UUSI JOAN ARMATRADING CLASSICS 2CD 2003 - ILMAINEN TOIMITUS

Love And Affection:
Joan Armatrading Classics
(1975-1983) 2CD (2003) UUSI

Kokoelma vuosilta 1975 - 1983
Yhteensä 43 kappaletta.

An important British singer/songwriter
with a unique, lilting voice and a career
that took her from '70s folk-pop to '80s
rock and new wave.

This is the way a Joan Armatrading best-
of collection should be assembled in the
first place. The numerous single-disc
compilations never came close to being
representative of her achievement as a
recording artist. Culling 43 tracks over
eight years and 11 albums is even better
in many ways than issuing an Armatra-
ding box set. All of the expected material
from the early years is included on disc
one and many more including "The Flight
of the Wild Geese" from the soundtrack
to the film. It covers Armatrading's prolific
period from 1975-1979, where a lot of old
hippies, now upwardly mobile professio-
nals seeking mellow escapes from their
relentless and often ruthless pursuit of
"the good life," got off the bus and remai-
ned stuck, listening only to her early re-
cords along with those of the Jacksons,
Eagles, and James Taylor. The only prob-
lem with this is that Armatrading was just
beginning to gain a confidence that led
her to become really adventurous, taking
huge chances with both her songwriting
and production styles in the 1980s. She
became a pop singer whose lyrics were
anything but pop and whose music ex-
panded the boundaries of pop to include
reggae, jazz, and slippery folk music.

Admittedly, the results were never less
than utterly compelling. Disc two features
all four tracks from the excellent How
Cruel EP, including the reggae soul-dren-
ched bluster of "Rosie," the title track and
"He Wants Her," with its dubbed-out
drums and snaky guitar slinking through
her sensual vocal. Eight cuts from the
Me Myself I album represent the vast ma-
jority of it; it also marked Armatrading's
first true rock & roll outing. She had heard
the late-'70s music from England and Ja-
maica -- as well as the Lower East Side
of New York -- and was affected by it.
She didn't try to make punk rock or new
wave music, but she let its freedom enter
her songwriting consciousness and open
it up. As she hung out with producers like
Richard Gotteher (Robert Gordon, Mink
DeVille, and Lou Reed) and Henry Lewy,
rock and roll became Armatrading's cho-
sen vehicle of expression.

This is the only Joan Armatrading
collection worth owning.

Genre:

Singer/songwriter pop rock pop soft rock

Disc 1

01. Cool Blue Stole My Heart  5:31
02. Travel So Far  3:08
03. Dry Land  4:21
04. Down To Zero  3:51
05. Help Yourself  4:04
06. Love And Affection  4:29
07. Water With The Wine  2:49
08. Save Me  3:34
09. Somebody Who Loves You  3:35
10. The Flight Of The Wild Geese  2:00
11. Woncha Come On Home  2:40
12. Show Some Emotion  3:30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfxqJjLIams

13. Warm Love  3:02
14. Kissin' And A Huggin'  4:41
15. Willow  4:52
16. Barefoot And Pregnant  3:41
17. Bottom To The Top  3:35
18. You Rope You Tie Me  4:08
19. Your Letter  3:41
20. Mama Mercy  3:34
21. Steppin' Out  3:50

Disc 2

01. Rosie  3:13
02. How Cruel  3:06
03. He Wants Her  3:19
04. I Really Must Be Going  4:31
05. Me Myself I  3:18
06. Ma-Me-O-Beach  3:03
07. Friends  3:08
08. Is It Tomorrow Yet  3:32
09. Turn Out The Light  4:20
10. All The Way From America  4:51
11. Feeling In My Heart (For You)  3:37
12. Simon  3:40
13. I'm Lucky  3:05
14. When I Get It Right  3:03
15. The Weakness In Me  3:34
16. No Love  3:58
17. (I Love It When You)
       Call Me Names  4:22
18. Drop The Pilot  3:40
19. Everybody Gotta Know  3:49
20. What Do Boys Dream?  2:31
21. Frustration  3:35
22. Heaven  4:42

Julkaisuvuosi:  2003

Levy-yhtiö:  A&M

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