D.Boon & Friends [Import]

Product Description
2003 release from Box-O-Plenty for the former guitarist of the 80's So-Cal punk band the Minutemen, Dennes Dale Boon, whose life was tragically cut short in an automobile accident in 1985. Features 33 tracks including jams with Crane & Richard Derrick (1984-85), Hammerdown live at the Music Machine (1984), Boon live at The Lhasa Club (1984) , The Minutemen live at UCLA (1985) & one track 'Many As One' recorded by Boon at home (1985).

D.Boon & Friends,D.Boon & Friends,box-o-plenty,Over an hour of previously unreleased live and home recordings made in 1984 and 1985 by D. Boon of the Minutemen; a zesty concoction of punk, americana and lo-fi leanings.,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: Good bargain.

56 Favorites Manufacturer: Prism Leisure ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Sullivan | Sullivan, Arthur | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Gilbert & Sullivan - Highlights from The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Yeomen of the Guard, Trial of Jury ASIN: B000068ZTB Release Date: 2002-05-31

Tracks:

1. Hark the Hour of Ten Is Sounding [From Trial by Jury]
2. Judge's Song [From Trial by Jury]
3. We Sail the Ocean Blue..... Buttercup's Song [From H. M. S. Pinafore]
4. My Gallant Crew... I Am the Captin of the Pinafore [From H. M. S. ...]
5. When I Was a Lad [From H. M. S. Pinafore]
6. Never Mind the Why and Wherefore [From H. M. S. Pinafore]
7. He Is an Englishman [From H. M. S. Pinafore]
8. Pirate King's Song [From the Pirates of Penzance]
9. Oh Is There Not One Maiden Breast? ...Poor Wandering One [From the ...]
10. How Beautifully Blue the Sky [From the Pirates of Penzance]
11. I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General [From the Pirates of ...]
12. When the Foeman Bears His Steel [From the Pirates of Penzance]
13. When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold [From the Pirates of Penzance]
14. Ah! Leave Me Not to Pine Alone [From the Pirates of Penzance]
15. Policeman's Lot Is Not a Happy One [From the Pirates of Penzance]
16. With Catlike Tread [From the Pirates of Penzance]
17. March and Entry of the Peers [From Iolanthe]
18. Law Is the True Embodiment [From Iolanthe]
19. When I Went to the Bar [From Iolanthe]
20. When All Night Long [From Iolanthe]
21. When Britain Really Ruled the Waves [From Iolanthe]
22. Oh Foolish Fay [From "Iolanthe"]
23. Nightmare Song [From Iolanthe]
24. If You Go In [From Iolanthe]
25. Finale: Soon as We May [From Iolanthe]

Tracks:

1. If You Want to Know Who We Are.... a Wandering Minstrel I [From ...]
2. Our Great Mikado [From the Mikado]
3. Behold the Lord High Executioner [From the Mikado]
4. I've Got a Little List [From the Mikado]
5. Three Little Maids from School [From the Mikado]
6. Braid the Raven Hair [From the Mikado]
7. Sun Whose Rays [From the Mikado]
8. Here's a How-De-Do [From the Mikado]
9. More Humane Mikado [From the Mikado]
10. Flowers That Bloom in the Spring [From the Mikado]
11. Tit Willow [From the Mikado]
12. There Is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast [From the Mikado]
13. Is Life a Boon? [From the Yeomen of the Guard]
14. Where I Thy Bride [From the Yeomen of the Guard]
15. Hereupon We're Both Agreed [From the Yeomen of the Guard]
16. Strange Adventure [From the Yeomen of the Guard]
17. Man Who Would Woo a Fair Maid [From the Yeomen of the Guard]
18. When a Wooer Goes a Wooing [From the Yeomen of the Guard]
19. For the Merriest Fellows Are We [From the Gondoliers]
20. We're Called Gondolieri [From the Gondoliers]
21. From the Sunny Spanish Shore [From the Gondoliers]
22. In Enterprise of Martial Kind [From the Gondoliers]
23. I Stole the Prince [From the Gondoliers]
24. When a Merry Maiden Marries [From the Gondoliers]
25. Regular, Royal Queen [From the Gondoliers]
26. Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes [From the Gondoliers]
27. There Lived a King [From the Gondoliers]
28. In a Contemplative Fashion [From the Gondoliers]
29. Small Titles and Orders [From the Gondoliers]
30. I Am a Courtier Grave and Serious [From the Gondoliers]
31. Finale: Once More Gondolieri [From the Gondoliers]

Customer Reviews:

Good bargain........2004-08-25

The performances are good--this is the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, after all--and you get 2 full CDs, with 2 selections from "Trial by Jury", 5 from "HMS Pinafore", 9 from "The Pirates of Penzance", 9 from "Iolanthe", 12 from "The Mikado", 6 from "The Yeomen of the Guard", and 13 from "The Gondoliers". The booklet is a bit skimpy, and only lists recording dates for the first CD (1929-1949). But the sound is good, and the music is great, and at this price it's a great "greatest hits" collection.

Average customer rating: Adequate - Enjoyable Yeoman of the Guard O.K. but... Great!

Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard/Laughing Boy/A Jealous Torment/Is Life a Boon? Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Sullivan | Sullivan, Arthur | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | 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: Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers Gilbert & Sullivan: Iolanthe ASIN: B0000029KJ Release Date: 1993-10-19

Tracks:

1. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act I: Overture
2. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act I: When Maiden Loves She Sits and Sighs (Phoebe)
3. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act I: Tower Warders Under Orders
4. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act I: When Our Gallant Norman Foes (Dame Carruthers)
5. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act I: Alas! I Waver To and Fro (Phoebe, Leonard, Meryll)
6. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act I: Is Life A Boon? (Fairfax)
7. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act I: Here's a Man of Jollity
8. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act I: I Have a Song to Sing, O (Elsie, Point)
9. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act I: How Say You, Maiden, Will You Wed (Elsie, Point, Cholmondley)
10. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act I: I've Jibe and Joke and Quip and Crank (Point)
11. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act I: 'Tis Done! I Am A Bride (Elsie)
12. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act I: Were I Thy Bride (Phoebe)
13. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Finale Act One: Oh, Sergeant Meryll, Is It True
14. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Finale Act One: Dids't Thou Not, Oh, Leonard Meryll
15. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Finale Act One: To Thy Fraternal Care (Shadbolt, Phoebe)
16. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Finale Act One: The Prisoner Comes To Meet His Doom

Tracks:

1. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act II: Night Has Spread Her Pall Once More (Dame Carruthers)
2. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act II: Oh! A Private Buffoon is a Light-Hearted Loon (Point)
3. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act II: Hereupon We're Both Agreed (Point, Shadbolt)
4. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act II: Free From His Fetters Grim (Fairfax)
5. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act II: Strange Adventure! (Kate, Dame Carruthers, Fairfax, Meryll)
6. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act II: Hark! What Was That, Sir?
7. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act II: A Man Who Would Woo a Fair Maid (Elsie, Phoebe, Fairfax)
8. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act II: When a Wooer Goes A-Wooing (Elsie, Phoebe, Fairfax, Point)
9. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act II: Rapture! Rapture! (Dame Carruthers, Meryll)
10. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Act II: Finale Act II: Comes The Pretty Young Bride
11. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Bonus Track: A Laughing Boy (Meryll)
12. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Bonus Track: A Jealous Torment (Shadbolt)
13. The Yeomen Of The Guard: Bonus Track: Is Life A Boon (Earlier Version) (Fairfax)

Customer Reviews:

Adequate - Enjoyable.......2006-04-11

Make no mistake, this is an excellent recording of this wonderful operetta. However, there is a tendency these days to rate recordings higher than they deserve - probably because they are new & fresh. And for some reason those who do so often ignore the quality of the voices in the recordings. The singing in this recording is very good and the characterizations are fine. But to suggest that it is comparable in quality to the superb 1964 D'Oyly Carte recording under Sir Malcolm Sargent is an error.

The voices in the 1964 recording - Harwood, Hood, Knight, Potter, Reed, Sandford, Adams - are perhaps the best ever to sing this music and Sargent was one of the greatest of G&S conductors. I would rate the current recording as perhaps the 3rd or 4th best of those available. In addition to the 1964 recording, consider the Marriner which is also excellently sung and also includes the dialogue.

Yeoman of the Guard.......2005-08-31

This is an excellent recording, although at the beginning the audio sounds somewhat distant, as if it were being recorded on-stage from the middle of the house. However, the cast is uniformally excellent, with veddy, veddy proper diction and every "r" rolled. Once in a while the orchestra overpowers a soloist but the chorus is rich, right-on and regal. Elsie's voice could be a little younger to match her age in the operetta. These are minor compared to the whole-between very good and excellent.

O.K. but..........2003-05-04

"Yoemen" is the most "serious" of all the G&S operettas, especially from Gilbert's point of view - Sullivan goaded him into a plot without "topsy-turveydom" and the result is a story that is positively sensible, not just by G&S standards, but also compared with other operettas, (and operas, for that matter).

In particular, the characters in "Yoemen" are real people, rather than the two-dimensional characters of the other operettas. Point is the obvious case, and reviews of performances of the work often dwell on how well Point is (or is not) played. Shadbolt is another character that can be interpreted at least two ways - he is inescapably an oaf and a buffoon, of course, but he can be played as a reasonably young and personable one, which is at the very least as funny as making him old, repulsive and deformed, and much more believable. Giving him a "comic" accent hints at the "quasimodo" approach to the character, and a bit regressive.

This is no doubt a fine technical performance, but at it is less dramatically satisfying than my slightly older (Welsh National Opera) version. Of course I have listened to the latter about a million times, and I do have to give this new one a chance, but I must admit to just a little disappointment.

The "extra" material is certainly interesting. "A laughing boy" is in fact quite often included in modern performances - it is a nice little song, which develops Sergeant Merrill's character, even if it was originally inserted to cover a costume change. "A Jealous Torment" is probably, on balance, best left out - although I had never heard it sung before - and it is far from irrelevant to the plot - giving emphasis to Shadbolt's obsession with Phoebe. The earlier version of "Is life a boon?" is in fact a completely different setting, and in itself quite a pleasant one - although one comes to the conclusion fairly quickly that the final version, one of Sullivan's greatest songs, is much better, bringing out the nobility of the words far more effectively.

But why are all three on Disc 2, where it is impossible to program them into their intended places without burning a fresh Act 1 CD (as I have done) ? There is plenty of room for them on Disc 1.

Great!.......2000-04-22

I wouldn't have thought it possible but the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company have managed to surpass their exemplary 1964 recording of "The Yeomen of the Guard" with this stunning effort. Beautiful conducting by John Owens Edwards - dare I say it, he leaves both Sargent and Marriner for dead! - cap off a well cast ensemble. This is an opera which strives very hard for heart throbs but rarely delivers. Here we have a deeply moving reading of the score, which may well be Sullivan's masterpiece. Compulsory listening for all Savoyards.

Average customer rating:

D. Boon and Friends D. Boon and Friends Manufacturer: box-o-plenty ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: We Jam Econo - The Story of the Minutemen Post-Mersh, Vol. 3 Ballot Result Post-Mersh, Vol. 2 West ASIN: B0002537YE Release Date: 2003-09-09

Album Description

2003 release from Box-O-Plenty for the former guitarist of the 80's So-Cal punk band the Minutemen, Dennes Dale Boon, whose life was tragically cut short in an automobile accident in 1985. Features 33 tracks including jams with Crane & Richard Derrick (1984-85), Hammerdown live at the Music Machine (1984), Boon live at The Lhasa Club (1984) , The Minutemen live at UCLA (1985) & one track 'Many As One' recorded by Boon at home (1985).

Average customer rating: brilliance &%**( brilliance

Our Band Could Be Your Life: A Tribute to D Boon and the Minutemen Various Artists Manufacturer: Little Brother Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Lo-Fi | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Trip-Hop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: We Jam Econo - The Story of the Minutemen ASIN: B0000020U7 Release Date: 1996-02-23

Tracks:

1. King of the Hill - Sparkalepsy
2. This Ain't No Picnic - Seam
3. Fake Contest - Overpass
4. Storm in My House - Hazel
5. Futurism Restated - Nuzzle
6. Tony Gets Wasted in Pedro - Oswald Five-O
7. Sickles and Hammers - Joe Boon
8. Tour-Spiel - Brain Surgeons
9. Search
10. Shit from an Old Notebook - Treepeople
11. Themselves - Cindy Albon
12. Courage - Tsunami
13. More Joy
14. Price of Paradise - Meat Puppets
15. World According to Nouns - Crackerbash
16. Self-Referenced/West Germany - Nels Cline Trio
17. Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Truth? - Dos
18. Games
19. Corona - Overwhelming Colorfast
20. Party With Me Punker - Free Kitten
21. It's Expected I'm Gone - Jawbox
22. Product
23. Shit You Hear at Parties - Thurston Moore
24. 9:30 May 2 - Joe Baiza
25. Case Closed
26. Stories - Kaia
27. Plight - Unwound
28. Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing - Meices
29. Times
30. Dcut - Corduroy
31. Black Sheep - Lou Barlow
32. D Boon Interview - D. Boon
33. Badges - Minutemen

Customer Reviews:

brilliance &%**( brilliance.......2005-09-29

A great collection of artists to create a fitting tribute to the Minutemen and the brilliant D. Boon. I think a good addition would be the Uncle Tupelo song D. Boon. Though not a cover, the song would have been a fitting song to wind down this tribute album with an original tribute song.

Average customer rating:

D.Boon & Friends D.Boon & Friends ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000TAO5W

Tracks:

1. Everyone Was There
2. Fifth Gear
3. Deadline
4. The Waiting Stage
5. Indecision
6. Theme From Empty Box
7. The Long Road Home
8. Take You There
9. Freedom Forever
10. Jam #6
11. Binkys Round-Up
12. Too Much Fun
13. All Over The Place
14. The Viking Song
15. Just Around The Corner
16. As Long As (Parts 1 & 2)
17. Hammerdown I
18. This Land Is Your Land
19. Hammerdown II
20. Our New Industrial Direction
21. Thats All There Is
22. My Part
23. Dont Look Now
24. Plight
25. Corona
26. But First
27. I Felt Like A Gringo
28. God Bows To Math
29. Themselves
30. Self-Referenced
31. #1 Hit Song
32. History Lesson - Part II
33. Many As One

Album Description

2003 release from Box-O-Plenty for the former guitarist of the 80's So-Cal punk band the Minutemen, Dennes Dale Boon, whose life was tragically cut short in an automobile accident in 1985. Features 33 tracks including jams with Crane & Richard Derrick (1984-85), Hammerdown live at the Music Machine (1984), Boon live at The Lhasa Club (1984) , The Minutemen live at UCLA (1985) & one track 'Many As One' recorded by Boon at home (1985).

Average customer rating:

Tribute to D Boon Various Artists Manufacturer: Little Brother ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Hardcore | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B00008FBKW Release Date: 1995-07-28

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