Visions

Gladys Knight | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000008HEN
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #363,605 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered edition of this 1983 album from the veteran Soul outfit. Visions gave the group a #1 R&B hit in America with 'Save The Overtime (For Me)'. Knight's performances throughout this album are nothing short of stunning. Listen to the way she handles 'Hero', with a bravura aplomb that really does indicate that she had a grasp of bringing the Gospel approach to Soul, while never sacrificing her sensuality. And 'Heaven Sent' is tailor made for her vocals. 10 tracks. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An unusually obscure masterpeice!!!, January 10, 2005

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Eric Bryant - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Visions (Audio CD)

I have been looking for this album on CD for years now! I am not really a Gladys Knight and the Pips fan per se, but this album is truly a masterpeice! Every single track is beyond excellent! This is definitely the kind of cd that you put in and press play/repeat. Good R&B/Soul music for your heart, mind and ears!
It is almost haunting that an album can be this good.The album art cover is obscure and like that of the album title it seems to have nothing to do with the songs on it. In all tracks except one, they sing about being in love with someone. I cannot understand why this album was out of print for so long although it actually went gold! Whomever had a hand in bringing this album back into print, may the good Lord bless you! This album could be released today and would sound just as fresh and timeley as it did when released in 1983. Get this one for your collection, because if you ever find yourself in a situation where you are stranded on a desert island, this will be the one cd you will want to have with you.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Certainly IS An Unusually Obscure Masterpiece!, April 5, 2005

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Andre S. Grindle "Andre' Grindle" (Brewer Maine) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Visions (Audio CD)

I'll tell you something right now about Gladys Knight & The Pips-this 1983 recording certainly put the almost stagnant group back into the spotlight.And most of the reasons for this lay in the tastefully modern production of Leon Sylvers and Knight's exuberant,sensually soulful voice.Featuring brilliant songwriting "When Your Far Away","Ain't No Greater Love",
"Seconds","Just Be My Lover" and of course the brilliantly pulsating "Save The Overtime For Me" are wonderful,funky uptempo
R&B boogie tunes with plenty of animated,soulful delivery!That plus one fabulous funk splatter "Oh La De Da" will give one the sense that 'Visions' is dominated by uptempo tunes,and it is.But of course some credit should go to the ballads-"Heaven Sent" is a classic for Knight in her familiar style but "Hero" (yes it's a renamed cover of "Wind Beneath My Wings") gets Knight's dramatic,churchy delivery that (sorry) would drown Bette Midler if she's heard it-she utterly trancends any sentimentality the song possessed in classic soul style and turned it into more of a gospel then a love song.All of these songs come in to make 'Visions',as highly underrated as it is one of the groups best full lengh albums of all time!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Reinvention of Gladys Knight & The Pips, Circa 1983, March 23, 2010

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John L. Hughes, Jr. "hughes_jr" (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Visions (Audio CD)

VISIONS is a great lesson on how to make a veteran act current without losing its identity. On the group's third Columbia album, Gladys and the Pips work with Silverspoon Productions, the production company owned by then in-demand r&b producer Leon Sylvers (The Whispers, Shalamar). All of Sylver's trademarks are here from the snappy basslines to the guitar-bass breakdown and synth washes. Yet Sylvers' sound fit the group like a glove because he makes the technology sound warm and inviting, while the Empress of Soul works her magic on such excellent tunes as the #1 R&B hit "Save The Overtime For Me," "When You're Far Away" (an early Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis composition), and the clever ballad "You're #1 In My Book". Gladys, her brother Merald and r&b songwriting legend Sam Dees ("One In A Million You") produced the more subdued moments on VISIONS including one of the first recordings of "Wind Beneath My Wings," "Seconds," and "Don't Make Me Run Away".

This well-deserved gold album is one of the group's best along with IMAGINATION.