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John Legend, Once Again

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1535259

Disk length: 1h 2m 10s (14 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2006

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Save Room 4:00
2. Heaven 3:48
3. Stereo 4:19
4. Show Me 5:10
5. Each Day Gets Better 4:02
6. P.D.A. (We Just Don't Care) 4:52
7. Slow Dance 4:54
8. Again 4:25
9. Maxine 4:40
10. Where Did My Baby Go 5:17
11. Maxine's Interlude 2:00
12. Another Day 5:21
13. Coming Home 5:23
14. Bonus Track 3:51

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Review

It takes guts, if not outright egomania, to abandon your given surname and adopt a loaded one like Legend, but the former John Stephens must have sensed that loftiness would one day be his calling card: Once Again, the follow-up to the Grammy-gobbling, platinum pile-on that was Get Lifted, surpasses expectations. Not that it bears much relation to its predecessor. Again again trots out a stable of talented, modern-minded producers--Raphael Saadiq, Legend comrade Kanye West, and the unsinkable will.i.am--but it's nowhere near as self-conscious about embracing the old-school as the knowing, R&B edge-skimming Lifted. Don't expect a derivative mash of smudgy, nostalgia-filching sounds, though, because despite its retro leanings, what's in store somehow crackles with currency. Call it neo-retro if you must, but never call it unimaginative: first single "Save Room" coasts, drifts, and floats along a ponderous path spiked by a cool keyboard-y crescendo; second single "Heaven" busts out a big, busy beat over a slow seduction; and a couple of selections--"Each Day Gets Better" and "PDA"--are so bright and twirly they seem custom-made for dizzy love scenes or jaunty, sunny-day skips through the park. Maybe the most unusual track is "Show Me," a rock song that pilfers elements of Hendrix and finds Legend climbing a few octaves to sound, weirdly, like Jeff Buckley, but it works: so slippery is its beat and so affecting are its hope-laced lyrics that, oddness aside, it's among the disc's best. Sandwiched as it is among 14 songs that all sound like future classics, that's saying something. --Tammy La Gorce

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Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

Once Again

Tracks: 14, Disk length: 1h 2m 32s (+0m 22s)

Once Again

Tracks: 14, Disk length: 1h 2m 32s (+0m 22s)

Once Again

Tracks: 14, Disk length: 1h 2m 32s (+0m 22s)

Once Again

Tracks: 14, Disk length: 59m 31s (-3m 21s)

Once Again

Tracks: 13 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 55m 44s (-7m 34s)

Once Again

Tracks: 13 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 55m 31s (-7m 21s)

Once Again

Tracks: 13 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 55m 19s (-7m 9s)

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