Luther Vandross - Love, Luther
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Free Music Review: Forever, For Always, For Luther...
Hit: 4 Stars
(4 and a half stars) If you are like me you had those first five or six Luther albums and fell in love with songs like 'Forever...', 'My Sensitivity' and 'Wait For Love.' When I first saw this it seemed incomplete. Where was 'Make Me a Believer' for example? After hearing this box set I had a more complete picture of who Luther was. Luther the vocal arranger on so many popular songs, and all of the additional artists he worked with in addition to those I already knew. The songs that are chosen are career spanning (there's even 'Dance With My Father.') There are demos, rare 12" versions, a few live cuts and two 'new' tracks that you will really love hearing for the first time. The long box, essay and track listing are really great as well. In short it gives a concise complete picture of this much loved and much missed artist.Free Music Review: Give up the love for this box set!
Hit: 5 Stars
What is with all the nit-picking about this box set? The purpose of this box set is to give an overview of Luther Vandross's career, and it does an excellent job of that. This set DOES have some rarities, yet the hardcore fans complain there are not enough. That was not the purpose of this collection. It is not a B-sides/rarities compilation, but rather an anthology of his career. There are complaints that not all of Vandross's charted hits are here. Yes, not all of the songs that charted below number 60 on the Billboard charts are here, but it's not a major oversight and it's not like the collection leaves off his major classics.
The sound is excellent. The '80s hits sound crisp and fresh as ever. The liner notes are well-written and not exhaustive. Songs come in extended or original form, not cut up or edited like so many other compilations. How can you complain when you get the rare, extended version of "Never Too Much"? Certainly not me. You get excellent live versions of "Searching", "Always & Forever" and "A House is Not A Home". You even get a sample of his producing abilities, with the full-length version of Aretha Franklin's "Jump to It". I think that's a smart move on the compilers' part; Vandross was a huge fan of divas like Aretha and he was prolific in his production skills.
It's rare that I can listen to a box set all the way through. Yet "Love, Luther" is such a consistently good listen, that you can enjoy it straight through from disc one to disc four. In fact, the collection just gets better and better with each disc, and each disc stands on its own.
Even if some of Luther's music sounds very much from the era it was recorded, he was a talented artist who had great taste in song choices and production. This production really is a labor of love.
Free Music Review: Luther Vandross
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the best collection of all of Luther's hits. It even has unreleased which is great. I recommend this product to anyone who is a true Luther fan and even those who may not have heard his music. I plan to buy it for my sister for christmas.Free Music Review: Great Box for Fan or Fanatic
Hit: 5 Stars
Perhaps I'm talking thru my hat, but all the other people who reviewed "Love, Luther" missed the point. Everyone talks about what's missing, what should have been included instead, all the rare and unreleased stuff that could have been put on. Then it dawns on you, if Sony had done what these people wanted, it would result in a 10-15 disc box that nobody would be able to afford. The point is, Luther was a rarity in the music business: a truly gifted musician, singer and performer who could do it all, so Sony wanted to touch on as many points of that as they could within the confines of a 4-disc box set, and it succeeds beautifully. It includes hits, early work from groups like Luther, Change and Bionic Boogie, live cuts, rarities, and even a cut written and produced for another artist ("Jump To It", the 12-inch version by Aretha). All this is what I bought the box for. Sony was obviously gambling that people who were not into Luther before would buy this, and it would whet their appetites for more, and they're right. So the box doesn't serve "long-time fans" as well as it could have. So what? There's no arguing the sheer artistry of what's here, so even if you're a long-time fan, you'll buy it. Those of us who were not "into" Luther before, will now become converts, unfortunately after the man has already passed on. And I'm betting that that's where Sony was going when they put this box together.Free Music Review: Good but could be better.
Hit: 3 Stars
I agree with most that this could have been better. For Luther fans, most will have about 3 CD's worth of the songs. In this day and age it doesn't take much to make your own CD with all of his songs. What I do wish for are unreleased songs and even a couple of CD's with nothing but duets.
Other than that, its a nice addition to my Luther collection.