Turn It Around

4 Strings | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 27, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ultra Records
• ASIN: B00024I2XQ
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84,677 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Intro

2. Turn It Around

3. Come Closer

4. Love Is Blind

5. Free

6. All Around the World

7. Crash and Burn

8. Euphoric Eyes

9. Until You Love Me

10. Dolphins Cry

11. Living a Lie

12. One Million Light Years

13. Back to Basics

14. Obstacles

15. Turn It Around [Club Mix]

16. Outro

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre at best; rather disappointing 2nd album., July 27, 2004

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Doctor Trance (MA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Turn It Around (Audio CD)

After Believe, it was going to be hard for this trance team to recreate another stunner, and they have missed the mark. One thing that struck me as odd right away is that Vanessa, the lead singer, isn't mentioned anywhere in the liner notes. I mean, yes she's on the cover, but her name gets no credit.

What is also a huge difference from Believe is while Vanessa led all vocals tracks on that album, she only does half the tracks on here. One track is sung by Nikola from Sphere, 3 tracks by Jan Loechel, a male member of 4 Strings and writer of their lyrics, and on a few other tracks, we have no idea who sings them because it doesn't tell you in the liner notes, and it is not Vanessa.

Out of the 5 best tracks on the CD, Vanessa sings none of them. I do not like their first single, turn it around, as it's too slow and the vocals are rather awkward sounding (although the Club Mix peps it up a bit). The two dance songs sung with male vocals are suprisingly excellent offerings, and I feel at least one of them should get an official release: Love is Blind and Euphoric Eyes. The 3rd song with male vocals is a ballad which I don't care for.

Let's get to the best track on the CD, track 9, Until You Love Me. It's catchy, great background melodies, and instantly strikes you upon first hearing it. One question I have is who the heck sings it, because it's not Vanessa and they don't tell you on the CD???

Anyway, the 5th standout track is Back to Basics, which is really an instrumental with sporadic vocals (not sure who again??) thrown in, and it's a damn good one.

If you take out the Intro and Outro, you have 14 tracks, and only 5 are exceptional. The rest are mediocre at best, with good background trance music, but less than appealing vocals and lyrics. A few tracks are real duds. I mean would you crank this CD up in your car and be caught dead singing along to "I Hear Dolphins Cry". This has to be one of the cheesiest vocal trance tracks I've ever heard.

As for the Ian Van Dahl Lost & Found vs. 4 Strings Turn it Around debate (they are both released on the same day), it's a no brainer, hands down win for Ian Van Dahl. That CD is much more solid with only a few sub par tracks. A complete 5 Star album. See my review on that one.

This one gets 3 stars from me, due to 5 exceptional tracks. The best track, Until You Love Me, is outstanding and as good as any on the Ian Van Dahl Lost and Found CD. You may want to buy this CD for these few excellent tracks.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars pretty good but not their best, October 24, 2004

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Derek Larsen (Gothenburg, Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turn It Around (Audio CD)

i am a 4 Strings fanatic and they are by far my favorite artist so i like pretty much everything they produce
however, i was disappointed that the CD did not include "Take me Away" or "Revelation" or "Diving," in my opinion their 3 best songs
as other people have states i was also disappointed at the minimal amount of vanessa vocals and i think adding more songs with her vocals would have enhanced the CD
Best Songs on the CD:
All Around the World
Until you Love Me
Love is Blind (the first time i heard this song i didnt like it but the more i listened to it the more i liked until it became my favorite song on the CD, despite no Venessa)

but if you are a 4 Strings lover i would still suggest buying it

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing second album, March 15, 2005

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Alex J. Avriette "Alex Avriette" (Arlington, Virginia USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Turn It Around (Audio CD)

I'd like to second some of the other reviewers' reviews of this album. It really lacks the energy and the coherence of the previous album. The tracks in general are a little slower. The production quality is overall about the same, but it is just not as "listenable" as Believe was. The exception I find on the album is the "Club Mix" of "Turn It Around."

But if we think about that for a second, aren't we talking about "club music" here afterall? Are we under any pretenses that this is elevator or lobby music? I should think not. What we expect from this band, and from a second album is an equal or better effort at club music. House-ish, trance-ish, and anthemic. It's just missing on Turn it Around.

I wholeheartedly recommend Believe, but I'd steer clear of this one unless you find it used.