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Music CD - Chaka Khan: Funk This
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Music CD: Funk This
Artist: Chaka Khan
List Price: $16.97
Our Price: $8.34
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Manufacturer: Strategic Marketing
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Tracks:
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1. Back In The Day
2. Foolish Fool
3. One For All Time
4. Angel
5. Will You Love Me?
6. Castles Made Of Sand
7. Disrespectful featuring Mary J Blige
8. Sign 'O' The Times
9. Pack'd My Bags/You Got The Love featuring Tony Maiden
10. Ladies' Man
11. You Belong To Me featuring Michael McDonald
12. Hail To The Wrong
13. Super Life
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0886970902229
Format: Enhanced
Label: Strategic Marketing
Manufacturer: Strategic Marketing
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Strategic Marketing
Release Date: 2007-09-25
Studio: Strategic Marketing
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: The Best Chaka Yet!!!
Comment: Every song on this album reminds of Chaka back in the day when she was with Rufus. Unbelievable this Album is great!!!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not Bad
Comment: "Funk This" is Chaka's Grammy-winning return to the music scene, her first studio album in almost 10 years. I am one of Chaka's biggest fans and was really looking forward to this. I must say, it's not nearly as good as the rest of her solo catalog. Chaka does not possess the kind of pipes she had on "The Woman I Am" so the performances on "Funk This" come off a bit restrained. Most of the stand-out cuts here happen to be the original material. "Angel" is quite simply stunning! "Will You Love Me" and "Hail To The Wrong" are terrific little dance dittys. "Disrespect", however, finds Chaka out of her zone. Clearly, this was produced with Beyonce in mind. She and Mary J. Blige yell through the entire song. And why Chaka would want to make a Beyonce-sounding record is beyond me.
The other half of the CD include cover songs, which really drag the CD down. The only standout is her duet with Micheal McDonald on "You Belong To Me". Originally a boring ballad recorded by Carly Simon and later by Anita Baker, Khan and McDonald kick it up a notch and turn it into a foot-tapping, midtempo tune. "Sign Of The Times" is an interesting remake but the lyrics are very out-dated. The rest of the covers are simply not that good. The remake of her own classic "You Got The Love/Pack'd My Bags" was okay, but when an artist starts remaking their own songs, it's usually a sign of a career that is in trouble.
Another issue I had with this CD is some of it sounded really old-fashioned with the 'wah-wah' voice box or whatever they call it. That kind of stuff played out in the early 80's. Don't get me wrong, this is not a bad album in any way. It's just not one of her better ones. However, I am glad that it finally put her back on the charts (after a serious mis-step with 2005's "Classikhan") and added a couple more awards to her mantle.
Customer Rating:
Summary: FUNK DIVA
Comment: This will end up in your funk favs for sure. Still one of the most original soul vocalists to ever record.
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Summary: To Chkaka Khan`s devoted fans
Comment: This new and long waited CD of Chaka Khan is something to her devoted fans. Her vocals sound as good as her " Masterjam "times in the 80`s.
I was not very thrilled to featured artists like Michael Mcdonald or Mary J. Blige because they don`t support overall impression.
But I like Chaka and her style. Good music. One of her best albums, I think.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not What I Expected!
Comment: After hearing the song "Angel" I figured at least 99% of the cd would be the bomb. I've always been a big Chaka fan but this cd did not do anything for me, except "Angel".
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Editorial Reviews:
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The first track off Chaka Khan's first album since 2004's Classikhan unspools the vibe she's going for instantly--in the space of a single boing-y guitar lick--and a little deeper in, the lyrics seal the deal: "Those very sounds floating in and out of my head/Created the magic that sealed my fate," she hollers in the don't-hold-back style that's made her an icon. We get the picture--Funk This is Chaka reflecting on three decades of full-bodied, fevered-up soul music and examining how it is she got to be so funkalicious in the first place. Where a lot of legends retrace their backstories and end up with albums that sound warmed over, though, Chaka forges forward (and back) with fresh and fiery swagger; you wouldn't want to handle any of these 13 songs without an oven mitt. That's not to say they aren't familiar. In addition to several just-written songs (the pretty, provocative "Angel," the heartfelt "One for All Times," and the pointedly honest "Will You Love Me"), Chaka covers Prince's "Sign o' the Times," Joni Mitchell's "Ladies Man," and Jimi Hendrix's "Castles Made of Sand," and she also twists a couple of songs she originally recorded with Rufus, "Pack'd My Bags" and "You Got the Love," into a juiced-up medley. Carly Simon's "You Belong to Me" gets the cover treatment in a likable duet with Michael McDonald, but it's another duet that earns this disc five stars for sizzle: "Disrespectful," written by Mary J. Blige and sung with her, busts out glorious grit and gut-level soul, the kind that'll leave listeners quoting Chaka in her "I'm Every Woman" phase: "Whoa, whoa, whoa-oh." --Tammy La Gorce
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