Sheryl Crow - The Globe Sessions
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Free Music Review: Sheryl's Best - Hands Down
Hit: 5 Stars
Sheryl Crow's GLOBE SESSIONS is her artistic triumph in my opinion. While many fans abandoned her after this album, because it is significantly more depressing and dark than her previous albums, it is perhaps her greatest artistic acheivement. The songs all have this unifying sentiment among them, this is a deeply personal album. From the triumph in "My Favorite Mistake", which is a cool type of regret, to the firey burn out anger in "Crash and Burn", Sheryl covers all bases and lets her fans into her own world. "Anything But Down" is an anthem of sorts, where she realizes the person only brings her down and makes her feel worthless, a nice song but most likely the weakest song here. "Members Only" is an excellent song, perfect social commentary on the world today. The ballad "The Difficult Kind" is so emotionally raw and painful, its like as a listener you are listening to her problems as she pours out her soul with no holds barred. The song "Riverwide" is beautifully poignant, in fact the album was slated to be titled "Riverwide". Other highlights include "Am I Getting Through", "Maybe That's Something", and the Bob Dylan penned "Mississippi". This is her triumph, I highly reccomend this album!Free Music Review: Listen to it all the time
Hit: 5 Stars
I can't describe how much I love this CD. I loved Crow before I bought this. But after listening to "GS" for over two years now, her first two albums lack the magic that "Globe" has.Sure, "My Favorite Mistake," "Neighbourhood" and "Anything But Down" are catchy pop-rock tunes, and they're good, but there are so many other great track on the CD. My favorite is "Members Only," which is such a perfect commentary on modern American Society- only Sheryl could have written it (ie- Studying the kabalah in her J Crew...)
Then there's "It don't Hurt" (which won a grammy for the live from Central Park performance), which is a fantastic rock performance, especially the guitar solo at the end. "Difficult Kind" is a sad rock song, very good.
There are no clunkers on this CD, only pure gold. The new one comes out soon too...
Free Music Review: Sheryl Crow goes hi-fi
Hit: 5 Stars
She must have bought a new studio or something, because the difference between the production of this album and the first two is huge. On this album, everything sounds gigantic and right next to your ears. It sounds way ahead of its time in terms of the equipment that recorded it. Like a record from 2006, maybe, but not 1998. Its pretty impressive.Anyhow, I don't know what the deal is with people thinking her heart isn't in the songwriting on this album. It sounds to me like she's trying harder than anything, maybe almost too hard, to try and write something really epic. Also, there's a sadness to this album that you don't really find in her other work, which is probably the main reason that a lot of people are turned off. The Difficult Kind is easily her most intense ballad, and if songs like "If It Makes You Happy" used to only flirt with depression, songs like "Anything But Down" and "I Am Getting Through" go all the way. There's heartbreak written all over this album. The song structures are less conventional than usual, which is probably why it didn't sell as well, but overall I'd say its the best Sheryl Crow album. Its not as readily likeable as her other work, since there simply isn't anything as instantly addictive as "A Change Would Do You Good," but give it a few spins and it'll grow on you. The first time I heard it I didn't like it at all, but now its one of my favorite albums.
Also, maybe its the production but the songs seem to have this complexity to them that they've never had before. For example, It Don't Hurt builds up into an out-of-control guitar solo and feedback at the end. Its one of the most rocking things she's ever done, and yet you could almost consider it a country song in some ways. There Goes the Neighborhood is probably what I would consider to be the "coolest" Sheryl Crow song, for whatever that's worth, and Mississippi is a Bob Dylan penned song that later appeared in a redone version on his album Love and Theft. Only Crow's upbeat, riverboat-party version is much more fun. Members Only is just funny, and with Sheryl Crow resignedly singing "I just can't take it anymore," it still fits in with the sadness of the rest of the album perfectly.
Anyhow, if you're looking for a good time, something you can play while hanging out with your friends, it isn't here. But if you're looking for a great album (that, by the way, should be listened to through headphones to be fully appreciated), look no further.
Free Music Review: Sheryl Crow Rocks On
Hit: 4 Stars
Sheryl Crow has been the only artist to come out of the 90's that I [care]about. She's real. It's her and her guitar playing real rock and roll. You can't beat that people. I have to admit, that I wasn't sold by her first album. But her second album hit and it was more melodic, and she sang incredibly. Then came this CD... This is, without a doubt, Sheryl's most listenable and enjoyable CD to date. It starts off the infectious groove of her hit single, "My Favorite Mistake", which some people have said is about her ex-flame Eric Clapton. There are many other high points here. "Anything But Down" is pleasant radio fodder, but not the strongest here. She does an incredible reworking of a Bob Dylan song called "Mississippi", which is an instant classic, brimming with a catchy chorus. "Members Only" is a fun tune that starts off sounding very reminiscent of her earlier hit song, "Change". "There Goes The Neighborhood" is loud and noisy and great!. But, I have saved the best for last. I'm talking about a song called "The Difficult Kind". It's a lovely ballad that showcases Crow's vocal power. A wonderful song that should of been a bigger hit. Perfect. Crow's voice has come a long way since her first album. She is a great rock vocalist. If you like Sheryl, you'll like this... if you like intelligent, well made music, you'll like this. Trust me.Free Music Review: I hope Amazon doesn't pay its critics by the word
Hit: 5 Stars
I'll grant you, I like the album, but even if I didn't, I would still dislike this editorial review. I think that it's fully possible for anyone to contemplate points of view without the experience which led to adopting them, or to change their tone in describing their lives. You shouldn't buy this album if you don't think that Sheryl Crow should have done anything but write endless remakes of "All I Wanna Do."In essence, this record captures all of the feelings associated with love that fails - "My Favorite Mistake," "Riverwide," "Maybe That's Something," "Anything But Down" and "The Difficult Kind" all describe different aspects of disappointment, sadness or regret. There's a fair bit of funk in the drums and the wah-wah clavinets on "There Goes the Neighborhood," but it's the open-tuned Keith Richards chords that inform the listener of a conscious decision to return to harder, more basic sounds in rock. I don't think that Plastic Ono Band was seen as a step towards mediocrity and creative burnout for John Lennon, despite the fact that there were no Beatles-sized hits on it.
This record handles adult themes of loss and pain, and maybe it did rang as false for the Amazon reviewer as true for me and everyone else on this page. However, I did a search under Music for albums of his that unpaid reviewers awarded five stars, and not surprisingly there weren't any. Some people are famous and well-liked for a reason, and some albums simply have too much truth and power to be disregarded because they don't match the prejudices of the art worldlings.