Product Description

From the opening piano chords of `Sweet Love', you know there is a good song coming. Ex-Chapter 8 vocalist Baker has aneffortless delivery that swoops and dips like a swallow. `Sweet Love' is just one of those soul songs that people who say they don't like soul music like. The choice of material is superb, and heart-tugging songs such as David Lasley's `You Bring Me Joy' or Ken Hirsch and Marti Sharron's `No One InThe World' are only beaten by Baker's voice. The slower material is stronger and only `Watch Your Step' and `Same Ole Love' fail to hit the spot, simply because of the mood the other tracks set.

Track Listing

1. Sweet Love
2. You Bring Me Joy
3. Caught Up In The Rapture
4. Been So Long
5. Mystery
6. No One In The World
7. Same Ole Love
8. Watch Your Step

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3390 in Music
• Released on: 1986-08-04
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Soul has been through a lot of changes of late and if there seems to be an oversupply of young divas-in-waiting today, you can probably thank Anita Baker for it. Baker was one of the few singers that bridged the old school to the new, and this 1986 album was--and is--a true soul classic. An inspiration for everyone from Whitney Houston to Toni Braxton, Baker carved the way with soaring vocals and an effortless style on tracks like "Sweet Love" and "You Bring Me Joy". "Caught Up in the Rapture" was the anthem for many a lovestruck couple, and Baker sums it up best herself in the same song: "Nothing else can compare." --Rebecca Wallwork

Customer Reviews

Without question, guaranteed to be one of the best albums I'll ever own.
Truly in-credible album. bad song? no you won't find a trace of one on here, Anita's voice remains strong, deep and soulful throughout the album, this is old school R&B exactly the way it should be, soft and smooth with a bit of jazz thrown in, oh those saxophones. What more can i say? one of the few albums that i can comfortably listen to all the way through, a true R&B fan who doesn't own this timeless masterpiece really doesn't know what their missing, pure bliss from start to finish.

You won't regret buying this
This is an album that came out when I was a teenager and still at school. I hadn't heard about Anita Baker, had no idea who she was but when my older brother came home with this stuck under his arm one day and played it to me, well I just totally fell in love with it.

Every single track on here is brilliant. None of them, I repeat, none of them fall below par in any way whatsoever. There are only eight tracks on the album but they are all stars in their own right. My personal favourite is Been So Long but I love the other 7 just as much.

If you like Jazz, Soul, RnB then you absolutely have to make sure this is in your collection if it's not there already. It will be money well worth spent and you will not be disappointed. It is pure quality, nothing less.

Great Voice that just wasn't expolited
Anita Baker has a voice like no other singer alive, instantly recognizable, full of beauty and elegance. She really knows how to make you feel a song: we feel the emotional desperation in her voice as she pleads with a lover she's wronged to return to her in "No One In The World," and we feel the joy coursing through her veins in the exuberant "Sweet Love," the song that introduced Ms. Baker to the mainstream pop audience in 1986. That song, along with three other singles, "Caught Up In The Rapture" (the ULTIMATE slow jam, bar none), "No One In The World," and "Same Ole Love," established her as a multi-format star - they all hit the top 10 on the R&B and Adult Contemporary charts and cracked the pop top 50. Even the cuts that weren't singles are terrific, with "Mystery" and "You Bring Me Joy" being my favorites. All of the songs have a soft, elegant magic, and Ms. Baker injects them with lots of soul. It's a winning combination. Although she hasn't quite achieved the same heights of fame as Whitney, Celine or Mariah, she can easily outsing any of them without having to "spice up" her vocals with lots of unnecessary, gimmicky octave-jumping and she doesn't overdo it with the vocal gymnastics. Anita is still a core artist on most "smooth jazz" stations, as is another unique and beautiful talent who came on the scene shortly before she did, Sade. Both are among my favorite artists. The only thing that annoys me about both of them is their practice of making their fans wait an eternity for their next album! (Case in point: it's been nearly four years since Sade's "Lovers Rock" came out.) Fortunately, we'll finally be seeing a new album from Anita - her first in a decade, not counting the greatest-hits CD - later this year, and the first single, "You're My Everything," is now playing on smooth jazz and urban-adult radio stations everywhere. And let me tell you, she hasn't lost one bit of the magic that made her such a big star in 1986. Get this one if you love jazzy soul, soft pop, or just great music.