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| View Larger Image | Intensive Care | Audio CDby Robbie Williams
| List Price: | $21.99 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Format: | Explicit Lyrics, Import | | Studio: | EMI Import | | Release Date: | October 25, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 302,651nd |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Ghosts
- Track 2: Tripping
- Track 3: Make Me Pure
- Track 4: Spread Your Wings
- Track 5: Advertising Space
- Track 6: Please Don't Die
- Track 7: Your Gay Friend
- Track 8: Sin Sin Sin
- Track 9: Random Acts of Kindness
- Track 10: Trouble with Me
- Track 11: Place to Crash
- Track 12: King of Bloke and Bird
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Album Description
After two years of continuous writing with Stephen Duffy, the album, which was recorded exclusively in Los Angeles, will be released, preceded by the first single ‘Tripping’. 'I'm a huge fan of The Lilac Time, so I thought I'd spend a couple of days writing some folk songs with Stephen Duffy, just for a change,'' says Robbie. EMI. 2005. |
From Amazon.co.uk
Stoke's favorite son's sixth studio album marks a new stage in the career of Mr. Robert Peter Williams, Britain's favourite popular entertainer. Severed from his former right-hand man, songwriter Guy Chambers, Intensive Care sees him forging a new partnership with former Lilac Time stalwart Stephen Duffy. The result is his most complete album to date, free from the gimmicky fillers--like "Me and My Monkey" and "Jesus In A Camper Van"--that tended to drag previous efforts down. Never short of cocksure bravado, Robbie starts proceedings off with a modest declaration--"Here I stand victorious, the only man who made you come," but for once he's got the tunes to back up the posturing. There are plenty of classic Robbie tracks, from the ballad-tastic "Advertising Space"--which should see "Angels" relegated to the backbenches--to the public confessional of "The Trouble With Me"; plus some daring departures in between, from the '80s pop fun of "Sin Sin Sin" to the Rolling Stones-like "A Place to Crash", via the Oasis-lite of "Make Me Pure" and the Smiths-esque guitars on "Your Gay Friend." You can't help but feel that Mr. Williams has a point to make with this album, to all the people who said he'd be nothing without Guy Chambers; if that is the case, he couldn't have gone about it a better way than by serving up the best album of his career to date. --Melanie Wilkin |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 20 reviews)
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Give it more than one shot by Bobby (New York, NY)  4 Stars
October 26, 2007
The first time I listened to this album I wasn't quite impressed and put it away. Then I started noticing I was humming quite a few of the songs and wanting to hear them again. While this isn't anything like the brilliant Life Through a Lens or even Escapology, most of these songs will and do grow on you. Another great effort by one of the most amazing rockstars today.
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Intensively the best album so far by leandra (Taipei, TW)  5 Stars
January 20, 2007
Robbie has proved again that he can write and sing great songs. I love this album and most of the songs are indeed very nice to listen to... Get one or u missed out what Robbie has to offer in this album... Highly recommended as it also comes with DVD (where he explains about the songs in the album) and lastly but not the least, the album cover has fantastic photos of Robbie. You'll love it!
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Find a place to crash by Milva333 (Europe) 5 Stars
May 12, 2006
It is a sin not to own this album!
Intensive Care includes 12 top-songs: Music, language, humor and his voice - everything is on a very high level!
The best songs on this album are: Ghosts, Make Me Pure, Advertising Space, Your Gay Friend, Sin Sin Sin, A Place To Crash and King Of Bloke And Bird. Yes, this album includes seven songs, which are just perfect. Can you name another artist who has an album (except his/her Greatest Hits) where you find 7 very good songs out of twelve? No, you cannot!
When you buy this album you get just everything - from slow ballads to fast pop songs.
This album is a little bit softer than his last album "Escapology", which is also very good.
The booklet is just amazing! The "tarot cards" are full of contradictions.
So AMERICA, it's up to you: Either you buy this record and all of Rob's other records or you will be know as the most f***ing nation all over the world.
This is an order: Move your boney ass, go and buy this CD and love him like he's cash! ;)
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Where has most of the arrogance gone? by Antonio M Vazquezpausa (Miami, Fl United States) 4 Stars
February 15, 2006
I've been a diehard fan of the Robster since his first American release,and I still cannot understand why American radio stations will not play his tunes.This CD is very pleasant to listen to.You'll dance to the infectious TRIPPIN' and romance to SPREAD YOUR WINGS & ADVERTISING SPACE.Still, you will find GAY FRIEND and SIN,SIN,SIN somewhat lame yet not tarnishing the whole message of this work.I don't know if I appreciate or miss the lack of cockiness and arrogance.Is America ready?
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Robbie's Hooked a New Fan in the US by A. Kulcsar (Ypsilanti, MI United States) 5 Stars
February 08, 2006
(repeated from my review of the [Explicit Lyrics] [Import] version of the album)
I should share some background before giving my review.
Before this past summer, I knew Robbie only through his one and only US hit, "Millennium," from 1999. I always had hoped to hear more music from him, but that never happened here.
Flash forward to this past summer. I, like many millions of other people around the world, watched the Live 8 concerts this summer on-demand via the web. In the home stretch of the London concert, who appears on stage but Robbie Williams. Knowing next to nothing about him at that time (he, unfortunately, is very much an obscurity here, as many have noted and rightfully pined) I was absolutely FLOORED not only by his talent as an artist but also by his absolutely amazing skills as a performer. There very much is a distinction between the two skills...I have seen many talented artists who are mediocre or downright awful entertainers. Robbie, in the short 20 minutes that he was on stage, demonstrated an incredible talent to take a crowd of several hundred thousand people and wrap every single one of them around his finger. Talent like this on stage is a one-in-a-million kind of thing, and I can compare him to but a few acts who, in their own right and in their own times, were legends on stage. It absolutely blew me away, and I replayed that portion of the concert probably 100 times over the summer.
I got wind that Robbie released a new album and I was hell-bent on getting a copy of it, never before hearing any of his material off of an album. I ordered this album, it arrived last week, and I have had a steady diet of Robbie since it arrived to give me a chance to appreciate this work fully. After many hours of absorbing this album, I came to a conclusion:
This album is excellent.
"Ghosts" is a great song. While others have said that this song may supercede "Angels" as the audience-favorite anthem, I do not agree...but it is a great song nonetheless. "Tripping" is his first single from the album, and it is a pretty strong song. My favorites may be the songs which are extremely funny to me: "Your Gay Friend" and "A Place to Crash." I mean, really...how can you not love songs whose choruses begin
"And I'll be your gay friend / 'cuz your marriage never ends"
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"Find a place to crash / Move your boney ass"
The remainder of the songs, too, are quite good. There are a couple of slower songs to match the up-tempo songs, but there are no "true ballads" on this album. I have to spend some more time with this album to gain a better appreciation of a couple of the songs (I'm not placing all of the references), but on the whole it is an excellent album from a truly gifted artist.
"Greatest Hits" are on their way...can't wait.
Robbie, brother...you hooked another one here in the US.
"First they ignore you
Then laugh at you and hate you
Then they fight you - then you win"
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