Clearly Love
- 艺人
- Olivia Newton-John
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- MCA Nashville
- 发行时间
- 1975年09月01日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Joe Viglione
Nine beautiful photos accompany the lyrics -- Olivia with horses, Olivia in the hay, Olivia with a doggy; following up the phenomenal success of Have You Never Been Mellow was pretty elementary -- Newton-John ruled the Top 40, adult contemporary, and country charts at this point in time. From the end of 1975 to early 1976, Clearly Love generated a Top 20 and two Top 30 hits: &Something Better to Do& and &Let It Shine& b/w &He Ain't Heavy...He's My Brother,& respectively. They both topped the adult contemporary charts while the flip of &Let It Shine,& a rare female-vocalist cover of &He Ain't Heavy...He's My Brother,& also garnered radio and sales action. The choices for cover songs on this album are strange indeed: an unnecessary &Summertime Blues& which adds nothing to Eddie Cochran's song of hot-weather angst and the interesting remake of the Hollies' hit &He Ain't Heavy,& with its big country-ballad ending to what started as a lilting love song. The gems here are what sound like Olivia Newton-John bread-and-butter staples -- &Slow Down Jackson,& which is as bubbly and beautiful as &Have You Never Been Mellow&; &Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying&; the stunning title track &Clearly Love&; along with, of course, the hits. &Let It Shine& has lots of country twang -- John Farrar's impeccable production was pretty much automatic after all their previous success. &Something Better to Do& might not be among her biggest hits, but the class and style the Newton-John/Farrar team brought to the table -- a prime example being this title -- was very well-crafted pop and set the stage for the movie soundtracks down the road, which would bring her back to chart dominance. The transition from the Linda Ronstadt soft rock of &Summertime Blues& to the harmonica-laden &Just a Lot of Folk (The Marshmallow Song)& had Newton-John covering all the bases. Very pleasant, inoffensive, and able to put the listener in a good mood, Clearly Love is a nice addition to Newton-John's collection.
最新简评（共4条）
- @局外人莫尔索：已收黑胶
- @mycellowen(谁杀了古典音乐)：这张黑胶家里有，小时侯在柜子里发现，大概是阿姨的，这是我第一次听到她的声音，好怀念。。。
- @bignose：Something Better to Do 很動聽
- @羊羊羊羊(頭暈暈)：原来小学时候经常听的那首歌叫Something Better to Do