What Are You Listening To?

[SteveO]

I think in this case for me Crazy, Rickie Lee is an acquired taste ! She does an amazing cover of Hendrix's Up From the Skies !

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RICKIE LEE JONES "the magazine" cd, 1984.

Rickie's third full album if you discount the mini-lp "girl and her volcano"(which i also own along with the first two and another,making my total five)...
this one has a slight jazzy feel to it,but still, i regard it as easy listening(im not sure what easy listening really means or as comedian Billy Connolly says..."listening is easy, it happens to spite you!")
anyway, im not keen on this one, probably my least favourite jones set...
just no variation in the sound of the songs mostly, but i do love the gal's voice, so unique with that New York drawl...
she was big for, oh about five minutes...or for two albums i guess...and the chart placings represent that with a #44 high in the States, and #40 in the UK, only single that charted was "the real end" which only made it to #82 on the Billboard charts...and that sums up the strengh of this album IMO

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: prelude to gravity
best track: jukebox fury

tracks:

1. prelude to gravity *
2. gravity *
3. jukebox fury ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhZshszpOF8 audio
4. it must be love *
5. magazine *
6. the real end **
7. deep space *
8. runaround **
9. theme for The Pope *
10.the unsigned painting/the weird beast *

3s=1
2s=2
1s=7

rating: 1.4