Luxury You Can Afford [Import]

Joe Cocker | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 25, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Wea International
• ASIN: B00000AOQV
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #308,575 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fun Time

2. Watching The River Flow

3. Boogie Baby

4. A Whiter Shade Of Pale

5. I Can't Say No

6. Southern Lady

7. I Know (You Don't Want Me No More)

8. What You Did To Me Last Night

9. Lady Put The Light Out

10. Wasted Years

11. I Heard It Through The Grapevine

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This one is a GEM, January 20, 2006

By 

Dexbet "digbeesmith" (North East Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Luxury You Can Afford (Audio CD)

I used to listen to this record when I was in the Army stationed in Germany late 70's early 80's. We used to sit in the barracks drinking really good German beer and cranking Joe on the stereo. Always being asked to turn it down.

This album has continuity to it. Goes together from beginning to end. Has a few power ballads on it that are just so soulful. Joe can rock too. Highly recommended to the hard core Joe fan and the casual listener. Produced and arranged by Allan Toussaint so you can gather that it is a superbly recorded album. Nothin but class. A luxury you can afford. Seriously.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent use of raw sound, one of his best, June 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Luxury You Can Afford (Audio CD)

I recommend this to anyone that loves classic Cocker. I have been trying to track this one down every since they stopped selling vinyl. Fun Time is the greatest party song, and all the others are true classics. I promise if you buy this you will not be disappointed.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Obscure, but fantastic, December 15, 2006

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Kenneth Heard (Jonesboro, Ark) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Luxury You Can Afford (Audio CD)

I bought the vinyl album of Luxury for $2 in a Paragould, Ark., flea market in 1988 and nearly played the grooves off it on the turntable. I just purchased the CD and play it constantly. It's a lesser known Joe album, but it is ever as good as anything else he does. (Joe could sing the headlines from daily newspapers and it would be classic).

There is a great mix of Joe's talent on this album. The third track, Boogie Baby, in infectous. It's followed with Whiter Shade of Pale, the Procol Harum classic. Like all else, Joe covers this better, I think, than the original artist ( I know, blaspheme against Harum). I told him this once when I met him in Memphis and he got embarrassed. He's a very humble, likable guy! The ninth track, Lady Put the Lights Out, is a personal favorite of mine. The neat thing is that I loved the song when I first heard it. Nearly 20 years later, despite a lot of changes in my musical tastes, I still am moved by the beauty of the tune.

Even the track Heard It Through The Grapevine, a song I am not particularly fond of, is done well by Joe.

This album features a good range of his talent. From the moving Lady and Wasted Years to the funky Fun Time to the rocking What You Did To Me Last Night, Joe covers it all. I'd buy the greatest hits albums first.. Gold is a good one, but once you get hooked on Joe, Luxury You Can Afford is a must.