Alicia Keys - Mtv Unplugged
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Artist: Alicia KeysBrand: *
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2005-10-11
Music Label: J-Records
Product features:
- KEYS ALICIA UNPLUGGED
- Intro A Cappella
- Karma
- Heartburn
- A Woman?s Worth
- Unbreakable
- How Come You Don?t Call Me
- If I Was Your Woman
- If I Ain?t Got You
- Every Little Bit Hurts
- Streets Of New York
- Wild Horses (Feat. Adam Levine)
- Diary
- You Don?t Know My Name
- Stolen Moments
- Fallin?
- Love It Or Leave It Alone (Feat. Mos Def & Common) / Welcome To Jamrock (Feat. Damian Marley, Mos Def, Common & Friends)
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Free Music Review: AKeys - Unplugged
Hit: 5 Stars
I was so happy when the word leaked that Alicia was doing an unplugged album - I was curious to see how she'd rework her earlier releases and also to see what new music she'd release on this album. Alicia is one of those vocalists who people either love or hate (based on comments on other messageboards) - the debate about her singing reminds me of similar debates about Vanessa Williams, Sade & Erykah Badu.
Anyway this is the 1st unplugged album I've purchased since Maxwell's so it's been a while but Alicia's was well worth the wait. Currently Alicia is in the crop of young performers like Fantasia, Leela James, Dwele, Kindred & even Keyshia Cole who try to keep some soulfulness in their music & singing style and I greatly appreciate those who don't feel the need to add a rapper to every other song to make it "hott".
The old songs that were reworked sound fantastic, my faves are: Heartburn, A Woman's Worth (really great reworking of the Isley Bros sample + her backup vocalists sound AMAZING on this track), Goodbye/Butterflyz (it was great to hear these two songs which were two of my faves from her 1st album).
**Also I could hear Diary & If I Ain't Got You a trillion times and not get sick of either. Diary is really reworked for a more acoustic feel and Jermaine's crazy solo at the end MAKES the song hotter than it was. I'd never heard Streets of NY before but really enjoyed the poetry/jazz feel of this rendition.
Now to the new:
I love Unbreakable (it had to grow on me but...), I like the sentiment of the song and the message she's trying to convey.
Stolen Moments is INSANE - I closed my eyes and listened to it over & over because the entire production of this song truly reminds me of Stevie Wonder in his heydey, it builds to a cresendo, her vocals, the backup vocalists, the music...just WOW!!!
Wild Horses - didn't like it when I initially viewed the Unplugged show (Levine's vocals bug me) but after a few listens, it's ok. Their voices mesh well when they sing together but his solo parts just do nothing for me.
Every Little Bit Hurts - another great cover by Alicia. Her voice and the soulful hurt she puts into performing this should help bring the song to life.
Overall, I'm really happy with this purchase and again contend that if given time and creative freedom, Alicia can eventually produce an album as prolific as Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life.
Mtv Unplugged Poster
First they went platinum...Now they're going green. Your best loved music in its simplest form. 20 best-selling "Greatest Hits" & "Best of" collections now available in a new eco-friendly package. 1CD in card wallet packaging - no plastic, no booklet - just great music! Booklets are available online through a unique URL on the package.With MTV's decision to revive its much-missed "Unplugged" series came a certain obligation: Whoever was going to kick the shows off needed to have the means to deliver serious heat, Grammy-vote garnering heat. The "powers that be" couldn't have chosen better than Alicia Keys. Throughout this consistent set, marked by warmth, sincerity and a powerful lack of inhibition, Keys convinces that if she's not the new Aretha Franklin, she's a force of equal might and measure. All the favorites are here, the danceable "Karma" carries into the funky "Heartburn" and the give-it-up glory of "Unbreakable." "Fallin'," "If I Ain't Got You," and "You Don't Know My Name" come later, but interspersed are enough pleasant surprises to make even fanatical Keys followers forget the signature songs. Prince's "How Come You Don't Call Me," for instance, gets a playful work-up, complete with audience-aimed banter and an unbroken promise to "take it to the bridge," and a duet that on paper seems misguided works surprisingly well, as Keys resists any instinct to clobber Maroon 5's Adam Levine vocally. Yowling, piano pounding, hip-hop tics (the ubiquitous, emphatic "unh"), and even a spot of theatrical poetry all have their places here, but Keys manages them with a master's sense of what's song-appropriate. Her band is spot-on, her arrangements soar, and her guests--count Mos Def and Common among them--complement the proceedings without even momentarily carrying them. The best "Unplugged" discs leave a listener wishing artists would kick the amps altogether; this is one of them. --Tammy La Gorce
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