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List Price: $16.98 | | Label: Endeavour Classics
Salesrank: 190236
Released: August 12, 2008 |
| Our Price: $12.37 |
| Used Price: $12.36 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Mix Tape Track Listing:
1. All Tomorrow's Parties (Good Times Just Seem to Pass Me By) (After Velv
2. Three of a Perfect Pair (Menage a Deux) (After King Crimson)
3. Search and Destroy (After the Stooges)
4. Born to Be Wild (After Steppenwolf)
5. Corner (After Common)
6. Dead Beat Club (After the B-52s)
7. Promise (After Tracy Chapman)
8. Rosalinda's Eyes (I Know How Good You Are) (After Billy Joel)
9. You're Beautiful (After James Blunt)
10. Play That Funky Music (Toscanini's Glasses) (After Wild Cherry)
11. Jerusalem (Curried Kafka) (After Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
12. Portrait of Tracy (After Jaco Pastorius)
13. Cars (After Gary Numan)
14. Street Spirit (Fade Out) (After Radiohead)
Editorial Review:
For those who went to an American junior high or high school in the 1980s and '90s, the mix tape was an important tool--a way for young people to encapsulate their identities. After carefully compiling the songs that meant the most to them, these tapes were often shared among friends or given to romantic companions. It was a way to say, "This is me" when verbal or interpersonal skills seemed inadequate.
Now a grizzled veteran of Generation X, Andrew Russo began to wonder what would happen if a number of American composers were asked to arrange their favorite tunes in their signature keyboard styles. Collaborating with composers such as Daniel Felsenfeld, Marc Mellits, Phil Kline, and David Lang, he presents the harmonies of pop standards through the lens of modern classical composers.
