Customer Rating: 
Summary: He's... good!
Comment: I've been a Tom Jones fan for many years, he's just cool. Great voice and appears to sing effortlessly. Now, I am NOT a fan of Strictly Come Dancing but I happened to be channel hopping when I found him singing on the BBC1 series ([]) and I just stopped.
Watch him sing. No effort at all. He just... sings. Amazing. I was captivated.
Finally got around to buying this album over the weekend and I sat down, earphones in, and listened to it from start to finish. It really is a great album. All the songs are good and in my opinion there isn't a duff one in there. There's a few in here which will make a 'best of' album in the future.
Watch Tom on Strictly Come Dancing (YouTube) and then buy the album here at Amazon. I went for the MP3 download. Today, I've listened to the album twice. :-)
Go Tom Go!
Customer Rating:
Summary: As if he'd never been away
Comment: Tom Jones has seemed a little lost in the last few years, trying to get down with the kids and appeal to a new, younger audience. He reached his nadir with the atrocious and somewhat embarrasing 'Mr. Jones' collaboration with Wyclef Jean. Just recently his collaborations with Jools Holland have seen him give up on this track and concetrate on what he does best - belting out catchy songs with what must be the most powerful voice in the buisness.
On this album Tom really comes back full circle and delivers an album that would sit quite comfortably with much of his 60's breakthrough material. And that's no bad thing, he's the best there is at the powerful ballad/soul songs, and he brings all that experience to bear on these songs. An added attraction is that Tom has co-written many of the songs, giving it a very personal feel, especially 'the road', which is basically an apology to his long suffering wife.
All in all, a real return to form for Tom, delivering a catchy set of tunes with that unique voice in fine fettle. Recommended.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The best album for quite some time!
Comment: Tom jones music has somewhat of fanatical devotion here in wales, probably the result in over 45years of writing and performing, it goes without saying even at nerely 70 he can still produce the goods, not least to say "24 hours" is very impressive even more so when compared with most of his recent 90s output, with the rather dated pop orientated hits such as "sex bomb" and the co-written "mama told me not to come" which have sunk without trace.
This album if nothing else is a major turning point, back to the upbeat funky soul songs he's become famous for, the 60's classics such as "it's unusual" and "what's new pussycat." This album even though it's fresh of the roll has some fantastic songs make no mistake about it, the best of the bunch "i'm alive" the dancy "feels like music" and "sugar daddy" ooze with passion and quality the other songs are just as fantastic as well.
Diversity on this album is a great aspect, as it combines wonderful pop sensibilities of love ballads with other more cool soul tunes, it works very well, at least i think so, tom's vocals as always are very strong and clean and i have no arguements about the production either, i am very surprised with this release as i only got to hear it by accident, a very fitting record anywhere.
Clearly anyone looking to this as a perspective buyer will probably already have a rough idea of what to expect, but this might just might be much better than you bargained for. I thoroughly recommend this as the songs on the album are easily good enough to rival a greatest hits compilation, and at this price its a steal, i don't have any criticisms really apart from probably being very annoyed if this album doesnt sell by the bucket load!
Highly recommended!
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