- Audio CD (23 Dec 1999)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Giant
- ASIN: B000002L5E
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 196,407 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Format:Audio CD
Air supply have continued to amaze me with a constant run of tremendous albums, since their very first, back in 1976. This album contains some of their best work to date, with so many excellent melodious ballads.
Standouts for me include 'once' a beautiful piano instrumental, and the three consecutive tracks: 'daybreak', where I believe Russel gives his best vocal performance ever, with unbelievable power and passion, 'mother said', a touching and beautiful song, with personal undertones, and 'would you ever walk away', the third track in a row that proves a pop song does not need drums for it to be catchy.
This is not to say the other tracks not mentined are not excellent too, the album blew me away, and still did, after repeated listens.
One warning though, the last track 'all that you want', is in my mind their WORST song to date, no melody, a nasty synth line that is discordant and sounds like a death march, and the title line repeated over and over. Why this track was inclided is beyond me.
But excellent nontheless. Graham and Russel are geniuses.
Standouts for me include 'once' a beautiful piano instrumental, and the three consecutive tracks: 'daybreak', where I believe Russel gives his best vocal performance ever, with unbelievable power and passion, 'mother said', a touching and beautiful song, with personal undertones, and 'would you ever walk away', the third track in a row that proves a pop song does not need drums for it to be catchy.
This is not to say the other tracks not mentined are not excellent too, the album blew me away, and still did, after repeated listens.
One warning though, the last track 'all that you want', is in my mind their WORST song to date, no melody, a nasty synth line that is discordant and sounds like a death march, and the title line repeated over and over. Why this track was inclided is beyond me.
But excellent nontheless. Graham and Russel are geniuses.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Ahhh...
22 Mar 2003
Format:Audio CD
One of my favorites from AS! This has got to be their most relaxing album. "So Much Love" is fantastic. Their soothing voices just make you want to breathe deeply and close your eyes! I really love the song "Once", the piano is great. Some people say Russell is "losing his beautiful voice". I say he just gets better and better! After listening to the mournful "Daybreak", I hope you'll agree with me. "Let's Stay Together Tonight" is really worth listening to, despite its length of almost eight minutes. Stress? Forgotten. Worry? Relieved. Kick off your shoes, put your feet up and immerse yourself in the pages of The Book Of Love!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Awesome, but I prefer their earlier works
7 Feb 2000
Format:Audio CD
This album is great but I prefer their earlier works. My favourites in this album are strong, strong wind, daybreak, and most of all, let's stay together tonight. Let's stay together tonight is a song really worth listening to. Incredible performance by Russell, I can listen to it again and agian!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A BIG five stars.
16 Aug 2001
Format:Audio CD
Strangely, this must be the best album made by the the Air Supply singers/songwriter. It takes a lot of meditation to merge the gritty world of today, with the popish beauty of 1980. On this record, every song is desirable. The songwriter continues to message his truth that giving love is all. Only one song has a vocal track slightly nearing flat - but let's not forget, vocals beneath the wings of some other singers could sound as good (yet bette on worse.) Russell Hitchcock's vocals have an extraordinarily pleasant raspy quality to them here, that are either miked perfectly, or mixed well, and rarely heard like this. The Kurzweil piano on "once" could use a little reverb. Very nice to hear from Rex Goh again.
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