GEORGE MICHAEL - Praying For Time »

Posted By scott4261 1 year, 1 month ago in Arts & Entertainment

George Micheal performed this live on American Idol tonight. This is the original....a great song from his much underrated CD "Listen Without Prejudice"...

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    MRCOFFEECAKE1 year, 1 month ago

    It was 4 or so minutes of beautifully shared emotion.

    I wonder how many were thinking about how much better mankind would be with less war and less poverty?

    (or is that too socialist/liberal to think?)

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    scott42611 year, 1 month ago

    1996 BBC Unplugged performance:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7St4CEbQX7g&NR=1

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      jordan111 year, 1 month ago

      Stunning, and haunting.

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        cowboygrandpa1 year, 1 month ago

        Scott:

        If I remember right that was during the Reagan years. Appropiate then and appropiate now. As both administrations were all about greed being good.

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        scott42611 year, 1 month ago

        Interesting story about this song and the CD it is from:

        After his success with Wham! and the blockbuster solo debut, "Faith," George Michael wanted desperately to move beyond the MTV poster boy / teen idol image. He wanted to be taken seriously as an artist. In the late summer of 1990, we got this single, "Praying for Time," which had a video consisting only of words splashed on and dark background. The album "Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1" soon followed and he stayed true to his word not to use his image in the videos from the album...in fact, his leather jacket from the "Faith" video is set on fire in the video for "Freedom '90"...

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          Charlson1 year, 1 month ago

          Love Michael's sound. He has hit the skids lately but his music is still good.

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            2sidestoeverything1 year, 1 month ago

            Very nice sound thanks for sharing.

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              vor1 year, 1 month ago

              And its hard to love,

              Theres so much to hate

              Hanging on to hope

              When there is no hope to speak of

              And the wounded skies above

              Say its much too late

              Well maybe we should all be

              Praying for time....

              This album is one my guilty pleaures. George reminds me of Amy Winehouse, the outrageous behavior overshadowing the monstrous talent. Both sad stories. But this album has some of the best musicianship I have ever heard. The keyboards on Freedom '90 are astonishing. That is the only song with any relation to Wham! which was truly awful stuff. George knew it too. Gospel tinged songs (They Wont Go When I Go), percussive brilliance (Cowboys and Angels) and even a wartime lament (Mothers Pride). Someone challenged me to listen to this as a musician and I indeed learned to Listen Without Prejudice. A brilliant album IMO.

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                Ciera-Marie1 year, 1 month ago

                I loved Faith and wore the cassette out. Didn't even know about the two albums after Faith. Have to go check out more of the music on Youtube, etc. He's gifted. He was on some of the first espisodes of Eli Stone.

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