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Shine | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Average White Band
Label: Victor Entertainment Japan
Category: Music
List Price: $36.49
Buy Used: $25.66
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 836263
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
EAN: 4988002318391
ASIN: B000006Z6R
Release Date: May 16, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Our Time Has Come | | • | For You, for Love | | • | Let's Go Round Again | | • | Whatcha' Gonna Do for Me | | • | Into the Night | | • | Catch Me (Before I Have to Testify) | | • | Help Is on the Way | | • | If Love Only Lasts for One Night | | • | Shine |
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Album Description
Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2008.
Album Details
1980 release unavailable in the USA. Guests include Brenda Russell on vocals & David Foster on keyboards & Horn arrangements.
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| Customer Reviews:
Time Has Come For AWB December 17, 2007
Andre S. Grindle (Brewer Maine)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Like Earth Wind & Fire did a year earlier with their I Am this album finds AWB hooking up with David Foster. This truly should've represented a new beginning for the band as they add a heavy modern production gloss and strong songcraft to their already established heavy funk sound. Every song on this album is extremly strong and with some good promotion could've been enormous pop hits even stateside-uptempo tunes such as "Our Time Has Come","Let's Go Around Again","Help Is On The Way",the title track and the original version of "Whatcha Gonna Do For Me",made famous a year later in a brilliant version by Chaka Khan from her album of the same name,also worth getting. Being the kind of musicians that they are AWB cannot help but throw down at least one funky instrumental in the personification of "Into The Night",marrying the bands chunky,rhythmic groove with Foster's production sheen. This is also home to two of the best ballads the group ever made in "For You,For Love" and "If Love Only Lasts For One Night". Now there's a double album version of this that contains bonus tracks,all five of which are as great as the rest of the album. A like minded cover of Boz Scagg's classic "Miss Sun" is great of course as is the more electo-funk minded dance cut "Kiss Me". There's also another great ballad in "Growing Pains" and the peppy "Love Gives,Love Takes Away". Another successful marrying of the bands natural grooves with Fosters style comes along in the chunky and catchy "Love Won't Get In The Way" followed by a smoking long version of "Let's Go Round Again". Overall "Shine" finds AWB successfully modernization their classic sound without sacrificing what made them so great in the past and the lead and backround vocals certainly have a power and soul that were only hinted at on earlier recordings. Steve Ferrone really streches out on some incredibly funky drumming here. This is definately a pop-funk materpiece of the 1979-1980 era of the genre and is yet another in a long list of lost true classics.
I'm not a rich man March 18, 2003
sergio (MADRID, MADRID Spain)
Excellent record. I bought it two days ago (the lp) in a really decadent store in Madrid, Spain, for 9 Euros (aprox 9 Dollars) and I want the cd since then. As always the David Foster name on the credits was the only thing I needed to buy it, but I knew "for you, for love" since 1980 and it is a song that I never forgot though I didn't know it's name. If you're a rich man or a rich girl buy it. Why does it have this price, my God?
a shining westcoast album September 18, 2002
This is a super album from Average White band. I read about this record at a friend, saw that David Foster had produced it and realised that this must be a fusion thats well worth to listen to. I bought the CD and I was stunned with delight from this albums supreme arrangments, solid funkgrooves,snappy brass and superslick vocals. On top on that you find David Foster's brilliant keyboard contributions and great songwriting. This is a very nice westcoast album and a perfect item to listen to on and on again. Note the wonderful ballad For You, For love with contributions by Bill Champlin of Chicago. Thats as smooth as it gets. A great album.
 Not the best AWB, but with some solid grooves November 19, 2001
Nicolas S. Martin (Indianapolis, IN United States)
AWB was past its prime by the time this album arrived. It begins to show evidence of the self-parody that soon overtook and destroyed the (nearly) original unit. Yet, if you like the band this is still a respectable effort and well worth having. None of the songs are bad and a couple are very solid examples of the groove that only AWB could carve so handsomely. If you are a lover of good funk (and AWB was the very best) or an AWB collector, don't hesitate to pay the freight for this one. Remember, this import costs less than 2 domestic CDs you will probably forget a week after you buy them.
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