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Here is the sound of good pop going bad. The Osmonds had already hinted at unforeseen depths when they crowned their most successful year yet with the conceptual The Plan and, it has to be said, scared off a considerable portion of their fan base in so doing. Undeterred, however, they continued driving into more musically sober pastures with Love Me for a Reason, an album of considerably more grown-up emotions and thoughts than any they had unleashed in the past. Of course, the title track is a pop classic, and is joined here by a handful of additional performances that manage to convey the intended sense of maturity at the same time as sounding like an awful lot of fun -- "Having a Party," "I Can't Get Next to You," and (bet you never expected to see a title like this on an Osmonds record) "Ballin' the Jack." But the strange malaise that somehow convinces our pop idols that the road to adulthood is paved with boring ballads is alive and well here as well, and too much of Love Me for a Reason actually fails to deliver any reasons whatsoever. So we'll stop loving them.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
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Mike Curb, Producer - H.P. Barnum, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Osmonds, MainArtist - Bobby Massey, ComposerLyricist - Wade Brown, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1974 UMG Recordings, Inc.
H.B. BARNUM, ComposerLyricist - Mike Curb, Producer - The Osmonds, MainArtist - Freddy Butler, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1974 UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Jones, ComposerLyricist - Johnny Bristol, ComposerLyricist - Wade Brown Jr., ComposerLyricist - Mike Curb, Producer - The Osmonds, Producer, Executive Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1974 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chris Smith, ComposerLyricist - Mike Curb, Producer - James Burris, ComposerLyricist - The Osmonds, MainArtist
℗ 1974 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Solomon Burke, ComposerLyricist - Mike Curb, Producer - The Osmonds, MainArtist
℗ 1974 UMG Recordings, Inc.
H.B. BARNUM, ComposerLyricist - Bradford Craig, ComposerLyricist - Mike Curb, Producer - The Osmonds, MainArtist
℗ 1974 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Denny Randell, ComposerLyricist - Mike Curb, Producer - The Osmonds, MainArtist - Letty Jo Randell, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1974 UMG Recordings, Inc.
H.B. BARNUM, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Barrett Strong, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, ComposerLyricist - The Osmonds, MainArtist - Mike Curb Productions, Producer
℗ 1974 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Alan Osmond, ComposerLyricist - Merrill Osmond, ComposerLyricist - Wayne Osmond, ComposerLyricist - Mike Curb, Producer - The Osmonds, MainArtist
℗ 1974 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Dalton, ComposerLyricist - Mike Curb, Producer - The Osmonds, MainArtist - Duberri, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1974 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Denny Randell, ComposerLyricist - Mike Curb, Producer - The Osmonds, MainArtist - Letty Jo Randell, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1974 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Here is the sound of good pop going bad. The Osmonds had already hinted at unforeseen depths when they crowned their most successful year yet with the conceptual The Plan and, it has to be said, scared off a considerable portion of their fan base in so doing. Undeterred, however, they continued driving into more musically sober pastures with Love Me for a Reason, an album of considerably more grown-up emotions and thoughts than any they had unleashed in the past. Of course, the title track is a pop classic, and is joined here by a handful of additional performances that manage to convey the intended sense of maturity at the same time as sounding like an awful lot of fun -- "Having a Party," "I Can't Get Next to You," and (bet you never expected to see a title like this on an Osmonds record) "Ballin' the Jack." But the strange malaise that somehow convinces our pop idols that the road to adulthood is paved with boring ballads is alive and well here as well, and too much of Love Me for a Reason actually fails to deliver any reasons whatsoever. So we'll stop loving them.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:39:14
- Main artists: The Osmonds
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Universal Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 1974 UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 1974 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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