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| Value for Money | 8.5/10  |
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| Overall rating | 9.5/10 |
By GregHowell
on 16th Jun 2008
| Other Artists Listened To | Not supplied |
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| Value for money | 8/10 |
| Overall value | 9/10 |
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Classic 16:31 seconds of orgasmic, ground-breaking, sultry dance music, Love To Love You Baby on side one is the mother of all maxi singles, remixes, and extended mixes. Nearly overnight, this track created hysteria and copy cat singers and songs, and for that reason alone should be included in any record collection that acknowledges or documents major shifts in popular music.
By today's standards, this album seems a little short, especially with the repeat / reprise of Full of Emptiness. It almost seems that as an afterthought while compiling the record, the bookend positioning of Full of Emptiness would mimic the long suite of Love to Love You Baby on side one. It doesn't, but would have been brilliant had they thought to overlay the songs and instrumentation as one long suite.
Timed to the average time of sexual play, side one's Love To Love You Baby was ground-breaking. The music industry immediately stole every element possible, from the style, the extended play mix, to the overtly sexual theme. Released also as a "maxi-single", it is the godmother of all extended mixes and remixes. Donna Summer takes sexual ecstasy to a new level and the slow, baseline rhythms are not the typical disco beat associated with the genre. Giorgio Moroder's revolutionary synthesizer orchestration is subtly mixed with other instruments in the early outing.
Side two has its strong points as well, all though none of the music could be classified disco. Highlights of side two are the dreamy and yearning vocals of Whishpering Waves and the sexual urgency of Need-A-Man-Blues.
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