Track Listing

1. Eaten Alive
2. Oh Teacher
3. Experience
4. Chain Reaction
5. More
6. I'm Watching You
7. Love On The Line
8. I Love Being In Love With You
9. Crime Of Passion
10. Don't Give Up On Each Other
11. Eaten Alive (1)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7135 in Music
• Released on: 1993-10-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

A Pop Masterpiece!
Released during a period when Diana Ross really needed a hit and the Brothers Gibb were busy writing and producing for other artists, this album came to fruition.
With Barry Gibb singing back-up on most songs, the result is a collection of pure pop masterpieces. "Eaten Alive" is an upbeat, almost frantic non-dance song with Barry Gibb and Michael Jackson sharing scat back-ups. The special effects and fast pace make for a great start.

"Oh Teacher" is a sexy, smarmy song that shows Diana Ross can still be hot. The beautiful ballad, "Experience" is one of the best songs the Gibbs have written in a long time. It's also nice to note that "More And More" (written by all four Gibbs, including Andy) puts Ms. Ross back in her sultry "lady sings the blues' image. The bouncy, energetic "Crime Of Passion" could have eaasily been a single, but it was far overshadowed by the biggest song on this album - "Chain Reaction". This latter song was Diana Ross's biggest hit in a long time and her first #1 hit in the UK. It calls back from her Motown days and is still a standard dance number.

The extended version of "Eaten Alive" was previously unavailable in the USA and is a great version complete with fantastic instrumental and vocal solos. This album is a classic.

SOUL SUPREME
Eaten Alive emerged as Diana Ross' most electric and exciting albums since the fabulosly funky classic, Diana in 1980. This became a fair seller largely due to the success of CHAIN REACTION which gave Ross her second no.1 hit. This fun, heartfelt tribute to her days with The Supremes is the very best cut on the album although this is a good to very good album through out. The haunting, atmospheric, EPERIENCE deserved to be a bigger hit than it became! Other highlights include O LOVE BEING IN LOVE WITH YOU, CRIME OF PASSION, and LOVE ON THE LINE. Its painfully obvious that this is a BEE GEEs production but never the less this one of Ross' best albums that she recorded in the 1980's. Very good and recommended!

Not trendy but solid work
After the "Swept Away" album one year earlier Diana decided to work with the Bee Gees- and the result is not bad at all though "Eaten Alive" became a vastly underrated album. The openening number - the title track- is very strange. A hectic rhythm, Barry Gibb screaming in the backround as if he was mad and with him there sharing the microphone is none other than Michael Jackson. But even all those ingredients don't make the track work. It just doesn't have a good melody. "Oh Teacher" is very nice with Diana breathing her lines as if she had a naked and sexy man right next to her there in the studio. The ballad "Experience" is simply wonderful. Shimmering harmonies, a mature Diana and a strong melody- it's just a brilliant piece of work. "Chain Reaction", of course, became one of her biggest hits- a little bit of the Supremes, a little bit of the Bee Gees and some..well...frivolous lyrics ("you make me tremble when your hand goes lower...") make this song a nice and and enjoyable track to listen to. "More And More" is a bit boring- it sounds like a very old composition that doesn't fit in this collection. "I'm Watching You" is so full of self- pity that it's not very interesting to listen to and Diana sings with such a high- pitched voice that you would like to tell her to stop right there and then. But the next track "Love On The Line" is completely different. A self- conscious Diana (..."you got someone else in love with you and I deserve to know...") a nice melody- pure pop- it's very laid back. "(I Love) Being In Love With You" is a sound-a-like to "Experience" but the combination of the soaring melody, Dianas tender voice and the Bee Gees singing background vocals sounds very convincing. "Crimes Of Passion" is an uptempo number but quite nice with Diana complaining about having two lovers at the same time and the closing track "Don't Give Up On Each Other" is a dramatic ballad although a bit overproduced with all those strings ,drums and multi-layered background vocals. All in all this is a very good pop album from a very good singer written by a very good production and songwriting team. Almost every song is quite enjoyable and although critics then (1986) were more than disappointed I disagree. Many of Dianas 80's albums were of very poor quality (one must only remember the mish-mash on "Silk Electric") but this record sounds very smooth and yet very focussed. The only Diana Ross album in quite a while on which she didn't have anything to do with the production- the result speaks for itself (Sorry, Diana!). Sadly, "Eaten Alive" didn't become such a succes as other Bee Gees-produced Diva- vehicles- like Barbra Streisands "Guilty" or Dionne Warwicks "Heartbreaker". Nevertheless, this is a good pop album and surely worth a listen.