by Ani DiFranco List Price:$16.00 Our Price:$13.00 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Product Details
Media: Audio CD
Release Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Label: Righteous Babe
Average Customer Review: 0 Based on 0 reviews.
Sales Rank: 677
Tracks
1.
seeing eye dog
2.
studying stones
3.
sunday morning
4.
recoil
5.
parameters
6.
paradigm
7.
modulation
8.
minerva
9.
manhole
10.
lag time
11.
knuckle down
12.
callous
Editorial Review
Even after 15 years of releasing albums on her own Righteous Babe imprint, it's hard to know what to make of Ani DiFranco. Some see her as a folkie-punk-bisexual-feminist-radical-crap-kicker, while others reckon she's merely Alanis Morissette with better lyrics. On her 15th studio album the truth just might be somewhere in between. She does dysfunctional family portraits ("Studying Stones") and broken affairs ("Lag Time") just fine, but she also manages to leave room for rambling, autobiographical beat poetry ("Parameters"). And then there is the music. Matching acoustic guitars with earthy funk rhythms and soft moonlight moods with out-of-leftfield song arrangements, it reconfirms the one label everyone can agree upon: fiercely original. --Aidin Vaziri
Recommended Ani DiFranco Discography
Out of Range
Not a Pretty Girl
So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter
Little Plastic Castle
Revelling/Reckoning
Living in Clip
Top Customer Reviews
Rating:
4 Ani's still great, and that Kevin guy who gave her 1 star?
This isn't my favorite Ani album, but, like all of her albums, each song has it's moment and application to my own life. I shaved my head once (although, sadly, it I don't have the head for it), found myself wanting to angrily lash out at unrequited love (which is why I absolutely love Dilate), and am now growing a bit older and wiser, which I see happening in her work. And I love the fact that she's still giving the man the finger; it reminds me that I need to give up a bit of comfort for honesty, too.And, as for Kevin, the fellow who gave the album 1 star. Well, I'm sure he didn't even listen to it as, if you check out his record of reviews, all he does is write reviews with one star. This indicates to me that he is either a bitter, lonely man sitting in his basement blindly raging against some unknown enemy (could it be his own stunning inadequacy?) or he's just a hack who thinks he's being witty by trashing other people. Either way, I do feel sorry for him and hope that he finds some joy in life, before he bites the big one and the only thing proving his pitiful existence will be some pithy amazon.com reviews. So, Kevin, if you're reading this, take a shower, get dressed, and go meet some people. Or take up a hobby. Do something. You need to find some joy in life.
Rating:
4 Excellent Lyrics
Ani surely has the art of writing wonderful lyrics down pat. They are interesting, unique and contrary to other artists, they have a wonderful rhythm without any sophmoric rhyme scheme. In this album, there is both the classic Ani acoustic guitar riff I love so much from other albums along with new sounds. Even if you've never been an Ani fan, she is always a fresh voice for music today.
Rating:
5 Exceptional
This is Ani's most intuitive album yet. The small nuances between what the listener is thinking, feeling, and hearing are what make it so phenomenal. It's gotten to the point where Ani hardly has to say/sing it anymore, the listeners just get her. Her feelings are embodied by every guitar's strum, the tone of her voice, and soft or hard vowels in her lyrics. This album is truly exceptional. "Sunday Morning" and "Studying Stones" are particular outstanding masterpieces.
