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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A little-known gem., December 11, 2000
I first heard the song "The Ballad of Jenny Ledge" on an AOR station about ten years ago or so. Immediately I called my local CD shop to have them special-order it. This disc is absolutely first-rate....pop? I guess you could call it pop, although it's much more adventurous than most pop. "Jenny Ledge", "Things She Said", and "Remember My Name" are absolutely magical songs, but there's not really a shoddy song in the whole bunch. I don't really know how to explain the music except to say that it's accessable enough to actually get FM airplay, yet contains alot of twisted harmony and really grabs your ears. Those die-hard ELP, old Yes, old King Crimson or bust folks probably wouldn't get into it, but if you want top-notch, heartfelt, and at times unbelievably clever songwriting, snatch this up before it goes out of print.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
DTS just adds to an already incredile CD, May 15, 2001
First, I should say that this is indeed a DVD, not a CD. It is actually a DVD-Audio, which means that it is meant to be played on DVD-Audio players. It does play on a normal DVD player, it just sounds as good as the CD...unless you have DTS, then it really becomes something magical. This is the first DTS music DVD I have owned and I'm dying to try more. I DO NOT have a DVD-Audio player, but it still sounds great with just the normal DVD in DTS.If you don't know about Toy Matinee, you're in for a real treat. Check out the reviews on the Toy Matinee CD and see how great everyone thinks it is. Kevin Gilbert was a tremendous talent and this is one of his and Patrick Leonard's finest examples of that. If you have a DVD with DTS, this is really a must have DVD. I can't think of a better way of demonstrating a great entertainment system then with one of the best CD's played in DTS! Make sure to try to find the rest of Kevin Gilbert's stuff. It's not easy to find most of it, but Thud is available here on Amazon.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
NOT DVD-Audio!!, November 16, 2006
I am not going to comment on the quality of this CD or it's content. Read the other reviews for that. I just want to clarify to anyone who might buy this that this is NOT a DVD-Audio disc. There exists no encoding on this disc that you can access with a DVD-Audio player that you cannot access with a regular DVD player. In fact, this is technically not even a DVD. It has no menus, and the DVD remote has no effect other than play, FF, Rew, etc. This is an audio CD encoded in DTS 5.1. That's it. I have a Pioneer 578A which plays every type of disc there is, and it identifies it as such. When I insert a disc, it will say on the front panel, "DVD", "DVD-Audio", "CD", "VCD", "SVCD", "MP3", "SACD", etc. When I insert this disc, it says "CD". I even put it in my portable boombox, and while it obviously could not play it (it was all static), it did recognize the number of tracks and the total time of the CD when I inserted it.
So yes, a DVD player with DTS is required to play this disc, but it is NOT a DVD-Audio disc. It does play through my DVD 6-ch analog inputs (used for true DVD-Audio), but it is only playing what is already being encoded from the player itself.
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