Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (Top 500 Countdown Update)

The arrangements again are very tight and it's a good record. However, her strength is not slow sultry songs but songs where she can be expressive and attack in bursts of energy. "I Never Loved a Man" is a great example of this. It is a slow song, but her presentation is aggressive and distant which works really well for her. "Don't Let Me Lose This Dream" has a sexy paced feel to it, that just doesn't work as well for Aretha. There are a few songs on this record that don't work that well for Aretha.