Who's Zoomin' Who?

Who's Zoomin' Who?

Artist: Aretha Franklin
Label: Arista
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 078221828628
EAN: 0078221828628
ASIN: B000002VD3

Release Date: 1990-10-25

Who's Zoomin' Who?

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Tracks:

Freeway Of Love
Another Night
Sweet Bitter Love
Who's Zoomin' Who
Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves
Until You Say You Love Me
Ain't Nobody Ever Loved You
Push
Integrity

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"You <I>will</I> remember my name," Aretha wryly announces at the end of this album's title cut. "I'm the one who beat you at your game." Such expressions of glee frequently break through <I>Who's Zoomin' Who</I>'s mid-'80s gloss; the combination of the two made the disc her biggest critical and commercial success of the decade. Beyond the smash "Freeway of Love," there's also an update of "Sweet Bitter Love," a ballad from her early years on Columbia, and a rocking collaboration with Eurythmics, "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves," that she completely takes over. <I>--Rickey Wright</I>

Customer Reviews:

1985 was THE Aretha Franklin year........2007-01-19

"Another Night" is one of Aretha's greatest recordings--a near-perfect marriage of Soul and post-disco dance beats with Aretha just tearing it up. The ballads "Sweet Bitter Love" and "Until You Say You Love Me" show why Aretha stll reigns. Sadly, the other tracks--while inspired--are overproduced and sound dated. Nonetheless, this was the album that catapulted Aretha back to the top of the charts and an important milestone in her already legendary career.

the Second Reign.......2005-09-06

Or Aretha, Part Two. By the end of the 1970's Aretha Franklin's relationship with Atlantic Records had soured and her commercial and critical clout had all but disappeared. Enter Arista Records, and the dawn of a new decade. Never having got caught up in the Disco craze, Aretha was able to wipe her slate clean and get on with her life and her career. A few mildly succesful albums followed, she was able to again get nominated for Grammy Awards, and get her name in the soul charts. But pop success alluded her, until "Who's Zoomin Who?" took the nation by storm in the mid 1980's. The single lead single "Freeway of Love" was a huge smash. It managed to do what none of her singles in the previous ten years did - attract a big mainstream audience without sounding compromised and without alienating her fan base. Part dance, part rock, part soul. It was a winning combination and an undeniable, unstoppable hit. She broke out in a big way, garnering a new, younger audience, and recapturing the momentum that was seemingly lost. A few more Top Ten hits followed, and the Queen was back on top. Looking back, twenty years after "Who's Zoomin' Who?" was released, I think this album stands up. It doesn't sound dated, like some of her other 80's releases. "Freeway of Love" is still exciting, and managed to get me on my feet when I saw her in a rare concert performance a few years ago. The title track is still as funky as anything she's ever recorded. The single "Another Night" still has sass, and a lyric that really bites hard ( "you were phasing out, my sweet, and I knew it...you didn't give a damn how I got through it" ) The album cuts are just as good. "Until You Say You Love Me" still sounds as sweet to my ears as it did coming out of my boombox in 1985. "Sweet Bitter Love" ( a song she had recorded in the early 1960's when she was still with Columbia Records ) has a vocal that is much more mature, much more worldy ( and world weary ) than the original. The hit "Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves" is a duet with Eurythmics' Annie Lennox, and is another deft blend of rock, dance and soul. And with all due respect to Annie, whom I love, Aretha really steals the show ( indeed, she has the Last Words on this cut, "Thank you I'll get it myself.") This album is a real winner. A great comeback, a must-have for fans, and a good introduction for the curious.

Doing It For Herself in The 80's.......2005-08-27

After getting back on track thanks to Arista Records, and 1982's dance and Soul Hit, Jump To It. Aretha took it up a notch with this record.

Freeway of Love became one of her biggest hits ever, and many thought her biggest hits were left in years past. Another Night and Who's Zooming Who are also great 80's Soul/Pop classics, and the bluesy Sweet Bitter Love was song that Re Re recorded many years ago for Columbia, and this song was a great in your face answer to anyone who thought that he 80's work was not mature enough.

The Regae sway of Ain't Nobody Ever loved You, and her duet with Annie Lenoxx, Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves, round out this release nicely.

Drop the top baby and lets cruise!

Aretha Will Have You Singing, Dancing, Swaying ...........2004-07-12

This CD contains the best and most energetic hits of Ms Aretha Franklin such as "Free Way of Love" and "Who's Zoomin' Who". Another great hit is "Sister's Are Doing It for Themselves". It can be the theme song for almost any single woman or group of women in the 20th and 21st century. Aretha has soul, she has spirit and she has one powerful voice and sound. This CD will get even the most reticent person swaying to the music, humming and singing along.

Along with Ms Aretha Franklin, there is a the Charles Williams Gospel Choir featured on "Sisters Are Doing It for Tthemselves", plus Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics on the keyboards and adding her vocals to this smashing song. We can hear steel drums on "Ain't Nobody Ever Loved You". There is a saxaphone solo on "Freeway of Love", along with the "Santana" rhythm section add their special effects providing the explosive beat. This CD contains some of the finest music Aretha Franklin has recorded. Smoldering hot music that never goes out of style. Erika Borsos (erikab93)

Doin' it with Integrity........2003-10-25

This is perhaps the most successful album she's done for Arista.. and for good reason, since it's one of the best. Her Arista years haven't necessarily lived up to her glory years on Atlantic, but she's released some great stuff nonetheless.. From the megahit "Freeway of Love" to the pure soul of Van McCoy's "Sweet Bitter Love".. and even the pop reggae of "Ain't Nobody Ever Loved You" (one of the few singers who managed to make a good song out of that pop-reggae trend in the mid 80s)..Every single track on this album is a gem...from start to finish...The title track, "Another Night" and "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves" (with The Eurythmics) are pure pop perfection, as well as "Push" (with Peter Wolf and Carlos Santana) which is probably the best song that Michael Jackson never did.. Aretha and producer Narada Michael Walden had paired up several times throughout the 80s, but they never topped this one.. A great pop album from the Queen of Soul.. Definitely worth a listen..

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