Michael W. Smith - The Big Picture
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Artist: Michael W. SmithEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1993-03-01
Music Label: Reunion
Soundtracks:
- Lamu - Michael W. Smith, Grant, Amy
- Wired for Sound
- Old Enough to Know
- Pursuit of the Dream
- Rocketown
- Voices
- The Last Letter
- Goin' Thru the Motions
- Tearin' Down the Wall
- You're Alright
Free Music Notes for The Big Picture
Free Music Review: Typical MWS of the Era.
Hit: 4 Stars
Wow, did this guy have a ton of energy or what?! I own every MWS CD through 1995, plus "Worship." He settled down a bit as he got older and refined his music, but the high-energy pop sounds he (and Amy Grant) put out in the '80's drew a lot of kids to contemporary christian music that otherwise wouldn't have listened.
I bought this CD for the track "Rocketown," which was written for/about my hometown of Houston. (There's a version out there somewhere that has him singing "Houston" a couple times in the song, but I haven't found it or heard it since the '80's.) Although the other songs on this CD are good, I'm not as drawn to them as the tracks on, say, "Change Your World" or "I 2 (Eye)."
I would recommend this CD to fans of MWS's '80's work, but I would put at least 3 other albums - the two aforementioned plus "Go West, Young Man" - ahead of this one in terms of strength of effort.
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Encouraged by the chart success of his first two releases, Michael W. Smith spent seven months in the studio in 1985 and '86 and the result was this ultraconfident-sounding recording. The Big Picture is buoyed by "Old Enough to Know" and "Rocketown," two magical numbers that are clearly aimed at the youth market. The former is an encouraging ballad to a young girl who struggles with her sexuality, while the latter is a semiautobiographical tale of Smith's small-town meeting with a traveling minister. The ensuing outcome is Smith's conversion to Christianity. The essential element here comes from Smitty's merging of radio rock-pop and a Christian message. The well-produced result helped change the direction of contemporary Christian music. --Michael LyttleChristian & Gospel Music CDs
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