Dean Martin - Forever Cool
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Free Music Review: Sorry, Dean, but it's not your fault (obviously)
Hit: 2 Stars
Robbie Williams: "I'd like to think he'd be proud of it".
Yeah...well...he wouldn't have been, Robbie. Your voice does NOT compliment Dean's, and pretty much everybody involved in this project should've known better.
In all fairness, though, Martina's and Shelby's voices do compliment Dean's. The rest...Yuk! Save your money and buy Dean's original recordings as they were meant to be heard.
Free Music Review: please
Hit: 2 Stars
I LOVE Dean Martin, is there anything better than That's Amore? This CD disappoints, it is quickly over, the songs are disappointing, it is nothing like salutes to other singers who have done this sort of homage to a great singer. Buy his greatest hits album, you'll be happierFree Music Review: Forever Cool
Hit: 2 Stars
This CD was a big disappointment! I love Dean Martin, but did not like the campy way that the producers tried to tie in the added vocalizations of their guest,(Kevin Spacey, etc.). Buy the original recordings of Dean and you will be much happier.Free Music Review: 'Forever Uncool' or, 'How to Photoshop One's Favorite Music'
Hit: 1 Stars
Call me a stick in the mud if you wish, but I personally find 'Forever Cool' one of the most offensive acts against the creative arts that can EVER take place. Why not take a Sharpie to the Mona Lisa while you're at it, EMI? We've learned to despise and hate doctored and 'photoshopped' images posted all over the news and the internet; well it's time to rally against similar acts done to other forms of the arts as well. It doesn't matter how competently done these modern redos and paste-ons are, the fact remains that NONE of the current day add-ins were part of the original artistic work, or within those so closely tied to the productions back then. On surface value, I won't deny that there is a visceral appeal to many of these songs. If Martin were still alive and done these in true collaboration they would actually be great songs. But digging deeper and scratch than veneer of the respray off, listening to the ingloriously fake banter between the various current-day "artists" and the long-since departed Dean Martin is actually embarrassing, and only goes to highlight what's DEAD WRONG about doing fakes like these.
Oh, the wonders of the digital age, where we can go in and doctor up classics--musical or otherwise--in any manner that anyone with a mixing board, keyboard and mouse can see fit to do, all in the name of squeezing another buck out of it. I just KNEW it was going to be bad back then when Natalie Cole did that faux duet with her father on 'Unforgettable', but it was BECAUSE they are father-daughter and due to the novelty of the process we then went ahead and made allowances for it. But there can be no allowance for this gross offense that Capitol blithely calls 'Forever Cool'. It doesn't matter how seamless and well-done the spirit of the execution is, in form it's still a bastardization of the original, and an insult to the original artist and his collaborators. We may like to THINK that Dean would approve, but unless one speaks to the dead we will never rightly know, will we?
Free Music Review: Why?
Hit: 1 Stars
I have to say this does strike me as being akin to a modern day painter taking a Renoir and painting in his own background and then saying that he thought Renoir would have liked it.
We'll never know what Dean would have thought of this, but aside from the glaring incongruity of some of the pairings, it does seem to be pretty disrespectful of a classic American crooner who's not here to express how he would have liked his musical legacy to be preserved. And all of the fake jokey banter feels all the more macabre when you consider that it has no real connection with what was really going on at the time he was recording those tracks.
Some things don't need to be digitally altered and updated, that's why they still stand the test of time as they are.
I'll take the real Renoir over the updated one any day of the week.