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Music CD - Joe: Better Days
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Music CD: Better Days
Artist: Joe
List Price: $13.98
Our Price: $4.50
Your Save: $ 9.48 ( 68% )
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Manufacturer: Jive
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Tracks:
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1. Let's Stay Home Tonight
2. Better Days
3. What If A Woman
4. Alone
5. Isn't This The World
6. Ghetto Child
7. I Like Sexy Girls
8. Here She Comes
9. Lover's Prayer
10. Changed Man
11. I Understand
12. She Used 2 Luv Me
13. World Of Girls
14. Let's Stay Home Tonight (Remix)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0012414178626
Label: Jive
Manufacturer: Jive
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Jive
Release Date: 2001-12-11
Studio: Jive
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Gives me a Warm feeling :)
Comment: I'm surprised not everyone enjoyed this CD as much as I did! I was 19 when this CD came out and it was quite a time. I thouroughly enjoyed Joe's last two efforts and was a certified fan. I rooted for him on this effort and bought the CD was unfortunately it was not commercially successful. 'Let's stay home tonight' is a perky intro to a CD full of gems. Some Standounts include:
#1) Let's Stay Home Tonight (snuggle with your honey)
#9) Lover's Prayer (an amazing song)
#10)Changed Man (men shoud take heed)
#12)She Used to Love me (reggae-tinged fun song)
#13)World of Girls (fun song, very listenable)
But don't be fooled, the whole CD can just be played without skipping tracks. He does have some missteps such as 'Ghetto Child' with Shaggy (back when he was popular), 'I Like Sexy Girls' (fun, but forgettable) and I Understand (a little too sappy). But overall, a great effort. I miss the old Joe, I couldn't get down with his newer G-unitified image, but I cherish the old days...
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Summary: A step down from the last never the less still good
Comment: It's no secret that JOE is a very talented soul singer. However after the mamooth sucess of My Name Is Joe, Better Days was released in time for the holiday seasons. Let's Stay Home Tonight," is a rather straightforward remix for the rap audience featuring Petey Pablo. The other collaboration, "Ghetto Child," is a bit more ambitious, featuring Shaggy and the Boys Choir of Harlem. Elsewhere, the emphasis is on Joe. There isn't a roll call of big-name producers here (though the Neptunes do make a showing), so Joe is left to carry much of the album's weight. He proves more than capable of the challenge on songs like the lead single, "Let's Stay Home but Ghetto Child was horrible as was I Like Sexy Girls. In the ballad department JOE offers up the goods on What If A Woman, Lover's Prayer and Alone. JOE has a classic album in his voice and hopefully one day he'll show us that promise.
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Summary: An Underated Talent
Comment: Despite Joe not receiving such wide acclaim as other of todays R&B stars, his work and acheivements should not be overlooked as he is without doubt one of todays most gifted songwriters.
On his fourth project, Better Days (2001), he diplays his growing versatility as an evidently serious recording artist. His work has great depth expoloring serious and relevant human issues and expresses genuinley deep, honest emotion. He has an undeniable flair for ballads with such offerings as What If A Woman, Alone and Isn't This The World. The gentle and sensual musical arrangements which have all the emphasis and elements of the modern day R&B sound are all beautifully mellow with each holding an undeniably timeless appeal.
The quality in his work is consistent throughout and the album does delve into urban, late-night R&B numbers such as the sultry Let's Stay Home Tonight, Ghetto Child (featuring an effective interlude from another gifted R&B artist, Shaggy), the playful I Like Sexy Girls and a few truly sensational numbers like Lovers Prayer, Changed Man, I Understand to name but a few.
There is such passion in his work thats it's questionable as to why his unique talent an work so far has been so over-looked but never the less it's quality what counts and tis album is just that. This is probably Joe's greatest album yet and had it been given te right radio air-play this could have easily have catapulted into view with the media. Superb and sensational and possibly is the modern-day Marvin Gaye.
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Summary: better days alright
Comment: This was not Joe's best album. In my opinion, he really has seen better days. I hate the fact that I can't listen to this album from the front to the back.
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Summary: Definitely Some Good Dayz!
Comment: Joe does an excellent job on Better Days with his soulful voice and smooth ballads. Hands down, Joe is an exceptional talent that should be recognized. He's by far one of the best male singers out there right next to Luther Vandross. Joe's intoxicating love ballads leave you feeling loved, respected, and most all cherished as a woman. As a man his songs shows you how to love, respect, and appreciate your woman. This is truly a man who indeed knows how to appreciate a woman.
Joe demonstrates his tenderness on such songs as "What If A Woman" "Ghetto Child" "She Used 2 Luv Me" and the most beautiful song ever "Lover's Prayer". If you're looking for Better Days ahead, buy this album. I promise, you won't regret it.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Like most good lover men, Joe knows you can unzip more flies with honey than with hassles. This understated but seriously gifted singer/songwriter may not enjoy the superstar profile or recognition of some of his fellow R&B Romeos, but as his fourth CD, Better Days, proves, what he lacks in persona he more than makes up for in persuasive and sensual songs. There's a gentleness and ease in Joe's smoothed-out, sexy, and decidedly grown-up brand of R&B. Listen to the way his silky vocals glide over the ever-so-syncopated keyboards on "I Like Sexy Girls." Or hear how Joe concocts a romantic and realistic evening on the undulating single "Let's Stay Home Tonight." Even when Joe is trying to get his mack on, he remains a gentleman. It's that soft-spoken, from-the-heart approach, along with well-crafted tracks, that make Better Days a keeper. --Amy Linden
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