Friday's Child [Extra tracks, Import]

Will Young | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 22, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Sony Bmg Europe
• Copy Protected
• ASIN: B0000D1BYW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #135,028 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Second album from the first UK Pop Idol champion attempts to broaden his style, with Young getting more involved in the production process, co-writing more than half the songs. The album's title track is a fully orchestrated nine minute epic & it also features a cover of Stephen Stills's 'Love The One You're With' as well as the single 'Leave Right Now'. 11 tracks. Copy Controlled. BMG. 2003.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a surprise, November 15, 2004

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Charles J. Hampton-snow (Chester, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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i don't even know how i heard of this guy ,but i just spent all day working on my home and listening to this CD OVER AND OVER AGAIN.laid back and kind of jazzy ,this is a GREAT cd.some real standout songs ,but all the songs are listenable

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In Reality a 10! Perfect, January 13, 2004

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K. N. Nelson (California, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Friday's Child (Audio CD)

Oh, Wow! This guy's voice is just astonishing. Like a painter or sculpter creating visual images Will uses his voice to sculpt musical pictures in an ultra cool, futuristic way that is guaranteed to blow the mind. Will is a genius. He is light years ahead of anyone else. His magnetic delivery of "Light my Fire" at the "World Idol" contest left me reeling, and I am glad I taped it. I bought everything on CD and DVD that Will has released the next day. If you want the DVDs you have to order through Amazon.com,uk. and you need a PAL, Region 2 capable DVD player like a Daewoo to play them. But it is worth it.

Song #3 "Stronger" is indescribable how he uses his amazing vibrato in a vocal loop that makes it sound almost flute-like at times.

#4 "Leave Right Now" is an incredibly hypnotic love song that he ignites with his special magic and passion that gets you where you live. And you feel it.

#5 "Love is a matter of distance" is so deeply beautiful it will make you cry when you hear it. His incredible tone perfect voice with its natural vibrato is so amazingly elastic its almost unbelievable.

Songs 6-10 are songs he wrote. They are very very different and experimental. It may take several listenings before one can take in all the complexities he creates musically, especially with his astonishing vocal range and his sound sculpting abilities with his vocal elasticity. Backup tracks that he sings are amazing. He is an amazing song writer. Overall, to me, it sounds like a totally european really hip music scene.

Song #11 Is just gorgeous. His voice is just gorgeous. He is an incredible song stylist. An amazing, ultra hip sound track with its hypnotic groove shimmers behind his voice and vice versa. You gotta have this CD. It's Totally 21st Century Sound. Incredible!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Will needs to come into mainstream US pop!, January 9, 2004

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Danielle Kuehnel "A Trendy Twentysomething" (Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Friday's Child (Audio CD)

I was introduced to Will Young through a fluke watching "World Idol," a show that I usually would object to watching. Anyway, after his performance, I was hooked. He sings with such passion and heart. This is a great CD, as well as his other one!