Sometimes Late at Night (Mlps) [Import, Limited Edition]

Carole Bayer Sager | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 28, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Limited Edition
• Label: Jvc Japan
• ASIN: B000BX4CUK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #439,779 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Won't Break

2. Just Friends

3. Tell Her

4. Somebody's Been Lying

5. On the Way to the Sky

6. You and Me (We Wanted It All)

7. Sometimes Late at Night

8. Wild Again

9. Easy to Love Again

10. Stronger Than Before

11. You Don't Know Me

12. Reprise

13. Reprise

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Unrivaled Heartbreaker, July 26, 2001

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dev1 (Baltimore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sometimes Late at Night / Carole Bayer Sager (Audio CD)

I don't recall just how I came across this recording twenty-years ago, but I'm delighted that I did. Usually, "Adult Contemporary" and "Easy Listening" are not my favorite types of popular music. Sometimes Late At Night is an exception, and likewise, an exceptional album.

If Carol Bayer Sager's intention was to cut deep into the listener's heart for forty-two minutes, Sometimes Late At Night is a success. The album chronicles the shattering of a romantic relationship from the first hint of trouble to its final demise. The Prolog opens with the line "Look how all our dreams came true/and see how I've got me and baby you've got you." Selfishness lends way to acknowledgement (I Won't Break), recollections of self-doubt (Somebody's Been Lying), unfulfilled dreams (Sometimes Late At Night), and the resurgence of self-reliance (Stronger Than Before).

Sager's voice is a quavering reed-thin instrument. At times she sing-speaks as if reading from a dairy (Prolog, Somebody's Been Lying, Sometimes Late At Night, Stronger Than Before, You Don't Know Me). Not an operatic singing voice, but more than capable of transferring emotion to the listener. And the impact of love lost is profound. I'm surprised that she was able to keep it together during the recording sessions.

Sometimes Late At Night doesn't fit easily in the category of "Easy Listening." This is an unrivaled heartbreaker.

Technical Note: Critical listening does reveal minor distortion. I believe this is a result of over saturating the original analog masters during passages with loud bass guitar lines. Still, I'd trade the vinyl LP for the CD any day. These trivial annoyances pale in comparison with Sager's painful lyrics and Burt Bacharach's luscious music.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars just a little more patience, March 30, 2002

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Sean T. Maloney (Farmington, Connecticut USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sometimes Late at Night / Carole Bayer Sager (Audio CD)

for all those disappointed in the remastering of this cd re. the glitch in the song "you don't know me," the cd will be released in japan on april 24th without any sound problems. add to that a complete booklet with full lyrics and no compromising of either the front or back album artwork. in other words, no ugly boardwalk label border on the front and the great back pic of carole and burt is maintained. thank god for the japanese!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars 1981 Release in Living MONO!!!, January 13, 2006

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D. R. Saxton "Dartanyon" (Bemus Pt. N.Y. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sometimes Late at Night / Carole Bayer Sager (Audio CD)

I was instantly disappointed when I put this CD on and listened to the wonderful world of Carole Sager in MONO. I was suspicious right off because the sound was pinched and compressed, so I put on my 100 dollar headphones to discover the CD was transfered to disc in Mono! It is a crime because nobody still recorded music in mono during the early '80s!!! Also the packaging was pretty low-budget, considering the price that was slapped on this disc. Another change from the 1981 LP was how the songs blended into one another. There were some nice segues between tracks on the original Record and the sound production was decent for that time period. My disc faded some songs early and there wasn't the nice segues anymore. Now I see some people are asking 30 bucks for this piece of junk. It could have been a real beauty but Boardwalk really messed up! Let's hope that the Japanese import that is coming soon will be done correctly, and allow this beautiful cd to be heard the way it should be heard again! Yes, in true STEREO!