It's a Funny World

Artist: Mae Moore Label: Paras Recording Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 650113112222 EAN: 0650113112222 ASIN: B00006418X Release Date: 2002-04-23

Listmania:

1. Mellow Groove Tunes

Tracks:

1. Funny World
2. Love Will Bring You Back
3. Who Knows
4. All I Can't Explain
5. The Reckoning
6. Red Clay Hills
7. The Last Time
8. Bohemia
9. Only Man on Coney Island
10. All I Have
11. Superstitious

Similar Items:

1. Oh My!
2. Bohemia
3. Dragonfly
4. Mae Moore
5. Collected Works: 1989-1999

Customer Reviews:

A worthy purchase........2004-03-02

Pop talent "unplugs" on latest album.......2002-06-13

What will you find on this album? First off, "It's a Funny World" is the most laid-back and mature of her recorded work to-date. For those of you who know Mae Moore, (and only Heaven and her record label knows why this Canadian artist is one of the best-kept secrets in the US), you are bound to be surprised by her sound on this new album.

Gone is the deep, rhythmic percussion and bass that underscored many of her songs on prior albums. A few songs had me digging up her "Bohemia" and Oceanview Motel" albums to compare these new performances (NOT simple re-mixes) with the earlier versions. "It's a Funny World" has an acoustic "unplugged" feel and a richer, more mature vocal sound on many tracks, with more conspicuous male vocal accompaniment in places.

My favourite track is "All I Have", an uplifting pop / jazz ballad accented by Mae's vocalese riffs and sweet saxaphone - it has a permanent place in my playlist.

Mae Moore has written the soundtrack to the last decade of my life. Newcomers to this versatile Canadian gem would do well to start with "Collected Works 1989-1999" for an overview of her pop songs. If you like a more mellow, mature acoustic / jazz feel, this is the album for you.

Magnificent Music from Mae!.......2002-05-01

A few of the songs are new versions of older songs, and fit perfectly with the sound of the new material. "Red Clay Hills" from her first album is redone here with a funky country groove that takes the song to a whole new place. And "Only Man on Coney Island" is sounds like a jazz lounge standard that would fit in on a Diana Krall or Tony Bennett album.

But it's the new songs, like the title track and "Who Knows" that really shine and make you eager to hear what Mae will write next. These songs take you on a wonderful journey, one that I have been revisiting frequently since I first heard this collection, and look forward to revisiting. And any album that can do that is a winner in my book. The band sounds great, and the album's sound is just beautiful. Don't miss this album - definitely one of the best of 2002.

Music CD:

1. Small Is Tremendous ~ Zoe Lewis
2. Little Steps ~ Merrie Amsterburg
3. Daybreak ~ B%C3%A9la Fleck
4. Period Pieces: Women's Songs for Men & Women ~ Peggy Seeger
5. Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending/Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air ~ The Incredible String Band
6. This Strange Place ~ Wolfstone
7. A Celebration ~ The Chieftains
8. No Kinda Dancer ~ Jr. Robert Earl Keen
9. Music On The Mountain ~ William Coulter & Barry Phillips
10. Unblushing Brassiness ~ Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band

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Angel on the Mantelpiece ~ Charles O'Connor's Resolution Suite

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The Eagle Has Landed ~ Saxon

Fields of Yesterday ~ Lillian Axe

Let It Go ~ Tim McGraw

El Bandalero Stanco ~ Roberto Vecchioni

Cuban ~ Various Artists

Disco Kid V.13 ~ Marty

Canto Morricone - The Ennio Morricone Songbook, Vol. 3: The 70's ~ Ennio Morricone

Science & Technology ~ Scientific American