Sheryl Crow - Wildflower
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Free Music Review: Beautiful...
Hit: 5 Stars
...simply beautiful. Her voice, the lyrics, the melodies, the instrumentation, everything. Excellent use of strings. It's not a happy album, though. I'm OK with that, but I wonder if Sheryl knew, subconsciously, that her union with Lance was doomed.Free Music Review: Good = Perfect
Hit: 5 Stars
This is her best album yet, hope there are more like this to come. There are real diamonds on this album: I know why, Good is Good, Always on your side and Wildflower (I prefer the acoustic version). Her voice is so beautiful, I wish she would make an acoustic album. It would never leave my CD player again.
Free Music Review: Thought I would never cry to a Shery Crow Song...
Hit: 3 Stars
I love Sheryl...love jaming to her songs while training at the gym, love the genius of her music, but Wildflower is just a tad bit deprssing to me. Sort of reminds me of Jann Arden.
This collection of tracks is lacking the fun beats and lyrics (The hidden track Subway from The Global Sessions is a good example) Sheryl Crow's trademark is known for. I think love has made her a bit retospective.
Nonetheless, every artist tends to stray from his/her material now and then. Wildflower is a beuatiful album to listen and sing to on a rainy day. It just lacks the fun I have come to expect on a Sheryl Crow cd. Come on girl...start rocking again!!!
Free Music Review: Let's Hope She Finds Herself, Post-Lance
Hit: 2 Stars
Sheryl Crow used to be one of my favorite female singer-songwriters. But with middle-age and celebrity, her music has gotten weaker and weaker. C'mon, C'mon was awful. Maybe "Good Is Good" will be her nadir. The whole Lance Armstrong thing was such a huge distraction, in which she clearly gave more than she got back. I look forward to what she might write -- if she faces up to the reality of being in a youth-oriented profession, single and in her mid-40s, if still obviously atractive and talented. Crow is more interesting on her own than she seems to recognize. If she shows more courage and gives up on the Prince Charming nonsense, she might produce something that ranks with her early work and that speaks to other baby boomers. If you're looking for something honest and introspective with Wildflower that ranks with her first few CDs, this isn't it. She's sounded lost for years.Free Music Review: A soulless widget stamped out on the pop assembly line
Hit: 3 Stars
Sheryl Crow on occasion can move me and make me believe she really believes what she's singing. Unfortunately it is a rare occasion. Some of her more playful work -- Soak Up the Sun, All I Want To Do, Every Day Is A Winding Road -- I find genuinely appealing because it does seem genuine and witty. On the somber side -- Safe And Sound, I Will Believe, even Weather Channel -- Sheryl can move me and sell the lyric.
So much for past glories. On the new record, Wildflower, we have a new level of perfection in production, melodies and arrangements. Everything is just a little too glossy. But unfortunately we don't find wit or heart in these lyrics. Even if Sheryl could sell this material, there's nothing to sell. Like a pop automaton, Sheryl Crow-bot soldiers on as if there was any *there* there. The lyrics are trite blah-blah.
I Know Why might actually be a real song, not just an amazing simulation. I'm not sure yet. I'm still trying to figure out if it means anything. At least while I'm struggling with that question, the music is gorgeous. I am nearly convinced on that basis alone. There's even a banjo. Yee haw!
One beautiful song does not an album make. The rest is pretty sonic wallpaper -- pop/rock with a bit of country flavor. The songs chug along like a slow-burn Neil Young rocker, but with more finesse.
For some reason I'm attracted to the album graphics -- I think I detect influences of Roger Dean's Yes album covers, some sixties-style psychedelia a la Yellow Submarine, but very dark and subdued in color and mood. It makes me long for the days of vinyl 12" album covers where you could actually see details. CD art is like Polaroid snapshots. boo hiss.
It mostly comes down to expectations. Sheryl's previous studio album showed signs of artistic growth, and I was hoping that growth would continue. Hopes dashed. This is by-the-numbers. Another master tape off the assembly line of the corporate music machine. Not that there's anything *wrong* with that. Just be careful -- listen to this CD somewhere before you actually shell out money to buy it.