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Don Van Vliet was an incredible vocalist. So fuck that guy (or gal).

"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

I'm not bicoastal, anyhow.

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Winton Tan and his brilliant 8-string classical guitar will provide you with the ultimate in entertainment and total relaxation surrounding you with the magical sounds of his 8-string classical guitar. Winston Tan is delighting audiences around the world with his inspiring, intriguing, emotionally uplifting arrangements for his eight-string guitar. The pieces he has chosen indentify [sic] with people all around the world and touch your heart and give you strength for the future.

I hope the album isn't as repetitive as the review.

Winston Tan ~ Voice of the Guitar [which is decidedly 8-string]
 
Winston Tan sounds like a variety of brand name cigarettes from the 70s.

"Winston Tan plays good, like an eight-string guitar player should."

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What it is: Indie Rock, by the band Moviola

Moviola's fourth album is by far their most ambitious. The 70-plus minutes here are a jumbled montage of ragged song fragments, along with longer, more polished compositions -- even the latter being plenty rough around the edges. Adhering to the lo-fi recording aesthetic of early releases, Glen Echo Autoharp was recorded straight to four-track, and the album resonates with murky basslines and fuzzy guitars. Far from being constricting, the rudimentary production allows the band to both narrow its focus and diversify its sound. With all four members switching instruments -- and principal songwriter Ted Haettner sharing vocal and writing duties liberally -- Glen Echo Autoharp is driven by a multitude of impulses. In that variety lies the album's main strength. Rendered with patience and restraint, Moviola wanders plenty, but they never get lost. Strong melodies and an eclectic, poignant moodiness make up for any lack of cohesion here, keeping the material fresh and compelling throughout.

What it is not: An autoharp CD

1.0 out of 5 stars Not my idea of an autoharp CD
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2017
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Awful; threw the disk away after playing it once. Description was inaccurate, many of the selections were jazz, which I loathe, and comparatively little autoharp contribution in spite of the title.
 
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They call this one of the greatest debuts
Silent river | 09/08/2010
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(2 out of 5 stars)

"We need to have less of these pompous journo's around who inflate the importance of the bands they grew up with or for which they copied other journo's reviews of. Initially you might listen to Dazed, babe and a few others a bit, but the whole thing wears out quite soon. It's popular today because of hype and nostalgia. Case in point: Even Green Day are considered classic and legendary today despite being the amateur pop garage band they still are and were when they came out with Dookie in 1994. Anything can be popular and the more accessible or journo-defined cool it is the more it 'endures.'

Incidentally, the best debut of all time is Iron Maiden's self-titled."


Led Zeppelin
 
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J.M.
1.0 out of 5 stars It is a shame since all the other songs on the album were excellent. I would make Hopefully there will be a ...
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2018

I have had two copies of this album. Each one skipped in the exact same spot on “Old Man”. It is a shame since all the other songs on the album were excellent. I would make Hopefully there will be a repressing that will fix this album.

Neil Young: Live at the Cellar Door

All that, just to say this...

I thought the skip would be on "The Needle and the Damage Done."

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1.0 out of 5 stars Bernhard Lang is a ridiculous phony
Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2010

Bernhard Lang is a totally obvious and transparent phony. This is his schtick: he attacks legitimate composers (i.e. he declared "music written on 'five lines'" to be "dead" -- he was referring to the "five lines" of staves in sheet music), he makes pretentious and vague references to philosophers (which he clearly fails to understand), incorporates gimmicky elements of ghetto music and kitsch (Eurotrash disco beats anyone?), and declares himself to be a political revolutionary.

In short, he has made a career of putting up smoke screens to hide his utter lack of musical ability, technical knowledge, and general ignorance. He is a "composer" of exceedingly minor importance, who will undoubtedly fade into the trash bin of history the moment he is no longer around to fake out gullible sycophants.

Fair warning, do not waste your money on this piece of crap CD.

Differenz / Wiederholung 2

Bernhard Lang (Composer), Sylvain Cambreling (Conductor), Klangforum Wien (Orchestra)
 
Forget the blues legend about being the seventh brother – Hermas Zopoula is allegedly the 36th of his brood. Maybe the 49th had blues-squared levels of talent, because Hermas doesn’t. He became friendly with an American couple gap yearing in Burkina Faso – and what better way to repay him for showing them round than by, say, arranging a record deal with Sufjan Stevens’ label? It’s already being billed as diamond-in-the-rough triumph over impossible odds, but he’s no Ouagadogouan Susan Boyle. If soukous and Congolese rumba sound exotic, the reality is as bland as yam quiche. The only high points are comic and unintentional – like when ‘Espoir’ whacks on the Alvin & The Chipmunks pitch-shift. Please, no-one tell him about Auto-Tune.

‘Espoir’ by Hermas Zopoula
 
Forget the blues legend about being the seventh brother – Hermas Zopoula is allegedly the 36th of his brood. Maybe the 49th had blues-squared levels of talent, because Hermas doesn’t. He became friendly with an American couple gap yearing in Burkina Faso – and what better way to repay him for showing them round than by, say, arranging a record deal with Sufjan Stevens’ label? It’s already being billed as diamond-in-the-rough triumph over impossible odds, but he’s no Ouagadogouan Susan Boyle. If soukous and Congolese rumba sound exotic, the reality is as bland as yam quiche. The only high points are comic and unintentional – like when ‘Espoir’ whacks on the Alvin & The Chipmunks pitch-shift. Please, no-one tell him about Auto-Tune.

‘Espoir’ by Hermas Zopoula
Wut?
 
If you're ok with the repeats in all of the movements of both symphonies excised, this CD is for you. The timings inside the booklet are not the same as on the recording. There is a Gold Seal edition with the repeats restored. Most recordings only repeat the first movement repeats in both symphonies.

I suppose I find repeat descriptions of repeats unduly repetitive.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, James Levine, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mozart Symphony No. 40, Symphony No. 41"Jupiter"
 
5.0 out of 5 stars Special
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2020
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At first I was like nah. And then I was like wait a minute.

A Certain Ratio: Sextet

Me, as unusual, keeping it relevant
 
The ultimate party-killer, but Very Relaxing!
09/27/1999
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(5 out of 5 stars)

"I enjoy this CD a lot! This is an excellent recording of surf and water (and a few buzzing bees on "Sand Dune"). It is the aural experience of visiting a beautiful coastline. The first track is a 30 second tone to set the volume. The second track is 20 minutes of clearly recorded ocean surf. No shrimp boats, no bonfires on the beach, no traffic, no TV, just the relaxing sound of the waves. The remaining tracks are recordings taken from different locations near the ocean. This CD is also a great way to tell your guests when it's time to go home. I had a party that went on until about 3AM (we were playing mostly Rock music). I put this CD in the changer and several people commented on the quality of the recording and how good the ocean sounded. 5 minutes later, everyone was excusing themselves to go home to bed!"

Earth Sounds: Ebb & Flow

For those times when getting into your pajamas, holding your pillow, and saying aloud, "I really shouldn't keep you," do not work.
 
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The ultimate party-killer, but Very Relaxing!
09/27/1999
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(5 out of 5 stars)

"I enjoy this CD a lot! This is an excellent recording of surf and water (and a few buzzing bees on "Sand Dune"). It is the aural experience of visiting a beautiful coastline. The first track is a 30 second tone to set the volume. The second track is 20 minutes of clearly recorded ocean surf. No shrimp boats, no bonfires on the beach, no traffic, no TV, just the relaxing sound of the waves. The remaining tracks are recordings taken from different locations near the ocean. This CD is also a great way to tell your guests when it's time to go home. I had a party that went on until about 3AM (we were playing mostly Rock music). I put this CD in the changer and several people commented on the quality of the recording and how good the ocean sounded. 5 minutes later, everyone was excusing themselves to go home to bed!"

Earth Sounds: Ebb & Flow

For those times when getting into your pajamas, holding your pillow, and saying aloud, "I really shouldn't keep you," do not work.
Now I want to hear it.
 
1.0 out of 5 stars CDs OK - Documentation Inexcusable
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2006
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You can always argue about what songs should be included in an anthology of a band whose members changed over time. As a junior high school kid listening to these tunes isolated from the larger world, I may not have had the good taste to select the same songs that the larger market did, but the important ones are here and the sound quality is acceptable.

So why only one star?

Since I'm not building a shrine dedicated to Humble Pie in my listening room, I want a CD in a standard jewel case with documentation that fits also into that standard jewel case. I'd love a fact-filled booklet included with the CD that would answer questions friends will inevitably have when we reminisce while listening to Humble Pie. An informative booklet was included. However, the MORONS at A&M records made the booklet about an eighth of an inch too tall and about three quarters of an inch too wide to fit into the case! IDIOTS! Merely cropping the photos differently could easily have allowed the booklet to fit into the jewel case. It certainly wasn't too thick. Get over yourselves and make something that buyers want, not the wet dream of your cubicle musings.

Hot 'N' Nasty by Humble Pie

 
NOT a music review, but a self-styled, meandering autobiography.

I am still trying to decide whether to listen to the album.

Stuart Davis Biography "the inexorable rise to nothing"

and after that, he married Czech émigré Nicola Adi-Dali, and moved to Duluth In 1997 he got back together with himself and went on a solo reunion tour, still in progress that's also when Stu constructed his own language (IS), became a published author (Radical Spirit, New World Library), and featured character in a forthcoming Ken Wilber novel (Boomeritis, Shambhala) is it any wonder he's written over 300 hundred songs perhaps most exciting, Stuart is working on a full length motion picture with New York director Brian Vegter, with a plot line based on Stuart's songs and an all-Stuart sound track the film also stars Davis, who invented dancing, and will be in theaters last year that kind of intoxicating media attention can get to anyone, and after appearances on the likes of Ed Sullivan Show, World Café, and Conan O'Brien, Davis became the first solo artist in the history of music to break up with himself in order to form a band citing creative differences with himself, Davis hit the road as a group, with himself on vocals/guitar, John Pulsina on Bass (Air Supply), and Pef Addeta (Def Leppard) on electric guitar the first CD in the new configuration, Bright Apocalypse is the selling independent biggest release of its no-kind in the history of I'm either 28 or 32 years old, and fully bipedal. I was born in Des Moines, St. Paul, I'm Danish, I've performed over 3,000 shows in the last decade, over half of them not in Europe forming his own label in 1998 (Post Apocalyptic Records) with a huge cash infusion garnered from a copyright lawsuit settled out of court, the ambidextrous bisexual simultaneously began and ended a new era in Post Apocalyptic Punk Pop, the genre Davis is both inventor and student of since he released his first CD as a high school senior at St. Thomas Academy in Ames, IA, the critics have been unanimous: What was your face before your parents were born? spinning wildly in the dirty UNDER-belly BENEATH the very PINNACLE of the TO! P UNDER-ground rock world, LOOK AT HIM!! he's turning to drugs and sex somewhere in Montana, he's being arrested for snorting cocaine off a hooker's tits, and 333 minutes in jail, he turns to GodGod turns away, pretending to see someone else he knows in heaven dismayed by the vicissitudes of a personal deity, Davis began practicing a form of meditation known as Choiceless Awareness, aka: the self selfing the self as the self does the self with the self by the self for the self upon his radical realization of IS, Davis' semen became a super-divinized fluid, capable of clearing karmic debts and healing all variety of human psycho-spiritual pathology. Sadly, in observance of Buddhist-Sufi-Kabbalah Mystery teachings, DAVIS is STRICTLY monogamous WITH his GOD Nicola and their DOG Wife, the clearest, healthiest woman in their European home, Copenhagen and that's where it all begins in 980 C.E., two horny Vikings slipped under a deer skin blanket and made the first Davis, one of billions of stories and lifetimes that never unfolded in the stateless state that is our inherent condition You, 2002
 
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Wow! One Nation Underground from Pearls Before Swine. I definitely was not expecting that selection.

A mild smattering of applause for Tom Rapp.

Damn, I did not know he had passed.


Of course, I do not know the others. I think that result was to be expected.
 
5.0 out of 5 stars

too rolling stoned......
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2020
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robin trower was a roadie and back up guitarist for jimi hendrix for a while, and it shows.

While the name of Robin Trower within the sentence above is spelled correctly, the content of the sentence is pure bullshit, as it emanated via the writer's ass.
 
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