Anita Baker - The Songstress
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Artist: Anita BakerEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-11-12
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Angel
- You're The Best Thing Yet
- Feel The Need
- Squeeze Me
- No More Tears
- Sometimes
- Will You Be Mine
- Do You Believe Me
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Free Music Review: Amazing
Hit: 5 Stars
Its Amazing to me that someone can review an older release and say it sounds dated, or has post-disco cliches, etc.Um, yah, it is over 20 years old. I love Chaka Khan too but I dont complain that Feel 4 U sounds dated.
In Los Angeles, Angel was played constantly at kute.fm Which is why i bought the album. But what is really amazing about this album, in relationship to Ms. Baker's later material, is that to me, it sounds like she opened up vocally on it. Yes, there are some unusual-for-her faster tunes and thank goodness. Her voice is literally all over the charts, and not a bum note anywhere. I love her material, but there is certainly a "sameness" quality to her later releases, and this under-rated album added a variety of flavors.
It was a great day for us music collectors who found this one on cd finally and i enjoy it still today, over 20 years later.
The Songstress Poster
Baker's deservedly obscure 1983 debut was reissued in 1991, long after her 1986 Rapture CD had garnered a Grammy and established her as a sophisticated, sensuous balladeer. Baker's smoky alto is recognizable enough, but it lacks the emotional immediacy and dramatic phrasing of her later work. The best track here is obviously "Angel," which sounds like a less polished version of Baker's breakthrough hit, "Sweet Love." Otherwise, Baker fans will wince at the turgid arrangement of "Feel the Need," and chuckle over the kitsch horror of Baker trying to negotiate her way through the swirling clutter of the postdisco dance track "Squeeze Me." For completists only. --Britt RobsonBlues Music CDs
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