Double Fun

Robert Palmer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 15, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000001FTZ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,567 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Every Kinda People

2. Best Of Both Worlds

3. Come Over

4. Where Can It Go?

5. Night People

6. Love Can Run Faster

7. You Overwhelm Me

8. You Really Got Me

9. You're Gonna Get What's Coming

Editorial Reviews

Limited edition, deluxe vinyl-replica packaging. The meticulously crafted (13.5 cm) thick-cardboard package replicates the original vinyl LP while the CD is designed in the style of the vinyl itself (with its original label). 2011. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This was THEE one, September 27, 2003

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Robert F. Phillipps "phillipps" (Glendale, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Double Fun (Audio CD)

Listen up everybody: This was the album that got Robert on the radio. You had to be alive in 1978 and into music to know the refreshing impact his style had amidst all the disco-clutter at that time. To those who knew his style from this earlier time, his commercial "peak" was more of an anti-climax. I saw him in concert 4 times up close and he was a nonstop bundle of energy. He'd move from one song to the next and each one nearly melted into the next. (no, I was sober!) The rhythms were fantastic. Such an entertainer. And whenever songs from THIS release began, the crowd broke into their wildest cheers. They knew these were the songs that started it all. The ones that introduced us to this fabulous guy. The ones remembered most.... by those who knew him.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Double Fun,Quadruple Treat!, November 12, 2003

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Andre' S Grindle "Funk Meister" (Bangor,ME.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Double Fun (Audio CD)

This is the fourth of Robert Palmer's foursome of elegant,
funk R&B-tinged albums he recorded in the mid to llate 1970's and
it is yet another highpoint."Every Kind Of People" with it's
hihgly catchy steel drum melody is by far the ONLY way to start this album."Best Of Both Worlds" is an excellent Philly-style
dance number offering a welcome alternative to the Staurday Night
Fever infecting much of music at this point and on the strident
"Come Over" and the Sly Stone-style groove of The Kinks classic
"You Really Got Me" Palmer gives up the FONK!!!Think late 70's
pop was dull and shallow?Then pick this up (plus the three albums
that came before it).

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars RP's classiest recording for sophisticated tastes, February 3, 2005

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Wayne Racine (Ottawa, ON Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Double Fun (Audio CD)

I've been a Robert Palmer fan since the 70's and I have every single one of his recordings. In my opinion, this is his best overall effort if your tastes lean more towards soft sounds with a loungy, reggae groove. Two tracks here (Where Can It Go and You Overwhelm Me) rank among his very best blue-eyed soul, with string flourishes by Gene Page, giving RP a tastefully restrained Barry White-lite sound (without the grunts and groans). I also highly recommend PRIDE, RP's electronica masterpiece.