Lenny Kravitz - Greatest Hits
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Free Music Review: Lenny's Kickin'!
Hit: 5 Stars
Well I would consider myself a master of rock and blues music. I play keyboard, guitar, bass, and some drums. Considering I play some of the hardest Yes keyboards, Hendrix solos on guitar, and Chris Squire on bass, I consider myself a master in instruments. Second, I have written several songs including some that have made people cry, and some that "get me singing along everytime I hear it" and "It's been dangling in my head for weeks" are other quotes to prove my qualifications. I know I seem like I'm bragging, but I simply must tell you this to explain why I rank this album a five star. (This is rare for me). I think his wizardry with his guitar is brilliant. His soul blows me away. These songs are his greatest hits. As we all know, the greatest hits are usually not as good as some others. My first time to hear a good band in years. I think his "Are you gonna go my way" has a glowing Hendrix sound. His remaking the Guess Who's "American Woman" shows he understands music. Bands like Blink182 and rappers have truly no talent. I understand that early 70's and mid and late 60's is the best music in the world. It's bands like KISS and VanHalen and Guns N' Roses that ruined the music world. It died when Vietnam ended. Yoko broke up the Beatles. But this man has the style, soul, and talent to become a band I like. I like art rock and hard rock. I define music differently from most people. Fifties pop ranks heavy metal in my categories. I have three for rock. Art Rock includes bands like the Beatles, Yes, Rush, Uriah Heep, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, the Who, Alice Cooper, Grand Funk Railroad, etc. These bands have tremendous ability in both the way they play and write. Songs this complicated proves what the best is. Keyboards stand out, Bass doesn't just have patterns, same for drums, guitar has more than just chord hitting. There is also hard rock, which is less complicated than art rock, but commonly includes bands also in the art rock category. It's not the common stuff. It's like Led Zepplin, Deep Purple, Beatles, Grand Funk Railroad, Alice Cooper, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Ted Nugent, Steppenwolf, Three Dog Night, Queen, and others like that. It's songs have sometimes chord hitting with a lead. Or a guitar riff constant, with better bass, keyboards, slightly better drums. This is still a lot harder than heavy metal. Heavy metal includes lots of pop from times. It includes lots of 60's, late 70's, 50's, 80's, and 90's. It also includes the 90's "country". Bands like Elvis, VanHalen, Guns N' Roses, Herman's Hermits, blink182, other stuff like that. This is music that has a similar riff through the whole song with an intro (sometimes the main riff), verses, chorus, and solos. Keyboards are hidden in the modern ones. Piano is shown some in old ones. Bass is patterned and extremely simple. Drums are the same as bass. Guitar is mainly chord hitting or a main riff. Possibly a lead. Lenny Ranks Hard Rock/art rock. He has some songs worthy of art rock but he's mostly hard rock. This means he is a truely gifted gentleman. Anyone ranking art rock is a music prodigy. This makes him almost one. A few more years in the business and yes. His Hendrix-like style ranks him real high with me. This makes two bands I enjoy that are popular in the 90's and beyond. Trans-Siberian Orchestra ranks as the other one. Listen to this band. If you like Lenny, you will like them. They are a brilliant band. Ranking with Yes and Rush.Free Music Review: Forty-minutes of Awesome
Hit: 5 Stars
Please stop all the complaining about the "funny" songs. Every track can't be intellectually stimulating. Gee, lighten-up a little. Normally, ethnic cleansing isn't funny at all. But the way that it's presented here will have you rolling on the ground. It's REALLY funny. Haven't you ever heard about "nonfiction"?I've got a beef with Mr. Lenny Kravitz. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. "Greatest Hits" provide a vivid example of how one can see the blood lust in Mr. Kravitz's eyes. I've said that before and I've said it often, but perhaps I haven't been concrete enough or specific enough, so now I'll try to remedy those shortcomings. I'll try to be a lot more specific and concrete when I explain that Mr. Kravitz sometimes uses the word "antitintinnabularian" when describing his slogans. Beware! This is a buzzword designed for emotional response. Whenever someone tells him not to let headstrong hatemongers run rampant through the streets, Mr. Kravitz gets all teary-eyed. My, my; how sad. My heart bleeds for him, it really does. Sadly, in once sense, he is correct. If we let Mr. Kravitz make empty promises, then I will sincerely be forced to throw in the towel.
If you play track #7 backwards, you can hear Celine Dion singing "My Heart Will Go On." I'll bet that you didn't know that fact!
For future reference, he is unable to support his assertions with documentation of any sort. Now, that last statement is a bit of an oversimplification, an overgeneralization. But it is nevertheless substantially true. Accompanying this recognition of the indeterminateness of verifiability with regard to an external, objective reality has been a crisis regarding our ability to know that he does not tolerate any view that differs from his own. Rather, Mr. Kravitz discredits and discards those people who contradict him along with the ideas that they represent. From secret-handshake societies meeting at "the usual place" to back-door admissions committees, his bootlickers have always found a way to turn positions of leadership into positions of complacency. Permitting intemperate bureaucrats to defile the air and water in the name of profit is tantamount to suicide. That's all I have to say. Thank you for reading this review.
This is the greatest masterpiece ever pieced together by a master. All the songs rock, but some of the songs REALLY rock. They rock like a huge bolder rolling down the side of a mountain, then crashing into your head. Every awesome song is really GREAT. This album changed my life. Sure, I didn't have much of a life to begin with, but still, I love this album with all my heart and sole.
Free Music Review: A GREAT,COHESIVE COLLECTION
Hit: 5 Stars
A retro man and a flamboyant rock chameleon,Lenny Kravitz is the defintion of evolution in the music buisness.From the ambitious days of "Let Love Rule" when the press had fun calling him Mr. Lisa Bonet to the more nitty-gritty,modern
feel of his more recent work("5" and "Lenny"),Lenny's grown
and this excellent greatest hits collection-which gathers together his most well-known and/or best singles-documents it consistenly.
Spanning from '89's aforementioned "Let Love Rule" to '98's
"5","Greatest Hits" features many inspired(yet not-that-original) numbers that span from confident,Hendrix moves
(the once-ubiqtious opener "Are You Gonna Go My Way") to
smooth,soulful tracks like "It Ain't Over Till It's Over","Heaven Help",and "I Belong To You"(shame on R&B radio for ignoring these singles!),"Greatest Hits" captures Lenny's high points well.Can't fail to mention "Can't Get You Off My Mind","Stand By My Woman",and the joyus "Let Love Rule"-all noteworthy.
(And of course,the funky remake of "American Woman" and the Sly Stone inspired "Always on The Run")
The only misteps is the painfully bad,new wave homage "Black
Velveteen" and the well-intended yet tepid "Fly Away" and "Believe".
Other than that,my only complaint would be of the exclusion of a few songs.As an ardent Lenny fan,I'm surprised that "Let Love Rule"'s "I Build This Garden For Us","Mama Said"'s "Flowers For Zoe",and "5"'s "Thinking Of You" and "If You Can't Say No" were omitted.But no love is lost because they only can include so many songs.
This is a perfect set for casual Lenny Kravitz fans(Altough for the casual fans,I recommend "Mama Said" and "5").It also features a lone new track in "Again",a ballad which became Lenny's biggest hit at pop radio in years.
Free Music Review: Ninties music according to Kravitz
Hit: 5 Stars
Everyone gets Lenny Kravitz far too much slack for being a very influenced lyricist and composer. His “Greatest Hits” proves that Lenny has a unique library of all types of music. Lenny is a rocker at heart with heavy guitars on inspirational anthems like “Fly Away” and “Are You Gonna Go My Way” and even the sardonically poignant “Rock And Roll is Dead”. Rock is not the only point of focus on the set. “Again”, a Top 40 rock fixture proves maybe once and for all that Lenny is here to stay, is a touching pop rocker that combines lush strings, touching words on meeting that person that just got away and signature guitar hooks. The man also shows his heart on lavish Motownish ballad of strings and funky guitar with “It Ain’t Over ‘Til Its Over” to mention the tender “Stand By Woman” plus mournful acoustic work of “Can’t Get You Off of My Mind”. A great departure from the rock (soft and hard) is the techno dance beat (but no disco cheese) on “Black Velveteen”, oddly enough the last song on the CD. Could this be the future for Lenny? It also could be something like the R&B slow groove “I Belong To You”. I could write something positive about nearly every song on this album. I must admit though “Mr. Cab Driver” only wins as a piece of poetry and loses momentum musically with a dull beatnik beat. The only somewhat disappointing aspect on the album is the fact that some of his lesser-known album tracks didn’t make it to the set. The one that really upsets me is the triumphantly passionate tribute to his mother Roxy called “Thinking Of You”. Don’t let a few missed hits get to you this time. There are still many great nuggets of music on this one that show who Lenny is and of course where he is going. Lets join me on the journey and see him crank out another great decade of music.
Free Music Review: I've been a fan since the beginning, and I love the album!
Hit: 5 Stars
I've been a fan of Lenny Kravitz since the first time I saw the "Let Love Rule" video on Mtv, about ten years ago. Unlike some other greatest hits packages, where the artists pick THEIR favorite songs to put on the record, this album contains all of Lenny's well known releases. Personally, I added a few songs to the album when I transferred the cd to cassette("Does Anybody Out There Even Care","Flower Child", and "Tunnel Vision"), but I still can't complain about this albums content, because almost everything is here! Lenny's versatility and variety are showcased very nicely. There are fast songs that rock, there are great slow songs, and a mix that falls right in between. I was especially pleased to see the song "Believe" on the album, because for me, it's Lenny's most inspirational song. The message of 'believe in yourself' can never be heard too often in this society, with it's constant emphasis on "achieving and succeeding" to prove one's self worth. People vary, some apparently successful, some apparently unsuccessful, but at the core, we all need simple belief to carry on and grow in our everyday lives. That applies to CEO's and garbage men, and that's why I love the song. Lenny Kravitz and his insistence on staying true to himself, regardless of what the critics had to say, is something that I greatly admire. In the beginning, he was often told to make his music "blacker", or it would never sell. Now, ten years later, Lenny is still growing and proving that remaining faithfull to yourself is the way to go, despite what the 'critics' think. I'd recommend this album highly to those familiar, or unfamiliar with Lenny Kravitz, just for the passion, musicianship, and talent that's contained within this cd.