Sweetheart's Dance

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With her fourth album, Pam Tillis finally realizes the sound and persona she's been groping for over the past four years. She moves away from mainstream country to stretch herself on the Tex-Mex of "Mi Vida Loca," the western swing of the title cut and the folk-rock of the Searchers' '64 hit, "When You Walk in the Room." When she moves back to mainstream country on songs like the album's first single, "Spilled Perfume," and the lovely "In Between Dances," she brings an interpretive subtlety and rhythmic naturalness she never had before. Of course, it helps that this is the best batch of songs she's ever had; she co-wrote three of them and her daddy, Mel Tillis, sings bass on "'Til All the Lonely's Gone." --Geoffrey Himes

Sweetheart's Dance,Pam Tillis,Arista,Country,Country & Western,Pop

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Teardrop Sweetheart Misha Manufacturer: Tomlab ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000PSJCTC Release Date: 2007-06-19

Tracks:

1. Scars
2. Losing
3. Anaconda
4. Weatherbees
5. Summersend
6. Crystal In Love
7. Delovedly
8. The Book Of Glaciers
9. Cruelish Heart
10. Shake a Little Looser
11. Trying

Average customer rating: Excellent! Brilliance from beginning to end. Carla Knows Music! Weird, disturbing, and really groovy Sexuality drips like an instrument....

Happy Days Sweetheart Ethyl Meatplow Manufacturer: Chameleon / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Similar Items: I'm Gonna Stop Killing The Red Headed Stranger Butch Evangelista Scarnella ASIN: B000001A3L Release Date: 1993-04-13

Tracks:

1. Opening Precautionary Instructions
2. Suck
3. Devil's Johnson
4. Car
5. Queenie
6. Close To You
7. Tommy
8. Mustard Requiem
9. Abazab
10. Ripen Peach
11. Feed
12. Rise
13. For my Sleepy lover
14. Sad Bear
15. Bonus Track

Customer Reviews:

Excellent!.......2002-04-08

Every cut on this album is excellent. After seeing this band live I HAD to own the cd. Outstanding! A shame they broke up shortly thereafter, to this day I find myself, and my girlfriend humming the tunes. Ripened-peach, Close to you, Queeenie and Suck,- just buy it....

Brilliance from beginning to end........2000-01-03

This album really should have been big. There's really nothing not to like about it. If I were to characterize it stylistically, I would have to say, "Nine Inch Nails meets the B-52's." The sound is hard but playful, with an abundance of experimentation characteristic of either of the aforementioned bands. Meatplow was also one of the few bands I've heard with a sense of humor that didn't render it inane and an angry edge that didn't render it pretentious or brain-dead. Basically, if you enjoy the kinda-sorta industrial NIN sound but find Trent Reznor's pseudo-spookiness annoying, then this is the perfect album.

Carla Knows Music!.......1999-09-14

I loved this album dearly! "Queenie" is a classic. I suggest that you follow this up with other stuff from Carla B. like the bands "Scarnella" or "Geraldine Fibbers".

Weird, disturbing, and really groovy.......1999-05-04

I don't have a clue what they're singing about most of the time, but this music is just so bizarre and fun! Devil's Johnson, Tommy & Ripened Peach are catchy tunes, in their own seductively perverse way. And "Queenie" takes explicit lyrics to a whole new level. Are these guys ever gonna come out with another album???

Sexuality drips like an instrument...........1999-04-19

I saw Ethyl Meatplow at the second Lollapolluza Festival on one of the side stages, and they just blew me away. It was a hot day, and I remember that even Carla had her shirt off, which is just something she would do.... Anyway, this album is awsome and unique and they have great bass sounds that vibrate your speakers and shake your brains around. I, as does the other reviewer, wish they would do some more stuff.

Average customer rating: An outstanding nineties country album Her Career Album Best Pam Album Welcome to my crazy life! ongoing disappointment

Sweetheart's Dance Pam Tillis Manufacturer: Arista ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Similar Items: Put Yourself in My Place All of This Love Homeward Looking Angel It's All Relative Thunder and Roses ASIN: B000002VO8 Release Date: 1994-04-26

Tracks:

1. Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)
2. Sweetheart's Dance
3. Calico Plains
4. When You Walk In The Room
5. Spilled Perfume
6. I Was Blown Away
7. They Don't Break 'Em Like They Used To
8. In Between Dances
9. Better Off Blue
10. 'Til All The Lonely's Gone

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With her fourth album, Pam Tillis finally realizes the sound and persona she's been groping for over the past four years. She moves away from mainstream country to stretch herself on the Tex-Mex of "Mi Vida Loca," the western swing of the title cut and the folk-rock of the Searchers' '64 hit, "When You Walk in the Room." When she moves back to mainstream country on songs like the album's first single, "Spilled Perfume," and the lovely "In Between Dances," she brings an interpretive subtlety and rhythmic naturalness she never had before. Of course, it helps that this is the best batch of songs she's ever had; she co-wrote three of them and her daddy, Mel Tillis, sings bass on "'Til All the Lonely's Gone." --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews:

An outstanding nineties country album.......2003-12-23

I was fortunate to buy this when it was first released in the UK and included four bonus tracks (three from Put yourself in my place and one from Homeward looking angel), but the ten tracks that form the standard album would have made the purchase well worthwhile anyway.

Mi vida loca (my crazy life) became a number one country hit for Pam. It has a Tex-Mex feel to it and swings along in great style - definitely one to get your toes tapping, as is the next track, Sweetheart's dance. Next comes a brilliant ballad, Calico plains, written and first recorded by Matraca Berg. When you walk in the room is a cover of the Jackie de Shannon song that became a pop hit for the Searchers in the sixties and a number two country hit for Pam. This song is perhaps better known in Britain than America, but it's a great song anyway. The next two tracks, Spilled perfume and I was blown away, provided Pam with further country hits. Four more great songs (They don't break 'em like they used to, In between dances, Better off blue, 'Til all the lonely's gone) complete the standard album.

For fans of nineties country music, this is a truly great album - it sounds contemporary but is still obviously a country album.

Her Career Album.......2002-07-14

While Pam Tillis has produced a string of first-rate country singles, she doesn't always hit the mark when it comes to following through with an album's worth of first-rate material. SWEETHEART'S DANCE is one of those exceptions, however--not only is it inarguably the best album in her catalog, but remains one of the great country albums of the nineties. While her hit parade here continued('Spilled Perfume','In Between Dances',etc.), the album is filled out with equally fine material, chief among them the shuffling title track and the uptempo 'They Don't Break Em Like They Used To'. It's a creative highpoint that she's since failed to surpass.

Best Pam Album.......2001-10-26

This is an outstanding album with a great mix of ballads and up tempo songs. The hits you know and the other songs are outstanding. My only reservation is "Blown Away". It is too lightweight and childish for such a masterpiece album.

Welcome to my crazy life!.......2001-10-19

I liked this CD the first time I played it. I was my favorite Pam Tillis CD for a very long time. There were quite a few popular singles from the CD, but the memorable songs that were not released are Matraca Berg's "Calico Plains," and "Til All The Lonely's Gone." Check out the lyrics on the insert.

ongoing disappointment.......2001-05-31

Put yourself in my place will always be her best album and the one time height of her career. It's like she used most of her most rocking songs (and best ideas) on her first album and since that time couldn't do near as well. How she's made so many lame albums since is because most country folk like constant remakes of past country songs and a lot of slow sappy ballads. Juice Newton did a lot better back in the 80's because she always stuck to country rock and was terrific from album to album and never changed to attract a different audience such as what Pam Tillis has been doing after her first album. On Sweetheart's Dance I only liked four songs because they weren't remakes or slow songs. How anyone could consider this album an equal to Put Yourself In My Place has got to be joking.

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Sweetheart's Dance Pam Tillis Manufacturer: Collectables ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | 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 General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0001HN56I Release Date: 2004-03-23

Tracks:

1. My Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)
2. Sweethearts Dance
3. Calico Plains
4. When You Walk In The Room
5. Spilled Perfume
6. I Was Blown Away
7. They Don't Break 'Em Like They Used To
8. In Between Dances
9. Better Off Blue
10. 'Till All The Lonely's Gone

Album Description

A budget-priced 10-track collection of classics from Pam Tillis. All original recordings.

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Featuring these top-selling hits 'Sweetheart's Dance', 'When You Walk Into The Room' and 'I Was Blown Away'. Collectables. 2004.

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Finney: Chamber Music - Songs Manufacturer: Master Musicians Col ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000004AFX Release Date: 1995-12-13

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Copland: Works for Piano Duo Manufacturer: Phoenix USA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Copland | Copland, Aaron | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00022EW4Q Release Date: 2004-04-15

Tracks:

1. Dance of the Adolescent
2. MUSIC FOR THE THEATRE: 5 movements
3. El Salon Mexico
4. BILLY THE KID: 6 movements
5. Two Dance Episodes from RODEO
6. Danzon Cubano
7. Danza de Jalisco

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Throughout his long and distinguished career Aaron Copland (1900-1990) held a leading position in American classical music. The diversity of his output is extraordinary: it ranges from early avant-garde works to the folkloric and immediately accessible compositions, to experiments with atonality and serialism. Yet, regardless of the stylistic approach, Copland's music, always characterized by clearly shaped structures and easily recognizable and economical thematic material, consistently upholds his highly-set musical ideals. The piano was central to Copland's creative work. He always composed at the keyboard and its sonorities and gestures are clearly discernable in his music. Not only was the piano featured in numerous larger scores but many of his orchestral works were, essentially, original pianistic conceptions written down first for two pianos and orchestrated only later. Not surprisingly, the two- piano versions received several public performances, given by the pianist John Kirkpatrick and Copland himself. Another duo piano partner was the composer's friend and colleague Leonard Bernstein, who not only collaborated with Copland in performance but also made a two-piano arrangement of El Salon Mexico, heard on this CD. Also featured on this disc is the World Premiere recording of Copland's own version of MUSIC FOR THE THEATER for one piano, four hands.

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Chamber Music, Vol. 1 Manufacturer: Sub Rosa ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Poetry | Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000003HHL Release Date: 1994-10-10

Tracks:

1. Strings In The Earth And Air l
2. Dark Leaves
3. Twilight Turns From Amethyst ll
4. Yellow Keys
5. At That Hour When All Things Have Repose
6. When The Sky Star Goes Forth In Heaven lV
7. Lean Out Of The Window, Goldenhair V
8. I Would In That Sweet Bosom Be Vl
9. Sad Austerities
10. My Love Is In A Light Attire Vll
11. Who Goes Amid The Green Wood Vlll
12. Rich Apparel
13. Winds Of May, That Dance On The Sea lX
14. Silvery Arches
15. Bright Cap And Streamers X
16. Bid Adieu Xl
17. What Counsel Has The Hooded Moon Xll
18. Go Seek Her Out Courteouly Xlll
19. Nightdew
20. My Dove, My Beautiful One XlV
21. From Dewey Dreams, My Soul, Arise XV
22. The Flowery Bells Of Morn
23. O Cool Is The Valley Now XVl
24. Thrushes Calling
25. Because Your Voice Was At My Side XVll
26. Stranger
27. O Sweetheart, Hear You XVlll

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Sweetheart's Dance Pam Tillis Manufacturer: Bmg Special Product ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B000066ASI Release Date: 2002-04-01

Tracks:

1. Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)
2. Sweetheart's Dance
3. Calico Plains
4. When You Walk in the Room
5. Spilled Perfume
6. I Was Blown Away
7. They Don't Break 'Em Like They Used To
8. In Between Dances
9. Better Off Blue
10. 'Til All the Lonely's Gone

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Anime Sweetheart Munk Manufacturer: Waxboy ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Euro Dance | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music IDM | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Germany | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B000641DLU Release Date: 2001-09-25

Tracks:

1. Knucklebones
2. Supersonic
3. Deep
4. What We Enjoy
5. Back to Hollywood
6. Lies We Tell
7. Quite Happy
8. Strip It Down
9. Eye on the Brother
10. Creative Destructio
11. Specimen
12. Actua
13. Kick in the Butt Feel

Average customer rating: Gershwin filtered through a modern master not the Finnissy I know

Finnissy: Gershwin Arrangements, More Gershwin Manufacturer: Metier ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Gershwin | Gershwin, George | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Film Scores | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Musical Theater | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004S920 Release Date: 2000-03-15

Customer Reviews:

Gershwin filtered through a modern master.......2004-01-08

Michael Finnissy is finally getting his due, and this recording is one of a number of excellent recent ones that show him at his quirky best. Finnissy has completely rethought these old standards, going much further than simply taking the melodies and inserting new chords underneath them. Some freedom with the rhythms echo some of the grand old piano transcriptions from the past -- an interesting reference and high praise. And the textures here are crucial: all of the piano lines are important, from top to bottom, and Ian Pace's intelligent renderings make all of this audible.

I hope this disc, as well as Pace's other Finnissy recordings, will push the composer's profile even higher. Many of these would make clever encores in the right context. (And I look forward to those recitals!) Some listeners may find it difficult to absorb too much of this recording at once, since it's all quite concentrated. Three or four of these arrangements at one time might be recommended for newcomers. Nevertheless, this is an outstanding example of Finnissy's creative mind coupled with Pace's exemplary artistry.

Sound quality by Metier is excellent, with Finnissy's complexity put forth with wonderful clarity. A witty, enlightening and very persuasive disc.

not the Finnissy I know.......2000-04-13

Ian Pace is a marvelous pianist of the new or old complexity. He has the entire repertoire of the new under his fingers and mind. He can a be a bit passive however in the live performances I've heard in Chicago in particular. Well he is new to the scene. Finnissy on the the other hand has been making constructing,concocting and mesmerizing those who follow this music for quite some time. Like preaching to the already converted. His music taps nicely into post-modernist thinking, the mileau of utilizing borrowed found objects,already in the world- material but transformed and transmogrified in such a way that the metamorphosis becomes something quite relevant,brilliant and unexpected from the materials given, much like Kafka's insect. Finnissy's piano music is quite literally impossible to play, I don't know who can play it including everyone here mentioned. When for instance you have 72 tones against 57, resulting in an asymmetrical odd bit of musical irrationality(at least within the Western canon)who can do that? . The computer I'm on now the Finale software can play that without a flinch. Gershwin here is not transformed interestingly enough, at least from the perspective of Finnissy's other master piano concoctions like the Verdi Transcriptions or the English Country Tunes. Both those works made the materials sink and respond opaquely,virtuositically becoming part of the blizzards of tones, and filigreed moments scouring and traversing the entire register of the piano. The Gershwin here by contrast seems like a tired pianist sitting in a lounge trying to recapture an old dust-ladened flame, Casablanca? .

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