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Once Again
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0828768032329
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
MPN: 80323
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: October 24, 2006
Studio: Sony
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Editorial Review:
It takes guts, if not outright egomania, to abandon your given surname and adopt a loaded one like Legend, but the former John Stephens must have sensed that loftiness would one day be his calling card: Once Again, the follow-up to the Grammy-gobbling, platinum pile-on that was Get Lifted, surpasses expectations. Not that it bears much relation to its predecessor. Again again trots out a stable of talented, modern-minded producers--Raphael Saadiq, Legend comrade Kanye West, and the unsinkable will.i.am--but it's nowhere near as self-conscious about embracing the old-school as the knowing, R&B edge-skimming Lifted. Don't expect a derivative mash of smudgy, nostalgia-filching sounds, though, because despite its retro leanings, what's in store somehow crackles with currency. Call it neo-retro if you must, but never call it unimaginative: first single "Save Room" coasts, drifts, and floats along a ponderous path spiked by a cool keyboard-y crescendo; second single "Heaven" busts out a big, busy beat over a slow seduction; and a couple of selections--"Each Day Gets Better" and "PDA"--are so bright and twirly they seem custom-made for dizzy love scenes or jaunty, sunny-day skips through the park. Maybe the most unusual track is "Show Me," a rock song that pilfers elements of Hendrix and finds Legend climbing a few octaves to sound, weirdly, like Jeff Buckley, but it works: so slippery is its beat and so affecting are its hope-laced lyrics that, oddness aside, it's among the disc's best. Sandwiched as it is among 14 songs that all sound like future classics, that's saying something. --Tammy La Gorce More Legendary Music
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - For those that didn't like this album.
If you didn't like this album...
Go listen to T-Pain or Ne-yo or some other joker with as much talent as chris brown.
This album's not for you, you would've know it had you previewed it before you bought it (common sense would have told you, but hey, excuse me for figuring that people still possessed such a simple concept).
I didn't like the first album, oh sue me, I prefer an album to have a common theme running through the tracks produced thereby making a ... Read More
Rating: - I love this CD!!!
John Legend has amazed me once again with his musicality. From his first cd "Get Lifted" to this one, you can see a maturity in his music. It is a unique style that sets him apart from most R&B and Hip Hop Singers. He is a very great composer and writer and I am definitely excited to see what he comes up with next!
Rating: - pretty good
i like every track on this cd, he has a really good sound and his lyrics are great too.
Rating: - anytime, anywhere
god i love this cd. i listen to it on weekend mornings, weekday evenings hanging in my room, i bring it to work, i love when i hear john legend at one of my usual sushi restaurants. one of my fave CDs of all time !
Rating:  - Once again, Legend fails to do himself complete justice...
John Legend is without doubt talented; extremely talented at that. That fact is probably why it hurts me to say that `Once Again' just isn't as extraordinary as he is. While `Get Lifted' made him a household name (and rightfully so) I felt that the album fell short of the potential I saw in him, and I was really hoping that `Once Again' was going to perfect what he had started and deliver a truly flawless album. While Legend has matured in his lyrical delivery (one problem I had with `Get Lifted' ... Read More
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