Pretty Frickin' Great
595093
I LOVE everything about this knife. Originally, I was thinking that I wanted an aluminum handle to reduce weight but this knife is light, slim, and the finish is a cool matte black that is tacky to the touch for a solid feel. The Kershaw opening mechanism is the best I've felt. The simple safety slide prevents accidental pocket deployments if you're worried about that. I love the combo blade (I wish is was a broader drop-point tip but this blade has served me well). Serious, I'm very pleased with this knife for a do-all EDC that fits nicely in a slim pocket.
3216527
Very good. Nice. I love Metallica, and then came the black album, load, reload, Ugh. But don't pass this one up. Did I say it's very good? What I meant was it's excellent!!!
2637120
I got one for Christmas.  I'll admit that I was a bit skeptical, since I had wanted a Nano, but decided to keep it.

I love it... It is ridiculously small and holds a ton of music.  I have been using it for running on rocky, hilly off-street running, and the music does not bounce like it did on my last MP3 player.  Even the earbuds work better for running.  Can't wait for some more accessories to come out - I think this might be the only drawback over an iPod, but I would almost recommend it over the Apple version due to the controls.
16088
This is my favorite album so far.  Keep going guys!
3670528
This things is pretty sweet. Looks great, works perfect. Instructions are easy to follow for install. 10/10 would recommend to a friend
1196111
This pedal is really good, maybe even great. My only thing would be that the toggle could either be a) removed from the design (just have it default to 'warm' or whatever, or b) the toggle could be more sturdy (bigger). Even so, that's just a nit. This thing sounds great. The thing is though, it might not be a 'mad' drvier, but it sure has a lot of great character. It's quite smooth, with some great overtone action when you want to make it.
1556751
I love the Yellowjackets, I really do. I have every single one of their albums and albums they've been involved in, all except for the "Star Trek IV" album, which I've only just learned about through this very release. As far as live albums go, I have "Live Wires", which I thought was very good. I also have "Mint Jam", which I thought was simply awesome and a few years ago out of the clear blue sky, a wonderful Italian man I didn't know from Adam offered to send me a CD-R of a performance they gave in Asti, Italy in 1996. I accepted the offer, naturally, and after listening to the performance, thought that one was pretty good too.

But compared to all those, I thought this album was just okay. Sure, it was nice to hear completely new takes on songs I knew so well but to be honest I felt quite underwhelmed, deflated even, after listening to it a few times and was beginning to wonder if I'd made a mistake.

And then I watched the DVD.

Oh, my goodness it was such a revelation. I've seen these guys perform live four times now; three times with Will Kennedy and once with Peter Erskine but this performance was simply awesome! It's always a joy to see these four unassuming, casually dressed dudes get up on to a low-key stage with no fancy graphics, no smoke and no flashing lights and just produce nothing short of magic.

And I take everything I've said about Marcus Baylor - he is incredible! He attacked the songs, some of which I was immediately familiar with (I really loved the new arrangements of songs like "My Old School" and "Red Sea" on the DVD) and oldies, like "Matinee Idol" and "Imperial Strut", which I hadn't listened to in a long while with gusto, dexterity and expertly placed snare snaps that don't seem to come across in the studio recordings. Or maybe I have to go and listen to them again with fresh ears. And this is a man who obviously enjoys his work. The smile that beams across his face while he's playing is priceless.

A great concert from start to end and again, even though I knew the songs, I was truly impressed by the band's ability to give totally new and exciting arrangements of them. Somehow it all seems much better when you can actually see the band playing. Although not all members have been with the group for the whole 25 years, as a unit they still come across like a band with a quarter of a century's experience of playing together. The CD on its own, well, I'm not too sure about - I'd probably give it three and a half stars - but the CD and DVD combined deserve ten stars no doubt.

Thanks Yellowjackets. Here's to the next 25 years!
1583387
Great product... I like a lot. It's worth the money.
242353
I've been meaning to write a review of this for months, probably more than a year now.

Simply put:  It's great.

Before it existed, it existed as a podcast (which had some dozen or so episodes, which everyone should look up, bc Steve has a fantastic narrative voice, plus he's a great storyteller, plus he accentuates it all w/bits of music --- like This American Life, only better -- really! --- and it's just great stuff.

There.  I could, and maybe should, write another 3-5 carefully crafted paragraphs on how great this stuff is, but I procrastinate bc I worry that I can't do it justice.  Discover it yourself.

Ten Stars!

Jeff Bezos I'm sure will allow me that for this.
2298737
All songs on this album are fantastic.  I don't much about these guys, but I hope they make more music.  Great stuff.
4843615
They're suprisingly good. I shouldn't be surprised, but there it is: They're excellent. Crisper mids and highs than my old set of Klipsch ProCinema 2.1 and Logitech z5500 before that. Decent bass--I'm a bit on the fence of whether or not if they need a sub, they DON'T, but one probably wouldn't hurt either. They have 0 issue getting loud and delivering clean audio. I have half a mind to see if I can rig this up to my home cinema setup. Alas, it will not be so, they shall remain connected to my desktop.
3443285
While I can't stand the television show anymore, this soundtrack is definately awesome.  Chinese Burn, Enigma, etc. are all great.  The techno stuff rocks and the softer stuff just rules.:)
2130959
I wasn't expecting to like this show. Friends keep telling me how good it is and that I'm missing a really enjoyable show. Figured if I didn't like it I could donate it to the local library. Well, I love it. The themes, the music, the powerful voices, what more could you ask for. I'm Gleeded! Is that a new term?
1567483
This is great , take a licking . Holds up great . Worth it .
1132140
I thought I'd take the time to write a review because it appears a good number of somewhat negative ones take issue with what it's not, and those things are not part of the specs. I read about a product carefully before purchasing it, and if there are problems with the things it purports to do, that's worthy of a review. If it's great, that's also worth a review, and I think the 6th generation Nano is terrific.

It's tiny, which was exactly what I wanted. It's easy to carry around and the clip on the back is sturdy: I use the clip almost every time I use the Nano, which is most days every week.

The screen displays the album artwork beautifully, so much so that I took the time to make custom album art for the songs that didn't have any. You can easily adjust the brightness, and the clarity is such that reading the controls (and lyrics) is a cinch. Despite its minute size, it's easy to navigate, something I appreciate since on other devices with tiny controls (think iPhone keyboard) I often have a hard time. The screen is tough as well: I've not yet scratched it, which really impresses me.

If you take the time to use iTunes to set up playlists you can hear exactly what you want when you want. iTunes makes creating and editing playlists very easy. Categories (artist and genre in particular) are great if you want all of whatever matches either. If I want to skip songs, the iPod works much like iTunes: one click/touch on the advance control skips to the next song.

If you want to put a lot of music on it and not worry about having to start deleting songs to make space for more right away, the 16 GB is the model for you. I have 1,077 songs on mine, most very high quality, which means the file size is often considerably larger than it would normally be, and still have .56 GB free. I do not have anything else on it. I read that putting images on it reserves more room for them than necessary, and I got the iPod to listen to music, not look at photos on a screen barely over 1" x 1" in size. The capacity stated in iTunes (when you plug it into a computer with iTunes) is 14.89 GB, not 16 GB, but that doesn't surprise me: storage media rarely provides the same amount as that stated for it. With that in mind, mine has 14.2 GB tagged as audio; .17 as other; and the .56 free.

I add lyrics to a lot of my songs and I can read them easily on the iPod, despite the fact that I can't enlarge them. I found that using the screen is battery intensive and if I'm working out and reading lyrics much of the time, the iPod's battery will run out of juice quickly. I haven't run a test, I just know that if I read a lot on it over a 2-hour workout I'll need to recharge the battery afterward if I don't want to worry about it going dead in the near future.

So, in summary, I bought the Nano so I could easily take a lot of music with me wherever I went. The Nano does that very well, and thanks to playlists, I can listen to whatever subset of songs I want. It met all my expectations and has proven to be durable (purchased September 2010). It's exactly what I wanted.
3263244
This thing packs a punch in a tiny tiny space.  Absolutely great.
2876727
Quite good, pretty much love it. Wish the LED light could even be brighter. Ok thats all thanks alot. cheers