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| 1. I Got A Woman |
| 2. FOUND A CHILD |
| 3. Don't Stop Believin' |
| 4. Can't Fight This Feeling (Glee Cast Version) |
| 5. Gold Digger (Glee Cast Version) |
| 6. Take A Bow (Glee Cast Version) |
| 7. Bust Your Windows (Glee Cast Version) |
| 8. Taking Chances (Glee Cast Version) |
| 9. Alone (Glee Cast Version feat. Kristin Chenoweth) |
| 10. Maybe This Time (Glee Cast Version feat. Kristin Chenoweth) |
| 11. Somebody To Love (Glee Cast Version) |
| 12. Hate On Me (Glee Cast Version) |
| 13. No Air (Glee Cast Version) |
| 14. You Keep Me Hangin' On (Glee Cast Version) |
| 15. Keep Holding On (Glee Cast Version) |
| 16. Bust A Move (Glee Cast Version) |
| 17. Sweet Caroline (Glee Cast Version) |
| 18. Dancing With Myself (Glee Cast Version) |
| 19. Defying Gravity (Glee Cast Version) |
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In the past, the only correct response to a soundtrack album from a hit TV show based in a high school performing arts society would have been to hide in a box and wait for the fever to pass.
However, ever since the idea of ‘guilty pleasures’ was rightly run out of town on a rail, there’s been a slackening of the rules about music and what it is allowed to do. In fact, it would be fair to say that there is no longer any such thing as empirically good or bad music, just an infinite variety of personal tastes.
Glee is the personification of this. It treats music to the same “come one, come all” ethos as, well, the Glee club itself. So where the show can boast a multicultural cast of black and white, gay and straight, disabled and able-bodied, their soundtrack is a ragbag of classic rock songs, modern pop songs, show tunes, hip hop bangers and RnB torch songs. And, given the right amount of fairy-dust, they all seem to get along fabulously. The bigger the song, the brasher the treatment, the better for everyone concerned.
The downside of this wealth of material is that they could make this album in a lot of very different ways, and very probably always leave off someone’s very favourite Glee moment. They also have to consider which of the big-hitters to save for Volume 2, so compromises have to be made.
No-one will be disappointed by a Glee album which includes Don’t Stop Believin’ – their chart-eating cover of the Petra Haden arrangement of the Journey song; or Alone, or Gold Digger. But it’s a shame there wasn’t room for their Winehouse-approved upgrade of Rehab; or the stripped-back swing at Bel Biv Devoe’s Poison, as performed by the show’s all-male vocal group Acafellas.
These would probably have lifted the second half of the CD, which loses some of the sparkle and joy once the barn-storming Somebody to Love has finished. Then again, if you put your grand finale in the middle of the show, you shouldn’t be surprised if there’s nowhere left to go once you’ve brought the house down. --Fraser McAlpine
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Cd > Brazilian Music > Mpb - Brazilian Popular Music CD > BRAZILIAN MUSIC > MPB - BRAZILIAN POPULAR MUSIC
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Glee Music vol 1,
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This review is from: Glee: The Music, Volume 1 (Audio CD)
Brilliantly rousing album. The arrangements and performances are amazing on the best tracks such as Take A Bow and Somebody To Love. If you want an album for long car journeys that everyone can sing to, then let this be it!
116 of 125 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Don't buy this CD.,
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This review is from: Glee: The Music, Volume 1 (Audio CD)
Don't buy vol.2 either, or download the MP3s. Don't watch the TV show and definitely do not buy the DVD. They are bad for you and I'm going to tell you why.
A few weeks ago I was a normal person who liked their entertainment to have an edge. I love raw Blues (Blind Willie Johnson, Howlin' Wolf) and hard Rock (Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen) and Johnny Cash (I don't like Country otherwise). I like music so raw that if it was steak (and if I wasn't a vegetarian) I'd eat it raw and bloody. I like tough TV. I like Skins and I like True Blood and I like Dexter. And when I heard there was tv series about High School students who sang in a glee club I wanted to throw up. I would make it my mission to exterminate such a vile and inspid and bland thing and eradicate its memory from the collective human consciousness. So of course I had to watch at least one episode to make sure it was as sickening as I expected. And another. And another. And another, until I began to weep. It had snared me in its insidious clutches and my destroyed my credibility in my own eyes. I enjoyed the stories and the characters, but my exposure of their particular horrors shall wait until I've watched the DVD and all the extras. Twice. I enjoyed the music -me who likes his music raw and bleeding. I loved the range of the strong voices, leads and harmonies. I loved the mix and the arrangements of the blend of pop songs and shown tunes and, yes, rock. I loved the choreography and colour and bounciness. And so I bought Glee: the Music CD vol 1. And Glee: the Music CD vol 2. (And pre-ordered Glee: Season 1 the DVD.) And, like the show itself, the music made me smile and it made me happy and I couldn't deny it any longer. I loved Glee. Keep away lest this devious piece of skilled wonderfully enjoyable delightful entertainment ensnare you too and destroy all your credibility and illusions. Don't buy this CD!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I used to be a normal 30yr old...,
By Elstein "Liz" (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Glee: The Music, Volume 1 (Audio CD)
I too used to be a normal 30 year old...
<stands up> I would like to make an announcement.... "My name is Bobs and I'm a Glee-aholic." There. I've said it. Watch the series. Buy the DVD boxed set. Buy the soundtrack. And you too can be a Glee-aholic. My partner says I've got a problem. The only problem I've got is that the next series and soundtrack can't come quick enough. Somebody send me some songs so I can hum through the withdrawals... <la la la.... hum.... la la la!!>
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