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 | New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies | |
 | "Great music - but some reviews are not about THIS cd set" | 2008-11-21 |
| Look at the dates on the reviews. I think only one review so far is about the remastered cd set - and it flags several problems with the remastering. There is no word on sound quality (otherwise) of the remastered disc (sometimes "remasters" sound about the same as the older cheaper discs). Reader beware..... | ||
 | New Order - Brotherhood | |
| "good music, flawed remaster job" | 2008-11-21 |
| Please note that almost all the reviews here are for the original cd - not the remastered 2 cd set. See "Paul slop"s review for the real scoop. At least the first disc seemed to escape the clicks and other unwanted defects. One star deducted for the poor remaster job. Amazon says: "Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1986 album ... This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title." - No - this one is available. | ||
 | Stone Roses - Complete Stone Roses | |
| "HELLOOOO AMAZON!!!" | 2008-03-25 |
| All of these reveiws are being posted on the cd review page and on the video tape review page. They are quite different products. I have listed what is on the tape by adding a picture to the video page. | ||
 | Stone Roses - Complete Stone Roses | |
| "HELLOOOO AMAZON!!!" | 2008-03-25 |
| All of these reveiws are being posted on the cd review page and on the video tape review page. They are quite different products. I have listed what is on the tape by adding a picture to the video page. | ||
 | Toddy Maker Cold Brew Coffee System | |
 | "Taste is average - not worth the money" | 2008-02-22 |
| Bought the thing based on reviews here and in major news outlets
Bought the freshest bag of Starbucks beans I could find (expiration date on back) and followed the instructions. No problems in making it, but it tastes only so-so. A just made cup at Starbucks is better and so is french press. I will try another kind of coffee, but so far I am pretty dissapointed! | ||
 | Toddy Maker Cold Brew Coffee Maker | |
| "Taste is average - not worth the money" | 2008-02-22 |
| Bought the thing based on reviews here and in major news outlets
Bought the freshest bag of Starbucks beans I could find (expiration date on back) and followed the instructions. No problems in making it, but it tastes only so-so. A just made cup at Starbucks is better and so is french press. I will try another kind of coffee, but so far I am pretty dissapointed! | ||
 | Olevia 27" LCD HDTV - 527V | |
 | "a note about size" | 2008-01-09 |
| First, CR likes this TV line naming one of their larger models a best buy. So, yes quality is very good for the price.
There is no discussion here about size. I have read (in CR) that many/most people who buy tvs smaller than 40 inches wish they had bought bigger models. In my small apartment 40 inches is too big, but a 32 inch would be ideal, and this 27 inch tv would be fine, I think. From another site: "Is this the right size HDTV for your room? Standard calculations suggest that the viewing distance between set and seat should be roughly 3x to 5x the screen width. By this measure, any 32" set would be ideally viewed from around eight to ten feet away" But, by my calculations up to thirteen feet way would be okay for 32 inch sets. And, 27" sets ideally are viewed from about seven to eleven feet away. Any discussion of this point? | ||
 | The Magic School Bus: At the Waterworks (Magic School Bus (Paperback)) | |
| "pleasantly surprised" | 2007-11-17 |
| I had a wrong view about the school bus series - I just didn't like the school bus always being in the books and shows and then Ms. Frizzle wasn't my favorite character. So, I never really watched or read one of these movies/books. We got this book at a yard sale and my 4.5 year old loves it. I like it too - I learned things I didn't know. Just don't expect to like Ms. Frizzle - she is a tool. Of the author! | ||
 | 6GB MicroSDHC Card with Adapter & Micromate USB 2.0 Reader / Writer | |
| "do you really need it now?" | 2007-10-17 |
| Works well with most new phones (but be sure to check first if your phone is SDA 2.0 / SDHC compliant. Do you need it now (October 2007) when it costs twice what the 4GB one costs? And when the 8GB card is just around the corner (I think and hope). Wait a month or two and see if the 8GB comes out and then get this one for significantly less. Now lets see if I can follow my own advice - this card would hold all my new mp3s. | ||
 | Johann Sebastian Bach ,Trevor Pinnock ,Stephen Preston ,Jordi Savall - Bach: Flute Sonatas | |
| "Preston, Pinnock and Savall!" | 2007-08-13 |
| I am a fan of Pinnock and Savall. I had never heard of Preston before this cd, but having Pinnock and Savall on the same cd was worth the investment for the Musical Heritage Society version which costs less than the price here. I can't say I am as floored as I am with Pinnock's work with Rachel Podger, or as swept away as I am with most of Savall's work. But I am keeping this one. The flute is not my favorite instrument, but I think this will grow on me. | ||
 | Xtc - English Settlement (Lp-Facsimile) | |
| "a favorite" | 2007-07-02 |
| A favorite of mine for a long time. interesting lyrics, jumping rhythms, Listen to "no thugs" or "fly on the wall" - great sounds! | ||
 | XTC - English Settlement | |
| "a favorite" | 2007-07-02 |
| A favorite of mine for a long time. interesting lyrics, jumping rhythms, Listen to "no thugs" or "fly on the wall" - great sounds! | ||
 | Kwai - Kira St.John's Wort, 45 tablets | |
| "works great - for me" | 2006-12-07 |
| I am not sure St. John's Wort will work for most people, but it works well for me. I was using a cheaper brand - but then that brand seemed to lose it's effectiveness. Was it me? Was I too stressed out? I switched to the tried and true brand - Kira. The SJW effect came back strongly. This works well. Start here for a few months - then try cheaper brands if you want. They may not work as well, since there is no government regulation ensuring quality. | ||
 | Johann Sebastian Bach ,Keith Jarrett ,Kim Kashkashian - Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord | |
| "not bad" | 2006-07-12 |
| I know little about classical music but a search of reviews reveals that Kashkashian does a pretty good job playing music written for the Viola de Gamba - on the Viola - transposing the lowest notes up an octave so she can play them. Jarrett, though immensely talented and almost a household name, does only pretty well here. All in all satisfying but could be better. By the way - the Viola de Gamba is still used today - see Jordi Savall see ASIN: B000025FOY for more info | ||
 | Community and Growth: Our Pilgrimage Together | |
| "I can't put it in a short phrase..." | 2006-05-02 |
| I read this book about 15 years ago and am going through it again now. It could use some editing, in my opinion. He goes over certain topics again and again.
But still 5 stars! It deals with the missing important link in social services - love and attachment! How to provide family or something family like to people who are broken. Also, another theme is valuing people over success - that caring for and living life beside the weakest of us is "where it is at." Turning culture on it's head in a way. Start by being with the broken, living in the same house as the broken. And then finally realizing you are also one of the broken. And that it is hard, but GREAT! Or something like that. Vanier can tell the story much better than I can. I have heard him speak on three or four occasions and met him twice. He seems even more genuine and loving than his book is. One time he took a "sabatical" from his work leading the L'Arche Federation and lived in a house with one of the most challenging people in his community. Sabatical? Anyway, having been around L'Arche now for 11 years and having seen not only the book and the man but some of the communities his vision resulted in - I think this book is very worth reading. Kind of a thick book - but not hard to read. | ||
 | Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky ,Johannes Brahms ,Sir Colin Davis ,Sarah Chang ,Jonathan Feldman - Brahms: Hungarian Dances WoO1; Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Op35 | |
| "great!" | 2006-04-06 |
| Like ElectrostatDan - I heard this on the radio having missed the info of who it was. I thought it was incredibly good!
By an 11 year old????? Even more incredible. | ||
 | R.E.M. - Green (CD + DVD-A) (Dig) | |
 | "just ok for REM" | 2006-02-20 |
| The Album: Not their best but still good CD players: - Rex made all the right points - if all you have is a cd player - you might want to skip this rerelease. There is no upgraded sound version for you. DVD players: You can get surround sound from your dvd player, but it won't be as high quality as a DVD-A player (of course some people say there isn't much difference - that it is all in the remastering of the disc and not so much in the better technology of the player. DVD-Audio players: are not that expensive as of now (2006) but may soon go the way of the quadrophonic record player! If you have a DVD-A player this is worth getting, in my opinion (again as Rex spelled out). MP3 players: I have not yet seen a computer drive that will record in surround sound or in DVD-A quality sound - so on the Ipod it won't do anything more for you than the cd you have had for years now, as Rex said. Maybe they will come out with new drives - or maybe they are already out - I haven't heard or seen them. | ||
 | Mr. Scruff - Trouser Jazz | |
| "pretty impressive" | 2005-11-10 |
| I usually get bored with house/acid jazz/electronica sounds. They are usually too repetitive for my taste, with some exceptions. This is one of the exceptions. Impressive sounds and variety. | ||
 | Audio-Technica ATH-A900 Headphones | |
| "one of the best closed headphones" | 2005-05-14 |
| Closed headphones keep sound out and in. Sound around you doesn't disturb you and sound from the headphones doesn't disturb those around you. It is easier to make and therefore cheaper to buy open headphones. But the isolation can be real important. The A900s have one of the best reputations of closed headphones. Slightly recessed midrange sound and very large size, but comfortable and good sound. See head-fi.org and headphonereviews.org for more information and options. | ||
 | ETYMOTIC RESEARCH ER-4 MicroPro Earphones | |
| "Where's the bass" | 2005-05-02 |
| Owned for three weeks and decided there wasn't enough bass (no seal problems here). Even classical sounded lacking without decent bass.
Also lacked ambience - transients - the sound of notes decaying and richocheting around your ear drums. I got used to this, though, and didn't mind it. The bass I minded - even if just for classical, but there is also rock where bass is even more important! Decision made. | ||
 | China's Lost Girls | |
| "pretty good" | 2005-03-03 |
| (I did not see this dvd but saw the TV presentation. I am assuming the dvd does not have extra footage, which may be an incorrect assumption.)
I personally enjoyed it as an adoptive father of a girl born in China. In fact we met our daughter for the very first time in the exact same room shown on this video in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. How could I not like this? They did a much better editing job on their footage than I did on my footage!! But I still like my video better :) Especially moving to me is the mother who puts up a poster proclaiming to whoever might see it (hopefully the birth mother) that the girl she adopted is doing fine. Then a discussion ensues with local people. I wish I could find my daughter's birth mother. Also moving is the footage of the foster mother sobbing because the adoptive mother did not bring the girl to see her one last time. I understand why the new mother didn't bring her - it would have been VERY painful one more time for her daughter - but it made me think of the kind looking woman who raised our daughter for the first year of her life. We have a few pictures of her and my daughter but were unable to meet her or to contact her - still to this day. They could have added so much more, as the first reviewer said, but for what it is - it is good. Kind of glossy and feel good and cable channel quality - but still good - it does in fact hit the painful issues of previous mothers and the problem of the lack of girls in China and what that will mean in the near future for Chinese society. Some of my fellow adopters had strong feelings about parts of the movie - the footage of the foster mother in particular. But, I don't remember their points well and would not want to speak for them. And I agree about the Lucy Liu comment being innappropriate - especially considering this footage was professionally edited with a person of Chinese descent in charge! Oh well. If Ms. Ling didn't mind - should I? All in all - if you are considering adopting from China - well worth the look. Not real deep but interesting. | ||
 | Beijing Angelic Choir - Chinese Lullabies | |
| "GREAT" | 2005-02-17 |
| Like a number of other reviewers - we adopted a daughter from China and she listens to it every night as she falls asleep. Since we stay in the room with her till she falls asleep - we listen to it too. None of us have gotten tired of it after almost a year.
I bought it based on the reviews here. So I am back on Amazon today to see if there is another cd by them anyone would recommend. No reviews for any of their other cds are on Amazon. Any suggestions? Thanks | ||
 | Johann Sebastian Bach ,Michael Murray - Bach: Organ Works | |
| "short and has been reissued with 2 Franck pieces" | 2005-01-04 |
| Telarc CD 80637 adds Cesar Franck pieces "Fantasie in A" and "Pastorale, Op 19" making the total time of the reissue 61:39. 2004 | ||
 | Nick Drake - A Treasury | |
| "I thought it was great sounding" | 2004-12-23 |
| This was the first Nick Drake album I liked and I attributed it to the improved sound. I thought it was pretty good for an early seventies recording (and late sixties recordings).
Just my opinion. Maybe it could have sounded better, but I like it. | ||
 | The Penguin Guide To Compact Discs And Dvds Yearbook 2004/5 (Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and Dvds Yearbook) | |
| "Don't buy this if..." | 2004-10-04 |
| you are looking for reviews of the latest releases (that is - released in this century). THIS IS NOT THE LATEST EDITION - there is a newer 2003/4 guide. Note the publish date - 2002! This one does list many cds left out of the new guide. So it still IS worth having. Just don't get fooled, like I was by the synopsis above. THERE ARE NO SACDs or DVD-As listed, Very few cds from this century. BUYER BEWARE | ||
 | The Baroque Experience | |
| "highly recommended" | 2004-07-18 |
| highly recommended by antonio-vivaldi dot org along with Pinnock's version. | ||
 | Strollershade | |
| "Seems big but works well" | 2004-05-31 |
| Attaches easily, looks okay, blocks out almost all sun (except maybe if on horizon), the kid is ok with it (she does not like the plastic covers for rain or for sun). Would be nice if it was waterproof also. I am afraid to use it in the rain thinking everything will get soaked. Otherwise fine. A good value and a good product. | ||
 | SafeFit Stroller Handle Helpers | |
| "Pretty mediocre but what else is there?" | 2004-05-31 |
| I too did not want to bend over anymore for miles while I pushed our 15 month old. I bought these for a regular stroller (box says "fits most strollers"). Well I had to bend a few things on our stroller to get it to fit. It probably would fit easier on an umbrella stroller with a good three inches of uncovered bar. Well, after struggling with this and having to take the cup holder and locking clip off my stroller so I could put this on - it is pretty wobbly. It is not strudy at all - it feels weird to use these handles. I also taped them to the bars of the stroller to give them more sturdiness - so it looks bad - but who else makes a good version of these? If I can find another version that works well - this will get one star. I am pushing the stroller while upright now, and don't accidently hit the brake anymore. Better to get a jogger / stroller. They are bigger my friend who has one says. Or get a stroller with extendable handles. You don't want to "go here." | ||
 | Japan - Exorcising Ghosts: Best of | |
| "A Good Sampling" | 2001-11-24 |
| Some of the critics recomend geting the live but well done Oil On Canvas. I like this one much better. It is fuller. I would have added Cantonese Boy (Tin Drum), Sons Of Pioneers (Tin Drum), Swing (Gentlemen Take Polaroids) and Taking Islands In Africa (Gentlemen...). I won't bother you with what songs I would have taken off. But this is still a good selection. The night I brought home the vinyl - back in 1987? - I was astonished at how artful and beautiful it was. I like Sylvian's Gone To Earth and Secrets of The Beehive better - but this album is up there with them. So, I bought this one and then got Gentlemen and Tin Drum. I haven't heard Quiet Life - so maybe that one is worth getting as well. (Which might make this one unnecessary.) But, start here. Not with Oil on Canvas. | ||
 | Paul McCartney - Wingspan (Hits & History) | |
| "Some reasons for the omissions" | 2001-07-27 |
| ICE magazine recently contacted some people who worked with McCartney on this compilation. The record company asked Paul to drop "Give Ireland Back To The Irish" because of some bombings that happened immediately before the release. So, they dropped it even though prerelease info said the song would be included. Also, a lot of the songs were edited versions - in hopes of getting more songs on the discs. Dropping "Give Ireland" at the last moment left about five minutes that could have been used - but time was short and the TV special of the same name was about to start. Not that that explains every song included or omitted here, but then taste is somewhat relative. Thank you all for your reviews on this and other albums. They are very helpful to me. | ||
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