Leroy Hutson在录制了一系列让他获得商业成功的灵魂专辑之后,决定通过制作迪斯科专辑,在1979年的Unforgettable上采用最具商业化的路线。鉴于Hutson是一位有天赋的编曲/制作人,无论如何都倾向于灵魂的甜美一面,这可能是和谐的婚姻。可悲的是,这是行不通的,因为Hutson压制了他作为表演者和制片人的所有个性,制作了一些迪斯科曲目,代表了这种最为平淡无味的流派。最糟糕的罪犯是主打曲目,这是一个迪斯科时代的更新
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经典:它不是以一种雄心勃勃的方式重新演绎这首歌曲,而只是将重复的迪斯科敲打在旋律上,并用乐队的一些漫无目的的干扰和一系列令人难堪的科幻合成器噪音来填满舞池。 &(You Put The)Funk in My Life&同样没有受到启发,将时髦但不露面的乐队鞋面与一套陈词滥调和让我们的嘘声和歌词结合起来,创造出一个迪斯科专辑填充的典型例子。然而,其他一些曲目让难忘的完全损失:“正确还是错误”,是一个闷热的民谣,从一个融合了强烈的和声与一些戏剧性的编排的安排中获益,以及更多来自哪里,是一个容易超越的爵士乐音乐锻炼这张专辑在迪斯科的尝试更为明显。然而,这些亮点不能让人难以忘怀,就像一次不成功的(不舒服的)艺术的妥协。因此,只能推荐最忠诚的Leroy Hutson粉丝。
After recording a string of soul albums that earned him little commercial success, Leroy Hutson decided to take the most commercial route possible on 1979's Unforgettable by making a disco album. Given that Hutson was a gifted arranger/producer and tended towards the sweet side of soul anyways, it could have been a harmonious marriage. Sadly, it doesn't work because Hutson suppresses all his personality as a performer and producer to produce some disco tracks that represent the genre at its most bland and faceless. The worst offender is the title track, a disco-era update of the Nat King Cole classic: instead of reworking the song in an ambitious fashion, it merely grafts a repetitive disco beat onto the melody and pads it out to dancefloor length with some aimless jamming from the band and an array of embarrassing sci-fi synthesizer noises. "(You Put The) Funk in My Life" is similarly uninspired, combining a funky but faceless band vamp with a set of clichéd "let's boogie" lyrics to create a typical example of disco album filler. However, a few of other tracks keep Unforgettable from being a complete loss: "Right or Wrong" is sultry ballad that benefits from an arrangement that blends strong vocal harmonies with some dramatic orchestrations, and "More Where That Came From" is a jazzy funk workout that easily outdoes the album's more overt attempts at disco. However, these highlights can't keep Unforgettable from feeling like an unsuccessful (and uncomfortable) artistic compromise. As a result, it can only be recommended the most devoted Leroy Hutson fans.