Ben Harper - Welcome to the Cruel World
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Artist: Ben HarperEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import
Published: 1996-05-21
CD Release Date: 1994-02-08
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Product features:
- Ben Harper - Welcome To The Cruel World Brazil Import
- The Three Of Us
- Whipping Boy
- Breakin' Down
- Dont' Take That Attitude To Your Grave
- Waiting On An Angel
- Mama's Got A Girlfriend Now
- Forever
- Like A King
- Pleasure And Pain
- Walk Away
- How Many Miles Must We March
- Welcome To The Cruel World
- I'll Rise
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Free Music Review: A tribute to Ben Harper
Hit: 5 Stars
?If someday I find my peace of mind, I will share my wealth with all of human kind.? These are some of his words. He truly has shared immeasurable wealth with the world. Ben Harper is one of todays best singers not only because of his musical talent, but because of his lyrical genius. His songs are easy to relate to as they appeal to every emotion and they imply a universal message about strength and purity which inspires anybody and everybody who listens to them. The quality of his poetry, of his voice, and pure musical talent is absolutely and unimaginably beautiful. Hearing his music is synonymous with listening to true heart and soul. His lyrics entail emotions, strength, depth, kindness, and an intense and mature way of speaking out against human suffering. Ben Harper?s voice has the ability to put any listener into a trance. His weissenborn and his soft guitar, combined with his wonderful words is enough to bring a tear to anyones eye and is enough to send anyones foot tapping to the beat. His rhythm is infectious. His music is sort a combination of rock, blues, bluegrass, and reggae. Yet it is slow. If he were a combination of any two artists, he would Bob Marley and Lenny Kravitz; although, he is far better than those two put together. His emotions are clear and his lyrics are self explanatory. He sings deeply about love and relationships. The passion in his songs is so real it conveys the heat and chill between two lovers. There is an enveloping quality of warmth in his lyrics that is identical of that found between two people who love eachother deeply, for example: ?You look like gold to me like the rays down from the sun, when a new day has just begun? in the song You Look Like Gold. There is also that quality of warmth in his lyrics that can bring a hot tear of bitter-sweetness to one?s eye like this: ?And it?s so hard to do but so easy to say, but sometimes you just have to walk away. They say if you love somebody that you have got to set them free, but I would rather locked to you then live in this pain and misery? in Walk Away. He talks of true devotion: ?People spend so much time every single day, runnin?round all over town, given their forevers away. But no not me, I won?t let my forever roam. Now I hope I can find my forever a home. So give me your forever? in Forever. He sings about fear: ?The woman in you is the worry in me? in The Woman in You. His purity shines through when he describes his lover?s eyes as white doves in Hands of a Prayer. His anger is felt deeply as well: ?Please bleed, so I know that you are real, so I know you can feel the damage that you?ve done?in Bleed. His passion is powerful: ?We made love until we cried, and we cried ourselves to laughter?in the song Burn to Shine. The main reason why his music is so important is because he also incorporates a certain compassion towards humanity as he sings of racism, poverty, and all those in need of understanding from society. The best part of any and all of his ideology is the fact that he neither advocates or even mentions any violence or hate. His best songs are the ones where he speaks out for the less fortunate as in Excuse me Mr.: ?Treat a child like a criminal from the day that he is born, and you?re gonna reap just what you sow.? Or as in How Many Miles Must We March: ?We can?t let the future become our past if we are to change the world.? He sings Oppression with so much conviction by personifying the word oppression. He has songs with Martin Luther King and Rodney King in them as he sings of race relations. His best song, the one that entails all of his strength and fervor is the last song on his most recent album, I?ll Rise: ?Now did you want to see me broken, bowed head and lowered eyes. Shoulders falling down like tear drops, weakened by my soulful cries. Does my confidence upset you? Don?t you take it awful hard? Because I?ll walk like I?ve got a diamond mine breakin up in my front yard. So you may shoot me with your words. You may cut me with your eyes. And I?ll rise, I?ll rise I?ll rise.? These words are powerful enough, combined with his music it becomes the anthem of determination. Ben Harper is brilliant within himself. He obviously has no other purpose in his music except to cast his harmony, strength, and grace upon all who listen. He shows no sign of materialism as he has not really appeared on MTV accept in one music video, and wears an overpowering sense of humility when performing on stage. Ben Harper has a maturity that no other musical artist at this time has. He is pure as he weaves emotions and music into an amazing blanket of warmth, love, passion, and depth. His confronting of societal problems and his making a statement is brave, yet universally excepted, because he is peaceful and right in whatever he says. He is noble because he defends those who are down and out and begs society to show some compassion to those who are in need of help. His music is gentle, slow, and rhythmic, and his voice is entrancing and magnetic. His songs bring out the true beauty of human nature.
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