Barbra Streisand - Wet

I prefer 'Butterfly'.

Was this the Streisand album produced by Barry Gibb?

No this had enough is enough no more tears

If she made a sequel in 2022 she would have to call the album - DRY

Haven’t listened to it in ages. As I recall, I didn’t like it as much as Streisand Superman and Guilty.

She wrote the lyrics to the song Wet, herself, I believe.

They sound like a translation of Nell’s gibberish.

Splish Splash

Wet moistened Barbra's stony end.

I just looked at the song list.

The only one I like is "Niagara."

I liked Lazy Afternoon best.

She really hates the left side of her face, doesn't she?

Nice concept album. Not filled with many favorites. I think in terms of lyrics, the album starts and ends with the word "wet".

I liked it a lot. I still listen to some songs. I think the album cover is one of the most interesting photo of her ever.

I was. This is how gay I am. This album came out when I was in high school, and I was working at a movie theater. We had a Christmas party, and somebody gave me Tom Petty's album for a gift. I took it to Musicland and exchanged it for Barbra's Wet album. :-)

[quote]Nice concept album.

Ur, no. Stupid "concept" album.

"I want every song to refer to water. I don't care how bad the song is, if it refers to water, it is IN!"

Hey r15 the first time I listened to it, it had me wondering what reference to water or being wet the next song would make. Granted, it's not avant garde and more of a gimmick, but still fun.

I love how Barbra made the composer change Enough is Enough to include "It's raining" so it would have something wet in it when it already had a reference to tears.

Superman was better.

I like most of it, but would keep it for "On Rainy Afternoons" alone.

Did anyone really need to hear her sing "Splish Splash"?

No r20, no one needed that.

R18 now the title song on that album made absolutely no sense to me and the song never really went anywhere, was just "flying around". I do like her New York State of Mind though

Her pussy wasn’t wet.

I bought the LP when it came out and listened to it only twice. Couldn't stand most of Streisand's 1970s stuff except for the album that was shelved and came out in 1974 titled The Way We Were, some of Butterfly and Lazy Afternoon. Stony End, well, about three tracks. Wet, Songbird, Superman...dreck.

I dislike most of her music.

Who the fuck wants to think about her being WET

She hasn’t been wet in years.

C'mon, apart from her nose Babs was fairly attractive back then. Nice set of jugs, smooth skin, in fairly good shape.

Is there a Wet Seal in Mrs Brolin’s basement mall?

Um r28 what about her honker and wet pubic hairstyle? Not attractive.

R28, are you the one who always refers to Bab's barely B-cup (back then) chest as "an ample bosom"?

Her hair was always one of her worst features after her nose and voice.

Her har in What's Up, Doc was the best.

I mean she wasn't vavavoom but if she went to a straight bar back in 1979 she wouldn't go home lonely.

R34 And if Ryan had gone to a gay bar, the only thing left in the bar would've been his boxing shorts and gloves.

She could have put a close-up photo of her split beaver inside the gatefold, so the crease went right up the middle of her beef curtains. Some tasteful airbrushing could have added droplets of lady moisture to various areas of her vulva. Missed opportunity that would have added to the concept. And given her straight male fans some j/o material.

Pussy willow

Avigdor WET!

"We had a Christmas party, and somebody gave me Tom Petty's album for a gift. I took it to Musicland and exchanged it for Barbra's Wet album. :-)"

You exchanged "Damn the Torpedoes" for "Wet"??!! Wow. That's crazy. "Damn the Torpedoes" was excellent. "Wet" was, well, soggy.

R34, I hope you're joking

R39 Like I said, I'm very gay. :-)

"Come Rain or Come Shine" was wonderful. Another Arlen classic for Barbra!

R14, good choice, I’d have done the same!

The first time I was pissed on was to that song.

R40 well it's obvious YOU wouldn't be fucking her, queen

Kiss Me in the Rain is one of my all time favorites. It’s a great late 70s adult contemporary song that just builds and builds. Always thought it should’ve been a bigger pop hit on Billboard.

[quote]C'mon, apart from her nose Babs was fairly attractive back then. Nice set of jugs, smooth skin, in fairly good shape.

Barbra was a huge sex symbol back in the 1970's. The Superman album cover was a pin up favorite. It was so successful that Hugh Hefner asked her to pose for their cover. Barbra only agreed on the condition that she would remain clothed, although she wound up taking her socks and shoes off.

Prince Charles even remarked at the time about how he lusted after her.

Doesn’t the song “Wet” close with a reference to Barbra’s moist vagina? I’m not even kidding.

This bitch had the original WAP

"she wound up taking her socks and shoes off."

"Now I can tell everyone I took it off for PLAYBOY!"

Don't forget her edited-out topless scene in "The Owl And The Pussycat"! So funny to think that film and ON A CLEAR DAY were released the same year (1970)

I wish she had done a music video for "Enough is Enough". I don't think she ever performed that track live with Donna Summer, very sad

I don't think music videos were the standard back then. There was promotional video of popular songs for artists, but the music video thing didn't really take root and became a standard until the early 80s

Shoulda been called Wet Rat.

Get a blow dryer, Babs.

I believe Barbra’s first music video didn’t appear until several years later, with the film noir-inspired Jim Steinman epic “Left In The Dark”. Certainly one of her best music videos to date (and a reunion with Kris Kristofferson, to boot).

I remember more videos from dance / disco artist becasue they would be performed in clubs. I wonder why they never performed together on an awards show or in concert?

I love 70s disco dancey Barbra

Lucky James Brolin gets to hit that every night.

R56. The Main Event was the fucking best song Very France Joli ? Donna Summer slow start to a fast disco beat

I was surprised she didn't do Come In From the Rain but maybe she thought it would be too similar to Jane Olivor's version.

R58

Yes indeed.

" Come (ore Cum) and see that wet is meeeeeeeeeeeeee."

The last note held for fucking 24 seconds backed up by a 55-piece orchestra-and that´s just foreplay.

^^^^ I meant R48

That hair was sooo pubic! That music sucked!

Jon Peters told her that she looked good with that hairstyle. And she was so dickmatized that she believed him. It was so unflattering on her. It made her nose look even larger than it was. She always looks good with her hair off of her face.

Some of the tracks are great, others not so much. All her albums have good tracks- some more than others. The range of music from her own to all else is astounding- no singer comes close and most of the time she nails it using her that incredibly flexible voice. Her technique although not 100%right for the genre seems effortless. There is no male or female singer in recorded history with the breadth of recorded music in her catalogue- some like this, like that- think what others think sublime, junk. Very few know just how much and how much variety has been recorded. Her best is often not the hits at all- and the reason why she is studied by every singer striving for success. Some people are touched by magic- Garland,, Pavarotti, Callas, Aretha when in the mid, lol. Barbra is one-

R64 is Jason.

Water is wet

My diaper is also wet

Barbra & Donna impersonators come at it live. Enough is not enough.

This and the Guilty album are the last albums before her voice matured a bit by 1981. Memory had noticeably darker vocal tones.

My mom used to send ng Evergreen while standing with me at the bus stop

This is the first Barbra album i ever heard. My school friend had it playing in his car one weekend when he drove us to the beach. I was gobsmacked and afterwards went out and bought the first Barbra album I could find which was a cassette of Color Me Barbra.

Was this the album Barbra recorded the song "Difficult Brown" and then had it removed when she found out what it actually meant?

I love how Barbra made the composer change Enough is Enough to include "It's raining" so it would have something wet in it when it already had a reference to tears.

R17 also the original lyrics have the words Pack his raincoat.

R9..."Kiss Me In The Rain" was not the big follow-up single to "No More Tears" it was supposed to be. "Niagara" would have been.

R28 = the one who thinks Barbra’s b cups were nice. The only one.

Barbra needs to release a protest album called Gulf of Mexico.

[quote]I love how Barbra made the composer change Enough is Enough to include "It's raining" so it would have something wet in it when it already had a reference to tears...also the original lyrics have the words Pack his raincoat.

First, the song 'Enough Is Enough' (the original song written for Streisand and Summer did not have the word 'tears' in it - that word is in the lyrics to the new verses added, which is part of the 'No More Tears' song merged with the original.

Second, the original lyrics were written as 'Pack his suitcase' - it was la later changed to 'raincoat' when 'No More Tears' was added.

Some of the songs which were rumored to be on the list for Barbra to record for the album were "Crying" (later recorded by Don MacLean and gave him another Top 10 hit), "Tracks of My Tears" (already a hit for Linda Ronstadt), "Boats Against the Current" (beautiful song by Eric Carmen written / recorded in 1977, later recorded by Olivia Newton-John in 1978), and "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" (according to Patti Lupone, who believes Streisand did record it but didn't include it on her album).

"Rainbow Connection" was recorded, but left off the album.

Then there's the song "It's Raining Men" written by Paul Jabara as Summer / Streisand were finishing the recording of 'No More Tears', believing this would be a great follow-up single. This was to be a trio of Streisand, Summer and Diana Ross. It didn't happen.

r33 that look was unsustainable, her hair is curly so she was frying the hell out of her hair to maintain that straight look. You can always tell when a woman with currly hair is straightening it. It never lays down like naturally straight hair unless a damaging amount of heat is applied.

I love you R36

R78, are you saying you believe Barbra’s really hair is curly? Wrong. Any bends you see in her hair over the years is the result of teasing and hairspray.

They teased her at school calling her Crazy Barbra.

Barbra Streisand IS….Wet

Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" (according to Patti Lupone, who believes Streisand did record it but didn't include it on her album).

R77 - I thought this was just a mistake by Patti and she meant to reference that Barbra recorded "Memory".

I can't get with her voice and all the belting over snoozefest tracks. Her music is simply lame. Everything feels overdone but under cooked. Yes, I know people loved her and she's a major selling star, but so is Taylor Swift. Her voice is just one I can't get into, wet or dry.

Stephen Holden in Rolling Stone HATED it.

Wet's gimmick is that all its songs are about moisture. Four deal with rain, two with tears, one with bath water, etc. Though the idea is clever, Barbra Streisand squanders it on mostly second-rate material. Indeed, the LP's only standard is Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen's "Come Rain or Come Shine." While Streisand's singing is very uneven (her revival of Bobby Darin's "Splish Splash" is a hysterical fiasco), her high-strung renditions of "Wet" and "After the Rain," backed by Lee Holdridge's gorgeous arrangements, are tiny triumphs of schlock.

As with every album she's cut since Lazy Afternoon, Streisand's taste is undermined by her trendiness, and "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)," her famous duet with Donna Summer, is about as low a piece of camp as she's ever recorded. This disco novelty by Paul Jabara and Bruce Roberts, the same team that gave us the execrable "Theme from The Main Event," suggests a new dimension to the word, back. Though a hit, the current tune's cynical condescension to the mass market compromises the reputations of everyone involved–and adds more than a touch of slime to the overall sogginess.

NYTimes

WHOEVER it was — Paul Jabara, the composer, apparently — who brought Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer together was not dumb. Not dumb, commercially, be‐ cause the resultant song, “No more Tears (Enough Is Enough),” is at or near the top of the singles charts these days.

But the pairing is smart as a stylistic statement about these two singers, as well. On the surface, one might have figured that Miss Streisand, with her Broadway‐schlock ballad background, was a long way from Miss Summer's low‐life disco cum progessive‐synthesizer sound. Yet not only do the two blend well on their duet, but the pairing also illuminates things about each of them.

The duet is on both women's new albums, both of which are in the top 10 of the album sales charts. Miss Streisand's “Wet” offers “No More Tears” in a version that lasts eight minutes and 19 seconds; Miss Summer's version goes on for 11 minutes and 44 seconds ‐ in her case, enough really is enough.

Not sure if it was a mistake by Patti (maybe she has changed her story ?). She originally said she was miffed in 1979 that Streisand recorded this before she recorded it for the Broadway Cast Recording, and it was going to be released on Streisand's new album (":Wet") before her cast recording. ALW didn't care, but the record label (MCA?) legally did - and threatened to sue CBS Records if it was included on the Streisand album, so they left it off.

Two years after, Streisand did the same thing with "Memory" - recording / releasing it one year before the Broadway cast album with Betty Buckley. But 'CATS' was released on Geffen Records, who was trying to woo Streisand to their label in 1981-82, so her friend David Geffen didn't stop it.

And then there was Patti Lupone's complaint about 'Sunset Boulevard' and ALW did nothing to stop it.

r87 sounds like Barbara was grade A asshole.

I remember reading a review of the suet by a well-respected music critic back then (I thought it was the NYT but maybe not), who said the intro to 'No More Tears' is nothing short of a 'pop music masterpiece' . The two women's voices blend perfectly together, and neither diva is trying to outdo the other, as they compliment not compete. He believed Streisand had met her vocal match, and Summer never tried to take Streisand off the peak of the mountain.

Then the disco beat comes in for 'Enough is Enough' and ruins everything.

The critic wished the 'No More Tears' ballad was longer, and released separately.

But there was a quote from Barbra saying she hated Don't Cry For Me, Argentina and she would not record it. And she wouldn't do the movie either.

I hate her and her music but absolutely love to kiss me in the rain💋🌧️

R91= Lyon Burke

R85 ouch! Stephen Holden must have been a Datalounger

Best one word description of her - schlock. The critics choice of word.

The album should have the updated title WET SHIT

Wet Fart

I was just rereading Carole Bayer Sanger’s autobiography, which I do annually because it’s so dishy and funny. She wrote Niagara for the album. Streisand said, “I like it. But is it wet enough?”

Senger responded: “it’s Niagara! It’s plenty wet.”

Seems like a filler album - after she got Donna Summer to do the single, she needed an album to go with it and slapped this together. Probably had X number of albums in her music contract.

Still went Platinum - but that's back when people bought a lot of albums.

[quote]Seems like a filler album

It was a "concept" album. As stated in a post above, the opening and closing lyric on the album is "wet." And of course, all the songs contain water in one form or another.

R99 it’s a concept album full of filler

Oh, Lyon!

I preferred Streisand Superman.

enough is enough is enough is enough is enough IS ENOUGH

[quote]But there was a quote from Barbra saying she hated Don't Cry For Me, Argentina and she would not record it. And she wouldn't do the movie either.

I've often wondered if Streisand really did record it (as Lupone said she did) but after the legal issues (which I'm certain she didn't want to be involved with, and have it distract from her album) she decided to play offensive, and say she 'hated the song and would never record it' - just to throw everyone off, and not have them digging for the recording to 'leak' over the years. It's a beautiful ballad which would've been a hit on the album. (ONJ recorded it in 1976, getting great reviews. She begged MCA to release it as the first single, but the didn't).

As far as I know, Streisand has never said this about any other song proposed to her - why would she be so vocal about her disdain for it, when she was friends with ALW and would go on to record a number of his songs in the future ? Something odd about her reaction to this song all this time.

I wish we could hear her recording of Who Let the Dogs Out.

It’s too bad she didn’t wait a few decades to make the Wet concept album so we could have had her rendition of WAP

This album is all wet.

Slightly better than the totally forgettable Songbird before it

Shit is wet

Jason’s mussy is wet

R103 = Dionne Warwick

[quote]I preferred Streisand Superman.

HATED IT

R112 Oh, didgya? Was it that offensive to your refined musical tastes that you had to let the world know in all caps? Oh please, we'd love to hear more of your deeply insightful, eloquent opinions about music.

^ Barbra

I thought this was about that alleged sex tape she did 65 years ago before she even started singing.

Here's more of the New York Times review

The Streisand album is a predictable compendium of emotive ballads, only partly redeemed by Miss Streisand's undeniable gifts as a vocalist: her throbbing vibrato, her way of reaching up yearningly for high notes, her melodramatically confessional intimacies of style. The material sticks mostly to the watery metaphorical conceit of the title, and the arrangements are everything you ever wanted in the way of syrupy strings and tired movie‐music clichés. Clearly, enough people have wanted such things to make Miss Streisand a millionaire many times over.

But “Wet” isn't all drippy ballads. There's a giddy version of Bobby Darin's “Splish, Splash,” along with the Summer duet, to perk things up a bit. What this means is that even the queen of middle‐of‐the‐road sentimentality recognizes the need for some obeisance to the energies of the popular music of the last 25 years; certainly, people like Tom Jones and Barry Manilow realize it, and their records are noisy and insistent in ways their direct predecessors would never have understood.

I stopped buying Streisand albums after "Stoney End" (except for the non-soundtrack "The Way We Were") and missed everything from "ButterFly' onward and didn't but another one until "The Broadway Album."

Wasn't she signed to do another concept album, which I believe was tentatively titled, "Clotted"

I remember one review at the time (don't remember which publication...People mag maybe) said something like if her next concept album is as exciting as this one it will probably be about crop dusting.

That would probably be more interesting than Wet

She had two awful duds before Wet: Superman and Songbird. Wet took us to Guilty which might be her best album.

What’s incredible and true is that SO many people made these albums sell platinum and into the millions. And now, you will find them in dollar bins and thrift stores by the DOZEN.

Say the same for Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, and even the Eagles. Sold bucketloads then, and still in demand by collectors.

People for a time were willing to buy anything with her name attached to it. I can’t think of another artist from that time whose work has become less relevant and so forgettable and who sold so much

As R121 said, Guilty is probably her best album. And ironically, the one where she let someone else do the directing and composing and she just basically came in and sang her parts. The ones before it were complete dudes. Total cynical “they’ll buy whatever I sing” bullshit.

Duds* not dudes, oh dear

R108, yeah, Songbird only ever registered with me as a muted promotional campaign. I’ve never even listened to it.

R112, really? You don’t like My Heart Belongs to Me? Answer Me? Love Comes From the Most Unexpected Places? Lullaby For Myself? New York State of Mind? Superman?

That’s just from memory.

There was a song recorded for this album called Shart but it didn’t make the final selection.

Superman wasn’t a dud, R121. It went 2x platinum in the U.S. selling over 2M copies and spawned a Top 5 single.

[quote] She had two awful duds before Wet: Superman and Songbird.

Hardly true. 'Superman' was one of the best-sellers of 1977, released right after the mega-hit "A Star Is Born". It included a song which was originally intended for 'A Star Is Born' ("Answer Me") and continued with her pop-rock genre.

"Superman" , "Songbird" and "Wet" were all produced by the Gary Klein Entertainment Company, which she joined after 'ASIB'. All three were concept albums. "Superman" celebrated the 'independent woman' , "Songbird" centered around 'loneliness' and, of course, "Wet" was centered around water.

Wet did not make me Wet.

Ugly is ugly whether it’s dry or wet

[quote]Guilty which might be her best album.

OY. Have you heard any of her 1960s albums? I considered/consider Guilty one of her WORST ALBUMS.

I’m what I think the youth call a geriatric millennial. Growing up I only ever saw Barbra in little sidebars on the cover of the Enquirer and occasionally trotted out at award shows like some Big Important Person. I went almost 40 years thinking she was just some formerly famous person with a huge ego.

After a couple recommendations from friends, I bought her memoirs at the Barnes and Noble last year. When I tell you that I was riveted, honey I was riveted. I’ve watched every film she talks about, I’ve listened to most of the albums now. I’m a lifelong fan after having only “discovered” her in the last twelve months.

Funny Girl? Je m’Appelle Barbra? What’s Up, Doc? Ever-f’ing-Green?

Who allowed me to live this long without her in my life? Mind you I saw everything that Judy and Joan and Bette and Katharine and Liz ever made before I was even 30 years old. Hell, I’d even gone through most of Rosalind Russell and Susan Hayward’s filmography. I’d watched Stone Pillow, for chrissakes!

R119 do you mean "cropdusting" like farting while walking down an aisle or corridor so as to deflect attention from the fact that you're farting, because I think Barbra could do some amazing stuff with a concept album revolving around that.

R134, track down Up The Sandbox. It’s worth it.

Who sang kiss me in the rain better?

Barbra

Or Suzette Charles?

Suzette abbreviated it but she has a good voice.