Sonic Boom!

On this CD:

1. Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zoroaster), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 30 Fanfare
Composed by Richard Strauss
Performed by Philadelphia Orchestra
Conducted by Eugene Ormandy

2. Symphony No. 3 ("Organ"), in C minor, Op. 78 Second Movement, poco adagio
Composed by Camille Saint-Saens
Performed by Philadelphia Orchestra with Virgil Fox
Conducted by Eugene Ormandy

3. The Planets, suite for orchestra & female chorus, Op. 32, H. 125 Mars
Composed by Gustav Holst
Performed by Philadelphia Orchestra
Conducted by Eugene Ormandy

4. Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for piano Great Gate of Kiev, arr for orchestra
Composed by Modest Mussorgsky
Performed by Maurice Ravel / Philadelphia Orchestra
Conducted by Eugene Ormandy

5. Grand Canyon Suite for orchestra Cloudburst
Composed by Ferde Grofe
Performed by Morton Gould and his Orchestra
Conducted by Morton Gould

6. Billy the Kid, orchestral suite from the ballet Gun Battle
Composed by Aaron Copland
Performed by Philadelphia Orchestra
Conducted by Eugene Ormandy

7. Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem) Dies Irae
Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
Performed by Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Georg Solti

8. Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b Ride of the Valkyries
Composed by Richard Wagner
Performed by Philadelphia Orchestra
Conducted by Eugene Ormandy

9. Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 40 Battle Scene
Composed by Richard Strauss
Performed by Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Fritz Reiner

10. Unter Donner und Blitz (Thunder and Lightning), polka schnell for orchestra, Op. 324 (RV 324)
Composed by Johann II Strauss
Performed by Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Fritz Reiner

11. Semper Fidelis, march for band
Composed by John Philip Sousa
Performed by Boston Pops Orchestra
Conducted by Arthur Fiedler

12. The Liberty Bell, march for band
Composed by John Philip Sousa
Performed by Philadelphia Orchestra
Conducted by Eugene Ormandy

13. American Salute for orchestra
Composed by Morton Gould
Performed by Boston Pops Orchestra
Conducted by Arthur Fiedler

14. 1812 -- Festival Overture, for orchestra in E flat major, Op. 49 Finale
Composed by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Performed by Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Fritz Reiner

Sonic Boom!, Music, Aaron Copland, Morton Gould, Ferde Grofe, Gustav Holst, Modest Mussorgsky, Camille Saint-Saens, John Philip Sousa, Johann II Strauss, Richard Strauss, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Arthur Fiedler, Eugene Ormandy, Fritz Reiner, Georg Solti, Morton Gould, Boston Pops Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Ravel, Morton Gould and his Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Virgil Fox, 20th/21st Century Orchestral Music, Band, Choral, Classical, Classical Music, German/Austrian Romantic Opera, March for Band, Opera, Orchestral, Polka for Orchestra, Requiem/Requiem Section, Romantic Overture for Orchestra, Romantic Symphony, Romantic Tone Poem/Symphonic Poem for Orchestra, Suite for Orchestra, Symphonic

Average customer rating: Haunting and disturbing, yet familiar and safe

Via Novella Graig Markel Manufacturer: Sonic Boom Recording ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000O59084 Release Date: 2007-04-17

Tracks:

1. Black Mesa
2. Knives Drawn
3. Reverse
4. Cascadia
5. Sixes and Sevens
6. Silhouettes
7. Turpentine
8. Disconnection
9. Shine Through
10. Figures in the Snow
11. Silverlining

Customer Reviews:

Haunting and disturbing, yet familiar and safe.......2007-05-29

Average customer rating: Lee Morgan Quintet Nostalgic Not one of the perfect, ESSENTIAL Blue Notes, but great Lee Almost Goes "Boom"

Sonic Boom Lee Morgan Manufacturer: Blue Note Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo | Jazz | Styles | Music Blue Note Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Procrastinator Charisma Candy City Lights Search for the New Land ASIN: B0000CDL5V Release Date: 2003-10-07

Tracks:

1. Sneaky Pete
2. The Mercenary
3. Sonic Boom
4. Fathead
5. I'll Never Be The Same
6. Mumbo Jumbo
7. Free Flow
8. Stormy Weather
9. Mr. Johnson
10. The Stroker
11. Uncle Rough
12. Claw-Til-Da
13. Untitled Boogaloo

Customer Reviews:

Lee Morgan Quintet.......2006-12-12

Nostalgic.......2005-01-12

Not one of the perfect, ESSENTIAL Blue Notes, but great.......2004-06-21

Yesterday I decided that today I would review Kenny Dorham's Whistle Stop, and this album. I was fully ready to give Whistle Stop four stars and this one 3.5. Then I listened to both of them again just a short while ago and for some reason this time, this was the one I really liked better. Just goes to show you how subjective even our own opinions are when compared to our own opinions from other moments.

One of the things that you may or may not like about this album is that there are a couple tracks which, had Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In had better music, these couple tracks would have been right at home on that show. You know, wild camera work as Goldie Hawn flails about like a boneless chicken to this music. I don't even mean that badly, though. I like those couple songs, one of them being the untitled boogaloo. It's just obvious that mainstream mid '60s rock was a small influence here and there on this album.

I was originally going to give the line-ups and dates, but since the previous reviewer already did it, I'll just point you down to his review for those tidbits. For the most part, I think the highlight of the quintet tracks is when it's Cedar's turn to solo. Cedar, Ron Carter, and Billy Higgins are just a great trio here! When they have the space to themselves, they make the most of it. As for songs as a whole, Mercenary, Sonic Boom, and Fathead are the core of the quintet tracks, as far as I am concerned.

As for the sextet tracks, I like this line-up. George Coleman will still never be my favorite tenor player, but there is enough going on elsewhere, and I think so many of these tunes are really good that I don't mind his presence as much as I may have otherwise.

The Stormy Weather is lovely, and makes for a nice low-key introduction to two of my favorite songs and performances on the entire disc, Mabern's "Mr. Johnson" and Priester's "The Stroker". I love these two songs, and they are the tunes that pushed it over the top and made me decide to give this one the full four stars.

I think I like this one quite a bit more than does the previous reviewer, but we still both gave it four stars.

Lee Almost Goes "Boom".......2003-10-16

"Sneaky Pete" and "Fathead," the disc's funky Sidewinder-like numbers, are solid but not as creative as earlier follow-up attempts like "The Rumproller" or "Cornbread." "The Mercenary" and "Sonic Boom" are altogether better and more exploratory tunes, but they don't match the level of innovation found on "The Procrastinator." By the 1969 sessions, Lee sounds like he's beat these motifs dead with a stick. He is clearly running out of ideas, or should I say variations on earlier successful ideas, and even makes an ill-fated attempt at a boogaloo number (so unimpressive the artist didn't even title it!). Of course, it doesn't help that Rudy Van Gelder seemingly had an off-day as well -- Coleman's sax has an unusual amount of reverb (for RVG anyway), and Lee frequently distorts in the upper registers. Fortunately for us, Lee would find himself again, before his tragic death only three years down the road. His synthesis of slightly further out playing and his trademark grooves would combine for better results on Larry Young's "Mother Ship" (just released in this batch of Connoisseurs as well), and his own "Live at the Lighthouse" and "The Last Session" -- see my reviews of all three titles.

Average customer rating: Deep Dark and glowing

All That Noise The Darkside Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Space Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Melomania Ferment ASIN: B000008EUG Release Date: 1991-02-05

Tracks:

1. Guitar Voodoo
2. Found Love
3. She Don't Come
4. Good for Me
5. Love in a Burning Universe
6. All That Noise
7. Spend Some Time
8. Don't Stop the Rain
9. Soul Deep
10. Waiting for the Angels

Customer Reviews:

Deep Dark and glowing.......2004-12-06

Average customer rating: Bombastically Delicious!

Ruff Guide to Genre-Terrorism Sonic Boom Six Manufacturer: Deck Cheese ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Ska General | Ska | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000GIWSAG Release Date: 2006-08-21

Tracks:

1. Do It Today
2. Apathy Begins At Home
3. All In (Ft Coolie Ranx)
4. Piggy In The Middle
5. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
6. Northern Skies
7. Bigger The Punk Rock
8. Danger! Danger!
9. Don't Say I Never Warned Ya
10. Shareena
11. A Peoples History Of The Future
12. Until The Sunlight Comes

Customer Reviews:

Bombastically Delicious!.......2007-04-26

Average customer rating: Alas. Good Music Gone. The Best CD Ever!

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Customer Reviews:

Alas. Good Music Gone........2005-12-02

The Best CD Ever! .......2005-09-29

Average customer rating: Moody rock balladry

Heather Duby Heather Duby Manufacturer: Sonic Boom Recording ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Post to Wire Symbient Bleeding Diamonds We Walked in Song Pretty Little Head ASIN: B000G73UHW Release Date: 2006-07-18

Tracks:

1. Never Even Made A Voyage
2. Still Rough
3. Over And Under Arrangements
4. A Sort Of Flat Curve
5. Listen
6. Wrestle And Cuss
7. The Most Terrible Trip In The World
8. Would Have Liked You (I'm Pretty Sure)
9. Gone Aground
10. Dullard Or Are You A Breakfast Alcoholic?
11. Utterly Clear
12. Places Shape Lives

Customer Reviews:

Moody rock balladry.......2006-08-03

Average customer rating:

Sonic Boom E.P. Dress Code Manufacturer: Dress Code Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00064321E Release Date: 2004-09-21

Tracks:

1. Control
2. Sonic Boom
3. Energize
4. Just A Party
5. Let It Go

Album Description

Average customer rating: Dark and glorious long awaited great album A welcome change of sound from this Seattle musician. A rare vavoom A brilliant collection of songs

Come Across the River Heather Duby Manufacturer: Sonic Boom Recording ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Post to Wire Heather Duby Symbient The Reminder Let It Die ASIN: B0000DZ3DX Release Date: 2003-11-18

Tracks:

1. Make Me Some Insomnia
2. Stamped Out
3. The Rare Vavoom
4. Your Blue Shoes
5. Providence
6. The Big Dwindle
7. Coin Jar
8. Three Miles
9. Auto Immune
10. Golden Syrup

Customer Reviews:

Dark and glorious.......2004-06-18

The album has a quiet intensity and something a touch Southern about it, in the way that the Cowboy Junkies have. Much of it feels like a dark street on a dark night. I hear it coming from around the corner (or, really, out of my stereo), and it holds me there without letting go. It has wonderful string arrangements, heaviness and lightness in the right places. I don't know how to describe it well; I just know it calls me to listen. The song titles are also wonderfully strange, and they add to the mystery of the album, especially since lyrics aren't included.

long awaited great album.......2004-03-20

A welcome change of sound from this Seattle musician........2004-03-08

These songs are catchy and fantastic. Definitely an album worth checking out!

A rare vavoom.......2004-01-05

This CD has become one of the most listened to in my collection. It is a perfect balance of ethereality and earthiness, catchiness and sonic exploration, with just the right touches of ornamentation. The lyrics are clever, personal hard-won observations. Your vocals have a husky edge to them, no doubt in part due to your voice-threatening bout of tonsilitus. The new husk in the voice gives your interpretations a gravity, conferred with the Dew of Wisdom. I'll demonstrate:

MAKE ME SOME INSOMNIA flirts with lo-fi indie rock before soaring into icy heights on the bridge. The double-tracked vocal is angelic and sweet. Great line: "To rely on anyone else is like sinking for the fun of it--there's no one, no help."

THE RARE VAVOOM is a midnight cabaret piece, with a startling and effective trumpet solo that sounds almost mariachi-influenced. "Would you break my knees, make me kneel and pray..."

THE BLUE SHOES is a slocore lullaby with a soaring chorus, complete with cricket chirps. "Off to bed, dreamless dead, you cannot keep mocking me..." Summer reminscience, the undercurrent of sweet regret.

PROVIDENCE is catchy enough to be a single. Again, you make regret sound so good. "Never was one to lay blame, til they took her from me."

Your echoey ballads, COIN JAR and AUTO IMMUNE are almost neoclassical in their execution. The phrasing is tentative, heartbreaking, and the lyrics have a self-deprecating air about them, that remind me of Jane Siberry and Suzanne Vega, though not in any way I can put my finger on.

GOLDEN SYRUP is a self-affirmation hymn that ends this song cycle. It's like a piece of '20s ragtime, discreetly updated with words that daringly flirt with the sentimental.

In short, you more than deliver the promise you showed on POST TO WIRE, your excellent debut. ("FOR JEFFREY" helped me tremendously when I lost my father and my aunt within a week of each other).

Special kudos to the song titles--they should make any 4AD afficianado lick their lips. Please keep creating.

Sincerely yours,
Ethereal Lad

A brilliant collection of songs.......2004-01-02

Average customer rating: good band good music overall, but BAD vocal Left a sonic boom in my cd case Overall Great CD! If You Liked Eyewitness, You'll Love this! Well, this wagon went downhill fast... Bought my son this CD, had to buy another copy just for me.

Sonic Boom Shades Apart Manufacturer: Umvd Labels ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Eyewitness Save It Seeing Things Neon ASIN: B00005J71W Release Date: 2001-05-15

Tracks:

1. Conspiracy
2. Beat By Beat
3. Gravity
4. Three Wishes
5. Got Shot Down
6. Shockwaves
7. Rebel Teenager From Mars
8. Radioactivated
9. Behind The Wheel
10. Spell
11. Drive All Night
12. Superzero

Customer Reviews:

good band good music overall, but BAD vocal.......2006-10-23

Left a sonic boom in my cd case.......2003-02-14

Overall Great CD! If You Liked Eyewitness, You'll Love this!.......2001-10-25

Well, this wagon went downhill fast..........2001-07-22

Back in '95, in the wake of Green Day's success that brought underground pop-punk to the masses, Shades Apart released Save It, on Revelation Records. It was by no means a runaway hit, but it showed promise, and did gain some slight underground kudos amongst the pop-punk crowds. With every album since then, Shades Apart have been inching closer and closer to that cultural wasteland known as "alternative radio" (or possibly "modern rock" in your town.)

'97's Seeing Things had them teetering on the edge of the precipice: keep the edge & stay underground and "punk rock" or lose the edge and hope a different crowd latches on. Well, Eyewitness confirmed that they had chosen the latter, but I will admit that it had its share of good pop songs, and some that would have been more than adequate for mass radio play, if given the right "push."

But with this one, Shades Apart hurtles past their contemporaries and rushes headlong into territory that no sane band enters willingly. This stuff is... *gulp* ... worse than Third Eye Blind! This is sterile, generic, plodding, pointless, safe, pop .... The equivalent of Britney Spears with guitars. And MAYBE it would be forgiveable (live by the mainstream, die by the mainstream) if it weren't so poorly written and tuneless. Honestly, it makes Eve 6 sound like Mozart.

So time has not been kind to this trio, and they have no one but themselves to blame. I have a hard time believing their fans will enjoy this, as well as a hard time believing that even the legions of brain-dead radio listeners will bother with it (and they'll buy ANYTHING!)

So that leaves your fanbase as... ummm... mom's looking for "safe" music for their kids? Oh, a fate worse than death indeed!

Bought my son this CD, had to buy another copy just for me........2001-07-15

Average customer rating: Excellent debut I wish I had my dollar back Review of Andrew Morgan at ThreeImaginaryGirls.com

Misadventures in Radiology Andrew Morgan Manufacturer: Sonic Boom Recording ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Chamber Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs ASIN: B0007Y095A Release Date: 2005-04-05

Tracks:

1. Prologue
2. Plight Of An Exile
3. Aligned On The Steps
4. Preacher's Ego
5. Misadventures In Radiology
6. This Awful Room
7. Joann, You'll Be Happy Soon
8. Shoulder Your Shovels
9. Supine On The Covers
10. Brushes To Bronze
11. Aligned On The Steps (Reprise)
12. Morpheus Calls

Customer Reviews:

Excellent debut.......2005-08-18

I wish I had my dollar back.......2005-07-04

Review of Andrew Morgan at ThreeImaginaryGirls.com.......2005-04-17

Music Review:

1. Sonic Stock
2. Sound Portraits
3. Spohr: Nonet in F; Rossini: Andante in F
4. Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
5. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps (Revised Version 1947); Quatre Etudes pour Orchestre; Scherzo a la Russe (1944 Symphonic version)
6. Suite Op 5
7. Susanne Grützmann plays Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28 / Schumann: Symphonic Etudes
8. Symphonies le Matin/Le Midi/Le Soir
9. Symphony No. 2 [Enhanced]
10. Symphony No. 8 - Rosamunde [Enhanced]

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