Classic Or Dud - Sheryl Crow

tom, tom, tom. oh sigh.

Any chick who likes a beer buzz in the morning is my kind of gal. (Must go stock up cans of Kestrel Super Strong for the bag ladies in Russell Square).

What I don't like is by playing a relatively safe style of music, she's able to win acclaim from all bases without ever doing anything exciting or new. I've got three music channels, one roughly equivalent to MTV, one to VH1 and one to a country music channel. All three regularly play Sheryl - I might chastise the woman for being so WIDELY popular, commercially successful, critically acclaimed and because she has way too many Grammies in categories she probably didn't deserve, but I can't really hate her because she so so frequently comes up with the goods. How many female rock singers who surfaced in pre-1995 are still around with a similar level of success?

Oops. I just realised I actually do have "If It Makes You Happy" on single. What a fine song that one is. As for "Sweet Child Of Mine", it wasn't the greatest song in the world to begin with. The original worked not because it was a great song per se, it was just done perfectly. Do that song un-perfectly and it isn't going to work.

The reason why "female Rod Stewart" is such a great comparison is because I BLOODY CAME UP WITH IT, THOUGHT STEALER! Ha ha ha. Bastards :P

She still sounds like female Rod Stewart to me, except Rod Stewart in his tolerable phase, as opposed to Rod Stewart post-D'Ya THink I'm Sexy? (God, no, nasty old git)

Ludo

Some good songs, thought: Run, Baby, Run (its beginning is terribly evocative for me, terribly spacious); Strong Enough (sweet melodies); All I Wanna Do (the chords are relatively unusual. I think the track's great); If It Makes You Happy (for the chorus at least: I always thought it melodically good); and 'Mississippi', which I think was written by Dylan. Surely he didn't write it for her?

*I'd* write a song for her. Sheryl, if you're reading this, just drop me a line. I won't take long.

Sheryl kind of fascinates me because she's sooo middle america; she doesn't have any edge to play with whatsoever, but she still manages to write songs that get you somehow. Even though the quality of her voice is nothing extraordinary at first listen, she has a really amazing sense of harmony, and many people have praised her for her ability to instantly work up a harmony part and nail it on the first take.

She was in a sorority, the one for smart girls, and she was a hospitality hostess at college games, talking to prospective recruits about playing for the team. She sang in bar bands for extra cash, and then she was a music teacher. She's pretty and nice and keeps in touch with her old friends.

She sang backup for Jacko!

Merkin OTM ... her singles are usually excellent, esp. "soak up the sun".

what was good about her at her peak was her vocal delivery and weird-ass production, but now she sounds like she's on every sedative known to man, and even her depressing songs are trapped inside some lyrical gerbil wheel of good-fun-happy that they'll never get out of.

So I borrowed my sister's iPod shuffle, and was surprised to be knocked flat by a Sheryl Crow number. I've been skipping back to it for days, and mentally rewriting my top-ten-artists-of-the-nineties list.

I've just found out I was actually listening to 'Live and Learn' by the Cardigans.

Nevertheless, classic for 'My Favorite Mistake'. And for all the reasons upthread.

Her level of excellence is directly proportional to the tightness of her clothes.

So I borrowed my sister's iPod shuffle, and was surprised to be knocked flat by a Sheryl Crow number. I've been skipping back to it for days, and mentally rewriting my top-ten-artists-of-the-nineties list.

I've just found out I was actually listening to 'Live and Learn' by the Cardigans.

hahahahhaa

I really really really hate "Soak Up the Sun."

when did ally stop being british?

omg guys can I just

http://images.betterworldbooks.com/031/If-It-Makes-You-Healthy-Crow-Sheryl-9780312658953.jpg

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/05/showbiz/sheryl-crow-brain-tumor/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

yikes

Maybe I don't get around much but I never would've connected "huh, my memory's fried" with "I should get an MRI". Is this a thing? Hope she's OK

A bar I went to tonight played "all i wanna do" and "my favorite
Mistake" its been almost a decade since I heard the later and I have
to say it sounded fucking awesome. I must be getting old.

There was some talk upthread about her resembling Rod Stewart or Kravitz but I think that when she sounds good she resembles Bobbie Gentry.

I hate the 90's because you can easily tell the labels pressured artists like her to release crap like "soak up the sun" and you can tell she could do better by her than that. Even songs like "every day is a winding road" have the potential but are ruined by the arrangements choices and cardboard production.

"My Favorite Mistake" is awesome and I will broker no dissent.

It's not the kind of music I'm usually into, but there's something likeable about her. I like some of her smaller hits like "There Goes the Neighborhood" and "A Change Would Do You Good".

Did Sheryl Crow break up or something?

so i was reminiscing on childhood favorites and i remembered that i had the s/t when i was 10. and the one song that stuck out was the closer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT87bywo-cY

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit this song is good.

fuck it, this whole album slaps

just listened to this album the other day and it def rules

can never hear her name without thinking "throaty Dadrock songstress".

i cannot stop listening to sheryl crow

this song is obviously ridic but it's still so great and i really love the organ in the chorus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5y4g2Efa0w

Her interview a few weeks ago on Rolling Stone Now was p grebt: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/rolling-stone-music-now-podcast-sheryl-crow-my-life-in-music-w480320

I don't know if this is a controversial opinion or what, but The Globe Sessions seems like her best album imo.

Also, the new one from last month is v nice

I don't know if this is a controversial opinion or what, but The Globe Sessions seems like her best album imo.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, May 27, 2017 3:36 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it totally is

what a surprise

(Mine too though)

"Anywhere But Down"! Which didn't even make her comp!

Globe Sessions and S/t are both so great.

soak up the sun is so classic, just a ridiculously great pop song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uwuRakqSW8

yeah, Sheryl Crow is classic

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Uh. Well, yeah.

sherurl blow

My Favorite Mistake was one of my favorite pop songs when I was 12. She wisely chose to put the best part of the song at the end making it impossible for me to skip it. I wouldn’t change a thing about that song, it’s as perfect as they come.

This is a difficult one for me... too much nostalgia involved makes it hard to make a stand.

I think singles like “my favorite mistake”, “all I wanna do”, “home”, “strong enough”, “a change will do you good” amongst others are worth the classic consideration, but then singles like “leaving las vegas”, “everyday is a winding road”, “the first cut is the deepest”, “soak up the sun” and that abysmal cover of “sweet child o mine” are deserving of the dud category.

She’s firmly in the middle for me.

winding road is a jam, shut up

I don’t know, I like the slide guitar but that’s pretty much the only enjoyable aspect of it for me. It sounds like a song designed for ads or something.

i was surprised at how nu-hippie-ish the s/t was when i finally heard it but i only dimly remember the cultural attitudes of the mid '90s

the globe sessions is her best record i think, production and songcraft on point throughout

"everyday is a winding road" is a very good and catchy song but the lyrics are fuckin hiLARIOUS

which is to say i also really like them anyway

he was high on intellectualism

Winding Road is great, who gives a fuck about Sweet Child o' Mine anyway?

I like "Winding Road." I think "Soak Up the Sun" far more egregiously resembles a generic jingle. I don't think I've heard a song of hers since then.

Just now I learned that "Winding Road" is about Paul Hester quitting Crowded House midway through the tour that Crow was opening on. I saw that tour, it was a hoot. She was totally loose, a beer in one hand, cigarette in the other. When Hester quit (some time after the date I caught), she lent her drummer Wally to Crowded House. FWIW, that second album, self produced by Crow, has a lot of Crowded House connections. Neil Finn sings backup on "Road," Tchad Blake mixes, Mitchell Froom plays, bunch of others from Froom's circle play on the record. Wikipedia claims Crow "played most of the instruments on the album, including bass and guitar work and nearly all the keyboard parts," but there are a lot session ringers filing in the gaps on there.

so classic. "listen to coltrane, derail your own train", "read you comics in bed, scrape the mold of the bread, and serve you french toast again" i want a cassette with this b2b with tom petty's "you don't know how it feels" on it, and a cassette player in my car to play it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyihQtBes1I

map v otm

her lipstick in that video is such a moment

so many snarls

i listened to a newish sheryl crow song, "be myself" and .. not great! she would pretty much be the most amazing aunt to have in the world though, i'm convinced. divorced and single, naturally.

i was thinking of doing a beck vs sheryl crow poll but ilm would be predictably disappointing on that topic

I would register multi socks for Sheryl tho

Just listened to those two songs back-to-back to start my day, thanks, map!

We went searchin', through thrift store jungles
Found Geronimo's rifle, Marilyn's shampoo
And Benny Goodman's corset and pen
Well, okay, I made this up
I promised you I'd never give up

I'm not sure exactly what she was going for with this verse, but to me it captures the feeling of talking to a friend with depression and trying to find something innocuous but entertaining to take up conversational space, so you take these ordinary events like going to a thrift store and spin them into an elaborate story.

Just listened to those two songs back-to-back to start my day, thanks, map!

― Lily Dale, Thursday, January 21, 2021 5:25 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

awesome!!!

We went searchin', through thrift store jungles
Found Geronimo's rifle, Marilyn's shampoo
And Benny Goodman's corset and pen
Well, okay, I made this up
I promised you I'd never give up

I'm not sure exactly what she was going for with this verse, but to me it captures the feeling of talking to a friend with depression and trying to find something innocuous but entertaining to take up conversational space, so you take these ordinary events like going to a thrift store and spin them into an elaborate story.

― Lily Dale, Thursday, January 21, 2021 6:15 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this makes total sense to me.

😭😭😭

Kriss Smith
2 months ago
My mom had a stroke 22 years ago she is still with us but she has pretty ruff physical and mental handicao from it She was only 42 when it happened and she still to this day listens to this cd in her Sony dsc man and screams this song outside in the nice weather. Thank u for that Sheryl thank so much.

WanderBread
WanderBread
3 years ago (edited)
My mom used to blast this and scream the lyrics. i miss you everyday mom.

Edit: Thank you for all the likes and nice comments. She passed from stage 4 metastatic breast cancer 2014 at the age of 46. Always get breast exams. Do not feel uncomfortable to talk with loved ones about it. Getting checked annually can prevent the loss of life.
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very screamable chorus imo

really good guitar tones on the s/t and the globe sessions incidentally

"The Difficult Kind" is her high point IMO

it’s a song I heard a million times in high school and felt nothing towards. then I heard it sometime a couple of years ago and yeah maybe I just had to be in my thirties to get it, great song (iimyh)

i cannot stop listening to sheryl crow

― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, May 27, 2017 4:07 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

really good guitar tones on the s/t and the globe sessions incidentally

Furious these albums have never been released on vinyl (and that TNMC was a limited RSD thing). Maybe 2021 is the year!

I like what I've heard from her new album.