Can't Slow Down
| Lionel Richie
Can't Slow Down
Can't Slow Down is the second solo studio album by American recording artist Lionel Richie. It was released on October 11, 1983 by Motown Records. It has sold over 20 million copies, and is Richie's best-selling album of all time. Five singles were released from Can't Slow Down, all of which hit the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including two that reached #1: "All Night Long (All Night)" and "Hello". The album also won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1985.-Wikipedia
Critic Reviews
Show All-
All Music
On Can't Slow Down, his second solo album, Lionel Richie ran with the sound and success of his eponymous debut, creating an album that was designed to be bigger and better.
-
BBC
Can’t Slow Down is very good indeed, Richie’s last true moment as a cutting-edge balladeer.
-
Pop Matters
While the music on it is slick, commercial, and overly sentimental, it's still catchy as hell and executed with an incredible amount of artistry.
-
discogs
The album reached #1 on the Billboard album chart. It also spent 59 consecutive weeks inside the Top 10 (including the entire year of 1984) and a total of 160 weeks (over three years) on the Billboard 200. After being the third best-selling album of 1984, it went on to win a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1985, beating out such heavyweight contenders as Born in the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen and Purple Rain by Prince. By 1986 the album had sold 15 million copies. eventually selling over 20 million.
-
HRAudio
The merits of the music on this classic album cannot be overstated. It certainly warrants consideration by anyone who appreciates the best in popular music.
-
Pop Rescue
This album is a masterpiece. Lionel makes it sound so effortless, and the vocals, music, lyrics all just fall perfectly into place. This is essential listening, like the whirlwind romance that Lionel can’t slow down for.
-
Spin
Let's just put this out there: Lionel Richie is a major talent, and Can't Slow Down is his magnum opus, a parade of memorable singles ranging from the faux-soca chart-topper "All Night Long (All Night)" to the rock-inflected "Running With the Night" to the totally legit country tune "Stuck on You" to the positively immortal cheesefest "Hello."
-
New York Times
Mr. Richie became a household name with his solo debut, “Lionel Richie,” and its even more successful follow-up, “Can’t Slow Down,” which on the strength of ballads like “Stuck on You” and “Penny Lover” sold more than 10 million copies.
-
Robert Christgau
Can't Slow Down [Motown, 1983] Given Richie's well-established appeal to white people, this surprisingly solid album bids fair to turn into a mini-Thriller, and good for him--it's a real advance. In the years since he became a ballad writer he's learned how to sing them--"Hello" is nowhere near as magical a song as "Easy," but the grain of Richie's delivery gives you something to sink your ears into. And where the Commodores' funk often sounded a little forced, his jumpy international dance-pop comes to him naturally even when he's putting on that stupid West Indian accent.
-
Steve Hoffman
Lionel Richie "Can't Slow Down" Lionel Was Amazing. Can't Slow Down was in a different hemisphere for Lionel and had something for everyone. As this album had stellar production.
-
Washington Post
Lionel Richie can’t slow down, and we’re all the richer for it.
-
The Mercury News
“Can’t Slow Down” album sounded even better. He’s lost very little vocal range over the years, and he can still sell a ballad like nobody’s business.
-
AXS
His Can't Slow Down was a massive hit in 1984 and one of the best albums of the year. He's been coming up with charting hits since the early 80's.
-
Vinyl Destination
Can't Slow Down is the second solo studio album by pop/soul singer/songwriter Lionel Richie. It was released on October 11, 1983 by Motown Records. The album reached #1 on the Billboard album chart. It also spent 59 consecutive weeks inside the Top 10 (including the entire year of 1984) and a total of 160 weeks (over three years) on the Billboard 200.
-
Kinston
“Can’t Slow Down” was the second solo album released by Lionel Richie since his departure from the Commodores, and it made him an international star.
-
On The Record
“In 1999, Q magazine included Can’t Slow Down on its list of the best Motown records of all time and stated, “Production values are high, his songwriting craft is at its peak and at least one track – the global smash ‘All Night Long’ – is an anthem to good times that makes the heart sing and feet twitch.”
-
Savage Henry Magazine
Lionel’s songwriting magic changed all of our lives. A masterpiece of love and masculinity.
-
Biography
1983's Can't Slow Down, featured the energetic pop hit "All Night Long" as well as the dreamy ballad "Hello," which featured one of the enduring music videos of the time. The success of this project, which won Richie a Grammy for Album of the Year, helped cement his status as one of music's biggest stars.
-
Udiscovermusic
It was certainly the influence of former Motown labelmate Michael Jackson’s Thriller that inspired Richie’s Can’t Slow Down. Released in October 1983, it became Richie’s greatest work. Made with a huge team of people, it represented the very best of Richie the balladeer.
-
The Austin Chronicle
Aside from Thriller, no album was harder to escape in the mid-Eighties than Lionel Richie's Can't Slow Down. It was no surprise then to see most everyone mouthing the words to Richie's cavalcade of hits Wednesday night.
-
Chicago Tribune
His biggest album, "Can't Slow Down" (1983), sold more than 8 millions copies and earned a Grammy for album of the year. It was a textbook case of an R&B artist crossing over to the pop crowd.
-
Spears
Can’t Slow Down (1983), the next album, was his most successful with all songs reaching the top 10. Richie also performed one of the album’s number ones “All Night Long” at the Los Angeles Olympics’ closing ceremony (1984). Another number one, “Hello”, became the most popular and successful as it topped Billboard’s Pop, R&B and Adult Contemporary charts.
-
The National
It was his second solo effort that made Richie a pop phenomenon. The numbers and accolades don’t lie; 1983’s Can’t Slow Down sold more than 20 million copies and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
-
Better Records
"In 1999, Q magazine included Can't Slow Down on its list of the best Motown records of all time and stated, 'Production values are high, his songwriting craft is at its peak and at least one track - the global smash 'All Night Long' - is an anthem to good times that makes the heart sing and feet twitch."
-
Red Light Management
This mega-platinum album triple-play — 1982’s Lionel Richie, 1983’s Can’t Slow Down, and 1985’s Dancing On The Ceiling — sealed the recent Kennedy Center Honoree’s legacy as one of the most popular singer/songwriters of the modern era, in the wake of his 1982 departure from the lineup of one of Motown’s biggest artists of the Seventies, the Commodores.
Rate This Album and Leave Your Comments