Sugar Spice Entice - Fifty Guilty Pleasures (04/09/2013)
If the series of Fifty Shades of Grey books were turned into a music compilation, it would be Sugar Spice Entice – Fifty Guilty Pleasures.
An obvious play on the popular series of books, the CD cover features the same black background with grey image that is featured on the books. And with words like ‘deliciously seductive classics’, it’s not hard to make the connection.
The three-CD set features a theme for each disc - sugar, spice and entice. As you progress through the discs, the songs become more sensual, more risqué and a bit sexier.
The mix features the usual suspects – John Mayer, Michael Buble, Ella Fitzgerald and Tom Jones – but it is the surprising classical tunes that are thrown in that make this a truly versatile compilation.
Sugar are your sweet tunes of love and infatuation. It ranges from Van Morrison’s Moondance and Billy Joel’s Just The Way You Are to Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet: Love Theme and Madeleine Peyroux’s La Vie En Rose.
The heat is turned up a notch with the spice disc, featuring Britney Spears’s I’m a Slave 4 U, Wynter Gordon’s Dirty Talk and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumble Bee.
It is strongly advised you close the blinds, send the children to their grandparent’s house and take the phone off the hook if you intend on listening to the entice disc. Tunes like The Police’s Every Breath You Take, Sade’s Smooth Operator and Jeff Buckley’s Everybody Here Wants You are sure to leave you gasping for breath.
The key to a good compilation CD of existing songs is to choose tunes that work well together in a theme and these songs certainly do. They play out better upon listening to them than they do by reading the CD cover.
A complete listen of the CDs unravels an array of emotions and forces you to remember past loves or passionate nights under the stars. Definitely give it a spin if you’re feeling sentimental … or if you have a hot Saturday night date.
Nicole Barlow
An obvious play on the popular series of books, the CD cover features the same black background with grey image that is featured on the books. And with words like ‘deliciously seductive classics’, it’s not hard to make the connection.
The three-CD set features a theme for each disc - sugar, spice and entice. As you progress through the discs, the songs become more sensual, more risqué and a bit sexier.
The mix features the usual suspects – John Mayer, Michael Buble, Ella Fitzgerald and Tom Jones – but it is the surprising classical tunes that are thrown in that make this a truly versatile compilation.
Sugar are your sweet tunes of love and infatuation. It ranges from Van Morrison’s Moondance and Billy Joel’s Just The Way You Are to Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet: Love Theme and Madeleine Peyroux’s La Vie En Rose.
The heat is turned up a notch with the spice disc, featuring Britney Spears’s I’m a Slave 4 U, Wynter Gordon’s Dirty Talk and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumble Bee.
It is strongly advised you close the blinds, send the children to their grandparent’s house and take the phone off the hook if you intend on listening to the entice disc. Tunes like The Police’s Every Breath You Take, Sade’s Smooth Operator and Jeff Buckley’s Everybody Here Wants You are sure to leave you gasping for breath.
The key to a good compilation CD of existing songs is to choose tunes that work well together in a theme and these songs certainly do. They play out better upon listening to them than they do by reading the CD cover.
A complete listen of the CDs unravels an array of emotions and forces you to remember past loves or passionate nights under the stars. Definitely give it a spin if you’re feeling sentimental … or if you have a hot Saturday night date.
Nicole Barlow