JILL SOBULE - Pink Pearl
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Free Music Review: More fun from Sobule
Hit: 4 Stars
What a treat -- more Jill Sobule music. Though it's an acquired taste, it's a taste nonetheless, and I'm glad she's putting out more music for her fans.On that note, "Pink Pearl" will no doubt delight any fan of Sobule's, with her whimsical lyrics and ability to tell stories with her songs. Starting off with catchier tracks like "Rainy Day Parade" and "One of These Days" and then easing into mellower tracks like "Mexican Wrestler," "Pink Pearl" delivers a great listen.
This CD is harder to get into than "Happy Town," though, and I found that many of the songs were harder to relate to (a trend she has here is focusing the songs on individual women -- "Claire," "Mary Kay," "Lucy at the Gym"). This broke up the rythm for me at first, and made it harder to really get into the CD, though eventually that wore down and I did have a few good listens.
I'd recommend Sobule's "Happy Town" to new listeners of her music, though "Pink Pearl" does live up to expectations of this great musician.
Free Music Review: Great stories... by Jill.
Hit: 4 Stars
Jill Sobule is SUCH a creative songwritter. This album is full of witty songs, for example, Lucy At The Gym is about anorexia and how this girl is constantly working out, just as if that'd be her only purpose in life, Rainy Day Parade is about someone who is probably heavily medicated on anti-depressants, Claire is about a woman who was a pioneer and now has Alzheimers. Mary Kay is all about these young kids falling in love with people older than them, or not knowing the future. Guy who doesn't get it is about a relationship gone dry, where the guy in the story is totally oblivious to his girlfriend's need for affection or attention. Rock me to sleep is the sweetest love ballad... What makes this CD amazing is how clever the songs are, they are full of humour and compassion about these lets call them less fortunate people. The music could use a bit of a boost, but I am not complaining. This CD is amazing and I am glad to have it in my collection. If you liked "Happy Town" by Jill, then I am sure you will love this CD too.Free Music Review: Strong follow up to Happy Town
Hit: 4 Stars
One of the best "singer/songwriter" albums of 2000. While not quite capturing the pure listening satisfaction of one of her live shows, this disk is still a strong collection full of inventive lyrics and catchy hooks. Overall a great listening experience, but for Jill Sobule beginners, I would recoment her more immediately accessable self titled album.Free Music Review: good stuff
Hit: 4 Stars
Jill Sobule writes pop music with intelligence, heart, sarcasm and wit. In other words, she's just too good to ever be famous.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."