Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 by George Michael

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1

George Michael

1990

Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 is a Soul & Funk album by George Michael, originally released in 1990. On Gatefold: 291 pressings tracked, owned by 16 collectors.

Sound DNA

  • Soul & Funk
  • Contemporary R&B
  • velvety
  • brooding
  • confessional

About

<b>100 Best Albums</b> After proving the depth, scope, and maturity of his songwriting with an unassailable debut, George Michael released his second solo album, which feels like a pointed gear change. True, there is “Freedom! ’90”, a bright, piano-driven single designed to deftly skewer both the emerging age of music video culture and Michael’s own conflict about the way the <i>Faith</i> era had almost turned him into a piece of caricatured public property. Nonetheless, the pervading mood of <i>Listen Without Prejudice</i> is one of subtlety, political consciousness, and emotional desolation. Woodwinds evoke sparse battlefields (“Mothers Pride”), echo adds ghostly desperation (most notably on the spine-tingling Stevie Wonder cover, “They Won’t Go When I Go”), and windblown acoustic guitar nods to folk (“Something to Save”). Crowned by the grand, Lennon-ian sweep of “Praying for Time,” it is a quietly radical, deeply affecting creative progression—the sound of an artist retreating from pop’s synth-driven orthodoxy into something touched by timelessness, profundity, and, in almost every sense, real soul.

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Tracklist

  1. 1Praying for Time4:40
  2. 2Freedom! '906:30
  3. 3They Won't Go When I Go5:06
  4. 4Something to Save3:18
  5. 5Cowboys and Angels7:14
  6. 6Waiting for That Day4:49
  7. 7Mothers Pride3:59
  8. 8Heal the Pain4:39
  9. 9Soul Free5:30
  10. 10Waiting (Reprise)2:27

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16 collectors on Gatefold own this · 291 pressings tracked on Gatefold