Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
Virgin Records  (1993)
Rock

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Tape    11 tracks  (46:14) 
   01   Are You Gonna Go My Way             03:30
   02   Believe             04:50
   03   Come On And Love Me             03:52
   04   Heaven Help             03:10
   05   Just Be A Woman             03:50
   06   Is There Any Love In Your Heart             03:39
   07   Black Girl             03:43
   08   My Love             03:50
   09   Sugar             04:00
   10   Sister             07:02
   11   Eleutheria             04:48
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Purchase Date 29.07.1993
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The cover indicates that Are You Gonna Go My Way? is Lenny Kravitz's bid for rock stardom. Designed in the style of an early-'70s record, it features Kravitz in hippie clothing, apparently exposing himself to a photographer -- in other words, he's a dangerously sexy counterculture rebel. That may have been true in 1970, but in 1993, he simply sounds like a weird sideshow exhibit, the man who never lived past 1973. Of course, it's easy to make such potshots, but Kravitz opens himself up to such attacks. No other artist, especially a successful one, has been quite so devoted to the past and ignorant of the present. Since he has considerable talent for songcraft and production, Kravitz isn't nearly as bad as could be, and Are You Gonna Go My Way is just as enjoyable and more accomplished than its predecessors. This time around, Hendrix is his chief influence, as evidenced by the roaring title track, and he does expand that with his traditional Lennon, Curtis Mayfield and Prince obsessions. Song for song, it's his most consistent album, although by the end of the record, his painstaking reproduction of classic rock sounds begins to appear a bit too studied, suggesting that Kravitz may have hit a creative wall. Nevertheless, that does nothing to diminish the enjoyment of this record. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide