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Includes liner notes by Merf Sohmers and Patti Hobart, and original release liner notes by Jon Landau.
If not for Nazz leader Todd Rundgren's subsequent commercially successful solo career, the Nazz might be a band beloved strictly by '60s pop obsessives. Without Rundgren's classic pop voice and incipient songwriting smarts, the Nazz may have been just another also-ran on the NUGGETS anthology. However, while a few of the tracks on this 1968 debut are so-so R&B-based workouts too poppy to be "heavy," most of these songs are terrific. The justifiably legendary single "Open My Eyes" is a '60s pop classic, and the early version of "Hello It's Me," later a huge hit single from Rundgren's solo breakthrough SOMETHING/ANYTHING?, shows that Rundgren's sense of songcraft was already in full flower. Ultimately, this is a paisley pop delight.
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The Nazz: Carson Van Osten, Thom Mooney, Stewkey, Todd Rundgren.
Nazz: Todd Rundgren (vocals, guitar); Robert "Stewkey" Antoni (vocals, keyboards); Carson Van Osten (bass); Thom Mooney (drums).
Producers: Todd Rundgren, Michael Friedman, Bill Traut.
Q (4/97, p.137) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "Todd Rundgren's first recording outfit minted all the enduring hallmarks of power pop..." Nazz Review
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Purchase Nazz CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Chills Kaleidoscope World CD (1986) (Import) Import; Australia
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KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD contains 10 bonus tracks and represents everything the band recorded through early 1986, including all of the LOST EP, and the I LOVE MY LEATHER JACKET/THE GREAT ESCAPE 12"
KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD, The Chills' 18-track compilation culled from The Chills early and mid-'80s EPs and singles, is highlighted by the song "Pink Frost."
The Chills' Martin Phillipps mixes up melodic pop with elements of garage rock and punk, creating songs with a sweet melancholy all their own. Phillipps has always been the focus of the Chills, writing and singing the band's songs. His group has also rivaled Menudo in its sheer number of personnel changes. In a just world, the Chills would have sold just as many records.
KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD showcases the shifting line-ups and many moods of the early to mid-'80s Chills. "Rolling Moon" captures a mood of shambling joy, its simple, repeated keyboard riff sounding like a distant caravan crossing New Zealand's big-sky country. "Pink Frost" is undoubtedly one of the Chills' two or three finest songs, an eerie tale of finding one's lover dead and being stricken with waves of icy panic. Phillipps's ...
| | Yes Album CD (1971) Bonus Track; Remastered
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With THE YES ALBUM, Yes began an important new chapter in its career and defined much of what the next decade would bring. They had left behind not only their original guitarist, Peter Banks, but also the covers of 1960s tunes by the likes of the Byrds and the Beatles. The arrival of the more hard-edged Steve Howe signaled the group's ascent into full-blown progressive-rock mode, a style whose parameters Yes helped craft with this recording. Though Rick Wakeman and his classical-influenced arsenal of keyboards had not yet come aboard, Tony Kaye's roiling Hammond organ and Chris Squire's busy bass lines perfectly interacted with Howe's idiosyncratic playing to create a uniquely fugue-like sound, as Bill Bruford's polyrhythms and Jon Anderson's angelic voice simultaneously kept things on a more abstract and ethereal plane than almost anything that had been labeled "rock" up to that point. "Starship Trooper" and "Yours Is No Disgrace" would become hallmarks of prog rock and launch a thousand pale imitations by third-string art-rockers for decades to come.
With THE YES ALBUM, Yes began an important new chapter in their ...
| | Boston Don't Look Back CD (1978) Reissue; Remastered; Digipak
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Boston's many fans were upset that it took the band two years to follow up its monster debut. When it arrived, the sophomore effort DON'T LOOK BACK was a virtual rewrite ...
| | Nazz Nazz / Nazz III: The Fungo Bat Sessions CDs (2006) Remastered
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| | Killing Floor CD (1995) (Import) With Book; Limited Edition; Digipak; Germany
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The sheer toughness -- and overall derivative -- nature of Killing Floor's debut album, issued six months after Led Zeppelin's debut in 1969 on the Spark label, is a wondrous contrast to the overly slick treatment American blues were given by British artists. All of these tunes, with the exception of one, are revamped versions of songs from the blues canon with different words. The lone "cover" in the set was written by Willie Dixon titled "Woman You Need Love," the tune Zep ripped for "Whole Lotta Love." Despite the fact that this set was issued before by Repertoire, the Akarma version is definitive in that it features the original cover artwork in a heavy cardboard gatefold sleeve, and killer sound. This is a raw, immediate, overdriven, psychedelic blues record that offers an interesting historical counterpoint to the immediate impact of Page and Plant and Co., but it also offers a great contrast to the recent 1990s versions of American groups trying to rock up the blues in like style: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion immediately comes to mind. They also provide a heavier, less reverent, and altogether ...
| | Danny Kirwan Second Chapter CD (1975) With Book; Limited Edition; Digipak
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The first solo album from Fleetwood Mac singer/songwriter Daniel David Kirwan has the future producer for Human League and Buzzcocks, Martin Rushent, utilizing those skills here, as well as engineering. The sound is crystal clear, and a feather in the cap for Rushent as well as Kirwan. It starts off with an uncharacteristic "Ram Jam City," which has more Lindsey Buckingham sounds than one would expect, especially since the two guitarists come from two different musical worlds. "Odds and Ends" is more lighthearted, the kind of music Paul McCartney toyed with on The White Album's "Rocky Raccoon." What Second Chapter immediately sets forth is the importance of Kirwan as a pop artist, and how, despite Fleetwood Mac's success after he left, his sounds could still have been beneficial to that supergroup. "Hot Summers Day" is a fine example of that, a beautiful song that could offset Buckingham's gritty ramblings. It would have made a nice counterpoint as Stevie Nicks complemented Christine McVie's tunes with her adventures, bringing an important change of pace to that popular band's hits. The jacket looks like a dusty old family album-style book holding Kirwan's Second Chapter. And the music reflects ...
| | Madonna Erotica CD (1992)
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Madonna released EROTICA around the same time she released her SEX book, and that's exactly what it sounds like. The title song has a sensuously static groove over which she commands, "Put your hands all over my body." "Where Life Begins" demands that you do something a whole lot more intimate (and quite unrepeatable here) to her. The CD booklet has a photo of Madonna in bondage. To get across the album's naughty feel, Madonna dispensed with the pop prettiness of LIKE A PRAYER and returned to her hard-core dance club roots.
She and co-producer Shep Pettibone, who had made his name as a club DJ and dance remixer, craft some alluring bad-girl grooves (catch the ocean-deep bass on "Waiting") while still managing to keep things catchy. "Deeper And Deeper" is celebratory dance-pop (with a brief Latin break that nods to the music's true roots) and "Rain" stands among Madonna's major ballads. There's a strange heaviness amidst the fun, games and bondage on EROTICA, which "In This Life" goes a long way toward explaining: it's about AIDS and homophobia. At her naughtiest and most R-rated, Madonna still carries a message, and it resonates well beyond the dance floor.
Recorded at Mastermix and Sound Works, New York, New York.
Personnel: Madonna (vocals); Jerome Dickens, Paul Pesco (guitar); Andre Betts (strings, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, string synthesizer, drums, programming, drum ...
| | Eleni Mandell Thrill CD (2000)
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The specter of Tom Waits lurks all over the sexy, cabaret torch songs on Eleni Mandell's second full-length, Thrill. Featuring members of X and Idaho, this album twists and slinks from the dingy dive of relationships gone awry to the cool seats of a "1970 Red Chevelle" with a neo-noir ambiance drenched in sex and longing. Mandell's come-hither vocals sound most like PJ Harvey, and songs like "Pauline" could be right off of To Bring You My Love. The lilting "Closer to Him," though, is closer to Billie Holiday swooning through a lament to some lost guy. "Action Is Action" evokes voyeurism so well, that it seems that we, ...
| | Stayte Abandon In The Amber CD (2004)
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STAYTE is undoubtedly the most:*Intelligent* *Unique**Witty* *Sarcastic**Heavy* *Legitimate**Under Appreciated/Promoted/Supported*Alternative, ...
| | Dreamscape 5th Season CD (2007)
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| | Folklore Der Anden CDs (2008) (Import) Import
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| | Rick Harrington You Can't Just Sit There CD (2008)
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$16.45
Rick Harrington’s debut album will leave you anything but bored. This eclectic assortment of well-crafted and superbly performed songs covers nearly all the musical bases. The title song, "You Can’t Just Sit There," is a folk-rock portrayal of the true-life adventure of Larry Walters (the man who one day decided to see if he could be lifted by a host of weather balloons tied to his lawn chair). "Ain’t Life Grand" is a fun blues-rock tune about being content whatever your circumstances. Emily’s bluesy vocals and Rick’s lead guitar really stand out on this one. Steel guitar and mandolin are featured in "Bertram Harris," a kind of new grass/country/jam song addressing the cruel consequences and regrets of a life of addiction. "Sleeveless" is a rock-jazz portrayal of the tragic pride and carelessness of youth. This song features some excellent saxophone and conga playing as well as a very strong vocal performance by Emily Truncellito. The "Tractor Song" is an amusing, pure country, statement of the reliability of a tractor over a woman. The steel guitar work is a real highlight on this track. "Mister Smooth" is an instrumental, smooth jazz piece showcasing some impressive ...
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