Track Listing

1. Nothing Else Matters
2. Collide
3. When The Stars Go Blue
4. Breathe You Out
5. Drops Of Jupiter
6. Holding On To Letting G
7. Through The Barricades
8. Everything I Left Behind
9. Good To Be Alive
10. The Time To Say Goodbye
11. More Than Words

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7094 in Music
• Released on: 2009-03-09
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds
• Running time: 40 minutes

CD Description
After a critically acclaimed and hugely popular two year stint playing to over a million people in 600+ shows in the smash hit West End production of Joseph, Lee Mead finally hung up his technicolour dream coat to embark on an exciting new musical chapter in his career. Following the success of his debut, self-titled album last year, Lee returned to the studio to work on his second album Nothing Else Matters. The new offering is an eclectic mix of some of Lee’s favourite tracks as well as brand new material written especially for the album. Produced by Graham Stack at Metrophonic (Take That, Rod Stewart, John Barrowman), Lee worked with Chris Braide, (James Morrison, Will Young, The Saturdays) among others to make an album sure to delight his ever growing number of loyal fans and win over some new ones. Highlights include the lead track from the album, "Nothing Else Matters", a duet with Hayley Westenra on "When The Stars Go Blue" and the Spandau Ballet classic, "Through The Barricades".

Customer Reviews

A nice easy listening pop album, but missing Lee's rawness
First let me start by saying that I really like Lee Mead's voice, its such a soulful and tuneful voice that can portray a lot of emotion and depth and as such, it's a voice that is really suited to musical theatre, where Lee started. Next I'll add that I also really liked this album, but strangely not because it was Lee singing!

The album comprises of decent quality pop songs, with a Boyzone-esque feel, so it will certainly appeal to all Boyzone/Ronan/Westlife fans... and this meant it also appealed to me, although Lee soulful voice was missing in parts.

It's a nice easy listening CD, that can happily play in the background and not assault the senses, but for me this isn't what Lee is about. I feel Lee's voice was overproduced on most of the tracks, to create a popstar type production, which isn't needed for Lee's voice as he can actually sing and therefore doesn't need pre/post or in-production tricks to make his voice sound good.

Lee is a musical theatre singer and his voice has to sound wonderful without any production tricks, which it does. The theatre auditorium suits his voice and the songs he sings in such an arena, such as those in Joseph and the ones selected for him to perform on "Any Dream Will Do". Certainly some of the tracks Lee performed on the TV programme suited his vocal talent more than those used on this album.

That said, it's a nice arrangement of tracks; 'Nothing Else Matters' is a good, emotional, tear-jerker of a lead (pop)song and will do well as a stand-alone single. Lee's version of 'Through the Barricades' was definitely the rawest (and, in my opinion, best sounding) track on the album and proved Lee's voice works well without being 'popped'.

'Time to say Goodbye' had hints of Lee's true toneful voice coming through but went on to be overproduced and sound like a 1980s pop song by Modern Talking!

That all said, I am a fan of Boyzone/Westlife...and even Modern Talking!, so I really did like this album, even if it is a departure from the raw and talented Lee Mead I was expecting.

A definite grower!
This is a definite grower! I've had the CD for a week now and can definitely recommend it.

I love Lee's musical theatre voice but this album shows how versatile he is, just as he showed on Any Dream Will Do. He rocks out Drops of Jupiter, but then can put all his emotion and personal experience into his co-written Breathe You Out and then moves on to the more theatrical Through the Barricades which is stunning.

Theres are some really good new tracks, two co-written by Lee, in among the covers all of which as always Lee makes his own.

I find it difficult to choose a favourite from this album as I keep changing my mind, but I feel Lee is at his best when his emotion and intensity can come through and so will choose More than Words as that is the track that always makes me stop what I am doing to listen and is all about "the Voice".

Nothing Else Matters ... but hearing the rest!
I must preface this review by saying that at this stage I have heard only the lead track 'Nothing Else Matters' in full (fab video by the way), and preview clips of two further tracks, from this eagerly-awaited second album from West End star Lee Mead.

But based on this limited sample, on a track listing that includes new material from some of the best song-writers in the business alongside a refreshingly bold choice of covers, and on my confidence in Lee's stunning voice and in the passion and commitment with which he will have approached this project, I wholeheartedly recommend it.

I especially look forward to hearing Lee's two co-writes - 'Breathe You Out' (the preview clip promises much) and 'Good To Be Alive' - and his take on one of my favourite tracks of all time 'More Than Words' - a piano-backed vocal rather than the acoustic guitar more often associated with this track. I'm sure I won't be disappointed!

Edit 5 March 09: OK, I've heard snippets of the rest now and I'm as far from disappointed as it's possible to be!