Relish

Joan Osborne - Relish

Relish
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Artist: Joan Osborne
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
CD Release Date: 1995-03-21
Music Label: Island / Mercury
Product features:
  • TESTED
Soundtracks:
  1. St. Teresa
  2. Man In The Long Black Coat
  3. Right Hand Man
  4. Pensacola
  5. Dracula Moon
  6. One Of Us
  7. Ladder
  8. Spider Web
  9. Let's Just Get Naked
  10. Help Me
  11. Crazy Baby
  12. Lumina

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Free Music Review: One to be relished
Hit: 5 Stars

Relish is a masterwork, and among the most complete CDs you'll come across. This highly underrated release is surely in my top 10 of all time. But let's start by getting this out of the way: while One of Us is a clever pop song, it's the weakest on the CD and the only one that requires some endurance on the listener (or maybe it was just overplayed). Luckily, the remainder is a hell of a ride. Joan's vocals alternate between screamingly raw and virginally sweet---she's an actual singer rather than some over-rehearsed scale warbler. Sorry singer wannabes out there---you're simply born with a voice like this one. Not quite Janis, but capable of doling out the chills on various occasions. It's the kind of voice the producer will let go off-key now and then---it's honest and thus still sounds good.

What else? Well, Relish has everything, except the lyrics. I'd wager my Martin guitar that the villainous record company vetoed their inclusion due to their darkness. Fantastically dark; very good. For wry, laugh-out-loud humor, check out Let's Just Get Naked. The awesome, mournfully sung Crazy Baby prowls the depths of human despair---he's stuck in it; she's stuck on him. Ladder is sheer female-ality---pride-free devotion to a guy who likely doesn't deserve it. If that sounds like the stuff of an unliberated woman, nonsense---the entire album is an ode to liberation, sexual and otherwise. Right Hand Man--monotonous and grating only at first listen---is pure repetitious sexual gyration, the joyous exultation of a (highly successful) one-night stand. It lends the most moral of offerings: life is meant to be enjoyed. When planted in these fertile soils--free from regret, guilt, self-flogging, and other American mainstays---art can bloom. This is true sexuality, and true art--worlds apart from the painted-on variety of most female singers, whose life experience generally consists of experimenting with untried shades of makeup. Joan isn't classically beautiful, but man do you want to play a hand with her after 40 minutes with this CD. You know she's experienced plenty in her day--it's clear to anyone who's spent a chunk of youth treading these same waters.

Every song is well-written, well-performed, well-produced. Its flaw--maybe a crappy cover? And then there's the let-down that follow-ups didn't add up. But this is one that invariably goes in your CD carousel at a party--all substance, no filler. And free of generational musical influence, it's destined to last. How many in the last 25 years can you say that about?
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