Post by Busby Boy on Nov 5, 2007 20:08:31 GMT
Artist: Boyz II Men
Album Title: Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA
Tracklist:
1. "Just My Imagination" (The Temptations)
2. "It's the Same Old Song/Reach Out I'll Be There" (The Four Tops)
3. "Mercy, Mercy Me" (Marvin Gaye)
4. "The Tracks Of My Tears" (The Miracles)
5. "Money (That's What I Want)" (Barrett Strong)
6. "Easy" (The Commodores)
7. "I Was Made To Love Her" (Stevie Wonder)
8. "All This Love" (Debarge)
9. "Ribbon in the Sky" (Acapella) (Stevie Wonder)
10. "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" (featuring Patti LaBelle) (Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell)
11. "There'll Never Be" (Switch)
12. "Got To Be There" (Michael Jackson)
13. "War" (Edwin Starr)
14. "End Of The Road" (featuring Brian McKnight) (Boyz II Men)
Download it here.
Review:
From MySpace.
On November 13, 2007, Boyz II Men – hailed by the RIAA as the most commercially successful R&B group of all time – return to center stage with a stunning new album, Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA. The Decca label debut is the first major-label release in five years for Boyz II Men, who have sold an estimated 60 million recordings in a spectacular career that will enter its seventeenth year in 2008.
Down through the decades, the stars and songs of Motown Records have been the subject of countless tributes and cover versions recordings. But few have been displayed the level of vocal artistry or the faithfulness to the sound and spirit of the originals that Boyz II Men capture on Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA.
Working with producer Randy Jackson, Shawn Stockman, Wanyá Morris, and Nathan Morris bring their special brand of musical magic to twelve all-time Motown hits including Marvin Gaye's Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), Smokey Robinson & the Miracles' The Tracks of My Tears, the Temptations' Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me), Edwin Starr's War, and the Stevie Wonder favorites I Was Made to Love Her and Ribbon In the Sky. The album closes with a beautiful new recording of the record-breaking Boyz II Men hit, End Of The Road, produced by superstar Brian McKnight, who also sings on the track.
Our approach was not to taint or take away from the integrity of the original records, explains Shawn Stockman, but to add a little thing, here or there, and put our Boyz II Men flavor on it...We wanted to pay tribute to an era that had such a major influence on our sound.
Wanyá Morris adds: The fact that we were able to do these songs live, the way they made the original records, gives a whole 'nother twist to what this album is really about.
We took everything from before and brought it up to now, says Nate Morris, just to let everyone know that we haven’t forgotten it.
I personally love the album, I downloaded it took a listen and have now ordered it off Play.com for under £10 so it'll finish my collection of Boyz II Men CDs now.
Love it.
Other Albums:
Check out this thread for the other albums.
Album Title: Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA
Tracklist:
1. "Just My Imagination" (The Temptations)
2. "It's the Same Old Song/Reach Out I'll Be There" (The Four Tops)
3. "Mercy, Mercy Me" (Marvin Gaye)
4. "The Tracks Of My Tears" (The Miracles)
5. "Money (That's What I Want)" (Barrett Strong)
6. "Easy" (The Commodores)
7. "I Was Made To Love Her" (Stevie Wonder)
8. "All This Love" (Debarge)
9. "Ribbon in the Sky" (Acapella) (Stevie Wonder)
10. "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" (featuring Patti LaBelle) (Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell)
11. "There'll Never Be" (Switch)
12. "Got To Be There" (Michael Jackson)
13. "War" (Edwin Starr)
14. "End Of The Road" (featuring Brian McKnight) (Boyz II Men)
Download it here.
Review:
From MySpace.
On November 13, 2007, Boyz II Men – hailed by the RIAA as the most commercially successful R&B group of all time – return to center stage with a stunning new album, Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA. The Decca label debut is the first major-label release in five years for Boyz II Men, who have sold an estimated 60 million recordings in a spectacular career that will enter its seventeenth year in 2008.
Down through the decades, the stars and songs of Motown Records have been the subject of countless tributes and cover versions recordings. But few have been displayed the level of vocal artistry or the faithfulness to the sound and spirit of the originals that Boyz II Men capture on Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA.
Working with producer Randy Jackson, Shawn Stockman, Wanyá Morris, and Nathan Morris bring their special brand of musical magic to twelve all-time Motown hits including Marvin Gaye's Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), Smokey Robinson & the Miracles' The Tracks of My Tears, the Temptations' Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me), Edwin Starr's War, and the Stevie Wonder favorites I Was Made to Love Her and Ribbon In the Sky. The album closes with a beautiful new recording of the record-breaking Boyz II Men hit, End Of The Road, produced by superstar Brian McKnight, who also sings on the track.
Our approach was not to taint or take away from the integrity of the original records, explains Shawn Stockman, but to add a little thing, here or there, and put our Boyz II Men flavor on it...We wanted to pay tribute to an era that had such a major influence on our sound.
Wanyá Morris adds: The fact that we were able to do these songs live, the way they made the original records, gives a whole 'nother twist to what this album is really about.
We took everything from before and brought it up to now, says Nate Morris, just to let everyone know that we haven’t forgotten it.
I personally love the album, I downloaded it took a listen and have now ordered it off Play.com for under £10 so it'll finish my collection of Boyz II Men CDs now.
Love it.
Other Albums:
Check out this thread for the other albums.
