Product Description

After various legal battles with Sony in the past, George Michael returns to the label with his fourth studio recording'Patience'. The album, written, arranged and produced by Michael himself, is a mix of up-tempo pop and ballads and features the singles 'Freeek', 'Shoot The Dog' and 'Amazing'.

Track Listing

1. Patience
2. Amazing
3. John and Elvis Are Dead
4. Cars and Trains
5. Round Here
6. Shoot The Dog
7. My Mother Had A brother
8. Flawless ( Go To The City)
9. American Angel
10. Precious Box
11. Please Send Me Someone
12. Freeek!
13. Through
14. Patience (reprise)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12915 in Music
• Released on: 2004-03-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Amazon.co.uk Review
It must be hard being a George Michael fan. Patience is only his fourth studio effort in the 18 years since Wham! split, so its release must be some cause for celebration. There always seems to have been something preventing him from releasing a new album--from arrests for lewd behaviour, protracted battles with record companies or prolonged periods of grieving for departed family and friends. Thankfully, Patience is pretty good.

Flitting between fraught ballads and up-tempo adult pop (the misguided sample-laden singles "Freeek!" and "Shoot the Dog" being the unnecessary exceptions), George here returns to the structure and mood of 1990s Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1. Patience is at its most delicate and moving with its title track, the intense, tabloid-attacking "Through" and the painful family memories of "My Mother Had a Brother". To balance this, hearts will be raised by "Amazing", with its echoes of the Bee Gees, "Round Here", in which George remembers his early days scampering around Bushey with Andrew Ridgley, and "Cars and Trains", which celebrates the kind of lifestyle that so riled the LAPD back in 1998. That's the thing about George Michael these days. Love him or loathe him, he is unapologetically himself. And fans should be very grateful for that. --Dominic Wills

Customer Reviews

Not my favorite but not all bad.
I'm late with Patience, just buying it online recently. I guess you could call me a GM fan though its not something I like to bring up at a poker game. lol #1 reason to get this, in my humble opinion - Precious Box. The words, the beats, the nuances, it catapults u into a giorgio moroder-like electronica then 6 minutes into the track you're descending in an psuedo-trance outro with deep lyrics to boot before droppin u completely at the very end. It also helps to have the bass and treble way up! lol In listneing to the lyrics it sounds like he's talkin about his "stash" or whatever medicine cabinet he keeps his drugs in. I can relate.

Flawless is cool, not the manliest song, but still has cool beats and lyrics (not just a fukked up piece of aaaasssss) LOL! I also like Amazing, American Angel and definitely the tribute to his deceased friend (which I can totally relate) Please Send Me Someone.

The rest of the cd I tend to skip over frankly. I can't stomach Freek.

I don't think GM is finished yet.

problably The grave as extra song. Very worthwhile to choose for this one
As many others I found this GM album a little less of quality than the LWP and Older albums. It still has a lot of atmosphere. Personally I like rare download tracks as Edith & The kingpin and The grave more.
Edith is now released as extra track on the new single and The grave is available on this album.

Good, but missing something...
On the first listen to PATIENCE, I felt something was missing. It was as if George hadn't quite tried hard enough. Maybe it was because two songs included on the album were already old hits, or maybe it was the absence of any true classics. I don't know. Having said that, PATIENCE is not a complete flop: golden moments are the haunting MY MOTHER HAS A BROTHER, the thumping PRECIOUS BOX (WHY was it never released as a single?!), the simple and easy ROUND HERE, and the beautiful and sad THROUGH. FLAWLESS was great, but not original and the remix of the year old FREEEK! was marginally different and unnecessary. And SHOOT THE DOG? - a career low, also unecessarily included. So, overall, a mixed bag, but not without its gems. Listen to it to get a glimpse of the talent inside, but look to OLDER and LISTEN WITHOUT PREJUDICE for the real genius.