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About this product: Turbo Ocho is the new album by Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers. For this album the band went to Mexico and created eight new songs in eight days (one per day). After creating the new song, the band performed the new song for the fans (no, I wasn't one that was down there) and posted them on the web (yes, I was one that listened on the web). For the album the band rounded out the play list to 11 songs. The songs:
I Speak Your Language - A good solid pop love song! Excellent lyrics with the band sounding good!
State of the Art - Excellent lyrics with a little South of the Border sound. Excellent flamingo style guitar sound.
I Know You Know - Upon hearing this I couldn't help but think of Roy Obersons Pretty Woman. Another love song, it doesn't do what I Speak Your Language does, but nicely done.
Summer Number 39 - This reminds me of some of the ditties I've heard from '30/'40's style country/folk music. An excellent look at a year in love. The lyrics are great, done as only Roger can. Musically, this is the most unique song and I look forward to seeing how this plays out live!
Mercy - A song of personal relationships where one must have mercy (sorry, this is one of the harder ones to summarize). Nicely done, but just blends into the rest of the album.
I Can Drink the Water - For me this is the weakest song on the album. A South of the Border song dealing with A jazzy little piece with a little brass thrown in (reminds me of Wars Low Rider).
I Do - An excellent piece that reminiscent of The Sex Pistols or Cheap Trick. A future tribute song to Rock! Should be excellent live!
Persephone - A beautiful love ballad using Persephone from Greek mythology as a back drop. Excellent in all fashions. Very different from the rest of the album.
Manana - A fun south of the border ditty that set a South of the Border attitude of relaxing a doing things in good time, party first, relax second.
Captain Suburbia - A favorite of mine. Roger bumping himself with how he's become in his 30's what he didn't want in his 20's. I am Captain Suburbia and I love this song. An excellent rendition with I believe his kids in the background at the end.
Mexicosis - A fun song that's reminiscent of Big and Rich. Not a favorite of mine, but captures a certain flavor...
Overall, this album is stronger than No More Beautiful World and shows the diversity of the band with different play styles and excellent lyrics. I was impressed with each song, especially the fact that the band generated each one in one day, an amazing feat especially considering the quality of the music. A five star album all the way!
About this product: I have always been a Refreshments fan, but kind of dropped off when they split and it was a while before I realized Roger was still putting out great music.
I happened to be in Spokane on business this past fall, and saw that Roger and his Peacemakers were playing at the Big Easy. One of those better decisions in my life deciding to go. What a great show, and I hadn't heard a lot of his post-Refreshments stuff (although he played plenty of his Refreshments music) but all the songs were instantly likeable and good.
So I got Americano. Truly an excellent CD. Now I happen to favor his slower numbers-- "Switchblade," "Your Name on a Grain of Rice" and "Leave an Open Door" are my favorites, but the whole album is great for a rocking, rootsy listen. Roger's lyrical imagery has always brought me right to the dusty, hot but beautiful Southwest, and his storytelling and heartfelt musicianship are truly superb.
Roger Clyne does not compromise-- he writes and sings exactly what he wants to and what he is good at. It's too bad he has not garnered more credit and attention, although it makes it kind of nice since he plays at such small, intimate venues and you can actually meet him/buy his band a beer after the show.
I have introduced this album to about a half-a-dozen people so far, and they have all loved it. It is one of my favorites of last year, and if I ever get a chance to see him live again I will do it in a heartbeat.
About this product: The greatest collection of instruments - mainly metallophones and bronze gongs of different shapes and sizes and the epitome of the playing style are to be found in four princely courts, two each in the neighboring cities of Jogyakarta and Surakarta. This recording is one of the major classical traditions of Eastern art music. Recorded in Bali by Robert E Brown. Originally released in 1971. Slipcase. Nonesuch. 2003.
About this product: A fatally ambitious gangland enforcer (John Turturro) collides with destiny after following the murderous advice of three fortunetellers and his shrewish wife . . . does any of this sound familiar, Shakespeare fans?
While this occasionally effective, mostly hilarious drama may not be the first film to transplant the tragedy of Macbeth to a modern-day milieu (that honor goes to a 1955 obscurity with the wonderfully blatant title of Joe Macbeth), it's surely the most brazenly literal, with a jaw-dropping amount of anachronistic boogying by cast and crew. (Viewers familiar with the Bard are advised not to drink milk during the reworking of Lady M's famous "Out, damn spot" soliloquy, lest they run the risk of having said dairy product forcibly eject itself via nasal passage.) The result is a failed experiment to be sure, but a well-acted (especially by Dennis Farina and the perfectly cast Steven Wright as the Gatekeeper), oddly watchable one all the same. An altogether more successful reimagining of the source material can be found with Akira Kurosawa's masterful Throne of Blood. --Andrew Wright
About this product: Let's leave aside the small problem of Krakatoa actually being west of Java. This 1969 epic adventure about treasure hunters who encounter the volcanic island just as it blows apart and who then get bounced around in the ensuing tidal wave is technically impressive if narratively lame. An interesting cast of familiar actors portray the mixed group of adventurers, but the script and dialogue are so weak one just wants to get past all their drama on the high seas (the group is seeking sunken fortunes on the ocean floor) and watch the geological fireworks. Fortunately, they make for quite a show. --Tom Keogh
About this product: Unfortunately, the "Collector's Edition" I received was only widescreen during the beginning and ending credits, which is terribly unfortunate since this was noteworthy as one of the last Cinerama releases (larger than 2.35:1). The plot is weak and the assortment of characters are not too believable, but the effects are decent (for the time they were produced).
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