Sweet Dreams - #673

La Bouche

1996 RCA

I think this was left here by Carlos Oliviera.  It is not at all to my liking and I would call it a zero.  By the time it is being entered in the data base I am sure it is a cut out on a $1.99 rack

Purchased: 10/1/96 - Gift $18.99

Rated: 1

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Best Of Patti Labelle - #544

LaBelle, Patti

1982 Epic 1/1/82

LaBelle going on and on and on.  A soul music survivor from the 60's continues to make soul music in the soul music way.  The woman should be a household name and is not.  Who understands pop music if this women is not a household name?

Purchased: 11/4/96 - Best Buy $8.99

Rated: 4

Wander This World - #614

Lang, Jonny

1998 A&M 10/20/98

Give this a 4 as a venture in the durability of it all.  Lang is a 17 year old I think in 1998 and this music is a transition from his Cry to Me songs that were recorded when he was 14.  Amazing voice as a pubescent male and it seems logical that he would be burned out at 25.  One might even expect a Janis Joplin end.  Forgetting the pathos, this young man is talented as a blues singer.  His voice is husky and masculine and sound.  I love this album.

Purchased: 12/8/98 - CDNow.Com $11.88

Rated: 4

Drag - #490

lang, k. d.

1997 Warner Bros 1/1/97

Even Not her best effort.  Too low key, she doesn't  push up her vocal volume.  A themed album but no passion, no continuity.  Drag is a dragging me down.

Purchased: 8/16/97 - J&R $11.99

Rated: 2

Ingenue - #444

lang, k. d.

1992 Sire/Warner Br 1/1/92

The Masterpiece if you like kd.  This is her best of the struggle and quest that made her famous.  After this album she gets distracted by success

Purchased: 8/1/92 -  $14.99

Rated: 5

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All You Can Eat  - #670

lang, k.d.

1995 Warner Bros 10/10/95

I completely forgot I had this album until this entry date.  It is a good album and probably the last of kd's before she went high fashion. Her ascendancy has seemed to make her boring so this is a good album to remember what she was

Purchased: 10/12/97 - J&R $13.99

Rated: 4

Desert Vision - #390

Lanz & Speer

1987 Narada

Not that great music is somehow one of my favorites.  I love to listen to this as I do trek across the desert in Arizona.  New Age suits driving along perfectly or as companion when riding a trail.

Purchased: 1/1/89 - J&R $14.98

Rated: 5

Natural States - #389

Lanz & Speer

1985 Narada 1/1/85

Lanz has a characteristic to his music that makes this stuff timeless yet not current.  The album is reflective of a "Natural State".  It all goes with the wide open skies of the west.  Another winner of Narada Equinox series

Purchased: 1/1/89 -  $14.99

Rated: 4

Cristofori's Dream - #164

Lanz, David

1988 Narada Lotus 1/1/98

Best Lanz, best new age.  Most likely the most Pop like new age album in my collection.  Good, relaxing easy and sweet.  All of it.  Each song has more character that most new age music.  I like it a lot.  Only problem is it is so good that it has been played almost in total on the weather channel during the local forecast.  LOL

Purchased: 1/1/92 - J&R $11.99

Rated: 5

Return To The Heart - #394

Lanz, David

1991 Narada 1/1/91

Purchased: 10/20/91 - J&R $14.99

Rated: 4

Skyline Firedance Orchestral Works, The- #395

Lanz, David

1990 Narada 1/1/90

If you like David Lanz, if you like solo piano, if you like new age, if you like "new acoustic" you will like this album.  An accomplished pianist who led the charge of New Acoustic.  Both the solo and orchestral works are good.  I like the solo works better.  The orchestral disk seems overproduced.  It is obvious the a classical music producer of a different caliber might make a better orchestral disk.

Purchased: 4/1/91 - J&R $18.99

Rated: 4