Come Away With Me

Not my music

Boring

Pretty voice, but pretty dull music. Uninventive and uninspired backing which exists purely as a cushion for the singing to rest upon, which is a concept I can't really get to grips with - the whole package needs to be part of some kind of unifying statement or vision for me, not just window dressing.

She has a pretty voice but I don’t understand why this is on this list.

Three words. Dull as ditchwater.

So so dull. No personality, no edge - could be anyone singing those songs. That it's a Nepo baby makes this a firm one star.

Low 1 "Alexa, play chill music" Worst album yet. It feels incredibly empty, ai generated even. If I gave amy winehouse a 2 this has to be a low 1. Take away Amy's voice, her cutting lyrics, the modern twist on the instrumentals and what's left is this album. Ie absolutely nothing. The voice doesn't interest me, the backing and songs are utterly bland. Pure background cafe music

Charlotte says: I don’t like this one mom

i didn’t realise i’d entered a cosy new york coffee shop…

Day 16 She clearly has a great voice but I didn’t enjoy this album at all, just not to my personal tastes. 2/10 Highlight Cold cold heart

"Blues-pop", a genre I didn't even think would exist, and now I know it does. This is some sort of throwback monstrosity, no substance, just a bland crooner crooning out some pap. If this were playing in Starbucks, I would turn around and walk out. If this were playing on a telephone hold, I would hang up. This really is utter and unremitting shite, 1 star.

Boring Muzak for elevators

Very boring

Milquetoast? Lonestar is the best song so far. Painter Song had such a great vibe and potential until that pump organ/accordion solo came in and made it extremely trite.

um sonoro NÃO, OBRIGADO

Not my type. Too jazzy. Don't like it. Couldn't finish listening

No

Boring. I'm not rich enough to enjoy this

Just mind-numbingly boring. Like emotional music with the soul removed. I can imagine why millions of unhappily-married women bought this record, but it is so bland and uninspiring.

first song is nice, but then, it's too slow for my liking

1’5

Boring. Overhyped.

ce n'est pas trop mon style même si ce n'est pas mauvais mais j'ai pas aimé désolée.

Not my jam. I actually like her voice, it reminds me of Amy Winehouse. But it’s just too soft for me. I don’t even know what to call it. It’s jazzy, but it’s not jazz. It’s country-y sometimes, but it’s not country. I don’t know, not my jam… but I can see why other people would like it because it’s not bad.

I’m glad it’s over.

OTT

Music I hear at a Dentist's office

I made it all of three seconds into this album before I recognized the agonizing waiting room/elevator staple "Don't Know Why" and noped out HARD. New record for shortest time spent listening!

Ahh yes the goody two shoes Fiona Apple. That’s what I’m thinking of. You could take every one of these songs, throw some Christmas words in each one and bingo bango you have yourself a Christmas album. Due to that, it confuses my ears and my brain. It’s spring right now and this chick has me thinking that I’m going to freeze my ass off when I go outside. Not my thing here. To sum it up, it’s Christmas, McDonald’s, boring, sunshine, slow, piano driven music. She plays it safe on every song. It’s not worth your time.

This is the kind of soft, bland lounge jazz that people who aren't really terribly interested in music buy.

im literally so sorry norah im not doing all this

Bland, soft pop. Guh.

1. uuhy - 1.5 2. zeven - 1.5 3. cold - 1.5 4. feeling - 1 5. come - 1.5 6. moon - 1 7. turn - 1.5 8. lone - 1 9. again - 1.5 10. painter - 1.5 11. flight - 1 12. night - 1.5 13. over - 1.5 14. you - 1.5

Boredom is a necessary condition of adulthood. Not the skittish boredom of hyperactive childhood, or the “I’ve got nothing on” boredom of one’s teenage years – a boredom freighted with anxious-joyous anticipation – but actual, brain-numbing boredom that threatens to form an ocean of apathy so vast that you can’t hope to ever be rescued from it. Bored as you may be, it’s your duty, as an adult, though, to get on with it. You’re invited to find in the tedium rhythm, in the dull a purpose. You’re reminded that if it didn’t feel like work you wouldn’t need to pay someone to do it. You’re alienated from your labour, of course you are, but that’s the cost of living. Get on with it. If that attitude of corporate ascetic were to be transformed into aesthetic, this record would likely be the result. This is the soundtrack to the hump days of your life; a bland and anodyne tour of an uninteresting series of emotions. It’s the musical equivalent of an anonymous message scrawled into a card passed around the office. While no one knows who said that mildly pleasant thing, it doesn’t stoke anywhere near enough intrigue to merit a follow up. And so I fail to finish this album, and experience that as an act of defiance. My fate might mean being bored awfully often, but I can still say “no” sometimes. Good for me.

every song sounds like Don't Know Why

Eh, too slow, bit samey, just not for me.

This is putting me to sleep, not my jam

Really boring coffee shop music. Really uninspired writing too. Some songs are fine, sweet perhaps, but really mild. Bored silly.

I don't even know what to say about this. I get the idea, I get the purpose, she has a wonderful voice and the sound is easy on the ears, but as a whole it amounts to... not much. The amount of copycats this album has spawned also may have taken a toll on me through the years... It's inoffensive, forgettable, songs are hard to differentiate. It's supposed to be relaxing, but it only wears me out. It's just not for me and I don't get why this might be a "must listen", it did sell quite well so there's that I guess. Nightingale is a chill song if I must choose one. 1.8/5 Edit: this thing actually haunts me, I remember it every so often and get angry, if that’s not a one I don’t know what is… 1/5

Boring to me except Don't know why

This one was a struggle to get through. It’s the kind of music that feels like it’s tailor-made for playing softly in the background at a dentist’s office during a root canal. It’s like elevator music—except not as good!

This album will put your ass to sleep

bleh

The very definition of bland.

2 out of 14 songs. That is a really bad rate and remember this album got a Grammy...Pffff

Saccharine lounge drivel vomited out of the daughter of a great sitarist. Only grandmas listen to this while driving very slowly and running red lights in their silver Toyota Camrys. It's listenable, sure, but does it have any substance? I couldn't find a single song I felt I would want to hear again. I know why she didn't come...

I got as far as the slaughtering of 'Your Cheating Heart' and bailed. Cocktail lounge jazz, generic, formulaic and devoid of real emotion.

This album never came up in anything I was consuming so, you can imagine my confusion, when, after hearing this album, I discovered how many copies it sold. How many relatives does she have in India? As has been said by others this album is smooth in production, and performance, but the problem for me is that there is nothing on this album that screams to me THAT THIS IS A SONG THAT ONLY Norah Jones would perform that way. I expect that to be the bare minimum of a bar to leap over for an album to be relevant on an all time list. There is no personality. It sounds like many, many other highly competent performers I've heard over the years in jazz bar lounge, hotel bar lounges, and jazz festivals. The difference? They did not have the Ravi Shankar name association to get a deal done with Blue Note Records. The best albums reveal to you what a performer/performers personality and inner thoughts are. You come out of this album as in the dark about what makes Norah Jones tick as you did going in. Super boring, and this is from a guy who loves Shirley Bassey, Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Patsy Cline, Barbra Streisand, Nat King Cole, Seal, and countless others that Norah is drawing upon but not moving forward at all. I cannot imagine myself feeling an insatiable urge to listen to this again. Definitely not an album that belongs on this list. Even worse is that this jazz rock record is included but the authors don't include Sting's THE SOUL CAGES or TEN SUMMONER TALES? Both of which are essential albums to this jazz rock genre. I have to wonder if Gordon Sumner stepped on the authors' dicks or something. Perplexing protocols for this list.

I could not engage with this album at all. Too soft and boring. This may play well at a coffee shop or Barnes & Nobles. Not a must listen in my opinion. Standard bland 1 star...

Bland non-music

I had a very scathing review of this written out. But it has been lost, and the anger has left me. Safe to say I found it deeply irritating.

Snoooze

There’s absolutely no way I can listen to this front to back

In a nutshell: soulless acoustic blues-pop. Skip this album. Listen to her "Live in New Orleans" recording from 2003 instead. You'll get a better idea of what industry pros saw in her, and what *should have* been captured in the recording studio. The studio album sounds so... beige. I don't really understand how Come Away With Me was a hit, but it was. Overall: 2/10

just really not my type of music.

Boring

It's all in the cover, isn't it? A gorgeous-looking artist in a close-up shot, pretty lettering for her name in the top right-hand corner, and a more discreet font and size for the name of the album on the other side. A bland, unimaginative cover. Fitting with what is, for all intents and purposes, a bland and unimaginative lounge-jazz album of unobtrusive ballads, too demure and by-the-book to elicit a strong response from anyone enjoying truly *vital* music. Norah Jones obviously has stellar skills as a performer, both as a singer and as a piano player. But those skills are never put to good use, i.e. playing music where a minimum amount of risk is taken. The mere fact that 1001 selected this Blue Note album instead of, say, John Coltrane's *Blue Train* speaks volumes about how misguided their priorities are when it comes to jazz albums. They only looked at recent commercial sales, and estimated Jones was the next big thing in that genre. Well, the next big things are not always the next best things. I remember some acquaintance of mine trying to attract my attention towards the production values of this record around 2002. But I don't remember that person's name 20 years later. As I didn't remember the album itself, so unmemorable that mix of cover songs and unremarkable compositions by Norah and her team of musicians is. Tried to see if listening to the recors again would make me change my mind, but in retrospect my assessment of it is even harsher now. I'd rather go through all the cheesy 80s synth pop albums this app routinely sends my way all over again. At least they have something distinctive to offer. 1/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums. 6/10 for more general purposes (5 for musical and professional compentency + 1 for the artistic flair). Number of albums left to review: 141 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 369 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 218 Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 276 (including this one)

Seriously!?

Boring

Tranqui chill conocido

Poor Snora Jones. I knew the first song and unfortunately nodded off halfway through it. I woke up with a couple of songs to go and can't say they were particularly lively. Not my thing 1

Talented, but not my type of music.

empty

Put me to sleep. 1/5

This was the worst thing I've listened to. Maybe ever. Her voice is so cloying, every single lyric is vacuous, and the whole album sounds like it was created solely for sofa adverts. My hatred is limitless. The fact that she sings a duet with Stuart Murdoch on Write About Love and I love it is testament to the genius of Belle and Sebastian.

terrible and boring

Nice voice boring album

I gave it an honest go but this album did nothing for me. All the songs sound samey samey, there is no forward momentum they all just sort of carry on in a really boring way. Her voice didn't strike me as anything special. The lyrics are all pretty standard sad romance cliches. I thought Norah Jones was supposed to be jazz. This sounds like jazz for people who don't like jazz. Not for me.

This got so damn overplayed when it came out that I still kinda hate it. I think the nicest thing I can say about it are things like "tolerable" and "inoffensive". I was thinking I'd give it the 2, but actually... 1.5 rounded down, this is so damn boring and trite. No thanks.

"""come""" away with you ??? 🤨🤨 dont know why- the beginning piano sounds like youve got a friend in me. 3 seven years- idgaf. 2 or 3 cold cold heart- 2 feelin the same way- reminds me of cyberbully. 3 or 4 come away with me- i would go no where with you. 2 or 3 shoot the moon- what did it do to you. 2 turn me on- no thanks. please get me outta here. 2 lonestar- yoooo like goodbyre future once so bright meet my pregnant girlfriend? evidently not. 2 no more school assembly music. lps music video type shit.

no

Vapid aural wallpaper.

Listened to the first song and hated it. Did not finish

kinda sorta liked it at the time, cannot stand it now

It didn’t really go anywhere

Dull as…

Painfully boring

Dull. Sorry Norah Jones.

No way missus, im married. Obviously a great voice and probably a good lyricist. However the music made me cry tears of pain, it was like soul without the rythm, it was like Jazz without the insight. Terrible drudging music without pressnce or urgency like being stuck in a traffic jam with the cast of stsr trek the next generation.

The polar opposite of music that I like. Music for people who can't be bothered any more, competently replicates the apathy of the time.

every song is too similar

Music for people who don’t know what music to like.

I did an internet search for 'dull' and this album image came up.

Maybe I wasn’t in the mood, but I found this album incredibly boring. Not for me at all. Can’t really say much about it. Struggle to get through and no memorable moments for me.

Rating: 1/10 Absolutely awful, worst album I heard yet and one of the worst albums I ever heard. This album embodies all of the worst qualities of music: it is not creative or interesting in any way and is insanely boring and predictable, every song sounds the same. The worst thing about this is that it may be one of the most forgettable albums of all time, there is not a single memorable melody (either vocally or instrumentally) throughout the entire album, which is an impressive feat considering that this is a pop/jazz album.

I realize this is very competently made music, but this is absolutely mind numbingly dull. Craft store core.

Saai

Once loved it. Kind of find it annoying now.

Instantly forgettable. Literally cannot think of a single riff, lyric or tune that sticks with me. Dire.

Couldn’t finish it tbh

Its ok

This was the first time I wanted to stop listening. Found the first half fundamentally boring hotel lobby music. Some of the later songs are slightly better. The piano heavy songs in particular were tiresome.

I was so incredibly bored by this that I couldn't even finish. I skipped through the last seven tracks listening to excerpts and it was all so generic and dull. No energy, lyrics didn't strike me as particularly interesting or clever. 0 stars should be an option for albums such as this.

Boring!!! Repetitive vocals!!! Sleepy piano throughout the whole thing!!! Never want to hear again. Zero stars.

I can pretty much never say this woman’s name without an expletive in the middle. She is the Lighthouse Family on beta blockers. Boring Bland Beige Bleagh! I will not be coming away with you, I will be hotfooting it away from you quicksmart!

The only song I recognized was a Hank Williams cover, and the whole album had a coffee shop, soft jazz vibe that wasn’t my tea.

Total musical boredom…. 1. Don’t Know Why - really apt question for this album - you ask yourself that 14 times 2. Seven Years - how long this album felt and how many years it took off my life 3. Cold Cold Heart - the core of the production team and record label who released this 4. Feelin’ The Same Way - not sure I’ll ever feel the same again 5. Come Away With Me - only if you promise to never sing anything from this album 6. …Shoot The Moon - if this album was the moon I’d be unleashing my entire arsenal on it. Then asking NATO to borrow more weapons 7. Turn Me On - by turning this off 8. Lonestar - incredibly I prefer Charlie from Busted 9. I’ve Got To See You Again - I hope not 10. Painter Song - Kevin Painter would make a better album 11. One Flight Down - I can only assume the pilots were listening to this 12. Nightingale - I’d rather spend a night in Gail Platt than listen to this again 13. The Long Day Is Over - totally misleading and really disappointing when you find out there’s another track to come 14. The Nearness Of You - I’ve told you before, don’t come near me

Alldeles för långt album. Inte min stil så orkade bara lyssna på 5-6 låtar.

Mitähän kaikki 400 miljoonaa Spotifyn käyttäjää ovat kuulleet Don't Know Why -rutiinivedossa? Ok, Come Away With Me on erittäin toimivaa laulelua. Mutta harva taitaa päästä levyn loppuun saakka.

Perhaps the most "Not for me" album in this book

Yawn

Still as dull as ever

Boring

Dull in 2002. Dull now.

Come Away With Me is - wait what? Okay so apparently Norah Jones is Ravi Shankar’s daughter. How was I not aware of this? Probably because I’ve never took the time to listen to her music before. Whatever that’s kind of weird. Anyway, Come Away With Me is bland, uninteresting, and generic. Seriously, there’s not a single song I can even point out as anything. It’s just generic, unremarkable vocal jazz. You know what? I was going to give it a 2, but I talked myself into a 1 for just how boring it is. None of these songs are painful to listen to, to but it’s just a time-waster as an album.

A bit bland

NO.

boring, not enough dynamic contrast to keep me interested. Obviously great performances (especially vocally), very emotive songwriting. This is just not my cup of tea. Album is also too long (14 tracks??) Notable songs: Come Away With Me, Cold Cold Heart, Turn Me On, I've Got To See You Again, Nightingale, The Nearness of You

N0pe

Boring. Couldn't listen to it. Pretty voice, though.

1/5. I will be honest i liked the first song then it just lost it for me. It was kinda whiny and just not the best

In the depths of my misery I checked to see how much of this was left; I lost all hope when I saw I was not yet halfway through.

If I was on a business trip and had a layover in Houston, this sounds like what would be playing in the lobby of the Marriot.

Don’t understand why anyone would want to listen to this. Soft soppy bullshit

I had a full review drawn up already where I rhetorically asked how this deathly boring muzak garbage somehow made its way out of the hotel lobby circuit and into the public's living rooms, but Wikipedia answered the question: she's Ravi Shankar's daughter, just doesn't use his name. Turns out she even has a few artist siblings who used his surname and didn't make it. Very clever - until 10min ago I'd always thought her success was inexplicably organic. Oh, and the album is 90% covers. 1/5.

Nothing explicitly bad, but nothing. Nothing. It's probably the most boring album I've heard in my life. Always the same volume, the same tones, the same tempo and somewhat empty & generic lyrics. I can't believe this was a hit and a milestone of the 2000s.

No

Awful

Should come with a warnig. Do not drive a car or handle opperate havy machinery while litening to this album. I almost fell asleep.

Album z gatunku 15 minut przesluchane, a juz chce sie lulac, a tu jeszcze pol godziny do konca, come away with me jest debiutanckim krazkiem pani Norah Jones, ktora wyglada na to jest dosc popularna artystka biorac pod uwage ilosc grammy ktore nakradla, wiec niby kojarze nazwisko, choc bardziej imie, ale muzyka nic mi nie mowi, tak samo wyglada to po przesluchaniu tej plyty, bo jest to generyczny pop pisany przez x ludzi, produkowany przez kolejne x, wyspiewane przez ladny glos, czyli recepta na mainstreamowy sukces, znalazlo sie na liscie, wiec chyba dziala, tak samo z czescia instrumentalna plyty, ktora kolysze czlowieka do snu, sama pani Jones gra glownie klawisze, reszta natomiast to muzycy sesyjni, ktorych mozna naliczyc z 13, wiec kazdy trak ma niby cos swojego, a jednak brzmia tak podobnie, na plejke listowa dodam openingowego dont know why, ale rownie dobrze moglby to byc kazdy kawalek tak ciezko o wyrazne roznice pomiedzy piosenkami, z pewnoscia to nie moj gatunek, ale gdy po przesluchaniu albumu dostalem polecane utwory na podstawie tej plyty, to o wiele lepiej sie sluchalo bez rozumienia liryki francuzkich kawalkow, tak samo mam z hinskimi trakami z tego co zauwazylem, ale przynajmniej juz wiem z czym sie je pania Norah Jones

I'm fully confident that enough people like and buy enough Norah Jones albums that my opinion will make not one jot of difference, and neither it should, because she's clearly doing what she loves and has made an album she's really proud of. That said, I'd rather stick my head in a bucket of fireworks than go through this again.

if i never had to listen to norah jones ever again it would still be too soon