| 1. O Coracao Do Rei(The King's Heart) |
| 2. Meu Mundo E Uma Bola |
| 3. My World Is A Ball(Main Theme) |
| 4. Memorias(Memories) |
| 5. Nascimento(Birth) |
| 6. Voltando A Bauru(Back In Bauru) |
| 7. Cidade Grande(Big City)(Instrumental) |
| 8. Cidade Grande(Big City) |
| 9. Alma Latina(Latin Soul)/My World Is The Ball(Main Theme) |
| 10. A Triateza Dio Adeus(The Sadness Of Goodbye) |
| 11. Na Bahia(In Bahia) |
| 12. Amor Agressao(Love And Agression) |
| 13. Meu Mundo EUma Bola |
| 14. My World Is A Ball(Main Theme) |
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Japanese reissue, the worldwide CD debut of this original album by the Brazilian easy listening/ bossa nova great. The soundtrack to a 1977 film about the world's greatest soccer player, Pele, it contains all 13 of the cuts from the original 1977 issue, p
This is one CD that I have been through so many times - first on cassette in 1996, then on CD in 1998. After I lost that I remember burning it off a friends' copy and that was stolen. Then I downloaded the entire thing, burnt a copy of it. Somehow that got lost. I bought a used copy from a CD Warehouse in Florida in 2002 and I have no idea where that went. Today, I have it on my Ipod, so theres nothing left to lose.
This is most definitely one of my Top 10 Desert Island discs. It has a little bit of everything, but at the same time isn't really 'commercial' in the true sense of the word (though if you remember rightly, this did debut at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart back in '96, which is pretty darned good!).
The magic of this album lies in its deep lyrics, and very, very depressing instrumentation. It is a 'hard' album to get into, in that sense, but well worth the investment. I couldn't get into much of it upon first listen, except for 'Father Lucifer', which I thought was very timely and inspirational (apart from a killer tune). I also remember thinking when I first heard it, how similar it seemed to Fiona Apples' "Tidal" CD which came out around the same year. Both albums are similar in their instrumentation in some way, but this is much darker and more meaningful than Fiona's equally stellar debut.
Standout tracks are many. I particularly like replaying "In The Springtime of his Voodoo". In the beginning, I had a love-hate relationship with this CD. In many ways, this disc has the most 'personality' of all Amos' albums because it seems to be a living, breathing thing all of its' own (buy it and you'll know what I'm talking about). It always leaves me feeling as if there is a lot about it that I have not yet understood, and the multiple-meaning lyrics and subject matter will probably never be fully dissected or understood.
However, if you're into music as a passion and as something that life is built upon, then this disc is surely an indispensable part of your life. Personally, I rate this higher than The Beatles "White Album" and all those typical CDs you find littering Top 100 Best Album Ever lists. What is incomprehensible in this day and age is how few people still know of this album, and what an achievement it is.
Special mention must be made of the track "Caught a Lite Sneeze" - now this is one track I loved instantly and still finds repeat plays on my Ipod. Another favorite is 'Talula', and the underrated 'Muhammad my Friend'. Tori touches upon political, spiritual and socio-economic issues here, and in her standard fashion has some scathing things to say about all of these. However, the cohesive theme here is very much the Phoenix rising from the flames, which if you think about it, is something any human being can relate to in any stage of his life - which is exactly what makes this record so pertinent.
"Boys for Pele" also standardly receives praise from students of the piano - Tori has rarely sounded so adept at the instrument, and the multi-layered instrumentation that permeates this entire recording is definitely a high point. Coming as it did after the much shorter (yet coherent) "Under The Pink", this was the album that consolidated Tori Amos as a creative musical and lyrical genius. I recommend that you get it now, and discover (or rediscover) one of the most underrated treasures in the world of music.
A side note - Listening to this after listening to Toris' 2007 album "American Doll Posse" is somewhat overwhelming. The CD stands the test of time beautifully and is vintage Amos in the best way possible. It made me realize how much fire Tori had back in 1996 and how she kept pushing the envelope back then - her recent effort appears more tepid then, but I guess that only serves to highlight the beauty of this album.
Get this album if you're into songwriting and dark, haunting melodies. You'll realize how many singer-songwriters are posers, and how much talent Tori Amos brought to the genre.
Five Stars. An unmissable Album.
Tori Amos is not a being to be reasonably figured out, nor to be marveled at unfoundedly. Rather there is an understanding one worthy of her comes to with her work, and one must pay dearly for it! She shows no humility, because she does not need to; her most petty insecurities are transfigured within her to among the loftiest sentiments speakable. Especially this album is a departure from reality, so it seems - but more deeply it is a return to reality, a divine gust tearing through the art of lying, through Wall Street's modern life and times, through the parasitic decandence of a political ideal, through anything at all which stands because it convinces itself to do so. The power whose magic is powerlessness, the great contradiction of spirituality; these are embodied in an album so aptly steeped in myth.
She is not a master of arrangement, nor is she a fantastic pianist, but none of that matters at all (said by a worshipper of Beethoven and no other, may I add). And still she has the nerve to interject the wistful smile of Father Lucifer with a fugue, to violently, volcanically force together her most sinister howls and her most impassioned dedication to melody into the same song (Professional Widow) and follow this with a joke (Mr. Zebra), as though it flew by her completely unnoticed, as though we are meant to make nothing of it. Her voice is unparalleled in the history of music - this is certain - one must return to a piece written in the 11th century (Hildegard von Bingen's "Slice for St. Ursula") to find even an attempt to impart to immortality such transcendent mysticism through a voice alone. And no singer I have ever heard takes that opportunity. Never, having heard Vivaldi arias of unimaginable difficulty, having heard the ineffable flood of the songs of Schubert or the ethereal rivers of Sigur Ros, could I even conceive of any other voice that even approaches the realms of hers. The closest comparison I can think of, is to imagine a synergy of a true Flamenco singer (in Flamenco one sings as though one is possessed and drowning in heavenly fire) and a conjured mezzo-soprano from past centuries who moved every audience who heard her sing to crumble and weep on cue, with each caress of a note. In her world carrying a tune is a formality one respects when one feels like doing so; the inner spirits in her voice fly far above concord and discord, it is sheer transcendence of everything.
It is very easy to be confused by Boys for Pele, with its range from dangerous introversion to insatiable lust. It does not settle on a single mood for more than a few minutes; at times it finds itself disturbingly wicked, longing, comical, vulnerable, mystical, furious... but to be obfuscated by this is to be ignorant to the meanings of the album and of her art in general. And the one constant flow of it - its uncompromising honesty and genuninity - casts it off from mundane mortal shores and sails it into a world perhaps best described by Friedrich Nietzsche...
"light feet, wit, fire, grace; the dance of the stars; the great logic; the exuberant spirituality; the southern shivers of light; the smooth sea - perfection.-"
Blood Roses: I think the whole album contains the best lyrics from Tori, but this song in particular speaks a lot to me (you've cut out the flute from the throat of the loon at least when you cry now he can't even hear you) and as its first spot in this album, the harpischord is quite violent in its debut which fits painfully well with the song.
Father Lucifer: This is where the album first reaches a sense of happiness (even though it is only preparing for the darkness of Professional Widow) and a moment of elation is captured when Tori sings "Nothins' gonna stop me from flo-o-oating"
Marianne: The theme itself is wonderful as Tori pays tribute to a death of a loving young woman she knew in school who was thought to have commited suicide. The music is sweeping and sad and takes you away to what feels to be a completely different time.
Doughnut Song: What Pele means to me is a struggle to let somebody go that you've been dependant on for so long, and in the end to make peace with it. With Doughnut I feel that struggle the most, and that bittersweet poignancy of doing what you sometimes have to do.
[...]
Jason McCarley
Salt Lake City, Utah
Arthur Lyman's attempt to conjure up a sound worthy of expressing the firey and playful nature of the Volcano Goddess makes for a highly original and fascinating project. It begins well and ends quite nicely with very Hawaiian based melodies, however there are some weak spots interspersed throughout the album/CD. Some of the tracks sound more like an evening in a smokey beatnik cafe back on the mainland rather than a night among the gently swaying palm trees of the big island. But I guess that was the prevailing 'big sound' style in the late fifties so it's to be expected. In my opinion Lyman wandered too far from his main theme for this recording and it's this lapse in focus that suggests he didn't quite succeed in achieving what he had hoped for. Successful or not, it's just a little too 'Old School' for my tastes.
Overall enjoyable listening, but essentially ambient background music perfectly suited for adding a little atmosphere to a summers evening pool party for the older crowd.
Unlike the previous reviewer, I find the sound on my original copy of the vinyl to be OUTSTANDING! it is well worth the effort to seek out the original ...have fun.
Oh yes, have someone else start the barbeque!
1) First of all, these three CDs separately have been Out Of Print for ages and are almost impossible to get; but here you have them at a fantastic affordable price.
2) Second, for those who really know Sergio Mendes' work and have a collection of his, this compilation is a true treasure; and...
3)Third, Sergio's Music around that time was already in high demand, and here you have collaborations with people like Wanda Sah, Oscar Castro-Neves, Gerry Mulligan, Laudir de Oliveira, Dave Grusin, Tom Scott, John Pisano, Joao Donato, Moacir Santos, Dom Um Romao and Pele among many more.
Only for educated ears and educated and serious collectors, period.
Japanese reissue, the worldwide CD debut of this original album by the Brazilian easy listening/ bossa nova great. The soundtrack to a 1977 film about the world's greatest soccer player, Pele, it contains all 13 of the cuts from the original 1977 issue, p
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ASIN: B000002J88 Release Date: 1996-01-23 |
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- Beauty Queen/Horses
- Blood Roses
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- Professional Widow
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- Marianne
- Caught A Lite Sneeze
- Muhammad My Friend
- Hey Jupiter
- Way Down
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- Putting The Damage On
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Boys for Pele, the title of Tori Amos's epic third album, is as awkward and confusing as the music inside. Though it sounds like a recruitment slogan for Little League soccer, the name actually refers to the lost temples of feminine divinity. Pele, you see, is the Hawaiian volcano goddess; the boys, well, they're the sacrifices that quell the rumbling lady's rage. Attempting to regain fires stolen long ago, Pele rewrites the crucifixion to star a girl Jesus and in doing so conjures a forgotten matriarchal mythology. While Amos's characters--Jupiter, Muhammad, Lucifer--are male by name, the aural landscape into which they're thrown is as symbolically and expressionistically female as Georgia O'Keeffe's skull-and-roses paintings. Pele is a complex and formless--and often impenetrable--work of gothic-pop chamber music, both beautiful and ghostly in its nearly complete reliance on Amos's rolling Bosendorfer grand piano, chilling harpsichord (which she bangs like a courtly punk rocker), and acrobatic voice (as earthy as Joni Mitchell's and as otherworldly as Bjork's). Unfortunately, she takes us only halfway: her songs engage and challenge us to understand, but the imagery offers few clues to help us crack their frustrating opacity. Pele ends up as much a pretentious and self-indulgent trip as it is a synthesis of talent, imagination, and skewed vision. Still, there's reason to celebrate that an album as formalistically and thematically alien to pop audiences as Pele would win such quick success upon its original release. --Roni SarigCustomer Reviews:
Notes on the Second Greatest Album of All Time.......2007-05-09
This is one CD that I have been through so many times - first on cassette in 1996, then on CD in 1998. After I lost that I remember burning it off a friends' copy and that was stolen. Then I downloaded the entire thing, burnt a copy of it. Somehow that got lost. I bought a used copy from a CD Warehouse in Florida in 2002 and I have no idea where that went. Today, I have it on my Ipod, so theres nothing left to lose.
This is most definitely one of my Top 10 Desert Island discs. It has a little bit of everything, but at the same time isn't really 'commercial' in the true sense of the word (though if you remember rightly, this did debut at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart back in '96, which is pretty darned good!).
The magic of this album lies in its deep lyrics, and very, very depressing instrumentation. It is a 'hard' album to get into, in that sense, but well worth the investment. I couldn't get into much of it upon first listen, except for 'Father Lucifer', which I thought was very timely and inspirational (apart from a killer tune). I also remember thinking when I first heard it, how similar it seemed to Fiona Apples' "Tidal" CD which came out around the same year. Both albums are similar in their instrumentation in some way, but this is much darker and more meaningful than Fiona's equally stellar debut.
Standout tracks are many. I particularly like replaying "In The Springtime of his Voodoo". In the beginning, I had a love-hate relationship with this CD. In many ways, this disc has the most 'personality' of all Amos' albums because it seems to be a living, breathing thing all of its' own (buy it and you'll know what I'm talking about). It always leaves me feeling as if there is a lot about it that I have not yet understood, and the multiple-meaning lyrics and subject matter will probably never be fully dissected or understood.
However, if you're into music as a passion and as something that life is built upon, then this disc is surely an indispensable part of your life. Personally, I rate this higher than The Beatles "White Album" and all those typical CDs you find littering Top 100 Best Album Ever lists. What is incomprehensible in this day and age is how few people still know of this album, and what an achievement it is.
Special mention must be made of the track "Caught a Lite Sneeze" - now this is one track I loved instantly and still finds repeat plays on my Ipod. Another favorite is 'Talula', and the underrated 'Muhammad my Friend'. Tori touches upon political, spiritual and socio-economic issues here, and in her standard fashion has some scathing things to say about all of these. However, the cohesive theme here is very much the Phoenix rising from the flames, which if you think about it, is something any human being can relate to in any stage of his life - which is exactly what makes this record so pertinent.
"Boys for Pele" also standardly receives praise from students of the piano - Tori has rarely sounded so adept at the instrument, and the multi-layered instrumentation that permeates this entire recording is definitely a high point. Coming as it did after the much shorter (yet coherent) "Under The Pink", this was the album that consolidated Tori Amos as a creative musical and lyrical genius. I recommend that you get it now, and discover (or rediscover) one of the most underrated treasures in the world of music.
A side note - Listening to this after listening to Toris' 2007 album "American Doll Posse" is somewhat overwhelming. The CD stands the test of time beautifully and is vintage Amos in the best way possible. It made me realize how much fire Tori had back in 1996 and how she kept pushing the envelope back then - her recent effort appears more tepid then, but I guess that only serves to highlight the beauty of this album.
Get this album if you're into songwriting and dark, haunting melodies. You'll realize how many singer-songwriters are posers, and how much talent Tori Amos brought to the genre.
Five Stars. An unmissable Album.
"Wit, fire, grace...".......2007-04-27
Tori Amos is not a being to be reasonably figured out, nor to be marveled at unfoundedly. Rather there is an understanding one worthy of her comes to with her work, and one must pay dearly for it! She shows no humility, because she does not need to; her most petty insecurities are transfigured within her to among the loftiest sentiments speakable. Especially this album is a departure from reality, so it seems - but more deeply it is a return to reality, a divine gust tearing through the art of lying, through Wall Street's modern life and times, through the parasitic decandence of a political ideal, through anything at all which stands because it convinces itself to do so. The power whose magic is powerlessness, the great contradiction of spirituality; these are embodied in an album so aptly steeped in myth.
She is not a master of arrangement, nor is she a fantastic pianist, but none of that matters at all (said by a worshipper of Beethoven and no other, may I add). And still she has the nerve to interject the wistful smile of Father Lucifer with a fugue, to violently, volcanically force together her most sinister howls and her most impassioned dedication to melody into the same song (Professional Widow) and follow this with a joke (Mr. Zebra), as though it flew by her completely unnoticed, as though we are meant to make nothing of it. Her voice is unparalleled in the history of music - this is certain - one must return to a piece written in the 11th century (Hildegard von Bingen's "Slice for St. Ursula") to find even an attempt to impart to immortality such transcendent mysticism through a voice alone. And no singer I have ever heard takes that opportunity. Never, having heard Vivaldi arias of unimaginable difficulty, having heard the ineffable flood of the songs of Schubert or the ethereal rivers of Sigur Ros, could I even conceive of any other voice that even approaches the realms of hers. The closest comparison I can think of, is to imagine a synergy of a true Flamenco singer (in Flamenco one sings as though one is possessed and drowning in heavenly fire) and a conjured mezzo-soprano from past centuries who moved every audience who heard her sing to crumble and weep on cue, with each caress of a note. In her world carrying a tune is a formality one respects when one feels like doing so; the inner spirits in her voice fly far above concord and discord, it is sheer transcendence of everything.
It is very easy to be confused by Boys for Pele, with its range from dangerous introversion to insatiable lust. It does not settle on a single mood for more than a few minutes; at times it finds itself disturbingly wicked, longing, comical, vulnerable, mystical, furious... but to be obfuscated by this is to be ignorant to the meanings of the album and of her art in general. And the one constant flow of it - its uncompromising honesty and genuninity - casts it off from mundane mortal shores and sails it into a world perhaps best described by Friedrich Nietzsche...
"light feet, wit, fire, grace; the dance of the stars; the great logic; the exuberant spirituality; the southern shivers of light; the smooth sea - perfection.-"
Her lowest brings one of her highest.......2007-01-17
Blood Roses: I think the whole album contains the best lyrics from Tori, but this song in particular speaks a lot to me (you've cut out the flute from the throat of the loon at least when you cry now he can't even hear you) and as its first spot in this album, the harpischord is quite violent in its debut which fits painfully well with the song.
Father Lucifer: This is where the album first reaches a sense of happiness (even though it is only preparing for the darkness of Professional Widow) and a moment of elation is captured when Tori sings "Nothins' gonna stop me from flo-o-oating"
Marianne: The theme itself is wonderful as Tori pays tribute to a death of a loving young woman she knew in school who was thought to have commited suicide. The music is sweeping and sad and takes you away to what feels to be a completely different time.
Doughnut Song: What Pele means to me is a struggle to let somebody go that you've been dependant on for so long, and in the end to make peace with it. With Doughnut I feel that struggle the most, and that bittersweet poignancy of doing what you sometimes have to do.
[...]
Music from the soul.......2007-01-09
Jason McCarley
Salt Lake City, Utah
MASTERPIECE!!!!.......2006-10-27
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A waltz lovers delight:.......2007-02-11
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ASIN: B000007O7C Release Date: 1998-06-09 |
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Hawaiian Fire Goddess Does A Slow Burn .......2006-01-27
Arthur Lyman's attempt to conjure up a sound worthy of expressing the firey and playful nature of the Volcano Goddess makes for a highly original and fascinating project. It begins well and ends quite nicely with very Hawaiian based melodies, however there are some weak spots interspersed throughout the album/CD. Some of the tracks sound more like an evening in a smokey beatnik cafe back on the mainland rather than a night among the gently swaying palm trees of the big island. But I guess that was the prevailing 'big sound' style in the late fifties so it's to be expected. In my opinion Lyman wandered too far from his main theme for this recording and it's this lapse in focus that suggests he didn't quite succeed in achieving what he had hoped for. Successful or not, it's just a little too 'Old School' for my tastes.
Overall enjoyable listening, but essentially ambient background music perfectly suited for adding a little atmosphere to a summers evening pool party for the older crowd.
ANOTHER ARTHUR LYMAN GREATEST.......2005-07-13
awesome late 50's ambient lounge.......2004-12-27
Unlike the previous reviewer, I find the sound on my original copy of the vinyl to be OUTSTANDING! it is well worth the effort to seek out the original ...have fun.
Technically compromised.......2002-06-11
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Dance and sing!.......2004-11-05
Pele Juju - Pele Juju delivers uplifting music.......2000-06-19
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ASIN: B000OONSR4 Release Date: 2007-04-24 |
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Teaching The History of Teaching Geography
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ASIN: B000053F7S Release Date: 1998-01-01 |
Tracks:
- The Faber
- I Am An Exercise
- Venice
- A Car Full of Japanese Gangsters
- Testosterina
- Olympic
- Ghost Cat
- Hot Air Balloon Ride
Customer Reviews:
3.5 stars: sparkling and resilient instrumental rock.......2001-06-12
Pele welds a sturdy and poised rhythm section to springy melodic energies typical of banjo and picked guitar, and the expansive possibilities of a full spectrum of synth and oscillator textures.
This, their first (wordless) album, is consistently bright, and its tracks swell again and again with catchy arpeggiated chords and warm, tuneful harmonic slashes. Supremely likeable, it is well-worth having for those at all interested in this broad genre. The UK release on Rosewood Union adds three remixes, including two from the "People Living With Animals. Animals Kill Peolpe" record. Pele also has several subsequent releases, including the albums "Elephant" and "the Nudes", likewise solid by all accounts. Uh, there you go.
quirky instrumentation and rhythms.......2000-11-15
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In Person at El Matador/Pele/Sergio Mendes' Favorite Things
Sergio Mendes Manufacturer: Collectables ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil
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ASIN: B00005MKC8 Release Date: 2001-08-14 |
Tracks:
- Reza
- O Morro
- Samba Do Astronauta
- Tem Do De Mim
- Jodel
- Samba De Jose
- Noa Noa
- Black Orpheus Medley: Manha De Carnaval/Batuque De Orfeu/Samba De Orfeu/A Felicidade
- Arrastao
- Vai De Vez
- Caminho De Casa
- The King's Heart
- Main Theme: My World Is A Ball
- Memories
- Birth
- Back To Bauru
- Big City (Instrumental)
- Big City
- Main Theme: My World Is A Ball - Latin Soul
- The Sadness Of Goodbye
- The Sadness Of Goodbye
- In Bahia
- Love And Aggression
- Main Theme: My World Is A Ball
Tracks:
- My Favorite Things
- Happy Times
- Ponteio
- The Sailboat
- Parade
- I Say A Little Prayer
- Comin' Home Baby
- The Good Word
- The Sea Is My Soul
- So What's New
Album Description
This Collectables release features 3 classic LP's 'In Person At El Matador', 'Pele' and Sergio Mendes' Favorite Things' on 2 CD's, all completely remastered. These 3 original Atlantic jazz recordings include collaborations with famed producer and keyboardist Dave Grusin, sax player and flutist Tom Scott, and legendary sax player Gerry Muligan. Highlights include a live version of the 'Black Orpheus Medley', 'I Say a Little Prayer,' and music that accompanied the documentary 'Pele'.Customer Reviews:
Retro Brazil.......2005-10-03
Oh yes, have someone else start the barbeque!
Great Brazilian Jazz / Great Collectible.......2005-09-08
1) First of all, these three CDs separately have been Out Of Print for ages and are almost impossible to get; but here you have them at a fantastic affordable price.
2) Second, for those who really know Sergio Mendes' work and have a collection of his, this compilation is a true treasure; and...
3)Third, Sergio's Music around that time was already in high demand, and here you have collaborations with people like Wanda Sah, Oscar Castro-Neves, Gerry Mulligan, Laudir de Oliveira, Dave Grusin, Tom Scott, John Pisano, Joao Donato, Moacir Santos, Dom Um Romao and Pele among many more.
Only for educated ears and educated and serious collectors, period.
save your money.......2005-08-20
three unrelated albums.......2002-07-31
Soundtrack for the Swinging Sixties.......2001-09-23
But, it is disc two, "Sergio Mendes' Favorite Things" that is the real find. Featuring Mendes's trademark arrangements, the disc soars, as it is an instrumental journey into the sultry music that typified the decade. Highlights are "My Favorite Things, " "I Say a Little Prayer," the Dionne Warwick hit, "Comin' Home Baby," and "Boa Palavra (The Good Word)."
Should Mike Myers decide to have his alter-ego "Austin Powers" take another trip back to groovy days of the late 60's, this will be the perfect music with which he can travel.
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The Nudes
Pele Manufacturer: Polyvinyl Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B00004WF92 Release Date: 2000-09-19 |
Tracks:
- Nude Beach. Pin Hole Camera
- The Mind Of Minolta
- Therapists
- Visit Pumpy
- Total Hut
- Black Socks
- Gugi
- Monkey Monkey Las Vegas
Customer Reviews:
Oodles of Noodles, and worth the ride..........2001-05-30
Oodles of Noodles, and worth the ride..........2001-05-30
Ultimately listenable.......2001-01-13
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