Best Music From Around the World: Cuba [Original recording remastered]

All The Best (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 8, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Madacy Records
• ASIN: B000000K6H
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #635,067 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Of all the compilations, this is the worst I've heard., April 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Best Music From Around the World: Cuba (Audio CD)

If you can imagine a Lawrence Welk impersonator playing at a nursing home bake sale, and you can imagine yourself enjoying this, then here is the CD for you. The artists' names are often not listed, and the authors of the songs hard to identify -- perhaps with good reason. Basically, 'All the Best' seems like a collection of songs that lost the competition for the 'hold' music on the telephones at the Havana Bureau of Unemployment. Put your six bucks towards Cachao or Cubanismo or any of the dozens of other Cuban CD's available at Amazon which will never disappoint you in the way that this one does. 'All the Best' is like a box of shoddy imitation cigars bought from a jinetero at the Malecon.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Energetic, expressive, deliciously kitschy Cuban music, August 8, 2000

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Stavros Macrakis (Cambridge, MA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best Music From Around the World: Cuba (Audio CD)

Funny thing. I agree with both of the previous reviews, one of which gave this record 5 stars, the other 1 star.

It <<is>> outrageously kitschy, with standards like La Bamba and Guantanamera, the strange homage to Carlos Santana, several medleys (an intrinsically kitsch format), and all that.

But it's also great fun. I laugh and I cry when I listen to it, not because it's ridiculous (although there's some of that), but because it's not afraid of emotion, of expression, of drama. It does have those Lawrence Welk-ish riffs, but it also has those precise Cuban rhythms, those singers' entrances bending notes just so, those shifts of key or of rhythm in mid-song, ....

It <<is>> annoying that the artists aren't identified and that there are no liner notes, but that's a minor point.

Enjoy this, sing along with it, dance to it, laugh along with it, what the hell, laugh <<at>> it. It's a blast!

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars real cuba is here!!!, February 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Best Music From Around the World: Cuba (Audio CD)

this is the best and most up to date cuban music i have heared ye