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Rapture by: Anita Baker List Price: £9.99 CD-Charts Price: £7.98 You Save: £2.01 (20%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0075596044424 Label: Warner Manufacturer: Warner Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Warner Release Date: August 04, 1986 Studio: Warner Sales Rank: 4897 MPN: 60444 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Soul has been through a lot of changes of late and if there seems to be an oversupply of young divas-in-waiting today, you can probably thank Anita Baker for it. Baker was one of the few singers that bridged the old school to the new, and this 1986 album was--and is--a true soul classic. An inspiration for everyone from Whitney Houston to Toni Braxton, Baker carved the way with soaring vocals and an effortless style on tracks like "Sweet Love" and "You Bring Me Joy". "Caught Up in the Rapture" was the anthem for many a lovestruck couple, and Baker sums it up best herself in the same song: "Nothing else can compare." --Rebecca Wallwork Description: From the opening piano chords of `Sweet Love', you know there is a good song coming. Ex-Chapter 8 vocalist Baker has aneffortless delivery that swoops and dips like a swallow. `Sweet Love' is just one of those soul songs that people who say they don't like soul music like. The choice of material is superb, and heart-tugging songs such as David Lasley's `You Bring Me Joy' or Ken Hirsch and Marti Sharron's `No One InThe World' are only beaten by Baker's voice. The slower material is stronger and only `Watch Your Step' and `Same Ole Love' fail to hit the spot, simply because of the mood the other tracks set. Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - Without question, guaranteed to be one of the best albums I'll ever own.Truly in-credible album. bad song? no you won't find a trace of one on here, Anita's voice remains strong, deep and soulful throughout the album, this is old school R&B exactly the way it should be, soft and smooth with a bit of jazz thrown in, oh those saxophones. What more can i say? one of the few albums that i can comfortably listen to all the way through, a true R&B fan who doesn't own this timeless masterpiece really doesn't know what their missing, pure bliss from start to finish. Rating: - You won't regret buying thisThis is an album that came out when I was a teenager and still at school. I hadn't heard about Anita Baker, had no idea who she was but when my older brother came home with this stuck under his arm one day and played it to me, well I just totally fell in love with it. Every single track on here is brilliant. None of them, I repeat, none of them fall below par in any way whatsoever. There are only eight tracks on the album but they are all stars in their own right. My personal favourite is Been So Long but I love the other 7 just as much. If you like Jazz, Soul, RnB then you absolutely have to make sure this is in your collection if it's not there already. It will be money well worth spent and you will not be disappointed. ... Read More: Rating:  - Great Voice that just wasn't expolitedAnita Baker has a voice like no other singer alive, instantly recognizable, full of beauty and elegance. She really knows how to make you feel a song: we feel the emotional desperation in her voice as she pleads with a lover she's wronged to return to her in "No One In The World," and we feel the joy coursing through her veins in the exuberant "Sweet Love," the song that introduced Ms. Baker to the mainstream pop audience in 1986. That song, along with three other singles, "Caught Up In The Rapture" (the ULTIMATE slow jam, bar none), "No One In The World," and "Same Ole Love," established her as a multi-format star - they all hit the top 10 on the R&B and Adult Contemporary charts and cracked the pop top 50. Even the cuts that weren't singles are terrific, ... Read More: Rating: - Noone In The World Like Anita BakerGo to a bookshop (or online) and go to the music section. There will be a number of publications that will endeavour to depict the best albums of all time. On some occasions, this album will feature. Well, I’m of the opinion that this is one of the greatest albums of the 20th Century. 2006 marks the 20th anniversary of the original, so it’s an appropriate time to outline why ‘Rapture’ is regarded in my book as a truly great recording. Simply, it’s a perfect production. Do not be put off by the fact it is only 8 tracks long clocking in around 40 minutes. Sometimes less is more! Also each song last around 5 minutes and when originally released on vinyl, there wasn’t the space to fit the same amount of tracks that a digital disc ... Read More: Rating: - EnrapturedWhen one gets weary of listening to run of the mill pop/r&b songs sung by indifferent singers or those only capable of vocal histrionics, it is all too easy to forget what a great singer can do with a very ordinary song. Rapture is an extraordinary album not because of the compositions, but because of the smoky, flexible and expressive voice of Anita Baker. I’m sure Mariah Carey could crack the walls whilst squealing and stretching every note to oblivion of No One in the World, but in Baker’s hands it becomes a thing of considered beauty. You Bring Me Joy is a masterpiece of restraint and when it does rise near the end Baker makes sure she doesn’t make the listener retreat from the sound fearing injury to their hearing. The mid tempo songs are fine, ... Read More: |
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