Ani Difranco - So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter
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Music CD Cover Artist: Ani Difranco Edition: Music CD Format: Live CD Release Date: 2002-09-10 Music Label: Righteous Babe Soundtracks: Music CD 1
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Free Music Notes for So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter Album
Free Music Review: so much.
Hit: 1 Stars
I'm new school ani fan, which many of you will cringe at. My favorite albums are puddle dive, out of range, l.plastic castle and to the teeth.Now, on to this and why I don't like it. I'm not against Ani's new funk-hop-jazz-rock move. I think it's awesome. To the teeth I think is the best studio release which represents this musical move. And as for Revelling, songs like Ain't that the Way and O.K. I appreciate greatly, almost approaching Loom or God's Country (someone just puked on their cat, eh?). I like them for different reasons. I fell in love with her songs that were profound social and personal commentaries that touch places in the back of your cerebellum that were so buried in nerve cells you forgot to look. But there's also something compelling about fun lines like "I gotta sweet tooth today so you betta not cut that pie." It's good that an artist so revered can be so downright dorky at the same time. People forget that Ani is among the world's prize winning dorks.
So much shouting so much laughter does not contain engaging live versions of any of her newer or older masterpieces. Get living in clip if that's what you want. If anything, the opening track's ear-pummeling guitar strum breaks off the brass coatings of swan dive. I was disappointed in Letter to a john, which was played so fast I could barely pay attention to it. She tries to joke about why she plays acoustic guitar. Why doesn't she play electric? Because if she's going to play the way she does here half the time I'll need to mix in my own distortion to calm it down.
If you want live, get living in clip. If you want experimental jazz and funk, get to the teeth. And if you want the old stuff get it and rock it out. Don't get a double album that halves your attention span.