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* LyricVideo: An UnbuiltTrope at the time, but the "Praying for Time" video, which is just the song's lyrics over a blank background, was a prominent forerunner of the style.
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* {{Fingore}}: One of the models in the music video for "Freedom! '90" is depicted stabbing her finger with a hair pin.
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** To Music/TheRollingStones's "You Can't Always Get What You Want" near the end of "Waiting For That Day".
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** To Music/TheRollingStones's Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}'s "You Can't Always Get What You Want" near the end of "Waiting For That Day".
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''Listen Without Prejudice, Volume 1'' is the second solo studio album by Music/GeorgeMichael, which was released in 1990. It features the hits "Praying For Time" and "Freedom '90". It was originally intended to be part of a DistinctDoubleAlbum, but Volume 2 never came to be due to record company disputes, and the song that was intended to be on that album, "Too Funky", was instead released on the compilation album ''Red Hot And Dance'' in 1992. The album was reissued in 2017 as a three-disc album called ''Listen Without Prejudice/MTV Unplugged'' which includes "Too Funky" as well as other studio tracks and live versions of various songs.
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''I will not give you up''\\
''Gotta have some faith in the sound''\\
''It's the one good thing that I've got''\\
''I won't let you down''\\
''So please don't give me up''\\
''Because I would really, really love to stick around''\\
''Oh, yeah''
-->--'''"Freedom '90"'''
'''''Listen Without Prejudice, Volume
It features the hits "Praying For Time" and "Freedom '90". It was originally intended to be part of a DistinctDoubleAlbum, but Volume 2 never came to be due to record company disputes, and the song that was intended to be on that album, "Too Funky", was instead released on the compilation album ''Red Hot And Dance'' in 1992. The album was reissued in 2017 as a three-disc album called ''Listen Without Prejudice/MTV Unplugged'' which includes "Too Funky" as well as other studio tracks and live versions of various songs.
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* CrazyHomelessPeople: "Crazy Man Dance" on the 2017 reissue sings about this.
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* BigApplesauce: "Crazy Man Dance" on the 2017 reissue is about being a homeless person in New York City.
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* FaceOnTheCover: George on the 2017 reissue.
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* IntercourseWithYou: "Too Funky" on the 2017 reissue.
* LetsDuet: "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" with Music/EltonJohn on the 2017 reissue.
* LetsDuet: "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" with Music/EltonJohn on the 2017 reissue.
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* IntercourseWithYou: "Too Funky" and "Happy" on the 2017 reissue.
* LetsDuet: "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" withMusic/EltonJohn Music/EltonJohn, "Heal The Pain" with Paul [=McCartney=], and "Desafinado" with Astrud Gilberto on the 2017 reissue.
* LetsDuet: "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" with
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* LetsDuet: "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" with Music/EltonJohn on the 2017 reissue.
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* CoverVersion: "They Won't Go When I Go" by Music/StevieWonder.
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* CoverVersion: "They Won't Go When I Go" by Music/StevieWonder. "I Can't Make You Love Me" by Bonnie Raitt on the 2017 reissue.
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-->''I'm not trying to seduce you. Would you like me to seduce you? Is that what you're trying to tell me?''
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-->''I'm not trying to seduce you. Would you like me to seduce you? Is that what you're trying to tell me?''me?''
** And at the end, a line from ''The Tony Hancock Show'' episode "The Radio Ham":
-->''Will you stop playing around with that radio of yours? I'm trying to get to sleep.''
** And at the end, a line from ''The Tony Hancock Show'' episode "The Radio Ham":
-->''Will you stop playing around with that radio of yours? I'm trying to get to sleep.''
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** To Music/TheRollingStones's "You Can't Always Get What You Want" near the end of "Waiting For That Day".
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** To Music/TheRollingStones's "You Can't Always Get What You Want" near the end of "Waiting For That Day".Day".
* SpokenWordInMusic: Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson from ''Film/TheGraduate'' in "Too Funky":
-->''I'm not trying to seduce you. Would you like me to seduce you? Is that what you're trying to tell me?''
* SpokenWordInMusic: Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson from ''Film/TheGraduate'' in "Too Funky":
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''Listen Without Prejudice, Volume 1'' is the second solo studio album by Music/GeorgeMichael, which was released in 1990. It features the hits "Praying For Time" and "Freedom '90". It was originally intended to be part of a DistinctDoubleAlbum, but Volume 2 never came to be due to record company disputes, and the song that was intended to be on that album, "Too Funky", was instead released on the compilation album ''Red Hot And Dance'' in 1992. The album was reissued in 2017 as a three-disc album which includes "Too Funky" as well as other studio tracks and live versions of various songs.
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''Listen Without Prejudice, Volume 1'' is the second solo studio album by Music/GeorgeMichael, which was released in 1990. It features the hits "Praying For Time" and "Freedom '90". It was originally intended to be part of a DistinctDoubleAlbum, but Volume 2 never came to be due to record company disputes, and the song that was intended to be on that album, "Too Funky", was instead released on the compilation album ''Red Hot And Dance'' in 1992. The album was reissued in 2017 as a three-disc album called ''Listen Without Prejudice/MTV Unplugged'' which includes "Too Funky" as well as other studio tracks and live versions of various songs.
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* IntercourseWithYou: "Too Funky" on the 2017 reissue.
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''Listen Without Prejudice, Volume 1'' is the second solo studio album by Music/GeorgeMichael, which was released in 1990. It features the hits "Praying For Time" and "Freedom '90". It was originally intended to be part of a DistinctDoubleAlbum, but Volume 2 never came to be due to record company disputes, and the song that was intended to be on that album, "Too Funky", was instead released on the compilation album ''Red Hot And Dance'' in 1992.
1992. The album was reissued in 2017 as a three-disc album which includes "Too Funky" as well as other studio tracks and live versions of various songs.
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[[AC:2017 Reissue Disc Two]]
# "Freedom '90" (live)
# "Fastlove" (live)
# "I Can't Make You Love Me" (studio)
# "Father Figure" (live)
# "You Have Been Loved" (live)
# "Everything She Wants" (live)
# "The Strangest Thing" (live at the BBC Theatre)
# "Older" (live)
# "Star People" (live)
# "Praying For Time" (live)
# "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" (with Elton John)
# "Fantasy" (featuring Nile Rodgers)
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# "Soul Free" (Special Radio Mix)
# "Freedom '90" (Back To Reality Mix)
# "Freedom '90" (Back To Reality Mix Edit)
# "Fantasy"
# "Freedom '90" (Edit)
# "Cowboys And Angels" (Edit)
# "If You Were My Woman" (live)
# "Too Funky" (Single Edit)
# "Crazy Man Dance"
# "Do You Really Want To Know"
# "Happy"
# "Too Funky" (Extended)
# "Too Jazzy" (Happy Mix)
# "Fantasy '98"
# "Heal The Pain" (with Paul [=McCartney=])
# "Desafinado" (With Astrud Gilberto)
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* IHaveNoSon: "Praying For Time" implies on a cosmic scale that God can't come back because He has no children to come back for.
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** The HeelFaceDoorSlam can also apply to humanity as a whole in "Praying For Time".
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* HeelFaceTurn[=/=]HeelFaceDoorSlam: "Waiting (Reprise)"'s lyrics point to either.
-->''But you once said there's a way back for every man,''
-->''So here I am.''
-->''Don't people change?''
-->''Here I am.''
-->''Is it too late to try again?''
-->''Here I am.''
-->''But you once said there's a way back for every man,''
-->''So here I am.''
-->''Don't people change?''
-->''Here I am.''
-->''Is it too late to try again?''
-->''Here I am.''
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-->But we'll take our chances
-->'Cause God's stopped keeping score.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The cover image.
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* MoodWhiplash: Two light danceable songs, "Freedom '90" and "Soul Free", appear wedged between rather somber and/or slower music.
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* GriefSong: "Mother's Pride", about all the people lost to war.
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* DetailHoggingCover: A crowd scene photo by Weegee appears as the album's cover.
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''Listen Without Prejudice, Volume 1'' is the second solo studio album by Music/GeorgeMichael, which was released in 1990. It features the hits "Praying For Time" and "Freedom '90". It was originally intended to be part of a DistinctDoubleAlbum, but Volume 2 never came to be due to record company disputes, and the song that was intended to be on that album, "Too Funky", was instead released on the compilation album ''Red Hot And Dance'' in 1992.
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# "Praying For Time"
# "Freedom '90"
# "They Won't Go When I Go"
# "Something To Save"
# "Cowboys And Angels"
# "Waiting For That Day"
# "Mother's Pride"
# "Heal The Pain"
# "Soul Free"
# "Waiting (Reprise)"
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!!''Praying for tropes''
* BreakupSong: "Freedom '90"
* CoverVersion: "They Won't Go When I Go" by Music/StevieWonder.
* {{Greed}}: The topic of "Praying For Time":
-->The rich declare themselves poor,
-->And most of us are not sure if we have too much,
-->But we'll take our chances
-->'Cause God's stopped keeping score.
* SecondComing: Jesus' second coming is alluded to in "Praying For Time".
-->And you cling to the things they sold you;
-->Did you cover your eyes when they told you
-->That He can't come back
-->'Cause He has no children to come back for?
* ShoutOut
** To Music/ArethaFranklin's "Think" in the chorus of "Freedom '90".
** To Music/TheRollingStones's "You Can't Always Get What You Want" near the end of "Waiting For That Day".
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# "Praying For Time"
# "Freedom '90"
# "They Won't Go When I Go"
# "Something To Save"
# "Cowboys And Angels"
# "Waiting For That Day"
# "Mother's Pride"
# "Heal The Pain"
# "Soul Free"
# "Waiting (Reprise)"
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!!''Praying for tropes''
* BreakupSong: "Freedom '90"
* CoverVersion: "They Won't Go When I Go" by Music/StevieWonder.
* {{Greed}}: The topic of "Praying For Time":
-->The rich declare themselves poor,
-->And most of us are not sure if we have too much,
-->But we'll take our chances
-->'Cause God's stopped keeping score.
* SecondComing: Jesus' second coming is alluded to in "Praying For Time".
-->And you cling to the things they sold you;
-->Did you cover your eyes when they told you
-->That He can't come back
-->'Cause He has no children to come back for?
* ShoutOut
** To Music/ArethaFranklin's "Think" in the chorus of "Freedom '90".
** To Music/TheRollingStones's "You Can't Always Get What You Want" near the end of "Waiting For That Day".
