Jennifer Rush

idratherjack

idratherjack

rashidhk81 said:
"Heart Over Mind" is a great album too. "Heart Wars" is one of my favourite tracks.

"Passion" is also a fabulous album (my second fave), so check it out.

The "Stronghold" boxset is a must. It has loads of rare tracks/b-sides and extended mixes.
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Thanks for your recommendations. I was looking for her late 80s albums as that's my favourite sound/era and annoyingly iTunes doesn't have Heart Over Mind.

Think I'll get the rest of Stronghold and see what takes my fancy. I am currently obsessed with Heart Wars! What a voice she has.
 
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Eric Generic

Eric Generic

My anthology effort from 2 years ago....

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As usual, image quality does not quite reflect the actual printed version.
 
rashidhk81

rashidhk81

idratherjack said:
So it is! I edited my post too slowly ha ha.

Is the Heart Over Mind album as amazing as the title track and Heart Wars? They are two of the best songs I've heard in ages!
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They are 2 of the strongest tracks (as well as "Flames of Paradise" and "I Come Undone" which are fabulous!). I love all the other songs too. A lot of them are mid-tempo or ballads to balance things out. It's a great album.
 
rashidhk81

rashidhk81

Tell me about it. I've trawled the internet for reasons why, but I can't find anything. It's like the elephant in the room!

I loved her look before.
 
manloveuk

manloveuk

i think vocally Jennifer Rush is the equivalent of a DeNiro, Streep, or Dench... faultless performances with such beautiful inflections, attention to detail, and translating lyric into sound congruently, with assured confidence and supreme ease. I'll never understand quite why she wasn't absolutely massive in the UK, as her 80's albums were all pretty top drawer stuff.

Re: Heart Over Mind album. After 'Heart Wars', i'd go for 'Love Of A Stranger' [a sort of ballad equivalent of Heart Wars - 80's powerballadtastic]; 'I Come Undone', 'Flames Of Paradise' and 'Down To You', but to be fair, there's not a bad track on the album.

oh, and 'Ring Of Ice' [the UK mix] is very amazing.
 
Guyhawke!

Guyhawke!

Jennifer forever! My father had a lot of her albums in his collection so I grew up with Jennifer as one of the many female vocalists who seemed to shape my musical tastes. It is fairly criminal that she was not a bigger international star during the 1980s because all of her albums from this period are worthy competition for those of her peers at the time. 'Heart Over Mind' is unquestionably the pick of the litter, striking the right balance between overwrought balladry and uptempo tracks. Nearly every song could have been a single. The 1990s material is super strong too; I've always loved her self-titled album from 1992 (which could easily have been a lost Geffen-era Cher album), 'Out Of My Hands' is more rock-oriented that what Mariah and Celine were releasing at the time and sounds more interesting as a result, and 1997's 'Credo' is undoubtedly my favourite 90s adult-contemporary album. Jennifer's voice is technically flawless on everything she has ever released and showed little sign of diminishing returns on 'Now Is The Hour'.

'Stronghold' is definitely a great place to start as it gives a fairly comprehensive overview of her first five albums and even a couple of songs released under her original name Heidi Stern. The sound quality is good but the tracks have been brickwalled to sound 'remastered' and in places, like the title track, they lose the dynamics of the original CD masterings. Used copies of most of her studio albums can be found easily online, so if you enjoy her voice I'd really suggest just investing in her back catalogue. Otherwise, there was a mid-price compilation of Jennifer's 1990s albums released about a decade ago called 'Premium Gold Collection' which is a really effective overview of that period which alongside 'Stronghold' gives you a great sampling of her recordings.


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idratherjack

idratherjack

My brother just sent me an iTunes voucher for my birthday - so that's the rest of Stronghold purchased! There's a lot to take in but it's sounding great so far. Love the 7 minute long The Power of Love, it is epic!
 
manloveuk

manloveuk

there's a timeless quality to 'The Power Of Love' and its a vocal masterclass. It is also, I agree, one of those songs that is best in its full length form. Epic indeed.
 
Eric Generic

Eric Generic

From wiki:

"She released a boxed set Stronghold – The Collector's Hit Box in August 2007. This compilation included all Rush singles from 1982 to 1991 (with her first record company), and in their "extended versions" as available. It also included all the B-sides and other rare or unreleased tracks (among them four James Bond theme songs, recorded live in 1984 and only released in a very limited edition by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)."
 
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