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This twofer from Collectables features a pair of out of print discs by the vocal group the Blue Emotions and vocal duo Johnnie Joe. First issued in 1982, these 24 tracks are made up of both modern and classic doo wop songs, including “Kingdom of Love,” “Queen of My Heart,” and “The Highest Mountain, the Deepest River” by Johnnie Joe, and “RingALing,” “Sincerely,” and “This Is a Night for Love” by the Blue Emotions. This is an enjoyable reissue, but doesn’t compare to the tracks these groups recorded in their heyday.
- Al Campbell, All Music Guide
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November 21 2008 | Emotions | No Comments »
Barbra Streisand’s first album of contemporary material in four years was a typical ’80s “Adult Contemporary” superstar release, each track written and produced as a potential “power ballad” single by an extensive team of other performers, in this case including Richard Perry, Kim Carnes, Maurice White of Earth, Wind Fire, Jim Steinman, Albhy Galuten (the Bee Gees’ producer), Richard Baskin, Diane Warren, John Mellencamp, and Streisand herself. Streisand proved capable of handling everything from White’s space-age RB to Steinman’s melodramatic overproduction. (He was the man who brought you Meat Loaf.) But as usually happens with such big budget efforts, the album lacked consistency, and as Columbia tried to pull several singles off it without notable success it sold only to Streisand’s million-member base audience.
- William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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November 21 2008 | Emotions | No Comments »
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After the Undertones went under, brothers Sean O’Neill and Damian O’Neill didn’t tone down the angst one bit as That Petrol Emotion. Babble is their great rock opus. Absolutely swimming in catchy hooks and walls of guitars and any other instruments on hand, the album resides in the great pantheon of pop/rock squall alongside the Buzzcocks’ Singles Going Steady and Television’s Marquee Moon. With vocals that rally against all sorts of corruption, political and social, the band displays an intelligence sorely missing in the music of most of their peers. There’s not a misstep to be found on the album, and listening to it for the first time is a near spellbinding experience. Highlights include the monumental wail of “For What It’s Worth,” the staccato pop genius of “Big Decision,” and the dance-worthy madness of “Creeping to the Cross.” This remastered edition adds five additional tracks that include three alternate mixes of songs on the album and two hard to find songs, the superbly sweet ballad “Soul Deep” and the party anthem “Dance Your Ass Off.” Inspiring Brit-pop and injecting substance into the music of the day, Babble is an essential album of the late ’80s.
- Tim DiGravina, All Music Guide
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November 19 2008 | Emotions | No Comments »
The Emotions’ third album for Columbia, Sunbeam was also their third recording under the direction of producer Maurice White. As White’s signature can be detected throughout most of the compositions, he is humble enough to give room for The Emotions to flourish vocally. This album featured the Top Ten hit “Smile.” The aggressively paced number, from the simmering verses to the spellbinding change-up, bounces with effervescence. Uptempo as well, “Whole Lot of Shakin’” only managed to show at 44. “Walking the Line” has a hypnotizing rhythm and an even more magnetic melody. The cooing texture of the trios cohesive vocals gel with each note. This album is titled after the name three were known by as young girls with their father, the Hutchinson Sunbeams.
- Craig Lytle, All Music Guide
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November 19 2008 | Emotions | No Comments »
The blissful pop/rock of Alaska appears immediately on the band’s debut full-length, Emotions. After the orchestral strains of “The Western Shore,” Alaska offers the rocker “Love (To Be Your Main),” a song that screams a variety of influences without screaming clich
November 19 2008 | Emotions | No Comments »
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