Paula Cole - Greatest Hits: Postcards From East Oceanside
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Artist: Paula ColeBrand: COLE,PAULA
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-06-20
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
- I Am So Ordinary
- Me
- I Believe In Love
- Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?
- Amen
- Feelin' Love
- I Don't Want To Wait
- God Is Watching
- Carmen
- Happy Home
- Autumn Leaves
- Saturn Girl
- Hush, Hush, Hush
- Bethlehem
- Tomorrow I Will Be Yours
- Postcards From East Oceanside
Free Music Notes for Greatest Hits: Postcards From East Oceanside
Free Music Review: Stunning
Hit: 5 Stars
If you've not encountered the voice of Paula Cole before, this album is a great collection of songs from her first three albums. If you have her earlier albums you may question buying this, but this is one album where the extra tracks are worth getting.
Paula has surely the purest voice you can ever hope to hear, always emotive, and an amazing range of soft tenderness and power often transitioning from one to the other in a heartbeat. But don't think of simpering, wimpy softness or boring "diva" power that leaves you cold - there's too much heart in this woman to fall into either of those traps.
Lyrically you'll find a mix of story-telling, metaphor, and introspection. It's not just her voice that has the power and tenderness though, for certain of her songs themselves stand among the most beautiful ever written.
Musically, there's a fairly broad mix here from a couple of quite poppy songs, to simple and emotive, just plain sexy ("Feelin' Love"), to jazzy, to the unique, but there's nothing about any of them that smacks of being contrived or manufactured.
Fans of Paula will always find a few songs that they would have liked instead of some selected here, but that just goes to show what a great collection of songs Paula produced in just the three albums this collection is taken from. Personally I would have liked to see some of the angrier tracks like "Throwing Stones" or "Mississippi" on here to give a fuller range of Paula's songs.
What of the extra tracks? There's a cover of "Autumn Leaves", which is gentle and a great way to hear Paula's voice with little accompaniment. "Postcards from East Oceanside" is also a great song - quiet and whispy at times, utterly rousing at others. The gem here is "Tomorrow I Will Be Yours" - a beautiful story-telling song about lost but unforgotten love that builds as the story is told to a strong final chorus and closing verse that, with the combination of Paula's voice and lyrics, is pure emotive genius!
Buy this collection of songs from a truly unique and wonderful singer/songwriter and find that for 78 minutes at a time you won't be able to help but smile. And you don't get that with the manufactured tripe so common these days.
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GRAMMY-winner for Best New Artist in 1997, alt-rock singer-songwriter Paula Cole rose to stardom with her signature hit "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?" from her 1996 Warner Bros. debut album This Fire. The acclaimed disc also delivered "Me" and the smash "I Don?t Want To Wait," a song that amassed global fame as the theme to TV?s Dawson?s Creek. A key performer in the first Lilith Fair tour, Cole?s unique artistry deepened on 1999?s soulful alt-pop-skewed Amen, whose stand-outs include the title track and "I Believe In Love." All these and more favorites?plus 2 previously unreleased tracks "Tomorrow I Will Be Yours" and the title track "Postcards From East Oceanside" ?make this first-ever Paula Cole compilation an ideal way to explore her distinctive music.Folk Music CDs
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