Michael Bolton – Timeless (The Classics)
1992
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DISCLAIMER: This CD was purchased neither by me, nor my wife. In speaking to Lise, it has been made known that the CD actually belongs to Lise’s mum, Sandra. But this CD, for some reason or another, has been with us since not long after Lise & I got together, so I feel compelled to review it.
Where do I start…? Perhaps in an elevator. One of those elevators that you don’t feel safe in. Y’know when you step in and there’s tags all over the walls and just a cord hanging down where the emergency handset used to be attached and when it moves you can hear what sounds like piano strings snapping?
I once went to a Chinese restaurant, The Silky Emperor, with some friends… for dinner and a show. The food was great, the show was a fella with a microphone and preprogrammed keyboard singing karaoke songs. That about sums up this album.
In all honesty, I’ve heard worse. I can’t think where, but probably from Kenny G.
This album is his interpretation of ‘timeless classic’ songs. Songs that a lot of people would have liked at some stage in their lives. Songs like Since I Fell For You, Reach Out I’ll Be There and Yesterday, to name a few.
After listening to this album in it’s entirety, I feel violated.
There is only one place that music like belongs. That is Love Songs And Dedications.
It is possibly the cheesiest music I have ever heard. It honestly does sound like karaoke music (and not Singstar™ karaoke, but the kind you find in an Asian movie rental store). It actually sounds like it was all recorded with a Casio keyboard, drums ‘n’ all.
2.5/10
(I was going to give it 3.5/10, but now every time I hear any of the originals of the songs I will hear Michael Bolton)
