Even if well-bred calls the positives before the negatives, I disregard here this rule because it can be critical to the overall impression of the album. Please turn after fading away of Track 3, an absolutely successful version of Mike and the Mechanics classic "The Living Years", immediately prior to Track 5! Please, trust me and Skip Track 4!
I know too little of Roy Orbison, than me would be entitled to express myself about his life's work, but I know how likely each, enough big hits from him that would have been for such a cover album entirely fitting and appropriate. But this legendary representatives of sunglasses Group has committed alongside well audible classics like "You got it" or "Only the Lonely" a crime with which every singer qualifies for dealership openings or Baumarkt-anniversaries - "Blue Bayou"! One of the worst tearjerker music history and a not surmountable manifesto of bad taste! Why, for heaven's sake, Chris de Burgh has calculated selected this song?
And when he would share my assessment of this dripping hymn to a holiday paradise, his version sounds even more like a sound-caricature over for a sincere tribute! The Arragement remains close to the original, bad enough, but the background choir, from frustrated by life housewives with home-choral experience, the number indicates the rest. An already almost unbearable song was perfected here the ideal torture instrument.
It is then but now better and more daring. "SOS" by Abba is one of the unexpected highlights of the album, because Chris de Burgh the Arragement completely rebuilt and the song than the original, gets an entirely different character.
So even with Presley's "In The Ghetto" and "Long Train Running" by The Doobie Brothers. Chris de Burgh honors the originals in which he recreated it impressive. Also manages its English adaptation of carat classic "Over seven bridges". Although he remains musically close to the anthemic structure of the original here, the translation is the real surprise. Chris de Burgh has succeeded herüberzuheben the text phonetically-sing to the melody English without this remained the substantive statement on the track.
And then there's the 4528th cover version of "Let It Be". The Beatles were great, the song was great, all without the slightest doubt. But why must now take every man his version of this song? And if it would be his version at least. The Arragement but almost like the original (and probably 98% of all cover versions this completely overused classic), but it now seems no longer, it sucks more. Nobody needs that, except perhaps the target audience of the aforementioned Women's choir, which it regards as mistaken creative, that now this and that has again proved that he can sing "Let it be". Chris de Burgh, it can also, now we know it, but it would not have been necessary.
Overall, "Footsteps 2", was like actually to be expected, become a nice album. And that in a few years announcement in the booklet "Footsteps 3", therefore does not act like a threat.
