Susan Boyle's album

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is pretty good--very clear and crisp tracks and her voice is excellent. It's also a bargain, at $10, something you can't always get nowadays.

[donheld]

1. I thought it was very good

I could have done with out the religious tracks but, her voice is very sweet. It's a very well done CD

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2. The religious tracks

didn't bother me too much, as they're not excessive in their tone. Silent Night is always one of my favorites, and Amazing Grace is just beautiful to listen to. As I noted elsewhere tonight, while I'm more or less an agnostic/atheist now, Christmas hymns are still pleasing in their tones.

I think, for me, the weakest track is Daydream Believer, but even in that, you don't find too many performers using that song anyhow, so it was a nice change.

It seemed incredibly short, though. I think the success of this one will prompt a second one, on which I hope she gets more complex tunes to sing. She does have an excellent voice, and I simply enjoy hearing it.

[murielm99]

3. I loved listening to this album.

Her voice is so pure.

But I got the impression that she was holding back on some tracks. We have not heard the full power of her voice yet.

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6. Yeah, there are a few tracks I got a similar impression

I was talking to a friend about this, and I said she should try some covers on Ethel Merman songs--Ethel had a huge voice, too, and Susan could have some fun role-playing with some of those, sort of the way she does with Cry Me A River.

As she gets away from "safe" songs, she will find her own voice among the many singers out there, and she will be able to show a lot more people an excellent diversity. We know why she did some of the songs on her first album, and I think she is building confidence. Some people are too quick to judge her, instead of looking at how far she has come since her audition, and any of them who disparage her should try becoming, quite literally, an overnight sensation, and see how they deal with it.

[nuxvomica]

4. I didn't know she had an album out yet

Thanks for posting. It's available at a local store so I'll pick it up today. I wish she had done the Ave Maria and Brel's Marieke but we don't live in a perfect world. :)

[blueknight]

5. well

as i said before, she did do a re-make of aunt skeeters hit "the end of the world" and did a good job on it:toast:

[astral]

7. It arrived yesterday from Amazon and I heard it today

real loud in the car. Can't play anything real loud in my apartment. I loved it, and also the 'religous songs' but on THOSE two songs the baground low-bass loud droning was a loser combo copout. I think she needs a better producer for her next album. I do like her picking out her own songs, and was tickled to hear "Daydream Believer." I have always liked Anne Murray's voice (who also covers that song) but never liked that many of the songs she did.

I keep thinking I like Susan Boyle's voice better than any woman singer I have ever heard, but I must be forgetting somebody.

It would be killer if she did a whole album covering some famous musician's songs, like say, get this -- LEONARD COHEN. Oh somebody already has done that but so what, she'd do it different, and better in my book.

What I'd really like to her her do is a whole album of some cool bluesy- songs, with some good backup musicians this time around. I think it would be a great seller. REAL great seller. Remember Judy Collins covering Leonard Cohen (plus that famous blue raincoat lady 'whatshername') and Joan Baez covering Bob Dylan's songs.

I also thought her recordings were a little bit held-back. That doesn't mean it's not great to have a whole album of her music and I will buy anything else she puts out so I hope she really goes for it now : )

[murielm99]

8. I was thinking bluesy too,....

or torch songs. Billie Holiday, Linda Ronstadt, Etta James.

She is as good as any of them. I do not say that lightly. I love listening to the ladies listed above, and I respect them. My favorite female singers are Janis Joplin and Susan Tedeschi. I don't know where to put Susan Boyle. She defies and confuses me on my taste in popular and blues music. If she was opera, I might say something else. But of course she does not have the training or temperament for that.

[Ishka Kibble]

9. My fantasy.

I'd like to see Susan Boyle get nice and stoned, mellow and relaxed, and then team her with Meat Loaf, who knows how to sing a song and turn it into a dramatic and heartbreaking experience.

THAT I'd pay good money to see.