Swing When You're Winning

1	I Will Talk and Hollywood Will Listen 3:17
2	Mack the Knife 3:18
3	Somethin' Stupid 2:50
4	Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me 2:58
5	It Was a Very Good Year 4:28
6	Straighten Up and Fly Right 2:36
7	Well, Did You Evah? 3:50
8	Mr. Bojangles 3:17
9	One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) 4:17
10	Things 3:22
11	Ain't That a Kick in the Head 2:27
12	They Can't Take That Away from Me 3:07
13	Have You Met Miss Jones? 2:34
14	Me and My Shadow 3:16
15	Beyond the Sea 28:14

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Anybody who witnessed Robbie Williams's booty-shakin' Net Aid performance knows that this British pop star (and former teen star) has buckets of charisma. However, his charm has not traveled well across the pond, as he is still a virtual unknown in the U.S. Sing When You're Winning is Williams's latest attempt at victory abroad, and, as evidenced by the artwork (photos of soccer players, referees, and fans/hooligans -- all of whom are Robbie), he is going all out. And the music backs up the handsome face(s). Smarter, edgier, and more stylish than tracks from American boy bands, Sing mixes electronic beats and heavy electric guitars and charges them up with an '80s British pop sensibility. The infectious dance-floor gem "Rock DJ" blends the beat of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax" with the vocal styling of the Pet Shop Boys' "West End Girls." "Better Man" and "If It's Hurting You" are custard-smooth, achy ballads sure to make the birds (as he calls them) weepy. But the real highlight is "Kids," Williams's alternately bubbly and pounding duet with Australia's princess of '80s pop, Kylie "Locomotion" Minogue. The two reveal their record-business scars and find dignity in their pursuits ("We'll paint by numbers/'Til something sticks/Don't mind doing it for the kids"). Minogue even gets off the line, "I've been dropping beats since Back in Black" -- yes! Like the rest of Sing, it's a winner. Bill Crandall

Entertainment Weekly

...Winning is a winner, offering ample reason for connoisseurs of great pop to rejoice, whatever their age. Tom Sinclair