Come and Get It (Rachel Stevens album)

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Come and Get It
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Studio album by
Released17 October 2005 (2005-10-17)
RecordedDecember 2004 – June 2005
Genre Pop [1]
Length45:11
Label
Producer
Rachel Stevens chronology
Funky Dory
(2003)
Come and Get It
(2005)
Singles from Come and Get It
  1. "Negotiate with Love"
    Released: 28 March 2005
  2. "So Good"
    Released: 4 July 2005
  3. "I Said Never Again (But Here We Are)"
    Released: 3 October 2005
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
BBC.co.uk Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Londonist (positive) [4]
MusicOMH (positive) [5]
Stylus Magazine A− [6]
Teentoday.co.ukStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
The Daily Telegraph (negative) [8]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Times Online Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Yahoo! Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [11]

Come and Get It is the second solo studio album by English singer Rachel Stevens, released on 17 October 2005 by 19 Recordings and Polydor Records. It spawned three singles, two of which reached the top 10, while the album itself reached number 28 on the UK Albums Chart. The album received almost universally positive reviews; two years after the album's release, The Guardian placed it on their "1000 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" list. [12]

Contents

Overview

Three singles were released from Come and Get It during 2005; "Negotiate with Love", "So Good" and "I Said Never Again (But Here We Are)" as well as an earlier hit, "Some Girls" being included as a late addition. The first two of these charted in the UK at number 10, with the third at number 12. With a television advertising campaign, the album was released by Polydor Records on 17 October 2005, two weeks after the album's final single. Track "Nothing Good About This Goodbye" was announced as the next single in early 2006, with a single mix prepared and promo copies made, but these plans were scrapped. [13]

The album was produced by a number of top record producers, including Xenomania, Richard X, Pascal Gabriel and Jewels and Stone. It reached number 28 in the United Kingdom, remaining of the charts for just two weeks. Come and Get It was not released in many territories outside the UK; in the United States, it was released on 26 June 2007 on iTunes.

The final two tracks, "Every Little Thing" and "Dumb Dumb" are listed on the album as 'bonus tracks', but appear on all versions of the album. "It's All About Me" features a sample from "Lullaby" by The Cure. Stevens herself co-wrote one song from the album; "Funny How".

Critical reception

The album received critical acclaim from the music press. Writing for BBC Music, Talia Kraines wrote that it was "Bold, swaggering and accomplished...Quite simply, it's the pop album of the year." Mention was also made of the credibility of the music, stating that had the songs been done by another artist, they would be "lauded by critics". [14] Allmusic made mention of the album's lack of success saying, "This utterly mediocre [chart] performance (in terms of its genre, at least) is astonishing when you consider that the album was masterminded by the finest songwriters and producers in the game...but its failure becomes utterly mind-boggling when you actually listen to the thing." Of the singles the review said they were "tremendous" and summed up the album as "a collection of 13 thoroughly excellent electronic dance-pop songs". [15] Like many of the reviewers, Ben Hogwood of Music OMH said that almost every song on the album could be a single, but also made mention of the obvious low-involvement of Stevens herself in the making of the music. [16] Edward Oculicz of Stylus acknowledged this but said it was simply a case of "Machiavellian record producers grabbing the best songs available for their favored daughter [and are] so endlessly delightful. You want continuity and consistency? Come And Get It is 13 quality electro-pop songs, all sung by the same woman. What more continuity do you need?"

Negative comments included that Stevens' vocals were rather lacklustre and emotionless, while David Cheal of The Telegraph said that "its 13 tracks drift by in a haze of nothingness; it is a masterpiece of insubstantiality." [17] Yahoo Music, like a number of others, claimed the album as "one of the best albums of the year". [18] The Guardian , while two years later lauding the album as an ignored classic, at the time said that it "deserves to be a hit. It is packed with brilliant, cutting-edge pop music". [19] In 2007 they said that its lack of success was "the public's loss". Many reviews commented that the album was a big improvement on her debut, including Londonist who added that it was "a brilliant collection of sophisticated dancefloor songs and quite frankly, one of the most stunning albums of the year." [20] As a summing up, the BBC music review concluded: "Come and Get It is quite simply a pop tour-de-force that deserves to sell a billion copies. Please, don't let this end up as a forgotten classic."

Track listing

Come and Get It– Standard edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."So Good"
  • Robinson
  • Gabriel
  • Jeremy Wheatley [b]
3:14
2."I Said Never Again (But Here We Are)"
  • Jewels & Stone
  • Davis
3:26
3."Crazy Boys"
Richard X3:52
4."I Will Be There"
  • Robinson
  • Gabriel
  • Paul Statham
Gabriel4:03
5."Negotiate with Love"
  • Lindblom
  • Wollbeck
  • Pete Hoffman
3:07
6."All About Me"
  • Boris Williams
  • Fraser T Smith
  • Laurence Tolhurst
  • Porl Thompson
  • Richard Cardwell
  • Robert Smith
  • Roger O'Donnell
  • Simon Gallup
F. T Smith3:30
7."Secret Garden"
Douglas3:59
8."Nothing Good About This Goodbye"
3:34
9."Some Girls"
  • Robinson
  • Richard X
  • Richard X
  • Pete Hofmann [b]
3:36
10."Je M'appelle"
  • Damian LeGassick
  • Shelly Poole
LeGassick3:39
11."Funny How"
  • Xenomania
  • Higgins
4:14
12."Every Little Thing [a] "
  • Gingell
  • Stone
  • Davis
  • Jewels & Stone
  • Davis
3:45
13."Dumb Dumb [a] "
  • David Eriksen
  • J. Valentine
  • Nichols
  • D. Eriksen
  • Thomas Eriksen
  • Martin Sjølie
3:43
Come and Get It– bonus DVD
No.TitleLength
1."Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex" 
2."Funky Dory" 
3."Some Girls" 
4."More More More" 
5."Negotiate with Love" 
6."So Good" 
7."I Said Never Again (But Here We Are)" 

Notes

Sample credits[ citation needed ]

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2005)Peak
position
Scottish Albums (OCC) [23] 28
UK Albums (OCC) [24] 28

Release history

List of release dates, showing region, formats, and label
RegionDateFormat(s)LabelRef.
United Kingdom17 October 2005
  • CD
  • digital download
Polydor Records [25]

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