Members Weeekly Music Recommendations-Jan. 9

[thebes]

Well the Fourm may be crashing a lot lately but we've got no problems

because they always fix it by Monday. I'm sure it's so that Klipsch

employees can check in to get their weekly fix of music recommendations.

Format's simple: Name of artist or group, name of album, type of

music as best you can (rock, blues etc.), and recording format (cd, lp

etc.)

As usual I'll start it off with:

Ella Fitzgerald, "These Are The Blues", cd, blues

Known mainly for her stellar arrangments in jazz, soul and showtunes,

Ella seldom played the blues. Corrected that oversigh,t though,

on

this stellar 1964 recoding with such blues standards as "See See

Rider", "St. Louis Blues" and "Down Hearted Blues". Recorded and

issued by Verve so you know the sound quality's good.

So what do you have to share this week?

[grog]

ANT REMASTERS
LIMITED EDITION COLLECTORS SET

My wife has always been a big Adam Ant fan so I decided to get her the special "Ant Remasters Boxset with Redux" for her birthday.
I finished the collection by adding the prior remasters which made a great Christmas present and completed the boxset.

To be honest I was not a huge Adam Ant fan when I decided to get this boxset and additional remasters. I knew my wife loved his music and that was enough for me.

Thing is I found Adam Ant to be a very versatile performer and musician. Marco Pirroni who wrote most of the music is outstanding.
Adam Ant is actually now one of my favorite performers. I can listen to Adam Ant for hours without getting bored with his music due to the varity of content and style.

Adam Ant was one hell of a singer and drummer. The more you hear him play the more you know this man is more than just outstanding.

"Despirate But Not Serious" has some of the greatest horn section I have heard in a long time.

The guitar in "Man Called Marco" is just plain awesome.

Once the boxset is fully complete the collection offers some of the finest music ever heard. Each remasters CD includes a great deal of extra content.

This special box set is packaged with the three new remasters , PLUS provide extra storage space for the previously released gems - Dirk Wears White Sox, Kings of the Wild Frontier and Prince Charming that were released in 2004.

"Adam Ant Remastered" will hold all six remasters nicely but with an added bonus! To complete the set, a 15-track bonus disc "Adam Ant-Redux"; a selection of rare demo tracks will also be included! In addition, this will also feature a unheard cover of Marc Bolan's 'Dandy In The Underworld, and sleeve notes by Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni.

ANT REMASTERS
LIMITED EDITION COLLECTORS SET
Cat Number: 519731 2
Barcode: 5099751973126
Release date: April 11, 2005
http://adam-ant.net/2004remastered.html

Note: Only 25,000 of the LIMITED EDITION COLLECTORS SET were produced. If it has Redux it is the limited set!

This includes the following three remastered Adam Ant albums packaged in individual 6 panel (3 page) digi-paks: Friend Or Foe, Strip, Vive Le Rock PLUS a 15 track bonus disc, Ant Redux, only available with this box set. Redux features a rare selection of demo tracks from the Ants back catalogue. This will feature an unreleased cover version of Marc Bolan's 'Dandy In The Underworld'. Also features brand new liner notes/career overview from Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni.

REDUX

1. Prick up your ears (Demo)
2. Jolly Roger demo (Demo)
3. Making History (Demo)
4. Don't be Square Be There (Demo)
5. Mohok (Demo)
6. That Voodoo (Demo)
7. 5 Guns West (Demo)
8. Ups and down (Demo)
9. Friend or Foe (Demo)
10. Seven Up (Instrumental demo)
11. Desperate but not serious/Manzanera (Instrumental Demo)
12. Saigon (Demo)
13. Scorpio rising (Demo)
14. Mohair Locker Room Boys (Demo)
15. Dandy in the Underworld (Unreleased track)

FRIEND FOR FOE

1. Friend or foe
2. Something girls
3. Place in the country
4. Desperate but not serious
5. Here comes the grump
6. Hello I love you
7. Goody two shoes
8. Crackpot history and the right to lie
9. Made of money
10. Cajun twisters
11. Try this for sighs
12. Man called Marco
13. Goody two shoes (Chris Hughes single version)
14. Coup D'Etat (Album version)
15. Goody two shoes (demo)
16. Here comes the grump (instrumental demo)
17. Little Italy (demo)
18. Made of Money (Adam on drums demo)
19. Place in the country (Adam on drums demo)
20. And so you shall (demo)
21. Yellowbeard (demo)
22. I know they know (demo)
23. Gargoyles are go (Demo)
24. Good Sex Rumples The Clothing (unused B-side)

STRIP

1. Strip
2. Baby, Let Me Scream At You
3. Libertine
4. Spanish Games
5. Vanity
6. Puss'n Boots
7. Playboy
8. Montreal
9. Navel To Neck
10. Amazon
11.Strip (Demo)
12.Dirty Harry (Demo)
13.Horse you rode in on (Demo)
14.She wins Zulus (Demo)
15.Puss (Demo)
16.Play boy (Live rehearsal 15/1/83)
17.Navel to Neck (Live rehearsal 15/1/83)
18.Strip (Live Studio version)

VIVE LE ROCK

1. Vive le rock
2. Miss thing
3. Razor Keen
4. Rip down
5. Scorpio Rising
6. Apollo 9
7. Hells eight Acres
8. Mohair Locke room Pin-up Boys
9. No Zap
10. P.O.E
11. Apollo 9 reprise
12. Human Bondage Den (Original Album version)
13. Vive le rock (Unreleased 12 Mix)
14. Apollo 9 (Francois K 7 Mix)
15. Doggy Style (Demo)
16. Night they Vietcong (Demo)
17. Big Big Man. Razor Keen (Demo)
18. Rip Down (Demo)
19. Apollo 9 (Francois K Splashdown Mix)
20. Vive le rock (Unreleased US 7 mix)

Previous Remasters (Must be purchaced seperate from Redux BoxSet --- We got them!)

DIRK WEARS WHITE SOX

1. Cartrouble (Parts 1& 2) (Original Album Version) 6.48
2. Digital Tenderness 3.04
3. Nine Plan Failed 5.12
4. Day I Met God 2.57
5. Tabletalk 5.33
6. Cleopatra 3.15
7. Catholic Day 3.05
8. Never Trust A Man (With Egg On His Face) 3.14
9. Animals & Men 3.17
10. Family Of Noise 2.37
11. The Idea 3.25
12. Zerox 3.47
13. Whip In My Valise 4.00
14. Kick! 1.35
15. Physical 3.57
16. Cartrouble (Parts 1& 2) (Chris Hughes Mix) 6.36
17. Friends 2.39
18. Cartrouble (Single Version) 3.25
19. Kick! (Single Version) 2.07

KINGS OF THE WILD FRONTIER

1. Dog Eat Dog
2. "Antmusic"
3. Feed Me To The Lions
4. Los Rancheros
5. Ants Invasion
6. Killer In The Home
7. Kings Of The Wild Frontier
8. The Magnificent Five
9. Don't Be Square (Be There)
10. Jolly Roger
11. Making History
12. The Human Beings
13. Antmusic (Alternative Mix)
14. Antmusic (Unreleased Demo Version)
15. Feed Me To The Lions (Unreleased Demo Version)
16. The Human Beings (Unreleased Demo)
17. SEX (Unreleased demo)
18. Omelette from Outerspace (Early Version Of Ants Invasion)

PRINCE CHARMING

1. Scorpios
2. Picasso Visita El Planeta De Los Simios
3. Prince Charming
4. 5 Guns West
5. That Voodoo!
6. Stand And Deliver
7. Mile High Club
8. Ant Rap
9. Mowhok
10. S.E.X.
11. Prince Charming (Demo Version)
12. Stand and Deliver (Demo version)
13. Showbiz (Unreleased Album Demo)
14. Picasso visits the Planet of the Apes (Unreleased Demo Version)
15. Who's A Goofy Bunny Then? (Unreleased Demo Version)
16. Scorpio Writing (Unreleased Demo)

Greg's pick: from "Friend For Foe", Track #12, "Man Called Marco"

This is another must have CD (boxset).

[sputnik]

The soundtrack from the Christopher Guest film "A Mighty Wind". I apologize in advance for the long post but I want to make a strong recommendation for this CD.

I'd say this is a must have CD.

Be sure to see this film if you haven't already. I think this is

the best of the Chrisopher Guest mockumentaries including "Best in

Show", "Waiting for Guffman", and "This is Spinal Tap". The film

is about a long awaited reunion performance of three almost legendary folk bands from the sixties - The

Folksmen, The New Main Street Singers, and the romantic duo of Mitch

and Mickey. The soundtrack is great with clever and witty

lyrics. Even though it is a parody of folk music, it's done with

such an obvious appreciation of the genre that I think even Pete Seeger

would love it.

The Folksmen consist of the same guys that were Spinal Tap -

Christopher Guest, Michael McKean (Lenny from Lenny and Squigtones -

Laverne and Shirley), and Harry Shearer. They sing songs along

the lines of The Kingston Trio, the Smothers Brothers, and The

Weavers. Their albums were unique in that you had to put the hole

in the center of the LP yourself and if you did it right, you'd have

some pretty good music. They sing "Never Did No Wanderin'" (a

song about all of the places they have never been and the things they

have never done), "Blood on the Coal" (a song about a tragic train

wreck that somehow happens inside of a coal mine at shift change), and

if there is only one reason to buy this CD, it's for the Folksmen cover

of The Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up".

The New Main Street Singers, whose matriarch figure is an ex porn star

who could and would do things that the other "girls" couldn't or wouldn't, are something of a take on the New Christy

Minstrels and only sing happy songs. Due to a lack of

communication, they also do a cover of "Never Did No Wanderin'" on this

CD.

Then there is the music Mitch and Mickey (Eugene Levy and Catherine

O'Hara). These songs aren't really parody but are truly beautiful

ballads and one was an Oscar nominee for "Best Original Song" of

2003. These are the songs that you would've fallen in love to

in the sixties had they really been around.

See the film and buy this CD. Great music.

"A Mighty Wind" - The Album

1. Old Joe's Place - The Folksmen

2. Just That Kinda Day - The New Main Street Singers

3. When You're Next To Me - Mitch & Mickey

4. Never Did No Wanderin' - The Folksmen

5. Fare Away - The New Main Street Singers

6. One More Time - Mitch & Mickey

7. Loco Man - The Folksmen

8. The Good Book Song - The New Main Street Singers

9. Skeletons Of Quinto - The Folksmen

10. Never Did No Wanderin' - The New Main Street Singers

11. The Ballad Of Bobby And June - Mitch & Mickey

12. Blood On The Coal - The Folksmen

13. Main Street Rag - The New Main Street Singers

14. Start Me Up - The Folksmen

15. Potato's In The Paddy Wagon - The New Main Street Singers

16. A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow - Mitch & Mickey

17. A Mighty Wind - The Folksmen,Mitch & Mickey,The New Main Street Singers

[Steve_L]

Okay, well I tried posting this as a separate thread a couple times this weekend, but to no avail.

So, here you go. I just Netflixed this late last week, threw it in the DVD player Friday as the wife was out partying with work/teacher bros, so I had the whole neighborhood to myself. I had this DVD ordered before I was halfway through the first play.

Lucinda Williams - Live in Austin
DVD with DD5.1 or DTS

Lucinda is this fabulous mix of Chrissie Hyndes, Emmy Lou Harris, Joni Mitchell and Melanie. Do you like country-blues? Do you like country-rock? Do you like earthy, passionate, honest, real world, middle America stories?

Lucinda is at her best on this DVD, if maybe a bit stiff at first, she loosens up as she warms up. Her band is a powerhouse group of studio musicians that just really really rock! There are two lead guitarists that are worth the price of admission all by themselves.

The sound and video quality is Austin City Limits Excellent.

This is a MUST OWN DVD.

[thebes]

I'll second Steve's recommendation, not the album per se, but I saw her

in concert last year at a local nightclub and she is very, very good,

with wonderful songwriting, very tight band and a powerful voice.

May have to pick this one up myself.

[sputnik]

Lucinda Williams.......................I love her.

[Steve_L]

I don't know what band she had when you saw her, but on this she has two guys that are both fantastic. It's really a fabulous band that adds the whole experience of Lucinda..

...she's the kind of girl you meet at the local bar, and somewhere along the way her stuff ends up at your place. 6 months later you figure out she's moved in.. kind of, but all the same you're not really sure if it's you or your couch, refridgerator and beer she really wants. All the same, she's feeling the same way about you. Then a year down the road your get falling down drunk and split with her. Two years later you're a song on her next album, it's said, sweet, bluesy and real.

That's Lucinda.

[lovedrummin]

Well, I have a DVD recommendation. This will appeal to jazz/big band fans and especially drummers.

Buddy Rich: "Buddy Rich: Jazz Legend: 1917 - 1987": DVD - Jazz/ Big Band

I got this through Netflix and it's definitely on my list to purchase. The video quality varies (due to

the age of some of the material. The audio is only 2.0 but I listened to it in 5 channel stereo. All I

can say is WHEW! If todays drummers had half the chops Rich had they'd be doing great. Just

watch Rich's left hand in action - speed and precision. I was fortunate enough to see him perform in

concert twice before he died. This just reinforced how lucky I was. The DVD is basically a

documentary, but there are plenty of full performnces such as "West Side Story" and "Channel One

Suite". Check out "Brush Strokes". In one segment he's soloing and if you watch close you see

that he's actually tapping the bass drum with his right stick and in another piece he has a roll going

with his left hand and bass drum. A couple of times there are close-ups of him doing rolls in his

solos where he slows down to all but stopping and then speeds up to the point where the sticks are

a blur. Well, you get the idea. I was blown away.

[itsawomanthing]

wavin' hi to everyone!! It's been a great week and wanted to get something posted before the week was technically over.

My pick for the week....another Christmas present (yep "thang" was a

good girl)....ELO Zoom Tour Live DVD - orchestral/rock. Live concert featuring an interview with Jeff Lynne.

Recorded May 2001, at the CBS studios in Los Angeles. "Electric Light

Orchestra took rock in a new direction, combining lush

orchestrations with a pop sensibility, rapidly scoring 17 Top 40 hits."

01. Do ya

02. Evil woman

03. Showdown

04. Strange magic

05. Livin'thing

06. Alright

07. Lonesome lullaby

08. Telephone line

09. Turn to stone

10. Just for love

11. Easy money

12. MR.blue sky

13. Ma-ma-ma Belle

14. One summer dream

15. Tightrope

16. State of mind

17. Can't get it out of my head

18. Moment in paradise

19. 10538 Overture

20. Ordinary dream

21. Shine a little love

22. Don't bring me down

23. Roll over beethoven

24. End credits

[grog]

Barry White / The Love Unlimited Orchestra - Back to Back - Their Greatest Hits

01 Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe

02 Oh What a Night for Dancing

03 I've Got So Much to Give

04 Standing in the Shadows of Love

05 Don't Make Me Wait Too Long

06 Just the Way You Are [-]

07 Love's Theme

08 Midnight Groove

09 Rhapsody in White

10 Forever in Love

11 Power of Love

12 Barry's Theme [-]

Just can't get enough Barry White.

This greatest hit's CD includes some of the early music by Barry White and The Love Unlimited Orchestra.

Get out you disco shoes and dance to Greg's pick: "Love's Theme".