Barbra Streisand: Guilty [DualDisc] CD Track Listing

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Barbra Streisand Guilty [DualDisc] (1980)
Originally Released September 23, 1980\nCD Edition Released 1987 ??\nDualDisc Edition Released August 30, 2005\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: The biggest selling album of Barbra Streisand's career is also one of her least characteristic. The album was written and produced by Barry Gibb in association with his brothers and the producers of the Bee Gees, and in essence it sounds like a post-Saturday Night Fever Bee Gees album with vocals by Streisand. Gibb adapted his usual style somewhat, especially in slowing the tempos and leaving more room for the vocal, but his melodic style and the backup vocals, even when they are not sung by the Bee Gees, are typical of them. Still, the record was more hybrid than compromise, and the chart-topping single "Woman in Love" has a sinuous feel that is both right for Streisand and new for her. Other hits were the title song and "What Kind of Fool," both duets with Gibb. (The song "Guilty" won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal by Duo or Group.) -- William Ruhlmann \n \nAmazon.com Editorial Review\nGuilty may well be Barbra Streisand's best pop album. At the peak of her late-'70s popularity, she hooked up with the Bee Gees' Barry Gibb, who himself was basking in his Saturday Night Fever glow. Gibb wrote and produced most of the material on 1980's Guilty, and he supplied background vocals as well as co-leads on two tracks. The results are still completely bewitching. "Promises," for instance, is a lounge-like dance number and Babs sounds simply fabulous--sexy, lighthearted, passionate, playful--all at once. "Life Story" is a wild epic, and "Make It Like a Memory" keeps soaring up and up into a stratosphere of shag-carpeted luxury. Even Gibb's wavering vocals are great--and not a little like a disco version of Mandy Patinkin. And of course, the hits are out of this world: "Woman in Love" and "What Kind of Fool" are titanium-plated classics the likes of which Streisand has not topped since. A guilty pleasure, sure--just indulge. --Elisabeth Vincentelli \n\nNOTE: This 25th-anniversary edition reissue includes: CD AUDIO SIDE: Entire Album DVD SIDE: Entire album in Enhanced LPCM Stereo; video programming includes: interview with Barbra and Barry on the recording of Guilty filmed in June 2005; a video performance of one of the songs from the new album Guilty Pleasures; included exclusively on this disc as a preview; "Guilty" live from the TV special "One Voice"; a photo gallery with outtakes from the original Mario Casilli photo session. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review (DualDisc)\nPoor treatment of a classic Streisand album, September 26, 2005\nReviewer: Jay L. Rudko (Pembroke Pines, FL USA) \nI can't dispute this being one of Barbra Streisand's best albums. But this 25th anniversary reissue is not the treatment deserved by this great recording. Barbra certainly deserves better than what was done here. The CD side of this dual disc sounds excellent, presenting the album as we remember it. But Sony missed the boat on the DVD side, as it pertains to the 9 tracks that are also on the CD side. The DVD, by its very nature, is able to store a lot more information than a CD. As was stated by another reviewer, there is the ability to support a much higher bit rate and sampling rate on the DVD side. The sound on the DVD side is NO BETTER than the CD side. Also, the DVD side can support 5.1 surround sound as well, including Dolby Digital and DVD-Audio. While I don't expect Sony to use the latter, they have used Dolby Digital 5.1 on many of their dual discs. They used neither high resolution stereo (24-bit, 88 or 96 kHz), nor Dolby Digital surround (24-bit, 48kHz)for this release. It sounds to me like they used the same 16-bit, 44.1 kHz master that was used for the CD side. I did the comparison on a home theater system that is more than capable of revealing the differences between standard CD resolution and highresolution stereo or surround. Videos notwithstanding, there was no reason to release this album on dual disc if its full potential was not to be realized. I'm unable to rate this album with the 5 stars the music deserves due to this poorly handled DVD side. I'm sorry, folks, but Barbra deserves better than this.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review (DualDisc)\nGuilty On All Counts - Including Extreme Pleasure, September 10, 2005\nReviewer: Steven Housman "SHARK" (West Hollywood, CA & Miami, FL) \nOn September 23, 1980, Barbra Streisand released Guilty, the most successful and arguably the most satisfying pop album of her long and legendary recording career. The album spawned three top ten singles; the first release, "Woman In Love," topped the pop charts for three weeks in October 1980, the second and third singles were smash duets with collaborator Barry Gibb, the infectious mid-tempo "Guilty" and the power ballad "What Kind of Fool." The fact that this celebrated duo teamed up and made history is almost as interesting as the music he wrote and produced and the songs she performed. Upon its initial release in 1980, "Guilty" was quickly certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, and, within two months, achieved Platinum status. It has gone on to be certified 5x's Platinum, with sales exceeding 5,000,000 copies in the U.S. alone and 12 million worldwide. It is one of Streisand's record-breaking tally of 49 Gold, 30 Platinum and 13 Multi-Platinum albums. According to the RIAA, she is the industry's #1 best selling female recording artist...and the only female in the top ten. \n\nOn August 30, 2005, 25 years later, Guilty was re-released not only in LPCM format, but also as a Dual Disc. Side One contains the original songs dusted off and tweaked so meticulously, you'll hear notes and instruments that you've never heard before. Side Two is the real treat. It's a DVD that consists of a brand new interview with Barbra and Barry on the recording of Guilty - taped June 2005, two live performances, "Guilty" and "What Kind Of Fool" from Barbra's legendary 1986 "One Voice" concert at her Malibu home, an excerpt "Stranger In A Strange Land," one of the eleven new songs from her upcoming September 20 release, titled Guilty Pleasures, a preview of the new album and a Photo Gallery of the sessions with Gibb. \n\nThe reason for all of this fanfare is of course to promote the most anticipated album of the upcoming fall music season. Before I jump ahead to her upcoming release, "Guilty Pleasures," let's go back to where it all began. \n\nBy the late 70's, the Bee Gees were the hottest act around, coming off of Saturday Night Fever and six consecutive Number One singles. Meanwhile, Streisand had become the ultimate pop princess-- scoring a dozen Top 40 hits in the decade, including four Number One's which included "The Way We Were," "Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen)" (both winning Grammy's and Best Song Oscars), and two historic duets, "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" with Neil Diamond and "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" with Donna Summer. \n\nIn August 1980, the first single, "Woman in Love" written by Barry & Robin Gibb, was released to radio and began a swift rise to the top of the charts. The song was like nothing that Barbra had ever attempted in her then 18-year recording career. The hooks were pure Bee Gees magic and the backup vocals were gorgeously ethereal. It was one of the best pop songs of Streisand's career. With the mounting success of the single, the anticipation for the album rapidly increased. Five weeks later, the suspense was terminated. Within three weeks after the release, Streisand owned the top of Billboard Hot 100 and Album charts with "Woman in Love" and Guilty, respectively. \n\nThe title cut kicked off the album, which was a mid-tempo duet with Gibb. It was an absolute joy to hear Barbra using her voice in such a playful way. She and Barry complimented each other beautifully, as they did on the album's only other duet, the power ballad "What Kind of Fool." \n\nAnother highlight on the album was "The Love Inside," which is a lavish song of lost love. Barbra's unique brand of quiet longing married to the lush arrangement makes this one of the finest in her repertoire, and proves that nobody can break your heart and sell a song like Streisand. \n\n"Promises" is the closest that the Gibb Brothers came to delivering a disco song when disco was already on its way out. The song smartly used Gibb's dance element but slowed it down just enough to make it a mid-tempo romp with Streisand easily gliding in and out of the melodious hooks. \n\nFor those of you who prefer a more traditional ballad, "Run Wild" proved to be right up Streisand's alley for the familiar sound most people associate her with. \n\n"Life Story" is a song that could have easily been used as a James Bond theme song. Nobody knows their way around dramatic chord changes like Barry Gibb, and this song is no exception. Streisand's flair for the dramatic intensified the atmosphere even more. \n\n"Never Give Up" was also a departure for Streisand. This is the first song where the synthesizer actually complimented the songbird's voice -- and when you thought it was all studio trickery, the bridge came and Streisand sang it with all of her Broadway bravado. \n\nThe final track "Make It Like A Memory" is the most dramatic of the nine-song set. The sonata combines Streisand the actress with Streisand the singer, and what we get is close to a three act play with a jaw-dropping vocal and a wild guitar solo. Streisand coos at one moment and is belting the next with so much raw emotion, she literally takes you on a seven and a half minute roller coaster ride. \n\nGuilty is the most unique album of Streisand's pop catalogue, and it's easily apparent why it was Number One in over a dozen countries and sold over twelve million units worldwide. The ingredients that Gibb cooked up for this album are so delicious that even non-Streisand fans ate it up. \n\nFor those who haven't heard this historic opus, I highly suggest picking up a copy of the newly remastered Dual Disc- it is absolutely phenomenal. The album may be titled Guilty, but the pleasure is anything but. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nI Do Have Something, I Do Have Something To Be Guilty Of! , September 13, 2004\nReviewer: kristin724 "kristin724" (New Jersey USA) \nGuilty was the first Gibb-related record I actually bought. My mom refused to pay $1.99 for the lp and asked, "Who is that guy on the cover with her, anyway?" I explained it was Barry Gibb producing this one for Barbra and mom answered, "Oh, now I know why you want it." Oddly enough, I found the cassette at a thrift store, too! \nBarry won all kinds of cudos and Grammys for this album, even though audiences in 1980 swore The Bee Gees were passe and disco was by gone. The lead off duet Guilty was written by Barry, Robin, and Maurice, the only track here penned by all three of the boys. Should I even try and count all the hooks, lines, and sinkers in this one? The song fits Barbra perfectly, and yet Barry is in tune also. Who hasn't tried to sing along with this one? If it's possible to get more excellent with this song, listen to the brothers' live snippets of Guilty from One Night Only or Live By Request. \n\nThis album isn't quite like anything else Barbra Streisand has done, but Woman In Love comes close to her prior work. It suits her moody dark style yet has a Gibb touch too it. I have some of the demos for this album, but I don't listen to them often. Barry sounds just a bit too shrill on the demos. Barbra's version of Love however has that grand epic feel to it. \nRun Wild and Promises are the first two songs presented that were written by Barry and Robin. I'd like to say I can hear something different or a touch of Robin somewhere, but I honestly can't. Run Wild does have some unique lyrics and just sounds very beautiful. Indeed the boys crafted the songs around Barbra's voice. She really belts on this one. \n\nPromises is to me the one noticable `depature' track. Okay maybe this one does have a bit of a Robin feel. It seems off beat compared to everything else, and it almost sounds as if Barbra is in a bit of a lower voice. It works superbly when she shoots back up to herself. Just the word Promises and the way she says it will get stuck in your head. \nLast on Side A is The Love Inside, which might be my favorite track. It's the only song written by just Barry and his lyrics are on form. Barbra's delivery, however, takes this to the next level. Sometimes this album she can be tough to understand, but on The Love Inside, what needs to be understood is so, and what you can't quite make out, mood, music, and imagination take care off. These few minutes tell us its okay to step back from our busy lives, relax, and yes, stop and think about love! ;0) \n\nWhat Kind of Fool is the second duet on the album and was penned by Barry with Albhy Galuten, as are the last two tracks. Fool is not as commercial as Guilty, and isn't even as much of a duet. It does, however, sound the most like a Bee Gees tune. It's very dark and balladeering. It's unrepetitive and the interlude kicks it up a notch. \nThe third Barry and Robin penned tune Life Story is next. It has a lot of booming music and crescendos from Barbra and I can really picture her on a rooftop belting this one to somebody who's done her wrong. Is that just me? \nNever Give Up is what I consider the fast track on the album. Barbra almost rapping is definately what no one expected on this tune, but the chorus is very Broadway styled. Barry's next project should be a show based on this album. Parts of this song you can't help but sing along too. \n\nMake It Like A Memory ends the album in big Broadway production fashion. It starts off slow, then turns it up. Although not saying the name of a song is annoying when you don't know the title, Barbra's delivery of the long awaited title line in this one is worth it. My one nitpick with the song is the ending. It just drags on and on and fades into the distance. Maybe there is some sort of parallel to be drawn about remembering or the memory fading, I don't know. I would rather have the song end on some of the big booms and cymbals it's got in there, but did I win a Grammy for this stuff? No. \nGuilty is the perfect album to have in case, just maybe, you want to hear a woman's voice and still have that awesome Gibb quality in lyrics, sound, and production. Hey, hey, I said maybe. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\n"Guilty" Pleasure!, July 14, 2004\nReviewer: Funky D "FunkyD" (The First Coast) \nAdmittedly I am much more of a Barry Gibb/Bee Gees fan than a Streisand one, so much of the appeal of this album is based on Barry Gibb's instantly recognizable songwriting and production style. However, this is a rare instance where a truly first-rate vocalist takes her shot at pure pop music. The results, to put is simply, are spectacular, and a once-in-a-lifetime classic.\nStreisand found Barry Gibb at the absolute top of his game as a writer and producer, and added a strong and sure voice to the laid-back, butter-smooth melodies and harmonies of the Brothers Gibb. How he was able to reign in some of Barbra's occasional vocal excesses remains a mystery, but it is not just Streisand's best album, it is arguably the best one Barry Gibb ever produced, too.\n\nAlthough "Guilty" and "Woman in Love" are the most-well known tracks on the album (the latter being of the absolute best pop songs of the late 70s/early 80s), most of the tracks are strong performers. Except for perhaps "The Love Inside" which drags somewhat and "Run Wild", which isn't sure where it wants to go, that is.\n\nThe real sleeper here is "Promises". It was released as a single, and was little-noticed, but in its own way, it is the pinnacle of the album. The easy-going groove is easy to get lost in, and one of the handful of tunes I can play endlessly without tiring of it.\n\n"What Kind of Fool" is an exercise in meloncholy, but is a vocal gem.\n\n"Make It Like a Memory" is the last, and longest track. Starting off slowly and gently, it builds in both drama an momentum until it explodes in a classic Bee Gees-style stomp, leaving the listener feeling like he or she just had a whole pan of double-fudge brownies. A completely "Guilty" pleasure!\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nMOR FM Pop Gloria In Excelsis, April 1, 2004\nReviewer: Nosferatu das Vampir (Porto, Portugal) \nThe late 70s/early 80s white-hot streak of pop heaven the Bee Gees were associated with was already mentioned by a previous reviewer. I suppose radio listeners probably grew tired of that fluffy, warm cotton swab soundscape, but listening to "Guilty" after all these years is still so much of a rapture i can't manage to escape the thrill! \nI have no patience for Barbra and her "classy popular performer" appeal. I like her when she is the vessel to someone else's thoughts and ideas: she is far 2 conventional 2 be truly appealing on a deep level. But her voice soaring above the celestial lounge-funk of these tracks is like a polished operatic blues singer engraving gold on every word and clearing ambiguities with her special kind of hypnotic subtlety. \nThere's gorgeous funky pop - "Guilty", "Promises" - and amazing slow burners - "Life Story", "Run Wild". "Life Story" is an amazing paranoid accusation of jealousy: everytime i hear it i immediately long for the bridge - "Deeper than your valleys, longer than your memory, I go to your story's end" - and tremble at the recognition that it hits the spot everytime! I'd call "Run Wild" cosmic, but i suppose it translates into something laughable. Yet cosmic is exactly what it is. "Make it like a Memory" is simply blues meets opera with a somewhat complex structure - ok, it's not Stravinsky, but it's way above most pop/rock. Her duets with Gibb - "Guilty" and "What kind of Fool" - are perfect vocal marriages; "Love Inside" is heavenly and nostalgic with almost Platonic tinges. \nFinally: the number one single, "Woman in Love", is like a carousel you get trapped in notwithstanding attempts to avoid getting caught in the dizzy giddiness of it. Barbra pushes the song to higher and higher levels and it seems to extend itself beyond the material and into the metaphysical. \nThis is really a rare album, one i started listening to during my childhood thanks to my cousin, and has never exhausted itself throughout repeated listenings...\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nGuilty Pleasures, February 9, 2002\nReviewer: Martin London (London, England, UK) \nJust when you thought, please God no more Bee Gee's, Barbra Striesand gave them the kind of class they never had. If there are five essential Streisand albums this has to be one of them: THE WAY WERE WERE being the greatest in her long career. But this time out she's travelling in useful company. Whatever one thinks of them, and I find it easy not thinking about them, the Gibbs can not be ignored here. This was Drama meets Disco and it never sounded better for Barbra, or us; the comsumers. \nIn London this album caused a sensation in 1980-2 and it is still much loved. Here is the meeting of two stylists Barbra the Diva and Barry the camp loverboy to melt the hearts of teendream girls, even my sister fancied him. Anyway, rather than competing with Barbra he paid her the greatest compliment by wrting, arranging and composing this 'glamourpuss' of an album that matched style with content, if not meaning. \n\nClearly Larry Hart will rest easy, and so will Cole, George and Ira, because Gibb does not have their wit, passion or sophistication. What Barry did have was the know how! WOMAN IN LOVE is without a doubt as important to Barbra's career, along with THE WAY WE WERE and PEOPLE as RESPECT, and all the others greats, was to Aretha Franklin: the other great voice of the Rock and Soul era. \n\nThe production sheen on the CD GUILTY sends the vocials through the stratosphere and Barbra seems to be in such great spirits throughout the set. RUN WILD, PROMISES, and LOVE LOVE INSIDE shimmer with confidence. The tempo of the songs also provide Streisand a ricer vocal range because the songs are not theatrical, they are confessional in a pop sensibility.\n\nAs one of her greatest fans I really dislike her choice of material over the past 10 years but from 1963-1983 she proved herself to be a vocal stylist bar none! And GUILTY was the pinical of her pop aspirations. The opening title track combines the kind of pop devotional love song that Carol King and her hubby wrote for so many girl groups in the 1960s and then later turned into her own vocal confession on TAPESTRY. \n\nGUITLY sits right up there with the best because it's the kind of glamourous romanticism that is seldom done today. \n\nI WILL NEVER GIVE UP is so ironic I just love it to pieces! Not only is there the sinuous beauty of Barbra's voice overlaying the rhythm, there is a promise fulfilled on the album but never continued later on in her career; and I miss that. Which is why I have never stopped playing this perfect pop album. Buy it and spoil yourself. The finale MAKE IT LIKE A MEMORY will tell the listener just why Streisand is the most enduring famale vocalist of her era. Not only does this play at night, with a loved one over dinner, it plays in the summer when all that techno buzzes through the air. Then you cut the (stuff) with her vocal that's so dazzling it forces people to look in your direction because through your window, or in your car, the humane voice of Barbra Streisand can stop traffic; and you'll be such a star yourself because you have her voice in your space.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nWearing Well After 20 Years, July 3, 2000\nReviewer: A music fan\nCertainly worth re-discovering if this one's been at the back of your CD rack. Yes, it can be schmaltzy and Gibb-infused drivel, but who better to sing it? 'Make It Like A Memory' is still a phenomenal stand-out (just listen), with obtuse orchestration and an oddly ethereal feel. The test of Barbra as an artist is her constant ability to push herself into musical styles with which she is uncomfortable and make them her own. She certainly does that here.\nThe commercial success of this album aside (I'm unclear why that is a 'bad' thing in many reviews), this album is a knockout.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nShopping Mall Barbra, May 12, 2000\nReviewer: "charon-the-oarsman" (West Hollywood, CA United States) \n"Guilty" is pretty much the end of Barbra's Jon Peters period, which made her a highly marketable shopping mall commodity, complete with permed shopping mall hair. For what it's worth, this is the best album of that part of Barbra's career, as well as her all-time biggest selling record. Barbra could sing the Brooklyn telephone directory and make it sound good, and here she just about does. Typically stupid and mind-boggling Barry Gibb lyrics abound ("we are devotion"---what the hell does that mean? And check this one out: "No truth is ever a lie." Duh. And no nose is ever a basketball. Whatever.) The music all has a creepy-eerie Eurotrash sheen; much of it sounds like soundtrack music for a European "art" film (porno movie). Still, Barbra sounds great. I would just rather listen to her sing Harold Arlen songs than Barry Gibb drivel.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nPure Gold, May 4, 2000\nReviewer: "belladena" (Ontario, Canada) \nBarry Gibb and Barbra Streisand, teamed, are an immeasurable source of beauty and harmony. I first heard this album in 1980, on vinyl - one of the greatest influences passed on from my mother. Now, at 22, it remains as my favourite album of all time - Woman in Love still gives me chills. An esoteric and gorgeous teaming of beauty and brains.\nI'd also like to comment on MarkE's comments on this album: Barry Gibb did a lot more with regards to this album than wear a tight pair of pants, though I don't disagree that he did it well.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nperfect, timeless *and* exciting, April 11, 2000\nReviewer: ILikeAmazon "ilikeamazon" (Arlington, VA USA) \nWhen Rolling Stone rated this 5-stars, I had to take a listen. The rating's no exaggeration. There are so many lovely tracks, wonderfully orchestrated and accompanied by Barbra, who will never have her vocals so well showcased. Every track, including the big hits like "Guilty" and "What Kind of Fool" not only sound great, but have genuine emotional content. And there's a bonus: Superb engineering. Just wait for the SACD version. I own the half-speed mastered CBS LP and the recording quality ranks with the best I've ever heard. A triumph of easy-listening non-mush adult contemporary music.\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\n"Guilty" is Barbra's best Pop Album..., May 4, 1999\nReviewer: Christopher Sullivan (New York, NY USA) \nIn 1980, following her #1 duet with Donna Summer ("No More Tears/Enough Is Enough"), Barbra released the first single from her new album... "Woman In Love". It quickly rose to #1 and was certified gold. Shortly thereafter, the title track "Guilty", a duet with Barry Gibb, was released and rose to #3. It also went gold and won a grammy for best pop vocal duet. Then came the #10 follow-up duet with Barry Gibb "What Kind of Fool", and then the #48 single "Promises". \n"Promises" was remixed as a 12" single. It was released again in the late 80's as a part of Columbia Records "Mixed Masters" series and was backed with Barbra's 12" version of "The Main Event". It's a great track and I only wish Barbra would have it re-mixed for the 90's!\n\nWhat is so special about "Guilty" is not only Barbra's voice being in peak form, but that these songs are a departure for her. The lyrics break from her self-stated style of being... "a story - with a beginning, middle and an end". The lyrics are often vague and esoteric and open to all sorts of interpretations. \n\nOn the plus side: To date, this is Barbra's best selling album. Barbra is cosidered by many to be the greatest female vocalist of the the 20th century...this album shows you why.\n\nOn the minus side: One reviewer likened Barbra's "Guilty' duet with Barry Gibb as sounding like a duet between Mae West and Don Knotts. "What Kind of Fool" was originally planned as a solo, and should have been. "Never Give Up" is pure forgettable bubble-gum. \n\nSadly, "Guilty" was Barbra's last hurrah at main stream Top 40 radio. Aside from her very next single, the #11 "Comin' In & Out of Your Life", Barbra has never had another Top 30 solo-single. Maybe her last album of the 90's, the forthcoming "A Love Like Ours" will change that! \n\nBest cuts: Woman In Love, Run Wild, Promises, The Love Inside, Life Story and Make It Like A Memory.\n\nHalf.com Album Credits\nBarry Gibb, Contributing Artist\nLee Ritenour, Contributing Artist\nRichard Tee, Contributing Artist\nSteve Gadd, Contributing Artist\nDon Gehman, Engineer\nKarl Richardson, Engineer\n\nAlbum Notes\nPersonnel includes: Barbra Streisand (vocals); Barry Gibb (vocals, acoustic guitar); Richard Tee (electric guitar, keyboards); Cornell Dupree, Lee Ritenour (guitar); Whit Snider (baritone saxophone); Ken Faulk (trumpet); Jerry Peel (French horn); Peter Graves (trombone); George Bitzer (piano, synthesizer); David Hungate, Harold Cowart (bass); Steve Gadd, Bernard Lupe (drums); Joe Lala (percussion); Denise Maynelli, Myrna Matthews, Marti McCall (background vocals).\n\nProducers include: Barry Gibb, Albhy Galuten, Karl Richardson.\n\nRecorded at Criteria, Middle Ear, Miami, Florida; Sound Labs Inc., Hollywood, California; Mediasound Studios, New York, New York.\n\nReleased in September 1980, GUILTY was Barbra Streisand's best-selling album to date, moving in excess of 20 million units. It is Streisand's THRILLER and arguably her best recorded work. This is largely due to producer Barry Gibb, who developed the songs especially for Barbra, and whose vocal presence is felt throughout the record. "Guilty" (a duet with Gibb) is a mid-tempo smash that blends the superstars' vocals to create pop perfection. "Woman In Love" topped the charts for three weeks and features the trademark "chipmunk-like" Gibb on background vocals.\n\n"Run Wild" is an uptempo number showing that there's no filler here. "Promises" is a mid-tempo track that sounds custom-made for radio airplay. "The Love Inside" features excellent keyboard arrangements while "What Kind Of Fool" (another duet with Gibb) is a ballad that proves Barbra and Barry were meant to sing together. Her vocals on the fast-paced, optimistic "Never Give Up" reveal such a calm demeanor that you can almost picture the relative ease with which this record was produced. This album is a perfect 10, two thumbs up, and proof of what can be achieved when talent and technology come together.
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