Seals & Crofts - Takin' It Easy
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Artist: Seals & CroftsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-09-18
Music Label: Wounded Bird Records
Soundtracks:
- Takin' It Easy
- One More Time
- Midnight Blue
- You're the Love
- Sunrise
- Breaking in a Brand New Love
- Magnolia Moon
- Nobody Gets Over Lovin' You
- Forever Like the Rose
- Tribute to 'Abdu' L-Baha'
Free Music Notes for Takin' It Easy
Free Music Review: perfection on a round piece of plastic
Hit: 5 Stars
I can't believe it. Finally, after many MANY years, Seals & Crofts "Takin' It Easy" album has been officially released!
I can't express how happy I am this album was finally released on CD. I've waited YEARS for this to happen!
This is one of the greatest songwriting albums ever made. I'm totally serious about that. I love Elton John, Deep Purple, Three Dog Night, the Blues Image, Norman Greenbaum, etc. I really honestly believe "Takin' It Easy" is right up there with the very best of them.
I can't put into words exactly how I feel when I listen to this album. It's like a mystical journey inside my mind combined with childhood feelings and memories that makes the album so delightful to listen to over and over again. It truly is a forgotten treasure. Diversity is important to me, and each song on this album is distinct from all the others.
When this album came out in the year 1978, the music scene was beginning to change as punk and new wave entered the scene. Fortunately, none of this affected Seals & Croft's consistently pleasing ability to write one memorable song after another. This album is *entirely excellent* and I truly mean that.
The title song really surprised me at first. I didn't think Seals & Croft's could EVER rock this hard! A really upbeat, energetic rocker. You know, funny story. I could have sworn in the chorus the words being sung were "hot diggin' it" which is a saying kids used to say back in the early 90's when I was only in 5th grade.
"One More Time" is a really pleasant ballad with memorable vocal lines. It reminds me of the Jefferson Starship song "Tumblin". The two songs are really pretty similar to each other. "Midnight Blue" is foot-stompin' music! I *love* the catchy verse melody, and you can seriously tap your foot to the beat of the tune. Highly enjoyable song. "You're the Love" is a disco song, and while I'm not a fan of disco (and probably never will be) I like when rock bands attempt some diverse styles without any fear.
Wow... "Sunrise". What can I possibly say about this brilliant song? Let me try to explain why I love this track so much. Memories are important to all of us when listening to music, whether we realize it or not. Memories help us appreciate music even more. Music can help us dream about faraway places, and peaceful settings. Music can put us in our own little world, if we allow it to happen. "Sunrise" is beyond brilliant for a variety of reasons. For one thing, the vocal melody immediately takes me back to when my mom used to drive me to a fabric store in a tiny town in southeast Pennsylvania. That store doesn't exist anymore, but the memories remain, and that's the important thing.
Also, the song reminds me of my childhood fasciation of wanting to be an astronomer when I grew older, and having a total blast looking into my telescope and watching the stars in outer space, and dreaming about what living things might possibly be out there. It's not just a childhood memory- it's also a dream I continue to experience with certain songs that allows my mind to open up and think about a really pleasant future for all of us. I love the dreamy verse melody, and the saxophone jam at the end. Sure, it sounds like 70's music, but that's NOT a bad thing!
"Breaking in a Brand New Love" is an extraordinary love song that reminds me of a popular song Joe Jackson would do five years later. "Magnolia Moon" took me a LONG time to appreciate, but I finally came around. Brilliant vocals. "Nobody Gets Over Lovin' You" is a magnificent ballad. Once again, let me state I don't care if the music is dated and sounds stuck in the 70's. To me that just means a music scene can never be repeated again.
"Forever Like a Rose" sounds like Crosby, Stills and Nash a little bit, specifically that popular song called "Our House". That's certainly not a bad thing at ALL. The final track is highly unusual in that it has a spectacularly unique vocal section in the beginning of the song before eventually progressing into a highly memorable vocal section that's very normal for anyone familiar with Seals & Crofts career.
Overall, I am extremely happy this album is available on CD finally. I can't believe it took this long, but I won't complain, because the point is- it happened!
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One of the most request catalogs for CD reissue we have ever had is the Seals & Crofts catalog. This duo consisting of Jim Seals & Dash Crofts had numerous charting albums in the 1970's. We are now proud to present pretty much their entire catalog of albums, beginning with their first eponymous album from 1969, all the way through their last charting album, "Takin' It Easy" from 1978.Pop Music CDs
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