| Are You Gonna Go My Way | 
 enlarge | Artist: Lenny Kravitz
Label: Virgin Records Us
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 123346
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 86984
UPC: 077778698425
EAN: 0077778698425
ASIN: B000000WJA
Release Date: March 9, 1993
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Condition: may have hole punched in upc, line through upc, and/or gold stamp on cover
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| Tracks:
| • | Are You Gonna Go My Way | | • | Believe - Lenny Kravitz, Hirsch, Henry | | • | Come on and Love Me | | • | Heaven Help - Lenny Kravitz, Britten, Terry | | • | Just Be a Woman | | • | Is There Any Love in Your Heart | | • | Black Girl | | • | My Love | | • | Sugar | | • | Sister | | • | Eleutheria |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
The irony of Are You Gonna Go My Way is that, by the release of his third album, Lenny Kravitz had finally started internalizing the influences of his musical heroes--Curtis Mayfield, Prince, John Lennon, and Sly Stone--who had been so nakedly copped on Let Love Rule and Mama Said. So what becomes the album's big hit? The title track, a Jimi Hendrix rip-off if there ever was one. Kravitz backslides elsewhere, too: "Is There Any Love in Your Heart" is plainly drawn from Led Zeppelin and "Eleutheria" from Bob Marley, while "Believe" takes a more inventive approach--its chorus is in the style of the Beatles, while the verses and guitar solo again recall Led Zep. What's especially damning about the album though, is that the more Kravitz strikes out on his own, the more lackluster his songs become, evidenced by the dippy come-on "Black Girl" and the weak psychedelia of "My Love." --Daniel Durchholz
Amazon.com
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| Customer Reviews: Read 36 more reviews...
 Best album of the 1990s March 1, 2002
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
...P>Lenny Kravitz has the amazing ability to take elements of 60s and 70s rock and make them sound completely modern. There is no Jimi Hendrix imitation on "Are You Gonna Go My Way." Kravitz and his musicians have no aspirations of being Hendrix...they KNOW there's only one. Some of the songs are driving and loud, others are soft and sweet, and Heaven Help is simply gorgeous. I bought this album as soon as it came out in the spring of 1993 and it has traveled with me everywhere I've gone. Whether I'm on a plane, train, long car journey, I can pop in this CD and know that I'll be entertained by an absolutely perfect rock album. They are truly few and far between, and this one is a masterpiece.
One of the best Rock albums of the year June 6, 1998
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Lenny Kravitz follows up wildly successful multi platinum "Mama Said" with this chart scorcher that is sure to please anyone from the hard core metal junkie to the light reggae listener. It has sweet ballads crooned with Kravitz's soul searching tenor (Black Girl) as well as ear pounding guitar riffs (Are You Gonna Go My Way). He covers the emotional gambit along with a mind boggling array of instruments and recording techniques. He produces and writes almost all 11 tracks with help from members of his band Craig Ross and musical associate Henry Hirsh. He garnered many award nominations for this album and is virtually guaranteed future musical success with the unbelievable amount of vocal, musical and lyrical talent that he possesses.
Believe. March 21, 2000
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I think Are You Gonna Go My Way (AYGGMW) marked the turning point in Lenny's career. That point where he began to be taken seriously. I'm reviewing this cd because I feel that it, like his other four cds, is a classic recording. The hits "Are You Gonna Go My Way" and "Believe" are here plus great non-hits like "Eleutheria", "Come On And Love Me", "Heaven Help" and "Just Be A Woman." While AYGGMW may not be Lenny's most experimental recording, it is a rock and soul album that should find its way into your rock collection. A must have for any rock collector.
 Weird looks at Lenny October 30, 2004
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
It's hard to follow lenny album to album only to see people mentioning his abundant influences in a bad way. Lenny sounds like zeppelin, lenny sounds like lennon, lenny sounds like mayfield. There are so many bands and artists out there who do the same, in my opinion with less personal flare, and enthusiasm, but which are welcomed or even praised for it. Lenny is in a way like the kid in highschool who always gets frowned on for doing something even though he did the same thing that another kid was or will be welcomed for doing.
Poor lenny, it makes me feel bad for him. Because he really is a talented artist, as it can be seen in "let love rule" and "mama said", and even here, and it makes me wonder where he could have gone if he had more positive incentive, which i feel he justly deserved from his environment, for doing what seems to enjoy doing most, which is making more good music of the kind he likes to listen to.
5-STAR ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! January 21, 2005
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
GREAT ALBUM FROM START TILL
FINISH I HAVE NOTHING BAD TO
SAY ALL THE SONGS ARE GREAT.
I REALLY DIDNT PAY LENNY ATTENTION
UNTIL ONE OF MY HAD HIS CD IN
THEIR CD BOOKLET AND SAID LET ME BORROW THAT
CD AND SEE IF I LIKE IT OR NOT AND IT TURNED
OUT THAT I DID SO BROUGHT ALL HIS OTHER MATERIAL
WHICH IS EQUALLY ENJOYABLE AND EVERY SINCE I'VE BEENING
JAMMING TO HIS ALBUM.
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