Laura Branigan - Self Control
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Free Music Review: Luara Branigan (Self Control)
Hit: 4 Stars
What a great CD. Very lucky to find this on Amazon website.Free Music Review: Only for the album not to Mtv or vh1
Hit: 5 Stars
I am a huge fan of branigan's music I started listening to her when I was 11 years old and to this day feel as though shes probably 2nd best to Karren Carpenter and if was'nt for Branigans Power Of Love we would'nt even know who Celine Dion is today so why was'nt there a day of greaf,sorrow, and a celebration of Laruan Branigan on mtv or vh1 telling the world that she passed away it took me more than 2 years later to find out that she even died and for this I will never forgive mtv or vh1 for not announceing it!Free Music Review: Laura Branigan at her finest
Hit: 4 Stars
I was very upset when a little over a year ago, I found out that Laura Branigan had passed away. She was a wonderful singer and far too underrated.
1984's Self Control represents Laura at her pinnacle of everything.
The album starts off with "The Lucky One", which begins as a ballad but becomes one of her most irresistable dance numbers. The song was a top 20 hit but IMO deserved to go top 10. "Self Control" is without a doubt Laura's quintessential recording. A sexy midtempo track that never grows old. This is not only my favorite Laura track, but one of my all time favorite songs ever recorded. "Ti Amo" is a great ballad that should've done better than it did as well. Of the non-singles, I am especially fond of "Satisfaction" and her cover of "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"
7/3/57-8/26/04 - we miss you Laura, you didn't stay with us long enough :(
Free Music Review: Branigan will always be the best!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I remember buying this on LP when it first came out and the sound was incredible. Listening to this CD brings me back to that. Since the original was an audio recording that's all they could do when they brought this to CD and I think the sound is incredible. All of her songs that she ever sang are the best especially "Self Control". She did a remix of this song called "Self Control 2004" which is kind of cool but the original is the best. I never was able to see her live in concert because my parents couldn't afford it so all I could do is listen to her music and it's not the same. She will be greatly missed.
Kathleen Atkinson
Free Music Review: One of the Most Memorable Voices of the 1980s
Hit: 4 Stars
Born in 1957, Laura Branigan first set her sights on the stage and attended New York's American Academy of Dramatic Art before becoming a noted back-up vocalist. In 1982 she scored a major hit with the single "Gloria;" suddenly much in demand, she soon generated a second album with the hits "Solitare" and "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You"--and then in 1984 released SELF CONTROL. It would be her high-water mark as a recording artist.
Branigan was not a songwriter, but she and her managers knew a good thing when they heard it. Although the first half of SELF CONTROL is stronger than the second, there's not a weak cut in the entire collection. Although there are several ballads on the album, most might best be described as classic 1980s top 40 material, usually mixing an up-tempo dance-friendly beat with sharp guitars.
The collection opens with "The Lucky One," a song that did very well on the charts, fast-paced and crackling with cynical lyrics and tremendous energy; the memorable "Ti Amo" begins delicately but soon transforms into harder edges; a cover of the Carole King classic "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" is delicately performed and remarkably fine. Even so, at least to my mind, the single most memorable track here is the title cut, a dark and disturbing pop-rocker concerning obsessive love; it has an unexpectedly sado-maschochistic edge that perfectly captures the mixture of self-indulgence and sexual paranoia of the decade.
Popular music of the 1980s was beset by excessive synthesizer and intrusive back-up vocals, and SELF CONTROL is no exception. Even so, Branigan's voice carries the weight of these flaws very well. Branigan was said to possess a five-octive voice, but her work here stays almost entirely in the alto range: solid, full-bodied, with an unexpectedly slow vibrato that adds a remarkable sense of emotion to her lyrics.
Branigan's music career gradually faultered as the 1980s wore on and she returned to acting, often appearing on television and in 2002 receiving solid reviews for a New York stage musical bio of Janis Joplin. With her career seemingly on an upturn, fans were shocked when she died suddenly in 2004 of a brain aneurysm. Fortunately, SELF CONTROL and other recordings remain to beguile us.
GFT, Amazon Reviewer