Shirley Bassey - Get the Party Started
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Artist: Shirley BasseyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-03-18
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- Get The Party Started
- Big Spender
- I Who Have Nothing
- This Is My Life
- Slave To The Rhythm
- Can I Touch You There
- What Now My Love
- Kiss Me Honey Honey
- Hello
- You Only Live Twice
- The Living Tree
- Where Is The Love
- I will Survive
Music reviews of Get the Party Started
Music Review: At 70 and counting, Shirley still rocks !
Rating: 4 Stars
The Dame, raised in Cardiff's Tiger Bay (now resident in Monte Carlo), has never been shy of wading right out into a song and giving it some welly with extra lashings of showbiz sparkle. Her bold and brassy hymns to gold, diamonds, popping corks and "fun fun fun" have conquered generations of fans, and she's nowhere near quitting yet.
Shirley Bassey is celebrating her 70th year in style and the release of her first new full album for almost a decade - "Get The Party Started".
The most amazing thing is - she sounds as young (and contemporary) as ever. Whether blasting out a cover version of Pink's "Get The Party Started" or reverting to the classics such as "Kiss Me Honey Honey", Shirley is clearly having a blast - and the vibe is infectious.
The album combines new recordings and new vocals with remixes of classic tracks including "Big Spender" and "I Will Survive" and the single "The Living Tree".
The remixes and reworkings have also been assembled by some of today's most contemporary producers, including Chuck Norman and Bob Kraushaar - aka NorthxNorthwest - whose remixes include Pet Shop Boys, Robbie Williams and Peter Gabriel.
In addition, there's a cracking remix of the Grace Jones' classic "Slave To The Rhythm" from The Glimmers (which forms one of the album's highlights).
Needless to say, not all of this works.
Bassey's voice hasn't lost the power to shatter glass, but who thought "Big Spender" needed any help from the studio crew and their leaden drum machines? The track doesn't really benefit from a dance drumbeat: the only percussion that song ever needed was the wallop of Bassey's hips.
"Hello", for instance, is an honourable failure that's not really suited to Bassey's larger than life style, while the Bruno R remix of "Where Is The Love" is a little too disco and cheesy.
But "I Who Have Nothing" works wittily with the mournful reggae bass boom of the Police's "The Bed's Too Big Without You".
Elsewhere, Latin, lounge and disco beats flutter around that big voice like respectful members of an entourage fanning the diva.
There's no denying the fun of hearing Bassey re-do Pink (as previously heard as part of the Christmas Marks & Spencer advertising campaign), lending great heart to "This Is My Life" and giving it her all on brilliant single "The Living Tree", complete with inspired guitar solos.
It's mainly about remixes of hits from the Bassey songbook.
It's a hit and miss affair.
What hits and what misses will largely depend on how much the originals mean to you. How can you turn "You Only Live Twice" into a bosa nova effort?
Surprisingly, you can.
It's loud, it's camp, it's fun.
Enjoy !
Description of Get the Party Started
Get The Party Started With World Famous Siren Dame Shirley Bassey Diva's First New Album In A Decade! Get the Party Started by the "formidable force of nature" (Q Magazine) Shirley Bassey, the distinctive vocalist famous for her three James Bond themes "Goldfinger," "Diamonds are Forever" and "Moonraker," is Bassey's first album in ten years. The release celebrates her 70th birthday and combines 13 brilliant songs in a combination of new recordings and remixed and re-worked tracks by some of today's hottest producers. Get the Party Started features new recordings, new vocals and remixes of classic tracks including "Big Spender," "You Only Live Twice," "I Will Survive," the infectious new single "The Living Tree" and the searing title track--a newly recorded version of Pink's " Get The Party Started." In a career spanning over 50 years, Dame Shirley Bassey has sold millions of records worldwide and spent more weeks in the charts than any other British female recording artist.Broadway & Vocalists CDs
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