All the Love [Import]

Oleta Adams | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 12, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Monarch Records
• ASIN: B00005Q6LJ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #140,397 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2001 album for the vocalist who got her first big break when Tears For Fears discovered her and featured her on the 'Seeds of Love' album and tour. Co-produced by Peter Wolf. 12 tracks including the first single, 'When You Walked Into My Life'. Standard j --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic R & B!!!, February 22, 2002

By 

jerry grigsby (Cincinnati Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All the Love (Audio CD)

I hope that this CD gets a lot of airplay and a wide audience gets to hear it because this is an excellent CD. In this age of hip-hop influenced R & B, it's great to hear a good old fashioned soul sound with a little jazz thown in for good measure.Oleta Adams, in my opinion, has never gotten the praise that she deserves. If she doesn't get it after this classic, she never will. This CD is so good that it could pass for a greatest hits CD on it's own. So, if you're into traditional soul/R&B, you can't miss with this CD. Oleta's songwriting and voice has never been better. Toni Braxton and Jennifer Lopez take note....this is how it's done!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Quiet Comeback; Worthwhile For Admirers, March 14, 2001

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Todd Kay - See all my reviews

This review is from: All the Love (Audio CD)

Excepting her successful debut, 1990's "Circle Of One," this gifted singer/songwriter/pianist's records have never garnered the attention and sales that her remarkably supple voice and poised delivery would command in an entirely just world. This Monarch Records import distributed by BMG Netherlands represents her first full-length collection of new material since '97's gospel release "Come Walk With Me," and her first foray into secular songs since '95's dismal "Moving On." While it offers a significant advance on the latter, those who have awaited the next great Oleta Adams CD (and she has never lacked a modest but devoted following) will have to extend their patience.

More than on previous releases, Adams, whether in her capacity as a songwriter or an interpreter of outside material, here attempts to integrate her longstanding twin themes: expressions of religious devotion ("In The Beginning") and snapshots of intimate relationships in transition ("Love Was Spoken Here"; the self-penned "Bump In The Road" and "Learning To Love You More," the latter song openly identified as an olive branch to her sister). In some cases, the line becomes blurred -- the words could be addressed to a lover, a friend, or a higher power. Most of the album is given over to big, glossy, anthemic ballads of the kind one might hear on an Academy Awards telecast, but Adams is never less than committed in belting them out, and the very best of them (specifically "I Can't Live A Day Without You," with its elegantly turned lyric and soaring chorus, which gives the album an early peak) are sturdy examples of their genre. The production throughout is "tasteful," e.g., mellow, soft-edged, and determinedly midtempo, which keeps Adams's funkier side (see "Rhythm of Life" from her first album, or "Easier To Say Goodbye" from her second) tucked away for the duration. Only the opener, "Sweet Side Of Life," offers even a hint of R&B grit, and it stops at the hint.

The set concludes with another Adams composition, "Just Before I Go To Sleep," this one a wary but guardedly optimistic prayer for strength, patience, and a better world, on which the singer's vocal arches from gentle plea to fiery vow and back again, backed only by her own pensive piano accompaniment. It is a performance of surpassing loveliness, and it helps seal the view that while newcomers to Adams would be better served by Mercury's excellent best-of compilation or one of her first two albums ("Circle of One" or '93's wondrous "Evolution"), devotees will find much to enjoy here, even at the steep import price. One hopes a major label soon gives this artist the commitment (and the attendant promotion) she deserves.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oleta has the Best Voice with soul!!, July 12, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: All the Love (Audio CD)

OLETA ADAMS: ALL THE LOVE:  It is so refreshing to finally hear the melifluous tones of underrated, yet self-contained artist such as Oleta Adams. This classically trained pianist/vocalist who has finally released a wonderful new CD, entitled, "ALL THE LOVE," currently only released in Holland.  

This CD has an underlying spiritual theme resonating throughout in relation to all aspects of life: love, family and  faith, starting out with "Sweet Side Of Life", a mid-to-uptempo song of inspiration aimed at women.  It speaks from the perspective of a single mother struggling to raise a child while all of her friends and peers are prospering.  The title track is an immediately catchy song and is one of Oleta's self-composed opuses on this project.  Other Adams compositions include "Bump In The Road"; the beautiful ballad "Learning To Love You More;" "The Power Of Sacrifice" which has a highly percussive undercurrent

reminisnent of  songs on the "Circle Of One" album.  This song is about true love ....real true love.  Listen to the lyric!  "In The Beginning" and "I Can't Live A Day Without You" continue from where her last CD, "Come Walk With Me" left off.  Contemporary Gospel at its best!    Hopeless romantics will love  "Just Before I Go To Sleep" (my personal favorite).  Without a doubt, this project is just what the listening public needs right now: meaningful lyrics, moving melodies, real musicians and a talented vocalist who can move you to tears.