Taxi [IMPORT] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Bryan Ferry

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 17, 1999)
• Original Release Date: March 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: EMI Europe Generic
• ASIN: B00002DEB1
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #95,725 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Put a Spell on You

2. Will You Love Me Tomorrow

3. Answer Me

4. Just One Look

5. Rescue Me

6. All Tomorrow's Parties

7. Girl of My Best Friend

8. Amazing Grace

9. Taxi

10. Because You're Mine

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Virgin. 1993.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Elegant interpretations, November 22, 2003

By	Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

Bryan Ferry does his equivalent of Bowie's Pin Ups on this interesting album. I Put A Spell On You and Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow get the ultra smooth treatment with ghostly keyboards lending an eerie feel to the arrangements. Answer Me has similar atmospheric synth flashes, whilst the guitar and organ on Just One Look make it special.

The song Rescue Me has muffled vocal samples, swirling keyboards and an infectious rhythm track with Ferry's vocal wrapping itself around every musical turn and twist; this is a highlight of the album. His version of All Tomorrow's Parties has an unexpected arrangement, not lilting and flowing but jagged and halting.

Old style rock `n roll guitar opens Girl Of My Best Friend and Ferry sings a bit like that too, with more emotion and passion. The up-tempo Amazing Grace is another unusual interpretation, restrained vocals with impressive organ embellishments and a lively rhythm.

The title track is introduced by the sound of rain and car horns and turns into quite a soulful tale of lost love, whilst the short last track Because You're Mine (the only Ferry original) is like a rock symphony with obscure but dramatic voices in the brooding instrumental mix.

Taxi is Bryan Ferry at his smoothest, but with some surprises in his unusual takes on All Tomorrow's Parties and Amazing Grace. It is a very stylish album but do not expect anything like his version of Hard Rain's Gonna Fall (my favourite Ferry number) or the driving pop-rock of early Roxy Music.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hauntingly romantic, July 30, 2001

By	L. Carter "Steiffbearlover" (NC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Brian Ferry has a way with old standards, and "Taxi" is a fine example of his ability to wrap his velvet vocals around songs of longing, obsession, desperation and love. Standout tracks include "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" and a lightly-jazzed version of "Amazing Grace", as well as the title track, "Taxi", and "I Put A Spell on You".

Get your sweetie, a bottle of wine and a room with low lights and this is the perfect music to complete the picture. No sweetie? Then get a good beer and sit back and just listen ... this album will make you feel like you're in love -- or wish you were.

4.0 out of 5 stars Taxi, June 9, 2009

By	Bjorn Viberg (European Union) - See all my reviews

Taxi being Ferry's 1993 release is his third covers album and spawned three singles "I put a spell on you", "Will you still love me tomorrow", and "Girl of my best dreams". Ferry is a great crooner and his vocals are great on this album. 4/5.