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Free Music Review: Great CD ...Check out the remix of Summer Breeze
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a Great Classic Rock CD including some timeless songs. If you like "Summer Breeze" as much as I do and have not heard the remix of it yet, you are in for a pleasent suprise. A remix album came out in November of 2004 called "What Is Hip" and in my opinion is the best remix album of 70's music that I've ever heard. Their version of "Summer Breeze" is near perfect. A modernized, but not over the top version that manages to preserve the true melody of the song with out removing the original rhythm. The entire album is great too. I have this "Greatest Hits" and the "What Is Hip" CD and simply can't get enough. Here's a link to the CD. ENJOY.
http://www.amazon.com -- What Is Hip
Free Music Review: Great Songs....Terrible Quality
Hit: 3 Stars
It's a shame that these great songs sound so terrible. Not only does this CD need to be remastered but the hit song "Get Closer" must be included. The remix of "Summer Breeze" wouldn't hurt either. This CD deserves better treatment than this. Hopefully someday soon the record company will come through with a better sounding, more complete CD.Free Music Review: Great but there is so much more!
Hit: 5 Stars
All of the big hits are here. Everyone knows them and loves them. But missing are the wonderful, unappreciated album cuts that never make it on these "greatest hits" type compilations. We are all waiting for the release of some of their other albums besides Summer Breeze and Diamond Girl. By the way, S&C have a new CD produced in 2004. They reprise and update many of the songs on this CD, and add a couple of new offerings to boot. Unfortunately, this site does not carry the new CD entitled, Traces. Free Music Review: Lovely tunes and harmonies
Hit: 4 Stars
Seals & Crofts were an early 1970s outfit that gave us some beautiful songs. The essence of their sound is elegant vocal harmony. The style veers from folkie soft rock to funky blue-eyed soul in the vein of Hall and Oates. Unfortunately the lyrics can be downright trite and twee sometimes, but the melodies make up for that deficiency. I doubt that every track on this album was really a hit: the only songs that made the charts were Summer Breeze, Hummingbird, East Of Ginger Trees, Diamond Girl, We May Never Pass This Way Again and I'll Play For You.
When I Meet Them is a nice singalong number of hippy optimism with a hint of country, whilst Diamond Girl with its tempo variation provides the first example of their gorgeous harmonies and catchy hooks. Hummingbird is a tender and subdued ditty with a spiritual undertone, and East Of Ginger Trees has appealing instrumental passages and eventually rousing vocals, after the first few verses where the vocals remind one of James Taylor.
Another of my favourites is I'll Play For You, a melodious pop ditty with gripping vocals. Ruby Jean And Billy Lee is a sensitive ballad with lovely piano, whilst King Of Nothing is a charming uptempo number. Then comes the highlight of the album and Seals And Crofts' finest achievement: the magnificent Summer Breeze. With its evocative poetic lyrics, impeccable vocals and exquisite arrangement, this song is most enchanting, a real gem.
This duo is considered part of the early 1970s singer-songwriter artists, on the sweeter side. And it is true that some of the sentiments in their lyrics sound very dated, even silly. But there is an undeniable charm in their music. And Summer Breeze is a piece of magic that is worth the price of the album.
Free Music Review: Seals & Crofts Greatest Hits
Hit: 2 Stars
Cd purports to be their "Greatest Hits" but does not include "Get Closer" which charted on the Billboard Charts at #6, which is their greatest hit.