Ani Difranco - Canon
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Artist: Ani DifrancoBrand: Baker & Taylor
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Music Label: Righteous Babe
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Fire Door
- God's Country
- You Had Time
- Buildings and Bridges
- Coming Up
- Cradle & All
- Shy
- 32 Flavors
- Dilate
- Distracted
- Gravel
- Untouchable Face
- Joyful Girl
- Little Plastic Castle
- Fuel
- As Is
- Napoleon [New Version]
- Shameless [New Version]
- Hello Birmingham
- Grey
- Prison Prism
- Marrow
- Here for Now
- Subdivision
- Rain Check
- Swim
- Paradigm
- Manhole
- Studying Stones
- Hypnotized
- 78% H2O
- Millennium Theater
- Your Next Bold Move [New Version]
- Both Hands [New Version]
- Overlap [New Version]
Free Music Notes for Canon
Free Music Review: Excellent starting point, but not a complete "greatest hits" anthology
Hit: 5 Stars
Canon is an excellent starting point for new Ani DiFranco fans, but is by no means a complete "greatest hits" anthology. When creating this compilation, Ani chose songs that she has enjoyed performing over the years. The selected songs are not necessarily her biggest "hits". So although most of the most popular songs from her early folk-rock period are included, several fan favorites (Anticipate; Out of Range; In Or Out; Not A Pretty Girl; Angry Anymore; Swan Dive) are notably missing. From her later "jazzy" albums, again she omitted fan favorites like Evolve, Modulation and Recoil (which she rarely performs live but is her top ITunes download off her Knuckle Down album).
As for the five song "remakes", Both Hands and Overlap are awful when compared to the exquisitely beautiful originals. Shameless is interesting in that this is Ani's trademark rock-out song, but this version is played by just Ani and an electric guitar, sans drums. You can hardly tell that the other instruments are missing until the drum solo section (which is now a guitar solo). I found both Napoleon and Your Next Bold Move to be acceptable remakes, but unremarkable. Ani has done several other, better versions of Napoleon.
In general, the remakes were disconcerting to me because I'm not used to hearing Ani play an electric instead of acoustic guitar, and she sings the remakes in an unusually high-pitched voice (not sure why). Of the 5 remakes, Shameless is the most appealing, and I really hate the new Both Hands. Oddly, Ani's 2007 Canon tour featured a new arrangement of Untouchable Face that's fantastic and superior to any of the remakes on the Canon album. On her Canon tour, Ani's actual live performances of the "5 remakes" are both different from and far better than the versions on the Canon album.
As with all the recent albums from the Righteous Babe, the CD packaging (with complete lyrics and liner notes) is excellent and the sound quality is superb (My early Ani albums were on cassettes not CDs, so I may be comparing apples to oranges). So, Canon is a great compilation which provides an overall feel for the breadth of Ani's music, but should be treated as a starting point and not a comprehensive "best of" collection.
Canon Poster
Throughout her career, Ani DiFranco has given her own take on tired rock star cliches. When other artists answered to major labels, she opted to start her own. While other guitarists relied on electric heroics, she pounded on a strangely tuned acoustic. And when faced with the task of releasing a career retrospective, Ani created anything but the traditional "greatest hits" package. With Canon, the double-disc set, fans will get an unprecedented look at how the artist sees her prolific career, and newcomers will get the ultimate primer in DiFrancology. Because like everything else she creates, Ani made this record to her precise specifications, carefully selecting 36 songs from her voluminous back catalog, including tunes from her first album and her 19th.The far-reaching lexis used to describe Buffalo, New York, singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco includes "influential," "persistent," and "cutting-edge." And 18 albums released in the 18 years since the launching of her own Righteous Babe record label means "prolific" must also be high on that list. DiFranco commemorates her nearly two decades in the business with a two-CD, 35-song retrospective that offers a sequential glimpse into the socially conscious messages and punk/folk articulation that has made her an international paladin. From early recordings such as "God's Country" (1993) and "You Had Time" (1994), where DiFranco took aim at religious autonomy and failed partnerships, to later songs that tackled violence against abortion providers (1999's "Hello Birmingham") and a pair of '80s-era presidents (2002's "Your Next Bold Move"), DiFranco's poetry-fraught lyrics are the unfeigned star of the compilation. Can't-miss selections like "32 Flavors," "Untouchable Face," and "Cradle & All" make the cut, while staunch DiFranco followers will be seduced by five new renditions of old favorites, including the intrepid "Napoleon," which blasts the rock-biz elite, and "Shameless," with its candid discourse on infidelity. The divinely packaged set includes a booklet thoroughly lined with lyrics and a recording dossier. --Scott Holter
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