Black Box Set

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Makaveli Speakz

2. Mob Intro

3. Who Shotcha? da Remix

4. Young Ballas [Radio Version]

5. F-CK What the World Sayz

6. Real Noggaz Don't Die

7. Comin Up

8. Tow Down

9. Dey Ain't Ready Yet

10. How Many Must Die?

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Disc: 2

1. Intro (We're Unstoppable)

2. Commin' Along (For da Ride)

3. Home Is Where the Heart Is

4. Choclate Star

5. You Know How to Love Me

6. Playerz Mentality

7. Shake Dem Dollies - Blaze, Alex J., ,

8. Bend on Over

9. Stop Jockin' Hoe

10. Somebody's Watchin' Me - Blaze, ,

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Disc: 1
1. Makaveli Speakz
2. Mob Intro
3. Who Shotcha? da Remix
4. Young Ballas [Radio Version]
5. F-CK What the World Sayz
6. Real Noggaz Don't Die
7. Comin Up
8. Tow Down
9. Dey Ain't Ready Yet
10. How Many Must Die?
See all 11 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Intro (We're Unstoppable)
2. Commin' Along (For da Ride)
3. Home Is Where the Heart Is
4. Choclate Star
5. You Know How to Love Me
6. Playerz Mentality
7. Shake Dem Dollies - Blaze, Alex J., ,
8. Bend on Over
9. Stop Jockin' Hoe
10. Somebody's Watchin' Me - Blaze, ,
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Black Box Set,Various Artists,Casablanca Records,Hardcore Rap,Pop,Rap & Hip-Hop,Rap Collections,Soul/Reggae/Rhythm & Blues

Black Box Set

Tracks:

Cosmic La La La
Galactic Chicken Shit
Hit And Rape
I Dismember Mama
197666
Goddamn, I Am
Wolfman Stole My Baby
The 13th Commandment
Bloodsuckers Anonymous
Kill Miss America
Planet 13

Tracks:

Mr. Motherfucker
Twist My Sister
Let's Go To War
Die My Bride
Screwdriver
Scary Song
Rambo
I Love Me
Full Metal Jackoff
Crossdressing... G.D.S.O.B.
I Don't Wanna Be Your Friend
S.T.D.'s
Motel Killafornia
She's A Man
Foot In Mouth
Going to Hell

Tracks:

Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun
Hooray for Horrorwood
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Oogie Boogie Baby Baby
Monster, Monster 13-Oh Yeah
Rocketship Oddity 13
Bride of Frankenstein
The Witch Is Dead
Back in Blacula
Last Halloween-The Story of Trick or Treat Pete
I Was a Teenage Ghoulscout
Welcome to the Strange
They Only Wanna Eat Your Brains
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Neon Black
La, la for Lon Chaney, Jr.
I Love to Say Fuck
I Love to Say F--K [Evil Dead-Ited Radio Mix]

Tracks:

Viva las Violence
The Devil Made Me Do It
Give Her to the Monsters
Smother My Brother
Planet of the Apes
Evil Is Good
We Have to Kill You
Kung Fu You
Murder Pie
Eat Drugs First
Celebrity Skinned
Dead and Breakfast
Bark at the Moon
Galactic Chicken Shit [Live]

Tracks:

Bride of Frankenstein-97 Demo
Whoop D God Damn Da Doo-97 Demo
Snotty Nose-97 Demo
Break Her Teeth-97 Demo
Natalie (You're Really Not That Cool)-Demo
Hello Hooray-Demo
Nobody-Acoustic Radio Performance
Hit And Rape- Acoustic Radio Performance
Kill Miss America (Purposely Out of Tune Version)-Acoustic Radio Performance
197666 (Uncomfortably Dumb Version)-Acoustic Radio Performance
Graverobbing USA-A Side
Rock N Roll- B Side
197666- B Side
Fox on The Run- Trailer Park Session
Anti-You -Trailer Park Session
Dawn of the Dead -Trailer Park Session
Levity Ball -Trailer Park Session
I Wanna Be Your Dog -Trailer Park Session
Shoot To Thrill -Trailer Park Session
Love At First Fright -Trailer Park Session
I Wanna Rot -2001 Outtake

Tracks:

Transvestite Chainsaw Massacre Live '98

Album Description

Little Box of Horrors is a demented treasure trove of ghoulish, horror punk delights from Wednesday 13's Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13.

Before becoming frontman for the very successful Slipknot offshoot Murderdolls (and releasing a solo album on Roadrunner), Wednesday 13 lead the ultra-campy Frankenstein Drag Queens through four albums and shows with Static-X, GWAR, Jack Off Jill and The Genitorturers before putting the band on hold in '02. With Wednesday 13's second solo album on the way (plus several recent unannounced Frankenstein Drag Queen reunion shows) expect to hear lots more from the Frankenstein Drag Queens in '06!

This six disc box set features four original albums(CD 1: The Late, Late, Late Show, CD 2: Night of the Living Drag Queens, CD 3: Songs From The Recently Deceased, CD 4: Viva Las Violence) plus a rarities disc and a live DVD!

Customer Reviews:

Amazing for any Wednesday 13 fan..........2007-01-12

I was a bit skeptical at first because I was first introduced to the Drag Queens after I got into Murderdolls but this box set is completely amazing and worth every penny.

A Long Time Coming.......2006-08-03

This boxset has been a long time coming. But, was it worth the wait? ABSOLUTELY!! The Little Box Of Horrors compiles all 4 of the FDQ cds, along with an expanded rarities disc and a DVD. Now, there are some downsides to the boxset, which will disappoint very little. First, the positives. You get all 4 of the FDQ Cds in one shot. No need spending hundreds of dollars ( like me) to find good quality copies of these cds. Plus too, the Rarities cd contains things that wasn't even on the original Rare Treats cd that the band released, and a few of the tracks, even the die hards ( such as myself) haven't even heard until now. Double devil horns to Wednesday for putting together such a collection.Now,the bad side. First of all, while Wednesday did clear out the vault with this release, there are two songs missing- "Chop Off My Hand", and "Hey Mom, I just killed a chicken". The other downside is the dvd. The title of the dvd is Transvestite Chainsaw Massacre. That particular title WAS released through the band on VHS and available at shows and through mail order. However, the DVD is not the full show and only "highlights" of the video. Why Wednesday didn't put on the full show, or even the music videos that FDQ has done throughout the years, I don't know, but would like to find out. Perhaps with the success of this release, they will re-release all of the old VHS tapes on DVD, or even put out a new FDQ cd, and have the 2 missing songs as bonus tracks. This boxset was also released limitedly overseas through a different company, along with different artwork and a booklet. Here's to the future of the FDQ's. May they not rot away anytime soon.

Rough & raw, just great.......2006-07-05

Great CD box set, it's rough & raw like goth metal should be.

Murderdolls, plus so much more.......2006-07-03

if you're a fna of the murderdolls or wednesday 13's solo work, this boxset is perfect for you. as you listen from the first disk to the last, you can see how wednesday has evolved over the years. it starts off raw and gritty, but leads into darker, and much more creepy music that shows he was heading straight to transylvania 90210. also, you discover just about every murderdolls song was a FDQ song, or part of one. the DVD is great addition, sinse there is a slim chance of catching them live any time soon.

overall it's a great, dark, sick and funny purchase. 5 stars for sure!

One of the best sets ever.......2006-06-15

This is one of the best box sets I have ever purchased. It is great from beginning to end. I love Wednesday 13, Murderdolls and FDQ. If you are a fan of any of those you need to buy this set. I have listened to it over and over again.

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excellent
BBR's Worst Surpasses other bands' Best
Wonderfully Dour

The Worst of Black Box Recorder
Black Box Recorder
Manufacturer: Jet Set Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Passionoia

ASIN: B00005NT0G
Release Date: 2001-08-21

Tracks:

Seasons in the Sun
Watch the Angel not the Wire
Jackie Sixty
Start as You Mean to Go On
The Facts of Life (Jarvis Cocker/ Chocolate Layers Remix)
Lord Lucan is Missing
Wonderful Life
Uptown Top Ranking (Black Box Recorder Remix)
Brutality
Factory Radio
Soul Boy
Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
The Facts Of Life (Video)
Child Psychology (Video)
The Art Of Driving (Video)
England Made Me (Video)

Album Description

Complete collection of singles, b-sides, bonus and unreleased tracks by this smash British band on the Jetset label. Includes the tracks Seasons In the Sun', 'Jackie Sixty', 'Brutality', an unreleased Jarvis Cocker/Pulp remix of "Facts of Life', and 9 more. The disc is also enhanced and includes all 4 of the band's videos.

Customer Reviews:

excellent.......2002-03-24

the 3rd album of BBR.Actually these songs are BSides and there is only 1 new song,which is Jackie Sixty. And 2 wonderful remixes. Usually i hate remixes of any band,but these are so cool,i mean remixes are usually pop/techno/dance things but these are not,they are like indie type.I suggest you should get England Made Me before this.

BBR's Worst Surpasses other bands' Best.......2001-09-01

A wonderful collection of covers, remixes and other great songs relegated to b-sides. As a recent convert, these songs were beyond my reach as the early singles are long out of print. Sure, the two domestic albums have a few of these songs as bonuses (except the odd mistake on England Made Me where "Wonderful Life" is not included, despite the sleeve demarcation), but now they're all here. The closer is by far one of the best Bowie covers out there.

The music is beautiful, brutal, intriguing and intelligent all at once. Who else can use a Euro-pop song structure to discuss such "taboo" subjects as murder and homophobia (see "Straight Life" on The Facts of Life)? That's what you get when you put Luke Haines--Brittain's resident cynic--together with Jesus and Mary Chain alum John Moore. Add to that mix the gorgeous Sarah Nixey and its heaven (or hell, if you like bland Americanized pop). The Auteurs never lived up to the great expectations of giving suede a run for their money, but Black Box Recorder is right up their with Brittain's best current acts.

Plus you get the videos. This CD is an oddity in that for once we in America get the rare album, and the Brittish fans have to get the import!

Jorje Chica

Wonderfully Dour.......2001-08-23

Worth getting just for the four splendid videos. The songs of course are wonderfully dour, like a depressed St. Etienne. If you missed their import singles, all the B-sides are collected here.

Average customer rating:

Even Sweeter Pills
rather awesome mellow-pop-techno blend
Heroic acts in Teenage Sex
Definitely not disposable
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The Facts of Life
Black Box Recorder
Manufacturer: Jet Set Records
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ASIN: B00005AKF5
Release Date: 2001-03-20

Tracks:

The Art Of Driving
Weekend
The English Motorway System
May Queen
Sex Life
French Rock 'N' Roll
The Facts Of Life
Straight Life
Gift Horse
The Deverell Twins
Goodnight Kiss
Start As You Mean To Go On
Brutality

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The first Black Box Recorder album, 1998's England Made Me, was originally conceived by Auteurs and Baader Meinhof frontman Luke Haines as a typically baleful response to the cultural and political hysteria--respectively, Britpop and Tony Blair--then gripping Britain. Recorded with the help of former Jesus & Mary Chain drummer John Moore and singer Sarah Nixey, it did for Britpop roughly what the film Carrie did for the senior prom. The Facts of Life, the follow-up, maintains the withering glare but fixes it this time on the personal. The songs here obsess with unnerving clarity and mordant wit on the banal, cruel details of human relationships and are narrated perfectly by Nixey. Where her perfectly English-accented whisper infused England Made Me with the air of a bored aristocrat finding contemptuous amusement in the misery of others, on The Facts of Life she has located an edge of taunting viciousness all the more diabolical for being so understated. The tunes, as ever, are sweet and insidious, perhaps best thought of as Saint Etienne turned feral. Highlights on an album full of them are "English Motorway" and "The Art of Driving"--BBR triumphantly reclaiming the American rock & roll prerogative of the road song for their damp, claustrophobic homeland. The Facts of Life is a masterpiece. --Andrew Mueller

Album Description

Black Box Recorder are an enigma. A three piece comprised of the haunting and fragile-voiced Sarah Nixey, Auteurs henchman Luke Haines and absinthe importer (& former Jesus & Mary Chain) John Moore. Stylistally, the band have catapulted themselves into some netherworld halfway between Air and Velvet Underground. Instruments include, Guitar arpeggios, synthesizers, glockenspiels, chiming xylophones, strings and drum machines. This release features the bonus tracks, 'Start As You Mean To Go Up' and 'Brutality'. Standard jewel case. 2001 release.

Customer Reviews:

Even Sweeter Pills.......2005-04-30

The ironic and cleverly cynical second album by Black Box Recorder captures longing, innocence and evil...beautifully. Maturing from the distinctive "England Made Me" slightly, "The Facts of Life" is a swirling group of songs that were so unashamed to be beautiful...it's terrifying. This is especially true when you consider the subject matter that rides shotgun with the melodies. Black Box Recorder's cynicism is a better actor on "The Facts of Life" than any of their other albums. Where it stood out (and remarkably so) on "England Made Me", it is sewn into the "The Facts of Life's" songs, weaving it's way into every song on the album. Whether it's about teenage kid's sex drive and awkwardness, or people's curious fear of alternative culture to satisfy their shortcomings, it sounds like they're giving lessons to people after shockingly realizing that people don't know or don't care about these things. This is the best way to do it....the formula they use as their song's vehicle is nearly flawless, and the discipline employed here is distinctive because it doesn't sound minimalist, it just makes the entire record consistent. Powered by light drum programming and soft guitars, the music is only complimented by lyrics that are sung effortlessly by switching back and forth from a whisper. Sarah Nixey's voice isn't a powerful thing, but it is soft and pretty, which is why she can make things like "picking up human remains in Notting Hill" sound beautiful enough to soften the blunt and unflinching nature a scene like that would conjure up. Nixey's voice is a perfect translator for Haines and Moore's lyrics because it enters the ear easily enough to get pass the guard that filters out things we would rather do without. This makes Black Box Recorder's songs very accessible. The abundance of the best things about Black Box Recorder found on "The Facts of Life" makes this their definitive record, and also because this kind of disturbing anxiety hadn't been captured this well since Pulp's "A Different Class"

rather awesome mellow-pop-techno blend.......2004-10-21

i like this album quite a bit. songs like the art of driving, sex life, and the facts of life are incredibly quirky and catchy. the lyrics are intriguingly absurd, and also dead on. its different than both ENGLAND MADE ME, and PASSIONA, their other two, also wonderful, cd's. all 3 cd's are worth investing in if you ask me.

Heroic acts in Teenage Sex.......2003-09-12

"The Facts of Life", Black Box Recorder's second album, follows suite in their amazing debut of twisted nursery rhymns, "England Made Me". This is certainly an album to be cherished in one's cd collection - the lyrics are clever and provocative, the music is soothing and intelligent and the mixture can leave the listener awe struck.

In this album, the band has matured a bit. Their storytelling can deliver a much appreciated sense of nostalgia for one's own teenage years - after all, who doesn't remember their boyfriend/girlfriend pushing the relationship one step further than you were ready to go, that almost too-cozy encounter with your highschool best friend or the introspective of a child trying to live as an adult.

Lead singer, Nixey's voice sounds almost like a submissive siren, as she faintly sings anthemns about teenage sexuality and desire. Haines and Moore push their music writing even further, keeping the low tones of instruments and mixing in small beats and rythmns that add a certain liveliness to their melodies. Some of the radio-worthy songs, "Art of Driving" and "Facts of Life", have a good combonation of indie rock/folk with a touch of pop, at the same time expelling the requirements of any particular genre. For those who appreciate rock/pop and alternative music, this will fit in easy to your music collection, though there is enough to interest electronica and folk fans alike.

Out of all the one hit wonders I'm subjected to each morning of my commute - its really nice to have a cd that one can appreciate all the way through.

Definitely not disposable.......2002-05-26

...I describe it as the album Clinic would release once they have Cia Soro as their leadsinger. @ any rate, it is truly a magical album that improves on the sombre debut England Made Me to create a sound & mood that is both indulgent (But nowhere near selfindulgent) & sardonic. Luke Haines & John Moore's lyrics work either as subdued Jarvis Cockeresque narratives ("May Queen", "The Deverell Twins") or as simple, axiomatic observations ("The Art Of Driving", "Weekend", "The English Motorway System", "The Facts Of Life", "Straight Life"):-Combining this with Sarah Nixey's glossy, breathy voice & a minimalist yet chilling electroacoustic backdrop & you have a winner. Make sure you also check out the sleeve where excerpted lyrics from all of the songs (But the titletrack) are displayed as seriocomic balloons in awkward situations:- Very much in the style of Pulp.

Oh, & my personal favourite is "Sex Life", thanks for asking.

US version........2002-03-24

Cover is diff. from the usual UK release but the songs are same.A must have for anyone.

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Mordant and Shimmering
Sugar Coated Pills
Twisted Nursery Rhymes with a Pixiesque Backdrop
An album of acquired taste
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England Made Me
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Manufacturer: Jet Set Records
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ASIN: B00000JIQV
Release Date: 1999-07-06

Tracks:

Girl Singing In The Wreckage
England Made Me
New Baby Boom
It's Only The End Of The World
Ideal Home
Child Psychology
I.C. One Female
Up Town Top Ranking
Swinging
Kidnapping An Heiress
Hated Sunday
Wonderful Life
Seasons In The Sun
Factory Radio
Lord Lucan Is Missing

Album Description

Debut album by U.K. indie pop/ rock trio comprised of Luke Haines of The Auteurs, one-time Jesus And Mary Chain member John Moore and female vocalist Sarah Nixey. Includes the singles 'England Made Me' and 'Child Psychology'. 11 tracks total. 1998 Chrysalis Records release.

Customer Reviews:

Mordant and Shimmering.......2006-12-07

The songs here are so alluringly gloomy that I want to have sex with all of them. But of course they'd reject me. They always do.

Sugar Coated Pills.......2005-04-27

There was really nothing quite like "England Made Me" when it appeared in 1999. Black Box Recorder consists of Sarah Nixey, John Moore, and Luke Haines formerly known for his time with The Autuers. While Black Box Recorder did retain the same highly literate quality The Autuers bought to their songs, they dove deeper into the coated and subtle nuances of English life. The mix of lovely pop tunes with the ice cold pragmatism of Haines and Moore's lyrics filtered through Sarah Nixey's whispery vocals has the effect of poison....that's been sweetened. "England Made Me" could pass through the ears as a whisper in the background, or it could pull on your heart strings so heavily that it melts everything around it. As they touch on everything from childhood depression to kidnap and murder, they achieved a mix of social commentary and melodic pop accessibility that would only be bettered by their next album.

STANDOUT TRACKS: 02- ENGLAND MADE ME, 06- CHILD PSYCHOLOGY, 10- KIDNAPPING AN HEIRESS, 13- WONDERFUL LIFE, 15- FACTORY RADIO

Twisted Nursery Rhymes with a Pixiesque Backdrop.......2003-06-28

Black Box Recorder is a hidden treasure and their first album, "England Made Me", is by far their best work. A hauntingly shy voice, behind the low tones of a variety of instruments, make up the collection, harvesting and provoking the silly thoughts of morbid children: Life is Unfair, Kill Yourself or Get Over it ("Child Psychology").

Each song on the album, possesses its own charisma, sometimes playing on the ideas of death and decay and other times relishing is mischevious childhood fantasies. "Girl Singing In the Wreckage" is a ballad of a young woman examining her very state of being, acknowledging the sad normality of her existance and at the same time, inventing a sense of mystery about herself. The track "England Made Me", weaves a tale of a disturbing characters who admits to 'sleeping with the enemy before betraying both sides'.

For the poet in all of us, the lyrics are infactuating. For the musician in all of us, the tunes are somber and delightful. One can expect Black Box Recorder to take you from your bedroom in the attic to an enchanted pixie-garden, where the faeries read H.P. Lovecraft, steal cars and smoke cigarettes until dawn.
- Jonathan H.

An album of acquired taste.......2002-05-25

In an ideal world music like this would be the mainstream whereas N'Sync would be constantly rejected as they try to get a recorddeal. Then again, in an ideal world I wouldn't be single... But I digress. What I really wanna say is that this album is unique. It's unique because it is lowkey, understated and thoroughly devoid of pathos:- & quite honestly, when a certain band actually manages to remind me that I can enjoy music which focuses on these very three traits I just have to applaud them. When I first put the album in my stereo I expected a diverse collection of styles & sounds. Instead, I was taken aback by the album's simplicity, by the fact that it doesn't take more than a really great female singer (Sarah Nixey), an undistorted electric guitar & occasional drumbeats/bellchimes to make enchanting music. Admittedly, the single "Child Psychology"'s stark message feels a little out of place within Luke Haines & John Moore's lyrical subtleties that:- Along with their melodies:- create a pensive & often eerie atmosphere as symbolically depicted by the English beach photographed in the sleeve. As most good albums this one also works best when taken in one piece as it truly sets a contemplative mood, like when you take a really long drive to the sunset but the feeling isn't romantic but rather bittersweet. Unsurprisingly, the bonus songs actually add to the album & save it from its only minus:- Brevity. That & the fact that it contains no less than three (!) coverversions ("Up Town Top Ranking" just doesn't work, sorry) but other than that it's a winner. For an acquired taste, that is.

Debut.......2002-03-24

Like the 2nd album which is Facts Of Life,this US release has a diff. sleeve and some bsides as bonus tracks.A must have and a wonderful debut.

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Gotta Love The Uncle Dave Macon
Nearly Perfect
American Roots Music
Gotta have it
scattered roots

American Roots Music
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Palm Pictures (Audio
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ASIN: B00005OAY6
Release Date: 2001-10-30

Tracks:

American Roots Music Theme - Ricky Skaggs with Earl Scruggs, James Cotton, and Marc & Ann Savoy
Waiting for a Train - Jimmie Rodgers
Wildwood Flower - The Carter Family
Take Me Back To My Old Carolina Home - Uncle Dave Macon
Wabash Cannonball - Roy Acuff
That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine - Gene Autry
Sitting on Top of the World - Bob Wills
Uncle Pen - Bill Monroe
Salty Dog Blues - Flatt and Scruggs
Nine-Pound Hammer - Merle Travis
Walking The Floor Over You - Ernest Tubb
If You've Got The Money, I've Got The Time - Lefty Frizzell
Cold Cold Heart - Hank Williams
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels - Kitty Wells
Black Mountain Rag - Doc Watson
Earl's Breakdown - Earl Scruggs
Little Maggie - Ralph Stanley
Where Shades of Love Lie Deep - Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver
Stomping Grounds - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Tracks:

The King Biscuit Time Theme - James Cotton
Crazy Blues - Mamie Smith
St. Louis Blues - Bessie Smith
Black Snake Moan - Blind Lemon Jefferson
Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues - Charley Patton
Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson
Death Letter Blues - Son House
Another Night To Cry - Lonnie Johnson
Foldin' Bed - Whistler's Jug Band
Boogie Woogie Dream - Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson
Bye Bye Bird - Sonny Boy Williamson
Shake for Me - Howlin' Wolf
Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters
The Thrill is Gone - B.B. King
Take a Little Walk With Me - Robert Lockwood Jr.
Henry - Keb' Mo'

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Joshua Fit de Battle - Fisk Jubilee Singers
Precious Lord, Take My Hand - Thomas A. Dorsey
Blind Barnabus - The Golden Gate Quartet
Down By The Riverside - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Move On Up a Little Higher - Mahalia Jackson
Sit Down Servant - The Staple Singers
Jesus Gave Me Water - Soul Stirrers
Oh Happy Day - Edwin Hawkins
This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
Goodnight Irene - Leadbelly
So Long Been Good to Know Yuh - The Weavers
The Soldier and the Lady - The New Lost City Ramblers
John Henry - Mississippi John Hurt
If I Had A Hammer ( The Hammer Song) - Peter, Paul and Mary
We Shall Overcome - SNCC Freedom Singers with Pete Seeter
The Times They Are A-Changin' - Bob Dylan

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Allons A Lafayette - Joe Falcon and Cleoma Breaux
Madame Atchen - Amede Ardoin and Dennis McGee
Port Arthur Blues - Dewey Balfa
I'm a Hog for You - Clifton Chenier
Dans la Louisianne - Marc and Ann Savoy
Ossun Two-Step - Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys
Mal Hombre - Lydia Mendoza
Muchacha Bonita - Narciso martinez
Rosalito - Valerio Longoria
Las Nubes - Little Joe y la Familia
Ring of Fire - Mingo Saldivar
Sorry Boy - Flaco Jimenez
Yeibichei Song - Unidentified Performers
Traditional Powwow - Renzel Last Horse and Kiyaksa
Jesus Loves Me - Everette Red Bear and Sandor Iron Rope of the Native American Church
Wounded Knee - Floyd Westerman
Enchantment Song - R. Carlos Nakai
The Dance - Robert Mirabal

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These are the sounds of the American melting pot in full boil, a vibrant study in musical and cultural collision. The companion box set to the four-part PBS documentary, this four-disc set skims the cream of 20th-century American "roots music"--music based in its own rich ethnic, geographical, and cultural traditions yet malleable and responsive enough to accommodate elements borrowed from other traditions. The 68 songs here traverse country, blues, folk, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, Tejano, and Native American styles, and while there are obviously huge differences between these songs, it's the similarities that are truly remarkable. Thanks to a cross-pollination facilitated by radio, recording technology, and the highway system, traditional American musical forms bounced off each other like atoms--European tradition met African tradition, urban met rural, Northern met Southern, secular met spiritual, and so it goes. This project allows you to trace each genre's development while simultaneously illustrating its connections to other forms. Like any project of this nature, you can lament all the great music that didn't make it--jazz, in fact, is completely ignored except for one boogie-woogie piano duet, presumably because Ken Burns already covered this territory--but it's difficult to find fault with what did make it here. The producers balance well-known original recordings with 20 newly recorded tracks and nine songs taken from archival film sources. Housed in a stylish hard-bound case and boasting detailed song-by-song notes and great photos, the American Roots Music box makes for a valuable gateway into America's musical heritage and a springboard for further investigation. --Marc Greilsamer

Album Description

An impressive four-CD box-set primer that collects more than 100 years of music, from nineteenth-century gospel ensemble The Fisk Jubilee Singers to contemporary acts such as R&B guitarist Keb Mo'. Includes tracks from Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan, Flaco Jimenez, Mahalia Jackson, the Staple Singers, B.B. King, Gene Autry and Jimmy Rogers to name just a few. Contains more than 65 essential American recordings, a wealth of photographs and liner notes written by Robert Antelli, Holly George Warren and Charles Wolfe. Deluxe long digi-book with 56 page collector-quality booklet. Palm Records. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

Gotta Love The Uncle Dave Macon.......2006-01-12

My wife and I had been eyeing this boxset for a few years now and she finally broke down and got it for me this past holiday season. It's a nice mix of country, blues, gospel, cajun/zydeco, tejano and native American. Overall, the box set is excellent. I don't think there is a bad tune on there, but I do feel it felt short on gospel, folk, cajun, zydeco, tejano and native American styles. There's only about 6 or 7 tracks for each of those styles where an entire 16-19 track disc is dedicated to both country and blues. The set should have been 6 discs instead or it should have been limited to just country and blues. Likewise, I felt it strange that an American Roots boxset included no jazz, for jazz is the only true first American born music, which is based on the blues of course. It's a great collection though and I enjoy listening to it every time. The long wait was worth it. I highly recommend it.

Nearly Perfect.......2004-07-06

The PBS American Roots Music series - both the 4 part documentary on DVD and 4 CD boxed set - is a commendable work. It is an incredible education in not only popular American music and culture, but history, and should be required viewing and listening in high schools.

Many of the problems in American Society and its youth today stem from a complete lack of pride and self-awareness. A quick survey of popular music and culture reveal a frightening level of ignorance of America's history, values, and ideals. In short, while the series focusses on America's musical traditions, it does a fantastic job of conveying a sense of America's "roots" in a positive, enriching manner.

The DVD documentary strikes a perfect balance between glossing over, and becoming bogged down in, the material. Unlike the Ken Burns' projects that exhaust the viewer's interest and collapse under their own weight, the series is informative and educational, yet entertaining. It is not MEANT to be an exhaustive treatise on the subject - and so some reviewers here are missing the point - that would take 40, not 4, episodes. Rather, it is an introduction and a sampler; peaking our curiosity and prompting us to investigate and research further the wonderful heritage of music out there. And in that, it succeeds marvelously.

What also impressed me was the documentary's remarkable objectivity. While it eschews political correctness, it doesn't necessarily candy coat anything either. What it does do is present the material in a respectful, thoughtful, intelligent, and unbiased manner - something so lacking in today's political and social discourse. So in this sense, folks looking for something with an "agenda" - conspiracies, skeletons in the closet, and historical revisionism - may be disappointed by the documentary.

The CD boxed set is equally well-done: a fantastic booklet, thorough liner notes, and collection of songs that is a music lover's dream. Again, it is intended to be a sampler - great songs by landmark artists - not an exhaustive account of American Roots music. And also like the documentary, its meant to be a enriching, uplifting - not deconstructing - experience.

If the series has a shortcoming, it is the absence of one of the major "roots" - Jazz - which was no doubt and most unfortunately excluded, because of the recent Ken Burns' PBS documentary. But to exclude Jazz from the discussion of American Roots music, means we do not have the entire picture. And so in that sense, the series is somewhat flawed.

Still, its hard to find any other fault with the series. This is a work that TRULY embraces and celebrates America's cultural diversity. Entertaining and enlightening, I would heartily recommend owning the box set and DVD for one's own edification as well as a way to help introduce friends and family to REAL American music - in all its forms.

American Roots Music.......2004-05-13

An Awsome Collection Of Hard To Find Roots Music In A Box
Set Thats Worth The Money

Gotta have it.......2003-02-17

Excellent collection, except I wish they could have picked another B.B. King tune than the overrated "The Thrill Is Gone."

scattered roots.......2001-11-13

One doesn't envy anyone charged with the task of assembling a collection of essential recordings in America's many folk and vernacular genres. As such things go, American Roots Music is decent enough, though inevitably anyone who knows the music will wonder at the omissions (for example, of Dock Boggs or any of the classic old-time string bands). Perhaps the major problem here is that the four discs encompass such a range of styles that they can hardly begin to do justice to any one of them. The serious listener will already have much of this in his or her collection. Of course it's not exactly a painful sacrifice to hear "Waiting for a Train," "Uncle Pen," "Black Snake Moan," "Cross Road Blues," or any of a number of other warhorses, yet again. I was least familiar with the music on Disc #4 (Cajun/Zydeco/Tejano/Native American) and so enjoyed it the most. A particular treat is Mingo Saldivar's lively version of the old Johnny Cash hit "Ring of Fire." Saldivar doesn't just sing the lyrics in Spanish; he reinvents the melody, making it sound as if "Ring" were always supposed to be a conjunto tune. The disc ends anticlimactically, however, with the inexplicable inclusion of a New-Ageish composition, when a reprise of the wonderful series theme song (a movingly organic rendition of "Worried Man Blues" by performers representing a variety of traditions) would have been a more proper send-off. As a primer set in an unusually attractive package, American Roots Music will do, more or less, but seasoned followers of our homegrown sounds will seek their pleasures elsewhere.

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Broke, Black and Blue
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Proper UK Boxed Sets
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Binding: Audio CD

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Good News: 100 Gospel Greats
Gettin' Funky: The Birth of New Orleans R&B
Nothing But the Blues
The Paramount Masters
Hittin' on All Six

ASIN: B00002ZZZY
Release Date: 1999-11-08

Tracks:

Barrel House Blues - Andrews, Ed
Georgia Stockade Blues - Delaney, Tom
Sun Brimmers Blues - Memphis Jug Band
Goin' To Leave You Blues - Big Boy Cleveland
Dry Bone Shuffle - Blind Blake
Up Country Blues - Bailey, Deford
Dead Drunk Blues - Wallace, Sippie
Original Stack O'Lee Blues - Reed, Long 'Cleve'
Easy Rider Don't You Deny My Name - Barbecue Bob
Bo Lita - Brown, Kid
Everybody Help The Boys Come Home - Smith, William & Versey
Church Bells Blues - Jordan, Luke
Two Ways To Texas - Glen, Emery
It Won't Be Long Now - Barbecue Bob & Laughing Charley
Bottleneck Blues - Weaver & Beasley
Rock Island Blues - Black, Lewis
Midnight Blues - Moore, Bill
Fare Thee Blues - Head, Johnnie
My Monday Woman Blues - Jackson, Jim
What's The Matter Blues - Stokes, Frank
School Girl Blues - Moore, Rosie Mae
Cool Drink Of Water Blues - Johnson, Tommy
Left Alone Blues - Bracey, Ishman
T And T Blues - Richardson, Mooch
TC Johnson Blues - Johnson, T.C.
Ham Hound Crave - Lacy, Rube
No More Women Blues - Alexander, Texas
How Long How Long Blues - Jackson, William
Unknown Blues - Tarter & Gay
Chicken Wilson Blues - Wilson, Chicken
Stack O'Lee Blues - Hurt, 'Mississippi'
Broke And Hungry Blues - Howell, Peg Leg
Funny Feathers - Spivey, Victoria
Pitchin' Boogie - Ezell, Will
Mr Devil Blues - Davenport, Jed
Mississippi Bottom Blues - Bailey, Kid
Weary Heart Blues - Wiggins, James 'Boodle It'
Poor Man Blues - Townsend, Henry
Framer's Blues - Framer, Eli
Trinity River Blues - Walker, Aaron T-Bone
Heavy Suitcase Blues - Taylor, Charlie
Travelling Mama Blues - Calicott, Joe
Jumpin' And Shoutin' Blues - Akers, Garfield
Bedside Blues - Thompkins, Jim
Walking Blues - House, Son
Future Blues - Brown, Willie
Long Ways From Home - Johnson, Louise
Frisco Blues - Baylesse Rose
Good Boy Blues - Pettis, Arthur
No Special Rider Blues - Little Brother Montgomery
Married Man Blues - Reynolds, 'Blind' Willie
Dupree Blues - Walker, Willie
22 20 Blues - James, Skip
Lonesome Road Blues - Collins, Sam
Midnight Hour Blues - Carr, Leroy & Scrapper Blackwell
Fat Mama Blues - Williams, Jabo
Never Mind Blues - Boyd, Georgia
Twelves (Dirty Dozen) - Arnold, Kokomo
Little Leg Woman - Williams, 'Big' Joe
That's What My Baby Likes - Jackson, Bessie
Good Whiskey Blues - Wheatstraw, Peetie
Strut That Thing - Loften, Cripple Clarence
Teasin' Brown Blues - Lasky, Louie
Cold Blooded Murder - Bumble Bee Slim
Baby You Gotta Change Your Mind - Fuller, Blind Boy
Ashes In My Whiskey - Davis, Walter
It's Cold In China Blues - Mississippi Moaner
Jockey Blues - Gillum, Bill 'Jazz'
Prisoner Blues - Clarke, George
Back Door Blues - Weldon, Casey Bill
Don't Sell It (Don'T Give It Away) - Woods, Buddy
Booker T Blues - Washboard Sam
Hard Scufflin' Blues - Doyle, Little Buddy
Jersey Belle Blues - Johnson, Lonnie
Baby Please Don't Tell On Me - McLennan, Tommy
East St Louis Blues - Smith, Faber & Jimmy Yancey
Bukka's Jitterbug Swing - White, Bukka
Can't You Read - Big Maceo
Life Is Like That - Memphis Slim
Memory Of Sonny Boy - Forest City Joe
Horse Shoe Boogie - Brown, Lee
Ruby Moore Blues - Brown, Lee
Lowland Blues - Brown, Lee
Round The World Boogie - Brown, Lee
Rock That Boogie - Gordon, Jimmie
Fast Life - Gordon, Jimmie
Mistreated Blues - Gordon, Jimmie
I Ain't Like That No More - Gordon, Jimmie
Chain Gang Blues - Temple, Johnny
Yum Yum Yum - Temple, Johnny
My Baby's Acting Funny - Gordon, Jimmie
It's Time To Go - Gordon, Jimmie
That Woman's A Pearl Diver - Gordon, Jimmie
Jumpin' At The Club Blue Flame - Gordon, Jimmie
I Believe I'll Go Downtown Again - Temple, Johnny
Something In The Moon That Gives Me A Thrill - Temple, Johnny
Dixie Flyer - Temple, Johnny
I Believe My Sins Have Found Me Out - Templec, Johnny
Rhythm Mama - Temple, Johnny
New Little Girl Little Girl - Brown, Lee

Tracks:

Ham Hound Crave - Rube Lacey
No More Women Blues - Alger "Texas" Alexander
How Long, How Long Blues - Willie Jackson
Unknown Blues - Tarter & Gay
Chicken Wilson Blues - Chicken Wilson
Stack O' Lee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt
Broke and Hungry Blues - Peg Leg Howell
Funny Feathers - Victoria Spivey
Pitchin' Boogie - William Ezell
Mr. Devil Blues - Jed Davenport
Mississippi Bottom Blues - Kid Bailey
Weary Heart Blues - James Wiggins
Poor Man Blues - Henry Townsend
Framer's Blues - Eli Framer
Trinity River Blues - T-Bone Walker
Heavy Suitcase Blues - Charley Taylor
Traveling Mama Blues - Joe Calicott
Jumpin' and Shoutin' Blues - Garfield Akers
Bedside Blues - Jim Thompkins
Walking Blues - Son House
Future Blues - Willie Brown
Long Ways from Home - Louise Johnson
Frisco Blues - Bayless Rose
Good Boy Blues - Arthur Petties
No Special Rider Blues - Little Brother Montgomery

Tracks:

Married Man Blues - Blind Willie Reynolds
Dupree Blues - Willie Walker
22-20 Blues - Skip James
Lonesome Road Blues - Sam Collins
Midnight Hour Blues - Leroy Carr
Fat Mama Blues - Jabo Williams
Never Mind Blues - Georgia Boyd
Twelves (Dirty Dozens) - Kokomo Arnold
Little Leg Woman - Big Joe Williams
That's What My Baby Likes - Bessie Jackson
Good Whiskey Blues - Peetie Wheatstraw
Strut That Thing - Cripple Clarence Lofton
Teasin' Brown Blues - Louie Lasky
Cold Blooded Murder, No. 2 - Bumble Bee Slim
Baby You Gotta Change Your Mind - Blind Boy Fuller
Ashes in My Whiskey - Walter Davis
It's Cold in China Blues - The Mississippi Moaner
Jockey Blues - Jazz Gillum
Prisoner Blues - George Clarke
Back Door Blues - Casey Bill Weldon
Don't Sell It (Don't Give It Away) - Buddy Woods
Booker T. Blues - Washboard Sam
Hard Scufflin' Blues - Little Buddy Doyle
Jersey Belle Blues - Lonnie Johnson
Baby, Please Don't Tell on Me - Tommy McClennan

Tracks:

East St. Louis Blues - Faber Smith, Jimmy Yancey
Bukka's Jitterbug Swing - Bukka White
Can't You Read - Big Maceo Merriweather
Life Is Like That - Memphis Slim
Memory of Sonny Boy - Forrest City Joe
Horse Shoe Boogie - Lee Brown
Ruby Moore Blues - Lee Brown
Low Land Blues - Lee Brown
Round the World Blues - Lee Brown
Rock That Boogie - Jimmie Gordon
Fast Life - Jimmie Gordon
Mistreated Blues - Jimmie Gordon
I Ain't Like That No More - Jimmie Gordon
Chain Gang Blues - Johnny Temple
Yum, Yum, Yum - Johnny Temple
My Baby's Acting Funny - Jimmie Gordon
It's Time to Go - Jimmie Gordon
That Woman's a Pearl Diver - Jimmie Gordon
Jumpin' at the Club Blue Flame - Jimmie Gordon
I Believe I'll Go Downtown Again - Johnny Temple
Something in the Moon That Gives Me a Thrill - Johnny Temple
Dixie Flyer - Johnny Temple
Believe My Sins Have Found Me Out - Johnny Temple
Rhythm Mama - Johnny Temple
New Little Girl, Little Girl - Lee Brown

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A budget-priced box set, Broke, Black & Blue delivers multiple surprises within its 100 songs of prewar blues. Arranged chronologically by Joop Visser, the set admirably covers the first 22 years of recorded blues, 1924 to 1946, from vaudeville and Delta to boogie-woogie and jump blues. It's a swell gift for anyone wanting to learn more about the history of blues. But old-timers will be pleased, too, as special attention has been paid to culling rare and idiosyncratic tracks by the well-known and the obscure. The first three discs present single tracks by artists as diverse as the Memphis Jug Band, De Ford Bailey, Tommy Johnson, Son House, Skip James, Peetie Wheatstraw, Lonnie Johnson, and Bukka White, alongside unknowns such as Isaiah "The Mississippi Moaner" Nelson, Barbecue Bob and Laughing Charley, Ed Andrews, Chicken Wilson, and Bumble Bee Slim. On the fourth disc, this convention is jettisoned to luxuriate in a series of very rare sides of lovely, oddly subdued boogie-woogie and jump blues by Jimmie Gordon, Johnny Temple, and Lee Brown. --Mike McGonigal

Album Description

Budget-priced four disc box focusing on the formative period of the blues at the start of the 20th century. Features plenty of previously unreleased material and includes tracks by Blind Blake, Barbecue Bob, Mississippi John Hurt, Frank Stokes, Tommy Johnson, Victoria Spivey, Son House, Kokomo Arnold, Cripple Clarence Lofton and others. Contains a total of 100 tracks. Comes housed in a sturdy, full color CD-sized slipcase box with each disc in a separate standard jewel case. 1999 release.

Album Details

100 Tracks; Over Four Hours of Music; 44-Page Fully Illustrated Booklet. 'Broke Black and Blue' Tries to Follow the Development of Recorded Blues During Its First 20 Odd Years. Features: Blind Blake, Barbecue Bob, Mississippi John Hurt and Others.

Customer Reviews:

Buy it With Confidence.......2005-07-06

This boxed set provides an excellent opportunity to add breadth to any blues collection. It's also an oustanding bargain at the price.

For the most part the compiler offers just one track per performer or group, with the tracks arranged in chronological order. The first two discs range from 1925 to late in 1930, the third covers the 1930's. The final disc changes the pattern. After five blues by different artists from the early 1940's we settle into multiple jump blues from Les Brown, Jimmie Gordon and Johnny Temple.

Until this final disc, however, the range is enormous, with a sprinkling of famous titles amid a wonderful array of undeserved obscurities. For the most part the sound is highly acceptable given the age and occasional rarity of the originals.

There's a substantial and useful booklet of about 40 pages, with full commentary and exhaustive discographic detail, as one should expect.

Even at the risk of a certain amount of duplication this is an excellent compilation, either for people new to this wonderful genre, or to those with greater experience. Unless you're remarkably expert, it's certain to widen horizons and introduce you to unfamiliar treasures. Buy it with confidence.

What A Treasure.......2000-07-20

This Box set is a treasure.Great collection of early recorded blues.Fantastic!

Black Box: Wax Trax! Records, The First 13 Years 3 CD Set, Includes 76-Page Book

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And Now That It's 13 Years Later ...
Wow....just wow
I wish I could give this collection 18 stars
Worth the money!
A wee handbook for the perplexed

Black Box: Wax Trax! Records, The First 13 Years 3 CD Set, Includes 76-Page Book
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13 Above the Night
Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box

ASIN: B000003RGU
Release Date: 1994-12-01

Tracks:

Supernaut (Trent Reznor Vocal Version) - 1000 Homo DJ's
No Devotion - Revolting Cocks
Beers, Steers And Queers (12' Version) - Revolting Cocks
Addiction - Sister Machine Gun
Violent Peace - Excessive Force
Envoye (12' Version) - The Young Gods
I Will Refuse (12' Version) - Pailhead
Faster Than Light - Lead Into Gold
Digital Tension Dimentia - Front Line Assembly
Your God Is Dead - Mussolini Headkick
Now Is The Time - Greater Than One
Shit For Brains - Pig
Cop Out - Hope And Kirk
Atomic Dog - Wreck
Elephant's Ground - Strike Under

Tracks:

Stowaway - Chris Connelly
Come Down Here - Chris Connelly
Love's Secret Domain - Coil
The Snow (Answers Come In Dreams 11 Version) - Coil
The Hacker - Clock DVA
Virus (12' Version) - KMFDM
Godlike (12' Version) - KMFDM
Every Day (Is Halloween) (Original 12' Version) - Ministry
Rigor Mortis - A Split Second
Butterfly Potion (12' Version) - Foetus
Father Don't Cry - Doubting Thomas
Nothing Stays - Cyberaktif
Words (Of The Dying) - Controlled Bleeding
Compulsion - In The Nursery

Tracks:

Rubber Glove Seduction (12' Version) - PTP
No Name, No Slogan (12' Version) - Acid Horse
What Time Is Love? (12' Version) - The KLF
Silicon Jesus (Duality Mix) - Psykosonik
Cuz It's Hot (12' Version) - My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
Do You Fear (For Your Child) - My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
Geburt Einer Nation - Laibach
God O.D. - Meat Beat Manifesto
Mindblower - Fred
I.C. Water - Psychic TV
Me And My Ding Dong - Pankow
The Name Game (7' Version) - Divine

Customer Reviews:

And Now That It's 13 Years Later ..........2007-04-04

... after the first printing of this collection, let me say LOUD and CLEAR that WaxTrax! (now TVT) Records NEEDS TO RE-RELEASE THIS COLLECTION OF CLASSICS!!! As it stands, Black Box is a hard to find collector's item, as the prices for used copies can attest (nobody's gonna have a new one available, kids, at least not for a reasonable price). You're lucky if you can find someone who kept immaculate, anal-retentive care of the discs. I was lucky to find a copy of this set at my local record shop, but the condition of the CDs would rate as GOOD, VERY GOOD at best. I'm just glad that after 13 years, they will still play in my CD player.

I'm not going to fire off a huge, elaborate critique of the set. If this kind of music from this time period pushes the dopamine receptors in your brain over the brink (and you know who you are), then this collection is for you. Yeah, it's primarily industrial in nature, but there are hints of techno, hard/goth rock, and dark experimental music. The 3-CD set clocking in at roughly 3 1/2 hours of music represents a nice, thick, bloody slice of a time and a place, and yes, it's just that damn good. Read the other reviews for point by point details. At worst, this one gets 4.5 stars. At best, it easily garners 5.

Wow....just wow.......2006-11-27

My interest in industrial music and its history lead me down the path to this little almost forgetten jem at this point.
This is industrial music as its not made anymore, as industrial music since the death of this label has become even more of a minor niche market fading into the obscure. But this box set captures industrial's golden age. An interesting mix of styles and history, it actually prompted to go visit the orginal WaxTrax store in Denver while on vacation(ironicly seeing one of the artists on the boxset.KMFDM). With all the music revials going on, I wish someone would revive this kind of industrial music, before its completely forgotten. The track that is the most well known is probably the cover of "Supernaut" with the Trent Renzor vocals, but that is to over look alot of other amazing material. You can feel the energy, the thoughtfulness, and the pioneering spirit racing though every track. The only shortcoming i'd say would be that Front 242's material couldn't be included.
Music history buffs will also get a kick out of this, there is a little booklet helping outline the history of the label, and quite a history it is. I find it quite sad that there is no real written books about WaxTrax and the chicago industrial scene of the 80s like there is for punk,hardcore,indie and their counterparts.
I recommend this comp 100%, and hope that you can feel the same love for this music as I do.

I wish I could give this collection 18 stars.......2002-11-04

I dj'd at college radio stations for 5 years in the late '80s, and was always pleasantly excited when I found a Wax Trax! label in the New bin. (Unfortunately, I usually did my shows in the dark and thought the name was "Wax Traxi" for the longest time!) The label was a mainstay of industrial music, and founders Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher consistently managed to sign and produce the most exciting musicians of the time -- the many incarnations of dear troubled genius Al Jourgensen, The Young Gods, FLA, Coil, Controlled Bleeding, Doubting Thomas, A Split Second, Lead Into Gold, Psychic TV, Foetus -- they are all here on three great discs packed with music that makes you want to move and feel. Disc One, Track One: Trent Reznor covers Black Sabbath's 'Supernaut' with 1000 Homo DJs -- a version previously unreleased, and then you are zipping through Sister Machine Gun and The Young Gods and oh so many more seminal industrial bands. Divine puts the "fun" in funky with "The Name Game", the label's second release. I was also happy to hear a few groups that had somehow slipped past me the first time around, like Wreck. I had a great time listening to this collection and am still listening to it. You can put in any of the three discs and be happy for a long time.

The packaging is beautiful -- a heavyweight black box covered with hip lettering and disturbing images; three black CD cases containing labeled discs and a listing with artist, cut, time and version information; and a terrific booklet that relates the anecdotal history of Wax Trax! -- it's artistically interesting as well as substantive and entertaining.

If you enjoy industrial music, you cannot go wrong with this incredible collection of the music and people that started it all. And why not put a few bucks into the pockets of the guys who loved the music more than the profits?

Worth the money!.......2002-02-28

This Chicago-based record label compilation is an awesome chunk of the work done by most of the best industrial bands that came out of N. America and Europe in the 80s. Very interesting and innovative music- fans of industrial music or darker techno should like most of this stuff quite a bit.

A wee handbook for the perplexed.......2000-11-25

This 3 CD set offers an excellent overview of the artists that made WaxTrax! Records synonymous with beautiful, challenging music. Coil, Thrill Kill Kult, Meat Beat Manifesto, Ministry, KMFDM, Pig, RevCo, even some early Frontline Assembly is featured on this Box. And for you NIN fans, there's even the original version of 1,000 Homo DJs' 'Supernaut' with Trent Reznor on vox. The enclosed booklet encapsulates the WT! history, including the TVT buyout. Overall, a great mix of music and information about the early days in Chicago that is well worth the price.

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Great Collection
This is not official!
I think I know whats going on
Why do they have the same songs on here twice?
Great compilation

The Cradle of Filth Box Set
Cradle of Filth
Manufacturer: Koch Records
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ASIN: B00000AWIZ
Release Date: 2006-10-31

Tracks:

Once Upon Atrocity
Thirteen Autumns and a Widow
Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids
Beneath the Howling Stars
Venus in Fear
Desire in Violent Overture
Twisted Nails of Faith
Bathory Aria: Benighted Like Usher/A Murder of Ravens in Fugue/Eyes Tha
Portrait of the Dead Countess
Lustmord and Wargasm (The Lick of Carnivorous Winds)

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Lust and Wargasm (There Licking of Cadaverous Wounds) [*]
Black Metal [*]
Hallowed Be Thy Name [*]
Sodomy and Lust [*]
Twisting Further Nails (The Cruci-Fiction Mix) [*]

Tracks:

Humana Inspired to Nightmare
Heaven Torn Asunder
Funeral in Carpathia
Gothic Romance (Red Roses for the Devil's Whore)
Malice Through the Looking Glass
Dusk and Her Embrace
Graveyard by Moonlight
Beauty Slept in Sodom
Haunted Shores

Tracks:

Creatures That Kissed in Cold Mirrors
Dusk and Her Embrace
Beneath the Howling Stars
Her Ghost in the Fog
Funeral in Carpathia [Be Quick or Dead Version]
Twisted Nails of Faith
From the Cradle to Enslave
Saffron's Curse
Malice Through the Looking Glace
Cruelty Brought Thee Orchids
Lord Abortion

Tracks:

Once Upon Atrocity
Thirteen Autumns and a Widow [Red October Mix]
For Thos Who Died [Return to the Sabbat Mix]
Sodomy and Lust
Twisting Further Nails
Amor E Morte [Lycanthropy Mix]
Carmilla's Masque
Lustmord and Wargasm II
Dawn of Eternity
Of Dark Blood and Fucking [Stripped to the Bone Mix]
Dance Macabre
Hell Awaits
Hallowed Be Thy Name

Tracks:

At the Gates of Midian
Cthulhu Dawn
Saffron's Curse
Death Magick for Adepts
Lord Abortion
Amor E Morte
Creatures That Kissed in Cold Mirrors
Her Ghost in the Fog
Satanic Mantra
Tearing the Veil from Grace
Tortured Soul Asylum

Customer Reviews:

Great Collection.......2007-06-26

First off: the band more or less didn't sanction this, but the record label that had rights to all these albums released them anyways more as a way to cash in. Doesn't mean it isn't a good collection.

All three main albums are excellent, not that the rest of Cradle's discography isn't anyways. These are all the albums released by Koch (Dusk and Her Embrace, Cruelty and the Beast (with a bonus disc), and Midian) as well as a "best of" up to Midian which is Lovecraft and Witch Heart.

Unfortunately, Lovecraft is the only place where I gripe, but not really for the reasons most others do. Most others feel it's pointless to have the songs on this album when most of them are already on the other discs. Well, the way they're organized is great and, in fact, I'd sometimes want to listen to Lovecraft over listening to the others separately (especially with the remixes and the material from the Cradle to Enslave EP) but the stuff from both V Empire and The Principle of Evil Made Flesh are esentially non-existant here. Queen of Winter, Throned; The Forest Whispers My Name, etc. were all definitely some of their best over almost anything on Lovecraft.

Despite this, all the albums are excellent. The collection is especially good and recommended for CoF newcomers, in my opinion. It both makes it easier to see how they've "evolved," if you will (seeing as how some fans think they should've stuck to their older style) and to just see where they started. Both Dusk and Midian are two of my all-time favorite albums.

Also worth mentioning is that the track Black Metal on the Cruelty bonus disc is not on Lovecraft and is a very good listen. The rest of the tracks are, although the versions of Hallowed Be Thy Name are slightly different. On either disc, however, it should also be noted for newcomers to stay away from the horrible dance remix "Twisting Nails Further." A good remix is the Thirteen Autumns and a Widow or Amore E Morte mixes on the Witch Heart disc, because they do little to alter the music but make a noticeable and all around better difference in the sound.

Great for Cradle newbies and highly recommended...even if it wasn't exactly sanctioned by the band.

This is not official!.......2007-02-07

This is from the band them selfs

"A box set has been released that is NOTHING to do with Cradle of Filth. Its not official & was never approved by the band. PLEASE support the band by buying OFFICIAL merchandise & not bootlegs or such like. Its not worth it & its very rare that a band supports unofficial pressings."

Do not buy this!!!!

I think I know whats going on.......2007-02-07

Roadrunner records is thier current recording company and they used to be under Koch, I think Koch released all the stuff that they had rights too, that why anything after Lovecraft & Witchhearts isn't on here

Why do they have the same songs on here twice?.......2007-01-29

On this cd they included Lovecraft and witch hearts, which was a best of collection from before Damnation and a day. But why would they include that when the whole cd's they came from are in this?

And where are the three cd's that came out after Lovecraft?

And... even better, why would I buy this when I can download everything on here online for free? And in that same download I can get everything they have ever done, not just Dusk-Midian.

Great compilation.......2007-01-28

This box set has the best of cradle of filth for a very reasonable price. The only problem with the box is that some of the songs are recoreded in more than one disc in the box

The SAR Records Story - 2 Pack Box Set W/Booklet

Average customer rating:

Possibly the greatest thing ever done in music by anyone at any time....well it is pretty darn incredible
Wow, thats really all i can say
Yet Another Side of the Man who invented Soul
Stunning
Stunning

The SAR Records Story - 2 Pack Box Set W/Booklet
Sam Cooke
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Complete Recordings of Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers
The Man Who Invented Soul
Sam Cooke at the Copa
Keep Movin on
Sam Cooke - Legend

ASIN: B000003BD4
Release Date: 1994-09-27

Tracks:

Wade In The Water-Chatter
Wade In The Water
I'm A Pilgrim
Praying Ground
Somebody-Chatter
Somebody
Sometimes
Amazing Grace
Pass Me Not
Oh Mary, Don't You Weep-Chatter
Oh Mary, Don't You Weep
Since I Met The Savior
God Is Standing By
Lead Me To Calvary-Rehearsal
Listen To The Angels Sing
Don't Leave Me Alone
Stand By Me Father
Jesus Be A Fence Around Me
Lead Me Jesus
Free At Last
Looking Back-Chatter
Looking Back
Born Again
Wait On Jesus
Time Brings About A Change
Must Jesus Bear The Cross Alone
Yield Not To Temptation-Chatter
Yield Not To Temptation
Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
Somewhere There's A God
That's Heaven To Me

Tracks:

You Send Me-Demo
Just For You
Somewhere There's A Girl
You Were Made For Me
When A Boy Falls In Love
Soothe Me
That's Where It's At-Chatter
That's Where It's At
Everybody Wants To Fall In Love With You
Keep On Loving You
I'll Always Be In Love With You
Baby, We've Got Love-Chatter
Baby, We've Got Love
Baby, Lots Of Luck
Put Me Down Easy
Rome (Wasn't Bulit In A Day)
Greazee Part I & II
I Gopher You
I Gopher You-Chatter
You're Always On My Mind
I Need Lots Of Love
Don't Throw Your Love On Me So Strong
Black Night
Damper
You Can Run (But You Can't Hide)
Meet Me At The Twisting Place-Chatter
Meet At The Twisting Place
Good Good Loving
The Wobble
Lookin' For A Love-Chatter
Lookin' For A Love
I've Got Love For You
I've Got A Girl-Chatter
I've Got A Girl
Tired Of Loving In The Country
It's All Over Now

Amazon.com essential recording

For a few years during the early 1960s, Sam Cooke, the man with the golden croon, ran his own small record label, SAR Records. In addition to aiding the career of the post-Cooke Soul Stirrers, SAR unleashed an impressive array of talent--Bobby Womack and the Valentinos, Lou Rawls and the Pilgrim Travelers, and a young organist named Billy Preston. The singles they cut for his label are here, alongside unreleased demos from Cooke such as a spare, transporting take of "That's Heaven to Me." Story presents much evidence of the Soul Stirrers' continued greatness with Jimmie Outler as lead singer. And the tracks by R.H. Harris & His Gospel Paraders are stone groove gospel-soul cuts. Disc 2 presents the secular material, with solid jazz-funk cuts alongside swell pop-soul numbers. To top it all off, the packaging is deluxe, the notes informative, and the remastering first-rate. --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews:

Possibly the greatest thing ever done in music by anyone at any time....well it is pretty darn incredible.......2006-03-03

Sam Cooke was a genius. As brilliant and beautiful as his unparalled voice was, he still was able to write and produce some of the most remarkable music(particularly the gospel cd)in black history for other artists. Sam wanted to write, produce, and record other artists. He wanted to take gospel and the gospel sound mainstream. This is a wonderful body of work by an artist who is so sorely underrated and unknown, especially this side of his career. This set features some extremely powerful singing and gorgeous production. A particular artist who stands out here is Jimmie Outler. He became lead singer of The Soul Stirrers after Johnnie Taylor left, who replaced Sam. Jimmie's voice is so powerful and dynamic. He truly defines 'Soul Stirring.'His ability to interpret a lyric while keeping his intense gospel fervor is stunning. R.H. Harris, an inspiration to a young Sam Cooke, is here with a handful of tracks with his new backing team "The Gospel Paraders." I believe R.H. was in his forty's during this period and his falsetto is still earthshattering.(particularly on "Pass Me Not" with its beautiful and carefully arranged guitar intro)........

Wow, thats really all i can say.......2006-01-28

This album is incredible. Even though i'm not particularly religious, but this Gospel is amazing. The first disc, to me, is alot better, just because it is the gospel, and there are no duds. The "chatter" before the songs really add alot to the whole experience, and give you a deeper look into Sam Cookes producing style. My favorite soul album, and completely flawless.

Yet Another Side of the Man who invented Soul.......2005-11-30

Sam Cooke once said that one of the things he wanted to accomplish was that all the singers he recorded had hits. For that reason he started his own recordlabel called SAR. The S for Sam. The A jwAlexander and the r for sR crain.

He produced most of the sessions himself and they have added some fun bits on the CD where Sam is talking to the artists and telling them how to sing and what to do.

CD1 is the gospel part and features himself but also the Soul Stirrers and the Womack Brothers. On CD2 we find them again but this time as The Valentinos. The song everyone will know if "It's all over now" that the Rolling Stones heard and then recorded.

It also features songs he wrote for others and then recorded himself a little later like "That's Where It's At", "Soothe Me", "When A Boy Falls In Love" and "Rome Wasn't Build In A Day".

The production was great because the songs all sound awesome. It really shows yet another side of the man who invented soul. This time the producer and label owner.

Stunning.......2003-08-07

Sam Cooke was an amazing talent in so many ways, and this collection of the music his record company produced during its short five-year existence is further evidence (if more were needed) that his early death was a profound loss. Aside from his extraordinary talents as a singer and a songwriter, Cooke proved himself with SAR records to be a canny businessman and producer. In this regard, he was a pioneer. As Peter Guralnick points out in the introductory remarks in the excellent and thorough booklet that accompanies the set, Cooke's entrepreneurial effort marked one of the earliest occasions when "a prominent black artist was in a position to actually control the means of production."

And control them he did. One of the many pleasures of this collection is that you get to hear some of Cooke's direction to the groups on his label, and he can be both humorous and fierce. "Paul, you weren't watching me, no way," he says to Paul Foster of the Soul Stirrers at one point; but at another he patiently explains to a clearly frustrated Foster what the words of a particular song mean so that, as Foster says, "I can get the sense of it."

Stunning.......2003-08-07

And control them he did--one of the many pleasures of this collection is that you get to hear some of Cooke's direction to the groups on his label, and he can be both humorous and fierce. "Paul, you weren't watching me, no way," he says to Paul Foster of the Soul Stirrers at one point; but at another he patiently explains to a clearly frustrated Foster what the words of a particular song me so that, as Foster says, "I can get the sense of it."

Customer Reviews:

Get anything Grigory Sokolov recorded .......2006-07-29

Grigory Sokolov is definitely one of the most underrated pianist for the past few decades, and I truly believe he is the best still around.

Currently there are two CD boxes( each contains 5 CDs)and one DVD (Live in Paris) available in the market. This is one of the CD set.

CD1: Beethoven Diabelli Variations;
CD2 & CD3: Schubert D894, D960;
CD4: Chopin Sonata No 2 and Etude op25 ;
CD5: Scriabin Sonata No 3&9,Prokofiev Sonata No 8 and Rachmaninov Prelude op23 No 4.

Because of his reclusive personality and unwilling to record (perhaps due to perfectionism) , he never had contract with major labels and therefore lots of people were not aware of him. However, the one single DVD is good enough to do him justice--you have to see it to believe it.

He is one of the best classic pianists ever, along with Gilels, Richter, etc----definitely the best still around. If you have notheard of Solokov, get both CD sets and DVD--that will be the best investment for your classic music collection and years of enjoyment. And if one of us get lucky, we might still be able to see him one stage one day.

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