JILL SOBULE - Pink Pearl
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Artist: JILL SOBULEEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2004-10-04
Music Label: Beyond
Soundtracks:
- Rainy Day Parade
- One Of These Days
- Lucy At The Gym
- Claire
- Mexican Wrestler
- Heroes
- Mary Kay
- Somewhere In New Mexico
- Guy Who Doesn't Get It
- Someone's Gonna Greak Your Heart
- Loveless Motel
- Rock Me To Sleep
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Free Music Review: I can crack your ribs but I can't break your heart
Hit: 3 Stars
Jill Sobule is a smart and witty songwriter who keeps gaining maturity with each progressive CD. "Pink Pill" is a more enjoyable recording than Happy Town, in that the songs seem less dark and more peppy. The character songs are still the ringers here, from the body maniac with low self-image in "Lucy At The Gym" who discovers that everyone in heaven is perfect to "Mary Kay," about Mary Kay Letourneau, the teacher who had sex with a 13-year-old student.
I have two favorites on "Pink Pearl," and they are the wonderfully sad tale of unrequited love in "Mexican Wrestler" and the darkly funny "Heroes." In the later, Jill bemoans the fact that all the folks she looked up to creatively were train-wrecks.
"William Faulkner, drunk and depressed.
Dorothy Parker, mean, drunk and depressed,
And that guy in Seven Years in Tibet turned out to be a Nazi.
The founding fathers all had slaves.
The explorers slaughtered the braves.
The Old Testament God can be so petty."
All set on top of a great shuffle with a goofy electric piano solo. The only artists who reach these kinds of musical epiphanies would be Aimee Mann (a lot of "Pink Pearl" is reminiscent of Mann's "Bachelor No. 2") and the late Warren Zevon, who Jill often toured with. While I still rate her second album and "Underdog Victorious" as her better albums, there is still plenty to enjoy on "Pink Pearl."
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2004 reissue of 2000 studio album from Jill Sobule, a feisty post-punk feminist whose work brings to mind a cross between Liz Phair & Gertrude Stein. New pink artwork too! 12 tracks. Universal.Like Aimee Mann, Jill Sobule had a hit early (1995's "I Kissed a Girl") and then was dropped by her major label. Now that the dust has settled, one can only hope that, like Mann, Sobule will reap the artistic and commercial recognition she deserves. Though no slouch in the melody department, Sobule really shines as a deft lyricist. On songs that act as many self-contained vignettes, she captures life's little miseries and epiphanies with economy and understated humor. Though she isn't afraid to tackle wide topics ("Heroes" reveals our icons' feet of clay with lines such as "Heard Babe Ruth was full of malice / Lewis Carroll I'm sure did Alice"), Sobule's specialty is to focus on individuals in a way that's both sharp-witted and compassionate. In the end, Pink Pearl's greatest accomplishment is showing that there are as many good song subjects as there are people around us--you only need to pay attention. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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