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I like Tigers and Monkeys, mostly because the songs remind me of the mid-1980s and because she's a good singer and kinda indie-cute, and because of Fred Armisen's cameo in the video for "Fire Escape".

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 13 January 2007 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

Eddie Money or his producer buffs too much of the rock'n'rolling out

Or maybe he just needs a better band! Somebody else figure it out.

― xhuxk (xheddy), Saturday, 13 January 2007 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

na na, Seger's voice has lost some of its range, judging by Face The Promise, but he's still a lot better than Eddie Money, jeezus. Money needs a better him, not just a better band. Speaking of making the most(or enough) of a limited voice, and of Blackie Farrell, Dave Alvin does a good version of Farrell's "Sonora's Death Row," which is regretful, but also excited, when he remembers what he did to get there! (And the music def concurs.)That's on West Of The West, subtitled Songs From California Songwriters. Mostly good, but I won't say more now cos might be reviewing it. When I lived in Louisville, the natives would sometimes come out with some bizarre 'billy thang, story, expression, or just extra twang, to let the yankee know: "You on our side of the river now, Buckeye".(Of course, the Greater Cincinnati Airport was on our side too.) Later, The Pagans' Mike Hudson wrote in CLE about how Ohio citydwellers were always worried about 'billies swarming into town and taking all the jobs, so yeah, not surprised there's a ridge between my mountain kin and others. However (to some extent), country singers from Thurber Country include Bobby Bare and David Allan Coe. H'mmm...

― don (dow), Saturday, 13 January 2007 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

(Can I include Coe's birthplace of Akron as "Thurber Country," even though Thurber, who was at least as unsettling and sometimes malevolent prescence as Coe ever pretended to be, at least judging by some bios and memoirs of co-workers, like Brendan Gill's Here At The New Yorker, was from Columbus, AKA Cowtown? Yes, cos a state of mind etc, and the Brit crit who summed up the brief Akroncore hype as presenting " a smelly Oz," though didn't mean it in a bad way). Also, Steubenville's own Dean Martin, at least perthose Colletors Choice reissues on xxhuxx's his Nashville ballot. Anthony, I'll check the stripper book and also, do you know about the album Songs From Chippy, stage review of songs by Jo Carol Pierce, Terry Allen, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Wayne Hancock, Robert Earl Keen, based on passages from The Chippy Diaries, actual diaries of women who worked the labor camps and boomtowns. And you especially might get into the comic but serious supermarket cosmography of Jo Carol's Bad Girls Upset By The Truth (only way I'll go to Hell is with Jo Carol as my guide).

― don (dow), Saturday, 13 January 2007 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, Money had way better singles in the '80s than Seger (forget the '90s for both of them). And Seger's grunting on most of his new album is painful. But still, yeah, it is still probably better than Eddie's latest, on ambition alone (plus some of it kinda rocks.) And Bob seemed amazingly nice when I talked to him last fall. (His kids are due to go to West Bloomfield High School, where I went; he lives in Orchard Lake -- presumably on the lake, though I can't absolutely vouch for the latter.) (In the middle of Orchard Lake is Apple Island, which back in high school we were led to believe was the only school-district-owned island in the country, though in retrospect that may well have been a suburban myth.)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Saturday, 13 January 2007 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

Willowz, Chautauqua, coming out on Dim Mak -- definitely more recognizably country than any of the other indie-rock stuff I've been gabbing about here. Also stodgier than most of it. As I recall (somebody should check this) Marcus and Christgau are both fans. I thought their debut EP a couple years ago was kinda fun, and their debut album later was consistently crafty, but this followup's mostly leaving me cold despite (or because of?) moving in a more blues and Appalachian direction. Mostly they sound like White Stripes except less good, except for the song (track #8) where they sound like Smashmouth but less good. #10 had some nice exploratory guitar in it though. (On my advance the song titles are only on the disc, not on the sleeve. Disc's still in changer, but not for long.)

"The Ballad of The Smoking Gun" on Tigers & Monkeys' album has a very cool (and very blatant) Ricky Wilson type guitar twang making it dance. "From Where I Stood" is a nice alt-countryish slow one.

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 14 January 2007 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

Or maybe Willowz sound like the Kills? (Who have never been all that exciting themselves?) (Which reminds me: Don't lots of Royal Trux fans claim White Stripes didn't do anything Royal Trux hadn't done first? Nothing I've ever heard by Royal Trux supports such a claim.)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 14 January 2007 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

(so like for instance "siren song" on the willowz album is a blatant old-timey jigging move with run-of-the-mill tuff-blooze-mama yowling atop, no fun at all and a lot less jubilantly poppy than when these kids were actually still kids, as i recall. the smashmouthy track is called "all i need"; the guitar jam is in "choose a side"; etc.)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

(so i guess what i'm also trying to get at with a notable lack of coherence is that, whereas those first two willowz records were at least marked by a certain sense of possibility and discovery -- which sense i still hear to some extent in tigers & monkeys etc. -- the new album seems all shtick, and not even interesting shtick at that. though if somebody else hears it otherwise, i'll happily to go back and listen again. as is, they seem like yet another promising band who peaked with their debut EP then slid downhill from there.)

(and p.s: no, smashmouth really aren't very good in the first place.)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:49 (nineteen years ago)

looking at all your year-end ballots, i was struck by the complete absence of danielle peck, who made a few of my favorite songs last year (the somewhat sappy but incredibly sexy "kiss you on the mouth," the rocking kiss-off tune "sucks to be you," the rollicking "findin' a good man"). she doesn't show up anywhere on the 2006 rolling country thread either, save for an appearance in a lengthy radio airplay chart that xhuxk posted. did that album simply have no traction, no presence, or did people hear it and not like it?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 14 January 2007 05:34 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking personally, fact checkking cuz, I like the album and I like "Finding a Good Man", but neither are top 10 material, as far as I'm concerned. Just not personally my favorite type of country.

― Greg Fanoe (JustFanoe), Sunday, 14 January 2007 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

why did no one tell me that gene pitneys mecca is so genius

― pinkmoose (jacklove), Sunday, 14 January 2007 06:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still waiting (and wanting) to hear Danielle Peck. (I still haven't heard the Taylor Swift album, either. Ditto the Wreckers; ditto '06's Sugarland; ditto '06's Shedaisy. Someday maybe I'll find cheap copies. And those are just the beginning of the list...)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 14 January 2007 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

*Don't lots of Royal Trux fans claim White Stripes didn't do anything Royal Trux hadn't done first?*

interesting: last night sharon and I were talking about the white stripes and their antecedents, and she dismissed jack and his rhythmically challenged wife/sister: "they didn't do anything the flat duo jets didn't do years before." I dunno about royal trux, but I do like royal crescent mob!

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Flat Duo Jets live once in the early '90s in Philly. They were okay, I suppose. But just like Royal Trux: No songs that stuck. Whereas White Stripes have plenty. (Maybe to people who don't care about singing or tunes or hooks, White Stripes were just a ripoff?)

In unrelated news (though somewhat related to the Willowz' blooze-mama schtick maybe), I just listened to and couldn't stand the Amy Winehouse album (or the parts of it I could make it through before I gave up, anyway.) Strained-vocal "fine taste" "soul" malarkey from the UK; comes complete with obligatory Billie Holiday comparisons. Huge over there, apparently; could well hit here. Let's hope not.

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 14 January 2007 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

I reviewed the new Sexsmith for our New Times: I think I compared him to Macca without the "abject cluelessness before existence"--though I'm not sure what I meant by that. More that he's good with a melody and a sentiment, and sometimes makes existential considerations stick, but that he's hopelessly vague. New record doesn't benefit from reunion with Froom. His first album is still a keeper, though, and you could make a lovely Best Of with a couple songs from each of the rest.

― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Sunday, 14 January 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

xp: Come to think of it, I guess that FDJets show I saw was more mid '90s. And again, it's possible their records were better than I remember; maybe they did have songs that deserved to get on the radio. But I doubt it. (Also not sure what they or Royal Trux did that, say, Hi Sheriffs Of Blue or the Gibson Bros. hadn't done before. And not sure what those bands did that Flamin Groovies hadn't done before. And so on and so forth, back to actual blues by black people.) (Who cares if they weren't all duos; I'm talking about the sound, not the trappings.) (There are also Detroiters who say White Stripes owe it all to the Gories, who as far as I've been able to discern basically amounted to a half-assed Cramps ripoff, and hardly the first half-assed Cramps ripoff from Detroit either.)

So, back to "actual" country: I'm definitely liking Jason Michael Carrol's rockers ("Waitin in the Country," "I Can Sleep When I'm Dead," "Honky Tonk Friends", and especially the yeah slightly rap-like "Anywhere U.S.A.") over his ballads ("Alyssa Lies," "Love Won't Let Me," "Let It Rain.") Though maybe the latter just need more time.

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 14 January 2007 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have much use for that Alvin album (save the version of John Stewart's "California Bloodlines"); the whole thing really drags and he has little-to-zero voice for interpretation. Also: Tom Russell has not been a positive influence.

― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Sunday, 14 January 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

I had the first Flat Duo Jets record, and saw 'em live once (opening for the equally overrated Jon Spencer Blues Explosion). They were okay but totally forgettable.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 14 January 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

(Ha, Jon Spencer Blue Explosion! Completely forgot about them! Yet another band who couldn't write a song to save their lives -- or wouldn't, anyway, because Jon was too busy with his stupid minstrel-shout shtick -- who White Stripes allegedly "ripped off".)

So Edd, have you figured out what exactly Alyssa is lying about in "Allysa Lies"? It's growing on me now just 'cause I'm intrigued by the apparent mystery of it, but maybe I just haven't listened closedly enough. If she a victim of sexual abuse? Bulimia? Cutting? Or is she just a chronic liar? (Her and her wife, Morgan Fairchild?)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 14 January 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

top four typos in previous post:

1. Blue
2. Allysa
3. closedly
4. If

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 14 January 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Actually Jason Michael Carrol's talk parts are way more Eddie Rabbit than rap (though he might not be complaining when he refers to "big city hip-hop wailing when I stop," presumedly with his car.)

Maybe when Alysa lies in the classroom she's lying down (as i taking a nap.) (Totally permitted if she's in Kindergarten!)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Sunday, 14 January 2007 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

I like "Alyssa Lies", but yeah I'm not close to understand what's going on with it.

My goal this year is to stay up on current country, because I've been really loving this genre lately. But only for the last 1.5 years or so so I have a lot of "catching up" to do, hence the G. Brooks comments above.

OK the Greg Fanoe crash course in modern country is continuing now with Martina McBride. I was expecting to like her stuff a lot, based on the first few singles that I heard, but on first listen, none of her albums really struck me. "Independence Day", "This One's For The Girls", "When God Fearin' Women Get the Blues" I absolutely love though. I haven't liked her ballads enough because I think they rely on the strength of her voice too much, to the detriment of the songs tehmselves. "Learning to Fall" is good though.

If anybody has any suggestions at all for any essential country albums from the 90s and 00s (and nothing is too obvious/canonical that I would clearly be familiar with it, short of Dixie Chicks or Shania [both of which I love]), I'll check out any and all suggestions. Otherwise, I'll proceed in essentially random order. I think Vince Gill is up next, once I've had more time to process Martina and Garth.

― Greg Fanoe (JustFanoe), Monday, 15 January 2007 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

And sorry about this, I promise not to tie up this thread with boring "Greg's Tour Through Country" posts too much.

― Greg Fanoe (JustFanoe), Monday, 15 January 2007 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

But why Vince? He's as in-one-ear-out-the-other antispeptic as they come! Maybe that's what people like about him? (Uh, I think I liked a duet he did with Amy Grant once. But Amy was better without him.) (And I admittedly never heard his four-disc set. Life is too short.

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 15 January 2007 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm guessing that Alyssa is a little girl who's being abused, and who is eventually killed, the point being that someone should have noticed earlier and done something to put a stop to it. I could be very wrong about that, mind, it's not very clear.

I also think that Jason Michael Carroll should get his bleedin' hair cut, though I suppose that's his business.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

I checked the lyrics on line, and figured it out:

Okay, so basically "Allysa Lies" is "Luka," until Allysa dies:

"Alyssa lies to the classroom,
Alyssa lies everyday at school,
Alyssa lies to the teachers
as she tries to cover every bruise"

What makes it hard to decipher is how Jason mumbles that "bruise" line.

And "Lookin' At You" is Jason's Kenny Chesney-via-"Sharks" by Jimmy Buffet summer-sun move. I like when he runs into the mailbox, I like the baseball line that (probably) inadvertently echoes "Brown Eyed Handsome Man", and I like the three of four seconds of melody that even more inadvertently echo Ryan Paris's Italodisc classic "Dolce Vita," but I'm still not sure it adds up to all that good a song.

And I totally agree about the dude's hair. He looks like he should making Shawn Mullins type music (though maybe he sometimes sorta is.)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

(Greg, the nice people here are used to tolerating my know-nothingness as I keep trying to get a handle on what's going on in country, but then I'm British so at least I have an excuse of sorts. I've been having variable luck using the listings of classic contemporary country LPs here:

http://countryuniverse.wordpress.com/tag/classic-albums/ )

I'm still really enjoying this Sunny Sweeney record, which it seems has been picked up by someone or other for proper release later this year: http://cdbaby.com/cd/sunnysweeney . Just as I was patting myself on the back for winkling out an obscure gem by scouring blog lists and so on, I read that she is on heavy rotation on the ultradull UK Radio 2 country show hosted by old beardo "Whispering" Bob Harris. BAH!

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, another Jason Michael Carrol question: In "Anywhere USA," does he say what kind of music the teen queen out past her curfew in her painted on blue jeans and powder-blue Subaru is listening to? One line sounds like it might be the Eagles, but I might be imagining that; he definitely says she's "bouncing to the beat, yo," so maybe it's hip-hop. More likely, though, he doesn't specify it at all.

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

That's a question which only those of you with access to promo copies or modern-young-people's-file-sharing will have a chance of answering.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I like Tigers and Monkeys, mostly because the songs remind me of the mid-1980s and because she's a good singer and kinda indie-cute

In that case you should check out this NYC band too (whose new album Born Too Late -- debut full-length after so many demo EPs and singles I lost count -- I also like) (caveat: no country here that I can discern; maybe they'd make more sense on the teenpop thread):

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=3425560

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

they're cute all right but this is what caught my eye on their MySpace page: "The Clash, Shangri-Las, Adverts, Talking Heads, Beatles, Shirelles, Blondie, Pretenders, Libertines, and much much more." DING DING DING

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

AND their semi-title-track "Born Too Late 1978" seemingly gets its bassline from Motown via the Jam's "Town Called Malice" and its title from Mott the Hoople. (My other favorites on the album are probably "Hollow Tooth," "Tickle My Spine," "Last Man" which turns into Suzi Quatro's version of "I Wanna Be Your Man" at the end, and perhaps "Kids" and "Ballad of the 9th Precinct.")

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Greg - I've played a similar game of catch-up the past couple of years as far as trying to get abreast of pop-country. From my own experience I can tell you I didn't get a whole lot out of Clint Black or George Strait (though possibly I was listening to the wrong stuff), but I instantly adored almost everything I heard from Alan Jackson. I found a good bit that I liked from McBride as well as Lee Ann Womack, Brooks and Dunn, and Faith Hill, and had pretty much hit-or-miss success with Tim McGraw and Randy Travis.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

I'd say Jackson's career (though less so lately, with his new album) is nearly as spotty as Randy Travis's or George Strait's, and Tim McGraw's is way more consistent than any of those guys. (Any of Tim's last five albums is worth owning -- one reason I'm stumped by the people who feel he needed a best-of last year) (So actually, he may be up there with Toby Keith and Montgomery Gentry et. al. in the most-consistent-artist-of-decade sweepstakes, come to think of it.)

Martina McBride's got a decent Greatest Hits set from 2001 that's worth picking up, though yeah, that's before her great "This One's For the Girls," which is a shame. You already named her three best songs; I'd likely put "Love's the Only House" in fourth place.

Turns out the best tracks on Tigers and Monkeys' album ("Loose Mouth," "Rave On," "The Ballad of the Smoking Gun") are among their least alt-or-whatever country. "Stay Up" and "Sweet William" and "From Where I Stand" jangle a bit, though not very compellingly.

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

(And "Sweet William" is sadly not a cover of the Millie Small oldie.)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

(Though checking reminds me that McGraw's career pinnacle A Place in the Sun came out pre-'00s, in 1999. So he'd be a step or two below MG or TK {and maybe the Dixie Chicks} in this decade at least.)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, xhuxk, I'm really loving these three songs. A couple months ago, for something unrelated, I was sketching out my top 10 country singles of the decade (based on my still very incomplete knowledge, of course) and as I recall "This One's For the Girls" and "When God Fearin Women Get the Blues" were both on the shortlist. (I never did finish making the list, but I had settled on "Suds in the Bucket" and "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)" as numbers 1 and 2).

― Greg Fanoe (JustFanoe), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't get a whole lot out of Clint Black or George Strait (though possibly I was listening to the wrong stuff)

the song that made me fall in love with george strait (and, yeah, he has been spotty) is "amarillo by morning." i'm also quite in love with the soft, almost yacht-rocky "it just comes natural," the title cut of his 2006 album.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

yeah "it just comes natural" was on my country ballot, it sounds great on the radio

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

"amarillo by morning" is indeed awesomely glen-campbell-worthy, as is "the cowboy rides away." beyond that, i've never been convinced. (but this is far from the first time i've said this, and it's not like i've been dilligent in keeping up with the guy, so who knows?_

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

I mentioned Daryle Singletary Straight From The Heart (Shanachie) up above. I have no memory of his '90s hits, though supposedly (Edd said, I think) they were pretty good. New album's almost all covers (same strategy with the David Ball and Confederate Railroad albums Shanachie's putting out this season, neither of which I've heard), but the single ("Still Sing This Way," about how Daryle's willing to sell out to pop if his label wants him to but it won't work because he drawls too much) is an original, and may well be the first great country single of 2007. Other songs I like can be split between ones I've heard versions of before (Merle's "Bottle Let Me Down," John Anderson's "Black Sheep," Buck's "I've Got A Tiger By The Tail") and ones I haven't heard versions of before (Keith Whitley's "Miami, My Amy," somebody's "Lovin' On the Back Streets," somebody's "Fifteen Years Ago.") Which leaves a few more songs I don't really care about, though one of them ("Jesus And Bartenders") has a great title regardless. A real nice album overall.

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

That's good to hear. I've always kinda liked Singletary. What's he doing on Shanachie?

― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Greg, for probably too many contemporary country suggestions than you're looking for, check out the best albums & singles 1989-2006 lists at countryuniverse.com. Personally, I'd suggest the last three Gary Allan CDs.

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, that's countryuniverse.net

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'll second those last three Gary Allans. (So he'd be in the running for '00s etc etc etc too.) I need to catch up with his '90s output one of these days -- The album I found in Princeton last year was pretty good, but don't people swear by Smoke Rings In The Dark or whatever it was called? Don't think I've ever heard that.

As for Shanachie, the label's clearly branching out. (They've got '90s r&b stars Silk now, too -- also doing mostly cover songs.)

― xhuxk (xheddy), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

That countryuniverse.net guy (Kevin) has rated Up above Come On Over which baffles me. Paul W Dennis has rated The Woman In Me above Come On Over which I disagree with but at least understand. Anyways, Come On Over maybe I can't be objective about but well before I liked country music I loved this album. It was the first country album I really loved, and the last modern mainstream country album I would love for at least 5 more years. The singles still hold up; I still consider "You're Still The One" to be one of the all time great country ballads, while "Whatever You Do! Don't!" et al still stand up as great upbeat tunes.

I see that Kevin has rated Martina's Wild Angels at number 20 on this list, so maybe I should give that one a shot too. Even if his review does contain a completely unnecessary and unwarranted swipe at poor Mariah Carey.

― Greg Fanoe (JustFanoe), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

Had to reset my password to be able to post again, but glad to be back on the rolling thread!

Regarding Up vs. Come On Over, I rated the former higher for a couple of reasons. I thought the sheer scope of the project - the entire conceit of releasing three different versions of the same album - was wildly creative and pulled off very well. More importantly, I thought the songs were stronger and Twain's vocals were the best she's put down on record before or since. I love "You're Still the One" and "You've Got a Way", but I think "Forever and For Always" and "It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing" showcase her singing ability more.

I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority on that one, but I always seem to be on things like that.

As far as the Mariah swipe, maybe it's just me, but there was a stretch there where Mariah's songs were all sounding the same - 'Dreamlover', 'Fantasy', 'Heartbreaker' - and I think Martina's been doing the same thing. "Whatever You Say"="Where Would You Be"="How Far".

― Kevin C. (Kevin C.), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, that's a fair point on Up. Can't have a 100% consensus list. Actually that's not as unfair a comment on Mariah as I had initially thought (and it's definitely not just you). Mariah of that time period (mid 90s to early 00s), though, in all fairness, had probably the lowest ratio of quality of singles to quality of nonsingles of all time. She consistently avoided her best songs as singles. Still if Martina has an album as good as Mariah's Emotions I'll be surprised. Though I realize I'm almost as much a minority on that as you are on Up.

― Greg Fanoe (JustFanoe), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

I remember the Emotions album. I was uber-aware of pop music around that time period, and was just getting into country. I remember there being a great song on there called "If It's Over." And I liked the single "Can't Let Go."

― Kevin C. (Kevin C.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

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