Hillside

Track Listings

1. Curiosity

2. Pearl

3. For U

4. Hillside Funk

5. Lay You Down

6. Cocaine

7. Games

8. Fell for You

9. Yesterday

10. Soul Music

Hillside,Hillside,Bellmark Records,Hip-Hop,Pop,Rap,Rap & Hip-Hop,Soul/Reggae/Rhythm & Blues

Hillside

Tracks:

Long Time Ago
Pure Sugar
Jah Will Go On
Time I Know
Soul Love
Two Bulls
Walkey Walk Tall
Hillside Airstrip
Born Free
New Day

Album Description

A musical consortium in the style of roots reggae and 70's Jamaican sound. It's captivating, soulful, passionate and heavy dub. The members also play in the band John Brown's Body (Shanachie Records). Standard jewel case. 2001 release.

Customer Reviews:

A FIRMLY PLANTED GANJA PLANT.......2004-01-16

Of all the non-jamaican reggae artists I've heard, 10ft. may very well be the most impressive. The tracks have an old-school feel to them while still sounding fresh and new. There's a few members of John Brown's Body involved in this project but I think that the Plant sounds even more authentic. If you like roots, then please pick this up!

A MUST HAVE !!!!!.......2001-10-16

If you're a fan of John Brown's Body, you simply must find a place for this CD in your collection. A collaboration between Craig Welsh and various musicians including members of JBB, these tracks will round out your reggae collection with an alternative but rootsy feel and sound. Great lyrics by Welsh and The Plant. The riffs are really phat in places. The keyboarding is simply AWESOME - traditional but fresh. In fact, for me, the keyboarding, combined with some serious, infectious and psychodelic dub, provides some of the most memorable highlights. And although I'm not sure if it's my system or not, but my recording features some very welcome feedback on the phatter base line.
Key Tracks: "Born Free" (not sure who's on vocals but his voice sounds like Floyd Lloyd - a Jamaican ska favorite), "Long Time Ago" (unsure of lead vocals, fantastic background vocals almost sounding like the Gladiators or Israel Vibration), "Time I Know" (a rootsy phsychodelic ode to Jah with Kevin Kinsella on lead vocals), "Soul Love" (rootsy track with an R&B feel and some nice harp) "Pure Sugar" (very JBB-like sound featuring Kevin Kinsella and Elliot Martin on vocals). "Jah Will Go On", "Two Bulls" and "Hillside Airstrip" provide some trippy dub. Turn the lights out, the volume up and the bass all the way to the right - THIS IS PHAT!
If you ever get a chance to see John Brown's Body live - do it. I've seen them twice at The Middle East in Cambridge, MA and thoroughly enjoyed myself. One of the few bands that have mastered the fine art of live dub without producing waves of electronic dribble. There is word of a forthcoming album, but unfortunately I also here their label, Shanachie, recently dropped them. No worries, another will surely pick them up soon. Enjoy.

The best American roots/dub you've ever heard............2001-03-15

This album knocked me down---Spawning from members of the incredible Northeast rootical band John Brown's Body (JBB), this studio dub can be compared to the greatest. From top to bottom I was continually blown away--if you didn't know any better you'd think it was layed down at Tubby's in '79. Even the beautiful cover artwork (as well as the theme) represents JA. Take special note of track 2--as the title implies it's PURE SUGAR! This tune utilizes the vocals of JBB members Kevin and Elliot, and shows the world how talented they truly are. TIME I KNOW, WALKEY WALK TALL, and the psychedelic TWO BULLS stand out as phenomenal, but there is not one weak track--I have already purchased 2 of these discs!!!--WORLDWIDE RECOGNITION IS DUE.--Big up to Craig Welsch for his IMMENSE skills, to JBB and associated members, and to Ithaca/Boston for keepin' it real. BUY THIS ALBUM!!! JAH GUIDANCE AND BLESSINGS!!! ONE LOVE!!

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A slow start...
What They're Rockin' to in Arkham These Days!
Horror/Geek Rock
When the (Rock) Stars are Right
Seamless

The Shadow Out Of Tim
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
Manufacturer: Divine Industries Inc.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000RGU8O0
Release Date: 2007-06-21

Tracks:

Prologue: Theme To An Earthquake
Chapter I: A Marine Biologist
Chapter II : Blackout
Chapter III: No Way
Chapter IV: Strange
Chapter V : Return To Melanesia
Chapter VI: Cultists On Board
Chapter VII : A "Need To Know" Basis
Chapter VIII : Operation: Get The Hell Out Of Here
Chapter IX: Ride The Flying Polyp
Epilogue: Some Things Man Was Not Meant To Know
Footnote: Sleestak And Yeti
Footnote: Downtown (In The Cenozoic)
Appendix: Nyarlathotep

Product Description

When is an H.P. Lovecraft story not a book? When is an album by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, of course! Following their seven year tour of outer space in support of Spaceship Zero: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, The Thickets return to Earth and the waters off New Zealand in a very special operatic adaptation of Lovecraft s The Shadow Out of Time. In HPL s original tale set in 1913, Professor Peaslee of Massachusetts has his mental faculties swapped by an alien mind and learns terrible truths about life on Earth and beyond. The Vancouver, BC nerdcore band s The Shadow Out of Tim their third full-length album and fifth CD release features modern marine biologist Dr. Timothy Vess descent into madness brought on by similar circumstances. The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, a cult mainstay since 1992, take you on a rock n roll tour through space and time, painting sonic pictures of the ocean deep, mysterious ruin-covered islands, and Paleocene jungles. Five out of five Cthulhu scholars agree The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets The Shadow Out of Tim is the perfect soundtrack to occult investigation!

Customer Reviews:

A slow start..........2007-08-01

Like Spaceship Zero, this album took me a few listens to really get into. But it definitely grew on me, like a fungi from Yoggoth. Plus, I work in biology, so the Marine Biologist track really hit home for me!

What They're Rockin' to in Arkham These Days!.......2007-07-15

For several years now, I've been avidly listening to the music of the Canadian band The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, a group that creates fantastic metal-ish, punk-ish tongue-in-cheek musical homages to the works of author H.P. Lovecraft. After a break--or some would say "drought"--of nearly 7 years, the band has released another CD, this one inspired by Lovecraft's story "The Shadow Out of Time." The new musical work, entitled THE SHADOW OUT OF TIM--it's a play on words, as the "protagonist" of the musical narrative is named Timothy--brings the story into the 21st century as it follows the experiences of a modern-day marine biologist who has an unnerving encounter with one of the Old Ones.

THE SHADOW OUT OF TIM has quickly become one of my favorites by this unique band. The musical opus adds a few twists to Lovecraft's narrative, including the linking of the legendary Yeti and the Sleestaks of 1970s Saturday-morning fame--fellow geeks know what I'm talking about--into the story, and my current favorite song on the CD, "Nyarlathotep," even connects ancient Egypt to the Lovecraft mythos (with lyrics that are in an old Egyptian dialect!).

The music of The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets has been called Horror Rock, Horror Punk, and Geek Rock. Whatever the musical genre, it's music tailor made for fans of horror, SF, H.P. Lovecraft, and rock-and-roll. If you fall into one of these categorizations, or even if you just enjoy music that's not run-of-the-mill, you're sure to enjoy THE SHADOW OUT OF TIM.

Horror/Geek Rock.......2007-07-12

With lyrics ranging from Middle Egyptian (as in, sung in the language or something like it) to "He's got a bathyscaphe" to "Execute Operation: Get the Hell Out of Here!", Darkest of the Hillside thickets continue their punk/rock infused sf/horror styles. Even more of a concept album than their previous Spaceship Zero, this one explores many themes close to Lovecraft's heart: insanity, ships in the South-East seas, flying polyps, and insanity. Oh, and some guy goes crazy, so insanity.

The lyrics/themes aren't the only thing this album has going for it. The band's sound is more polished, and Toren Atkinson's vocals have an even better range. If you have been a fan before, I see no reason why you wouldn't even be a bigger fan, now. The "quirk" seems to be toned down a little, but it made the album stronger to me.

My favorite is almost definitely "Blackout", with "Operation: Get the Hell Out of Here" stuck in my head the most often.

When the (Rock) Stars are Right.......2007-06-29

The latest Eldritch goodness from the Thickets is thirteen songs of awesome. "Marine Biologist" was my favorite on the first listen, but it's really a toss-up between the rockin' "Blackout", the careening power chords of "No Way" (cowbell!) or the languid, catchy "Return to Melanesia". Ia! Can't leave out the song currently on repeat in my iTunes, the hard-charging "Cultists on Board".

If you like to RAWK! fly your Polyp down to the store and pick up a copy. And by store I mean Amazon, and by Polyp I mean mouse.

Seamless.......2007-06-23

Unlike Spaceship Zero (also a fantastic album and also for sale through Amazon), which plays outtakes of a cult sci-fi film throughout, The Shadow Out of Tim leaves no breathing room. Modeled after The Shadow Out of Time by HP Lovecraft, the album is similar in its storytelling concept to SSZ, but just rocks from "chapter" to "chapter", no pauses. Try reading along with the liner notes - the lyrics make you want to go find the original novel that inspired this CD.

Marine Biologist is the standout single, at least it is in my opinion, but not by much. Every track worms itself into the brain and multiplies - my advice is to put it in your car stereo and turn it up.

Ugodz-Illa Presents: The Hillside Scramblers

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Please stop the hate!
U GOD IS THE WORST FROM WU
Just flat-out bad!
U-God makes me sick
U God is good, and the Hillside Scramblers spit grimey too!

Ugodz-Illa Presents: The Hillside Scramblers
Ugodz-Illa
Manufacturer: Lucky Hands
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001JXPKW
Release Date: 2004-03-16

Tracks:

Intro - Hillside Scramblers
Pain Inside - Black Ice
Lean Like Me
Destiny - Letha Face
Stick Up - Inf-Black
Tell Me - Letha Face
Chippin & Chop It
Booty Drop - Letha Face
Spit Game
Ghetto Gutter
Drama
Take It To The Top
KJ Rhyme - King-Just
Gang Of Gangstas - Black Ice
Put It On Me
Struggle Ain't Got No Color
Here We Come
Prayer

Customer Reviews:

Please stop the hate!.......2007-01-23

In response to the multitude of heinously bad reviews, I thought I'd throw out something in defense of U-God. I can't for the sheer life of me figure out why people hate this guy so much.
His style is unique; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but it always stands out. His verses are abstract and often connect seemingly random words together, creating triped-out, short-verses that pack a punch. He's known as "the eight bar killer" because he can drop fire in eight bars, but often can't hold a track by himself.
Who can honestly say that his verse in "Da Mystery of Chessboxing" wasn't dope: "Raw I'ma Give it to ya, with no trivia, raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia"
What about his verses on "It'z Yourz," "Severe Punishment," Raekwon's "Knuckleheadz" and Ghostface's "Winter Warz?"
They are some of the finest, most memorable verses on those albums. Out of the nine verses (10 including ODB's rambling)on the epic "Triumph," U-God's verse stands out the most, and is my favorite, hands down.
This isn't to say that everything U-God touches is gold. He drops a fair amount of crappy verses, and needs guests to help him hold a track together. I didn't think that this album was excellent either, although I liked his first one. The production is lacking and there aren't that many stand out verses, but it is not the horrendous piece of [...] that the other reviewers make it out to be: "Every time I hear his voice I have to choke back the puke from spewing out of my mouth." (Seriously dude, shut the f-ck up!)
U-God can run circles around most commercial rappers and has is own, completely unique style. He might not be the best but he certainly doesn't suck.

U GOD IS THE WORST FROM WU.......2006-11-09

U god is my least favorite from the wu. Theres a couple good songs on each of his cds, but I always am disappointed, buy raekwon or something. He has the worst flows of any big name emcee there is, and I can't believe he ever got in the Wu. I'd rather listen to R. Kelly or Jibbs.

Just flat-out bad!.......2006-06-04

I have to admit that I loved 1999's Golden Arms Redemption and this was a huge letdown. It is full of guest appearances by the extremely untalented Hillside Scramblers. I was hoping for more U-God. And I was hoping for more than 1 dope beat. This is just awful. I tried to listen to it and enjoy it, it's just impossible.

U-God makes me sick.......2006-04-09

Maybe i'm just a natural born hater but I listen to all U-gods albums just so I can diss them. I know its going to wack and he never lets me down. U-God makes me sick. Everytime I hear his voice I have to choke back the puke from spewing out of my mouth. I hope one day U-God reads this because he needs to know how much I hate his music. He has never ever said a rhyme that was tight. He's garbage and his whole crew is garbage. Hillside scramblers my a#s. He's weak. I read in an interview were he said he could eat Rza up on the mic. What has he been smoking. Every Wu-tang member on there worst day is better than U-god. When you think U-God will say somehting tight he ends up saying something wack by the time he's done. Even on certified Wu posse bangers U-God is always the low point of the song.
U-God Just Retire

U God is good, and the Hillside Scramblers spit grimey too!.......2005-02-20

This sounds nothing like Wu-Tang, and maybe for the moment that's a plus for U-God. Sometimes his style could be out of place, and to have all Wu beats could destroy would could be good music from him... astraying away from that helps him is what I'm saying I guess. This sounds like it's coming straight out of Oakland, California or something, and it's good. Godzilla, keep coming out man, forget whatever the other reviews might say negative. Everybody is not gonna like you even if you sold more than Thriller, look where Michael Jackson's at now. Anyway, just want to say, U da God, peace!

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Amazon sucks
The Sleeper Awakens!
Truly struck back!
Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu!!
Cthulhoid Rock!

Cthulhu Strikes Back
Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
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The Art Of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos

ASIN: B0000U3A66
Release Date: 2003-11-18

Tracks:

Goin' Down To Dunwich
Ogdru Jahad
Shoggoths Away
Unstoppable
Yig Snake Daddy
Hookworm
Rock Lords
Protein
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Burrow Your Way To My Heart
Worship Me Like A God
Cthulhu Dreams
Gluttony
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Album Description

The dread Necronomicon - The Book of Dead Names - whispered of throughout history and made popular by pulp horror author H.P. Lovecraft; filled with sonic "keys" that open gateways in between the spaces we know, where the mysterious Great Old Ones, with unpronounceable names like "Cthulhu", wait to walk the earth again; few know the book's secrets and fewer still can produce a copy. It is rumored, however, that a certain rock band out of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia have access to this, and other forbidden tomes - or at the very least, access to the internet.

Customer Reviews:

Amazon sucks.......2006-03-28

Please note that I think The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets is an excellent band and in no way does my 'one star' rating reflect their performance as artists. This review is meant entirely to reflect the business ethics of Amazon from the perspecive of myself, an eager fan who had hoped to support a musical group he liked by purchasing their albums. To make a long story short I've been waiting for two months for these cds, and after many complaints I have not received robotic apology notes with no actual solution to my problem. So unless you want to wait indefinetly to get this album, I would suggest using a different online store- for everything.

The Sleeper Awakens!.......2005-09-16

You do not find a lot of Cthulhu-themed music anywhere, but the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets rock with the Old Ones. This is solid music but with lyrics like nothing else. Not as sophisticated as Spaceship Zero, there is, none-the-less, a really Old school sound to this CD. I play all my Darkest CD's to death.

Support this hard-working, highly original band!

Truly struck back!.......2005-02-27

Fans of Lovecraft and or creative music, this is a must for your collection.

Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Cthulhu!!.......2004-03-20

I think there should be a chant... The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets has been one of my favorite bands for a long time (since I first heard Great Old Ones). Although this is their FIRST album, this is the most recent one I've heard, and it does not dissapoint. It sounds like it was BETTER PRODUCED than some of their "later" stuff and I'm not sure why that is, but fuzzy or not, this band ROCKS! I live in fear of recieving an 'Insmouth Look' I cant believe that these guys arent MORE FAMOUS, I keep trying to get the radio DJ to play them on the air...Cthulhu Strikes Back is worth having just for the conroversial cover art (which is hillarious)plus its a great album, you hardy ever get both, so go for it! YOG!!

Cthulhoid Rock!.......2003-11-19

The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, Canadian rockers, released several demo tapes before they finally released Cthulhu Strikes Back, their first full album. It is commendable for a first effort. Flawed, yes. But it's fun.

The majority of the Thickets' music revolves around the works of H.P. Lovecraft who created the Cthulhu Mythos stories. An obscure place to work from it seems, but the group pulls it off suprisingly well. Toren MacBin, the lead singer, can make anything sound deathly serious. Warren Banks is a promising guitarist who gives us a few memorable licks in this album. Bob Fugger is one of the more talented bassists I've heard lately, and really steals the show with his ominous bassline in the Cthulhu Dreams track. Jordan Pratt show promise as a drummer in that you can hear his work in the music and feel the rhythm, though you're not consciously thinking of it. I like that.

The songs themselves are great and stand up to repeated listenings. One thing I like is the usage of sound bites from movies and old TV shows. Some may recognize clips from Lovecraft movies or old Johnny Quest episodes in particular. Perhaps the Thickets are partially influenced by Pink Floyd?

My favorite songs on the album would be the first five tracks and Cthulhu Dreams. I feel that these in particular have the distinctive Thickets "sound," and that makes this album a good place to start for those unfamiliar with their work.

Goin' Down to Dunwich starts with a driving intro with bells tolling in the background. The riffs all have a sound of urgency and I just like the lyrics. The bridge is also very cool with a voice over. "I'm goin' down to Dunwich. I'm goin' down and I'm not comin' back!"

Ogdru Jahad shows the band's talent for strangeness. The audio effects used to warp Toren's voice into, what I'm guessing is, a chorus effect really help the atmosphere of the song.

Shoggoths Away is just fun. The lyrics are the best part. "Nobody wants my mindless irridescent protoplasms/They said to fly them out and drop them in the sea/I tried to sell them on their mimicking adaptive powers/Why don't you get your oily tendrils offa me?"

Unstoppable is a creepy number with a dramatic harmony in the background during the chorus. It's very catchy, and my only complaint is that it seems to set the archetypal structure that a lot of the Thickets' songs follow.

Yig Snake Daddy is a classic. It opens with a Johnny Quest sound bite, goes into a powerful intro that you come to expect from the band, and when we first hear Toren's singing you immediately notice his obvious and deliberately cheesy imitation of Elvis. At any rate, that's what I hear. The solo in this song is particularly good.

Cthulhu Dreams is the band's masterpiece. As I mentioned earlier, Bob Fugger's sinister bassline immediately sets the tone at the beginning, set underneath a sound bite from a Lovecraft movie with a man reading aloud from the dreaded Necronomicon. The song is also composed of various other sound bites, creepy and sometimes unorthodox guitarwork from Warren, pounding drums from Jordan, and the occassional chant of "Cthulhu! Dreams!" from Toren. Over ten minutes long, and incredibly eerie. Cthulhu Dreams is an instant classic. Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!

I could have done without some of the filler tracks such as Sloth and Hvw which are basically just sound bites and reprisals of previous songs, though. But that's a relatively minor issue. I certainly wouldn't listen to them alone, but playing the album in order, they fit in nicely.

One other thing I should mention is that the group doesn't have a major record label, and they've said that they got a band together because they thought it would be fun. It shows. All of their songs have a distinctive charm that a lot of modern recording artists lack. Not many new bands are at all interested in growing musically, they're just in it for the money. Compare any major band that MTV is putting into the limelight as their flavor of the month to the Thickets and you'll notice the difference.

I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
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Another Side of The 70's (finally on CD)

I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
The Hillside Singers
Manufacturer: Folk Era Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
One Man's Hands
Take Me Home, Country Roads
Day by Day
We're Together
Old Fashioned Love Song
Kum Ba Yah
Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Tomorrow Belongs to Me
Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
Amen
Last Happy Song [*]

Customer Reviews:

Another Side of The 70's (finally on CD).......2005-07-23

Some of you may remember the Hillside Singer's most famous hit "I'D Like To Teach The World To Sing", either as a hit that this group had, or the song that Coca Cola made famous as one of it's more lengdary jingles. As a Coke spot this song was used as a message of world peace both during the balance of the year and with a special commercial during the Chrristmas Season (all this world peace and no Miss America, go figure).

BUT, this vocal group could do much more. Many may connect folk songs with the 60's, but this genre continued through the early to mid 70's as well. Besides the title track, songs like The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down, and Kum Ba Ya allow their tight harmonies and emotions to shine.

Another intersting side note is the song "Were Together", this track wound up becoming one of McDonald's best known theme songs from the early 70's, and needless to say paired well with their most famous song beng a Coke jingle.

An important side note is that another group, The New Seekers, also recorded, "I'D Like To Teach The World To Sing" during the same time, AND also charted a hit with it, BUT, the most beloved version of this tracj, was the Hillside Singers version, an original NOT a copy.

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google divineindustries
The perfect geek band
One of, if not my favorite CD
Very cool
In a word: excellent

Spaceship Zero
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
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Cthulhu Strikes Back
Great Old Ones
The Shadow Out Of Tim
Necronomicon
The Call of Cthulhu: The Celebrated Story by H.P. Lovecraft

ASIN: B00004YA7Q
Release Date: 2000-08-15

Tracks:

Theme to Spaceship Zero
20 Minutes of Oxygen
The Innsmouth Look
Power Up
BTL Drive
Frogstar
The Math Song
Dies Is Unverschamtheit
Oblivion
The Chosen One
Slave Ship
Requiem for a Clone Hunter
KABLAM!
Sounds of Tindalos
End Credits

Album Description

Catchy pop/punk rock that will set your tenticles a tappin'!

Customer Reviews:

google divineindustries.......2006-07-01

Discovered The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets by accident via some soundtracks on a game preview at by kerberos-productions, like the music but disappointed in Amazon. Placed my original order for Spaceship Zero and Cthulhu Strikes Back on 5-14-06 and still don't have either as of 7-1-06.

The perfect geek band.......2005-10-17

How much do I love this group? I found it by accident, downloaded their Lovecraft-inspired tune "The Innsmouth Look", and that was that. This album is the band's 'soundtrack' for a favorite film of theirs, and it's chock-a-block full of great lyrics and catchy tunes that even non-geeks will love.

While "The Innsmouth Look" is the best tune on the album, there are plenty of good, solid pieces. I'll definitely be picking up their other albums. :)

One of, if not my favorite CD.......2004-04-02

This is a great CD. Period. I first herd of this band through the Vancouver Gaming Guild, and have not been disappointed with it at all. The songs are creative and have a good beat. I play this CD almost every day, because the popular rock bands such as Nickleback, System of a Down, etc. are not for me. In this age of file sharing, The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets are one of the few bands that I will always support.

Very cool.......2004-02-02

I used to live in Vancouver, part of the hunting range of these excellent young men. The music they make is wonderous indeed, but this album might be considered their magnus opus. I love putting it on the car stereo and really cranking it so people who hear it either fall in love with the eldritch sounds or faint in dispair over the coming of the Old Ones. Either way, I win. Buy this album now so you have something to show when The Stars Are Right.

In a word: excellent.......2003-10-18

I'm a newcomer to The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets and after a lot of searching, was able to get my copy of this CD. I've listened to it several times and have yet to grow tired of a single song.

The songs are all very catchy and the Thickets show great promise as they quickly hone their skills with their instruments. The singer, Toren MacBin, and the bassist, Bob Fugger, particularly shine in songs like The Innsmouth Look and 20 Minutes of Oxygen, two of my favorite songs.

The Math Song is also an oddly charming little number that I find myself whistling to unconsciously. The theme of old school sci-fi and Lovecraftian literature is definately a pleasant switch from so many mainstream bands which, in my opinion, are mostly either insipidly vapid pop groups that sound like they came out of cloning vats, or doom and gloom angry white male bands who also sound as if they came out of cloning vats.

Tracks:

I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
One Man's Hands
Take Me Home
Day by Day
We're Together
Old Fashioned Love Song
Kum Ba Yah
Night They Drove Old Dixie
Tomorrow Belongs to Me
Last Night I Had
Amen
Last Happy Song

Tracks:

Oh Come All Ye Faithful
O Little Town of Bethlehem
First Noel
Good King Wenceslas
Deck the Halls With Boughs of Holly
Angels We Have Heard on High (Hark! The Herald Angels Sing)
We Three Kings of Orient Are
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Silent Night
We Wish You a Merry Little Christmas
White Christmas
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Everyday Is Christmas
Jingle Bells/Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
Christmas Song
Christmas Is
Medley: I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect ...)

Customer Reviews:

GOOD MUSIC.......2003-11-19

THIS CD IS WORTH EVERY CENT...BUT IF YOU LISTEN CAREFULLY THERE IS A MINOR BLIP UNDER THE FIRST WORD OF "I'D LIKE TO TEACH THE WORLD TO SING". IT'S MINOR SO BUY THIS CD ANYWAY.

JUST GOOD MUSIC DONE WELL.

My very favorite of all time.......2003-11-10

When this first came out on LP, I was in my 20s and very much in to folk music. I just happened to buy this and played it to death. When I was depressed, the music made me feel good. The words had a message but didn't hit you over the head with it.
My LP player wore out so I started to look for the Hillside singers on tape. No luck and I felt like I had lost friends because I could no longer hear the music.
Over the years, I would search in stores and then the internet. I did find an old LP but I already had that but no way to play it.
I couple of months ago, I Googled "Hillside Singers" and nearly broke into tears when I found the LP was now a CD.
Oh happy day when the CD arrived. I am tempted to buy another as a backup.
I am much older now. I still like folk music and the Hillside singers still make me feel GOOD.
What more can I ask!

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A Dream
A great songwriter of love and the land.
beautiful voice, delightful music

Grieg: Songs

Manufacturer: Naxos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000014FC
Release Date: 1997-03-18

Tracks:

Hope, Op.26, No.1
I Love But Thee, Op.5, No.3
Two Brown Eyes, Op.5, No.1
Four Songs From Fishermaiden: No.1 The First Meeting
Four Songs From Fishermaiden: No.2 Good Morning
Four Songs From Fishermaiden: No.3 To Springtime My Song I'm Singing
Four Songs From Fishermaiden: No.4 Say What You Will
The Princess, EG 133
From Monte Pincio, Op.39, No.1
Solveig's Song, Op.23, No.1
Solveig's Cradle Song Op.23, No.26
Six Songs, Op.48: No.1 Greeting
Six Songs, Op.48: No.2 One Day, O Heart Of Mine
Six Songs, Op.48: No.3 The Way Of The World
Six Songs, Op.48: No.4 The Nightgale's Secret
Six Songs, Op.48: No.5 The Time Of Roses
Six Songs, Op.48: No.6: A Dream
Margaret's Cradle Song, Op.15, No.1
I Walked One Balmy Summer Eve, Op.26, No.1
The First Primose, Op.26, No.4
Last Spring, Op.33, No.2
Upon A Grassy Hillside, Op.39, No.3
To Her. II, Op.59, No.4
On The Water, Op.60, No.3
A Swan, Op.59, No.2
Spring Showers, Op.49, No.6
At Rondane, Op.33, No.9
A Bird-Song, Op.25, No.6

Customer Reviews:

A Dream.......2006-11-10

To me, Grieg's music is very special. He uses so much color in his music like a great painter. Listening to his music makes me see the beautiful fjords and the mysterious mid-summer night of Norway. It also gives me a taste of the lives and emotions of the people lived there. His songs are treasures of art song literature. He is definitely the greatest composer Norway has ever offered.
This is my first CD of Bodil Arnese (soprano) and I just love her voice! It is clear, soft, colorful, warm and with a bit of melancholy. She sang with deep emotion and very good technique. I think her voice and the way she sings suit very well to Grieg's songs. On the piano is Erling R. Eriksen, who beautifully created the atmosphere of each song. I liked the interpretation very much and also the collection of songs. The CD has been very useful for me to understand and interpret Grieg's songs.
I really recommend Grieg music lovers to get this CD.

A great songwriter of love and the land........2001-03-22

Although they are consciously imbued with the Norwegian folk spirit, Grieg's songs are not a million miles from German lieder, and the composer's Goethe setting 'Zur Rosenzeit' (The Time of Roses) is as harrowingly melancholic as anything by Schubert.

Mostly, however, Grieg seems to breathe a crisper, fresher, lighter air. He excels in evoking natural phenomena - the ripples of a stream, the song of a bird, the grandeur of a mountain valley - and the movements of the human heart - the quickening inspired by first love, the despair wrought by absence and loss.

His great power comes from having the two reflect or embody each other, creating an idealised pastoral conscious of the seasons and loss. So even though most of the poems set are songs of love and nature; and although Grieg can exult in romantic ecstasy; there is an underlying sadness throughout, skillfully rendered in this recording by accompanist Erling R. Eriksen. Grieg was notoriously dismissive of singers, but he would be hard-pushed to fault Bodil Arnesen's delicate strength.

beautiful voice, delightful music.......2000-07-08

i bought this based on good reviews i'd seen elsewhere on the net. these little songs are delightful, and the piano accompaniment is clean and lively.

the real treat here, of course, is bodil arnesen's voice- strong and gutsy on track #7 (tak for dit rad), soaring on track #10 (sloveigs sang), and joyous #22 (i liden hojt deroppe).

naxos has included a huge set of liner notes with all the texts in norwegian and english. it's a nice touch.

70 minutes of beautiful singing at a bargain price. another winner for naxos, and i hope to hear more from ms. arnesen on naxos in the future.

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Manufacturer: Divine Industries Inc.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2004-11-02

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Tarred and Feathered
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Space Ghosts
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A Good Effort..........2005-09-13

...but lackluster compared to their later CDs.

They obviously weren't able to sink too much money into the recording of the tracks on this CD because they recorded it when they were first starting off, so the sound isn't extremely "clean" but it's alright.

Anyway, this is a damn good effort for their first CD. They managed to make a unique (and successful) mixture of Stoner Rock and Punk that I've yet to see any other band do.

Standout tracks include "Jimmy the Squid" and "Diggin' Up The World (acoustic)".