Sheryl Crow - The Globe Sessions
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Free Music Review: "I spent a year in the mouth of a whale..."
Hit: 5 Stars
The Globe Sessions is Sheryl's Crow best album yet. I love all 11 tracks, they are personal, raw, and intelligent. I heard Crow didn't even want to release this album because of its private content, she thought this album was too personal like a diary and she wasn't ready to share inner-most thoughts with the rest of the world. I am glad she did release this amazing album, i like when Crow is vulnerable and open for discussion. My Favorite Mistake, about her relationship with Eric Clapton: "Your friends are sorry for me, they watch you pretend to adore me but I'm no fool to this game." There Goes the Neighborhood is a rock song, fun and cool lyrics: "I dropped acid on a Saturday night just to see what the fuss was about..." The best song on the record is Riverwide, beautiful and sweeping song: "Tell ma i loved the man even though i turned and ran, lovely and fine i could have been, laying down in the palm of his hand..." It Don't Hurt is coming to terms with a broken relationship and finding someway to move on: "The electric man looks good today, well maybe not, trying hard to feel that way, the electric man's a good place to start." Maybe that's Something is mellow and cool: "Maybe that's something, maybe that's one more thing more than nothing." Am I getting Through is full of contradictions, it rocks! "I'm afraid I am queer..." Anything but Down is my fave song: "I bring you apples from the vine, how quickly you forget, I ran the bath and pour the wine." The Difficult Kind, a little too long but still lovely: "If you could see what love has made of me then I'd no longer be in your mind, the difficult kind, 'cause babe I've changed." Mississippi is written by Bob Dylan, this song is very country to me: "The only thing that I did wrong, i stayed in Mississippi a day too long." Members Only, I loved this song on first listen, her best uptempo song: "Uncle Larry's hooked on ice again, he seems to be stuck in the '80s, he wears his Members Only jacket 'cause he thinks it turns on all the ladies..." Crash and Burn is gorgeous, you can hear the sadness in Crow's voice: "In case you ever want to track me down, I'll take my cell phone to bed..." There is a hidden track so don't skip over it. The Globe Sessions is Crow's masterpiece, buy it now.Free Music Review: The Difficult Kind
Hit: 4 Stars
The Amazon reviewer is a moron, plain and simple. But I can't blame him for his religion. I too, believe I am a music snob, and if you play a dozen or so of Sheryl Crowe's songs, I would scoff too.
But I recently heard "The Difficult Kind" at a friend's house, and asked what the heck album this is from, because THIS is the kind of song she was born to play. Slow, thoughtful, melodic, heartfelt. I was hooked from the first few notes. I can't believe it took me so long to hear this great song.
I think the reviewer made the same mistake I did: he went into the listening experience with certain assumptions and expectations as to what this album would sound like and what it would be, and he never listened to the whole thing. Because if he had listened to the entire album, he would have heard "The Difficult Kind" and he would have had at least one good thing to say about the album. And that is a cardinal rule of any reviewer who really, REALLY knows music: you must find something good to say about every album you review, because even in this corporate music driven-world every album is in at least some small way a labor of love, and the artists deserve our admiration for putting themselves out there, if nothing else. God knows we're not doing it, and it's pathetically easy to judge someone else's work when you haven't even tried.
"The Difficult Kind" is not only a highly redeeming track, it's probably worth the price of the disc.
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Free Music Review: Classic
Hit: 5 Stars
I've had this album since it came out and I have to say, it is one of my all-time favorite albums. To this day, I listen to it and think what a genius Sheryl is, and why some consider her a legend. "My Favorite Mistake" is amazing, one of my favorite "sad love songs" ever. If you don't pay attention, the song can blend in as a mellow/semi-bland sounding light rock tune--but when I listen to the wistfulness of the lyrics and Sheryl's perfect delivery of them, the song sums up some of my (past) relationship thoughts to a "T". Another stand-out song is "Crash and Burn" that only Sheryl can deliver with such raw emotion. It starts out seemingly innocuous enough...but then she lets it all out! Sheryl is one of the best at the sadder, more introspective song without sappiness. I guess she could be considered "depressing" (as some of my friends say), but she seems to keep a level of intelligence and realness about her that makes you think, "Yeah, sometimes I feel near the end of my rope.... but I'll pull through." I also really like her albums "Tuesday Night Music Club" and "C'mon C'mon" but this album along with "Sheryl Crow" are the must-haves of Sheryl. Free Music Review: Easily my favorite of hers.
Hit: 4 Stars
Like many, I've enjoyed most of what Sheryl Crow has done since I heard her debut album and "All I Wanna Do" in 1993. However, "The Globe Sessions" is without a doubt the one I like most front to back. It starts with the excellent "My Favorite Mistake", and keeps up that level of quality through the entire disc. "It Don't Hurt", "Maybe That's Something", and the last six tracks are all great. "The Difficult Kind" is just amazingly good, and even "Sweet Child O' Mine" fits her well. Between the wonderful music and her picture on the cover, this one can't be beat. Not bad for a Missouri girl.Free Music Review: Best Rock Album of 1999
Hit: 5 Stars
Sheryl Crow's third album, "The Globe Sessions", is by far her most subdued. The mellow tracks here allude to a depression that has been present, but not blatant, in all of her albums thus far.
The record kicks off with "My Favorite Mistake", a mid-tempo guitar number which finds her hanging on to an unfaithful lover. The Celtic-inspired acoustic track "Riverwide", the slow grunge of "Maybe That's Something", and the hushed "Crash and Burn" further proclaim Crow's melancholy. Not all the songs here are downers, though. "There Goes The Neighborhood" uses a clap track, horns, and loose guitar riffs to make a great party song, and "Mississippi", a southern-style Bob Dylan cover, is very upbeat.
The best track on "The Globe Sessions" is undoubtedly "The Difficult Kind." Crow uses slide guitars and a string section to present an amazing piece of southern blues rock. Her vocals are outstanding, and the songwriting, which is at its most honest, states: "They're ain't nothing like regret to remind you you're alive."
Using every kind of sound effect from phone noises to radio static to underscore the instrumentals, which are great on their own, this is truly a fantastic rock album. After all, it was named Best Rock Album at the 1999 Grammy Awards.