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Slipping into their skates are pop-star Gareth Gates, Hollyoaks heartthrob Chris Fountain, former Hear’Say star Suzanne Shaw, tennis ace Greg Rusedski, former glamour model Linda Lusardi, actress Zaraah Abrahams, TV presenters Tim Vincent, Michael Underwood & Natalie Pinkham, singer/songwriter Samantha Mumba, Olympian Steve Backley, hygiene expert Aggie Mackenzie and former kids’ presenter Sarah Greene.
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Customer Review: Amazing cant wait for it to be released!
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The History of Rock
The History of Rock
The History Of Rock arrives as the sort of superstardom-celebrating release that can buy a hot-selling artist time. (Think, say, G N’R Lies.) After 8 million (and counting) sales of 1998’s Devil Without A Cause, the trailer-rockin’ rapper is out to remind the world that it hardly started there. Mostly drawn, and often retooled, from his out-of-print Polyfuze Method and Early Mornin’ Stoned Pimp, these tracks display a “funk country hick” already on point with his knowing, hardheaded combo of old-school beats and classic-rock guitars. An “American bad ass” for sure, but also an artist who could come only from America, Kid Rock brings the noise–not to mention the bread and the circus. –Rickey Wright
Customer Review: A slight let down after Devil Without a Cause
This album is certainly not one of the Kid’s best efforts. After the sucess of the Devil Without a Cause album, it seems something deserted him here. I like Kid Rock but this album isn’t his best. The only tracks I really liked were American Bad Ass, Early Morning Stoned Pimp and 3 Sheets to the Wind, the rest of the album isn’t very good, and I would recommend leaving this be and getting his first album or his more recent album Cocky instead.
Customer Review: History Lesson
After the huge sucsess of 1998’s diamond certified “Devil without a Cause” Kid Rock has made a huge dent on the rock landscape & much was expected of the 28 year old rock-rapper from the mean streets of motown. This album does not dissapoint as Kid provides more of his southern fried nu-metal in the form of tracks like “American Bad” & “Dark & Grey”. Rock also proves his frankly remarkable skill on the mike as an MC on tracks like “Ya Keep On” & “3 Sheets to the Wind”. This self-prouced 14 track collection is a must for fans of Kid Rock’s hardrock rapping. The album is a true insite into the life of Kid Rock before the massive sucsess of his 1998 album “Devil without a Cause”. Although I reccommend this LP to all Kid Rock fans but some may be dissappointed as the main flavour of the album is Rap. Apart from this small defect I reccommend this tape to all fans of truly great music.
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20 Jazz Funk Greats
20 Jazz Funk Greats
Customer Review: Seminal stuff
A stunning piece of work! If, like me, you had thought Throbbing Gristle were primarily noise and angst, 20 Jazz Funk Greats introduces a whole new dimension to their sound. A track like Beachy Head is gentle, beautiful and yet unsettling. On the one hand it's a pure instrumental tone-poem, but then the fact that it's named after Beachy Head, the UK's most notorious suicide spot, adds a new level of refined macabre to TG's pallette.
And it's got some of the best cover artwork ever… with a nasty kick for the observant.
Side note: I remember reading that Throbbing Gristle were an influence on Boards of Canada, but couldn't hear the lineage until I got 20 Jazz Funk Greats. Just compare a track like Walkabout on 20 JFG's to early BOC and it's plain to see. Even the cover has similarities to BOC's Music Has the Right to Children.
Customer Review: Throbbing Gristle bring you…
‘20 Jazz Funk Greats’ remains one of the key albums of the late-1970s - predicting most of what was to follow (electronica, industrial, avant-garde, ambient, new wave etc.) & also being one of those varied long-players common to that era (see Can’s ‘Tago Mago’, Faust’s ‘IV’ or Eno’s ‘Another Green World’). The cover is very British, I think - the so-called ‘wreckers of civilisation’ - dressed in standard-dress of the seventies - some members look like they could be in The Fall, another a stock-hippy - while Genesis P-Orridge has a snappy white-blazer on (the white & the ironic title a deliberate move against the fascist-nazi tags being placated on TG due to songs like ‘Zyklon Z. Zombie’). & Cosey Fanni Tutti remains the epitome of cuteness; the smile & the rest is put into context by the reverse of the cover (& the related pic of an abandoned Range Rover, nodding to ‘Beachy Head’)- the band stand in the same way as a corpse lies at their feet. & this is TG’s most approachable album!!!!
The title track opens proceedings- an industrial-groove that was borrowed for Scritti Politti’s ‘The Sweetest Girl’ starts, later followed by P-Orridge’s atonal-violin & some syn-drums (that would later find their way into Joy Division; see ‘Insight’). Someone whispers words like “jazz” and “funk” - the former predicting ‘The Fast Show’ then! TG sang when they felt like it, so ‘Beachy Head’ (named after the popular British suicide-point) drifts toward the ambient - after Eno & capturing the vibe of such a place (a body lies undiscovered at the bottom- no one stops you as you step off - no sound as you are falling…). This is most definitely after-Eno & along with tracks from ‘In the Shadow of the Sun’ & ‘Journey Through a Body’ is TG’s most ambient-work (the violin lulls colliding with ambientelectronica could be seen to influence Silver Mt Zion or The Aphex Twin, say…)’Still Walking’ shudders into life, a spoken-word vocal ups the sinister stakes as violin-drones (after Cale) drift in the background. Various TG-members speak the lyrics - another instrumental track (’Tanith’) pops up next (this is the one that sounds like a Krautrock-vision of ‘Headhunters’ or 70s-Miles!).
A key TG-moment is next- the timeless anthem ‘Convincing People’, which was one of the few older songs TG played on their recent reformation (others included a vastly reworked ‘What a Day’- much better than the one here & ‘Hamburger Lady’)'Convincing People’ I’ve always seen as TG’s defence of art - perhaps rejecting it all with “We don’t want to convince people…” ; then again, it’s probably about the Occult, or cultdom, or brainwashing…who knows? One that would fit on a playlist next to ‘Rocket USA’, ‘Nag Nag Nag’, ‘Being Boiled’ & ‘Kitchen Person’, however…’Exotica’ is another ambient-instrumental exercise - Richard D. James was most definitely aware- it sounds like something from 1994’s ‘Selected Ambient Works II’!!! The classic ‘Hot on the Heels of Love’ is next - this featured on Rough Trade’s excellent ‘Electronic 01′ compilation a few years ago (02 would be nice…) & along with ‘Walkabout’ (which also turned up with ‘Hot on the Heels…’ on the recent ‘Taste of TG’ compilation) finds TG in a realm not far from the hallowed Kraftwerk. ‘Hot on the Heels…’ as later tracks like ‘Adrenalin’ & ‘United’, most definitely predicts the so-called rave-culture that would develop in the mid to late 1980s (& people think New Order were electronic-pioneers? Yeah, after TG, Suicide, Cabaret Voltaire, The Human League#1, Kraftwerk, Ultravox!, Silicon Teens/The Normal, Associates, Neu! etc- all of whom were doing that before them!).
Many think this is TG’s nicest LP, well maybe, but the lyrics to ‘Persuasion’ still make me feel ill - especially when set to a dirge (related to ‘Hamburger Lady’) & some screams. They appear to take a killer’s perspective with lines like “I’ve got a little biscuit tin to keep your panties in/Soiled panties, white panties, school panties, Y-front panties…” This pre-empts similarly themed tracks by The Smiths (’Handsome Devil’, ‘Suffer Little Children’) & pretty much pushes taboos as far as most have taken them in popular music. The version of ‘What a Day’ here sounds like the 70s-equivalent of ‘Come to Daddy’ or ‘Temper Temper’; the recent Camber Sands-version (which intergrated ‘Lazy Sunday’ & seemed to rip it out of John Lydon) is much, much greater.
The album ends on the minimal-electro-dirge ‘Six Six Sixties’ - which features suitably terrifying guitar from Cosey Fanni-Tutti & then two-alternate live-takes of ‘Discipline’ - from Berlin and Manchester respectively. These alternate takes, as the many live-albums demonstrate, that the live-realm was particularly TG’s forte - Grateful Dead for the punk-post-punk-industrial-etc.-generation…
‘20 Jazz Funk Greats’ remains a classic, do I sound like a care that the technology has dated? It probably is the most approachable TG-album, but still pushes the envelope with tracks like ‘Discipline’, ‘Persuasion’ & ‘What a Day’. Without this, a lot of other bands and records thereafter may not exist, or in quite the way they are/were. Demented British-artists and their demented art…wonderful-
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The Song Is You by Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Jack DeJohnette. Two sets from one rainy September day in 1981 at the Woodstock Jazz Festival. Two time-capsule gems.
Ars Longa Vita Brevis: a Compendium of Progressive Rock 1968-1974
Ars Longa Vita Brevis: a Compendium of Progressive Rock 1968-1974
Customer Review: ‘Highly’ recommended
This collection has had some negative remarks. I was born in 1959 and have spent most of my life as a musician (including some prog rock stints), music lover, and importantly, a collector of music (10,000 plus recordings, various media), of especially ‘adventurous’ music (within every context of my stages of life). Suffice it to say, I personally view this collection as ‘manna’, most enjoyable and a true gift for it’s release. Thats all ;-). Was this review helpful to you (just kidding ;-))
btw, I am listening to these recordings as I write, wish you were here.
Customer Review: Nostalgia satisfied.
This superb boxed set took me back to my fifth form days at school when we were allowed to bring in our albums and play them on the common room record player. Being pretty much strapped for cash most of the time, samplers were very popular.
These were usually cheap and often double albums. They usually featured resident bands on labels like Vertigo, Island, who released the excellent “El Pea” and CBS who released the equally impressive “Fill Your Head With Rock” etc. They were a great way to hear a lot of music at a relatively cheap price.
We were very much in to progressive rock then and this album reflects the inventiveness of the era. Names you’ve heard of and names you haven’t. Somehow I managed to have heard of the bands if not the music.
But while we have the giants of the genre such as ELP, Jethro Tull, The Nice, The Kinks, Fleetwood Mac, Uriah Heep and Atomic Rooster represented here, there are gems from lesser known names such as Black Widow (how we got away with playing a song called Come to the Sabbat with the RE master in the room beats me), early, pre Annie Haslam Rennaisance, Man (Always worth hearing) and Savoy Brown (Oh, the memories).
On board too are oddities by Mike Oldfield, Gothic folksters Comus, Pre T.Rex Tyrannosaurus Rex and, oh, look at this, even some Status Quo. Something for everyone then but maybe you need to be of a certain age to really appreciate this.
Or maybe you just need to appreciate well thought out and often intelligent music that didn’t follow the set formula.
This 3 CD set is the best I’ve heard in amany a long year. Better even than the also superb Vertigo Retrospective. For a 50 something and rapidly aging male nurse, rejuvenation was suddenly discovered and I was 17 again. Please release more like this.
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Rock Island Line
Rock Island Line
Customer Review: If anybody asks you “Who sung the song?”….
Influence is curious currency. And Lonnie Donegan as a performing artist had bags of it.
The Quarrymen became The Beatles and the three chord tricks became British R&B. Whilst skiffle itself was not durable in terms of the public eye it spawned a whole era of music that charts British music history.
Mr Donegan then. Here is probably the most comprehensive and best value compilation of the man’s material. There are decent alternatives but this collection of Singles (both A-sides and B-sides) does a good job of covering the man’s career from the mid-1950s to the mid-late 1960s.
“Rock Island Line” sounds like it’s in the eye of the storm when it gathers pace. Magic but accessible magic. Sounds American but quintessentially British.
(Just for note “Diggin’ My Potatoes” is curiously risque for the 1950s.)
CD1 documents some of the most essential British popular music. “Lost John” is insistent and bluesy and charming in a ram-shackle kind of way. “Bring A Little Water Sylvie” is insistent and energetic and steamrollers its way into your consciousness.
“Cumberland Gap” is breathtaking.
And yeah so its Britain and its the 1950s and so there is a bit of (coughs) music hall. “Putting On The Style” is of its time but not without its charm. Even if the audience show that intrinsic British sense of rhytmn by clapping along in the only way they know how like parents at a pantomime (it’s a live recording).
“Does Your Chewing Gum…” quite possibly should be overlooked. It’s not wrong maybe it’s just so of its time that it’s a peice of work to get enthusiastic about.
CD2 contains the well-known My Father Works For Tendered Out Environmental Services. Once again, this does not do much for Merry Terry… but much else on this CD does.
Two over-looked stunners on here is the majestic single “The Comancheroes” which is a stunner and backed by the intoxicating “Rambling Round.”
The blistering “Have A Drink On Me” is infectious and irrestistable. Even for Adam Faith fans who must be forgiving.
CD3 is more reflective and some might say patchy. “Where In The World Are We Going?” is quite charming. But the influence is documented on the first 2 discs.
An excellent package and a worthy document to a huge influence and talent.
This is infectious, joyous music with class and soul. If you can forgive the music-hall tendencies in places and I think I can, this is an excellent 3 CD set from one of the most influential figures in British music in the last 50 to 60 years.
Customer Review: Can be a hit with the youngsters now - just as it was 50 years ago
My daughter sang ‘My old mans a dustman’ in the primary school choir and asked for the record (well CD). I bought her this anthology as it seemed incredible value for three CDs (and it is). My daughter (now 12) fell in love with the music and it’s been on her CD or MP3 player ever since. As a child I loved ‘John Henry’, ‘Rock Island Line’, ‘Cumberland gap’ and ‘Does your chewing gum lose it’s flavour’, and the humorous way many of the tracks are recorded. Although being born in the East End in the late 1950s, I missed nearly all of the rest of these tracks first time around though (at 18 I was into Deep Purple, Hawkwind, The Strawbs and Genesis) - although my mother & father taught me the words ‘Skiffle’ and ‘Washing board’ at an early age.
The musical variety of tracks on offer here, all delivered in LD’s enthusiastic style, is quite impressive, ranging from his early classics to pretty good cover versions of contemporary songs, e.g. The parties over - although most of his 50s hits were covers as well, and none the worse for that. His use of simple ‘instruments’ like tea chests, tins, washing boards and a cheap Spanish guitar gave the impression that anyone could do it, and he kicked off the teenage garage bands of the 50s and 60s. He became unfashionable in the 1970s (although he wrote ‘I’ll never fall in love again’ for Tom Jones). However his influence on the pop stars from the 60s onwards meant that he was always well respected in the industry, leading to tribute concerts and recordings later in life. In 2002 he died at 71 while still touring. It could be said his music, combined with the Buddy Holly sound, lead to the Beatles and British domination of popular music in the 1960s and 1970s.
The triple CD set comes in three separate CD cases, each with neat inserts making them look like Lonnie Donegan 45rpm singles (CD3: The party’s over, CD2: Does your chewing gum lose it’s flavour) and a 78rpm sleeve (CD1: Rock Island Line). There’s also a large detailed folded illustrated pamphlet about Lonnie’s life and music. This all fits, rather tightly, into a 1950’s period cardboard sleeve. It’s all very well presented and clearly made by people who care about Lonnie’s part in pop music history. So a great selection of Lonnie Donegan tracks, in a nicely presented set, and at a bargain price, plus his music can still be a hit with the youngsters today.
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