Lounge-A-Palooza

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 7, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hollywood Records
• ASIN: B000000OK8
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,128 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Miniskirt - Combustible Edison And Esquivel!

2. This Guy's In Love With You - Fastball

3. She Don't Use Jelly - Ben Folds Five

4. A Rose Is A Rose - Poe

5. Black Hole Sun - Steve & Eydie

6. The Girl From Ipanema - Pizzicato Five

7. Zaz Turned Blue - Polly Jean Harvey & Eric Drew Feldman

8. I'm Not In Love - Fun Lovin' Criminals

9. Whichita Lineman - Glen Campell & Michelle Shocked W/ Texas Tornados

10. Witchcraft - Edwyn Collins

11. Love Will Keep Us Together - Jimmy Scott & Flea

12. Music To Watch Girls By - The James Taylor Quartet

13. The Good Life - Cassandra Wilson

14. Robert Goulet (On The River Nile) - Chris Ballew (Of Pres. Of The USA)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cool Disc, February 12, 2000

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wadrad (Land of Bitburger, Bratwurst, und Lederhosen) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Lounge-A-Palooza (Audio CD)

If you were born in the 60's, there's a good chance you heard your parents listening to a few of the original versions of some of these tunes. To hear them revamped is quite a treat. The lounge version of "Black Hole Sun" was what prompted me to buy the disc, and the whole CD is a fine blending of "old meets new" smothered in this cool, smoky, loungy atmosphere. If you like lounge music with a little more modern twist, you'll like this disc... 'tis a cool idea executed quite nicely.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mix Bag with Mixed Results with Black Hole Sun the tops!, September 12, 2009

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John Erickson (Los Angeles, CA (USA)) - See all my reviews
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The single song that's worth getting the whole CD for is "Black Hole Sun" as so aptly covered by Steve and Eydie (yes Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormet) the arranger is to be congradualted for his stunning success at turning the Soundgarden grunge mega hit into an astonishingly wonderful Las Vegas Lounge anthem. Steve and Eydie are impeccabled in their ability to do this type of lounge music and the song just continues to astonish me and pretty much everyone that hears it. The soulful suave and polish of this tune is superlative while the sincerity makes this work so well.

This is a very unusual CD compelation it trys hard but missed the mark in a few cuts while it hits homeruns in others. The mixture is eclectic so what I loved others may just hate.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Whatever, April 22, 2005

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lounge-A-Palooza (Audio CD)

This is a pretty fun CD featuring contemporary performers paying tribute to lounge music. Although some of the tracks feature older performers like Steve and Eydie. In fact, Steve and Eydie's lounge-ish version of Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" is the best track here (it's a hoot!). I also enjoyed most of the other tracks, which mostly feature modern artists doing songs associated with the lounge era. Not all of them work, but a high percentage of them do. Fans of the lounge music revival should enjoy this CD.