Diana Ross & Supremes - Let the Music Play: Supreme Rarities 1960-1969
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Free Music Review: There's A Good Reason These Songs Weren't Released
Hit: 2 Stars
This Supremes CD of unreleased material is for hardcore Supremes fans (like me) only. CD's like this are an interesting curio for collectors and makes one feel like you have something rare...and you do. So i give it thumbs up for that. Thumbs quickly go down tho simply because most of the songs on this CD are just flat-out no good. I totally understand why Berry Gordy/Motown never released most of this stuff to the public.
Some of it is very early and has a very lo-budget feel & sound to it (you can depend on me, because i love him), but most have no hooks or memeorable melody whatsoever--so signature to the Supremes sound. Forays into unchartered waters fail, like gospel (what a friend we have in Jesus, everytime i feel the spirit). Diana Ross is many things--a gospel singer she is not. Even remakes--which The Supremes are usually superb at are pointless (its not unusual, i can't get no satisfaction, uptight) and sound hokey. The best thing about this CD are the retakes of more familar Supreme classics like Take me were you go, ooowee baby, its all your fault & back in my arms again. But even these sound less like "alternative versions" and more like "inferior takes" that were simply rejected. Hear Diana totally blank out on the lyrics on "Its all your fault". lol. If you want a awesome recently released Supremes CD with rare never-released songs get "There's a place for us" which has about 15 bonus tracks that are great from start to finish. Production is tight, songs are melodic and fun and Dianas voice is just lush & gorgeous.
Free Music Review: Let the Music Play: Supreme Rarities 1960-1969
Hit: 1 Stars
This CD contains mainly forgetable songs. Many were recorded .....ie. Someday We'll Be Together.....when it appeared that they were trying to "get the song down" and were vastly under par leading one to completely realize why they didn't release the songs in the first place. Some songs were listenable but if you're buying this cd just to hear Diana Ross' voice and the remaining Supremes why not just go ahead and dip in to the VAST catalogue of what is already on the market that are simply great recordings. Generally love the unreleased stuff...and they state in the liner notes that there is more...but I've heard much better compilations of unreleased material. Mainly this cd was a disappointmentFree Music Review: Leave 'em in the vaults!
Hit: 1 Stars
I ADORE the Supremes, but just about everything on here stinks. As others have noted, the "alternate" versions of songs are all INFERIOR versions. It's fun, maybe once, to hear Diana mess up a lyric or how the producers had to work on a mix to get it right -- but get this disc from your library, don't buy it.