Chaka Khan [Import]

Chaka Khan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 30, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Import [Generic]
• ASIN: B0000071C2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,389 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chaka's Best and i got it!!, April 14, 2005

By 

J. Hayes "Just SayJoe" (San Francisco, Ca USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Chaka Khan (Audio CD)

Hate to brag but I have this on cd and it is one of my all time favorites!!! Incredible cd!! Why is it that Chaka's best grammy winning album is out of print?? Reissue with the tearin it up remix!!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars C.K. strikes again!, May 22, 2003

By 

Andre' S Grindle "Funk Meister" (Bangor,ME.) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Chaka Khan (Audio CD)

It's difficult to fault any of Khan's work,with and without
Rufus but "Chaka Khan" is just incredible.The wide-open production is loaded with brittle synths and beats and Chaka has
never sung more ferverantly.The opener "Tearin' it Up" sets the tone for the rest of this set,as does it's closer "Pass It On"
and everything in between wins out.Of particular note is Chaka's
invention of "cowgirl funk" on "Best In The West"-complete with
a shotgun blast to welcome you to the show.But most impressive is
the "Be-Bop Medley"-Chaka Khan and Arif Mardin lay out a long bass
and vocorder-whipped groove over which Chaka sings,scats and jitters her way through a medly of 40's jazz standards with a great beat.Hard to believe this was 1982 and that such naked
ambition was then considered so cool,but it was.Sophisticated music you can get down to-what more can one say but Chaka Khan!

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Kind of Album Around Which Artists' Cults Form, July 7, 2004

By 

Jeff Pearlman (Lakeland, FL USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Chaka Khan (Audio CD)

I just listened to this on vinyl. It's amazing. It goes from a hot dance track ("Tearin' It Up") to a crisp duet with Rick James ("Slow Dancin'") to another cute dance number ("Best In the West") to a beautiful version of "Got To Be There." When originally released, I bought the single of "Got To Be There" after catching one of its all-too-few plays on the radio. It blows all other versions away, and makes Michael Jackson's rendition sound like the mere novelty it was probably always intended to be (he was too young--then--and too immature--still--for the song).

The second side opens with the ambitious "BeBop Medley" of stuff I'd mostly never heard of. Not many vocalists, R&B or otherwise, could pull off something like this on their records (Natalie Cole comes to mind as an exception). It swings, it sways, and it's not pretentious as the list of songs on the album cover had me fearing. Proof that Ella was still influential into the mid-'80's. The rest of side two is also fine.

As I type this, "Chaka Khan" is out of print on CD. Too bad, as I looked this up to check on its availability. Hopefully it will be reissued soon. It wasn't Ms. Khan's most popular album but it may be her best.