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Bryan Adams - 18 Til I Die Audio CD

A fair review of the Bryan Adams "18 Til I Die" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Bryan Adams reviews here, or go back to the Bryan Adams tabs.

Bryan Adams Band: Bryan Adams
Title: 18 Til I Die
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Release Date: 2007-01-08
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You 2: Do to You 3: Let's Make a Night to Remember 4: 18 Til I Die 5: Star 6: (I Wanna Be) Your Underwear 7: We're Gonna Win 8: I Think About You 9: I'll Always Be Right There 10: It Ain't a Party...If You Can't Come 'Round 11: Black Pearl 12: You're Still Beautiful to Me 13: Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?

Nowhere near as good as his previous work
The songs lack the interest of his older ones. I didn't enjoy this album. There no songs that really stand out. Definitely this is a an album to skip--stick with his better ones.


not quite a (black) pearl
With lyrics like `The only thing that looks good on me . Bryan Adams' 1996 compilation of greatest hits is all about cheap thrills. . . is you', `I just wanna' be . . . your underwear', you don't buy this album after a hard think about whether to spend your nine bucks on this or on, say, that new translation of Homer's Odyssey. You plunk down your cash for good, old-fashioned, hedonistic, irreverent rock & roll. The second most overused line in assessments of Bryan's music--after `the Canadian rocker'--seems to be `feel-good rocker'.

With good reason.

Adams is very good on the classic rock themes, most notably `The Only Thing', I Wanna' Be' (both quoted above), and It Ain't a Party . . . If You Can't Come `Round'. The superb `'Black Pearl', with its awesome bass track and exquisitely driving tempo, leads this pack.

He can also toss off a memorable ballad, revealing in the process an uncanny debt to Rod Stewart: `Let's Make a Night to Remember', `I Think About You', `I'll Always Be Right There', `You're Still Beautiful to Me'. Here the most memorable is that swan song of besotted pub crawlers everywhere with its flamenco-esque guitar, `Have You Ever Loved a Woman'.

On the other hand, an unsettling pair of losers has made it on to this anthology under the titles `Do to you' and `We're Gonna Win'. Adams is much better than these two songs. And while we're at it, it's not obvious to this reviewer--clearly lots of CD buyers thought otherwise--why the vacuous `18 til I die' was such a hit and even the claimed the title track on this collection.

I never thought I'd describe a musician as more irreverent and hedonistic than the aforementioned Stewart, but Bryan Adams just may claim the crown. Hedonism of this kind--as opposed to that of John Piper, for example--is not an ethic that commends itself to this reviewer. The music, however, has some foot-stomping good tunes as its vehicle. And this was only 1996. Adams was hardly done. Some of his best work, both before and after the releast of `18 til I Die', does not appear here. One things of `Everything I Do', `Cuts Like a Knife', `Do I Have to Say the Words', `Summer of `69', and--perhaps his best song--'Please Forgive Me'.

This is a good place to begin to listen to Bryan Adams' music. The CD will not give you a full picture of his body of work. Rock on, you Canadian feel-goody crooner guy.


Not bad but not as good as previous cd's
It is a good cd, there is few songs that I don't really like but I would say that I like 80% of the album and Bryan is still a very good signer and composer, good rocking songs, excellent ballads (Let's make a night to remember and Have you ever really loved a woman) and more. Bryan explores new horizons, that's fine, but the result is not as good as we are use to with this artist.


Timeless
I came to the conclusion that I needed to have this song at least in my collection. After hearing "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?", I sat back and asked myself that same question. Brian Adams' 18 Til I Die is a combination of feeling and yearning to be more than what appears on the surface. "Do To You" is an example of a man wanting to do better and to give back to his woman to an upbeat tune. With lyrics saying ". . . let's do something amazing. . . " to enhance any relationship, is covered on "Let's Make A Night To Remember". On to something slower, uplifting and thought provoking, "Star" gives hope and adds to the remainder of this album. Brian spends time to reflect on things over a slow tempo "I Think About You" produced by Brian Adams himself. The more epic "I'll Always Be Right There" sounds as if it's an addition to a movie score with harmonious rhythm and violins to match. "You're Still Beautiful To Me" could be a crossover country song. Production was by Robert John Lange & Brian Adams and was very insightful and clear, but didn't continuously keep it constant. .


Great Record - Lang really makes the record flow
Now some of the songs may not be as honorable as others, but at least Adams is honest. Brian Adams can really write great songs and this album is full of them. This record will take you for a ride from its fast/fun songs such as "18 Till I Die" to the slower songs such as "I'll Always Be Right There". "Have You Every Really Loved a Woman?" is also a great song.
Mutt Lang did a great job producing this record. The flow of the record is incredible. When I listen to most records I skip around, but I don't with this one. The key is how the songs are spaced out. There is a silence of up to almost 10 seconds after the slower, more thoughtful songs and as short as less than a second after the fast songs. I'm not really sure about the science behind the timing of the album, but it is a great album. There is a song for every type of listener on Brian Adams' "18 Till I Die".
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