Disco de Gloria Estefan: “Primitive Love”

BODY TO BODY-1/5-This is song is quite definitely the only bad cut on the album. It is makes you feel embarrassed just to listen to it, and why bother when the other songs are a million times better?

PRIMITIVE LOVE-5/5-This is a very unique song and it is very hard to sum it up, but as soon as you start listening to it you start to feel a tropical breeze surround your body. This song definitely transports you, mostly due to its irresistable tribal theme, and little to do with its lyrics or purpose.

WORDS GET IN THE WAY-5/5-A song even non-MSM/Gloria fans like. An indispensable ballad with a good story to it. Gloria sings her heart out on this one (as she usually does), and it works out fantastically. Charted at #6.

BAD BOY-5/5-An excellent dance song with a great, danceable beat. (The club mixes of the song are hard to track down, but it's very much worth the try!) Song is still a staple on radio stations, in clubs, and with DJs. Charted at #8.

FALLING IN LOVE (Uh Oh)-5/5-An excellent, smooth song. This is just one of the many kinds of songs this woman shines at, but she really proves it here. with this haunting, stirring ballad! Charted at #25

CONGA-5/5-Need I say more? This is definitely the best song of its kind ever written! (Actually, it is truly a category all its own!) It is the only song ever to make it into the top 10 of three different Billboard Charts at the same time; Pop, Latin, Soul, and African. Charted at #10 on the Pop charts, lower than Words Get In the Way and Bad Boy. How did that happen?

MUCHO MONEY-4/5-This song is so silly and makes itself seem cheap, but oh well! I find it quite enjoyable. The tribal theme of it is as irresistable (as is the one in PRIMITIVE LOVE) and pretty much lays down the foundation for this interesting latin-dance tune.

YOU MADE A FOOL OF ME-5/5-Nice calm ballad and a good example of Gloria's writing ability-and yet she didn't write it. Fans will immediately think she wrote it, but she didn't.

MOVIES-5/5-Has the same all-around idea of BODY TO BODY, but is actually good, in fact, better than good! The song makes you want to get up and dance, and is very lyrically clever, if not slightly reminiscent of other 80's songs loaded with those plonkety-plonk synths.

SURRENDED PARADISE-5/5-The best song on the album.

"Tropical breeze carressing me

This is definitely one of the most romantic songs ever recorded! This song should be on every romantic songs compilation there is, though, unfortunately, I doubt that it's on any. It should have been promoted as a single.

Quite frankly, if you don't have this album, (especially you lingering Gloria fans that still haven't gotten their copy of this album yet), then you don't know what you're missing!

Primitive Love was one of the first crossover albums by the Miami Sound Machine. After I heard this CD, I immediately fell in love with Gloria Estefan, and her sound. This album really defines the sound of MSM and Gloria. The album goes from heartfelt ballads such as "Words Get In The Way," "Falling In Love," "You've Made A Fool Of Me," to "Surrender Paradise." The album provides the listener with cheerish pop music such as "Body to Body," "Movies," and "Bad Boy." I liked the tribal theme in, "Primitive Love," and the beat of "Mucho Money." Finally, my favorite song on the CD, "Conga." I believe that this is the best song Gloria Estefan has ever done. The beat and salsa sound is so contangeous that it makes you want to get up and "do the conga." Gloria's voice is so great in this song, it's unbelievable. This is the ultimate Estefan song, and album.

I had the cd within a time i could wait.So when it was there i listened.It was good music.I enjoyded it .I will order more from Gloria .

I finally got this on CD and it makes the enjoyment even better than when I only had it on cassette. It's a very good album!

I remember jamming in the clubs to "Dr. Beat" way back when (I'm dating myself now!) and was elated to see a sophomoric American follow-up effort to 1984's disappointing "Eyes of Innocence" album.

With the (goofy and catchy) first single release, "Conga," the sound became a lot more contagious and geared even MORE toward the dancefloor with its zippy 80's synths and undercurrents/washings of Latin-influenced percussion. After this, a very noticable Pop element was introduced in such megahits as the second, third and fourth singles, "Bad Boy," "Words Get in the Way" and "Falling in Love (Uh-Oh,") which helped this album go derservedly platinum.

In addition to the aforementioned songs, there are some other little gems to be found here in the crisp Funk of "Body to Body" and the title cut plus the furthering of the Latin sound in "Mucho Money" and "Movies," the heartwrenching, acoustic sadness of "You Made A Fool of Me" and the gorgeously tropical breeze of the closer, "Surrender Paradise."

If you're into that Latin Pop sound which Miami Sound Machine courageously and creatively brought to the American table for a second time and which made its temptress, Gloria Estefan, a household name, I would most definitely consider exploring their subsequent releases and/or their excellent Gloria Estefan 2-disc Anthology which contains most of, if not ALL of their earlier hits plus their more "traditional," Spanish-market songs which span more than a decade.