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Soundtrack from Underground
$7.73
This is the soundtrack for the movie "Underground". If you watched the movie and couldn't stop hearing the big brassy band in your head for days afterward, this is the cd to have and to keep. I am so thankful they put this out, so I don't have to watch the movie over and over just to get my fix. Mesecina, mesecina, joj, joj... My little one who used to cry in the car constantly as an infant, for some inexplicable reason, when I put this album on, he'd calm down and fall asleep. Guess he likes blare and rhythm and energy in his music!

The Velvet Underground & Nico
$9.98
I am 19 years old. I have grown up listening to the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, and a bunch of other stuff out of the Sixties and Seventies, and I think any true audiophile will admit the majority of stuff on the radio is predictable, cliched, and uninteresting.
The banana album by the Velvets is in my top 10 for several reasons. It's original. It shoots for mood and groove. Not as melodic as the Beatles, but substantially more than 95% of the modern garbage there is out there. It's low fi (very) but if you have an interest in finding out why good music doesn't depend on production, buy this. It's basically what would happen if the White Stripes, Beatles, and Pink Floyd had a love child. That and it's really REALLY good.

Underground
$9.95
Rather disappointed - expected something more child friendly - more like the how it works series - would've sent it back but the postage is more than the cost of the book. Information about the target range of customer would have been helpful as I was not able to review the book before purchase. I had simply purchased on the back of his other titles.

Underground
$29.95
I liked this movie more first time around, when I was bewildered, charmed and shocked. Much of what reviewers, who declare their Yugo roots, desribe as a film best undestood by people from the region, I am sure is true. I don't know the history, I loved the music and the cinematography, even the speed of the drama. But the slapstick really passes me by. The allegorical presentation at times, was too cute, and laboured. The animals cruelty at the outbreak of war was very telling, and the general revellry living it up, became monotonous while serving the script of bedevilling and blurring fact from fantasy, above and below ground. Some Tarkovskian shots, the duck spreading its wings and filmed from an oblique angle, the island floating in the Danube at the end(Solaris) were brilliant and appropriate flourishes. So, the film is good to look at...but to an outsider, it's hard to emotionally connect with such undeveloped characters.