Compilations with titles starting with S
- Samba Soul 70!
- CD, Ziriguiboom ZIR 07, Distr. Crammed, Belgium, 2001
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5. "The now sound of Brazil" says a sticker on the front cover. Towards the end of the 1960's, Brazilan musicians fused samba with Afro-American influences like soul, funk and R&B, thus creating Brazilan Black Music or SambaSoul or SambaRock. The 16 tracks here are from 1968 to 1987, the larger part from the '70's, and especially showcase the funk influence. A really hot collection!
- Saucy Songs 1928 To 1938 (The Golden Years In Digital Stereo)
- CD, ABC/DRG 838 216-2, USA, 1989
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 2 points on 5.
- Schoolhouse Funk (Stage Bands, Lab Bands, and a Toast to the Boogie!)
- CD, Cali-Tex CT-101, USA, 2000
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5. Great big band funk, very ambitious, with a thick wall of sound. "Cisco Kid" is hilariously out of tune! Three (out of the 21)tracks are boring blablabla, like student names announcements. Found mine at www.cduniverse.com.
- Allan Telstar: An incredible compilation of High School Bands performing Funk. This cd is just wild! Sure the few vocal numbers leave a little to be desired (like the choir singing "Cisco Kid, he was a friend of mine"), but the instros are anarchic and very hot. The down side of the comp is that none of the groups are identified. Tracks include: "The World is a Ghetto", "Funky Beat", "Camel Back", "Emergency" and "Loose Booty".
- The Sci-Fi Channel Presents Sci-Fi's Greatest Hits Volume 1: Final Frontiers
- The Sci-Fi Channel Presents Sci-Fi's Greatest Hits Volume 2: The Dark Side
- The Sci-Fi Channel Presents Sci-Fi's Greatest Hits Volume 3: The Uninvited
- The Sci-Fi Channel Presents Sci-Fi's Greatest Hits Volume 4: Defenders Of Justice
- Scoctopus, The In Sound From Octopus Records!
- CD/Double LP, Schema SCEB 901, Italy, distr. Family Affair, 1997
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5. lots of jazzy and funky stuff. some of it is a bit straight jazzy, a bit of the wordless vocal stuff is here. Between Jazz, Easy Listening & Soundtrack Recordings.
- Peter Risser: Scoctopus is a Janus of a CD. The first half of this disc is just basic, slightly groovy cocktail/studio-session funky-ish piano jazz a la johnny pearson or soul orchestral. It sounds like Vince Guaraldi to me, [and] pretty much bores me (but is good for dinner parties.) The second half makes this a must have with funky vocalise over flutes, guitars and horns. Who is Roberto Conrado? He rocks. Good stuff.
- The Score
- CD, free with Mojo magazine issue June 2002, UK, 2002
- comment:
- Johan: Groovy batch of soundtrack tunes, half of which already previously released on cd...
- Scored 1-0
- CD, JTI 1, UK, 1996
- comment:
- Johan: Bands of today, like The James Taylor Quartet, reworking classic TV & film themes.
- Reviewed in "Cheese Ball" issue 2
- Screen Acid - 18 Acid Jazz takes on classic film & TV Music
- CD, MCI Music MUSCD 044, USA?, 1999
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5. Great comp, though it opens with a horrible disco "Professionals" by Lovetrain.
- Reviewed in the "Record Collector" issue 244
- Philip Jackson: "Acid Jazz TV And Movie Themes" and this "Screen Acid" seem to be the same CD. Here's the track list: Lovetrain: The Professionals / James Taylor Quartet: Theme from Starsky and Hutch - Gotcha / Kozmic Trooths: Dave Allen at Large - Blarney's Stoned / James Taylor Quartet: Mission Impossible / Akimbo: Rollerball - Executive Party / Snowboy: The New Avengers / Pippa and the Four From The Top: Countdown / Van Groove: Angels / Goldbug: Top of the Pops - Whole Lotta Love / Flying Squad: The Sweeney / James Taylor Quartet: The Graduate - Mrs. Robinson / Sockadelic: The Cricket - Soul Limbo / Corduroy: The Heist - Money Is / Wipeout: Allegreto Per Signora / James Taylor Quartet: Dirty Harry / Mother Earth: Riot on 103rd Street / James Taylor Quartet: Goldfinger / James Taylor Quartet: Austin's Theme
- Secret Agent File
- CD, GNP/Crescendo 2166, USA, 1992
- comment:
- Stefan Kéry: Killer spy jazz comp featuring Les Baxter, Neil Norman, Billy Strange and Hall Daniels
- Allan "telstar": ...a great anthology with 'now sound' takes on movie themes that features (mostly) Billy Strange with a few additional tracks from Les Baxter and Neil Norman. There is another release that is just under the Billy Strange name (GNP 2019).
- Secret Agent S.O.U.N.D.S
- CD, Dr. Dream/Mai Tai DD0118, USA, 199?
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5.
- The Secret Museum Of Mankind: Music Of East Africa (Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-1948)
- CD, Yazoo 7015, USA, 1998
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 2 points on 5. See WFMU catalog 1996
- Sesso Matto Experience
- CD, Right Tempo MET 301/303 CDS, Italy, 1997
- comment:
- Johan: The original version (included) rules, the remixes are at their best well-done (Raphael Sebbag of U.F.O. adds nice exotic percussion) or at their worst techno-jazz, house, disco or drum&bass -- NOT loungecore at all.
- Chuck: The whole album is a remix of the song Sesso Matto. I'm blown away by the Karminsky Experiece's remix.
- Sessomatto Experience
- Setting The Scene (From The Vaults Of KPM)
- CD/Double LP, Groove Attack GAP 029, Germany, 1997
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5. Previously unreleased tracks from the KPM production music library
- Sex-o-Rama: Music From Classic Adult Films
- CD, Oglio OGL 89105, USA, 1997, deleted
- comment:
- Giovanni Berti: very disappointing to me. With tracks like "Debbie Does Dallas", "I Like To Watch", "Seka's Fantasies", "Deep Throat", "Behind The Green Door", "Taboo", "Eruption", "The Opening Of Misty Beethoven" I was really expecting some chili peppered music. Not to mention the fact that I directly bought it on a XXX website. The idea and the notes are OK, but the music is fake. Not the original soundtracks, just studio sessionmen re-recording it in a mellow funk mode. Jenna Jameson on cover and inlay. Still wouldn't have bought it only for this, you can see her for free on zillions sites. Anyone's got authentic vintage porn soundtracks? I got "The Devil In Miss Jones", but found it no groovey. The music, I mean.
- Sex-O-Rama Volume 2
- CD, Oglio OGL 889108, USA, 1998
- comment:
- Reviewed in "_Cool And Strange Music Magazine_" issue 11
- Sexopolis
- CD/LP, Fantomas 002 (bootleg?), France, 1997
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5. Tracks From the 70's French Funky Pop Scene Compiled by DJ BNX
- Chuck: This is a great cd of the now sound form the 70s. Its a 62 minute ride of some great songs, now sound instrumentals, some wordless vocals, and lots of upbeat vocals sung in French and a few jazz songs, not too much hard funk, its a soft easy funk feel on a few of the tracks. Its more of a now sound found on Easy Tempo and Irma with a couple of jazz influenced songs. I recognized only 2 songs, one from the haschhisch Party and one by Michel Legrand. The sound quality and song selection remind me of a great Irma release except in French. I especially like Guy Boyer's "Bongo & Sound" its all over the place it even has a sitar. There's another song where a singer speaks desperately in French with a cool exotic now sound background playing under her cries of desperation.
- Sexy Voices (Italian Movie Style series)
- CD, Ceraton Lifestyle CT/LS 0302, EFA 2932, Germany, 1998?
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 5 points on 5. Follow-up to "Our Man From R.O.M.E. " and as highly recommended. Don't let the title fool you, as only 7 out of the 18 tracks are actual vocal, wordless or with lyrics. Four wordless vocal tracks by goddess Edda dell' Orso, and no duplicates with any of the dozens of other Italo-EZ comps.
- alan miller its not called 'Sexy Voices' for nothing. Heaps of breathy, sensual performances. All very laid back but cool and sensual none the less. Some really lovely Morricone stuff.
- Shake Sauvage (French soundtracks 1968-1973)
- CD/LP, Crippled Dick Hot Wax CDHW 068, Germany, 2000
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 5 points on 5. The cd has 3 extra tracks not on the vinyl, by Claude Bolling, Thierry Vincent, and Jilien Covey.
- Reviewed in _Cool And Strange Music Magazine_ issue 20
- Crippled Dick Hot Wax: After visiting the realm of Italian filmscores with Beat at Cinecitta Vols. 1-3, it is now time to pay a visit to France. Once again it is hot stuff: jazzy beat tunes from the 60s and 70s movies, guaranteed to make you groove. A whole bunch of the most respected French soundtrack composers. From 'global player' Francis Lai, best known for the Oscar winning score for Lovestory, on to Michel Magne, George Garvarentz, Claude Bolling, Vladimir Cosma, etc. Styles range from dramatic car-chases (starring Jean Paul Belmondo) to sexy moods.
- Cheryl Shinfield: If I'm not mistaken, it's almost identical in track listing to "Stereo Ultra vol. 1", which was released a few years back. (on Big Cheese Records out of France). I have Stereo Ultra, and therefore didn't buy Shake Sauvage, but it should be worth picking up for anyone who doesn't have Stereo Ultra.
- Gregory Hallock: It does come with a really nice booklet featuring all the movie posters and loads of info. All the tracks sound very similar as if from the same sessions. Not many vocal but lots of electric sitar and swirling organs. Some of the tracks include: Jean-Pierre Mirouze/Sexopolis - Claude Bolling/ full speed - A couple from Francis Lai.
- Shake Your Congas: Another Crazy Cocktail Party
- Shaken Not Stirred
- CD, Rykodisc 1443 50337 2, USA, 1996
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 5 points on 5. A bit on the short side, but still great lounge comp. The unlisted bonus track -- a jazz version of the James Bond Theme -- is by James Bond & His Sextet
- Shaken Not Stirred (45 Classic Agents, Spies, Cops, & PI Movie Themes)
- Double CD, Sony TV, UK, 2001
- She Had A Taste For Music (Rare Gems From The Italian Erotic Archive)
- CD/LP, Dagored RED103 (distributed in USA by Runt), Italy, 1999
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 3 points on 5.
- Chuck: It's almost all gentle instrumental soundtrack melodies, with a couple of oh so sexy spoken word songs. Wonderful soft Bacharac influenced melodies that are perfect for the wee wee hours or your first cup of coffee on an early breezy sunny Sunday morning. Theres nothing funky or hard going on here, no driving drum beats until the last couple of songs. The music floats gently until the end of the cd and then you want to dance and then it's all soft again.
- Shots In The Dark
- CD, Del-Fi/Donna DOCD 2113, USA, 1996
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5. tracks: 1. Banzai Pipeline - Boardwalkers 2. Baby Elephant Walk - Jigsaw Seen 3. Peter Gunn - Poison Ivy 4. Charade (instro) - Blue Hawaiians 5. Something for Cat - Four Piece Suit 6. Mr. Lucky - Elliot Easton's Tiki Gods 7. The Pink Panther Theme - Oranj Symphonette 8. Lonesome - Friends Of Dean Martinez 9. The Party - Wondermints 10. Monkey Farm - Tiki Tones 11. A Shot in the Dark - Whiskey Biscuit 12. Touch of Evil - Man or Astro Man? 13. Days of Wine and Roses - Wonderful World Of Joey 14. Dreamsville - Br. Cleve & His Lush Orchestra 15. Push the Button, Max! - Del Noah & The Mt. Ararat Finks 16. Charade (Vocal) - Farina 17. Mr. Yunioshi - Insect Surfers 18. Arabesque - Huntington Cads 19. Experiment in Terror - DavieAllan & The Arrows 20. Moon River - Nan Vernon.
- Tom Rombouts: what a joy! Mostly rock and roll instrumental covers of various Henry Mancini tunes, although just a few have vocals. Much of the music is a bit edgy, and a few of the tracks feature electronics or other effects. (The "Days of Wine and Roses" version has a Theremin lead!) Although I am sorry that the lounge/retro fad is ending, at least one benefit is that prices for these CD's have come down! :) In fact, I have recently gotten a few copies of "Livin' Lounge" and "Loungecore II" for about a dollar each.
- Shut It! The Music Of The Sweeney
- CD, Cinephile/ Sanctuary Records SANCD092, UK, 2001
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 5 points on 5. Essential music from 1970's Brit cop TV show. Fat & funky bass lines, horn section bursts, explosive arrangements, screaming guitars, excellent "Sound gallery/ loungecore" type of music from start to end. Mostly upbeat, also some slower sexy tunes. 26 tracks, glued together with dialog snippets from the series.
- Sie Liebt Dich. Weitere Beatles-Lieder Auf Deutsch
- Silly Classical Songs
- CD, Walt Disney Records, USA, 2000
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5. "simply super silly lyrics set to classical music". about half of the 12 tracks are really hilarious, with Pluto barking to the melody of "The Blue Danube" as highlight
- Sin Alley! Volume Four
- LP, Sleazez Records #5562 (bootleg?), USA?, 1980's, deleted?
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 3 points on 5.
- Martin Hämmel: it has a "Drunk" side and "Weird" side. It has some great Monster R'n'R tunes and the fantastic: SNAKE CHARMER by Mad Man Jones, bongo loaden weird & wild
- Sissy Man Blues (25 Authentic Straight & Gay Blues & Jazz Vocals)
- CD, Jass J-CD-13, USA, 1989
CD, Mojo 304, USA, 1997 - comment:
- Johan: My rating: 2 points on 5. Re-issue of Jass 3 "Sissy Man Blues"
- Sixties Christmas
- CD, Sequel, USA, 1998
- comment:
- Chuck: full of 60's smaltzy not too exotic christmas songs with a 5 or 6 real exotic gems mixed in.
- Sixties Girls volume 1
- CD, Magic records 533 381, France, 2001
- Sixties Girls Volume 2
- CD, Magic records 533 382, France, 2001
- Sixties Rebellion 12 - Demented
- CD, Way Back/Music Mania 66014, Germany, 1994
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 3 points on 5.
- Slack Key Guitar (Vintage Hawaiian Treasures Volume 7)
- Smog (Musica dalla colonna sonora originale)
- LP, Studio Uno STN1008 Limited Edition, Italy, 1999
- comment:
- Johan: I bought this because I liked about everything by Umiliani I've heard, up till now. It's not bad, it's just not the crime jazz I expected. It's quite good cool jazz, but that's about it. If you like Umiliani, don't expect to like this. However, if you like Chet Baker, I bet you'll like it. Liner notes in Italian only.
- Smooth Grooves: Smooth Jazz, Vols. 1-3
- CD, Rhino 79826, USA, 2000
- Snow. The Get Easy! Christmas Collection
- CD, Universal, Germany, 2002
- comment:
- Johan: Get Easy volume 5 in a xmas mood, with amongst others Soulful Strings, Burt Bacharach, Claudine Longet, Jimmy Smith, Scott Walker...
- Snowflakes. Mood Masterpieces From The MPS Archives
- Double CD, Universal, Germany, 1999
- comment:
- Johan: "The Incredible Mood Music Of Germany's Legendary MPS Label"
- Jimmy Botticelli: It is from the MPF record label in the Black Forest which stands for Most Perfect Sound. It is about as Easy as easy gets. To give you an idea, it has the stamp of approval in the liner notes written by Joseph Lanza (Elevator Music/History of The Cocktail) who takes the opportunity to bash the Jazzbos of the world while praising easy easy and damning a culture which knee-jerkedly has rejected it for what he sees is the politically correct stance taken by rockers toward anything that doesn't rock. It is about one-third vocals a la Horst Jankowski Singers, The Third Wave, and a few others. I have dotted about 90% of them as good. Hope that helps. Oh yeah, and I got it from Dusty Groove
- So Blue So Funky 2 (Heroes Of The Hammond)
- So Blue, So Funky (Heroes Of The Hammond)
- CD, Blue Note DCP 7965632, UK, 1991
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 3 points on 5. "The history of the Hammond Organ, documented by the finest funksters" it says on the back. But only 3 tracks are really funky, and - for a Hammond introduction compilation - there's way too much room on these selected tracks for loooooooong sax and guitar solos. Not recommended, unless this is the kind of thing you like.
- Soft & Easy
- CD, Wagram, France, 1998
- comment:
- Will Straw: The CD compilation I can't stop playing these days. Lots of French lush pop (Czerkinsky), electronics (Jean-Jacques Perry with David Chazam), North American stuff (Combustible Edison, April March) and a consistent level of excellence that has me pushing the "Play" button every time it ends. Magnifique!
- Soho Lounge Heat (hip jazz, funk and soul grooves for film & TV 1969-1977)
- CD, EMI 538952, UK, 2002
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5. 25 tracks of funky and sometimes jazzy library music from the English Cavendish and Boosey & Hawkes studios, mostly composed by Dennis Farnon. The main style is "blaxpolitation/ cop show/ secret agent"
- Reviewed at Score, Baby
- Sol Y Sombra
- CD/LP, Siesta 100, Spain, 2000
- comment:
- Johan: (Fake soundtrack)
- Siesta press release: ...Musically speaking it is a sophisticated parade of genres as bossa-nova, italian-chic, champagne pop and easy-cocktail. It could be ranked as the best multilingual (it includes Spanish, English, Italian and body sexual languages) coquettish soundtrack.
- Sombrero
- CD, Siesta, Spain, 1999?
- comment:
- Chuck: A magnificant collection of the Modern day Siesta artists. I like it more than any other Siesta collection except maybe "Aperitivo" Its actually better than Expresso Expresso which was my collection of the year a few years back. Sombrero is a collection, a sampler, of modern Siesta artists from their newest or soon to be released albums. Sometimes they throw in an odd tidbit. Siesta has a sound that is only a little different from the soft pop we have been talking about from the 60's. I highly recommend Sombreo to any fan of soft pop music. Almost every song on it is really great soft pop or bossa with that gentle suave cool verve label feel that Siesta has captured so well. Siesta is living proof that modern soft pop is alive and helathy.
- Songs For The Jet Set
- CD, Siesta 66, Spain, 1997
- comment:
- Chuck: much of the music on Marina is the same as that on Siesta, but I believe with different names (for instance, "Music For Marshmallow Lovers" is pretty much the same as "Songs For The Jet Set") So while it is good, just make sure you're not ordering the same thing under another name!
- Songs For The Jet Set 2000, volume 3
- CD, Jetset TWA 26, USA, 2000
- comment:
- Reviewed in _Cool And Strange Music Magazine_ issue 18
- Songs For The Jet Set, volume 2
- Songs From The Jet Set, Volume 2
- Songs in the Key of Z (the curious world of outsider music)
- CD, Which Records WHI 2367, USA, 2000
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 3 points on 5. Scenario A: you're new to this "supposedly wrong" or "so-called bad" music. You're delighted with most of these 20 tracks, and even more when you discover that 8 of these artists have a full CD reissue! Scenario B: you've already "discovered" the CDs by The Shaggs, Lucia Pamela, Jack Mudurian, Eilert Pilarm, Wesley Willis, The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, and Tiny Tim, and you find this CD rather disapointing, because most of the other featured artists nowhere reach the high level of outerworldnyness of the aforementioned. A couple of them aren't even "outsider music" at all, just "normal" music with odd lyrics...
- Allan Telstar: Outsider isn't a style of music, rather it is a state of mind. Irwin Chusid has compiled a great cd of sonic oddities that has to be heard to be believed (music so wrong, that it is right...to paraphrase the liner notes). Some of the featured performers are quite well known to fans of strange music including The Shaggs, Captain Beefheart, Jandek, Lucia Pamela, and The Legendary Stardust Cowboy who has a great tune featured called "Standing in a Trash Can (thinking about you)". Other tracks include ones by gay country singer Peter Grudzien, scat singer Shooby Taylor, the Human Horn, Eckankar honcho Sri Darwin Gross, the weird demo for "Telstar" by the tone-deaf Joe Meek, nursing home resident Jack Mudurian, Swedish Elvis impersonator Eilert Pilarm...well, there are twenty songs in total, all of which defy description. At the moment my fave is B.J. Snowden's "In Canada" which should be our national anthem: "In Canada they'll treat you like a Queen/In Canada they never will be mean/In Canada they'll treat you like a King/In Canada You'll feel welcome/It makes you want to sing". Great from beginning to end. The official webpage is at http://www.keyofz.com/keyofz/_. The bad news is that Which? Records has closed up shop, so buy the cd before it dissappears.
- From the liner notes: "Sick of fast food? Tired of Hollywood cosmetic perfectionism? Bored with Shopping mall blandness? Does your musical world seem tame and bloodless as aluminium siding? Then...GET REAL! Outsider musicians aren't glamorous. They make mistakes. They're artistically flawed, gloriously uninhibited, and one-of-a-kind. Therein lies the beauty. In the realm of Outsiders, words like "genius" and "talent" are meaningless. These often self-taught artists may lack conventional tunefulness and self-awareness, but they display an abundance of earnestness and passion. And they're worth listening to, often surpassing all contenders for inventiveness and originality".
- Reviewed in _Cool And Strange Music Magazine_ issue 17
- Songs in the Key of Z vol. 2: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music)
- CD, Gammon, USA, 2002
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 3 points on 5.
- Sonorissima Series: Italian Library Music Party Vol.01
- CD/Double LP, Black Cat BCR 0103, Italy, 2000
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 5 points on 5. Sixteen tracks, 15 instrumental, 1 vocal: mostly 1960's beat type, also funky, soul, jazzy, cinematic orchestral... but whatever style, all great tunes, lotsa electric guitars and organs! Really top notch library tracks. See their web site for details, where you can also buy the CD with your credit card!
- Reviewed at Score, Baby
- Sonorissima Series: Italian Library Music Party Vol.02
- CD/Double LP , Black Cat BCR 0105, Italy, 2001
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5. More funky than volume 1, which i liked a tiny bit better, don't know exactly why... See their web site for details, where you can also buy the CD with your credit card!
- Reviewed at Score, Baby
- The Soul Of Jazz Volume 1 (Gitannes Jazz Productions)
- CD, Verve/Polygram 525 558, France, 1995
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 5 points on 5. Great dancefloor jazz with Hugh Masekela; Jimmy Smith (2 tracks, 1 of them from "The cat"); Cal Tjader; Quincy Jones; James Taylor Quartet; and others. There are more volumes, though don't know how many. I prefer this over the "Mojo" dancefloor jazz" cd series because that has lots of vocal tracks, and I prefer instro jazz.
- The Soul Of Jazz Volume 2
- CD, Verve/Polydor/Polygram 525 561, France, 1995
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 3 points on 5.
- The Soul Of Lennon & McCartney
- CD, Dino Entertainment, USA, 1995
- comment:
- Johan: Soul, Pop, and R&B from 1964-1995. Tracks: Aretha Franklin - Let It Be, Wilson Pickett - Hey Jude, Cissy Houston - Long And Winding Road, Ike & Tina Turner - Come Together, Richie Havens - In My Life, P.P. Arnold - Yesterday, Sarah Vaughn - I Want You (She's So Happy), Ella Fitzgerald - Can't Buy Me Love, Gwen Guthrie - Ticket To Ride, Otis Redding - Day Tripper, Earth Wind & Fire - Got To Get You Into My Life, Maxine Brown - We Can Work It Out, The Detroit Emeralds - And I Love Her, Booker T & The MGs - Lady Madonna, The Five Stairsteps - Dear Prudence, Dionne Warwick - A Hard Day's Night, The Impressions - Fool On The Hill, and Al Green - Get Back
- Sound Book Part 1 (De Wolfe Music Library & Background Music)
- Double CD/Quadruple LP, Irma, Italy, 1998
- comment:
- Johan: Funky library music from the 1970's. almost no tracks in common with the "Bite Hard" compilation on Barely Breaking Even.
- Sound Book Part 2 (De Wolfe Music Library & Background Music)
- Double LP, Irma, Italy, 1998
- The Sound Gallery
- CD, EMI UK 7243 8 32280 2, UK, 1995
CD, Scamp 9707, USA,1996 - comment:
- Johan: My rating: 5 points on 5. Essential UK Loungecore comp.
- The Sound Gallery Volume 2
- CD, EMI UK Premier 7243 8 52990 2 5, UK, 1996
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 5 points on 5.
- The Sound Of Il Giaguaro Vol.1
- CD, GRC 008, Italy, 2001
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5. accompanies Il Giaguaro magazine #7, and is one fantastic comp of 12 tracks; some taken from recently released records (some are reviewed inside the magazine), 2 of them never before released. Both well-known "old" artists (Umiliani, Piccioni) as new groups are present(Black Market Audio, Anubian Lights, Nicola Conte, Mondo candido). I'd say that a subscription to "Il Giaguaro" is worth it for the accompanying singles and CD's alone!
- The Sound Of Il Giaguaro Vol.2
- CD, GRC 009, Italy, 2002
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5. 14 top notch tracks selected by Alessandro Casella. mostly italian, new and old groovelounge! only available with Il Giaguaro #8 alas... Featuring: The Frank Popp Ensamble; Piero Piccioni; Vip 200; Vox Populi; Skeewift; Super Casanova; Stelvio Cipriani: Lydia Lunch with Anubian Lights and others
- The Sound Spectrum
- CD, When wenCD 005, a division of Castle, UK, 1995
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 3 points on 5.
- Sounds For Little Ones
- CD, Dish Recordings 1, USA, 1997?
- comment:
- Ron Grandia: An odd title... Kids probably won't enjoy this disk, but anyone who ever sprang to attention at the sound of the approaching ice-cream man, or who actually remembers that crappy local kiddie-park being as fun and magical rather than the hoky, morose dump it actually is, will be immediately transported. Brilliant in it's simplicity, Sounds For Little Ones is a collection of recordings made "of 25-cent kiddie rides, ice-cream trucks, and the best of Children'sFairyland [Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA] I bought this CD on the speculation that the ice-cream truck tune that haunted my childhood would be on it, and sure enough Ice-cream truck #1 (track 2) was "And the Band Played On" - just as meandering and nearly tuneless as I remembered it. Other points of interest are the prerecorded messages at Fairyland where one imagines children gaping at some aging, discolored fiberglass display while a bad recording blares a nearly illiterate middle-aged man reading, " Hi, My name is Grandpa Gnome....i live mostly around Goosy-Goosy Gander's Castle. Do you know about Goosy Goosy Gander? (waits for pause) you Don't?. Well..." The result of the whole collection of sounds ends up being very chilling. Chilling because it all seems so...hollow... One of my favorite recordings is called "Fairyland Music Space Pop" It's the ambience around the park: Cheezy speakers blaring kiddie music, the sound of what could be the only child in the park is heard briefly in the distance. Suddenly the threadbare recording of Baroque Hoedown (pirated form a Disney record no doubt) snaps off to accomodate someone barking, "Randall, please contact the Pumpkin...Randall, please contact the pumpkin... long silence...music snaps back on." The track goes on seemingly forever without any human interruption from there on out. I got mine from Jack Diamond
- Sounds From The Verve Hi-fi (Compiled By Thievery Corporation)
- CD, Verve 584 151, UK, 2002
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 3 points on 5. "Thievery Corporation select an eclectic and intoxicating collection of rare Verve recordings and gems" says a sticker on the front. RARE? forgedit: out of the 15 tracks, no less than 11 (that I KNOW of) come from albums that already have been reissued on CD the last years! It's still a very nice comp, but better check out the track list first, before buying it!
- Sourcelab 2
- CD, Gyroscope 6639, France, 1997
- comment:
- Space Shuttle Lounge
- CD, Whirling, USA, 1998
- comment:
- Johan: Tipsy is one of the groups that appear here.
- Spaghetti Encyclopedia Volume 1
- CD, Seven Seas, Japan, 199?
- comment:
- Spaghetti Encyclopedia Volume 2
- CD, Seven Seas, Japan, 199?
- Spaghetti Encyclopedia Volume 3
- CD, Seven Seas, Japan, 199?
- Spaghetti Encyclopedia Volume 4
- CD, Seven Seas, Japan, 199?
- Spaghetti II - Revenge!
- CD/LP, One Million Dollar OMD 042, Germany, 1999
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 3 points on 5. Not as good as "Vol. 1 - Duck You Suckers!"
- Reviewed in _Cool And Strange Music Magazine_ issue 17
- Spaghetti Vol. 1 - Duck You Suckers!
- CD/LP, One Million Dollar OMD 012, Germany, 1998
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5. Not the soundtrack to "Duck You Sucker"! An Ennio Morricone tribute flavored with 14 spaghetti western instrumentals "with a fistful of fuzz". No Morricone tunes, but the typical style elements are here: galloping horse rhythms; gun shots, horse, and desert wind sound effects, whistling, and twang guitars of course, very fuzz twang!
- Stefan Kéry: A new compilation with hot rockin' contemporary instro groups from all over the world. Hank Ray & the Executioneers, The Hellbenders, Justice Hahn, DM Bob & the Deficits, Death Valley, The Daytones (from Sweden!), The Charles Napiers, The Penetrators, The Plantronics, Brazil 2001, The Falcons, The Space Hobos, Mark Brodie & the Beaver Patrol, The Satelliters. It's a fake soundtrack. Great music though. Available from us at Subliminal Sounds.
- Spaghetti Western
- CD, Vivi Musica 324828, Italy, 1996
- comment:
- Johan: With Ennio Morricone, Pierro Piccioni...
- Spaghetti Westerns Volume 3 & 4
- CD, DRG 032909, USA, 1995
- comment:
- Larry: ... a series called Spaghetti Westerns. Most are double discs and are 50/50 good to bad. The one that is a single disc is great.
- Spaghetti Westerns Volume One
- Double CD, DRG 32905, USA, 1995
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 3 points on 5. This collection impresses more by sheer quantity than quality. Lots of tracks that were previously unreleased, and not without good reason. Very few really good tracks. For completionists only.
- Moon Dawg: Essential. Where else are you going to hear themes to so many obscure spaghetti westerns? Some of the composers are equally obscure, but here you get just the high points of their Morricone-style film work. With 77 tracks from: Shango; Quanto Costa Morire; Amore Piombe e Furore; Ed Ora Raccomana L'anima a Dio; Wanted Johnny Texas; Prega Dio e Scavati la Fossa; Quei Disperati che Puzzano di Sudore e di Morte; Amico Stammi Lontano Almeno un Palmo; Kid il Monello del West; Deserto di Fuoco; Carambola, Carambola Filotto Tutti in Buca; Giu' la Testa [aka Duck you Sucker, aka A Fistful of Dynamite]; Uno Straniero a Paso Bravo; Requium per un Gringo; Johnny West il Mancino; La Notte dei Serpenti; Vado Vedo e Sparo; Roy Colt & Winchester Jack; Sartana nella Valle degli Avvoltoi; Ancora Dollari per i McGregors.
- Allan "telstar" : This is an incredible selection of the main themes and songs from such films as "Duck You Sucker", "Shango", "Requiem for a Gringo" plus others (27 films are represented). All the big names are included: Ennio Morricone, Riz Ortolani, Pino Donaggio and many more. 67 tracks in all and over two and half hours worth of music. Granted that's a lot to absorb, but the music is far more varied than you might imagine. Recommended.
- Spaghetti Westerns Volume Two
- Double CD, DRG 032909, USA, 1995
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 3 points on 5. Nice to get access to lots of obscure spaghetti film music, but if you expect to find lots of lost treasures, then you're in for a disappointment. For completionists only.
- Moon Dawg: One fewer star than vol. 1 because more of these tracks are available elsewhere. With tracks from: 100,000 Dollari per Ringo; I Due Gringos del Texas; Django, L'Ultimo Killer; Si Puo' Fare... Amigo; La Piu' Grande Rapina del West; L'Oro dei Bravados; Il Grande Duello; Quien Sabe? Sugar Colt; I Quattro del Pater Noster; Monta in Sella, Figlio di...; Lo Chiamavano King; La Morte Sull'Alta Collina; Partirono Preti e Tornarono Curati; Django; Lo hiamavano Mezzogiorno; Tepepa; Vamos a Matar, Compañeros; I Crudeli; Che C'Entriamo noi con la Rivoluzione?; Il Mio Nome e' Nessuno; Una Ragione per Vivere e Una per Morire; Io non Perdona... Uccido; Nel Nome del Padre, del Figlio e della Colt; Una Colt in Mano al Diavolo; Se Incontri Sartana, Prega per la tua Morte; Killer, Adios! I Lunghi Giorni della Vendetta; Texas Addio; Sette Winchester per un Massacro; Professionisti per un Massacro; Un Buco in Fronte. [63 tracks, 150:49]
- Spectrum (Thrilling 60's Film Noir Themes)
- Double LP/CD, Plastic Records PL006, Italy, 1998
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5.
- Chuck: Another great selection especially for somebody new to the scene. The selections contain a lot of songs on other comps, "Mission" by Schifrin, or big names : Duke Elington "Octupaca", John Barry "On Her Majesties Secret Service". There's enough obscure cuts to please everybody.
- The Spinning Wheel Of Jazz
- CD/LP, Spinning Wheel 1006, Germany, 1998
- comment:
- Johan: Selection of 10 tracks of Euro jazz from the 1970's & 80's, influenced by Brasil, Latin & funk. Featuring Samba, Ken Rhodes, Mombasa, Bhakti Jazz...
- Spy Magazine Presents Volume 1: Spy Music
- CD, Rhino R2 71749, USA, 1994
- Spy Magazine Presents Volume 2: White Men Can't Wrap
- CD, Rhino, USA, 1994
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 3 points on 5.
- Spy Magazine Presents Volume 3: Soft, Safe & Sanitized
- CD, Rhino R2 71751, USA, 1994
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5.
- Tom Rombouts: 12 campy / ironic "easy listening" versions of rock classics! This CD is very much like the "Golden Throats" or Ultra Lounge "On the Rocks" collections. In fact, a few of these 12 songs also appear on those. But to me this is about one level of bad beyond "On the Rocks" and more musically intersting overall than "Golden Throats" Although it only totals about 39 minutes, there are some real oddities here. I know the whole "ironic" craze peaked a few years ago, but if you don't have anything like this already, this CD would be a good place to start. To me, the highlights are "Like a Rolling Stone" by The Living Voices, "The Monkees" theme by The Manhattan Strings, and "Give Peace a Chance" by Mitch Miller. A lively eight page booklet is included. tracks: "Louie, Louie" Julie London; "Long Tall Sally" Pat Boone; "Like a Rolling Stone" The Living Voices; [from an entire album they did of modern folk songs!]; "Revolution" The Brothers Four; "Touch Me" The Letterman; "White Room" Joel Grey; "Sunshine Superman" Mel Torme; "The Ballard of John and Yoko" Percy Faith; "(Theme From) The Monkees" The Manhattan Strings; "You are the Sunshine of My Life" Jim Nabors; "Hey Jude" Bing Crosby; "Give Peace a Chance" Mitch Miller & The Gang; [from album "Peace Sing-Along"]
- St. Pauli Affairs (Red Light Music From German Reeperbahn Movies Of The 1960s And 70s)
- CD/LP, Diggler 002, Germany, 2001
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 5 points on 5. Fantastic, only slightly less fantastic than say a Crippled Dick Hot Wax comp like "Shake Sauvage" but fantastic enough to highly recommend it. Eighteen tracks of sixties Big Band Beat, a couple with sexy moaning, a couple with strong spy jazz/pop influences, and not 1 of them gets less than 4 points from me. It's no surprise that Peter Thomas' tracks are eamongst the best...
- Diggler: In the years from 1967 to 1972 German cinemas were haunted by a very successful wave of movies dealing with a special part of Hamburg: the red light district St. Pauli. These movies revealed the true face of St. Pauli: prostitution, drugs and violence ... Their soundtracks fused elements from the music of that time Jazz, Funk, 60's Beat & Lounge to create a genre that reflected the tone of the films, Sleazy Listening. All material on this CD is previously unreleased. Feauturing: Peter Thomas, Berry Lipman, Peter Schirmann, Wolfgang Hartmayer, Roland Kovac, Siegfried Franz, Rolf Kuhn, Frank Valdor, Erwin Halletz.
- S.K.: new "Kult" CD in Duitsland
- Stairways To Heaven
- CD, Atlantic 82643, USA, 1995
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 3 points on 5.
- Stairways To Heaven (The Money Or The Gun)
- CD, Vertigo 514 552-2, Australia, 1995
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5.
- Stay Awake (Various Interpretations Of Music From Vintage Walt Disney Films)
- CD, A&M 3918, USA, 1988
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 2 points on 5.
- Michael David Toth: This is a pretty cool record that has grown on me since I got it almost a decade ago. Quite a wild roster, including Ken Nordine, Yma Sumac, Ringo Starr (with Herb Alpert!), Sun Ra, Buster Poindexter, and even the likes of The Replacements, Michael Stipe, Harry Nilsson, and Bonnie Raitt. Tom Waits' version of "Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho" is just *priceless* and the gem of the bunch. It sounds like the 7 Dwarfs are off to mine the pits of Hell...hilariously horrifying.
- Stereo Ultra 1 (A Collection Of 70's Furious French Soundtracks)
- LP/CD, Big Cheese 364, France, 1998
- comment:
- Johan: See also under "Shake Sauvage"
- Reviewed at Score, Baby
- DJJimmyBee: Late 60's and early 70's French Soundtrack selections.
- Peter Risser: What a killer comp this is! I just heard it and it's fantastic.
- Allan "telstar": Fourteen funky-a-go-go tunes that should appeal to anyone who gets a kick out of the "Beat at Cinecitta" or "The Easy Project" compilations. Tracks by Francis Lai, Georges Garvarentz, Georges Delerue, Claude Bolling, amongst others. There are a couple of duplicates from other compilations, namely Garvarentz's "Haschisch Party" and Mirouze's "Sexopolis", but the rest of the selections are new to me. Highly recommended.
- Cheryl Shinfield: If I'm not mistaken, it's almost identical in track listing to "Shake Sauvage".
- Stereo Ultra Volume 2
- LP/CD, Sirocco 117, France, 1999
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 3 points on 5. Reviewed at Score, Baby
- Peter Risser: Though vol 1 & 2 bear the same title, they are on different labels and have two different approaches to the tunes within. Still, they share the same font, so maybe they are related. The first is a nice cross section of your typical funky library music. Primarily psychsploitation groove jams, it's got a nice couple of cop-rock flavored tunes to keep your ears open. And the first song rocks. The second volume is more a straight-ahead comp of backyard BBQ soul tunes, somewhere along the lines of that Nino Nardini Pop Riviera thing. Very nice for entertaining, but only one or two real stand outs.
- Allan "telstar": The disc is described as "a collection of French music library 1969-1973" drawn from the releases of the "Tele Music" label. The tunes contained are mostly instrumentals in a funky-mode with Hammonds, vibes and horns featured. The CD should appeal to fans of "Beat at Cinecitta Vol 1" and the Dave Pike Set's "Got the Feelin' ". Despite the fact that the selections are drawn from a music library collection, these tunes do not have that generic feel typical of some of the Italian compilations.
- Stereo Ultra Volume 3 (Another Collection Of Fat & Funky French Library Music 1970-1982)
- LP/CD, Sirocco, France, 2001
- comment:
- Strassenfeger
- CD, Colosseum LC 8077, Germany, 1999
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5. Music from 21 German cult thriller TV series, almost all of it high energy, bold brass go-go stuff with sharp electric guitars and/or organ, more pop oriented than jazzy. Three tracks by Peter Thomas that haven't been reissued on CD before! I dotted 5 tracks as good or less than good, but all the 16 others are very good to excellent. Compilation Produced by Cinesoundz.
- Street Walkin' Blues (25 Plaintive Pacans To The World's Oldest Profession, 1924-1956)
- CD, Jass J-CD-626, USA, 1990
CD, Mojo 305, USA, 1997 - comment:
- Johan: My rating: 2 points on 5.
- Stroboscopica 2 (Psychofunk Jazzy Beats For Erotic Thrilling Fiction)
- Double LP/CD, Plastic Records PL007, Italy, 1999
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 3 points on 5. Funky production music from Italy. I liked it slightly better than volume 1, mostly because of the inclusion of about 5 killer tracks, 2 of which written & performed by Morricone. Overall, it's not as interesting as "Beat at Cinécitta" for exemple.
- Carl Russo: It doesn't come close to volume 1 for coolness. Reviewed at Score, Baby
- Stroboscopica 3 (Jazzy Orchestral Latin Strobo Sounds From Cinematic 70's Filmworks)
- CD/Double LP, Plastic Records, Italy, 2001
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 5 points on 5. The best of the 3 volumes! More eclectic, weird, cool & groovy psycho-funk.
- Reviewed at Score, Baby
- Stroboscopica - Sonorizzazioni Psycho Beat (Italian 70's Psychedelic B-Movies Soundtracks & Sonorizations)
- LP, Plastic Records PL003, Italy, 1998
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 3 points on 5. Groovy jazzy funk, like the "Easy Tempo" compilations, but nothing special. Most tracks seem written by (members of ) their performing groups
- Reviewed at Score, Baby
- Suite: 98
- CD, Bungalow, Germany, 1998?
- comment:
- Rod Lott: Czerkinsky has one of the two or three best cuts on the album, with a bubbly little number called "Natascha." Other artists featured include Stereo Total, Fantastic Plastic Machine and Momus. A great disc and a great introduction to a great label.
- The Summitt
- 2 CD set sold separately, Jazz Hour (bootleg?), USA, 199?
- comment:
- Paul Moshay: Its a-m-a-z-i-n-g ! Frank, Dino, Sammy... in a small club sized room for near two hours roastin' each other and singing songs and bits of songs. Run don't walk, to pick this up if you have even a remote curiousity ! A must !
- The Summitt
- CD, ?, USA, 1999?
- comment:
- Paul Moshay: Just listened to part of the new "The Summit" CD and it is indeed a different show from the one that's been circulating all these years. The sound is also marginally better, BUT-- and it's a big one-- Dino's hilarious monologues have been totally deleted from his set, and the official release is altogether less satisfying than the unexpurgated double disc set. Felt I needed a follow up, as I trumpeted how amazing *the original release* was... assuming the re-release would be the same show, unedited. Spoke too soon.
- Sunny Part 2 (A Collection of Various Interpretations)
- CD/LP, Trocadero Records and Roof Music?, Germany, 2002
- Sunny (Roof & Trocadero present: A Collection of Various Interpretations)
- CD/LP, Trocadero Records and Roof Music 2024, Germany, 2000
- comment:
- Martin Hämmel: incl. Arthur Lyman Group, Bobby Hebb; Dusty Springfield; Robert Mitchum; Georgie Fame; Jimmy Smith; Cher; Nancy Wilson; Stanley Turrentine; Booker T. & The MG's; John Schroeder Orchestra; Stan Kenton; Herbie Mann & Tamiko Jones; Andy Williams; The Ventures; Wilson Pickett. www.sunny-the-song.de/
- Suono Libero
- LP, Irma/ La Douce 806, Italy, 1997
- comment:
- Johan: acid jazz, funky soul.
- Peter Risser: More Italian production music. Nothing here really sparkles if you ask me, but if you like that Italian production groove, it's pretty good. It'd be really great as background music for an Austin Powers-type grooveathon party. I haven't listened in a while, but Highlights: MJQ's Central Park, and I think Joybells, which is really Watermelon Man in disguise.
- Suono Libero Volume 2 (A Trip Through Obscure 70's Jazz Funk Tracks From Italian Music Library)
- Double CD/4LP, Irma/ La Douce 806, Italy, 1998
- comment:
- Carl Russo: I recently picked up "Suono Libero, Volume 2, parts 1 and 2," which is to say I ponied up for two double LPs which claim to be "a trip through obscure 70s jazz funk tracks from Italian music library" (sic). That's 4 records in 2 packages. Part 1 lives up to the claim with a lot of funky cop/action-type wa-wa grooves. Part 2 includes more 60s music: exotica/E-Z and just plain weirdness. Of course, I could thin out the best tracks to come up with maybe 2 sides of a single LP, but I'll hang onto the whole collection to have them.
- unknown: This nicely priced double compilation includes the tracks from the 2 previous LP releases (?)
- Super Scary Monster Party
- CD, GNP/Crescendo GNPD 2240, USA, 1995
- comment:
- Suprême Lounge 2 (Musiques de Films à danser entre amis)
- CD, Play-Time PL 2105062, Distributed by Wagram, France, 2001
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 5 points on 5. Again a lot of Brazil influences in these 28 tracks from (mostly French) movie and TV soundtracks, 1 library record (André pop!) and 1 album ("Sade" by Lalo Schifrin). This time the cast of artists is more international, including Moricone, Mancini (2 tracks from his score to "The Party") and Bonfa; but all others are Frech. A lot of tracks by F. Lai, V. Cosma and C. Bolling, and a couple of lesser known composers. Mostly from the 1960's & '70's, but again some more recent ones: from 1997 for exemple comes a beautiful (male) wordless vocal song by Bertrand Burgalat; 2 other tracks from 1998 and 2000 also fit in perfectly with the older stuff, but from 2000 comes a not so great exotica-samples-based composition by Nicolas Errèra. But all in all a follow-up that is "vraiment suprême"!
- Suprême Lounge 3 (Musiques de Films à danser entre amis)
- CD, Play Time, France, 2002
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 5 points on 5. Don't be scared by the "lounge" in the title: this is no "downtempo new age techno", it's GREAT and groovy and super cool "loungecore", mostly instrumental EZ from the 1960's and '70's, even a couple from 1990's and 2000-2002, but with all those different recording periods, modes, rhythms and styles, the tracks still make sense together: it's a coherent comp. As great as previous volumes, this set of 27 tracks is culled from Films & TV Movies and programs, not necessarely French, though most of them European. one of my fave comps of the year!
- Suprême Lounge (Musiques de Films à danser entre amis)
- CD, Play-Time PL 20090562, Distributed by Wagram, France, 2000
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 5 points on 5. No less than 27 tracks, taken from French movies, TV soundtracks and library records, mostly from the 1960's and '70's, but also some from the '80's and even 1 from 2000 -- the least good one. The set starts with a incredible, wonderfully bombastic cover of "Jesus Christ Superstar" by Michel Legrand -- by far and large the BEST version of that song I've ever heard. Other famous composers include Michel Magne, Vladimir Cosma, Claude Bolling, and then there are lots of names I've never heard of before. Some tracks are the title tunes, but a lot are "underscores"; the liner notes (in French only) explain that this series' goal was to rescue those (often unreleased) underscores. There's a lot of variation here: plenty Brazil rhythms, nice & slow EZ, twist... Limited edition of 2000 copies, so hurry to get yours. A quick but surprising price comparison learned me that, even if you live in Europe, the lowest price (including postage) is offered by Dusty Groove in the US, and not by Alapage or Amazon.fr or Fnac...
- Surfin' Senorita
- CD, Wildebeest, USA, announced for 1998
- comment:
- Johan: A compilation of surf & instrumental groups covering songs recorded by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. With: Slacktone ("Mexican Shuffle"); the Space Cossacks, Sir Finks, Pollo del Mar, Insect Surfers, Sandblasters, Exotics, 3 Balls of Fire, Slackmates, Soda Pop Spys, Halibuts, Squid Vicious, and - making his first recorded appearance in 5 years - Herman the German. Also a special mystery guest.
- Sushi 3003
- CD, Bungalow 006, distr. Rough Trade, Germany, 1996
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 5 points on 5.
- Sushi 4004 (The Return Of Spectacular Japanese Clubpop)
- Double LP/CD, Bungalow Bung 036, Germany/USA, 1998
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 2 points on 5. Where 3003 was essentially 60's EZ and ISM dressed up as modern - be it nostalgic - smooth pop, 4004 is much more contemporary club DANCE music: lots of hard beats and samples, trip hop and whatever modern dance music is called these days. If you like everything by P5, Jimmy Tenor, Towa Tei, EasyTune et al., then this is something for you. But if Tipsy is more than modern enough for you, then you probably won't like it. I didn't anyway. But I loved 3003! So much that I spent months and months trying to track down full albums by selected featured artists - without success alas... BTW, how do you play the Fantastic Plastic Machine track on the vinyl edition of Sushi 4004? It's interrupted by no less than 4 groove stops. I simply cannot play the track from start to end! I hate this kind of childish "jokes". Buy the CD version, for heavens sake!
- Bungalow Records press release: A Spectacular Collection Of 16 of the finest examples of Japanese Clubpop, compiled by Le Hammond Inferno. With: Dob, Yoshinori Sunahara, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Pizzicato 5, Cornelius, Takako Minekawa, Ex Deee-Lite Man Towa Tei in his Sweet Robots Against The Machine identity, Kahimi Karie with another softly spoken work of genius - her contribution to SUSHI 3003 is one of its highlights. If ever proof were required that pop is a universal language, then SUSHI 4004 is a document that would stand up in any court of law.
- Sweet And Dangerous Jazz Blues
- CD, Disky DC 859852, Netherlands, 1999
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 2 points on 5. Kenny Burrell, Three Sounds, Horace Silver...
- the sweets of siam - a bangkok P!O!P! compilation
- CD, apricd030 -EFA 27387, 2002
- comment:
- from the apricot records newsletter: ...the sweetest melody one could imagine. poppy and cool, light and exotic, dreamy and clubby... a handsome boy called rung in a bar in bangkok runs the stylish record-label small room and on this label he simply had released the most beautiful P!O!P!-music. bands with wonderful names like groovy airline, fashion show or penguin villa. close to P!O!P!-perfection but somehow mysterious and nouveau. when we received the package with tracks by bands from small room it felt a bit like the moment when we heard first question award by cornelius, the album that started j-pop for us. something new, something exciting, something fantastic is beginning. apricot records is proud and happy to offer the world the sweets of siam. come and have a look around in the world of P!O!P!-music from thailand. taste and enjoy: P!O!P! has not felt this wonderful and new in a long time
- Swing For A Crime
- CD, ? 842 623, France?, 1996
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5.
- Jack Diamond: 18 Tracks, 18 Different Artists of Jazz Noir/Crime Jazz/R & B Crime Noir Instrumental Sounds, with Spoken Word Introductions taken from Noir Films. Swing For a Crime is THE swingin'est thing there is. Cool rumbling drums as the back beat with groovy saxophones and electric guitars, voodoo-esque spooky scary coolness, 2 EXTREMELY GROOVY Beatnik Spoken Word Pieces with Bongo Music backings along with Bass and Electric Piano and snapping finger pops.
- Swing For A Crime
- LP, Venus In Furs 75031 GMG400 (bootleg), France, 198?
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5. Great beatnik and stupid R&R, even 1 Les baxter track.
- Swingin' Cheese - Croon Tunes And Kitscherama
- CD/Double LP, Irma 488689, Italy, 1997
- comment:
- Johan: My rating: 4 points on 5. featuring Mel Tormé, Pepe Jamarillo, Bossa Rio, Woody Herman, Trudy Pitts, Engelbert Humperdinck, Ray Coniff, Augusto Alguero, Jules Ruben...
- Swingin' Creepers! (A Tribute To The Ventures)
- CD, ? MS 0010, USA, 1999
- comment:
- Swingin' Talkin' Verve
- CD, Verve, USA, 1998
- comment:
- Swingin' The Classics
- CD, Viper's Nest 1010, USA, 199?
- comment:
- Johan: Fifteen Big Band swing versions of Strauss waltzes, folk tunes, traditionals, opera and operetta melodies, and great symphonies.
- Swinging 60's (Original Tracks from the Amphonic Library Archives)
- CD, Amphonic, UK, 2003?
- comment:
- Johan: some duplicates with previously released comps
- www.moviegrooves.com: collection of 60's & 70's groovy, funky and easy listening tracks from the archives of the Amphonic music library. Along wih the full length versions, this CD also contains 30 second versions of all the tracks. CD exclusive to Movie Grooves!
- Swinging Mademoiselle (16 Chanteuses Françaises Typiquement Anglaises! 1965-1968)
- LP, Sasha Monett SM-001, France, 1999
- comment:
- Johan: Some duplicates with "Ultra chicks".
- Reviewed in the "Record Collector" issue 240
- Stefan Kéry: 16 Cute French girls from the swinging 60s, part 2. Featuring LIZ BRADY (Palladium), ELSA LEROY (Quelle foule, Quelle Foule), ADELE (J'ai Peur Parfois), CLOTHILDE (La Ballade Du Bossu), JOCY (Les Dix Premiers), CHRISTINE PILZER (Ah-Hem-Ho-Hu-Err), CETTINA (Cettina), CAROLINE (Bach Ou Jerk), etc.
- Synth Me Up: 14 Classic Electronic Hits
- CD, Hip-O, USA, 1997
- comment:
- Rod Lott: The emphasis here is on the synth-cheese, i.e. Giorgio Moroder's "The Chase" or Jan Hammer's "Miami Vice Theme." Still, it does house the occasional gem, like Art of Noise's "Peter Gunn Theme" with Duane Eddy, and Hot Butter's version of "Popcorn". All in all, it's a great disc for those into that type of thing.
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