Caroline, Or Change OBCR

[alfgiotir]

Caroline, Or Change OBCR#1

Posted: 1/3/08 at 6:17pm

What do you guys thaink about this CD? Is it worth to buy the whole thing or to buy bits and pieces of it? Which songs do you like the most?
Updated On: 1/3/08 at 06:17 PM

[rosscoe(au)]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#2

Posted: 1/3/08 at 6:24pm

Having never heard the whole cd ( waiting for the order to come from amazon ) i would buy the whole cd, to me there is no point having just bits and pieces.

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Updated On: 1/3/08 at 06:24 PM

[BustopherPhantom]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#2

Posted: 1/3/08 at 6:27pm

If you buy the CD in bits and pieces, you're going to have a bad listening experience. The whole show flows as one piece, which is why there were no separate songs listed in the playbill for the Broadway production.

So buy the CD. It comes with the complete libretto. And the music is very, very good, one of the strongest arguments against dismissing a score simply because it is pastiche.

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

Updated On: 1/3/08 at 06:27 PM

[WickedGeek28]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#3

Posted: 1/3/08 at 6:30pm

The show is practically an opera, there is very little dialogue. Listening to the complete recording is a very fulfilling experience, bits and pieces won't do the show justice at all.

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

[GYPSY1527]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#4

Posted: 1/3/08 at 6:32pm

I would encourage any musical theater fan to buy the full recording of this masterpiece! I would also recommend that when you receive it that you sit and listen to the recording all the way through. It gives you a really great sense of the show.

Happy...Everything! Kaye Thompson

[uncageg]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#5

Posted: 1/3/08 at 6:35pm

Buy the full recording. It is well worth it. I have worn disc 2 out so much I have to buy the entire thing again. I tried to burn a copy for myself but burning it causes breaks and, as Bustopher mentioned, it flows as one piece on the CD.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[beyondblessed]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#6

Posted: 1/3/08 at 7:49pm

As Noah sings on the recording " BUY BUY BUY" this is one of my absolute favorite broadway recordings. Tesori's score is brilliant and the way in which the music moves is absolutely amazing. I too was quite hesitant about purchasing the full recording and was first exposed to "Salty Teardrops". I couldn't stop listening to that song. And I just had to hear the whole thing. You will not regret purchasing the whole recording. And unless you have gift cards, your best bet is off of deepdiscount.com, the best website ever.

Going to a musical late in its run is like going to a prostitute late in her shift.

[sally1112]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#7

Posted: 1/3/08 at 7:58pm

You must own this show. You will not listen to it every day, but you will enjoy it and be very happy that it is in your collection.

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#9

Posted: 1/3/08 at 8:04pm

The CD often saves my sanity and enriches my spirit during long commutes to school and work.

"[Gore] was widely perceived as arrogant. If you know something, you're not smart. You're a smarty-pants. It's annoying. People get annoyed with your knowledge. It goes back to high school, to not doing your homework ... 'There's something I should know, I don't know why I should know it but someone knows it and I don't. So I'm going to have to make fun of him now.'" -Sarah Vowell, The Partly-Cloudy Patriot

[B3TA07]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#10

Posted: 1/3/08 at 8:10pm

"The whole show flows as one piece, which is why there were no separate songs listed in the playbill for the Broadway production."

No, that's just Tony Kushner's insufferable pretentiousness. There are clearly defined songs.

-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/

[uncageg]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#11

Posted: 1/3/08 at 8:14pm

Some are clearly defined, but most bleed into others especially instrumentally. I can see why he did it.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#12

Posted: 1/3/08 at 8:30pm

The full recording is a must have. It is great to listen to from start to finish.

Akiva
Updated On: 1/3/08 at 08:30 PM

[uncageg]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#13

Posted: 1/3/08 at 8:36pm

I agree, listen to it from start to finish.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[alfgiotir]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#14

Posted: 1/9/08 at 5:24pm

wait, are you able to put the cd in the computer and then put it on itunes to put it on my ipod? i got a little confused because some were saying that it was destroyed while they tried importing it from the computer.

[Mattbrain]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#15

Posted: 1/9/08 at 5:29pm

If iTunes is your default player, the CD will be ripped onto your iTunes account and then it will end up on your iPod the next time you hook it up.

Buy it.

Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you. --Cartman: South Park ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."

[alfgiotir]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#16

Posted: 1/9/08 at 5:36pm

k thanks matt brain.

[Juliash]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#17

Posted: 1/9/08 at 5:38pm

BUYTHEWHOLETHING!!!

It's amazing, and the tracks flow together so buying them separate would be funny.

[alfgiotir]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#18

Posted: 1/9/08 at 5:43pm

Yeah so i decided and bought the whole thing on ebay.

[uncageg]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#19

Posted: 1/9/08 at 6:39pm

Good boy alfgiotir!!!!

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[carolineorchange]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#20

Posted: 1/9/08 at 7:12pm

The show is like others have said basically sung through like an opera.

And what's even more bizzare is the way the tracks are split on the CD. While the songs are continuous, the CD tracks split them in the weirdest places.

So if you were to buy a track here and there on iTunes, you wouldn't even get a full song because it has like the last 10 seconds of the song before it, and then the last 10 seconds are cut off.

You have to get the CD....

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[luvcaroline]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#21

Posted: 1/9/08 at 7:30pm

Well, I can't let a thread about my favorite musical of all time go by without posting.

As others have said, you must own the entire CD and listen to it from start to finish (at least for the first time). It is truly a masterpiece and everyone must own this.

uncageg--your CD burning software should have an option to eliminate the pauses between tracks. I know this from experience, as I have had to make several copies myself. I agree that the pauses are an annoyance!

[obsessedjb]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#22

Posted: 1/9/08 at 7:33pm

I just bought it on itunes and so far it is amazing!

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#23

Posted: 1/9/08 at 7:38pm

The cast recording is brilliant. The performances are top-notch throughout (I for one can't understand how Veanne Cox or Chandra Wilson didn't land a Tony nod for their beautiful, touching work).
As I've said in other threads about the recording, someone messed up badly when making the cuts between the tracks.
Yes, the songs flow seamlessly from one to the next but if you want to listen to a single track (i.e. "I Hate the Bus" or "Salty Teardrops") you're screwed. I have my iTunes set up so it plays as a gapless album but if you have the songs on random, the cut ending of each song is really atrocious. It'd be great to get a re-issue sometime that fixes this problem.
Otherwise it is probably my favorite cast recording. I don't think any show has moved me more than CAROLINE, OR CHANGE.
When are Kushner and Tesori going to sit down and give us another marvelous show?

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[obsessedjb]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#25

Posted: 1/9/08 at 8:36pm

ok I am seriously obsessed with "Salty Teardrops"

[luvcaroline]

re: Caroline, Or Change OBCR#26

Posted: 1/9/08 at 8:56pm

ray--I had forgotten about how badly this album is cut, as I almost always listen to it from start to finish. You are absolutely right.