Spike Jones Is Murdering the Classics [Import]

Spike Jones | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 16, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Bmg
• ASIN: B000025L5D
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #249,834 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. William Tell Overture

2. Rhapsody From Hungre(Y)

3. Pal Yat Chee

4. Liebestraum

5. Blue Danube

6. Jones Laughing Record

7. Nutcracker Suite

8. Dance Of The Hours

9. None But The Lonely Heart

10. Morpheus

11. Ill Barkio (Il Bacio)

12. Carmen

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Kid's View of this Album!, February 18, 2000

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Phillip Wampler (Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spike Jones Is Murdering the Classics (Audio CD)

I'm a ten year old Spike Jones Fan and I like all of the albums Spike made. My favorite song on this one is Number 12, Carmen. I recommend this to all kids, no matter how old they are!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great collection but it could have been improved for CD!!, April 23, 2004

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Doug (Washington State) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spike Jones Is Murdering the Classics (Audio CD)

I've always liked this Spike Jones collection,I own the original LP and I literally wore out my original copy of it and had to replace it so I'm glad it was issued on CD but for two things: It is a straight CD copy of the original 1971 LP master laden with RCA's infamous fake stereo which makes some of the tracks almost unlistenable. Since RCA has restored the original mono sound of a number of artists whose recordings were ruined by the fake stereo effect (Elvis Presley probably bieng the most notable example) I wish they had taken the effort to do that here. The other problem I had with the original issue of this album was that a couple of the tracks were edited for no discernable reason. The "Nutcracker Suite" was originally issued with a sort of storybook narration which has been edited out here and the sections rearranged (Though the original full length recording has since been reissued on the collection "Spiked! The Music Of Spike Jones" in it's original superb monophonic sound). I like this collection and perhaps one day RCA will offer an expanded CD version with some additional tracks in their original mono sound. If you're a Spike Jones fan you will certainly enjoy this album.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spike at his Best - Reverb at its Worst!, December 7, 1999

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Ted Hering (Redding, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spike Jones Is Murdering the Classics (Audio CD)

Frankly, I didn't know how many stars to give this. I gave it 5 because it's a wonderful compilation -- ALL of Spike's classical music. ("Nutcracker Suite" is edited down, deleting most of the choir passages -- which are hard to understand anyway.) BUT: the 1971 re-mastering added heavy electronic echo, phase shift and filtering to simulate stereo. This CD actually mixes the end result back to mono again! -- with painful results!