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This was the Sunday Pitchfork Review:


I'm listening for the first time. It's pretty awesome, it's like some weird bridge between Mary J Blige's hip hop soul and the neo-soul that followed.
 


I'm not a big fan of hero worship. I never got the baited breath for the guy talking, or being cajoled into identifying with pop culture stuff. It felt crass and manipulative in a way it's hard to really put my finger on. I thought it was weird watching people do it to Dylan or the Beatles in old media and it just didn't make sense to me. It's one reason I didn't really like TV shows like "my so-called life" or paid much attention to interviews of musicians outside of musician-oriented media (I'll listen to j mascis talk about guitar or Mike d talk about old reggae, I don't want to hear either taking about politics tbh. Even if it's likely I'll agree with them).

So while I loved Nirvana, i learned to play all their stuff and saw them in 94, I never considered Kurt someone who spoke for me or kids in my social sphere. But seeing the skateboard with Eddie drawn in is the first time I really considered him a sort of kindred spirit. For sure he was a hesher trying to play along to "piece of mind" on cassette on a fucked up boombox. I relate to that a lot more than a cranky dude on TV with a baby and Courtney.
 
As always, surprised at how good Seasons of Glass is though. Wish she had a better voice, she is an interesting songwriter/composer.
 
Then there are songs like Dog Town that clearly show why so many people dislike her music (beyond the fact that she's Yoko and must have broken up the clearly already growing apart Beatles)
 
read up just a little on the album now and will probably relisten knowing what I now know, that this was her first album after John's death. So much about it, including the cover makes more sense now. Curious as to why it is not streaming or in print, knowing that.
 
Lee Newman said:
Then there are songs like Dog Town that clearly show why so many people dislike her music (beyond the fact that she's Yoko and must have broken up the clearly already growing apart Beatles)
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[Insert gif of chuck berry getting wild eyed pissed at her tone deaf caterwauling]



She's actually wonderful. "Listen the snow is falling" is one of the most beautiful songs.

But that was not the time and place for.... whatever that was, and that she did it anyway shows her shitty timing and judgement (and inability to read a room).
 
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avecigrec said:
The title track from that album had a profound effect on 12-year-old me when I heard it on Much Music (Canadaland's MTV equivalent) back when it came out. What a song!
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I knew I knew that song and then I read the review, it and "Waiting for the Miracle" were on the Natural Born Killers Soundtrack which was actually a bit of exploration inspiration back when it came out. Reznor could do no wrong and he was like, here listen to Cohen and Patsy Cline and Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn....
 
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