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Seal - Soul Audio CD

A fair review of the Seal "Soul" 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 Seal reviews here, or go back to the Seal tabs.

Seal Band: Seal
Title: Soul
Rating:
Release Date: 2008-11-11
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: A Change Is Gonna Come 2: I Can't Stand The Rain 3: It's A Man's Man's Man's World 4: Here I Am (Come And Take Me) 5: I've Been Loving You Too Long 6: It's Alright 7: If You Don't Know Me By Now 8: Knock On Wood 9: I'm Still In Love With You 10: Free 11: Stand By Me 12: People Get Ready

Seal's best work
This album shows his range better than other albums. He does a great job on these older songs. His voice is always good but on some albums the music all sounds the same. That isn't the case with this album. Well worth the money.


Thoughtful, Bluesy
The first track seems appropriate for the new political scene that we are now experiencing. Seal puts his heart into each song, and his throaty voice is of high quality. Very moving.


Oh, Hell Yeah....
Whoever put these hits and Seal's voice together - very smart. Love, love, love it. .


Seal's Soul CD is a Must Have
Surprise for me, I did not have anything by him. This is my first CD by Seal - it is fantastic - The songs are very familiar from the past but he does an especially nice job with his arrangements. Been sharing it with my friends, plan to load it in my car.


Opening the All American Songbook
So after the robotic and only slightly engaging System, he follows up with an album that would seem to suit his immense gifts. To my ears, Seal is one of the finest soul vocalists on Earth. "Soul" dips into the golden soul songbook and emerges with a thoroughly enjoyable, if not challenging, album.

To make sure everything was immaculate, Seal hauled in super-producer David Foster. Foster has spit and polished everyone from latter day Chicago to the pipes of Celine Dion. His wide-screen production makes everything shimmery smooth, with horns, strings and back-ups providing movie-soundtrack worthy bigness. Seal's gruff but velvety voice tackles the twelve songs here with gusto. Make no bones about it; "Soul" is a gold plated crowd pleaser, and really does sound like a labor of love for Seal.

My slight disappointment is that "Soul's" song selection is comprised of songs you'd likely hear two or three times a day on your local All Golden Oldies radio station. While Seal does pull a couple surprises out of the bag (Ann Peeble's "I Can't Stand The Rain" and Denice William's "Free"), he could have easily dug deeper than the done to death "Here I Am Come and Take Me" or "If You Don't Know Me By Now. " Even with the safest material here, Seal's "Soul" makes for a pleasant interlude. My hope is that, having seen this album ride the charts for over a year, Seal will first make a new album of originals that suits his skills, and then make "Soul II" with a set list that dips into a deeper well. .


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