Best Progressive Rock
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great purchase, a great item for my collection!!!"
"My original CD was beat and wanted a replacement before they quit making them."
"The artwork is incredible."
"Tool is amazing on this CD."
"Any Tool album is a good one..."
Includes Bohemian Rhapsody; Killer Queen; We Are the Champions; We Will Rock You; Crazy Little Thing Called Love; Another One Bites the Dust; Under Pressure (original and Rah mix); You're My Best Friend; Fat Bottomed Girls , and more. While it eschews the glammy, pre-punk hard rock of live faves like "Stone Cold Crazy" and "Tie Your Mother Down" for the band's more quirky club-beat string of latter-day hits, this 51-track triple-CD anthology goes a long way toward documenting the true dimensions of the band's music and fame.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"If you're a Queen or Freddie Mercury fan this is it."
"Who doesn't love Queen."
"I had enjoyed it in the 80's and 90's but had not listened to the music of Queen in a couple of decades."
"I really shouldn't need to say why I voted 5 stars."
"I would have given it 5 stars without hesitation, except that one of my all time favorites "Somebody To Love" skips - so I have to go back to "A Day At The Races" for that."
"we love this cd sooooo much thank-you."
"This compilation of CDs is exactly what queen fans should get if they want a physical copy of their greatest work."
"3 cd's of Queen!"
3 The Wall
The new Discovery version presents the original studio album, digitally remastered by James Guthrie and reissued with newly designed Digipak and a new 28 page booklet designed by Storm Thorgerson.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"What a fabulous job, they did on this, essential, classic album!"
"I was extremely happy to finally obtain a great copy of the first edition of one of the all time best albums."
"A must for any Pink Floyd fan."
"What a fantastic deal!"
"One of the best visual and musical performances you can witness."
"I lost my record album over 16 yrs. I have not played the new CD's in this Shrunkin version of my long lost album. Before I got it I was wondering if when I opened it, it was gonna be like the album in this respect(YES,LIKE THE ALBUM, THERE WAS NO PRINT,LOGO,on the cover. Maybe those cheaper ones don't have the original blank cover(When you bought the album in the store it looked like there was the PF logo and album title on it, but when the shrink wrap came off a piece of paper fell out with logo on it and not the cardboard/actual cover). I had to open it I just like how these little LP cd's feel."
"The CD itself has surpassed Dark Side of The Moon in my book."
"Got a new pair of Sennheiser over the ear headphones and this is the first bit of music I purchased so I could try out the headphones."
Best Progressive Rock Music
Includes Bohemian Rhapsody; Killer Queen; We Are the Champions; We Will Rock You; Crazy Little Thing Called Love; Another One Bites the Dust; Under Pressure (original and Rah mix); You're My Best Friend; Fat Bottomed Girls , and more. While it eschews the glammy, pre-punk hard rock of live faves like "Stone Cold Crazy" and "Tie Your Mother Down" for the band's more quirky club-beat string of latter-day hits, this 51-track triple-CD anthology goes a long way toward documenting the true dimensions of the band's music and fame.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"If you're a Queen or Freddie Mercury fan this is it."
"Who doesn't love Queen."
"I had enjoyed it in the 80's and 90's but had not listened to the music of Queen in a couple of decades."
"I really shouldn't need to say why I voted 5 stars."
"Compact Disc isn't Freddy Singing it more of Elton John and done more in a DJ style."
"I would have given it 5 stars without hesitation, except that one of my all time favorites "Somebody To Love" skips - so I have to go back to "A Day At The Races" for that."
"we love this cd sooooo much thank-you."
"This compilation of CDs is exactly what queen fans should get if they want a physical copy of their greatest work."
Best Math Rock
The DVD-Audio disc adds a 5.1 DTS mix, hi-res stereo mix, original album mix, new album mix and even a rough mix from the original sessions.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I purchased the audio DVD by mistake, and when I noticed, I was like, duh!"
"Steve loves to utilize all the channels he has at his disposal, but he fits the mix to the particular song and I don't think he goes overboard here, although there's sometimes quite a bit of action in the rear channels. Highlights for me include "Elephant Talk," with its bendy notes introducing the album (Robert Fripp's extensive notes in the accompanying booklet mention that the song "Discipline" was an earlier pick for track one), the gentle soundscape of "Matte Kudasai," and the high-powered madness of "Indiscipline.""
"Having been a big fan of the surround sound mixes that gained some momentum and then faltered a few years ago, I was totally excited to see this amazing, classic album being newly released in this format. At the time I listened to it, I figured that maybe the fact that most of us imagine music as being heard from the audience, listening to musicians on a stage, made the format a somewhat moot point for most "rock" albums. Here's why: Most of the surround sound discs I've heard tend to keep the drums relegated to the main right and left channels, with the "extraneous" tracks such as backing vocals or strings being given a bonus punch by appearing in the rear channels. ), that the mix should be ALL around the listener, as if (s)he were in the middle of the stage, the middle of the music. There's no reason that any album, rock or otherwise, can't benefit from a truly surround sound mix in the manner achieved here. All in all, I'm hopeful that this format will continue to flourish, as the modern age of the compressed mp3 format (which also has it's place in the world of listening) could certainly use a counterpart for those of us who love our music in pure magnificent grandiosity!"
"I'm not a real "prog rock" guy…but throw the fire of Belew onto. the ice of Frippertronics, and you've just got a fascinating brew that. can mesmerize. The Old Grey Whistle Test videos are a nice bonus…but I wouldn't. recommend this somewhat pricey box for those (or the barely different. "dance mix" of Elephant Talk)."
Best Progressive Metal
Rather like Metallica circa ...And Justice for All, the sound is focused heavily on texture, with vocals and guitars layered one atop the other, and heart-pounding drums underlying everything.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I missed this one."
"Love this CD, would rank it right with 10,000 days and Lateralus."
"all perfecft."
"Great CD. 10/10. Can't stream Tool's music anywhere, so I had to buy it."
"Was a birthday present for my husband."
"Needed to replace my old disc."
"21 years old and it still just as good as it was back 1996."
Best Special Interest
Songs include Science is Real, Meet the Elements, I Am a Paleontologist w/Danny , The Bloodmobile, Electric Car w/Robin , My Brother the Ape, What is a Shooting Star?, How Many Planets?, Why Does the Sun Shine?, Roy G. Bib, Put it to the Test, Photosynthesis, Cells, Speed and Velocity w/ Marty Biller, Computer Assisted Design, Solid Liquid Gas, Here Comes Science and The Ballad of Davy Crockett (in Out Space)! The toe-tapping sequence of science topics presented in sight and sound has something for every grade level in the areas of physical, earth, and life sciences. Teachers can use the songs and video to begin a unit of study, assess prior knowledge of a topic to help plan instruction, differentiate instruction, stimulate further discussion of a topic, expose students to new concepts, and develop science vocabulary and comprehension. Enter your model number to make sure this fits.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"An awesome album in the style of glazer and Evans. Truly sad, because if you take "Science is Real (the song)" to heart, the kids might learn something useful."
"So I guess I missed the news that the sun was no longer made of gas but it was now a miasma of incandescent plasma, but now I know and so does my son's kindergarten class, This was announced during the morning weather report (and yes he can now define all these words)."
"My oldest son's musical taste/interest progressed beyond songs about the alphabet and numbers several years ago and I purchased this thinking it would make a fine early introduction to science and TMBG for our toddler."
"He sings the songs all the time and I love that he's learning and enjoying himself at the same time!"
"Digging, and digging, and digging, and digging... And many other songs about Science stuck in your head, courtesy these cool guys and their magical lyrics."
"We are not creationists--which is why we wanted our kids to hear this album... to combat the theologic myths that try to pass themselves as scientific or proven to be anything more than that."
"TMBG ventured into the children's music world as soundtracks to some kid shows (Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Higgly Town Heroes, etc) and they had success with Here Come the ABC's and Here Come the 123's, and both of those albums are decent, but Here Comes Science is their children's tour de force."
"Kids love this CD!!!"
Best Electronic Rock
At times, the analog synthesizers used in this 1984 recording sound dated and a little cheesy, particularly on "Deck the Halls" and "Good King Wenceslas." As pleasant and soothing as a Willard Scott birthday wish, Christmas does offer one selection that truly merits "classic" status: the reverent, prayerful, slow-motion interpretation of "Silent Night" ("Stille Nacht") for piano and strings that closes the album--a beautiful and heart-touching work.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"arrived faster than expected and is perhaps my favorite manheim steamroller album played all the way through with out any notice of scratches as well."
"love all mannheim steamroller."
"Great music , but I should have looked at what the songs were."
"My favorite Christmas cd!"