As she so repeatedly displays on her new album, This Way, Jewel loves the coffeehouse folk-music mode of sitting around singing 'bout the state of the world, the way Tori Amos loves Bart¢k and Janet Jackson loves dance. "They say that you're only half-alive/Till you give extra whitening a try," Jewel avers in a reference to advertising and toothpaste on "Jesus Loves You," a s...(展开全部) As she so repeatedly displays on her new album, This Way, Jewel loves the coffeehouse folk-music mode of sitting around singing 'bout the state of the world, the way Tori Amos loves Bart¢k and Janet Jackson loves dance. "They say that you're only half-alive/Till you give extra whitening a try," Jewel avers in a reference to advertising and toothpaste on "Jesus Loves You," a surging little rock tune that's all loopy commentary and sweet groove. But out of that often cute and precious folky-poetic tradition, Jewel has delivered recordings - "Foolish Games" from her 1995 debut, Pieces of You, "Hands" and "Barcelona" from 1998's Spirit - that create their own luscious systems of personal observation, worry and hope. The apparent simplicity of folk presents wondrously complex and sexy possibilities for Jewel. She's one of the most richly idiomatic female pop singers of her generation, combining the blazing timbral containment of Karen Carpenter with the rootsy looseness of Bonnie Raitt. With This Way, Jewel continues on - elegant, earthy, engaged. Unlike Spirit, where producer Patrick Leonard draped her essential folkiness in stylish L.A. keyboard auras, This Way finds Jewel in Nashville, working with producer-guitarist Dann Huff. The music has no particular Nashville characteristic except one: an unwavering concentration on melody and arrangements. Huff adds punch and color - Southern accents and ranging Western backdrops - to the music. Yet the arrangements of songs such as "Standing Still" and "This Way," both of which boast tunes a nation could sing, or the stark romantic ballad "Break Me," are all about Jewel - her voice, her thoughts, her stories. She truly breaks out twice. On "I Won't Walk Away," Jewel and Huff travel to a Continental soundscape of moody strings and tinkling pianos. "Sometimes," she sings, "the world don't make sense," amid a poignant, magisterially sensible arrangement. But on "Love Me, Just Leave Me Alone," all her Seventies rock-chick leanings take flight as Huff and his band pull a Black Crowes. It's there, among "wolf bite" mothers and loser "turtleneck" guys, that she delivers quite a line indeed: "I tried," she sings, "to be unlovable." Jewel has little talent for that. JAMES HUNTER (RS 882 - November 22, 2001) 转自rolling stone
Jewel从初中开始听,一直听到现在,算算也有8年了。 这一张专辑是现在最喜欢的,四年前开始听起。 最喜欢的歌是Sometimes it'll be that way. 词写得有趣,唱得收放自如。 现场版的录音。 cleveland 和standing still 也是喜欢的。 至于 New Wild West,和最早的Who will sav...
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Jewel最好的专辑 最棒的一张封面 上中学时从广播里第一次听到这张专辑 然后就爱上了她的声音 很简单 Standing Still Break Me Do You Want To Play This Way Cleveland 这几首直到现在还是我最喜欢的歌 尤其是Break Me那个尾音 太震撼了
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0 有用 松鼠小姐 2009-03-11 11:48:03
欧美女声里面很少的清澈的声音,一听难忘。THIS WAY可以反复repeat。
0 有用 口袋_肥力士 2008-08-17 23:35:52
独立的好东西~
0 有用 Garyblink188 2010-03-26 12:28:07
not bad album with againt war topic songs
0 有用 Arthur 2013-04-13 19:51:46
继续从奇葩民谣往更正常更流行更多元的方向走,有往摇滚方向走的趋势,鼓点吉他加重,唱法扎实(还嚎了几秒),而有个把首流行民谣确实好听,但其它的就很普通,把路边卖艺民谣丢到Live加曲里,还真连吐槽都找不到点了
0 有用 新村萌香 2015-05-04 12:50:34
http://www.xiami.com/album/113081
0 有用 Stargazer 2020-09-17 13:41:48
@2011-02-09 18:51:00
0 有用 Arthur 2013-04-13 19:51:46
继续从奇葩民谣往更正常更流行更多元的方向走,有往摇滚方向走的趋势,鼓点吉他加重,唱法扎实(还嚎了几秒),而有个把首流行民谣确实好听,但其它的就很普通,把路边卖艺民谣丢到Live加曲里,还真连吐槽都找不到点了
0 有用 暗夜骑士 2020-10-04 19:17:05
凑合
0 有用 超级马甲 2023-08-21 13:37:57 上海
@2015-04-06 04:02:26
0 有用 Sylvia 2019-12-06 04:56:00
serve the ego