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Artist : Donna Summer
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0886973072523
Label : SonyBMG
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2008-06-23
UPC : 886973072523

ASIN : B00198HE42

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Stamp Your Feet
2. Mr. Music
3. Crayons (Featuring Ziggy Marley)
4. The Queen Is Back
5. Fame (The Game)
6. Sand On My Feet
7. Drivin' Down Brazil
8. I'm A Fire
9. Slide Over Backwards
10. Science Of Love
11. Be Myself Again
12. Bring Down The Reign
13. It's Only Love

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Description

First album in an astonishing seventeen years - her last was 'Mistaken Identity' way back in 1991 - from the legendary,five-times-Grammy-winning disco diva probably best remembered for the colossal hits 'Hot Stuff' and 'I Feel Love'. Layering fat retro synths over crunky hip-hop beats, topped withSummer's incomparable voice - which sounds as potent as it did back in her 70s heyday - this is a hugely enjoyable collection which simultaneously manages to sound both timelesslyclassic and relentlessly modern.

Customer Reviews

Donna is on fire! (2008-08-08)

I've been a Donna Summer fan since the 1970s so I awaited this album with much excitement. It might have been too much to expect Donna's first new studio album in 17 years to live up to expectations..... but it does and them some.I have to admire Donna for standing by her principles and insisting on doing an album of new contempory music rather than going down the covers album road that so many other artists of her era have gone down. Donna has co-written all of the tracks on this album and many of them could be hit singles given the right push by a record company. Tracks like 'Stamp Your Feet', 'The Queen is Back','I'm A Fire' and 'Drivin Down Brazil' would sit very comfortably next to her classic hits from the 1970s and 1980s.Donna has already taken this album into the Billboard top 20 and has once again topped the billboard dance chart at the age of 59! This album deserves to be a big success the world over and fans from the past should have no hesitation in adding it to their collections.Buy with confidence!

AT LAST - Donna Summer's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (2008-07-09)

Oh, hold on a minute... this is an album of new material. That just sounds like a greatest hits collection.Well, I'm sure that, by now, most listeners already know the story behind that. Suffice to say that among this palette of varied - some might say conflicting - styles, the big, seven-minute disco workout I'm A Fire is worth the investment on it's own. But I'm getting ahead of myself - here's a track-by track-breakdown:STAMP YOUR FEET From the opening whoa-oahs, there's no doubt that Donna's back in business with a radio-friendly belter of an "encouragement song" (as the lady herself describes it). The production signals a relentlessly modern approach, and boy, is this what's delivered over the next hour or so.I LOVE MUSIC Kicks off all high-octane R'n'B in the style of Usher or Justin Trousersnake, and when she tells us, "I've got my iPod" in the opening line, it's hard not to wonder whether she's not just angling for a high-profile product ensdorsement. But it wins you over with its exhuberence. Perhaps moreso than...CRAYONS, with it's nevertheless great lyric about celebrating diversity and a pleasant enough guest vocal from Ziggy Marley. Its skittering raggaeton vibe (think Rihanna's 'Pon De Replay) might be an already discarded flavour, but if you think Donna's already had one double espresso too many, she cranks up the pace even more on...THE QUEEN IS BACK. "She wants a Toblerone". What the hell is THAT opening line all about? OK, I know she's singing something else, but it does sound uncannily like that. This rocking, tongue-in-cheek number seems based on a theme tune for a boxing flick like Rocky 6 or something, and you do get the sense that she's been limbering up in the gym for another sparring session with the `Industry'. Time for a bit of a rest between rounds? You've got to be kidding.FAME rocks it out even more, with a jaded lyric about... well, the clue's in the title. Naturally, you're going to be put in mind of David Bowie's eponymous hit; then your mind might wander to Tina Turner's cover of Bowie's "1984", with which it has more common, musically. Then it might hit you that Crayons is a comeback album on a par with Tina Turner's Private Dancer. And THEN, the actual songs just get a whole lot better, starting with...SAND ON MY FEET A mid-tempo ballad in which Donna enjoys a seaside holiday with her hubby, to the accompaniment of an acoustic guitar. Nice - you could imagine Rihanna, Kelly Clarkson or Pink singing this... then feel all warm and fuzzy that Donna Summer decided to come out of "retirement" to co-write and record it herself.DRIVING DOWN BRAZIL is a bit of a story song, and Summer knows how to tell a story - this time to a playful bossanova beat. One of the real highlights of the album and, although it probably won't be single, it should be.I'M A FIRE - That voice! Reminiscent of her disco monsters of the Seventies and Eighties, the slick production is nevertheless very much of the Noughties (naughties?), and hits the bullseye in the same way as a contemporary production/remixing team like The Freemasons, when they use a reliable, warmly-voiced industry pro like Siedah Garrett. Donna teases us with the line, "Can you feel it? Do I need to say it? Can't you just feel it?" before the track morphs into an even more infectious latin stomper, skipping through some holiday Spanish, but in a soaring vocal deilvery which even talents as great as La India and the estimable Liz Torres could take pointers from. I've heard some remixes of this track, and most of them have tended to follow the tedious, dated, bangbangbang, Victor Calderone/Junior Vasquez-style tweaking of the US gay circuit party (nightmare!). This original mix (by Sebastion Arocha Morton, I think) is as near to perfection as we're likely to get, but I wouldn't mind hearing some UK mixes, all the same.SLIDE OVER BACKWARDS is a backwoods, bluegrass number all huskily and lazily intoned like Macy Gray - or "B.B. Queen"? Donna lives in Tennessee and she's clearly having a bit of fun here, singing as an alter ego called Hattie Mae Blanche Dubois(!) Well, if Tori Amos can do it...SCIENCE OF LOVE. Rockiest track of the lot and very radio-friendly. Tipped as a future single, but I'd be surprised if it becomes one here in the UK. Her voice is especially strong on it, though.BE MYSELF AGAIN is a piano-led torch ballad which comes across like the climax of some autobiographical stage show Donna might have penned - perhaps more hardcore fans could illuminate me on that one, if they know something I don't. Ms Summer always had an awesomely mature vocal style, but it just crackles away on this. It might be a bit too melodramatic for some but, if it is a showtune, then it's a Memory or a Don't Cry For Me, Argentina.BRING DOWN THE REIGN Warm, slightly worthy ballad about the Darfur genocides, featuring a kiddies' choir. It's nice enough, but might have been a bit of a damp squib to close the album, if it hadn't been for...IT'S ONLY LOVE Lucky European purchasers (and US fans intrepid enough to track down a special edition) get this bonus track, which is another seven-minute disco scorcher. It's not lyrically clever, and I can understand why it was left of the mainstream US release - daytime radio won't understand it at all - but its late-night hedonism will tear up any club set. The vocal is cool, soulful and while it puts me in mind of a Chaka Khan or a Rosie Gaines, it's still unmistakably Donna. Unlike in the US, a huge chunk of the UK population had its DNA chemically altered enough by the three "Summers of Love" in the late 80s for us to lap this up 20 years later. I can think of a few DJs and producers over here who'll be itching to get their mitts on the masters for remixes, too.So that's it: sorry if I've made comparisons with other vocalists along the way, in order to try to describe the songs - I guess it just demonstrates how Donna Summer has been and still is a template for so many others. At 59, she wears me out at - ahem - let's say 39... and is more in command of her legendary voice than she ever has been. Somebody give the woman a freaking Toblerone - she's earned it.

A perfect SUMMER for the season and the year! (2008-07-06)

Even though we're at the halfway point of the year, 2008 may go down as "The Year of the Boomer," what with major releases from "seniors" like Madonna, Sergio Mendes, Al Green, Dolly Parton and septuagenarian Dame Shirley Bassey, all being well-received by critics and fans alike. To the fray we can now add Donna Summer with "Crayons," a welcome addition to the singer's discography of hits and an ear-friendly hodgepodge for those of us that have loved the singer since "Love to Love You Baby" hit the airwaves three decades ago. The new release, featuring twelve songs co-written by Summer and a variety of songwriters, allows the singer to poke fun at herself and celebrity ("The Queen is Back" and "Fame-the Game"), as well as hurl herself headlong into contemporary dance grooves with tunes like the tile cut and "Mr. Music." Summer gets a little nostalgic with the retro-disco sound on "I'm a Fire," waxes country with "Slide Over Backwards," and plays with a South American sound with "Drivin' Down Brazil." The slower, mid-tempo numbers are just as good. "Sand on My Feet," "Science of Love," "Be Myself Again," and "Bring Down the Reign" allow Summer to show her softer yet highly effective vocals, something that she occasionally did on such classics as her concept "Bad Girls" and "Once Upon a Time" albums from the 70's. Though some may call "Crayons" a comeback, I prefer to think of it as a "rebirth" to her minions of fans worldwide, as well as an "introduction" to the younger listeners that weren't fortunate to have experienced the "Queen of Disco" in her heyday. Either way, both camps of audiophiles will be pleased with this FIVE-STAR recording.

Donna firing on all cylinders (2008-06-27)

A stunning release from Donna - we have been waiting so long for this and she doesnt dissapoint. The songs cover a wide range of musical styles and show Donna at her versatile best. I cant stop playing it, there are some stand-out songs for me, all are excellent but these are just more so. The title track just makes you want to sing along and the Queen is Back echoes what all fans feel and includes some tongue-in-cheek references to previous hits. Stamp your Feet and I'm A Fire are thumping disco-style hits for the 21st century. All in all we fans couldnt have asked for better from the Diva.

worth the wait (2008-06-25)

I've been a massive fan of Donna Summer since the beginning and believe her to be one of the greatest female vocalists of all time so it was with great anticipation I listened to Crayons for the first time on its UK release.I have to be honest on its first play i felt slightly dissappointed- no other tracks seemed up to the standard of 'Stamp your feet' or 'i'm a fire' both of which i love.However a couple of plays later i was hooked and while it was unrealistic to expect another 'Bad Girls ' or even 'She works hard for the money'album this one is possibly the best since the later.Totally original , diverse and as good ,in fact better than most of today's chart music. This C.D deserves to be heard on the radio ;lets hope the station producers will take off their blinkers and give it the airplay it deserves - certainly if it was the same material from Britney, Kylie etc it would not be ignored however soul veterans unjustly seem to be ignored.For example i never heard any tracks from Diana Ross's covers CD a couple of years ago. And so pleaed Donna fought to release new material- this CD should appeal to new as well as old fans. Top tracks for me after the two mentioned are 'Driving down Brazil- Perfect summer track,'crayons'- very infectous,'Sand on my feet' and the closing track 'It's only love'.This together with '....Fire' are the only real dance tracks which people most would expect from Donna and 'Its Only love' didn't appear to be on the US version so a real bonus. More Ibiza sounding and deserves to be another club 'hit'Shelf space allocated by retailors and a lack of promotion don't look promising for a great comeback success commercially which would be a shame as this is a great collection- only the folksy 'slideover backwards' leaves me cold. Don't hesitae to buy this CD - i really hope i am wrong about its success.It deserves a long chart run and to be enjoyed by the masses.Donna has certainly stamped her feet with great style.

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