No More Glory [Explicit Lyrics]
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1. Keep Your Mind
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2. Hip Hop Voodoo
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3. 10th Grade (Skit)
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4. Good Damm Man
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5. Shine and Recline - Eightball, , MJG
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6. That Girl - Rodney Ellis, , MJG
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7. Slippin'
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8. Take No Sh*t - Bun B, , , MJG
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9. Pimpin' Ain't Easy
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10. Black Mac Is Black - Eightball, , MJG
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11. No More Glory
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12. What Is This?
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13. Questions (Skit)
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14. Don't Hold Back
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15. Reflections
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16. Hard But Fair
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17. Middle of the Night - Eightball, , MJG
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No More Glory,MJG,Universal,Dirty South,Gangsta Rap,Pop,Rap & Hip-Hop
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- One of the best solo albums you've never heard
- MJG holds it down on the solo tip
- Tha realest from Memphis
- Funky, laid back and dope
- Solid Solo Debut
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No More Glory
MJG
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Release Date: 1997-11-18 |
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- Keep Your Mind
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One of the best solo albums you've never heard.......2006-10-26
Standout tracks: KEEP YOUR MIND, HIP HOP VOODOO, GOOD DAMN MAN, SHINE AND RECLINE, THAT GIRL, SLIPPIN, NO MORE GLORY, WHAT IS THIS, DONT HOLD BACK, HARD BUT FAIR and MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT etc. Filler. Black mac is back and Take no s**t. Bottom Line: MJG's solo effort is proof that he is not a weak link like most people assume him to be. Songs like Hip hop voodoo, No more glory, What is this, Hard but fair, Keep your mind etc show you that he can flow with the best of them. Its unfortunate that Suave House gyped him and 8ball out of their royalty. Their best albums were under this record label(Lost, In Our Lifetime, No More Glory etc).
MJG holds it down on the solo tip.......2006-05-30
I've been a huge fan of Ball & G for years, but was never able to find a copy of this CD until the passed year. "No More Glory" displays MJG's raw talent and his ability to make good tracks w/o Eightball. Although i prefer the duo....the Solo sh** is tight too. Fav Tracks = "Don't Hold Back", "Good Damm Man", "Shine & Recline", and "Hip Hop Voodoo". Also check out Eightball's first solo album, "Lost".
Tha realest from Memphis.......2005-08-14
Wat do i got to say thats goin make you buy this....lets see....REAL,TRUTHFUL,VERSITILE,VOCALS,LYRICS,MESSAGES.He's one of the greatest.No more glory going make you feel like he needs 2 drop another solo.
Funky, laid back and dope .......2005-04-28
On MJG's solo album, he comes off like a hard-working normal guy who happens to be a rapper. Most of the songs center on everyday stories and observations. MJG is not really thugged-out, not conscious, but rather occupies a nice middle ground.
The production is mostly laid-back and funky, though the title track incoporates some dissonance, creating a more "dirty" sound over slap bass.
This is a solid and fairly diverse album that would be a nice addition to the collection. Definately a great buy if you can find it for a fair price.
Solid Solo Debut.......2005-02-25
As One half of some of the south's rap Pioneers, MJG delivers his debut solo before Eightball (surprisingly) and it is a good album. Though I like Eightball a little more, this album is as good as a most of 8's solo one's (better than a few) as well as some of their group albums. It has 13 songs of Mo-Suave funk. The Mo-Suave production team does a good job (as always) on this one as well. It has 1 classic, 6 good songs, 4 that are ok, and 2 that I skip. Guests are few and are on 4 songs (3 of the songs have 8 ball and oddly they aren't nearly the best songs on here). A must have for southern rap fans and fans of the Memphis duo.
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Anatoly Grindenko , Anonymous , Russian Traditional , Andrei Yuralev , Igor Puchkin , Oleg Kovalev , Valentin Kulebiakin , Victor Balkarov , Yuri Vishniakov , and The Moscow Male Voice Choir
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Every now and then you get a CD come along where some really outstanding artist allows themself to just let their hair down for a moment. Of course it has to be done with aplomb and thorough good taste adding their unique touch of brilliance while sucessfully avoiding any hint of kitch. Russian Early Music pioneer Anatoly Grindenko here records songs from the time of Tsarist Russia. These are songs that transient political regimens would have tried to replace in the popular affection with political songs. Yet somehow these songs have survived in the hearts and affections of the Russian people and this peasant tradition of folk song that refused to die is presented with Grindenko's usual expertise and sung expertly with the utmost affection. In fact the songs were always sung by this choir for their own private fun but excluded from 'serious' concert performances. The quality of singing, as can be expected under Grindenko's expert choral direction, is superb througout. The end result is a lovely CD that can be highly recommended to anybody who just loves to listen to beautiful singing. After all the works of Tchaikovsky, Borodin and Stravinsky draw heavily on Russian folk song as a rich source of thematic material but any serious music lover would enjoy this CD just as much with its range of songs ranging from boisterous to charming to melancholy. Opus 111, as usual, provide expertly engineered sound to match. The end result is a drop dead gorgeous CD that will delight anyone lucky enough to discover this secret gem.
Brilliant !.......2001-12-26
This recording is a fantastic example of the russian choral tradition. Wonderful selections sung with obvious passion .The rousing patriotic tunes will make you want to march to the front, the romantic ballads will make you wish you never left and the songs of hearth and homeland will make you inch closer to your loved ones. If you have a passion for things "russian" this one just might keep you occupied for a while.
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Release Date: 2003-09-09 |
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- In Paradisum - Montreal Symphony Orchestra
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- O Fortuna - Lynne Dawson
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- Jesus Christ The Apple Tree - Clare College Choir, Cambridge
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- Battle Hymn Of The Republic - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
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ASIN: B00003WGNX
Release Date: 2000-01-11 |
Tracks:
- Build Your Baby's Brian 5, Through The Power Of The Baroque: Canon In D
- Water Music (Suite No. 2): I. Allegro
- Water Music (Suite No. 2): II. Alla Hornpipe
- Water Music (Suite No. 2): III. Minuet
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- 'Spring' From The Four Seasons (Concerto In E Major, Op. 8, No. 1): II. Largo
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- Build Your Baby's Brian 5, Through The Power Of The Baroque: Prelude To Te Deum
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A Special Note to Oboe Lovers!.......2003-04-11
To anyone who loves the oboe, this CD is worth buying if only for John de Lancie's famous rendition of the Marcello Concerto (the whole concerto is here), which is the best I have ever heard. His interpretation of the soaring slow movement is especially beautiful. The sound is very clear and the other selections (including a delightful version of Vivaldi's "Spring" concerto with flute instead of violin) are quite good, with perhaps a little too much emphasis on the pompous... But never mind all that: if you like the oboe as much as I do, this is probably one of the best available examples of de Lancie's wonderful sound and definitely worth the price of the whole CD!
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- A Masterpiece, Magnificently Performed
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Evening Star: The Rachmaninov Vespers
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ASIN: B00000419G
Release Date: 1994-09-20 |
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A Masterpiece, Magnificently Performed .......2006-02-07
The solemn heavenly beauty of the Russian Orthodox Saturday evening "All-Night Vigil" liturgy resonates off the walls of the Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul in this magnificent rendering of Rachmaninoff's masterpiece. In particular, the 'Bogoroditse Dyevo' (Ave Maria) is achingly beautiful. A great performance of a truly great piece of music.
Impression.......2000-04-13
It's like the walls of a church begin to sing!
Sacred music at its mind-blowing best.......1999-01-14
This is an utterly magnificent recording - one of my all-time favorites. I have heard other renditions, but none come close to this particular interpretation. It is sung with such passion, soul, and intelligence that I'm sure that if he could hear it, Rachmaninov himself would be moved to tears.
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ASIN: B000027O8J
Release Date: 1993-11-11 |
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Very enjoyable!.......2002-11-05
The tunes in John Playford's The English Dancing Master have been recorded frequently and are a staple in English country dance circles. Jeremy Barlow and the Broadside Band present here some of the best renditions of these tunes that are currently available on CD. I strongly recommmed this CD for anyone interested in Renaissance music, country dance music, or just plain ole' fun music.
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- THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
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ASIN: B0001B0A94
Release Date: 2004-06-01 |
Tracks:
- Overture Andante - Larghetito - Allegro
- Recitative Habdonah/Haman: " 'Tis greater far to spare"
- Aria Haman: " Pluck root and branch from out the land"
- Recitative Persian Officer: "Our souls with ardour glow"
- Chorus: "Shall we the God of Israel fear?"
- Recitative First Israelite: " Now persecution shall lay by her iron rod"
- Aria: " Tune your harps to cheerfull strains"
- Chorus: " Shall we of servitude complain"
- Aria Israelite Woman: " Praise the Lord with cheerful noise"
- Recitative Israelite Woman: " 0 God, who from the suckling's mouth"
- Aria Second Israelite: " Sing songs of praise, bow down the knee"
- Chorus: " Shall we of servitude complain"
- Recitative Priest of the Israelites: " How have our sins provoked the Lord!"
- Chorus: "Ye sons of Israel mourn"
- Aria Priest ofc The Israelites: "0 Jordan, Jordan, sacred tide"
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- Andante
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- Aria Mordecai: " Dread not, righteous Queen, the danger"
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- Chorus: " Save us, O Lord"
- Recitative Ahasuerus/Esther: "Who dares intrude into our presence"
- Duet Esther/Ahasuerus: " Who calls my parting soul from death?"
- Aria Ahasuerus: "0 beauteous Queen, unclose those eyes!"
- Recitative Esther: " If I find favour in thy sight"
- Aria Ahasuerus: " How can I stay when love invites?"
- Recitative Third Israelite/Fourth Israelite: " With inward joy his visage glows"
- Chorus: " Virtue, truth and innocence"
- Arioso Priest of the Israelites: " Jehovah, Crown'd with glory bright"
- Chorus: " He comes, he comes to end our woes"
- Recitative Ahasuerus/Esther: " Now, a Queen, thy suit declare"
- Arioso Haman: " Turn not, a Queen, thy face away"
- Aria Esther: " Flatt' ring tongue, no more I hear thee!"
- Recitative Ahasuerus: "Guards, seize the traitor, bear him hence!"
- Aria Haman: " How art thou fall'n from thy height!"
- Chorus: "The Lord Our enemy has slain"
Album Description
Handel's oratorios vary greatly in their presentation. In many ways, Esther is a rarity;it is by far the most intimate, not surprisingly as it was composed for the Duke of Chandos. The Duke's Palladian palace near the village ofEdgware had not been completed in time for the first performance so this may have taken place (as did Acis and Galatea) in the intimate surroundings of a small church, St Lawrence, Whitchurch.
We decided, therefore, that we should attempt to convey that intimacy of performance on disc; so we performed in the round with microphones in the middle, the orchestra in front of me, the choir behind and the soloists alongside. The result is everything that chamber music should be where players and singers can enjoy every aspect of Handel's masterpiece.
"The 'sound' of Esther, superbly communicated in the recorded performance here, is pure enchantment... The choral singing has an exceptional grandure, and the instrumental playing a shimmering beauty. Among the soloists, none of whom is less than accomplished, Nancy Argenta and Michael Chance dominate... Both singers affirm a new golden age of Handel interpretation".
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THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME.......2007-01-26
Esther is the first of Handel's oratorios by a good many years, written when he was 33 and enjoying the patronage of the Duke of Chandos. When he later became his own impresario and was running into trouble as a composer and producer of Italian operas he turned to oratorio as a strategic alternative, but at this early date his concern was to deliver staged entertainments for the Duke, and Esther, contemporary with the work that later gained the title Acis and Galatea, seems to have been just an unusually serious specimen of its type.
As often with Handel, there is no fully official version of the score, and this particular score may not even be fully complete from any point of view. The libretto seems to have been the work of someone in the frivolously named association of big literary figures called the Scriblerus Club, perhaps Dr John Arbuthnot, dedicatee of Pope's great poetic Epistle, but Pope himself may have had a hand in it too. As we have it here, the work breaks into two very asymmetrical parts. Scenes 1 and 2 start with a recitative lasting only seconds from Habdonah followed by a longer one in which Haman announces his onslaught on the Israelites, and from there on feature only anonymous participants. Esther herself and the other named characters make their appearance first in scene 4, but the change of tone occurs in scene 3. At this point the music gains gravity first in the chorus Ye sons of Israel with its extraordinary modulations and then in the striking aria O Jordan, Jordan. I myself feel that this weightier tone is maintained to the end, whether or not the writer of the liner note is correct in saying that the long final chorus with solos is out of proportion to its context.
Throughout - in the first part as well as in scenes 3-6 - the instrumental writing is vivid and varied, with an extraordinary pizzicato accompaniment to Tune your harps and then an even more extraordinary obbligato from the harp itself at Praise the Lord. The harpist is no less than Jan Walters, but sometime I would like to see the score and check out what seem some odd rhythmic interactions here between her and the soloist Nancy Argenta. There are no fewer than ten vocal soloists in a work lasting a little over an hour and a quarter, and a very distinguished bunch they are. I was particularly pleased to find Michael Chance in the countertenor role of the Priest of the Israelites as I admire the strength of his tone, but there is no real weakness among them, unless Lynda Russell as Esther has a couple of very slightly awkward high notes in Flatt'ring tongue, which must be a little nerve-wracking to sing as she has to find her note for herself unaccompanied at the start and later at the reprise. You will see some big names among the instrumentalists too, with Crispian Steele-Perkins on the trumpet making a predictably fine contribution towards the end, and of course with Jan Walters in that marvellous harp part early on. The chorus gets some wonderful work to do, and rises to it fully. I really am unable to worry about the proportionateness of the final chorus when I hear that incomparable Handelian build of tone, sung by 18 singers and sounding as if there were 100.
There is a good liner note by Graydon Beeks Jr, not perhaps the last word in lucidity (neither is the plot of the libretto come to that) but worth re-reading. Harry Christophers himself contributes a short foreword largely concerned with the recording process and highlighting the contributions of Mark Brown and Mike Hatch, his long-time technical collaborators. I was interested to see also the name of Geoff Miles in a role described as `editor'. What responsibilities this involved is not stated and perhaps I ought to know without being told, but I know the work of Geoff Miles as recording engineer from elsewhere and it gave me confidence just to see that he is involved in the proceedings, and the technical work is predictably excellent.
My collection of Handel oratorios is now almost complete, and what a wonderful musical experience they are. Each is unique in its own way, but Esther is unique in some very special ways, and I suggest that you do not wait until you are my age to get to know it.
a voice teacher and early music fan.......2006-04-04
Handel began composing the oratorio 'Esther' in 1718. There is some confusion as to who actually worte the libretto for it, but the story follows very closely the biblical story of Esther in the Book of Esther in the old testament. The story tells of a plot of Haman, the Agagite (Michael George-bass) jealous and powerful vizier of King Xerses (Ahasuerus-Tom Randle-tenor) of Persia(485-464), to destroy in a single day all the Jews living in the Roman Empire. He is moved to this out of hatred for the Jewish servant Mordecai (Mark Padmore-tenor),who for religious motives refuses to render him homage. The day of the proposed massacre is determined by lot. Meanwhile, Esther,niece and adopted daughter of Mordecai, is chosen Queen by King Xerses. She averts the pogrom planned against her people and has the royal decree of extermination reversed against Haman and the enemies of the Jews. Mordecai replaces Haman, and together with Esther, works for the welfare of their people. As you can see this makes for an interesting Oratorio, which it truly is!
This is a "small" contribution compared to many of Handel's other works. However, it is not "small" in a musical sense. There is much creativity on the part of Handel as to orchestral scoring; he exploits his small orchestra and chorus in surprising ways, introducing new vocal and instrumental colours throughout the score, adding and subtracting instruments and voices in many and varied ways. This is a listening surprise as it moves along. And what a great performance on the part of the Christophers as well as some outstanding vocal soloists. Mark Padmore's (Mordecai) aria "Tune Your Harps to Cheerful Strains" was superb as was the Duet between Lynda Russell (Esther) and Tom Randle (Ahasuerus).But the aria that really drew me into the entire drama was sung by Michael Chance (Priest) "O Jordan, Jordan, sacred Tide." It was perfection itself!!!!The Chorus was extremely good and dictionally perfect. It is a great listening experience.
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