Ani DiFranco - Ani DiFranco
List Price:
Our Price: $6.27
You Save: $3.71 (37%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $4.24 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more new music releases
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
Music CD Cover
Artist: Ani DiFrancoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-07-26
Music Label: Righteous Babe
Soundtracks:
- Both Hands
- Talk to Me Now
- Slant
- Work Your Way Out
- Dog Coffee
- Lost Woman Song
- Pale Purple
- Rush Hour
- Fire Door
- 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
Music Genres
Top music charts in Crying on the 405 - My favorite music...
Tears for Fears - Tears for Fears - Tears Roll Down: Greatest Hits 82-92Release date: 2003-12-02; Music CD
Best price: $5.02
Price in other shops:
Elton John - Madman Across the WaterRelease date: 1996-05-14; Music CD
Best price: $4.85
Price in other shops:
Ani DiFranco - Ani DiFrancoRelease date: 1994-07-26; Music CD
Best price: $6.14
Price in other shops:
Bette Midler - The Divine Miss MMIDLER,BETTE; Release date: 1995-08-29; Music CD
Best price: $4.64
Price in other shops:
Joni Mitchell - HejiraMITCHELL,JONI; Release date: 1990-10-25; Music CD
Best price: $5.00
Price in other shops:
Loreena McKennitt - The VisitWarner Brothers; Release date: 2006-11-14; Music CD
Best price: $8.72
Price in other shops:
Beth Orton - Central ReservationArista; Release date: 1999-03-09; Music CD
Best price: $28.49
Stevie Nicks - Enchanted: The Works of Stevie NicksNICKS,STEVIE; Release date: 1998-04-28; Music CD
Best price: $25.24
Price in other shops:
Nellie McKay - Get Away from MeSony; Release date: 2004-02-10; Music CD
Best price: $6.79
Price in other shops:
k.d. lang - DragRelease date: 1997-06-10; Music CD
Best price: $6.88
Price in other shops:
Top Rated Albums
Ani DiFranco - To the TeethRelease date: 1999-11-16; Music CD
Best price: $7.98
Price in other shops:
Ani DiFranco - Red Letter YearRelease date: 2008-09-30; Music CD
Best price: $9.97
Price in other shops:
Ani DiFranco - Living in ClipRelease date: 1997-04-22; Music CD
Best price: $13.50
Price in other shops:
Ani DiFranco - EvolveRelease date: 2003-03-11; Music CD
Best price: $6.95
Price in other shops:
Ani DiFranco - Not So SoftRelease date: 1994-07-26; Published: 1991-01-01; Music CD
Best price: $5.53
Price in other shops:
Ani Difranco - Little Plastic CastleRelease date: 1998-02-17; Music CD
Best price: $9.98
Price in other shops:
Ani DiFranco - ImperfectlyRelease date: 1994-07-26; Music CD
Best price: $5.78
Price in other shops:
Ani DiFranco - DilateRelease date: 1996-05-21; Music CD
Best price: $10.10
Price in other shops:
Ani DiFranco - Out of RangeRelease date: 1994-07-26; Music CD
Best price: $5.80
Price in other shops:
Ani DiFranco - Not a Pretty GirlRelease date: 1995-07-18; Music CD
Best price: $6.39
Price in other shops: