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104 of 106 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
At last a CD featuring all the Love Affair hits plus the best of the LP tracks.
Really a mod group along the lines of the Small Faces, the Love Affair achieved success with highly produced pop tunes often featuring vocalist Steve Ellis only. This was a departure from their original sound and led to difficulties for the group.
All the great late 60's hits are here -"Everlasting Love", "Rainbow Valley", "Day Without Love", "Bringing On Back The Good Times" "One Road" and "Baby I Know". They still sound FAB. This cd also features some worthwhile LP tracks by the original group like "Hush" and "Handbags and Gladrags" together with a few recent recordings by frontman Steve Ellis. He was still a teenager at the time of the big hits and had an incredible soulful voice, easily the equal of Marriott and Daltrey.
One negative aspect - sleeve notes are very poor. No summary of the group's career or Steve Ellis' ups and downs.
Really a mod group along the lines of the Small Faces, the Love Affair achieved success with highly produced pop tunes often featuring vocalist Steve Ellis only. This was a departure from their original sound and led to difficulties for the group.
All the great late 60's hits are here -"Everlasting Love", "Rainbow Valley", "Day Without Love", "Bringing On Back The Good Times" "One Road" and "Baby I Know". They still sound FAB. This cd also features some worthwhile LP tracks by the original group like "Hush" and "Handbags and Gladrags" together with a few recent recordings by frontman Steve Ellis. He was still a teenager at the time of the big hits and had an incredible soulful voice, easily the equal of Marriott and Daltrey.
One negative aspect - sleeve notes are very poor. No summary of the group's career or Steve Ellis' ups and downs.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I have often mentioned that the appeal of the songs that defined the 60s was in the main down to the energy and melodic structure of the tunes. Melody is something that ran through every artist from the Beatles to Presley, Marmalade to Tom Jones, Hollies to Dusty and so on.
The Love Affair was no exception and driven by a classic pop/rock voice in Steve Ellis, they had a period of success that still puts its marker down to this very day.
The 4 stand-out hits on this album are the massive selling "Everlasting Love" plus "Bringing on back the Good Times", "Rainbow Valley" and "A Day Without Love". All are as infectiously catchy today as they were then.
In the 60s, arrangers and producers had a knack of dovetailing guitars and drums with orchestration, which filled a song and made the sound so rich and powerful. All singles of this time and genre were precious 3 minute classics, not album tracks that promoted the release of their latest LP. Time and thought went into making them something special, hence the test of time for material such as this.
All 4 of these tracks are perfectly interpreted through Ellis' voice. The rest of the material is also good with a mixture of classic standards such as "Handbags and Gladrags" and "First Cut is the Deepest". I give it 4 stars because it just lacks enough tracks at the very top end of the quality scale to merit 5.
It's a shame that Ellis didn't have a longer extended career at the top. His anthology CD is superb, but he never had the lasting recognition that his talent deserved. However, when he and Love Affair did have their day in the sun, they turned out wonderful stuff.
This is an excellent disc to have on your shelf. Next time the nostalgic urge takes over, put it in the player and you'll get the warm glow of instant 1960s sunshine radiating through your speakers.
The Love Affair was no exception and driven by a classic pop/rock voice in Steve Ellis, they had a period of success that still puts its marker down to this very day.
The 4 stand-out hits on this album are the massive selling "Everlasting Love" plus "Bringing on back the Good Times", "Rainbow Valley" and "A Day Without Love". All are as infectiously catchy today as they were then.
In the 60s, arrangers and producers had a knack of dovetailing guitars and drums with orchestration, which filled a song and made the sound so rich and powerful. All singles of this time and genre were precious 3 minute classics, not album tracks that promoted the release of their latest LP. Time and thought went into making them something special, hence the test of time for material such as this.
All 4 of these tracks are perfectly interpreted through Ellis' voice. The rest of the material is also good with a mixture of classic standards such as "Handbags and Gladrags" and "First Cut is the Deepest". I give it 4 stars because it just lacks enough tracks at the very top end of the quality scale to merit 5.
It's a shame that Ellis didn't have a longer extended career at the top. His anthology CD is superb, but he never had the lasting recognition that his talent deserved. However, when he and Love Affair did have their day in the sun, they turned out wonderful stuff.
This is an excellent disc to have on your shelf. Next time the nostalgic urge takes over, put it in the player and you'll get the warm glow of instant 1960s sunshine radiating through your speakers.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The Love Affair epitomise everything that is great about British pop music.Accordingly,this Cd collection epitomises everything that is great about the Love Affair.Essentially,they represented everything that was great about the 60s.Pure genius from start to finish,you will not be disappointed with this fine package.Buy it!
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One Good point
The only redeeming factor of this collection is Steve Ellis's voice. The rest is the worst sixties pap imaginable. Read more
Published 28 days ago by M. A. Coverson
old but good
I MAY BE OLD BUT THIS MUSIC BRINGS BACK SOME GOOD MEMORIES OF WHEN I WAS A LOT YOUNGER.A GOOD BUY.
Published 1 month ago by M. J. Smith
Wow this knocked me out
The voice of Steve Ellis is laid down hear for all to hear and how fortunate we all are. I can't stop playing this C.D. at full volume in my car (sad I know). Read more
Published 1 month ago by The Singer
I HAD A LOVE AFFAIR.....
I love this group and my favourite song is 'EVERLASTING LOVE', it sounds as good 2 day, as it did back then, when it was first released, many moons ago. P. Read more
Published 3 months ago by HONEST JOHN
Review
wonderful, nostalgic, sing-along CD for those who were born in the early 1950's - mid teens in 1967 and 1968 and in love with Steve Ellis
Published 4 months ago by Bunt
Wonderful stuff
All the hits and more. Most importantly they are original recordings. A fabulous "Best Of" collection at a give-away price. Get it, you won't be sorry.
Published 5 months ago by D. Jay
Steve Ellis Sings.
Love Affair were an iconic band of the 60s with the distinctive vocal sounds of that master of singers Steve Ellis. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Liam
pure quality
listen dont sit there with £3 in your bank invest in this absolute gem of album - i didnt know too much about this band till i got this cd - no words to discribe - buy it play it... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Adam Tartt
Memories, that summer of '68!
Takes you back to a time of long summer days, flower power and the hippie experience. And my first love! Wonderous! Like this group, never forgotten!
Published 12 months ago by Jacqui
Love affair
The memories flood back - from a great time when britain was british and the weekends were there to enjoy, sounds that we danced to and had good times, bring on back the good times... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Nicotech
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