Sing When You're Winning Robbie Williams

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  • Release Date: 08/28/2000
  • Sales Rank: 145,459
  • Label: EMI EUROPE GENERIC
  • UPC: 724352812523

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Sing When You're Winning

1LISTENLet Love Be Your Energy 4:59
2LISTENBetter Man 3:22
3LISTENRock DJ 4:18
4LISTENSupreme 4:18
5LISTENKids 4:46
6LISTENIf It's Hurting You 4:10
7LISTENSinging for the Lonely 4:31
8LISTENLove Calling Earth 4:05
9LISTENKnutsford City Limits 4:45
10LISTENForever Texas 3:37
11LISTENBy All Means Necessary 4:45
12LISTENThe Road to Mandalay 28:16

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Poised for global domination with his third album, Robbie Williams and producer Guy Chambers hardly dared mess with the formula of their 1998 crossover hit I've Been Expecting You. As such, Sing When You're Winning has plenty of introspective balladry akin to "Angels," and a few irresistible party time tracks in similar company to "Millennium." The album also moves Williams farther away from the increasingly dated visions of Oasis-style Brit-pop to embrace post-millennial dance-pop, complete with the bruising beats and extroverted productions to match. And Chambers certainly knows his production playbook well, conjuring a panoply of classic British rock touchstones like psychedelia, slick country-rock, Ian Dury, the Who, Elton John, and Madchester. Despite a small drop in songwriting from its predecessor, Sing When You're Winning ultimately succeeds, and most of the credit must go to Williams himself. Amidst a few overly familiar arrangements and lyrical themes, Williams proves the consummate entertainer, delivering powerful, engaging vocals -- no matter the quality of the material -- and striking the perfect balance between tongue-in-cheek, self-mocking humor ("Knutsford City Limits") and genuine feeling (tender ballads like "Better Man" and "If It's Hurting You"). The radio-ready single "Rock DJ" is a piece of immediately gratifying pop candy floss with a surprisingly endless shelf life, though "Kids," a vivacious, vacuous vamp of a duet with Kylie Minogue, doesn't even hold its own after one listen. Toss in a few beautiful album tracks (the opener "Let Love Be Your Energy," "Love Calling Earth," "Singing for the Lonely"), but then counter them with a few bland singalongs ("Supreme," "Forever Texas"), and the result is a scattered, entertaining album whose real star is Robbie Williams' personality. John Bush, All Music Guide

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Sing When You're Winningby Anonymous

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April 23, 2004: This is neither the first nor the latest solo CD by Robbie Williams, but it is arguably his best. Full of straight-ahead pop tunes, it typically echoes the clever writing and extraordinary vocal versatility of the Brit entertainment phenom. But unlike his earlier efforts that were, with only a few notable exceptions such as "Angels" and "Millennium," unsophisticated, rudimentary, or sophomoric, most of the songs on this album reveal a maturity in composition. Williams and his collaborator, Guy Chambers, have come of age. The lyrical statements, bleeding with the now-familiar, classic Robbie conflicts, are not just entertaining but clear, the musical motifs likewise pronounced. "If you're looking to change the world, 'Let Love Be Your Energy'" barks the startling immediacy of the first selection, a rock ballad, followed by a plaintive "Lord I'm doing all I can to be a 'Better Man,'" then the smash single, disco-techy, bass throbbing "Rock DJ;" the arpeggiated string lines in the I Will Survive-sound-a-like of "Supreme" introduce Williams forlornly but eloquently wailing, "Oo-h-h, seems like forever stopped today . . ." and on it goes. A balance and congruity is present here that is simply absent from much of his previous and, sadly, later work. The music literally shouts that Robbie Williams is aware he's arrived. The stars may not all be aligned, but at this moment he recognizes that his firmly-staked (at turns self-doubting) claim has been acknowledged. The duet with Kylie Minogue on the danceable "Kids" ends with Williams rapping out his self-promoting, but irresistibly, cheeky best: "I'm an Honorary Sean Connery, born '74, There's only one of me, single-handedly raising the economy, Ain't no chance of the record company dropping me." There are indeed two or three weaker selections ("Forever Texas" one), but they do not detract from the overall triumph that has been achieved. This is still feel-good pop, but it is well-measured and honed. To hear it once entices you to hear it a second time, and a third and . . . "So Com-on! CLIMB ON BOARD, take a ride, yeh, yeh . . .”

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Sing When You're Winningby Anonymous

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June 04, 2001: This album is surely another well made one by this former Take That.The tracks are pretty good showing Robbie William's road to the international music world.It's a good deal.So buy it now.

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