Advantages: Advantages? There are none! Disadvantages: Ack! Read the review!
If I could summarize MelissaEtheridge's "Breakdown" in just one sentence, it would
be the following:
"This record flipping SUCKS!"
Oh wow. First I sing the praises of MelissaEtheridge, then I say that one
of her most recent recordings just plain stinks? Am I on drugs? Nope!
"Breakdown" is as rotten as three-week-old tomatoes, ladies and gentlemen!
MelissaEtheridge had a great start. Her debut, and the two albums that
followed it, were nothing short of outstanding. Brilliant and original, she ensured that her raw emotions and truthful messages were captured to the fullest extent possible. She could play guitar like no other, with her very own blend of acoustic and electric styles that made for formidable and slightly-challenging entertainment for the listener. Her music was worth buying, and listening to several ...
Advantages: Original. Excellent debut from Etheridge. Talented vocal and instrumental work. Disadvantages: The Gawd-awful liner notes! AAH!
Etheridge, a rock guitarist and singer who was brand new to the scene and enjoying a fair amount of success with her debut album - obviously the self-titled one that I am reviewing here.
Eventually Mom went out and purchased the cassette. Oh yes, the days before the simplicity and convenience of compact discs! It cost her something like seven dollars, which would be only God knows how many pounds in UK currency. (If anybody knows the conversion formula, if one exists, I would LOVE to know about it! This whole UK currency thing confuses me to no end.)
MelissaEtheridge launched one hell of a solid record as her introduction to the world. It is a simple recording - ten tracks of her very own songs, with very basic liner notes and cover art. Unfortunately, the simplicity of the liner notes means that all lyrics were crammed into ...
Advantages: A fantastic, rocking album Disadvantages: Inolving Melissa? I don't think so!
Well it is true that I have a bit of a thing about Melissa, in an older lady kinda way, but my other love is music.
There are too many heartstring old lurve songs out there and Melissa's rock style, hard luvin nature keeps the album away from anything like that.
With songs that make you want to rock as your driving, combined with those that keep your feet tapping whilst keeping with the sexual side of love and the strong (not weak) emotions that can surround love.
This (now 40 something) rocker continually impresses me with her albums, and though I will agree that this is not her best album (check out her latest - lucky, - me thinks she is in a new happy relationship) it certainly beats the majority of other albums out there.
If you want some good fun rock, intermingled with something slighlty softer this is the way to go. ...
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Product details
Title
Breakdown [ECD]
Performer
Melissa Etheridge
Genre
Rock & Pop
Sub Genre
Country Rock
Release Date
04/10/1999
Original Release Year
1999
Label / Distributor
Mercury / Universal Music
Producer
Melissa Etheridge; John Shanks
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
731454660822
Catalogue Number
5466082
Additional notes
Album Notes
This is an Enhanced CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Personnel: Melissa Etheridge (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars); Greg Leisz (electric, lap steel & pedal steel guitars, mandolin); John Shanks (guitar, autoharp, dulcimer, marimba, bass, Theremin, loops, background vocals); Jon Brion (electric & baritone guitars); Patrick Warren (keyboards, vibraphone); Rami Jaffee (keyboards); Kenny Aronoff (marimba, drums, shaker, loops); Pino Palladino, Mark Browne (bass); Steve Ferrone (drums, percussion); Matt Chamberlain (drums, loops); Jim Keltner, Abe Laboriel Jr. (drums); Loopalicious, Gota Yashiki, Brian Macleod (loops). Engineers: Marc Desisto, Neal Avron, Greg Goldman. BREAKDOWN was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. "Angels Would Fall" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and Best Rock Song. "Enough Of Me" was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Performance. During the four years between BREAKDOWN and 1995's YOUR LITTLE SECRET, Melissa Etheridge concentrated on starting a family and continued staying on the sidelines as her record label got caught up in corporate restructuring. This extended down-time had a settling effect on the leather-lunged vocalist that resulted in her sixth release being the most sedate and introspective record to its point. Gone is the bar-band banshee whose fervor on songs like "Bring Me Some Water" could peel paint off the wall. Instead, the native Kansan kicks back, digs deep and writes about the intricacies of relationships, yearning and loss in a way that would make her hero Bruce Springsteen proud. Infidelity is sunken into a dream state throughout "Into the Dark," thanks to lots of shimmering guitar and disconnected background vocals that hint at Kate Bush. Unrequited love also gets a thorough reading as Etheridge masterfully piles on the religious imagery throughout "Angels Would Fall." Although BREAKDOWN's darkest moment comes out within the jagged "Scarecrow," a tribute to murdered gay teen Matthew Shepard, Etheridge offers up a ray of hope with "Truth of the Heart," a jangly message of optimism that reflects her newfound parenthood.
Album Reviews
Rolling Stone (10/28/99, p.103) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...heartfelt, introspective, robustly sung....There's a welcome fragility in the acoustic-led arrangements....Etheridge the artist eclipses Etheridge the human being."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Breakdown
2.
Angels Would Fall
3.
Stronger Than Me
4.
Into The Dark
5.
Enough Of Me
6.
Truth Of The Heart
7.
Mama I'm Strange
8.
Scarecrow
9.
How Would I Know
10.
My Lover
11.
Sleep
12.
Touch And Go (CDL)
13.
Cherry Avenue (CDL)
14.
Beloved (CDl)
Ciao
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