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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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