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Summary: Super Babs!
Comment: I wanted to write a review, of this, my latest Barbra discovery. But so much has been said, and so well, that really, what's the point. But I'm gunna make it anyway. If you're reading this you already know Barbra rocks, and she never did it better than in the 70s: 'Stony End' and 'Butterfly' being two standouts. A great Streisand album needs four elements: great songs, great production, great voice and great album cover: Superman soars on all fronts (though some songs don't quite make the cut she breezes though on sheer chutzpa). She rocks, she shimmers and she croons, and she makes Billy Joel sound like a giant. Standout tracks include New York State Of Mind, Baby Me Baby (sappy, but great vocal and melody), and Superman. A great album in a sea of many.
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Summary: A "super" album!
Comment: Barbra recorded and released this album shortly after A Star is Born became one of the most successful albums and movies of her career. Due to that success, she decided to stick to a similar sound the second time around, with a few of these songs even being intended for the film originally. The results is one of her best albums.
Despite the album's clear focus, it is also great in that there is truly something for everybody. Many of the songs on this release seem to represent an archetypal song that Barbra has made as her signature style. There is the great song that seemed almost destined to be a movie theme ("Superman"), the irresistibly catchy pop song that is actually very sexy in its own right ("I Found You Love"), the song that is there to help Barbra make a statement about something she cares about ("Don't Believe What You Read"), her simple but beautifully composed song ("Answer Me"), the unusual cover that becomes a classic in its own right ("New York State of Mind"), and finally the somewhat-schmaltzy-sounding-but-destined-to connect-with-the-public song that became one of her biggest hits ("My Heart Belongs to Me").
What really makes this album stand out, though, is that is one of Barbra's first albums to really express her feelings. She was always expressive in her songs before, but that was usually her playing a part. Every Barbra fan has got to own this album.
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Summary: jade_7335
Comment: It may be one of Streisands' earlier albums, but it certainly is one of her best.
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Summary: Superwoman..
Comment: A great voice in a one of her best albums for the seventies.My heart belongs to me is a very good song but my favourite song is the superman..great vocals..i love it so much,melody and lyrigs are heartfelt..i'm going to dance to it in december when i'm getting married..for sure..
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Summary: Esther Hoffman Howard Becomes Streisand Superman!
Comment: 1977 - WOW! What a glorious and amazingly prolific year for Ms. Streisand it was. Coming off of the tremendous success of "A Star Is Born", both the film and its stupendously successful album, she blows everyone away with her follow-up endeavor ~ "Streisand Superman", an album that continues to build on her sure and strong grasp of contemporary "pop" which started with 1970's "Stoney End", continued with 1974's "The Way We Were" and "Butterfly", and advanced so magnificently with the aforementioned ASIB. Produced by Gary Klein, "Streisand Superman" was a major force in the year that saw the tremendous success of Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours", and Ronstadt's "Simple Dreams" (Gee, how wonderful and diverse pop music was back in the day when the like of all these three could chart in the top five in the same year!). The album opens with one of Streisand's most commanding & sexy recordings which should have been released as a single -"Superman", a grand, superbly sung ode to the strength and power of a "woman in love", continues with such deceptively simple and sensual performances such as "Baby Me Baby" (love the C&W twinge), "I Found You Love", "Answer Me", and the incredibly lyrical and moving "Love Comes From the Most Unexpected Places". "My Heart Belongs to Me" was a deserved major radio hit, and "Lullaby For Myself" speaks volumes on acting through singing, with a very telling lyric about the strengths and vulnerabilities of a woman who wants love in her life. However, the most majestic statement and powerful singing from Streisand just might be her definitive rendition of Joel's "New York State of Mind", which conjures up NYC in all its glory by a still little girl from Brooklyn (whether she wants to believe it or not!). This was the beginning of a new and different phase in Streisand's recording career, which would continue to astound with the commercial monsters of "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", and the commercially AND artistically successful "Guilty".
Luigi ~ NYC
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