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A Humourous and Innovative Set of Covers!I've been an admirer of Tom Jones since he took Prince's dull song "Kiss" and turned it into something fun with Art of Noise. Any performer who can approach his art with such a sense of humour both about the music and himself is worth my respect.With "Reload+2," Tom Jones serves up an entire album of such cover tunes. While few of the tracks have that tongue-in-cheek feel of the "Kiss" song, they are all interesting interpertations of other people's hits."Reload+2" is even more remarkable in t…
Hits and missesPairing the big man with some of the lesser lights ambling about the charts these days, this CD was too intriguing to pass up. Surprisingly, it's not the train wreck you'd expect. True, there is some dreck here: the Cardigan's Nina Persson sounding heavily sedated on what would otherwise be a rollicking cover of The Talking Heads' "Burning Down The House". And Mick Hucknall sounding smaller and less soulful than I have ever heard him on "Ain't That A Lot Of Love".Sometimes though its really swi…
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format: 1 x CD record label: Gut Records catalog number: GUTCD009 release dates: Sep 9 1999 in United Kingdom view details |
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format: 1 x CD catalog number: CD009 release dates: Sep 22 1999 in Japan view details |
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format: 1 x CD release dates: Sep 22 1999 in Japan view details |
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