"Relax (Don't Do It)"
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Comedian Chris Rock keeps his comedy low key for most of this documentary, playing the interested interviewer, listening more than talking. He mentions his two young daughters who still have natural hairstyles, but are beginning to notice that smooth straight hair is the ideal. Rock acknowledges that they will feel pressure to relax their hair and while he doesn't seem too crazy about it, he realizes it's only a matter of time.

But now he's curious. Why is straight hair "good" hair? What's involved in straightening hair? Are there alternatives?

To find out, he goes to the major black hair care product convention, which takes place twice a year in Atlanta. He finds that black hair is big business, controlled mainly by major corporations such as Revlon, but there are also some smaller companies, some black-owned, most not.

The most revealing bit of information is that the vast amount of hair that is used for hair weaves, another popular method of getting straight hair, comes from India. While in India, Rock learns from one hair dealer that the hair is so valuable that Indian women are at risk of having their long hair snipped off in dark movie theaters.

It would have been interesting to find out a little more of the history of black hair styles, to find out when it became practically mandatory for black women to straighten. There's a poignant interview in which a group of high school girls, all but one with straightened hair, talk about the necessity of having smooth hair for getting a job. The girls acknowledge the cuteness of the one girl's natural style, then declare that they would never hire someone who had such an unprofessional look, such a disregard for her own appearance.

Too much time was devoted to the competition at the hair convention, which is a staged extravaganza with dancing and costumes and very little hair styling, oddly enough.

Good Hair is a thoughtful and entertaining documentary, which is about black hair, but could easily apply to the lengths many women (and increasingly, men) of all ethnicities go to to look good. Many of us spend more time and money than we can afford on beauty regimens. We apply dangerous chemicals to our bodies in the pursuit of beauty. Tattoos and whiteners and straighteners have been around for thousands of years. It's not likely to change any time soon.
642831
I think that my heading pretty much says it. It would be a relaxing CD except for the constant drip, drip, dripping that is on the recording. You know, the kind of annoying dripping that would keep you awake at night. I don't know that I will be keeping this CD.
2898586
This CD is not as soothing as I had hoped it would be. It's a bit monotonous and doesn't do what I bought it for--help this insomniac get to sleep.
1146250
Soothing, relaxing music for reading, surfing the Net or using as background music.  Thankfully, in this CD, LIQUID MIND does not use any nature sounds (which I've never cared for in the New Age genre).  Rather, it is just slow chord progressions designed to lower your heart rate & make you feel relaxed.  I plan to buy more LIQUID MIND music CDs in the very near future!
3329535
You're right, you should stop listening to music; This might be their best one yet, go ahead and miss out. How the hell can you deny songs 3-10? You'd prefer a banjo or looped acoustics? Obviously "Osama Bin Laden as the Crucified Christ" is too rad and hurts your ears.

I guess "F-mylife666" might be too CHEERFUL for you? Maybe "Dead Friend/Paralytic States" does not kick you too hard in the stomach?

"Two Coffins" still haunts you as you wait for comments on your review...Dude, if you wrote this off then...Maybe Against Me! was never really for you, in fact...Nothing was probably ever against you in the first place.

 WHAT NEW AUDIENCE COULD THEY POSSIBLY BE REACHING FOR(Transexuals?) WITH LYRICS IN "OSAMA BIN LADEN AS THE CRUCIFIED CHIRST" & "Dear Friend"...Which could make the most tormented goth smile, morbidly descriptive ;)

This album reminds me of Nirvana's "In Utero" in ways it straight up rocks hard and leaves absolutely no prisoners.
It's real- Those licks do not lie, and if it's Tom, Laura- whomever...It makes me proud of who I am because life kicks back and things don't always turn out the way you want it to.
462608
Memo to Cowboy Junkies:

You are not an R&B band and your fans don't need you to do hip-hop, which doesn't fuse at all well with other musical forms anyway.

Please stop doing that, apologize for the execrable John Lennon cut on your new CD and promise that you'll never do it again.

Thanks,

One of your fans

PS) Loved the covers of "One," "You're Missing," "No More" and "Handouts." Lotta good stuff here. Just that one cut. Ack.
1889425
Four Tet is great.  Great to just sit back and chill, great to excercise to, great cook to, clean to, drink to... etc.  Unfortunately, sometimes that's just not enough! I'm left with a yearning for Four Tet to take it somewhere else... somewhere higher.  But he never does.
For those hard-core electronic/ambient/whateveruguyscallyourselves heads, I'd say skip this album.  It's not challenging enough for your finely tuned ears.  But for your everyday ambient listener, it might be worth your while to take a gander.
286910
I "stole" season 1 from relaxdaily's page, where it was free. I was so impressed, I bought season 2 through Amazon, and after that, season 3 and 4, too. I do not use this music to relax, or to help me fall asleep, but I would guess that one can do that, too, with much satisfaction. I play my electric acoustic guitar along with it, but don't ask me to explain (I am self taught). I like this music, good to listen to, to relax with, and for me, to play along with.
696058
this wasn't what I expected - thought it would be soothing music not an annoying droning voice.  It does teach you a relaxation technique but it didn't work for me.
387031
If you're stressed out then you should listen to this disc. It has a calming effect and may make you feel less tense and anxious.
261890
If you don't like this album, SHUT UP!!!
Go play a Coldplay album or something.

The End

I'M A MOTHER!
John L. Book
Palm Springs, Ca.
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I guess people's definition of "relaxing" is not quite universal.  I was looking for something calming and perhaps even something to play while I was dropping off to sleep.  This is not it.  Many of the selections may have "relaxing" segments, but often they have rousing segments in the same selection.  So, just as I am nodding off, whoosh, I am wide awake again.

In addition to the rousing segments, this CD has very poor audio quality.  Reminds me of the old monotone 45 singles or 33 lp albums from my childhood.  The vocals on the #9 and #10 selections on the first disc had the sound of an off pitch church choir--truly irritating and not at all calming.

If you are looking for music to relax and perhaps sleep by, either a spa-like, slow jazz, or Gregorian chant CD would be better choices.  But...make sure the audio quality it good, or it will grate on your nerves.

The reasons for 3 stars and not lower?  Well, it really was quite inexpensive, so at less than 20 cents a tune, I guess you can't expect too much.
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I second Janet Boyer's reviews of this CDS. While I was excited to receive this as a gift when it first was released the tracks relaxed me but that is all they did. The chanting and singing were soothing but this take on shamanic/boddhisattva suutra energy clearing got a tad unstructured. This is a good set for actual ritualistic work but it echoed of a mish-mash of spiritual woo-woo hymns. Raising vibration is more than metaphysical work ... it is the nuts and bolts or prayer, fasting, and solid grounding in God's words. Nonetheless, this is a CD set that will relax but I disagree that it attunes your vibration. If anything, it will spiritually confuse you and quite possibly attract spirits into your energy system that may tamper with you. Choqette's is crossing a line calling on "Mother/Father God" and Holy Spirit outside the proper context of prayer and reverance and mixing it into a pagan practice of calling in spirits who may not be of God. That is my bias so ... just be aware that if this material makes you uncomfortable, it's YOUR intuition telling you something.

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I just bought this set, but I am anticipating it to be really good. will be great to have all of these songs in one set! However, I'm planning to program my cd player to ALWAYS skip track 18 on disc 4, "Dont' stand so close to me 86'". THIS
RE-DOING OF THE SONG IS AN ABOMINATION! Please, if you are a person of any musical taste, always avoid this song. Participtate in this ban!! I first heard this piece of trash when I bought the greatest hits record back in the 80's--I always wondered why they put this song on their instead of the original, which was far superior and without any need to be "re-done." Why did sting do this this? If I could break into the archives at A&M and erase the master, I certainly would--what a pleasure it would be!
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Ok, so this isn't a review for this CD in particular but I feel that it doesnt really matter as how I suspect all of This gentleman's cds probably sound the same. I have to listen to "piano for stress relief" by this guy. On repeat, with another Gem of a "stress relief " cd at work, on repeat everyday, for 6 hours straight. Yeh Yeh, I can smell it in your hair, Your thinking " Oh Gee Whiz, that sounds great, I wish my work would let me listen to that everyday!" no, you dont, what is wrong with you?  Sure this stuff may be relaxing if you listen to it once every decade, but constantly, its almost enough to drive you insane, which is why I am here on amazon writing a review, bored (and out) of my mind.

thanks for listening, amazon. ha
3055738
This is a great album to listen to when you need to just relax and relieve stress.  Listen to  it often!
4294853
This CD is very relaxing. It starts with a definite melody and then becomes more and more subtle. Your mind just sort of drifts off.....highly recommended.....