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Music CD - Soulive: No Place Like Soul
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Music CD: No Place Like Soul
Artist: Soulive
List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $10.52
Your Save: $ 8.46 ( 45% )
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Manufacturer: Stax
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Tracks:
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1. Waterfall
2. Don't Tell Me
3. Mary
4. Comfort
5. Callin'
6. Morning Light
7. Never Know
8. Yea Yeah
9. If This World Was a Song
10. One Of Those Days
11. Kim
12. Outrage
13. Bubble
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0888072300422
Label: Stax
Manufacturer: Stax
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Stax
Release Date: 2007-07-31
Studio: Stax
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Real Soul
Comment: My first Soulive experience was seeing them live at Bumpershoot the Seattle Music Fesival this past summer and since then I've been a fan. Granted, I hadn't heard them before the addition of Toussaint (who I think is great) I thought they were amazing. So I picked up this album and was more than pleased. I later found out that they had a ton of other albums minus Toussaint and they are awesome as well. I think you just to have to take it for what it is. I think most of the people leaving poor reviews on here are just bitter that its not what they were expecting from them. I suggest picking it up.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Be Warned
Comment: I'm a big SOULIVE fan and I paid extra for the import version of this just to get it early. Let's just say I was upset listening to this CD for the first time. I usually skip over the vocal tracks on every other SOULIVE project. THERE ARE ONLY TWO TRACKS WITHOUT VOCALS. Both of those tracks are excelent especially "Bubble". I wasn't really feelin' the vocal cuts at all until I went to see them live. The live perfomance made me want to listen again. There are a few catchy songs on there like "One of Those days" and "Mary" but this project showcases vocals with SOULIVE as the backup.
Customer Rating:
Summary: This is not soulive
Comment: Although it's not bad, I am extremely disappointed because this is not Soulive. This is not the good jazz that I've come to expect, this is pop. An extreme disappointment, I don't know what they were thinking.
Customer Rating:
Summary: So What? Soulive!
Comment: This album is a slight departure from most of Soulive's catalog... They've added lyrics! If you are not a fan of Soulive having a singer, don't buy this album, you'll just be all sore and grumpy. If you appreciate everything that Soulive does (I do, except for Next), plunk down your money on this bad boy, bring it home, put on the stereo and sit back for some smooth, funky righteous tunes.... or something like that.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Solid!
Comment: Picture the scene if you will. I'm in the Virgin Megastore in Times Square New York City, trying to meet my fix for Music (feening!) Whilst looking in the jazz section I find my self jigging along to the Cd being played in the back ground. Whilst seeking some advice from an employee of said establishment I asked' Who is this playing?' I was then directed to this CD. Whilst being one of the newer acts of the newly re-formed Stax label, I assume (wrongly) that this was their first CD. I really should have known better, as their playing sounds tight like a group that has been together for a while.
What of the CD itself. Just listening to it makes me yearn to hear these Boys live (Instrumental grooves like Outrage & Bubble really pour it on)
Now not being a long time fan, I can appreciate this CD on its own merits. As mentioned, the Instrumental Bubble & Outrage are a full blown out Soul-rock affair. Solid. What about the vocal cuts. Toussaint brings a reggae tinsed quality to the proceedings, which works. Favorites cuts on here: Callin', 'Don't Tell me' (the first toon that I dug on here) Bubble, Never Know, Morning Light, Comfort, Outrage. One of my finds of 2007.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The recently revived Stax label initiates its first release of new music with the appropriately named Soulive. The band's fifth studio effort, and first with a full-time vocalist, both solidifies and scatters the group's sound. By not utilizing high-profile guest vocalists, the focus is back on songs as opposed to the jazz-oriented jams of the past. Recent addition Toussaint acquits himself well, singing with old-school energy and passion that meshes with the group's similar slant. But it comes at the expense of the skin-tight Crusaders-styled approach, once a staple of Soulive's sound. A few instrumentals, such as the rather plodding "Bubble" and the Stevie Ray Vaughan-inspired "Outrage," allow the guys to flex their considerable chops, yet this is clearly the act's most controlled, song-oriented effort yet. Toussaint goes falsetto loverman on the syrupy closing ballad "Kim," but the album coheres most effectively when Soulive hit a mid-tempo groove, as on "Callin'," the opening Sly Stone heavy funk-rock of "Waterfall," and the handclap-driven title track. Toussaint's reggae roots emerge on "If This World Was a Song" and his dusky voice is also a terrific match for the grinding funk of "Morning Light." Most of the improvisational jazz the threesome built their reputation on is MIA, which is particularly noticeable in Neal Evans's B3 keyboards moving to a supporting role. But Soulive take a step forward into the past on this retro excursion, and the impressive results should expand their audience--although possibly at the expense of some established fans drawn to the band's less structured material. --Hal Horowitz
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