Tracklista:1. Killing Floor2. Groovin' Is Easy3. She Should Have Just5. Texas4. Goin' Down Slow6. Sittin' in Circles7. You Don't Realize8. Movie Music-improvisation9. Another Country10. Easy Rider11. Soul Searchin'12. See to Your Neighbor13. With Time There Is Change14. Nothing to Do15. Hey Little Girl16. Drinkin' Wine17. The Night Time Is the Right Time
Tracklista: CD 1 1. Joy To The World 2. Angels From The Realms Of Glory 3. Feliz Navidad 4. Jingle Bell Rock 5. We Three Kings 6. Ding Dong Merrily On High 7. Good King Wenceslas 8. Children Of The World 9. Away In A Manger 10. Deck The Halls 11. Hark The Herald Angels Sing 12. O Come All Ye Faithful 13. O Happy Day 14. O Holy Night 15. Last Christmas 16. O Christmas Tree 17. The First Noel 18. The Night Before Christmas 19. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 20. The Twelve Days Of Christmas 21. Jingle Bells 22. I'll Be Home For Christmas 23. All I Want For Christmas Is You 24. Merry Christmas Everyone 25. Auld Lang Syne 26. Frosty The Snowman 27. Sleigh Ride 28. Rocking Around The Christmas Tree 29. I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day 30. Blue Christmas 31. Little Drummer Boy 32. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus 33. Lonely This Christmas 34. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer 35. White Christmas 36. Wonderful Christmas Time 37. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 38. Do They Know It's Christmas? 39. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) 40. Silent Night 41. We Wish You A Merry Christmas CD 2 1. Jingle Bells 2. Deck The Halls 3. Ding Dong Merrily On High 4. Happy Christmas (War Is Over) 5. Wonderful Christmas Time 6. Run Rudolph Run 7. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer 8. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 9. Silent Night 10. The Twelve Days Of Christmas 11. We Wish You A Merry Christmas 12. White Christmas 13. When A Child Is Born 14. Sleigh Ride 15. Mary's Boy Child CD 3 1. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 2. I'll Be Home For Christmas 3. Last Christmas 4. White Christmas 5. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus 6. Wonderful Christmas Time 7. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 8. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) 9. I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday 10. Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree 11. Jingle Bell Rock 12. Jingle Bells 13. Deck The Halls 14. Mr Santa 15. Frosty The Snowman 16. Sleigh Ride 17. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer 18. Six White Boomers 19. Winter Wonderland 20. Twelve Days Of Christmas 21. Ding Dong Merrily On High 22. We Wish You A Merry Christmas 23. Away In A Manger 24. Silent Night 25. Do They Know It's Christmas?
Tracklista: 1. Rainbow Machine 2. Freakzone 3. Kosmos (Grooves Of Triumph) 4. The Commotion (Big Time Party Maker) 5. Big Daddy 6. Horse 7. Anubis 8. Supernova 9. Silvio 10. Old Blue Eyes
VICTORY OF THE HUMAN RACE It is the best-known work in the history of music, that goes without saying. Its folksong-like melody is common property throughout the world. It resounded during innumerable concerts celebrating the millennium all over the globe. Everyone can hum or sing along to it. The subject at hand is, of course, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and its Freudenmelodie (= melody to “Ode to Joy”). In the year 2001, it received the great honour of becoming the first musical opus ever to be included in the UNESCO World Inheritance List. In short: it is omnipresent. And that is also its problem. Following its première on May 7, 1824, which received an enthusiastic reception from the audience at the Vienna Kärntnertor Theatre, Beethoven’s last symphonic work embarked upon an incomparable – and non-stop – triumphal march. Right up to the present day, it has been constantly and vehemently “claimed” by all imaginable ideological and political groupings. Fascist, anti-fascist, communist, anti-dictatorial, etcetera, etcetera... Even to this day, it still causes amazement that this masterpiece, “about which so much rubbish has already been spread [...], has not long been buried under the pile of scribbling to which it has given rise” (to quote Debussy). Despite the fascinating and, at the same time, also frightening history of the reception given to the Ninth (which cannot simply be ignored in a study of the work), the main thing here is to focus on the idea which Beethoven expressed both instrumentally and vocally. After the composition of his Eighth, well over a decade passed before the composer (who in the meantime had become profoundly deaf) again attempted a symphony and started working on the project. Previously, he had written his eight other contributions to the genre within a similar period of time. The stimulus apparently came from a commission he received from the London Philharmonic Society for two symphonies in 1817. Beethoven subjected his own work to the greatest of criticism and wrote as follows: “For some time now, I have not found it easy to get down to writing. I sit down and think and think. I already know what I want; but I just can’t get it down on paper. I dread finally embarking upon such a major work.” Only a number of years after writing this, did Beethoven manage to conquer his dread and begin sketching the first movement. He spent a number of years working on the composition, the gigantic dimensions of which far exceed all its predecessors. Only at a relatively late stage, did Beethoven take the decision to include the human voice in the Finale: he had also worked on a purely instrumental solution for the Finale (which he later used in his Quartet in A minor, Op. 132). Finally, in March 1824, the composition was finished. The central theme of the Ninth is Beethoven’s solution to the Finale problem, which he had designed individually for each of his previous symphonic works. The task of allowing the human voice to invade the domain of absolute music – the symphony – correspondingly demanded yet another special solution. In the first movement, the music consists of the most elementary and characteristic tonal components, of an unembellished, lingering 5th interval (a – e), which finally increases from falling 5ths and 4ths to octave jumps, before the elemental force of the main theme breaks in. The previous lack of structure then begins to take on form, from the chaos order is restored. In a number of swelling waves, indicative of the later monumental symphonic works of Anton Bruckner, the recapitulation presents the theme in its full glory, before this is once more surpassed in the Coda. The Scherzo appears for the first time in Beethoven’s symphonic cycle in his second symphony, thus assigning to the Adagio the task of providing the place of rest. The movement supplies thematic material from the main theme of the first movement and tirelessly and restlessly drives it onwards in highly dynamic contrasts, before a melodic derivative from the “Ode of Joy” from the Finale appears for the first time in the cantabile Trio in D. However, here it does not yet have a joyful development. The supremacy of the D-minor key, which has so far continually dominated, is not broken until the Adagio, with the appearance of B-flat major: in a closely woven motif consisting of a 2nd interval, it develops the preliminary stages of the “Joy” theme, until two fanfares in the Coda announce the final movement. One more time, the D-minor key overwhelms the listener in this movement with shattering force. Then Beethoven quotes – adding each time a commentary from the instrumental recitative of the low strings – the main themes from the first three movements (as Bruckner was also to do in his Symphony No. 5), until finally the “Joy” melody asserts itself. It develops from the depths into a kind of undertow, which finally takes over the entire orchestra in all its tutti glory. Only now, after the theme has been, as it were, presented by the instruments and thus set free, does the human voice appear on the scene to depict the utopia of a harmonic, peaceful and loving human society. Beethoven had summarized the text of Schiller’s Ode an die Freude (= Ode to Joy) in a greatly reduced and concentrated form. The melody of Alle Menschen werden Brüder (= All people will become brothers) can be grasped immediately by the listener, due to its simplicity. It encourages the listener to sing along and allows him to join in the rest of the movement. Once again, Beethoven summons up major and magnificent compositional devices – ranging, for instance, from counterpoint to double fugues based on the main theme – before the movement comes to a hymnal conclusion in lively jubilation. With this Finale, Beethoven left behind not only his symphonic legacy, but, without realizing it, also a gigantic problem: after this work, which allowed vocal music to intrude into the absolute world of instrumental music, how would any future composer be able to write symphonic works? Was the absolute climax of the genre also to signify its demise?
Tracklista:1. The Answer2. Put Down Your Gun3. Peace & Love4. Lampoon5. Parking Lot6. Do You Know Me?7. I Don't Believe in God8. Fly-by Alien9. Headed for the Sun10. Parasite11. Are We Free?12. Karma Seeker13. Time & Money
Tracklista:1. Black Swampy Water2. Prentice Wood3. When She Smiles4. Good Time Music5. Liberty Road6. Shotgun Boogie7. Wonderworld8. Streetwalker
Tracklista: CD 1 1. The Signal And The Noise (Live In The City Of Angels) 2. Waterfront (Live In The City Of Angels) 3. Love Song (Live In The City Of Angels) 4. Let There Be Love (Live In The City Of Angels) 5. Up On The Catwalk (Live In The City Of Angels) 6. Sense Of Discovery (Live In The City Of Angels) 7. Glittering Prize (Live In The City Of Angels) 8. Promised You A Miracle (Live In The City Of Angels) 9. The American (Live In The City Of Angels) 10. Hunter And The Hunted (Live In The City Of Angels) 11. Stand By Love (Live In The City Of Angels) 12. Dirty Old Town (Live In The City Of Angels) CD 2 1. Theme For Great Cities (Live In The City Of Angels) 2. She's A River (Live In The City Of Angels) 3. Walk Between Worlds (Live In The City Of Angels) 4. Hypnotised (Live In The City Of Angels) 5. Someone Somewhere In Summertime (Live In The City Of Angels) 6. See The Lights (Live In The City Of Angels) 7. All The Things She Said (Live In The City Of Angels) 8. Dolphins (Live In The City Of Angels) 9. Don't You (Forget About Me) (Live In The City Of Angels) 10. New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (Live In The City Of Angels) 11. Once Upon A Time (Live In The City Of Angels) 12. Alive And Kicking (Live In The City Of Angels) 13. Sanctify Yourself (Live In The City Of Angels) CD 3 1. Book Of Brilliant Things (Live In The City Of Angels) 2. I Travel (Live In The City Of Angels) 3. Blindfolded (Live In The City Of Angels) 4. Honest Town (Live In The City Of Angels) 5. In Dreams (Live In The City Of Angels) 6. Stars Will Lead The Way (Live In The City Of Angels) 7. Big Sleep (Live In The City Of Angels) CD 4 1. Let The Day Begin (Live In The City Of Angels) 2. Barrowland Star (Live In The City Of Angels) 3. Midnight Walking (Live In The City Of Angels) 4. Summer (Live In The City Of Angels) 5. Big Music (Live In The City Of Angels) 6. Celebrate (Live In The City Of Angels) 7. The Cross (Live In The City Of Angels) 8. Speed Your Love To Me (Live In The City Of Angels)
Tracklista:1. The Race2. Brothers3. Am I a Freak?4. Crazy Feeling5. S**tbrain6. Billy's Crew7. Time to Go8. Tom9. Worm Eaten10. Flesheating Twist11. Dr. White12. Gotta Be Cool?
180 gram audiophile vinyl.Tracklista:Side A 1. The Final Countdown 2. Rock The Night 3. Carrie 4. Danger On The Track 5. Ninja Side B 1. Cherokee 2. Time Has Come 3. Heart Of Stone 4. On The Loose 5. Love Chaser
Nikt tak pięknie, jak oni nie przywraca pamięci o wspaniałych czasach, w których rodził się pop i rock and roll, w których królowały krótkie piosenki z pięknymi melodiami. Oni, czyli Sam (Sven Budja), Digger (Rüdiger Brans), Basti (Sebastian Raetzel), trzech wspaniale śpiewających Niemców, którzy tworzą grupę The Baseballs. W 2017 roku sympatyczni wokaliści celebrują 10-lecie powstania zespołu. Z tej okazji oczywiście przygotowali wydawnictwo, któremu nadali tytuł "The Sun Sessions". Płytę nagrali nie byle gdzie, bo w Sun Studio w Memphis, w Tennessee, czyli w kolebce rock and rolla, w której pierwsze kroki stawiał idol Niemców, Elvis Presley. Tam zarejestrowali ponownie swoje najpopularniejsze piosenki i nadali tej kompilacji tytuł, nawiązujący do miejsca nagrania. Magia miejsca zrobiła swoje i odcisnęła piętno nie tylko na muzykach, lecz również na klimacie płyty. Poza znanymi już kapitalnymi przeróbkami takich hitów jak "Umbrella", "Bleeding Love", "...Baby One More Time", The Baseball zawarli na składance kilka nowych coverów - "Thinking Out Loud" (Eda Sheerana), "Love On The Brain" (Rihanny), "Love Yourself" (Justina Biebera) i "Bad" (Michaela Jacksona). Tracklista: 1. Umbrella 2. Thinking Out Loud 3. Baby One More Time 4. I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ 5. Bad 6. Bleeding Love 7. Candy Shop 8. Hey There Delilah 9. Love On The Brain 10. Hot N Cold 11. Born This Way 12. Love Yourself 13. Hello 14. I Believe I Can Fly 15. On My Way 16. The Sun Classics Session