| | Cole Porter Tribute To Porter, Cole : Red Hot + Blue CD Cole Porter Discography of CDs
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RED HOT + BLUE is a tribute to Cole Porter, featuring cover versions of Porter songs performed by contemporary artists. Proceeds from the album benefit AIDS research and relief.
Produced in 1990 to benefit AIDS research, RED HOT + BLUE features contemporary rock, pop, R&B, and electronica artists interpreting the songs of Cole Porter. A closeted homosexual whose lyrics are often provocative and thinly coded and whose tunes are infectious, melancholy, and joyful at once, Porter seems the perfect choice for this benefit album. Nearly every song here has lodged itself in the American songbook, but it is the breadth and variety in the interpretations that make RED HOT + BLUE such an interesting collection.
Neneh Cherry's loose, hip-hop-inflected take on "I've Got You Under My Skin" serves notice that this will not be your ordinary standards album, while U2's pulsing, slightly ominous version of "Night and Day" proves the true malleability of Porter's tunes. The Neville Brothers tropical-flavored "In the Still of the Night" is sheer bliss, as is K.D. Lang's stirring "So In Love." And while Sinead O'Connor plays it fairly straight with "You Do Something To Me," Tom Waits's "It's All Right With Me" and the Jungle Brothers "I Get a Kick Out of You" add variety and spice to the set, which--in addition to being for a good cause--is a thoroughly engaging listen. Tribute To Porter, Cole : Red Hot + Blue Music Tribute To Porter, Cole : Red Hot + Blue Music Review Average Rating: (4.3 out of 5 stars)   Superb
These are very tasteful and classy re- interpretations of classic songs. In particular Neneh Cherry, U2, David Byrne, Sinéad O'Connor, Aztec Camera and Fine Young Cannibals excel, and do the songs justice. Neneh and U2 give the songs a new dimension, and really show their relevance to the idea of RH+B. And apart from that, they're VERY sexy grooves!
I gave 4 instead of 5 stars because I feel the mastering is simply too "loud" these are songs with lots of dynamic range, it's a shame that they were squashed out!
I hope the video comes out on DVD soon, that to is superb.
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A different view of Cole Porter.
This Album is a classic, because of it's varied & very different interpretations of Cole Porter's classic tracks. With artists of the calibre of k.d.land;Tom Waites;Bono;Lisa Stansfield; to name a few performing such evergreen songs, it has got to be one of my favourites.
Submitted by jimboann (Auckland, New Zealand.)
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a friend gave me a tape of this album, copied from the CD (ten years ago when i was very poor) which is why i bought the CD now. it's really a great collection of modernized cole porter music. i'd recommend it to everyone.
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