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词条 I Can't Stop (album)
释义

  1. Critical reception

  2. Track listing

  3. Singles

  4. Personnel

  5. References

  6. External links

{{Infobox album
| name = I Can't Stop
| type = Studio
| artist = Al Green
| cover = algreenstop.jpg
| alt =
| released = November 17, 2003
| recorded = March - April 2003 at Royal Studios, Memphis, Tennessee
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Soul[1]
| length = 53:11
| label = Blue Note
| producer = Willie Mitchell
| prev_title = Your Heart's in Good Hands
| prev_year = 1995
| next_title = Everything's OK
| next_year = 2005
}}

I Can't Stop is the 27th studio album by American soul singer Al Green, released in 2003. It was produced by Willie Mitchell. It was released by Blue Note Records on November 17, 2003, in the United Kingdom and on November 18 in the United States.[1] The album was Green's first since 1995, his first for Blue Note, and his first collaboration with Mitchell since 1985's He Is the Light; it was also Green's first entirely secular recording since the 1970s.

The reunion between Green and Mitchell was highly anticipated, and I Can't Stop was a commercial success, peaking at number 53 on the Billboard 200 and number 9 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts. It was Green's highest placing on both charts since his 1975 album Al Green Is Love.

Critical reception

{{Album reviews
|rev1 = Allmusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}} [2]
|rev2 = The Austin Chronicle
|rev2Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}[3]
|rev3 = Blender
|rev3Score = {{rating|2|5}}[4]
|rev4 = Robert Christgau
|rev4Score = A–[5]
|rev5 = Entertainment Weekly
|rev5score = A–[6]
|rev6 = The Guardian
|rev6score = {{Rating|4|5}}[8]
|rev7 = Mojo
|rev7Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[7]
|rev8 = Q
|rev8score = {{Rating|4|5}}[8]
|rev9 = Rolling Stone
|rev9score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}[9]
|rev10 = Uncut
|rev10Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[10]
}}I Can't Stop received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, it received an average score of 75 out of 100, based on 18 reviews.[11] Mojo opined "(Green) is, if anything, singing better than ever".[7] In The Guardian, Alexis Petridis stated "The songwriting is largely superb, which keeps the album from sounding like a clever pastiche".[12] Robert Christgau, writing in The Village Voice, said that the album is not a sophisticated modernization or comeback to "a form he never lost", but instead shows that Green has "retained plenty of voice and the guile to know what to do with it."[5] In a mixed review, Tom Smucker of The Village Voice felt that Green gets "tied down when production's slathered on a bit too thick".[13] Blender magazine dismissed it as "a weak echo of those gloriously clean and spacious [1970s] LPs".[4]

In a retrospective review for the magazine, Christgau gave the album four stars and called it Green's "finest late pop album". He felt that, although Green "can no longer shade with sprightly delicacy," his singing is louder and strengthened by "two decades in the pulpit at his own Memphis church."[14]

Track listing

  • All tracks written by Al Green and Willie Mitchell except where noted.
  1. "I Can't Stop" - 3:48
  2. "Play to Win" - 4:38
  3. "Rainin' in My Heart" (James Moore/Jerry West) - 4:45
  4. "I've Been Waitin' on You" (Green) - 3:43
  5. "You" - 4:29
  6. "Not Tonight" - 4:25
  7. "Million to One" - 4:52
  8. "My Problem Is You" - 6:28
  9. "I'd Still Choose You" - 4:05
  10. "I've Been Thinkin' 'Bout You" (Green) - 4:04
  11. "I'd Write a Letter" (Green) - 3:53
  12. "Too Many" (Green) - 4:01

Singles

  • "I Can't Stop" (US R&B #97)

Personnel

  • Al Green - vocals
  • Donna Rhodes, Sandra Rhodes, Charlie Chalmers - backing vocals
  • Lester Snell - piano
  • Robert Clayborne - organ
  • Mabon "Teenie" Hodges, Charles "Skip" Pitts - guitar
  • Leroy Hodges - bass guitar
  • Steve Potts - percussion
  • Scott Thompson - trumpet
  • Jack Hale - trombone
  • Andrew Love, Lannie McMillan - tenor saxophone
  • Jim Spake - baritone saxophone
  • Joan Gilbert, Daniel Gilbert, Gregory Morris, Liza Zurlinden - violin
  • Anthony Gilbert, Beth Luscombe - viola
  • Peter Spurbeck, Jonathan Kirkscey - cello

References

1. ^{{cite web|last=Cibula|first=Matt|date=December 19, 2003|url=http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/greenal-icantstop/|title=Al Green: I Can't Stop|publisher=PopMatters|accessdate=July 16, 2013}}
2. ^[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r666058|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]
3. ^{{cite news|last=Oko|first=Dan|url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2004-01-09/192523/|accessdate=July 16, 2013|title=Review: Al Green|newspaper=The Austin Chronicle|date=January 9, 2004}}
4. ^{{cite journal|journal=Blender|location=New York|page=136|date=December 2003|title=Review: I Can't Stop}}
5. ^{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|date=November 11, 2003|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2003-11-11/music/greatest-whatevers/full/|title=Greatest Whatevers|newspaper=The Village Voice|location=New York|accessdate=July 16, 2013}}
6. ^EW review
7. ^{{cite journal|title=Review: I Can't Stop|journal=Mojo|location=London|page=104|date=December 2003}}
8. ^{{cite journal|title=Review: I Can't Stop|journal=Q|location=London|page=114|date=January 2004}}
9. ^{{cite journal|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/i-cant-stop-20031110|accessdate=July 16, 2013|title=I Can't Stop|journal=Rolling Stone|location=New York|date=November 20, 2003|last=Randall|first=Mac}}
10. ^{{cite journal|title=Review: I Can't Stop|journal=Uncut|location=London|page=106|date=January 2004}}
11. ^Metacritic.com
12. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/nov/14/popandrock.shopping3 The Guardian: CD of the week] November 14, 2003
13. ^Village Voice December 16, 2003
14. ^{{cite journal|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cdrev/green2-ble.php|accessdate=July 16, 2013|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|date=May 2007|title=Al Green: Back Catalogue|journal=Blender|location=New York}}

External links

  • {{Discogs master|type=album|141246|name=I Can't Stop}}
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