Simply Red - Simply Red - Greatest Hits
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Free Music Review: Simply Red is awesome!
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is a collection of Simply Red's best. It is a great album - would recommend it to anyone who has liked any one of their songs. "Stars" is the best song for me; no matter how many times I've listened to it in the past n years, it is the best. "Something Got Me Started", "Fairground" are also excellent. Free Music Review: Excellent collection of their best albums' songs!
Hit: 5 Stars
I've waited until now to review it since I last heard it in 1996. First time I heard Simply Red, it was about a minute of Money's Too Tight to Mention on the Rate-A-Record segment on Dick Clark's TV show American Bandstand in the fall of 1985. Nobody paid attention at the time when their album came out. But it took the walking on the beach feel of Holding Back the Years for people to jump on this band quickly in early 1986, and they just exploded, gold and platinum album sales and hits left and right! Mick Hucknall's soulful singing is and still is wonderful today! He is that good in clashing R&B and pop sounds within his band. And I still love his wonderful remake of Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes' If You Don't Know Me By Now from 1989. But they weren't all about remakes; their original songs are great, especially 1992's Stars (which I still hear today), 1989's It's Only Love, some songs from their 1987 album, Fairground. The band sounds rhythmic and dynamic in the performances, a full, live sound in their songs. I recommend anybody to get this album, for Simply Red proved their thing in the '80s and early '90s. They're still performing today, 20 years later after their debut! Talking about this greatest hits brings things full circle now! Free Music Review: You should know them by now
Hit: 5 Stars
Big enough in the US while huge in the UK, this collection showcases (as correctly pointed out in the All Music Guide's review) the huge disparity between European and American pop music.
Teeming with intelligent, well crafted pop songs and tinged with R&B influences; a fairly comprehensive collection of Simply Red's better work. The songs just flow into each other, from the early soulful "Money's Too Tight To Mention" to the poppy "The Right Thing" to my personal favorite "A New Flame" to the perfect songs off "Stars" (their strongest release, in my opinion) including the glorious "Your Mirror".
The two songs off "Life" provide a nice constrast, Mick's sarcasm reigns on "So Beautiful" and shifts gears on the simple grooves of "Fairground". I'm not a fan really of the only new track "Angel" but it's a small price to pay for an otherwise nearly perfect record.
Free Music Review: Blockbuster Songs make the whole Satisfying
Hit: 5 Stars
"Holding back the years" is a beautiful soulful sound of a young man losing his innocence when he finds the older woman of his young boy's heart involved with another, which works extraordinary well with the singer's clear and high pitch melodic sound that is beautiful yet in pain and the music itself truly matches the power of the voice and the words. This song and "Money Too Tight to Mention" dominate the CD. "Money too tight" is a powerful song with a jumping beat about the econimic turmoil during "Reganomics" and it's so dynamic that I can hear it over and over again. I love the lyrics and virtual shouting of "money" that suddenly transcends to a soulful beat towards the end with the lyrics "Did the earth move for you Nancy?" that seemingly moves from one song to another within the same set with that great beat. These songs just dominate the CD that although there are some very good songs, I havbe a tendency to flip back to these two. Half the songs I would say are very good others remind me of Art Garfunkle's more classic and lyrical sound since the lead is so talented. But the first two from their first album drive the CD to a 5 star rating. Free Music Review: Simply Great Red
Hit: 5 Stars
As a singer I Love this guy, "Holding Back The Years" an all-timeClassic! Mick is the vocal brother of my other all-time fav
Daryl Hall. Two of the BEST EVER!