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A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score

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A little bit misleading
Pioneering and enjoyable electronic music
'A Clockwork Orange:Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score' Movie Soundtrack (East Side Digital)
Lost pieces and extras from the gifted musician who gave A CLOCKWORK ORANGE that Moogish flavour
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A Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score

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Release Date: 1998-11-03

Tracks:

Timesteps
March From A Clockwork Orange (Beethoven: Ninth Symphony: Foruth Movement, Abridged)
Title Music From A Clockwork Orange (From Purcell's Music For The Funeral Of Quenn Mary)
La Gazza Ladra (Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, Abridged)
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Ninth Symphony: Second Movement (Scherzo)
William Tell Ouverture, Abridged
Orange Minuet
Biblical Daydreams
Country Lane

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One of the most satisfying soundtrack "companion" pieces ever released, this collaboration between synthesist Wendy Carlos and producer Rachel Elkind manages to both logically extend and credibly expand on director Stanley Kubrick's masterfully conceived Clockwork Orange musical ethos. That shouldn't be surprising, as the pair was largely responsible for initiating those concepts with the music they'd begun as a follow-up to their successful, synthesizer-pioneering Switched on Bach collection. "Timesteps," a rich, wildly evocative, 13+ minute electronic sound and music collage, was based on impressions gleaned from Anthony Burgess's original novel (excerpts of it are liberally scattered throughout the film), while an abridged version of the fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was an early experiment in vocal synthesis that ended up as one of the film's key motifs. Also featured here are synthesized versions of music Kubrick ultimately chose to use in orchestral form (Rossini's "The Thieving Magpie") as well as original Carlos/Elkind electronic compositions ("Orange Minuet," "Biblical Daydreams," and "Country Lane") that ended up on the cutting-room floor. Composed on primitive, monophonic analog instruments (which could play only one at a time!) long supplanted by generations of digital revolution, this work has a brooding otherworldly quality all its own. As our favorite Droog would say: "It was like a bird of rarest spun metal, or like silvery wine flowing in a space ship, gravity all nonsense now." --Jerry McCulley

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A little bit misleading.......2007-05-13

I thought I was buying the complete soundtrack to the film and not just Wendy Carlo's bits. But it was ok.

Pioneering and enjoyable electronic music .......2006-09-15

I used to have this recording on LP - the cover was a marvellous collage (the new cover is slightly naff) - and it was a very fine companion to the regular A Clockwork Orange soundtrack, which featured music which didn't fit together very well outside the context of the film.

Wendy Carlos's complete score is very satisfying and it still stands up well today (2006). I think that the standout tracks on this album are 'Timesteps' and 'Country Lane', which are powerful original compositions. Both tracks display a remarkable musical imagination.

Timesteps is a freely composed fantasia which takes us from place to place in the mind of the composer. There are moments which sound like jungle music, others which sound like sentimental film music with an ocean in the background and another second with an unnaturally sweet heavenly female choir sound. It is a unique composition and quite superb. It is a pity Wendy Carlos didn't write more music as inspired as this piece - perhaps she did and I haven't heard them!?

Country Lane is also very impressive. It is a piece which demonstrates very cruel emotions very well. The use of the ancient "Dies Irae" tune, also used very effectively by Liszt and Berlioz, "vocoded" is a brilliant touch. In fact, the vocoder was used very effectively by Wendy Carlos in Timesteps, Country Land and the Fourth Movement of the 9th Symphony of Beethoven on this disc. Perhaps the first significant use of this instrument on a recording? Kraftwerk and Zap went on to use the instrument in more popular musical styles.

The choral section of the fourth movement of Beethoven's 9th symphony recorded by Wendy Carlos is strangely beautiful and beguiling. Sort of a "reification" of a dreamt interpretation of the music? Perhaps.....

The purely "instrumental" works and Classical and Classically inspired works on this album are very interesting and represent some very effective use of the synthesizer. Of course, it would be easy for many people with a computer and some other equipment to do their own electronica versions of these works today. However, Wendy Carlos had a very personal style and understanding of this music. Her version of the 3rd, 4th and 5th Brandenburg Concertos still entertain me today, even though I am really a devotee of the HIP approach to this music.

I dare say that Wendy Carlos introduced a lot of young people to the music of Beethoven and to the idea of using synthesizers. I remember reading that Phil Oakey, from The Human League, said that Wendy Carlos was a major influence on him.

'A Clockwork Orange:Wendy Carlos's Complete Original Score' Movie Soundtrack (East Side Digital).......2006-07-03

I've heard several long-time music fans boast about how this movie soundtrack is simply 'one of' THE best album releases,period!Rather they be a big-time metal head,a classic rock supporter,someone who plays easy listening material all the time,maybe an school punk fan,etc.To best describe this CD(with added bonus cuts that wouldn't fit on the original vinyl lp)I would say it's like ahead-of-it's-time new age with an experimental vibe to it.Key tracks are the unforgetable thirteen minute "Timesteps",the creative "Theme From A Clockwork Orange","William Tell Overture,Abridged" and a tune that was co-written by Carlos and movie producer Rachel Elkind "Biblical Daydreams".A must-have reissue CD of the cult masterpiece Stanley Kubrick film,that after you've seen the flick for the very first time,it MAY effect the way you look at the world from here on out.Highly recommended.

Lost pieces and extras from the gifted musician who gave A CLOCKWORK ORANGE that Moogish flavour.......2006-04-30

I own the original LP and cassette of this album ... released after the release of the "original soundtrack," this album offers the CLOCKWORK fan the "real" soundtrack. Missing are the third party tracks which Kubrick used ... included are the complete "Timesteps" which is what convinced Kubrick to hire (then) Walter Carlos to adapt the classical works for the film ... also included is the electronic rendition of "The Thieving Magpie," not finished in time for inclusion in the film ... and a piece which wasn't used, "Country Lane."

The Warner album includes an abridged excerpt of "Timesteps" (bits of it were used in the film), but the complete composition gets a deserved spotlight here. This is not a "movie soundtrack" album, but Wendy Carlos' own release of the music she prepared for the film. "Angel trumpets and devil trombones ... hear all proper now." ;)

A Bit of the Old Ludwig Van.......2005-10-21

Yes the Moogs are this album are "primitive" but their sound is vastly superior to today's synths. The Moogs were vastly more expressive and subtle. If this album were recorded on digital synths, it would just sound cheesy. Timesteps is an amazing piece that gives you the creeps even if you haven't seen the movie. As a soundtrack it perfectly mixes the themes of ultra violence and Beethoven seemlessly. If you buy this cd (and by all means do)please refer to it as "early electronica" rather than "new age". It deserves the credit for everything it helped spawn

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I wish I could give it 10 stars!
Best Anime CD in awhile
Greatest CD ever!
A Must Have For Bleach Fans

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I wish I could give it 10 stars!.......2007-04-30

I bought Bleach the Best for the CD alone. The CD is wonderful!!!! My children and I love the songs and have a great time. In the car or doing dishes at home, this CD has music that gets you pumped to watch the series! The CD songs are the openings and closings for the show and it is great to hear them in their true form. The CD set I purchased from Amazon came with the DVD for Region 2 or for Japanese DVD players, pin-ups of the captians and Renji along with a booklet with the lyrics of the songs in Japanese. As far as I am concerned, it is worth every penny!

Best Anime CD in awhile.......2007-04-19

I love this CD! I watched the first 118 episodes of the show and grew to LOVE the theme songs. I wanted them so bad but Amazon has too high a price for this cd, so I bought it used from one of the sellers. I got the cd in perfect condition for half the listed price for a new one, and just wanted to comment on one of the previous feedbacks about the DVD issues.

First off, this listing is for the CD ONLY, at least for the used copies. There is another listing with the CD/DVD combo here on Amazon. So if you want the DVD as well, make sure to look at both listings carefully or you will pay the same price and only get half of the packege, unless you buy used.

But I do say that the price is worth it to fans of the show who are farther along then the english dubbed episodes, because many of the theme songs are from later episodes. Hope this helps anyone interested in the CD.

Greatest CD ever!.......2007-04-05

I love this CD so much. It's all I listen to right now. I play it in the car on the way to work and then put it into my computer and listen to it alla day at work. The artwork on the cover is very cool too. Well worth the price!

A Must Have For Bleach Fans.......2006-12-20

I managed to pick this up in Japan the day after it was released. What a great find! The CD contains MOST of the openers & closers to the Bleach Episodes that have been aired in Japan (they're well past Episode 100 there). The DVD (Region 2 DVD) has the accompanying "clean" opening and closing anime set to the music. Also included is a set of pin-ups and a book with Lyrics, Credits, and messages from Noriyuki Abe and Tite Kubo (all written in Japanese). A brief warning about Region 2 DVDs... they won't play in a regular DVD Player purchased in North America. You can play them on a computer's DVD-ROM reader, but be careful! You can only change the Region of a DVD-ROM reader 4 or 5 times before the setting becomes permanent.

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A nice surprise.......2007-07-04

Healing through fire is a very good record. Having never heard anything from orange goblin before i picked this up because of the positive things i read in metal magazines and i was pleasently surprised. I have heard orange goblin labled as a doom band and although that is close to me their songs sound more like jam sessions, that is the best way i can describe them. Highlights are the ballad of solomon eagle,vagrant stomp,the ale house braves,hounds ditch,they come back(harvest of skulls), and beginners guide to suicide.

Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange (1971 Film)

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Prisoner 6 double-five 3-2-1
Kubrick At His Best
Good soundtrack
Easier to experience than the movie!
Horrorshow Lomticks of Music to do the old Ultra-Violence By.

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Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Title Music From A Clockwork Orange - Walter Carlos
The Thieving Magpie (Abridged) - A Clockwork Orange ST
Theme from A Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana) - Walter Carlos
Ninth Symphony, Second Movement (Abridged) - A Clockwork Orange ST D
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Stanley Kubrick's demanding perfectionism in all aspects of the filmmaking process has led to some of the most memorable soundtracks of the modern era. Kubrick's taste for the classics led to his scrapping Alex North's original score for 2001: A Space Odyssey in lieu of the "temporary" tracks he had used for editing, turning Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra into an unlikely 20th-century pop icon. For his 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess's cautionary future-shocker, Kubrick once again turned to the classics. Malcolm McDowell's protagonist Droog Alex's taste for Beethoven is given a nice tweaking by Moog pioneer Walter (now Wendy) Carlos's synthesized take on the glorious Ninth Symphony. Some have complained that the now-primitive electronics involved give it a dated feel. Disturbingly--and effectively--other-worldly is more like it. Kubrick also imbues repertory standards by Rossini and Elgar with dark, frequently hilarious irony, and makes Gene Kelly's sunny reading of "Singin' In The Rain" the underscore to an all-too-accurate prediction of societal nightmares to come. --Jerry McCulley

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Prisoner 6 double-five 3-2-1.......2007-03-16

The soundtrack album of CLOCKWORK ORANGE, even with it's simple (and supposedly) outdated Wendy Carlos recordings, holds up far better than the actual film has over these 36 years. This story takes place in the 1990s, and we all know that today's world is nothing like Anthony Burgess' dismal and nightmarish vision . . . don't we?

Most of the CLOCKWORK ORANGE soundtrack's classical selections are by Herbert Von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic. These spirited Beethoven and Rossini interpretations remain some of the very best ever recorded.

The excerpt of Wendy's "Timesteps" is the most compelling piece here. In the film, this stark aural collage is background to Alex's behavior modification. In order to shorten his prison sentence, the violent sociopath is made chemically ill while forced to view scenes of rapine and bloodshed. His sickness can only be arrested by replacing his natural criminal urges with passive thoughts.

It's hard to listen to "Overture To The Sun" without recalling the spotlighted naked girl who tempts an on-exhibit Alex into a state of unwellness that he likens to "wanting to snuff it." His freedom to choose brutality has been taken from him forcefully, through violent reprogramming. The subsequent events that precipitate Alex's restoration into a fully non-functional member of society beset him in a fashion ironically similar to the chaos he once left in his violent wake.

The stark images and perversities of this movie tend to stay with a person. Perhaps watching Kubrick's CLOCKWORK ORANGE has in some way "programmed" the viewer, too, by desensitizing us to the madness that is all around. Maybe this film holds up better than I thought. I must have a glass of choko moloko and reconsider . . .

Kubrick At His Best.......2007-01-11

This is a fantastic Kubrick movie. Based on a novel of equal respect, this movie details troubled youth, violence, and sex in a modern-yet-more-so world. The slang of the young men in the movie is a mixture of British and Russian slang terminology created by the book's author. A must-see for the Kubrick fan out there.

Good soundtrack.......2006-02-20

I own this on vinyl and yes an exellent soundtrack from an exellent movie

Easier to experience than the movie!.......2005-08-17

Having purchased this soundtrack along with its respective CD score (by Wendy Carlos), it is a wonderful installment to any soundtrack fan/buff. The awesome sound of classical music, contained in the CDs, in which director Stanley Kubrick chose for the picture, is so juxtaposing it is brilliant. Even if one does not know a lick of classical music, one can easily suggest this soundtrack as a useful introduction into the genre. Though the film may not be as easy to experience as the music contained inside, the soundtrack stands as a milestone for music in film perhaps only beaten by the director's previous work in '2001 A Space Odyssey'.

Horrorshow Lomticks of Music to do the old Ultra-Violence By. .......2005-07-28

Bolshi Yarblockos, my droggies. Viddy thou this incredible soundtrack from the film A Clockwork Orange. Cued from the novel by Anthony Burgess, the musical selections mainly focus on the Beethoven obsession of the main character Alex, however Carlos's deep knowledge of the classical repetoire and Kubrick's neurotic perfectionism combine to fill out this album. I love most of the tracks here, and have listened to them since 1972.

My personal favorite is the title music of the film, Henry Purcell's "Funeral Music for Queen Mary," a piece so appropriate to the film that Purcell must have been channelling the future when he wrote it in the late 17th century. Carlos's interpretation of this Purcell piece is astounding in its forboding textures and alientating timbres. Electronic tympani have never sounded better - and were never used like this before. Ring modualtions, filter sweeps, phased sawtooth angel trumpets and resonate devil trombones - oh bliss!

I also liked the strange music Kubrick chose - "I want to Marry a Lighthouse Keeper," and "Anthem to the Sun," both obscure and perfect.

Carlos's avant-garde composition "Timesteps" appears in abbreviated form here, and for most listeners this abridgement is enough.

The concluding ironic use of "Singing in the Rain," is wonderful, and after an album (and film) full of electronics, classical music, and weirdness, a standard is shocking enough.

There is a new version of the soundtrack put out by Carlos herself, which includes only her work. Some tracks composed but not used in the film appear here, as do some track used, but not appearing on the OST as well. Timesteps in its 13:37 form is also on this album.

For those fans of Prog rock: Viddy the film when Alex visits a record store: Notice the Vertigo swirl above the main desk, also in the wrecked foyer of Alex's highrise, one of the figures on the vandalised mural has "Suck it and see" written on it, also the name of a Vertigo music sampler of the same era.

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Laughs,beers,and bikes
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It took John Prine seven years to make his peace with the "New Dylan" expectations that accompanied his critically hailed 1971 debut. Which isn't to say that the Illinois-born singer/songwriter didn't make some fine music in the years that passed between his initial recording and this, a comfortable-as-an-old-shoe collection that signals the start of Prine's settling-in period. Folk-circuit fellow traveler Steve Goodman's sympathetic production suits Prine just fine. The songs, meanwhile, are sprinkled with wise and witty wordplay. "Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone" chronicles a misbegotten movie promotion. "If You Don't Want My Love" is an oddly unrepentant exercise in self-pity copenned with reclusive pop producer Phil Spector, while "Aw Heck" is its polar opposite--a sing-it-from-the-rafters celebration of passion ("I could get the electric chair for a phony rap / Long as she's sittin' in my lap"). It's not faint praise to note that Bruised Orange is thoroughly likable. --Steven Stolder

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Laughs,beers,and bikes.......2005-12-17

I used to live in Marquette, MI. On snowy winter nights I would hang out with my friend Matt and work on bikes,drink beers, and listen to this album. All he had was a crumby cassette tape of this recording. So, months later, I knew I had to have this CD in my collection. Its so awesome! This is great songwriting! Very happy ,life loving songs. I need more John Prine, thats all I know. Thanks John, where would we be with out you?

One of Prine's Best.......2005-08-08

Folk legend John Prine's albums are all somewhere between good and excellent, and "Bruised Orange" is one of the best. The opener, "Fish and Whistle" and "That's the Way the World Goes Round", have been played countless times at open mike shows in my hometown of Baton Rouge and many other places I would imagine. "If You Don't Want My Love" certainly sounds a lot different from the other more folksy selections, but I still like it--it just presents another side of Prine's songwriting ability. My other favorites are the title track, which as another reviewer noted features a poetic refrain about the wages of anger "for a heart stained with anger grows weak and grows bitter, you become your own prisoner as you watch yourself sit there wrapped up in a trap of your very own chain of sorrow."--unmatchable lyricism--and the closing "Hobo Song", which features another great chorus "could it be that time has gone and left them tied up in life's eternal traveling sack," sung by the "Hobo Chorus", which in producer Steve Goodman's able hands sounds very much like you'd expect a chorus of hobos to sound.

It's a happy enchilada ..........2005-04-23

One of my two favourite John Prine albums, the other being the more recent "Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings". And Prine followers will know the "happy enchilada" reference from his live performances ... this was the album where it appeared first!

John Prine "Bruised Orange".......2004-06-16

"Fish And Whistle" 5/5
"There She Goes" 3/5
"If You Don't Want My Love" 1/5
"That's The Way The World Goes 'Round" 4/5
"Bruised Orange (Chain Of Sorrow)" 3/5
"Sabu Visits The Twin Cities Alone" 5/5
"Aw Heck" 4/5
"Crooked Piece Of Time" 3/5
"Iron Ore Betty" 3/5
"The Hobo Song" 3/5

"Bruised Orange," is John Prine's fifth studio album. Highlights include "Fish And Whistle" and "Sabu Visits The Twin Cities Alone."

Overall rating: Three and a half stars.

I Beg to Differ.......2004-04-22

While this album is just as wonderful as the reviewers below have said, and a classic of the singer-songwriter genre, I want to cast a vote in favor of the cut "If You Don't Want My Love" which is much-maligned below. While it has none of the whimsy and humor which characterize most of Prine's work, it is in fact a perfect encapsulation of a bitter cast-off lover's state of mind -- and stays on and on in the memory. It is in fact my favorite cut on the album!

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Eh...
Orange Stiffy
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The Orange Album
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Eh..........2007-04-19

A friend of mine really likes this new band out of Orange County and so I heard the first single "Chelsea" in its electronic rock glory and decided I'd hunt down a cheap copy of it. So I did and lo and behold it came in less than 2 days - Stefy is a band but Stefy is also Stefy Rae the lead singer of this little outfit. Utilizing her inflections like Gwen Stefani, I have a feeling that ghost will follow this girl everywhere she goes. The album as a whole is fairly catchy and sticks with you after that last chord is played, the problem is it's not all that wonderful to have stuck with you. The lead single is great, then we get "Hey School Boy" a song I also like but try as much as I can to wrap myself around "Orange County" I'm just having trouble. Part ballad part electronic opus it's a story song of privileged boy and girl meeting, falling in love, losing everything when she gets pregnant, well not exactly everything for the chorus tells us - we've still got our MTV, JayZ and Gwen Stefani/ Tivo for my sweet 16...." You get it. At one moment I think it's funny and then the next I'm a little ticked off for it seems I'm an areaist and I can't stand the OC. The minute I cross that border it's like the life is sucked right out of me. It's very strange and this girl is all about the OC - there's "Orange Crush", the aforementioned song, and the color orange pops up over and over again. I think it's supposed to be cute but I'm just not digging it. I think the problem is with the lyrics because the music is all really good and infectious but this 20 year old just hasn't suffered or lived enough to tell me anything I could care about. The band's influences seem to be Blondie and Gwen and you all know that Debbie and her boys can wrap a lyric around a high-speed chase and make it the most exciting thing in the world. Even Gwen in her OC glory had been around the block a bit and was able to create love stories with epic and sometimes disgusting results - "Bathwater" and "Don't Speak" are practically ingenious compared to this. The Sounds seem to me to have the same problem, excellent hooks but the lyric writing is lackluster and I'm big on lyrics and like I said I want to like it, I really do. and there are some pretty cool moments, I really love the chorus on "Lucky Girl" though I'm not clear on the rest of the song. But rest assured, I'm gonna keep listening to Stefy until I hear what's there. Until then, I have to apologize not to Stefy but to my pal, for not liking it as much as I wanted to and as much as I'm sure he wanted me to.

Orange Stiffy.......2007-04-10

From out of Orange County comes Stefy, a band full of that California attitude, danceable synthesizer ditties with singer Stefy Rae's sexy growl right in your face; and trust me, that's an enjoyable thing. The guys behind her flat out rock to these melodic numbers that sound very radio friendly. I was singing along after a couple listens. There's sex appeal and musicianship everywhere on this debut, which scores a bull's eye as a complete listening experience. A refreshing debut album indeed.

5 stars for their live show, 4 ½ stars for a great debut .......2007-03-19

This band is terrific, very high energy and I was lucky enough to witness their lunchtime show at the Berkeley campus [March 16, 2007] and they rocked. Vocalist Stefy Rae (who reminds me of Nena) is one of the prettiest and most talented female singers out there, and the rest of the quartet, Sean Meyer (guitar), Jason Gaviati (keyboards) and Andreas Brobjer (drums) were entertaining and very professional. I'd love to see this band do a synth-powered cover of the hard rock classic "Space Truckin" which was the climax of the "Lords of Dogtown" soundtrack.

This CD [the Orange Album] which I purchased at the show is airtight and very solid, and yet doesn't quite do them complete justice like hearing them live. Blame it on that modern day production of hard compressed sound which is all over this disc; fortunately it works to their advantage, because of their electric pop approach. Most of their tunes are upbeat, catchy and worth repeated listening, which can't be said for most albums these days. Also, there are three really nice ballads mixed into the running order, which was nicely paced I might add. Exuberance and fresh ideas make this one of the best albums of 2006.

Highlights: Pretty much the whole thing. 4 ½ stars.

Finally! Pop that isn't like a mouthful of Cotton Candy and Pepsi!.......2006-11-17

When I heard the first few seconds of "Chelsea", I thought the band had sampled "Sweet Dreams" by Eurythmics. But, as the song played, I realised that it was just coincidental keyboard playing. That in itself made me love the band!

As someone obsessed with music, I get utterly disgusted when I hear songs being sampled or just outright remade. I feel it shows no real talent. So, when I listen to a new artist and they don't have samples or remakes on their album, then I tend to already like them better than most.

But that's not the only reason to like Stefy. There is also their strong lyrical and melodic abilities that seemed to have time travelled from the Eighties to the present, bringing along all those good feelings that come with listening to infectious, intelligent synthpop. Stefy is like Blondie meets Berlin. Synth beats and attitude combined together perfectly!

Very nice.......2006-08-29

Stefy made their splash with the song "Chelsea", both featured in the movie John Tucker Must Die and in clubs across America with a bevy of hot remixes. Their debut effort, "The Orange Album", continues in the trend of 80's synth-pop in the vein of The Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams".
Singer Stefy Rae has a strong voice (a nice contrast to a lot of the breathy female vocalists who have been popping up everywhere) and she showcases it well across the 11-track album.
The tracks are typical pop fare, dealing with love, loss, and acceptance. "Orange County" is about a young couple that deal with pregnancy and the real world a little too early.
Luckily if you like grrl rock (like Le Tigre) or mainstream pop (like Pink) this album should do wonders for you. It may not be the best thing to be pressed onto metal and plastic, but it is definitely a cut above the rest.

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Mangum's Voice is One of a Kind
I would pay whatever it took to see Jeff Mangum perform.
the song as poetry, and other reasons people are windbags
great atmosphere
Jeff Mangum's "lost work"

Live at Jittery Joe's
Jeff Mangum
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ASIN: B00005M09D
Release Date: 2001-09-18

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Live at Jitter Joe's is a long-rumored recording of the Neutral Milk Hotel lead singer performing at an Athens, Georgia, coffee shop in early 1997. His set includes selections from On Avery Island and In the Aeroplane over the Sea (the latter of which would not appear for another year), a generous portion of B-sides and unreleased tracks, and a heartfelt cover of Phil Spector's "I Love How You Love Me." It's enthralling to hear these songs in such a casual, unadorned setting: one envies the small crowd in attendance. Mangum's clearly having fun, joking with the audience and asking for requests. It's particularly revealing when he refers to "Two-Headed Boy, Part II" as a song that "will probably never come out or anything," and spontaneously decides to merge a short hymn to Jesus with "Up and Over We Go"--a medley that would later turn up on record as "King of Carrot Flowers, Part II and III." Also included: a QuickTime video of the entire set shot by video director Lance Bangs. It's just Mangum in almost complete darkness, with a few colored lights hanging behind him and a small child cavorting in the background. The visuals are sweet yet mysterious--the perfect accompaniment to these brilliant songs. --Mike Appelstein

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Mangum's Voice is One of a Kind.......2006-04-27

I loved Aeroplane Over the Sea and some of Avery Island, but this album is just great. Just his voice, a guitar, and some background sounds. Great Phil Spector song. I wish there was more Neutral Milk Hotel out there.

I would pay whatever it took to see Jeff Mangum perform........2005-12-08

If you told me Jeff Mangum would be playing again for a few friends at a coffee house in Athens, Georgia: I would leave before you finished telling me. I would pay just about whatever price it took to get there. I would ride forty hours on a bus. I would drive through two nights. I would take rides from truckers who listen to nothing but Neil Diamond.

And I would do it just to hear Jeff perform again.

You see, by the time I first tuned in, the Jeff-Mangum-Neutral-Milk-Hotel-Elephant-Six train had left the station. By then, all chances of seeing Jeff and NMH perform live had long since dried up. This is why "Live at Jittery Joe's" is such a gift.

"Live at Jittery Joe's" offers a glimpse of an artist on the brink. Jeff is about to paint his masterpiece. He will record "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" within the next year or so of this performance. The fascination of "Live at Jittery Joe's" is hearing that all the elements are there--waiting for Jeff (and NMH and Robert Schneider) to bring them together.

There is a haunting beauty and an emotional ache about "Live at Jittery Joe's." At no moment is it deeper than when Jeff sings Phil Spector's "I Love How You Love Me." We ache because we know the end of the story; NMH records "Aeroplane," tours, tours some more, and then Jeff falls of the map. Perhaps for good.

For me, the most poignant moments come in watching the Quicktime video of the evening (included with the CD). In some measure, Jeff's music is about childhood, innocence and the loss of that innocence. During the video, Jeff fades into the darkness and the camera follows a two-year-old girl, playing in the background. Her image matches and intensifies the effect of the music.

Realistically, this shouldn't be your introduction to Jeff's music. Buy "Aeroplane" first. Digest it some. Buy "On Avery Island." Then you will be ready for "Live at Jittery Joe's."

the song as poetry, and other reasons people are windbags.......2005-04-02

What's your idea of a song? Personally, I do want good musicianship; I don't want to hear a garage band who can't keep time try to play songs that were awful in the first place. But more importantly, I look for good lyrics. I think what makes good lyrics is whether they can stand on their own, basically as poetry. A song should be the extended form of poetry.

Having said that, I have read a few reviews, on Amazon and other places, where the writers criticize Mangum's lyrics because they don't get them, or because fan they have spoken to don't understand them, and thus, by logical reasoning, they must be completely nonsensical ravings of a "pretentious" artist. But does misunderstanding mean a song, or a poem, is not any good? I would guess that the majority of people do not understand The Wasteland, but still it is considered to be the 20th century's greatest English language poem. Who has labeled it in this manner? Scholars who have studied poetry a lot more than me.

If literature is not understood the first time it is read (heard), or even the second or third, and is thus labeled as garbage, we might not have The Wasteland, or Ulysses, or Gravity's Rainbow, or hundreds of other works that actually take time and brain power to understand. Although I understand that most popular music today is made for people who have developed incredibly short attention spans and have the incessant need for immediate payoff and understanding, it doesn't mean that all music has to be made this way, nor does it mean that if someone does not follow this formula it immediately forces the work into the category of uselessness or gibberish. So, if you hate Mangum's work because you don't understand it, I can understand that, as you've been accustomed to being treated as a nonthinking fool by so much music, but I still don't believe it to be valid reasoning.

And I've heard complaints of the recording quality. Well, this is a LIVE recording. It was not recorded in a studio. Live recordings are never as good as studio recordings (well...hardly ever). If you expect perfect sound quality from music and cannot stand anything less, don't get this cd. However, if you trade or dabble in live bootlegs, or even go to shows, it is an average, perhaps a little above average recording. Yes, you can hear the crowd, and yes there is a baby in the crowd. Big deal. That is what live means.

great atmosphere.......2004-12-09

Personally, I think Jeff Mangum is great, but I will agree that his stuff is not for everyone. He writes beautiful songs and performs them like no one else could, but you have to be a certain kind of person to enjoy it. I guess it all depends on what you want out of your music, if you just want a good beat and something to sing along to...then maybe you should turn on TRL and catch today's countdown of the top ten most unartistic and uninspired songs around. However, if you like music that's artistic, sometimes challenging, always honest about the human condition, and don't mind it coming out of the mouth of scratchy throat poet who will never be a pop star, then you might find much to enjoy in Jeff Mangum/Neutral Milk Hotel.

Now about this album, it's many of the Neutral Milk Hotel songs we know and love, but played acoustic, in a small venue (a coffee house I would assume). The atmosphere of this album is fantastic, there's background noise: a kid crying, a handfull of people paying very close attention to what he's doing, and other people who don't seem to realize they are in the presence of indie music royalty. It's almost sad at times to imagine the people walking in and out of the coffee house while he's playing, like it's any other day, and not stopping to listen for a while. These are the people that are getting their coffee and go home and turn on TRL, but they're not important here anyway, the important thing is the music, and it works really well in this setting. Anyone who enjoyed the other neutral milk hotel albums will enjoy this one. Plus there's a video file you can watch on your computer that is basically a video of the whole show. It's a pretty low quality video, but it's a very nice bonus nonetheless.

Jeff Mangum's "lost work".......2004-04-06

Jeff Mangum is the frontman of the acid-weird indie-rock group known as Neutral Milk Hotel. "Live at Jittery Joe's," a recording made at a Georgia coffeehouse between Neutral Milk Hotel's two albums, is a casual, offbeat little live recording. It's not astounding, but it's pleasant.

In it, Mangum takes requests and plays various songs from both albums -- a faster version of "A Baby For Pree," the enjoyably weird "Engine," a cover of Phil Spector's "I Love How You Love Me," and versions of ""Where You'll Find Me Now" and "Two-Headed Boy Part 2" that alter the original lyrics ("In my dreams you're alive/And you're crying..."). A few of Mangum's songs stumble: "I Will Bury You in Time" is weak by comparison, and songs like "Gardenhead" suffer musically from a lack of fuzz guitar.

Mangum tends to create strange, tangled, vivid songs, and they don't lose their punch because he's playing acoustic music in a coffeehouse. "Live" feels very casual and relaxed, as if he's really enjoying what he's doing. "Live"'s sound quality suffers somewhat, since it is basically a bootleg. It could use some tighter editing and some cleaning up. (Will no one take the baby out of the coffeehouse?)

It's also nice to hear some alternate versions of already existing songs ("Baby For Pree"), as well as unreleased material ("Engine"). Not to mention some spur-of-the-moment changes -- mashing together a song about Jesus to a Neutral Milk Hotel song, for example. It's weird, but it works.

But the brilliant guy behind Neutral Milk Hotel is in fine form here. Mangum's flawed voice is solidly poignant, very strong and emotional. His acoustic guitar playing doesn't have the texture of his band's electronic/fuzz sound, so expect something more folkie than indie. His guitar playing is strong and pleasantly quirky.

Despite subpar sound quality and some songs that don't work, Jeff Mangum's "Live At Jittery Joe's" is intimately odd. A curiosity for fans of Neutral Milk Hotel.

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Classic Cali Punk-Metal Synthesis
How underrated can a band be....
So so
When I refer to Agent Orange, everyone assumes I'm talking about the stuff they used in 'Nam...
EXCITING SEMINAL O.C. PUNK

Living in Darkness
Agent Orange
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ASIN: B0000032WD
Release Date: 1992-11-10

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Bloodstains (Original Version)
Too Young To Die
Everything Turns Grey
Miserlou
The Last Goodbye
No Such Thing
A Cry For Help In A World Gone Mad
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Living In Darkness
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Classic Cali Punk-Metal Synthesis.......2006-06-01

Agent Orange (they came from Orange County) weren't punk, weren't metal, and weren't surf revival. Yet they had bleak near-metal outlook and riffage a bit above punk's two chord grind, speed like punk and attitude & angst like punks, and they dug classic surf instrumentals. This is Underground at its best. Agent Orange, for all the bleakness of their lyrics, were much lighter than other bands of the Hardcore Punk scene (that's the genre they were lumped in with, but like I said, they weren't punk). They had a typical dude persona that was covered by the anger of their singer/guitarist Mike Palm's songs.

Living In Darkness was originally an EP (tracks 2-9 on the curent CD). In '92, it was released with new tracks (some of them from the 1979 sessions that earned them their contract). "Bloodstains," with Mike's anger, its simple chaotic riff and the dread-surf solo made it a fine opener. "Everything Turns Grey" is classic punk style stuff with a quick, simple yet effective rapidfire solo by Mike. "No Such Thing" has an awesome metal riff (people need to hear this, its a heavy like Metallica riff), and "America" is classic "Americanan is gay" sentiment. Living In Darkness has three surf instrumentals from the sixties also. All are done with righteous agression and driving force. The songs are "Miserlou" by Dick Dale, "Pipeline" by The Chantays, and "Mr. Moto" by The Bel-Airs. A radio interview is also included. The boys sound like Average Joes on weed. Classic.

Agent Orange was a big influence on The Offspring, and you can tell. These fun but fierce Underground kings were pretty darn good, and need to be known more. Living In Darkness is fine food for your player. If you're 16 and you wanna bang your head....bang your head to this.

How underrated can a band be...........2006-04-21

when an album that is far better than anything from the 80's barely gets any recognition? Agent Orange is one of the best bands that never got the credit they deserved. Buy this album if you even kinda like surf-punk, such as that "Wipeout" song from the Surfaris (note that every song on this album is by far better than "Wipeout")

Oh, if you want a song-by-song for this album, simply give every song a 10. It's that good :)

So so.......2006-04-08

Not a bad album, but not all that great either. Bloodstains is a classic, but the rest of the album is listenable, but mediocre.

When I refer to Agent Orange, everyone assumes I'm talking about the stuff they used in 'Nam..........2006-02-10

I was fortunate to talk to Mike Palm at an Agent Orange show in Oklahoma City, and we got to discussing guitars. I won't divulge the secrets of his awesome surf-rock guitar sound, but I will say that he was very nice, introduced me and my friends to the rest of the band (the drummer let me sign the cast on his foot with which he proceeded to bang the holy sh*t out of his drums all night), and proceeded to put on a genuine punk rock show worthy of their legend. Viva Agent Orange!

P.S. This album is really grood. I mean, good. And great. Great and good.

EXCITING SEMINAL O.C. PUNK.......2005-06-03

I really didn't expect this album to sound this powerful !!! While it's true the music is surf-tinged,the overall sound is a storming punk/hc one with massive riffs and a skull splitting guitarwork,making this cd a nice addition to anyone fond of more ferocious punk rock.No resemblances to the Beach Boys as I was told,dude !!!!! The remastered sound is gorgeous except for the drums that are a lilttle muddled up,but hey,this is originally a low budget punk recording,so what the f@kk !!!!!.As bonus tracks 3 non album tracks from 91 have been added,along with some studio live songs,all very nice and coherent with the album.

Philip Glass : The Voyage: An Opera in Three Acts

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Finally this has been recorded!!
A long awaited Voyage
operatic tedium with occasional power and beauty...
the Voyage.
A pastiche or a parody of Philip Glass's most tedious music

Philip Glass : The Voyage: An Opera in Three Acts

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Release Date: 2006-06-20

Tracks:

Act II Scene 2
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Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in 1992, The Voyage commemorated the 500th anniversary of Columbusï¿½s arrival in the New World. At the time of its premiere, Philip Glass was only the second composer in 26 years to receive a commission from the worldï¿½s largest and most prestigious opera house. Glassï¿½s grand opera was ultimately the most expensive and monumental in the history of the Metropolitan Opera. Itï¿½s filled with great flare, fantastical elements, but firmly rooted in the personal intimate visions of the main characters. In considering Columbus as a subject for an opera, Glass bypassed the controversial historical persona; he focused rather on the explorer who had tremendous individual courage and drive to discover. It is this fundamental ï¿½spirit of discoveryï¿½ which is at the heart of the opera. Orchestrally exciting, dramatically gripping, the opera explores the motivation of what drives individuals to explore and the consequences of their exploration. The recording, led by conductor Dennis Russell Davies highlights stellar performances by the Bruckner Orchester, chorus of the Landestheater Linz and a wonderful ensemble cast of singers. At its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera, The New York Times said: The Voyage ï¿½has something for everybodyï¿½some bombastic insistence and some tender, lyrical music that is among Mr. Glassï¿½s bestï¿½His music uses large brush strokes to create almost Baroque blocks of atmosphere. His polyrhythms have now been joined by long-lined lyricism suited to the voice and by some intriguing experimentation with harmonies and timbres. Some segments of the music are actually haunting.ï¿½

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Finally this has been recorded!!.......2007-01-18

I was at the World Premiere for this opera - my first time to be in the Met Opera House, my first time to be at a Philip Glass premiere, in the first month after I moved to New York City. No better welcome to New York City than the opportunity to see this at the Met AND to see a revival of Einstein on the Beach at BAM a month later.

I have awaited this recording for years - The Voyage is some of Glass' best music for orchestra and voice. It's powerful, lyrical, triumphant, tender, introspective, and gorgeous at various times. The libretto is a artistic and well-done exploration of what "exploration" is, and what drives so many human hearts to wonder "What's over there....?"

While all of Glass' music is worth having, on the scale of "what should the new fan buy first?", I'd put this in the first five of essential Glass compositions to know.

A long awaited Voyage.......2007-01-06

When this opera premiered in 1992 I made it a point to tape the Met broadcast off the air. Then I waited for a CD. Finally after so many years they recorded it. Shame on the Met for not doing it earlier. So, although I can't really compare it with the original (Troyanas since passed away) it was a very welcome recording and, being a Glass fan, I have enjoyed it greatly.

operatic tedium with occasional power and beauty..........2006-12-21

Finally on CD almost 15 years after its Met Opera premiere, The Voyage contains plenty of overwrought operatic tedium, but also some choral passages of surprising power and beauty.

the Voyage........2006-11-10

I had heard this years ago and did not know a CD was available. It is typical Glass. Either you like him or you don't. I do. The recording was quite good.

A pastiche or a parody of Philip Glass's most tedious music.......2006-10-31

Philip Glass's opera is the most tedious one for the listener that he has written since his first, "Einstein on the Beach." It lacks the beauty of some of his opera "Satyagraha," though it has the bombast of "Akhenaten," and the eccentric mysticism of "Einstein on the Beach." All in all, it seems to be a pastiche or a parody of Philip Glass music, supplied with a text by Henry David Hwang (to Glass's outline) that is as meretricious as Marc Blitzstein's "Airborne" Symphony.

There is quite a bit of Glass music that I find beautiful and have a high tolerance for repetition, but "Voyage" considerably exceeds that tolerance. And with the articulation of the cast in the recording of "Voyage," they might as well be singing in Sanskrit (as in "Satyagraha").

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...skip the kronos recording and go with this.....
Great!!!

Philip Glass : Dracula

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ASIN: B000NDIAW4
Release Date: 2007-02-16

Tracks:

Dracula
Journey to the Inn
The Inn
The Crypt
Carriage Without a Driver
The Castle
The Drawing Room
"Excellent, Mr. Renfield"
The Three Consorts of Dracula"
The Sotrm
Horrible Tragedy
London Fog
In the Theatre
Lucy's Bitten
Seward Sanatorium
Renfield
In His Cell
When the Dream Comes
Dracula Enters
Or a Wolf
Women in White
Renfield in his Drawing Room
Dr. Van helsing and Dracula
Mina on the Terrace
Mina's Bedroom/ The Abbey
The End of Dracula
Dracula: Epilogue

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In 2004, Orange Mountain Music released an album of solo piano transcriptions of Philip Glass' Oscar and Golden Globe nominated score to THE HOURS. These transcriptions were done by Glass' longtime Music Director and pianist Michael Riesman. Mr. Riesman's solo piano transcription of The Hours proved so successful musically, that OMM was inspired to approach Riesman again to make an arrangement of Glass' haunting score to Todd Browning's 1931 classic DRACULA starring Bela Lugosi. Glass original score was written for string quartet and was recorded and toured by the Kronos Quartet. This new arrangement of the score is treated to a truly virtuosic performance by Michael Riesman and includes a previously unrecorded track which was composed by Glass but was left out of the soundtrack recording. Riesman's extraordinary playing brings life and phenomenal craftmanship to a seemingly timeless musical score.

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...skip the kronos recording and go with this............2007-07-07

...brilliant piano transcription of the powerful Glass score for 1931's "Dracula".......playing which simply rocks the senses with it's power and subtlty....i find it so much more "definitive" than the original recording made with the Kronos Quartet...always found their interpretation oh-so screechy and monotonous...never could get through it, even when accompanied with the visual of the film......hearing this version made me re-evaluate this wondrous music as if hearing for the first time...
Luigi ~ nyc

Great!!!.......2007-05-07

As usual, there's only one thing that could be said "very good job Michael". Thanks a lot for this piano transcription.

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