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Bryan Adams: 11

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Label: A&M Records
Released: 2008.03.14
Time:
 58:05
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Bryan Adams
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.bryanadams.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2010
Price in €: 2,00





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[1] Tonight We Have the Stars (Adams/Peters/Vallace) - 4:06
[2] I Thought I'd Seen Everything (Adams/Kennedy/Lange) - 5:06
[3] I Ain't Losin' the Fight (Adams/Kennedy/Lange) - 3:56
[4] Oxygen (Adams/Kennedy/Lange) - 3:35
[5] We Found What We Were Looking For (Adams/Lange/Rabin) - 3:37
[6] Broken Wings (Adams/Kennedy) - 3:36
[7] Somethin' to Believe In (Adams/Kennedy) - 4:00
[8] Mysterious Ways (Adams/Peters) - 4:28
[9] She's Got a Way (Adams/Kennedy) - 4:41
[10] Flower Grown Wild (Adams/Peters/Vallace) - 3:53
[11] Walk on By (Adams/Vallace) - 2:54

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Bryan Adams - Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Electric Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocals, Soloist, Producer

Máire Breatnach - Fiddle, Viola
Gary Breit - Organ, Piano, Hammond Organ
Mickey Curry - Drums
Norm Fisher - Bass
Eliot Kennedy - Bass, Piano, Background Vocals
Pat Steward - Drums
Jim Vallance - Drums
Colin Cripps - Guitar, Electric Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Background Vocals, Slide Guitar, Soloist
Hal Beckett - Conductor
Kathleen Edwards - Background Vocals

Rick Colhoun - Engineer
Teese Gohl - String Arrangements
Roger Monk - Engineer
Gavin Greenaway - String Arrangements
Kirk McNally - Engineer
Bryan Gallant - Engineer
Ben Dobie - Engineer

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2008 CD Badman Limited BAD200811
2008 CD Polydor 1763682
2008 CD Polydor 176368

2008 release from the Canadian rocker, his 11th studio album overall. The album is packed full of unmistakable rockers and signature ballads including the lead single ‘I Thought I’d Seen Everything', a rocky, mid-tempo track that has already gone onto radio playlists on both side of the Atlantic. 11 was recorded largely in hotel rooms and backstage dressing rooms around the world during the past two years and features the return of his long time collaborator Jim Vallance on three cuts. The Adams/Vallance partnership was responsible for many of Bryan’s classic hits including ‘Heaven’,’ Summer of 69’ and ‘Run To You.’. Universal.



Never one for subtlety, Bryan Adams once had a flair for hooks so grand and universal that they filled arenas and blanketed the airwaves. In 2008, some 11 studio albums into his career (according to Adams' own calculation, apparently taking soundtracks into consideration, because by a simple count of studio albums 11 seems to be his tenth full-length proper album), his fondness for obvious hooks had flattened into clichés, with all of 11 feeling like something he'd done before, some ten or 15 years previously. To a certain extent, Adams' refusal to acknowledge shifting fashions was admirable — especially for somebody who has made a name for himself in the new millennium with his fashionable photography — but 11 is such a relic of '90s mainstream rock that it almost feels as if it were cryogenically frozen in 1993 and unfrozen later. It's all cavernous drums, shimmering guitar textures cribbed from U2, rockers that don't rock, and ballads that are so stately they don't quite seem to end. This outdated sound would have been forgivable, even charming, if Adams retained his knack for big hooks that could suck you in despite your better instincts, but 11 is resolutely devoid of memorable melodies. It doesn't quite seem like Adams is incapable of writing hooks anymore but rather that he can't be bothered, that he'd rather be pursuing his photography and that he just completed this album because it was about time to get another record out there. He's enough of a pro to create an album that sounds for all the world like the kind of glistening, gleaming Bryan Adams album his fans have grown to love, but the stilted predictability of 11 offers a reason why he hasn't had a big American hit since the mid-'90s: he sounds like he's stuck in that time and has no desire to leave it.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



Zugegeben, bahnbrechende Überraschungen darf man von Bryan Adams nach über dreißig Jahren im Showbusiness nicht mehr erwarten, wer auf schnörkellosen, handgemachten Mainstreamrock steht, wird jedoch weiterhin sehr zuvorkommend bedient. Auf Numero 11 in der laufenden Albumzählung hat der Anglo-Kanadier wiederum all das im Programm, was die Fans überall auf dem Erdball seit jeher so an ihm schätzen und lieben. Man kann sich nach wie vor darauf verlassen, dass man eine radiotaugliche und massenwirksame, vielleicht deswegen etwas vorhersehbare Songsammlung bekommt. Bryan Adams erfreut die Anhänger mit einem handwerklich tadellos gearbeiteten Breitwand-Sound ("Tonight We Have The Stars"), er treibt den Adrenalinspiegel mit Uptempo-Nummern in die Höhe ("Oxygen") und singt mit seiner Raspel-Röhre Lovesongs, die bestens für die romantische Zweisamkeit Frischverliebter geeignet sind ("I Thought I'd Seen Everything"). Titel zum Mitmachen hat der Grammy-Preisträger natürlich ebenfalls wieder im Angebot: Der Frage-und-Antwort-Refrain von "Somethin' To Believe In" lädt jeden zum Mitsingen ein, der Arenarocker "I Ain't Losin' The Fight" wird live sicher zum Austoben im weiten Stadionrund animieren, und bei der Ballade "Broken Wings" holen dann alle die Feuerzeuge zum Schwenken raus. Der Mann aus dem Land mit dem Ahornblatt auf der Flagge setzt nicht nur beim Songwriting auf Altbewährtes, die Studioarbeit legte er ebenfalls in erprobte Hände. Drummer Mickey Curry, seit den frühen 1980ern mit an Bord, traktiert mitreißend die Felle, Adams' engster Freund Keith Scott ist wie gewohnt an den Gitarrensaiten zu hören, und Jim Vallance, seit Hiterfolgen wie "Heaven" und "Summer of '69" unverzichtbar, beweist zum wiederholten Male seine Songschreiberklasse. Never change a winning team!

Harald Kepler - Amazon.de
 

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Tonight We Have The Stars

We'll save ourselves a bottle
Of California red
We'll drink it on a Tuesday
Let it go straight to our heads

And we'll eat from good china
And make love on linen sheets
Just like there's no tomorrow
No surrender, no retreat

I can feel it in my bones
And I know it in my heart
Tomorrow may be rainin' but tonight we have the stars
We may always be together
Or miles and miles apart
Tomorrow may be rainin' but tonight we have the stars

We were young and we were foolish
We were easy to deceive
Said we'd be in love forever
And it was easy to believe

Well you and I we had our moments
Our devils and our doubts
But the time we spend together
We gotta make it count

[Chorus]

So let's hold on to this moment
Cause it's all we've really got


I Thought I'd Seen Everything

I like the way we are - I love what we've become
When i'm in your arms - I know i've found the one
I love your kiss me mouth - and your static touch
Its just the way you are - that makes me feel so much

No one could ever know - what we're like alone
Rollin' round like rain - we're a midnight storm
Like a river rising - I feel it thru your skin
When we're together - I never want it to end

I thought I'd seen everything - til I saw you
I thought I'd been everywhere - til I'd been with you
I thought that everyone knew what I knew
I thought I'd seen everything - til I saw you

I like the way we are - like a raging fire
Burning up the night, burning with desire
You're such a sweet temptation - you know I can't resist
Electricity, hey every time we kiss


I Ain't Losing The Fight

How come the best ones are always taken
What I see when I see ya - is love in the makin'
Something about timin', something about fate
Gotta go with the feeling - not a moment too waste

Bring it on bring it on -ya - I was born ready
I'm a son of a strong man - i'm rock steady
Everything you throw - I can see it coming
Ain't gonna be no TKO just a lot of lovin'

Cuz opposites attract this way
If day is night and night is day
If loving you is wrong then babe - wrong is right
And I ain't losin' the fight

Take it on, take it on, take it on - no second guessing
Dressin' up a situation - we should be undressing
Hear the bell ringing - seconds out round two
I got my eyes on the prize, and the prize is you


Oxygen

My hands are shakin' - my heart skips a beat
I can't focus - I can't speak
It's like i'm underwater
And i'm going deep - I need ya around me

Oxygen - every moment
Oxygen - everyday
I can't live without it - don't take it away
I need to breath you in - like oxygen

Losin' cohesion - I'm losin' my mind
I'm tryin' to resist it - to stay out of the light
It's like I'm drownin' - in the deepest sea
I need ya around me

Oxygen - every moment
Oxygen - everyday
I can't live without it no - don't take it away
I need to breath you in

Oxygen every moment - oxygen everyday
I can't live without it - don't take it away
I need to breath you in - over and over again

My pulse racin' - my heads in a spin
I need to see you darlin' - cuz you're my oxygen


We Found What We Were Looking For

We found our strength - we found our way at last
We found tomorrow - by building on our past
We paid our dues - we stick together - come whatever

We're still standin' - didn't fall to pieces
Never lost our reason - never stopped believin'

We found our wings and now we fly above the wind
You and me - we found what we're looking for

We gave it all - gave our very best
With every fall - we withstood the test
We broke the rules
Had to do it - to get thru it

We found our wings together we found everything
You and me - we found what we're looking for
You made me shine - picked me up when I fell behind
With you - I never need to search no more

We're still standin' - didn't fall to pieces
Never lost our reason - never stopped believin'
Ah never stopped - believin'

We found our wings and together we found everything
You and me - we found what we're looking for
You made me shine picked me up when I fell behind
With you - I never need to search no more
You and me we found what we were looking for


Broken Wings

You always say the things I can believe in
Always say the things I wanna hear
I believe them all - the stories short and tall
I believe you, ya I believe you

You give me love
When love is all I need to live
You gave your word, when words were just superlative
When I was blind, you came and opened up my eyes
Now I feel I can believe in anything
You taught me how to fly on broken wings

You always do the things I can depend on
You're always there every night and day
Everytime i've fallen down - you've always been around
To lift me up again
To set me straight again

Sometimes I find myself on my own
And can't find the road that leads me back home
But you made believe I can do anything
Even fly on broken wings


Something To Believe In

It's funny what goes through your mind
When you think of times you spent together
Funny but when I think back why we broke up
The reasons seem so small
One day she's with me everything's fine
Sayin' somethin' sounded like I love you
The next week I see her walkin' down the street with someone else
Probably sayin' the same thing
It's doin' my brain in...

I got nothin - goin' nowhere
Tired of under achieving
I keep searchin' - nothin's workin'
It's not enough just to be breathin'
I need somethin' to believe in

It's funny what goes on in your head
When you think about the way things come together
But now I think back why things had to change
The reasons seem so small
Cruel twist of fate keepin' me awake
When I need to sleep to take away the hurtin'
But now I got time on my hands tryin' to understand
But there ain't no explainin'
It's doin' my brain in...


Mysterious Ways

Just when I thought I had it figured out
Just when I thought I had the answers
You came along so full of promises
Full of grace and second chances

For awhile I tried to shut it out
For awhile I tried to fight it
But now I see that there just ain't no use
There ain't no reason to deny it
Oh - ya just never know, no you don't

The world is full of mysteries
Full of magic and of wonder
There's so much more than what we see
Can't explain the spell I'm under
Everytime I look upon your face
I'm constantly amazed
And love moves through my days
In mysterious ways

They say the heart is shaped just like a fist
Holding in its feelings
I say the heart is like an open hand
Holding out and healing
Oh wherever you go - don't ya know


She's Got A Way

She's got a way - of getting inside your soul
She'd breach the walls of jericho
Make you fall like virgin snow
She's got a smile, makes you forget the things
You were only just thinking about
It kind of turns me inside out
And if I try to conceal, she's got a way to reveal

I feel so naked - I feel so totally exposed
It's such a mystery, how she seems to know, every part of me
I feel so shaken - and it's like everybody knows
Whenever she touches me, no one else can feel, as much as me
Ya she's got a way

She's got a way - of taming the wild in me
With patience and serenity
I'm drowning in her revery
And I can't run away she's got a way to make me stay

She comes to me like rain falls down my window
Sure as night will follow day - i'll surrender
Ya she's got a way


Flower Grown Wild

She was the girl in the very front row
Always waitin' after the show
She was the queen of the hollywood hills
Knew the stars, the bars, the pimps and pills
Somebody's climbin' on a greyhound tonight
Too much lipstick and her dress real tight
Looks like a woman but she ain't quite
No, not quite

She's somebody's baby
She's somebody's mother's child
She may look like a lady
But she's just a flower grown wild

They never knew you by your childhood name
But they were drawn to you like moths to a flame
Nobody saw the tears in your silk n' lace
Or the scarred little kid behind your face
Just remember when you hold her tight
What you're holding in your arms tonight
She's no angel, but that's alright
Ya that's alright

She's somebody's baby
She's somebody's mother's child
She may look like a lady
But she's just a flower grown wild

Just another little pretty thing
Another angel with a broken wing
Who fell to earth 'neath the hollywood hills
Amid the stars and the bars, the pimps and pills

Just like the girl on the movie screen
She played it up until the very last scene
The picture faded and the day was done
Went home to nothin but a loaded gun

Somebody's climbing on a greyhound tonight
A little angel flyin' out of sight
Looks like a woman but she ain't quite
No, not quite


Walk On By

I heard that you're leavin - this sleepy little town
The bright lights must have caught your eye cuz you ain't hangin' round
Ya know people been talkin' - they say you're makin' a mistake
Gotta get on that greyhound and forget about what they say

Just walk on by - walk on by
Don't look over your shoulder - keep your head up high
Just walk on by

I've heard bad things about the city and i'm told that they're true
Better watch out for those guys out there they're gonna hit on you
So don't talk to no strangers - no it ain't your style
Don't give up when the chips are down - just turn around and smile

Just walk on by - walk on by
Don't look over your shoulder - keep your head up high
Just walk on by - ya walk on

You're old enough to know why - you're old enough to know why

Now you're standing at the station - got a ticket in your hand
Guess you got you're mind made up - gotta get out while you can
Don't say I never told ya - now the rest is up to you
Those streets can be like a battlefield - when it's hard to make it thru...

Just walk on by - walk on by
Don't look over your shoulder - keep your head up high
Just walk on by

Walk on by - walk on by
You're a little bit lonely you're a little bit shy
Just walk on by

Walk on by - walk on by
Don't look over your shoulder - keep your head up high
Just walk on by

Walk on by - walk on by
You're a little bit lonely you're a little bit shy
Just walk on by

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