popular music: august

popular music: august

popular music:

August

August Rush: Music From The Motion Picture

Various Artists

Sony Panosonic, 2007

Fantastic
After watching the movie, its difficult not to buy the music. It is really good!

August and Everything After

Counting Crows

Geffen Records, 1993

Great!
Beautiful CD! Great place to start for anyone looking to get into Counting Crows. This is my favorite of their albums, although you cannot go wrong with any of them.

Can't Love, Can't Hurt

Augustana

Sony, 2008

Augustana rocks!!!
Dan Layus has amazing vocals. His harmonies with the band are awesome, music for the ears. This album is definitely worth adding to your collection.

Hot August Night II

Neil Diamond

Sony, 1990

I Dreamed A Dream is worth 5 stars by itself!
I Dreamed A Dream covered by Neil Diamond is worth owning this CD all by itself! Turn it up and it will send shivers down the spine of any musician or true music lover. Buy it!!

Titanic (1997 Original Broadway Cast)

Maury Yeston, Judy Blazer, ...

RCA Victor Broadway, 1997

Unbelievably stunning! Incredibly moving and wonderful.
I'll admit it: I was coerced into participating in a local production of Titanic The Musical recently and while I never had, nor do I have any desires to perform on stage, I almost reluctantly fell in love with this incredibly moving story that involves an absolutely ...

Journeyman

Eric Clapton

Reprise / Wea, 1989

My Bridge to the Blues
I bought this album in cassette form years ago. At the time I really didn't know much about EC other than his association with the Beatles, his track on the Back to the Future soundtrack, and the intriguing guitar duel on George Harrison's Cloud 9 title track. ...

All the Stars and Boulevards

Augustana

Sony, 2005

Great CD
What can I say? I love this album. I also went to see them live and they did not dissappoint!!

Concertos From My Childhood / Perlman, Foster

Lawrence Foster, Charles August de Beriot, ...

EMI Classics, 1999

At last, student pieces played by a virtuoso
There's a lot of composers who wrote pieces especially suited for students. Many of those pieces are relatively "easy" to play, but are also very beautiful compositions. These pieces, and their composers, deserve to be discovered by a larger public. Thanks to Ytzhak ...

Sam's Town

The Killers

Island, 2006

Sam's Town - Where I Learned to Love the Killers
I basically saw the Killers live before I'd ever really known who they were on the radio. I recognized some of their big hits - Mr. Brightside & All These Things That I've Done - and said, "Oh, that's these guys". As I heard and got to know their other songs, ...

Hot August Night (Remastered / Expanded) (2CD)

Neil Diamond

Mca, 2000

Hot August Night (remastered)
This is superb - the sound quality much improved from original. The previously unpublished tracks are worth the extra money alone! For anyone like myself who regards this as the definitive Neil Diamond recording of all time, this version is a must!

Mozart - Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

Lucia Popp, Kurt Moll

Deutsche Grammophon, 2005

Munich Zauberflote stands test of time
While many traditional productions of opera these days look sleepy, either on a stage loaded with so much trappings and clutter, and/or looking as though a group of singers got dropped onto stage and left to their own devices, this is truly a most traditional ...

Lost Canyons

Scott August

Cedar Mesa Music, 2007

Sublime, peaceful, excitement
The really special thing about this recording is that the sounds work.... The entire CD is woven together with enriched textures and blended tonal qualities from around the world. The featured instrument is the Anasazi Flute. The haunting echoes of this ancient ...

Mozart - Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail [Abduction from the Seraglio]

Edita Gruberova, Francisco Araiza

Deutsche Grammophon, 2005

Golden age Mozart from a master conductor
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail or The Abduction from the Seraglio was composed by Mozart in 1782 during his first heady days in Vienna. He'd recently thrown off the shackles of provincial Salzburg and his odious servitude under the Prince-Archbishop Colloredo. This ...

August and Everything After

Counting Crows

Geffen Records, 2007

The extras are a nice addition...
"August and Everything After" remains my all time favorite album. One of the very few I can listen to as a whole, song after song. Adam Duritz has an amazing poetic mind, and Anna Begins may be the most beautiful love song ever written. The sound quality of this ...