Barbra Streisand - Guilty Pleasures
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Track List: Guilty Pleasures
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- Come TomorrowDownload & Buy
- Stranger In A Strange LandDownload & Buy
- HideawayDownload & Buy
- It's Up To YouDownload & Buy
- Night Of My LifeDownload & Buy
- Above The LawDownload & Buy
- Without Your LoveDownload & Buy
- All The ChildrenDownload & Buy
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- (Our Love) Don't Throw It All AwayDownload & Buy
- Letting GoDownload & Buy
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Album Details: Guilty Pleasures
- Release Date:
- 09/20/2005
- Label:
- Sony
- UPC:
- 827969355923
User Reviews: Guilty Pleasures
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Guilty Pleasures Brings Pleasure
, November 25, 2005Reviewer: jeffbazell1@verizon.net - See all jeffbazell1@verizon.net's reviews
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Pro Reviews: Guilty Pleasures
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Guilty Pleasures isn't simply the belated sequel to Guilty, Barbra Streisand's 1980 collaboration with Barry Gibb. It's the best mainstream pop album she's made since that multiplatinum, charttopping hit. Of course, the competition isn't exactly stiff her pop albums since then have been deliberately safe, overly calculated adult contemporary affairs that only made records of standards like 1985's The Broadway Album shine all the brighter and it, like its predecessor, is a bit of an anomaly in Streisand's catalog, since it shares more musical similarities with Barry Gibb's work than Barbra's own, yet there's no denying that this is the most satisfying straightup pop album she's cut since Guilty. In fact, apart from the crystalclear, overly clean digital production that immediately pegs it as a 2005 release, Guilty Pleasures could be taken as a bunch of outtakes from the 1980 album. Gibb, who wrote (along with a handful of other collaborators) and produced (along with John Merchant) the entire album, along with playing guitar and providing backup vocals, not only doesn't attempt to update his signature sound, but proudly sticks to unfashionable pop styles like the early'80s anthemic soft rock of "Stranger in a Strange Land," the mellow Latintinged "Hideaway," and the disco of "Night of My Life." Yet instead of sounding like the work of a duo stuck in the past, Guilty Pleasures sounds as if Gibb has constructed a set of 11 songs that play to his strengths as a pop craftsman and Streisand's strengths as an interpreter. This may be firmly within both of their comfort zones, but despite the record's decidedly lowkey vibe, neither Barry nor Barbra sound lazy, nor do they sound like they have something to prove, as if they're consciously trying to live up to the standard their first collaboration set. They sound relaxed and quietly assured, which makes this album far more charming than it might initially appear to be. Not everything works some of the ballads toward the end of the record are a little too hazy and samey to catch hold but most of the album holds its own with Guilty, which means this is not only a pleasant surprise, but one of Barbra's best straightup mainstream pop records, and an album that surely lives up to its title. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide |
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Pros: Don't Compare to 'Guilty'
Cons: No reason not to buy
Don't compare Barbra Streisand's new CD to the 1980 'Guilty' album. The only similarity is that it's also a stand-out, top pop collection. Streisand's voice seems ageless, especially on the dance hit (#2 on Billboard, just behind Madonna), "Night Of My Life." The middle-eastern twinged, "All The Children" may be Streisand's best pop song since, "Evergreen." But don't expect a cd full of famous Streisand ballads. All songs are new and fresh. The only exceptions are her wonderful version of the Andy Gibb hit, "Our Love (Don't throw it all away") and a twenty-year old song and tear-jerking, "Letting Go." Streisand sounds like she has ten years of pop cd's left in that remarkable voice that we fell in love with 45 years ago. ...