Alternative Rock Compilations music reviews

I Like this cd, because it has some the great hits from univesal
artists.
The good songs from this cd are
Aaliyah:Miss You
Nelly:Hot In Herre
Lumidee:Never Leave You
Paulina Rubio:Dont Say Good Bye
Baby Bash:Suga Suga
3 Doors Down:When I'm Gone
I recomand this cd for who ever like's this type of music!!!

As another reviewer noted, this is NOT the music used at the games! Why couldn't they put together a CD with the music used at the opening and closing ceremonies? Why not a DVD of those ceremonies (this time WITHOUT NBC's annoying commentary and constant commercial interruption!)? Those ceremonies, as are all Olympic Ceremonies, are carefully choreographed and usually magnificent occasions worthy of preservation on DVD. Somehow, it all just gets trashed and forgotten. After the tremendous expense involved, that seems incredibly wasteful. The drum beats at the beginning of the opening ceremony sent chills down my spine! Oh, to see and hear them again!

We can hear these dumb pop stars anytime. This CD is a pathetic peice of self-promotion. Avoid it.

This seemed like such a good idea - get a bunch of music stars from different countries to collaborate on tracks. This album is certainly eclectic, but it doesn't work at all. All I can figure is that one of two things happened. 1) They couldn't get enough big names to do it, so they had to settle for former stars (a less kind person might say "has beens") such as Alice Cooper and Earth Wind And Fire. 2) Some 50-something year old recording executive got wind of the project and made some changes. I can just imagine some clueless guy who thinks "the kids still dig Bruce Springsteen" saying "Add some Urban music because kids buy that stuff. Add Earth Wind And Fire. Boy they sure were good, weren't they?"

I was stunned at how much Urban music (R&B, hip hop, etc.) is on this album. I don't like that kind of music at all and never listen to it. I have no frame of reference. Is the Destiny Child's song as good as their other stuff, better, or worse? I truly have no idea. Listening to this album didn't convince me that I was missing anything by not listening to that kind of music.

A few of these tracks work. Avril Lavigne's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" was inspired. Sting and Mariza work well together. In fact, I bought this because of that song. Alice Cooper and Xzibit were pretty good. Moby and Public Enemy were surprisingly good and the Brian Eno and Skin collaboration was nice. The rest is not so good. Lenny Kravitz tries, bless his heart, but his song with Kadim Al Sahir does not work at all. The styles just don't match. Maybe Lenny should have listed to Sting's song "Desert Rose" to figure out how to blend his music with Arabic music. Herbert Groenemeyer and Cheb Mami is really bad. Well, Herbert is really bad and Cheb can do nothing to save the track. Herbert is apparently some big deal in Germany, but hey, David Hasselhoff is a recording star there too. Why oh why couldn't they have gotten Nena to do the album instead of Herbert? The rest of the album is truly forgettable, although not necessarily bad.

My recommendation would be to try to buy individual songs if there's an artist you like, but I can't recommend this album.

I bought this and was greatly impressed with the result. I love the cd, many of the songs are terrific, a few you can get annoyed with after a while but still...awesome. For me my two favorite songs would be Issues and Pass the Flame. Issues just makes you want to sing along while at the same time makes you think about the world around you while listen. Pass the Flame is just totally...wow, it makes you really reflective and is almost trance like. Definitely my favorite track on the cd.

I just wanted to reiterate the other one stars... if you liked the first UCs, then you may be disappointed. The emphasis seems far less on electronica and more on an eclectic mix of low key music. Some of it isn't bad, but I feel like someone stuck a lot of remakes of old jazz songs into what had once been a compilation series of forward looking trance/electronica, etc.

As owner of Every single Chill/Lounge music CD I am aware of, this was the biggest dissapointment in a long time. Ultra Chill series 1-4 was outstanding. While Ultra Chill 05 is not a complete disaster, I could not find one song worthy of a 5/5 star rating. Quite a few 4 star songs and lots of 2-3 star songs. Some of the better songs were repeated on older Chill discs or present on other series of lounge discs. There is a lot of Jazz and Latin chill on these two discs, which I also like, but the Jazz/world/latin chill tracks here were repeats or nothing great.

I think the person that rated this 5 stars doesn't own a lot of lounge/chill and is probably a lot easier to please. I'm very dissapointed. Maybe this 'genre' is all dried up! :) Oh well...
I'm off to listen to "Chillout Seesions 8"... Hopefully it will be a lot better. I highly reccomend Chillout seesions by Ministry of Sound. Chillout sessions 1-7 are outstanding... Time to go listen to the new 8!

It does feature a somewhat different, more eclectic, variety of songs than featured previously on this series, but it works very well for me. Much like the "Back To Mine" series, this set shows that there is a lot of variety to what can be called chillout. And just like the previous volumes in this series and the "Back To Mine" albums, this one has been a big hit with my friends at cocktail parties.