October 28th, 2009
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Take Me Away
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #324 in Digital Music Track
- Published on: 2010-01-22
- Released on: 2010-01-26
- Running time: 242 seconds
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Happy To Stay
This is guitar drenched rock. It reminds me of “traditional” rock groups such as Chickenfoot. The guitar harmonies are tight, the vocals just rouch enought to be edgy without screaming. This is a cut above garage rock. I would be happy to pump up the volumn, put down to top and sing this out loud in public.
Good guitar rock.
This song reminds me of the 80’s hair-band pop metal, but better. It’s a very good song if you’re into that kind of music, but it doesn’t sound like misplaced 80’s rock at all – it sounds like it belongs in this era. I played it for my kids & now they all want it on their mp3 players. If the rest of the album is anything like this song, I’ll probably buy it.
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How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #2704 in Digital Music Track
- Published on: 2007-02-02
- Released on: 2010-01-04
- Running time: 217 seconds
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Gravity’s A Bitch [Explicit]
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- Released on: 2009-03-05
- Running time: 232 seconds
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Our Song
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #339 in Digital Music Track
- Published on: 2008-03-18
- Released on: 2008-03-18
- Running time: 201 seconds
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LOVE LOVE LOVE IT
this is the very first song i heard of Taylors so it means a lot and its such a good track and catchy and fun
Awesome indeed. B
This song is lovely. It’s catchy and very fun; lively even.
Words can’t express the joy that comes about almost every time I listen to this song.
It’s really great and I wish I would have liked it when it first came out.
4.25 stars = B
First Taylor song I’ve ever heard
A couple years ago, I viewed this song and really liked it. I didn’t know who this girl was then and then I started listening to her other music and she became a favorite. This song is catchy and it’s overall a great country-sounding song.
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It can be overwhelming to contemplate decorating your home. It’s often the case that you know what style you like, but are unsure as to how to get started. For those who appreciate the look of modern furniture, a great place to start is with a bertoia chair or even the bertoia stool.
Harry Bertoia invented the bertoia chair, and he was one of the most legendary bertoia stool designers of the mid-century period. Bertoia was fond of metalwork, and created his signature chair, then called the “Diamond chair”, in the 1950’s. Of this chair he said, “If you look at these chairs, they are mainly made of air, like sculpture. Space passes right through them.” The chair’s look is achieved with molded lattice work of welded steel, part of a five piece collection from the Knoll company.
Bertoia was, in addition to being a furniture designer, but also a university lecturer and a sculptor. This unique combination of talents probably had a big influence on his design thinking. Being able to integrate knowledge and design makes for stunning result. Bertoia was most comfortable working with metal, and from this starting point, he was able to re-imagine chair design and modern furniture design.
The bertoia chair is, without a doubt, a major aspect of today’s modern furniture. Bertoia created practical art by experimenting with the bending of metal rods. The modern furniture is simply another aspect of the beautiful design collection. The design is “classically modern” in that it appears perpetually modern, though originally conceived almost 60 years ago. The look is a signature mid-century creation, but it remains very popular even today.
Modern furniture design is generally thougt of as clean, sophisticated, and simple. If you think that you would love the clean modern look, you can begin by integrating pieces into whatever you currently have in your room. A consideration is to just begin by decorating one room, to keep the budget doable. Still, it is easy to go over budget, even when decorating just one room! Pick modern pieces one by one, which helps a lot with keeping the boundaries of your budget while meeting your goals. Begin by adding a simple and attractive bertoia chair or bertoia stool, and you can later add pieces to complete your modern new look.
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Evacuate The Dancefloor (Cahill Remix)
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #54766 in Digital Music Track
- Published on: 2010-02-09
- Released on: 2010-02-09
- Running time: 296 seconds
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Nothing But The Best [The Frank Sinatra Collection]
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #174 in Digital Music Album
- Released on: 2010-02-19
- Running time: 4467 seconds
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A Superb If Incomplete Introduction To The Reprise Years.
I’ll be honest. When I first heard about this cd through The Sinatra Family Forums back in February, I was ready to tear it to shreds. I thought to myself, “Frank’s gone 10 years now, and they’re marking the event with yet another compilation with same songs repackaged for the umpteenth time?” Even when it was announced that the songs were to be digitally remastered and a never before released bonus track was to be included, my anger and resentment towards this compilation still stuck.
However, as the release date grew nearer and I got word from several people who were able to hear it before it officially hit the market told me it was totally worth it, I slowly warmed up to it and by last week was all set on buying it.
When I received the cd this afternoon, I was extremely excited, even though I thought myself, “I heard these songs thousands of time before.” The first thing that struck me was how beautiful the packaging was: the cd comes in a cardboard case with one of the best pictures of Frank ever taken. The cd’s booklet is made from a elegant, smooth velvet like material and the liner notes by Charles Pignone as well as the various rare photos of Frank at work are excellent. Honestly, the packaging alone is enough to grab your attention.
But enough about the artwork. What about the music?
As stated already, my biggest concern with this collection was that I heard all these songs before. I had already received the mammoth “Complete Reprise Studio Recordings” boxed set, which had all these songs (except one) as well as over 400 additional tracks, all of which featured more than satisfactory sound quality. Still, undaunted, I popped the cd onto my Ipod and went for a listen.
Needless to say, I was blown away.
The sound quality is INCREDIBLE. To hear the opening notes of “Come Fly With Me” bristle with sharpness and clarity is in itself a major thrill, and to hear Frank’s voice with such depth and range only adds to the fun.
Seriously, there were parts of certain songs I never noticed before. Listen to how beautiful the harp sounds on “Bewitched” (remastered from the original 35MM tapes) or how sharp and clear Count Basie’s classic piano ticklings on the intro to “The Best Is Yet To Come” sound, or how fresh and powerful the horns on “New York, New York” blaze through the speakers. Sonically, the album is as close to flawless as humanly possible.
Furthermore, knowing that many fans would be concerned with the whole “I’ve heard these songs before” stigma, the producers included several little bonuses on certain songs to surprise faithful listeners:
(WARNING: If you don’t me to spoil these surprises, skip this section!)
-The tag on “Come Fly With Me” has been changed from “And don’t tell your momma” to another line from an alternate take, “Pack a small bag.”
-Though sources say otherwise , “The Best Is Yet To Come” seems to be a different mix (possibly spliced together from another take). Listen to how Frank phrases “Come the day you’re mine” on the bridge, it’s different from previous releases.
-”Strangers In The Night” is extended, with a few more “Do be do be do’s.”
But the real surprise, however, is the never before released track. “Body And Soul,” an old standad Frank first recored for Columbia in 1947, dates back to the “L.A. Is My Lady” sessions in 1984 with Quincy Jones. For whatever reason, Frank was dissatisfied with the initial take on the song, and left it off the album.
24 years later, however, Frank Sinatra Jr. dusted off Frank’s vocal track, removed Jones’ arrangement, and instead recorded a new orchestral backing that fits the song beautifully. Listening to this new majestic chart for the song, you’d never guess it was initially planned for the overly produced “L.A. Is My Lady” (a potential masterpiece marred by too many slick, 1980s’ style production values). It sounds like it was supposed to be on “Sinatra & Strings.”
And if the orchestration isn’t enough, what about The Man himself? Here’s Frank, in the autumn of his years, still better than anyone around, punching out a timeless stanard with the same passion and fury that permeated through his most beloved recordings. It is a truly tour de force performance that was worth the wait.
For all the pros for “Nothing But The Best,” there are, however a few cons. My main gripe, and it might be asking for a bit too much, is that it could’ve been two discs. There are a lot of Frank’s best recordings from the Reprise era missing, such as “In The Still Of The Night,” “The Coffee Song,” “You’re Nobody ‘Till Somebody Loes You,” “Come Rain Or Come Shine,” (or anything from “Sinatra & Strings,” which is undeservedly snubbed), “They Can’t Take That Away From Me,” “Ol’ Man River,” (arguably his best recording ever), “I Have Dreamed,” “Soliloquy,” “All Or Nothing At All,” (either the 1961 ballad rendition or the thrilling 1966 swing version would have sufficed) and many others could’ve been included, to give the cd a bit more diversity instead of the typical hits. Also, while they were arguably done better in their initial Capitol incarnations, his redoings of “I Get A Kick Out Of You,” “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” “All The Way,” “In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning,” “How Little We Know,” and others are still excellent renditions and are worth including.
But in the end, this nitpicking adds little. The fact of the matter “Nothing But The Best” is still an excellent compilation with unbeatable sound with 22 songs ung by the greatest singer popular music has ever heard.
Several tracks contain some seriously misguided remixing attempts
I’m really surprised at all the five star reviews posted here and especially taken aback at the raves about the sound quality. I was looking forward to this disc because Sinatra’s Reprise catalog has never sounded as good as it should on CD and once I saw the track listing for this disc, and assumed that it would be mastered properly, I knew it was something I wanted to buy the day it hit the shelves. A lot of the tracks do sound better than ever and the most glorious example of sonic improvement is on “Summer Wind”. It’s obvious that some tweaking was done on this stereo mix to improve the sound and this track really does sound incredible! But some of the remixing (which I’m assuming was done by going back to the original master tapes and making some recording soundboard adjustments) is far from an improvement to my ears. While I’m happy to have the extended fade on “Strangers In The Night”, the way the tambourine has been buried in the mix makes it sound like something’s missing. And holy Manhattan, what the frank happened to “New York, New York”? It sounds terrible! You can hardly tell that there was a drummer present at the recording session at all! After Frank’s “A-number one” line and before the track’s tempo slows and he sings, “These little town blues…”, there’s supposed to be a snare roll. I can’t hear it at all. Why would they ruin this song by covering up the entire drum track?? It makes no sense. The power and driving energy of the arrangement has been zapped and it sounds like just another cover of an overplayed showtune (albeit one with an outstanding vocal!) So while overall this disc contains a great song selection and should be a no-brainer 5 star release, I think it’s shortcomings barely qualify it for 3 stars.
certainly not all of Frank’s best–but it’s still all right by me !!!
Nothing But The Best is a Frank Sinatra album of just some of his best; this really can’t be called a “best of” album because it has a mere twenty-two songs on it–and The Chairman certainly had more than twenty-two hits on any of his record labels! However, Frank’s fans will love this album anyway; it does contain a few extra seconds here and there to capture Frank’s comments. There is a very fine USPS commemorative stamp and, just as they say, there’s a previously unissued rendition of “Body And Soul.”
The CD starts off with Frank Sinatra performing “Come Fly With Me.” “Come Fly With Me” is the perfect upbeat start to this album; and Frank’s voice is in excellent form. The big band style arrangement works well for this number and it whets your appetite for more–great! Similarly, “The Way You Look Tonight” has Frank again singing at his best with a more mature voice; but yet he uses this opportunity to showcase the magnificent qualities of his voice. Frank’s excellent diction and his uncanny sense of timing enhance his singing even more.
Frank gives “The Good Life” a very fine treatment and the music that accompanies him is very pretty but they never drown out Frank as he sings this very well. “The Girl From Ipanema” retains its usually bossa nova treatment but when Frank sings this you’ll swear nobody could ever have sung this as well as Frank did! Frank takes ballads and puts his own stamp on them with his sublime interpretations of them; and this impresses me greatly.
“Strangers In The Night” sounds fresh and new when Frank sings this so very well; and the strings are used to great advantage. I love it! “Call Me Irresponsible” shines equally bright when Frank performs this with sensitivity; his voice remains in excellent form and it’s truly a pleasure to hear him sing.
“That’s Life” is actually one of my personal favorites on this CD (believe it or not); and Frank sings this with passion and all his might. The chorus that backs up Frank enhances the beauty of the number even further. Of course, “My Way” is a classic Sinatra tune; and I always love it when I hear Frank sing this. “My Way” is easily a major highlight of this album and I predict you’ll enjoy this version of “My Way,” too.
The theme from New York, New York gets the royal treatment from Frank Sinatra–he was born to sing songs like this! WOW! The CD also ends nicely with Frank Sinatra performing “Body And Soul;” this previously unissued interpretation of this ballad is worth the price of admission alone!
Sure, this CD contains just some of Frank’s best from his later years; but I have a feeling many of his fans may want this after all. This is also a possible starter CD for newcomers to Frank’s artistry and people who enjoy classic pop vocals will enjoy this as well.
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Bizarre Love Triangle
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #1441 in Digital Music Track
- Released on: 2003-08-06
- Running time: 260 seconds
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Amie
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #2096 in Digital Music Track
- Released on: 1999-09-28
- Running time: 260 seconds
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Appeal To Reason
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #185 in Digital Music Album
- Published on: 2008-10-07
- Released on: 2008-10-07
- Running time: 2903 seconds
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One of the best albums of 2008
Rise Against have nailed it yet again with their third major label album. With powerful vocals and a strong political message, Rise Against have created another masterpiece. They definitely aren’t afraid to stray a little from their hardcore style and into a slower, more melodic genre, but they also aren’t afraid to express their feelings, and express them well.
I give this album 4.5 stars(can’t pick it, but 4 is not enough) because RA have only improved from their last release, and improvement is the greatest virtue in a band’s music career. However, the only advice I’d have for the band is to not stray too far from their fast hardcore roots. Mid-tempo songs are good, but I have every confidence that RA will speed up their tempos a little on their next release. However, for now, I commend the band because they’ve still stayed, for the most part, true to their hardcore/punk roots, while also getting great popular reception with Appeal to Reason.
Appeal to my Ears
I first heard about Rise Against when they opened for Bad Religion, and I was really surprised by the combination of how fun they were to listen to and watch, as well as how they had lyrics that were written to actually mean something.
With the release of Appeal to Reason, Rise Against continues this trend and refines it. The songs all have a bit of a more radio-friendly sounding edge to them, but the lyrics to the songs are all still clearly more intelligent than your normal ‘radio band.’ Also, unlike what normally happens with band releases so close to an election, Rise Against manages to avoid harping specifically on their feelings about the candidates and therefore end up with an album that is timeless in nature. The musicality of the group has also improved with songs having a more refined edge to them with less of the more out of control feeling of their earlier albums.
If you’re looking for an album that is catchy but has a lot more meaning in it than your average pop-punk album, look no further than this album. If you like songs with meaning to be all about the lyrics and to take second place, you probably won’t much care for this album. I think it is amazing though.
Rise Against – Appeal to Reason 8/10
Pop-punk has always been a fairly trivial, disrespected genre; even the combination of such wildly divergent descriptors as “pop” and “punk” was more than a little odd. On one hand of the spectrum you had bands like Good Charlotte and Simple Plan, bands that took the rapid-fire, up-tempo rhythms and power-chord angst of their predecessors and paired them with bratty, candy-coated pop song structures and high-pitched sentiments. On the other hand, you had bands that retained the melodic integrity of punk and their poppier brethren but took inspiration from the furious, challenging, and socially conscious hardcore bands of the `80s, such as Fugazi and Bad Religion. As anyone who has listened to Rise Against’s previous albums, they fall much more squarely in the latter department, yet with Appeal to Reason, their 5th record, they lean even more into the poppier realm without leaving behind the politically-charged lyrics of their previous releases.
The addition of new guitarist Zach Blair has done nothing to dull their obvious musical fire; opener “Collapse (Post Amerika)” announces itself with a squall of feedback before erupting into a blistering solo and an unrelenting drumbeat as singer Tim McIlrath’s vicious yet controlled roar snarls “this is not a test / this is cardiac arrest.” One of the most immediately apparent improves on Appeal to Reason is McIlrath’s delivery, as the talented vocalist now stays away from the tuneless screaming that often characterized their peers and continues to focus on leading the melody.
Songs like lead single “Re-Education (Through Labor)” and the astounding “The Dirt Whispered” showcase McIlrath’s versatility and his ability to overcome the cacophonous storm of the instruments below him. Unfortunately, when he is confronted with songs that never interest musically and the band tinkers too much with the production (“From Heads Unworthy,” “The Strength To Go On”), his vocals tend to remind one of a slightly more punkish Nickelback, a comparison that should definitely not be taken as a compliment.
Rise Against have also not forgotten that this is an election year, and the majority of the album reflects their stance that, uh, President Bush sucks. The aforementioned “Collapse” hopes that “this is a chance to set things straight,” while the undeniably angry McIlrath rages on “Entertainment” that “all we are is entertainment / caught up in our own derangement / tell us what to say and what to do.” And perhaps the most touching song on the record, if not the best, is the mostly acoustic “Hero of War,” a song about a soldier, is patriotic and critical at the same time, as all great protest anthems try to be.
And so what Rise Against have produced with Appeal to Reason is at once your typical punk protest record, one that at times blurs together with repetitive bursts of guitar and propulsive, standard hardcore beats, but for the most part stands on its own plateau of McIlrath’s righteous indignation, melodies that don’t quit, and a sense of energy that is far more tangible and real than that of their mall-punk neighbors. Rise Against are on a streak for a fickle genre of even more fickle fans, and Appeal to Reason is another strong effort by a band on the way to the top of their game.
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