Duchess

1. Diamond Ring

2. Little Lion

3. Left Over

4. Unable

5. Cry an Ocean

6. When the Lights Were Bright

7. Shine, Shine

8. Let Me Gain

9. Not Closer

10. Providence

Duchess,Duchess,Blackball Records,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: denlan Surprisingly, a little disappointing Beware of shorter version of "The Horses" Coolsville is Cool UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!

Duchess of Coolsville: An Anthology Rickie Lee Jones Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Contemporary | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Sermon On Exposition Blvd. [Deluxe Limited Edition --- includes 5.1 SACD version and 40 minute DVD of making the record] Rickie Lee Jones Songs of a Prairie Girl Pirates Magic Time ASIN: B0009CTUS2 Release Date: 2005-06-28

Tracks:

1. A Tree On Allenford
2. Alter Boy
3. Beat Angels
4. Bitchenostrophy
5. Bye Bye Blackbird
6. Chuck E's In Love
7. Company
8. Coolsville
9. Cycles
10. Firewalker
11. Flying Cowboys
12. Ghost Train
13. Hey Bub
14. It Must Be Love
15. Living It Up
16. Magazing
17. On Saturday Afternoons in 1963
18. Pirates (So Long Lonely Avenue)
19. Sailor Song

Tracks:

1. Satellites
2. Scary Chinese Movie
3. Skeletons
4. Stewart's Coat
5. Horses
6. Last Chance Texaco
7. Tigers
8. Traces of the Western Slopes
9. Ugly Man
10. Up From the Skies
11. Vessel of Light
12. We Belong Together
13. Weasel and the White Boys Cool
14. Woody and Dutch On The Slow Train to Peking

Tracks:

1. Sunshine Superman
2. Makin' Whoopee! -- with Dr. John
3. Autumn Leaves -- with Rob Wasserman
4. Evening of My Best Day (Live)
5. Atlas Marker (Aviator) (Live) -- with Bill Frisell
6. Easter Parade -- with Blue Nile
7. My Funny Valentine (Live)
8. Young Blood (Demo)
9. After Hours (Twelve Bars Past Goodnight) (Demo)
10. Easy Money (Demo)
11. Rodeo Girl (Demo)
12. Satellites (Demo)
13. Atlas Marker (Bruce Mix-Demo)
14. Theme from Gravity (Demo)
15. Rondo for 3 Apartments on 34th Street (Demo)

Amazon.com

Career overviews programmed by the artists themselves are generally inconsistent affairs, usually due to the musicians' own eccentricities. For Duchess of Coolsville, this long-overdue Rickie Lee Jones compilation covering the years 1979-2003, she decided to sequence most of the songs in alphabetical order. It's a unique, yet rather bizarre, concept that dispenses with all sense of continuity, either chronological or musical. While this randomness behooves an artist as willfully eclectic as Jones, it also makes for a rollercoaster listening experience. Selecting tracks from 10 albums that alternately focused on folk, jazz, pop standards, and even electronica makes putting together any compilation of Jones's work a tough assignment, especially since each of her records has a distinctive flow. The 34 selections on the first two discs hit most, but not all, of the highlights from her often patchy releases. Disc 3 unearths seven demos, some live tracks, and several collaborations, few of which are revelatory.

Long in need of a sonic shining, these songs sparkle with fresh remastering, revealing production details most listeners will hear for the first time. While not the best or most coherent collection of Rickie Lee Jones's work that could have been assembled, this anthology provides a reasonably good overview of the Duchess of Coolsville's diverse, distinctive, and often dynamic career. --Hal Horowitz

Album Description

Rickie Lee Jones' career ascent began after famed rock front man Lowell George recored her composition "Easy Money" for a Little Feat album. As an inimitable song stylist, she first made her indelible mark with the scat-flavored hist "Chuck E's In Love" from her acclaimed 1979 self-titled debut LP. Ever since, Jones has blazed an artististically idiosyncratic path on a long string of beautiful, adventurous, and personal albums. Her more-than-distinctive vocals encompass rock, jazz, blues, classic pop, folk, and R&B inflections...Textured with fluent wordplay and delivered with true heart, Rickie Lee's sound is one of the most authentic and original in contemporary music.

Customer Reviews:

denlan.......2007-02-13

It's a shame, I wonder sometimes how some no talented singers like Rickie Lee Jones managed to even sing somewhere and have a record company sign them. She's awful, no voice at all. I rated 1 star only because 0 star is not available on the scale.

Surprisingly, a little disappointing.......2007-01-20

Technically, you could buy RLJ's first and second albums and you'd have the best of Rickie Lee Jones. Rickie Lee never again equalled the orchestrated hipster pop of the eponymously titled Rickie Lee Jones and her sophomore effort Pirates. There were flashes of such energy and brilliance elsewhere, but no other album was a sustained success from start to finish.

It was probably a wise business decision for Rhino records to attempt this collection instead of simply remastering those first two masterpiece albums. I don't consider it an artistic triumph, however.

On the plus side, Rhino has equalized or otherwise processed the original material so carefully that songs from different recording venues using different techniques of recording (digital and analog) sound now sound organically whole and integrated with each other. Mainly this involved cutting down a lot of the high frequency content of the originals, rendering Rickie Lee's voice less piercing, but also de-emphasizing the percussion and the brilliant overtones of the guitars. That's not an unreservedly good thing, but it works in the context of making an anthology album.

The alphabetical organization of the tracks does not really work, either. Normally such collections are laid out chronologically, and that probably would have been a better choice here, except that it would have made the falloff in the quality of RLJ's recordings more evident.

The bonus tracks, demos, and miscellaneous on disc three are interesting for the RLJ fan. I don't see them as having lasting replay value.

Listening to this set has lowered Rickie Lee Jones' art in my estimation. I already own most of her records in one format or another. But if this is supposed to RLJ's best, then one must admit that the best of albums like Magazine and Ghostyhead are a bit overrated. Rhino should just get on with remastering her first and second albums.

Beware of shorter version of "The Horses".......2006-11-03

This is an awesome collection of Rickie Lee Jones' work. Of course there are some glaring omissions as other reviewers have pointed out. Still, I would have given this collection a full 5 stars if it had included the full version of "The Horses." Did anybody else notice that the version included on this anthology has been shortened? They have completely taken out the part of the song where Rickie sings "When I Was Young, I was a Wild, Wild One." It's true that she sings this line in the song "Flying Cowboys" as well and the full version of that song is included here. But, I always found it incredibly charming and cool that she sang the same line in "The Horses" and it is a shame that it has been edited out for this release. So, we still have to go back to our unremastered "Flying Cowboys" CD to hear "The Horses" as it was originally recorded.

Coolsville is Cool.......2006-07-30

This album is a wonderfully eclectic collection of Rickie Lee's music from laid back chart toppers like Chuck E to the original rendition of classics like Bye Bye Blackbird. Should be in every Rickie Lee Jones fan's collection.

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!.......2006-06-16

When I heard these songs I felt that there was something missing for me. True, I am not a die-hard fan. It's a shame that Rickie Lee never had the opportunity to cut a jazz duet with Chet Baker. Or a pop duet with Bob Dylan. Their vocal styles would have mixed to perfection! However, all is not lost... hopefully she still has an opportunity to join her vocal skills with the talents of William Hung. You go girl.

Average customer rating: Its awesome but HELP!!!!!!

Mobil Masterpiece Theatre Manufacturer: Delos Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Gershwin | Gershwin, George | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Josephs, Wilfred | ( J ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Similar Items: Henry V: Original Soundtrack Recording (1989 Film) The Flame Trees of Thika The Duchess of Duke Street - Series 2 Fall of Eagles Mrs. Brown ASIN: B000000711 Release Date: 1996-08-22

Tracks:

1. Masterpiece Theatre Series Music, Television Version
2. Theme One from Upstairs, Downstairs - Studio Orchestra
3. Theme Two from Upstairs, Downstairs - Studio Orchestra
4. Theme from Poldark - Studio Orchestra
5. Theme from I, Claudius - Studio Orchestra
6. Theme from Love for Lydia - South Bank Orchestra
7. Theme from the Duchess of Duke Street
8. Theme from the Citadel
9. Theme from to Serve Them All My Days
10. Theme from the Irish R.M.
11. Theme One from the Jewel in the Crown
12. Theme Two from the Jewel in the Crown
13. Theme from by the Sword Divided
14. Theme from on Approval - David Ralph
15. Theme from a Town Like Alice
16. Theme One from the Flame Trees of Thika
17. Theme One from the Flame Trees of Thika (Love Theme)
18. Theme One from Prime Suspect: The Lost Child
19. Theme Two from Prime Suspect: The Lost Child
20. Masterpiece Theatre Series Music, Complete Version

Customer Reviews:

Its awesome but HELP!!!!!!.......2007-05-25

This is defintely a very fine soundtrack of a classic television series.

BUT..... Aaaargh I'm looking for the opening theme not of Masterpiece Theater but of MOUSEterpiece Theater, the Disney show from the 80s, you know?

If ANYBODY has info on the name/composer of the theme plase let me know!!!

It is very similar to the opening theme of this cd, but its not the same...

HELP!!!

Average customer rating: An excellent Warlock compilation! The best Warlock disc you can purchase A Wonderful Recording of The Curlew

A Warlock Centenary Album Manufacturer: Angel Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Warlock | Warlock, Peter | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Brannigan, Owen | ( B ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: The British Music Collection: Peter Warlock ASIN: B000002S5I Release Date: 1994-06-21

Tracks:

1. Capriol Ste: I. Basse-Danse - English Sinf/Neville Dilkes
2. Capriol Ste: II. Pavane - English Sinf/Neville Dilkes
3. Capriol Ste: III. Tordion - English Sinf/Neville Dilkes
4. Capriol Ste: IV. Bransles - English Sinf/Neville Dilkes
5. Capriol Ste: V. Pieds-En-L'air - English Sinf/Neville Dilkes
6. Capriol Ste: VI. Mattachins (Sword Dance) - English Sinf/Neville Dilkes
7. Ser (To Frederick Delius On His 60th Birthday) - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar
8. The Curlew: O Curlew, Cry No More - Ian Partridge/Music Group Of London
9. The Curlew: Pale Brows, Still Hands - Ian Partridge/Music Group Of London
10. The Curlew: I Cried When The Moon - Ian Partridge/Music Group Of London
11. The Curlew: I Wander By The Edge - Ian Partridge/Music Group Of London
12. Bethlehem Down - Chor Of Guildford Cathedral/Barry Rose
13. Adam Lay Ybounden - Robert Hammersley/Gavin Williams
14. I Saw A Fair Maiden - Chor Of Westminster Abbey/Douglas Guest
15. Balulalow - Dame Janet Baker/Phillip Ledger
16. Where Riches Is Everlastingly - Chor Of King's College,Cambridge/Sir David Willcocks/Andrew Davis
17. The Shrouding Of The Duchess Of Malfi - Baccholian Singers Of London/Jennifer Partridge
18. The Lady's Birthday - Baccholian Singers Of London/Jennifer Partridge
19. Pretty Ring Time - Dame Janet Baker/Gerald Moore
20. Autumn Twilight - Frederick Harvey/Gerald Moore
21. Captain Stratton's Fancy - Robert Lloyd/Nina Walker
22. Yarmouth Fair - Owen Brannigan/Ernest Lush

Customer Reviews:

An excellent Warlock compilation!.......2003-04-19

Yes, it has the Capriol Suite, so don't worry. However, if your only exposure to Warlock is the Capriol Suite, you will be pleasantly suprised. Warlock's biggest contribution to English music was through the media of carols and songs, and there are some excellent selections here, culled from a variety of sources and recorded between 1961 and 1981.

Ian Partdidge's "The Curlew" is as good a performance as you will find of this song cycle. Also among my favorites are "Bethlehem Down," an utterly haunting & touching Christmas carol; a wonderful arrangement of the song "The Lady's Birthday;" also another carol, "Where riches is everlastingly."

Everything on this album is simply excellent. If you are already a Warlock devotee, you will be very happy with this; if you are just getting introduced to Warlock, you could not have picked a better CD!

The best Warlock disc you can purchase.......2001-12-18

Heseltine (Warlock, as you probably know, was a pen-name and alter-ego) didn't write a great deal of music, and most of it is largely-forgotten pot-boiler choral work. However, he did produce a handful of masterpieces despite a life of impressive libertinage, and these works more than justify his ascension into the elect of composers. This disc offers excellent performances of all the major Warlock repetoire- you couldn't ask for a better Curlew or sprightlier Capriol Suite, and the choral pieces and art songs are memorably executed. There's not a bad track in the lot, in other words, and this is an excellent place to start looking at quite a good underrated composer from a country of quite good underrated composers.

A Wonderful Recording of The Curlew.......2001-03-16

When I purchased this CD I was only familiar with Warlock's hauntingly beautiful, work, The Curlew, and looked forward to more of the same. Unfortunatly, though the rest of the music on this CD is most enjoyable, the mood is much lighter. There are no other selections that stir the soul and convey the depths of sorrow as intensely as The Curlew suite. Still, this a wonderful recording of The Curlew, and I would recommend without reservation.

Average customer rating: BROADWAY: The formative years

Broadway Through the Gramophone, Vol. 2 Manufacturer: Pearl ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Herbert | Herbert, Victor | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Lehár, Franz | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Romberg, Sigmund | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Broadway Through the Gramophone, Vol. 1 Broadway Through the Gramophone Vol. 3 Broadway Through the Gramophone Vol. 4 Music from the New York Stage 1890-1920, Vol. 2: 1908-1913 Music from the New York Stage 1890-1920, Vol. 1: 1890-1908 ASIN: B00005CELT Release Date: 2001-06-26

Tracks:

1. The Belle Of Brittany
2. The Arcadians
3. Our Miss Gibbs
4. Madame Sherry
5. Naughty Marietta
6. The Spring Maid
7. The Balkan Princess - The Light Opera Company, London
8. The Pink Lady
9. The Quaker Girl
10. The Count Of Luxembourg
11. Oh! Oh! Delphine
12. The Lady Of The Slipper
13. The Man With Three Wives
14. The Sunshine Girls
15. The Purple Road
16. When Dreams Come True
17. The Doll Girl
18. Adele

Tracks:

1. Lieber Augustin
2. Sweethearts
3. The Marriage Market
4. Oh, I Say!
5. The Little Cafe
6. The Madcap Duchess
7. High Jinks
8. Iole
9. The Girl On The Film
10. The Queen Of The Movies
11. Sari
12. The Laughing Husband
13. The Midnight Girl
14. The Beauty Shop
15. Ziegfeld Follies Of 1914
16. The Passing Show Of 1914
17. The Girl From Utah
18. Miss Daisy

Customer Reviews:

BROADWAY: The formative years.......2004-09-30

An essential collection for libraries and archives. Many of these shows have never been recorded in any other format but these light opera company medleys of "vocal gems." These antique 78-RPM discs are the predecessors of today's original cast recordings.

The years covered in this set show how European style operettas wer slowly giving way to a more jazz-oriented American musical comedy style. Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, and Sigmund Romberg (among others) were setting the stage for the modern American musical.

Listeners should be aware that all the recordings in this set date from the "acoustic" period of recording and have limited range. The metal horns that collected the sound and cut it into wax discs were not ideal for soloists and worked best with brass and percussion. The shellac surfaces of the pressed records had a hissing sound and the steel needles often distorted the music. The few pressings that have survived in playable condition are gathered here, but be aware these are recordings nearly 100 years old!

Those I haven't daunted are in for a treat, for once you get past the antique sound you discover a wealth or musical material and a glimpse into a Broadway very different from what it would eventually become.

Average customer rating: Finally!

Duchess Duchess Manufacturer: Blackball Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000B5XSWG Release Date: 2005-10-18

Tracks:

1. Diamond Ring
2. Little Lion
3. Left Over
4. Unable
5. Cry an Ocean
6. When the Lights Were Bright
7. Shine, Shine
8. Let Me Gain
9. Not Closer
10. Providence

Customer Reviews:

Finally!.......2005-11-02

A dark, brooding record with hooks and melodies -- Blondie meets My Bloody Valentine with a dash of Cat Power. Singer/songwritery without the cheese factor. Yup, this is one of those records -- a real Long Player with great songs start to finish. "Diamond Ring" and "Unable" get things running, but it's "Cry An Ocean" and "Providence" that have legs. Where'd they come from? A quick Google search verified my suspicion -- these are the same people from Ugly Beauty, who you might remember (if you're over 25) from the mid-90's. Awesome bands, both.

Average customer rating: below average voice and interpretation; admirable program

Women's Voices: Five Centuries of Song Ann Silsbee , Barbara Strozzi , Germaine Tailleferre , Elizabeth Vercoe , Pauline Viardot , Gwyneth Walker , Judith Lang Zaimont , and Steven Heyman Manufacturer: Leonarda Productions ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Gideon, Miriam | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Larsen, Libby | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mendelssohn-Hensel | Mendelssohn-Hensel, Fanny | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Alma Mahler | Mahler, Alma | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Clara Wieck Schumann | Schumann, Clara Wieck | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tailleferre | Tailleferre, Germaine | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Women of Note ~ Beach, Boulanger, Clarke, Gubaidulina, Larsen, Mendelssohn, Monk, Musgrave, Ran, Zwilich The Women Composers Donne Barocche: Women Composers from the Baroque Period ASIN: B000004AF1 Release Date: 1997-11-25

Tracks:

1. O Death rock me asleepe
2. Jubilate Deo (Caterina Assandra)
3. Maria, dolce Maria (Francesca Caccini)
4. Amor dormiglione (Barbara Strozzi)
5. Chiamata a nuovi amori (Barbara Strozzi)
6. Spesso per entro al petto (Barbara Strozzi)
7. Das Gartner liedchen aus dem Siegwart (Maria Theresia von Paradis)
8. Ihr solltet geniessen [from the Singspiel Erwin und Elmire] (Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar)
9. Fr|hzeitiger Fr|hling (Josephine Lang)
10. Fr|hling (Fanny Mendelssohn)
11. Liebst du um Schvnheit (Clara Schumann)
12. Der Gartner (Viardot-Garcia)
13. Mot kveld [Toward Evening] (Agathe Backer Grxndahl)
14. Si tout ceci n'est qu'un pauvre rjve [from Clairihres dans le Ciel] (Lili Boulanger)
15. Berceuse d'Amorique [Lullabye of Brittany] (Irene Wieniawska Paul, pseud. Poldowski)
16. Mon mari m'a diffamie [from Six Chansons Frangaise] (Germaine Tailleferre)
17. Plaintes d'Amour (Cicile Chaminade)
18. F|nf Lieder, Nr. 3, 4, 5: Laue Sommernacht, Bei dir ist es traut, Ich wandle unter Blumen (Alma Mahler)
19. Minstrel Man [from Three Dream Portraits] (Margaret Bonds
20. Infant Joy (Rebecca Clarke)
21. Rogez [from Ayelet Hashakhar (Morning Star)] (Miriam Gideon)
22. I would live in your love [from Woman's Love] (Eichelberger Ivey)
23. I Love the Night (Marion Bauer)
24. Let it be forgotten [from Greyed Sonnets] (Judith Lang Zaimont)
25. Iris [from Four Songs] (Ann Silsbee)
26. maggie and millie and mollie and may [from though love be a day] (Gwyneth Walker)
27. When I am an old woman (Libby Larsen)
28. Andromeda Rag (Elizabeth Vercoe)

Album Description

Neva Pilgrim is known throughout the country for her extensive work with composers, many of whom have written for her. She appears regularly in recital and as soloist with orchestras, having performed with the Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Syracuse Symphony and Clarion Concerts. She has concertized in Japan, Canada and Europe and appeared at such festivals as Tanglewood, Marlboro, Chautauqua, Monadnock, and Saratoga Baroque.

Edward Smith , is known throughout the USA and Europe as a soloist and ensemble performer. H received his Bachelor of Music from Lawrence University, studied composition with Luigi Dallapiccola in Italy, and was a student of Ralph Kirkpatrick at Yale. Mr. Smith was a member of the famed New York Pro Musica from l964-69, was a founding member of the Philidor Trio, and has been a regular performer with the New York Consort of Viols and the Waverly Consort. He presently resides in Verona, Italy.

Steven Heyman studied at Juilliard and the Hochschule für Müsik in Vienna. He has performed throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe and has received prizes in competitions including the Beethoven Competition in Vienna, the Gina Bachauer, Southern International Competition, the Portland [Maine] Competition and the American Music Scholarship Competition. He was the top American and fourth Laureate in the prestigious Palm Beach Invitational International Piano Competition. Mr. Heyman teaches at Syracuse University and Hamilton College in upstate New York.

Recording, mastering, graphic design and cover photo "Lizard's Point, Cornwall, England": Marnie Hall. Recorded in the Chapel at Colgate University, 1994. DDD. This recording is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Additional funding provided by Colgate University. © Leonarda Productions, Inc., 1997. All rights reserved.

Customer Reviews:

below average voice and interpretation; admirable program.......1999-09-29

Pilgrim's voice is without expression or feeling, and unfortunately, is with excessive and unstable vibrato. The selections are wide-ranged and interesting. The program has great potential as a comprehensive resource, but it's vocal performance lacks talent, technique, and interpretation.

Average customer rating:

The Crossing Point Gini Wilson Manufacturer: Music Wizards ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B00023Z438 Release Date: 2003-11-11

Tracks:

1. Mountain Path/Mountain Meadow - Gini Wilson Quartet
2. Tango d'Amour Perdu - G. W. Quartet (with Steve Heckman)
3. The Peacocks - Gini Wilson
4. Satie in the Sahara - Gini Wilson Quartet
5. Aung San Suu Kyi - Gini Wilson
6. Adios Nonino - Gini Wilson Quartet
7. Gary's Theme - Gini Wilson
8. Smith's Song - Gini Wilson Quartet
9. The Fires of September - Gini Wilson
10. Luminoso - Gini Wilson Quartet
11. J.S. Monk - Gini Wilson

Average customer rating: Enough meat for TWO sandwiches Pure Genius

Duchess 33 Mark Nicholas Manufacturer: Dirty Electronic ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music ASIN: B000MX7SA0 Release Date: 2007-02-06

Tracks:

1. Green
2. Backlash
3. Perverse
4. I'm Trying To Impress You
5. Two Sandwiches
6. Little Goth Girl
7. Coming Clean
8. I Wish
9. The Measure Of Pleasure
10. Selective Memory Loss
11. Eine Kleine Booty Musik (Bonus Track)

Product Description

Mark Nicholas is a Detroit-based electronic musician, well known in the Synthpop community as the man behind the band Cosmicity. Cosmicity was active from 1994-2003. Now recording under his given name, Mark has shed the confines of pristine, 80's-influenced Synthpop for a modern hybrid electronic sound; a sound he's calling Dirty Electronic. There's nothing pristine or elegant about the synthesizers and computer-generated noises you'll hear on "Duchess 33". In fact, everything is just a little bit filthy, from the production straight through to the lyrics. Distortion-washed vocals... grinding bass... crunchy drum machines... yet it's all working together with the kind of precision that only well-produced electronic music contains. Fan favorite tracks include "Backlash", "Green", "Perverse", and "Little Goth Girl", the latter of which chronicles the story of a "straight-edge" entering a Goth club for the first time. "Duchess 33" has drawn early comparisons to Prodigy and Depeche Mode, however, like most satisfying new music, it's generally difficult to categorize. A recent fan e-mail to Mark probably says it best: "Dude, seriously... the new songs kick ass! ...it has elements of Goldfrapp, Nine Inch Nails, and even DM, yet it sounds very unique."

Customer Reviews:

Enough meat for TWO sandwiches.......2007-02-08

Finally...after a ridiculously long wait...it's here! Was it worth it? Hells yes! Mark definitely made the right decision to continue his musical legacy after he gave Cosmicity its final happy ending. Under his own given name, the new sound is certainly not worlds away from Cosmicity. As already stated, it's just a bit more dark, sexual, and gritty. If you are really conservative and/or religious, I warn you: this album could be an assault to your piety and could make you want to douse your ears with holy water, or you may be tempted to track down Mark and have a priest exorcize the sick pig. ;) In any case, I wouldn't recommend this for you. But for all of us heathens that don't mind a little bit of kink with our audio lovin', this album is brilliant! My absolute favorite tracks are "Perverse," "Coming Clean," and "Green," but the entire thing is extremely enjoyable. I don't even care much for instrumentals typically, but the ultra-catchy beats of "Two Sandwiches," combined with the hilarious vocal samples, make it one of the album's highlights. The first half is definitely naughtier than the second half. A few of the tracks toward the end could have fit easily into a Cosmicity album (namely, "I Wish," "The Measure of Pleasure," and "Selective Memory Loss").

My one complaint is with the artwork. It's not bad in and of itself. It's kind of fun and kitschy and whatnot... It just doesn't work for me somehow. It seems TOO fun and kitschy and ridiculous, while the music, for the most part, is not. Sure, there are songs about threesomes and the like, but it's not fluffy stuff here. I would have preferred something darker - or even something more minimalistic, like the Cosmicity album covers. But maybe that's just me.

Anyway, the bottom line is that Mark started 2007 off with a tremendous bang and set the bar extremely high for any other new albums. With an album this close to perfect, I dare anyone else to release anything remotely this good!

Pure Genius.......2007-02-07

Track 01: Green
Green is a great opening track it kind of has a certain ambiance to it with the melody in between versus. I think Mark is very strong when it comes to writing good melodies and this track is a testament to that. To me it's the kind of track that goes well when listening to it late at night. I love the lyrics on this track especially the chorus.

Track 02: Backlash
We kind of get an idea of what Dirty Electronic means when we listen to Backlash. This song and most of the album is layered in lots of great analogue sounds. They always have kind of a crunchy or dirty sound to them. The song has a great rhythm throughout. Lyrically this song refers to the response that Mark had gotten with his bonus DVD for his second Cosmicity compilation. I really didn't pay much attention to it but from what I gathered it was blown way out of proportion and I always felt that the content on the DVD was harmless so whatever I liked the DVD and I love this song. The drums remind me a little of Discoteca/Single by the Pet Shop Boys.

Track 03: Perverse
Perverse is a very up tempo in your face song. It has excellent sounds throughout. I think the lyrics are self explanatory. To me it's very Nitzer Ebb. I just love the rhythm. I can see this track being a single.

Track 04: I'm Trying To Impress You
At the moment this is probably my favorite track on the entire record (That's if you forced me to pick one). The melody in between verses is just awesome, I love it. It has a great mixture of analogue sounds. I love the lyrics I can relate to them. Overall this track just has such a nice groove to it.

Track 05: Two Sandwiches
I love the instrumentation on this track. The voices in this track are actually a recording that Mark did while playing a particular online game. I find what the guy says to be a little disgusting. Personally if this song was just an instrumental it would have been great for me. Others might like it more but it's a taste kind of thing for me.

Track 06: Little Goth Girl
What a brilliant track. I love how this sounds. I love all the melodies through out the entire thing. The harpsichord solo and instrumental towards the end of the song is so great. I'd love to see a 12 inch version of this track with that part really being focus on somehow. I would do it myself if I could, that's how much I love it. The chorus is very in your face and I just love it.

Track 07: Coming Clean
In a way this song reminds me of the Cosmicty track Digital Delays because of how the chorus sounds. This song has a really powerful beat to it. I like how it's kind of minimal during the verses then really picks up during the chorus. The lyrics in the chorus are great the. The song overall has a lot of sexual references, especially in the chorus with "I know tonight won't go as planned, but I want to anyway."

Track 08: I Wish
I honestly thought this track was going to be a serious ballad when I first read the lyrics. However it is not but I think it could have worked well as one. I think a lot of people can relate to the lyrics but they describe someone wanting to be something else then what they are but they will never get what they really want. I love the lyrics on this track. Instrumentally I love the bass groove through out the entire song it has a very nice rhythm. In a way the bass reminds me a little of Lie To Me by Depeche Mode.

Track 09: The Measure Of Pleasure
I like how this track starts off then when the bass and drums kick in it gets even better. This song does have a ballad feel to it and apparently an earlier version was a more of a ballad (I'd love to hear that version too). Again another great track. I love the lyrics they are very haunting to me.

Track 10: Selective Memory Loss
This is technically the final track on the record. I've always had a theory that the last track on a record can really make or break the entire record. I love a really epic or really depressing track with very personal lyrics to be on the end of a record. It has a very minimal feel to it. The lyrics sort of remind me of Numb by the Pet Shop Boys. They are very relatable. Overall this is a great track as well.

Track 11: Eine Kleine Booty Musik
This is actually a bonus track. Mark wrote it for a Dodge Ram commercial. It is pretty much an instrumental. I like the instrumentation. The lyrics kind of have a hip hop style. Not really my taste but the track has a nice groove to it. I think Mark says it best by saying he loves a happy ending. I think this is one.

Overall I just simply love this record. It is very experimental. Great melodies through out the entire thing. A lot of the tracks are up beat. The lyrics have more of a darker tone then what Mark used to write as Cosmicity. This definitely deserves a wide audience. It shows a lot of hard work was put into it. You can't really label this record with one genre but I think maybe Dirty Electronic sums it up. BUY IT!!!

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