Bare - Annie Lennox

...different, and to shock? Bare is no exception. Annie photographed herself for the album, and she appears on the front, wearing no make up, with a strangely drawn, haunted look about her. She is ghostly white, apparently naked, wearing only a dog collar. A thousand beautiful things starts with a harp, and is a slow song, with Annie’s voice at its best. Apart from keyboard and a slow drum, there is little else in the way of instruments to be heard. ...
...and points out that there are a lot of things to be happy about in the world. "I thank you for the air to breathe The heart to beat The eyes to see again (a thousand beautiful things) And all the things that's been and done The battle's won" My rating: 10/10 The beginning of Pavement Cracks has an almost U2 or Simple Minds like quality with the echoing keyboards. Another ballad and it begs the question, does Annie even need any instrumental ...

Lizard_Lover 18.06.2003 · Read full review
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Bare - Annie Lennox Released 2003 : BMG records : Cat. No. 8287652247-2 Background - Annie Born on Xmas Day 1954 , in Aberdeen , Scotland . At school her musical likes started to shine through , as she learnt piano and flute , and sung in the school choir. At 17 , she gained a place at the reknowned Royal Accademy of Music , London , where she studied for three years , leaving just a few wekks before her final exams. She remained in London finding ...
.... 2003 Third solo album Bare released. -~- The Album -~- Given lifes ups and many downs , the breakdown of her second marriage being the major catapault , Annie decided to bear her soul , and hence wrote this album. Initially is can be quite a difficult album to listen to and appreciate , but after several plays , you soon learn to appreciate the meaning and feeling of the album . Each track has meaning , and Annie delivers brilliantly , drawing ...

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OK. This is the first album by Annie Lennox I have bought so far, though I plan on getting the rest of her albums. Every song on the album is very different, and they are all written by her. At an age of 48, she is doing pretty well releasing this now! Shes been around for quite a while. I think she's had a break of about eleven years since her last album, but she has clearly spent alot of time on the writing and fine-tuning of this beautiful collection ...
...Annie has had experience of many different ups and downs in her life and it shows in her writing. GENRE: i think its sort of a rocky (but light) poppy (good) a bit classical (but still nice and hip), i cant really put my finger on it. The album starts of with the beautiful song "A Thousand Beautiful Things". This song really grows on you - i think you have to listen to it once and then listen to something totally different, then listen to something ...

chazzero 14.09.2004 · Read full review
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”…And love don't show up in the pavement cracks I can't even cover up my tracks I'm going nowhere and I'm light years back..” I read the opinion of yummy87 on this album and convinced that it was a nice one, I took it. Great cd to listen to, when you feel down. I just realized that today as it’s not one of the best days for me. I really miss the lifestyle of Greece. That different approach in life that the Greeks have... Anyway…I am listening ...
...write an opinion on it. The cover. If you can cope seeing this goddess to throwing away the make-up from her image, coming out with open, uncared, wounds, then this album will touch you.(‘Its made to touch you because is hand made, builted with human materials that have been gathered after the demolition of an old house, with hard work and endless hours of loneliness…’) Who to buy it If you think that pain in non of your business and you don’t ...

vassilis73 23.06.2003 · Read full review
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I have to start off by saying that if you are an Annie fan you won't be disappointed by this album. It is pure Annie Lennox! She knows her formula and she sticks to it. That's not to say she hasn't experimented with new sounds though - for example on 'The Hurting Time' which has a very laid-back, jazzy feel to it, and 'Bitter Pill', which wouldn't sound out-of-place played next to younger artists such as Pink. I didn't like the cover, I felt Annie's ...
...explain it on the back ("I am a mature artist facing up to core issues") made me cringe, although I did agree with the sentiment. Overall I was very impressed with this album and would definitely recommend that you buy it. Here's my track-by-track breakdown: 1000 Beautiful Things This is such an uplifting start to the record. It is a beautiful account of light overcoming the darkness, of emerging from depression to see the positives of life again. ...

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...used Stevie Wonder-esque toodlings. Bare unfortunately does draw from some of the same imperfections we saw on Medusa and Diva. She needs to find some better musicians to back her in these forays. It’s fine to slow things down and to use more acoustic sounds but you can’t simply depend only on the vocals to get you through the song every dang time. Dave Stewart did not help her learn that of course with his horrible casio inspired peckings during ...
...the mood, and here on Bare she maintains and rules with all the sophisticated majesty she has long fought for. So be prepared to take a journey to the dark side of Annie Lennox’s soul with this one but in the end spending the time taking this voyage with THAT VOICE is worth every marvelous moment. One of the lyrics of this album spoke way, way, too much to me "This Is Mine To Remember". That coupled with the write up Annie Lennox put on the back ...

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