Evil Things

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Texas honky-tonker James Hand sinks his quavering Hank Williams-style yowl into songs of broken hearts, busted dreams, and beer joints where "happy hour" is a long way from happy. What sets him apart from all the other would-be Hanks, though, is the depth of gloom in his songs and the desperate intensity of his voice. In Hand's dark night of the soul, even the uptempo numbers have a hangdog despondency to them that speaks of sleepless nights and hours of self-destructive torment. This is modern-day working-class Texas country that makes efforts by fresh-faced singer-songwriters seem like fabric-softener commercials. It's raw, searing, pitch-black stuff, coming to you direct from some haunted honky-tonk Hades in the Lone Star State. --Jerry Renshaw

Evil Things,James Hand,Cold Spring,Country,Country & Western,Pop

Average customer rating: James Hand American Treasure One Great Singer and An All Around Great Guy Real country here Got soul? Got soul?

Evil Things James Hand Manufacturer: Cold Spring ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Truth Will Set You Free Whiskey or God Tulsa Jones Sings Haggard, Haggard Sings Jones: Kickin' Out the Footlights... Again Carnival ASIN: B00004HYMJ Release Date: 2000-02-22

Tracks:

1. In The Corner, At The Table, By The Jukebox
2. Baby, Baby, Baby (Don't Tell Me That)
3. I Hope She Loves You (Enough To Tell A Lie)
4. Just Not Worth The Trouble
5. Why Didn't You Hold Me?
6. A Night Like Any Other
7. Evil Things
8. The Truth Will Set You Free
9. Last River To Cross
10. Cuttin' Down (On My Runnin' Around)
11. Over There, That's Frank
12. Do You Belong?

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Texas honky-tonker James Hand sinks his quavering Hank Williams-style yowl into songs of broken hearts, busted dreams, and beer joints where "happy hour" is a long way from happy. What sets him apart from all the other would-be Hanks, though, is the depth of gloom in his songs and the desperate intensity of his voice. In Hand's dark night of the soul, even the uptempo numbers have a hangdog despondency to them that speaks of sleepless nights and hours of self-destructive torment. This is modern-day working-class Texas country that makes efforts by fresh-faced singer-songwriters seem like fabric-softener commercials. It's raw, searing, pitch-black stuff, coming to you direct from some haunted honky-tonk Hades in the Lone Star State. --Jerry Renshaw

Customer Reviews:

James Hand American Treasure.......2006-02-06

We saw James Hand in Austin two years ago and he jammed. The albums are the next best thing to seeing him live. Hearing James is like hearing a vibrant burst of the past.

One Great Singer and An All Around Great Guy.......2002-11-08

James Hand continues to define what country music is and ought to be. I have the honor and priviledge of knowing and playing music with James Hand and I consider him a true and trusted friend. Mr. Hand's unique singing style and truly sincere personality fill me with a level of comfort when I am around him. His heart-wrenching ballads continue to make me shudder, the first I hear them and each time thereafter. The quirky up-beat songs get my blood going and make me want to tap my toes. I can honestly say that if you love good country music and appreciate having a man bear his soul to you, then you should definitely consider purchasing this CD or any other which bears the name James Hand on it.

Real country here.......2002-10-09

I first saw James Hand in his hometown of Tokio when I was 18. I'd never heard anything like it before and still haven't. If you close your eyes, you'd think it WAS Hank Williams, Sr. His songs come from a place where not many people can reach, and definitely not a place that those pseudo-country, Nash-vegas pop artists can reach. This is what country music was once all about and still is for some people.

Got soul?.......2002-08-21

James Hand, with his distinctive quivering voice, has created a country music masterpiece. The soul of country music has found its home. I just hope it's not his last.

Got soul?.......2002-08-21

James Hand, with his distinctive quivering voice, has created a country music masterpiece. The soul of country music has found its home. I just hope it's not his last.

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These Evil Things The Meteors Manufacturer: People Like You ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Psychobilly | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Rockabilly | Oldies & Retro | Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0006SSRIS Release Date: 2005-02-08

Tracks:

1. 3 Against 1
2. Dog
3. Juggernaut
4. To the Devil a Daughter
5. Bonebag
6. Lady Killer
7. Breaking the Law
8. No Reason
9. Scream You Fucker Scream
10. Loneliness of the Long Distance Killer
11. When Darkness Falls
12. These Evil Things

Average customer rating: Take a chance on this incredible score! Failed Broadway musical revived 25 years later.

Her First Roman (1993 Studio Cast) Manufacturer: Ducy Lee Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Musical Theater | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Broadway & Vocalists | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: So Long, 174th Street (1976 Original Broadway Cast) Curtains (2007 Original Broadway Cast) I Had a Ball (1964 Original Broadway Cast) Grey Gardens - A New Musical (2006 Original Broadway Cast) Spring Awakening (2006 Original Broadway Cast) ASIN: B00000C2LN Release Date: 2001-05-29

Tracks:

1. Opening/What Are We Doing In Egypt? - Mark Miller
2. Song To The Sphinx - Richard Kiley
3. Save Me From Caesar! - Leslie Uggams
4. Many Young Men From Now - Leslie Uggams
5. When My Back Is To The Wall - Leslie Uggams
6. Pleasure Him - Leslie Uggams
7. Her First Roman - Chorus
8. Magic Carpet - Leslie Uggams
9. Rome - Mark Miller
10. The Dangerous Age - Ron Raines
11. The Things We Think We Are - Ron Raines
12. Her First Roman: Reprise - Ron Raines
13. Parable Of The Monkey - Maureen Davis
14. I Cannot Make Him Jealous / I Can't Help Feeling Jealous - Leslie Uggams
15. The Wrong Man - Leslie Uggams
16. Let Me Lead The Way - Brenda Silas-Moore
17. In Vino Veritas - Ron Raines
18. I Fell In With Evil Companions - Ron Raines
19. Just For Today - Leslie Uggams
20. Finale Ultimo - Ensemble
21. Song To The Sphinx (Demo Recording) - Ervin Drake

Album Description

25 years after this show debuted on Broadway, the two original stars - Richard Kiley (Man of La Mancha) and Leslie Uggams (Hallelujah, Baby) - join a talented cast of newcomers to record the score! The album also restores the original orchestrations - long thought lost - and recreates the thrilling sound of Broadway shows in the 1960s.

Also featured are Broadway stars Priscilla Lopez (A Chorus Line), Ron Raines (Days of Our Lives) and Brenda Silas-Moore (Freeway Dreams), among others.

Customer Reviews:

Take a chance on this incredible score!.......2004-07-22

I'm glad I did, as it definitely now resides in my top ten favorite Broadway scores. It's an extremely variable score, from wildly comic to powerfully beautiful, and that may have affected the show's run, but it works great on your CD player.
Don't be afraid to change the order of the songs either. I start off with 2,3, then 1, etc. In fact, the only song I didn't end up liking on the entire CD was "Many Young Men From Now".
When I read a review by someone, I'm always curious about other shows they've liked, or didn't like, to see how similar (or dissimilar!) our tastes are. Some scores I've enjoyed include: House of Flowers, Grass Harp, Saratoga, Camelot, Purlie, Dear World, Mata Hari, The Life, Avenue Q and Wicked.
Some I didn't like include Bajour, Subways Are For Sleeping, The Seussical, St. Louie Woman, Applause, Urinetown, Greenwillow, Big River, Sweet Charity and The Golden Apple.

Failed Broadway musical revived 25 years later........1999-06-05

This is a true oddity. HER FIRST ROMAN with book, music and lyrics by Ervin Drake is a show with some promise. The rhyming in some of the lyrics is clever, the premise of adapting Shaw's CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA to the musical stage a beguiling one. But this is amateurish from beginning to end. Not able to make up its mind whether it is drama, comedy or low comedy, it is none of these. Uggams is woefully miscast but Kiley does a wonderful job as Caesar. There are only two songs of merit - MANY YOUNG MEN FROM NOW (which should be in every gay cabaret singer's repertoire) and the rollicking I FELL IN WITH EVIL COMPANIONS. The rest range from mediocre to downright boring. Amazing that the original cast members and the producers liked it well enough to mount a cast album 25 years after the closing. Valuable to Broadway composers/lyricists in showing how NOT to write a show. This would have been ideal material for Lerner and Loewe, but sadly not for Mr. Drake.

Average customer rating: What did you think the METEORS would release something mediocre???

These Evil Things The Meteors Manufacturer: 3d ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Psychobilly | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Rockabilly | Oldies & Retro | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B00069BNEM Release Date: 2004-11-25

Tracks:

1. 3 Against 1
2. Dog
3. Juggernaut
4. To the Devil a Daughter
5. Bonebag
6. Lady Killer
7. Breaking the Law
8. No Reason
9. Scream You Fucker Scream
10. Loneliness of the Long Distance Killer
11. When Darkness Falls
12. These Evil Things

Customer Reviews:

What did you think the METEORS would release something mediocre???.......2006-04-30

NOT!The METEORS continue to deliver great music and still sit on the throne as KINGS of PSYCHOBILLY! Great tracks like Dog and Juggernaut and a couple of instrumentals that leave you wanting to wreck it up! A Must Have CD! 100% Psychobilly! If you are into bands like Tiger Amy and Horrorpops with their pop influenced music this may not be for you... Hardcore METEORS fans and true PSYCHOBILLY's only!

Average customer rating: Zappa Lovers ~ TAKE NOTE OF THIS!

The Time Of All Things Alpha & Omega , and The Beast Manufacturer: APG Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Progressive | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000033Z9B Release Date: 1999-11-03

Tracks:

1. SWAB
2. ACTION STRASSE PART 1
3. ACTION STRASSE PART 2
4. IGOR'S BOOGIE PART 1 (VARIATIONS ON THE RITE OF SPRING)
5. IGOR'S BOOGIE PART 2 (VARIATIONS ON THE RITE OF SPRING)
6. MILES OF MILES
7. SEVENS AND SIXES
8. STATE OF THE UNIION
9. SHARKEVILLE
10. THE GOLDEN ROAD TO UNLIMITED DEVOTION
11. JIMJAZZ

Album Description

THE BEAST Progressive bands of the 70's meet Captain Beefheart with a touch of The Andrew Sisters and Stravinsky thrown in for good measure. Filled with satire, THE BEAST is a remedy for all that ails modern music. For seven years THE BEAST has lurked in the shadows, laboriously concocting its multi-instrumental and ground-damaging work of art. The alchemy has been achieved through the creation of "The Time of All Things" (APG Records). Preferring to remain anonymous, the band members are a part of the movement called Music Heard, not Scene which focuses not on the people in the band, but rather the music and artwork that surround it. On one track, the band twists up a rendition of the Grateful Dead's "The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion" that is sure to appeal to THE BEAST within you. Think cerebral, think challenging, and wait for THE BEAST to roar.

Customer Reviews:

Zappa Lovers ~ TAKE NOTE OF THIS!.......2004-01-01

I stumbled across this disc, and was curious of a 'Zappa smell' emanating from a certain song title in the list and decided to give it a shot. As a lifelong Zappaphile, I can tell you we are still living in a world of hope. New artists of a younger generation feel compelled to do homage to a man who died too young. This group have studied the Master well, and definitely a KEEPER in my collection! I wonder if they've recorded other discs?

Hmmmmm. Methinks I better get on Goggle & look 'em up...

Average customer rating: Intense Stories without an overwhelming orchestra background A TOP NOTCH HORROR EXTRAVEGANZA

Little Evil Things, Volume III Frank Macchia and Tracy London Manufacturer: Little Evil Things ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Soundtracks | Indie Music | Stores | Music Spoken Word | Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Little Evil Things, Volume I: Audio Horror Stories with Music Accompaniment (Little Evil Things) Little Evil Things, Volume II: Audio Horror Stories with Music Accompaniment (Little Evil Things) ASIN: B00000K51A Release Date: 1999-09-01

Tracks:

1. Bured Alive
2. It's a Boy
3. Freaked Out
4. Dolls
5. Potion
6. Buried Alive - Music Only

Album Description

Audio horror stories with continuous music underscore.

Customer Reviews:

Intense Stories without an overwhelming orchestra background.......1999-10-04

A collection of intense scary stories that are accompanied with an orchestral background. Great for the scary story reader (not for children under 14). I personlly give this CD a five star rating. Very well put together.

A TOP NOTCH HORROR EXTRAVEGANZA.......1999-09-09

Have you ever read a book that was so engrossing that you couldn't put it down? You had to read it from cover to cover. The stores in this Cd have the same effect.

My favorite story is the first one in which the man learns he is buried alive and after struggling for what seems hours he escapes his coffin prison only to meet a twist of fate he did not count on. The special music recorded in Russia by a full symphony orchestra drives the horror of this mans delima home. The narration by Jim McDonnell is especially effective.

I highly reccommend "Little Evil Things" Vol. 3. Listen to it when your ready for bed and I guarantee you won't sleep well but you won't care either. It's a fun trip.

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Sex, Drugs, Dope, Murder, Mayhem... the United Ii Tour This Fall Featuring Pigface "The Wildest Line-up Ever", Dope, Professional Murder Music, Rachel Stamp & Video Screenings... in the Chill Out Room: Diablo Syndrome and in Selected Cities Dj Linux (Chris Haskett of Rollins Band) & More! Free Admission to the First 10 Girls Dressed Like This? This Cd Also Features Music From Many More Artists! Underground Inc. The United Ii Tour Cd Compilation Companion Underground Inc. , Martin Atkins , Pigface , Dope , Professional Murder Music , Rachel Stamp , DJ Linux , Diablo Syndrome , Hate Dept. , and Slick Idiot Manufacturer: Underground Inc. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music | Goth | Industrial ASIN: B000RLI6WG

Product Description

Track List: 1. Pigface - "Insect Suspect"; 2. Dope - "Bitch"; 3. Professional Murder Music - "Don't Stop"; 4. Rachel Stamp - "Black Cherry"; 5. Pigface - "Mind Your Own Business"; 6. Dope - "Motivation"; 7. DJ Linux - "Return of the Geary Act"; 8. Diablo Syndrome - "Leichen Washen"; 9. Hate Dept. - "Do It For Money"; 10. Slick Idiot - "Lazy (radio edit)"; 11. Chemlab - "Binary Nation (Acu-crack mix)"; 12. Tanzwut - "Gnade"; 13. Tub Ring - "Invalid"; 14. DJ? Acucrack - "Renegade DJ"; 15. My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - "Asylum Disciple (Subgenius remix); 16. Bile - "Sex Reflex"; 17. KMFDM - "WWIII"; 18. Nocturne - "Whore (The Big Fat Whore on Dope remix)"; 19. More Machine Than Man - "Why?"; 20. Railer - "Blues Versus the Stars". Limited Edition Compilation CD created by Martin Atkins, More Machine Than Man, and Underground Inc for Underground Inc.

Average customer rating: A FANTASTIC RECORDING Fantastic Avant Garde!

Rorem: Organ Works Manufacturer: Delos Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000006WZ Release Date: 1992-12-11

Tracks:

1. A Quaker Reader: First-Day Thoughts
2. A Quaker Reader: Mary Dyer Did Hand As A Flag...
3. A Quaker Reader: Evidence Of Things Not Seen
4. A Quaker Reader: There Is A Spirit That Delights To Do No Evil
5. A Quaker Reader: The World Of Silence
6. A Quaker Reader: Bewitching Attire Of The Most Charming Simplicity...
7. A Quaker Reader: A Secret Power
8. A Quaker Reader: No Darkness At All...
9. A Quaker Reader: One Sigh Rightly Begotten
10. A Quaker Reader: Return Home To Within
11. A Quaker Reader: Ocean Of Light
12. Views From The Oldest House: Sunrise On Sunset Hill
13. Views From The Oldest House: Elms
14. Views From The Oldest House: The Nest In Old North Church
15. Views From The Oldest House: Spires
16. Views From The Oldest House: Rain Over The Quaker Graveyard
17. Views From The Oldest House: Sunday Night

Customer Reviews:

A FANTASTIC RECORDING.......2005-07-02

Top notch music played impeccably by one of the 20th century's greatest organists. Highly recommended to add to your Rorem collection, or as an introduction.

I would have to disagree with another reviewer who finds "Views from the Oldest House" inferior. It's just different. Unless slightly more accessible is inferior.

I would have to agree that the organ isn't all that satisfying. It's rather brittle to the point of not musical, in addition to what the other reviewer said. However, it certainly has clarity, if you want to study the score, and certainly Crozier does a good job overcoming the instrument's restraints.

I also would give the recording five stars, except for the organ. Five stars for the performance, though!

Fantastic Avant Garde!.......2004-03-08

This CD is such a delight!

Ned Rorem is one of America's foremost contemporary classical composers. This compact disc displays his most spiritual and mystical work: "A Quaker Reader," wich teaches us great lessons in the Anglo-American spirituality of the Quakers. The music though is not in Quaker style. It's in Ned Rorem style, that is to say a great and ellaborate world of sounds, simplistic as well as highly complex. Titles such as: "A Secret Power" and "Mary Dyer did hang as a flag" reveal to us that Rorem had something diffrent to tell than most other composers.
The latter is a very strange piece of music wich tells the story of a Quaker who is hung on the gallows. The tundering reverbs in the pedals illustrate the spastic shaking of the feet of Mary Dyer (what an idea!).

The second work that can be heard is "Views from the Eldest house". Though somewhat inferior in comparison to "A Quaker Reader", it are some nice paintings of the setting of the rural American country life.

Catherine Crozier has a great and almost perfect way of performing. Every note is hit with an exact ammount of precision. Although Crozier has long passed her seventies, she plays like a bazooka! There's not a passage that's to agressive for her, nor a passage where she laks in overall balance.

It would have rated this CD with 5 stars if it weren't for the lousy organ itself. The music gets much to flat, crushing the entire imagination of the listener. Sounds drown in themselves and other chords, chamades are to much on the foreground and don't even get me started about the Pedal-organ! it is way to soft to compete with the music on the manuals (no 32's!).

I still think you should buy this CD. Just imagine Crozier playing on an Aeolian-Skinner or a Fisk organ instead of a Moller organ....

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Little Evil Things, Vol. 2 Frank Macchia and Tracy London Manufacturer: Little Evil Things ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Spoken Word | Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music ASIN: B0006SGA14 Release Date: 2000-08-15

Tracks:

1. Thing in the Jar
2. Sisters
3. It's in the Water
4. Blubb

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Little Evil Things, Vol. 1 Frank Macchia & Tracy London Manufacturer: Little Evil Things ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00066FMIS Release Date: 2000-08-15

Tracks:

1. Transformation
2. Little Evil Thing
3. Quiet Child
4. It's After Me!
5. Parasites

Product Description

Take a trip with us the the darkest side of horror you can imagine. Award winning film composer Frank Macchia and writer Tracy London have created a new concept in terror, inspired by the classic hoor radio shows of the 1940's. They have created a series of short horror stories on compact disc combined with modern music and sound design immersing the listener in an imaginative, horrifying experience that is spellbinding.

Music Album:

1. Family Tree [Import]
2. Fiddle Fatale
3. Finer Thing
4. Forget About It
5. Free Sailin' [Import]
6. George Jones
7. Golden Road
8. Grey Eagle
9. hands of time
10. Hello, Walls [Import]

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