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More Delicious Spaghetti Western $14.43 Sequels to popular instrumental compilations often fall prey to the law of diminishing returns, but More Delicious Spaghetti Western proves an exception to that rule. In fact, this compilation of cues from spaghetti western soundtracks manages to improve on its predecessor because it offers a wider selection of composers and film scores. Although its track listing ignores crucial Sergio Leone classics like A Fistful of Dollars and Once Upon a Time in the West, More Delicious Spaghetti Western still manages to present a pretty comprehensive selection of important composers who contributed to this genre. Most importantly, this album includes four tracks by Ennio Morricone, the king of the spaghetti western film score. The best of these tracks are "Il Mio Nome E Nessuno," a flute-led instrumental that blends gentle acoustic guitar accompaniment with a sprightly, playful choral arrangement, and "Vamos A Matar Companeros," a rousing and fast-paced track that is built around Spanish choral vocals but throws in a humorous, head-spinning instrumental break that trots out every spaghetti western soundtrack device in the book (reverbed electric guitar, wailing voices, martial horn blasts, etc.). More Delicious Spaghetti Western also illustrates how musically diverse this style of music could be within its stylistic constraints: "Una Ragione Per Vivere E Una Per Morire" applies militaristic elements that would be at home in a war movie (drum corps-like percussion, reveille-style horns) into its western style, and "Sartana" grafts spaghetti western guitar work onto an organ-driven melody that owes more to 1960s lounge pop than it does to traditional western movie music. All in all, More Delicious Spaghetti Western is a strong and catchy collection music that will appeal to soundtrack lovers and lounge music fanatics alike. ~ Donald A. Guarisco, All Music GuidePerformers: Edda Dell'Orso - Vocals; Don Powell - Vocals

Cold Spaghetti Western $9.98 For Cold Spaghetti Western (Ha! Get it?), Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, and Greg Page get out the bandannas, western shirts, and Stetsons for a ride on "The Wiggly Trail," as well as other adventures. Opener "We're the Cowboys" is a nice country & western singalong; it also introduces the "Yee-HAH!" and "Yipeee!" western whoops that pepper Cold Spaghetti Western. "Master Pasta Maker (From Italy)" introduces an Italian chef friend of the Wiggles'; he sings in Italian as the track gets faster and faster, and continues the Italian lessons through the funny introduction to "Follow the Bird." "Hey Now, Let's Have a Party!" is a nice mix of Caribbean and Latin styles, and "Fiesta Siesta" teaches kids the Spanish words for both party and nap. Cold Spaghetti's best moments feature Wiggles guests Fernando and Fernandito Moguel. The Moguels speak mostly Spanish during their introductions, but despite only minimal translation from the Wiggles, they're remarkably easy to understand. They perform the Mexican traditionals "Cielito Lindo" and "El Pato," furthering the international flair of the Wiggles' western trek. But it's their conversations that are key, since they become subtle lessons in linguistics for curious kids. ~ Johnny Loftus, All Music GuidePerformers: Dominic Lindsay - Brass; Manzillas - Vocals (Background); Steve Blau - Keyboards; Murray Cook - Bass; Anthony Field - Guitar; John Field - Guitar; Robin Gist - Guitar; Tony Henry - Drums; Chris Lupton - Bass; Steve Machamer - Percussion; Sam Maron - Vocals; Fernando Moguel Jr. - Vocals; Sam Moran - Vocals;

Target $11.98 Target is one of those Tom Scott records that gets forgotten about a lot. Certainly it comes from the middle of the 1980s just before the GRP era, when Scott was still leading the Saturday Night Live Band on occasion and looking around for a new sound. It's the sound of a restless musician who gets the pop game, or at least has gotten it and is not sure of where to shift his focus next. The band is big and full of killer players: Harvey Mason, Ernie Watts, Ian Underwood, Victor Feldman, Paul Jackson, Neil Stubenhaus, Jim Horn, Trevor Feldman, Pete Christlieb, and Michael Boddicker, among others. The sound is a tad warmer than what Atlantic was releasing at the time, too. But the material, as good as some of it is -- like the funky title track -- also contains half-hearted pop ballads like "Come Back to Me" with Kenny James on vocals. "He's Too Young," with a fine vocal performance by Maria Muldaur, is marred by a terribly dated -- and it was for the time -- synth drum sound. There is also a truly bizarre moment when Lee Ving, former lead singer of Los Angeles hardcore band Fear raps and plays blues harmonica on "Gotta Get out of New York." Then there's "Lollipoppin'" which, while it contains the same dumb synth drum sound, also has some killer Rhodes by Feldman, synth work by Underwood, and a happening keyboard bassline. The grooving muted horn section on this reading of Dan Peck's "The Biggest Part of Me," has a wonderfully soulful feel with great kit work by Mason. The horn arrangements are in the pocket but restrained, allowing that lithe melody to shine through and, along with the title cut, it's a contender for best tune on the set. The set closes with the stone-gone funky groover "Burundi Bump" by Scott and Feldman with excellent basslines, pulsing Rhodes work, a boatload of percussion, and Mason running the ensemble from his kit; the entire tune is rhythm based. So Target is, ultimately, a mixed bag, a hold-over record that was throwing everything at the wall to see what worked. Interestingly, what did was the basis for Scott's sound at GRP. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music GuidePerformers: Tom Scott - Lyricon, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor), Saxophone, Synthesizer, Wind; Judi Brown - Vocals (Background); Trevor Feldman - Fender Rhodes, Keyboards; Victor Feldman - Fender Rhodes, Keyboards, Percussion, Piano, Synthesizer; Jerry Hey - Flugelhorn, Horn, Trumpet;

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Grosse Pointe Blank $13.98 Director George Armitage's Grosse Pointe Blank (which probably should be called John Cusack's Grosse Pointe Blank, since he not only starred in it, but also co-wrote and co-produced it) is set at a ten-year high-school reunion in Grosse Pointe, MI, in the present day, that being the spring of 1996. Thus, ex-Clash member Joe Strummer, credited with the original score, could call upon music dating back to the mid-'80s for songs the characters, now in their late twenties, would know. You might expect, then, that those 1986 graduates would be grooving to, say, Heart's "These Dreams" or "Greatest Love of All" by Whitney Houston. But, of course, Cusack and Strummer are much too hip for such popular fare. Instead, they put together a collection of edgy, British-oriented new wave and alternative rock, mostly from the early and mid-'80s, tracks by the likes of the Clash, the English Beat, the Specials, and the Jam, plus Americans Violent Femmes and Faith No More. Then there are ringers like Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now," which was a hit in 1972 when the main characters would have been about three years old, and Guns N' Roses' version of "Live and Let Die," which wasn't a hit until 1991. Okay, so this isn't really the music that would have been popular with the 1986 graduating class in Grosse Pointe. Who cares? The soundtrack album works well, including a relaxed "remix" (actually a different version) of Pete Townshend's "Let My Love Open the Door" as well as a new take on Violent Femmes' "Blister in the Sun" called "Blister 2000." Like the movie, which grossed 28 million dollars, the soundtrack album was a modest success, peaking at number 31, which inspired a follow-up collection, More Music From the Film Grosse Pointe Blank. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music GuidePerformers: Peter Balestrieri - Sax (Baritone), Vocals; Steve MacKay - Sax (Baritone)

Wiggles: Cold Spaghetti Western $12.71 Kid-friendly pop/rock band the Wiggles face a culinary showdown in this blend of comedy and music. Bandmates Murray (Murray Cook), Jeff (Jeff Fatt), Anthony (Anthony Field), and Greg (Greg Page) are all decked out in their best cowboy duds and hit the road to check out the cook-off at the Town Fair. They take a wrong turn en route, however, and find themselves at a diner called The Great Western Cafe, where their pals Dorothy the Dinosaur (Leanne Ashley) and Wags the Dog (Paul Paddick) are trying to help Alfonso the Master Pasta Maker. Alfonso makes his famous noodle dish, but he just can't remember the secret ingredient that makes it come alive. Can the Wiggles and their buddies refresh his memory in time to enter the cook-off? The Wiggles: Cold Spaghetti Western also features 13 new songs from the foursome. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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The Spaghetti Incident? $5 As punk albums go, The Spaghetti Incident? lacks righteous anger and rage. As Guns N' Roses albums go, it's a complete delight, returning to the ferocious, hard-rocking days of Appetite for Destruction. The Gunners play Stooges and New York Dolls songs exactly as they do Nazareth -- as straight-ahead, driving riff-rockers. After the epic Use Your Illusions, the band sounds like it's having fun, not caring about making "art" like "November Rain" or "Estranged." Unfortunately, the tacked-on Charles Manson song leaves a bad aftertaste, but not because of the song itself; the inclusion of the song seems like a publicity-seeking stunt, a way to increase their sales while trying to regain their street credibility. And as The Spaghetti Incident? proves, they didn't need to stoop so low. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music GuidePerformers: Axl Rose - Kazoo, Keyboards, Vocals; Gilby Clarke - Guitar (Rhythm); Eddie Huletz - Vocals (Background); Eric Mills - Vocals (Background); Richard Duguay - Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm); Mike Fasano - Percussion; Duff McKagan - Bass, Drums, Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals, Vocals (Background); Michael Monroe - Vocals; Dizzy Reed - Keyboards, Piano, Vocals (Background); Slash - Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm), Vocals (Background); Matt Sorum - Drums, Percussion, Vocals (Background); Mike Staggs - Guitar

Bassett: Concerto for Alto Saxophone; Bolcom: Lyric Concerto; Daugherty: Spaghetti Western $16.98 Performers: William Campbell - Trumpet; Clifford Leaman - Sax (Alto); Amy K. Porter - Flute; Harold Smoliar - Horn (English)

Spaghetti Epic, Vol. 2: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly $25.99 Released in May 2005, The Spaghetti Epic, Vol. 2 is intended -- and successful -- as a second round of the first volume. Three bands already featured on The Spaghetti Epic have been asked to write and perform a long suite (over 20 minutes) of Italian-styled progressive rock, using for inspiration a classic Sergio Leone spaghetti western. The original Spaghetti Epic released in 2005 featured six bands over two CDs tackling Once Upon a Time in the West. This time around, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly gets a three-band, single-disc treatment. It seems that the projects were meant to be released closer together, but the untimely death of Haikara leader Vesa Lattunen set the second volume back, until Randone were able to step in, and compose and record their own suite. The novelty effect may be wearing off by now, but The Spaghetti Epic, Vol. 2 is musically successful, at least as much as its older brother. Randone's "The Good" opens with Ennio Morricone's unforgettable theme, before launching into a roller-coaster depiction of Clint Eastwood's character, with a lot of vintage Italian prog rock feel. Again, here is a band turning in one of its best-ever songs for a Colossus-Musea thematic project. Putting "The Bad" into music befell to "La Voce del Vento" (aka the Tangent's Andy Tillison and Guy Manning masquerading as Italian musicians -- they are billed as "Andreas Tillisoni" and "Guy De M'Anningi"). A bit lighter in tempo, arrangements and lyrical content than the other pieces, their epic song provides a breather of sorts, and some very nice organ playing. Their take on Italian prog rock occasionally verges on the pastiche (especially in the first chorus, a bit too Banco-like for comfort). Tilion close the proceedings with "The Ugly," a raucous piece full of yearning themes, clever dissonances and over-the-top tension. The suite is clearly a case of love-it-or-hate-it, but it undoubtedly succeeds in portraying Eli Wallach's despicable character. Tilion's piece requires several listens before it unveils its beauties, but, in the long run, it may be the most endearing one on this set. Highly recommended, again. ~ François Couture, RoviPerformers: Andrea Ricci - Didjeridu, Vocals, Voices; Alfio Costa - Fender Rhodes, Harmonium, Korg Synthesizer, Mellotron, Mini Moog, Organ (Hammond), Piano (Grand); Paolo Cassago - Drums; Livio Rabito - Guitar (Bass), Vocals; Nicola Randone - Guitar (12 String), Mellotron, Moog Synthesizer, Org

SPAGHETTI WESTERN DOUBLE SHOT $17.96 RUN MAN RUN: This release of RUN MAN RUN is the first fully uncut version to be released in America. Directed by Sergio Sollima (REVOLVER, VIOLENT CITY), and starring Tomas Milian (TRAFFIC), this brutal, often sadistic, western is an epic political thriller, complete with an Ennio Morricone/Bruno Nicolai score. Milian plays the role of Cuchillo, on the run from bandits, federal agents, bounty hunters, and his fiancee! All are chasing a hidden stash of gold which could potentially fund the Mexican Revolution, and Cuchillo is going to have some running to do if he wants to achieve his target. RUN MAN RUN pulls no punches in getting its overtly political message across, the performances and direction eventually culminating in a bloody finale that will have you on the edge of your seat.MANNAJA: A MAN CALLED BLADE:Presented fully uncut for the first time in America, MANNAJA is a spaghetti western from the twisted mind of infamous Italian director Sergio Martino (TORSO). Maurizio Merli (FATAL CHARMS, FEARLESS) stars as Blade, a ruthless bounty hunter trying to escape from his past misdeeds. A fierce orgy of guns and violence erupts when Blade upsets the residents of a corrupt town, causing numerous standoff's between himself and the local residents. For fans who have awaited this release for many years, the good news is that the infamous 'eyeball torture' scene is fully intact. For newcomers, the mere fact that there is an 'eyeball torture' sequence should give you some idea of the no-holds barred thrills that await you!

Spaghetti West $17.98 This IFC original documentary celebrates the history of the spaghetti western--the wildly popular genre of cinema classics of the 1960s created by Italy's finest filmmakers. Americans may have lost interest in Western pictures after the 1950s, but their European cousins carried on the tradition of the Wild West horse opera in hundreds of productions over subsequent decades. The Spaghetti West explores the genre's rise and continued popularity over three decades with rare footage from dozens of classic Italian westerns, original trailers, and insightful interviews with cast and crew, including Clint Eastwood, Ennio Morricone, Ferdinando Baldi, Sergio Corbucci and Damiano Damiani.From A Fistful of Dollars to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and countless others, this highly praised tribute restores the spaghetti western to its rightful place in film history.

Wiggles-Cold Spaghetti Western $8.99 Get ready to boot scoot down the Wiggly Trail in this western adventure with wiggly music. Cowpokes Greg, Anthony, Murray and Jeff are hustling to the Town Fair. Their friend Alfonso the Master Pasta Maker must win the country Cook-Off to save the Great Western Cafe from going bust. But there's bad news, pardner! Alfonso lost the secret ingredient to his pasta. With help from Foodman, the Superhero of Sustenance. The Wiggles ride off into the sunset having saved the day - and the cafe!

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Once Upon a Time: The Essential Ennio Morricone Film Music Collection $19.53 The two-disc Once Upon a Time: The Essential Ennio Morricone is a serviceable but unexciting overview of some of the highlights of the Italian soundtrack master's enormous catalog. Because it's designed for the newcomer and the casual fan, the play list consists almost entirely of songs that will be overly familiar to those who have been following Morricone's career for some time, with the umpteenth iteration of the spaghetti Western themes filling nearly the entirety of the first disc while ignoring the more obscure but equally interesting work the composer did in other musical and cinematic styles during the same period. However, disc two is a nicely varied collection of songs from Morricone's '80s and '90s work, a mature period in his musical career with essential highlights like the lovely, haunted "The Mission" and the sentimentally nostalgic "Cinema Paradiso." Because of the ongoing interest in Morricone's earlier work, his equally fine later scores are too often ignored, and disc two of this collection is a solid starting point for those who want to move on from "A Fistful of Dynamite: Duck, You Sucker." Again, however, established fans will find little they're not already familiar with. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music GuidePerformers: Marie Kopecka - Contralto (Vocal); Charlotte Kinder - Soprano (Vocal); Jill Washington - Soprano (Vocal); Paul Bateman - Piano; Gareth Williams - Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion

Wiggles Cold Spaghetti Western $9.39 Rated: NA Synopsis: Get ready to boot scoot down the Wiggly Trail in this western adventure with wiggly music. Cowpokes Greg, Anthony, Murray and Jeff are hustling to the Town Fair. Their friend Alfonso the Master Pasta Maker must win the country Cook-Off to save the Great Western Cafe from going bust. But there's bad news, pardner! Alfonso lost the secret ingredient to his pasta. With help from Foodman, the Superhero of Sustenance. The Wiggles ride off into the sunset having saved the day - and the cafe! SONGS Were The Cowboys El Plato The Wiggly Trail Listen To The Drummer Playing Let's Go To The Great Western Cafe Foodman The Master Pasta Maker (From Italy) Follow The Bird Fiesta Siesta Olive Oil Hey now, Let's Have A Party! Cielito Lindo Farewell To The Wiggly Trail

The Music of John Williams: 40 Years of Film Music $36.53 Reynold da Silva's Silva Screen Records (of which Prime Time is an imprint) has devoted itself to new recordings of film music (usually, as here, performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra), and its box set The Music of John Williams: 40 Years of Film Music, filling four CDs and running over three hours and 45 minutes, is one of its most ambitious efforts. That's appropriate for Williams, both because he is the most successful film composer of the 40-year period beginning in the early '60s and because his music is produced on such a large scale. Since the '70s, Williams has been associated with directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, and he has matched their blockbuster films with his large-scale scores, producing some of the most memorable themes of the era, including instantly recognizable music from Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and the Star Wars and Indiana Jones series. Spielberg and Lucas have often attempted to evoke the styles of the old serials of the '40s, such as Flash Gordon, but on an epic scale, and Williams has done much the same thing with his music, which owes little or nothing to the more jazz- and rock-influenced film composers of the '50s and '60s, and everything to the film composers of an earlier generation, such as Franz Waxman and Victor Young, with its sweeping orchestral statements, martial rhythms, and grandly ornamented melodies. Yet, like the directors, Williams does it all with a slight wink to the audience. This collection doesn't restrict itself to Williams' best-known work, but it does demonstrate that even in his lesser-known pieces, his style is often much the same. The overture from The Cowboys, for example, while employing some standard Western elements familiar from Hollywood movies of decades before, also has a hint of Star Wars. Even when he is scoring a more downbeat film like Born on the Fourth of July, Williams can't seem to help writing his usual uplifting music. Despite its length, this collection can't do more than offer excerpts of Williams' extensive work, but the sampling is representative, and the best of the composer's familiar themes is included. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music GuidePerformers: Jaroslav Klepac - Celeste, Piano; Charlotte Kinder - Soprano (Vocal), Vocals; Steve Lockwood - Harmonica

WIGGLES-COLD SPAGHETTI WESTERN, TH $13.46 Kid-friendly pop/rock band the Wiggles face a culinary showdown in this blend of comedy and music. Bandmates Murray (Murray Cook), Jeff (Jeff Fatt), Anthony (Anthony Field), and Greg (Greg Page) are all decked out in their best cowboy duds and hit the road to check out the cook-off at the Town Fair. They take a wrong turn en route, however, and find themselves at a diner called The Great Western Cafe, where their pals Dorothy the Dinosaur (Leanne Ashley) and Wags the Dog (Paul Paddick) are trying to help Alfonso the Master Pasta Maker. Alfonso makes his famous noodle dish, but he just can't remember the secret ingredient that makes it come alive. Can the Wiggles and their buddies refresh his memory in time to enter the cook-off? The Wiggles: Cold Spaghetti Western also features 13 new songs from the foursome. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Spaghetti & Stars $9.48 Leonardo DiCaprio loves pasta, and in that, he's not alone. Spaghetti & Stars--the latest volume in the successful series which also includes Caff & Stars and Airports & Stars--collects many previously unpublished photographs of the age's biggest celebrities, caught by paparazzi on movie sets and in sidewalk restaurants in Rome, enjoying meals that give them the energy to pursue la dolce vita. In Spaghetti & Stars--a record of funny, exuberant moments in a more glamorous time--we see the most famous faces of the 1950s and 60s being filled with good food: Italian film legends De Sica, Fellini, Mastroianni, and Magnani join French stars Belmondo, Aim e, and Moreau, and Americans Rock Hudson, Cary Grant, and Ginger Rogers in partaking of Italian mealtime traditions. Dean Martin and John Wayne hover over a pan with eagerness, literally putting the "spaghetti" in the spaghetti Western's set. And no one looks more radiant than Sophia Loren, even as she's holding aloft a fork full of draping pasta.

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Blank Generation $11.98 Richard Hell was one of the first men on the scene when punk rock first began to emerge in New York City as an early member of both Television and the Heartbreakers (he left both groups before they could record), but his own version of punk wasn't much like anyone else's, and while Hell's debut album, Blank Generation, remains one of the most powerful to come from punk's first wave, anyone expecting a Ramones/Dead Boys-style frontal assault from this set had better readjust their expectations. "Love Comes in Spurts" and "Liar's Beware" proved the Voidoids could play fast and loud when they wanted to, but for the most part this group's formula was much more complicated than that; guitarists Robert Quine and Ivan Julian bounced sharp, edgy patterns off each other that were more about psychological tension than brute force (though Quine's solos suggest a fragile grace beneath the surface of their neo-Beefheart chaos), and while most punk nihilism was of the simplistic "Everything Sucks" variety, Hell was (with the exception of Patti Smith) the most literate and consciously poetic figure in the New York punk scene. While there's little on the album that's friendly or life-affirming, there's a crackling intelligence to songs like "New Pleasure," "Betrayal Takes Two," and "Another World" that confirmed Hell has a truly unique lyrical voice, at once supremely self-confident and dismissive of nearly everything around him (sometimes including himself). Brittle and troubling, but brimming with ideas and musical intelligence, Blank Generation was groundbreaking punk rock that followed no one's template, and today it sounds just as fresh -- and nearly as abrasive -- as it did when it first hit the racks. ~ Mark Deming, All Music GuidePerformers: Marc Bell - Drums; Richard Hell - Bass, Vocals; Ivan Julian - Guitar, Vocals (Background); Robert Quine - Guitar, Vocals (Background)

Music and Rhythm: Ubiquity Studio Sessions, Vol. 1 $16.98 There is no Ping Pong Orchestra, of course -- unless you want to count the impressive array of vintage soul, jazz, and funk LPs on which Shawn Lee drew for this celebration of rare grooves and modern loops. The first installment in the Ubiquity label's Studio Sessions series, Music and Rhythm draws on everything from Indian film soundtracks ("Bollywood") to souled-up Brazilian grooves ("Swamp Samba"), spaghetti Western funk ("Pasta Cowboy"), and hyperactive spy movie chase scene music ("King Conga"). Not everything here fits easily into a single category either, which makes things even more fun: "Brooklyn" is a fairly straightforward piece of trip-hop turntablism, but "Scorpion" is some kind of twisted amalgam of 1970s funk and metal, and "Monterey Jack" brings back the spaghetti Western sonorities and fuses them with lazy funky soul. If you're someone who keeps the six-disc CD player shuffling constantly back and forth between Saint Etienne, Ennio Morricone, James Brown, and Percy Faith, then you'll get a huge kick out of this album. ~ Rick Anderson, All Music GuidePerformers: Siya - Scratching; Pete Davis - Synthesizer; Shawn Lee - Vocals

Wiggles, The: Cold Spaghetti Western (DVD) $9.95 Get ready to boot scoot down the Wiggly Trail in this western adventure with wiggly music. Cowpokes Greg, Anthony, Murray and Jeff are hustling to the Town Fair. Their friend Alfonso the Master Pasta Maker must win the country Cook-Off to save the Great Western Cafe from going bust. But there's bad news, pardner! Alfonso lost the secret ingredient to his pasta. With help from Foodman, the Superhero of Sustenance. The Wiggles ride off into the sunset having saved the day - and the cafe! SONGS Were The Cowboys El Plato The Wiggly Trail Listen To The Drummer Playing Let's Go To The Great Western Cafe Foodman The Master Pasta Maker (From Italy) Follow The Bird Fiesta Siesta Olive Oil Hey now, Let's Have A Party! Cielito Lindo Farewell To The Wiggly Trail

The Spaghetti West (DVD) $17.81 The spaghetti western manages to attract an impressively wide group of film fans, ranging from scholarly types to viewers who simply like to see a good shoot `em up. Here, the IFC channel celebrates the genre and talks to many people involved in its evolution, such as Ennio Morricone and Clint Eastwood.

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Western Classics $14.98 If you thought Lugubrious was taking quite a sidestep from MX-80's output, beware of Western Classics. The ambient feel of the previous album remains, but its electronica touches are downplayed in favor of an Ennio Morricone feel. Bruce Anderson and Jim Hrabetin's guitars and basses occupy center stage for this project. Twangy chords and smoky melodies and desert-flavored effects abound. The drums of Dave Mahoney and Marc Weinstein are often the only accompaniment. Arrangements are stark but efficient, creating wide-angle cinematics that may or may not relate to the movies from which they take their titles. But the mood is right: a postmodern West, where beatboxes have been left to decay in the sand and Western clichés have evolved into a new form of instrumental rock. "The Searchers" and "3 Faces of Eve" both contain memorable themes and creative guitar work. "The Manchurian Candidate" features quiet wordless vocals from Dale Sophiea (created for "narrative flow"). A Western-themed album would not be complete without a whistled tune, so "Point Blank" delivers it. The album consists of six pieces in the five- to seven-minute range, plus the half-hour-long "McCabe & Mrs. Miller (With Deleted Scenes)." A myth breaker of sorts, this movie called for a slightly different soundtrack. The piece heard here is actually a suite of seemingly unrelated sections moving from guitar strumming to drones and experimental improvisation. It sounds like a collage made from the strips of footage left on the floor after the director left the editing room. It is considerably less impressive than the other material on the album (it lacks focus and is too uneven), but it still has its moments. And it doesn't bring down tunes like "The Searchers." ~ François Couture, All Music GuidePerformers: Bruce Anderson - Bass, Guitar; Jim Hrabetin - Bass, Guitar; Dave Mahoney - Drums; Dale Sophiea - Bass; Marc Weinstein - Drums

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Forbidden Kiss: The Music Of S. D. Berman $16.98 A straight collaboration originally undertaken in 1994 between main man Chris Rael of postmodern psychedelic-Indian fusioneers Church of Betty and Anglo-Indian siren Najma Akhtar, Forbidden Kisses took over a year to complete, finally seeing release in 1996. Part of the reason for the lengthy time consumption is the complexity of the album, which is a tribute to pioneer Hindi cinema composer S.D. Burman, whose reputation, the liner notes point out, is roughly equivalent in South Asia to George Gershwin or Irving Berlin in the West. You really a get a feel for the Western cinematic influence on his music on "Piya Tu Ab to Aaja," and Rael wonderfully frames this aspect of the composition. The song literally interprets spy music from the 1960s (when it was written for the film Caravan), but you can hear a jumbled discourse of borrowed techniques, from the plangent reverb-guitar stylings of Ennio Morricone-style spaghetti western to salsa-fied counter-rhythms, and Rael further fleshes out the music with a worldbeat bassline. His additions to the music are awesome, spotting everything from exotic hand percussion and sitar to typical Western instruments (guitar, violin, keyboards) and splashes of horns at all the right moments, neither overloading nor underwhelming the music but rendering it mutable and wonderfully alive. "Aaj Ki Raat" is another noir opus but with the Church of Betty rhythm section turning in an electric Traffic-like groove to spur Akhtar's typically virtuoso singing. Her performances are wonderfully varied throughout the album. On "Piya Tose," one of the most famous Hindi film songs of all time (from Guide), she sounds dangerously coquettish, while on "Thandi Hawaon Ne" is passionate and energetic. Although unlike anything else in either of their catalogs, Forbidden Kiss was arguably the strongest music both Akhtar and Rael had made up to this point in their musical lives. ~ Stanton Swihart, All Music GuidePerformers: Bob Muller - Darbouka, Tabla; Sarah Hewitt - Cello; Gregor Kitzis - Viola, Violin; Steven Bernstein - Trumpet; Jon Feinberg - Drums, Keyboards, Percussion, Vocals (Background); Mark Feldman - Violin; Steve Gorn - Flute;

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Every now and then a movie comes along that makes no pretense of featuring great acting, singing, directing and writing, but seeks to be only what it is-just plain fun! The most recent of these rare movies is "Mamma Mia!", released in 2008.

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