Audio CD review:
Lenny Kravitz - American Woman

Lenny Kravitz - American Woman

Band: Lenny Kravitz Title: American Woman Rating: Release Date: 1999-06-28 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: American Woman(Single Version) 2: Straight Cold Palyer(Live) 3: Thinking Of You(Hexum Dancehall Remix) 4: Fields Of Joy(Live)

<3 Lenny's #1 Fan!!! <3 Only because I assumed all of the songs sounded the same as on the original CD. I own every full length CD ever released by Lenny Kravitz, but I had to be talked into buying this single. . . but I was wrong. The songs are remixed so it adds a special twist. My Favorite is 'Thinking Of You(Hexum Dancehall Remix)' This was definately worth the money. I highly recommend it for all Lenny fans ;). Karaoke Kravitz It should reveal a different artist's interpretation by playing the song in their style. It's not that this is a bad song, it's that Lenny simply mimics the original and leaves me wondering, "Why is this version necessary?" I've always been of the opinion that a cover song should cast a new light on a song. But Kravitz gives us what we've already heard. I think, perhaps, that he doesn't have a real style to bring to the song. He simply goes through the motions. Money replaced the music Money. Why doing it to the Canadian band "Guess who"? Why doing it to rockers around the world who liked the original "American woman"? Why making a 'whiter shade of pale' cover version to a classic? I tell you why. Since his last good album "Circus", Lenny Kravitz looks to me like a musician that cares more about his shows in the MTV and his fashion style, then the music he does. So somewhere on the way to the bank, Kravitz lost his music. So 0 stars for "American woman", and 1 star for the whole single, because of the live version of "Fields of joy", that reminds us, that there is another Lenny Kravitz, who deals with music. Kravitz' cover of American Woman is INCREDIBLE! I have to underscore the other reviewer's comment. . AMERICAN WOMAN IS THE BOMB! I have even ordered the old CD track of American Woman by The Guess Who because it inspired me so when I heard it again last summer (time of the release of the Austin Power's movie). It is a classic rock-n-roll song and if you don't like this song, you just must not be a fan of that rock era! It brought back the early 70's to me, bell bottoms and army jackets. But Kravitz executed the recording of this cover with his own signature style, and the result is sexy and rockin'. LoudŽ Happening the Orginal was okay for it's time period. I respect lenny kravitz alright but this song never has done it for me. but why Re-Make this? the Lyrics make no-sense then or now. the Arrangements are too close to Fly Away. this sounds like Pure Commercialism not anything usually associated with Lenny&his Sound. You can see a complete list of all Lenny Kravitz discography, or go back to the Lenny Kravitz tabs