Minnie Riperton - Stay in Love / Minnie
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Artist: Minnie RipertonEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-03-01
Music Label: EMI Europe Generic
Soundtracks:
- Young, Willing & Able
- Could It Be I'm In Love
- Oh Darlin'...Life Goes On
- Can You Feel What I'm Saying
- Gettin' Ready For Your Love
- Stick Together
- Wouldn't Matter Where You Are
- How Could I Love You More
- Stay On Love
- Memory Lane
- Lover & Friend
- Return To Forever
- Dancin' & Actin' Crazy
- Love Hurts
- Never Existed Before
- I'm A Woman
- Light My Fire
Music reviews of Stay in Love / Minnie
Music Review: Minnie's Final Two Romantic Fantasies One One CD
Rating: 5 Stars
These Minnie Riperton twofer CD's are absolute blessings,this along with the Perfect Angel/Adventures in Paradise CD. Pretty much everyone going in for this album is aware of this ladies vocal powers. What is interesting to note is as of the making of these two albums,the late 70's to be exact Minnie was entering the sad conclusion to her life,having also become to spokesman for the ACS about the breast cancer with which she was afflicted. Well as much of a benevolent sweetheart as Minnie might've been people during these years knew her more from her work for cancer awareness then the music she was producting at this time. Since this CD contains two seperate albums I am choosing to great them as two seperate albums when I review them:STAY IN LOVE was realesed in 1977 during a time of worry for Minnie but you'd never know it. The album follows a loose concept,a "romantic fantasy set to music" as is stated on the cover. The general feel of the album is emotional,lively and very funky at times."Young,Willing & Able" is one of the sexiest examples of disco-funk this side of Donna Summer'sLove to Love You Baby.A similar,if more urban approch on the theme shows up on "Can You Feel What I'm Saying" and "How Could I Love You".Stevie Wonder shows up for the breezy groove of "Stick Together" and the title track is one of Minnie's most moving pieces since "Lovin' You". True the album got ignored commercially and didn't produce any major hit but in recent years it is rightly viewed as the masterpiece it is.And the production is lush and very tasteful.MINNIE,from 1979 is the last record she released during her lifetime and she really lets it all lose on this one. Her trademark high notes,very prominant on her last three albums are not as strongly emphasized here as she makes her mark in a far more interpretive way. The production on this is very much urban late 70's/early 80's pop-soul-very heavily influenced by Stevie Wonder in it's use of popping bass moog and percussive rhythms."Memory Lane" is a great example.After a couple false starts "Lover And Friend" gets rolling with a nice,joyous funky soul shuffle and is a great song for everyone to dance to.After the romantic swell of "Return To Forever" Minnie get's seriously busy with the down-and-out groove of "Dancin' And Actin' Crazy",the funkiest song to grace Minnie's last couple of albums and by the time it ends your mouth is probably watering for more. Unlike the other album included here this one's subject matter is infectious joy and sexuality."Never Existed Before",with it's cocktaily soul mix could easily be a Bacharach composition but it's yet another Riperton/Rudolph original same as everything else on these recordings. She's right back to the funk with "I'm A Woman",a whispery sexy insinuation which again gets caught under Minnie's spell. The closer,an incredible urban funk version of "Light My Fire",a playful duet with Jose Feleciano is....the perfect end to pretty much as close to a perfectly sublime album as one could ask for. Even though she's not with us anymore Minnie was one of those singer/writers who was able to take already established styles of music and make them seem as if they were brand new.It has more to do with her performance then production;her otherworldly,angelic voice,the deeply feeling style of writing and lyrics and the very good instrumental taste really made these albums.And even if they were somewhat passed over in their day it's truly to our advantage we are able to see them as the true works of art they really are.
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