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Artist: Ani DiFrancoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-07-26
Music Label: Righteous Babe
Soundtracks:
- Both Hands
- Talk To Me Now
- The Slant
- Work Your Way Out
- Dog Coffee
- Lost Woman Song
- Pale Purple
- Rush Hour
- Fire Door
- The Story
- Every Angle
- Out Of Habit
- Letting The Telephone Ring
Free Music Notes for Ani DiFranco
Free Music Review: Inconsistency with some brilliance at her beginning
Hit: 2 Stars
(Actually **1/2 but Amazon doesn't allow half stars.)
This is a promising debut that includes the beautiful "Work Your Way Out," a song that makes me wonder wistfully why Ani doesn't spend more songs singing over a low rumbling piano. If you like Ani, I think the album is worth tracking down for that song alone because the version on Like I Said is done with a guitar and loses something thereby. But this here self-titled debut also has several songs on it that are just downright bad, which is a bit unusual for Ani DiFranco but hey, it's her first record ever. On "Talk to Me Now," Ani sings one of the clumsiest and most amateurish lines I've heard from her: "In this cii-ii-ty, self-preservation is a full-time occupation." Gods that annoys me. "The Story" is one of those light-on-melody, should-be-an-essay Ani songs where I think well, I agree with that, but I don't think I'll ever want to listen to it again, and I'm not entirely sure I'd even classify it as a song. But on the bright side this is the one that has "Fire Door" and "Out of Habit" on it, which are both excellent indications of just how talented Ani DiFranco would turn out to be. Plus there's the original recording of "Both Hands." That solo acoustic original now stands with head humbly bowed in the long, long shadow of the lush, lovely orchestral version on Living in Clip, but if you're curious about how Ani started then it's worth a listen nonetheless. Actually come to think of it that's not a bad metaphor for how this whole debut album stands in relation to the rest of her catalog.
Song by song:
1 Both Hands ***
2 Talk to Me Now *
3 The Slant **
4 Work Your Way Out ****
5 Dog Coffee ***
6 Lost Woman Song ***
7 Pale Purple *
8 Rush Hour ***
9 Fire Door ***
10 The Story *
11 Every Angle ***
12 Out of Habit ***
Ani DiFranco Poster
Ani DiFranco was a star from the get-go. It just took the world a little while to catch on to that fact. In 1990, folksingers didn't shave their heads, wear nose rings, or sing about the feelings in their jeans, but DiFranco did. Her bracing, punky stance hit just as hard on her debut as it does now--perhaps even more so, due to its freshness and DiFranco's uncompromising solo acoustic attack. These songs, all delivered with an absorbing passion and a palpable conviction, are the bedrock of her soaring career. Some, like the fantastic and challenging "Both Hands," still pop up in concert. --Michael RubyAlternative Rock Music CDs
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