TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.2982
Barbra Streisand Album Rankings
1
Barbra Streisand's abandonment of Broadway was the worst thing that happened to the theater in the '60s.
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2
Barbra Streisand albums have been, ultimately,Here's Babs Singingin one form or other. Of course, a couple of them have beenHere's Babs Singing ... BROADWAY!!!which sold like crazy.
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3
As they evolved in the 1980s, retrospective box sets tended to contain a full complement of an artist's essential recordings, plus enough rarities to suggest the artist's inspirations and ambitions.
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4
Of course, the first thing that strikes you listening to the first Barbra Streisand album, recorded and released before the singer's 21st birthday, is that great voice.
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5
Between the release of Barbra Streisand's first hits collection in 1970 and her second in 1978, she essentially became a different kind of recording artist.
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6
The biggest selling album of Barbra Streisand's career is also one of her least characteristic.
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7
Barbra Streisand scored her second Top Ten hit in early 1971 by treatingLaura Nyro's recording of her song "Stoney End" as a demo and copying it practically note for note.
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8
With her hypersonic wail, dewy-eyed platitudes, and accompanying deaf-dumb interpretive gestures, Mariah Carey was always a bit camp.
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9
Barbra Streisand's second album might have been subtitled "The Harold Arlen Album," asinceArlenis the composer of five of the 11 selections, including four of five on the first side.
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10
It's hard to imagine any single album less likely to sell on its musical merits thanYentl, soundtrack to the film starring, produced and directed by Barbra Streisand.
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11
A quarter century after she and producer-writer Barry Gibb conjured up her best modern-pop album, Guilty , Barbara Streisand and Gibb reunite for a belated sequel, Guilty Pleasures .
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12
The concert, especially in its last half, comes off as highly sentimental, which is appropriate to the occasion, while the whole thing comes off as highly self-referential, which is inevitable for a S
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13
Back in 1988, Barbra Streisand had a minor pop hit, a tune she recorded with Don Johnson called ''Till I Loved You.'' Johnson sang first, a friendly placebo with a harmless, sweet tenor voice.
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14
For her first live recording in more than 14 years (a benefit held in her backyard with tickets at five-thousand dollars a throw), Barbra Streisand reviewed her work in the interim, singing her chart
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15
Again, it's perversely interesting simply to hear Babs collaborating with John Mellencamp and Meat Loaf composer Jim Steinman .
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17
The duet with Donna Summer here didn't work nearly as well as the one with Neil Diamond (also included here).
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22
Barbra Streisand's voice is an instrument of sterling quality, well-suited to almost anything she chooses to sing.
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25
In her lengthy career, Barbra Streisand has never shown much inclination to share the spotlight.
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26
An album containing many of the songs used in Barbra Streisand's TV special of the same name, My Name Is Barbra followed the general outline of two of the three sections of the show.
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27
Barbra Streisand's fourth live album was the only one to be drawn from a concert tour and not a one-time occasion, but it is no less special for that.
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29
All of the songs on Color Me Barbra were featured on Barbara Streisand's second TV special of the same name. (There were some more songs as well, but they had appeared on earlier albums.
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31
Je M'Appelle Barbra is an album of songs with a French orientation, either because they are actually sung, at least in part, in French, or because they originated in France before having English lyri
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37
After three albums related to television specials and one of French songs, Simply Streisand was Barbra Streisand's first "regular" new album since People three years earlier and her first new release
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42
Streisand's first, tentative attempt to try out the work of contemporary songwriters.
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43
Like all of Barbra Streisand's albums,Barbra Joan Streisandis an expertly produced commercial product designed for the widest possible audience.
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45
Bette Midler has been pushed so hard and so fast I naturally assumed she was not just a hype but destined to become a fad, perhaps earning enormous stardom for a while, but spending those earnings lig
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49
Barbra Streisand no longer sings songs; she acts them out. She treats the recording studio as an extension of the stage where every emotion must be exaggerated to be understood.
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50
There's no stopping Barbra Streisand . Believe me, it's not like many outside her rabid cult haven't tried.
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52
If Simply Streisand, which appeared earlier the same month as A Christmas Album, indicated that Streisand was overly reverent when it came to standards, reverence was no problem with seasonal fare.
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53
One of Barbra Streisand's more esoteric projects, Classical Barbra is an album of European art songs composed by Debussy, Handel, Schumann, and others and sung in French, German, Latin, Italian, and
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55
Streisand's first collaboration with producers Rupert Holmes and Jeffrey Lesser puts her back on the right track after last year's atrociousButterfly.
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