Way I Feel

Remy Shand, Remy Shand, Remy Shand | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 12, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Motown
• ASIN: B000062Y96
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (172 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #66,652 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a very cold place. Perhaps Remy Shand's debut, recorded in his Winnipeg bedroom, is his effort to cozify the Canadian city. It's a warm slice of the vintage soul that's been popularized by artists like D'Angelo and Maxwell, replete with shimmering musical touches--a clavinet here, a Rhodes there. Shand's falsetto often mimics, and at times evokes, soul legends, though his sometimes skinny delivery lacks both the pelvic thrust and the world-on-my-shoulders weight of the genre's finest. Songs like "Take a Message" are winsome, if wispy, in their romantic sentiments. "Rocksteady" features lovely instrumentation punctuating Shand's vocals, while the heftier "Liberate" finds him rebelling against an unnamed enemy (the Mounties?). Pleasant, but not always convincing. --Cristina Restrepo

Product Description

UK exclusive edition of the blue-eyed-soul sensation's 2002 debut album includes two bonus tracks, 'Mai' & 'Ripened & Consumed'. Grooming by Barry White (check the credits). Universal. * Limited quantities available at this low price! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another time, Another space....., July 29, 2002

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J. Highsmith (Mitchellville, Maryland United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Way I Feel (Audio CD)

As I start most of my reviews, I caught Remy Shand on BET's Midnight Love. "Take A Message" caught my eye from the 1st time I saw the video and as I found myself singing to the words, after BET played the video for 3 straight weeks, I was hooked. "The Way I Feel" is a classic in the making. He reminds me a lot of Maxwell, I have to admit, and the way he sings about the blues will "make you wanna holler" just as Marvin Gaye did. Now is Remy Shand, Marvin Gaye? Being fair to Remy, I'll just say pick up his CD and see. Remy Shand is going down a road that many have tried to travel but to me, an avid music listener, it's all about the presentation and the sound. Remy Shand makes his debut CD sound as if he has been making CDs for 10 years. The fast forward button will not be necessary at all. This CD is clearly one of the best r&b CDs in the year 2002. The title track gets things off to a good start and is a good way to get the listener to tune in. However, I will have to say Track 2, "Burning Bridges" is what did it for me. This song is the perfect song for a man that is trying to break down why he has to leave a situation, whether it is a friendship that is beyond platonic or an exclusive relationship. Remy has this art down to a science. As a man, you can be reminded of a similiar situation that you may have been in yourself. It's also good to see another artist who writes and prodcues the majority or all of the material. This means that the artist poured their heart and soul into everything and the songs weren't written for a particular artist. Remy Shand is at his best when he keeps the tempo slow on songs like "I Met Your Mercy", "Everlasting", "The Second One", "The Colour Of Day" and "Looking Back On Vanity". The whole CD flows into one long song. It allows you to sit back and relax with a room full of candles and that special someone. It's hard to categorize Remy's sound. Most people would say Neo Soul but as reviewer "Deldrick" stated it's just good r&b, soul music. You may look at Remy and say to yourself, no this can't be, but as the famous saying says never judge a book by its cover. Take a message from the Musicman and go get Remy Shand. It's well worth your time and money.

James' Top 5

1) Burning Bridges
2) Take A Message
3) I Met Your Mercy
4) Everlasting
5) The Colour Of Day

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Whoa..., April 26, 2002

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artisticsoul "artisticsoul" (Motown) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Way I Feel (Audio CD)

Hold on just a minute... This guy is white? And he's only 23? And he's from Canada? And he writes his own lyrics? And he plays all of the instruments on all of his songs? And they songs are actually replayable? The answer to all of these is "yes". I bought this album on a whim because people were talking about it. And I hardly ever buy albums that I hadn't heard at least one song from. Eerily, I went into Sam Goody with the intent to buy "The Way I Feel" and I heard "Take A Message" playing (not knowing it was Remy) and I loved the song immediately. It was a coincidence that when I got home, that particular song was on the album that I had just bought. I have a great amount of respect for people that play their own instruments, especially if they play them well. Remy Shand is a musical genius and the guy just turned old enough to drink a couple years ago. All of those guitar licks you'll hear are original (check out the breakdown on "Mind's Eye"). Granted, he's not the best singer in the world, but considering that his background music sounds like a full backing band, it's hard to dismiss this album. "The Way I Feel" is a conglomeration of r&b, rock, and smooth jazz with an overall 70s feel, making "T.W.I.F." a versatile album. I don't know if I would call it neo-soul however. Right away, I could hear several different artists all over the album (even at different points in the songs)- Maxwell, Jamiroquai, Lenny Kravitz, Al Green, Prince, D'Angelo, and even a little Kool & The Gang (with the use of the synthesizer used in "Summer Madness"). I thought the title track was worth the price of admission alone. As far as Remy's voice goes, he changes styles, which is cool, but his tenor could use just a little work. I love the falsetto. Besides that, I don't see why this shouldn't be in anyone's collection.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unearthed Classic, June 15, 2003

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"abstract37" (WV United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Way I Feel (Audio CD)

One look at Remy Shand's debut album "The Way I Feel", and you may think you have stumbled on another white rapper, or perhaps another young blues phenom playing in the big leagues. One listen, however, and you may think you have found a 70's soul release by an icon you never knew existed. That is, if you are familiar with classic soul. That seems to be the dilemma facing Canada's Remy Shand. His masterpiece is delivered to an audience mostly too young to realize what an awesome accomplishment it really is. Kids into today's highly oversaturated R&B haven't had the pleasure of loving Marvin Gaye , Al Green, Billy Preston, etc.
To those of you who have, and have been missing the soulfullness of soul that has been largely absent for years in popular music, this is your album. This is your chance to quench your thirst with REAL SOUL. From the lush, swirling title track, to the hard-edged "Liberate", to the album's mind-blowing guitar vs. Fender Rhodes closer "The Mind's Eye", this is as real as it gets. And it's all Remy Shand's vision. He wrote, produced, mixed, arranged and performed every instrument on every song on the album. No sterile computer programmed content, just real music with real instruments. Musicians especially will appreciate these nuances. It's an album for guitarists, vocalists, keyboardists in love with the vintage sounds of the Fender Rhodes, Clavinet, Wurlitzer, Moog, and Hammond, and it's a lesson for record makers and producers on "in the pocket" songcraft. Remarkably, the 23 year old Shand did it all at home in Winnipeg with only his deep love and appreciation for the music serving as his driving force. No image to live up to here. Some younger listener's may be put off at first by it's warm earthy sound instead of booty-shakin' bass and over ornamented vocals, but there are enough grooves included that it should be given a chance in their stereos. And for the others who wished Marvin had made another album, or that everyone from Stevie Wonder to Steely Dan made a compilation at their very prime, then by all means, pick up this album. If this album had been released in 1976 we would remember the name Remy Shand and would view his album as a cornerstone of 70's soul, right alongside his idols. But in 2003 and beyond, it's even better, and even more welcome in an era of plastic pop and processed R&B. No fan of music should be without this record.