Allow Us to Be Frank [Import]

1. Ain't That a Kick in the Head

2. Fly Me to the Moon

3. Smile

4. Let There Be Love

5. Way You Look Tonight

6. Come Fly With Me

7. Mack the Knife

8. I Left My Heart in San Fransisco

9. Summer Wind

10. Clementine

11. When I Fall in Love

12. Moon River

13. That's Life

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Average customer rating: Are you kidding me with this? Allow Us To Be Frank Lets be frankly honest.... Surprisingly good, since I'm not a Westlife fan Classics to a NEW GENERATION.

Allow Us to Be Frank Westlife Manufacturer: Bmg Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music Ireland | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Teen Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Face to Face Love Album Westlife - Unbreakable: Greatest Hits V.1 (+1 Bonus World of Our Own Turnaround ASIN: B000654UX2 Release Date: 2004-11-15

Tracks:

1. Ain't That a Kick in the Head
2. Fly Me to the Moon
3. Smile
4. Let There Be Love
5. Way You Look Tonight
6. Come Fly with Me
7. Mack the Knife
8. I Left My Heart in San Francisco
9. Summer Wind
10. Clementine
11. When I Fall in Love
12. That's Life
13. That's Life

Customer Reviews:

Are you kidding me with this?.......2007-03-24

This is karaoke at it's worst. One other reviewer said in here:
"Mostly the credit must go to the enormously swinging back-up orchestra." That's because it is note for note, instrument for instrument exactly the same back as the original. Listen to Westlife's "Ain't that a kick in the head", then go listen to Dean Martin's original. There's no difference! I would not be surprised at all if they sang to the same records, just with Dino, Sammy or Frank's voice edited out. These guys are horrible and should stick to screwing over the pop scene and leave the standards alone.
Think I'm being mean? Check this review from the Stylus website:
"Opener "Ain't That A Kick In The Head" is the most destructive thing to have happened to Dean Martin since emphysema."
I really can't improve on that.

Folks, if you like this music, listen to the masters. Not the wannabees.

Allow Us To Be Frank.......2007-02-27

Love it!...good vocals, selection of music. Play it on our boat while drinking wine!

Lets be frankly honest.... .......2006-12-26

Lets be frankly honest.... that this album is not that bad as the previous reviewers criticized it. I am was never really into Vocal music before, and now I am regular listener of that genre. Westlife does a great job introducing standards to the young audience. That does not necessarily mean that they will enjoy it. The people who enjoy music to its max are people who have an open mind. I absolutely fell in love with this album. Though they cant be compared to the vocal greats like Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams... they do a decent job.

Surprisingly good, since I'm not a Westlife fan.......2006-08-27

Michael's reviewing Westlife? When did he join this millennium? Well, they've made a CD of songs that Frank Sinatra first made famous and I honestly don't know what to think about it. They, too, are in my MP3 player and getting constant repetition.

Are the kids who like Westlife's original music suddenly going to turn into Sinatra fans? I dunno. Are Sinatra fans going to suddenly rush out and buy more Westlife after hearing this? I dunno. Will there be fans who don't even know these aren't brand new songs? Probably. But, you know, I enjoy over half of these songs. If Westlife does also, why shouldn't they sing them? And if this is how the songwriting lives on in the CD age, what the heck?

I'm glad I have this CD. Just for the record, I much prefer Bobby Darin to Frank Sinatra. (How many 42-year-old rednecks have such a firm opinion on this issue?) But hey, Westlife can sing. Prior to this CD, my impression of them was negative because what they sing about simply doesn't interest me, and which I presume they'll go back to now. This particular CD has some damn fine writing, which I tend to believe they'll never achieve again.

Classics to a NEW GENERATION........2006-08-27

WESTLIFE accomplishes what others have tried and failed.
Any artist can cover songs, but few can make them their own and provide the energy to make them sound new.
Aint that a kick in the head should be placed on any future greatest hits and the beautiful Smile never sounded better.
The boys had fun recording this CD and you will thoroughly fall in love, again, with these classic hits.
If you want a real treat, purchase their latest DVD - The #1's Tour, and experience a brief opportunity to go back in time.
Young people, if you take the time to listen, you will truely appreciate and LOVE this material.

Average customer rating: cool sound

Allow Us to Be Frank Westlife Manufacturer: S ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music Ireland | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00064KHZ8 Release Date: 2004-11-15

Tracks:

1. Ain't That a Kick in the Head
2. Fly Me to the Moon
3. Smile
4. Let There Be Love
5. Way You Look Tonight
6. Come Fly with Me
7. Mack the Knife
8. I Left My Heart in San Francisco
9. Summer Wind
10. Clementine
11. When I Fall in Love
12. That's Life
13. That's Life

Album Details

The Veteran Vocal Group Take a Cue from Robbie Williams (A Former Vocal Group Member of Take that Himself) and Present a Selection of Songs Made Famous by the Legendary Frank Sinatra. Beautifully Orchestrated and Arranged, the Boys Bring this Great Music to the Ears of a New Generation.

Customer Reviews:

cool sound.......2004-11-18

it's a great cd's if your into the soft cool sound of the oldie's. The sound is good & slow yet peppy it's a good choice if you like the cool sound of the original's, they make the song's sound great

Average customer rating: It's missing that Westlife "goodness" Frankly awful.

Allow Us to Be Frank Westlife ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music Ireland | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00061WY02 Release Date: 2004-11-16

Tracks:

1. Ain't That a Kick in the Head
2. Fly Me to the Moon
3. Smile
4. Let There Be Love
5. Way You Look Tonight
6. Come Fly with Me
7. Mack the Knife
8. I Left My Heart in San Francisco
9. Summer Wind
10. Clementine
11. When I Fall in Love
12. That's Life
13. That's Life

Customer Reviews:

It's missing that Westlife "goodness".......2006-10-17

I'll admit, that this isn't one of Westlife's best CDs. However, it's still a good one. Their voices and harmonies are smooth and beautiful on each track. They cover the songs very nicely, though they don't add much of their own style to any of them. Which I think is where the problem lies. There isn't a lot of pure Westlife goodness here. Just covers in the style that they were written. Still, if you're a fan of Westlife and of Michael Buble's earlier stuff, this is a good CD for you.

Frankly awful........2005-10-31

Here's a quick teaser for you; what's worse than something that sucks?

Answer: something that sucks that COPIED something else that sucks.

"Allow Us To Be Frank" sees Westlife clearly having ran out of ideas. Well, not they that HAD any ideas in the first place - they're an empty-headed boyband, they say and do what they're told. But the managment team, obviously horrified that their cash cows last few singles didn't (gasp!) go to number one, hit on a previously golden idea - an album of Jazz standards, once upon a time sung by a variety of recording legends (but knowing that the braindead pondlife buying this will only have HEARD of Frank Sinatra, decided to name the record after him).

Like I said earlier, it's been done (badly) before. Robbie Williams released "Swing When You're Winning" (a take on his earlier proper album, "Sing When You're Winning" - gotta love those puns in the album titles, folks. A sure fire way of saying "ah, we were only messing around anyway" if the project fails), a dire album by all accounts, but for what Williams lacked in range and style, he made up for in originality and a genuine passion for the music he was singing and the stars he was mimicking.

So, "Swing.." sold by the bucketload. It was a massive success, which of course led to an album of Pop Idol drones singing the exact same songs on a, you guessed it, album of covers by famous Jazz singers.

Which takes us to this car crash of a record. What really gets me, and this goes for Robbie's attempt as well, is the knuckle-headed notion that because you SING songs that Frank Sinatra et al sang, you have to LOOK like them as well. So cue the slicked back hair, the suits, the smokey lounge, the smug expressions... WHY? Frank Sinatra looked like that, not because the genre demanded it, not because "that's what jazz singers look like" - but because, you know, he LOOKED like that in the first place. You want to sing jazz songs? Fine. Sing them. But why dress up? What is the point?

So, third time lucky for this gimmick, and thankfully the record buying sheep decided there was something else demanding their money this time around (some reality tv star had a single out, no doubt) and the record bombed. Hopefully this is the last time we'll see this idea wheeled out, because the sight of four guys singing songs they don't know, in a style they don't know, just because their record company tells them to, is not a pretty one. A repugnant, insulting record. Pay it no further heed.

The_Curmudgeon_Hates_You@yahoo.co.uk

Average customer rating: Can "Frank" Be Too Frank?

Allow Us to Be Frank Westlife Manufacturer: Bmg ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music Ireland | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Teen Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000666R5A Release Date: 2004-12-22

Tracks:

1. Ain't That A Kick In The Head
2. Fly Me To The Moon
3. Smile
4. Let There Be Love
5. Way You Look Tonight (Westlife Only Version)
6. Come To Fly With Me
7. Mack The Knife
8. I Left My Heart In San Francisco
9. Summer Wind
10. Clementine
11. When I Fall In Love
12. Moon River
13. That's Life
14. Way You Look Tonight (Feat Joanne Hindley)
15. Ain't That A Kick In The Head

Album Details

Japanese Release featuring a Bonus Track

Customer Reviews:

Can "Frank" Be Too Frank?.......2004-12-31

Prime Cuts: Ain't Love A Kick in the Heart, I Left My Heart in San Francisco, The Way You Look Tonight

With a catalogue stocked with amorous ballads (such as "I Wanna Grow Old with You," "I'll Be Loving You Forever," "Miss You Nights" among others), Westlife has gone full monty with an album of romantic excavates. Taking a tasty sojourn back to the sepia tones of the bygone pop standards era, these five Irish heartthrobs have decided to tackle Frank Sinatra's songbook. Though dabbling with the legendary Blue Eyes' repertoire is by no means novel, it's the first time a "boy band" has aspired for such lofty acme. However, with its legions of young fans who are vastly unfamiliar with Sinatra, Westlife is on safe turf in covering some of the more familiar (and sometimes over done) tunes.

Nevertheless, romantic moments abound as the recesses of the heart are deftly expounded on these paeans. Accompanied by a cadre of some quixotic sounding strings, "Fly Me to the Moon" has a chimerical feel. Singing the praises of his paramour's pulchritude, "The Way You Look Tonight" despite its numerous covers, is still one of Western civilizations' greatest love songs. Elegantly constructed and poetically worded. Love's gripping effects has never been more eloquent phrased than in "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," a track that's also been commonly associated with Tony Bennett. Tellingly, Westlife must have been listening too closely to Bennett's track as they veer perilously too close to the great crooner's rendition. Even when the tempo picks up on the single "Ain't Love A Kick in the Heart" or "That's Life" or "Mack the Knife," these lads sound like they are having fun.

However, I have a few quibbles with this entire project: First, Westlife has been known for their harmonies, though they did utilize some of them here, most of these covers sound more like solo efforts than a group endeavor. Second, hailed from Ireland, Westlife has on occasions brought in their Celtic touches, but these tracks sound so much like Frank Sinatra that it begs the question: can "Allow Us to Be Frank" be far too frank (pun intended)? Third, most of these tracks clock in at less than three minutes and they are at best straight forward renditions of these classics, but somehow I wish Westlife would have re-interpreted these songs giving them a more youthful and more contemporary feel. If it's just carbon copies of the originals, then isn't this project tautological?

If you like a collection of great romantic Sinatra classics, then this CD will suffice. However, if you want something a little more than professional karaoke, then there are better tribute albums to the Blue Eyes. "Allow Us to Be Frank" is a little too ambitious for these twenty somethings; I hope a door is kept open for a re-visitation maybe a few more years down the road.

NOTE: this pressing includes a bonus track "Moon River," which is given a straight forward read with Westlife struggling a little vocally. Otherwise, it's quite effable.
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