Your favourite Donna albums?
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man_Place — 20 years ago(June 08, 2005 10:14 PM)My first Donna Summer album was a Christmas present in 1978. Live and More will always hold a special place in my heart. It was very rare for a disco artists to put out a live album, and one of such quality. The songs on it were faster than the album versions, so it took me some time to warm up to her first 3 earlier albums. She ROCKS in concert. She did all her "hits" at the time, as well as some Gershwin, and a song for her daughter Mimi. Then of course.. there was side 4. Some of the younger people on here can't relate to this, because when you put a cd on, you hear the whole cd. We thought of music in terms of album sides.. more than a good song or two, a great par5b4ty record had a great side. Side 4 was the MacArthur Park Suite.. MacArthur Park, One Of A Kind, Heaven Knows and a MacArthur Park reprise. 17 minutes of disco heaven. My other favorite side was on Once Upon A Time.. the trippy mix of Now I Need You, Working The Midnight Shift and Queen For A Day. I also love side 1 of Once Upon A Time: Once Upon A Time, Faster And Faster To Nowhere, Fairy Tale High and Say Something Nice. If you want to add to you Donna Summer collection and haven't yet bought Once Upon A Time, BUY IT! It's less polished than Bad Girls, but more artistically satisfying. Honorable mention to the mellow side of Bad Girls On My Honor, There Will Always Be A You, All Through The Night and My Baby Understands. It's a shame over the years more of her ballads weren't released as singles. There Will Always Be A You is one of the most beautiful love songs ever written. Some diva wannabe today should record it and give it the success it deserves.
GOD BLESS YOU DONNA SUMMER! -
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buby1987 — 18 years ago(April 30, 2007 10:50 PM)
I love "Love to Love You Baby" the song AND the album. I always loved the song, but I didn't get around to buying the album until last year. I like all of the songs and they also display Donna's versatility. Pandora's Box shows Donna's skill at straight ahead rock vocals, while Full of Emptiness shows how well Donna can handle a ballad.
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buby1987 — 18 years ago(August 29, 2007 12:34 AM)
I just bought I Remember Yesterday a mere 30 years after its first release. It is great all the way through it's a Whitman's Sampler of different musical styles. The title track has a Big Band sound, Back in Love Again sounds like the Supremes in the mid-60's, Black Lady is a bad-ass funk/rock jam, and Take Me is primo Moroder/Summer disco. That's not to mention the two singles, the Abba-meets-Phil Spector Love's Unkind, and the all-time groundbreaking classic I Feel Love.
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WarpedRecord — 21 years ago(November 11, 2004 07:43 AM)
I love "The Wanderer" and more rock-oriented albums like "Cats Without Claws." Honestly, I think Donna is a great singer, but to me, she's had a disappointing recording career. Such a great voice, but so many of her albums seem prefabricated or incomplete.
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3_Beekman_Place — 17 years ago(June 11, 2008 07:57 PM)
Glad someone mentioned Another Place And Time. I really liked that one too. I remember it being the first Donna album I had to "hunt down"! I read about in billboard but she didn't have a U.S. record deal at the time after the disappointing sales of Cats Without Claws and All Systems Go. I remember getting the vinyl first, then breaking down and spending almost 30 bucks on the import cd.