Catalyst [Import]

Product Description
UK pressing of the pop-punk act's 2004 album includes two bonus tracks, 'Radio Adelaide' & 'Constant Static'. Universal.

Catalyst,A New Found Glory,Universal,Emo,Post-Hardcore,Punk-Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: not much new to be said...but this IS a great album theyre a 3 star band. bottom line My favorite by NFG all hail to New found glory!!! Chad Gilbert should be gravely ashamed of himself

Catalyst New Found Glory Manufacturer: Drive-Thru ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Emo | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk-Pop | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Post Hardcore | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Sticks and Stones New Found Glory Coming Home Nothing Gold Can Stay All Killer No Filler ASIN: B00020W0UQ Release Date: 2004-05-18

Tracks:

1. Intro
2. All Downhill From Here
3. This Disaster
4. Truth Of My Youth
5. I Don't Wanna Know
6. Your Biggest Mistake
7. Doubt Full
8. Failure's Not Flattering
9. Over The Head, Below The Knees
10. Ending In Tragedy
11. At Least I'm Known For Something
12. I'd Kill To Fall Asleep
13. No News Is Good News
14. Who Am I

Customer Reviews:

not much new to be said...but this IS a great album.......2006-11-20

I've always been a fan of New Found Glory, since nothing gold can stay to coming home. They're never let me down and every CD is different and great. Though this album may sound a little bit higher pitched than past albums, it is in no way worse. Almost every song on the album is great and I listen to it often.

theyre a 3 star band. bottom line.......2006-07-29

i say this...because...while they can be musically powerful...the vocals have always been..and will probably always will be...a little weak. sounds like hes trying to force too much sound out of his mouth and some goes out of his nose. it gets annoying, no matter how catchy the song is. this is one of those bands that will have a constant 16 year old fan base. i remember when i got their first album...it was ok. got their seecond album thinking..."hey...they can only get better" but..they just got more experienced and not much better. this album would have been so much better if he took some voice lessons. whining aint so hot no more.

My favorite by NFG.......2006-06-13

New Found Glory is a great band, and I don't want to hear those stupid people getting all "This isn't punk." Anyway, NFG has been changing and I personally like it. It seems to me that they get better with each album. I originally ignored New Found Glory because I had that same narrow minded idea toward "what's punk and what isn't" But after I heard "No News is Good News" on Warped Tour 2004, I loved it. I loved it so much that I went out and bought the album and admitted I liked pop punk. I changed and am glad I did as I can now own a better variety of punk. Yes, I think this is punk. And if it isn't, oh well! I stille like it. Hey world! I like New Found Glory!!! Quit being closed minded and try this!!!

all hail to New found glory!!!.......2006-06-07

this cd top to bottom was a joy to listen to, as soon as I popped it in I was instantly grabbed by the music and awesome singing. sure I agree that the singers voice is not so great at times, but I have long given up on talented singers. singing has nothing to do with if the song sounds good or not. trust me. New Found Glory constantly comes up with reasons for their fans to keep interest in them even long after their best albums have been released. if you want a fun cd to sing along to that will allow you to once again enjoy new music, then this cd is for you. if you want to be a hateful dissapointed bashful fan, then go listen to fall out boy... or panic at the disco. New found glory delivers with this new and fresh album, and its nothing short of fun and entertaining... certainly an album to brag about for months.... so take it from me, its much better than you think

Chad Gilbert should be gravely ashamed of himself.......2006-02-25

I write this review only because I am a hardcore patriot and I am thoroughly disgusted by the very idea that this album has ears in the hardcore community. Listening to this makes me think I have Barney, The Wiggles, The teletubbies, and all the mouseketeers in the same room singing happy joyous songs that numb my brain to a point where I want to rip it out of my skull and stomp on it. Chad Gilbert might as well be wearing the Big Bird suit and helping young kids learn their ABC's, what happened to lyrics like "This ones for the world, I HATE YOU!" That's right all you Shai Hulud fans that might like this garbage Chad Gilbert helped engineer those lyrics and belted them out to hardcore kids across the nation before he decided to join Romper room and play hopskotch with his friends in New found glory. If your a hardcore kid and you listen to this stuff than you should be ashamed to call yourself hardcore. Do not use the excuse that Chad Gilbert is the guitarist and that makes it okay; if a bunch of your friends tell you to jump off of a bridge does that mean you do it? I would hope not. Attn all hardcore faithful: If you listen to this stuff, please for the love of the hardcore scene, please stop. Leave New Found Glory for sound bites on nickolodean and PBS kids, okay.
P.S. I rate this 1 star because the rating system does not include negative numbers.

Average customer rating: Awesome New Band

Catalyst A Dark Halo Manufacturer: Heavy Armor Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Alternative Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Alt Industrial | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Hypersensitive Passenger ASIN: B000JJSJB4 Release Date: 2006-11-07

Tracks:

1. Burn It All
2. Beyond Recall
3. Dust and Ashes
4. Silence
5. Formatting...
6. Nucleus
7. Apex Realized
8. Unbreakable

Customer Reviews:

Awesome New Band.......2006-11-14

This group refreshingly combines heavy metal with techno, orchestral strings, awesome drum work, and an intriguing mix of vocals to create a great new genre for the heavy metal fan. This group out of Arizona has been working diligently in the studio for over a year creating their own brand of music. Their debut gig in Tempe was artfully and professionally done. Great sound guys! Love the album and expect to hear more great things from you! Can't wait for the first tour!!

Average customer rating: AWESOME!!! electic jazz/funk at it's best Eclecticism that works

Funkiest Band You Never Heard Catalyst Manufacturer: 32. Jazz Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Acid Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000I9L2 Release Date: 1999-03-16

Tracks:

1. Ain't It The Truth
2. East
3. Catalyst Is Coming
4. Jabali
5. New-Found Truths
6. Salaam
7. A Country Song
8. Little Miss Lady
9. Maze
10. Athene
11. Mail Order
12. Shorter Street

Tracks:

1. The Demon Pt. 1
2. The Demon Pt. 2
3. A Tear And A Smile
4. Fifty Second Street Boogie Down
5. Suite For Albeniz
6. A Prayer Dance
7. Bahia
8. Perception
9. Uzuri
10. Celestial Bodies
11. Ile Ife
12. Got To Be There

Amazon.com

Talk about buried treasure. Catalyst's The Funkiest Band You Never Heard, a two-disc reissue, is a long-overdue reintroduction to a mostly forgotten Philadelphia quartet whose four early-'70s albums bridged the gap between avant-garde jazz and funk and soul with delicious ease. Containing the albums Catalyst, Unity, A Tear and A Smile, and Perception, the two-disc set does have occasional moments when things sound a bit old-fashioned--like on the set's very first track, "Ain't It the Truth," or the very last, a forgettable cover of the Jackson Five's "Got to Be There". But in between, things mostly sound dated in the best way: this is the '70s, sure, but it's the '70s of the far-out electrified funk of Miles Davis, the avant-groove of Herbie Hancock's Sextant, the experimentalism of early Weather Report, the Eastern leanings of Yusef Lateef (especially on Odean Pope's oboe solo on "East"), and the funky soul of Stevie Wonder. Saxophonist Pope and pianist Eddie Green were both standout players, but what comes across on lengthy jams like "Celestial Bodies" and "Perception" is an unshakable feeling of group chemistry and adventurous risk-taking that makes the music here sound remarkably fresh and farsighted. --Ezra Gale

Customer Reviews:

AWESOME!!!.......2004-07-15

I first heard Catalyst on a rare compilation called "Coolin'", part of the Freedom Jazz Dance series that took a look at 70s funky jazz from the Muse label. Now, thanks to this fantastic collection "The Funkiest Band You Never Heard" I can finally hear every note they recorded. AWESOME!!!

electic jazz/funk at it's best.......2001-04-14

I cannot believe that I haven't heard of these guys before now. Catalyst is this awesome Philly-based band that can play funk, straight-ahead jazz, rock, avant-garde jazz and even some classical. This is one of the best album purchases I've made in awhile and if you listen to Herbie's "Headhunters" era, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, or even Sun Ra; definitely check these guys out. "Shorter Street" is a personal favorite.

Eclecticism that works.......2000-07-06

The early '70s jazz fusion bands not only radically changed the parameters of the "jazz sound" by the use of electric instruments and electronics; many of them absorbed the range of musical styles that were then new to American popular culture, mainly Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, East Indian, and sub-Saharan African forms. This approach reflected the growing sense of pan-Africanist political identity and the expanded consciousness that had come about through the expanded sexual mores, religious and philosophical discoveries, and the use of a wide range of drugs.

Catalyst, from Philly, were definitely in the thick of this eclectic fusion movement, and this set of all four of their Muse albums, superbly remastered by Gene Paul, reveals the band to be one of the era's most-accomplished. The players of Catalyst were slightly older than those in some of the other fusion bands, which may account for their continued use of distinct post-bop motifs in some cases and in their use of largely-acoustic ensembles, barring Eddie Green's electric piano. But all the contemporary styles of that time can be heard here: Eastern modes and timbres on "East" and "Jabali"; Afro-Latin elements on "Suite for Albeniz" (which is also a classical fusion, carrying forward the sound of "Sketches of Spain",) "Bahia", and "Ile Ife"; and a soul-jazz/funk style that ranges from light radio-fare ("Got to be There") to an ominous suite in two parts ("The Demon, Parts 1 and 2".)

Simply put, the band's name says it all.

Average customer rating: Nothing like anything else

Shaman Toby Twining Music Manufacturer: Catalyst/BMG ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items: Chrysalid Requiem ASIN: B0008EKG2K

Product Description

12 track CD

Customer Reviews:

Nothing like anything else.......2006-03-30

I've loved this album and played it frequently since it first appeared in 1994, when I heard it on NPR. It is unconventional, strange, odd, experimental and beautiful. It won't appeal to everyone for those reasons. However, if you think of the human voice as an instrument rather than just an conveyance for lyrics, this is the best place to hear it. The most amazing thing about this album is that it is acoustic and uses no special recording techniques to produce the sounds you hear.

Amazing music.

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Catalyst To Ruins Manufacturer: At A Loss ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Rock | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000ELJ2I6 Release Date: 2003-01-01

Tracks:

1. Kill People
2. It's Hard To See When You're Laughing
3. E Is For Intelligent
4. A Guide To Home Ownership
5. Blown Goat
6. Blast & Damn
7. Todd Space Is My Night Job
8. T.D.R.
9. Attack Ships On Fire
10. Empire Of The Dead
11. Specialization Is For Insects

Product Description

tallahassee’s cream abdul babar’s debut full length cd is eleven tracks of intensity. Mixing a wide variety of styles from the locust to unsane to even some buzzoven and more, cream abdul babar definitely are a refreshing listen. Coupled with the songs are numerous interesting sonic noise pieces that add to the atmosphere.

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A Couch in New York Original Soundtrack Manufacturer: Catalyst ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000003EKX Release Date: 1996-10-15

Tracks:

1. New york Quatuor
2. Paolo Conte: Via Con Me
3. Partita No.1
4. That's That Solo
5. Olga Helm/Shai No Shai: Caravan
6. Avant
7. Getting Closer Duo
8. Villa-Lobos: Bachiana Brasileira No.1
9. Cole Porter: Night And Day/Pres De Paris
10. Bruno Fontaine: La Valse Plazza
11. Chostakovitch: Trio Op.67
12. Prokofiev: Son No.7
13. The Perfumed Garden
14. Romeo Duo
15. Brin D'Herbe
16. Getting Even Closer Duo
17. Brooklyn Bridge 1
18. Sifflotements
19. Central Park
20. Brooklyn Bridge 2: New York Quatuor/Matilda-King Radio
21. Going Back To Paris Quatuor
22. Cole Porter: Night And Day/Approche
23. Cole Porter: Night And Day

Average customer rating: Flat This is great sax!

Alima Willie Akins Manufacturer: Catalyst ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000JBUW Release Date: 2000-07-11

Tracks:

1. Theme for Oliver
2. Just One More Chance
3. Alima
4. C.T.A.
5. Summertime
6. Hey Baby
7. Beatrice
8. You Taught My Heart to Sing
9. Time Was
10. Estate
11. Pretty Eyes

Album Description

Straight-ahead jazz featuring tenor sax and piano, with roots in bebop and blues. Akins displays a level of artistry that develops only after years of experience. His melodic style grooves through the uptempo and soothes the soul with his ballads. His original compositions are augmented by his treatment of several neglected classics.

Customer Reviews:

Flat.......2004-12-01

To my ears, Willie's great chops are delivered just below pitch. Maybe it's his style to play like this? Anyway, the tunes are well performed and his band mates are quite competent.

This is great sax!.......1999-06-09

Akins really knows how to work his horn. From the covers to the originals, from up tempo to the ballads, I love to listen to this CD while working or relaxing. His sidemen compliment him well with high level chops. A great selection for any tenor sax lover.

Average customer rating: Truly not his best effort another solid bucky BH a black hole of creativity buckethead's cool The wild and weird world of Buckethead

Bermuda Triangle Buckethead Manufacturer: Catalyst ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Noise | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Metal | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Progressive | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Pieces The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell Kaleidoscalp Electric Tears FUNNEL WEAVER ASIN: B00006AAUK Release Date: 2002-07-23

Tracks:

1. Intro
2. Davy Jones Locker
3. Flight 19
4. Mausoleum Door
5. Sea of Expanding Shapes
6. The Triangle, Pt. 1: Extrakd
7. Bionic Fog
8. Forbidden Zone
9. Telegraph Land of the Crispies
10. Pullin the Heavy
11. Phantom Lights
12. Jabbar on Alcatrazz Avenue
13. Beestro Fowler
14. Splintered Triplet
15. Whatevas
16. Sucked Under
17. Isle of Dead
18. The Triangle, Pt. 2
19. 911

Customer Reviews:

Truly not his best effort.......2005-03-19

I am a huge fan of buckethead, I love everything the guy does regardless of how farfetch'd it is.But this cd was a real dissappointment. His guitar skills are hardly showcased on this release which is bad enough, but many tracks on this thing are just a bunch of dj noise. Even all the drum beats were sampled so Brain had little involvement with this album. This pretty much sounds like something he just threw together just for the hell of throwing something together, which is a shame because anyone who has heard buck play knows that he's capable of so much more.Only pick this up if you are a serious collector. I believe it is already out of print, but it is available on Buck's site.

another solid bucky.......2004-07-23

1st off,tom morello "guitarist jello"has nothing on buckethead!he's pretty mediocre at most-definately not a ground breaker!jimi really wasn't much better than buck either.

BH a black hole of creativity.......2004-05-20

Its seeming like most of the innovative , creative overall ability of the main stream music's source is being sucked into Bucketheads guitar .Kind of like a bermuda triangle .I find this cd and others of his to be refreshing and a bit refreshingly weird .Most bands are trying to hard to be known as the wierd or twisted band but its only obvious that they are trying to hard to be the best twisted folks on the scene with painted faces , screaming lyrics and instantly turns me off .When you listen to a BH cd you listen to genuinely creative and cool tunes with a techno vibe often . BH's tunes come out the speakers as being 100% genuine voyages into sonic exploration without the fake in your face , notice me crap bousted by the main stream .The no lyrics fact is also refreshing , just jamming guitar .I like his use of diminished scales for that eery vibe .

buckethead's cool.......2003-03-18

he's tight and all but he covers nothing that jimi hendrix and eddie hazel has'nt alreeady did.

The wild and weird world of Buckethead.......2002-11-28

I'm not convinced that Buckethead is the new savior of music as some people seem to believe. He certainly makes good use of his guitar effects, but underneath the distortion I'm not sure he's doing anything that hasn't been done before. Sometimes, if you listen closely, he can even be a teensy bit sloppy. I certainly don't hear a ground-breaker like Vernon Reid or Tom Morello, but I will admit that I'm not a guitar player.

On the other hand, Buckethead clearly IS very, very good and this album is a WILD one. The simmering electronic landscape is rich with weird sounds, bubbling effects and hybrid hip-hop/alternative beats. Buckethead plays to the songs and is sometimes subtle, but when he does take a solo it's mind-blowing. I've never heard music quite like this!

Why would Buckethead waste time with buns 'n' hoses? Must've needed money.

Average customer rating: Classic Nordine - but with Jerry Garcia!

Devout Catalyst Manufacturer: Grateful Dead ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Wink Colors Upper Limbo The Eye Is Never Filled A Transparent Mask ASIN: B0007MUSC6

Product Description

Song List 1. I Love A Groove 2. Mr. Slick 3. Inside Of Is 4. Aging Young Rebel 5. Quatrains Of Thought 6. Spread Eagle 7. Final Page, The 8. Thousand Bing Bangs 9. Cracks In The Ceiling 10. Ways Of The Meek 11. Movie, The 12. Zodiac Uprising 13. Last Will

Customer Reviews:

Classic Nordine - but with Jerry Garcia!.......2007-06-13

I first heard bits of this years ago, and have always wanted to add it to my Ken Nordine collection. Trickier than other K.N. CDs to find, it was well worth the search. Joined by Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Howard Levy, and even Tom Waits on a couple of tracks, Ken does his Word Jazz thing backed by nimble improvisations on mostly acoustic instruments. This is slightly different than the typically electronic backing Ken gets on his radio programs from son Kristan, and jazzers like drummer Paul Wertico on other albums. But it is still great stuff, and a must-have for us Ken Nordine fans. (One thing that, to my knowledge, has never been released, is the radio broadcast from San Francisco on New Year's Eve, 1993 (?) right after this was recorded, and where Ken is joined by Jerry Garcia, Howard Levy and - Bela Fleck! Several pieces from Devout Catalyst are performed by this quartet, and is a great combination that really should be released, perhaps in a future special edition of D.C.)

Average customer rating: Janiece Jaffe rare talent A Must Have A real jazz singer... NEW DISCOVERY!! A new jazz vocal star

It Takes Two Janiece Jaffe Manufacturer: Catalyst ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000JBUY Release Date: 1999-04-30

Tracks:

1. Blue Bossa
2. Till There Was You
3. You Go To My Head
4. My Romance
5. Blue Moon
6. La Vie En Rose
7. Angel Eyes
8. Harlem Nocturne
9. Rain on the Roses
10. The Nearness of You
11. Just a Lucky So and So
12. Prelude to a Kiss
13. Lotus Blossom
14. Gentle Rain

Album Description

This second CD from Janiece Jaffe offers an array of mellow, straight-ahead jazz standards featuring her lush soprano vocals backed by only acoustic guitar or bass. Scott Yanow, editor of the All Music Guide to Jazz, says Jaffe is "a wonderful singer with a very appealing voice ...and, on the evidence of It Takes Two and her previous recording, Keep the Flame Alive, already ranks up there with the Big Apple's best. ...Janiece Jaffe has such an original style and a distinctive voice; there is no mistaking her for anyone else!"

Customer Reviews:

Janiece Jaffe rare talent.......2002-10-01

Janiece Jaffe is one of the finest jazz vocalists you will ever hear. A beautiful voice coupled with terrifically creative and compelling phrasing mark this lady as one of today's finest vocalists.

A Must Have.......2002-02-22

I found this CD after shopping for a Jane Monheit disk. Janiece Jaffe is definitely a must have if you're a fan of female jazz vocal. Her voice is beautiful and mature, her phrasing is exciting, and the arrangements on songs like "Till There Was You" lend a fresh perspective to the compilation. I must add that "Harlem Nocturne" left me slack-jawed (I played it over and over the first day.)

I live in St. Louis, but can't wait to make the drive to central Indiana to see this woman perform.

A real jazz singer..........2001-10-22

It sometimes seems like every female who isn't doing rap is regurgitating the same standards and show tunes, trying to be sophisticated. A lot of them try to get off with calling themselves jazz singers, particularly hilarious for someone like Diana Krall. Jaffe delivers the goods. Yeah, she's going through the same repertoire, but she actually has real jazz influences, does things that are a bit of a stretch (La Vie en rose) and in general shows creativity. Of all the vast female masses trodding this ground, Jaffe is one of the very few who is for real, has something of her own to add and really projects commitment.

NEW DISCOVERY!!.......2001-08-05

It's a new discovery for me! However, I am sure that this fabulous singer has paid her dues (is still doing so) for one does not become this perfect voice, diction and style and makes you feel if each and every song is new. I am so impressed and I coudn't and haven't spent this small amount of monies on a unknown talent (to me) and be so satiified and wanting even more of her recordings. Janiece, you give me hope for the future of music. I shall praise you to every one I know (altho that's not prominsing a lot). Do you tour and sing in the clubs in the Florida area? What a delight you are!

A new jazz vocal star.......2001-01-02

I love jazz vocalists, but rarely pick up a record and feel an instant excitement. "It Takes Two" is one of those records. The songs are mainly familiar standards, but Jaffe's warm, supple voice and extraordinary range make them sound fresh and original. The minimal accompaniment is wonderful too, but she could have sung this album unaccompanied and been just as amazing. In fact, this record is one of the few I've heard to compare with Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass's classic "Take Love Easy."

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