Love & Life | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Reprise/Friday
Category: Digital Music Album
Buy New: $8.99
Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 4680
Genre: soul-music
Media: MP3 Download
Running Time: 0 Minutes
ASIN: B001F5I1FK
Release Date: September 9, 2008
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 Eric Benet Love and Life January 9, 2009
D. Whitlock (Louisville, KY)
I like this one! Not as much as I did the previous ("Hurricane" was AWESOME!"), but this is a different Eric Benet - less pained and a bit more "healed" on this latest CD. If you like EB,you'll like this one too.
"I'm Lovin' It!" January 1, 2009
LaShonda Bates (Augusta, GA United States)
To those people who are still holding a grudge; get over it. Affairs of the heart are a part of life. Yes, he cheated on Halle, but that has nothing to do with his music. The man makes good music and this cd is a reflection of that. This is one of those cds that you can play all the way through. Songs like "The Hunger", "You're the Only One" and "Chocolate Legs" and "Sing to Me" take me back to his second cd "A Day in the Life of". If you love good R&B music, then you'll love this cd.
Fine 'Grammy'-nominated Album - 4 stars December 31, 2008
Musac Critic
Eric Benet is one of R&B's underrated musicians. As talented as a number of today's more popular artists, Benet comes from a time in R&B/Urban music in which 'adult-contemporary' leanings were all the rave. But since his 1999 huge breakout album A DAY IN THE LIFE with gargantuan duet "Spend My Life With You" featuring the even more solid, yet underrated Tamia, Benet fame has only fleeted. In a time where hip-hop rules and adult contemporary R&B/adult R&B seems to be nearly deceased, Benet is considered 'old-school'. Despite the fact that commercial odds may be against him, let's not write him off just yet - LOVE & LIFE, an exceptional album did debut in the top 15 of the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, much stronger than his previous solid HURRICANE could have ever hoped to have debuted. And of course, several Grammy nominations can not be written off in the least.
The album opens with the fine "Love Patience & Time" which starts off with some sick vocal harmonies that I have not heard since - well the 1990s. It is a brilliant way to start off both the album and the track itself, which is intact with piano, organ, horns, and guitars. Sure, "Love Patience & Time" does have an old-school feel, but it works in Benet's favor. "The Hunger", the second track off from LOVE & LIFE makes more of a distinct effort to be more than just an adult-contemporary R&B track. This track still possesses that old school feel, but it is contemporary enough that a younger audience would relate to it, even if it is still nowhere near hip-hop. For me, "The Hunger" is my favorite from LOVE & LIFE.
"You're The Only One", the Grammy-nominated Male R&B Vocal performance from LOVE & LIFE is exceptional, lifting a soul sample as its basis. Benet sounds top-notch and the songwriting is both sound and vintage in quality. Fully intact with soulful strings, 70s sounding soul guitar, and brilliant refrain vocal harmonies, "You're The Only One" is the third straight valedictory performance from LOVE & LIFE.
"Don't Let Go" makes more concessions to modern R&B, but manages to do so by borrowing from both 2000s R&B and the early-mid 1990s New-Jack sound that was just beginning to make concessions to hip-hop. All the gibberish aside, "Don't Let Go" is soulful, contemporary, and urban. "Everlove" featuring Terry Dexter hopes to recapture the magic of 1999's "Spend My Life With You", though it does not quite reach that lofty ambitious aspiration. It does however solidify yet another enjoyable performance that is nearly as consistent as anything else that has played out on LOVE & LIFE. "Chocolate Legs" is a masterpiece and another personal favorite of mine. It is sensual-minded in form without being outright explicit. Again, "Chocolate Legs" owes many debts to old-school R&B, though it has enough modern flair to be "hip". Benet scores a vocal-homerun with "Chocolate Legs" with his supple tenor vocals sounding better than ever.
"Weekend Girl" is like a trip back to the golden days of 1990s R&B intact with piano and a sick, soulful bass line providing the foundation. "Iminluvwichoo" featuring Linda Kirally is solid, but it does not allure me near as much as the other tracks I have heard up until this point. "Spanish Fly" and "Still I Believe" make up for the slack left by "Iminluvwichoo". "Sing To Me" is solid, though average, while closer "One More Tomorrow" seals the deal for LOVE & LIFE to be an overall sound R&B album. Clearly, LOVE & LIFE is truly one of 2008's best R&B albums. I highly recommend LOVE & LIFE, particularly if you have a soft spot in your heart for 'old-school', 'adult-styled' R&B. 4 stars.
 Erics BAD!! December 20, 2008
D A T (Oak Park, Illinois United States)
Eric is one sexy dude, he has a great voice. This cd is my 1st Eric Benet cd. Now I want to check out all his other cds.
Really nice R&B CD December 14, 2008
Malissa Thurman (canton, ga)
I purchased this CD a few weeks ago and it has been in constant rotation on my iPod. My favorite is "Chocolate Legs", but I love the entire CD. A great choice for folks that love real R&B. I hope you enjoy it as much as I am loving it.
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