Taxi [Import, Original recording remastered]

Bryan Ferry | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 17, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: EMI Europe Generic
• ASIN: B00002DEB1
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #120,668 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Put A Spel On You

2. Will You Love Me Tomorrow

3. Answer Me

4. Just One Look

5. Rescue Me

6. All Tomorrows Parties

7. Girl Of My Best Friend

8. Amazing Grace

9. Taxi

10. Because You're Mine

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Elegant interpretations, November 22, 2003

By 

Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Taxi (Audio CD)

Bryan Ferry does his equivalent of Bowie's Pin Ups on this interesting album. I Put A Spell On You and Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow get the ultra smooth treatment with ghostly keyboards lending an eerie feel to the arrangements. Answer Me has similar atmospheric synth flashes, whilst the guitar and organ on Just One Look make it special.

The song Rescue Me has muffled vocal samples, swirling keyboards and an infectious rhythm track with Ferry's vocal wrapping itself around every musical turn and twist; this is a highlight of the album. His version of All Tomorrow's Parties has an unexpected arrangement, not lilting and flowing but jagged and halting.

Old style rock `n roll guitar opens Girl Of My Best Friend and Ferry sings a bit like that too, with more emotion and passion. The up-tempo Amazing Grace is another unusual interpretation, restrained vocals with impressive organ embellishments and a lively rhythm.

The title track is introduced by the sound of rain and car horns and turns into quite a soulful tale of lost love, whilst the short last track Because You're Mine (the only Ferry original) is like a rock symphony with obscure but dramatic voices in the brooding instrumental mix.

Taxi is Bryan Ferry at his smoothest, but with some surprises in his unusual takes on All Tomorrow's Parties and Amazing Grace. It is a very stylish album but do not expect anything like his version of Hard Rain's Gonna Fall (my favourite Ferry number) or the driving pop-rock of early Roxy Music.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a cover album should be, April 10, 2011

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kireviewer (Sunnyvale, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Taxi (Audio CD)

Released in 1993, this is Bryan Ferry's eighth solo album and comes 10 years after Roxy Music broke up. It is just under 40 minutes long and the sound quality is good but not great. It has a muted sound similar to Ferry's earlier CDs, Boys and Girls and Bete Noir.

This CD was produced by Robin Trower and features him on guitar, which means nothing. Most of the lead guitar work is by Neil Hubbard who has been on a number of Ferry albums.

This is a collection of classic rock and blues songs. However, they sound nothing like other versions. Many are almost unrecognizable. They are all played like the songs on Boys and Girls. And they all feature Hubbard's unique guitar picking.

I think this is how a cover album should be. The artist takes the songs and makes them his own. He doesn't try to copy the originals. He gives the songs interesting new twists. If I want to hear the original, I will play the original. If I want to hear someone new doing a song, I want something new and original...or what's the point?

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hauntingly romantic, July 30, 2001

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Laura G. Carter "Castlebreaker" (Reidsville, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Taxi (Audio CD)

Brian Ferry has a way with old standards, and "Taxi" is a fine example of his ability to wrap his velvet vocals around songs of longing, obsession, desperation and love. Standout tracks include "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" and a lightly-jazzed version of "Amazing Grace", as well as the title track, "Taxi", and "I Put A Spell on You".

Get your sweetie, a bottle of wine and a room with low lights and this is the perfect music to complete the picture. No sweetie? Then get a good beer and sit back and just listen ... this album will make you feel like you're in love -- or wish you were.