| CUSTOMER REVIEWS: | 5/5 - AMAZING AND AWESOME
This album is great.I love the A thousand miles performance.The bonus tracks are really good.Plus she has amazing piano skills and a great voice.This comes from a NESSAholic.Plus it has the Pretty Baby radio edition witch is verry good.Vanessa carlton rocks!!! Nessaholics rule.
5/5 - Music just got good again.
A female singer songwriter? Who accompanies herself on something other than a guitar? With a top notch voice???
Ladies and gentlemen: It is my pleasure to present to you the greatest exponent of the above currently playing the game - Vanessa Carlton.
There are two types of song on this album, one of which gently draws you in, and the other that then smacks you about the head and screams 'LISTEN TO ME!'. Pardon the capitals, but buy the album and you'll agree.
Together, however, these songs paint themselves a story (yes, albumistic sotrytelling. The art is not dead). Do a little track rearranging and imagine, if you will, a typical love story:
First type: 'Ordinary Day', 'A Thousand Miles' and 'Pretty Baby' - Our innocent heroine is truly in love with Mr. Right and is telling him in the only way she knows how.
However - things rather go downhill for the pair of them from there.
Second type: With 'Unsung', 'Prince' and 'Wanted', it becomes clear that he's made some sort of heinous mistake. Very foolish on his part, considering the vitriol with which she proceeds to hit him. 'Rinse' describes exactly what she is planning to do, and 'Sway' is the final, rather numb, acknowledgement that while it was great, it's over. This leaves her in a grotesque deformation of 'Paradise', where the loneliness she is feeling is almost tangible - truly music for love's forsaken to get drunk to.
Girl loves boy, girl argues with boy, girl dumps boy, girl feels lower than the floor of a taxi cab. You've heard it before, but not as well expressed as this.
A lot of people have made noise, good and bad, about Vanessa's version of the Rolling Stones' 'Paint It Black', wondering why it was included. I think it's obvious. It fits into our little love tragedy somewhere between 'Sway' and 'Paradise' as the anger she is feeling boils over. The arrangement (Vanessa herself and Ron Fair) pays its respects by not changing too much but still bringing enough to it to be original.
In all, I think you can tell I'm pretty impressed with this. The writing is right on the money, and Vanessa's voice (somewhere between Alanis Morissette, Daniela Roth and Michelle Branch) compliments them well, showing control over quiet passages and displaying real gutsy volume where required (not quite with the horsepower of Celine Dion or Evanescence's Amy Lee, but powerful nonetheless).
Cream of the crop, 10/10, roll on the next one. Buy it, now.
5/5 - Awesome and great
This album is great.I love the A thousand miles performance.The bonus tracks are really good.Plus she has amazing piano skills and a great voice.This comes from a NESSAholic. |
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Saturday, October 11, 2008
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