Rockappella

Nylons | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Windham Hill Records
• ASIN: B000000NHM
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #244,498 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Love This Is Love

2. Drift Away

3. Wildfire

4. Another Night Like This

5. No Stone Unturned

6. Count My Blessings

7. (All I Have to Do Is) Dream

8. Poison Ivy

9. Busy Tonight

10. Rise Up

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Departure From The Formula..., July 24, 2002

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Juan Carlos Rede "Makin' Good Music" (Orlando, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rockappella (Audio CD)

Having discovered The Nylons in 1986 while in high school (I was in Jazz Choir so we all just fell head over heels with this music) this was the long anticipated 2-year wait for the follow-up to 1987's Happy Together. I was working at a record store (we actually STILL had records then) when this album came out. I remember buying the first CD that came into the store and subjecting my fellow employees to what I was expecting to be a typically fantastic journey into vocal acrobatics. Instead I was greeted with a highly slick, heavily synth-enhanced sound that sounded NOTHING like I was used to from the premiere A Capella foursome. This was to be the final album in which all four original "studio" Nylons performed on - the group had two other bass singers prior to Arnold Robinson joining, and Paul Cooper (their most prolific songwriter) left the group shortly after the release and subsequent tour supporting the album. Although this album has certainly grown on me - and I consider it a decent Nylons album - their later albums (with the exclusion of Run For Cover which marked a triumphant return to the sound that made them world famous) have tended to drift into pseudo-boyband style R&B.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A must-have only for die-hard Nylons fans, January 16, 1999

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This review is from: Rockappella (Audio CD)

Being a fan of a capella music, and the Nylons in particular, I have to admit I was disappointed with "Rockapella". Although there are no flaws in their performance, I found for once that the Nylons did little to enhance the songs from their original versions. The songs covered are mostly from the sixties, and there is a good balance between upbeat and mellow music. The real fan will consider this a good album, as "Rockapella" makes for a pleasant listening experience.

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful a capella from this Canadian band!, September 29, 2009

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Brian (NY, NY) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Rockappella (Audio CD)

Love the album, especially the song "Wildfire". If you like a capella and don't mind a bit of a pop sound to it, definitely give this album a try, it is a good listen.