Bob asked: > How does [To Bring You...] compare to "Stories..."?
Much less of a conventional rock-n-roll album. It's very moody--lots of organ, etc. Her vocals do get a bit ragged in places (in a good way IMO), but the setting is much more stagey and dramatic (and, i guess, melodramatic) than on _rid of me_, for example. The _Stories_ tracks that would most fit here would be "The Mess We're In" and "Kamikaze" IMO--and the differences between these two tracks sort of point to the dominant forces underlying _Bring_. Think of it as a dispatch from the Howlin' Wolf Cabaret. :-) > BUT many of the same critics also > dig Liz Phair, I'm *not* getting into the Liz fight with you again. ;-) But, in any case, I do think PJ has ten times the talent of Liz, and I think quite highly of Liz. I'll start my own flame war--while I don't think anyone is this generation's Bob Dylan, if anyone is, it's PJ. And she's definitely this generation's Patti Smith. Hell, she's already put out as many great albums as Patti has. --Michael NP: Erykah Badu, _Baduizm_ ===== ____________________________________________________ "I'm just a little bit heiress, a little bit Irish, A little bit Tower of Pisa whenever I see ya, So please be kind if I'm a mess." --Rufus Wainwright, "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk" Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com
