Caught Up / Still Caught Up

Millie Jackson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 12, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hip-O Records
• ASIN: B00000HYCR
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,067 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #16 in Music > R&B > Soul > Northern
  • #45 in Music > R&B > Soul > Southern Soul

Track Listings

1. (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right

2. The Rap

3. (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right (Reprise)

4. All I Want Is A Fighting Chance

5. I'm Tired Of Hiding

6. It's All Over But The Shouting

7. So Easy Going, So Hard Coming Back

8. I'm Through Trying To Prove My Love To You

9. Summer (The First Time)

10. Loving Arms

11. Making The Best Of A Bad Situation

12. The Memory Of A Wife

13. Tell Her It's Over

14. Do What Makes You Satisfied

15. You Can't Stand The Thought Of Another Me

16. Leftovers

17. I Still Love You (You Still Love Me)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The 1974 Caught Up was Millie Jackson's breakthrough, a soul opera about infidelity with Jackson playing the "other woman" on one side-long suite, punctuated with an extended, down-and-dirty rap, and the wronged wife on the other. With the Muscle Shoals rhythm section's rippling pulse and slick, protodisco orchestrations backing up Jackson's histrionic but sensitive readings of a string of cheating-song covers (plus some originals that advance the plot), this was as high-concept as '70s soul got, and it's kept its savage emotional force even as its style dates it. This reissue couples it with the 1975 sequel Still Caught Up, which forces the narrative a little (it ends with the mistress going insane and being hauled away!) but spawned the hit "Leftovers." --Douglas Wolk

Product Description

No Description Available
No Track Information Available
Media Type: CD
Artist: JACKSON,MILLIE
Title: CAUGHT UP/STILL CAUGHT UP
Street Release Date: 01/12/1999
Domestic
Genre: SOUL/R & B

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic,masterpiece,immortal!!!, March 7, 2001

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Sasha "lampic" (at sea...sailing somewhere) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Caught Up / Still Caught Up (Audio CD)

As a certain english bard noticed centuries ago,fashion may change,politics are changing,religions too,but basic human emotions stays the same."Caught up" recorded in 1974. still have the power to move the listener,27 years after its release,simply because subject of love triangle would always be the part of our relationships and on this album explores this story with unsurpassed passion and honesty.Yes,true,music with its early,pre-disco funk could be recognised as result of early 1970's but its the first class production and interpretation,nevertheless sounds great simply because its original and today funk stars are trying to achieve same effects. I found strange that at the time of release,Millie Jackson was considered to be singer who is hiding her vocal limitations with "rap",when to my ears her robust,gritty,passionate voice sounds like one of the best voices I ever heard (combination of Gladys Knight and Tina Turner).I guess that her underrated status comes from the fact that every black female singer at the time was compared to Aretha Franklin,and Jackson openly admitted that she never had any singing lessons in her life - which make her one of the great natural talents and for me,she is singer nr.1 - I heard "Caught Up" just a few days ago and althought I discovered it late (27 years after recording) I am fan for life.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Play on "repeat" for days at a time!, December 1, 2006

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Christopher Enzi (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Caught Up / Still Caught Up (Audio CD)

Like a great Joan Crawford movie, this album grows in stature the more times you expose yourself to it's loopy logic and hyperactive emotionalism. It is GREAT music, as beautifully produced as anything from the 1970s. It's stuffed with drama and melodrama- child, they drag somebody off IN A STAIGHTJACKET at the end of this soap opera! There are truly adult situations and some great filthy gags. There are two foolish women, in love with the same cheating man, grappling for a little bit of happiness with violins, electric guitars and some great horns. Sure chortle about "that'd make us wife-in-laws!" but the beauty of the music and the real humanity of the characters will hold your attention for many, many hours. A TREASURE!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars TELL IT LiKE IT IS, May 24, 2000

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A customer "mistermaxxx" (usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Caught Up / Still Caught Up (Audio CD)

Millie Jackson has never Fronted.Her Music has been some of the Most Honest Ever Recorded.Her Voice&Music Here are Very Essential.She is Very Underrated but is a Great Musical Force.when you hear Millie Jackson You Know You are Hearing the Truth.