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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2018 17:44:12 GMT -5
For all the naysayers and doomsday followers, TH has been back in the top 25 the past couple weeks. Sorry to bust your bubble.
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Post by jamesn on Jan 6, 2018 11:05:08 GMT -5
For all the naysayers and doomsday followers, TH has been back in the top 25 the past couple weeks. Sorry to bust your bubble. I find more and more that I think TH is probably Jackie's best overall album to date (excluding consideration of the 2d disc which I simply don't play very much at all), easily as satisfactory as DWM or SFTSS and certainly better than the rest of them.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2018 11:41:57 GMT -5
For all the naysayers and doomsday followers, TH has been back in the top 25 the past couple weeks. Sorry to bust your bubble. I find more and more that I think TH is probably Jackie's best overall album to date (excluding consideration of the 2d disc which I simply don't play very much at all), easily as satisfactory as DWM or SFTSS and certainly better than the rest of them. I have never rated a cd one over another. Just like I don't judge one of her song's over another. I do have favorites which could be, in a top ten, 1a, 1b, 1c, etc. Every night I play one of my four cd's to put me to sleep. Rarely make it to the second song. Don't have any Christmas cds due my 42 years of Christmas cantatas at church. (Burnout) There is not one song that is skip worthy. You could jiggle all the songs and make one big cd and I'd be happy. Like many, I would love a Best Of the early cds recorded with her current voice. We may not ever see this with her new direction, whatever that may be.
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Post by rick158 on Jan 6, 2018 17:26:21 GMT -5
Like many, I would love a Best Of the early cds recorded with her current voice. I agree, in fact, as I listened to Dream with me in Concert yesterday on the way home from work, I thought that it would be really nice if Jackie brought a few of the songs from that album back, at least in concert. She has done many, still includes some regularly, but a few like Nella Fantasia, Imaginer and Angel she's not done in years. While I enjoy the earlier albums, I prefer Jackie's more mature voice of the present. Much more depth and feeling, in my opinion.
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Post by yellowstone2014 on Jan 7, 2018 7:22:17 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2018 8:46:16 GMT -5
Has any of you guys ever wondered who or what classifies as Classical Albums. If it say philamonics it is classical even if Elvis, Aretha Franklin or a guy from Caddy Shack is in it. I'm happy for Lindsey, but shouldn't she be under pop or pop instrumental. I know there isn't a crossover category, but really. Jackie can hold her own, but dumping 'out of category albums' doesn't seem fair. We need a committee.
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Post by rob49 on Jan 7, 2018 9:40:47 GMT -5
Has any of you guys ever wondered who or what classifies as Classical Albums. If it say philamonics it is classical even if Elvis, Aretha Franklin or a guy from Caddy Shack is in it. I'm happy for Lindsey, but shouldn't she be under pop or pop instrumental. I know there isn't a crossover category, but really. Jackie can hold her own, but dumping 'out of category albums' doesn't seem fair. We need a committee. What about Aretha Franklin's - 'A Brand New Me' album?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2018 10:14:04 GMT -5
Has any of you guys ever wondered who or what classifies as Classical Albums. If it say philamonics it is classical even if Elvis, Aretha Franklin or a guy from Caddy Shack is in it. I close my eyes and can't tell the difference.
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Post by ursus on Jan 7, 2018 12:23:01 GMT -5
I close my eyes and can't tell the difference. Just trying to decide if I should give this a thumbs down, a laugh, or a thumbs down. With what can't you tell the difference -- with Jackie, with someone stepping on a cat, or ...?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2018 13:50:34 GMT -5
Leave it to the kids to unleash their inner Aretha Franklin...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2018 22:47:32 GMT -5
Back to Jackie's Music and Two Hearts .....This was offered 23 days ago.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2018 17:59:56 GMT -5
I feel that Two Hearts epitomizes Jackie's versatility in interpretive sensitivity and vocal skill.
She delivers Caruso with emotional sincerity, as a plaintive reminiscence of his life of pain and passion. It doesn't matter that I don't understand the lyrics, as usual. I get the meaning from her earnest expression.
Attesa is performed with exquisite anguish, almost entirely in her comfortable upper register then reaching its ultimate height with the final note, a soaring plea for release.
Mamma, in my estimation, is under-appreciated but a favorite of mine, believably hopeful and honest as a daughter's longing to reconcile her youthful misgivings with a mother's devotion.
May It Be is gloriously expressive, exemplifying the tonal clarity of Jackie's perfectly tuned vocal instrument.
The Way We Were demonstrates her tonal depth and warmth carried along by a beautifully controlled vibrato. A soothing, almost dreamy rendition of remembrance.
With Have You Ever Been In Love, Jackie gets right into my heart with a breathy expressive innocence, a kind of confused curiosity and hesitancy about the perils of love, yet ending with a whisper of hopefulness for its return.
A Thousand Years is a somewhat apprehensive but wondrous anticipation of destined love fulfilled, brought to powerful exuberance with that long sustained note in pitch-perfect harmony with Fernando. It's further complimented by the enthusiastic and continuous applause. Then together they bring the song to a reassuring resolve.
I feel inept at adequately describing Jackie's ability to give convincing and appropriate character to each song she performs. Even though they are not original, they have her special adaption and signature. I've omitted a few that are rather self-defining, and her pop "experiments" that should be treated separately. All in all, Two Hearts One is a very pleasurable and satisfying variety of songs to me. On a different level from her earlier albums, it's more intriguing in anticipation of what she has yet to offer, having shown what she is capable of expressing with these works. In my opinion, her recordings and performances have been progressively more mature in delivery with greater sensitivity and finesse.
I suspect this little treatise will be derided an exaggeration by those repulsed by anything beyond a mundane compliment. However, tolerance is not an expectation exclusive to critics. We admirers should be afforded a little ourselves. But, I can almost hear grumblings from the nauseated. So, who will be first to yank Jackie off this pedestal in defense of her "failing, no-talent career"? Three guesses.
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Post by Beachguy on Feb 12, 2018 13:23:08 GMT -5
i thought Two Hearts was a very nice album for this type of music , it would not been my choice to do for her as it may have been heard as same from Jackie , how great was it to some ? what was the number of sales .? numbers tell the tale .
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2018 16:50:23 GMT -5
Beachguy, Did you read a couple of negative reviews of Two Hearts on Amazon.com to make that determination? Or, do you presume to speak on behalf of the public as usual with your own opinion?...characteristically put in question form to give the impression you're being objective. It's called innuendo, but you know that. It's your trade here.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2018 19:59:19 GMT -5
iBeachguy, Did you read a couple of negative reviews of Two Hearts on Amazon.com to make that determination? Or, do you presume to speak on behalf of the public as usual with your own opinion?...characteristically put in question form to give the impression you're being objective. It's called innuendo, but you know that. It's your trade here. He doesn't really need to post here anymore. The 145,000 + posts he is so, so proud of is still there and are identical to what he is now posting, commenting, commenting, commenting here. So if you are not getting enough here please go over there and read the years of abuse to members there and members here, TE, the family, the music. Even his admin asked him not post the same thing 37 times in two weeks anymore. Of course none of this will have any effect or affect him in any way. Some children just doesn't get the message. If any thinks this is rude, I will direct you to actual rude posts.
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