Men Without Women/Voice of America [Import, Original recording remastered]

Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 12, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Bgo
• ASIN: B000BKJ5QO
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,342 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Lyin' in a Bed of Fire

2. Inside of Me

3. Until the Good Is Gone

4. Men Without Women

5. Under the Gun

6. Save Me

7. Princess of Little Italy

8. Angel Eyes

9. Forever

10. I've Been Waiting

Disc: 2

1. Voice of America

2. Justice

3. Checkpoint Charlie

4. Solidarity

5. Out of the Darkness

6. Los Desaparecidos

7. Fear

8. I Am a Patriot

9. Among the Believers

10. Undefeated

Editorial Reviews

These two albums from Little Steven are from 1982 and 1984. Little Steven, aka Steven Van Zandt, continues to record and is still involved with Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band. This CD has been digially remastered and is housed in a slipcase. BGO. 2005.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding, January 8, 2006

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R.J.N. (Illinois United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Men Without Women/Voice of America (Audio CD)

If you are a fan of Steven Van Zandt you are of course familiar with these two albums. Here is your chance to get them both together (this comes as a two cd set, not both albums on one cd).
The remaster job is excellent, there are also some great liner notes and pictures, BGO did a first class job on this reissue.
There is not much need to go into the music as I am sure that any reading this already know how great these two albums are. Little Steven is great, pure and simple. He writes terrific songs, he is an outstanding singer/guitar player, the band is top notch. and the production is tight.
I highly recommend this set , for 18.99 you can not possibly go wrong.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Out of the Darkness, March 9, 2006

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Gord Wilson "alivingdog.com" (Bellingham, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Men Without Women/Voice of America (Audio CD)

A great many viewers discovered Little Steven/ Miami Steve Van Zandt from The Sopranos. Time Warp backwards, he was a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. In between he was a social activist, and created the (Don't Play) Sun City album project encouraging artists to boycott the South African resort in an effort to bring an end to apartheid.

I've heard Men Without Women and own Born Again Savage, but I think Little Steven's Voice of America is not only his best work, it's one of the best early '80s albums period. Checkpoint Charlie was prescient in predicting the fall of the Berlin wall: "Wall so high, gotta come down baby." If the news knew anything about popular culture, they would have played that (or The Walls Came Down by the Call) as the soundtrack of that historic moment. The list of great songs goes on and on: "Los Disparacidos (The Disappeared,:" "Undefeated," and especially the piece de resistance, "Out of the Darkness," one of the few songs which, like U2's One, manages to combine relationships aned spirituality. The Boss wrote "Blood Brother" when Steve left the band to pursue these various pursuits. How sad that just when Born in the USA gained the questionable honor of making the cover of Time magazine, his bandmates' best album slipped into obscurity. Hopefully with this double release the Voice of America will for the first time be heard.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars STEVE VAN ZANDT AT HIS BRILLIANT BEST - AN ALL TIME GREAT RECORDING, March 25, 2006

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Highway Man "Hutch" (Paterson NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Men Without Women/Voice of America (Audio CD)

Yes, Sopranos is fun & Steven's very funny in it, a natural actor.

More important, he's a strong reason Bruce Springsteen is such an immense success with the E Street Band. Little Steven is a superb musician & songsmith -- great melodies, beautiful words.

The Men Without Women disc is a great one, sure joy compared to a lot of the drivel taking up the space in your brain today.

But in VOICE OF AMERICA, Little Steven Van Zandt was touched by the greatest spirits in the universe. It's simply ONE OF THE GREATEST collections of songs on a disc EVER MADE, yowzuh, right up there with Dylan, Lennon, U2, R.E.M. & the others who fill out your top ten. And thank gawd IT'S FINALLY RE-ISSUED! A mint condition copy of VOA sold on Amazon for $160 as recent as last week. My original copy was borrowed and never returned.
I've been aching to get this sound back.

The songs VOICE OF AMERICA, I AM A PATRIOT (absolutely the best arrangement ever produced, notwithstanding the covers of it by great singers all over the world), JUSTICE, SOLIDARITY -- they're all superbly crafted songs, real works of art that will stand up to be cheered a thousand years from now.

You should be sold. You should buy a couple of copies so you can give one to the most special person in your life.
Thank you Steve, for this great gift to the world.

xox0xox
Hutch

ps: 15 years ago I produced 4 half-hours on the radio, called "Dear Abbie! A Celebration of the Words of Abbie Hoffman."
I was permitted to use Steven's songs from VOA, and all the songs on the series except two were from VOICE OF AMERICA.
Best series I ever produced.