Rock Music

Shake Rattle and Roll: 50 Classic Rock ‘n’ Roll Hits

Doug — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:08:15 +0000

Shake Rattle and Roll: 50 Classic Rock ‘n’ Roll Hits
Customer Review: Great tracklist, bad sound
Firstly, the version I recieved has a slightly different - and possibly superior - tracklisting from the one shown here. My copy replaces some British skiffle/pop with authentic American rock and roll - no Tornados’ ‘Telstar’ or Joe Brown’s ‘Picture Of You’ for example, but Fats Domino’s ‘Ain’t That A Shame’ and Frankie Lymon’s ‘Why Do Fools Fall In Love’ are included. The bulk of the content is identical however, and there’s no denying this is classic stuff. Unfortunately, the disc suffers from a chronic case of modern mastering - the dynamics are squashed to push the volume up, and the bass and treble are boosted. This means everything sounds a bit mushy and overbearing, while the vivid mid-range which gives rock and roll its energy is lost. It’s a heavy-handed approach that might work on dance music but is completely inappropriate for this material. Ah well. Probably a good disc for cruising to, but if you’re serious about this music, far better to investigate some of the properly mastered compilations from labels like Ace and Rhino.

50 Rock and Roll Originals

Doug — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:08:11 +0000

50 Rock and Roll Originals

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Masters of Rock: the Very Best of Sammy Hagar

Doug — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:13:49 +0000

Masters of Rock: the Very Best of Sammy Hagar

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The Alternative Classical Collection - Rock Classics by Royal Philharmonic Orch: U2, Oasis, Stereophonics

Doug — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:13:44 +0000

The Alternative Classical Collection - Rock Classics by Royal Philharmonic Orch: U2, Oasis, Stereophonics

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FABRICLIVE33: Spank Rock

Doug — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:12:22 +0000

FABRICLIVE33: Spank Rock
Customer Review: fab fabric action
Best of Fabric series since cut copy and diplo mixes. Lots of choice cuts, top ones being ‘dominatrix sleeps tonight’ and chicks on speeds retake on ‘wordy rappinghood’. Bought Spank Rock’s yoyoyoyo etc album on the back of this, which is a proper treat.

Customer Review: Filthy!!!
Heard this round a friends … bought it the next day, wicked mix, doesn’t take itself too seriously, just let’s you get on down with it’s funkiness!!!

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Rock and Bop With the Doodlebops

Doug — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:12:18 +0000

Rock and Bop With the Doodlebops
Customer Review: Really groovy CD!
Fans of Doodlebops with love this CD, it’s a selection of original songs from the tv series. My kids love it and so do I, and I am 35!

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I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll

Doug — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:06:36 +0000

I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll

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Road Rock Vol.1

Doug — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:06:30 +0000

Road Rock Vol.1
If you ignore the vocoderised tat of Trans or the infamous “unrepresentative material” phase on Geffen Records, Neil Young’s career has always been pretty much of a bi-polarised affair. Placid, rocking-chair folkie one minute, griseous ear-crunching grungester the next–and often within the space of two successive albums. Thus, Road Rock Volume 1, recorded at Red Rocks in Denver in September 2000, is another one of those snarling, over-amplified distortion-fests along the lines of the timelessly classic Weld. Well, almost. Certainly, the stuttering, 18-minute version of “Cowgirl In The Sand”–on which Young strangles every last splutter and wheeze from his guitar while wringing its neck like that of some troublesome chicken–manages to express a raucous kinship with his previous electric live recordings. As does a heavy-legged march through “All Along The Watchtower”, wherein Young and guest vocalist Chrissie Hynde positively froth at the mouth with the righteousness of crazy preachers. Otherwise, “Tonight’s The Night” not withstanding, it’s a refreshing track-listing, the best example of which is the “Wonderin’”-style dishevelled blues-rock of “Fool For Your Love”, a song written and performed at the time of 1988’s This Note’s For You but never officially made available on record until now. –Kevin Maidment

Customer Review: On the right road
This is Neil at his best and with a fine backing band this album is superb!The opener “Cowgirl in the sand” is as stunning as usual and Ben Keith plays some fine rhythm guitar alongsides Neil’s intense vocals and lead guitar.The version of “Words” is amazing and yet again Neil is in fine voice and the guitar work is more direct than on “Harvest”.Another amazing version is “Tonight’s the night”which sticks pretty closely to the album version with Neil on Piano and Ben Keith playing the most amazing slide guitar.This is just as spooky as the original !
A blistering version of Dylan’s “all along the Watchtower” ends this fantastic album with Chrissie Hynde the guest artist
Neil comes up with a few surprises,the beautiful “Peace of mind”,”Fool for your love” and “Motorcycle Mama” from comes a time!
Just look at his classic band-Jimmy Keltner,Ben Keith,Spooner Oldham and Donald Duck Dunn !Astrid and Pegi are fine back up singers,so buy this one,it’s a killer !
Road Rock volume 2 will be released shortly in 2010 !!!!!

Customer Review: Yea, real neil
great live album where you can hear the words as well as the guitar. Was NY in a good mood? Can be played right through without any annoying tracks, but i avoid #1 “cowgirl”.

Walk on, Fool for you love, piece of mind, words etc …. the whole album fits together and can be played and replayed. Not just an album with 1-2 interesting tracks,

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More Than a Feeling: the Greatest Rock Anthems of All Time

Doug — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:08:45 +0000

More Than a Feeling: the Greatest Rock Anthems of All Time
Customer Review: The Elixer of Forgotten Youth for Men of a Certain Age!
I’m listening to this CD as I write this review. If you want to take a time machine trip back to a moment before middle age wearied and disenchated you, before the mortgage and the bills weighed you down and before you knew that life would be so tough, buy this CD, put it in the player, turn it up a few notches, close your eyes and drift awaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy hey heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy HEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Reminisce. You owe it to yourself!

The Golden Age Of American Rock’n'Roll - Special Country Edition

Doug — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:08:40 +0000

The Golden Age Of American Rock’n'Roll - Special Country Edition
Customer Review: How Country Music lived with Rock n’ Roll.
In the mid ’50s, Country Music was in real danger of going out of business. Its niche markets were overwhelmed by the new raw sounds of Rock n’ Roll demanded by of all things, by teenagers.

The first track on this superb compilation, White Lightnin’ by George Jones captures the way Country Music blended the new sound into a distinct beat, keeping the lyrics distinctly Country. That sound just about kept Country alive long enough for the tunes and melodies to grow back, and the successive tracks are distinctive in that they have something to say, and a memorable sound that could catch the ear on radio or get a quarter into a jukebox.

What the songs said wasn’t new, but it was now more evocative because the songs linked in with things like urbanisation, and the loss of rural roots. Detroit City echoes the loss with its great line “by day I make the cars, and by night I make the Bars”, even El Paso, with it’s Mexican sounds hints of the old lost West.

Also crowding in were songs that spoke of unrequited love or adultery. Heavy stuff. Wrapped up in a great arrangement is the classic Walk on By, not the Dionne Warwick bit of fluff, but the darker Leroy Van Dyke track of adulterous love.

Whatever the theme, and they weave around the usual mix, the arrangement, tempo and delivery matches. Jim Reeves on the telephone with He’ll Have To Go, and the frenetic Flowers On the Wall with the Statlers one step ahead of descending into a nervous breakdown caused by the loss of a woman.

The tracks range from 1956 to 1965, a long time in any music.From Ray Prices classic shuffle Crazy Arms to Roger Millers scat in King of the Road.

Country Music is often portrayed as samey, boring and trite. These songs sold in their hundreds of thousands, tackling issues other genres wouldn’t touch. And they did it in a way that meant as soon as you heard the guitar chords of I Fall To Pieces you stop and remember that it’s Patsy. Country Music can evoke memory and emotion.

This ACE collection is a very worthy entrant in the Golden Age of Rock ‘n’ Roll Series. Buy it now.