Comes and Goes

Track Listings
1. The Bells    
2. Rider Ghost    
3. Nobody Stones Me    
4. The Empty    
5. Candy Words    
6. You and I    
7. Clouds of Rose    
8. I See I Saw    
9. Something that I Never Knew    
10. Angelita    
11. Zero    

Editorial Reviews
Madeline Victory Review, Sept. 1999
"Dropping In On" by Madeline Victory Review, Sept. 1999

"....Amelia White's music is acoustic music at its finest. She describes her music as "ethereal and rootsy folk pop." Her song arrangements are fresh, moving, and passionate, filled with skillful chord progressions and modulations, a wonderful balance of picking and strumming, a creative use of open chords and dissonant chords, and smooth and tasteful transitions. Her lyrics are thoughtful and thought provoking, as are the titles to her songs. The combination of lyrics and musical composition must be listened to as a whole to experience the full feeling that is conveyed in each song. I found my heart jumping at some of her songs that contain wonderful classical sounds, beautiful pauses and tempo changes, and well-timed twists and chord progressions.

I had time to speak with Amelia during break and asked her what kind of influences and training she has had. She sang in a church choir long ago and was moved by the Bach pieces they had sung. When she was younger, she had taken some guitar lessons for three summers. Mostly, she is self-taught, filling her free time listening to and playing as much music as she can. In 1996, she was the winner of the Boston Phoenix-WFNX Listener's Poll "Best Local Folk Act."...

....In Amelia's words, this CD is about 'the beauty and edges of longing.' This is her second CD, her first being Shine in 1996 with leo rekords (email leopd@drizzle.com)...."

About the Artist
Amelia White is a singer/songwriter who can single-handedly hold a crowd with her insistent voice and acoustic guitar. However, she is just as comfortable turning up the volume, and on Comes and Goes, she skillfully maneuvers between these two lands. She is a songwriter's songwriter whose lyrics and sense of melody cut to the bone. Her trademark sound fuses roots with the ethereal. These elements, when coupled with Amelia's raw performance energy, inspire unforgettable visual and aural imagery. ... read more

Album Description
Comes and Goes is a provocative collection of songs that explore the edges and beauty of longing. Amelia swirls her ethereal magic through the tales told in this compilation. Comes and Goes is a rootsy mix of folk-rock-pop mixed in with a bit of folk-punk attitude. The Bells is a haunting, melancholy song that will linger in your head long after you've walked away from the CD. Then again, most songs on Comes and Goes will stay with you so that you will have to come back to it again and again.

Comes and Goes

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ASIN: B00006O0NT
Release Date: 2002-12-03

Tracks:

  1. Overture To 'Tannhauser'
  2. Domna, Pos Vos Ay Chausida
  3. We Don't Merely Use Instruments, We Play On Them. And They Play On Us.
  4. Hungarian Dance No.7
  5. The Violin Is One Of The Most Tender And Beautiful Instruments Ever Invented.
  6. Violin Concerto In D Major (Adagio)
  7. But For A Long Time It Was Seen As The Instrument Of The Devil.
  8. The Soldier's Tale: Triumphal March Of The Devil
  9. The Manipulative Seductiveness Of The Gypsy Violin.
  10. Csardas Music
  11. The Violin And The Initiation Of Nature
  12. The Four Seasons (Spring, Mvt 1)
  13. Birds Are Again Evoked In The Second Concerto, Especially Music's Natural Favourite.
  14. The Four Seasons (Summer, Mvt 1)
  15. Like The Devil, The Violin Is A Master Of Disguise.
  16. Old Viennese Dance No.3 'Schon Rosmarin'
  17. The Menacing Sensuality Of Ravel's Tzigane: A Very Different Side Of The Violin:
  18. Tzigane
  19. Do We Now Have The True Measure Of This Instrument? Not Just Yet.
  20. Caprice No.24
  21. The Many Effects Of The String Tremolando: Brandenburg Concerto No.4 (Last Mvt)/From Joy To Fright/Quartettsatz In C Minor/The String Tremolo Practically Spells The World Agitato.
  22. Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge (No.7)
  23. Prokofiev's Tremolo In Romeo And Juliet Should Not Be Heard Just Before Bedtime.
  24. Romeo And Juliet: Act IV
  25. Vivaldi Use It To Illustrate The Shivering Of Travellers Crossing The Ice.
  26. The Four Seasons (Winter, Mvt 1)
  27. The Violin Muted
  28. Clair De Lune
  29. The Gentleness Of Muted Strings Persists Even When A Whole Orchestra Plays.
  30. Piano Concerto No.21 In C Major, K.467 (Slow Mvt)
  31. The Pizzicato Violin
  32. Pizzicato Polka
  33. In Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto, The Accompaniment Is Pizzicato.
  34. Violin Concerto No.2 In G Minor (Slow Mvt)
  35. Varieties Of Pizzicato: Colas Breugnon (The People's Feast)/Now A Drier, Leaner, Hungrier Pizzicato. There's Not A Lot Of Comfort Here./Capriol Suite (Tordion)/The Use Of Pizzicato As 'Percussion'/Romeo And Juliet (Act I)/Mahler Used Pizzicato...
  36. The Planets (Mars - The Bringer Of War)
  37. The Technique Of Double-Stopping Enables The Violin To Play Duets With Itself./Sonata No.3 In C Major For Unaccompanied Violin (Fugue)/Now A Later Example Of The Same Technique
  38. Hungarian Dance No.4
  39. Double-Stopping Is A Standard Feature Of A Lot Of Folk Music.
  40. The Four Seasons (Autumn, Mvt 1)
  41. Now The Same Technique, But The Sound Might Have Come From Another World.
  42. Bolero
  43. Double-Stopping Can Only Approximate The Sound Of A Real Violin Duet.
  44. Cadenza To The Violin Concerto By Brahms
  45. Now Compare That With A Real Violin Duet.
  46. Forty-Four Duos (No. 1: Teasing Song)
  47. Another Duo By Bartok, Demonstrating The Violin's Rich Lower Register
  48. Forty-Four Duos (No.2: Maypole Dance)
  49. And Now What May Be The Most Beautiful Accompanied Violin Duet In History
  50. Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins (Largo)
  51. The Soul Of The Violin Is In Song; But What About This Weird Passage?
  52. Violin Concerto No.1 In D Major (Mvt 2)
  53. The Use Of Harmonies In The Orchestra Can Be Both Magical And Unsettling.
  54. Symphony No.1 'Titan' (Mvt 1, Opening)
  55. Tchaikovsky's Use Of Harmonics In The Sleeping Beauty Is Both Strange And Darling.
  56. The Sleeping Beauty (Act II, No.15: Entr'Acte)
  57. Ravel's Harmonics In Mother Goose Effect A Magical Transformation.
  58. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Beauty And The Beast)
  59. Stravinsky's Harmonics In The Firebird Transport Us Almost Into Another World./The Firebird (Introduction)
  60. The Natural Upper Notes Of The Violins Have A Unique Emotional 'Grab'.
  61. Also Sprach Zarathustra (Of The Afterworldsmen)
  62. Still In Their Upper Register, The Violins Unleash The Energy Of A Young Colt.
  63. Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge (No. 4)
  64. Elsewhere, Britten Uses The Same High Register To Create A Very Different Mood.
  65. Four Sea Interludes (Dawn) From 'Peter Grimes'
  66. To End This Outing With The Violins, A Charming Little Elfin Dance
  67. Elfenreigen

Tracks:

  1. Introduction To The Viola
  2. Viola Concerto (Mvt 1)
  3. Khatchaturian Gets A Very Different Sound From It: Fuller, Fruitier, More Exotic.
  4. Gayane Suite No.1 (Armen's Solo)
  5. Very Nearly The Whole Of The Violin's Upper Register Is Also Available To The Viola.
  6. Passacaglia, Op.33b From 'Peter Grimes'
  7. The Viola Can Bring A Special, Rich Twanginess To Pizzicato That The Violins Lack./Don Quixote/Berlioz Drew Sounds From It That Retain Their Metallic Strangeness Even Today.
  8. Harold In Italy (Mvt 4)
  9. The Muted Viola: Intimate, Gentle, Poignant In Dvork
  10. Cypresses (No.9)
  11. The Massed Violas Of The Modern Symphony Orchestra In Mahler
  12. Symphony No.4 (Mvt 3)
  13. The 'Period' Viola In Bach
  14. Brandenburg Concerto No.6 (Last Mvt)
  15. The Cello: A Voice Of Unique Nobility
  16. Suite No.1 For Unaccompanied Cello (Prelude)
  17. Brahms And The 'Soul' Of The Cello
  18. Piano Concerto No.2 In B Flat Major (Mvt 3)
  19. Most Orchestral Composers Tend To Emphasize The Cello's Lower Register.
  20. Cantata 'Herz Und Mund Und Tat Und Leben', BWV 147 (Soprana Aria: Bereite Dir, Jesu)
  21. In The Time Of Beethoven The Cello Remained As Fundamental As Ever.
  22. Symphony No.3 'Eroica' (Finale)
  23. But The Cello Is Not Condemned To Spend Its Life In The Basement.
  24. Elfentanz, Op.39
  25. Not Only In Recital Showpieces Like That Is The Cello Is Used In Its Highest Register.
  26. The Protecting Veil (Opening)
  27. A Cello With An Identity-Crisis: The Pizzicato Flamencan
  28. Flamenco
  29. Double-Stopping In The Lower Reaches Of The Cello's Range
  30. Solo Suiet For Cello And Piano (Sardana)
  31. It's In The Middle Register That The Cello Really Comes Into Its Own.
  32. Oriental Dance, Op.2 No.2
  33. It Was To The Cellos That Beethoven Gave Two Of His Most Famous Themes./Symphony No.5 (Mvt 2)/Still More Famous Than That Theme Is This One From The Ninth Symphony.
  34. Symphony No.9 (Finale)
  35. Introduction To The Double-Bass
  36. The Carnival Of The Animals (The Elephant)
  37. But The Double-Bass Can Be Intensely Expressive And Graceful.
  38. Elegy No.1 In D Major
  39. The Range Of The Double-Bass Is The Greatest Of All The String Instruments/Allegro Di Concerto, 'Alla Mendelssohn'/And It's Also Capable Of Very Considerable Virtuosity.
  40. Capriccio Di Bravura
  41. Double-Bass Solos In Orchestral Scores Are Rare But Often Memorable./Symphony No.1 'Titan' (Mvt 3)/In His Third Symphony Mahler Makes A Very Different Use Of The Instrument./Symphony No.3 (Mvt 1)
  42. The Double-Bass Muted In Prokofiev/Lieutenant Kije Suite (Kije's Wedding)/In Another Work Prokofiev Uses The Double-Bass To Enhance The Winds./Romeo And Juliet (Act III)/And He Combines The Bass Clarinet With A Shivering Tremolo From The Double-Basses....
  43. Symphony No.5 (Mvt 3)/So Much For The Strings/On Now To The Winds

Tracks:

  1. The Antiquity And Magic Of The Flute
  2. Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune
  3. The Versatility And Agility Of The Flute
  4. Orchestral Suite No.2 In B Minor (Badinerie)
  5. The Flute In Fifteenth-Century Spain
  6. Sa'Dawi
  7. Other Flutes: The Bass And Alto
  8. Chamber Music No.II
  9. The Piccolo - Aptly Named
  10. La Naissance D'Osiris (Mvt 6)
  11. From A Piccolo Of The Eighteenth Century To One Of Its Descendants In The Twentieth
  12. Suite No.1 For Small Orchestra (Valse)
  13. A Variety Of Techniques
  14. Chamber Music No.II
  15. Flutter-Tonguing. But Tchaikovsky Got There Eighty Years Before.
  16. The Nutcracker (Act II, No.2: Scene)
  17. From The Transverse To The Vertical: The Baroque Recorder
  18. Recorded Suite In A Minor (Menuet II)
  19. An Unfamiliar, Early Vision Of The Instrument
  20. Naelden, Naelden
  21. The Bachian Oboe
  22. Cantata 'Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott', BWV 80 (No.7: Duetto)
  23. Introduction To The Cor Anglais Or 'English Born'
  24. Symphony No.9 'From The New World' (Mvt 2)
  25. The Loneliness Of The Cor Anglais
  26. The Swan Of Tuonela
  27. The Cor Anglais Joins The French Horn In Haydn.
  28. Symphony No.22 'The Philosopher' (Opening)
  29. Introduction To The Oboe D'Amore, Beloved Of Bach - But Also Of Ravel
  30. Bolero
  31. The Clarinet Family: Boxing The Compass, From The Depths Of The Bass Clarinet.../The Egyptian (Violence)/...To The Raucous And Squealy.../Taras Bulba (The Death Of Ostap)/...To The Shrill And Complaining...
  32. Petrushka (No.8: Peasant With Bear)/...To The High Sprits Of A Playful Puppy./Symphonie Fantastique (Last Mvt)/And To The Downright Jazzy/Romeo And Juliet (Act II)
  33. As The High Clarinets Tend To Be Loud, So The Bass Tends To Be Soft:
  34. Gayane Suite No. 1 (Mvt 5)
  35. The Bass Clarinet Is Used By Most Composers Mainly As A Colouring Agent.../Petrushka (No.4: The Blackamoor)/...But It Does Occasionally Get A Whole Tune To Itself./Iberia (Almeria).
  36. The Range Of The Normal Clarinet Parts Goes Quite High...
  37. The Snow Maiden (Scene 5: Melodrama)
  38. ...And Quite Low.
  39. Peter And The Wolf (The Cat)
  40. The Clarinet As Concerto Soloist
  41. Clarinet Concerto In A Major (Rondo)
  42. But That's Not The Instrument Mozart Wrote It For; This Is:
  43. Clarinet Concerto In A Major (Rondo)
  44. Introduction To The Saxophone
  45. Hary Janos Suite (Mvt 4)
  46. The Soprano Saxophone Has Quite A Different Feel To It.
  47. L'Arlesienne Suite No.1 (Minuet)
  48. The Little Sopranino Sax Goes Even Higher.
  49. Bolero
  50. The Most Famous Use Of The Saxophone Is In An Orchestration By Ravel.
  51. Pictures At An Exhibition (The Old Castle)
  52. The Saxophone Can Be Quite Contagiously Good-Humoured.
  53. Sax-O-Phun
  54. The Puffa-Puffa Image Of The Bassoon
  55. Peter And The Wolf (Grandfather)
  56. The Bachian Bassoon, In Accompanimental Mode
  57. Cantata 'Weichet Nur, Betrubte Schatten' ('Wedding Cantata'), BWV 202 (Aria No.1)
  58. Bizet Leaves The Puffa-Puffa Image Out, Allowing The Bassoon To Sing./Carmen Suite No.1 (Les Dragons D'Alcala)
  59. And Ravel, Also In Spanish Mode, Does Likewise.
  60. Bolero
  61. The Bassoon As A Voice Of High Seriousness, Indeed Desolate Loneliness
  62. Symphony No.3 (Opening)
  63. The Eerie Bassoon In Its Highest Register
  64. The Rite Of Spring (Opening)
  65. Stravinsky Now Draws On Its Lowest Register, Lonely And Melancholy.
  66. The Firebird Suite (1919, Berceuse)
  67. The Bassoon As Concerto Soloist, Avoiding All Exaggeration
  68. Bassoon Concerto In G Minor (Finale)
  69. The Deep-Voiced Contra-Bassoon, As A Fairy-Tale Beast
  70. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Beauty And The Beast)
  71. The French Horn Under Its Woodwind Hat
  72. Wind Quintet, Op.43 (Last Mvt)
  73. Now A More Prominent Role, In A Woodwind Quintet From An Earlier Era
  74. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Op.100 No.5 (Mvt 2)
  75. The Horn In Harmonious Blend With Strings In Another Quintet
  76. Horn Quintet, K.407 (Finale)

Tracks:

  1. The Trumpet As Virtuoso Soloist
  2. Brandenburg Concerto No.2 (Last Mvt)
  3. The Special Brillance Of Paired Trumpets
  4. Concerto In C For Two Trumpets, RV537 (Mvt 1)
  5. The Ceremonial Trumpet
  6. Fanfare For The Common Man
  7. Trumpets And Drums - An Incomparable Alliance
  8. Messiah (The Trumpet Shall Sound)
  9. The Versatility Of The Trumpet, From The Most Public To The Most Lonely
  10. Piano Concerto In F (Slow Mvt)
  11. The Trumpet As The Voice Of The City/An American In Paris/The Trumpet As Recruitment Officer/The Soldier's Tale (The March)/The Trumpet As Swaggerer
  12. Carmen Suite No.2 (Habanera)
  13. The Trumpet As The Voice Of Strength And Courage
  14. Carmet Suite No.2 (Toreador's Song)
  15. The Trumpet Muted/Petrushka (No.4: The Blackamoor)/Lieutenant Kije Suite (Opening)/The Trumpet As The Voice Of Weariness
  16. Billy The Kid
  17. The Trumpet As Character Actor
  18. Pictures At An Exhibition (No.6)
  19. The Trumpet As The Voice Of God
  20. Mass In B Minor ('Et Exspecto')
  21. The Birth Of The Trombone
  22. Aenmerckt Nu Hier
  23. The Birth Of The Brass As A Family
  24. Canzon 12 In Double Echo
  25. The Trombone In The Eighteenth Century
  26. Trombone Concerto In B Flat Major (Finale)
  27. The Tone Of The Tenor Trombone/Romance For Trombone And Organ/The Memorable Voice Of The Bass Trombone/Requiem (Mvt 2)/But The Bass Trombone Is More Than An Instrumental Bullfrog.
  28. Hosannah
  29. The Trombones Become Part Of The Orchestra.
  30. Symphony No.5 (Finale)
  31. The Wagnerian Trombone:/Overture To 'Tannhauser'
  32. The Trombone As Caricaturist
  33. Pulcinella (No.19: Vivo)
  34. The Trombone As Raspberry/Concerto For Orchestra (Intermezzo)
  35. The Horn And The Hunt
  36. Horn Concerto No.4 In E Flat, K.495 (Finale)
  37. The Challenging Horn Of The Baroque
  38. Abaris Ou Les Boreades (Menuet)
  39. The Scarcity Of First-Rate Players In Handel's Time
  40. Walter Music (Minuet 1)
  41. The Horn As Magician/The Firebird Suite (1919, Finale)
  42. Horns And The Sound Of Nobility
  43. Overture To 'Tannhauser' (Opening)
  44. The Special Sound Of The Horn In Its Higher Register
  45. Mass In B Minor ('Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus')
  46. The Trumpet-Like Sound Of Massed Horns
  47. Symphony No.3 (Mvt 1, Opening)
  48. The Tuba - Unfairly Maligned?
  49. Symphony No.6 (Mvt 3)
  50. The Tuba Perfectly Cast By Ravel
  51. Pictures At An Exhibition (Bydlo)

Tracks:

  1. Introduction. And We Begin With A Bang.
  2. Fanfare For The Common Man/The Bass Drum On The Battlefields/Wellington's Victory, Op.91 (Opening)
  3. At The Opposite Extreme Is The Triangle.
  4. Piano Concerto No.1 In E Flat (Scherzo)
  5. Categories Of Percussion: Tuned And Untuned. The Side Drum
  6. Overture To 'La Gazza Ladra' - The Thieving Magpie (Opening)
  7. The Side Drum In An Effective But Unexpected Role/Clarinet Concerto (Mvt 1)
  8. The Tambourine. One Of The Oldest Instruments In The World
  9. Den Hoboecken Dans
  10. Even Older Is The Originally Oriental Gong.
  11. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Laideronette)
  12. No Single Instrument Can Match The Gong In Evoking The Breaking Of Waves./Passacaglia, Op.33b From 'Peter Grimes'/But Gongs Don't Have To Be Struck To Be Effective.
  13. Gymnopedie No.2
  14. The Cymbals Are Generally Discovered Early In Life./The Sanguine Fan/And They Do More Than Clash Together Loudly. They Can Be Clashed Together Softly./Studio Example: But They Needn't Be Clashed Together At All/Studio Example: They Can Be Lightly...
  15. Other Untuned Percussion Instruments Include The Whip.: Piano Concerto In G Major (Opening)/And Here Are No Fewer Than Twenty, Cracked By Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Act I, Scene 5)
  16. More Versatile Than The Whip Are The Wood Blocks.../Studio Example/...Which Crop Up All Over The Place In Twentieth-Century American Music.
  17. Rodeo (Hoe-Down)
  18. Related To The Wood Blocks, By Sound, Are The Castanets./Jota Aragonesa/But The Castanets Were Also Used By Monteverdi Back In The Seventeenth Century.
  19. Scherzi Musicali (Damigella Tutta Belle)
  20. A Still Earlier Example From Fifteenth-Century Spain
  21. Yo M'Enamori D'Un Aire
  22. The Birth Of The Bongo
  23. Symphonic Dances From 'West Side Story'
  24. From The Streets Of New York To The Blacksmith's Shop/Il Trovatore ('Anvil Chorus')
  25. Desert-Island Decibels: Grand Canyon Suite (On The Trail)/Arcana
  26. From One Vegetable To Another: The Humble Squash, Or Marrow/Huapango
  27. Onwards To The Tuned Percussion. First, The Timpani
  28. Also Sprach Zarathustra (Introduction)
  29. But The Drum Roll Can Be More Effectively Frightening Than The Big Bang.: Symphony No.2 'Resurrection' (Mvt 3)
  30. Not One Drum Roll, But Many/Grand Canyon Suite (Sunrise)/Symphonie Fantastique (Last Mvt)
  31. Taking Advantage Of Tunability
  32. Music For Strings, Percussion And Celeste (Mvt 2)
  33. The Russian Composer Rodion Shchedrin Takes A Downward Turn./Carmen Suite (Changing Of The Guard)/Tuned, Yes; But For The Truly Melodic We Must Look Elsewhere.
  34. Introducing The Glockenspiel/Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)
  35. Saint-Saens And The Xylophone
  36. The Carnival Of The Animals (Fossils)
  37. Ravel And The Xylophone
  38. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Laideronette)
  39. Introducing The Marimba/Carmen Suite (First Intermezzo)
  40. Introducing The Vibraphone
  41. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Narange Dolce)
  42. The Vibraphone Goes Russian.../Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)/...And Is Joined By The Marimba./Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)
  43. Introducing The Hungarian Cimbalom
  44. Folk Dances
  45. The Cimbalom And The Symphony Orchestra
  46. Hary Janos Suite (Mvt 3)
  47. Introducing The Tubular Bells
  48. Hary Janos Suite (Viennese Musical Clock)
  49. A More 'Up-Front' Approach From Rodion Shchedrin
  50. Carmen Suite (Introduction)
  51. But The Bells Can Also Make The Sinister Even More Sinister./Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Mvt 1)
  52. Introducing The Celeste
  53. The Nutcracker (Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy)
  54. Magic, In The Use Of Collective Percussion
  55. Miroirs (La Vallee Des Cloches)
  56. Plucked Instruments: The 'Undercover Percussion'/Carmen Suite (Scene)
  57. A Prime Case In Point Is The Harp, Irresistible To The Romantics./The Nutcracker (Act II, No.1: Scene)/The Non-Solo Harp As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra/Hungarian Rhapsody No.1
  58. The Traditionally Subservient Role Of The Harpsichord In The Baroque Orchestra
  59. Brandenburg Concerto No.2 (Slow Mvt)
  60. The Piano: King Of The Tuned Percussion/Symphony No.3 'Organ' (Mvt 3)/And A Quarter Of A Century After That:
  61. Petrushka (Russian Dance)
  62. The Anti-Romantic Piano As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra
  63. Music For Strings, Percussion And Celeste (Last Mvt)

Tracks:

  1. Keyboard Instruments In The Orchestra - The Most Powerful Of Them All:
  2. Symphony No.3 'Organ' (Finale)
  3. But Things In Handel's Day Were Very Different.
  4. Organ Concerto In B Flat, Op.4 No.3 (Last Mvt)
  5. The Organ Is Difficult To Classify.
  6. An Unexpected, Organ-related Guest
  7. Concerto Pour Zampogna (Last Mvt)
  8. Peasant-Fancying... And A Touch Of The Roaming Cowboy
  9. Les Miserables (Drink With Me)
  10. Outside Artefacts And The Power Of Association
  11. Mahler's Sleighbells
  12. Symphony No.4 (Opening)
  13. A Roll-Call Of Some Unusual Guests/The Typewriter/Parade
  14. Chains, And More/Integrales/An American In Paris/Sandpaper Ballet
  15. Purpose-Built Oddities: Wind Machines/Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Opening)
  16. Don Quixote (Variation VIII)
  17. National Calling Cards: The Guitar For Spain/Concierto De Aranjuez (Finale)
  18. And The Guitar's Poor American Relative, The Banjo/Washington Breakdown
  19. And Poorer Still, The Mouth Organ/The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Packing Up)
  20. The Balalaika For Russia/Romeo And Juliet (Act II: No.14)
  21. The Maracas For Mexico/The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (El Desayuno)
  22. The Bongos And Congas And A Whole Wealth Of Other Drums For Africa And Central America/Studio Example
  23. The Sitar Of India/Evening Raga: Bhapoli
  24. The Accordion For France (Especially Paris)/Paris Canaille
  25. The Zither For Vienna/The Third Man (Theme)
  26. The Cimbalom For Hungary/Folk Dances
  27. The Guitar As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra/Rondena
  28. There Are Whole Orchestras Of Balalaikas./Sveit Mesiats
  29. The Effect Of The Wordless Human Voice, Used Purely As An Instrument/Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Mvt 1)
  30. Nocturnes
  31. Instruments And the Imitation Of Nature. The Clarinet As Cuckoo
  32. The Carnival Of The Animals (The Cuckoo)
  33. The Flute As An All-purpose Aviary
  34. The Carnival Of The Animals (The Aviary)
  35. The Oboe As Duck
  36. Peter And The Wolf (The Duck)
  37. The Recording Of Reality. Does It Work As Well?
  38. The Pines Of Rome (The Pines Of The Janiculum)
  39. The Recording Of Reality Electronically Reborn In New Guises
  40. Cantus Articus - Concerto For Birds And Orchesra (Mvt 2)
  41. Beethoven Turns Avian: Cuckoo, Nightingale, And Quail
  42. Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' (Andante Molto Mosso)
  43. Some Improbable Casting: The Violin As Braying Donkey
  44. The Carnival Of The Animals (Persons With Long Ears)
  45. A Truly Orchestral Hee-haw To Be Reckoned With
  46. Overture To 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
  47. A Thunderstorm In A Million
  48. Symphony No.6 'Pastoral (Allegro-Allegretto)
  49. the Instrumental Depiction Of A Silent World
  50. The Carnival Of The Animals (The Aquarium)
  51. Saint-Saens' Menagerie Takes A Curtain Call.
  52. The Carnival Of The Animals (Finale)

Tracks:

  1. The Grouping Of Instrumental Families. An Additive Approach. First, Two Violins
  2. Forty-Four Duos (No.4)
  3. A Great Contrast, Of Both Pitch And Character: Violin And Viola
  4. Duo For Violin And Viola In B Flat Major, K.424 (Finale, Vars 1 & 2)/Studio Example
  5. Arrival Of The Standard String Trio: Violin, Viola, And Cello
  6. String Trio In B Flat (Menuetto)
  7. The String Quartet: Two Violins, Viola, And Cello
  8. String Quartet In F, Op.18 No.1 (Mvt 3)
  9. The String Quintet - When The Extra Instrument Is A Second Viola
  10. String Quartet No.5 In D, K.593 (Adagio)
  11. The String Quintet - When The Extra Instrument Is A Second Cello
  12. String Quintet In C (Mvt 3)
  13. The String Sextet: Two Violins, Two Violas, And Two Cellos
  14. String Sextet In B Flat (Mvt 2)
  15. The String Octet: The Standard String Quaret Times Two
  16. Octet In E Flat, Op.20 (Mvt 1)
  17. Double The String Octet: A Fully Fledged String Orchestra
  18. String Symphony No.2 (Finale)
  19. The Massed Strings Of A Symphony Orchestra
  20. Fantasia On A Theme Of Thomas Tallis
  21. Contrasts Of Pitch And Instrumental 'Colour' In The Woodwind Section
  22. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Op.100 No.5 (Theme)
  23. In The First Variation It's The Horn That Gets The Lion's Share.
  24. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 1
  25. In Variation Two The Torch Is Handed To The Bassoon.
  26. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 2
  27. In Variation Three The Oboe Leads.
  28. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 3
  29. Variation Four: Conversation Before Returning To A Solo-dominated Texture
  30. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 4
  31. And Variation Five is Dominated By The Clarinet.
  32. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 5
  33. The Next To Be Featured Is The Virtuoso Flute.
  34. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 6
  35. Individual Farewells And A Closing Chorus
  36. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 7
  37. A Mixed Group: Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, String Quartet, And Double-Bass
  38. Octet In F (Mvt 3)
  39. The Early Classical Symphony Orchestra Of Haydn And Mozart
  40. Symphony No.29 In A, K.201 (Finale)
  41. Strings, Wind, But No Brass. What Haydn And Mozart Never Knew
  42. Canzon 28
  43. Beethoven's Fifth: Two Horns, Two Trumpets, And Three Trombones Join The Team.
  44. Symphony No.5 (Finale)
  45. From Beethoven To The Massive Orchestras Of Berlioz, Wagner, And Mahler
  46. Beethoven Changed The Face Of The Symphony And The Orchestra Forever
  47. Symphoy No.6 'Tragic' (Mvt 1)
  48. The Cult Of Orchestral Elephantiasis Reaches Its Peak.
  49. Symphony No.1 'Gothic' (VI: Te Ergo Quaesumus)
  50. When Large Doesn't Necessarily Mean Loud: Debussy
  51. Images (Gigues)
  52. A Crisis Of Confidence; The Orchestra's Survival Hangs In The Balance, But It Still Develops. The Ondes Martenot:
  53. Turangalila Symphony (Chant D'amour 1)
  54. The Advent Of The 'Early Music' Movement Brings A New Vitality And Freshness.
  55. Balle De Xerxes (Gavotte En Rondeau)
  56. Computer And Synthesiser: Friends Or Foes?
  57. Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins (Largo)
  58. A Speculative Look Ahead/Mass In B Minor ('Dona Nobis Pacem')

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Instruments of the Orchestra - Great Reference Material!.......2007-04-04

This set lends itself to greatly enhancing one's knowledge of the orchestra, instruments in it, and their usage. I am a huge music buff, and I still picked up a great deal I previously did not know. I highly recommend this for all who wish to understand the origin of music, as well as the processes that are employed to create music!

5 out of 5 stars Beginner or Expert.......2007-03-12

This CD is excellent for the beginner or expert! To be able to haear the instrumets separately and then together really provides a good education. and/or refresher. The book thaty comes with the CD is alomost worth the price by itself!

5 out of 5 stars Very Informative and Enjoyable.......2006-11-20

Whether you're a music novice or pro, "The instruments of the Orchestra" is a very worthwhile purchase. The 7 CDs, with a total of 8 hours, are expertly narrated by Jeremy Siepmann. He's a great speaker, very much like the late Leonard Bernstein was. Mr. Siepmann takes you on an unforgetable musical journey covering the origins and use of the various orchestral instruments throughout musical history. The balance between his narration and a wealth of musical examples, which range from snippets to entire movements, is superb. The comprehensive enclosed booklet is excellent and faithfully follows the 7 CDs in content. Even with my 40+ years of music training I still learned new things from this wonderful collection. Considering the excellence of the content, and a cost that translates to about $5 per disc, this collection is a great value. Grab it, you won't regret that you did. Five solid stars!

3 out of 5 stars Frank's view.......2006-08-19

This boxed set of CD's with booklet achieved all I had hoped that it would. There are good samples of individual instruments and well done commentary on each. The only drawback was that some of the samples were too brief and could have been longer, hoiwever I guess this fits in with time constraints of the medium. It has given me a lot of clues as to future purchases of CD's for listening to individual instruments. Altogeth a satisfactory purchase and a welcome addition to my collection.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent Intro for Those Not Familiar with the Orchestra.......2003-11-08

I've listened to classical music for years and am interested in composition. I bought this CD set to learn how an orchestra and its instruments work. I thought the CDs would be a nice but boring lecture. They aren't! Not only are they FUN but they are informative as well. I learned a huge amount from each CD and couldn't wait to listen to the next one.

The narrator and writer is a great speaker and holds your attention well. He is definitely knowledgeable. He provides musical examples for each point he makes, so you get to "hear" what he just talked about. I'd say the CDs are about 65% music and 35% narration. You'll learn about the range of instruments, some history, different ways to play them, how they sound, and how they are used in the orchestra. This CD set was a great learning experience and is sold at such a low price!

I recommend this CD for those who want to learn about classical music and those who know about it but are interested in learning more about the inner workings of an orchestra. You'll learn much useful information. For instance, the Rite of Spring (with that eerie start) is written for bassoon! I never knew a bassoon could sound like that but now I do.

The one complaint I have is the last CD. This deals with the orchestra. I wanted more of a tour of how the orchestra has been used through history up to the present. Instead, it was a tour of how different groups of instruments sound. I thought it could have been better. The other 6 CDs are excellent.
Are You Ready for the Country/What Goes Around Comes Around
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Hank certainly didn't do it this way...
  • Two great seventies albums
  • Brings back memories
  • Two distinctly different faces of a legend
 Are You Ready for the Country/What Goes Around Comes Around
Waylon Jennings
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008XRTL
Release Date: 2003-04-21

Tracks:

  1. Are You Ready for the Country
  2. Them Old Love Songs
  3. So Good Woman
  4. Jack-A-Diamonds
  5. Can't You See
  6. MacArthur Park
  7. I'll Go Back to Her
  8. Couple More Years
  9. Old Friend
  10. Precious Memories
  11. I Ain't Living Long Like This
  12. What Goes Around
  13. Another Man's Fool
  14. I Got the Train Sittin' Waitin'
  15. It's the World's Gone Crazy (Cotillion)
  16. Ivory Tower
  17. Out Among the Stars
  18. Come With Me
  19. If You See Her
  20. Old Love, New Eyes

Album Details

Two Collections Incorporating Four Original RCA Albums. First Time on CD for "What Goes Around".

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Hank certainly didn't do it this way..........2007-01-28

These are what I consider the last few good records Waylon cut before the string of bad records. In his auto biography he talks about cutting these records high as a kite on Cocaine.

5 out of 5 stars Two great seventies albums.......2005-05-26

The pairing of these two albums appears a little odd but many of Waylon's seventies albums had already been released on CD. Still, both albums are well worth hearing and Waylon's fans everywhere will welcome this twofer.

The first album here (Are you ready for the country) was recorded when Waylon was at the peak of the outlaw phase of his career. Apart from the brilliant title track, it features many other outstanding songs including Can't you see (written by Toy Caldwell of the Marshall Tucker Band), MacArthur Park (an incredible version of this classic song), Couple more years (also recorded by Dr Hook at around the same time), Old friend (about Buddy Holly) and Precious memories (the gospel classic).

The second album (What goes around) was recorded just three years later but by that time Waylon's sound had changed somewhat. The style may be different but the music is still brilliant. On this album, the first five tracks are generally up-tempo while the second five are generally slower, more reflective. The album opens with I ain't living long like this (a Rodney Crowell song also recorded by Emmylou) but my favorites here are It's the world's gone crazy (the lyrics may seem crazy at first but the song makes sense if you listen to it a few times), Ivory tower and Come with me.

Most of Waylon's seventies albums are now available on CD. If you are a Waylon fan, make sure that you buy them before they go out of print. This twofer may not be the highest priority among those available but it is certainly deserving of a place in any collection of Waylon's music.

5 out of 5 stars Brings back memories.......2003-11-07

It was back in the late 1970's and I was a teenager who loved to listen to Waylon. These songs are classic "outlaw" waylon at it's best. Back in the mid 1970's Waylon released "Are You Ready For The Country" continuing on in the tradition of "Ramblin' Man", "This Time", "Honky Tonk Heroes" and the other albums he had been doing since breaking free from the "Nashville" production on the earlier sessions (they were good, but sounded like all the other Country artists on RCA at the time)... Waylon however wanted to do it his way and nowhere is it more evident than on "Are You Ready For The Country".
This set begins with the rocking title cut then he eases down with "So Good Woman" which sounds like it must have been directed straight at Jessi "You know I've run around all my life/You could've done better cause you've been a good wife"
"Them Old Love Songs" is the third track and talks about someones wish to find a love "like people do in them old love songs"... I could go on and on, but one of my favorites on here is "MacArthurs Park". Waylon had done a version with a female vocalist back in the last 1970's but the Nashville people put strings, horns and flutes in it. This time Waylon did it his way, singing all the vocals and using his band with the trademark sound of Ralph Mooney's steel guitar taking front and center. There is also the tribute to Buddy Holly here called "Old Friend" among others that are just plain good music.
This CD continues with the lp "What Goes Around" which starts off with "Ain't Living Long Like This", goes into the title cut and the first four songs are toe tappers, one of the best of which is "I've Got The Train Settin' Waitin", but then it gets weird with "It's The World's Gone Crazy" ("the dancer's are dancin' alone/the sidemen all want to be frontmen and the front men all want to go home... just an example of the lyrics on that weird little tune)... Side two of that album showed a more laid back smoothe Waylon starting with "Ivory Tower" then the story song "Out Among The Stars" about a down and out young man who "can't find a job but has found a gun" and holds up a liquor store, then the classic "Come With Me"... there are more tunes here but I've hit the hilites on two of my favorite Waylon lps of all time and they've put them together on this one CD... What more could you ask for?

5 out of 5 stars Two distinctly different faces of a legend.......2003-06-16

The pairing of these two pieces of Waylon's work seems rather odd. However, both are very welcome to be back in my Waylon collection after several years of being absent. "Are You Ready For The Country" is an example of Waylon's ability to capture that renegade spirit during the height of his commercial success. All of these songs are pure Waylon at his best, but his rendition of Toy Caldwell's "Can't You See" is, in this reviewer's opinion, the epitome of what the "Outlaw Movement" of the seventies was all about. Listening to "What Goes Around" takes us into a different era of Waylon's fame and legend. You can tell that his taste in material has changed, as has his delivery. Two stand out tracks on this album are "If You See Her" and "Old Love, New Eyes". Waylon was always defying anybody to label his music or pidgeonhole him as an artist. The differences in these two albums
is a testament to what made him one of the greatest recording artist in the history of country music. He could continuosly grow and expand his horizons, all the while making his fans want to ride along and listen. This collection brought back a lot of great memories for me. Thank's Amazon for offering it. And thank you Waylon, for all those years of rebellious inspiration.
The War That Made America: The Story Of The French And Indian War
Average customer rating: 0 out of 5 stars
  • OK music
  • Worth your time
 The War That Made America: The Story Of The French And Indian War
Brian Keane
Manufacturer: Valley
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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  5. The New World

ASIN: B000CEV4UE
Release Date: 2006-01-10

Tracks:

  1. Early Americans (Keane)
  2. Washington’s Blunder in the woods (Keane)
  3. Main Theme/Half King (Keane)
  4. Round Dance (Trad Six Nations)
  5. Young Washington’s Theme (Keane)
  6. French Tavern (Trad 18th Century French Folk Arr. Keane)
  7. War Breaks Out (Keane)
  8. Braddock’s March (G.F. Handel arr. Keane)
  9. Battle at the Monongahela (Keane)
  10. D’une Nouvelle Terre (18th Century French Arr. Keane)
  11. Vanishing World (Keane)
  12. Bloody Morning Scout (Keane)
  13. Jemison Farmhouse (Keane)
  14. Deportation From Nova Scotia (18th Century French Arr. Keane)
  15. Battle Of Lake George (Keane)
  16. William Pitt’s Deal(G. F. Handel Arr. Keane)
  17. Louisburg Falls (Keane)
  18. Versailles (Jean Baptiste Lully)
  19. Easton Treaty(Trad Six Nations)
  20. Washington Goes Home (Keane)
  21. Guyasuta Tries (Keane)Trouble Comes to Fort Michilimackinac (Keane)
  22. Smallpox (Traditional six nations)
  23. Conestoga/Revolution (Keane)
  24. Declaration Of Independence (Keane)

Product Description

1. For One Moment
2. Straws
3. Find Yourself
4. Show Me
5. Jump; Friends Along the Way
6. Oh My
7. I'll Be There
8. The Heart of Saturday Night (feat. Matthew Ryan)
9. Stupid or Something
10. Burgeoning Road
11. Sixteen
12. Stay Forever


Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars OK music.......2006-04-13

This CD is listenable and has some nice music, but has nothing memorable. There is no rousing main theme that I expect from a soundtrack and many of the songs are not particularly good. If you are interested in music from this period, get the soundtracks to "Last of the Mohicans, The Patriot, and A&E's Revolution" (if you can find and afford that last one). Pass on this one.

3 out of 5 stars Worth your time.......2006-01-31

A surprisingly "listenable" and quality work that rises above the documentary/drama series that it was created for.
What Comes Around Goes Around
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Going around in very small circles - 2.5 stars
  • Bandwagon Metal
  • awsome glam rock
  • what comes around, goes around
 What Comes Around Goes Around
Tuff
Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000008LRS
Release Date: 1991-05-14

Tracks:

  1. Ruck a Pit Bridge
  2. All New Generation
  3. I Hate Kissing You Good-Bye
  4. Lonely Lucy
  5. Ain't Worth a Dime
  6. So Many Seasons
  7. Forever Yours
  8. Wake Me Up
  9. Spit Like This
  10. Good Guys Wear Black

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Going around in very small circles - 2.5 stars.......2006-08-09

With more make up than Poison, Tuff gigged hard and almost made their mark. But for some reason they always seemed to just fall short of mark. This, their debut effort, was widely touted as destined for big things by a number of magazines at the time. And there was still a couple of years of the makeup grossout pop metal era left for them to have achieved those big things. But.. it ... just ... fizzled...out.

OK - band members were Stevie Rachelle, Jorge Desaint, Michael Lean and Todd Chase (yeah, right) and the racket they make on this slab is a generic pop metal/1991/hairspray heaven deal with many similarities to other acts of the time. Think Warrant with a slightly thougher sounding vocalist than Jani Lane. But Warrant wouldn't of done 'Spit Like This' - at least not until their third album.

Despite pop metal gross outs like "I Hate Kissing You Goodbye' which really should have you reaching for your sick bag and the attemps to get a life tunes like 'Wake Me Up' there is something to be salvaged from this album. Opener 'Ruck A Pit Bridge' snarls and sneers - it's [...] but at least tries - and track two 'The All New Generation' namechecks the gods of good time rock that these boys obviously worshipped. At least they are honest about their influences and aspirations. Other cool cuts include 'Spit Like This' and 'Good Guys Wear Black', the former again putting some anarchic sneer into the pop metal mix and the latter a bit of fun time humour. And Lonely Lucy is a cheeky rocker.

Overall this is mostly dross of the highest order, but pop metal and hair metal fans may dig some of it's tracks. And Stevie Rachelle gave good quote, so some people may of heard of him and get off on checking out some of his recorded product.

2 out of 5 stars Bandwagon Metal.......2004-05-26

I really wanted to like this album. "American Hair Band" was funny, so I looked for Tuff. I thought, "Even if it's cheesy - hey, I love cheesy metal!"

But it's worse. It's boring. Even being unoriginal, it's a pale copy of the music it's imitating.

It's as though a label said "Hey, this hair metal thing is really taking off - we should get in on this and make money!" and proceeded to compile the obvious cliches of the genre without any of the heart or talent. Or the band itself said the same thing. In either case, the songs are generic with weak lyrics (for metal, even).

Writing a song about the history of rock and roll is not a good first step. Don't namecheck Skid Row, whose first album was two years prior to the *release* of this album. Seriously.

Stevie Rachelle's voice has two settings: Gravel and Plain. The plain setting is used for a range of four notes, and anything else is sung in Gravel voice. Neither setting is super good as holding a note, so the overall vocal is more like shouting. This hurts the ballads the most.

It's not all the band's fault, as the production is pretty bad - the guitar work, which is generally good, get buried in the mix along with everything else.

I don't have a personal vendetta against Tuff, and I really wanted to like this album, but it was very disappointing.

5 out of 5 stars awsome glam rock.......2004-03-12

The all new generation should have been an 80's anthem song. Too bad they never been popular enough. A lot like Poison, they're still around in 2004. They still rock n' roll. I got a few albums and also one solo from Stevie Rachelle (lead singer) and they're all good rock n' roll.

5 out of 5 stars what comes around, goes around.......2003-12-30

tuff, another 80's hair band; alot like poison. they had some really kickazz songs on this album "what comes around,goes around"; i dont know about any of there other stuff but this one rocked in the 80's!!!
1966: The Beat Goes On (Time-Life Music Classic Rock)
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		1966: The Beat Goes On (Time-Life Music Classic Rock)

    Manufacturer: Time-Life Music
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD
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    ASIN: B000FXXXVK

    Product Description

    Song list: 1 Byrds, The Eight Miles High (3:39) 2 Mamas & The Papas, The California Dreamin' (2:42) 3 Left Banke, The Walk Away Renée (2:44) 4 Sam & Dave Hold On! I'm Comin' (2:33) 5 Donovan Mellow Yellow (3:46) 6 Beach Boys, The Wouldn't It Be Nice (2:25) 7 Tommy James & The Shondells Hanky Panky (2:55) 8 Knickerbockers, The Lies (2:45) 9 Supremes, The My World Is Empty Without You (2:36) 10 Lou Christie Lightnin' Strikes (3:02) 11 Lovin' Spoonful, The Daydream (2:22) 12 Paul Revere & The Raiders Hungry (3:02) 13 Capitols, The Cool Jerk (2:28) 14 Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels Devil With A Blue Dress On / Good Golly Miss Molly (3:06) 15 Monkees, The Last Train To Clarksville (2:45) 16 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Going To A Go-Go (2:48) 17 Outsiders, The (4) Time Won't Let Me (2:53) 18 Stevie Wonder Uptight (Everything's Alright) (2:56) 19 Los Bravos Black Is Black (2:59) 20 Wilson Pickett Land Of 1000 Dances (2:28) 21 Association, The (2) Along Comes Mary (2:52) 22 Yardbirds, The Over Under Sideways Down (2:20)
    New Comes and Goes
    Average customer rating: 0 out of 5 stars
    • Satisfying power-pop for the 2000s
    • Simply Amazing
    • Catchy (Albeit Unexciting) New Wave-Infused Power Pop
    • New Came and Went
    • Oranger is the new Pink
    		 New Comes and Goes
    Oranger
    Manufacturer: Eenie Meenie Records
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000ARWIIA
    Release Date: 2005-09-20

    Tracks:

    1. Crooked In The Weird Of The Catacombs
    2. New Comes and Goes
    3. Sukiyaki
    4. Farden Party For The Murder Pride
    5. Outtatoch
    6. Radio Wave
    7. Whacha Holden
    8. Crones
    9. Haeter
    10. Flying Pretend
    11. Light machine
    12. Target You By Feel
    13. Come Back Tomorrow

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Satisfying power-pop for the 2000s.......2007-03-21

    3.5 stars!

    I sometimes wonder if rock music is slowly devouring its own tail, like some kind of Escher lizard, unaware of its own impending demise. There are, for instance, so many hyphens out there (jazz-rock, pop-rock, rap-funk, electro-metal, blah blah) that one wonders if every permutation worth permuting has been played out.

    There's much more I could say, but instead I'll say this: this ORANGER album is an entertaining, hooky, fairly straight-ahead pop-rock album that will get your toes tapping and your head humming. It's not going to bowl you over with Sweet New Sounds, or the Reinvention of Rock, nor do I think it wants to. This is the kind of stuff that would be playing over the loudspeakers at the miniature golf funland if I ruled the world.

    I would hold this album up next to albums by SLOAN or New Pornographers, or maybe as one reviewer mentioned Fountains of Wayne, and suggest they are all worshipping, to at least a small degree, at the throne of Rubber Soul and Revolver.

    Whatever Oranger was before this is kind of irrelevant. Some of the stuff I've heard before was a tad messier, bright-eyed or even psychedelic, and pretty cool. I say let's thank Oranger for not making the same album over and over again.

    5 out of 5 stars Simply Amazing.......2005-11-29

    Okay 2005 Weezer puts out a crapola cd called "Make Believe". I like to do what the name of the cd does and make believe like it doesn't exist...Later 2005, Oranger puts out "New Comes and Goes"...who needs Weezer! To me this cd sounds like some old Weezer. I just cannot get enough of this cd. Don't get me wrong I am merely comparing the two bands. Oranger definitely have their own characteristics and this cd proves it.

    I won't fake like i am a long time fan but the first Oranger I heard was their version of "Mr. Sandman" on the Stubbs the Zombie game for Xbox. I heard it and immediately went out and purchased the Soundtrack and Oranger's latest effort as well...

    To the music:

    Crooked in the Weird of the Catacombs is an excellent starter song. It hooks you with the very first not and takes on almost a "Cake" feel at parts. The lyrics are well though out and the chorus is amazing! The second track--also the title track--just has one of those weird off beat feels to it. It is a very good track and stands out well on an amazing cd. My favorite song would either be Sukiyaki or Garden Party for the Murder Pride.

    In closing, if you appreciate good music that will remind you of summertime buy this album. So when you're driving to work in six foot of snow it can feel all warm and sunny inside your car and inside your mind,...at least until you wreck on black ice and die. So stay home from work and listen up!!

    4 out of 5 stars Catchy (Albeit Unexciting) New Wave-Infused Power Pop.......2005-11-10

    Pop Kulcher Review: San Francisco underground indie pop heroes Oranger are back with their latest wonderful album doomed to obscurity thanks to an utterly ignorant listening public.

    Oh, dang, sorry, I'm in one of those moods. Should I try again?

    Oranger are back with another wonderful (if not exactly groundbreaking) album of radio-friendly pop... if we lived in an alternate universe where good music still got played on the radio.

    Better? No, probably not.

    Moving on... Oranger have drifted through a variety of indie pop stylings, largely derivative of umpteen other bands but with just enough clever tunes to keep me coming back for more. While earlier albums saw them trying an edgy Flaming Lips-influenced style, then a more mod-influenced Who/Creation-tinged style (with some XTC overtones), and more recently a more Brian Wilson-styled lush pop sound, 2005's New Comes And Goes seems to find the band trying their hand at New Wave-era pop, reeking of late 70's/early 80's alt-poppers like Shoes and 20/20 (but with more guitars and fewer synths). To their credit, the disc nonetheless sounds fresh and instantly contagious. Again, not enough new twists to give Oranger a distinctive sound, but energetically riffing on the right influences can be good enough for an enjoyable listen. To some extent, they seem to be drinking from the same well as Fountains of Wayne, albeit with a bit less wit and heart, but there's really no good reason the Fountains should be rising from indie pop obscurity while Oranger isn't. Bottom line -- good album, certainly should be high on the must-buy list for anyone who has ever bought a Yellow Pills compilation or misses the days when the Cars were actually fairly cool.

    3 out of 5 stars New Came and Went.......2005-11-09

    Being a longtime Oranger fan, it pains me to have to give their latest album only a 3 star review, but after repeated listens it just doesn't hold up to the brilliance that was 'Shutdown the Sun' and to a lesser extent the 'Quiet Vibration Land' and 'Doorway to Norway'.

    My first gripe is with the production, it's very flat and tidy. Part of what made the other Oranger albums so good was the really spacey, atmospheric moods they were able to conjure up on the slower songs. This brings us to the second problem, every song on this album with the exception of one has almost the same tempo. You keep waiting for the next song to pull you in some new direction and it just never happens.

    I'm also not sure why they left Spiral Stairs' Amazing Grease label either. It was tough to find this new album and the packaging and artwork (like the music) is subpar. I'm sure they still put on a great live show though. Bring back the expierimental fun next time around!

    4 out of 5 stars Oranger is the new Pink.......2005-11-09

    If the opening base line doesn't draw you in, surely the title "Crooked in the Weird of the Catcombs" will. The opening lyric says it best "Do you really want to know what I am doing here, do you really want to ask me about it?" The answer to this question is a resounding yes, cause if you pass this record by you will be dissapointed. It's got a little bit of everything the mixtape song for your ex "Crones", the driving through Hollywood song "New Comes and Goes", and the attempt to reinvent the english language song "Whacha Holden". This record won't let you down.
    Another Place Another Time/She Still Comes Around
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      		Another Place Another Time/She Still Comes Around
      Jerry Lee Lewis
      Manufacturer: Beat Goes On
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B0006HCVGI
      Release Date: 2005-01-17

      Tracks:

      1. What's Made Milwaukee Famous
      2. Play Me a Song I Can Cry To
      3. On the Back Row
      4. Walking the Floor Over You
      5. All Night Long
      6. I'm a Lonesome Fugitive
      7. Another Place Another Time
      8. Break My Heart
      9. Before the Next Teardrop Falls
      10. All the Good Is Gone
      11. We Live in Two Different Worlds
      12. To Make Love Sweeter for You
      13. Let's Talk About Us
      14. I Can't Get Over You
      15. Out of My Mind
      16. Today I Started Loving You Again
      17. She Still Comes Around (To Love What's Left of Me)
      18. Louisiana Man
      19. Release Me
      20. Listen, They're Playing My Song
      21. There Stands the Glass
      22. Echoes

      Album Description

      Two classic Jerry Lee albums from the late 60s - country ballads and rockers from these original Mercury/Smash albums. Remastered with slipcase plus additional notes. BGO. 2004.

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      Two Classic Jerry Lee Albums from the Late 60's.
      A Salute to American Music
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        		A Salute to American Music

        Manufacturer: RCA
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        Offenbach: La Belle Hélène; Orpheus in the Underworld; La Vie Parisienne (Highlights)
        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
        • Champagne Music!
        		 Offenbach: La Belle Hélène; Orpheus in the Underworld; La Vie Parisienne (Highlights)

        Manufacturer: Class. for Pleas. Us
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        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B00009KHY3
        Release Date: 2003-09-02

        Tracks:

        1. Overture
        2. The Happy Bride Never Stumbles
        3. You've Gone Too Far!
        4. May I Make Myself Known?
        5. My Death Appears Divinely Smiling
        6. When Diana Leaves The Mountains
        7. To Arms!
        8. When Jupy Feels The Inclination
        9. Here Comes Orpheus
        10. When I Was King Of The Boeotians
        11. I Thought That I Felt On My Shoulder
        12. What Heavenly Joy Is Mine
        13. Minuet And Galop
        14. Overture
        15. How Sad We've Made The Marchioness
        16. Well Isn't That Just Life All Over?
        17. I'm The Guide For Every Tourist
        18. I Am A Native Of Brazil
        19. In This Enchanting Queen Of Cities
        20. I Am A Dab At Carving Pork
        21. We Have Seen Sights Since Eleven... I'm A Colonel's Widow
        22. Dinner Is Served

        Tracks:

        1. Oh, Little Cloud
        2. When She Goes Out... Her Petticoats Go Frou, Frou, Frou
        3. Does He Know He's Splitting Down The Back
        4. Nobody Would Call Me A Rover
        5. I'll Have So Much To Say
        6. It's Most Important You Should Show
        7. Here You See The Place
        8. My Friends, I'm Most Delighted To See You
        9. In Songs And Shouts... Paris Blooms Like A Flower
        10. Introduction
        11. To Bow To Jupiter We Gather At The Shrine
        12. We've Had A Night Out
        13. On Mount Ida Three Great Ladies (The Judgement Of Paris)
        14. March And Entry Of The Kings
        15. Entr'acte
        16. We All Begin By Truly Trying
        17. It Is Her That Has Sent This Sweet Love Dream
        18. Come Here, You Kings Of Greece
        19. When All Of Greece Has Been Ravaged
        20. Do You See?

        Customer Reviews:

        5 out of 5 stars Champagne Music!.......2006-07-09

        Thank goodness that these well filled CDs of selections from three of Offenbach's most entertaining and tuneful operettas are available. Exactly the thing to provide some hearty nourishment for Winter nights. Ideal also for a Summer barbecue. In both cases, a glass of champagne, or at least some other bubbly beverage, would be good to have at hand - everything here no doubt will call for a toast or several.

        It is so nice to be able to hear in these translations the witty words, sung with welcome clarity and meaning by these admirable artists. As I recall, there were no microphones in sight, and perhaps not even used, when this production of Orpheus In The Underworld was brought to Australia, with a few cast changes but the same sparkle as shown here. Crisp diction and lively, often lovely, singing - a great recipe for enjoyable listening indeed.

        The recording sounds a bit shrill here and there, but what a churlish quibble; to Hades with such curmudgeonly qualifications! This is music to raise the spirits, and not just those from Hades.
        The Royal Philharmonic Collection: Nursery Rhymes Suite
        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
        • Delightful for adults and children both
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        		 The Royal Philharmonic Collection: Nursery Rhymes Suite

        Manufacturer: Intersound Records
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        ASIN: B00000DGX9
        Release Date: 1998-09-22

        Tracks:

        1. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
        2. Lavender's Blue
        3. Polly Put The Kettle On
        4. London Bridge
        5. Mary Had A Little Lamb
        6. Hey Diddle Diddle
        7. Humpty Dumpty
        8. Three Blind Mice
        9. The Owl And The Pussycat
        10. Sing A Song Of Sixpence
        11. Ride A Cock Horse
        12. Jack And Jill
        13. Girls And Boys
        14. Cockles And Mussels
        15. Oranges And Lemons
        16. When Johnny Comes Marching Home
        17. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
        18. Rock-A-Bye-Baby
        19. Tom, Tom The Piper's Son
        20. Pop Goes The Weasel

        Customer Reviews:

        5 out of 5 stars Delightful for adults and children both.......2005-12-19

        I bought this CD because it looked good, but I found that I LOVE it! My daughters (2 and 5) ask to listen to it over and over. It is soothing, relaxing and fun to listen to. I keep it in the car and it has been great on long car trips. It sounds like a classical music CD, as it is, but the songs are all nursery rhymes. I highly recommend it. It would make a great baby shower gift!

        5 out of 5 stars Artist's own opinion.......2001-09-01

        As the professional music arranger involved in the production of this album, you would expect me to have a high opinion of it - and I have.

        However, having declared an interest, I would like to say that the performances of my arrangements by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the senior chorus and soloists from The Arts Educational School, Tring, are exceptionally good and exciting, and really bring my arrangements to life in every way.

        I was commissioned by the record company to write new arrangements of traditional Nursery Rhymes in ways which would serve as a kind of "Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra", and be entertaining first, and then if possible educational as well, and ideally to appeal to all age groups - not merely young children, but older children and adults too. I hope that I have managed to do this succesfully by approaching the task as if I were writing for an animated film in each case; to tell the story involved in the song as a musical picture. I grew up with the wonderful use of music in cartoons such as "Bugs Bunny" and "Tom and Jerry", so this kind of treatment of musical material is part of my heritage and seemed appropriate here. I tried to include some witty cross-cultural references to make them enjoyable at all levels - traditional tunes they are, "baby-ish" they're not!

        I hope people have a listen and enjoy what we have achieved with this album - and ideally, buy it!

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        1. Compositions for the Moons of Jupiter
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