Customer Reviews

Music Is Life

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3 star:		(1)
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I am Jeffrey Osborne's biggest fan. I have followed him since his L.T.D. days and his voice is like a fine wine. It never changes, it just keeps on getting better. And this new compact disc is proof of that. It is one of his best. Each song has its own personality. I really love the wedding song that he wrote and it is sung as only Jeffrey can. If you purchase this compact disc, you will be glad that you did!

I think that Music Is Life is his best post A&M records album! The songs have better melody, rhythm and Jeffrey Osborne sounds so fabulous vocally. It helps that Jeffrey and another producer produced all of the songs, showing that he had more creative control. I like Caller ID, where he goes after the woman who is with another man by checking the messages on her phone answering machine to see if she is cheating on him. Another surprise is his remake of his former group LTD's Stranger and its familiar, famous NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA section that some R&B singers like R. Kelly have sung on their songs. The last album sounded too elevator music like, but Music Is Life is Jeffrey at his finest.

I have always loved Jeffery Osborne and also the group LTD. I'm in my mid-30s, but have been into "old school". I saw J.O. in concert and he rocked the place! The next day I purchased all his CDs and a few of LTD. "Music is Life" is off the hook. Tom Joyner's interview of J.O. was on the money; ALL the cuts are fantastic, but my favorties are cuts #1, 2, 5, and especially #6.
"Caller ID" has a great beat and sound. It's the first cut I play every day to and from work. If you don't dance to this CD, you must be dead!

I think Jeffrey pulls off "Rest Of Our Lives", "Caller ID" and "Her Kisses" but the rest of the CD is mediocre because the material doesn't match Jeffrey's excellent voice. I hope the producers of his next CD raise the bar material-wise to match Jeffrey's skillset.

After all of these years He still have it. A must have CD. With Jeffrey: Music Is Life, Barrington Henderson: Best Kept Secret, and The Temptations;Legacy is good riding music. Keep up the good work Jeffrey.

Purchased this CD after hearing interview on Tom Joyner...it IS as good as they said it would be! Jeffrey Osborne has not lost his touch...there are sweet love songs, soulful jams, something for everyone. My favorites: "Rest of Our Lives", "Stranger" (only J.O. could remake his own cut!), "Her Kisses" (love the beat), "Pretty Thing" and "Love the Pain Away."

You need to add this to your collection!

Three years after Osborne's comeback album, the singer returns with a slightly uneven blend of now and then. The "now" being songs definitely patterned after current musical trends (the title track sounding as if it were penned by Missy Elliott), standard ballads (of which Osborne is a master), and a revamping of an LTD classic ("Stranger").

Osborne's voice is as strong today as it was when he was the front man for the aforementioned group. Unfortunately, there are two or three tracks that should've been left in the studio.

Their inclusion makes this a 3 1/2 star album, rounded off to four.

Jeffrey Osborne is one of the finest voices that soul music has ever produced. However the longer his career has progressed, the production standards of his period with A&M records have disappeared. 'Music is life,' is the first Osborne album that I have turned off mid-track. The reason was quite simple. Although there is no match to his voice, the orchestrations are cheap and tacky. 'Stranger,' was one of his strongest L.T.D. tracks, but the vocals could not disguise the instruments, that frankly could have been reproduced on one of those Casio hand-held organs that were around in the early 1980's.

To kill off my disappointment, I pulled out an L.T.D. cd and went back to better days.

Cd came in new condition with end 10 days. I will order gain from sender.

There wasn't one song, including stranger, that I liked. I expected selections similar to the album one love and emotional. I wanted those kinds of songs and I didn't get it. The songs seemed empty and quickly put together. Nothing different in the melodies. This CD goes on the back shelf. I am still a fan just not of this album.