Winner Takes All

Winner Takes All Artist: The Isley Brothers
Label: Sony
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio Cassette


UPC: 074643607742
EAN: 0074643607742
ASIN: B0000025GS


Release Date: 1990-10-17

Winner Takes All


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Tracks:

  1. I Wanna Be with You, Parts 1 & 2
  2. Liquid Love, Parts 1 & 2
  3. Winner Takes All
  4. Life in the City, Parts 1 & 2
  5. It's a Disco Night (Rock Don't Stop), Parts 1 & 2
  6. (Can't You See) What You Do to Me?
  7. Let's Fall in Love, Parts 1 & 2
  8. How Lucky I Am, Parts 1 & 2
  9. You're the Key to My Heart
  10. You're Beside Me, Parts 1 & 2
  11. Let Me in Your Life, Parts 1 & 2
  12. Love Comes and Goes, Parts 1 & 2
  13. Go for What You Know
  14. Mind over Matter, Parts 1 & 2

Similar Items:

  1. Go for Your Guns
  2. Harvest for the World
  3. The Heat Is On
  4. Between the Sheets
  5. Brother, Brother, Brother

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A gem - just rediscovered.......2005-12-09

Back in 1979, when the Mothership was the only place I wanted to be and only the deepest funk jams would satisfy, a friend loaned me this 2LP set. It blew me away and God knows why I didn't buy it then.

In the last two weeks I was playing my copy of an Isleys compilation featuring the title track (blown away all over again)and as the price of Winner Take All has dropped sinfully low, I dived right in. Wow - all the things said here about an underrated album are 100% true. Since the first time I heard "That Lady" in 1973, this band have enthralled me and this blissful mix of silky vocals, blistering intrumental work, hard funk and lovely ballads means the fascination will continue...

Isleys, I love you, love you, LOVE YOU!

5 out of 5 stars Truly A Winner.......2004-08-23

This album is underrated, plain and simple. Back in the day people must have been turned off because it was a double album and it was the height of disco. Well even the tracks that have some disco nuances are still funky. The first 3 songs, 'I Wanna Be With You', 'Liquid Love' and 'Winner Takes All' are pure funk while 'Life In The City' clocks in at 8 minutes and has an extended breakdown with some serious guitar riffs from Ernie. The album slows down with the mid-tempo groove of '(Can't You See) What You Do To Me?' and slows down even further with 'Let's Fall In Love' one of their best slow jams. This isn't one of their more well-remembered albums but it's just as good as '3+3' or 'Go For Your Guns'.

5 out of 5 stars A undervalued classic.......2003-12-16

While other Isley Albums get better notice, this is a hot album. I wanna be with you, winner takes all, liquid love, and Disco night are tunes that made people move back in the days!!!

5 out of 5 stars Underrated greatness..........2003-07-24

I hate to throw the word 'underrated' around, but it applies here.

I'll go further.

This is one of THE underrated double albums of the 70s.

People will now shower praise on Songs in the Key of Life and Here, My Dear, but Winner Takes All tends to be unmentioned or passed over.

Maybe it is the few disco-esque dance jams that throw people off. Era biases aside, the uptempo songs on this album are generally winners.

And the Isleys don't lose when it comes to their 70s ballads and midtempo jams. This may be the smoothest set of those songs to appear on any Isley album even if they aren't the most celebrated.

The 1-2 punch that is the loosely-combined "You're the Key to My Heart" and "You're Beside Me" is undeniable goodness.

And "Let's Fall in Love" is one their second-tier beloved jams that is only on the second-tier because there was no room on the first one!

"Let Me In Your Life" is such a solid but unknown song that I want to tie people up and make them listen to it so that they can appreciate it (and being untied afterwards).

"How Lucky I Am" is another underloved slow piece.

Most double albums from any era are slagged for one of the following reasons:

- Too much of a departure from the artist's normal sound
- Too many songs/too long/too self-indulgent/etc
- The album gets boring
- Bad sequencing

IMO, Winner Takes All suffers from none of those problems.

In addition, buying this album will introduce most casual Isley fans to several good songs that they probably didn't know of before.

It is 2nd or 3rd on my list of favorite Isley albums. (I sometimes think Harvest for the World is better and Heat is On is my choice for THE best)

AP

4 out of 5 stars A Winning Album.......2002-02-15

Solid Isley Brothers Album with there Trademark Vocals,Organ&Fire Hot Guitar Licks from Ernie Isley who still is sadly Underrated.this Band in the Studio to Me was as Bad as anyone out there during the same time period.between the Solos&Vocals you can't go wrong a Good Blend of Funk&Slow-Jams.One of the Few Acts from back in the day still on the scene.

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