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Vitamin C - More Audio CD

A fair review of the Vitamin C "More" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Vitamin C reviews here, or go back to the Vitamin C tabs.

Band: Vitamin C
Title: More
Rating:

Release Date: 2001-01-30
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Itch - Jimmy Harry, Vitamin C 2: Sex Has Come Between Us - Alex Edenborough, Jimmy Harry, Laila Samualson, Vitamin C 3: That Was Then, This Is Now - DJ Logic, Jack Daley, Josh Deutsch, Tabitha Fair, Garry Hughes, Andy Rogers, Peter "Ski" Schwartz, Steve Sidelnyk, Vitamin C 4: Dangerous Girl - Tabitha Fair, Billy Mann, Andy Marvel, Vitamin C 5: She Talks About Love - Michael Hatch, Vitamin C 6: I Know What Boys Like - Bloodshy, Victoria Clamp, Jack Daley, Josh Deutsch, , Jimmy Harry, Marc Anthony Jones, Mac Quayle, Vitamin C 7: Busted - Mats Berntoft, Vitamin C 8: Special - Alan Friedman, Michael Hatch, Peter "Ski" Schwartz, Vitamin C 9: Where's the Party - DJ Logic, Jimmy Harry, Vitamin C 10: I Can't Say No - Mats Berntoft, Jeanette Olsson, Vitamin C 11: Real Life - David Frank, Vitamin C 12: As Long as You're Loving Me - Dorian Cheah, Shelly Peiken, Guy Roche, Vitamin C, Windy Wagner 13: [CD-ROM Track] - Vitamin C

Great singer girl and great album!!!
The second work of Vitamin C is great!!! In Italy it can't be found!!! I don't know why. .
Her songs are a mix of pop-rock very pleasant of listen!!! My favourite songs in absolute are "The Itch" and "I Know What Boys Like" (it's very cool and sexy!!!). Besides "As Long As You're Loving Me" is beautiful!!!
I suggest this CD if you have her album of debut "Vitamin C". Then, you MUST listen it!!! ;-))) Bye, Roby.

Colleen Fitzpatrick...
The only problem with this Album is that there's only a handful of songs that are HOT. I can take songs from both of her CDs and create the perfect album, she always creates these unique tracks that since her debut have been seeming to suck me in. She couldv'e done alot better than this. The songs that "I Do" like are so good I had to give this album a 4 star rating, Not only for the songs, but Vitamin C's way is just original so many ways. First we have "The Itch" which is an excellent busy pop-track that's fused with the 1999-2001 brand new futuristic trademark that many producers & their artists were experimenting with in the New Mellenium such as "Dark Child", "She'kspere", "Missy Elliot" and a few others. "The Itch" has the New Mellenium trademark all over it, my most favorite pop track of the 1999-2001 era. "Sex Has Come Between Us" uses the technique to it's limits and it sounds amazing, It wouldn't be out of place on TLC's (Fanmail) or Victoria Beckham's 2001 Release (VB). Other stickout tracks are "Dangerous Girl" "I Can't Say No" "Busted" & "Real Life". Vitamin C also channels Blondie in her song "She Talks About Love" and rearranges & samples bits and pieces along with the chorus of "I Know What Boys Like" orignally done by a band called "The Waitresses" in the late 70's/Early 80's. Last but not least I get a slight wiff of Joan Jett's "I Love Rock-N'Roll" on VC's track "Where's The Party". The only downfall about "More" is that the songs that I didn't mention are dull and boring, Which is 75% of the album. Vitamin C shouldv'e worked with better producers on some of her other songs, Whoever worked with her just didn't do the job right. I hear she's in the works for new album which is really interesting to me, i wonder what she's coming up with.
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More!!!
This Album Is By Far Worth Buying. . It Is More Than 10X As Good As The First Album. . . More Makes A Statement About Vitamin C And The Moods And Many Feelings She Had At This Point In Time. . . I Recommend It To All. . . :).

A Little Hit-and-Miss, But Where It Suceeds, It Goes Beyond Pop
Then, when I grew, I adjusted my ear to a more tune-full style of music, leaving my childhood fancies to gather dust in forgotten boxes. I love cleaning up my DVDs and CDs, remembering all the past times I played a certain disc, how much younger and innocent I seemed.
"Vitamin C" a. k. a. Collen Fitzpatrick fell under this category for quite some time. However, as I have matured, I can now look back on my past loves and enjoy them for what they are: I've reached the age where I can appreciate what I crazed with at younger years.
Popping "More" into my CD player, a bit curious to what exactly it contained, I found myself . . . frankly: stunned! Some of the songs ("The Itch", "I Know What Boys Like") were not the cream-of-the-crop, but what really floored me was her grouping of electronic-influenced dance/pop music! Only in the world of Pop can so many different flavourings of various styles be accumulated under one artist, and this CD really does prove it.
I reveled in the beauty of "She Talks About Love", "Busted", "I Can't Say No" . . . they were all masterpieces of an era, plain and simple. I can definately see how this album wouldn't fly off the charts, but it definately made my day and has changed my somewhat biased opinion of Vitamin C forever.
She really seemed to enjoy herself, and this album is a perfect time-capsule into a specific portion of the 90's, with a feel of music that I can now adore and appreciate with all the other artists I've learned from since giving up on Colleen.
Amber vonTassle has done it again!.

Great Music, Outdated & Crippled Enhanced CD Portion
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[3 Stars For The Music, 0 Stars For The Outdated & Crippled Enhanced CD Portion]

Vitamin C's "More" was originally released in 2000 by Elektra Entertainment Group (a division of Warner Music Group). "The Itch" music video on the CD-ROM portion of the disc ("Enhanced CD") is crippled using HyperCD technology. (HyperCD is the brand name for a way of removing a small slice of meta-data from a digital file such that the file is made unreadable. This process is called "encrippling. " Only when the "encrippled" file on a computer is linked with the piece of meta-data on a web site can the user view the content. ) Unfortunately, the video will NEVER be playable because the website was taken down a long time ago.

HyperCD technology absolutely sucks and gives me a good reason NOT to buy anymore CDs.

Let's see, where should I begin. . .

1. Running HYPERCD. EXE from the main/root directory of the CD installs files to C:\HYPERCD and puts an icon on my desktop without telling me it's doing this, and for no real reason anyway. This is the first instance of my hatred for HyperCD technology. Spyware does this kind of behavior. (I'll let it slide that this menu exe doesn't contain any real content, and is really pointless to have anyway. )

2. "The Itch" music video is located on the CD here: \content\Vc01. hlk. However the "content" directory is set to be hidden by Windows. There's no reason to hide the file like that. People who bought the CD don't have to be treated like pirates, though that's the basic premise for HyperCD technology when used in a manner like this.

3. The HyperCD browser plugin installer is located on the CD here: \SETUP\SETUP. EXE. However, the program runs in an endless loop on my computer. When it starts to run the second time, I quit it.

4. The plugin gets installed for IE (C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\PLUGINS\nphcd32. dll), but not for Mozilla. I had to manually copy/move the plugin to my Mozilla plugins directory. (The installer gives no indication of what the plugin is named or how many files it installs. The HyperCD. com website gave me the file name. )

5. Since I had to manually quit the install program, this of course means that my default browser (Mozilla - which the plugin was not automatically installed to) won't be launched, and I won't be taken to the site through which I can view the video. Thankfully, I found the URL of the website in this file \SETUP\HCDSETUP. INI on the CD. The website is: http://elektra. broadbridge. net/vitamin_c_001/index. html

6. If I try to go to that site, I get a "server not found" error message as that server, much less that page, was taken down long ago. This is why the internet should not be relied upon to provide exclusive content for a physical item. For example, the Jurassic Park DVDs gave you an exclusive "weblink" to online content on the making of the then in-production Jurassic Park 3. Needless to say, that "bonus feature" is non-existent now. Of course, that case is drastically different from this one. In the case of any CD using HyperCD technology, the content actually exists in the CD itself, but is crippled unless viewed from within an online webpage. It's one thing to have a link to content that can't be viewed, it's quite another to have the content itself but not be able to view/hear it.

7. Using the Internet Archive, I was able to get a copy of the files on that page: index. html, all images, and MOST IMPORTANTLY VitaminC_Vc01. hlq (which contains the missing portion of the video file already on the CD itself). Unfortunately, VitaminC_Vc01. hlq is set to *only* work if it's on the original web server (elektra. broadbridge. net). So even having an archived copy on another website or on my own computer won't work (Mozilla reports: "Error in server identifiers(008)").

Thanks to HyperCD technology, it looks like I'm going to be forced to buy the DVD for the movie "Get Over It!" which contains "The Itch" music video as a bonus feature. I shouldn't be forced to buy an additional product, at a cost of $10 more, for something that was advertised as a "bonus feature" of a product I already bought. That is just plain wrong!

By the way, the other content on the Enhanced CD are outdated copies of Java Environment (JRE13I), Netscape 6 (N6SETUP, N6UNINST, SETUP), Real Player 8 (NSRP8), Direct-X 6 (\SETUP\ DXM6PTCH, DXMEDIA), Spinner internet radio service (\SETUP\INSTALL SPINNER FREE), WinAmp music player - with Vitamin C skin (SETUP\INSTALL WINAMP FREE), ICQ Plus 2. 05 instant messenger (SETUP\IPLUS205), and AOL 5 (\SETUP\AOL\).

You can see a complete list of all Vitamin C discography, or go back to the Vitamin C tabs. There is also a good guide on how to read guitar tabs here.