Into My Music
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| Compilation album by Lynsey de Paul | ||||
| Released | 18 March 2013 | |||
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Into My Music - Anthology 1975-1979 is a digitally remastered double album, featuring songs written and performed by Lynsey de Paul, that was released on 18 March 2013.
Disc One features tracks from de Paul's 1975 Jet Records album, Love Bomb, plus two non-album singles ("Rhythm And Blue Jean Baby" backed with "Into My Music" and "If I Don't Get You The Next One Will") plus "You Made Me Write This Song", which was the B-side to the single (and the Love Bomb album track) "Hug and Squeeze Me". The second disc contains tracks from the previously unreleased third LP for Jet Records recorded in 1976 - outside of Japan, this was the first time that these songs had officially been released. Also on the second CD is "Rock Bottom", de Paul's international Eurovision hit written and performed with Mike Moran, as well as the B-side duet, "You Shouldn't Say That". The follow up 1977 single, "You Give Me Those Feelings", is also included as are songs from the Tigers and Fireflies album, including two songs co-written with actor James Coburn.
As was the case for the other anthology double album, Sugar and Beyond, the CD comes with a booklet containing stories about the songs and de Paul's career, as well as photos and items from her personal archive. Journalist Stephen Unwin reviewed the album and gave it 4/5, writing "...on the barometer between Deborah Harry and Farrah Fawcett was Lynsey de Paul, a pop star who did sexy without going above the knee. She was also a formidable songwriter, a talent sometimes forgotten". The online music magazine "Popshifter" also gave the album a positive review, along with its companion release "Sugar and Beyond" and mentions de Paul as the trailblazer for Kate Bush, but also as a pioneer in her own right, since she had critical success and being a woman performing her own songs in an era when this was not common. They state that "the tone of de Paul's music is unique and provides a feminine tone of detachment, sexual agency, wit, and sharp observation, which are things not often seen in mainstream modern cultural ideas of femininity" and concluded "While obviously recognized at the time both by fellow musicians and critics, history is never kind to female artists in male-dominated fields. She is one of the best musicians of her genre and of mainstream British music in general".
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