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| | Can't Hold Back | | | Music Artist : | | Eddie Money | | Music Style : | | Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | | Record Label : | | Sony | | Release Date : | | 1990-10-25 | | Store Price : | | $9.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $9.98 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Take Me Home Tonight/Be My Baby
2. One Love
3. I Wanna Go Back
4. Endless Nights
5. One Chance
6. We Should Be Sleeping
7. Bring on the Rain
8. I Can't Hold Back
9. Stranger in a Strange Land
10. Calm Before the Storm
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Excellent Release by a Legendary Rocker....
Submitted on: 2007-05-02 |
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Even though I didn't purchase this CD from Amazon (I actually bought my current copy of it back in 1992), this is DEFINITELY one of Eddie Money's greatest albums of all time. Just about every song on this CD deserved to be a smash hit -- especially "One Chance", where he drives the vocal tracks straight home with absolute heart-felt emotion and finesse. He also paired up with Mr. Mister's Richard Page and Steve George on this one, who had provided the background harmony vocals. I especially like the ending of "One Chance", where the full band is faded out and Richard and Steve's vocal tracks finish the ballad with "Can't let it go on this way...(CLAP!!) Gotta get out of the rain..." Each and every time I hear those lines at the end of "One Chance", the hair stands up on the back of my neck and it sends a quivering chill up and down my spine!
Aside from "One Chance", pretty much most of the other tracks here are classic songs by the Money Man. My favorite track of the hit list here is "Take Me Home Tonight", which is almost as hard-hitting as "Walk On Water" from 1988's Nothing to Lose release. The latter is also a good album to pick up, and I have a copy of it as well.
Anyway, if any of you are into that hard-driving, 1980s-style, power-ballad rock style of music then I would highly reccommend this album for your media collection. Besides, after getting to hear "One Chance" for the very first time back in 1989 (after getting my first cassette copy of this album), I once had this short-lived inner desire to meet Mr. Eddie Money. But that, of course, is nothing more than wishful thinking.
Until next time, rock on.... |
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 Much more than the well-known Top 40 Songs released
Submitted on: 2005-12-14 |
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Eddie Money's career got off to a solid start with his 1977 self-titled debut album, "Eddie Money". That album would produce two Top 40 hits that would become forever synonymous with Money's career - "Two Tickets to Paradise" and "Baby Hold On". Many attribute Money's success to his collaboration with guitarist Jimmy Lyon who would play a key role in the songwriting on that album. Following that album, Money's career would begin to go into a commercial tailspin as his follow-up albums "Life for the Talking" and "Playing for Keeps" would not follow the success of that debut album. Eventually, the partnership with Lyon would disintegrate. As the 1980's progressed, Money would release two more albums with little fanfare. Many would begin to think that Money would be one of those artists who would have his moment in the sun. So when Money would release his sixth studio album, "Can't Hold Back" - there was little hoopla surrounding the release of this album. When the first single from this album, "Take Me Home Tonight" began to ascend into the Top 10 and become his most successful single, it was considered a major surprise. The result would make "Can't Hold Back" Eddie Money's most successful album as it would produce another Top 40 single in "I Wanna Go Back". Overall, while it might be the success of the two singles that made "Can't Hold Back" Money's most commercially successful album, this album is also complete with a lot good music and is worth considering well beyond the two singles.
Eddie Money is a very good and talented vocalist. He has a very distinctive voice and that is a great part of his appeal. However, one thing I feel is a weakness on Money's voice is he doesn't have great diversity in his ranges. I don't feel this is necessarily a knock on Money, but it is just a fact. There are ten songs on "Can't Hold Back" - each of ten songs make good use of fitting Money's unique vocals on them. As for the songs, co-producers Money and Richie Zito deserve the credit for assembling a portfolio of songs that seem to work best. For each of the songs, outside songwriters were brought in. These songwriters might not be the biggest names, but there is some very good music and lyrics that come from them. I also think its valuable that Money contributes to the songwriting of 6 of the 10 tracks - even though he doesn't contribute to the two big hits from the album "I Wanna Go Back" and "Take Me Home Tonight". As mentioned, there is a lot of good music beyond these two singles - and it's a shame that many of these other songs were not released as singles.
Overall I'd classify this album as "Classic 80s" music (the sound of the early 1980s). I hesitate on putting this in the category of Synth Pop because I do feel there is a significant Guitar presence on this album that is prevalent on this album even though there are a lot of use of synthesizers. There are also several places where the use of the saxophone is incorporated into the music. In a lot of ways, Money can attribute a lot of the success of this album due to the fact that the "Classic 80s" sound was still popular during 1986 when this album was released. Following this album, the "Classic 80s" sound would give way to a much more natural sound focused around the guitar. Money would release a 1988 follow-up album called "Nothing to Lose" that despite sounding very similar to "Can't Hold Back" would not be as successful. I believe much of the reason is because by 1988, the music landscape was no longer receptive to that "Classic 80s" sound. I firmly believe that if "Can't Hold Back" would have been released two years later (in 1988) that it probably would have struggled commercially as well.
As mentioned the two big hits from this album are "Take Me Home Tonight" and "I Wanna Go Back". I believe "I Wanna Go Back" is the better of the two songs. "Take Me Home Tonight" is a nice song and Money's vocals are rock-solid, but I don't find it a very deep song. I also think that Ronnie Spector's small contribution "Be my little baby" was blown way out of proportion and is overrated. "I Wanna Go Back" has almost a "St. Elmo's Fire" feel to it. It's a very good song both lyrically and musically. I saw that another reviewer claimed that these are lyrics that many people can relate to - I couldn't agree more. This is exemplified in "What's been done has been done; What's been said has been said"
There are also many other standout tracks. These tracks include: "One Love", "Endless Nights", "One Chance", "We Should Be Sleeping", "Bring on the Rain", and "Stranger in a Strange Land". "We Should Be Sleeping" is probably the best song on the album. It has a great Rock/guitar edge and Money's vocals are right on target. However the best part of the song is the catchy chorus "Don't say bye bye bye baby bye bye" that will have you singing along. "One Chance" has less of a Rock edge and more of a Synth sound, but Money again delivers carrying the song with his most unique vocals and making the lyrics seem real. Overall, there are no bad songs on this album. I'd probably put the title track, "I Wanna Go Back" as the weakest, but even this isn't bad.
The liner notes include all of the lyrics and all of the songwriting credits. The lineup of musicians participating on each song is also listed. There is also a listed of production credits in the liner notes. Overall, this is a very good album - and one that is worth checking out whether you are a serious or casual Eddie Money fan. |
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An Excellent Moment of Mid-80's
Submitted on: 2003-12-14 |
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| Eddie Money's 1986 album including his largest hit TAKE ME HOME TONIGHT is also one of all time favorite albums. It is a nice album to explore Eddie Money music further than his compilation. I bought this album when Take Me home Tonight just reached top 5 of the Billboard single chart. Now I like this album a lot more than I did in 1986 probably because this sort of well-crafted pop rock is hard to come by these days. Other than Take Me..., I like hard-edged WE SHOULD BE SLEEPING, power ballads such as I WANNA HOLD BACK and ENDLESS NIGHTS. It is recommended for mid 80's pop rock fans that love Survivor, Heart,Starship and John Cafferty. |
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Great CD
Submitted on: 2003-02-21 |
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| I think this is a great CD by Eddie Money. My favorite song is Calm before the Storm. He has a great voice. |
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The Comeback Disc
Submitted on: 2002-05-25 |
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| This was a great comeback cd for Eddie..Of course almost everyone has this listed as the most popular Eddie Money cd. I believe this was the first time in his career that he didn't write his own hits. This was also a change in sound for Eddie. After the incredible No Control cd and the not so incredible Where's The Party cd he seemed to turn into a pop star.. Take Me Home Tonight of course was and still is one of the best tracks of all time , I Wanna Go Back is a inspirational tune and everyone loves this track and Endless Nights i believe was over looked but it still got plenty of radio time and was a great hit single. We Should Be Sleeping is a rockin track and the video he made for this was great also. Although this was a platinum cd and was popular it appeared that almost every song sounded similar. Anyway the hit singles made this disc great and really changed Eddie into a full fleged pop star. |
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