Lenny Kravitz - It Is Time For A Love Revolution
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Free Music Review: Back On Top! This Is It!
Hit: 5 Stars
America's premiere rocker reclaims his throne! Funny thing is, in the past few years, nobody was talented enough to fill his shoes. Maybe, just maybe, Rob Thomas[& Co.]gave Lenny a dual run on radio/charts - both possess two of the most alluring male voices[and talents] in Pop'N Rock music, with natural soulfullness included by each artists' nature. But, Thomas borders too much on pop candy fluff, whereas Lenny is a serious rocker. Serious, yet his music is fun and liberating all at once...on occasion, Kravitz offers his audience, that vision of impacting freedom and imaginative release. There were also a few other pop-rockers with a hit or two, but not consistent enough to maintain momentum, eventually fading fast from view. It's LENNY KRAVITZ that remains the king! No other musician has captured our imagination like LENNY KRAVITZ has in the past couple decades. "IT IS TIME FOR A LOVE REVOLUTION" is the album we have all waited for LENNY KRAVITZ to release! What many of us thought were career missteps in his brilliant career, with "LENNY"[2001] & "BAPTISM"[2004], was realistically, us NOT LISTENING to the excellent music he created on those two albums. Please go back and reexplore-rediscover those two gems, you'll be surprised at how superb the music is - I myself was not listening, ignorantly looking for another Lenny blockbuster hit. Now, I am fully enjoying both of those albums, thanks to the inspiring music he's delivered on "IT'S TIME FOR A LOVE REVOLUTION". We were all stupidly awaiting and looking so hard to discover another career song like "FLY AWAY" on those two albums, that we totally ignored the great music Lenny created there. We and radio programmers all committed an insincere and unjustified disservice to Kravitz's brilliant talent in 2001 & 2004. "LOVE REVOLUTION" is an exceptionally cohesive album - the music speaks for itself. Check it out! "LOVE REVOLUTION" could easily qualify to be "Lenny Kravitz' Greatest Hits Volume II" - it's Lenny at his musically finest, exceptionally great, and deliciously diverse, track for track! "LOVE REVOLUTION" R-O-C-K-S! If you LISTEN this time around - you'll find more than plenty of stellar LENNY music to fulfill all your expectations and even more.Free Music Review: Time for a Lenny Kravitz revolution
Hit: 5 Stars
"It is time for a love revolution" is retro rocker Lenny Kravitz's eighth studio album, and along with "5" is my favourite. At #4 in the US, it's his second highest charting album (his Greatest Hits got to #2) and his highest charting studio effort.
Announcing that it is time for a love revolution is upbeat rocker "Love revolution" (with spiritual lyrics). Still on the upbeat side of things are "Bring it on" with a blistering guitar riff, and some sitar from Anishka Shankar (Norah Jones' sister), the thumping "Love love love", which along with the brilliant dance/rock of "Dancin' til dawn' (with a nice sax solo; one of my favourites) wouldn't sound out of place on a Red Hot Chili Peppers album. For "Will you marry me", I was expecting to hear a ballad. What we get is James Brown meets Jimi Hendrix; a retro funk song with skittery beats and heavy electric guitar. Great! "Back in Vietnam" has a riff vaguely reminiscent of the Rolling Stone's "Satisfaction".
Slowing things down are the chugging "Good morning", the lightly country tinged "If you want it", the lovely piano sprinkled "I'll be waiting" (remember "Again"?), the awesome melancholic "I love the rain" with fantastic weeping guitar riffs, the introspective theatrical "A long and sad goodbye" (a beautiful epic ballad about the impact his father's leaving after divorce had on the family, as well as the effect of his recent death on Lenny - Papa you meant the world to me, why did you abandon me?) which has a fantastic guitar solo at the end, much like The Eagle's "Hotel California", the soulful "This moment is all there is", the stripped piano Beatles-esque "A new door" (with again spiritual lyrics), and the soulful "I want to go home".
The Japanese version has 2 bonus tracks which are both brilliant; the reggae tinged falsetto sung "Uncharted terrain". Remember Terence Trent D'arby's 1987 hit "Sign your name"? It's a bit like that. The other is the blues song "Confused" with a great guitar solo and impassioned soulful vocals.
Produced and mostly played by Lenny, this album is amazing. It is time for a Lenny Kravitz revolution.
Free Music Review: A truly fantastic CD!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
You know how we always think about which CDs we would bring with us if we were stranded on a desert island?? Well this one would definitely be on my list of must-haves! I have been a fan of Lenny's for a long time. He is the real deal, an immensely talented singer, song-writer, and performer. He has charisma to spare & that translates through to his songs. In an ocean of over-produced, slim-talented wannabes, hiding behind musical special effects, Lenny Kravitz stands out as a glistening shore of quality, depth, passion & true organically derived musical talent. He has a gorgeous voice...& everything else, but that's beside the point for this review, anyways... ;) where was I, oh yeah, his delivery of these songs' lyrics is fuelled with passion & verve. He is as talented live as he is recorded. Additionally, the lyrics themselves are not just vacuous cliches strung together with 'hypno-beats'. These songs have depth, feeling & a realness to them that is refreshing, and indicative of personal experience. Many of the songs are catchy and infectious too, and had me playing them over & over again in my car - my personal fave is the uplifting, "If you want it" - it's message can be applied to all areas of one's life & goals. The fun & celebratory song "Will You Marry Me" is great, the title track is a powerful call-out, "Love Love Love" is a revelation in popular music - a positive, uplifting, memorable anthem about love that actually speaks out against materialism & all the false trappings we can get snagged in - a message like that in this day & age?! WOW!!! This CD begins & ends on very powerful messages about love, life, longing, and truth of being. This is truly a great addition to any CD collection, and makes an awesome, meaningful gift. I also believe it is a CD that will stand the test of time, and be listened to for years to come... :)
Enjoy!!
Rai Aren
Free Music Review: Too many other versions of this album
Hit: 5 Stars
Best Buy offers an exclusive version with a download code for a EP with some live stuff. Target offers a version with a download of 4 videos and some extras - the deluxe edition was only $13.99 on sale. Best Buy's deluxe was $19.99.
Which has the best extra stuff? I am leaning toward the Best Byuy version since there are 8 videos on the DVD in all the deluxe editions.
UPDATE: The deluxe versions are rip offs!!!!!!
First the package says that there is a track by track discussion on the DVD. There isnt.
The Best Buy says that the free download caontains live performances. It is just a 5 track mp3 download and 3 of the tracks are old album versions Mr Cab Driver, Are You Gonna Go My Way, and Let Love Rule) and Bring It On taken directly from the album that you had to buy to get the download in the first place! The 5th track is a different version of I'll Be Waiting - hardly worth the much higher price.
The DVD is not a track-by-track discussion as promised. It is just a few chopped up bits of an interview in little 20 second bites. It does contain the videos as promised. I was disappointed because I plunked down 20 bucks at Best Buy for this when I had downloaded the import version of the album with the 2 bonus cuts - Confused and Uncharted Tarrain - for free from the net. I will keep doing just that if the record companies continue to rip off consumers this way.
What makes them think they can get away with that kind of garbage?
Free Music Review: This may be Lenny's best. . . . . .
Hit: 5 Stars
I have all of Lenny's CD's and I wouldn't rate any of them less than a 4/5, but this one has such a great "flow" to it, and the material is so strong that it may very well be his best ever. Certainly in the top 3. I realize everybody's tastes are so different that rating songs is pretty meaningless, but I love it when other people do so I can compare their views to mine, so I'll rate the songs as follows:
Love
Bring It
Good
Love, Love,
If You Want
I'll Be
Will You Marry
I Love The
A Long And Sad
Dancin' Til
This Moment Is All There
A New
Back In
I Want To Go
I think the very best song on the CD is "Dancin' Til Dawn", but the whole thing is just great. Lenny is an awesone talent. . . . .