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Heartbeat
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by Don Johnson
Sales Rank: 47559
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$37.99
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on 9-8-2008.
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Features Ron Wood and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
This review is from: Heartbeat (Audio CD)
Hoo-boy. One can't really discuss the 80s without discussing Don Johnson, and one can't really love the 80s without loving the actor who defined the decade. The musical question is, How to justify this with the fact that the title track from this album constantly shows up on "cheesiest," "worst" and "makes me want to kill myself" lists? I've got to come clean: I think DJ is great. I'm one of those freaks who has no problem with him comparing himself to De Niro, because I completely agree with the sentiment. And I know that makes me sick and wrong. So, that out of the way, how about the album? Realistically, it's a sturdy, serviceable corporate pop/rock record. It's obvious the record company wanted to cash in on the Vice craze in a big way. This album boasts big-name talent like Stevie Ray Vaughn, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Ron Wood and others on vocals and backing tracks, and more big-name talent like Bog Seger and Tom Petty helping out with songwriting. The sound has an eighties production sheen, but avoids the cheesy keyboards and actually sounds pretty muscular on tracks like "Last Sound Love Makes" and "Gotta Get Away." The one indulgence I will allow myself, as a DJ fan, is to go over the top in my description of the album closer, "Can't Take your Memory." A beautiful piano-driven ballad, Don delivers a vocal of striking power and emotion. I really believe you could play this track in a "blind" test, and most folks would herald the dude singing it as a major undiscovered talent. But, alas, he is Don Johnson. A joke to many, a hero to some and a major talent nonetheless. Five stars for DJ fans, two and a half for everybody else.
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