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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 28 2006, 01:20 PM (97 Views) | |
| JoanneVIP | Dec 28 2006, 01:20 PM Post #1 |
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THE BOSS
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Barry Manilow, Greatest Songs Of The Sixties (Arista) ****; Westlife, The Love Album (Sony BMG) ** By Ian Sime It's all too easy to take a swipe at Westlife. Despite becoming one of the all-time best-selling musical acts, peer creditability has never courted Louie Walsh's premier act. But you've got to hand it to them. The boys do have an ear for a great song. Even the most scathing and venomous critic in the world could hardly fault the craftsmanship and pure unadulterated majesty of the songs covered by Westlife throughout their career - especially on this their Love Album. Advertisement continued... In the right hands, the likes of You Are So Beautiful To Me, The Rose and Have You Ever Been In Love can still send shivers down the spine and leave the listener with goose bumps. Even the bombastic Total Eclipse Of The Heart is a masterpiece of its genre. But songs even as perfect as these need to be handled with care. It's ironic that both Westlife and Barry Manilow were enlisted as special guests on the final weeks of this last series of X Factor. Both acts gave their advice to the finalists on presentation skills and delivery. It was very noticeable that Manilow went to great lengths to tell his charges how to truly appreciate a song's lyric and on how to infuse their own unique identity into their performance. I can't remember anything of interest coming from Shane and the boys. But one only has to compare both Manilow's and Westlife's versions of You've Lost That Loving Feeling to witness a true artist at the pinnacle of his artistic talents compared to a bunch of good looking lads with half decent voices, whose one true gift is having been blessed with every ounce of Irish luck. Despite many parallels in repertoire, arrangements and potential listeners, there is a canyon of difference between a hurried colour-by-numbers job and the work of an extraordinary and unique talent. Manilow's loving salute to the greatest songs of the 1960s comes hot on the trail of his platinum-selling tribute to the previous decade's songbook and complements the rather tasty reissues of all of his earlier Arista collections, which all come with additional previously unissued tracks. Like Celine Dion, Manilow is playing an extended season in Las Vegas. This set should console all those unable to fly to Nevada. 10:39am today Source:yorkpress |
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| jadam | Dec 28 2006, 03:51 PM Post #2 |
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kian
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Prat!! asleep |
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| Villy Feehily*McDaid | Dec 28 2006, 11:30 PM Post #3 |
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Villy
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I couldn't say it better myself lol haha |
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| Filan Lover | Dec 29 2006, 03:19 PM Post #4 |
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lol me either!! lol |
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