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| | Amen | | | Music Artist : | | Paula Cole | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Warner Bros / Wea | | Release Date : | | 1999-09-28 | | Store Price : | | $7.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $7.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. I Believe In Love
2. Amen - (with DJ Premier)
3. La Tonya
4. Pearl
5. Be Somebody - (with Tionne Watkins)
6. Rhythm Of Life
7. Free
8. Suwannee Jo
9. God Is Watching
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Exceptional
Submitted on: 2008-10-29 |
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| After listening to and loving Eric van Aro's cover of BE SOMEBODY i got curious, and checked out the original! Paula Cole turned out to be an exceptional Singer as well as Songwriter. Just wished there was more talent like her around these days! |
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 Simply amazing... and ahead of her time.
Submitted on: 2007-05-01 |
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I purchased this CD over 8 years ago but I just needed to write a review (my first on Amazon).
One of the greatest pieces of work from an artist I have ever heard. Uplifting, moving, healing, soothing, original, honest... all those words and more can describe this cd. For an artist to speak their truth in this age, is amazing. Paula not only speaks her truth through her music & lyrics on this cd, but it permeates through the listener undoubtly. I love this cd... on the road, on a plane, at home. Just a great piece of work. Thank you Paula for this gift of song. |
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Another Star for Paula Cole
Submitted on: 2007-04-22 |
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I've been a huge fan of Paula's since high school when "This Fire" was released. Now I own all her albums and am anxiously awaiting her new 2007 release of "Courage".
The album cover is reminiscent of Renaissance angels with halos. However, the insides are open, honest, and real and really have nothing to do with Christianity as the title suggests. The album leaf opens with a quote from The Dhammapada: "The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart." That's exactly where is album comes from. It's unlike her previous albums "Harbinger" and "This Fire". While those were more worldly and carried more angst, "Amen" is a clear view to the heart and soul of Paula Cole.
Track Listing and pieces of verse:
1) I Believe In Love: "And I believe in love/to be the center of all things/and I believe in love to be the way"
2) Amen: "My life is but a short and precious seed/Like three seasons of life in a leaf on a tree/And when I cascade to the ground I will not be done"
3) La Tonya: "The girls all whisper 'hind my back/My baby brother's smoking crack/The boys they want only one thing/And so I give it, don't complain"
4) Pearl (my personal fave on the album): "Hang in there baby, I'm the grain of sand/Becoming a pearl"
5) Be Somebody: "Ignire This Fire inside, this light that is the Truth/Shake off the system's chains, no longer be their foot"
6) Rhythm of Life (like a jazzy, hip-hop song): "Looking within I can see beyond my sight/The cities, the sky, the planets roll by/I awake and die, I awake and die, yeah/That is the rhythm of life"
7) Free: "Oh, the way I'm shut out by your silence/It's the loudest thing I've ever known/You leave me, you leave me hanging"
8) Suwannee Jo: "But Suwannee Jo, you're dark and slow/You dance with a broom and you're filled with ghosts/You smell like liquor and you're high as a hawk/You laugh to yourself"
9) God Is Watching: "Whether it be across the sea/Kosovo, Baghdad, Korea/Or here at home, right under our fingertips/in new slavey systems...God is watching us play our ghetto ways" |
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I loved this CD!
Submitted on: 2006-11-03 |
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| In moments of creativity, you can only hope to put as much of yourself as possible in your work. That's what Paula Cole has achieved with "Amen". In this eclectic mix of funk, pop tunes, and bluesy numbers, you not only hear and feel her struggle for love, inner peace, political righteousness, and a life of spiritual meaning - you want it too. Honestly, there are a few "fillers" in the album, hence the 4 star rating. But with evocative tracks such as "I Believe in Love", "Amen", "Pearl" and "Be Somebody", these "fillers" are forgiven. In short, Paula Cole offers a musical reflection of herself and ourselves as well in our struggle for harmony in our personal relationships, our humanitarian responsibility in the world, and our spiritual balance in the universe. |
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 I Blame Peter Gabriel
Submitted on: 2006-05-08 |
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| Waxing pseudo-philosophic ramblings on 1996s 'This Fire', pondering an unsuccessful acclivity toward a Kate Bush hierarchy, I avoided this like a Jewel CD, and I wasn't alone. At not even platinum, it seems that the 2 million or so who were suckered in by its predecessor [thank goodness for promo CDs] knew better the second [or third, but who heard the first one?] time around. Music masochist that I tend to be at times, I finally decided to dive head first, barely surviving this self-prophecy at its most self-aggrandized. My grade: C- |
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