For this new album of Barbra Streisand, her first several years, she found herself 25 years after the immense common success of the album "Guilty", again with Barry Gibb together to adequately celebrate this anniversary: with another album! After 25 years should (and must) be of course not a new "Guilty" expect (even if the title of the album suggests, however under pressure from the record company came about); expect a lot but you could quite. Both the Streisand fans as well as fans of the Bee Gees or Barry Gibbs feverishly opposed this album for months. The production is that you do not have big mention, a Streisand appropriate. Because every detail which is more likely to be perfect in any way negligent. This is perhaps the only drawback of the album especially for European music lovers that the album was clearly produced for the American market. No matter: the songs make the music and here one can clearly feel, how well Barry Gibb and Barbra Streisand obviously understand how targeted and Barry Gibb songs for other singers is able to compose. That was the really big advantage of "Guilty" and is perfected here obviously, because the songs seem since the dawn of time to have to wait for Barbra Streisand. And I was out of the songs published in advance (such as "Stranger In A Strange Land") initially not so enthusiastic. And indeed, this song is also in the context of the entire album out as a bit thin. Likewise, (unfortunately) the title "(Our Love) Do not Throw It All Away", which was once interpreted by Andy Gibb, the Streisand can not abgewinnen much new. The complete rest of the album, however, is pop music at its best. 9 songs, which leave virtually nothing to be desired, and both should make Streisand fans happy, as should brighten even the lately by questionable activities and products Robin Gibbs battered soul of Bee Gees fans again: there is also quality from Gibb! The highlights are clearly "Hideaway" and "It's Up To You". Two of the 9 songs that Barry Gibb wrote together with his sons Stephen and Ashley, demonstrate a new quality in the songwriting of the ex-Bee Gee and have absolutely no Bee Gees songs. Much more complex, but always apt to point and never unnecessarily sprawling. This is quite high art! And Streisand ennobles them then with the art that is their inherent. Her voice has absolutely lost none of its power and expressiveness. They are the songs of heat and can handle playing even with the most complicated melodies. The end of the album by the way makes the song "Letting Go" (a highlight for the voice of Streisand), which dates from 1988 and makes the difference in the songwriting of Barry Gibb very clear (not to mention "(Our Love) Do not Throw It All Away ", which was written in 1977).
