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Timing Is Everything

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This CD is great and the best song in it is "Lebanese Night", I can't describe how nice is the song, a must have for everyone.

This album is worth it if only for the incredible duet "Lebanese Night" (with Lebanese singer Elissa). The melody is instantly pleasing while the lyrics are extremely poignant. It's wonderful to note that Chris De Burgh, not unlike such artists as Sting ("Desert Rose"), is finally experimenting with Arabic music in a way that creates a truly global sound. Elissa's vocals on the track only add to its haunting quality.

When I was in college I got turned on to Chris de Burgh's unique style of music. I bought 3-4 cd's from in the mid 80's and still listen to some of the tunes on my iPod. They're a tad dated but still great music. Then I find this relatively unreleased CD on Amazon and thought "wow, I wonder if it'll be any good." So I gave it a shot and guess what? Every stinkin' song on this CD is EXCELLENT!! Chris,did you squirrel these away for the last few years and WHY isn't there a domestic U.S. release scheduled??

So, if you're a fan - stop reading and buy this CD. If you're not a fan yet, ease off the typical U.S. top 40 pop machine and try something different. Something wonderful, dare I say? His sound had become a bit more contemporary but still keeps his great, folk-ish, story telling nature. He definitely did not "sell out" like many artists did to try to make a buck.

So I hope this CD works well for Chris and I really hope he tours again, I never had the pleasure of seeing him live but now I have a glimmer of hope.

Kudos Chris, glad to see you can keep up & surpass these times.

Just rec'd the album last night. It is fantasic, it is all new material. He has done it again. this is going to be one of the best he has done. It only gets better as you play it through again. the 1st 1/2 is in a different style then normal, but they have great lyrics and wonderful music. The 2nd 1/2 is in the style we have all come to know and love from Chris de burgh. In order to ensure that I rec'd the album as soon as possible I ordered it through Amazon.uk.com, but I am really glad that the US website is offering the album, that way it can be delivered to the fans here in north america right away.

This is an album that you have to have. With all new songs you cannot miss out on this one. If you are a fan of Chris de Burgh, this is a must have. It is hard to say at this time which song I like the best, they are all stil ringing n my mind. I did not want to come into work this morning because I had to turn off te cd player in the car. they are all fantasic. You have to get this album.

Well, at first I didn't liked his new album that much... as it's a little modern, but later on.. after listennin' to it again and again, I gotta say it's a great one, specially the LEBANESE NIGHT, duet with Elissa..

I lack the words to describe this marvelous album.
It is the best in the past few months ...
The first song remindes me of Chris De Burgh classic Man on the Line, while the second reminds me of his war songs.
But he has renewed his view and manipulation of the songs.
Simply, go and buy it you won't regret it ...

Chris Deburgh said in an interview that he wanted to really do something different for the "Timing Is Everything" album.

Well, he certainly did that...he made it an uneven and low on content. At least 3 of the songs are cheap ripoffs of songs that were popular on his previous album "Private Revolution". It's like he kept the music and just changed the lyrics. It sounds like an album written, produced and recorded in an hour and a half.

Chris DeBurgh is usally so good at love songs that he can take the sappiest lyrics and make them song great...but things are definitely different for this album. On this album, the love songs are absurd.

In one song, Chris Deburgh actually seems to suggest that a woman will love a man more if the man is flat broke...heck why not just say that women really go for homeless men, eh Chris? Is that absurd enough?

No wonder Chris DeBurgh releases more Greatest Hits albums these days than original ones...he is obviously out of ideas. Perhaps he should finally retire and stop embarrassing himself and his long-suffering fans.

You would think that after 25+ years in the music business, having amassed a personal fortune estimated at nearly $50 million, Chris de Burgh might be ready to hang it all up and head to beach pictured on the cover of "Timing is Everything".

Or, at the very least, you might think he'd simply throw together a few half-developed tracks and call it an album.

Wrong on both counts.

De Burgh is still in great voice throughout the 11 songs on "Timing is Everything", and his lyrics still have the ability to paint vivid pictures of love, war and compassion.

The opening and closing tracks ("Guilty Secret" and "Save Me", respectively) are the album's weakest. Not bad songs, necessarily, but they just lack the depth we have become accustomed to from De Burgh.

The rest of the album is absolutely excellent.

Looking at the cover of "Timing Is Everything" you'd think the music would be as refreshing. It is to an extent. De Burgh attempts to make an upbeat and exciting recording but it falls rather flat. De Burgh has created a cd with a slick production and nothing really memorable. This isn't "Spanish Train & Other Stories", "The Getaway" or "Man On The Line". There are no interesting stories here, just bland songs about infidelity and romance--a territory well worn on previous outings like "Into The Light", "Flying Colours", "Power Of Ten" and "Quiet Revolution". At times, I even felt that Chris sounded downright silly. The best that can be said about this cd is that it's mercifully short and upbeat.