So, i was listening to the album again today and it is just brilliant! i get chills every time i hear it.... George need's to get back to making song's like these again.

From the great acoustics of Praying For Time which sounds almost like a John Lennon anthem to the beautiful cover of They Won't Go When I Go, the jazzy and lovely Cowboys & Indians, I am torn between Cowboys or Mothers Pride as the best song on the album.

The huge hit Freedom with the classic video of course! this whole album is just fantastic and it showed George maturing and becoming a great singer songwriter Faith made him legendary no doubt but this album brought it to another level.

Gunsnhalen said:

So, i was listening to the album again today and it is just brilliant! i get chills every time i hear it.... George need's to get back to making song's like these again.

From the great acoustics of Praying For Time which sounds almost like a John Lennon anthem to the beautiful cover of They Won't Go When I Go, the jazzy and lovely Cowboys & Indians, I am torn between Cowboys or Mothers Pride as the best song on the album.

The huge hit Freedom with the classic video of course! this whole album is just fantastic and it showed George maturing and becoming a great singer songwriter Faith made him legendary no doubt but this album brought it to another level.

When you hear his catalog up to LWP.... I'm talking from Fantastic to LWP, you hear a HUGE artistic growth. From Fantastic, you hear this 19 year old writing well crafted pop and dance tunes, some that hold up quite well now in 2011 (Club Tropicana, Nothing Looks The Same In The Light, Bad Boys, and Ray Of Sunshine) and then you think he wrote "Careless Whisper" at 17 (held it off of Fantastic but performed it during the tour), you know this guy is special

Then you get to "Make It Big", that was released a year later, it's more sleek, it's more teen pop oriented, but still the songs are well crafted. Wake Me Up Before You Go Go is probably, although very corny, one of the best pop tunes of the 80s. Everything She Wants, Careless Whisper, and Like A Baby like the songs from Fantastic that I mentioned can still be played today. Listen to Everything She Wants and try to tell me that it wouldn't be a hit today

You then hear the maturity he was looking for on "A Different Corner" and you hear the precursor to "Faith" on I'm Your Man, Battlestations, and The Edge of Heaven

then Faith of course is one of the greatest albums of the 1980s and in my opinion, in music history.

Now to Listen Without Prejudice, you hear he was PURPOSELY trying not make Faith 2. It's more somber, it's more.......mature. That's the only word i can think of at the moment

Cowboy And Angels, Freedom, Mother's Pride, Praying For Time (I sang this as my final exam in my vocal training class ), Soul Free.... songs like this make torn between LWP and Faith as my favorite solo GM album

my favorites are Praying For Time, Soul Free, Waiting For That Day, and Cowboys And Angels. I wish he had released LWP Vol. II

bboy87 said:

Gunsnhalen said:

So, i was listening to the album again today and it is just brilliant! i get chills every time i hear it.... George need's to get back to making song's like these again.

From the great acoustics of Praying For Time which sounds almost like a John Lennon anthem to the beautiful cover of They Won't Go When I Go, the jazzy and lovely Cowboys & Indians, I am torn between Cowboys or Mothers Pride as the best song on the album.

The huge hit Freedom with the classic video of course! this whole album is just fantastic and it showed George maturing and becoming a great singer songwriter Faith made him legendary no doubt but this album brought it to another level.

When you hear his catalog up to LWP.... I'm talking from Fantastic to LWP, you hear a HUGE artistic growth. From Fantastic, you hear this 19 year old writing well crafted pop and dance tunes, some that hold up quite well now in 2011 (Club Tropicana, Nothing Looks The Same In The Light, Bad Boys, and Ray Of Sunshine) and then you think he wrote "Careless Whisper" at 17 (held it off of Fantastic but performed it during the tour), you know this guy is special

Then you get to "Make It Big", that was released a year later, it's more sleek, it's more teen pop oriented, but still the songs are well crafted. Wake Me Up Before You Go Go is probably, although very corny, one of the best pop tunes of the 80s. Everything She Wants, Careless Whisper, and Like A Baby like the songs from Fantastic that I mentioned can still be played today. Listen to Everything She Wants and try to tell me that it wouldn't be a hit today

You then hear the maturity he was looking for on "A Different Corner" and you hear the precursor to "Faith" on I'm Your Man, Battlestations, and The Edge of Heaven

then Faith of course is one of the greatest albums of the 1980s and in my opinion, in music history.

Now to Listen Without Prejudice, you hear he was PURPOSELY trying not make Faith 2. It's more somber, it's more.......mature. That's the only word i can think of at the moment

Cowboy And Angels, Freedom, Mother's Pride, Praying For Time (I sang this as my final exam in my vocal training class ), Soul Free.... songs like this make torn between LWP and Faith as my favorite solo GM album

my favorites are Praying For Time, Soul Free, Waiting For That Day, and Cowboys And Angels. I wish he had released LWP Vol. II

Perfect right there! that is the story of George right there indeed from Fantastic to Listen the artistic growth was huge! and that is why he is a fantastic artist!~

Wham! great group but think of Wake me up or Young Guns he went from a pretty boy to almost having a John Lennon sounding album.

bboy87 said:

Gunsnhalen said:

So, i was listening to the album again today and it is just brilliant! i get chills every time i hear it.... George need's to get back to making song's like these again.

From the great acoustics of Praying For Time which sounds almost like a John Lennon anthem to the beautiful cover of They Won't Go When I Go, the jazzy and lovely Cowboys & Indians, I am torn between Cowboys or Mothers Pride as the best song on the album.

The huge hit Freedom with the classic video of course! this whole album is just fantastic and it showed George maturing and becoming a great singer songwriter Faith made him legendary no doubt but this album brought it to another level.

When you hear his catalog up to LWP.... I'm talking from Fantastic to LWP, you hear a HUGE artistic growth. From Fantastic, you hear this 19 year old writing well crafted pop and dance tunes, some that hold up quite well now in 2011 (Club Tropicana, Nothing Looks The Same In The Light, Bad Boys, and Ray Of Sunshine) and then you think he wrote "Careless Whisper" at 17 (held it off of Fantastic but performed it during the tour), you know this guy is special

Then you get to "Make It Big", that was released a year later, it's more sleek, it's more teen pop oriented, but still the songs are well crafted. Wake Me Up Before You Go Go is probably, although very corny, one of the best pop tunes of the 80s. Everything She Wants, Careless Whisper, and Like A Baby like the songs from Fantastic that I mentioned can still be played today. Listen to Everything She Wants and try to tell me that it wouldn't be a hit today

You then hear the maturity he was looking for on "A Different Corner" and you hear the precursor to "Faith" on I'm Your Man, Battlestations, and The Edge of Heaven

then Faith of course is one of the greatest albums of the 1980s and in my opinion, in music history.

Now to Listen Without Prejudice, you hear he was PURPOSELY trying not make Faith 2. It's more somber, it's more.......mature. That's the only word i can think of at the moment

Cowboy And Angels, Freedom, Mother's Pride, Praying For Time (I sang this as my final exam in my vocal training class ), Soul Free.... songs like this make torn between LWP and Faith as my favorite solo GM album

my favorites are Praying For Time, Soul Free, Waiting For That Day, and Cowboys And Angels. I wish he had released LWP Vol. II

My favorites from LWP include "Soul Free", the reprise to "Waiting For That Day", "Cowboys and Angels" (which is up there in my all-time favorite songs from George) and "Mother's Pride".

Timmy84 said:

bboy87 said:

When you hear his catalog up to LWP.... I'm talking from Fantastic to LWP, you hear a HUGE artistic growth. From Fantastic, you hear this 19 year old writing well crafted pop and dance tunes, some that hold up quite well now in 2011 (Club Tropicana, Nothing Looks The Same In The Light, Bad Boys, and Ray Of Sunshine) and then you think he wrote "Careless Whisper" at 17 (held it off of Fantastic but performed it during the tour), you know this guy is special

Then you get to "Make It Big", that was released a year later, it's more sleek, it's more teen pop oriented, but still the songs are well crafted. Wake Me Up Before You Go Go is probably, although very corny, one of the best pop tunes of the 80s. Everything She Wants, Careless Whisper, and Like A Baby like the songs from Fantastic that I mentioned can still be played today. Listen to Everything She Wants and try to tell me that it wouldn't be a hit today

You then hear the maturity he was looking for on "A Different Corner" and you hear the precursor to "Faith" on I'm Your Man, Battlestations, and The Edge of Heaven

then Faith of course is one of the greatest albums of the 1980s and in my opinion, in music history.

Now to Listen Without Prejudice, you hear he was PURPOSELY trying not make Faith 2. It's more somber, it's more.......mature. That's the only word i can think of at the moment

Cowboy And Angels, Freedom, Mother's Pride, Praying For Time (I sang this as my final exam in my vocal training class ), Soul Free.... songs like this make torn between LWP and Faith as my favorite solo GM album

my favorites are Praying For Time, Soul Free, Waiting For That Day, and Cowboys And Angels. I wish he had released LWP Vol. II

My favorites from LWP include "Soul Free", the reprise to "Waiting For That Day", "Cowboys and Angels" (which is up there in my all-time favorite songs from George) and "Mother's Pride".

Agree

Gunsnhalen said:

bboy87 said:

When you hear his catalog up to LWP.... I'm talking from Fantastic to LWP, you hear a HUGE artistic growth. From Fantastic, you hear this 19 year old writing well crafted pop and dance tunes, some that hold up quite well now in 2011 (Club Tropicana, Nothing Looks The Same In The Light, Bad Boys, and Ray Of Sunshine) and then you think he wrote "Careless Whisper" at 17 (held it off of Fantastic but performed it during the tour), you know this guy is special

Then you get to "Make It Big", that was released a year later, it's more sleek, it's more teen pop oriented, but still the songs are well crafted. Wake Me Up Before You Go Go is probably, although very corny, one of the best pop tunes of the 80s. Everything She Wants, Careless Whisper, and Like A Baby like the songs from Fantastic that I mentioned can still be played today. Listen to Everything She Wants and try to tell me that it wouldn't be a hit today

You then hear the maturity he was looking for on "A Different Corner" and you hear the precursor to "Faith" on I'm Your Man, Battlestations, and The Edge of Heaven

then Faith of course is one of the greatest albums of the 1980s and in my opinion, in music history.

Now to Listen Without Prejudice, you hear he was PURPOSELY trying not make Faith 2. It's more somber, it's more.......mature. That's the only word i can think of at the moment

Cowboy And Angels, Freedom, Mother's Pride, Praying For Time (I sang this as my final exam in my vocal training class ), Soul Free.... songs like this make torn between LWP and Faith as my favorite solo GM album

my favorites are Praying For Time, Soul Free, Waiting For That Day, and Cowboys And Angels. I wish he had released LWP Vol. II

Perfect right there! that is the story of George right there indeed from Fantastic to Listen the artistic growth was huge! and that is why he is a fantastic artist!~

Wham! great group but think of Wake me up or Young Guns he went from a pretty boy to almost having a John Lennon sounding album.

Songs like Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, Bad Boys, and Young Guns is one of the reasons why he was negative towards the 1982-1986 period after the breakup. He took himself TOO seriously and seemed embarrassed he did those songs, but they're great pop tunes

Wham! was the group to emulate during and after in the 80s in the UK pop scene. So many groups (Bros, Brother Beyond, Westlife, Take That, etc.) were trying to fill those shoes George and Andrew left

bboy87 said:

Gunsnhalen said:

Perfect right there! that is the story of George right there indeed from Fantastic to Listen the artistic growth was huge! and that is why he is a fantastic artist!~

Wham! great group but think of Wake me up or Young Guns he went from a pretty boy to almost having a John Lennon sounding album.

Songs like Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, Bad Boys, and Young Guns is one of the reasons why he was negative towards the 1982-1986 period after the breakup. He took himself TOO seriously and seemed embarrassed he did those songs, but they're great pop tunes

Wham! was the group to emulate during and after in the 80s in the UK pop scene. So many groups (Bros, Brother Beyond, Westlife, Take That, etc.) were trying to fill those shoes George and Andrew left

It looks like he's calmed down from reflecting on that period in recent years...

Timmy84 said:

bboy87 said:

Songs like Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, Bad Boys, and Young Guns is one of the reasons why he was negative towards the 1982-1986 period after the breakup. He took himself TOO seriously and seemed embarrassed he did those songs, but they're great pop tunes

Wham! was the group to emulate during and after in the 80s in the UK pop scene. So many groups (Bros, Brother Beyond, Westlife, Take That, etc.) were trying to fill those shoes George and Andrew left

It looks like he's calmed down from reflecting on that period in recent years...

I believe so too.

You all know he's touring with a symphony right? No USa dates yet

I wouldn't call myself the biggest GM fan in the world. But I was blown away with LWP - so satisfying and complete. Better than Faith, which I thought was overrrated at the time (although I admit I should revisit it).

I thought 'Listen Without Prejudice' was a terrific record, and really the last consistently satisfying album he's released. I found 'Older' and 'Patience' to be largely boring, with a few good songs here and there.

I think his biggest mistake was screaming that everyone need to take him seriously. If he wanted to be taken seriously, he would have been based on the merits of his work; no need for him to burn his "Faith"-era gear in effigy, as he symbolically did during the Listen Without Prejudice period. Someone should have told him that there was nothing wrong with "shaking his ass". Pop music can be fun, and serious, both.

Gunsnhalen said:

So, i was listening to the album again today and it is just brilliant! i get chills every time i hear it.... George need's to get back to making song's like these again.

From the great acoustics of Praying For Time which sounds almost like a John Lennon anthem to the beautiful cover of They Won't Go When I Go, the jazzy and lovely Cowboys & Indians, I am torn between Cowboys or Mothers Pride as the best song on the album.

The huge hit Freedom with the classic video of course! this whole album is just fantastic and it showed George maturing and becoming a great singer songwriter Faith made him legendary no doubt but this album brought it to another level.

one of my fav albums. look 4ward 2 the remastered version.

shame how his career has gone recently, wish he makes vol 2

go back 2 the music george leave the boys alone and the drugs its fucked u up in my opinion.

the last true megastar