Fading Shades album

1. Fading shades (part I)

   1:02 <none>
   music : Jens Gad
   lyrics: none

   This a instrumental interlude.

2. Nights in white satin

   3:34 <..***>
   music : Justin Hayward
   lyrics: Justin Hayward

   This is in my opinion the best song from the album.

3. Son of a time machine

   5:01 <...**>
   music : Jens Gad
   lyrics: Michael Cretu & Klaus Hirschburger

   This is a bit in the style of old Michael Cretu music, mixed with some new influences.

4. Won't run away

   4:14 <....*>
   music : Jens Gad
   lyrics: Jens Gad & Klaus Hirschburger

   This is an uptempo dance song, like most other dance music that is made in these years.

   I'm not a big admirerer of this kind of music.

5. Tell me more

   3:15 <....*>
   music : Jens Gad
   lyrics: Jens Gad & Klaus Hirschburger
   See song 4.

6. Will you whisper

   4:13 <...**>
   music : Jens Gad
   lyrics: Klaus Hirschburger

   This is a more slow song, but it isn't compareble to the same kind of songs from previous albums.

7. Invisible shelter

   5:20 <..***>
   music : Jens Gad
   lyrics: Michael Cretu & Klaus Hirschburger

   This is after Nights in white satin the best song on the album, allthough it is also a dance song, it is much better then the other dance songs from the album, and it has a beautiful intro, a bit in the style if Jean Michel Jarre.

   Sandra only sings the chorus of the song, I don't know ho sings the verses, it doesn't sound like Cretu's voice, so I think it may be Jens Gad, but I've never heard him sing before, so I'm not sure of it. (there isn't mentioned anything about it in the cd booklet).

8. You are so beautiful

   4:38 <...**>
   music : Jens Gad
   lyrics: Jens Gad & Klaus Hirschburger

   See song 4.

   Allthough this one is a bit better.

9. I need love '95

   3:28 <...**>
   music : Michael Cretu
   lyrics: Michael Cretu & Klaus Hirschburger

   This is a remake of the song from the Close to seven album. It sounds a bit slower, but I prefer the original version.

10. First lullaby

    4:20 <..***>
    music : Michael Cretu & Jens Gad
    lyrics: Michael Cretu & Klaus Hirschburger

    This is a slow song, it's been written as a lullaby for her twins, wich she will get in the middle of July.

    This is the only new song on which Cretu co-wrote the music, and it is also one of the best songs on the album.

11. Fading shades (part II)

    1:06 <none>
    music : Jens Gad
    lyrics: none

    This is the same as song 1.

At the time I wrote this I couldn't listen to the album, so I can't say more particular things about the songs. (I don't have a computer of my own, but as a student I can make use of the computers at the university).

I think this is the less good album of Sandra, I can't call this a Cretu album because almost all music and also a big part of the lyrics are written by Jens Gad and I don't think the music is getting better when he writes.

I think Cretu must stop collaborating with Gad and write the music on his own again, so that the next album will be a Cretu album again, like all the other previous Sandra and Enigma albums.

I don't like most dance music, neither if Jens Gad writes it.

  <->     : disgusting
  <.....> : bad
  <....*> :  | 
  <...**> :  |
  <..***> : good
  <.****> :  |
  <*****> : fantastic
  <none>  : this song hasn't been graded.

Don't be aggressive!           <.****>
Mirrored in your eyes          <.****>
I need love!                   <..***>
No taboo                       <.****>
When the rain doesn't come     <*****>
Steady me                      <*****>
Shadows                        <.****>
Seal it forever                <*****>
When love turns to pain        <.****>
Your way to India              <*****>