Journey to the Stars [Import]

Product Description
French release for the most popular surf instrumental comboof all time. Remastered in high definition 24 bit. Includeseight bonus tracks, 'Action', 'Stop Action', 'No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)', 'Little Bit Of Action', 'Wild Thing', 'Wild And Wooly', 'Wildcat' and 'Wild Child'. 2001 release. Digipak.

Journey to the Stars,Ventures,Bert,Oldies,Rock

Average customer rating: Extremely disappointing My Opinions Excellent Album Showcases Trios Strengths Adventures in the "Journey" Yes, this is a comfortable sounding release by South

Adventures in the Underground Journey to the Stars South Manufacturer: Young American ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Dream Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Speed Up/Slow Down From Here On In With the Tides Eyes Open The Good, the Bad & the Queen ASIN: B000EQ60WM Release Date: 2006-04-04

Tracks:

1. Shallow
2. Habit Of A Lifetime
3. You Are One
4. Pieces Of A Dream
5. Know Yourself
6. A Place In Displacement
7. Safety In Numbers
8. What Holds Us
9. Up Close And Personal
10. Meant To Mean
11. Flesh And Bone

Product Description

1. Shallow
2. Habit Of A Lifetime
3. You Are One
4. Pieces Of A Dream
5. Know Yourself
6. A Place In Displacement
7. Safety In Numbers
8. What Holds Us
9. Up Close And Personal
10. Meant To Mean
11. Flesh And Bone

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Extremely disappointing.......2007-02-03

Not even close in quality to the band's two proceeding albums, "With the Tides," and "From Here On In," "Adventures etc." is almost painful to listen to at times. Besides the excellent "A Place in Displacement" (reminiscent of later New Order), and the very good "What Holds Us" - both of which would have fit in better in "With the Tides" - "Adventures" plods along with unmemorable songs which are downright schmaltzy at times.

Some songs have their moments and then suddenly morph into cloying melodies (case in point "Habit of a Lifetime"). "You Are One" starts off promisingly enough and the devolves into a rather ordinary pop song. "Know Yourself," plagiarizes The Jesus and Mary Chain's fluffy but infectious "Sometimes Always," and makes it even more fluffy and decidedly uninfectious. The chorus is rousing enough in "Safety in Numbers," but the rest of the song looses me. After "What Holds Us," the album just turns deadly dull.

It's possible that I might start liking more of "Adventures" with repeated listening (and as mentioned above, I do love track 6 and like track 8 alot), but the previous two albums grabbed me right away, and made me into a South fan, which I remain despite this rather weak offering. I'm hoping that the band's next album returns South to the extremely compelling band that they have already proven they can be with the excellent "From Here on In," and "With the Tides." I also look forward to seeing the band live.

My Opinions.......2007-01-25

First of all i would like to start out by saying that this album will grow on you, and is worth the purchase alone for tracks 1 and 6. I would also like to point out that this review is solely based on this album as i have not heard the other two..

I first heard South on Fuel T.V. (for those that don't know is an action sports channel) ..heard two tracks from this album and was immediately hooked.. Upon first listening, "A Place in Displacement" is reminiscent of early New Order, and definitely heavily influenced by the likes of U2, especially Joel Cadbury's vocals.

Anyways, the album definitely comes out swinging with one of the strongest, catchiest tracks in the bunch in "shallow" .. it starts off with a bitchin' drum pattern, some guitar work, and from there takes you right to heaven, with a chorus straight out of a 'Bloc Party' how to rock Indie style manual. Also to deny any Stars influence on track 1 & 2 alone would be an outright lie. I'd really like to see the BSS/Metric/Stars personnel collaborate with this band.. it would be magical.

Track three reminds me of the doves, and the musicianship is fresher than a virgin in a refrigerator. the band as a cohesive unit reaches dazzling heights, (Doves-Pounding) but at times i wish they would draw out some of their compositions, as they are amazing but sometimes don't leave me as satisfied as i would like to be. It seems as though some songs may be too structured, and they should just jam the [...] out..

I love the guitar work on "Know Yourself" and the lyrics are equally as compelling and insightful. gosh i love the end of this song, but again i wish it would go on for longer.

This brings me to track 6, possibly the best out of the bunch. Oh man the feelings i get when the drums kick in with the bass line and that guitar lick.. ohhhhh that guitar lick, its orgasmic, that's what heaven is right there folks, you just got a taste. The chorus is equally as tight, in which the nostalgia kicks in. (Again, heavy new order and U2 sound, yet original in it's own right).

The Opening sequence of "Safety in Numbers" sounds like a Pinback tune with a little "Cure", a Pixies bassline, some Thom Yorke vocal inspiration (minus the whining--"i can't"/Pablo Honey) and a dash of early Radiohead added in for good measure. But it doesn't stay that way for long, which is essentially what i love about this record, These guys were obviously inspired just like any other artist, yet (i'm goin' out on a limb here) they have their own sound and aren't afraid to experiment with sound a little. Their all over the fret board map. Instead of staying in one key, they unexpectedly just switch it up at their leisure, and burst into a chorus reminiscent of bloc party or the doves.. maybe something entirely different (i still can't put my finger on it)..You might see what I mean.

On "What Holds Us", it is almost impossible to distinguish Cabury's voice from Bono. I like the music itself, it's sort of hazy and dreamy, and i love the lead and acoustic.. it's a nice comedown sort of track. A huge contrast between the more energetic numbers. It's also frustrating because i can't figure out what this song reminds me of.. this band incorporates sooo many different sounds into their music.. it's truly amazing. (the end of the song reminds me of "the books").

"Up Close and Personal" borrows some texture and melody out of the Beatles Catalogue, (Abbey Road to be precise).. but then just explodes into a little doves action, back to beatles, then to doves, then some more beatles with added drums, then they just kinda do their own thing.. i absolutely love how cohesive this band is. a touch of interpol sets in before the end, all in all a good song..

"Meant to Mean" reminds me of Mice Parade, especially the female vocals and keyboard flutterings, and the lead guitar (hell the whole second part of the song) resembles a modest mouse tune, probably something off of their newest album good news for people that love bad news ("The World at Large" perhaps?).

The last track definitely borrows a bit from Badly Drawn Boy, a calm, downtempo closer to a truly gorgeous album. Not a note is wasted throughout, and if you like any of the artists/bands mentioned.. then i highly recommend checking these guys out, because there is something for everyone if you really strip down the music and listen.

Can't wait to hear their other two albums, as i myself wanted to hear some more jamming and rocking out..

Excellent Album Showcases Trios Strengths.......2006-08-30

South is a trio from London, England that have been playing together since 1998. Adventures In The Underground Journey To The Stars is their third full album, and is without doubt their most straight-forward pop effort, in a good and accessible way. The opening track is neither brilliant nor irritating and is filled with easy to take echoing vocals, a fast-tempo beat, and soothing "aaahoooo" background vocals. This track shows some affinity with bands such as Doves, Better Than Ezra, and Snow Patrol.

The album picks up with a really strong 3rd track, You Are One, that has a great melody, catchy guitar, and high quality supporting percussion and bass. Aside from the 30 seconds of "subway sounds" filler at the end, this is a song that I can imagine getting wide radio airplay. The music in Pieces Of A Dream shows some similarities to one of my currently favourite bands, Elbow, but the vocals are softer and closer to Jimi Goodwin from Doves. It's a mixture that works really well and makes for great bedroom listening. The next track Know Yourself is percussion-free, acoustical guitar-based duet sung with Pearl Lowe that has a slight slant toward alt-country. The seventh track, Safety In Numbers, has a vague 60's influence from bands like The Zombies or Status Quo.



The clincher is the ninth track, Up Close And Personal, that starts out in such a way that it reminds me heavily of some of my favourite Badly Drawn Boy songs, but then within a minute gains its own unique feel. Although my opinion of this CD seems to change after each listen, at the moment, this is the track that keeps me coming back to have another listen.

The songs on this album are well placed in relation to each other. A slightly weaker middle section is surrounded by stronger tracks, with the best tracks placed carefully at track 3 and track 9. This means that any lulls in the CD are short and the strength of the next few songs brings you back into music. This entire album has made it into my current leisure-time listening rotation.

Adventures in the "Journey".......2006-06-12

South is is one of those great bands that not enough people know about, with their sleepy mixture of downtempo and Britpop. It's a shame that a lot of people say, "Who?" when I mention them.

And their brilliant music continues in their third full-length album "Adventures in the Underground Journey to the Stars." They take tight melodies and solid songwriting, mix it up with some lush electronic backdrops, and produce some truly beautiful music. Yes, it really is that good.

The album opens with traffic, echoing footsteps, a train going by, and doors opening --probably the London tube. Then the drums kick in, a solid guitar riff blossoms out, and Joel Cadbury murmurs over a swirling melody: "Give in to love it's the one thing we have/Hold out your laugh see the beauty within/I know the way but you won't be the first/Don't mean there's no pain.... There must be more to love than this..."

It's a strong opener, and it leads in to a bunch of other really good songs. All types: expansive indie rock that commands "don't take yourself so seriously," electro-tinged rock'n'roll, and some swirling darker numbers that sound like a rainy night in a London park, just as the stars come out.

But the guys also explore some less-travelled musical territory. There's the twangy countryish "Know Yourself," and a couple songs have swirling, twinkly electronica. The album stays spellbinding right up through the finale, where Cadbury murmurs, "One thing after another/Safe in the knowledge that we are flesh and bone/As beautiful as the first day..."

South has only had two albums before this one, but with "Adventures in the Underground...," they reach new levels. These guys can tackle all sorts of music: moody indierock, lush shoegazer, swirly atmospherics, electronic-edged folkpop, and any imaginable blend of the above. And what's more, they can do it well.

If you stripped away the trappings and keyboards, the swirling guitars and solid basslines would still be there. The drumming is subtle and flexible, although sometimes the more prominent instruments make it hard to hear. Most impressively, keyboards and guitars actually seem to melt together until it's hard to tell just where one ends and the other begins, which adds to the dreaminess of it all.

Joel Cadbury's voice gets better with each album. At first he sounded kind of hesitant, and now he sounds smooth and confident enough to tackle the sadness, loneliness, and the love in these songs. "Sing my way through life/Fear it hides my smile/If eyes are windows too/the soul I see in you..." he croons over a driving rock rhythm.

With "Adventures in the Underground Journey to the Stars," South explores new territory while staying close to their electro-edged Britpop. An enchanting, bittersweet experience.

Yes, this is a comfortable sounding release by South.......2006-06-01

I'm not exactly sure I like it as much as their two previous records, but it certainly has a certain amount of their charm and musicianship, it just doesn't sound as sonically expansive as their last two records and I can understand why they didn't do that, but I wish they would've kept exploring sounds since they were continuing to get a more muscular sound while continuing their soft acoustic style on a number of tracks. I'll give it a few more listens and see whether I feel positive about my feelings or not, it's just different, that's all, and not the different that I immediately like.

Average customer rating: A Timely Performance Outstanding; a soon to be classic Uninspired tedium Holocaust Cantata: A Five Star Work of Art An excerpt from my liner notes...

Holocaust Cantata Manufacturer: Albany Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Composers of the Holocaust: Ghetto Songs & Instrumental Works MUSIC FROM THE HOLOCAUST Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps (Oxford Historical Monographs) Forbidden Music: Music from Theresienstadt ASIN: B000031VRF Release Date: 1999-11-23

Tracks:

1. The Prisoner Rises
2. Singing Saved My Life
3. Song Of The Polish Prisoners
4. The Execution Of The Twelve
5. In Buchenwald
6. A State Of Seperation
7. The Train
8. Singing From Birth To Death
9. The Striped Ones
10. There's No Life Like Life At Auschwitz
11. Tempo di Tango
12. Letter To Mom
13. Song Of Days Now Gone
14. Passacaille For Cello And Piano
15. Even When God Is Silent
16. A Child's Journey: An Accidental Meeting
17. A Child's Journey: I Once Had A Friend
18. A Child's Journey: There Are No Stars In The Sky
19. Is Not A Flower A Mystery?
20. We Remember Them

Album Description

The Holocaust Cantata uses the words and music of actual concentration camp inmates to create a wholly original and powerful work. Using material found within the archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Donald McCullough's Holocaust Cantata traverses one of the bleakest episodes in human history. Yet the piece also evokes a sense of music's life-affirming power, even in the face of absolute despair, to express what words alone cannot.

McCullough discovered the material within the vast Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection in the museum's archives. Kulisiewicz himself had performed as a kind of camp troubador during his own incarceration at Sachsenhausen, and, after the war, spent several years interviewing fellow survivors about music in the camps, gathering together the scattered remnants of this music.

As McCullough painstakingly sifted through this material-much of which was uncatalogued-the arresting melodies and compelling testimonies that make up the Holocaust Cantata gradually began to emerge. "I wanted the Cantata to speak with a sense of immediacy," says McCullough, explaining his decision to set the choral texts and spoken testimonies in English, and his hope is that the piece may "transform statistics into people in the minds of the Cantata's listeners, and perhaps be a part of making it more difficult for such a horror ever to occur again." The Washington Post, reviewing the world premiere in March 1998, called it "an experience that should linger long in the audience's memory and should be regularly revived."

Customer Reviews:

A Timely Performance.......2001-11-18

In August of 2001, the choral group I sing with began practicing this work for performance on Veteran's Day Nov 11. We rehearse on Tuesday nights. As we all know on Tuesday Sept 11 the world change forever. Of course rehearsal was cancelled. When we returned the next Tuesday - a piece that we all thought was so powerful became more so. The first song contains the words "the fires burning, the iron furnace..". The paralells to what happened were evident. As one of the reviewers noted " so this can never happen again", well it has, only much faster, in one single day. Hate caused both events. People need to hear this CD and really listen to the words of the songs and the narration, and maybe we can prevent this from happening again and again. A MUST HEAR FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD. The music and lyics came from the hearts and the lives of the prisoners.This is a beautiful tribute to them.

Outstanding; a soon to be classic.......2000-05-04

Beautifully written and performed! This recording and an encore live performance of this inspiring work were downright demanded by audiences after the premiere. I rate it a "strong buy."

Uninspired tedium.......2000-04-28

McCullough has appropriated other people's material, "choralized" it, and appears to be attempting to capitalize on a wave of political correctness to buy himself a Grammy nomination. There are a few nice tunes scattered throughout this tedious piece, but overall the interpretation is lifeless, unimaginative, and uninspired, almost clinical. Here's hoping that victims of the Shoah can find a more suitable expression of their music than McCullough has tried to give them. They deserve better than this.

Holocaust Cantata: A Five Star Work of Art.......2000-01-07

For me, the Holocaust Cantata is one of those artistic representations of that cataclysmic period that evokes an even stronger picture of the horrors of the Holocaust then do many pictures in newspapers and museum exhibits. I think this is because the Cantata is poetry-it's message sounds a spare and powerful truth. I am grateful to Mr. McCullough for his vision and energy in bringing about the Holocaust Cantata.

An excerpt from my liner notes..........1999-11-25

I was present at the March 1998 Kennedy Center premiere of this extraordinary work, and subsequently wrote the liner notes for the CD. Because of the unusual nature of this recording-which I think captures the haunting beauty of this work-I believe that others would be interested in reading an excerpt from my notes on the music. Please note that I am posting this material with the permission of the composer, Donald McCullough:

Notes on the Music

It is well-known that during the Holocaust inmates wrote music while incarcerated in concentration camps. Much of it has since been recorded. At Theresienstadt, for instance-the infamous "Paradise Ghetto"-the Nazis organized an orchestra made up of young musicians who had studied under such luminaries as Leos Janacek and Arnold Schoenberg. Most of these musicians, among them such promising students as Gideon Klein and Viktor Ullmann, perished during the Holocaust, leaving behind but a few pieces, composed under duress and co-opted by the Nazis for their own propaganda purposes. What might they have eventually accomplished had they survived? Such classical music-beautiful as it is-was the product of formally trained musicians. What about the music of the common man-music embraced by the whole community and passed secretly by aural transmission-music that carried with it powerful words revealing different aspects of camp life, or expressing the inmates' innermost feelings, of mourning, or resistance, or patriotism? Was there other Holocaust music, akin to the spirituals that sprang from slavery in America, that spoke with the same startling immediacy to express the agony of the victims of the Nazi regime?...

McCullough's [quest to answer this question] began with a call to Bret Werb, musicologist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, who revealed the existence of the Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection in the museum archives. Kulisiewicz had traveled about Europe during the postwar period collecting and preserving what he could of the music that had emerged from the Holocaust concentration camps, but little was known about the music itself.

McCullough's first task, then, was to immerse himself in the collection, playing through the hundreds of tunes. He was encouraged to find that they contained some compelling melodies, and for the first time he began to wonder whether a choral cantata-perhaps reflecting the role of music in the camps or evoking the daily lives of these people-might emerge from the material. But he still had no idea what lay within the accompanying text.

At some point, someone had added a rough, English-language index to the collection, but the materials themselves were mostly in Polish. Marcin Zmudzki, a young Pole, was engaged to sift through the mountain of texts. McCullough told the translator that he was interested in anything that had to do with camp life, especially as it related to music. As he recalls, "It was my good fortune that not only was Marcin an excellent translator, but also he had a sense for poetry and thus grasped, very quickly, the type of material I was seeking."

In addition to music, Kulisiewicz also collected interviews, articles, and letters that had anything to do with camp life. With this wealth of material, McCullough decided to place between each musical arrangement readings that also spoke of life in the camps. After considering and rejecting literally hundreds of documents, he finally decided that he had what he needed from the archives. But in a sense, the real work was just beginning. "Because I wanted the Cantata to speak with a sense of immediacy," says McCullough, "I thought it should be sung in English. But before I could arrange a single note of it, I needed to have singable translations. Here I employed the talents of lyricist Denny Clark, who at first worked with Marcin, getting a word by word translation. Knowing which words appear on which notes is important in keeping the overall impact of the song." A trained singer himself, Clark was able to make transliterations to ensure that the best vowels for singing fell on the proper notes, all while remaining faithful to the original text. It was an immensely complicated task....

A few words about the structure of the Cantata. As you listen you should not look for a plot, as such. Because each song and reading represents a different person, a different place, and a different time in the Holocaust experience, you should be wary about viewing the entire piece as a streaming narrative. Nonetheless, certain common truths will begin to emerge, and no doubt others will come to you with each successive hearing. Among these is the certainty that these are nakedly honest responses to the most unthinkable of acts. Sometimes the responses are jarring; who could find humor amid such horror? And yet humor-albeit dark in nature-undoubtedly exists within this work. Nevertheless the inmates' responses never sink to the level of triteness. For them, music functioned as something much more than just a light in the darkness; its very existence was a form of spiritual resistance in an environment where such resistance risked instant extermination.

McCullough's hope is that this work may "transform statistics into people in the minds of the Cantata's listeners, and perhaps be a part of making it more difficult for such a horror ever to occur again." In the end, for me, the work flows inexorably back to its source: it is the voice of humanity, crying out to be heard.

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Journey to the Stars Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Corigliano | Corigliano, John | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Elfman, Danny | ( E ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Herrmann | Herrmann, Bernard | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Ligeti, György | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Strauss | Strauss, Richard | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Waxman | Waxman, Franz | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Tone Poems | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra | ( H ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Star Wars | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Orchestral Pop | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000041CG Release Date: 1995-06-20

Tracks:

1. Aniara: Start: Vintergatan
2. The Day The Earth Stood Still: Outer Space
3. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier: Main Theme/March of the Klingons
4. Forbidden Planet: Once Around Altair
5. The Bride Of Frankenstein: Creation of the Female Monster/The Tower Explodes
6. Forbidden Planet: A Shangri-La in the Desert/Garden with Cuddly Tiger
7. Altered States: Love Theme
8. Also Sprach Zarathustra: Prelude
9. Atmospheres
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey: Fanfare
11. The Witches Of Eastwick: The Devil's Dance
12. Forbidden Planet: Robby Arranges Flowers, Zaps Monkey
13. Edward Scissorhands: Main Title/Ice Dance
14. Things To Come: Main Title/War Montage/Pestilence/Happy March/The Building of the New World...
15. Forbidden Planet: The Homecoming
16. Star Wars: Throne Room/Finale
17. Aniara: Kristal

Average customer rating: KEITH STILL HAS A LOCK ON OUR HEARTS The Boston Pops at Their Best!! The Best of the Best Best of the Boston Pops 6th CD!

Encore! / Lockhart, Boston Pops Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Grofé, Ferde | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Sousa | Sousa, John Philip | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Marches | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Boston Pops | ( B ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Orchestral Pop | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Classical Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Celtic Album My Favorite Things: A Richard Rodgers Celebration A Splash of Pops Runnin' Wild Music of the Night: Pops on Broadway 1990 ASIN: B00004KH7C Release Date: 2000-03-07

Tracks:

1. American Patrol
2. Riverdance
3. Mardi Gras (From Mississippi Suite)
4. Song Of The Volga Boatmen
5. Magh Scola (The Level Plain)
6. Farandole
7. Doodletown Fifers
8. A Hymn To New England
9. Sleigh Ride
10. The Stars And Stripes Forever
11. Keith's Introduction To Long Live The King!
12. Long Live The King! - A Tribute To Elvis

Customer Reviews:

KEITH STILL HAS A LOCK ON OUR HEARTS.......2003-01-06

Everything old is new again. Or perhaps that's what the marketing big-wigs at RCA were thinking when they decided that latest CD by Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra should simply be a "greatest hits" package -- selections culled from Lockhart's five previously released CDs. It's a gimmick that works, since those tracks chosen are truly the best of the best: "Riverdance" and "Magh Scola" from the Grammy-nominated "The Celtic Album;" "Sleigh Ride" and "Farandole" from "Holiday Pops;" "The Stars and Stripes Forever" from "A Splash of Pops." To add a bit of freshness, the closes with "Long Live the King!" a medley of Presley tunes recorded love at Boston's Symphony Hall for a PBS special. No wonder he can't help falling in love -- once again -- with the man who keeps a lock on our hearts.

The Boston Pops at Their Best!!.......2001-07-14

This has got to be the best orchestral CD I have ever purchased! My intent for buying the CD was not because of the Pops themselves (I wasn't very familiar with them or Keith Lockhart at the time), but my orchestra had played two of the songs on the CD so I thought it would have been neat to have a professional recording of them. A couple months later, here I am, I know how each one of the songs go, it never leaves my CD player unless I go somewhere (it goes too) and let me tell you Mr. Lockhart is a hottie- whether he knows it or not! Only because of this Cd, (and watching Pops Goes the Fourth) I have bought every other Boston Pops CD conducted by Keith Lockhart. They are outstanding musicians and this is the best "greatest hits so far" CD. It has pretty much 2 songs from each past CD- Tracks 1 and 4 from Runnin' Wild; Tracks 2 and 5 from The Celtic Album; Tracks 3 and 8 from American Visions; Tracks 6 and 9 from Holiday Pops; and tracks 7 and 10 from A Splash of Pops. Track 11 is Keith's introduction to Long Live the King and Track 12 is, obviously, Long Live the King-A Tribute to Elvis which has never been released before. And it's pretty sad I knew all of that without having to look at the CD case, huh? That just shows you how well put together this CD is, with a mix of everything for everyone. From the slow, beautiful "Magh Scola" ("The Level Plain") to "American Patrol" back to "A Hymn to New England" (written by former Boston Pops conductor and composer to just about every famous movie their is John Williams) and of course, their trademark "Stars and Stripes Forever", this CD is perfect for anyone with a love of classical music, or the Boston Pops Orchestra. And their tuba player better watch out- I am definetly going to replace him soon :)

The Best of the Best.......2000-07-26

Keith Lockhart does it again. All of America's favorites on one album plus a tribute to the King. It goes to show what a wonderful and masterful conductor Keith is and what a great orchestra the BSO is. Their finest album with Keith thus far. He truly is one of the best conductors in the business. I highly recommend this to everyone who loves the spirit of the Pops. It's superb all around.

Best of the Boston Pops.......2000-06-25

This is a wonderful repertoire of the kind of music played by the Boston Pop. It's for all ages. If anyone wants one CD that is representative of the Boston Pop Orchestra, this is it! Kudos to Keith Lockhart for including a medley by the King. This is my favorite Boston Pop CD next to "Runnin Wild" and the "Holiday at PoPs".

6th CD!.......2000-04-25

I went home this weekend and look what I picked up! The 6th ablum by Mr. Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops! Great CD, love the music selections that Keith made to put in this one and I loved the Long Live the King! A Slaute to Elvis. You haven't heard anything until you have heard a full orchestra play Elvis Presley music. Number six, and it was great! My favorite piece is DoddleTOWN Fifers, or whatever it is called. The MCV (Middlesex County Vouleenters) are great, and I'm not just saying that because I know Earl, the Music Master for the group, they are good.

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Journey to the Stars The Ventures Manufacturer: Bert ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B00005B1QQ Release Date: 2001-04-30

Tracks:

1. Journay To The Stars
2. Nutty
3. 00-711
4. Runnin Wild
5. La Bamba
6. Night Stick
7. Action Plus
8. Go
9. Ad-Venture
10. 3s A Crowd
11. Frankie And Johnny
12. Action
13. Stop Action
14. No Matter What Shape (Your Stomachs In)
15. Little Bit Of Action
16. Wild Thing
17. Wild And Wooly
18. Wildcat
19. Wild Child

Album Description

French release for the most popular surf instrumental comboof all time. Remastered in high definition 24 bit. Includeseight bonus tracks, 'Action', 'Stop Action', 'No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)', 'Little Bit Of Action', 'Wild Thing', 'Wild And Wooly', 'Wildcat' and 'Wild Child'. 2001 release. Digipak.

Average customer rating: Not a good source for the "Hetty Winthrop" theme Nigel Hess: The Winds of Power / Nigel Hess, London SO Winds

Hess: Winds of Power, etc. Manufacturer: Chandos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Ladies in Lavender ASIN: B000038I6P Release Date: 2000-01-11

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Not a good source for the "Hetty Winthrop" theme.......2002-03-12

If you're a fan of the theme song of the "Hetty Wainthrop" detective series on PBS's "Mystery!" you might be tempted by the CD cut "The TV Detectives." The theme song melody is a small part of this larger work, but the arrangement just doesn't measure up.

Nigel Hess: The Winds of Power / Nigel Hess, London SO Winds.......2000-06-14

Excellent recording! Uplifting and stress buster!

Average customer rating: Adventures in the "Journey"

Adventures in the Underground Journey to the Stars South ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Dream Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000HEZ8XI Release Date: 2006-10-31

Tracks:

1. Shallow
2. Habit of a Lifetime
3. You Are One
4. Pieces of a Dream
5. Know Yourself
6. Place in Displacement
7. Safety in Numbers
8. What Holds Us
9. Up Close and Personal
10. Meant to Mean
11. Flesh and Bone

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Adventures in the "Journey".......2006-12-20

South is is one of those great bands that not enough people know about, with their sleepy mixture of downtempo and Britpop. It's a shame that a lot of people say, "Who?" when I mention them.

And their brilliant music continues in their third full-length album "Adventures in the Underground Journey to the Stars." They take tight melodies and solid songwriting, mix it up with some lush electronic backdrops, and produce some truly beautiful music. Yes, it really is that good.

The album opens with traffic, echoing footsteps, a train going by, and doors opening --probably the London tube. Then the drums kick in, a solid guitar riff blossoms out, and Joel Cadbury murmurs over a swirling melody: "Give in to love it's the one thing we have/Hold out your laugh see the beauty within/I know the way but you won't be the first/Don't mean there's no pain.... There must be more to love than this..."

It's a strong opener, and it leads in to a bunch of other really good songs. All types: expansive indie rock that commands "don't take yourself so seriously," electro-tinged rock'n'roll, and some swirling darker numbers that sound like a rainy night in a London park, just as the stars come out.

But the guys also explore some less-travelled musical territory. There's the twangy countryish "Know Yourself," and a couple songs have swirling, twinkly electronica. The album stays spellbinding right up through the finale, where Cadbury murmurs, "One thing after another/Safe in the knowledge that we are flesh and bone/As beautiful as the first day..."

South has only had two albums before this one, but with "Adventures in the Underground...," they reach new levels. These guys can tackle all sorts of music: moody indierock, lush shoegazer, swirly atmospherics, electronic-edged folkpop, and any imaginable blend of the above. And what's more, they can do it well.

If you stripped away the trappings and keyboards, the swirling guitars and solid basslines would still be there. The drumming is subtle and flexible, although sometimes the more prominent instruments make it hard to hear. Most impressively, keyboards and guitars actually seem to melt together until it's hard to tell just where one ends and the other begins, which adds to the dreaminess of it all.

Joel Cadbury's voice gets better with each album. At first he sounded kind of hesitant, and now he sounds smooth and confident enough to tackle the sadness, loneliness, and the love in these songs. "Sing my way through life/Fear it hides my smile/If eyes are windows too/the soul I see in you..." he croons over a driving rock rhythm.

With "Adventures in the Underground Journey to the Stars," South explores new territory while staying close to their electro-edged Britpop. An enchanting, bittersweet experience.

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Cosmic Wellness: A Musical Journey To The Stars Manufacturer: Edel ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music West Coast | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000GF94KG

Product Description

The tracks are: 1. Capricorn, 2. Aquarius, 3. Pisces, 4. Aries, 5. Taurus, 6. gemeni, 7. Cancer, 8. Leo, 9. Virgo, 10. Libra, 11. Scorpio, 12. Sagitarius.

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A Journey Within Guided Meditations By Kim Vincent ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0007D907E

Product Description

guided meditation includes 1. a journey to the stars 2. self healing meditation

Rock Music:

1. Joy Enriquez [Import]
2. Kingpin
3. Les Indispensables de Bonnie Tyler [Import]
4. Les Indispensables de Janis Joplin [Import]
5. Les Indispensables de Paul Young [Import]
6. Les Indispensables de Santana [Import]
7. Les Indispensables [Import]
8. Let It Roll: Live on Stage, 1971 [Live] [Original recording remastered]
9. Live Program [Import]
10. Mad City Worship

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