what Tropico is really about. Even though Pat slows the rock down a tad, this isn't her playing an old Grandma either, the album opens with the crunching sounds of "Diamond Field" before moving into the hit single then a calming Spanish styled influence of "Painted Desert" which could be boring if Pat's voice wasn't so wonderful in it, then the 80's push their way in with the drum machine in full balance on both "Temporary Heroes" and "Love In The Ice Age", the thing is both of these songs are really good, no matter how 80's they may sound. The combination of subtle drum machines and the keyboards make it all the more interesting to me. "Ooh Ooh Song" opens what was once the second side before going into the chug a chug backbeat and Spaghetti Western guitars of "The Outlaw Blues" which is probably one of the best cuts on Tropico. A little story of a Jesse James' type of hero, it puts a whole gold mine feeling to the album, and since the title actually comes from the name of an old gold mine you have to wonder if Pat and Neil were trying to come up with a new take on the old West. "The Outlaw Blues" shows up again in 1989 on the CD Version of Pat's first best of set Best Shots in a just as cool remixed version. The only real dud on the album is "Suburban King" set to just a small drum and some guitar the story of a laid off and pissed off suburban dad who's bitter over his wife working, I see the idea, and I see the reasoning but when the album came out everyone I know made me skip over the song. Now it appeals to me a tad more and with my new found idea that this could've been a sort of concept album in disguise, I like the suburban cowboy idea, the final two tracks go back to the 80's drum machine keyboard pop of earlier tracks, this time a Tom Kelly/Billy Steinberg (they helped or wrote on 'Fire & Ice', 'Precious Time', 'I'm Gonna Follow You' and 'Like A Virgin') "A Crazy World Like This" reminds us to forget about the little things life throws at us and remember to appreciate those we love, a fitting song for Pat and Niel as they were going in the family way and even more fitting for them is the song they co-wrote together "Takin' It Back" a sort of attack on the music business that put so much pressure on our poor girl in the early days. Eventually anyone with success in the music biz makes a song like this so I guess after 5 albums it was time for Pat to take her swing.

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A dated, but wonderfully diverse and uplifting release.

Tropico
Gato Barbieri
Manufacturer: A&M
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ASIN: B000002GDW
Release Date: 1989-10-20

Tracks:

Poinciana (Song Of The Tree)
Latin Lady
Adoro
Odara
She Is Michelle
Where Is The Love
Evil Eyes
Bolero

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A dated, but wonderfully diverse and uplifting release........1999-02-10

The disco beat behind most of the songs on Tropico may sound dated and the jungle scene on the cover may look a little silly now, but nothing lifts my spirits faster than this CD, and in particular, Gato's version of Caetano Veloso's "Odara." Rarely do I find myself liking a remake more than an original, but I have heard "Odara" on a couple of Veloso's CD's, done in a couple of different ways, and I really love Gato's version best. Veloso may be its creator, but Gato really brings the song to life, transforming it from a pretty, but repetitive tune into an exultant masterpiece. And he leads into it so cleverly from his own introductory piece, "Adoro." This kind of lead-in is one of those 'neat little things' that Gato does especially well. Another especially wonderful song on this release is "She Is Michelle," which, in my opinion, is the most beautiful song Gato has ever written--and quite possibly the most beautiful song any man has ever written for his wife. I don't like this verison of "Where Is the Love," which sounds watered down with only a small portion of the lyrics being sung over and over, but the diversity of songs, which include an artistic disco version of Ravel's Bolero, makes this a fun, and perhaps even unique, release