Classic - Joan Armatrading - The Universal Masters Collection
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Binding : Audio CDEAN : 0606949078928Label : Commercial MarketingManufacturer : Commercial MarketingPublisher : Commercial MarketingRelease date : 2005-09-06Title : Classic - Joan Armatrading - The Universal Masters CollectionOriginal release date : 2001-03-26Running time : 53Studio : Commercial MarketingNumber of discs : 1
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review by: Toypom date: 2005-01-05 rating:
Tuneful and memorable songsThis great collection of hits demonstrates what a versatile artist the singer-songwriter, guitarist and singer Joan Armatrading really is. Joan was born in St Kitts in the West Indies and moved to the UK in 1958. Her first two albums received critical acclaim but it was only with the eponymous third album that she made the UK charts with the single Love And Affection. pThis Universal Masters collection is not arranged chronologically since Love And Affection made he charts in 1976, followed by Rosie, then Me Myself I and All The Way From America. Me Myself I was also her first hit in the USA. I'm Lucky and Drop The Pilot (from the album The Key) followed in 1983. pThe acoustic Down To Zero is a welcome inclusion from her earlier folk work, whilst Me Myself I and Drop The Pilot are out and out pop songs and very catchy too. There are most comprehensive compilations of Armatrading's work but this album contains the essence of her unique and original talent.
review by: date: 2002-11-18 rating:
Joan Armatrading is a songwriter's songwriterI swear that most of the people I have heard rave about Joan Armatrading as a songwriter are usually themselves songwriters (Melissa Etheridge immediately springs to mind). All you have to do is listen to "The Weakness in Me" and you will understand why this is the case. This collection of songs from AM covers her work from 1973 to 1985, which covers her first dozen albums. You will notice that Armatrading has worked in a wide variety of styles, which earned from one critic the comment that she was a musician capable of "brilliant unorthodoxy." I hate it when I read a line like that because no matter how much I write in this review I am not going to do better than that simple, concise, elegant two word description. Armatrading is an intensely personal artist, although her lyrics never become self-indulgent, as comfortable with ballads ("The Weakness in Me") and as she is with rockers and pop standards ("Love and Affection"). She arranges her own music and plays most of the guitar work you hear, having become as comfortable with electric guitars as she obviously has been from the start with acoustic guitars.
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