View Single Post
  #10  
Old 12-30-2008, 05:34 PM
Stew_Matthews's Avatar
Stew_Matthews Stew_Matthews is offline
Addicted Ledgie
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Rye, NY
Posts: 676
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by RockALittle250 View Post
Lyrically, the songs sound incomplete. In my mind, they feel like demos that she just threw together, and then called it an album. There's just too many fragments within the songs, and collectively they don't fit together on the same album.
You express more eloquently the point I was trying to make.

Quote:
Originally Posted by louielouie2000
It was a straight forward back to basics rock album that she badly needed to make after Other Side of the Mirror, given what was going on musically in the early/mid 1990s (grunge: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc). She needed to put away the shawls and airy fairiness for this album, and show she was a legit rock artist, and I think she accomplished that mostly.
And on what tracks exactly did you pick up that Nirvana/Pearl Jam, 90's vibe? Rose Garden? I struggle with the concept that this album had any edge.
Reply With Quote