I Don’t Believe in Miracles: The Best of Colin Blunstone [Japan]

RELEASE
2002
LABEL
Sony Music Distribution
GENRES
Pop/Rock, Baroque Pop, Contemporary Pop/Rock

Album Review

This 19-song Japanese CD is an expanded and reshuffled version of the similarly named 1982 American Epic LP, but with vastly improved sound. The CD covers all the expected bases from Blunstone's first three Epic albums, opening on a distinctly American-style soulful note with Blunstone's version of Michael d'Abo's "Mary Won't You Warm My Bed" from the One Year album, which is almost worth the price of this CD by itself. This was one of the best performances of Blunstone's whole career, and it should not only have been a hit, but should have given a lot of black soul singers pause. After the straight-ahead rock ballad "She Loves the Way They Love Her," the collection gets into the more serious part of the same album, including the ornately orchestrated "Misty Roses." Ennismore's ornamented pop/rock is well represented, and the leaner sound of its successor album, Journey, brings the listener to a lighter-textured side of Blunstone's output. The CD ends with the exquisite "Losing Your Way in the Rain," by Mike Batt and friends featuring Colin Blunstone, from Batt's 1979 Tarot Suite album.
Bruce Eder, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Mary Won't You Warm My Bed
  2. She Loves the Way They Love Her
  3. Misty Roses
  4. Caroline, Goodbye
  5. Her Song
  6. Let Me Come Closer to You
  7. Say You Don't Mind
  8. I Don't Believe in Miracles
  9. Exclusively for Me
  10. A Sign from Me to You
  11. Every Sound I Heard
  12. Time's Running Out
  13. Andorra
  14. Weak for You
  15. Brother Lover
  16. Beware
  17. It's Magical
  18. You Who Are Lonely
  19. Losing Your Way in the Rain