Respect (The Very Best Of Aretha Franklin) - Aretha Franklin

...CD 1 1. RESPECT - fantastic, very well known, very camp. 2. THINK - classic, girl power-y, quite camp. 3. SPANISH HARLEM - jazz standard, good performance. 4. (YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE) A NATURAL WOMAN - great, incredibly camp, sing-a-long. 5. I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER - cheesy, very well known. 6. SON OF A PREACHER MAN - brilliant, famous, good for karaoke. 7. I NEVER LOVED A MAN (THE WAY I LOVE YOU) - victimised woman song about useless men - yay! ...
...men are, very sing-a-long. 9. DON'T PLAY THAT SONG (YOU LIED) - aren't men awful? Go girl! 10. ANGEL - very well known, soppier than many. 11. BORDER SONG (HOLY MOSES) - dramatic religious song with a bit of joy. 12. ROCK STEADY - cheese, but good cheese. 13. SEE SAW - good song about love being confusing and poo. 14. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT - very well known, bouncy and fun. 15. OH NO NOT MY BABY - men are bad, women are gullible. 16. ...

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Review of Respect (The Very Best Of Aretha Franklin) - Aretha Franklin

...along those speedy verses of Respect (origanally by Otis Redding) with such startling conviction and when she sings those lyrics you just KNOW she means every word she says. Her pronounciations and impeccable lyrical phrasing is remarkably effective on this explosive classic and Respect rates as one of her most popular and definitive classics. As well as the more urban-contemporary material, Aretha proved most adept at experimenting in a number of ...
...equally compelling on the ballads. I Say A Little Prayer was one of her most passionate, heart-felt ballads. Whilst the lyrics were somewhat simplistic, Aretha could shrewdly plumb such depth with a straight-foward song such as this. Dr. Feel Good, the fabulous Think (which she would update in the movie, The Blue Brothers) and the sparse production of Chain Of Fools continued her staggering run of classic hits and all conveyed such an undeniably ...

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This double CD compilation is great. It's got every one of her best releases on, from way back when to more recent ones and i could listen to it a thousand times. I particularly like her rendition of Son of a Preacher, i would even say it's better than Dusty Springfields version. As you already know, this woman really can sing. There's her classic RESPECT, LET IT BE, ANGEL, ALL I NEED TO GET BY, SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES, RESCUE ME, the ...

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Review of Respect (The Very Best Of Aretha Franklin) - Aretha Franklin