Lenny Kravitz

Are You Gonna Go My Way

Lenny Kravitz breakthrough album 4.5 stars

Review Score:

(8/10)
Are you gonna go my way was to me the album in which Lenny Kravitz finally came into his own. Before this it seemed as thhough he was trying to hard to be like his influences. Which isn't all bad except you really didn't get a the entire picture as to who Leny Kravitz is. Was he trying to be a modern day Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon or Curtis Mayfield or even Bob Marley. I also think he took himself a little to seriously at times before this album But on AYGGMY you really can see where he really started to come into his own musically. I mentioned the above names as influences that I picked out from listening to this cd. The difference is that on AYGGMY Lenny seems more confident in his own talents and only allows the influences to guide him musically instead of trying to copy them. The title track is simply a good ol' fashioned fun rock song. It simply rocks and knows it. It's loud and arrogant. It screams to be turned up to a high volume. Very hendrix-like circa are you experienced. Suprisingly AYGGMY is musically funky cuts like come on love me ,black girl and sugar sound like they could've been done by Curtis Mayfield. The ballads; believe, Heaven help me and sister are suprisingly very well written and very good songs that have meaning to them. Even the last track eleutheria which sounds like a reggae experiment works. Overall AYGGMY is a great rock/funk album. it works because Lenny Kravitz finally lets loose and controls ihis musical influences instead of letting them control him.

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