| | Spinal Tap Break Like The Wind CD Spinal Tap Discography of CDs
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Contains an untitled hidden track between "Clam Caravan" and "Christmas With The Devil."
Additional personnel includes: Caucasian Jeffrey Vanston (keyboards); Ric Shrimpton (drums); Slash, Jeff Beck, Joe Satriani, Steve Lukather, Cher.
Since Spinal Tap only existed for the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap, the idea that Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer were actually going to release a studio album rather than a soundtrack brought on a tremendous amount of anticipation. The resulting product is Break Like the Wind, a record that, like the 1984 soundtrack, boasts powerful guitar and surprisingly decent vocals, along with some quite silly song themes. Unfortunately, when it comes to satirical bands, one can only hear these kind of songs a certain number of times before they become tedious. Instead of sticking to its roots, the album is also sometimes overshadowed by its celebrity appearances and heavy performances, which make it seem like the players were actually trying to make their listeners think that the album wasn't just a big joke. Break Like the Wind may have not been the comeback everyone was hoping for, but it certainly has enough amusing moments to be worth a listen. ~ Barry Weber
Recorded at The Sound Factory, Hollywood, California; Record One, Sherman Oaks, California; West Side Studios, London, England; Rumbo Recorders, Canoga Park, California. Includes liner notes by Walter Becker.
Spinal Tap: David St. Hubins (Michael McKean) (vocals, guitar); Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) (vocals, guitar); Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) (vocals, bass).
Producers: Danny Kortchmar, Dave Jerden, Steve Lukather, T-Bone Burnett, Spinal Tap.
Engineers include: Niko Bolas, Bryan Caristrom, Marc DeSisto.Rolling Stone (4/2/92, p.45) - 3 Stars - Good - "..great parodists... amplifies the absurdity of pop music in general.."
Q (5/92, p.84) - 4 Stars - Excellent
NME (Magazine) (10/28/00, p.40) - 666 out of 10 - "...Extra tenderness and extra balls - tender balls, if you will. The sound is sharper, the arrangements broader, but tunes like 'Bitch School' and 'Christmas With The Devil' are classic Tap with double helpings of Tapology....Unenlightened, unimproved, unapologetic - it doesn't get more Tap than this." Break Like The Wind Music | List Price | $6.98 (You save $1.79) | | Category | Rock Albums, Pop CDs, Comedy, Rock/Pop, Hard Rock | | Label | MCA | | Orig Year | 1992 | | All Time Sales Rank |  27756  | | CD Universe Part number | 1104751 | | Catalog number | 112370 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Aug 29, 2000 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Recording Time | 49 minutes | | Personnel | David St
Also: Steve Lukather, Jeff Beck, Slash, Joe Satriani, Cher, Caucasian Jeffrey Vanston, Ric Shrimpton | | Additional Info | Remastered |
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1984's perfect, side-splitting rock documentary spoof This Is Spinal Tap wouldn't have succeeded if Spinal Tap's "original" music didn't properly mimic what it poked fun at. But not only does the music have the exact traits of hard rock and heavy metal, the lyrics are a scream. The soundtrack features the howlingly funny songs used in director Rob Reiner's film. The music was all co-written by Reiner, Michael McKean (aka vocalist/guitarist David St. Hubbins), Christopher Guest (aka lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel), and Harry Shearer (aka bassist Derek Smalls). McKean, Guest, and Shearer -- all extremely talented comic actors and writers -- are credited with performing the music along with a keyboardist, drummer, and synthesizer player. "Hell Hole" and "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight" are mindlessly catchy. The appropriately melodramatic "Heavy Duty" has a cliched, hysterical chorus. "Rock and Roll Creation" and "Stonehenge" mock the music and image of mystical, allegedly demonic bands like Black Sabbath; "Stonehenge" in particular is a riot thanks to Tufnel's narration about the Druids. ...
| | VH1 Presents The Corrs Live In Dublin CD (2002)
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This audio document of The Corrs' Dublin homecoming concert has pretty much everything fans of Irish pop could wish for, including an appearance from Bono in his earthly incarnation, fresh from an audience with President George W. Bush. It's to the band's credit that the charismatic singer fails to steal the show, despite creditable efforts via an anthemized version of Ryan Adams' beautifully downtempo "When the Stars Go Blue," and a great, leering rendition of Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra's "Summer Wine."
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| | Kinks Ultimate Collection CDs (2002) (Import) Thailand
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Although generally not as highly regarded by the critics as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, or the Who, the Kinks may well have influenced far more musicians. The three-chord sledgehammer proto-metal burst of teenage lust called "You Really Got Me," the Kinks' third single and first hit, touched off a garage band explosion, which in turn influenced the rise of punk a decade later. Blessed with an astute songwriter in Ray Davies, the Kinks followed the template of "You Really Got Me" for a couple years, racking up hits with "All Day and All of the Night," "Tired of Waiting for You," and "Till the End of the Day." But Davies had more than one card in his pocket, and he blossomed into a sharp social satirist ("Dedicated Follower of Fashion"). By the time the album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society was released in 1968, Davies had become a master of elegiac studies in English suburbia. The gender-bending "Lola" was a big hit in 1970 and the Kinks entered the video era in 1983 with "Come Dancing" and its memorable video. The Ultimate Collection spans the group's career in two discs, including the hits, B-sides, and key album tracks. ~ Steve Leggett
Arguably the finest and most expansive Kinks collection on the market! The first disc of this double-disc ...
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| | Raindrops Kind Of Boy You Can't Forget CD (2005)
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Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich are best known as songwriters but as for their output dubbed the Raindrops exhibits, they were fine performers too. Collectables' The Kind of Boy You Can't Forget rounds up ten of the group's light-hearted girl group tunes including the wonderful title track, which was their only hit. The duos' ...
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| | Black Golden Bull CD (2008)
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Black Golden Bull joins the burgeoning singer/songwriter collective with its conglomeration of country and western (the good kind...), low-fi pop, and vocals registering somewhere between Roy Rogers and Sufjan Stevens. Heavy on imagery and sad and lonely landscapes, BGB layers seemingly simple lyricism with those archetypal images and metaphors that permeate all of our favorite mythologies. (Plus there’s some gun-slinging.) With wonderfully simple and singable lyrics suspended above a primary backdrop of acoustic guitar (sometimes the only backdrop), BGB reminds us of what country and western used to be like and how good it was. How it somehow got to the very roots of who we are. Especially those of us blessed enough to have been formed by the gently rolling hills and seemingly endless prairies of the Midwest. Yet, all the while, they maintain a pop sensibility that weaves together a achingly beautiful mixture of unlike genres.A note from the label:At Non Entity Labs, we’re not interested in faces, egos, photos of faces on covers of magazines, (un)interesting poses, et al. We are, however, interested in beautiful sounds, good intentions, a desire to make something without the need for validation, the value of metaphor in our daily lives, and so on. We're not trying to be cool or obtuse or artsy, here. And we don’t take ourselves too seriously. ...
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