Fight of My Life

Track Listings
1. Jigsaw    
2. What Happened to Joe?    
3. Paradise    
4. Hunted    
5. Game Day    
6. Forgive and Forget    
7. Trinidad    
8. Rat Race    
9. Just What I Needed    
10. Fight of My Life    
11. Paradise [Barrett's Version]    

Fight of My Life, Music, Insyderz, CCM, Pop, Popular Music, Religious / Contemp. Christian, Third Wave Ska Revival
Mirrormask
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Great movie, better soundtrack
  • great collection of unusual music
  • Supurb
  • Amazing!
  • excellent
 Mirrormask
Iain Ballamy , Stuart Hall , Martin Sharp , Matthew Sharp , Burt Bacharach , Dave McKean , Martin France , John Parricelli , Neil Percy , Iain Bellamy , Ashley Slater , Arve Henriksen , Chris Batchelor , David Powell , Josefine Cronholm , and Neil Gaiman
Manufacturer: La-La Land Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0007RTARU
Release Date: 2005-09-20

Tracks:

  1. Sock Puppets / Flyover
  2. Circus Overture
  3. Spanish Web
  4. Gorillas!
  5. Running For The Bus
  6. Abandoned Hall
  7. Leaving The City
  8. Arresting Helena
  9. The White Queen Sleeps / The White Palace
  10. Rabbit Band
  11. The Library
  12. The Myth Of Creation
  13. Fish Street
  14. Looking Through The Window
  15. Giants Orbiting
  16. Outside Bagwell's
  17. Mrs. Bagwell's Rhumba
  18. Meeting The Sphinx
  19. Monkeybirds
  20. Dream Park / Meeting In A Dream
  21. Conjuring A Dome
  22. In The Dark Forest
  23. Betrayed!
  24. Close To You
  25. A New Life
  26. A Rather Tense Dinner Party
  27. Butterfingers
  28. Discoveries / Fight Or Flight? / Goodbye Evil Helena
  29. My Waltz For Newk
  30. If I Apologised

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Great movie, better soundtrack.......2007-05-19

I just recently saw this movie and the only thing I could think about afterwards was that I had to get this soundtrack. I'm not usually a big fan of movie soundtracks, but this cd is unlike any other out there, soundtrack or not. The use of strings and carnaval type instruments is completely unique and makes this a must by for any fan of music.

5 out of 5 stars great collection of unusual music.......2007-05-07

Rented the movie on reccomendation from Netflix, it was pretty good. But the music was the star of the show. The soundtrack follows the course of the movie pretty closely, it's kind of like listening to the movie. Each track brings to mind a specific scene in the movie. One of the highlights is the ecclectic treatment of Burt Bacharach's "Close to You". Most will remember the super-sweet Carpenter's version, but this interpretation was the main reason I bought the music. Unusual augmented chord progressions and almost minimalist format (complete with the mechanical background sounds made by the female jack-in-the-box-like, life-sized, mostly metal toy dressers) make the tune as captivating as in the movie when they 'convert' the trapped Helena into the black princess. Great music to play while relaxing, too.

5 out of 5 stars Supurb.......2007-03-08

This soundtrack is truly a delight to listen to. It ranges from quirky circus music to deep and melodic mysterious tunes. It is a great CD to relax to and to use as background music for most any relaxing time hanging out with friends.

5 out of 5 stars Amazing!.......2007-02-24

This is a very good soundtrack to a very good movie. The music is amazingly composed and is nice to listen to.

5 out of 5 stars excellent.......2007-01-17

This CD is excellent! All the music from the movie in its entirety, all the songs are complete songs, and the songs are all top notch compositions.
Fight of My Life
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • High quality ska. Very creative and infectious.
 Fight of My Life
Insyderz
Manufacturer: Acts 26
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00007L4R1
Release Date: 2003-02-04

Tracks:

  1. Jigsaw
  2. What Happened To Joe?
  3. Paradise
  4. The Hunted
  5. Game Day
  6. Forgive And Forget
  7. Trinidad
  8. Rat Race
  9. Just What I Needed
  10. Fight Of My Life
  11. Bonus Track 1

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars High quality ska. Very creative and infectious........2004-04-24

This CD is great. Every song is catchy and smart, and the album as a whole has an awesome feel to it. The production value is very smooth, the musicianship is top notch, and Joe Yerke is singing great!
Simple Gifts: Shaker Chants and Spirituals
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Shaken *and* stirred
  • And then there were four...
  • A beautiful album
  • Shaker Music -- misunderstood?
  • Some new old ideas
 Simple Gifts: Shaker Chants and Spirituals
Ann Lee , Shaker Traditional , Jane Sutton , Paulina Springer , Joseph Brackett , Robert Dobson , Arthur Rawding , Mary Ann Valaitis , Joel Cohen and the Boston Camerata , Schola Cantorum , and Shakers of Sabbathday Lake
Manufacturer: Erato
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Release Date: 1995-09-05

Tracks:

  1. Come Life, Shaker Life
  2. In Yonder Valley
  3. Virgins Clothed In A Clean White Garment
  4. Mother
  5. Father James' Song
  6. Followers Of The Lamb
  7. Mother Ann's Song
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  10. A Companion To Stiff
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  15. The Lark
  16. Nightingale's Song
  17. Holy Order Song
  18. Learned Of Angel
  19. Laughing John's Interrogatory
  20. I'll Beat My Drum As I March Along
  21. Mother's Warning
  22. The Solemn Bell
  23. Mother's Cup of Tribulation
  24. Sad Days
  25. Encouragement
  26. Verdant Valley
  27. In Yonder Valley (Reprise)
  28. Solemn Song
  29. Turn To The Right
  30. O Will You Sing Another Song
  31. The Spiritual Sailor
  32. Mother Has Come
  33. Holy Mother's Protecting Chain
  34. Simple Gifts

Amazon.com

Joel Cohen spent countless days in the library at the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake, Maine, transcribing dozens of tunes from among thousands of archived chants and spirituals. Many more of these wonderful tunes were recalled from memory by the community's few resident Shakers--and Cohen and his ensemble, joined by several Shaker singers, made this recording, which deserves to be heard by everyone who loves songs and singing. --David Vernier

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Shaken *and* stirred.......2007-04-28

My interest in seeking Shaker music was professional - I wanted something to use for my church choir's next big performance. What I found in this collection of Shaker music was that, but much more.

Without their music, the Shakers can seem quaint and faintly silly - the odd maiden aunts and uncles with peculiar hobbies (making chairs and living without modern conveniences) and -- nutty bears, indeed! -- living in celibate, and therefore non-regenerative communities.

But their music is something else --earnest, longing, full of commitment and a sense of their own story. And tuneful! You don't have to be a Shaker to appreciate the visual poetry of "Virgins cloth'd in a clean white garment," or hear the deep commitment to resist sin in "I will fight, fight, and never slack until I overcome the enemy," or the desperate longing for eternal life evoked by "In yonder valley there flows sweet union." These are songs written for and performed by people who lived a most austere form of spirituality.

There are those who criticize Joel Cohen for having embellished some pieces by adding, for instance, a drone that is not attested in the literature. By I certainly praise Cohen and the Boston Camarata for having brought these wonderful pieces to my attention. It is icing on the cake that a few of the remaining Shakers of the Sabbathday Lake, Maine community chose to join their voices to this effort. To sing is to pray twice, and this CD certainly delivers on that promise, plus providing insights into an obscure but enduring corner of the American religious landscape.

4 out of 5 stars And then there were four..........2006-10-25

Only four Shakers remain and Sabbathday Lake in Maine houses them all. They range in age from 43 to 80. Given this, without fresh converts the Shakers face extinction. Barred by law from adopting orphans (since 1960, religious groups cannot adopt, only individuals or couples can), the twentieth century saw a steep decline in their numbers. Thanks to religious revivals, back in the nineteenth century their numbers swelled to over 5,000. But by 1920 a mere dozen remained. Though the small community hopes, and continually prays, for new recruits - which must come in the form of consenting adults - their values clash with modern America. Which was, of course, the original point. The largest hurdle for membership: total celibacy. No procreation, nothing. And, as we all know, twenty-first century American culture is anything but celibate.

Shakers remain not only celibate, but ascetic. Though not to the level of the Amish or the Luddites. Sabbathday Lake has a website, a car, telephones, and internet connections. They also don't hermit themselves from society. They play an active role in it. So throw away any notions of Puritanical witch hunters. Shakers laugh, socialize, read, dance, and, as this CD aptly demonstrates, they sing their ascetic hearts out.

The music, largely resembling English folk music, rhapsodizes about Shaker values, history, and vows. All songs but one get performed a capella. Some emphasize the lyrics with stomping and clapping. Permeating the set is the figure of "Mother," or Ann Lee. She helped found the Shakers in the eighteenth century and all faithful remain her spiritual heir (after Jesus Christ, of course). Early followers faced persecution, but found faith in Mother's actions and example. The song, titled appropriately, "Mother" retells the story of the "blessed fire" that spread from Manchester, England to America. Believers also reaffirm their faith and actions by singing songs in Meeting. An apt beginning, the CDs first song presents an ecstatic chant that reminds members of their ominous vow: "Come life, Shaker life, Come life eternal, Shake, shake out of me all that is carnal." "Followers of the Lamb" repeats the lines "I'm glad I am a Shaker" three times in celebration. Some songs don't have words and get half hummed half sung with mystical sounds. Shakers also express anger. "A companion stiff" fiercely pounds away individualistic thoughts in favor of community. The beautiful and upbeat "Encouragement" combines non-word singing with strongly contrasting fervent stomping and clapping. Somehow it encapsulates both meditative contemplation and heart-racing ecstasy in only two and a half minutes. Aptly bookending the CD is the most famous Shaker song, "Simple gifts." Instantly recognizable, Aaron Copland popularized this tune in his 1950 ballet "Appalachian Spring." Here it receives a sparse but inspired choral performance. As such, it aptly closes the CD with a message of faith and simplicity.

This CD, recorded at Sabbathday Lake, preserves a sampling of the thousands of Shaker songs known to exist. To this day these songs still fill the Shaker's 1794 Meeting House, the last one still in use. But how much longer? In the end, whether or not the Shakers can survive their current troubles, they will always remain an important piece of American and religious history. Not that that provides much consolation. Either way, this recording helps to preserve an important aspect of the Shaker's cultural contribution: their impressive music.

5 out of 5 stars A beautiful album .......2005-09-17

This is a gorgeous album of melodies so strong and simple that you could build bridges on them.
The issue of the theology is irrelevent unless you believe that differences in the theology expressed--which may be different from yours--will interfere with your pleasure in the music. I can easily imagine topics that, no matter how beautifully expressed, I would be unable to listen to. It wasn't the case with this CD.

(You would also be upset if you believe that (a) listening to others express their beliefs, which are different form yours, is a sin, (b) your faith will be swayed by listening to gorgeous music from people who disagree with you, or (c) it's wrong for people with different beliefs to have their music recorded. I doubt very much that any of the people who have expressed theological concerns about this CD would feel that way but, hey, people who do feel that way should be given appropriate warning).

4 out of 5 stars Shaker Music -- misunderstood?.......2005-01-27

I read the reviews of this CD and feel some people are not understanding the lyrics. One cautioned that Shakers refer to God as "she." At first, I thought the same thing; however, after carefully listening to the music many times, I truly believe that when they refer to "she", they are solely referring to Mother Ann, the founder of their religion, whom they obviously adored and admired. This music is haunting and well-performed and should NOT be a "turn-off" to any Christian who chooses to listen.

5 out of 5 stars Some new old ideas.......2000-10-14

I am a big fan of early American music, and Joel Cohen and the Boston Camerata really know how to do it. I found this album musically refreshing as well as spiritually refreshing. As a minister of music, I appreciate the sensitivity the Camerata brings to its interpretation of these traditional Shaker hymns. I also love hearing music by singers (specifially the Shakers themselves) who are not afraid to limit their understanding of who God is -- infinite and varied in nature, not subject to human limitations such as gender. There is a great freedom in this music which some listeners who are tired of the rigid confines of modern theology will appreciate. My only ambivalence is with the pieces on which the Shaker community takes a leading role. On the one hand, I think this is brilliant and enriching. On a purely auditory level, though, their untrained sound is a little distracting. Decide for yourself when you purchase this delightful album!
Fight of My Life
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Almost as good as the first one
  • GREAT SKANKING SKA MUSIC!!!
  • mayday_93@mindspring.com
  • Hmm...Not All That Great
  • Great CD!
 Fight of My Life
Insyderz
Manufacturer: Brentwood
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1999-02-09

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  1. Jigsaw
  2. What Happened To Joe?
  3. Paradise
  4. The Hunted
  5. Game Day
  6. Forgive And Forget
  7. Trinidad
  8. Rat Race
  9. Just What I Needed
  10. Fight Of My Life
  11. Bonus Track 1

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Almost as good as the first one.......2001-07-14

This album is worth buying if you're into Christian Ska. I like Jigsaw and Paradise the best. However, their Motor City Ska album is superb and a lot better to skank to. I've seen the Insyderz live, and nothing gets you movin' like their songs from the Motor City Ska album. I do give them kudos though for experimenting in this CD. The Skalleluia CD is ok, but is extremely limited in terms of creativity for obvious reasons (they're tweaking mainstream church songs). Overall: Motor City Ska--BUY IT NOW / Fight of my Life--Buy it when you get around to it / Skalleluia--Borrow it from a friend first

5 out of 5 stars GREAT SKANKING SKA MUSIC!!!.......2001-05-30

I must say at first I was not too crazy about this album but after giving it a few listens it grew on me. It is now in my top 5 ska albums of all time!!!! Musically the insyderz lean more towards pure ska on this CD but there are only 10 songs. Tracks 1,2,4, & 10 are the songs that have some hardcore influence. You can hear punk influence on track 5 and 9 and track 7 is an interesting instrumental song. Yes it is different but it's still the insyderz brand of music. AWESOME SKA-CORE!

4 out of 5 stars mayday_93@mindspring.com.......2001-01-17

Good stuff. Not too preachy. Focused on the music. Could have spoken of the Savior a bit more though.

2 out of 5 stars Hmm...Not All That Great.......2000-08-04

I love the Insyderz, don't get me wrong. I've seen them live twice and I have all of their CDs. But this CD was such a major disappointment for me; I bought their first album, "Motor City Ska", when it first came out on Gumshoe Records several years ago. And that album rocked my world for 3 months straight. So of course I enjoyed "Skaleluia!", but it wasn't exactly new material. I was so psyched for "Fight Of My Life" that I was actually the first person to buy it from the local Christian store! And when I put it in, I liked it...but didn't love it. Songs such as "The Hunted" and "Fight Of My Life" are chill, but the rest of it just doesn't impress me much. If you want a much better album of the same band, pick up "Motor City Ska". 2 stars.

5 out of 5 stars Great CD!.......2000-07-01

I was very pleased to hear what I heard when I listened to it for the first time. I didn't think that the Insyderz were so cool until I heard this album. I liked them so much, I went out and bought their previous CD, Motor City Ska. The thing that I like about the Insyderz, is that they seem to put a song that stands out from all of the others in every album. I know that "The Hunted" is the outcast on this CD. It is a lot harder than the others. And I think that it is cool that they still use still use the horns in the hard-core song(s). I would easily compare them to Five Iron Frenzy and The Supertones. I think that ska is underestimated. Especially Christian ska. If you agree with me, or just plain like the Insyderz (or Ska music), get this CD, and you won't be complaining.
Completion
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    Jibril Serpis Bey
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    Favourite Hymns
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