|
| Unplugged | 
 enlarge | Artist: Alicia Keys
Label: J-Records
Category: Music
List Price: $18.97
Buy New: $4.33
You Save: $14.64 (77%)
New (46) Used (39) from $3.96
Avg. Customer Rating:  113 reviews
Sales Rank: 3735
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 67424
UPC: 828766742428
EAN: 0828766742428
ASIN: B000B5IPLK
Release Date: October 11, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW and factory fresh (sealed if applicable). May have store or price stickers from our retail store affixed. Most items ship same day. Order confirmation email with tracking information sent on shipment.
|
| Tracks:
| • | Intro A Cappella | | • | Karma | | • | Heartburn | | • | A Womans Worth | | • | Unbreakable | | • | How Come You Dont Call Me | | • | If I Was Your Woman | | • | If I Aint Got You | | • | Every Little Bit Hurts | | • | Streets Of New York | | • | Wild Horses (Feat. Adam Levine) | | • | Diary | | • | You Dont Know My Name | | • | Stolen Moments | | • | Fallin | | • | Love It Or Leave It Alone (Feat. Mos Def & Common) / Welcome To Jamrock (Feat. Damian Marley, Mos Def, Common & Friends) |
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
With MTV's decision to revive its much-missed "Unplugged" series came a certain obligation: Whoever was going to kick the shows off needed to have the means to deliver serious heat, Grammy-vote garnering heat. The "powers that be" couldn't have chosen better than Alicia Keys. Throughout this consistent set, marked by warmth, sincerity and a powerful lack of inhibition, Keys convinces that if she's not the new Aretha Franklin, she's a force of equal might and measure. All the favorites are here, the danceable "Karma" carries into the funky "Heartburn" and the give-it-up glory of "Unbreakable." "Fallin'," "If I Ain't Got You," and "You Don't Know My Name" come later, but interspersed are enough pleasant surprises to make even fanatical Keys followers forget the signature songs. Prince's "How Come You Don't Call Me," for instance, gets a playful work-up, complete with audience-aimed banter and an unbroken promise to "take it to the bridge," and a duet that on paper seems misguided works surprisingly well, as Keys resists any instinct to clobber Maroon 5's Adam Levine vocally. Yowling, piano pounding, hip-hop tics (the ubiquitous, emphatic "unh"), and even a spot of theatrical poetry all have their places here, but Keys manages them with a master's sense of what's song-appropriate. Her band is spot-on, her arrangements soar, and her guests--count Mos Def and Common among them--complement the proceedings without even momentarily carrying them. The best "Unplugged" discs leave a listener wishing artists would kick the amps altogether; this is one of them. --Tammy La Gorce
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 108 more reviews...
 Do not buy copy protected CDs November 2, 2005
59 out of 89 found this review helpful
Copy protected CDs are an abomination and should be vigorously boycotted. DO NOT BUY THIS CD.
A 4.5 Diamond. April 23, 2008
46 out of 46 found this review helpful
Alicia's album is a fine gem, here the slightly scaled back sound allows her vocals to shine. She occasionally goes from the Piano to Organ with equal dexterity. "Fallin," gets a semi-operatic treatment here. Her voice sounds more balanced than on her first album.
She gives a more seductive tone to "Diary & If I Ain't Got You." The former is one of my all time favorites. In "Streets Of New York," the first part with her recitation is ok, but the second part with it's jazzy tones blend well with her more controlled voice. "Stolen Moments," could have been a bit better since it was co-written by the king of R&B, Al Green. She belts out Prince's "How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore" with a near furious vocal. Some will not like her version of Gladys Knight's "If I Was Your Woman?" But, for me it was almost equal to the original. Then again, Alicia could sing the names in the phonebook & I would applaud. I feel she truly shined with Brenda Holloway's "Every Little bit Hurts." She seemed very in tune with the feel of this song as the emotion came through.
Her duet with Adam Levine doing the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" was ok. His nasal tone did not blend that well with Alicia's voice. When she sings "You Don't Know My Name," it is juiced up a bit with the organ. This may be my all time favorite of her songs? When I minus the Hip Hop tunes which just don't appeal much to me, "Unplugged" ends up being very good. Her vocals are more mature & the reduced arrangements play to the bands talents. A solid 4.5.
Live Keys October 13, 2005
30 out of 40 found this review helpful
Alicia Keys has revived the MTV Unplugged franchise with her show and this album. Ms. Keys doesn't go the traditional unplugged route of stripping the songs down to their acoustic base, but she gives a stellar performance. She doesn't alter the grooves from the studio versions, but she lets the songs breath and flexes her voice muscles without going over the top. "Karma" and "Heartburn" perfectly segue together in a funky mix. "Fallin'" has a haunting violin and the combination of Gladys Knight & The Pips' "If I Were Your Woman" and "If I Ain't Got You" is the best moment on the album. There are several other covers on the album and they are hit and miss. The Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" is a duet with Maroon 5's Adam Levine that never gels while her take on Brenda Holloway's "Every Little Bit Hurts" is a high note. Ms. Keys burst on the scene in 2001 with much fanfare and she has more than lived up to the hype.
That's Wrong!! December 30, 2005
26 out of 80 found this review helpful
I'm sorry I know some of you will click the button dissing me without reading what I have to say because I gave the cd only one star. The reason I did that is because of the single "Unbreakable". I know that this single is popular now but it's wrong. "We can fight like Ike and Tina." Ike and Tina didn't fight she got the sh** beat out of her for several years until she decided to fight back and leave Ike. Any person or any woman for that matter who can right a song and use another's woman's abuse in her lyrics and then go so far as to have the song produced and released needs to find herself some direction.
Copy protection is dangerous November 1, 2005
22 out of 26 found this review helpful
I never buy copy protected CDs because the tecnhiques that the record labels use to implement the copy protection breaks my computer.
|
|
|
Proud member of the JimmyKat Network. Make sure you check out these other great JimmyKat network sites:
Lyrics Database
Celebrity Blog
Celebrity Thing
Celebrity PC
Celebrity Latest
Celebrity Pro
Travel Photos
Quotes
Flash Games
|
Is there a better
price available?
Find out:
|
|
|
|
