Mom & Pop Winans

Track Listings

1. Nobody Else But Him

2. I'm Going Through

3. No Not One

4. When We Reach That Great Mansion

5. Will You Be Ready?

6. I Find Do Fault

7. If We Don't Praise

8. I Still Have You

9. Nobody But You

10. He's the One

11. My Grace Is Sufficient

Tracks:

Left Side: Start Heeeeears Koala/Stoppin' Traffic/Tracks Etc./Slewtest
Right Side: Slew Test 2/Gimme a K!/Mosquito vs. Waterbuffalo/Slew Test
Bonus Cricket [*]

Customer Reviews:

Best since Bullfrog.......2006-11-16

He uses so many samples!!!!!! its like the sequal to the bullfrog album. goin to see him in nyc i cant wait to see what he does with this live. Buy this ***** if you see this review you know whats up already so buy it

"A cartoony, day-glo mix of ragtime rock n' roll, blues and movie samples. Your Mom's is as funny as it is funky. File between Hendrix and The Simpsons"
The Times

"An appealing mix of classic hip-hop, beats, breaks and plenty of heavy guitars... A Master"
The Sun

"One of the few vinyl manipulators to wield the wheels of steel with genuine artistic grace and ambition."
Independent

"An album that that not only entertains but does so on several different levels... Lose Yourself In Kid Koala's krackpot world... Dazzling."
Mojo

"Kid Koala is back and is ready to rock."
DJ

"Kid Koala truly is one of the most talented in the game."
Hip Hop Connection

"This will get your head nodding and your face grinning like a fool."
360 Gamer

"His Best Yet."
Knowledge

He's idiotic and yet I find him completely charming!.......2006-10-24

I first learned of the oddly-named Kid Koala (AKA Erin San) on a trip-hop site; the webmaster had put up two mp3s, with no other information. Needless to say, I was absolutely captivated by his music.

And now the renaissance DJ/turntablist returns in his third album, "Your Mom's Favorite DJ," which hits on all his strong points. Equal parts musician and DJ, he dabbles in driving rock'n'roll, distorted trad jazz, hip-hop, and a colourful splatter of samples. If my mom liked any DJs, she'd like this one.

It's hard to even describe the longish songs on here -- they don't even feel long, because they're crammed with as much sound as Koala can smush in there. Weird groaning noises, perky jazz, piano solos, distorted horns, electronic buildups, funny vocal samples, solid hip-hop beats, repetitive samples, and thunderous hard-rock riffs that explode from the belly of "Mosquito Vs. Water Buffalo." And, of course, turntabling.

In other words, it's totally unpredictable -- Koala's music will completely change from one moment to the next, and he can pull new tricks and sounds out of his pocket. And sometimes they are based on things that aren't musical at all, like a song referencing his book "Nufonia Must Fall."

As much fun as it is, much of this album's pleasure comes from how devastatingly creative it is. Koala can take virtually any sound, no matter how odd or obscure, and paste it into just the right spot. That, and he knows that hip-hop can be colourful and creative, and doesn't have to take itself seriously at all. (Look at that title!)

How does he do that? He weaves together elaborate melodies of hip-hop beats and breaks, hard-rock and buzzing electronic variations on both of them. Then he layers them with samples, scratches, electronic ripples, and a heavy dose of "everything else," which pop up to keep the sound from ever being the same. It's even harder to find flaws when the music itself is a nonstop tumble of sound.

And there's no real vocals -- just more samples, keeping this from ever becoming (heaven forbid!) monotonous. "These things need to become second nature to a good progressive disc jockey," a radio announcer says, right before the grimy beats kick in.

My mom doesn't listen to DJs, but I imagine Kid Koala would be able to win her over. A complete triumph, and a thorough delight for anyone lucky enough to find out about it.

Amy's Answering Machine: Messages from Mom

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full tracks

Amy's Answering Machine: Messages from Mom
Amy Borkowsky
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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Amy's Answering Machine: Messages from Mom

ASIN: B000KIJSAA

Product Description

Volume 1

Customer Reviews:

full tracks.......2007-01-11

1. Motor Vehicles~~2. Red Robe~~3. Don't Get A Cat~~4. Headphones~~5. Talk Show Bachelors~~6. C-R-A-T-E~~7. Birthday Girl~~8. A Little Visit~~9. Lambskin Condoms~~10. Empty Fridge~~11. Storm Warning~~12. Amila Goes to Washington~~13. Hell's Angels~~14. Alaska Bachelor~~15. Where's Amila?~~16. Metal Detector~~17. Crepe Soles~~18. Happy Halloween~~19. Live Psychics~~20. New York Rye~~21. JFK Jr.~~22. Move Your Clocks~~23. Mom's Slogan~~24. Guggel Muggel~~25. Mom's Mustache~~26. Just Plain Max~~27. Care Package~~28. Kidney Stone.

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Impeccable Blahs - SHTYM
Vampire Perfection
A Definite Leap In A New Direction

Impeccable Blahs
Say Hi to Your Mom
Manufacturer: Rebel Group
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000FUF86G
Release Date: 2006-07-25

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These Fangs
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Blah Blah Blah
Sad, But Endearingly So
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Not As Goth As They Said We Are
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The Reigning Champ Of The Teething Crowd

Album Description

The fourth record from this Brooklyn band "...recalls the futuristic feeling of Ziggy Stardust-era Bowie...that intellectual battle with impending modernity and the feeling of alienation from real humanity explored by Grandaddy and Radiohead...Eno-esque with eerie, fantastical motifs" - Spin. Their brand of quirky indie-pop on previous efforts has garnered critical acclaim and chart topping radio play (#26 on CMJ's Top 200), landed them TV spots on MTV and CBS, and earned them live slots with the likes of American Analog Set, Mates Of State, The Wrens, John Vanderslice, and Headphones, as well as a full tour as main support for Nada Surf. This new record is their first for The Rebel Group. "Cheeky, fuzzy electro-pop" - LA Times. "A delightfully fractured fairytale of Williamsburgian proportions" - Time Out NY. "On a homemade PC, Say Hi assembles slow, statuesque indie rock with analog synthscapes, overlapping distorted guitars and lots of low-end" - Pitchfork.

Customer Reviews:

Impeccable Blahs - SHTYM.......2007-07-07

Attention 30 somethings... sick of that angry, pouting, self-glorifying, heavily marketed and over-produced garage music? I am... and I bless the day when the cocky angst-ridden cd store kid pulled this gem out of a haystack of INDIE releases... and presented it to me... smirking at me like I might be too lame to appreciate it...

SHTYM creates very clever music - simple yet memorable melodies... very creative lyrics that fully employ your tacit knowledge.

This music does not rock... it does not make you feel like you are flying, fighting or saving the world... it won't set you on fire... But it's what you want to reach for when you are alone...

You'll listen to it a lot. It will never really make it into your storage bin... it will probably stay surfaced in close proximity to your stereo for easy and frequent access... You'll be anxiously awaiting their next release...

This was the first CD I purchased from them... I love it. I have since purchased all of them... A few other tracks from other albums that you really don't want to miss out on are: A Hit in Sweden, Super (from Numbers and Mumbles) and Dersmormos... (from discosadness)

Vampire Perfection.......2006-11-28

The songs on this album are so, so, so, SOOOO good! If you listen to "Blah, Blah, Blah" and don't fall instantly in love, then you are an idiot and don't deserve to listen to their music. Say Hi To Your Mom is an awesome, creative indie band from Brooklyn that doesn't take themselves too seriously, and as a result produces some of the finest, most un-pretentious music ever. Eric's voice is awesome, too. I luv you Eric! And I luv Say Hi To Your Mom! Keep up the good work!

A Definite Leap In A New Direction.......2006-08-08

If you are a Say Hi To Your Mom fan like I am, when you think of them you think of one thing;Robots. Robots have always been mentioned and been apperently there highest source of inspiration. Now, with this release they have spun off in a new direction, Vampires. And it coulnd't have worked out cooler.

Everything I love about Say Hi is still here; the quirky yet awesome lyrics, the slow yet dancey synth and keyboards tunes, and the mellow yet fun vocal stylings.

If your looking for a fun lo-fi album, than this is for you. But I recommend if your new to Say Hi, start with Numbers And Mumbles.

"Have you ever seen a good Zombie movie? Well, Like that, But your smarter and you get to stay 23."-Say Hi To Your Mom "Blah Blah Blah"

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soundtrack from the edge
3 rare AOR tracks

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Original Soundtrack
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000008F5Y
Release Date: 1991-06-25

Tracks:

Draggin' The Line - Beat Goes Bang
Perfect World - Alias
Chains - Lorraine Lewis
The Best Thing - Boom Crash Opera
What She Doesn't Know - Flame
I Only Have Eyes For You - Timothy B. Schmit
Life's Rich Tapestry - Modern English
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Bitter - Terrell
Keep The Faith - Valentine

Customer Reviews:

soundtrack from the edge .......2006-04-19

Don't tell mom the babysitter's dead is an every summer kid's fantasy. Yes this dark humoured tale features only one remarkably notable actress christina applegate but the soundtrack features some note worthy artist. Much of the soundtrack feautures one hit wonder artist but Modern English can be found previously on The Valley girls soundtrack which might i add was an extremly popular 80's movie even today. Modern english's Life's rich tapestry is very poignant ballet and is appropriately fitting for the ending scene in this film.

3 rare AOR tracks.......2006-03-28

What could possibly make the soundtrack album to the 1991 movie Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead noteworthy? Scattered among the typical soundtrack pop songs are three otherwise unreleased AOR/melodic rock gems - Perfect World by Alias, What She Doesn't Know by Flame, and Keep the Faith by Valentine. Each of these bands released a single album and then disappeared, so this otherwise unremarkable soundtrack is worth seeking out just for those three non-album tracks. The soundtrack also features one of the only solo recordings by Lorraine Lewis of Femme Fatale.

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Great Music!
Let me add.
What a find!
awww
Brilliant pop music.

Numbers & Mumbles
Say Hi to Your Mom
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Binding: Audio CD

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More Deep Cuts

ASIN: B0001J1ZKO
Release Date: 2004-02-10

Tracks:

Pop Music Of The Future
A Hit In Sweden
Super
Hooplas Involving Circus Tricks
Let's Talk About Spaceships
A Kiss To Make It Better
But She Beat My Highscore
Your Brains vs. My Tractorbeam
I'm So Tired
The Key Of C

Album Description

The second record from Brooklyn, New York's Say Hi To Your Mom is a stunning collection of catchy indie pop. Numbers & Mumbles builds on the quirky formula found on 2002's Discosadness, but the new record is often more upbeat than the last, maintaining indie integrity but certainly crammed with hooks. Electric guitars and gurgling synths spatter over indie, pop, punk and rock rhythms. Songs present characters who contemplate spaceships, circus tricks, Brooklyn hipsters, tractor beams, secret decoder rings, kisses, bus trips, Sweden, family quotas, tee-ball, meter maids, futurism, moon bounces and more. But do no mistake the topic nature for a lack of poignancy, the band simply refuses to take itself too seriously. Say Hi's minimalist pop has been compared to Grandaddy, Bright Eyes, Pavement, Radiohead, The Pixies, The Velvet Underground, Momus and others.

Customer Reviews:

Great Music!.......2006-02-27

Not much to add that the other reviewers haven't said already. This is a great band with great tunes. I hope they stay independent and keep writing great music.

Let me add........2005-11-04

First of all, this is one of my favorite albums. Period. Also, i wanted to add how rockin' Say Hi To Your Mom is. Download "Super" to get a feel(you can grab it for free right of this page). Its kick-ass, and a lot of the rest of this album is just as rockin'.

What a find!.......2005-07-24

"There is nothing in this world better than that moment when you realize your life has been changed completely by hearing a band you have not previously heard. It happens very rarely, but it happens."

awww.......2005-04-28

I love this cd so much I wish I could marry it and have more cd's like this

Brilliant pop music........2005-03-31

"Numbers & Mumbles" is the sophomore effort from Brooklyn pop musician Eric Elbogen, better known as Say Hi To Your Mom. No sophomore slump, this is bar none one of the pop masterpieces of the first half of this decade.

Elbogen's first album (the superb but comparatively inferior "Discosadness") set up what he does-- a sort of lo-fi indie rock sound with clever, geek lyrics full of pop culture references and a sort of jaunty take on alternative angst. Its the lyrics that often make the songs-- concerns over hearing great records, science fiction metaphores, and lost love because of competitive video gaming. Add to that a sort of mid-90s jangly guitar with an early '80s new wave keyboard sound, and you've pretty much got this.

Remarkably, its his dive into seriousness with the album's closing tracks, the first a cover of "I'm So Tired" and the closer, "The Key of C", that is really superlative. The closer in particular, a song of fading love is just breathtaking.

But before we get there, there's eight songs of great goofy pop music-- the lo-fi rumble of "Pop Music Of the Future" bleeds into the almost glam "A Hit in Sweden". Both tracks are incredible slices of pop music, just amazing. Another album highlight is the very much evocative "Let's Talk About Spaceships", with its funky feel and deceptive non-serious exterior ("let's talk about spaceship or anything except you and me"), its another real standout on the album. Likewise, when the lyrics descend into purely goofy ("Super", "But She Beat My High Score", "Your Brains vs. My Tractorbeam"), Elbogen turns out his best performances-- all three have a sort of melancholy take to them and are geniuses of mood.

Its really hard to describe this album, it needs to be heard to be fully appreciated-- truth is, fans of intelligent pop of any form will probably love this. Essential listening.

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A Timely Performance
Outstanding; a soon to be classic
Uninspired tedium
Holocaust Cantata: A Five Star Work of Art
An excerpt from my liner notes...

Holocaust Cantata

Manufacturer: Albany Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000031VRF
Release Date: 1999-11-23

Tracks:

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Album Description

The Holocaust Cantata uses the words and music of actual concentration camp inmates to create a wholly original and powerful work. Using material found within the archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Donald McCullough's Holocaust Cantata traverses one of the bleakest episodes in human history. Yet the piece also evokes a sense of music's life-affirming power, even in the face of absolute despair, to express what words alone cannot.

McCullough discovered the material within the vast Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection in the museum's archives. Kulisiewicz himself had performed as a kind of camp troubador during his own incarceration at Sachsenhausen, and, after the war, spent several years interviewing fellow survivors about music in the camps, gathering together the scattered remnants of this music.

As McCullough painstakingly sifted through this material-much of which was uncatalogued-the arresting melodies and compelling testimonies that make up the Holocaust Cantata gradually began to emerge. "I wanted the Cantata to speak with a sense of immediacy," says McCullough, explaining his decision to set the choral texts and spoken testimonies in English, and his hope is that the piece may "transform statistics into people in the minds of the Cantata's listeners, and perhaps be a part of making it more difficult for such a horror ever to occur again." The Washington Post, reviewing the world premiere in March 1998, called it "an experience that should linger long in the audience's memory and should be regularly revived."

Customer Reviews:

A Timely Performance.......2001-11-18

In August of 2001, the choral group I sing with began practicing this work for performance on Veteran's Day Nov 11. We rehearse on Tuesday nights. As we all know on Tuesday Sept 11 the world change forever. Of course rehearsal was cancelled. When we returned the next Tuesday - a piece that we all thought was so powerful became more so. The first song contains the words "the fires burning, the iron furnace..". The paralells to what happened were evident. As one of the reviewers noted " so this can never happen again", well it has, only much faster, in one single day. Hate caused both events. People need to hear this CD and really listen to the words of the songs and the narration, and maybe we can prevent this from happening again and again. A MUST HEAR FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD. The music and lyics came from the hearts and the lives of the prisoners.This is a beautiful tribute to them.

Outstanding; a soon to be classic.......2000-05-04

Beautifully written and performed! This recording and an encore live performance of this inspiring work were downright demanded by audiences after the premiere. I rate it a "strong buy."

Uninspired tedium.......2000-04-28

McCullough has appropriated other people's material, "choralized" it, and appears to be attempting to capitalize on a wave of political correctness to buy himself a Grammy nomination. There are a few nice tunes scattered throughout this tedious piece, but overall the interpretation is lifeless, unimaginative, and uninspired, almost clinical. Here's hoping that victims of the Shoah can find a more suitable expression of their music than McCullough has tried to give them. They deserve better than this.

Holocaust Cantata: A Five Star Work of Art.......2000-01-07

For me, the Holocaust Cantata is one of those artistic representations of that cataclysmic period that evokes an even stronger picture of the horrors of the Holocaust then do many pictures in newspapers and museum exhibits. I think this is because the Cantata is poetry-it's message sounds a spare and powerful truth. I am grateful to Mr. McCullough for his vision and energy in bringing about the Holocaust Cantata.

An excerpt from my liner notes..........1999-11-25

I was present at the March 1998 Kennedy Center premiere of this extraordinary work, and subsequently wrote the liner notes for the CD. Because of the unusual nature of this recording-which I think captures the haunting beauty of this work-I believe that others would be interested in reading an excerpt from my notes on the music. Please note that I am posting this material with the permission of the composer, Donald McCullough:

Notes on the Music

It is well-known that during the Holocaust inmates wrote music while incarcerated in concentration camps. Much of it has since been recorded. At Theresienstadt, for instance-the infamous "Paradise Ghetto"-the Nazis organized an orchestra made up of young musicians who had studied under such luminaries as Leos Janacek and Arnold Schoenberg. Most of these musicians, among them such promising students as Gideon Klein and Viktor Ullmann, perished during the Holocaust, leaving behind but a few pieces, composed under duress and co-opted by the Nazis for their own propaganda purposes. What might they have eventually accomplished had they survived? Such classical music-beautiful as it is-was the product of formally trained musicians. What about the music of the common man-music embraced by the whole community and passed secretly by aural transmission-music that carried with it powerful words revealing different aspects of camp life, or expressing the inmates' innermost feelings, of mourning, or resistance, or patriotism? Was there other Holocaust music, akin to the spirituals that sprang from slavery in America, that spoke with the same startling immediacy to express the agony of the victims of the Nazi regime?...

McCullough's [quest to answer this question] began with a call to Bret Werb, musicologist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, who revealed the existence of the Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection in the museum archives. Kulisiewicz had traveled about Europe during the postwar period collecting and preserving what he could of the music that had emerged from the Holocaust concentration camps, but little was known about the music itself.

McCullough's first task, then, was to immerse himself in the collection, playing through the hundreds of tunes. He was encouraged to find that they contained some compelling melodies, and for the first time he began to wonder whether a choral cantata-perhaps reflecting the role of music in the camps or evoking the daily lives of these people-might emerge from the material. But he still had no idea what lay within the accompanying text.

At some point, someone had added a rough, English-language index to the collection, but the materials themselves were mostly in Polish. Marcin Zmudzki, a young Pole, was engaged to sift through the mountain of texts. McCullough told the translator that he was interested in anything that had to do with camp life, especially as it related to music. As he recalls, "It was my good fortune that not only was Marcin an excellent translator, but also he had a sense for poetry and thus grasped, very quickly, the type of material I was seeking."

In addition to music, Kulisiewicz also collected interviews, articles, and letters that had anything to do with camp life. With this wealth of material, McCullough decided to place between each musical arrangement readings that also spoke of life in the camps. After considering and rejecting literally hundreds of documents, he finally decided that he had what he needed from the archives. But in a sense, the real work was just beginning. "Because I wanted the Cantata to speak with a sense of immediacy," says McCullough, "I thought it should be sung in English. But before I could arrange a single note of it, I needed to have singable translations. Here I employed the talents of lyricist Denny Clark, who at first worked with Marcin, getting a word by word translation. Knowing which words appear on which notes is important in keeping the overall impact of the song." A trained singer himself, Clark was able to make transliterations to ensure that the best vowels for singing fell on the proper notes, all while remaining faithful to the original text. It was an immensely complicated task....

A few words about the structure of the Cantata. As you listen you should not look for a plot, as such. Because each song and reading represents a different person, a different place, and a different time in the Holocaust experience, you should be wary about viewing the entire piece as a streaming narrative. Nonetheless, certain common truths will begin to emerge, and no doubt others will come to you with each successive hearing. Among these is the certainty that these are nakedly honest responses to the most unthinkable of acts. Sometimes the responses are jarring; who could find humor amid such horror? And yet humor-albeit dark in nature-undoubtedly exists within this work. Nevertheless the inmates' responses never sink to the level of triteness. For them, music functioned as something much more than just a light in the darkness; its very existence was a form of spiritual resistance in an environment where such resistance risked instant extermination.

Tracks:

Little Deuce Coupe-Brian Setzer with Brian Wilson
Coconut-Sprung Monkey
Summer in the City-Butthole Surfers
Beck
Snoop Bounce-Snoop Dogg & members of Rage Against the Machine
Summer-Lisa Loeb
Ocean Size-Jane's Addiction (Butthole Surfers' remix)
The Whale Song-Pearl Jam
Here Comes the Sun-Allison Moorer
Wild Life-Paul McCartney and Wings
Gone Surfin'-Gary Hoey
How Strong-Red Hot Chili Peppers
Walk Don't Run-Everclear
Wicked Man-Ben Harper
Mother-Smash Mouth
Gaia-James Taylor
Nothing to Say-Beastie Boys
Sunland-JKay
Money-Lit
Winter Waves-Chris Isaak
Winter Waves - Chris Isaak

Customer Reviews:

junk.......2004-12-03

this cd seems like it is going to be very good and the brian wilson and jane addiction are good the snoop is ok the pearl jam is terrible and the rest is just ok all and all forget this cd

Amazing CD!.......2002-08-22

This is a wonderful cd! This unique collection of songs from talented artists makes it truly special!

Mixed bag.......2000-09-02

The version of Little Deuce Coupe with Brian Setzer is a lot of fun, and I really like Chris Isaak's Winter Waves. It's Isaak doing what he does best. The song has a spoken bridge, but it's not corny by any means. It would fit very nicely onto Chris's Baja Sessions album; it has that kind of relaxed feel. It's a short little ditty, but I like it a lot. Lisa Loeb's song Summer is also a good one. And Beck's song is super catchy!

On the other hand, the stuff by Lit, Everclear, Jane's Addiction, and Smash Mouth are all horrible. A lot of throwaway noise.

Definitely a mixed bag, with a few gems.

A better than usual compilation.......1999-09-14

Compilations are always iffy things, but this one is so willfully weird you've got to give it credit...ending with a hilariously straight-faced new surf-tune from Chris Isaak (shades of Nick Rivers from "Top Secret", including spoken word bridge), "MOM 3" has a diverse a roster (James Taylor and Snoop Dogg on the same CD!!!)......a lot of good tracks, a few negligible items as well, but by owning this CD which mixes hip-hop, folk, funk, etc., you can impress your friends with your diverse attitudes, even if in secret you program out half the tracks!

SNOOP & RAGE, a match made in heaven.......1999-08-27

I've been waiting two years for the Snoop & Rage track to be released, and I definitely believe that it is one of the coolest songs of the past few years. Though Zach de la Rocha is quite amazing, he had better watch out, as Snoop does a great job fronting the RATM music (no worries). If you like this song/style, check out Dial-7 (an LA band w/ two rappers fronting a rock trio). I saw them live at South By Southwest and bought their CD immediately; since then, I never see it, as my friends are constantly borrowing it.

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Excellent Melodic Rock Album
A very good album!
Stuart
this is my friend's cousin's band.
daves review

Valentine
Valentine
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000008LXT
Release Date: 1992-05-01

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No Way
Tears In The Night
Too Much Is Never Enough
Never Said It Was Gonna Be Easy
Where Are You Now
Naughty Girl
Once In A Lifetime
Someday
We Run
You'll Always Have Me

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Melodic Rock Album.......2006-04-14

Valentine is the first album to feature vocalist extraordinaire and utter Steve Perry disciple Hugo. Very much a product of its time, Valentine's style was like a (slightly) harder rocking version of Journey, and was similar to other AOR/melodic rock bands of that time like Giant and Bad English.

Valentine's self-titled debut album featured 11 tracks of melodic rock with plenty of keyboards, guitar hooks, and of course Hugo's soaring emotional vocals. It may be a bit ballad heavy for some tastes, but there are still quite a few rocking moments on the album.

Aside from a song on the soundtrack to the movie Don't Tell Mom the babysitter's Dead, this CD is the only Valentine material available. Hugo & company would resurface later as Open Skyz, a less rocking, but still quite good AOR band that recorded a single album. Hugo would go on to launch a successful (for this type of music) solo career. His debut solo album contains songs that were intended for a second Valentine release, so it is worth checking out for that reason alone.

A very good album!.......2005-07-14

I didn't know what to expect when I bought this album because I had never heard of them before and didn't even know what type of music they were. Fortunately this album provided a unique blend of heavy guitars, heavily integrated keyboards (but not in a crappy 80's synthesiser way) and strong vocals. The lyrics are a bit cliche, but it adds comedy value to songs such as 'too much is never enough' and a little sentiment with strong ballards such as 'never said it was gonna be easy'. The bands sound resembles that of firehouse and white Lion, with plenty of fast guitar solo's, screaming vocals and catchy melodies. Check out the bands later project with open skyz which was the only two albums they ever did unfortunately. Overall, it does blend in a little with the rest of the hair metal bands of that era, but it is one of the best, just a shame they weren't recognised that much.

Stuart.......2005-06-09

Valentine is Awesome!! This cd is very hard to find since it was on the Giant label. I consider this an AOR/Melodic Metal masterpiece. They sound like a heavier version of Journey. They later became Open Skyz but it is not as good as this. The songs I like are: Tears In The Night, Running On Luck Again, No Way & Where Are You Now. If you don't have it get it while you can!

this is my friend's cousin's band........2005-04-16

woooohooo! she said i'd never find it and i did. here it is. available to all. keep rockin! uh..... yea thats all. bye. oh and her cousin was the drummer. Diane says hello, cousin.....

daves review.......2004-05-02

At the end of the glam pop/rock era this album has to go down as one of the finest pieces of music that has ever been wrote.You have got keyboards to the max,crunching guitars and sublime vocals.I have to say that this is in my top 5 albums of all time,just a shame they only made the one album.

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Worth it for the first track alone.
The whackiest stuff you've ever heard
LUCA MAINI's igloomag.com REVIEW ::
Buy this
Great.

Hello Mom!
Modeselektor
Manufacturer: Bpitch Control
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000AOENHW
Release Date: 2005-10-11

Tracks:

Dancingbox - Modeselektor,
Die Clubnummer
Tetrispack
Rapanthem
Kill Bill Vol. 4
Ziq Zaq
Vote or Die
Earth [Ups Edit]
Fake Emotion - Modeselektor,
In Loving Memory
Hasir
Silikon - Modeselektor, Sasha Perera
I Love You

Customer Reviews:

Worth it for the first track alone........2007-05-03

The opening cut from "Hello Mom!", Dancing Box takes vocals from France's TTC and cuts, splices, dices, and pastes them all back together in a track that is contradictorily choppy and yet oh-so-smooth. If you took Daft Punk and threw them in a blender, they might come out sounding like this.

Silikon gives Sasha Perera the same cut-and-paste treatment, and Tetrispack is reminiscent of a youth spent playing way too many video games. The rest of the album is also worthwhile, ranging from the catchy electro of Die Clubnummer to the dark glitchiness of Earth. All in all, it's solid from first to last, but Dancing Box is the track you'll keep coming back to.

The whackiest stuff you've ever heard.......2006-06-24

Modeselektor has a lot in common with Monty Python. Both are nonsensical and silly. Both are as baffling as they are funny. Both seem to be the product of diseased minds on drugs.

And that's their charm. For those of you who first met Modeselektor through their free single on iTunes, I warn you that the rest of the album bears little resemblance to the hard-edged grime of "Silikon" (good song, BTW). Those reponsible for Modeselektor seem like the kind of people who are much more interested in whoopie cushions and bongs than angst or politics.

And thank goodness for it, too. "Hello Mom!" is a breath of fresh air in our age of pretention and cynicism. This album is pure, unadulterated fun, the musical equivalent to Duchamp's urinal. It may grate on your nerves (as it sometimes grates on mine), but for those times when you want a laugh, there's no better soundtrack than Modeselektor.

LUCA MAINI's igloomag.com REVIEW :: .......2006-01-14

LUCA MAINI's igloomag.com REVIEW ::
(01.13.06) I don't know very well the output of Bpitch Control, but I constantly followed the releases of two artsits that I found fresh and amusing, namely DJ Feadz and Modeselektor. While I am still waiting for a CD full of raw breaks and blunted hip-hop by the French mad scratcher Feadz, the Modeselektor duo recently put out this Hello Mom!, which sometimes fulfills my expectations with party grooves, but in some places gets a bit anonymous. The start is very good though, "Dancingbox" is a jumping hip-hop number, made irresistible by the hiccuping lyrics of TTC, "Die Clubnumber" is a massive technoid breakbeat piece and "Tetrispack" is a slow paced, minimal and bleepy stomper that represents perfectly the weird attitude of Modeselektor. Shortly after there's "The Rapanthem," that uses the beat from O.D.B.'s (R.I.P.) "Got Your Money," but I can't decide if it's a tribute, a cover, a bootleg or whatsoever. It doesn't matter, because the track just after will get immediately your attention and you'll feel the urge to crank the volume up: "Kill Bill vol.4" it's a four-to-the-floor techno hammer, fuelled up with electrified synths and bass, the perfect tune to turn upside down the audience on a dance floor or you own car, blasting it in your stereo and terrorizing the neighborhood. "Ziq Zaq" calms down the atmosphere with a smooth Detroit beat and mellow synths, and while not so aggressive as "Kill Bill," it's either very danceable and enjoyable.

When the tunes are bouncy and sparkling, Modeselktor's music is lovely, but when they go too IDM I begin to lose attention. It's the case of "Vote Or Die" and "Earth," two placid tracks in the vein of Plaid, they're indeed nice but they break the funky flow I was enjoying before. "Fake Emotion" instead, while being dubby, has those crunchy beats inside that keep the head-nodding going on. Obviously, the addition of the mighty Paul St. Hilaire is a wicked bonus. Unfortunately the following tracks are not much special to me apart from "Silikon," another explosive tune with a heavy ragga beat and some grimey lyrics courtesy of Sasha Perera. It's out of my control, really, after the first freaky tracks my mood is set to partytime and I would want more and more... it's not a bad album, on the contrary, I would recommend it without hesitation, I just think that Modeselektor should stick on what they do best, because they're very good at it. Keep your eyes peeled for the remix EP of this album; it features an unbelievably smashing rework of "Dancing Box" by Sleeparchive.

Buy this.......2005-12-01

Modeselektor is one of the greater electronic groups out there. I used to live in Berlin, Germany (where they're from) and really got into the club scene before graduating from high school and moving to the states. Modeselektor is on a berlin based label called BPitch Control (...) that not only signs great artists but throws the best parties in Berlin, if not Germany. I've been waiting for this album to come out for a couple years now, and have most of the tracks they've made in the past. They are unbelievable. This album did not let me down at all. YOU WON'T REGRET IT!

Great........2005-11-30

The anticipated full album by the German group Modeselektor reveals their humorous side in the beginning tracks but moves into a deeper electronic/trance/IDM feel. Being a popper and a bboy, I got the album looking for an alternative to the break beat. Some tracks have a very industrial feel similar to Autechre, while others are more ambient like something off a Boards of Canada album. Definitely worth the purchase if you're into Autechre, Boards of Canada, Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Mr. Oizo, etc. This album will ease you into a funky-ish groove and hold you in there----

The Concussive Caress, or, Casey Caught Her Mom Singing Along With the Vacuum

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Really really really good
YES!!!
Debut full-length album from the Blow

The Concussive Caress, or, Casey Caught Her Mom Singing Along With the Vacuum
The Blow
Manufacturer: K. Records
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000CG8FK
Release Date: 2003-10-21

Tracks:

How Naked Are We Going To Get?
Chase Dream
Untitled
A Night Full Of Open Eyes
Sweetheart
Sweetheart
What Tom Said About Girls
Nothing
Come On Pauline (Amy's Cassette For Pauline)
What The Guitar Said About Firmament
Where I Love you
What Amy Heard In Her Mother's Voice Played Backwards
Gravity (Pauline's Response To Amy)
Gravity (Pauline's Response To Amy)
The Warriors' Hearts

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Really really really good.......2007-06-01

Way back when this album first came out The Blow performed it in the basement of my dorm at college. This album is actually a story which runs through (i think it's) one summer that the narrator experienced. Each song is a story, and relates to the album as a whole. The album is best in the context of a live performance since each track is explained as to it's relation to the whole, but without context it is still stinkin' good.

gotta say, i love it.

YES!!!.......2004-07-31

Keep and open mind, and promise you will like this album.
Kheala makes very unique music, which I find to be immensely refreshing. And jesus christ, What Tom Said About The Girls should have SOARED up the charts, but life just isn't fair.

Debut full-length album from the Blow.......2004-01-30

It's an audacious album that begins with the musical question "How Naked Are We Gonna Get?" and The Concussive Caress by The Blow (the newest manifestation of Khaela Maricich after Get the Hell Out of the Way of the Volcano) is audacious indeed. But no one is more surprised at the fact that I am reviewing this album positively than myself, considering that my first introduction to Maricich as a solo artist (sidestepping her vocal appearances on various Microphones recordings) in The Blow was via the Invisible Shield compilation, on which her "The Democracy of Small Things" (originally from the Bonus Album EP) appears. It quickly became one of the few songs I would invariably skip and Maricich became known around my household as "the girl who talks to her molecules." Luckily, I had an open enough mind to approach The Concussive Caress on its own merits--once I determined that "The Democracy of Small Things" was not featured.

The Concussive Caress isn't your average electronic pop album. It requires a little attention be paid and does not hold with common song titling conventions. Track 3 isn't titled at all and two songs--"'Sweetheart'" and "Gravity (Pauline's Response to Amy)"--expand over two consecutive tracks each. Timing isn't a consideration, either, with four of the fifteen tracks coming in at considerably less than one minute and Track 15 figuring at over ten minutes (if you include the hidden track at the end of the album). However, as with many K artists, once I got over the sheer oddity of the album, I was able to settle back and enjoy it as music.

"How Naked Are We Going to Get?" is bold in any form, with lyrics that touch on unspoken thoughts, including the idea that one can "remember the route to her heart from her thighs." All this is backed by a droning undertone and the occasional high-pitched accompaniment to Maricich's sweetly alluring voice that shows itself to be malleable to any situation. This groove is broken by "Chase Dream," with knocks its way in with the side of a drum and the staccato delivery of "I get it, got it, get it get it, got it" for 26 seconds, followed quickly by an untitled track featuring a barely tuneful guitar and drums for 22 seconds. Strangely enough, these interludes add to the narrative flow somehow that I understand but can't explain.

Pop craftsmanship comes to the fore in "A Night Full of Open Eyes," with a sound that is quite familiar with the necessities of top 40 radio. The second part of "Sweetheart" is another standout, almost purely due to its conciseness and lyrics:

He called me Doll Eyes
He called me Sunrise
He called me Hearty Thighs
He called me Super Size
He called me Heat Lamp
He called me Summer Camp
He called me...just that once and then he never called again.

Khaela's courageous (and, I must add, almost entirely successful) experimentation with different genres on The Concussive Caress is epitomized by the slow, groovy rap goodness of "What Tom Said about Girls." It is easily my favorite track on the album, not least because she really gets into the mind of this mostly unlikable character and shows his cockiness truly and satirically, making him sympathetic in the process. "Nothing" didn't strike me as very memorable at first, but eventually worked its way into the folds of my brain and emerges at unconventional times--strange for a track without a chorus to speak of.

Throughout the album, we are introduced to snippets from the Karicich's recent narrative opera, Blue Sky vs. Night Sky and if these songs are any indication, a full recording of this opera would be an event, indeed. As it is, we are merely teased with snippets of the whole storyline. "Come On Pauline (Amy's Cassette for Pauline)," "Gravity (Pauline's Response to Amy)," and "What Amy Heard in Her Mother's Voice Played Backwards" are only the most obviously titled ones of this selection. Based on their lyrical content, I'm assuming that "What Tom Said About Girls," "'Sweetheart,'" "Where I Love You," and "A Night Full of Open Eyes" are also part of this cycle and these are some of the highest points on The Concussive Caress. But even so, this album as it is could well be the crowning glory (so far, of course) in the career of The Blow.

The final track ("The Warrior's Hearts") is grandly reminiscent of the music from The 7th Guest but also sounds like something that would play under closing credits, making it the perfect closer to this disc. The entirety of The Concussive Caress runs only about thirty minutes (not including the hidden track at the end of 15), which is just enough time to take the dog for a long walk (or the ferret, depending on your pet predilections), but not so long that you have to stay the night over at a friend's house the finish the thing, unlike some bands that seem to thrive on filler just to take up the whole running time of a compact disc. It's a truly great album that leaves me wanting more.

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2. I'm Going Through
3. No Not One
4. When We Reach That Great Mansion
5. Will You Be Ready?
6. I Find Do Fault
7. If We Don't Praise
8. I Still Have You
9. Nobody But You
10. He's the One
11. My Grace Is Sufficient