Dino Valente

Dino Valente | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 17, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Koch Records
• ASIN: B000006J61
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,347 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Time

2. Something New

3. My Friend

4. Listen to Me

5. Me and My Uncle

6. Tomorrow

7. Children of the Sun

8. New Wind Blowing

9. Everything Is Gonna Be OK

10. Test

11. Shame on You Babe [#][*]

12. Now and Now Only [#][*]

Editorial Reviews

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Media Type: CD
Artist: VALENTE,DINO
Title: DINO VALENTE
Street Release Date: 03/17/1998
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

Customer Reviews

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One man, a guitar, and a passionate voice that stretches...., September 10, 1999

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James T. Jacobs (Normal, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dino Valente (Audio CD)

I got this record free back in the 60's. Someone gave me a radio station copy that wasn't needed. I played it. And played it. And played it some more. It's what?...25 years later. I still take a bit of quiet time e-v-e-r-y once in a while to close out the world and sit back to let Dino Valente's plastic voice soar and take my mind with it. His songs are not danceable. They are intensely personal observations about people, relationships, and ideas. You've never heard anyone like him. Before or since. I did a twenty page sociology paper based on the lyrics of "Children of the Sun" a few years later when I was in college.

Dino liked to do unusual things with his voice in moments of musical passion...skipping octaves, and gliding back down in sort of a whining slide to his original intended note.

I ordered another copy of the record when the first began to sound a bit worn. My second copy has seen better days. I suppose it's time to get a CD copy. [sigh!] But even though I no longer play it frequently, it's an album that I don't wish to be without when I need it.--Jim Jacobs

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I think I'm in a time warp..., May 6, 2000

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Debra J. Sullivan "Debra Jean" (Norwalk, Connecticut) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dino Valente (Audio CD)

I am a baby boomer, turning (ugh) 50 this year but swear I don't feel it. I remember this album so, so very well from my 20's..."Children of the Sun" being my favorite. I went over to a guy's apartment and brought it with me and stupidly left it there. Now here I am with two kids in college, ordering Dino on amazon.com so I can play it for myself, and see if my daughters will feel his music the way I did. I love his voice and the guitars. I just ordered the CD and I am psyched to play it as loud as I want (Dad can't tell me to turn it down anymore) and either (a) get goosebumps or (b) say "What was I thinking?" Something tells me (a) will be my final answer.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars review of original 1960's LP, September 28, 2001

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david johnston (Santa Rosa, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dino Valente (Audio CD)

First, I haven't heard the CD yet.

However, I owned the LP back in the 60's and can say without reservation that it is a powerful collection of songs that are both beautiful and subversive.

Incidently, one cut, Children of the Sun, was for quite a while the theme song of the counter culture movement on one important FM station in the San Francisco area (circa mid- to late-60's), and is worth hearing for its historical significance if nothing else. I'm trying to be objective. Actually, it is a collection of lyric, moving songs, enough said.

I surfed by with the hope that a CD version was available to replace my long missing LP. I'm just sharing my delight that these songs have not disappeared.

Be warned, this album will get under your skin.