Customer Reviews

Taxi

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This CD is a marvelous collection of ten covers. There aren't any original songs on here but the way Ferry takes older classics and gives them an updated sound is amazing. Unlike As Time Goes By which has a very 40s sound, Taxi has a very modern sound and most of the songs are eerie and haunting. I consider this rainy night traveling music. The title track is spellbinding. My favorite song though is Rescue Me(No not Madonnas 1990 song). It's a very dark, haunting song with a very futuristic sound and almost technoish beats, kind of like Wildcat Days from Mamouna. This CD is a worthy album of checking out. It's surely doesn't do Bete Noire or Boys and Girls justice but Taxi is an album that might please most of Ferrys fanbase. Enjoy the ten well-crafted songs on Taxi. Don't let this Taxi go by.

This is one of the greatest CD's in my collection.
I turn to it again and again. I especially like
Taxi, the title song. It's very sexy. Do yourself
favor and at least check out the sound samples.
You will have to have it.

Great album. So smooth and cool. Rescue me and Answer Me are freakin' awesome. And I never liked Amazing Grace in the least until I heard it on this album. Just enough quirkiness in every song to make each one interesting, too.

Buy this used for less than dollar - how can you lose??
Burn your own copy minus Amazing Grace and sit back and enjoy.
Dreamy reworkings of 50's standards produced by Robin Trower. I had this CD for over a year before I "got" it. When I listened to it the 5th time it's brillance hit me. Now it is always in the changer in my bedroom.

Hard to believe this one was released ten years ago. Sounds fresh and vibrant. Wonderful reinterpretations of classic songs often rendered more alive with the Ferry touch.

A great work by an accomplished musician.

I never really knew Ferry's music very well until I recently bought the brilliant 'As time goes by' in which he performs pre-war songs. I also purchased 'Taxi' and I'm absolutely delighted with this work. Although many of the titles are known works, Ferry's voice brings a haunting sense of melancholy to these songs that give them an entirely new feel and meaning. Its not one of those overengineered soul-less sounding recordings. Highly recommended.

First, I have all Bryan Ferry's work up to and including Boys & Girls. For some unknown reason, I quit at that point...except I picked this up in a cut-out bin about a year after its release. By that time, I'd really "gone off" Ferry, and never ever gave it a serious listen. For whatever reason, I've been on a Roxy kick for the last two weeks, so I actually hauled out all my Ferry albums as well. I've listened to them all, and liked them all, but this is my favorite. That's right. Ferry has aged like a fine wine; the production values, arrangements musicianship and singing are all "out of this world. The soundscapes that Ferry started achieving with Rhett Davies in the mid-70s are brought to their highest here...without Rhett Davies, I might add. This album is SO atmospheric, so intoxicating, that once you start listening you have to continue. Like Avalon only, I dare to say, even better.

A note about the fact that these are all cover versions...WHO CARES? In fact, in a way I think it freed Ferry to concentrate on the arrangements and production. It is a fully realized, classic album. It must also be very underrated, judging from the price of it used. So if you are reading this and don't have this album, go ahead, pick it up for a song. You won't be sorry.

A return to form, and a return to covers, for the great master. How can Bryan Ferry produce an album of cover songs and make it feel like an album of original compositions? Especially after an album of all originals ("Bete Noir") that sounded more like Ferry doing parody covers of Ferry songs?!? Maybe a 6-year solo hiatus had something to do with it. Maybe the change of decades? I dunno. All I know is, this one does the job, and does it right!

Bryan Ferry's unique voice has always soothed any tension out of me AND given me more than just "goose bumps".... he has written such powerful songs. My cousin picked this c.d. out of a "Bargain Box"! for me. What a find!! He covers these oldies (and many others on his other albums) in his own inimitable style (well, if you're like me, who am I telling?!) All the tracks are good, but I replayed "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?", "Just One Look", "Answer Me" and "Girl Of My Best Friend" so many times that my "jealous guy" husband told me to put my 'phones on or else he was leaving home! I read in another review that "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" is only on the Japanese c.d. but I think I can (just barely) survive without it! A MUST buy!!

Bryan Ferry periodically releases an album with a combination of covers and original work. Of all such albums, this one tops the list. The single released from this album, "I Put A Spell On You," takes the song from composer Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and makes it completely Ferry's own. The title cut is a beautiful ballad well worth a listen. Other notable cuts include "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," given a whole new perspective by virtue of a male vocalist's performance, and "Just One Look," completely rearranged and updated. Catch this "Taxi" at once!