KCRW: Sounds Eclectic

KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic Series | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 3, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Palm Pictures (Audio
• ASIN: B00005ARFA
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122,826 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Prelude: Bach Cello Suite #1 in G-Major

2. Magic in the Air

3. Lonesome Whistle

4. Babylon

5. Never the Same

6. August Day Song

7. Healing Hands of Time

8. Driftwood

9. Throw Your Arms Around Me

10. Goodnight Moon

11. Going, Going, Gone

12. Country Leaver

13. Wing

14. Energy Flow

Editorial Reviews

VARIOUS Sounds Eclectic 4 (2000 US 14-track compilation CD album featuring exclusive live tracks by Ryuichi Sakamoto Beck Badly Drawn Boy Patti Smith The Dandy Warhols David Grey & more picture sleeve PALMCD2062-2)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sounds Eclectic sounds great!, April 2, 2002

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Roger I. Camara Lemarroy "macacox" (monterrey, nuevo leon Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: KCRW: Sounds Eclectic (Audio CD)

Ill have to say this has been one of the best buys ive made lately. You get exclusive recordings from great artists, performing great songs beautifully. Its a shame there isnt a second volume or that this isnt a double cd. Its starts out with a beautifully and impressive performance by YO-YO Ma on cello doing bach. Which could be considered one of the greatest and weirdest opening songs on a compilation cd. Then you get Beck doing a wonderful song: lonesome whistle... his voice sounds so pure and true, i didnt know he could sing that way... The supreme beings of leisure play an awsome track and Neil Finn plays Throw your arms around me... this is one of the best covers of the song that ive heard... his voice fits almost perfectly... patti smith, dandy warhols, willie nelson... man... this is one of the best compilations i own and it has given me a reason to believe that compilations can be awsome again!!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Intro to a Range of REAL Alternative Music, April 24, 2001

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"januarygrl" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: KCRW: Sounds Eclectic (Audio CD)

I've been a KCRW fan since my move back to LA, and what's so great about the music programs on KCRW is that it's such a wonderful break from the standard 6-song rotation of overplayed bubble-gum pop or teenage-angst punk the other LA radio stations are playing.

I always look forward to the KCRW compilations because I see it as a great opportunity to sample some of the other talents that don't get airtime with the top-40 radio stations. And this CD does not disappoint: with Yo-Yo Ma beginning the CD with a movement of the Bach Cello Suite to the beautifully delicate ending by Ryuichi Sakamoto, it's really hard to ask for a more "eclectic" range of music. And, like any other CD some songs stand out more in the beginning than others, but they each take their time to emerge, and the entire CD really does grow on you. Right now I'm completely addicted to Shivaree's "Goodnight Moon" - it's so damn catchy! - and I already went and got myself a copy of the Travis CD because of "Driftwood."

It's refreshing to know that there is something out there that introduces us to something that is (quite) a bit less airheaded and yet still get our toes tapping. Highly Recommended.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best compilation since the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, December 26, 2002

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I. Lamont (Boston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: KCRW: Sounds Eclectic (Audio CD)

This is one of those rare, skillful compilations that contains not a single clunker. The production is great, and the track list includes several brilliant songs by more obscure artists such as Supreme Beings of Leisure and Bebel Gilberto. My only issue is putting Yo Yo Ma in the first track; while it is a great classical recording I think it may falsely lead newcomers to think the rest of the compilation follows in the same vein.