| The Law (Original Recording Remastered) Deluxe Edition | 
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Category: Music
Artist: The Law
Publisher: Friday Music
Studio: Friday Music
Manufacturer: Friday Music
Label: Friday Music
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 1062
UPC: 829421106227
EAN: 0829421106227
ASIN: B0018OAOSK
Release Date: June 24, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | For A Little Ride | | • | Miss You In A Heartbeat | | • | Stone Cold | | • | Come Save Me (Julianne) | | • | Laying Down The Law | | • | Nature Of The Beast | | • | Stone | | • | Anything For You | | • | Best Of My Love | | • | Tough Love | | • | Missing You Bad Girl | | • | That's When You Fall In Love (BONUS UNRELEASED TRACK) |
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Product Description
In 1991, the legendary Paul Rodgers (Free, Bad Co., Queen) and powerhouse drummer Kenney Jones (The Faces, The Who) teamed up as THE LAW & delivered one incredible smash album. Although a short venture, it's been an enduring chapter in the career of both superstars. With some major player help from David Gilmour
(Pink Floyd), Bryan Adams, Chris Rea, and Pino Palladino (The Who), the album netted the duo a #1 AOR Smash Laying Down The Law. This long over due re-issue is now a Deluxe Edition...remastered and includes the very rare and unreleased gem That's When You Fall In Love.If you missed this the first time around, catch up with THE LAW today! Remastered impeccably by Joe Reagoso (Doobie Brothers, Johnny Winter, David Lee Roth, Paul Rodgers, Deep Purple)
Includes new liner notes, rare photos and ultra rare promo and radio single artwork.
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Most Unique Paul Rodgers CD Ever Issued September 30, 2008
I've always had mixed feelings about this CD, (I used to own the original CD version, and this one is only somewhat better in sound quality than the first release, and liner notes are only somewhat better, but you do get one bonus track). But I had to give it 5 stars to encourage you to buy it.
This is so strange of a CD, as I'll indicate below, but to see Paul Rodgers succeed in it, in spite of all that, due to his inherent greatness (after all, I agree with a great many people who think he is the finest male vocalist in rock history), is enough reason to buy it and hold onto it, I've decided.
The music is really ultra-pop, ultra-somewhat-saccharine-and-lightweight, eighties/early 90s sounding music. It is so different from any other Rodgers CD I'm familiar with, because the classic rock sound is all gone, and the hard-rock aspects (inevitable with Rodgers) are tempered back so much by the 80s sounding, pop-sounding, non-classic rock-sounding music these songs are. And, also disturbingly different from almost any other CD Paul has been associated with in his 40-year recording history, just like the non-classic rock sound, and lighter 80s sound, is the fact that only a decided minority of the songs were actually written by Paul. So I wouldn't have chosen the general musical style or the songwriting allocations on this CD.
But what's amazing, is the great Paul Rodgers succeeds despite all these failings or at least changes, versus his customary records! And the production quality and sound quality of either CD in my mind, to help him in his success here, have never been in question.
This is how Paul succeeds, even if many of the songs rub me the wrong way or don't do anything for me (versus the undeniable gems): he feels the music. Paul's pure rock sensibilities are still coloring the songs. He is utterly believable in singing in two songs about absence of love making one as cold as a stone ("Stone Cold" and "Stone"). Even if that is a somewhat obvious analogy, as is the beast analogy in "Laying Down the Law" and "Nature of the Beast" Rodgers delivers a realistic "taming of the beast" or "nature of the beast" line in both songs and saves those two songs from some level of corniness.
But what really drew me (I haven't listened to the highly-touted-in-the-liner notes bonus song on this re-release yet, one indeed written by Paul and called "That's When You Fall In Love") is "Best Of My Love" (maybe the most highly produced song) and "Anything for You" and "Come Save Me (Julianne)". These 3 songs are perhaps unequalled in Paul's overall output in terms of all of the following, conceptually: really realistically, believeably, it could actually be happening, how-do-I-approach-my woman, what is the effort that should be put into a relationship, and just an adult leveling sense, all these takes on love and relationships.
And again, although I still sensed some corniness in the "Stone" analogy in the two "Stone" songs cited above, only Paul can really make you feel, yeah, life without your lover, or a good lover, can really sometimes start to verge on making you feel "cold as a stone."
So, although this CD is really out there versus most of Paul's releases (I admit I'm not overly familiar yet with his entire solo output, but I believe it is different from all those) and I just get mixed feelings about it and like a smaller percentages of the songs, versus when I listen to any other Rodgers' recording I have ever heard, how he rides this uniqueness of 80s-reminiscent style, and still hits some of these songs (including many of those not even written by him) out of the park, make me in fact have to tip my hat to The Great Voice and give this CD 5 stars.
Under-appreciated Disc July 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've owned this disc since it came out and it's a very underrated album that I still listen to today. I have not heard the previously unreleased song, except for the 30 second sample here, but it sounds like a good one. My favorite track on this disc is "Laying Down the Law" which is one of Rodgers' best songs since the early Bad Company days. Other standout tracks are: "Stone Cold", "For a Little Ride", "Nature of the Beast" and "Stone". There really isn't a bad song on this disc. From Free to his recent work with Queen (I am looking forward to their new studio album) Paul Rodgers is still one of the best rock, blues and soul singers and my all-time favorite.
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