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Track List
01) Tonight We Have Stars
02) I Thought I'd Seen Everything
03) I Ain't Losin' the Fight
04) Oxygen
05) We Found What We Were Looking For
06) Broken Wings
07) Somethin' to Believe In
08) Mysterious Ways
09) She's Got a Way
10) Flowers Grown Wild
11) Walk on By
01) Tonight We Have Stars
02) I Thought I'd Seen Everything
03) I Ain't Losin' the Fight
04) Oxygen
05) We Found What We Were Looking For
06) Broken Wings
07) Somethin' to Believe In
08) Mysterious Ways
09) She's Got a Way
10) Flowers Grown Wild
11) Walk on By
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5:06
3:56
3:35
3:37
3:36
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4:28
4:41
3:53
2:54
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First Released
2008
Rock
Good Natured
Rock/Pop
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5,000,000 copies
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11 is the tenth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams. The album was released by Polydor Records on March 17, 2008. 11 was the first release of new Adams material since Colour Me Kubrick in 2005 and the first studio album in four years since Room Service. Adams, Jim Vallance, Eliot Kennedy, Gretchen Peters, Trevor Rabin and Robert John "Mutt" Lange received producing and writing credits. Similar to Adams' previous material, the themes in 11 are mainly based on love, romance, and relationships. 11 received generally mixed reviews from contemporary music critics.
Three songs were released from the album in various forms: "I Thought I'd Seen Everything", "Tonight We Have the Stars" and "She's Got a Way", of which all were released internationally. "I Thought I'd Seen Everything" was the only one to have any lasting effects on the music chart, reaching mostly the Top 50, Top 100 and Top 200 in Europe and Canada. Adams was nominated for a Juno Award in the category "Best Artist" in 2009 for this record.
The album peaked within the top ten in eleven territories worldwide, including Canada (with sales just below 10,000 units in its first week), the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark and Switzerland. 11 charted within the top twenty in three other territories. The album has sold half-a-million copies and is disappointing when compared to Adams previous albums sales, however CD sales dropped for all artists during this time across the board.
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it. it's a perfectly fine philosophy and one that vegan, Canadian soft-rock icon, Bryan Adams obviously believes in. Those wondering if the slightly suspect dance experiments would make their reappearance here will be disappointed. The template of soaring slide guitar, grandiose piano and four-four 'rawk' stands him in good stead, coaxing the rasping throat to hit the spot time after time. And while most of the tracks here will remind aficionados of one or other of his former glories, his 11th studio album (hence the title) - delivered four charity-boosting and photography-filled years after Room Service - will undoubtedly still find a place in our hearts.
The truth is, this is power pop that only falls short of the kind of critical acclaim that we heap on people like Crowded House, because - let's face it - Adams has never dealt in clever wordplay. The tunes are here in abundance, along with the anthemic choruses that are every inch the equal of Neil Finn's Beatles homages. But subject-wise it's the usual fare of devoted declamations of the wonder of love for some unspecified woman, whether it's in the tones of a shy acoustic troubador as he marvels at its mysteries (Mysterious Ways) or as an air-punching rocker as he claims the love to be as necessary to his survival as oxygen (erm...Oxygen). It's a cliche-ridden ride but no less enjoyable for those that buy into the dream. For, if Bruce Springsteen can still sing of diners, darkness on the edge of town and blue collar travails and make them sound like he means it, why shouldn't we believe Bryan? It's all very fine as an accompaniment to that romantic date at the local football stadium or Earls Court. If there can be such a thing.
At times the toasted croak sounds a little dispassionate, as though Adams himself has been preaching this gospel of six-stringed love so long now (this is his 25th year as a megastar) that he's having trouble really believing it himself any more (She's Got A Way sounds a mite phoned-in and pushes the formula to its natural limit). Yet using the same band over the years means that what you lose in commitment you gain in aural comfort. These songs sound simultaneously lived-in and timeless (in that they could have been made at any point between 1985 and 2008). Fans needn't worry: The whole of 11 will sound great blasted out amongst his better-known numbers and, as we said, if it ain't broke...
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11 is the tenth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams. The album was released by Polydor Records on March 17, 2008. 11 was the first release of new Adams material since Colour Me Kubrick in 2005 and the first studio album in four years since Room Service. Adams, Jim Vallance, Eliot Kennedy, Gretchen Peters, Trevor Rabin and Robert John "Mutt" Lange received producing and writing credits. Similar to Adams' previous material, the themes in 11 are mainly based on love, romance, and relationships. 11 received generally mixed reviews from contemporary music critics.
Three songs were released from the album in various forms: "I Thought I'd Seen Everything", "Tonight We Have the Stars" and "She's Got a Way", of which all were released internationally. "I Thought I'd Seen Everything" was the only one to have any lasting effects on the music chart, reaching mostly the Top 50, Top 100 and Top 200 in Europe and Canada. Adams was nominated for a Juno Award in the category "Best Artist" in 2009 for this record.
The album peaked within the top ten in eleven territories worldwide, including Canada (with sales just below 10,000 units in its first week), the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark and Switzerland. 11 charted within the top twenty in three other territories. The album has sold half-a-million copies and is disappointing when compared to Adams previous albums sales, however CD sales dropped for all artists during this time across the board.
User Album Review
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. it's a perfectly fine philosophy and one that vegan, Canadian soft-rock icon, Bryan Adams obviously believes in. Those wondering if the slightly suspect dance experiments would make their reappearance here will be disappointed. The template of soaring slide guitar, grandiose piano and four-four 'rawk' stands him in good stead, coaxing the rasping throat to hit the spot time after time. And while most of the tracks here will remind aficionados of one or other of his former glories, his 11th studio album (hence the title) - delivered four charity-boosting and photography-filled years after Room Service - will undoubtedly still find a place in our hearts.
The truth is, this is power pop that only falls short of the kind of critical acclaim that we heap on people like Crowded House, because - let's face it - Adams has never dealt in clever wordplay. The tunes are here in abundance, along with the anthemic choruses that are every inch the equal of Neil Finn's Beatles homages. But subject-wise it's the usual fare of devoted declamations of the wonder of love for some unspecified woman, whether it's in the tones of a shy acoustic troubador as he marvels at its mysteries (Mysterious Ways) or as an air-punching rocker as he claims the love to be as necessary to his survival as oxygen (erm...Oxygen). It's a cliche-ridden ride but no less enjoyable for those that buy into the dream. For, if Bruce Springsteen can still sing of diners, darkness on the edge of town and blue collar travails and make them sound like he means it, why shouldn't we believe Bryan? It's all very fine as an accompaniment to that romantic date at the local football stadium or Earls Court. If there can be such a thing.
At times the toasted croak sounds a little dispassionate, as though Adams himself has been preaching this gospel of six-stringed love so long now (this is his 25th year as a megastar) that he's having trouble really believing it himself any more (She's Got A Way sounds a mite phoned-in and pushes the formula to its natural limit). Yet using the same band over the years means that what you lose in commitment you gain in aural comfort. These songs sound simultaneously lived-in and timeless (in that they could have been made at any point between 1985 and 2008). Fans needn't worry: The whole of 11 will sound great blasted out amongst his better-known numbers and, as we said, if it ain't broke...
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