Rapture

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Product Details

Artist : Anita Baker
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0075596044424
Label : Warner
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1986-08-04
UPC : 075596044424

ASIN : B000002H38

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Sweet Love
2. You Bring Me Joy
3. Caught Up In The Rapture
4. Been So Long
5. Mystery
6. No One In The World
7. Same Ole Love
8. Watch Your Step

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review

Soul has been through a lot of changes of late and if there seems to be an oversupply of young divas-in-waiting today, you can probably thank Anita Baker for it. Baker was one of the few singers that bridged the old school to the new, and this 1986 album was--and is--a true soul classic. An inspiration for everyone from Whitney Houston to Toni Braxton, Baker carved the way with soaring vocals and an effortless style on tracks like "Sweet Love" and "You Bring Me Joy". "Caught Up in the Rapture" was the anthem for many a lovestruck couple, and Baker sums it up best herself in the same song: "Nothing else can compare." --Rebecca Wallwork

Customer Reviews

Without question, guaranteed to be one of the best albums I'll ever own. (2008-05-03)

Truly in-credible album. bad song? no you won't find a trace of one on here, Anita's voice remains strong, deep and soulful throughout the album, this is old school R&B exactly the way it should be, soft and smooth with a bit of jazz thrown in, oh those saxophones. What more can i say? one of the few albums that i can comfortably listen to all the way through, a true R&B fan who doesn't own this timeless masterpiece really doesn't know what their missing, pure bliss from start to finish.

You won't regret buying this (2007-10-01)

This is an album that came out when I was a teenager and still at school. I hadn't heard about Anita Baker, had no idea who she was but when my older brother came home with this stuck under his arm one day and played it to me, well I just totally fell in love with it.Every single track on here is brilliant. None of them, I repeat, none of them fall below par in any way whatsoever. There are only eight tracks on the album but they are all stars in their own right. My personal favourite is Been So Long but I love the other 7 just as much.If you like Jazz, Soul, RnB then you absolutely have to make sure this is in your collection if it's not there already. It will be money well worth spent and you will not be disappointed. It is pure quality, nothing less.

Great Voice that just wasn't expolited (2007-03-26)

Anita Baker has a voice like no other singer alive, instantly recognizable, full of beauty and elegance. She really knows how to make you feel a song: we feel the emotional desperation in her voice as she pleads with a lover she's wronged to return to her in "No One In The World," and we feel the joy coursing through her veins in the exuberant "Sweet Love," the song that introduced Ms. Baker to the mainstream pop audience in 1986. That song, along with three other singles, "Caught Up In The Rapture" (the ULTIMATE slow jam, bar none), "No One In The World," and "Same Ole Love," established her as a multi-format star - they all hit the top 10 on the R&B and Adult Contemporary charts and cracked the pop top 50. Even the cuts that weren't singles are terrific, with "Mystery" and "You Bring Me Joy" being my favorites. All of the songs have a soft, elegant magic, and Ms. Baker injects them with lots of soul. It's a winning combination. Although she hasn't quite achieved the same heights of fame as Whitney, Celine or Mariah, she can easily outsing any of them without having to "spice up" her vocals with lots of unnecessary, gimmicky octave-jumping and she doesn't overdo it with the vocal gymnastics. Anita is still a core artist on most "smooth jazz" stations, as is another unique and beautiful talent who came on the scene shortly before she did, Sade. Both are among my favorite artists. The only thing that annoys me about both of them is their practice of making their fans wait an eternity for their next album! (Case in point: it's been nearly four years since Sade's "Lovers Rock" came out.) Fortunately, we'll finally be seeing a new album from Anita - her first in a decade, not counting the greatest-hits CD - later this year, and the first single, "You're My Everything," is now playing on smooth jazz and urban-adult radio stations everywhere. And let me tell you, she hasn't lost one bit of the magic that made her such a big star in 1986. Get this one if you love jazzy soul, soft pop, or just great music.

Noone In The World Like Anita Baker (2006-02-25)

Go to a bookshop (or online) and go to the music section. There will be a number of publications that will endeavour to depict the best albums of all time. On some occasions, this album will feature. Well, I’m of the opinion that this is one of the greatest albums of the 20th Century.

2006 marks the 20th anniversary of the original, so it’s an appropriate time to outline why ‘Rapture’ is regarded in my book as a truly great recording.

Simply, it’s a perfect production. Do not be put off by the fact it is only 8 tracks long clocking in around 40 minutes. Sometimes less is more! Also each song last around 5 minutes and when originally released on vinyl, there wasn’t the space to fit the same amount of tracks that a digital disc can with hold.

Anita Baker was known on a small scale following her debut ‘The Songstress’ and accumulated a fan base in America and Europe, but when signing to Elektra Records, her debut brought the little lady with the big voice to the masses. ‘Rapture’ opens with ‘Sweet Love’, a signature song of hers, and Anita shows the versatility of her voice, from the low whispery notes (a lead Toni Braxton later followed) before taking the listener to a vocal climax by using her higher register which posses both power and beauty. ‘You Bring Me Joy’ once again demonstrates that God-given vocal quality, and ‘Caught Up In The Rapture’ is a soul classic. ‘Mystery’ is a personal Baker favourite which is a fine arrangement that incorporates passion and intensity that so few vocalists are graced with. ‘No One In The World’ is stunning, and ‘Been So Long’, ‘Same Ole Love’ and ‘Watch You Step’ only prove this albums worth.

IN 2005, I was fortunate to see Anita Baker in concert at her one night only engagement at the Royal Albert Hall, London, and she sang all 8 songs from this album. Hearing and watching this very talented lady performing an album that has become such an important component in my musical repertoire was sheer joy, and I cannot recommend this album enough. The recently released live album ‘One Night Of Rapture’ recorded during the 1986 tour is also worth a listen, just to believe that Anita Baker is a gifted vocalist who deserves recognition.

Anita Baker epitomises the female vocalist with gusto! If you are yet to hear this amazing album, then send this straight to “Your Basket” and proceed to “checkout” and allow yourself to be caught up in the rapture of Anita Baker!

Enraptured (2006-02-14)

When one gets weary of listening to run of the mill pop/r&b songs sung by indifferent singers or those only capable of vocal histrionics, it is all too easy to forget what a great singer can do with a very ordinary song. Rapture is an extraordinary album not because of the compositions, but because of the smoky, flexible and expressive voice of Anita Baker. I’m sure Mariah Carey could crack the walls whilst squealing and stretching every note to oblivion of No One in the World, but in Baker’s hands it becomes a thing of considered beauty. You Bring Me Joy is a masterpiece of restraint and when it does rise near the end Baker makes sure she doesn’t make the listener retreat from the sound fearing injury to their hearing. The mid tempo songs are fine, and do not sound out of place, but it is the ballads, especially the glowing Sweet Love that make this work memorable. In a world of over the top vocalists like Carey, Houston, and Dion, Baker shows the mettle of a true diva: pure, unembellished vocal talent and control and palpable emotion.

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