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Not as good as Simply Red's last two singles

hou_music | Houston, TX | 12/18/2005

(3 out of 5 stars)

""Perfect Love" is the first single off Simply Red's new CD "Simplified". It is Simply Red's attempt at a Latin-styled song, or a track with strong Latin influences. The problem is, with their typical blue-eyed soul style they have a very hard time pulling it off.



Simply Red's last two singles "Sunrise" and "Fake" were outstanding - and both became #1 club hits both in the U.S. and overseas. "Perfect Love" is now in the top five on the U.S. club chart as of this writing. The mixes are interesting, certainly adding some flavor to the song. By far the best is the Roger's Dirty Sanchez Mix which has a driving bassline. The only drawback to this mix is that it only some of the vocals in it. However, this is one of those songs where a remix might not work with the whole song. The Love To Infinity mixes are nice mixes, but again, do not contain very much of the vocals which make them kind of disappointing.



As you get into the later tracks on the CD is where you get into the mixes that are closer to the original version of the song. This is where you realize how almost cringe-worthy this song was at the beginning.



This track is ok, but IMO just doesn't measure up to "Sunrise" and "Fake". You probably need to be a huge fan of Simply Red to really appreciate it.

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