Sonic Boom (Life's Too Short) [CD-single] [Import]

Sonic Boom (Life's Too Short) [CD-single] [Import]

Track Listings

1. Quo Vadis Maximus Mix

2. Yomanda Remix

3. Serious Remix

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Hard House: Quo Vadis are Andy Manston, Julian Napolitano & Fionn Lucas. 'Sonic Boom' is a house tune that is happy, hard & boasts a truly thumping bassline.

Tracks:

Silent Film Score
Cold Feelings
Overflow
Floating On Error
Independent Women
For The Fourth Time
Enough For You And Me
Toluene
Up To You
I'm A Balloon
Window Shopping
Eyed Eyes Eye
She Tells No Lies

Album Description

In today's musical cookie cutter world, Conner somehow pull off a sound that feels both uniquely cutting edge and classically familiar. Their new album "Hello Graphic Missile" combines 70's funk bass lines, hard hitting disco/dance drum riffs and complex rock guitar for a sound that hits the brain somewhere between off-kilter art and on-the-pulse pop. Listen to it once, and it's catchy melodies and stick-in-your-head rhythms will suck you in. Listen to it again, and you'll fall for it's intricately placed parts and provocative lyrics.

Customer Reviews:

Really good. .......2006-08-03

Really interesting funky record. Every track is different. I really like the guitarist's sound, great riffs. It's rocknroll.

When the opening band is better, buy THEIR album........2006-06-16

I saw these guys when they were touring with the Killers last summer and they were rockin! They had already sold out of CDs by the time I saw them, so I was really amped when they finally came out with this release. "Floating on Error" is definately a great track, but I reccommend giving the whole album a listen. It's cohesive, but not repetitive, and it's definately more interesting than the Killers & their pop-rock peers.

Great Record from this Lawrence, KS band.......2006-06-07

Conner plays music that is familiar and yet all their own. Think Gang of Four meets late 70's Rolling Stones with the Killers and Spoon thrown in for good measure. Songs like "Cold Feelings" and "Floating on Error" combine off kilter disco beats with great melodies and more edgy guitar/bass lines. Then there are the rockers like "Up to You" and "Eyed, Eyes, Eye" that show a hint of their great live show. I caught them at SXSW....Great record and great band.

Average customer rating:

Haunting and disturbing, yet familiar and safe

Via Novella
Graig Markel
Manufacturer: Sonic Boom Recording
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000O59084
Release Date: 2007-04-17

Tracks:

Black Mesa
Knives Drawn
Reverse
Cascadia
Sixes And Sevens
Silhouettes
Turpentine
The Disconnection
Shine Through
Figures In the Snow
Silverlining

Customer Reviews:

Haunting and disturbing, yet familiar and safe.......2007-05-29

Deep, dark, disturbing and surreal is how I'd best describe this new album from Graig Markel. It listens like an ethereal fairy tale which one cannot escape from. His voice is transcendent. It captures you deep and draws you in, deep, almost too deep at times. The chords are amazing. Almost haunting, as if the instruments themselves are weeping with you.

Personally, I find it best to listen to this album, loud, while in the shower, so no one can hear you crying along with it.

This is the best hour of music I've listened to since Sun Kil Moon's Tiny Cities came out.

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Lee Morgan Quintet
Nostalgic
Not one of the perfect, ESSENTIAL Blue Notes, but great
Lee Almost Goes "Boom"

Sonic Boom
Lee Morgan
Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000CDL5V
Release Date: 2003-10-07

Tracks:

Sneaky Pete
The Mercenary
Sonic Boom
Fathead
I'll Never Be The Same
Mumbo Jumbo
Free Flow
Stormy Weather
Mr. Johnson
The Stroker
Uncle Rough
Claw-Til-Da
Untitled Boogaloo

Customer Reviews:

Lee Morgan Quintet.......2006-12-12

With the invigorating and inspiring playing of Cedar Walton(piano),Ron Carter(bass),and Billy Higgins(drums).'Fathead' Newman(Tenor),and Lee Morgan(Trumpet) are constantly energized and politely pushed to higher levels of creativity.Lee is a superb ballad player,on 'I'll Never Be The Same",both Lee and Cedar contribute beautiful solos.Newman has a great energy and excitement in his playing,and contriubutes some excellent solos,especially on the lead tune.Great set.Enjoy.

Nostalgic.......2005-01-12

As a child I can remember listening to my father play the album Sonic Boom over and over again. I did not appreciate it much as a kid, but as an adult I can fully understand the fascination with the tunes. Lee Morgan is often underrated, but a sinister genius in this album.

Not one of the perfect, ESSENTIAL Blue Notes, but great.......2004-06-21

I don't have a bunch of Lee's own albums but I really like this one.

Yesterday I decided that today I would review Kenny Dorham's Whistle Stop, and this album. I was fully ready to give Whistle Stop four stars and this one 3.5. Then I listened to both of them again just a short while ago and for some reason this time, this was the one I really liked better. Just goes to show you how subjective even our own opinions are when compared to our own opinions from other moments.

One of the things that you may or may not like about this album is that there are a couple tracks which, had Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In had better music, these couple tracks would have been right at home on that show. You know, wild camera work as Goldie Hawn flails about like a boneless chicken to this music. I don't even mean that badly, though. I like those couple songs, one of them being the untitled boogaloo. It's just obvious that mainstream mid '60s rock was a small influence here and there on this album.

I was originally going to give the line-ups and dates, but since the previous reviewer already did it, I'll just point you down to his review for those tidbits. For the most part, I think the highlight of the quintet tracks is when it's Cedar's turn to solo. Cedar, Ron Carter, and Billy Higgins are just a great trio here! When they have the space to themselves, they make the most of it. As for songs as a whole, Mercenary, Sonic Boom, and Fathead are the core of the quintet tracks, as far as I am concerned.

As for the sextet tracks, I like this line-up. George Coleman will still never be my favorite tenor player, but there is enough going on elsewhere, and I think so many of these tunes are really good that I don't mind his presence as much as I may have otherwise.

The Stormy Weather is lovely, and makes for a nice low-key introduction to two of my favorite songs and performances on the entire disc, Mabern's "Mr. Johnson" and Priester's "The Stroker". I love these two songs, and they are the tunes that pushed it over the top and made me decide to give this one the full four stars.

I think I like this one quite a bit more than does the previous reviewer, but we still both gave it four stars.

Lee Almost Goes "Boom".......2003-10-16

Of the six titles in this latest batch of Blue Note's limited edition Connoisseur Series, this is the CD I anticipated the most. Trumpeter Lee Morgan's "Sonic Boom" is an enjoyable disc, but it didn't quite live up to the hype I'd built up for it. "Sonic Boom" is actually two sessions. The first six tracks, comprising the original album, were recorded on April 14 & 28, 1967, but not released until 1979. Those sessions featured Lee, David "Fathead" Newman on tenor sax, Cedar Walton on piano, Ron Carter on bass and Billy Higgins on drums. Tracks 7-13 were cut on September 12 and October 10, 1969, and they were not released at the time of conception either -- they first appeared as the second LP of the "The Procrastinator" in 1978. The sextet on those dates was Lee, Julian Priester on trombone, George Coleman on tenor sax, Harold Mabern on piano, Walter Booker on bass and Mickey Roker on drums. As a result, this disc logs in at an impressive 75 minutes, but unfortunately quantity isn't always quality.

"Sneaky Pete" and "Fathead," the disc's funky Sidewinder-like numbers, are solid but not as creative as earlier follow-up attempts like "The Rumproller" or "Cornbread." "The Mercenary" and "Sonic Boom" are altogether better and more exploratory tunes, but they don't match the level of innovation found on "The Procrastinator." By the 1969 sessions, Lee sounds like he's beat these motifs dead with a stick. He is clearly running out of ideas, or should I say variations on earlier successful ideas, and even makes an ill-fated attempt at a boogaloo number (so unimpressive the artist didn't even title it!). Of course, it doesn't help that Rudy Van Gelder seemingly had an off-day as well -- Coleman's sax has an unusual amount of reverb (for RVG anyway), and Lee frequently distorts in the upper registers. Fortunately for us, Lee would find himself again, before his tragic death only three years down the road. His synthesis of slightly further out playing and his trademark grooves would combine for better results on Larry Young's "Mother Ship" (just released in this batch of Connoisseurs as well), and his own "Live at the Lighthouse" and "The Last Session" -- see my reviews of all three titles.

Average customer rating:

good band good music overall, but BAD vocal

Left a sonic boom in my cd case

Overall Great CD! If You Liked Eyewitness, You'll Love this!

Well, this wagon went downhill fast...

Bought my son this CD, had to buy another copy just for me.

Sonic Boom
Shades Apart
Manufacturer: Umvd Labels
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Save It

Seeing Things

Neon

ASIN: B00005J71W
Release Date: 2001-05-15

Tracks:

Conspiracy
Beat By Beat
Gravity
Three Wishes
Got Shot Down
Shockwaves
Rebel Teenager From Mars
Radioactivated
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Customer Reviews:

good band good music overall, but BAD vocal.......2006-10-23

I like the composing, somehow surprising me.

The emotion of voice iS almost the same in every song that makes this album a little boring...

listen to each song seperately may be better.

Left a sonic boom in my cd case.......2003-02-14

All I can say is WOW! I bought this album with high expectations, and they were exceeded. From song one, the tone was set. Get ready to listen to rock the way it should be: volume UP, and your head a baggin'! Beat by Beat is my favorite song on this cd, so if you dont like that one, then you wont like this cd.

Overall Great CD! If You Liked Eyewitness, You'll Love this!.......2001-10-25

Although there are a few songs that dont I dont love, songs like "Beat by Beat" and "Gravity" are great. Other fans may be familiar with "Behind the Wheel," which was available on their website a long time ago. If you're a Shades Apart fan, you won't be disappointed.

Well, this wagon went downhill fast..........2001-07-22

There are some pop-punk bands that will sell their souls for some sort of radio success. And this release proves that Shades Apart are dying to be one of them.

Back in '95, in the wake of Green Day's success that brought underground pop-punk to the masses, Shades Apart released Save It, on Revelation Records. It was by no means a runaway hit, but it showed promise, and did gain some slight underground kudos amongst the pop-punk crowds. With every album since then, Shades Apart have been inching closer and closer to that cultural wasteland known as "alternative radio" (or possibly "modern rock" in your town.)

'97's Seeing Things had them teetering on the edge of the precipice: keep the edge & stay underground and "punk rock" or lose the edge and hope a different crowd latches on. Well, Eyewitness confirmed that they had chosen the latter, but I will admit that it had its share of good pop songs, and some that would have been more than adequate for mass radio play, if given the right "push."

But with this one, Shades Apart hurtles past their contemporaries and rushes headlong into territory that no sane band enters willingly. This stuff is... *gulp* ... worse than Third Eye Blind! This is sterile, generic, plodding, pointless, safe, pop .... The equivalent of Britney Spears with guitars. And MAYBE it would be forgiveable (live by the mainstream, die by the mainstream) if it weren't so poorly written and tuneless. Honestly, it makes Eve 6 sound like Mozart.

So time has not been kind to this trio, and they have no one but themselves to blame. I have a hard time believing their fans will enjoy this, as well as a hard time believing that even the legions of brain-dead radio listeners will bother with it (and they'll buy ANYTHING!)

So that leaves your fanbase as... ummm... mom's looking for "safe" music for their kids? Oh, a fate worse than death indeed!

Bought my son this CD, had to buy another copy just for me........2001-07-15

OK, at first I thought Shades was a kids group. I bought my son this CD because he's a big fan. After lots of garbled listens through his closed door, I realized I really like this CD, so I went out and bought another copy for myself. The rhythms are energizing and unpredictable. The melodies are friendly but not recycled. The lyrics are emotional, visual, poetic and best of all for us moms, THEY ARE CLEAN!!! I'm an accidental fan.

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Deep Dark and glowing

All That Noise
The Darkside
Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Melomania
Lazer Guided Melodies
The Stooges
Fun House
Ferment

ASIN: B000008EUG
Release Date: 1991-02-05

Tracks:

Guitar Voodoo
Found Love
She Don't Come
Good for Me
Love in a Burning Universe
All That Noise
Spend Some Time
Don't Stop the Rain
Soul Deep
Waiting for the Angels

Customer Reviews:

Deep Dark and glowing.......2004-12-06

Amazing psychedelia from the blistering opening track to the closer..this album is amazing, and was correctly heralded when it came out. too bad for these guys that it all came to a close early on...still this album is pretty amazing in its guitar work and drenched psychedelic, acid musings..Great Melomania is not worth getting its a piss poor album full of partial sloppy tunes.

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Hey Celestial!
Siberian
Manufacturer: Sonic Boom Recording
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000MV8D7O
Release Date: 2007-03-06

Tracks:

Soft Rains
Paper Birds
Places You've Been
Heavy Hands
Forty-Two
Talk To The Moon

Average customer rating:

Country, Rock, and "Other"-- One of their BEST!
great record...great band
dash redeems themselves..& prepares for the future
Calmer with age

Sonic Boom
Dash Rip Rock
Manufacturer: Dash/Write On
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005YN5D
Release Date: 2002-01-22

Tracks:

Eventually Evangeline
Deep In The South
Plane Song
Dream Together
High Speed Chase
Please Don't Hold My Hand
Silver Moonlit Rail
We'll Waltz Again
Snows In Mississippi
Guru
Opelousas Sostain
Monkeys
I Don't Want To Spoil The Party

Customer Reviews:

Country, Rock, and "Other"-- One of their BEST!.......2005-02-22

As the proud owner of EVERY DRR album (including a few not listed at Amazon at all-- THANKS, Chris!!!) I got this as soon as it came out. While someone I know lamented the loss of Hoakey Hickle, I see no drop in quality. Bill Davis continues his band's traditional mix of rock, country & novelty songs. (I LOVE variety!!!)

While I liked SONIC BOOM from the first, something funny has been happening as time goes by. The album just KEEPS growing on me. In the last 6 months, I've been palying this MORE than ALL the other DRR albums put together! There's songs I like on just about every album they've done-- but it's getting to the point where I find myself loving ALMOST every song here! Wow!

"Eventually Evangeline" starts things off nice, but "South of My Heart" may be the BEST country song Bill Davis has ever sung! (I recently put together a custom comp of my favorite country songs, and included "Half Kansas Moon". Now I know what'll be going on the follow-up.) I love how they have faster songs alternating with slower ones. "Dream Together" is just beautiful. I never even noticed it the first dozen or so times I played this, but now it sends me into a state of bliss.

My first real fave was "High Speed Chase"-- which is very mid-tempo (but no less POWERFUL) given its title. This is another example of how pop music can be educational: I never heard of the Natches Trace Bridge, but recently I heard it mentioned on a tv documentary, and I immediately thought of this song and had to put it on!

Not sure if we needed another version of "Please Don't Hold My Hand", but this one seems to have it over the one on PAYDIRT (another favorite DRR album of mine-- but then, that was the 1st I ever bought). "Silver Moonlit Rail"-- proof that "fast" doesn't have to mean "noisy". WHOA!

My 2nd favorite here is "Snows In Mississippi". LOUD! DRIVING!! HYPNOTIC!!! I'm not really sure WHAT the song is about-- I'm almost afraid to find out-- but I dig it, in the EXTREME. (Hey, it snowed here today-- I HAD to put it on again...)

"Guru" may be my least favorite on the album, while "Opeloussas Sustain" is probably the most "ethnic" (in a new Orleans kinda way). "Monkeys" is definitely one of my 3 favorites on the disc. It's IDIOTIC-- but few people do "idiotic" better than Bill Davis. ("I went to the zoo just the other day, I had seven hits of acid I was ON MY WAY!") The album ends with a Beatles cover-- has anyone ever done "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party" other than them? Someone said the only way to do a cover is to "make it your own". DRR definitely succeeded on that score.

I think I could easily reccomend this album to people who like rock or country-- and maybe a lot of other genres, if they're open-minded enough. I've been wanting to send a "best of" DRR disc to someone I know who's never heard them. I just may send this one instead!

great record...great band.......2002-04-22

Without taking anything from the bands amazing past, this CD is a bit different. It is a great mix of fantastic songwriting, playing, and musical diversity (cajun, rock/ country/ and old fashoned Dash ). If you like quality music that kicks butt...check this out.

dash redeems themselves..& prepares for the future.......2002-02-28

first off, the new dash cd SOUNDS great: light years better than the overslicked abomination-fred "WHOOAAAAA!!" leblanc inflicted "paydirt". i compare this record to "get you some of me" in that it feels like a transitional record. kinda like a clearing house for songs that haven't made it to cd yet. as a fan of dash's country side, i like hearing at least half the record as more straightforward good countryesque pop. eventually evangeline, please dont hold my hand, & deep in the south are all great songs. the rockin party side of dash is well represented with high speed chase & i don't want to spoil the party, and kyle finally gets the plane song imortalized. the "funny" songs (guru, monkeys) are not all that funny, a couple country songs are just okay, and dream together is altogether bad. all said, another good cd from dash, but still waiting a cd that truly captures all the essence from this incredible band.

Calmer with age.......2002-02-26

I have followed Dash for almost 13 years in New orleans. They are one of my favorite all time bands. I have seen them live at least 20 times, even in front of about 50 people...and THEY ROCK LIVE!!!!!!!! this album, like the two before it is good but it is not the kick you...music from their first couple albums. IT seems that maybe they may be chilling out with age. But, the songs will grab you and they still kick it up a notch on some of the the cuts. Some of the "less rock" songs are the best on the album and will entertain. I look forward to seeing the guys perform these songs live...

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Bombastically Delicious!

Ruff Guide to Genre-Terrorism
Sonic Boom Six
Manufacturer: Deck Cheese
ProductGroup: Music
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Release Date: 2006-08-21

Tracks:

Do It Today
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Piggy In The Middle
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
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Bigger The Punk Rock
Danger! Danger!
Don't Say I Never Warned Ya
Shareena
A Peoples History Of The Future
Until The Sunlight Comes

Customer Reviews:

Bombastically Delicious!.......2007-04-26

A little bit of early No Doubt, Dance Hall Crashers, Lady Sovereign, Sex Pistols...recipe for Phat Phun.

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Moody rock balladry

Heather Duby
Heather Duby
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Customer Reviews:

Moody rock balladry.......2006-08-03

Heather Duby's first album, Post to Wire, was an exercise in glacial electronica. Her cool, crystalline voice cast out one-liners and observations against state of the art samples and beats that emphasized atmospheric over harmonics. Her second album, Come Across the River removed the electronic atmospheres, replacing them with standard rock instrumentation augmented with cellos and the occasional odd instrument. It was a wise decision. Between album 1 and album 2, Duby lost the purity of her voice, and sang in lower register with a slight husk (reportedly, a bout with pneumonia caused the damage). Think Lynn Canfield of Area or Margo Timmins with more force. She opted to create moody indie rock ballads that were closer in spirit to such underdog sisters as Aimee Mann and Lisa Germano. The electronica is back in this album, and it meshes well with the template followed on CATR, and her songcraft has expanded. Like Mann, she writes pithy, catchy songs that explore bitterness and regret with wisdom. Her wounded voice gives her songs gravitas that her younger voice lacked. The spaciness of the electronic effects plays nicely against the driving, structured pieces. Highlights include "Gone Aground," with its swirling cello, "Listen" with its driving beat, and the catchy "Dullard, Or Are You A Breakfast Alcolholic". Duby has managed to make an album about depression that doesn't sound depressing.