The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
#0The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/22/06 at 11:24pmI'm surfing Itunes music store, and I have enough money to get one of those cast recordings. Which one?
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#1re: The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/22/06 at 11:30pmL5Y
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#2re: The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/22/06 at 11:31pmThanks.
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#3re: The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/22/06 at 11:33pmIt depends on what you like and what performers you prefer. My very personal recommendation is get The Last Five Years, the story is so emotional and touching, Sherie Renne Scott and Norbert Butz are very well-suited for the style of the score, I just got this album a couple of days ago and it's a very nice addition to my collection. Be aware that this is a two-actor musical so there won't be any ensemble pieces or big "One Day More"-like numbers, it's more a personal musical. Songs for a New World is a good album but I find The Last Five Years so touching and personal that I highly recommend it over Songs.
#4re: The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/22/06 at 11:35pm
I'd say L5Y. I've actually preformed a lot of the Songs for a New World songs before and find the soundtrack...lacking. The cast isn't that great. As Foscas said, L5Y is a two man show, but Norbert and Sherie do it amazing and it has some of Jason Robert Brown's best work (in my opinion of course, the other amazing songs being in Parade).
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#5re: The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/22/06 at 11:37pmYou honnestly can't go wrong with either one.
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#6re: The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/22/06 at 11:39pm
They're both good, but L5Y is better. The songs are great and the story is great. It kind of bothers me that SFANW doesn't have a story, but some of the songs are definitely worth a listen.
L5Y is my vote, though.
#7re: The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/22/06 at 11:41pm
Well L5Y seems to have won... thanks for all your help! Now I have to go finish homework in time for Desperate Housewives.
Night.
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#8re: The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/23/06 at 12:49amno...SONGS!
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#9re: The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/23/06 at 12:50amSongs for a New World...Both are great but SFANW I enjoy just a little bit more.
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#10re: The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/23/06 at 1:20am
definitely TL5Y. no question.
it'll get you hooked on jason robert brown's music instantly, then you'll go back out and buy SFANW.
it's just gorgeous. definitely in my top 5 favorite cast recordings.
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#11re: The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/23/06 at 1:32am
Get Parade--it's better than either of them
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#12re: The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/23/06 at 1:36amWhich one has the most belting?
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#13re: The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/23/06 at 1:39am
They both have belting, but for different vocal ranges. L5Y is pretty much a soprano and a tenor, while Songs for a New World has stuff that fits well in a mid-range voice (like mine 
).
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
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#14re: The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/23/06 at 7:29amBoth! But if you can really truly choose only one, The Last 5 Years. Beatiful, amazing, heartbreaking.
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#15re: The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/23/06 at 8:40am
I think Songs for a New World has better individual songs, but the Last 5 years has a better overall sound. If you want to listen to just 1 or 2 songs, get Songs for a New World. If you want to listen to the whole musical all the way through, get Last 5 years.
I do however think the Schmuel Song from L5Y is amazing on its own!
#16re: The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/23/06 at 10:06am
Last 5 Years. JRB's musical voice is more developed and the songs are better.
Along with the fact that it actually has a running story.
#17re: The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/23/06 at 10:40amyou honestly can't go wrong with either. if you are not familiar with him, I would say go with songs first, because that is his first recording, and it is more like a revue of great songs with awesome performers. get used to this cd, and see where he's coming from, then by last five years and see how much he improved when writing for character and story.
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#18re: The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/23/06 at 10:52ammy vote is for L5Y...no doubt
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#19re: The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/23/06 at 1:08pmI prefer Songs for a New World.
#20re: The Last Five Years or Songs for a New World
Posted: 1/23/06 at 1:20pmfor me, I cannot live without Last 5 Years. 'If I Didn't Believe in You' is my new favorite song. it is so....sort of romantic, but more...ugh, i don;t know. but if a guy sang that to me, i would melt.
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