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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 |
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| 1. When We Were Young |
| 2. Man |
| 3. Love Love |
| 4. The Day The Work Is Done |
| 5. Beautiful |
| 6. Don't Say Goodbye |
| 7. Aliens |
| 8. Wonderful World |
| Disc: 2 |
| 1. The Flood |
| 2. SOS |
| 3. Wait |
| 4. Kidz |
| 5. Pretty Things |
| 6. Happy Now |
| 7. Underground Machine |
| 8. What Do You Want From Me? |
| 9. Affirmation |
| 10. Eight Letters / Flowerbed |
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Upon its November release, Take That's first Robster-assisted record since 1995 became the second-fastest-selling album in British chart history and garnered the one-time professional mop repositories the most positive critical notices of their career. Although it's since sold more than two million copies – a tally only Adele could legitimately wrinkle her schnozzle at – it's also become that most curious of beasts: the buzz-free blockbuster. When was the last time you heard anyone talk about Progress?
Consequently, you can't blame this ten-legged national treasure for trying to remind us that it's more than just the summer's biggest live draw – especially when, for a band playing the album repackage game, Take That are feeling pretty generous. Following a template that Lady Gaga looked to with her Fame Monster reissue, Progressed couples the original 10-track album with a second disc boasting eight brand-new songs.
Aside from nostalgic opener When We Were Young, which harks back to the group's pair of Robbie-free reunion albums, everything here sits comfortably alongside the original Progress chestnuts. Producer Stuart Price supplies the same electro-pop gloss and bombast; Messrs Barlow, Owen and Williams take a fair and square approach towards lead vocals; and the lyrics are frequently as cryptic as they are (unspecifically) apocalyptic. "We're waiting for the universe to end…" goes the hook to Man.
Also present and correct is the sonic spunk that earned Progress its enviable school reports. Love Love stomps like a petulant teenager in platform wedges, Man dips its toes in industrial waters, and Aliens is almost big and barmy enough to fit onto Gaga's Born This Way LP. However, Gary and the lads haven't forgotten about the lump-in-the-throat stuff. Towards the end come Don't Say Goodbye and Wonderful World, Pet Shop Boys-esque electro-ballads with sentiments sufficiently heartfelt and all-encompassing to appeal to anyone from Louis Walsh to Tulisa Contostavlos.
None of the new tracks is as quite as undeniable as Kidz or Happy Now, but neither does Progressed come off like a hodgepodge of offcuts from the original album sessions. Besides, it's hard not to be won over by the band's intentions here. For while Take That do need to sound this big – after all, they've got the movements of a 60ft mechanical man to soundtrack – they don't need to sound this interesting. Whatever the boys are doing to cool Robbie's itchy feet, let's hope they know how to make it last.
--Nick Levine
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DISC 1:8 NEW SONGS DISC 2: PROGRESS ALBUM
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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Didn't buy progress as wasn't ready to admit I owned a TT album. Although I loved Flood I couldn't justify it and then this album came out and I thought well it has to be a bargain to get two albums for the price of one
WOW!
This album is mind blowingly brilliant!
Love love on the "new" disc is worth the album price alone, incredible song. Catchy, powerful, pure TT really
Would I buy this is I had already bought progress... I don't know, I think this album was ideally suited to those of us who hadn't
Buy this album, there is a reason the boys are back doing sell out shows night after night. This album is incredible
WOW!
This album is mind blowingly brilliant!
Love love on the "new" disc is worth the album price alone, incredible song. Catchy, powerful, pure TT really
Would I buy this is I had already bought progress... I don't know, I think this album was ideally suited to those of us who hadn't
Buy this album, there is a reason the boys are back doing sell out shows night after night. This album is incredible
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By Robert James
Format:Audio CD
I am not a Take That fan. I find a lot of their work weak and insipid. The fans reading this are now ready to kill me no doubt.
I liked Progress though. My friend had it and I listened to it a lot and found it worked well as a complete album. Kidz and SOS were stand-out for me as I love a big sound. I had no intention of buying the album but I thought 'hmm, they're doing a lot better here'. I wonder if it's Robbie's influence (more controversy, no doubt).
But then they released Love Love, which is the most amazing song of the year. I bought Progressed on the strength of this track and wasn't disappointed. All the tracks are brilliant and the wonderful 'the day the work is done' is beautiful.
Quite simply - buy it. I can't imagine anyone being disappointed with this. The boys have learnt a lot, grown up and put together some brilliant music. Take That are no longer a boy band, but credible artists that have longevity, musical and performance talent to rival old stalwarts like Madonna.
I liked Progress though. My friend had it and I listened to it a lot and found it worked well as a complete album. Kidz and SOS were stand-out for me as I love a big sound. I had no intention of buying the album but I thought 'hmm, they're doing a lot better here'. I wonder if it's Robbie's influence (more controversy, no doubt).
But then they released Love Love, which is the most amazing song of the year. I bought Progressed on the strength of this track and wasn't disappointed. All the tracks are brilliant and the wonderful 'the day the work is done' is beautiful.
Quite simply - buy it. I can't imagine anyone being disappointed with this. The boys have learnt a lot, grown up and put together some brilliant music. Take That are no longer a boy band, but credible artists that have longevity, musical and performance talent to rival old stalwarts like Madonna.
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
By BookFiend
Format:Audio CD
I love the new sound of Take That - I loved Progress and I'm pleased to say that Progressed has more of the same intriguing, interesting, complex sound with showcasing of vocals from different members of the band and more analysis of their lives, the universe and just about everything else. 'When We Were Young' handles the nostalgia for their 90s heyday, but 'Beautiful' is Barlow's self-eviscerating take on how he should have helped the others avoid some of the lower moments since and cuts even deeper. Like 'Kidz' and 'SOS', 'When the Work is Done' allows Owen to examine some anthropological/social/economic realities in the post-industrial world (how often can you say that of a top ten album?) whilst 'Alien' shows clear influence from Howard Donald's DJ background and 'Love Love' is just stadium-storming pop pomp of the best, hookiest, most ear-worming kind. Yes, it comes with a disc you probably already own but this is not just a bunch of cutting room discards packaged up, it's a serious extension of one of the best albums of the last twelve months and I for one am very glad they decided to release it.
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Published 13 hours ago by Francisco Paiva Jr.
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Mature pop
You've probably heard half of the songs on this album on the radio and you either like or don't like Take That. Read more
Published 17 days ago by M. Thomas
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great album!
That That music are always sounds good since their 3 albums that was recorded in the 90's. What make they great is because they wrote their own songs.
Published 2 months ago by AnN
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A Great Comeback!!
I really liked this new albume of Take That, which brought them at another new level, of very nice pop and commercial music, that meet several tastes!! Read more
Published 2 months ago by Apollo86
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Good CD
Was surprised at how cheap this CD was and its the deluxe version too, it was dispactched quickly and arrived before the est arrival time, so am more than happy
Published 3 months ago by John B78
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Take that
Absolutely brillent album, the boys have definitely grown up, not a bad track on this album. Recommend to even the none Take That fans
Published 4 months ago by Patricia Bayley P Bayley
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Progressed
Alike the previous reviewer I bought this as a gift for someone else for Christmas...my husband who actually really likes their later/current work as opposed to their earlier stuff... Read more
Published 4 months ago by S Wilson
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wife loves it
Purchased for my wife as a present, this is not something I would have purchased for myself but she loves it. Happy husband.
Published 4 months ago by Bus stop 1
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty good
I was not too sure if I would like this but it's not too bad one ot two of the songs are a bit naff but o k on the whole
Published 5 months ago by Mr Paul Toner
5.0 out of 5 stars
Definite progress from Progress
Having bought Progress when it was first released, and being somewhat surprised at the change in musical style, I did not instantly rush out to buy this CD just to get a second CD... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Dicky
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