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Scars & Stories (Deluxe Version) by The Fray
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A Different Kind of Truth (Deluxe Version) by Van Halen
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue of Blue | 3:41 | |
| 2 | I'll Be Around | 2:34 | |
| 3 | I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) | 3:48 | |
| 4 | I Get Along Without You Very Well | 3:28 | |
| 5 | Body and Soul | 4:15 | |
| 6 | Hurt | 3:28 | |
| 7 | From the Heart | 2:51 | |
| 8 | Spring Is Here | ||
| 9 | Pretty Strange | 3:03 | |
| 10 | What Shall We Do With the Child? | 2:47 | |
| 11 | Not a Day Goes By | ||
1981's TORCH is an incredible recording. Opening with "Blue on Blue" and continuing through such classics as "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good," "Body and Soul," and "Hurt," Simon demonstrates a range of emotion that transcends her more typical off-the-cuff sound, a combination of fire and ice that recalls the great jazz singers of the 1940s and 1950s but which somehow never sounds less than absolutely contemporary. This is classic torch at its slit-your-wrists best, a bonfire of dying emotions.
It is impossible to select a favorite from the material Simon offers on this recording, but if I were pressed, I would likely pick the closing "Not a Day Goes By"--curiously, the only greatly then-contemporary piece in the collection, written by Broadway's Stephen Sondheim for the play MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG. Again, Simon and Sondheim are not a combination that you would think would work... but with this recording Simon makes it her own, and it is difficult to imagine any other singer who could best her. Strongly recommended.
GFT, Amazon Reviewer