Jewels [Import]

Track Listings

1. I Was Born to Love You

2. We Will Rock You

3. We Are the Champions

4. Don't Stop Me Now

5. Too Much Love Will Kill You

6. Let Me Live

7. You're My Best Friend

8. Under Pressure

9. Radio Ga Ga

10. Somebody to Love

11. Killer Queen

12. Another One Bites the Dust

13. Crazy Little Thing Called Love

14. Flash

15. Show Must Go On

16. Bohemian Rhapsody

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Japanese exclusive compilation features 16 tracks including 'Under Pressure', 'Another One Bites The Dust', 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love', 'Flash's Theme', & 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. Booklet includes photos & song lyrics. Virgin. 2004.

Tracks:

Keep Yourself Alive
Doing All Right
Great King Rat
My Fairy King
Liar
The Night Comes Down
Modern Times Rock N' Roll
Son And Daughter
Jesus
Seven Seas Of Rhye...

Tracks:

Procession
Father to Son
White Queen (As it Began)
Some Day One Way
The Loser In The End
Ogre Battle
The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
Nevermore
The March of the Black Queen
Funny How Love Is
Seven Seas of Rhye

Tracks:

Brighton Rock
Killer Queen
Tenement Funster
Flick Of The Wrist
Lily Of The Valley
Now I'm Here
In The Lap Of The Gods
Stone Cold Crazy
Dear Friends
Misfire
Bring Back That Leroy Brown
She Makes Me (Stormtrooper In Stilettoes)
In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisted

Tracks:

Death On Two Legs (Dedicated to...)
Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon
I'm In Love With My Car
You're My Best Friend
'39
Sweet Lady
Seaside Rendezvous
The Prophet's Song
Love Of My Life
Good Company
Bohemian Rhapsody
God Save The Queen

Tracks:

Tie Your Mother Down
You Take My Breath Away
Long Away
The Millionaire's Waltz
You And I
Somebody To Love
White Man
Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
Drowse
Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)

Tracks:

We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
Sheer Heart Attack
All Dead, All Dead
Spread Your Wings
Fight From The Inside
Get Down, Make Love
Sleeping On The Sidewalk
Who Needs You
It's Late
My Melancholy Blues

Tracks:

Mustapha
Fat Bottomed Girls
Jealousy
Bicycle Race
If You Can't Beat Them
Let Me Entertain You
Dead On Time
In Only Seven Days
Dreamers Ball
Fun It
Leaving Home Ain't Easy
Don't Stop Me Now
More Of That Jazz

Tracks:

Play The Game
Dragon Attack
Another One Bites The Dust
Need Your Loving Tonight
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Rock It (Prime Jive)
Don't Try Suicide
Sail Away Sweet Sister
Coming Soon
Save Me

Customer Reviews:

Great collection, interesting packaging, essential listening........2007-07-16

This is the box set for those ready to dive feet-first into the back-catalog of queen. After many years of being in the mainstream through "Best-of" compilations, this collection offers fans (old and new) something compelling. The packaging is a solid attempt to capture the days of Vynal two-fold packaging and included lyrics. All said, a great value and essential to any classic rock library.

Box Fit For The Kings Of Rock,Queen.......2007-06-28

Some good reasons to get this box set:1)Eight albums from Queen's most popular and fruitful years:Queen(1973),Queen II(1974),Sheer Heart Attack(1974),A Night At The Opera(1975),A Day At the Races(1976),News Of The World(1977),Jazz(1978) and The Game(1980) all in cool,attractive mini-original LP-style jackets 2)Most of the band's biggest and best-loved hits are here,including "We Will Rock You","We Are The Champions","Bohemian Rhapsody","Another One Bites The Dust","Killer Queen","Somebody To Love","You're My Best Friend","Crazy Little Thing Called Love","Bicycle Race" and "Fat Bottomed Girls",plus their most prized classic album tracks like "Keep Yourself Alive","Seven Seas Of Rhye","Stone Cold Crazy","39","Tie Your Mother Down","Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy","Get Down Make Love","Its Late","Dragon Attack" and many more.3)Excellent remastered sound,much better than the individual 1991 Hollywood CDs.Even Queen I and Queen II,which suffered from substandard production,now sound better than ever. 4)No bad bonus tracks with awful "remixes"! 5) No mastering errors like on the separate 1991 ones with the chopped guitar intro to "It's Late",the screwy opening to "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and the chopped part 30-seconds into "In The Lap Of The Gods".6)Nice booklet featuring lyrics to every album contained here.and 7)It's a real steal to get all these great Queen albums at the price of $89.99 and under.That may be steep,but considering the artifically high prices of the individual ones at $13.99-16.99,and the fact that this box set has such superior sound quality over the ones still on the shelves(still with those horrid bonus tracks!),its worth every penny!

Queen .......2007-06-24

Great boxed set. Dark Blue velvet box with logo. "nice" Each CD is in an carboard replica jacket of it's album. It would've been a perfect set if the CD's were in an hard case instead of cardboard.
8 CD's and a companion booklet with all the lyrics and some pictures.
If you like Queen's music this is a great collection. I love it.

The Ultimate Highlight of Queen's Reign.......2007-01-20

Any true Queen fan knows that these first eight albums represent the epitome of one of the greatest rock bands of the 1970s. The remastered albums are of excellent sound quality, and the sleeves are cardboard replicas of the original album covers. Queen II, Night at the Opera, Day at the Races, News of the World, and Jazz are accurately reproduced in their original gatefold format. Jazz even includes a miniature reproduction of the original notorious poster of nude female bicycle racers! The accompanying booklet has all the original lyrics, as well as some great photos. All of this is beautifully packaged in a blue velvet covered box. Although not inexpensive, you get a lot for your money, musically and otherwise. For anyone who loves Queen, this set is a must!

Brilliant Queen Collection.......2006-12-16

An absolutely brilliant collection. After "The Game", Queens music became more erratic and eccentric. This is the real meat and bones of the Queen cds. Hell, my childhood lies in this box set! The Album re-creations are brilliant, and the inner sleeves in each one protects the cds from dislodging. They sound incredible and at some of the prices i see this being sold by used/other sellers its an absolute bargain! Even the $95 that amazon sells it new as is a bargain considering this is 8 cds. work it out. Not to be missed on any level.
If you RIP your music onto computer as i do, you play the cds once and have an immaculate collection to be cherished forever. The 'Real' Queen music in its own storage unit, each individually captured in its original LP artwork (including gate-fold) the booklet gives info and lyrics to each cd! I cant speak enough of the value and quality of the set by one of the most under-appreciated bands in history!

The Ugly One With The Jewels And Other Stories

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A Mental Movie
A Rembrandt of the spoken word
A Classic!
A classic!
This CD takes you to another world

The Ugly One With The Jewels And Other Stories
Laurie Anderson
Manufacturer: Wea International
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002MWJ
Release Date: 2000-08-07

Tracks:

The End Of The World
The Salesman
The Night Flight From Houston
Word Of Mouth
The Soul Is A Bird
The Ouija Board
The Ugly One With The Jewels
The Geographic North Pole
John Lilly
The Rotowhirl
On The Way To Jerusalem
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The Mysterious 'J'
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Customer Reviews:

A Mental Movie.......2005-08-20

I regard Laurie Anderson as the most important multimedia performance artist of the late twentieth century and enjoy the contradiction of her mistrust and articulate dissection of technology with the large-scale deployment of cutting edge electronics and digital gizmos in her own work, notably in United States I-IV. This to my mind remains her finest achievement and spawned the essential album Big Science. Exhibitions of her mixed media work are also highly recommended.
Laurie Anderson describes the tour of these readings from her book, Stories From The Nerve Bible, as "the most low-tech show I've ever done. I sat on the stage with keyboards, digital effects machines, a violin and a twenty-four input mixing console and mixed the sound myself."
Reduced even further to just an audio track on a CD the collection becomes even more intimate and engaging; "a kind of mental movie", as she describes it in the sleeve notes, a movie of stories that cover twenty years of her work as an artist, told with guile and craft and not a little warmth and humour from this remarkable performer

A Rembrandt of the spoken word.......2005-02-23

This spoken word CD is absolutely incredible. By all means, anyone who appreciates the spoken word should own this, " The Ugly One With The Jewels." Her words are accompanied with music, as only Anderson could create; however, I consider this more of a spoken word creation.

The beauty is subtle. The sledgehammer is gentle in its persuasion. Laurie Anderson is at her best. I'm familiar with a couple of her creations, and this is a stand out production.

I used to be more of an artist than I am now, and this CD makes me regret some of my life decisions. Not fully, but this is just amazing in its presentation. Listen to her words, and you will be thinking. She is a philosopher of the twentieth century. Anderson is accessible without being overly "deep." Her words are easily felt and aknowledged by anyone with compassion and a sense of humor.

This is a must have by any standards. I wonder what she and Henry Rollins would have created?

A Classic!.......2001-10-10

An incredible work! If you love Laurie Anderson or even if you aren't familiar with her work, this work is a masterpiece in story telling. Get it. You'll find yourself listening again and again!

A classic!.......2001-09-22

I saw Laurie Anderson in Indianapolis on her Nerve Bible tour, and this CD is a wonderful souvenir thereof. It bears comparison to her magnum opus, United States Live, not only in similarity but also in quality. Whereas USL captures the flavor of the mid-80's, however, this CD captures the Desert Storm era, undoing any notions I might have had that her art was becoming dated. Of its time, yes. For its time alone, no.

This is one of those albums I simply have to hear every so often, even years after first buying it. It has become part of the soundtrack of my life, stirring my senses of wonder and adventure.

For those not familiar with Ms. Anderson's sound, it's all here, and in an even purer form than her "musical" releases: crackling dry wit, eerie atmospheric electronics and narratives of Poe-like perfection.

This CD takes you to another world.......2001-08-22

This is a great CD to ispire deep contemplation, i love playing this when i am sitting im my bathtub. As yoiu listen to this CD you will be suprised at how certain lines will inspire something deep and profound within you. "i may have been ugly - but so what....i had the jewels...."

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Chieli Minucci's best ever solo album
Chieli Minucci's best ever solo album
Wonderful mix of styles & emotion
Never Disappointed

Jewels
Chieli Minucci
Manufacturer: Jvc / Xrcd
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1995-04-24

Tracks:

Courageous Cats
Phat City
Only You
Sitting In Limbo
Hideaway
Dig The Dirt
Mountains
Realm Of The Senses
Moment Of Love
Jewels Part 1
Jewels Part 2
Jewels Part 3
Jewels Part 4

Customer Reviews:

Chieli Minucci's best ever solo album.......2003-06-14

This album has it all. Minucci runs through all musical styles with elegance. Don't bother with the subsequent 'smooth jazz' albums - unless you like safe, anodyne music.

Starting with 'Courageous Cats', a gloriously heavy swing tempo kicks in with a walking bass pumping the whole thing along. A funky horn section pulls the whole thing together.

'Phat City' is a laid back funk groove with steel strung and electric taking turns in between the twin-guitar verse and chorus. A great horn section break lifts it halfway through.

'Only You' is a 'power ballad' starting with nylon strung guitar, leading to a climactic overdriven electric finale.

'Sitting in Limbo' is a reggae-infused vocal track which chugs along nicely. Possibly the least strong of them all.

'Hideaway' picks up the tempo with a memorable bass and synth backing riff that gets stronger as it goes, picking up piano and guitars as it goes. A delicate twin-tracked acoustic plays the melody and leads to the inevitable jazz electric finishing it off in a truly memorable flourish of inventive soloing.

'Dig the Dirt' rocks along with a funky bass and dirty electric guitar playing the melody. Harmony electric guitars take it to the wonderful chorus - power chords and all. A wah-wah solo takes us back to the verse and a grand finale played around the chorus is absolutely fabulous - a screaming guitar fades to the unlikely sound of a church organ playing just the backing which then takes us right out. Great stuff.

'Mountains' is an orchestral-type piece with shades of Delius' 'On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring' (if I recall my classics). Plenty of light and shade, a lone nylon-strung guitar plays a gentle melody accompanied by strings. Picking up backing, it crescendos with timpani-like floor tom and electric guitars into a Minucci-soft attack guitar solo, quietening to revisit the start again, and a cuckoo-like finale played on the acoustic.

'Realm Of The Senses' brings us back to a more up-tempo number. Strummed steel-string guitar and rock-solid drums provide the backing for a strong electric guitar melody. Mid-way we get a really rocky power-chord section leading into an entirely appropriate electric solo. Taking us out is a superb Hammond organ played over the really tight bass and drum backing.

'Moment Of Love' is the album's second vocal track. A fairly standard love-song at first impression, but it's not in the vomit-inducing style of Witney Houston, et al. It's a low-key number but no less passionate for it. It really sounds as if it was sung from the heart. A nylon-strung guitar solo breaks it up beautifully at points. Influenced by Minucci's divorce? Who knows. It's a real oasis of tranquillity and mood-change among the other tracks.

'Jewels' (Parts 1-4)
What can I say about this sequence of tracks to adequately do it justice? It's a roller coaster ride of a title track. Starting gently with acoustic guitars it leads into a prog-rock-meets-jazz-fusion number. Musically complex and dynamic, it is simply superb. Listen to Part 2 very loud if you can. The combination of rock-guitar, syncopated drum and bass backing is just out of this world. Play 'hand drums' along with it and it will leave you breathless at the end. Parts 3 and 4 bring the number back down to earth with the refrain. We've landed - phew!

To sum it up: Minucci at his best and most creative since early Special EFX went 'World' or 'Smooth Jazz'. Go buy it now.

Chieli Minucci's best ever solo album.......2003-06-14

This album has it all. Minucci runs through all musical styles with elegance. Don't bother with the subsequent 'smooth jazz' albums - unless you like safe, anodyne music.

Starting with 'Courageous Cats', a gloriously heavy swing tempo kicks in with a walking bass pumping the whole thing along. A funky horn section pulls the whole thing together.

'Phat City' is a laid back funk groove with steel strung and electric taking turns in between the twin-guitar verse and chorus. A great horn section break lifts it halfway through.

'Only You' is a 'power ballad' starting with nylon strung guitar, leading to a climactic overdriven electric finale.

'Sitting in Limbo' is a reggae-infused vocal track which chugs along nicely. Possibly the least strong of them all.

To sum it up: Minucci at his best and most creative since early Special EFX went 'World' or 'Smooth Jazz'. Go buy it now.

Wonderful mix of styles & emotion.......1998-07-02

I get bored with most "jazz" albums as they seem to get monotonous after awhile. Not this one... A really good mix of butt-wiggle and raw emotion in an urban jazz environment. Two vocal pieces are great on their own and serve as refreshers between the instrumentals. His guitar never dominates completely, allowing the other artists to add their competence to his pieces without having to endure annoying "solo" breaks. sc

Never Disappointed.......1998-05-30

As always Mr. Minucci delivers the best. I never regret my decisions to buy all three of his CDs. His music makes me look forward to his next release.

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Not this time Robyn
seattle: its got the best coffee, computers, and smack!
Uneven
Love Hitchcock? Hear some of his best on JEWELS FOR SOPHIA
Don't bloat, eat the cheese and gloat...

Jewels for Sophia
Robyn Hitchcock
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000JLMC
Release Date: 1999-07-20

Tracks:

Mexican God
The Cheese Alarm
Viva! Sea-Tac
I Feel Beautiful
You've Got A Sweet Mouth On You, Baby
NASA Clapping
Sally Was A Legend
Antwoman
Elizabeth Jade
No, I Don't Remember Guildford
Dark Princess
Jewels For Sophia

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In making his first "rock" record since 1993's Respect, Robyn Hitchcock recorded Jewels for Sophia using several different combinations of producers, locations, and collaborators, including members of the Young Fresh Fellows, Grant Lee Buffalo, R.E.M., and the Soft Boys. Not surprisingly, the record is an intentionally eclectic spectacle, spanning the breadth of Hitchcock's ever-expanding, strange universe. He has covered a lot of territory in the 23 years since founding the Soft Boys and much of it is recalled here, from the scalding rock & roll of the Kimberly Rew collaboration "NASA Clapping" to the blistering guitar gymnastics of "The Cheese Alarm" and the beautiful psychedelic folk of "No, I Don't Remember Guilford," all of which are colored by Hitchcock's long-running themes of the absurdity of the human condition and our (often futile and surreal) attempts to make sense of it all. In spite this tumult, however, Jewels is primarily a collection of love songs. In "I Feel Beautiful," recorded with Grant Lee Phillips, it is the wonder of love that fills life's emptiness: "People never celebrate the things they've got / Honey, without you I wouldn't have a lot." Similarly, "Dark Princess" asserts love's salvation in an otherwise hollow existence, while the protagonist of "Antwoman" offers himself up to bloody sacrifice chanting his mantra of love's validation: "Being just contaminates the void." As always, Hitchcock's world view is as weird as it is wondrous, spanning the gap between all that is beautiful and horrible about life. --Paul Ducey

Customer Reviews:

Not this time Robyn.......2005-11-24

Tired and lacking.
Feels like he had nothing to say but had a record due. A few moments here and there but overall lacks any memorable tunes. Everybody can lay a fat egg and Robyn is human. Thank god for Moss Elixer.
Avoid as a starting place but any Hitcher will eventually own it.

seattle: its got the best coffee, computers, and smack!.......2005-10-27

This CD is worth buying just for the "Viva! Sea-Tac" track, the chorus of which is "viva seattle tacoma, viva viva viva sea-tac; they've got the best computers and coffee and smack!" As a biased Seattle resident I have to agree.

My other favorite songs on this CD are Cheese Alarm (an ode to cheese), I Feel Beautiful (a sweet ballad), Antwoman (an ode his elusive dream woman), and the title track, Jewels For Sophia (a anthem-like love ballad). Overall this is great songwriting, and Robyn Hitchcock not only has a charismatic and expressive voice, he has an excellent sense of humor.

Uneven.......2005-05-13

As much as I like Robyn Hitchcock, this album is one of his weaker efforts overall. "Mexican God," "Viva Seatac," "Antwoman" and the title track all range from good to excellent but for the rest of the album I just find myself checking my watch a lot to see how long until the lame filler material plays out and the good songs come on. Robyn's not usually this boring, but much of this album just doesn't go anywhere interesting, lyrically or musically.

If you're interested in Robyn Hitchcock there are better places to start. "Moss Elixir," "Globe of Frogs" and the Soft Boys' "Underwater Moonlight" are all very strong albums that will keep your finger away from the Skip Forward button on your iPod. Keep an eye out for this one in the used bin, but don't pay full price for it.

Love Hitchcock? Hear some of his best on JEWELS FOR SOPHIA.......2004-11-11

Robyn Hitchcock has the talent to write hit pop songs, but prefers to do music his own way. We're not likely to hear his pinched, high-pitched English croon on a #1 hit single. To that I say thank (insert deity of choice here) that he follows his own muse.

True, Robyn did flirt with the idea of pop success and even came close to it with a few tunes from PERSPEX ISLAND. The tunes were good, the eccentric tendencies were toned down, personal element turned up . . . but pop success didn't exactly materialize.

So now Robyn is stuck with his rather small but loyal fan base. And now he's older, wiser and more introspective, too. I would daresay JEWELS FOR SOPHIA contains some of the best songs he's ever written (and maybe a few of his worst). His lyrics are as weird as ever and he's got plenty of great musicians along for the ride, including Peter Buck of R.E.M. and Soft Boy bandmate Kimberly Rew.

"Mexican God" - slides into the album laid-back style, a few doo-wop verses thrown in. "Time will destroy you like a Mexican God." *****

"The Cheese Alarm" - beautiful acoustic guitar introduces this strange finger-picker with tabla accompaniment. It soon takes off as Robyn carries on about an apparent cheese obsession of his. ****1/2

"Viva! Sea-Tac" - noisy, jangling tune that's frankly not too original or inspiring. **

"I Feel Beautiful" - A surprizingly warm and intimate love song played with a pretty straight face (by Hitchcock's standards). *****

"You've Got a Sweet Mouth On You, Baby" - A truly sweet tune, wacky yet gorgeous. *****

"NASA Clapping" - Similar to "Viva! Sea-Tac" but a bit more inspired. The runaway-train drumbeat can't compensate for this lackluster tune although there is some great guitar on the track and some blazing harmonica. It's not that Hitchcock can't rock, but the more upbeat tunes on JEWELS tend to be least mormorable ones. ***

"Sally Was a Legend" - This is another upbeat track, but this one turned out to be a pretty good pop song. The Kimberly Rew influence shines through here. ****

"Antwoman" - With its chugging, tugging groove, this cut is soooo cool and I just love the lyrics. "Being just contaminates the void . . . " *****+

"Elizabeth Jade" - Another swinging uptempo rocker, this one has standard chord changes in a style you've probably heard a million times, but it's well executed. ***1/4

"No, I Don't Remember Guildford" - brilliant, nostalgic sounding, yet it's actually anti-nostalgia. Great, lonesome (mouth) harp. "Show some respect/ To the ghosts that are ruining your life/ It's your life . . . " Robyn's double-tracked voice is exquisite here. *****

"Dark Princess" - You might not have ever guessed he was capable of it, but this one's really sexy. Love the "chamberlin" (vibrophone?). This is one of his very best songs. *****+

"Jewels for Sophia" - Spiraling guitars woven with spiraling vocals, weird percussion, lyrics completely out to lunch . . . this one's mind-blowingly good. *****+

bonus material -
When some homosexual-sounding voice (apparently taken from an answering machine) comes on to announce a screening of "Goodfellas," it's clear we are steering off the map into Robyn's bizarre "netherworld." A strange, rather dischordant piano begins pounding away and Robyn starts riffing at the mouth. Weirdness abounds for several minutes until the song sort of self-destructs and immediately segues into "Gene Hackman" (*****) which seems to have been recorded at some laid-back party with friends, just Robyn and his guitar. Fans will love it.

Don't bloat, eat the cheese and gloat..........2004-11-05

Hitchcock's lyrics alone can make a trip through one of his albums a worthy endeavor. 1999's "Jewels for Sophia" contains some absolutely brilliant lines: "Time will destroy you like a Mexican god"; "Being just contaminates the void"; "Half the world starving and half the world bloats half the world sits on the other and gloats"; "At least when I die, your memory will too". Sometimes Hitchcock's more rock-oriented albums leave the lyrics drowning and screaming for help in the mix. Consequently, many fans seem to be cleaved by his two "personas" - the acoustic and the electric. "Jewels for Sophia" strikes a nice balance for the most part. The arrangements allow the listener to articulate the lines without missing the instrumentation, and the electric and acoustic seem to make great bedmates here. Lush strumming mixes amazingly well with distorted thunder clashes of electric guitar in many places. Grinding rock songs segue into delicate acoustic ballads and vice versa. Both the rough and sensitive Hitchcock get air time on "Jewels for Sophia".

"Mexican God" starts off the album with an impromptu feeling (much like the Soft Boys "Can of Bees"). Robyn counts down after mumbling something into the microphone. This one has a sparse but driving arrangement - only acoustic guitar, bass, and drums. The song grants eternal destruction to four different people and situations. A pean to mortality.

"Cheese Alarm" is both brilliant and stupid. It showcases Hitchcock's ability to elevate the ridiculous to the profound. The lyrics read like Monty Python's "Cheeseshop sketch" then morph into a statement on gluttony and dominance. It features driving tablas and an introduction reminiscent of Bollywood.

"Viva! Sea-Tac" brings the album to full throttle. It grooves and drives while seeming to both praise and condemn the "Seattle Movement" of the late 1990s. It also falls apart at the end, opening the album to "I Feel Beautiful" - a tender acoustic love song (that comes close to falling on the sappy side of the fence) with an amazingly beautiful dulcimer-esque solo.

The haunting "No, I Don't Remember Guilford" seems like a semi-amnesiac remembrance of an English holocaust. It's one of the album's best tracks.

"Jewels for Sophia" presents some excellent Hitchcock. The moody, grooving, beautiful, disturbing, ridiculous, and profound all find a home on this album. Hitchcock's career has attempted to synthesize all of these elements, and his best music does have the ability to bring out the absurdity and beauty of existence. Some of the music on "Jewels of Sophia" reaches these heights.

Lastly, don't miss the live acoustic "Gene Hackman" track hidden at the end of the album.

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Time Life Rock N Roll Era Street Corner Serenade
SKYLONERS, FLAMONGOS, ETERNALS AND MANY MORE. CLEFTONES
Manufacturer: Time Life
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000K5Q8TM

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TRACKS: Ka-Ding Dong - The G-Clefs Little Girl Of Mine - The Cleftones Please Say You Want Me - The Schoolboys I,m S Young - The Students Deserie - The Charts This I Swear - The Skyliners Tonight I fell In Love - The Tokens Who's that Knocking - The Genies Little Darlin' - TheGladiolas Just To Be With You - The Passions Mio Amore (My Lobve, 'Till the end of Time) - the Flamingos Rang Tang Ding Dong (I am the Japanese Sandman) - the Cellos Hearts of Stone - The Jewels Baby Blue - The Echoes Our Anniversary - Shep and the Limelites Tonight (Could be the Night) - The Velvets Coney Island Baby - The Excellents Rocking In The Jungle - The Eternals Baby Oh Baby - The Shells Darling Dear - the Counts Till Then - The Classics I Wish That We Were Married - Ronnie and the Hi-Lites

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Great Anthology from an Under-appreciated Band

Crown Jewels
Crown of Thorns
Manufacturer: Frontiers
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2004-12-13

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Rain
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I Won't Wait
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Crown of Thorns
Dying for Love
No You Don't
Standing on the Corner
Healer
Secret Jesus
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Night
Never Enough
I'm Burnin' Up
Hang on Sugar
Killing Time
Man on a Tightrope
Little Stone House
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Lyin'
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Here She Comes
Missinary Remedy

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My Sweet Lord
Shed No Tears
Before It Slips Away
I'm Sorry
Once in My Life
Oh Holy Night [*]
All I Want for Christmas Is You [*]
Jean Beauvoir Interview [CD-ROM Track]

Album Description

Frontiers Records is pleased to announce the release of 'Crown Jewels', the first & most complete best of from the mighty band Crown Of Thorns on a stunning 3 CD box set in digipak covering all the best songs from the band's repertoire & adding plenty of rare material, two newly recorded Christmas tracks & one 25 minutes exhaustive video interview with band leader Jean Beauvoir who encompasses the band's entire career. After all these years of exciting news & an action packed career, it was surely time for a best of package. It wouldn't be Crown Of Thorns if this wasn't special. First, the band recruited Sebastian Kozak to design an all-new stunning artwork. Then, all tracks of the album were remastered. After all, this is the ultimate Crown Of Thorns package- a must for every fan of this amazing band! Digipak. Frontiers. 2004.

Album Details

Top Drawer Three CD Retropective from Jean Beauvoir's Hard Rock Outfit.

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Great Anthology from an Under-appreciated Band.......2006-09-20

Crown of Thorns is another quality AOR/melodic rock group on the Frontiers label. Led by singer/guitarist Jean Beauvoir, who has ties to bands as varied as the Plasmatics and the Ramones to Doro and KISS, the band plays fairly straightforward, not too heavy, melodic rock with a few quirks. To my ears they sound like the offspring of TNT and Enuff Znuff with some trace elements of King's X thrown in for good measure.

The 3-disc compilation Crown Jewels provides a nice overview of the band's career, and features a total of 46 tracks (including two new Christmas songs), all of which have been digitally remastered. A 24-minute video interview with Beauvior is also included, which is a nice addition. This is a great way to become familiar with the band's work, though it does have a somewhat hefty price tag. It's also a nice collection for long-time fans, as it is the first time we get to hear these songs with such improved sound quality.

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Fort of the Jewels
Brian Mcnamara
Manufacturer: Claddagh
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music

Irish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0002SVCI4
Release Date: 2004-08-23

Tracks:

Paddy From Portlaw / Handsome Young Maidens / I Love You Not And I Care Not
Top The Candle / Do It Fair
Captain Locker /Gladstone's Bill
Dun Na Sead
Patsy Touhey's Favourite / Fr. O' Grady's Visit To Bocca
Hug The Bundle / Maloney's / Thomas Reilly Clerk Of Fore
Mrs Crotty's / Humours Of Tullycrine
A Stor Mo Chroi / Biddy From Muckross
Humours Of Glynn
Paddy Fahey's / King Of The Pipers
Spike Island Lasses / Dr. Taylor's Favourite / Green Garters
Hardiman The Fiddler / Arra Mountians / Redican's Mother
Hobble The Boutches / Sandy Over The Lea
Taimse Im'chodladh
Ormond Sound / Connaught Heifers
Kilcooley Wood / The Not So Bashful Bachelor

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On This, his Second Album, Mcnamara Plays Music from all Over Ireland, and Displays an Intimate Knowledge of the Origins of the Tunes.

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Music Lovers Everywhere Need This Album!

The Seventeen Jewels
The Blazers
Manufacturer: Little Dog Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Country | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Roots Rock | Rock | Styles | Music
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Short Fuse
Puro Blazers
Painkiller
Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods

ASIN: B00013NDUK
Release Date: 2003-01-01

Tracks:

And I Feel It
I'll Never Trust
Next To Me
Excuse Me
17 Jewels
Come On Baby
Leaving It All Up To You
Our Time
I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
This Place Of Love
Ven Mi Vida -Come On Baby-

Customer Reviews:

Music Lovers Everywhere Need This Album!.......2004-11-04

This 5th album by East L.A.'s very own Blazers is one that every music lover needs to get and not just for yourself, but for your loved ones as well. It's a mixture of self-penned (9 songs) and covers (2 songs); each one is a musical work of art. The vocals of Ruben Guaderama & Manny Gonzalez, with some back up vocals by Jesus Cuevas & Robert Gaytan remind us all of why we love their music. One of the most powerful songs on the album is 'Our Time.' One of the most fun is the Lennon/McCartney tune, 'I Don't Want to Spoil the Party.' This is the 2nd album produced by Grammy Award winning producer and guitarist, Pete Anderson, who also appears on this album along with fellow musicians Mike Molina, Manuel Gonzales, Ruben Guarderrama, Jesus Cuevas, Bob Glaub, Jim E. Christie, Skip Edwards and Lee Thornberg. Go out and buy a copy or two or three! You'll love it!

Wolf-Ferrari - The Jewels Of The Madonna and Other Orchestral Music From the Operas - Jose Serebrier

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Wolf-Ferrari - The Jewels Of The Madonna and Other Orchestral Music From the Operas - Jose Serebrier
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari , José Serebrier , and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
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Wolf-Ferrari: Intermezzi und Ouvertüren; Streichserende

ASIN: B0000030TZ
Release Date: 1993-12-18

Tracks:

The Jewels Of The Madonna-Ste: Festa Popolare
The Jewels Of The Madonna-Ste: Intermezzo
The Jewels Of The Madonna-Ste: Serenata
The Jewels Of The Madonna-Ste: Danza Napolitana
The School For Fathers-Ste: Prld
The School For Fathers-Ste: Intermezzo
Doctor Cupid: Ov
The Little Square-Ste: Intermezzo
The Little Square-Ste: Ritornello
The Backward Woman: Ov
Susanna's Secret: Ov

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Stunning followup to "Karma".
Simply a masterpiece!
More Spiritual Music (and Yodeling)
An African Midnight
a moving thought

Jewels of Thought
Pharoah Sanders
Manufacturer: Grp Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

GRP | Verve Music Group | Specialty Stores | Music
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Karma
Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun)
Thembi
Black Unity
Tauhid

ASIN: B0000065KG
Release Date: 1998-03-10

Tracks:

Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum Allah
Sun In Aquarius

Customer Reviews:

Stunning followup to "Karma"........2005-10-13

1969 was a banner year for Pharoah Sanders-- having already recorded two albums (although "Izipho Zam" would wait several years to see release) and having generated quite a buzz with "Karma" and the stunning "The Creator Has a Masterplan", Sanders was finally establishing himself as separate from John Coltrane-- indeed, with a mentor such as that, establishing your own identity must be extraordinarily difficult.

This was the framework into which Sanders entered the studio for the third time this year, together with vocalist Leon Thomas and pianist Lonnie Liston Smith, who were so crucial to the sound of the last two records, Sanders laid down the two performances that would make up "Jewels of Thought".

The first, "Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum Allah", previously recorded as "Prince of Peace", finds Sanders, Thomas and Smith joined by Cecil McBee on bass and drummers Roy Haynes and Idris Muhammed. The piece, based around a three-beat-one-rest percussion pattern and a dancing, swinging piano line opens with Sanders stating his theme beautifully before deferring to Thomas, who after a brief spoken introduction, sings beautifully in his resonant baritone the song (with a relatively traditional structure) before taking solo space on one of his yodels. Smith solos beautifully and delicately (although the dialog between Haynes and Muhammed steals the show) before Sanders returns for a fierce solo that manages to be both explosive and coherent.

"Sun in Aquarius" is something rather different-- Sanders, Smith and Thomas are again joined by McBee and Muhammad, but with a second bassist (Richard Davis) rather than a second drummer and everyone picking up percussion at one time or another. The piece begins with a drone before evaporating into an explosion of inside-the-piano playing and uncontrollable screeching from Sanders until it finally settles into a two-chord melody similar to 'Hum-Allah'. Sanders blows beautifully, stating theme and soloing around it, Thomas supports in yodel, and the whole thing is just downright fantastic.

It may not receive the recognition that "Karma" does, but "Jewels of Thought" is pretty much its equal. Highly recommended.

Simply a masterpiece!.......2004-08-15

Pharoah Sanders is a wonderfully gifted saxophonist and a man doubly gifted with one of the most powerful voices of the twentieth century in any genre of music. In this album he demonstrates both of these sublime talents in two diverse tracks. Hum-allah is essentially a piece with the feel of sunrise. Beginning with simple clapping and a basic piano riff, layers of percussion and woodwind are slowly intertwined with the simple riff and a delightful tune emerges. The effect is transcendental and is an extremely heatwarming and humane piece, especially when Pharoah begins to sing. Sun in Aquarius is more of a piece for sunset and is a mystical amalgamation of layered percussion and 'free' playing. This is a powerful piece that is hard to take in at first, but with several listenings, one becomes accustomed to its evokations of spirits and nightly creatures. This ends in a tone more similar to the hum-allah. The result is a masterpiece of an album that you will never tire of.

More Spiritual Music (and Yodeling).......2002-10-18

Jewels of Thought is Pharoah's followup to the magnificent Karma. It includes many of the same personnel and develops the vibe that was pioneered on the earlier album. While I don't believe it quite reaches the heights of other Pharoah Impulse albums this is a good release indeed.

Humm Allah is another of Pharoah's extended vamps, this time on three chords instead of two. The track is very much in the Karma vein...to it's detriment I think. You can't help feeling that you've heard everything on the track before, without significant change. And for whatever reason, I find Leon Thomas' vocals harder to take on this track than on Karma. Where the yodelling on Karma sounded fresh, here is just sounds stale and out of place.

The second cut, Sun in Aquarius makes up for the less than inspired first track. It begins with a long free rev-up, featuring dark tone clusters by Lonnie Liston Smith and wild blowing by Pharoah...and when the tune proper finally starts almost 10 minutes into the track, it is as if the sun bursts through the clouds.

So one star less for Humm Allah...it's not a bad track, just not as groundbreaking as others by Pharoah...and Sun in Aquarius is a must listen!

An African Midnight.......2000-05-06

"Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum Allah" is one of my favourite songs. The tenor sax playing is very intense, and Leon Thomas' yodeling is a surprise to everyone who thought this couldn't be found outside of Switzerland. Some other African instruments (percussions and thumb piano) add colours, and "Sun of Aquarius" (especially the beginning) made me think of a place somewhere near Ouagadougou at night. The connection of piano and saxophone outbursts, African instruments and a little bit naive tunes make this album so interesting and intense.

a moving thought.......2000-01-16

hearing MR. sanders tenor going all thru the passages is incredible.this is intense playing.it goes thru so many different shifts&changes.

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