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Lullaby Favorites: Music for Little People

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Customer Review:

Good cd......

The only problem with it was that it could have had some more songs to make it a longer playing cd.

Sweet Dreams are Made of This Music

I bought this CD for my preschoolers to listen to at naptime at daycare. Everybody found it very soothing including the teachers! It somehow got broken one day and we were sad to see it go. The kids asked what happened to their sleepy time music. I couldn't find another one anywhere so I finally found it here and I can't wait to get it for my own son.

Beautiful vocals, some cheesy lyrics

My husband purchased this CD for our 19-month-old son to help him fall asleep at night. It's a lovely CD and is very calming for our son. The vocals are beautiful and have helped me learn the lyrics to some classic lullabies. My one quibble is with some corny "new" lyrics for a few of the songs, especially "Rock-a-Bye-Baby." There's one particular line that always makes us laugh in the 4th song: "Slumbertime is so appealling, all through the night..." It seems they could have done better than that! But overall, we are pleased with this CD.

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Keywords: Children's; Childrens; Lullabies; Pop;

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Immaculate Collection

The naughtily titled Immaculate Collection culls 15 of Madonna's Top 10 singles from 1984 to mid-'90, plus 2 new ones that continued the run (the dirty, trunk-bumping funk of "Justify My Love"--a Lenny Kravitz production that justifies his entire career--and the danceable desperation of "Rescue Me"). Rooted in disco and classic AM pop from girl groups and ABBA to Strawberry Alarm Clock, Madonna made savvy, touching music throughout her first golden era. These tracks retain their sonic and historical significance while, like "She Loves You" or "Rocket Man," still brightening any space they're being played in. Far more than just a wise, irreverent image-maker--like the Beatles or Elton, come to think of it--Madonna during these years was the gift that kept on giving, forever fresh, sexy, hooky, and joyously sharp. --Rickey Wright

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Customer Review:

Immaculate

Madonna's "Immaculate Collection" is indeed immaculate. Nothing is left out (well, it came out in '90, so you won't find "Music" or any of her other more recent hits of course). The collection includes the huge pop, music-world changing hits "Like A Virgin", "Vogue", "La Isla Bonita", "Material Girl", "Holiday", "Papa Don't Preach", and my personal favorite, "Like a Prayer". If you love Madonna, Pop music, and music of the 80's (who doesn't?) then you absolutely NEED this collection. Buy it and I promise you will listen to it religiously. It's just got some of the best pop hits of all time, and you'll never get sick of 'em!

First Greatest Hits Collection

This is Madonna's first Greatest Hits collection and if you like her early 80s hits, this is a must-have!

1. Holiday - 4:04 - One's of Madonna's best songs. Her first single.

2. Lucky Star - 3:37 - The version here is cut by 2 minutes but it's still excellent.

3. Borderline - 4:00 - One of my favourite Madonna songs.

4. Like A Virgin - 3:11 - Excellent, her first US number one.

5. Material Girl - 3:53 - Another big hit, brilliant song.

6. Crazy For You - 3:43 - One of my favourite Madonna ballads.

7. Into The Groove - 4:10 - This is a fabulous, one of the best on the album.

8. Live To Tell - 5:19 - This version is cut by about 33 seconds. Good, but I prefer the album version.

9. Papa Don't Preach - 4:11 - I love this song, a Madonna classic.

10. Open Your Heart - 3:51 - One of her best effort's of the 80s.

11. La Isla Bonita - 3:48 - Another brilliant effort. I love it!

12. Like A Prayer - 5:52 - Beautiful. My favourite!

13. Express Yourself - 4:03 - Better than the album version.

14. Cherish - 3:52 - Great song, one of her best.

15. Vogue - 5:19 - A classic, this is the best version of Vogue.

16. Justify My Love - 5:01 - A new song at the time of this albums release, brilliant.

17. Rescue Me - 5:32 - A new song at the time of this albums release, a good song.

This is a brilliant Madonna album, one of her best. It sold 26 million worldwide and is her biggest selling album, if you don't have it click add to cart and BUY IT!!!

Five Stars For Madonna!

This is a must have for those seeking as much older Madonna music as they can get for the money. It is 17 tracks strong, with hit after hit. If you don't have these songs already, buy this.

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Keywords: Dance Music; Pop; Rock/Pop;

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Listen To Your Heart

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Customer Review:

I Love D.H.T.!

This CD is amazing. If you like Ace of Base, you will like D.H.T. The whole time I was listening to it, I thought it sounded like a new Ace of Base CD! This is a must buy!

Not quite what I expected

I bought this CD thinking it would be mostly dance music, like their single "Listen to Your Heart". After listening to all the songs, I was kind of disappointed. There are a few dance songs, but most of it is a little slower. The music is still great, but don't buy it expecting to have upbeat tempo trance/dance type music.

What D.H.T has going for it... and against it

Lacking lyrical gusto not withstanding, this album offers a bit of a feel good rush. The covers are done well... "Listen To Your Heart" is a moving rush as a dance track and hauntingly sad with just a piano and the lead singer as the bonus remix featured on the album. "At Seventeen" is a bitingly harsh look at teenage life with some rather thought provoking lyrics that make you wonder if the beauty who is singing them really can relate to whom they were intended for. "Drivers Seat" offers a deliciously intriguing verse followed by a dud of a chorus. What is the point of the Drivers Seat... is it just there or is it supposed to offer some odd devine direction... the song left me wanting more of the flow that the verses offered. "I Can't Be Your Friend" is a humerous look at wanting to advance to the next step and it is set to a catchy beat that makes the car shake. "My Dream" is poetic but offers no symbolic solution. The dream is lovely and a sign of the times, but the realisim of it is lost in the shuffle of silly rhyming. "Sun" while having the makings of being another annoying "Macarena" hit, is a catchy fun song. The words are meant to take you nowhere... just to get you grooving. "Depressed" is just the message our youth needs today... (not really) as the song is almost blatantly about killing yourself to "end the misery" and again you are left wondering if the lead singer relates or just sings the words.
All in all, the album is feel good fluff with some fairly decent vocals and catchy beats and melodies. I find it amusing that the covers are the best songs because face it, the writing on the origional songs could use a bit of development. Still, it is a decent album... although I do wish it was longer.

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Keywords: Club/Dance; Dance Music; Dance-Pop; Euro-Dance; Pop; Pop/Rock; Soul/R & B;

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Celtic Woman, Vol. 2

Although featuring some of the same singers who made Celtic Woman, vol. 1 so memorable (notably, Rita Connolly, Marian Bradfield, and Áine Furey), the overall tone of this second volume is at once more amorphous and less positive. New Age wall-of-sound close harmonies abound, and there are occasional nods to the Celtic electronica scene. But the tracks that make the strongest impressions are still those where the voice reigns supreme. Among the latter is The Fallen Angels' stunning a cappella version of She Moved Through The Fair, a tale of thwarted love that is surely Ireland's most chilling ghost story. Altan, led by Mairéad ni Mhaonaigh's girlish soprano, tells how easily an idealistic lover can become a embittered rake. Áine Uí Cheallaigh, accompanied only by a bodhrán, is uncommonly eloquent despite adhering to an old-style lack of histrionics. On the opposite extreme, Capercaillie's Scottish beats-and-puirt-a-beul (mouth music)-laced Hebridean Hale-Bopp is a jaunty, cutting-edge treat. --Christina Roden

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Customer Review:

Wonderful Music

I bought this cd for my husband for his birhtday. We really like celtic and irish music. This cd is very good. We would buy another one in this series.

Not the quality of the first

I was anxiously awaiting the arrival of this CD, it took three weeks between the order and the time it arrived. Was it worth the wait? Yes, but I was still a little disappointed. It wasn't the CD that I was expecting. Celtic Women 1 was an amazing CD. This was still good, but not great.

Still, the CD features some return visitors from the first and a few great songs amongst them. Aine Furey makes a triumphant return with the song Vanities child, which highlights her haunting voice. I anxiously await the release of her band, Bohinta's new CD.

Highlights are:
Rita Connolly - Valparaiso
Fiona Joyce - Lifting the veil
Aine Furey - Vanity Child

If you don't have the first one, buy it first. Followed by the Faire Celts CD which is another tremendous display of the female Celtic voice.

worth the coin

skip vol. 1 and buy this 2nd volume. It will keep you interested for more than one spin.

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Keywords: British Folk; Celtic; Celtic Fusion; Celtic New Age; Celtic/Irish; Contemporary Celtic; Int'l & World Music; Irish Folk; Pop; Traditional Celtic;

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