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Rod Stewart
- Record Label: J-Records
- Release Date: Oct 22, 2002
- Summary: With a title like that, you pretty much know what to expect from Mr. Stewart on this outing, which includes standards such as "They Can't Take That Away from Me" and "I'll Be Seeing You." To make matters worse, Dave Koz and Arturo Sandoval guest.
- Record Label: J-Records
- Genre(s): Pop, Standards
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Top Track
The Way You Look Tonight | |
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Someday, when I'm awfully low When the world is cold I will feel a glow Just thinking of you And the way you look tonight. You're so lovely With... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 8
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Mixed: 4 out of 8
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Negative: 2 out of 8
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But after moving past those first moments of seeming artist/song incongruity, the listener will discover an album full of pleasant surprises and vocals that show Stewart in a most flattering light.
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A tasteful selection of pre-war era classics in a supper club jazz setting.
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The whole thing sounds good on paper, but in practice, it's a bit of a mixed bag.
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UncutThe arrangements are banal, but the tunes are exquisite, and his voice, more worn now, is recorded intimately. [Dec 2002, p.148]
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Here, he sings against syrupy, obvious orchestral arrangements, driven by a beat that sometimes seems on the verge of a nap -- all of which encourages Stewart's worst habits: He sounds lazy, glib and uninvolved, just the opposite of when he still mattered.
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BlenderThough The Great American Songbook is bad, it's not shamefully bad--if only because it's too tasteful to risk sinking that low. [#11, p.143]
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Q MagazineThe drab orchestrations offer tepid schmaltz, not romance. [Dec 2002, p.112]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 12
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Mixed: 1 out of 12
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Negative: 3 out of 12
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KRISTINMJan 15, 2003
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GiuseppeRJul 7, 2006
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MistyCOct 30, 2006I LOVE this CD along with ALL of Rods others. Only being 24 I hadn't listened to this type of music before thanks Rod.
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LindaHNov 5, 2002This is a excellent album of old songs. Stewart sings all the standards in a way I have not heard before.
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AlvaroG.May 4, 2008Why so bad ratings??? the whole series of The Great American Songbook are great!!
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SarahPDec 17, 2002It sounds like he is singing in the shower, but he is still a better singer than me.
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DLawDec 12, 2003
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