Aretha Franklin - Aretha Now
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Artist: Aretha FranklinEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1993-07-20
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Think
- I Say A Little Prayer
- See Saw
- Night Time Is The Right Time
- You Send Me
- You're A Sweet Sweet Man
- I Take What I Want
- Hello Sunshine
- A Change
- I Can't See Myself Leaving You
Free Music Notes for Aretha Now
Free Music Review: Middling, but I love "I Say a Little Prayer"
Hit: 3 Stars
You want awkward? I'll give you awkward! I'll give you awkward 'till you're beggin' for it to stop! And I ain't talkin' 'bout me strippin' down naked, either, though that would be awkward in itself. No, the awkward thing is her cover of Sam and Dave's "I Take What I Want". Now, I like Sam & Dave, but I don't think much of Aretha's cover. It for whatever reason just doesn't fit her, you know? Of course you do. We're all smart people. Other than me, anyway. So that's one awful song. Here's another: "I Can't See Myself Leaving You". I can see what she's going for - an absolute display of unconditional love - but I'm not following her there, because it doesn't strike me the way the album's other display of unconditional love does. That song is "I Say a Little Prayer". I love every bit of it, from Aretha's vocals (duh) to the backup vocals to the melody to the delicate Spanish guitar. So much better than Dionne Warwick's breathy, full-speed-ahead original. Then again, I don't like Burt Bacharach. I really, really don't. He is the most overrated composer of the 20th century. Actually, no, maybe Brian Wilson. Tough call. To make another one of them generalizations, a cover of a Burt Bacharach-penned song is guaranteed to be better than the original. And it's great to hear Aretha forget subtlety and belt her way through "Think" and "See Saw"; there's also a moving "You Send Me" and a pretty solid "Night Time is the Right Time". And then there are, um... three other songs I didn't bring up. I just heard "You're a Sweet, Sweet Man" about twenty minutes prior to writing this review, and I already forgot everything about it. Same with "A Change". And then there's one last awful song: the corny "Hello Sunshine". So, um... how 'bout them Detroit Lions? 6-4 - finally above .500! Sure, they lost today, but you know, their heads ARE above water for a change.
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