I Care 4 U [Extra tracks, Import]

Aaliyah | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 3, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Wea
• ASIN: B00007LL9L
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #321,832 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Back & Fourth

2. Are You That Somebody

3. One In A Million

4. I Care 4 U

5. More Than A Woman

6. Don't Know What To Tell Ya (Unreleased)

7. Try Again

8. All I Need (Unreleased)

9. Miss U (Unreleased)

10. Don't Worry (Unreleased)

11. Come Over (Unreleased)

12. Erica Kane (Unreleased)

13. At Your Best

14. Got To Give It Up (New Remix)

15. We Need A Resolution (Bonus Track)

16. Rock The Boat (Bonus Track)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Aaliyah, Life so short.., January 31, 2004

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Brooklynn (Wilmington, DE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Care 4 U (Audio CD)

This album, "I Care For You" is basically, old tracks, and new tracks. I loved listening to her older songs such as, "One in a Million," and "Try Again." Her new songs including, "Erica Kane" and "Don't Know What to Tell Ya" were most impressive. I shared "Don't Know What To Tell Ya", a upbeat lyriced song, with a friend and she went out and both the album!
Aaliyah, you were a TRULY magnificent, classic, classy, and mature, individual. I love you so much, and my collage of you is growing daily. Your legacy and music shall live on...

+*+Brooklynn*+*
...And to the others who weren't as lucky...

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars i care for you, May 20, 2003

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Adzi (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Care 4 U (Audio CD)

Overall, a very well put together cd.
Aaliah does well on this album with many mixed beats; she uses all kinds of music with some very fast hip hop/jive beats to very laid-back mellow sounds. Some of the tracks on the album are from Aaliah's early days when she first started out with other artists in her songs; which then go up to to the current date to more newer tracks such as 'try again', 'we need a resoulution', 'rock the boat', 'miss you'.etc, also with newer tracks and remixes never heard before too mostly with artists like Timbaland and missy elliot.
Also on some albums there might be 1/2 bonus tracks.
Overall this is a very good album with super body pumping beats to slow love songs, which makes this album perfect for anyone to listen to, which is why i listen to it the most.
And it seems like Aaliah has left us with the perfect ending....
5/5 to this perfect album....
R.I.P AALIAH*

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Remembering Aaliyah, December 30, 2010

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rmcrae (Houston, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Care 4 U (Audio CD)

It's crazy that this coming August will mark a full decade since Aaliyah's tragic passing. I remember that Sunday morning like it was yesterday. I'd just finished my first week of high school (and was feeling very proud of myself) and I heard my mom walk into my room and sit at the foot of my bed. I thought she was waking me up for church when I heard her whisper, "Aaliyah died in a plane crash yesterday. I'm so sorry." I literally jumped out of bed thinking I'd heard her wrong, but sadly it was true. I turned on the tv and there were all these fans trying to speak through sobs on the news. That's when I lost it. I remember being in too much shock to pay attention to the sermon that day.

For a long time all these questions kept racing through my mind. "How could this be?" "She was only 22 with so much more to do! Why did this happen?" Aaliyah wasn't a family member or a friend of course. However, I always admired and looked up to her. Here was this beautiful young woman who was sweet, humble, hard working, and talented. To be taken so soon and so tragically was more than I could wrap my mind around. It's still hard to comprehend today.

Although she's no longer here, Aaliyah has left behind such a rich legacy. Released over a year after her death, I Care 4 U compiles a handful of Aaliyah's hit singles as well as previously unreleased material. The R. Kelly produced single Back & Forth, with it's catchy "who is the L-I-Y-A-H?" refrain, introduced the mysterious one's "street but sweet" sound to the masses. The ethereal cover of the Isley Brothers' classic At Your Best (You Are Love) proves that you don't have to possess multi-octave powerhouse vocals to pull emotion from a song. The first lines sung in that silky soulful delivery a capella get me every time.

By 1996, Aaliyah distanced herself from R. Kelly and joined forces with then unknown producer Timbaland and rapper/singer Missy Elliott. The results are amazing. The hypnotic One in a Million gave Liyah a laidback, late night background to vibe on. "Your love is a one in a million/It goes on and on and on/You give me a really good feeling/All day long." I don't know what The-Dream was smoking when he butchered it, but I digress. The Marvin Gaye cover Got to Give It Up appears in a remixed form without the raps from Slick Rick. It's pretty good, but I prefer the album version. Are You that Somebody?, the 1998 single from the Dr. Dolittle soundtrack, gave Aaliyah some crossover appeal with it's signature baby coo and quirky rap from Timbaland. I still remember jumping rope to it during recess. Tim's icy, futuristic production on Try Again, from the Romeo Must Die soundtrack, gave Baby Girl another hit in early 2000.

By 2001, Aaliyah had finally released her third and self-titled record. I have never heard anything as unique as We Need a Resolution before or since. The funky dance track More Than a Woman was released shortly after Aaliyah's death, but my favorite of the three singles is the slinky Rock the Boat. Rather than using crass lyrics, Aaliyah uses clever metaphors that get the point across in a tasteful manner. The neo-soul ballad I Care 4 U was originally recorded for One in a Million, but it's so fresh and timeless you'd never know.

Now to the B-sides. The Minnie Riperton-esque I Miss You tells the story of two lovers who drift apart after one of them goes away to college. "It's been too long and I'm lost without you/What am I gonna do?/Said I've been needin' you, wantin' you... I miss you." Aaliyah's silky vocals and the sweet chirping of a songbird give it a new meaning with Baby Girl's tragic passing. Don't Know What to Tell Ya has the same slightly sinister, Middle Eastern vibe of We Need a Resolution. Tired of being controlled and not trusted by a guy who's been burned in the past, Aaliyah tells him that "it's gonna take T-R-U-S-T/To keep my L-O-V-E... Don't compare me to your last one/I can't help that she was a fast one, a sassy one/I'm a classy one." It was released as a single for a good reason.

The breezy All I Need opens with the light strumming of a guitar before Aaliyah sings in a huskier tone a la Toni Braxton. It's not the most original track, but I love how simple it is and it's great to chill to. Come Over is a sensual slow jam featuring Tank on backup vocals. Wanting to spend some time with her man, she calls him and purrs "Can I stop by to see you tonight?" The relaxed chorus is addictive and reminiscent of the Isley Brothers' more recent slow jams. It would've been awesome had Ronald dueted with Aaliyah. Baby Girl loved her some Isley Brothers.

The dark Erica Kane is dedicated to Susan Lucci's soap opera bad girl. The chorus is repetitive, but I still enjoy it. Don't Worry is the only song I have a hard time getting into. The production is too busy and the beat too off-kilter. Honestly I could do without it.

With the 10 year anniversary of Aaliyah's passing coming up soon, I think a better greatest hits and B-side collection would be nice. Songs like No Days Go By, Givin' Up, Steady Ground (with the late Static Major), and Let Me Down Easy (another Isley cover) to name a few.

Aaliyah would've turned 32 this coming January 16th. It's heartbreaking that all one can do is imagine where her career would be now. She was and will always remain one of my favorite artists of all time. She was a musical risk taker who played by her own rules (much like her self-confessed "soul sister" Sade) and I bet she'd be a superstar today. R.I.P. Baby Girl.