Product Description

An album for lovers, plain and simple. Lovers of others, lovers of smooth, soulful music, and, most of all, lovers of Luther Vandross' singular vocal talent. There's nothing really new here, and that's probably the way it should be--why mess with success? The arrangements are tasteful, spare and elegant. The songs--all ballads, most of them in the mold of the clean, airy, atmospheric funk Luther has specialised in through the years--are about the love emotion, and all the emotional entanglements it brings out.
"Love Don't Love YouAnymore" is a haunting number, replete with treated, bells-in-heaven background vocals, and this warning: "See, love isa society, any fool cannot belong". Yes, this is Luther's universe, no doubt. And check this, Stevie fans: Luther covers a song that could have been written just for him, the exquisite "Knocks Me Off My Feet". Put an extra log on the fire,or light a few candles, lay down, throw Luther on the box and well, you know the rest.

Track Listing

1. Your Secret Love
2. Love Don't Love You Anymore
3. It's Hard For Me To Say
4. Crazy Love
5. I Can Make It Better
6. Too Proud To Beg
7. I Can't Wait No Longer (Let's Do This) - Vandross, Luther & Deidra 'Spin' Roper
8. Nobody To Love
9. Whether Or Not The World Gets Better - Vandross, Luther & Lisa Fischer
10. This Time I'm Right
11. Knocks Me Off My Feet
12. Goin' Out Of My Head

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #88414 in Music
• Released on: 1999-04-12
• Number of discs: 1

From Amazon.com
In a way, it's a shame that Luther Vandross' Songs, his 1994 album of other people's hits, became the biggest hit of his career, for it obscured one of his greatest talents: songwriting. The best soul singer of the '80s is back with Your Secret Love, his first album of original, non-Christmas songs since 1993's Never Let Me Go. He hasn't lost his knack for big, emotional melodies and for scenarios that find happiness tantalizingly close, but still out of reach. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews

secretly very good
this album marked a return to form for luther and has a firm place in his musical evolution. a solid and catchy opening number is also the title track and sets us off on a really delightful journey which as on previous and susequent efforts show how much work luther put into his music. and again the backing vocals are exquisite, well he started as a backing singer!! maybe the tempo of the opening tracks is a bit slow but the songs seem to get better the further you get into them. and end up with a beautiful rendition of `i think i`m going out of my head`. that luther put a superb cover of a stevie wonder song (knocks me off my feet), tucked away on this cd says a lot. he did`nt do cover versions because he did`nt have the material, he did them because he loved the songs and had the ability to do them fantastically! any way this is a must for anyone who admires talent, luther fan or not.

classic luther mixed with modern styles...brilliant album
I brought this album ages ago, when he brought out the single in the charts,as a luther fan i had to buy the album, it is i think classic 'luther' in all his soultry tones, and yet it is a vibrant and uplifting at the same time, some songs on the album are very different from what you would expect luther to do, but it does work well, and because it is different the album always gets me singing away in the car!! basically i think it is a really good album and i think all luther fans should go out there and buy it!!luther just has this thing with music, and when he sings it moulds and melts you from head to toe.