Never Enough - Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Sucks Later, But...

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.) Melissa Etheridge 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 ...

Sarah_B 24.11.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Melissa Etheridge - Melissa Etheridge

Never say never

Advantages: good characters, good portrayal of relationships, easy read, some surprises
Disadvantages: a lot of cliches/stereotypes

to tell you the strengths and weaknesses of this particular literary creation. The way this book is structured, the reader follows different characters through their lives, chapter-by-chapter. Although written in the third person throughout, some chapters will focus on an individual character's thoughts, others will home in on a particular relationship between two or more characters with all its up and downs between the characters. And again others will bring together all the friends in one big unity. Melissa Hill does well at getting the characters across in her writing. To me the most special character is Robin, a quiet and lovely individual who suffers from a severe peanut allergy that strongly affects her everyday life. Watching Robin come to terms with this allergy and other issues that have made her life complicated, is ...

Delicate_Orchid 22.05.2006 (28.05.2006) · Read full review
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Review of Never say never - Melissa Hill

This Record Is Worse Than...AHHH...It Just Sucks.

Advantages: Advantages? There are none!
Disadvantages: Ack! Read the review!

after the release of Breakdown, Melissa and long-term girlfriend Julie Cypher break up - whatever the case, I generally like Melissa's music, but this song in particular fell very short of the mark in my book. Then there's the first single, "Angels Would Fall." It is hardly a heartfelt sentiment: Rather, it sound as if Etheridge is using some kind of software via her computer that generates random lyrics to fit into the pattern of a musical piece she has written. This is not amusing, nor is it entertaining. Rather, it bothers me on a deeper level, and I find it mildly disturbing because this is NOT the quality of music that Melissa Etheridge has released in the past: "So I'll come by and see you again I'll be such a very good friend Have mercy on my soul I will never let you know Where my mind has been" Okay. Granted, it all ...

Sarah_B 25.11.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Breakdown - Melissa Etheridge