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Various Artists - Sega Piano Nocturne
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| Piano (1-8) and original versions (9-16) |
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In addition to the great piano renditions, the original versions of each track are included as bonus tracks!
These tracks include one orchestral track (Shenmue), many songs (Sakura Wars, Phantasy Star Online, Burning Rangers, NiGHTS) and even three chiptunes: Outrun, Space Harrier, and S.D.I.
My favorites piano tracks on the CD are Space Harrier and Outrun, maybe because I spent hours playing these games. However, the piano versions of these 80s synth tunes are really nicely done. There is only one track that I don't really like, System Down. I don't know why it was included on the CD, as it is noisy and quite irritating.
Overall, I give this piano album a rating of 4!
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2 of 2 found this review helpful |
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Sharon Apple - Macross Plus The Cream P-U-F
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| Sharon - Sharon! |
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For all of those Fans of the electronic pop idol, Sharon Apple this mini-album is made just for you! It contains the four of her greatest hits all on one CD.
The Tracks:
1. Information High - A pulse pounding techno song from the start of the fourth OAV. This is one of two original songs on this Album. Best track on the Album.
2. Idol Talk - From the second OAV and featured in the concert. It sounds like a form of psuedo-French and is a pure candy pop song.
3. The Borderline - The second Original song. This is a slow Jazz ballad that does a lot of random comparison in the lyrics. It is pretty sleepy.
4. Santi-U - A chant in a nonsense language with haunting vocals is what this track is about. A rhythmic tribal beat that breaks about halfway through the track into a frenetic and frantic theme after some strange channel changing noises. It is definitely Unique.
It isn't an album I would recommend to everybody. I bought it solely for Information High and when it was stolen, I haven't bothered to replace it. Still it a must for Macross and Sharon Apple fans.
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3 of 3 found this review helpful |
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Yoko Kanno Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop: Blue
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| A diverse album for anime that defies definition |
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This is one of the best albums that Ms. Kanno has put out in recent memory. It does what any good soundtrack should do and captures the essence of the series that it is from. This, from an anime that prides itself on not fitting into a genre but instead creating its own. Cowboy Bebop: Blue does exactly that.
The Tracks:
1. Blue - A throaty female vocalist sings a bluesy ballad while an ethereal soprano sings counterpoint. Pure Kanno and my favorite track on the CD.
2. Words That We Couldn't Say - a folksy ballad by a male singer it evokes memories of a relationship dying.
3. Autumn in Ganymede - a pure Jazz song that would fit in at any Jazz Festival around the world
4. Mushroom Hunting - a jazz, funk, soul song with a bossanova beat.
5. Go Go Cactus Man - reminiscent of the old Western this track would fit in with Rawhide and Giu La Testa smoothly.
6. Chicken Bone - A light electronic club song that is all about having fun
7. The Real Man - Dissonant chase music best describes this track - do not play it unless you want to wake up.
8. N.Y. Rush - Another pure Jazz track
9. Adieu - A woman and a piano. That is it. A little ballad about saying goodbye, you can almost picture Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart here.
10. Call Me, Call Me - my second favorite song on the album. Another folksy ballad this time with orchestral backing. This track can make me cry.
11. Ave Maria - a redux of the classic Schubert sung by a Baritone. Just lovely.
12. Stella by the Moor - a little music box lullaby
13. Flying Teapot - Where Adieu was sad this one is a light song that is all about having fun.
14. Wo Qui Non Coin - a silly little song sung by the voice actress of one of the quirkiest characters in anime.
15. Road to the West - a jazz solo in space is what bests describes this track.
16. Farewell Blues - a muted trumpet and a piano this is the kind of music you would expect to hear in a high class bar.
17. See Ya Space Cowboy - This a redux of the anime's ending song. It is again sung by the throaty songstress and is the only track on the album in Japanese.
All in all, this is a really diverse soundtrack. It is not one of those that you can judge based on one track - it really shows a wide range of talent and creativity and I guarantee you will not be bored by it.
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Victor Young - Shane: A Tribute To Victor Young
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| Truncated tracks |
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Twopop
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2 Dec 2007 |
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Some of the tracks on this CD sound "chopped off" when you listen to them played as separate tracks in the SST queue.
Examples:
08 - Samson And Delilah: Miriam
10 - Samson And Delilah: Hebrew Lament
This is probably because the Samson And Delilah cues were performed almost as a suite, meant to be heard with one flowing into the next. If you are lucky enough to own this CD, you will see that there is virtually no audio break between some of the cues.
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1 of 1 found this review helpful |
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John Williams - Towering Inferno, The
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| Main Titles |
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JERIC
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8 Jul 2007 |
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The Main Titles track on this album is from the Disasters!: Movie Music Album (B00000AFQH) released in 1998. The sound quality is superior to the original.
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1 of 1 found this review helpful |
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John Williams, William Alwyn/J.B. Dykes, Jerry Goldsmith - Disasters!, The: Movie Music Album
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| Missing Tracks |
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Twopop
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4 Jul 2007 |
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This is an amazing compilation from Silva America (ASIN B00000AFQH) released in 1998. It is available from sellers at Amazon . It is by The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Nic Raines.
In an effort to avoid redundant (duplicate) tracks, we have not included some of the tracks of this CD. Unfortunately many of the 16 tracks are in SST's playlist either on their OST CD or on compilations, some by Nic Raines and the Prague PO on the Silva America label. In those cases, we chose not to break up the intact compilation.
The tracks available on other albums are:
02 - Titanic: Take Her To Sea Mr. Murdoch
04 - The Abyss: Theme
06 - Raise The Titanic: Suite
07 - Daylight: Latura's Theme/End Credits
08 - Twister: The Big Suck/Oklahoma Wheatfield/Futility
09 - Earthquake: Love Theme
10 - Dante's Peak: The Rescue
11 - Volcano: March Of The Lava/Cleansing Rain
13 - Deep Impact: The Wedding
14 - The Hindenburg: Main Title
15 - The High and The Mighty: Theme (on The Alamo: The Essential Film Music Collection of Dimitri Tiomkin)
16 - Airplane!: Suite (in the Essential Elmer Bernstein Film Music album set)
We replaced Track 01, "The Towering Inferno: Main Titles" on the The Towering Inferno album because the sound quality is much better.
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7 of 7 found this review helpful |
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Anne Dudley - Black Book
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| Original title: Zwartboek |
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Twopop
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1 Jul 2007 |
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Zwartboek (Germany, 2006) aka "Black Book".
From Dutch director Paul Verhoeven (Turkish Delight, RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers, etc.)
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1 of 3 found this review helpful |
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Alan Silvestri - Film Music By Alan Silvestri
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| Missing Tracks |
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Twopop
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1 Jul 2007 |
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Nine of the 10 tracks on this Alan Silvestri compilation CD are in the SST Playlist on their original albums:
1. Back To The Future: Main Theme
2. Predator: Main Theme
3. The Abyss: End Credits
5. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?: Eddie's Theme
6. The Quick And The Dead: Main Title
7. Judge Dread: Suite
8. Volcano: Suite
9. Contact: End Credits
10. The Mummy Returns: Main Theme
However, we chose to add this album any way because we were missing this terrific track from The Bodyguard featuring solo trumpet - and because of the great album cover! :D
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16 of 16 found this review helpful |
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Taku Iwasaki - Samurai X (Rurouni Kenshin)
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| Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen / Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal |
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Rurôni Kenshin - Trust and Betrayal soundtrack is composed by Taku Iwasaki, a quite well-known Japanese composer who wrote music for many great anime series including Witch Hunter Robin and Read Or Die.
Kenshin is an anime series based on the manga by the same name. The series tells the story of a repentant assassin named Himura Kenshin. He vowed that he will never kill again, but his skills are still legendary and many enemies are looking after him. This series is mostly known under the name Samurai X in the USA (Kenshin le Vagabond in France).
While the series is quite lighthearted with a lot of humor and good mood, the Trust and Betrayal OVA (original video animation) is much darker as it tells Kenshin's tragic childhood and coming of age.
Taku Iwasaki wrote a beautiful sad score (In Memories) with some great piano pieces (The Will, Quiet Life, and also action tracks like Shades of Revolution or The War of the Last Wolves. Highly recommended!
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5 of 5 found this review helpful |
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Taku Iwasaki - Samurai X (Rurouni Kenshin)
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| Is the title Samurai X or Rurouni Kenshin? |
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Twopop
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24 Jun 2007 |
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Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story is a manga and anime series created by Nobuhiro Watsuki. The story is set during the early Meiji period in Japan. The English versions of the OVAs as well as the movie were released as Samurai X, although the original title was included in the DVD releases.
SST member dnewhouse has reported he has the original limited edition Japanese digipak version, where the title is translated as Rurouni Kenshin. He believes that the title “Samurai X” was created by Sony for marketing purposes, and points out that “the main character is not and has never been a samurai.”
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