- Audio Cassette (27 July 1999)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Private Music
- ASIN: B00000JTEJ
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Track Listings
| 1. Staying Power |
| 2. Don't Play Games |
| 3. Longer We Make Love - Chaka Khan, Barry White |
| 4. I Get off on You |
| 5. Which Way Is Up |
| 6. Get Up |
| 7. Sometimes |
| 8. Low Rider |
| 9. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) |
| 10. Slow Your Roll |
| 11. Longer We Make Love [*] - Lisa Stansfield, Barry White |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Barry White kicks off Staying Power, his first album since the 1994 The Icon Is Love, with a title track that boasts of his long-running stamina, both in bed and in terms of his career. Indeed, the mood here is often as reflective as it is seductive. While sticking close to the machine-tooled groove that helped make Icon's "Practice What You Preach" such a memorable single, the disc also finds White putting his low-register stamp on War's "Low Rider" and Sly Stone's "Thank You" (the latter in a version that, intriguingly, recalls the slow There's a Riot Goin' On take more than the better-known hit). Staying power? Hey, if you've got it, flaunt it. --Rickey Wright
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Although there are not the soaring strings and horns of yore on this album and even though a diehard fan like me dislikes a couple of tracks intensely it still works. The title track is a slow burning stunner and it's followed by some typically captivating rhythms and of course that VOICE. It's only towards the end of the album that things are spoiled by LOW RIDER to which BW's voice is totally unsuited. This is followed by Thank You and SLow Your Roll - again two disappointing sounds which prevent it from getting a full five stars. But if you like your soul soft and mellow like a fine brandy you will enjoy enough of this album to make it worth your while.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Barry White is STILL "The Man"
6 Oct 1999
Format:Audio CD
Barry with his smooth as silk voice embraces these lyrics with some smooth, erotically sensuous beats. His words flow like melted butter over your soul. I have been a fan for years and this is some of his best work to date. There is something for everyone on this CD. And if your are looking for some great "put you in the mood music" well, you had better pick this one up, You will be glad you did !!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
The Man is back for the second act (no pun intended)
18 Feb 2002
Format:Audio CD
Having survived his second career as a self-parody (crooning over Arby's sandwiches, saving the snakes of Springfield, etc.), Barry has earned the right to take a moment and reflect on what it all means. The result is this mildly entertaining, oddly Republican record.
The centerpiece is a bizarre little tune called "Get Up" which, contrary to one's expectations, is not an exhortation to phallic prowess but rather ye old-fashioned Protestant Work Ethic - i.e. "Get up off your ass and do something." A worthy sentiment, to be sure, but somewhat distracting when attempting to get close to the very special lady of one's choice.
There are the requisite number of make-out soundtracks (featuring lyrics like "You're so precious and cute / You're very very sensitive / You like flowers...") but they all lack the purple-satin plushness of his classic stuff. Mostly this is due to the brittle crispness of the contemporary production (i.e. the famous Barry White orchestration, always the most important part of his sound, is reduced to occasional, repetitive, thin, and probably synthesized strings). But one must also acknowledge the unstayable hands of Time. (There's some wisdom Barry didn't get around to.) His duet with the great Chaka Khan finds the lady in reasonably good voice but as they pant and moan about "turning out the lights", "making it right", and so on, I can never help thinking, "These people are old to be my parents."
So maybe what F. Scott Fitzgerald meant to say was that there *are* second acts in American lives; they're just never as good as the first.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Insignificant and boring
5 Jan 2000
Format:Audio CD
After five years of waiting for a new Barry White record this one has come as a rather large disappointment. While "The Icon Is Love" could at least provide the sensation of hearing Barry White surviving into the 90s, "Staying Power" just puts you to sleep - it is sooo boring. Don't dare to look for quality here, for energy, for melody, for - life. Barry seems to have transformed into some kind of zombie giving us only the most predictable and empty material. The second star is given only for that slightly more solid title track. Please Barry, don't stay that way.
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