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Dangerous

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I bought this album for one song "A little bit of heaven", because I love the Soap-Opera "Santa Barbara" (in Germany "California Clan") The other songs are good and the quality of this album is also ok. I know that this album is a little bit older, but old wine is the best wine :-))

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Karin from Germany

Natalie Cole's "Dangerous" is truely a lost 80's gem. All the songs have a mid-80's feel to them, full of catchy synthesizers, and drum samples. There were only two minor hits from this album: "Dangerous" (#57) and "A Little Bit Of Heaven" (#81), but it is still worth while. Give it a listen, and you might enjoy this album.

Natalie Cole's 1985 Album Dangerous marks her Pop-Rock Crossover and unfortunately the most Overlooked of all of her Pop-Rock albums.This is an important album,because after a career slump,she is on the verge of a Major Comeback.The songlist contains Dangerous,Billy The Kid Next Door,Secrets,Nobodys' Soldier,Opposites Actract,A Little Bit Of Heaven,Your Car(My Garage),Love Is On The Way,and The Gift. Now 10 Years after her 1975 Debut Comparisons to her father the late Nat King Cole,Aretha Franklin,Diana Ross,Chaka Khan,Ella Fitzgerald,and Nancy Wilson are finally a thing of the past.

This is an older album, but one of Natalie's best! Dangerous and A little Bit of Heaven are the best songs, but all deserve a listen. I bought the album for the song "Dangerous" and found myself listening to the whole album over and over. "A little bit of Heaven" has a catchy melody and will get you hooked. I found it well worth the money and even though the songs are a bit dated, I still listen to it now.

Two years after a failed album on Epic/CBS ("I'm Ready", which should have been BIG), came "Dangerous" in 1985. This one was a comeback of sorts, but only in the Dance category with a #1 hit in the title cut which would be a carbon copy of the Pointer Sisters' "Jump (for My Love)." The rest would show signs of Miss Natalie heading in a more Pop/Crossover kind of direction in the second single, "A Little Bit of Heaven," which would feature production from Tina Turner's hitmakers Lyle and Britten ("What's Love Got to Do with It." The sound/production incidentally, would be quite similar too.) The rest, however, isn't very good, leaving its predecessor, "I'm Ready" to boast more.

"Opposites Attract" is a funky, brassy affair which stays true to Old School Funk and R&B formats, while "Your Car (My Garage)" is just awful in both melody as well as in lyrical content. Even the metaphor is really bad.

Aside of these, what the listener is left with is a collection of songs that remind one of what was to come in 1987 with the next album and REAL COMEBACK success found on "Everlasting," which featured the HUGE hits, "Jump Start," "I Live for Your Love" and "Pink Cadillac."

If you're a new fan, start with her Capitol Anthology which is where her early successes lie. If you're an older fan, unless you're a diehard, then I would seriously skip this one altogther. The sound is very 80's Pop, but not the catchy kind that Paula Abdul was doing. It's more like bad Patti Labelle solo stuff for that time (i.e. "New Attitude" and "Stir it Up," but FAR worse.

Dangerous? Doubtful. Not even a threat to her contemporaries at this point in her career. This album could quite possibly be the worst of her entire multi-label repertoire.

I bought this album at a K-Mart in 1988 on cassette. This album sounded BORING! I just couldn't believe that Natalie Cole made this album. Most of the album put me to sleep! Too many boring ballads. By the time I got up, the album was over. The only good song was the song Dangerous. Fortunately, it took her two to three albums to get her back on top. So this album is like anonymous to me today.