I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
| Aretha Franklin
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You is the tenth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin. Released on March 10, 1967, by Atlantic Records (her first with that label), it went to number 2 on the Billboard album chart and number 1 on the magazine's Top R&B Selling chart. It was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1967. It received a number 83 ranking on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time and inclusion in both the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (2005) and 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die (2008). When Rolling Stone listed the "Women in Rock: 50 Essential Albums" in 2002 and again 2012, the album listed at number one.[3] The album included two top-10 singles: "Respect" was a No. 1 single on Billboard's Hot 100 Pop singles chart, and "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" peaked at number 9. The album was rated the 10th best album of the 1960s by Pitchfork.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
Her first classic album opened up a new world of emotional possibility for pop music
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50thirdand3rd
Great albums like this are often personally transformative as well, and I think they have to be.
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Sputnik Music
This is vital listening if you want to understand the development of black vocal music. It's a landmark in every sense.
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Pop Matters
Review Year: 2012 If you want a do right, all day woman, look no further than the 81st Most Acclaimed Album of All-Time, a landmark 1967 soul serenade from Aretha Franklin.
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Clash Music
It doesn’t just ooze deep soul, but has it gushing out of every line, every word, every chord and every note.
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Paste Magazine
Review Year: 2017 It’s a feminist anthem; it’s a Civil Rights anthem; it’s an anthem, period, and you’d have to search long and hard to find a single soul who would argue it’s not fantastic, because it manages to so perfectly articulate a basic human desire.
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Publishers Weekly
the eponymous song and the all-purpose empowerment anthem "Respect," is an obsessive, intermittently engaging example of the minute reconstruction of recording-session ephemera that has become central to pop music criticism.
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Backseat Mafia
Review Year: 2015 With I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You Aretha Franklin had released an album that had fulfilled her potential in just over half an hour and in doing so had cemented her reputation which endures to this day.
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Adrian's Review
Review Year: 2011 A land-mark, fantastic, heart-breaking wonderful album. And, that's it! Is that enough?
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The Top 100 Reviews
Review Year: 2018 But I finally came to appreciate the down-tempo album and majestic voice of Arethra Franklin.
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Trip Gunn
Review Year: 2018 As I said this was an amazing album from start to finish. Definitely one that I will return to again and again in the future.
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