Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club
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Free Music Notes for Tuesday Night Music Club
Free Music Review: Save the best for first
Hit: 5 Stars
Everyone knows this was Sheryl Crow's best album. This 1993 debut let people know who she was (people seemed to forget about her singing backup for Michael Jackson). My father always played this album when it came out, and at the time I really wasn't into anything that wasn't rap or R&B, so I pretended that I wasn't into any of these songs. But this album is really good.Sheryl's self-titled follow-up album did all right; then her third album The Globe Sessions fell to mixed reviews. Then came her live album and then C'mon, C'mon (that is also a very good album). But this album showcases one of the few occasions where it's okay to keep living in the past. It's very hard not to enjoy storytelling jewels like "No One Said It Would Be Easy" and "Run, Baby, Run", and the mellow proposal "Strong Enough". Other jams are the funky "Solidify" and "All I Wanna Do". And don't you remember how you were singing along whenever "Can't Cry Anymore" came on?
Sheryl's style, vocals, and guitar-playing along with the lyrics are what make this CD a winner. If you're updating your contemporary rock collection, then you can't call it complete without this album.
Free Music Review: Great CD!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is currently my favorite CD. I originally purchased it for track 9, "All I Wanna Do." Great tune. I found that this CD contains other excellent tracks as well, some of which I had never heard before. I like many of these tracks as much as the one that prompted my purchase. I also have a couple other Sheryl Crow CD's. I especially like the tune, "If It Makes You Happy." It certainly makes me happy. IMHO, it doesn't better than this.Free Music Review: EL ALBUM QUE ME ENGANCHO A ELLA
Hit: 5 Stars
- Desde la primera vez que vi el video de "All I Wanna Do", quedeprendado tanto de la cancion como de ella. Muchas horas frente al televisor me costo el volver ha ver ese video, pero cuanto mas lo veia mas me gustaba. Pasarian unos cuantos años hasta que encontrara el CD en un video club puesto de alquiler; lo enganché lo mas rapido que pude y fuí volando hasta casa para escucharlo y volver a sentir esa dulce sensación de saber que este es el artista que me llenaba. La sorpresa fue que todas las canciones me gustaban sobre todo "Strong Enough","No One Said It Would Be Easy", esa magnifica canción lenta que solo su voz sabe darle ese toque de melancolia y sentimiento. Compralo no te arrepentiras.
Free Music Review: Still solid several Tuesday's later
Hit: 3 Stars
3 stars maybe a little harsh, but there's so much more Sheryl can do as we learned from her eponymous sophomore work. That CD is a pinnacle recording' this one...well this one's Crow just getting started, getting warmed up for things to come.There are moments on this CD that grab you and foretell Crow's future eminence in the world of rootsy, funky blues/rock/country 70's rock-pop. "Tuesday Night Music Club" is a little disheveled, a little incoherent. Crow's voice isn't as strong as it can be. Some of the lesser songs drag on to some degree like the jazz lounge, "We Do What We Can". "The Na-Na Song" is slightly vapid and comes across as a failed attempt on spoken cool lists ala R.E.M's "The End of the World" and maybe a little of the Beatles. It just doesn't come off.
But we forgive her for fleshing out her sound (Steinbeck didn't start out with "Grapes of Wrath"), because in between these trials and misses is some true gems. Of course there's the obvious pop fun of "Leaving Las Vegas" and "All I wanna Do," but where Crow and crew really make their mark is the Fleetwood Mac-esque, "Strong Enough", the raw funk fun of "Solidify" and finally the Gospel whispered truth of "I Shall Believe." That's the Crow we've grown to know and love. Fly baby Fly. If you're new to Crow, start with her 2nd CD, "Sheryl Crow." That's the shiny object you can't resist to add to the nest. Caw, Caw!
Free Music Review: SOME GOOD SONGS, SOME NOT SO GOOD SONGS
Hit: 3 Stars
As many have noted, Sheryl Crow is spiritually a late-'60s or '70s musician who got plopped down into the '90s. Although she updates that classic rock sound, the material she is working with rarely rises to the level of the iconic music she so clearly loves. Sometimes Crow beats musical ideas to death, as in the plodding bass of "What I Can Do for You," the catchy (for the first 20 or so times) but ultimately deadening Stones-like guitar riff of "Can't Cry Anymore," the two-note chorus of "Run Baby Run," or the neverending, simple guitar riff of "No One Said it Would be Easy" (a song whose sound of languid guitars with strong echo sounds like an outtake from a Chris Isaak album). "I Shall Believe" drags, and the neo-Disco "Solidify" is irritating and has an exceptionally weak melody.That is not to say that Crow's album is without its charms. I still love the hit, "All I Wanna Do," which manages to take Stealer's Wheel's unforgettable "Stuck in the Middle With You" groove and give it a '90s spin that is so infectuously catchy and happy that you can't help but "wanna have some fun." The percussion, guitars, and strings which slide around chromatic intervals give it an unforgettable charm.
"Strong Enough" was another superlative song from this album, with a folky, direct sound that reminds me of Jewel's "Who Will Save Your Soul?" Crow comes across as strong yet vulnerable.
Much of "We do What we Can" has a cheesy, lounge singer sound, with her father doodling around in the background on a muted trumpet. (Note to Crow: if you want a song to sound like a jazz standard, don't use a drum machine. Note #2: if you do use a drum machine, at least make it play a swinging rhythm.) It's only in the brief middle section that the song really takes off and the musicians finally seem to unwind.
"The Na-Na Song," with its rapid-fire, one-note stacatto delivery of political semi-nonsense, is basically a musical steal from John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance," which stole from a Bob Dylan song whose title I can't remember but that includes the lyric, "Don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." In fact, this song sounds like something that could have come off of Lennon's Phil Specter-produced album, "Imagine."
Crow is not above borrowing from more contemporary sources. If you can't hear U2's "One" when listening to "What I Can Do For You," then pay more attention to the chord progressions.
On balance, this is a decent album, but the quality varies greatly from song to song. Every few months I pop it into my CD player, but I usually keep my hand on the remote control to skip over some of the songs. If somebody told me that I never could hear this album again, I'd be mildly disappointed but hardly crushed. Personally, I'd rather just listen to the Eagles, Lennon, the Stones, and the other artists Crow is so influenced by than listen to this second-hand product.