Barry White Music:

The Message Is Love Track Listing:
1. It Ain't Love, Babe (Until You Give It)
2. Hung Up in Your Eyes
3. You're the One I Need
4. Any Fool Could See (You Were Meant for Me)
5. Love Ain't Easy
6. I'm on Fire
7. I Found Love

The Message Is Love Reviews:
One of His Very Best Albums Ever!!
2007-09-10 - This album is very smooth and very relaxing to listen to. I even love to listen to it while I am working out. The album is off the hook!

Both fans and non-fans should seek this one out!
2003-07-06 - 1979's "The Message is Love" was Barry White's first release from his own Unlimited Gold label. The album is a mixture of the 70's White with a stab at moving into the new decade of the 80's.

There is a greater dance influence in the first four tracks, but it's on the slower tracks where the singer/songwriter does his best work. "Love Ain't Easy", co-written by White and Paul Politi bears a unmistakeable similarity to White's successful cover of Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are." Robert Jason's "I'm on Fire" is, perhaps in praise of White's then-wife Glodean.

The best track, entitled "I Found Love", has a mid-tempo beat and is a find for White fans. Beginning with the trademark "rap", the song (that hints at a possible ménage a trois) allows both man and band to "do their thing".

A gem like this one won't be found on a "compilation", and that, for his fans, is a travesty.