Great Plains

1. Picture of You

2. Faster Gun

3. Iola

4. Give It Some Time

5. Rodeo Drive

6. I Can't Fight It Anymore

7. Running from the Rain

8. Take Me to Topeka

9. Rich Man

10. Oh Sweetness

Great Plains,The Great Plains,Sony,Contemporary Country,Country,Country & Western,Country-Rock

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Handel: The Masterworks (Box Set) Manufacturer: Brilliant Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Trios | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Concerto Grossi | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Trio Sonatas | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Flute | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Oboe | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Recorder | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Cantatas | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Anthems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Hymns | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Passions | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Blowout Box Sets | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 20% Off | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Brilliant Classics | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Vivaldi: The Masterworks (Box Set) Haydn: The Masterworks [Box Set] Mendelssohn: The Masterworks [Box Set] Dvorák: The Masterworks [Box Set] Schubert: The Masterworks [Box Set] ASIN: B00062FLI8 Release Date: 2004-11-30

Average customer rating: The best album you and everyone else have never heard Great Plains

Great Plains The Great Plains Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Similar Items: Homeland By My Own Hand ASIN: B000008G64 Release Date: 1991-10-22

Tracks:

1. Picture of You
2. Faster Gun
3. Iola
4. Give It Some Time
5. Rodeo Drive
6. I Can't Fight It Anymore
7. Running from the Rain
8. Take Me to Topeka
9. Rich Man
10. Oh Sweetness

Customer Reviews:

The best album you and everyone else have never heard.......2003-09-13

It's a shame this album wasn't a major commercial hit, because Great Plains might have been one of the best country bands ever. I think I can best describe the band's sound by saying that it's slightly southern/roots-rocked-up country (not arena-rocked-up, like Garth). They're on the fence between country and rock, but with both feet dangling over on the country side.

Each song is just a master stroke: A Picture of You, Iola, and Running From the Rain are great up-tempo songs, even if the first two are somewhat melancholy. Check that: A Picture of You is VERY melancholy. Faster Gun, Rodeo Drive, and Take Me to Topeka are outstanding, mid-tempo acoustic-based rockers. Give It Some Time and Oh Sweetness are great ballads. I Can't Fight It Anymore is a lot like Faster Gun, but much more depressing. Rich Man is totally unique on the album: It's downbeat and acoustic, but it has a quirky edge to it.

Jack Sundrud is a grade-A songwriter, and an amazing singer. His voice and delivery make each song memorable, specifically the sad ones. Russ Pahl is a great guitarist, and he and Denny Dadmun-Bixby provide good harmony vocals.

There's nothing left to say, other than these guys should have had at least as much success as loser acts like Lonestar, Shania Twain, Faith Hill, etc., etc. Commercial success may go to the best-marketed acts, but the truly great works of music are the ones that will hold up over time. Do us all a favor and check this album out. We can't let it fade away!

Great Plains.......2003-04-12

Fine example of countrified rock or rock-influenced country.
Excellent vocalist....somewhat like Steve Winwood.

Average customer rating: An Extremely Strong Program of McKay's Extremely Fine Music

McKay: Violin Concerto, 16th Century Hymn Tunes Manufacturer: Naxos American ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: McKay: From a Moonlight Ceremony / Harbor Narrative / Symphony for Seattle George Frederick McKay: Caricature Dance Suite, William Bolcom Solo; Viola Suite Eguchi/Margolis Henry Kimball Hadley: Symphony No. 4, The Ocean, and The Culprit Fay Nicolas Flagello: Piano Concerto No. 1; Dante's Farewell; Concerto Sinfonico Alfvén: Symphony No. 4 "From the Outermost Skerries" ASIN: B0006M4SVO Release Date: 2005-01-18

Tracks:

1. Allegro Molto Ma Risoluto
2. Andante - Quasi Adagio
3. Allegor Vigoroso
4. Meditation
5. Rondolet
6. Air Varie
7. Choeur Celeste
8. Cortege Joyeux
9. Allegro Con Gaiezza E Con Brio
10. Moderato Pastorale
11. Allegro Gioioso E Ritmico Molto
12. Song Over The Great Plains

Customer Reviews:

An Extremely Strong Program of McKay's Extremely Fine Music.......2005-01-27

This CD is the third in a series devoted to the music of George Frederick McKay (1899-1970) which certainly deserves whatever attention it is currently getting. One hopes that the years of neglect that this composer's music has experienced ­- largely because for most of his professional life he lived in the Pacific Northwest, far away from US classical music centers ­- are over. He is remembered with fondness, though, by citizens of Seattle, where his music has continued to be performed occasionally; by alumni of the University of Washington where he taught for many years; and by such students of his as the eminent current-day composer William Bolcom, who indeed was a major participant in the second CD in the series devoted to McKay's chamber music. One only wishes that another of his former students, Goddard Lieberson, who went on to become a huge influence in the classical music recording industry, had done something to preserve his music in recordings, but alas that didn't happen. This CD, the second to present orchestral music of McKay's conducted by John McLaughlin Williams, is a fine addition to the series. It comprises four very different works that, among other things, show the range that McKay had.

By far the most important work here is the Violin Concerto (1940) which is here played with real commitment, virtuosic precision and ravishing tone by Brian Reagin, a violinist new to me but one who bears watching. He is currently the concertmaster of the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra and was previously assistant concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony. The Concerto, in three movements in the usual fast-slow-fast arrangement, is played without pause. The first movement is dramatic and declamatory. The first appearance of the violin is a statement of the movement's most important theme in double-stops and gossamer arpeggios. The orchestra features peremptory brass interjections that, an evidence of McKay's expertise, do not ever cover the soloist. There are several cadenzas in this movement, none long but all of them extraordinarily virtuosic. The final cadenza leads into the lyrical second movement which is clearly the heart of the concerto. Harmonically this movement sounds, to this listener, as if it could only have been composed in the 1940s, using as it does chromatic and bluesy harmonies that were newly in the air during that time. Think, if you will, of the harmonies and sinuous melodic contour of David Raksin's theme-song for the movie, 'Laura,' written three years later, and you'll have some idea of this movement's atmosphere; I hasten to add that what McKay does here is miles more effective (and sophisticated) than Raksin's effort. A passage for solo violin and flute leads into the exuberantly rhythmic third movement which begins with woodwind writing that reminded me right away of the similarly orchestrated wind chords in Edward MacDowell's 'Indian Suite.' And indeed both the melodic and rhythmic elements of this movement remind one of authentic Indian music, through the prism of classical techniques, and at the same time the mild jazziness of the earlier movements continues. This is an extraordinarily strong violin concerto and I would venture to say that it is the equal of Samuel Barber's concerto which some think is the finest ever written by an American. This is strong praise, I realize, about which I've thought seriously. I'll go further and say that McKay's third movement is more effective that Barber's.

The 'Suite on Sixteenth Century Hymn Tunes' (originally for organ, 1945; rev. 1962) is for strings alone (except for the appropriate addition of the celesta in the fourth movement, 'Choeur céleste'). The strings are divided into two separate orchestras. The five movements are elaborations on hymns by 16th century French composer, Louis Bourgeois, written for John Calvin's Genevan Psalter. The tunes themselves are lovely, and their incorporation into McKay's work extremely effective. I particularly liked the concluding 'Cortège joyeux,' a celebratory recessional.

'Sinfonietta No. 4' (1942), one of five McKay wrote, was, according to the very informative notes by conductor Williams, a precursor to his 'true' symphony, the so-called 'Evocation' Symphony, recorded nicely in the first CD in this series. In three movements, the first is more neo-classic, spare, rhythmically asymmetric, harmonically astringent and bracing than the other works on this CD. The second movement evokes, with its lonely wind solos, the wide-open spaces of the American West without sounding in the least like Copland's brand of 'Western-ness.' Again, there is an American Indian tinge to the melodies. The finale, Allegro gioioso e ritmico molto, is McKay in a playful, even prankish, mood. It burbles along cheerfully, interrupted now and again by brass fanfares and chirruping winds. Yet, it is in modified sonata allegro form, with concentrated development and recapitulation leading to a jubilant coda that ends abruptly with a hiccup.

The final work, 'Song Over the Great Plains' (1953), was written on commission from the Indianapolis Symphony who asked for a work to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Steinway Piano Company. It has an important piano obbligato part, played here by Ludmilla Kovaleva, but is not quite a piano concerto. It is a fourteen-minute single movement work that evokes early spring in the northern Great Plains - ­McKay had spent some time teaching in South Dakota before moving to Seattle - ­and quotes the call of the western meadowlark, happily quite recognizable by this reviewer from Kansas for whom it is the state bird. The work has a main theme that sounds like a folksong, but Williams assures us it is original with McKay. It builds to a climax followed by a long piano cadenza before dying away as softly as it began. A lovely piece worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Vaughan Williams's own lark piece, 'The Lark Ascending.'

One cannot praise too highly conductor John McLaughlin Williams for bringing us the music in this extraordinary program, nor the playing of the National Radio Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine whose growing number of excellent recordings of American music should surely qualify them for honorary US citizenship.

Strongest recommendation.

Scott Morrison

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1981-89-Length of Growth ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000A27TKW Release Date: 2000-08-01

Average customer rating: More information on this release. Wish I had been there.... Hey, I was THERE. Great Ohio Roots-punk

Length of Growth, 1981-1989 The Great Plains Manufacturer: Old 3c Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004WHBW Release Date: 2000-08-15

Tracks:

1. Dr. Demento Intro
2. Way She Runs a Fever
3. When Do You Say Hello?
4. Four Sides in Three Shapes
5. It's Dying
6. Pretty Dictionary
7. Night Won't Live to See the Day
8. Confetti
9. Cave In
10. Lincoln Logs
11. I Must Have Made It All Up
12. Love to the Third Power
13. Rutherford B. Hayes
14. Black Sox Scandal/What Are You Living On
15. Knotted One
16. Columbus Dispatch
17. Serpent Mound
18. When Honesty Gets Old
19. Death of a Thought Returns
20. Black Like Me
21. Old 3C
22. Town's Got a Widow
23. Dick Clark
24. Last Chance to Be Free

Tracks:

1. Letter to a Fanzine
2. Hall of Shame
3. Hamburger Boy
4. Origin of My Silly Grin
5. Fool That Set It Off
6. Animated Innocence
7. Time to Name the Dog
8. Fertile Crescent
9. Duet Between Buyer and Seller
10. Real Bad
11. Martin Luther King/Martin Luther Drinking
12. End of the Seventies
13. Appetite
14. Physical Fact
15. Wind Blows, the Law Breaks
16. Authentic
17. Alfalfa Omega
18. Day Old
19. So Far
20. Directions to the Party
21. Before We Stop to Think
22. Violent Gesture
23. Visual Artists
24. Long and Slow Decline
25. Exercise
26. Same Moon
27. Standing at the Crosswords

Customer Reviews:

More information on this release........2004-03-20

Paul Nini here, proprietor of Old 3C Records, who released this Great Plains compilation. Our manufacturing and distribution partner at that time, NuGruv Alliance, no longer exists -- so finding this release can be problematic at best. Please go to our site -- www.old3c.com -- if you'd like more information concerning this release. Thanks much.

Wish I had been there...........2001-03-14

I've been looking for this a long time and didn't even know it. Sure, I grooved to "Letter to a Fanzine" back in the mid-80s, and heard "Standing at the Crosswords" later, but I had never been able to find any Great Plains anywhere. Now I'm in heaven, discovering new-old songs from a dead age, thanks to the Internet.

That said, this is probably too much for the casual fan. If you're interested, I found a cassette copy of "Sum Things Up" on the Homestead/D.E.I. website, which hooked me into seeking out the cd. And the earlier tracks are pretty unpolished, not always in a good way, and lack the sense of melody that crept into later work. But if you have the patience, "Length of Growth" is a gold mine. It's been years since I happened on a tune as fine as "Dick Clark," and that's just the tip of the iceberg. So if you have a soft spot for witty cranky 80s college rock (as do I) spiked with cheesy keyboards, this is worth checking out (and fifty songs for $14--can't beat that!).

Hey, I was THERE........2001-02-21

Great Plains, I must tell you, were not recognized as a great band in their time by a lot of people who saw them in Columbus campus area bars in the '80's, usually as an opening act for somebody better known. Ron House's offbeat eloquence was difficult to grasp when encountered for the first time in live performance. The band's performances could be frantic and, to put it mildly, unpolished, and they were even thrown off the stage once at Columbus's annual 'Comfest,' not exactly a venue with high standards for musicianship. It was on record that the creativity came through, as this compilation attests. Little known and misunderstood in their day, Great Plains were one of the great quirky-sloppy bands of the '80's, and House is, beyond the sarcasm and occasionally annoying in-jokes, a lyricist of keen and poignant whimsy. And (some of) the tunes have hooks! May this CD set rise to well above the bottom of the charts, and bring a reassessment.

Great Ohio Roots-punk.......2000-08-23

Ron House, the leader of Great Plains, may be one of the most underrated geniuses of American music. Punk and literate, he is like a well adjusted David Thomas (Pere Ubu). Unfortunately his fame, such that it is, is confined to a small part of Ohio. Too bad, he writes smart, funny songs and has a knack for memorable melodies. He wraps the package in winningly simple and passionately played punk and post-punk rock.

This collection has just about everything recorded by Great Plains and has a charming intro by Dr. Demento. All of the "hits" you remember from college radio circa 1987 are here. Letter to a Fanzine, Standing at the Crosswords, Martin Luther King and Matin Luther Drinking, etc. Lyrics are about sex, drinking and history. The music is rootsy punk with farfisa. House doesn't so much sing as declaim and cajole with amatuerish passion. As American as all get out.

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Russia! Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Borodin | Borodin, Alexander | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Khachaturian | Khachaturian, Aram | ( K ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mussorgsky | Mussorgsky, Modest | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music London Philharmonic Orchestra | ( L ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Russian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Musical Theater | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B0000042F4 Release Date: 1997-06-24

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Homeland The Great Plains Manufacturer: Magnatone ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Great Plains From Out of the Blue Standing Room Only ASIN: B00000231F Release Date: 1996-06-04

Tracks:

1. Where's the Fire?
2. Nothin' I Can Do About the Rain
3. Sleepwalkin'
4. Sentimental Fire
5. Please Don't Walk Away
6. Dream That Never Sleeps
7. Dancin' With the Wind
8. Wolverton Mountain
9. Healin' Hands
10. Let's Talk About Love
11. Homeland
12. Coyote Choir

Average customer rating: Touching, not just torch

Love Is Driving Julie Christensen Manufacturer: Stone Cupid ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Folk | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Soul Driver Something Familiar Mestiza Heaven and Earth ASIN: B000046S3O Release Date: 1997-01-01

Tracks:

1. Living Through It
2. Love Is Driving
3. Maybe Something
4. Mile Zero
5. Blues on my Street
6. Thunderhead
7. Bright Spot
8. Fifty-Fifty
9. Oriole
10. Song That Might've Been
11. Mother
12. Some Dead Roses

Album Description

a ride through the Great Plains landscape of Julie's soul, evoking the influences of Joni Mitchell, Aretha Franklin, Dinah Washington, Joe Williams, Bruce Hornsby, Shawn Colvin, Jane Siberry, sweet 1970's soul and Americana.

Customer Reviews:

Touching, not just torch.......2000-03-09

Julie Christensen is known as a kind of torch singer, and has gained a reputation in Southern California as the "funkiest diva." But those who've seen her spunky stage performances might have missed all the insight and great songwriting that's evident on this album.

"Song that Might've Been," for example, is a profound plea to make art that matters, and will resonate with anyone who's ever dared to dream of artistic success. "Mile Zero" & "Maybe Something" also speak to the dream of making it to someplace better, and "love is driving" captures a great moment of shared happiness away from all the pressure of trying to live a dream.

Buy it!

Average customer rating: Change Your Life, Listen to the Slats

The Great Plains of San Francisco ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items: Pick It Up Boom Patrol ASIN: B0005XD6CQ

Product Description

13 Songs

Customer Reviews:

Change Your Life, Listen to the Slats.......2005-09-19

The Slats' "The Great Plains of San Francisco" is an album that changes lives. For about half a year, one of my friends kept telling me, "you really need to listen to this band, you'd love them." I always kinda shrugged it off and never really cared to listen. Why? I don't know. What I do know is that eventually they made me borrow this album. Thank God.

The album begins with an untitled intro of guitar noise, only to fade into the genius "The Weapon That I Used." A song so wonderful that by the time it is over, you can't help, but feel like you are listening to something revolutionary. This album is rebellion. This album is confusion. This album is punk rock.

After blasting through the trashy chaos of "A Payola Granola," we reach "The Fax of Life," a song that sounds like a combination of a Lennon tune off of the white album and a song from the unreleased 1967 Beach Boys album, "Smile." Once you have mellowed out for one minute and thirty-eight seconds, you are bombarded with the onslaught of "Hate Now," a track that sounds like it is the older, cooler and tougher brother of a tune off of Jawbreaker's 1994 release, "Unfun."

I could go on and explain how superb each track is, but then where would be the fun in that? I've already went through the first five tracks, I don't want to ruin the album for you. However, I will tell you that the album only gets better as it progresses. From the interesting lyrics of "Beatleloser" to the strange kazoo solo in "Tank Bikini," this album never
disappoints. The final track, "Soviet Brain II" is a wonderful soundscape which again brings the Beatles' white album to mind, but this time in some strange cocktail with Sonic Youth's underappreciated 1994 release, "Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star."

The opening of my review said that this album changes lives, but I have failed to give examples. One example would be that before my friend heard this album and band, they didn't quite appreciate the raw/beautiful honesty captured in lo-fi recordings such as this album (which by the way is one of the best sounding albums I have ever heard) and they now run a recording studio where they strive to make recordings as superb as this.

Another example could be that this album gave me hope. Hope for modern music, hope for the future. The Slats are everything that music should strive to be. Raw, honest, simple, sweet, intelligent, beautiful and bad ass. Buy this album now or live to regret it.

Since Amazon doesn't have the tracklisting, here you go:
01 -
02 - The Weapon That I Used
03 - A Payola Granola
04 - The Fax Of Life
05 - Hate Now
06 - Diatomic
07 - Rocket Reds
08 - Exit The Green Gable
09 - Beatleloser
10 - Obliterate These Beats
11 - Tank Bikini
12 - Momentum Magnetation Machine
13 - You Ruined A Good Idea
14 - Soviet Brain II

Also, this album was released in 2002 on the Tyros Label.
For more info on the Slats, check out their website:
http://www.theslats.com

Average customer rating: You can get all these tracks, and 25 more, for the same price elsewhere

A Treasury of Golden Hymns The Great Plains Chorale Manufacturer: St. Clair Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Gospel | Compilations | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00092ZM2A Release Date: 2005-04-29

Tracks:

1. Amazing Grace
2. Blessed Assurance
3. Great Is Thy Faithfulness
4. Rock of Ages
5. Savior Like a Shepherd He Leads Us
6. Love Divine
7. Love Lifted Me
8. Lord Is My Shepherd, I'll Not Want
9. Trust and Obey
10. Wonderful Words of Life
11. There Is a Name I Love to Hear
12. Blessed Redeemer
13. Whiter Than Snow
14. What a Friend We Have in Jesus
15. Come Ye Sinners Poor and Needy
16. O Perfect Love
17. O Love That Will Not Let Me Go
18. Revive Us Again
19. Since Jesus Came into My Heart
20. Jesus Paid It All
21. No Not One
22. We Are Marching on to Zion
23. Take the Name of Jesus with You
24. Tell Me the Story of Jesus
25. Victory in Jesus

Tracks:

1. All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name
2. Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
3. To God Be the Glory
4. O Worship the King
5. All Creatures of Our God and King
6. Alleluia Sing to Jesus
7. This Is My Father's World
8. I Know Who I Believed
9. Spirit of God Descend Upon My Heart
10. Sing Praises to God Who Reigns Above
11. I Must Tell Jesus
12. We Gather Together
13. Lift Every Voice and Sing
14. I Sing the Mighty Power of God
15. Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross
16. More Love to Thee O Christ
17. Near to the Heart of God
18. There Is a Wideness in God's Mercy
19. Rejoice Ye Pure Heart
20. Praise Him, Praise Him
21. Face to Face with Christ Our Savior
22. Abide with Me
23. Come Christians Join and Sing
24. When We All Get to Heaven
25. My Jesus I Love Thee

Tracks:

1. Mighty Fortress Is Our God
2. Holy Holy Holy
3. Crown Him with Many Crowns
4. Old Rugged Cross
5. Fairest Lord Jesus
6. Immortal Invisible
7. O God Our Hope in Ages Past
8. Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
9. Come Thou Font of Every Blessing
10. Grace Greater Than All Our Sins
11. Sweet Hour of Prayer
12. Church's One Foundation
13. All That Thrills My Soul
14. Guide Me Oh Thou Great Jehovah
15. Now We Thank Thee All Our Lord
16. Redeemed
17. Room at the Cross
18. Stand Up Stand Up for Jesus
19. Onward Christian Soldiers
20. All the Way My Savior Leads Me
21. Were You There?
22. Let Us Break Bread Together
23. Just as I Am
24. In the Sweet By and By
25. There Is Power in the Blood

Customer Reviews:

You can get all these tracks, and 25 more, for the same price elsewhere.......2007-01-25

As best I can tell, Madacy first released the 3-CD box set entitled "100 Best Loved Hymns" in 2001, featuring various artists performing traditional classics. Since then, those same 100 tracks -- same singers, same musicians, same arrangements -- have been mixed and matched into so many other CDs that I keep uncovering them. Some or all of these original tracks have been used in different combinations to produce: "100 Hymns and Praise Classics" (4-CD box set), attributed to 'Various Artists'; "50 Hymns & Praise Favorites" (2-CD set) and "50 Hymns & Praises" (3 CDs), attributed to the Joslin Grove Choral Society; "A Treasury of Golden Hymns" and "50 Amazing Hymns", attributed to the Great Plains Chorale; and "Inspirations: 50 Best Loved Hymns", disingenuously attributed to Thomas Kinkade solely because he provided the cover art. All of these CDs are posted separately on the Amazon site.

The 3-CD set being offered in this posting contains only 75 of these 100 tracks. But, at the time of this writing, the 3- and 4-CD sets containing the full 100 tracks can be purchased for the same price as this smaller set -- perhaps for even less on Amazon Marketplace. Thus, it makes sense to buy one of those 100-track sets (e.g., "100 Best Loved Hymns") rather than this smaller collection.

Regarding the content of this oft-released, multi-titled, multi-attributed collection of tracks, the hymns are sung in traditional arrangements, often with a full choir accompanied by a piano or organ. Some are by soloists or smaller groups of singers, accompanied by a piano. If you're looking for a solid traditional presentation of these classics, you will probably not be disappointed. I give the music 4 stars rather than 5 because some of this choral group's soloists on some tracks -- while good singers -- have voices that are perhaps not sufficiently smooth and mellow to allow them to come across well as soloists on a recording.

Music Album:

1. Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 [Limited Edition]
2. Greenback Dollar: 1929-1933
3. Guess Things Happen That Way
4. Guitar Retrospective
5. Here Come the Derailers
6. High & Dry
7. High Lonesome Cowboy
8. Hillbilly Hero [Box set]
9. Honky Tonk Angel [Import]
10. Hoppy, Gene and Me

Music Album