All Our Love

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All Our Love
Studio album by
Gladys Knight & the Pips
Released1987
GenreSoul
LabelMCA Records[1]
Gladys Knight & the Pips chronology
Life
(1985) 		All Our Love
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic3/5 stars[2]
Robert ChristgauB+[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 stars[4]
The Philadelphia Inquirer3/4 stars[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide3/5 stars[6]

All Our Love is an album by the soul quartet Gladys Knight & The Pips, released in 1987.[6][7] It was the group's last studio album before the Pips retired and Knight embarked on a solo career.[4]

The album peaked at No. 39 on the Billboard 200.[8] It became the quartet's sixth gold album.[9]

Production[]

Carole Bayer Sager and Burt Bacharach wrote and produced two tracks on the album.[10]

Critical reception[]

AllMusic wrote that "most of the time, All Our Love sounds fairly organic rather than forced or contrived ... Sometimes excellent and sometimes merely decent, the album falls short of essential."[2] Robert Christgau thought that "Knight has one of those burgundy voices, designed to age, and since her albums have rarely done it justice, the edgy writing and overall strength of this multiproducer soul-dance-pop-whatever comeback is a gift."[3] Ebony wrote that "soaring above all that modern production is the unmistakable Gladys Knight alto."[11] The New York Times wrote: "Having landed on MCA, the venerable pop-soul vocal group has made an album that subtly updates its sound without tampering with a basic recipe in which the Pips' voices punctuate and curl around Gladys Knight's warm dusky alto."[10]

Track listing[]

  1. "Love Overboard" (Reggie Calloway)
  2. "Lovin' on Next to Nothin'" (Jeff Pescetto, Howie Rice, Alan Rich)
  3. "Thief in Paradise" (Nan O'Byrne, Tom Snow)
  4. "You" (Alex Brown, Ron Kersey)
  5. "Let Me Be the One" (Joe Jefferson, Rosa Jefferson)
  6. "Complete Recovery" (Anne Godwin, Ian Prince)
  7. "Say What You Mean" (Michael Gaffey, Peter Glenister)
  8. "It's Gonna Take All Our Love" (Sam Dees)
  9. "Love Is Fire (Love Is Ice)" (Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager)
  10. "Point of View" (Alan Brown, Robin Smith)
  11. "Overnight Success" (Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager)

References[]

  1. ^ Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). "Goldmine Record Album Price Guide". Penguin – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "All Our Love - Gladys Knight & the Pips | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Robert Christgau: CG: Gladys Knight". www.robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 4: MUZE. pp. 891–892.CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. ^ Tucker, Ken (3 Jan 1988). "THE LATEST OFFERING BY KNIGHT AND PIPS". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. F8.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 405.
  7. ^ Wilker, Deborah (6 May 1988). "KNIGHT AND PIPS SPREAD ALL THEIR LOVE". Sun Sentinel. FEATURES SHOWTIME. p. 3.
  8. ^ "Gladys Knight And The Pips". Billboard.
  9. ^ Jones IV, James T. (28 June 1988). "Gladys Knight's new day on the top of the charts". USA Today. p. 6D.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b Holden, Stephen (18 Dec 1987). "Pop Album of the Week". The New York Times. p. C31.
  11. ^ "Sounding Off". Ebony. 43 (6): 29. Apr 1988.
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