Back on Top
Editorial Reviews
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Back on Top kicks off on an unpromising note with a generic blues shuffle, "Goin' Down Geneva," that belies the album's cocky title. Van Morrison quickly redeems himself, however, with a set otherwise closer in its balance of rave-up and reverie to his beloved early-'70s classics than much of his '90s output. "Philosophers Stone" is yet another position paper on the Belfast bard's art ("My job is turning lead into gold"), but it's welcome for its relative absence of complaint. Elsewhere, he revisits familiar themes of survival ("Back on Top"), celebrity's price ("New Biography"), and mortality ("Precious Time") in midtempo anthems laudable for deceptively buoyant tempos and crisp ensemble work. Vocally, his signature mix of rasp and croon proves as ripe as ever. --Sam Sutherland
Entertainment Weekly
An eloquent balance of earthy musicality and spiritual restlessness.
Back on Top
Back on Top, Music, Van Morrison, Adult Contemporary, Album Rock, Blue-Eyed Soul, Folk-Rock, Pop, Pop/Rock, Popular Music, Rock, Rock/Pop, Singer/Songwriter, Soft Rock
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- Indeed
- I dont know what else to say
- A Darker Shade of VM's Soul
- Van Morrisson brings some magis back.
- Good Work from Van
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Back on Top
Van Morrison
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00000I7JD
Release Date: 1999-03-09 |
Tracks:
- Goin' Down Geneva
- Philosophers Stone
- In The Midnight
- Back On Top
- When The Leaves Come Falling Down
- High Summer
- Reminds Me Of You
- New Biography
- Precious Time
- Golden Autumn Day
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Back on Top kicks off on an unpromising note with a generic blues shuffle, "Goin' Down Geneva," that belies the album's cocky title. Van Morrison quickly redeems himself, however, with a set otherwise closer in its balance of rave-up and reverie to his beloved early-'70s classics than much of his '90s output. "Philosophers Stone" is yet another position paper on the Belfast bard's art ("My job is turning lead into gold"), but it's welcome for its relative absence of complaint. Elsewhere, he revisits familiar themes of survival ("Back on Top"), celebrity's price ("New Biography"), and mortality ("Precious Time") in midtempo anthems laudable for deceptively buoyant tempos and crisp ensemble work. Vocally, his signature mix of rasp and croon proves as ripe as ever. --Sam Sutherland
Customer Reviews:
Indeed .......2007-03-11
Did Van Morrison ever topple from the lofty perch of sensitive musican/Bard? No recording comes to mind, but all semantics aside, Morrison is in extra fine form for " Back on Top".
" Goin'Down, Geneva" is somewhat slight, but it still swings. " In the Midnight" is one of the loveliest songs ever recorded. It evokes fall and spring at the same time. The same might be said of " When the Leaves Come Falling Down", although fall probably dominates most. This is an album that relies on seasons for it's song titles as well as the atmosphere a song creates. Seasons and cycles. In favor, out of favor. In relationship, out of relationship. Here today, gone tomorrow.
Great music to think by.
I dont know what else to say.......2007-02-16
I dont know what else to say in here on this cd that isnt already said, so I just wanted to say, I am picky, and I flunk allot of what I hear, of most bands. just so much junk released.
This music is some of the best in the world
A Darker Shade of VM's Soul.......2006-06-16
As one of the apparently rare listeners who actually prefers the lush, introspective, spiritual period of VM's better 80's albums (such as Common One, Sense of Wonder, and Avalon Sunset), I've grown a bit frustrated with the dark, bitter, superficial (and frequently lazy) blues sound of his last decade.
The one exception is Back on Top. Yes, the lyrics do seem to fit with the Morrison-as-self-obsessed-artist meme. But there's something much deeper to this album. Unlike in other recent albums (like What's Wrong with This Picture), the bluesy sounds and darker lyrics aren't just attempts to pummel you with his complaints. Here they're entry ways into the rich and complex, if darker soul of Morrison's autumn years. No longer the 80s artist with his easy New Agey upbeat spirituality, VM probes his own loneliness and confusion, and makes beautiful, moving music out of it.
If you like VM's sweeping philosophical anthems, then you'll love "Philosopher's Stone." With a haunting, slow melody with a bit of soul organ in the background, Morrison delivers a moving reverie on the position of the lonely traveling artist who, with aching head and cold hands, boards a train, still searching for the means of changing the lead of life into gold. In the Midnight and Reminds Me of You are gorgeous, lonely love songs that will have your heart breaking in two with the lyrics.
In Back on Top, High Summer and New Biography, you get three different takes on the perils of the music biz, and VM's feelings about fame and success. This may sound off putting, but each of these is delivered with style and energy that will leave you humming them for hours. They also have some surprising novelty to them. Back on Top is actually in many ways a reflection on Morrison's own crushing, soul-killing ambition ("always climbing, always striving way beyond my will/same old sensation, isolation at the top of the bill"), but it carries a strut that is impossible to resist. High Summer is an attempt by VM to imagine himself in a different light: as a child of God who tried to be what he was made to be, and then was shot down by the "angels" of the biz because he refused to play by their rules -- a bit preening, but not as bad as a lot of Morrison's similar stuff. New Biography is a rocking piece that actually works as a condemnation of the cult of personality in the entertainment industry, of all the people who play the "name game" based on their superficial connections to the famous -- if you know anyone who endlessly talks about the time they talked to famous person x, then you'll get the message of this song. Yet Morrison also seems genuinely to be confused about what his fans want of him; listen to the way he inflects the lyrics ("what exactly are they looking for, just a hobby on the internet?"). He's surprisingly vulnerable in his confusion here, even when he snarls out some of the choruses.
When the Leaves Come Falling Down is a nice gentle meditation on autumn, and perhaps on the obvious metaphor of time passing. Precious Time is a rollicking, infectious romp about mortality. Again, in the background we hear Morrison reflecting a bit on his own neuroses. His religious trip is over ("It doesn't matter which path you take, sooner or later your heart's gonna break/No rhyme or reason, no master plan, no Nirvana no Promised Land"), which, if you've followed VM through his questing albums, is a sad, though not entirely unexpected, result. But he also notes his own continuing search for "immortality," and it's uncertain whether he's referring to his soul or to his hoped for status as a musical legend. Still, Morrison recognizes that immortality "is so beautiful but she's gonna die one day/everything in life just passes away," and he seems to be willing to celebrate that here. Believe me, you'll be singing the tune in your head when it's done.
Finally, Golden Autumn Day is a deceptive song. Cheery on the surface, Morrison sings about trying to soak up some beautiful weather. But he has to try hard, to pretend it's paradise, because life is much rougher than that. In one verse he sings about getting mugged, and realizing that "things ain't just what they seem" in "this godforsaken place."
This album has soul, if in a darker shade than in earlier VM albums. Yes, he spends a lot of time trying to make sense of his own ambition and his love-hate relationship with fame. What makes it work is that here Morrison invites you in to share his experience, to stand a bit dazed and confused and numb and lonely, then to come back and rock out with him anyway. The instrumentation and vocals are all carefully and richly done. All-in-all, this is the only essential Van Morrison album of the past 10 years.
Van Morrisson brings some magis back........2005-10-04
When the leaves come falling down, The Philosopher stone are two of at least four tracks that are very emotional. Very visual, almost film music. There's the old Bluesy, rythmic rock influences also on the CD, but there's also a new line, a kind of sad nostalgia, quite interesting and almost a turning point in his career.
Good Work from Van.......2004-05-14
If by Back On Top, Van the Man means the Everest years of Astral Weeks and Moondance, well, neither he nor anyone else is likely to be going back there any time soon. But On Top ranks well with, say, Avalon Sunset and Enlightenment from the late 80's, early 90's. As on those two works, much of the mood here is contemplative, of the past, of personal relationships and of nature, sometimes all three at once (When the Leaves Come Falling Down). Jazzier or R&B numbers moments include Going Down Geneva, Back on Top, Precious Time and the horns on High Summer. The latter two, plus New Biography, hit Van's standard themes of the perils of fame and perfidy of music industry bosses, but thankfully only New Biography wallows excessively in self-pity. Reminds Me of You is a flat-out beautiful love song and, with the spirit-renewing Golden Autumn Day, is the best of a strong late career work.
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- WOW - Pinetop is a blues piano magician!
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Back on Top
Pinetop Perkins
Manufacturer: Telarc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00004TDXL
Release Date: 2000-05-23 |
Tracks:
- Anna Lee
- Down In Mississippi
- Kansas City
- Five Long Years
- Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
- Hi-Heel Sneakers
- How Long Blues
- Just A Little Bit
- Thinks Like A Million
- Pinetop's Blues
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There is one word to describe the legendary Pinetop Perkins's performance on Back on Top, and that word is mellow. Mellow like a hot summer day, mellow like a bottle of amber ale, mellow like sleeping in on a Saturday morning. Not that it's boring. Oh, no. Special guests Corey Harris (guitar) and Sugar Ray Norcia (harmonica) may be younger than Perkins by several decades apiece, but they're still hard pressed to keep up with him; the man's got even more tricks up his sleeve than he's got years on his junior compatriots. Whether he's lazing through "Five Long Years" (and giving Harris plenty of room to explore a blistering guitar solo) or keeping things hopping with "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie," Perkins remains at the top of his form, despite the fact that he's pushing 90. Would that we were all so active, creative, cheerful, and, above all, mellow at that age. Perkins is truly one of a kind. --Genevieve Williams
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WOW - Pinetop is a blues piano magician!.......2006-08-05
Pinetop Perkins is a renowned blues piano player, who may have been best known to many from his work with the Muddy Waters band. Of course, by the time Pinetop joined the Muddy Waters band to replace Otis Span, he already had a firmly established trademark sound and a great reputation within the blues community. Pinetop's sound is hard to confuse with anyone else's once you hear several of his recordings.
When this record was made, Pinetop was 86, and this record just blows my mind. It is one of the finest blues recordings I've heard to date; it's classy, refined, and 100% soul from a bluesman who has seen it all during his long years. Pinetop's piano work is fresh, stunningly fiery, elaborate, and just plain beautiful. From the sound and precision of his piano sound, you'd never know you're listening to a 86-yr old man. His voice certainly shows age, which only adds to his charm, but it blends perfectly with Pinetop's "conversational" blues style. But even if Pinetop's singing shows age, it's still full of energy, fire, and soul.
Telarc production team did an outstanding job recording this session - the record quality is pristine, warm, and colorful. Someone like Pinetop certainly deserves the best of sound technology, and the listeners will be pleased with the way they can hear this master.
Pinetop covers a variety of styles of this disc, from slow ballad-type blues to fire-filled boogies that make it impossible to sit still. The backing band is incredible. The drummer navigates through a variety of rhythms with both sticks and brushes with seeming ease and is always right on. The accoustic bass adds warms to the record and blends perfectly with the rhythm section. Guitars and harmonica add colorful, sometimes very subtle, touches without ever getting in the way of Pinetop's piano magic.
If you have any interest in blues, this is creme de la creme. On the mellow side, this disc offers the lovers of music some pure delight!
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Classics Explained: Rite of Spring
Stravinsky , Rahbari , and Brt Po Brussels
Manufacturer: Naxos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00007FPFN
Release Date: 2003-07-15 |
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Back on Top
Carl Perkins
Manufacturer: Bear Family
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ASIN: B00004U4IB
Release Date: 2000-05-17 |
Tracks:
- Constantly
- Restless
- 1143
- Little Cowboy Suit
- Blue Suede Shoes
- Matchbox
- Honey Don't
- Turn Around
- Daddy Sang Bass
- That's Right
- Boppin' the Blues
- Your True Love
- Folsom Prison Blues
- Mean Woman Blues
- Take It or Leave It
- Walk With Your Neighbor
- For Your Love
- Four Letter Word
- Soul Beat
- Baby, What You Want Me to Do
- Superfool
- Champaign, Illinois
- Riverboat Annie
- Lion in the Jungle
- Power of My Soul
- Brown Eyed Handsome Man
- C.C. Rider (You're So Bad)
- I'm Gonna Set My Foot Down
- Boppin' the Blues [& NRBQ]
- Sorry Charlie [& NRBQ]
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- Allergic to Love [& NRBQ]
- Turn Around [NRBQ]
- All Mama's Children [& NRBQ]
- Step Aside [& NRBQ]
- Just Coastin'
- My Son, My Su
- State of Confusion
- Big City Sleeps
- True Love Is Greater Then Friendship
- What Every Little Boy Ought to Know
- Just as Long
- I'll Fly Away
- Me Without You
- Always Be Mine
- Red Headed Woman
- Take Me Back to Memphis
- About All I Can Give Is My Love
- You Won't Have to Say You Love Me
- Cotton Top
- High on Love
- Always Be Mine
- Let Me Be the One You Love
- Baby's Gone
- So Warm
- Trip
- I Still Miss Someone
- Last Letter
- Someday
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- Help Me Dream
- Bless the Children
- You Tore My Heaven All to Hell
- One More Loser Going Home
- Going to Memphis
- Lord, I Sinned Again Last Night
- Just as Long
- Dixie Fried
- Honky Tonk Song
- Love Sweet Love
- Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
- Never Look Back
- Sunday Dinner
- Sing My Song
- I Want to Be Your Man
- You'll Always Be a Lady to Me
- Rise and Shine
- Mean, Mean Martha
- Low Class
- I Ain' Mad
- E.P. Express
- Big Bad Blues
- Restless
- Honey Don't
- Turn Around
- That's Right
- Walk With Your Neighbor
- For Your Love
- Four Letter Word
Tracks:
- Cotton Top
- Good Times Are Just Around the Corner
- Born Equal
- Step It up and Go
- Big City Sleeps
- Bottoms Up
- Poor Boy Blues
- When You're a Man on Your Own
- Take a Good Look at Me
- Restless
- Bottom of the Bottle
- Sorry Charlie
- Wild Card
- So Wrong
- So Wrong
- Lord's Fishing Hole
- Going to Memphis
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- San Diego's Finest Live Act Is Best Appreciated LIVE
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Something to Fall Back On
Berkley Hart
Manufacturer: Psb Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00006HCBC
Release Date: 2002-07-23 |
Tracks:
- Come On In
- Something to Fall Back On
- Red Eyed and Blue
- Baby Won't You Let It Go
- Lonely Town
- Old Grey Deadhead
- Desert Rose
- Life Won't Wait
- This Road Don't Go Nowhere
- Woody Guthrie Knew
- Everybody
- Up On Cripple Creek
- My, My, My
Album Description
Something to Fall Back On - the second album by folk-rock favorites Berkley Hart is a dramatic and exciting departure from the group's previous effort. Recorded on nothing but vintage recording gear and instruments, Something to Fall Back On is reminiscent of Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, The Band's Music From Big Pink, and The Grateful Dead's American Beauty. The album's 13 songs are as sensitive as they are emotionally charged, and represent a unique sense of optimism and freedom. From the first opening chord of "Come On In," to the final breath of "My, My, My," the listener is placed in a virtual sonic time-machine. Songs like the country-driven "Red Eyed and Blue," the melancholy, yet hopeful "Everybody" and Joel Rafael's touching "Baby Won't You Let it Go," convey a driving sense of purpose and the notion that sometimes its ok to feel less than perfect.
As contemporary pop music becomes increasingly overshadowed by the recording tricks and gimmicks that digital technologies afford, it's incredibly refreshing to hear an album as organic and pure as this one. In short, Something to Fall Back On is an album that will stand the test of time. It allows the listener to capture a musical time period that is almost forgotten, and simultaneously reflect upon the ideas of two very contemporary songwriters. Says Berkley, "We want to respect and honor our roots, but in the end we're just five guys who love to play authentic, American Rock n Roll."
Customer Reviews:
San Diego's Finest Live Act Is Best Appreciated LIVE.......2002-09-02
Jeff Berkley and Calman Hart are fine musicians, and the last thing I want you to think is that I dislike their music. I am a huge fan. Something To Fall Back On, however, leaves a bit to be desired. There are some excellent songs on this CD, but the whole thing lacks the energy of Berkley Hart live. If you are unfortunate enough to reside in an area where you can't see Berkley Hart in person, then you can get a better feel for their own brand of country-and-folk-inflected rock from their previous album, Wreck n' Sow. These guys have a sensational knack for sublime guitar and vocal arrangements. For a free shot at hearing these fellows, go to a website and download their amazing cut of "My, My, My." It's much better than the version on this album. You won't regret it. Then buy Wreck n' Sow, and go experience these guys in concert.
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Happy Apple Back on Top
Happy Apple
Manufacturer: Sunny Side
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000SFYZ0I
Release Date: 2007-08-28 |
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- Look Over Your Shoulder: A Glance Back At The O'Jays
- The best of the O'jay re-releases.
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Back on Top
The O'Jays
Manufacturer: Collectables
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00000090E
Release Date: 1996-06-25 |
Tracks:
- I'll Be Sweeter Tomorrow (Than I Was Today)
- I'm So Glad I Found You
- Going Going Gone
- That's Alright
- I Dig Your Act
- Look Over Your Shoulder
- You're Too Sweet
- Just Another Guy
- Four For The Price Of One
- Love Is Everywhere
- Now That I've Found You
- I'll Be Seeing You
- The Choice
- I Miss You
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Look Over Your Shoulder: A Glance Back At The O'Jays.......2000-06-30
If you are trying to fill in the pieces of the early career of The O'Jays, start with historic singles like "Lonely Drifter" and "Lipstick Traces." If you have those, you're in the right place to take the next step. We'll start by examining the good in this album. It is a re-issue of the group's, raw-sugar sound while on the Bell Records label. It's really great to have songs like "I'll Be Sweeter Tomorrow," "Look Over Your Shoulder," and "I Dig Your Act" back in print. This record is from 1968, back in the days when there were 5 O'Jays. They were a bold and dynamic group, and were veterans of the soul circuit even at this time. The talent was in place for this soon-to-be superstar group. The bad of this collection is that not all of the songs live up to the above-mentioned trioka. A lack of quality material is really what kept The O'Jays from becoming a household name sooner. And now for the ugly: that cheesy, canned, fake applause that separates each track on the record. Whoever made the decision to release the record this way in the first place, really goofed. That the CD release still contains the clap-track, we can chalk up to either a) someone wanted to maintain the original continuity (Why?) or b) the phony cheering couldn't be separated from the music on the master tape. It is a shame, because such sub-standard production really mars this significant record of The O'Jays' early sound. Once you have this, move on to "The O'Jays In Philadelphia," to catch their first collaboration with Gamble and Huff on the Neptune label. This album is also available as a budget CD titled, "In The Beginning," which is a misnomer. From there, it's "Back Stabbers," and the dawn of The Sound Of Philadelphia.
The best of the O'jay re-releases........1999-02-07
The O'jays "Back on Top" is soul music at it's most dynamic. With the stunning ballads, "I'll be Sweeter Tomorrow," and "Look Over Your Shoulder" This mid-sixties release is a fine example of what true group harmony is all about.
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- An absolutely astonishing soundtrack
- Don't underestimate: this may be the best LP all year!
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Human Nature
Graeme Revell
Manufacturer: Pleximusic
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Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000065DTX
Release Date: 2002-04-23 |
Tracks:
- I Don't Want To Be Dead Yet
- My Story Begins
- Pygmy Chimp
- Hair Everywhere - Patricia Arquette
- On My Mountain Top
- You - Marty And Elayne Roberts
- Waltzes No.'s 3, 4, 6, 12 - Franz Schubert
- Puff Bolts
- Forget The Mice
- A Name For Puff
- Busted
- Hair Everywhere (Remix) - Patricia Arquette
- Fais Do Do - Miranda Otto
- Lila Shaves
- Puff's Education
- My Name Is Puff - Rhys Ifans
- Allegretto In B Flat Major - Jean Michel Bernard
- Bachelor Pad
- Au Dehors Fremit La Pluie - Jean Michel Bernard
- The Heights Of Culture - Rhys Ifans
- Back To Nature
- Petite Etoile De Septembre - Marie-Noelle Gondry
- Words Are Evil
- I'll Turn Myself In
- Parade
- Here With You - Patricia Arquette
- My Name Is Puff (Remix) - Rhys Ifans
Customer Reviews:
An absolutely astonishing soundtrack.......2002-05-26
Whilest no-one really saw "Human Nature", it was a good movie (in my opinion, I thought it was better than "Being John Malkovich"). Yet, whilest hardly anyone seeing it being a tragedy in itself, what's even more of a tragedy is how no-one will buy the soundtrack, despite the fact that it could possibly be one of the best albums of the year.
The most amazing thing is how the soundtrack jumps from genre to genre logically and with ease. Whilest there are many short orchestral tracks sprinkled throughout, many selections stand out. One of which is "You", which is a wonderful jazz melody. Then, there's the small "Waltzes" that adhere to the title very well. Also, the piano/violin movement "Allegrato in B Flat Major" is just an astonishing piece of work.
Yet, there are still some moments for craziness. Patrica Arquette sings "Hair Everywhere", which comes in both it's version as presented in the film and a danceable remix as well. One additional bonus is quite possibly one of the funniest songs since the Avalanches "Frontier Psychiatrist": "My Name Is Puff", which is a wonderous mish-mash of lines from the movie placed over a funky beat (and don't forget the teen-pop-ish vocals on the chorus ["It's an animal urge, Puff / Nothing to be ashamed of"]). The remix is jiggy as well.
So, whether you have or haven't seen the movie, it's no matter. Just know that the soundtrack is something not to be missed.
Don't underestimate: this may be the best LP all year!.......2002-05-26
This soundtrack is absolutely breathtaking. All soundtracks are made to enhance the film itself; it's a known fact. Yet, there are so many things going on in "Human Nature" (which is an excellent movie by itself), it's hard to believe that one could ignore as much music was placed on this disc.
There are too many pieces to cover. The album masterfully goes over several genres without any sign of exhaustion. From the Patrica Arquette solo "Hair Everywhere" (and it's dance-oriented remix) to the the tender "Here With You", the album is absolutely sprawling. It covers jazz ("You"), politicts ("The Heights of Culture"), and even creepy French interludes ("Fais Do Do"). Other highlights include the nice "Waltzes No.'s 3, 4, 6, 12", the hilarious "My Name Is Puff" (and it's remix), and the breathtaking "Allegretto In B Flat Major".
From funk-pop to classical to jazz to comedy, this is one of the most pleasent surprises I've heard all year. I highly recommend it.
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Back On Top Pt.1
Van Morrison
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
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Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00000JAR5
Release Date: 2000-05-16 |
Tracks:
- Back On Top
- John Brown's Body
- I'm Ready
Album Details
Includes Two Exclusive Unreleased Tracks Recorded in 1979 'John Brown's Body'& 'i'm Ready'.
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Back on Top
Richie Cole & The Alto Madness Orchestra
Manufacturer: Jazz Excursion
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
Bebop General
| Bebop
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
General
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
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ASIN: B000BBOTMI
Release Date: 2005-11-15 |
Tracks:
- Remembering Oliver Nelson
- Jazz Excursion
- A Walk In The Park
- Uncle Freddy
- Home Town
- Don't Misunderstand
- Back On Top
- Relaxin' At The Candlelight (Trenton Style)
- I Love Bebop
- Portrait Of Jenny
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