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In The Village Voice, Robert Christgau lamented the amount of filler throughout the two discs in the form of several hymns and love songs, but complimented the secular songs about true love, ordinary life, and "the days before rock and roll", finding the album "more affecting than you'd figure" overall. [11]
"Ultraviolet (Light My Way)" [1] is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the tenth track from their seventh studio album Achtung Baby.Ostensibly about love and dependency, the song also lends itself to religious interpretations, with listeners finding allusions to the Book of Job and writers finding spiritual meaning in its invocation of the light spectrum.
Gotta Serve Somebody was Grammy nominated for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album and also Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals for the Bob Dylan and Mavis Staples duet but neither of the prizes was won. [1] The New York Times called the record "The best African-American covers of Dylan songs since Jimi Hendrix." [2]
"Ain't That Good News" is a secular reworking of an old spiritual. The spiritual's lyrics proclaimed the singer's faith and love for Jesus, built around gospel themes and a slow gospel tempo with an underlying pulsating drive. [5] Sam Cooke, however, transformed the song into an uptempo soulful number with an upbeat horn and rhythm section.
Love Remains debuted at number 7 on the Billboard 200 with 28,000 units sold in its first week. [3] It was the fourth best-selling album of the week. [13] The album also debuted at numbers one and 2 on the Top Christian Albums and Top Country Albums charts, respectively. The album has sold 165,000 copies in the United States as of December 2017 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Truly: The Love Songs (1997) Time (1998) Truly: The Love Songs is the second compilation album by Lionel ...
AllMusic editor Steve Huey rated the album three ouf of five stars. He felt that Spiritual Love "features a number of fine moments that equal the best of their debut; the juxtaposition of sexy, slinky, urban R&B grooves with non-secular subject matter still seems a bit odd – form not matching up with content – but Christian music fans will be happy to have a sound they enjoy with the ...
Spiritual Healing has been called Death's "most lyrically dominated album," and is described as a concept album about mental illness and physical disability. [5] It was the first of the band's albums to show Schuldiner's lyrics moving away from the gore and horror themes of the band's previous works (though some tracks do retain the "gratuitous ...