No Rules [Import]

1. Life After

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5. Hyperactive

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9. Overdose

No Rules,Gms,3d,World Music

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My favorite band in 1992

Just Missed It

DIRE

Best recording on a cd I have ever heard!

No Rules
Kik Tracee
Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000008HAH
Release Date: 1991-05-14

Tracks:

Don't Need Rules
Mrs. Robinson
You're So Strange
Trash City
Hard Time
Big Western Sky
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Customer Reviews:

My favorite band in 1992.......2007-04-21

I first noticed Kik Tracee when their video "No Rules" aired on the MTV show Headbangers Ball in 1991. The song is very catchy and had to get the album.

In the summer of 1992, we were already bored with the on set of the Alternative rock bands that had gone mainstream earlier that year. Nirvana was great but every band that followed just didn't cut it for us.

That summer, we stepped back a year and we played that CD more than any other CD. This band has depth and soul - I believe if they would have formed just a year or two sooner, they would have made it big.

I found my old CD tonight...it's a little scratched up but I listened to it anyways. I still remember EVERY single lyric on ALL the tracks. My favorite tracks are: Lost, RattleSnake Eyes, Romeo Blues and Big Western Sky....ahh...brings back memories.

I wish they'd get back together and go on tour because I never got to see them live.

Just Missed It.......2005-11-18

As a huge fan of the glam metal scene, I found this to be a very good album. I sampled it online and I am very impressed. It is a shame they hit the scene too late to break into the mainstream. I'm not sure how they are compared to GNR, but I think they sound more like a mix of Dangerous Toys, Black & Blue and Saigon Kick. They should have made it big.

DIRE.......2005-06-17

Can't compare this with the raunch 'n roll par excellance of Dirty Looks. This is pure crap. No wonder they only had 1-1/2 cd's. If you own a copy I suggest using it for a beverage coaster.

Best recording on a cd I have ever heard!.......2005-02-19

The "No Rules" disc was produced by Dana Strum and I can honestly say that I believe this is the best recording I have ever heard. Well, the first Fight disc, "War of Words" may tie as the best recording along with this one. Anyway, there is an incredible amount of depth to this recording. Really rockin 80's style metal, kind of like Slaughter mixed with Slick Toxik and maybe a dose of heavy Ratt. My only complaint is that the vocalist tends to kinda sound like Axel Rose at times. Excellent musicians. Hard to believe that this was their only full length disc. If you missed out on this in the hair days, then get it now.

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Classic southern hard rock - and as good as it gets...

No Rules
Stranger
Manufacturer: Thunderbay
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Classic southern hard rock - and as good as it gets..........2007-05-05

I had only heard the hit single "3-D" from this criminally forgotten, great band, and always wondered what their other material would be like...

Fortunately, this album "No Rules" has lately been re-released by Retrospect Records - and I found out. The result: almost insane volume setting in my amplifier and Grado headphones. Because this is DAMN good rock! I'd say that if you like Whitesnake, Lynyrd Skynyrd and so on, you will absolutely love this! Bluesy, strong, nicely varying music. There are no fillers in this album; every song is there for purpose. And the best ones... well, let's say that a very much music loving female friend of mine commented: "Absolutely fantastic music!" She was right. One of the best rock albums I have ever heard, rock at rock's very heart...

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Whut It Dew Watts

Playing The Game With No Rules

Manufacturer: Swishahouse
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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Whut It Dew Watts.......2006-07-10

whas god wit da house its like errytime i cop a swisha house cd they don got rid of somebody and added some new niggaz. wha happened to slim thug mike jones magno and chamillioanire bein down wit da house. its all good tho. i fux wit coota bang archie lee and keke dem boyz keepin da house togetha. we waitin on dem solos and that day hell broke loose 3. watts keep hittin em in da head. va niggaz bang swisha house all day

The Stanford Archive Series: Richard Crooks

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Richard Crooks: A Fine Man and a Master Singer
A Richard Crooks Collection

The Stanford Archive Series: Richard Crooks

Manufacturer: Delos Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000072Q
Release Date: 1997-05-20

Tracks:

Die schone Mullerin: Das Wandern
Die schone Mullerin: Wohin?
Die schone Mullerin: Halt!
Die schone Mullerin: Danksagung an den Bach
Die schone Mullerin: Am eierabend
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Die schone Mullerin: Die bose Farbe
Die schone Mullerin: Trockne Blumen
Die schone Mullerin: Der Muller und der Bach
Die schone Mullerin: Des Baches Wiegenlied
Serenade
I Love Thee
Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal
Passing By
Clorinda
L'Adieu du Matin
I Love Thee
For Music
Hark How Still
On Wings Of Song

Tracks:

Charity
The Student Prince In Heidelberg; Serenade
The Desert Song; One Flower Grows Alone In Your Garden
Sacrament (A Love Song)
Prize Song, Act III
Lohengrin: In fernem land, Act III
Carmen: Hier am Herzen (Blumenarie), Act II
Aida: O ware ich erkoren... Holde Aida (Celeste Aida) Act I, Scene I
Elisir d'Amore: Heimlich aus ihrem Auge (Una furtiva lagrima), Act II
Absent Yet Present
Love's Old Sweet Song
Die Nacht
Morgen
L'Arlesiana: E la solita storia (Lamento di Federico), Act II
Comus: Prech Me Not Your Musty Rules
Dearest Maiden, Hear My Song
Friederike: O Maiden, My Maiden
O Perfect Love
For You With Love
Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (Cantata 147, No. 10)
The Americans Come
The Americans Come
De Camptown Races
Beautiful Dreamer

Customer Reviews:

Richard Crooks: A Fine Man and a Master Singer.......2006-06-23

I most heartily agree with what the earlier reviewer has written of Richard Crooks and of this excellent Stanford Archive set.

The 2 CD set is a most welcome release, and I note that, for now at least, one seller has it available at the bargain price of $14.95. Collectors of the recordings of singers from the early years of last century please note, and snap it up while still on offer at such a modest cost.

These historic recordings have a bad habit of vanishing because too often there is insufficient apparent interest shown by potential buyers. I am relieved to have bought a copy and urge others to do so. Making due allowance for some poor quality recordings by today's high fidelity standards, there are wonderful treasures to enjoy indeed in this set.

A Richard Crooks Collection.......2003-12-06

American tenor Richard Crooks (1900-1972) would have been just another fine opera and recital singer if it had not been for the popularity of a long-running radio program, "The Voice of Firestone," which he hosted for many years. For this writer, the real difference came in the rare opportunity to actually meet the retired singer at his home in Portola Valley, California, on December 31, 1969. A close friend of mine had known Crooks for several years and he finally arranged for a meeting that memorable day.

Already, however, I had heard many of Crooks' 78-rpm recordings for RCA Victor. Crooks had retired in 1945, due to serious health problems, but he actually could still sing quite well, as can be determined by hearing some of the rare private recordings of Crooks singing at a wedding in 1968. Those recordings, included in this wonderful compilation, are proof that Crooks still had the same beautiful, lyrical voice which had so distinguished his singing over the years. Sadly, Crooks was already battling the cancer that would ultimately take his life in September 1972.

This two-CD compilation, prepared by the Stanford (University) Archives of Recorded Sound, goes back to one of Crooks' earliest recordings, an unreleased Columbia recording of "The Americans Come." It also includes some of his early Victor recordings. Among these is the "Serenade" from Rudolf Friml's "The Student Prince." (Crooks also sang with the Victor Light Opera Company in some of their medley recordings, which were so popular during the 1920's. One of the recordings is a medley of songs from "The Student Prince," in which Crooks alternates with another tenor, Lambert Murphy, on some of the solos.)

One of the amazing releases in this collection is Franz Schubert's "Die schone Mullerin," in which Crooks is wonderfully accompanied by Frank LaForge. Remarkably, Victor never issued these recordings. The only problem is that there are occasional flaws in the original masters, but the brilliant singing comes through.

Crooks often talked about singing in public when he was only 10 years old. Famed German contralto Ernestine Schumann Heink was present at the performance and, at the very end, she planted a big kiss on the boy, to his embarassment. Crooks also spoke of hearing Enrico Caruso sing at the Metropolitan Opera; he said that Caruso's recordings are like listening to the tenor in the lobby with the doors closed!

There are some interesting curiosities in this collection, too, such as some recordings of various operatic arias recorded in Germany and sung in German, regardless of the original language. However, operas were usually sung in German in Germany in the 1920's and 1930's, so Crooks was simply following the custom of the time.

There is also the double-sided 12-inch 78-rpm RCA Victor "Red Seal" disk that Crooks always said was his favorite: two famous arias by Richard Wagner, the "Prize Song" from "Meistersinger" and "En fernem land" from "Lohengrin." One marvels at not only the beauty and sweetness of Crooks' voice but his amazing diction. His training and experience in Germany served him well.

One of the special treats is hearing two Stephen Foster classics, "De Camptown Races" and "Beautiful Dreamer," sung with Bing Crosby on 1940's radio broadcasts. When this writer met Crooks in 1969, he told how he remained in touch with Bing, who lived a few miles north of him. It's clear that the two, very different singers admired each other and they also had some fun singing such songs.

Among Crooks' last commercial recordings was a new version of "The Americans Come," recorded in January 1945. This seemed particularly appropriate as World War II wound down to its terrible end. Sadly, Crooks' serious illness ended his wonderful musical career that year, but the surviving recordings on these two CD's are a lasting testimony to the abilities of this gifted singer who was also a wonderful human being.

No Rules
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No Rules
Gms
Manufacturer: Efa Imports
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000646F0
Release Date: 2002-05-28

Tracks:

Life After
Gladiator
No Rules
I'm On Mars
Hyperactive
At The End Of A Rainbow
Spliffpolitics
Juice By GMS
Overdose

Vaughan Williams: The Poisoned Kiss [Hybrid SACD]

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Urgently recommended despite some production missteps

Vaughan Williams: The Poisoned Kiss [Hybrid SACD]

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000DIGLL
Release Date: 2003-11-25

Tracks:

Overture
No. 2. Opening Chorus: 'Secret Are The Sounds...'
No. 3. Scena. Gallanthus: 'What's That?'
No. 4. Scena. Angelica: 'Day Is Dawning'
No. 5. Duet. Gallanthus: 'It's Really Time...'
No. 6. Ensemble. Hob, Lob And Gob: 'Here We Come...'
No. 7. Duet And Chorus. Dipsacus: 'I'm A Sorcerer Bold'
No. 8. Duet. Amaryllus: 'It's True I'm Inclined...'
No. 9. Ensemble. Tormentilla: 'Hush, Lovely Cobra'
Amaryllus: 'Desist, Lest You Die!'
No. 10. Duet. Amaryllus: 'I Know We See...'
Amaryllus: 'Blue Larkspur In A Garden'
No. 11. Ensemble. Dipsacus: 'Who's In My Forest?'
Dipsacus: 'North Wind, South Wind'
Tormentilla: Angelica?
Amaryllus And Gallanthus: 'O, Come To Our Arms'
No. 12. Song. Tormentilla: 'O, Who Would Be...'
No. 13. Finale. Dipsacus: 'All Is Ready!'
No. 14. Introduction
No. 15. Chorus: 'Here We Come'
No. 16. Song And Chorus. Angelica And Flower Girls: 'By All The Powers...'
No. 17. Trio. Lob: 'Ho There!'
No. 18. Duet. Angelica: 'It Does Not Apear...'
No. 19. Trio. Third Medium: 'If You Want To Escape'

Tracks:

No. 20. Chorus: 'Tormentilla! Tormentilla!'
No. 21. Song And Duet. Tormentilla: 'There Was...'
No. 22. Ensemble. Amaryllus: 'Twas Here It Bade...'
No. 23. Serenade. Amaryllus: 'Dear Love, Behold...'
No. 24. Duet. Tormentilla: 'Sleeping Or Waking'
Tormentilla: 'You Must Not Kiss Me'
No. 26. Finale. Tomentilla: 'Too Dark For Me...'
No. 27. Introduction
No. 28. Trio. Mediums: 'Behold Our Mystic...'
No. 29. Ensemble. Empress: 'Monstrous Vision!'
No. 30. Ballad. Empress: ' When I Was Young...'
No. 31. Ensemble. Empress: 'You Can Leave Us'
No. 32. Duet. Tormentilla: 'Is My Love Alive?'
Empress: 'Love Breaks All The Rules...'
No. 33. Invocation. Empress: 'Imps And Demons'
No. 34. Ensemble. Empress: 'Come, O Gentle Powers'
No. 35. Duet. Empress: 'Can You, Can You Remember'
No. 36. Quartet. All: 'Love In A Hut...'
No. 37. Sextet. First Medium: 'Horrid Monster!'
No. 38. Duet. Gallanthus: 'It's The Proper Thing To Do'
No. 39. Finale. Chorus: 'Love Has Conquered!'

Customer Reviews:

Urgently recommended despite some production missteps.......2007-01-07

This premiere recording makes some very beautiful music available for the first time. The opera was first performed in 1936, and Vaughan Williams continued to make revisions into the mid 1950s. The music is representative of the composer's mature style. In the opera's later version given here, Evelyn Sharp's original book was revised by Ursula Vaughan Williams.

The Poisoned Kiss is a romantic comedy, a fairy tale about the triumph of true love over revenge. The opera is not through-sung; rather, the dramatic action is carried forward by dialogue in a manner reminiscent of Gilbert and Sullivan or the West End. At times, the witty, good-naturedly sarcastic text and playful rhyme schemes are reminiscent of Noel Coward.

The musicians are just about ideal. Hickox leads a luscious performance, capturing by turn the music's pastoral beauty and (not very threatening) irony. The singers are of uniformly high quality, with the characterization and fresh voices of James Gilchrist and Janice Watson as the young lovers deserving special mention. Anne Collins's fruity, wide-vibratoed contralto at times seems to be a musical caricature, but it works nicely in the role.

The production has two major flaws. First, the sound image is placed rather distant from the listener. I felt as if I were sitting towards the back of the auditorium and wanted to move up closer to the stage. The SACD's surround mode did add compensatory perspective and body to the sound, as well as a little extra punch to the thunder, cat shrieks, and other fairy-tale sound effects. The two-channel version sounded significantly flatter and more distant. Second, almost all of the dialogue has been omitted. It would have been enjoyable to hear the music in its dramatic context. Indeed, the abrupt juxtaposition of musical numbers that in performance would be separated by dialogue and a shift of dramatic tone is sometimes jarring. With less than an hour on each disc (and with singers who display such fine diction and acting skills), this is a major missed opportunity. Fortunately, the dialogue is printed in the libretto.

Despite these quibbles, this set is still urgently recommended!

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No Coast Punk Rock

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Punk | Compilations | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000A297OS
Release Date: 2002-06-03

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No Rules
Michele Moore
Manufacturer: Prairie Wolf Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CAA2LK
Release Date: 2003-05-06

Tracks:

No Rules
Don't Call Me Easy
Still Waters
Something Going On
Losing You
He's in Dallas
Fire in Texas
You'll Be Sorry
Wild Country
I Can't Leave You Behind

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The Downtown Lounge
Dacks
Manufacturer: Dacks
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00030F8QI
Release Date: 2003-01-21

Tracks:

Hear My Prayer
Why
Better Days
Lay Your Body Down
Everything She Was
Downtown
Zackary
Follow Through
Hello
Things Have Changed
Demons
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Frankie Said
Jon Manners
Manufacturer: Rockaday
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Blues | Styles | Music

Blues Rock | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B0000C69MF
Release Date: 2003-08-15

Tracks:

Uh-Oh
Frankie Said
Better Luck Next Time
Lucky Davis
Take it, Jimmy
Ultra-V
Darker than Night
Larry Drove to N'awlins
My Kind of Woman
Shake Me
Way to Go, Joe
The Beast Within
Ideofunk
That Other Guy

Album Description

The new, solo cd from Jon Manners, a roots-rock tour de force, mixing bluesy guitar, sax, mandolin & upright bass in an innovative mix of story telling and no-rules songwriting, "Frankie Said" is sure to touch anyone who savors real songs, written and played by a real artist, on real instruments. Jon Manners will rock your soul. Have a listen...

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