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1000 Airplanes on the Roof

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While this CD get's no press, I think it is another great work from Philip Glass. I find it to be a fast moving high-energy work. To give perspective some of my other favorite Philip Glass CD's are : Song's from Liquid Day's, Photographer, Hydrogen Jukebox, Kundun, Glassworks and Einstein on the Beach. If you like Philip Glass, you will like this CD.

This is incidental music to a play, so it's all wordless [the voice of Linda Ronstadt being used as an instrument] and contained. It's Glass' take on a classic sci-fi score...his version of the original Star Trek theme. [that's why the electric keyboard sound...which is not "cheesy" but essential to the scale and mood of the piece] Sometimes dreamy, sometime frantic, it is full of invention and mood.
Great for driving!!

I wasn't sure what to think of this album after listening to it a couple of times. I found myself enamored with Track 10, however, a very fast, powerful, maddening tune, and felt the need to go back and re-evaluate the entire album. I found that the album is quick, very thematic, thought-provoking. In fact, I didn't know anything about the theme of the album, but as I listened, I felt I was on the brink of insanity. As it happens, a friend of mine mentioned that the opera is just that--about someone who is a bit whacked. This album is a top five of mine. It's a bit spacy, edgy, crazy. Linda Ronstadt's out-of-this-world vocals are awesome. If you like Philip Glass, you'll love this album!

The service I received on this order was excellent. I was stunned at how quickly the package arrived.
The CD itself I don't much care for. That having been said, please understand I am not a big fan of New Age music. I bought the CD because a drum and bugle corps called Phantom Regiment is performing material from it in their field show this summer. I am very curious to see what the staff gleaned from this.

"1000 Airplanes on the Roof" is wonderful. I bought it because I'm a huge Linda Ronstadt fan but now I have immense respect for Philip Glass as well. His composition here is brilliant. Linda's singing is brilliant. Glass and Ronstadt fans shouldn't be disappointed.

I LOVE this album. It is unique, fun, enjoyable, exciting, moving, thrilling, open, adventurous, beautiful, big, timeless, freeing, expanding, dynamic, wonderful, happy, bright, colorful, powerful. And those words just don't begin to describe how exhilarating, unique, ahead of its time, and enjoyable it really is.

If you LOVE Koyaanisqatsi, I am certain you will enjoy 1,000 Airplanes On The Roof.

As a huge fan of early Philip Glass, I was anticipating wonderful things when I bought this album.

It disappointed me greatly, though. The organic tone of the Farfisa organs was gone, replaced by a very cheesy plastic dull sounding FM synthesis keyboard sound.

And the compositions seemed to be rehashes of the earlier Glass idioms.

I ended up getting rid of this album, after trying a few more times to get into it.

And that's pretty sad (compare to my favorite Glass albums -- including "Music in 12 Parts", "Einstein on the Beach", "North Star", "Akhnaten", "Satyagraha", "Dance Pieces", "The Photographer")

Altho minimalism isn't a central theme on this CD, it's still wonderful. The bizzare instrumentation and generally rapid piecies conjures images of racing past landscapes on other planets. I haven't seen any of the operas for which the music was written, but still consider this a great album.

This is a science-fiction score ala Philip Glass. A commissioned piece, it has some mimimalism to it and a reoccuring theme. Features Linda Ronstadt on howl. Definately not mood music, unless your in the mood to orbit a faraway planet.