ARE YOU GONNA GO MY WAY
| Lenny Kravitz
ARE YOU GONNA GO MY WAY
Are You Gonna Go My Way is the third studio album by American singer Lenny Kravitz, released on March 9, 1993 by Virgin Records. It was recorded at Waterfront Studios, Hoboken, New Jersey by Henry Hirsch. It became Kravitz's first top 20 album on the United States Billboard 200, and his first number one album in both Australia and the United Kingdom, achieving worldwide success that helped to establish his popularity as a performer. - Wikipedia
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Song for song, it's his most consistent album, although by the end of the record, his painstaking reproduction of classic rock sounds begins to appear a bit too studied, suggesting that Kravitz may have hit a creative wall.
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UCR
his debut made a little noise but was not a major hit, peaking outside the Top 100. The album did catch the ears of some taste-makers, though; Madonna recruited Kravitz to co-write and produce her 1990 chart-topper “Justify My Love”.
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popMatters- Deluxe version
Kravitz may not have sequenced Are You Gonna Go My Way in a way that did it any favors, but he did know what to cast aside. This new deluxe edition proves that in spades. In the process, it also comes perilously close to overwhelming the album and the great strides Kravitz had made in finding his voice.
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Creative Loafing
The songs more or less alternate between power-pop, gentle soul and acoustic ballads. Nearly all hit some kind of sweet spot, and most contain a damn respectable ’60s-flavored guitar solo.
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Record Collector Magazine
It’s a brash and busy album, but Kravitz tends to focus too much on forging a sound rather than building solid song structures, giving much of the record the feel of pre-production jams as opposed to a finished article, though he’s on top form when he dials down the bombast for the smooth soul of Sugar and Black Girl.
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The Morton Report
Just like the previous two deluxe anniversary editions, this one’s a feast for Lenny Kravitz fans.
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RIFF RAFF
Most of the LP is riddled with repetitive, lacklustre melodies and predictable, cliched lyrics about "Lurv."
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Mike Adano
There is plenty of variety on Are You Gonna Go My Way, without sounding fragmented. It still sounds completely unified.
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Funknstuff
Neo-hippie themes of love and spirituality abound on this essentially one-man band effort.
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