Keeping the 90's ladies line going here today.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_APkwhnJFg
Can't talk to a psycho like a normal human being.
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I always saw Poe discs in the used bins at any record shop I frequented back in the day. Small wonder--they sucked...
I disagree.
Me too, but I've become a bit gun-shy about saying so in public.
90's
ladieslady with indie cred. Matador Record's Bettie Serveert (Carol Van Dyck)httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls3Dk6rGnJM&feature=related
I enjoyed this one.
One more--from German television.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XmT15E62EU
A mash-up of Crazy Horse, Velvet Underground, and the Pretenders--if everyone had been hanging out in Amsterdam.
And I loved this one. I know it's not the most rare of things, but it would get 9/10 stars from me.
hey, buffalo, i think we better get off six's lawn...
Hey man, I was just following your lead.
Bands That Killed Alt Rock Week? 😉
so, you guys are saying that i shouldn't play meredith brooks tomorrow?
B!tch.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoQqAI2Zgdk
fine, jeez, i'll just play deep blue something then.
play something off the hoof.
OK, I waited too long for this even to be part of the conversation anymore.
I have Hello, the "Hello" remix single, and the much-delayed follow-up (and so-far final) album Haunted. If the disc you saw in the shop was the second, then yes, it did suck. She tried to be artistic or something with old recordings of her dad, or something like that.
But as for the first album, I liked it a lot and still enjoy it. It's actually on my iPod in its entirety, (although I'll eventually bring it down to five or so tracks, I only first ripped it back in August. I won't say that she's a great artist or that the album is an overlooked masterpiece, cos it's not. But there's some decent stuff on there.
My favorite is "Fly Away": only her voice, a simple piano bit, and a flute. A song about lamenting a departure, I really like how it's recorded with the amount of echo as if in an empty apartment. I feel the white walls, a few boxes left and a chair or two, and I smell the Pine-Sol before the super arrives to check for damage and collect the keys. (None of which is mentioned in the lyrics.) Although, I'll admit, this song hit me at the end of the summer following high school, so the emotional resonance might be due to my situation and not the actual quality of the song.
Of course she mars the awesomeness of that final song with a little goofy hidden track saying "Goodbye, I'm back" less than ten seconds after the song ends.
Another favorite was "That Day", which is another simple arrangement, a plucked cello for the verses and rough guitar fuzz for the chorus.
The album does suffer from her love juvenile for single-entendres, which was most prominent in the song featured above, but also in "Fingertips", "Junkie", "Angry Johnny", and "Choking the Cherry." But most of those are made-up for with decent production: she's got a decent mix of trip-hop beats and strings, rock guitar, and glossy poppiness. The opening Organ and horns of "Angry Johnny" still work for me.
(Side note: "Fingertips" is supposedly the earliest available track featuring the late hip-hop producer JayDee aka Dilla. He played the drums.)
Don't compare her to Bettie Serveert, but Alanis Morisette (though there's more to her than the singles, too), and probably most of the performers on the original Lilith Fair.
Overall, listening to it now, I get the sense of someone who could get better if she'd just trim some of her juvenile tendencies. But she went way to far that way, ditching her decent pop sensibilities*.
*I'd probably blame a switch of producer, but she produced four of the eleven and co-produced another four. She even mixed three of those four she produced.
I saw her live in the fall of 1996, on a co-headline tour with the Eels. I was rather disappointed. "Fly Away" was in a full band version that stripped it of its intimacy. It seemed like she was trying too hard to rock out or be cool or something. Left me cold. The Eels were great though.
One last thing: often CDs showed up in used bins because there was one atypical, highly promoted hit single, and nothing else sounded like that, so buyers felt ripped off. I know I've seen some discs I've loved show up there (can't think of any now though, maybe Cornershop? I never loved that though.)
Hey, there is a vid for "That Day"