Elementary

Cindy Morgan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 28, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00005NNLW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #427,399 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The World Needs Your Love

2. Good Thing

3. Elementary

4. Love Can

5. New World

6. Believe

7. End Of The World

8. Walk In The Rain

9. Grape Soda

10. Sunshine

11. Happy

12. Love Is Waiting

13. In These Rooms

14. I Love You

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The BEST!, September 15, 2001

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"worldofcm" (Cleveland, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Elementary (Audio CD)

Cindy Morgan is one of those artists that continues to amaze me with every album she records. Hands down, one of the best songwriters in the industry (she's written for Rachael Lampa, Michael English, Sandi Patty, and Michelle Tumes to name a few), she manages to touch on issues such as fear, pain, and human insecurity that no one else really has the guts to tackle. However, with her latest album, we see a different Cindy. We see a joyful, happy and "glad to be alive" Cindy. Honestly, when I first heard that the album was going to be much lighter, and not so serious, I was very disappointed. Listen and The Loving Kind were absolute masterpieces and were very dark albums. However, upon listening to the album, I remembered why Cindy Morgan is one of the most respected artists in the industry. She managed to sing these fluffy songs without the fluff that one might expect. She wrote these fluffy songs with as much anti-fluff as possible. Songs like "Sunshine", "Happy", "Good Thing" and "I Love You" come off as being lyrical masterpeices, despite their subject matter. Cindy is also heavily experimenting with some different sounds on this album, which she co-produced with Brent Bourgeois. Did I mention that? She covers sounds from piano based pop ("The World Needs Your Love") to 1960's lounge music ("Believe") to 1970's latin infused pop ("New World") to jazz ("Love is Waiting") to modern pop/electronica ("Good Thing") and even 1920's flapper music ("I Love You"). What's so funny is that Cindy pulls them all off with such ease and clarity. Fans of her stark piano ballads shouldn't get too upset, "Love Can" and "In These Rooms" are truly Cindy and probably the best songs on the album. I applaud Word Records for letting Cindy take such risks and allowing her to create probably the best album I've heard all year, and trust me, I've heard a lot of music this year.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just keeps getting better and better!, October 22, 2001

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Bria (TX. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Elementary (Audio CD)

Cindy Morgan never ceases to amaze me! I would say that this album is the best, but, then again, every album of hers is the best. 'Elementary' proves, yet again, that Ms. Morgan is not about conforming or even about pop culture. All she knows is her music and her heart, and she delivers a little bit more of both with each new recording. As the wise man once said, she really is "a breath of fresh air". In a day when so much of the music sounds like mass production off of a conveyor belt, 'Elementary' has reminded me of what music really is. Every song on this album is completely original, and like nothing I've ever heard before. She's taken music to realms I didn't even know existed. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More "Listen"-able than "Loving Kind", September 7, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Elementary (Audio CD)

After her disappointing "Best So Far" album that included too many earlier works, this new album seems to blend the sounds from her last two studio albums into a unique sounding collection. Different, yet the same. The same piano driven sound is there but there is more orchestation behind the tracks, from the Latin tinged sounds of "New World" to string and jazzy/bluesy brass arrangements on many of the tracks. I liked Brent Bourgeois's liner comment thanking Cindy for "a much needed breath of fresh air". Cindy is trying a lot of different sounds and styles and having a lot of fun here. More "pop" sounding than "Loving Kind", yet not as edgy as "Listen" and more mellow and upbeat, it shows Cindy Morgan as she continues to mature as a songwriter and a vocalist. Not as strong overall as "Listen" it still stands out amongst much of CCM pop which often seems to sound the same.