Rock Bands & Pop Stars
Joe Cocker Pictures
Artist:
Joe Cocker
Origin:
United Kingdom, Sheffield - YorkshireUnited Kingdom
Born date:
May 20, 1944
Death date:
December 22, 2014
Joe Cocker Album: «No Ordinary World»
Joe Cocker Album: «No Ordinary World» (Front side)
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  • Customers rating: (3.7 of 5)
  • Title:No Ordinary World
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Review - Product Description
Features Leonard Cohen's "First We Take Manhattan" and Steve Winwood's "While You See a Chance", among others.
Review - Amazon.com
Possessed of one of the most distinctive voices of the rock era, Joe Cocker has largely made his mark by attacking other artists' songs with his shredded vocal grace and oft-inscrutable phrasing. Ironically, Cocker's has sustained his career in the 1980s and '90s largely by taming his throaty, raw power in service of increasingly tame balladry and hired-gun film work. Executive-produced by Cocker and longtime Tina Turner collaborator Roger Davies, this album soldiers on in that slick, perhaps overly professional tradition. The covers here range from pleasantly surprising (Leonard Cohen's dourly dramatic "First We'll Take Manhattan") to the superfluous (Steve Winwood's "While You See a Chance"), while the middle-of-the-road dynamics of the originals fare a bit better. Recent Cocker fans should be pleased, since his vocal prowess remains undiminished. It's his soul that seems to have mellowed; one can't help but wonder what Cocker might produce if he returned to the R&B grit of his roots. --Jerry McCulley
Customer review
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
- A Little Of This & A Little Of That

Joe Cocker for the "Smooth Jazz" generation. "She Believes In Me" written by Bryan Adams and Eliot Kennedy with backing vocals by Bryan leads the way. I bought this CD for that song alone. That song and "Lie To Me" makes the purchase a worthwhile one. However I would have liked to have seen Ol' Joe cut loose as he does on the latter cut, more often than he does.

Customer review
- Joe Cocker's No Ordinary World.

A very good CD, normal for Cocker. Excellent purchase price for this cd. Great music from Joe Cocker as always.

Customer review
- Good Joe....but...

I'm an avid Joe fan and I enjoyed most of the tunes on the CD and but I wish he would lose the strings and bring back the horn section. Something about a string section with that voice that just doesn't do it. It cries for a couple of trumpets and a saxophone.

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
- He sings your life...

There are certain times when music speaks truth. Music that strikes you, as COL Kurtz reminds us, "Like a silver bullet...right between the eyes...".

Among those music experiences that mark a life: Jackson Browne "The Pretender"; The Who, "Quadrophenia"; Joe Cocker, "No Ordinary World".

It's a short list, a short life. Buy it and experience the feeling of anxiety, passion and wonderment of why we are here. Joe Cocker, like Bob Seger, expresses love, life, and emotion in a way that is difficult for most men. This is one you'll listen to on `repeat' for days at a time.

Joe has matured to a performer, a man who has powerful observations on his (and your) life ala Sade, "My Father's Son". Reminiscent of the sense of awe we felt hearing CSNY for the first time, to the anthems of Jefferson Starship, "First We Take Manhattan".

You cannot go home again, but you can mature in your reflections upon it.

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4 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
- It's sad...

It's sad to see a great talent like Joe Cocker go to waste on easy listening drivel like this. The voice is still there, but until he finds some decent material and hires a real band, don't bother.