 "Enjoyable, but not incredible" | 2008-06-17 |
| - Reviewed By User: AEY5XSICMGU39 |
Do you like to listen to music on your Walkman as you take your daily stroll? Do you like background music during a nice dinner, or while you are reading? Do you enjoy lush harmonies? Then this recording is for you.
Do you want music you can analyze and categorize? Then pass this one up.
For me, the pluses of the disc: For the most part, the orchestrations support and complement the singers. The four part harmonies are delightful.
The minuses: It all sounds alike. Nothing on the recording reaches out and grabs your attention. "Unchained Melody" and "My Way" begin as if they are going to be different; then they quickly gravitate into the sameness.
Don't throw the recording away. Just listen to it under the right conditions, and enjoy it for what it is. |
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 "hot" | 2008-02-12 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3SN2RQ5ZCYRXW |
| got these as gifts in 2006. very hot guys with hot voices to match. i have all of their cds now. |
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| "My Way" | 2008-01-14 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2BHF6BLJZ5ME2 |
| When my day is going the wrong way, I simply put on my headset and turn on Il Divo and listen to this album because of the very last song, "My Way". That is how I get through back in control of the worst of the situations - my way. It puts everything back in perspective. |
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 "Average" | 2008-01-07 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1IOQ3BYTD5CHU |
| I was not as pleased with this cd as I hope to be, but it is an okay compilation. Perhaps other cds by this artist are better? The artists are talented but some of the songs are lacking. |
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| "OHMYGOODNESS!!!!" | 2008-01-07 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1KBGRC25DE1Y3 |
Holy cow! These 4 very good looking guys have the most SPECTACULAR voices I've ever heard!!! There isn't a bad song on this CD, I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys this kind of music. I will be purchasing all Il Divo's other CD's in the near future.
Enjoy! |
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| "Il Divo Extraordinaire!" | 2008-01-02 |
| - Reviewed By User: AYUFCH2WGUZVV |
| These four male voices are truly extraordinairy! They seem to sing so effortlessly, with great ease, and their vocal range is amazing. I could sit and listen to them for hours and hours. My only complaint is that I don't know what they are saying in most of the songs, since I am limited to the English language. I would love it if they would do an album all in English, filled with love songs! I am truly a hopeless romantic and they seem to capture my soul with thier voices. Their faces are not too hard on the eyes either, I might add! LOL! |
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| "Music to feed my soul" | 2007-11-10 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3LY1M5H44BHPD |
Siempre
What magnificent voices! They are a wonderful blend of talent and passion. I don't care if I understand the words. They just surround me with joy. |
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| "If you love your Mama, you should buy this CD" | 2007-09-26 |
| - Reviewed By beverlymcm |
This CD has lots of nice songs sung by some very attractive young singers that were hand-selected for voice and looks by Simon Cowell. Most of the songs are beautifully performed, even when the swelling orchestration seems to overpower the vocals.
However, the real reason to buy this CD is for track #2, "Mama." This is so beautiful, and if you love (or loved) your Mama, you will love this song. The words express the gratitude, regrets, pride, and most of all, love, we feel for this special woman. I cannot listen without crying, and missing my own dear Mama all the more. |
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 "My ears have fallen, and they can't get up." | 2007-09-14 |
| - Reviewed By jbparanoid |
Here they are, ladies and gentlemen, the Limp Bizkit, no!- the INSANE CLOWN POSSE of the classical world! Assembled by Simon Cowell - that perpetually irritated Brit with hair designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (is he sure AI stands for American Idol and not Artificial Intelligence?) - these four plastic-faced young lads can make you weep like a baby, though not from the soaring emotion in their voices (there is none), but merely from the immense pain they will inflict upon your eardrums. You see, Simon Cowell is an expert at crushing the dreams of youngsters hopeful of a career in music, and with Il Divo, he's successfully crushed my dream, as well - the one where I envisioned a world where music like this doesn't exist.
I can't quite decide which is the worst aspect of this music: the unsubtle, glossed-over arrangements; its shameless marketing angle which tries to pass it off as classical music when it is actually mainstream pop sung with operatic vocals, or Il Divo themselves, who, with each successive album, sound more and more enthusiastic about the fact that they are howling together like a quartet of banshees. Honestly, do they have to use a wind-tunnel's worth of vibrato with every single note they sing???? No, they don't - because when they do, and harmonize together with it, the composite timbre they produce wavers so much that they may as well be singing in different keys. Really folks, these guys are incisive as a Jimmy Buffett lyric - as soulful as a Heart guitar solo. Wait, did I call this "music," earlier? Note that I'm using that term loosely.
Also note that since Il Divo have rehashed the same basic album's worth of material three times now and simply slapped a new cover picture and title on it each time - failing at every turn to muster up any inkling of progress or creativity - that I myself shall replicate their incomparable lack of effort and repost this same review on all of their material! What's the difference anyway, ay boys??!!
And so now we must ask ourselves, where will Rocketship Il Divo finally land? What fate beholds this blindingly chiseled foursome who dare to call themselves "singers." Well, hopefully a few years from now, after the last scratched-up Il Divo CD lands in your local used record store's 99 cent bin, and after the last half-deaf grandma empties her change purse to buy it, maybe one or two of these guys will succeed in a semi-respectable opera career, still blasting a melody from their vocal cords, composed by someone else, still (for ever and always) a dangling puppet of the mainstream music machine.
One of the worst groups ever recorded. Period. |
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| "Fantastic" | 2007-09-09 |
| - Reviewed By User: ADU8I3XAW0YQZ |
These guys are great! I can listen to them sing all night long.
Hope they release more cd's. |
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