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[Dennie]

Garfunkel -- CD

Art Garfunkel

1988 Columbia Records

1970's classic, August 4, 2007
By Gary Selikow (Great Kush) - See all my reviews
(TOP 1000 REVIEWER)
This review is from: Garfunkel (Audio CD)

Art Garfunkel has a far better voice than Paul Simon, and I actually prefer Garfunkel's solo work to Simon's.
This album showcases the best of Garfunkel's folkesque light rock, with some real gems.
My favourites include the laidback Breakaway (1975), the beautiful and haunting Bright Eyes (1979), the pop love song (What A) Wonderful World (1977), the exquisite All I Know (1973)(one of my all time favourite songs) with it's incredible piano work, the old blues hit I Only Have Eyes For You and the gentle A Heart In New York (1981).
This is a must have for any lover of good music, and a classic of 1970's music.

"When a Man Loves a Woman (Percy Sledge) - 4:30
"Break Away" (Benny Gallagher, Graham Lyle) –3:31
"Bright Eyes" (Mike Batt) –3:55
"(What a) Wonderful World" (Herb Alpert, Sam Cooke, Lou Adler) - 3:29
"All I Know" (Jimmy Webb) –3:48
"Scissor Cut" (Jimmy Webb) –3:52
"I Only Have Eyes For You" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) –3:40
"So Much in Love" (George Williams, Bill Jackson, Roy Straigis)- 2:24
"99 Miles From L.A." (Albert Hammond, Hal David) –3:28
"Second Avenue" (Tim Moore) - 2:46
"A Heart in New York" (Benny Gallagher, Graham Lyle) –3:10
"I Have a Love" - 4:29


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[heeman]

The Best of Sade.

Picked this one up over the weekend for $6.99. :music-listening:

 

[Dennie]

The Best of Sade.

Picked this one up over the weekend for $6.99. :music-listening:

Great Choice! Sade is Smmoooooothhhhhh! :handgestures-thumbup:



Dennie

 

[Dennie]

The Record: Their Greatest Hits -- 2 CD Set

Bee Gees

2000 Polydor Records

Amazon.com

Don't look for a richly illustrated, critical essay-packed hagiography with this 40-track, double-disc overview of the Bee Gees recording career. In typical, telling fashion, the Brothers Gibb have eschewed such exercises in ego inflation and simply let the best of their remarkable body of music speak for itself. Through it all, their familiar voices lock together in the sort of transcendent, seemingly genetic harmony that few singers since the Everly Brothers (early Gibb inspirations) have managed. Beginning with the plaintive 1966 hit "New York Mining Disaster 1941," this set traces the Gibbs' journey from successful Beatles-era balladeers to '70s white R&B gods and the undisputed kings of disco (we're reminded here that their shrewd metamorphosis began with "Nights on Broadway" and "Jive Talkin'"--long before the mega-success of "Saturday Night Fever"). But even as that dance craze faded, again threatening to turn the Bee Gees into pop anachronisms, the Gibbs simply stepped out of the limelight for a while, turning their talents to MOR hit-making for the likes of Samantha Sang, Dolly Parton, Barbra Streisand, and Dionne Warwick. Those hits ("Emotion," "Heartbreaker," "Islands in the Stream") are featured here in modern rerecordings by the band, along with the Streisand-Barry Gibb duet, "Guilty." And if the Gibbs haven't had much of an American chart presence in recent years, they remain superstars throughout the rest of the world, a richly crafted pop music presence that simply won't be denied. --Jerry McCulley

Disc one

"New York Mining Disaster 1941" (Barry Gibb/Robin Gibb) – 2:12
"To Love Somebody" (Barry Gibb/Robin Gibb) – 3:02
"Holiday" (Barry Gibb/Robin Gibb) – 2:55
"Massachusetts" – 2:25
"World" – 3:16
"Words" – 3:17
"I've Gotta Get a Message to You" – 2:52
"I Started a Joke" – 3:09
"First of May" – 2:50
"Melody Fair" - 3:48 **
Robin Gibb - "Saved by the Bell" (Robin Gibb) – 3:08
"Don't Forget to Remember" (Barry Gibb/Maurice Gibb) – 3:29
"Lonely Days" – 3:48
"How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?" (Barry Gibb/Robin Gibb) – 3:59
"My World" (Barry Gibb/Robin Gibb) - 4:22 **
"Run to Me" – 3:13
"Jive Talkin'" – 3:46
"Nights on Broadway" – 4:36
"Fanny (Be Tender with My Love)" – 4:04
"Love So Right" – 3:37
"If I Can't Have You" – 3:22
"Love Me" (Barry Gibb/Robin Gibb)– 4:04
"You Should Be Dancing" – 4:15

Disc two

"Stayin' Alive" – 4:47
"How Deep Is Your Love" – 4:03
"Night Fever" – 3:31
"More Than a Woman" – 3:17
"Emotion" (Barry Gibb/Robin Gibb) – 4:03
"Too Much Heaven" – 4:57
"Tragedy" – 5:03
"Love You Inside Out" – 4:11
Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb - "Guilty" - 4:24
"Heartbreaker" - 4:26
"Islands in the Stream" - 4:22
"You Win Again" - 4:04
"One" - 4:56
"Secret Love" - 3:36
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" - 3:58
"Alone - 4.22
"Immortality" – 4:15
"This Is Where I Came In" – 4:00
"Spicks and Specks" (Barry Gibb) – 2:51

 

[Botch]

I haven't listened to any Sade in awhile.
No wonder I love this thread!

 

[Dennie]

I haven't listened to any Sade in awhile.
No wonder I love this thread!

You just wait and see what I have coming up next! :violin:



Dennie :shifty:

 

[Dennie]

Every time I play that "Bee Gees" album, I see this one, but can only listen to it every couple of years.

It must be that time again, so here we go.... bscene-drinkingcheers:

ABBA GOLD- Greatest Hits -- CD

ABBA

1992 Polydor Records

Amazon.com essential recording

Anyone looking for the key to Abba's enduring appeal should look no further than "Voulez Vous" and "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" for their answer. There was an innocence to the Swedish quartet, even when they were singing about one-night stands and the invitations to them. Gold establishes that the band, while appreciated as campy, were actually multifaceted in their execution. "S.O.S." has a raw urgency in its chorus, and "Does Your Mother Know" draws its energy from classic '50s rock & roll. Likewise, you don't have to be Priscilla to swoon over "Mamma Mia" or "Dancing Queen." And when it comes to drama, those soaring vocals on "The Winner Takes It All" turn the song into a bitter anthem of every relationship that has ever fallen apart. The much-covered "Lay All Your Love on Me" is practically epic. --Steve Gdula

All songs written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, except where noted.

"Dancing Queen" (1976) (Andersson, Stig Anderson, Ulvaeus) – 3:51
"Knowing Me, Knowing You" (1976) (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus) – 4:03
"Take a Chance on Me" (1977) – 4:06
"Mamma Mia" (1975) (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus) – 3:33
"Lay All Your Love on Me" (1980) – 4:35
"Super Trouper" (1980) – 4:13
"I Have a Dream" (1979) – 4:42
"The Winner Takes It All" (1980) – 4:54
"Money, Money, Money" (1976) – 3:06
"S.O.S." (1975) (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus) – 3:20
"Chiquitita" (1979) – 5:27
"Fernando" (1976) (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus) – 4:14
"Voulez-Vous" (1979) – 4:21/5:10
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" (1979) – 4:52
"Does Your Mother Know" (1979) – 3:13
"One of Us" (1981) – 3:58
"The Name of the Game" (1977) (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus) – 3:56/4:54
"Thank You for the Music" (1977) – 3:49
"Waterloo" (1974) (Andersson, Anderson, Ulvaeus) – 2:46

 

[Dennie]

Greatest Hits -- CD

The Mamas and The Papas

1999 MCA Records

Amazon.com

The Mamas and the Papas had a sound that helped define a portion of the 1960s. Their breezy folk classics had a bit of San Francisco psychedelia woven in, and, despite the sweet harmonies, there was also a noticeably dark feel to some of their more popular work. "California Dreamin'" and "Monday, Monday" both utilized enough minors to give them a spooky edge. Greatest Hits is an essential part of any audiophile's collection, especially if they don't have the original recordings that spawned the hits. "Dedicated to the One I Love" is almost ironic for its tenderness, considering the turmoil that rumbled through the band's interrelationships. While John and Michelle Phillips and Denny Doherty were all responsible for the success of the Mamas and the Papas, listening to this collection reveals that the late great Mama Cass was not only the heart but the soul of the band. Greatest Hits closes with her "Dream a Little Dream of Me," and serves as a touching tribute to Cass Elliot's talent. --Steve Gdula

"California Dreamin'" (2:42)
"Go Where You Wanna Go" (2:32)
"Monday, Monday" (3:29)
"I Call Your Name" (2:39)
"Do You Wanna Dance" (3:01)
"I Saw Her Again" (3:15)
"You Baby" (2:23)
"Dancing Bear" (4:12)
"Words of Love" (2:17)
"No Salt on Her Tail" (2:43)
"Look Through My Window" (3:09)
"Dancing in the Street" (3:50)
"Dedicated to the One I Love" (3:00)
"Creeque Alley" (3:51)
"Glad to Be Unhappy" (1:45)
"Twist and Shout" (2:55)
"Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)" (3:28)
"My Girl" (3:35)
"Safe in My Garden" (3:15)
"Dream a Little Dream of Me" (3:14)

 

[Dennie]

Blue Lights 'Til Dawn -- CD

Cassandra Wilson

1993 Blue Note Records

Amazon.com essential recording

Cassandra Wilson is a postmodern jazz singer, a conceptualist who sees no dividing lines between genres. If her career had commenced in the 1970s rather than the label-conscious 1990s she would have been marketed as a mainstream pop diva. Her magnificent voice and interpretive genius mark her as a jazz singer for the ages, however. She finds her material wherever her fancy takes her and remakes it in her own image, whether it be the country blues of Robert Johnson's "Come On in My Kitchen" and "Hellhound On My Trail," the soul of Ann Peebles's "I Can't Stand the Rain," the elegant R&B of Charles Brown's "Tell Me You'll Wait for Me," the melodic pop of Joni Mitchell's "Black Crow," and Van Morrison's "Tupelo Honey," or her own "Redbone"--and the title track, accompanied by steel guitarist Gib Wharton. --John Swenson

"You Don't Know What Love Is" (Gene DePaul, Don Raye) — 6:05
"Come On In My Kitchen" (Robert Johnson) — 4:53
"Tell Me You'll Wait For Me" (Charles Brown, Oscar Moore) — 4:48
"Children Of The Night" (Thom Bell, Linda Creed) — 5:19
"Hellhound on My Trail" (Johnson) — 4:34
"Black Crow" (Joni Mitchell) — 4:38
"Sankofa" (Cassandra Wilson) — 2:02
"Estrellas" (Cyro Baptista) — 1:59
"Redbone" (Wilson) — 5:35
"Tupelo Honey" (Van Morrison) — 5:36
"Blue Light 'til Dawn" (Wilson) — 5:09
"I Can't Stand the Rain" (Don Bryant, Bernard Miller, Ann Peebles) — 5:27

 

[Batman]

 

[Dennie]

My last one for the evening...

My Romance -- CD

Carly Simon

1990 Arista Records

After 10Years,this CD is still a Tressure, February 26, 2000
By Bob Waskiewicz (Wintersville, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
(TOP 1000 REVIEWER)
This review is from: My Romance (Audio CD)

After 10 years,this Album is priceless.Carly has taken us to the great standards of the 40's.Frank Sinatra's,"In the wee small hours of the morning,"while our GI's were fighting for our country.Fred Astaire's,"I'll go my way by myself." And Carly's own original,"What has he got." This album is a classic. Carly's voice is perfection.My Mom loved this tape,especially "My funny Valentine." It brought back all the great memories of the 40's when she was a young girl,back to life. There still playing cuts from this CD on the radio,and "My Romance" is on a TV perfume AD sung as a duet with Ben Taylor.I loved Carly's HBO special with most of these songs featured,along with Harry Connick,Jr. Anyone that wants to hear some good music for a change,play this record tonight.

"My Romance" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) — 2:36
"By Myself/I See Your Face Before Me" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) — 3:14
"When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar A. Swan) — 4:08
"In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) — 3:17
"My Funny Valentine" (Rodgers, Hart) — 3:24
"Something Wonderful" (Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) — 2:17
"Little Girl Blue" (Rodgers, Hart) — 3:44
"He Was Too Good to Me" (Rodgers, Hart) — 2:41
"What Has She Got" (Carly Simon, Michael Kosarin, Jacob Brackman) — 2:44
"Bewitched" (Rodgers, Hart) — 4:05
"Danny Boy" (Frederick Weatherly, Traditional) — 3:24
"Time After Time" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) — 2:06

 

[heeman]

Track listing

1."Bring It On" (Bruce/Coleman/Melvoin/Rizzo/Isidore/Seal) - 3:58
2."Prayer for the Dying" (Seal/Isidore) – 5:30
3."Dreaming in Metaphors" (Isidore/Seal) – 5:52
4."Don't Cry" (Seal) – 6:17
5."Fast Changes" (Isidore/Seal) – 5:42
6."Kiss from a Rose (Seal) – 4:47
7."People Asking Why" (Seal) – 4:45
8."Newborn Friend" (Seal) – 4:05
9."If I Could" (duet with Joni Mitchell) (Seal) – 4:16
10."I'm Alive" (Coleman/Melvoin/Rizzo/Isidore/Seal) – 4:02
11."Bring It On" (Reprise) (Bruce/Coleman/Melvoin/Rizzo/Isidore/Seal) – 1:15

 

[heeman]

Track listingAll tracks written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson

1."I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You", from I Robot - 3:08
2."Eye In The Sky", from Eye in the Sky - 4:29
3."Games People Play", from The Turn of a Friendly Card - 4:14
4."Time", from The Turn of a Friendly Card - 4:57
5."Pyramania", from Pyramid – 2:40
6."You Don't Believe" Lead Vocal Lenny Zakatek - 4:23
7."Lucifer", from Eve - 4:05
8."Psychobabble", from Eye in the Sky - 4:48
9."Damned If I Do", from Eve - 3:30
10."Don't Let It Show", from I Robot - 3:28
11."Can't Take It With You", from Pyramid - 4:40
12."Old And Wise (edit)", from Eye in the Sky - 4:04

 

[Dennie]

Today's work truck music....

Get Lucky -- CD

Mark Knopfler

2009 Warner Bros. Records

Editorial Reviews

This is the sixth solo studio album from the legendary musician and follows 2007's highly successful Kill To Get Crimson, which Rolling Stone heralded as 'a gem' and USA Today described as, '...yet another unpretentious showcase for his unmistakable gifts as a musician, tunesmith and storyteller.'
Recorded at Knopfler's award-winning British Grove Studios in West London, Get Lucky was co-produced with longtime collaborators, engineer Chuck Ainlay and keyboardist Guy Fletcher and featured Richard Bennett, Danny Cummings, John McCusker, Matt Rollings and Glenn Worf. The 11-track album explores a lifetime of musical roots exemplified by the title track. 'The first itinerant person I ever met would sing in soul bands in winter, then work part-time in fairgrounds or 'go pick fruit down south' when the weather turned warm,' explains Knopfler. 'I was about 15 years old, stuck in school and envious. 'Get Lucky' came from him and other traveling characters I went on to meet in places I'd find myself working short-term, like farms, warehouses, building sites, before I got lucky with my songs.'

"Border Reiver" – 4:35
"Hard Shoulder" – 4:33
"You Can't Beat the House" – 3:25
"Before Gas and TV" – 5:50
"Monteleone" – 3:39
"Cleaning My Gun" – 4:43
"The Car Was the One" – 3:55
"Remembrance Day" – 5:05
"Get Lucky" – 4:33
"So Far from the Clyde" – 5:58
"Piper to the End" – 5:47

 

[PaulyT]

Interesting Batman, wouldn't have thought you'd like this one. So I decided to listen to it again... didn't like it much the first time, and I still deeply dislike the second track, but the rest I now like quite a bit better the second (and now third) time around.

 

[heeman]

Interesting Batman, wouldn't have thought you'd like this one. So I decided to listen to it again... didn't like it much the first time, and I still deeply dislike the second track, but the rest I now like quite a bit better the second (and now third) time around.

I agree Paul. My first listen, I was not very impressed. My Second left me liking the tracks near the end of the CD.

Does any one here have her first album???? Just curious how it compares?

 

[heeman]

Track listing

Side one

1."This Ain't the Summer of Love" (Albert Bouchard, Murray Krugman, Don Waller) – 2:20
2."True Confessions" (Allen Lanier) – 2:57
3."(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (Donald Roeser) – 5:09
4."E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)" (Sandy Pearlman, Roeser) – 3:42
5."The Revenge of Vera Gemini" (feat. Patti Smith) (A. Bouchard, Patti Smith) – 3:53

Side two

6."Sinful Love" (A. Bouchard, Helen Robbins) – 3:29
7."Tattoo Vampire" (A. Bouchard, Helen Robbins) – 2:41
8."Morning Final" (Joe Bouchard) – 4:30
9."Tenderloin" (Lanier) – 3:40
10."Debbie Denise" (A. Bouchard, Patti Smith) – 4:13


2001 CD reissue Bonus Tracks

11."Fire of Unknown Origin" (Original Version) (Eric Bloom, A. Bouchard, J. Bouchard, Roeser, Patti Smith) - 3:30
12."Sally" (Demo Version) (A. Bouchard) - 2:40 (Although not credited, Patti Smith wrote the lyrics to this, which were in her first poetry collection "Seventh Heaven")
13."(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (Demo Version) (Roeser) - 6:20
14."Dance The Night Away" (Demo Version) (Jim Carroll, Lanier) - 2:37


A blast from the past.............we used to see these guys all the time in the rock clubs on LI, NY, when they played under the name "Soft White Underbelly"

 

[PaulyT]

My Second left me liking the tracks near the end of the CD.

:text-+1:

I really like the last song (Someone Like You).

 

[PaulyT]

This one's interesting, a sort of bluesy country-ish rock style. Nice smoky voice. This is my first listen to this one, she's a great songwriter from what I've heard so far.

 

[Dennie]

Happy Summer Solstice Everyone! bscene-drinkingcheers:

Hypnotize The Moon -- CD

Clay Walker

1995 Giant Records

Solid Gold, December 29, 1999
By "dhs127" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hypnotize the Moon (Audio CD)

This is the third album released by Walker (1995), and follows 'Clay Walker' and 'If I Could Make A Living.' His first two (and his latest, 'Live, Laugh, Love') albums mix styles and mix them well. But in so doing, fans are likely to relate to some styles more than others; at least that's been true for me.

I LOVE this album, from the first song through the last. Only three of the songs from this album made the 'Greatest Hits' CD: the title song, 'Only On Days That End In Y' and 'Who Needs You Baby.' So if Walker fans want to enjoy the other eight 'nuggets,' they should buy 'Hypnotize The Moon.'

Who said New Englanders can't appreciate great Country? This album is Solid Gold!

1. "Who Needs You Baby" Clay Walker, Kim Williams, Randy Boudreaux 2:48
2. "I Won't Have the Heart" Walker, Williams, Kent Blazy 2:54
3. "Let Me Take the Heartache (Off Your Hands)" Walker, Williams, Blazy 3:17
4. "Hypnotize the Moon" Eric Kaz, Steve Dorff 3:49
5. "Hand Me Down Heart" Zack Turner, Lonnie Wilson 3:06
6. "Only on Days That End in "Y"" Richard Fagan 2:46
7. "Where Were You" Tim Mensy 3:46
8. "Loving You Comes Naturally to Me" Ray Methvin, Tim Johnson, Roger Springer 3:24
9. "Bury the Shovel" Chris Arms, Chuck Jones 3:27
10. "Cowboy's Toughest Ride" Walker, Williams, Boudreaux 3:12
11. "Love Me Like You Love Me" Steve Wariner, Bill LaBounty 3:42