What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

SANDIE SHAW "long live love" cd, 1997

career stats:
studio albums...............7
ep's............................11
singles........................40

"the barefoot princess of pop" is what she was known as back in the 1960s because
she used to perform barefooted....
had a string of hits throughout the 1960s and into the early 1970s, mostly in the UK and Australia....
made a comeback in the 1980s covering such songs as Cilla's "anyone who had a heart" etc, and even a couple of Smiths songs
that The Smiths played on, both are featured on this disc, as is the Cilla cover...
theres even a cover of The Stones "walking the dog"...seriously, I hated that song when the Stones did it, thought, and still do that it was their
worst single ever(get off my cloud, comes a close second IMO)
also the re-recording on "puppet on a string" entitled "puppet(no strings)" which was a rewrite because over time she disliked the original because
of its 'ownership to a man' lyrics...
im actually disappointed with this one slightly, had they have stuck to the hits of the 60s-70s this would have come out really well in the rating,
but with the horrible 80s material this was lucky to make a passing grade for me...
sure, the songs are pretty bad but her voice was still good, but vocals do not make a bad song good IMO...

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: walking the dog
best track: puppet on a string

[video=youtube;jfeiCaRJgMY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfeiCaRJgMY[/video]

tracks:

1...always something there to remind me ***
2...as long as youre happy baby **
3...don't you know **
4...girl don't come **
5...i'd be better off without you **
6...gotta see my baby everyday ***
7...stop feeling sorry for yourself **
8...i'll stop at nothing *
9...long live love ***
10.ive heard about him **
11.message understood **
12.dont you count on it **
13.tomorrow **
14.nothing comes easy **
15.puppet on a string ***
16.samba di una nota sola **
17.monsieur DuPont ***
18.right to cry **
and this is where is starts getting messy for Sandie!
19.walking the dog *
20.maple village *
21.anyone who had a heart *
22.cool about you *
23.jean (with The Smiths) *
24.hand in glove (with The Smiths) *
25.nothing less than brilliant *
26.puppet(no strings) *

3s=5
2s=12
1s=9

rating: 1.7

without those 1980s tracks this would have scored 2.2