Natalie Merchant - Retrospective 1995-2005
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Free Music Notes for Retrospective 1995-2005
Free Music Review: Natalie Merchant
Hit: 5 Stars
I gave this cd to my husband, he was very pleased with it. As for me the
price was a good buy. Will purchase from you again.
Free Music Review: Best Selection
Hit: 5 Stars
Natalie's finest, only for those who can appreciate her voice and this selection brings us the best of her latest work.Free Music Review: A great sound
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is simply great. The recordings are clear and if you are a Nat Merchant fan you will love this album.Free Music Review: Greatest Hits
Hit: 5 Stars
You don't need to own any other Natalie Merchant compilation or album/CD. All of her best stuff is right here!Free Music Review: Meet Natalie Merchant
Hit: 4 Stars
After leaving 10,000 Maniacs at the peak of their career (MTV Unplugged), Natalie Merchant struck artistic and commercial paydirt with Tigerlily. It was the closest thing to a Maniacs sound out of the four studio albums she has recorded in the years leading up to this retrospective. Each of the albums after found Merchant, never a wallflower when it came to activism, making her albums more socially adept and - once Motherland hit - edgier.
Natalie is at her best when she explores the middle ground between her folk music and singer/songwriter tendencies. Both "Wonder" and "Kind and Generous" could have been from the Joni Mitchell songbook. "Motherland" (love the accordion) picks at urban sprawl and blind consumerism. T-Bone Burnett drew out a deeper voice from Natalie, and it rates as one of her finest songs. (Joan Baez has since covered it on Dark Chords on a Big Guitar.) The journey that "Motherland" started went further on The House Carpenter's Daughter, where she and alt-folk The Horseflies tackled old school folk songs with a great deal of verve. Of course, it was so left-field that it became her first album to not hit the top 100.
This is a great casual introduction to one of the 80's and 90's finest vocalists. She kept her integrity as she grew into new forms of singing. Even if the hits stopped coming, there is still plenty of memorable music here, and it trims off the occasional mawkish poetry (think "River" from Tigerlily). It also would have been nice to include either of the covers from the live album, Neil Young's "After The Gold Rush" in particular. But if all you want is some of Natalie at her best (and the hits), the will do fine.