Tuesday Night Music Club

I had always associated Deep Purple with smoke on the water and a simple uninspired sound, but I was very wrong. They definitely listened to some Hendrix before writing this album because I can see a lot of the influence. Really enjoyed the synths throughout the record. I also like how the vocals feel like an instrument harmonizing with the rest of the band, rather than overpowering the whole song.

“Excuse me, record company executive, sir - I’m a young artist and I’d like to know how to make a record whose songs will be played over grocery store PA systems for the rest of all time.” *Record Executive hands young artist a copy of Tuesday Night Music Club* End Scene.

Fuck yes, also don't tell my friends I've been rocking out to Sheryl

I think Sheryl Crow is under-rated as a singer/songwriter. Vocally, she's like a perfect combination of all 90's female vocalists - Gwen Stefani, Shania Twain, that lady from Garbage - but still uniquely her own. On the songwriting front, her stuff is still "poppy" and accessible, but not cookie-cutter or predictable. It's too bad Run, Baby, Run isn't more well-known. It's a great tune. Also, this brought back memories of playing "All I Wanna Do" on my bass guitar - one of the first things I taught myself how to play.

A great album! She's basically the female tom petty. A liberating and sometimes heartfelt album.

Meh - middle of the road country / rock cross-over. Why did this make the list?

Just nicely plods along being nice and ploddy.

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Run Baby Run, Leaving Las Vegas, Solidify, The Na-Na Song, Wha Can I Do For You Cutting Edge: Strong Enough, Can't Cry Anymore Overall Notes: Actually liked this one a good bit. Kinda felt like junk food in comparison to the other albums we've been listening to in that it didn't take that much focus to enjoy, but still pretty good.

Sheryl’s got some hits, some songs with lots of sing-a-long-ability. But as an artist she just doesn’t resonate with me or evoke any powerful feelings. She evokes mediocre feelings at best. No catharsis, some fun. That’s it. And what is with the name of this album?? It’s so hokey.

Sheryl Crow is so confusing for me since when I hear her I can tell she is great but somehow I am not target for her songs. All I wanna do is still such a bop that I can not give this bad rating. She is everything Taylor Swift should be but never will.

A lot better than I expected

Apparently Shez has shifted 50 million albums while in comparison Van Gogh's brother took pity on him and bought one of his paintings, his only sale. Go figure huh? And on that, any retail time travel would have to include popping into Arles about 1888, "Vince, I'll take 20 of these my son, how's 20 francs sound"? But I truly digress. Right, I'm feeling massively underwhelmed yet again, what was Dimery smoking with this one? All I Wanna Do is the best song Ricki Lee Jones song Ricki Lee Jones never recorded. It is very cool, great bass line, wonderful arrangement. It's a groove and her voice sounds absolutely nothing like her other tunes, which is why its so good. This is not just about it being the big one hit, it sounds like it came from another artist, another record, another time, another place. And it is superb. The country tinged songs are good, Strong Enough and Can't Cry Anymore, and would have made great Chicks tunes, they'd have really taken them somewhere else. And The Na Na is another lift on the Too Much Monkey Business/Subterranean Homesick/Pump it Up conveyor belt, though Olivia Rodrigo has now done what Sheryl can't do here. The rest, what can I say? Not much. Although I'm sure Aldous Huxley, late of Bloomsbury and Brave New World, would have been utterly bemused to be name checked on this mediocre record. 2 for the Ricki Lee song.

Genre: Pop Rock 2/5 Well, here it is: the first real stinker. I’m interested to read the blurb in the book for this one, because there was nothing truly redeemable here at all. This was almost as stale and formulaic as a pop rock album could possibly be, mixed in with some absolutely bizarre production choices. All I Wanna Do is a fine song, but sandwiched in between cuts like Solidify, The Na-Na Song, and We Do What We Can… I shiver at the thought of listening to these again. Skip this one, if you haven’t already.

Worse than being incompetent is being boring. Ten times out of ten I'd prefer to listen to a car crash failure that had some ambition over coolly, competently delivered music that neither stirs the imagination nor gets the blood pumping.

A bit surprised by this one, but I loved it. Very close to a five but the middle was weaker than the start and finish. Still an album I would absolutely come back to Saved: Run, Baby, Run; Leaving Las Vegas; I Shall Believe

I'll admit it--I snoozed on this album the day this system presented it to me. Listening now, a day later, and I have to say it's great. Classic singer-songwriter music, but with surprisingly wide-ranging influences and overall a really fun listen.

I’m predisposed to have at least a begrudging respect for a lot of music from this era, as I was a thirteen year old and it was part of the ethereal backdrop of my musical upbringing. Something that strikes me about the music of the early 90’s compared to the music of the 80’s, is the stark contrast in sound. The 1980’s were about excess, wether it be in terms of music production or cocaine consumption. In the early 90’s, like a light switch flipping, everything became more stripped back, grounded and down to earth. It was incredibly refreshing, even as a kid. There was at least the illusion that anyone could do it, you didn’t have to have a multi-million dollar budget, everything didn’t have to be huge…you could let your music speak for itself. Gone were the days of style over substance and that would turn out to be a formative experience in my life. So Sheryl Crow’s debut record hits right for me, because it is exactly that: a stripped back, down to earth, no frills record, with good songs and musicianship. It’s not a record I’ll seek out or add to my collection, but it’s quite good and was an enjoyable listen.

Justice for Kevin Gilbert

Pretty beige in the most part. Alanis Morrissette without the anger, pain, and lyrical cleverness. Run Baby Run and All I Wanna Do are good enough pop songs, but it's all a bit bland with a couple of real stinkers in there (yes, I'm looking at you, Solidify and The Na-Na Song). 2/5. 

2, One jammer on this but the others didn't do much for me

Some perfectly boring and forgettable singer/songwriter pop-rock. Not unpleasant, but it was a snooze.

Just ok Well made but pretty vanilla really

I have tried listening to Sheryl Crow before and feel that I ought to like her. I gave this a good go, but just came, yet again, to the conclusion that I don't.

All I wanna do is have some fun too, Sheryl. Love the opening track, and it sets the tone for a solid debut album. I enjoyed this a lot. Obviously several of these songs were hits in the 90s, and it was cool to hear the whole album from start to finish. Never listened to it before. It was a good blend of fun and introspection. I dug her heartfelt lyrics and the emotion in her songs. I Shall Believe is a particularly beautiful and emotional one. The Na-Na Song is my favorite ‘new to me’ song. Great stuff!

I GOT THIS ON MONDAY WACK! but it has some chill songs

I had a predisposition to not like this - sure I've heard the singles which were fine - but I remember reading an article a few years after its release about how Crow was either claiming exclusive songwriting or dismissing others' contributions to it. I realize that should have nothing to do with enjoying an album or not :D but it kinda does... (anyways it's all disputed anyways so who tf cares) but Sheryl is starting from behind the blocks already as I put this on... But ok I admit this first song "Run, Baby, Run" is great - some really nice subtly-different chord changes; probably ends up being my favourite song on the album. After that it's fine - I went back and forth almost within each song. Sometimes her voice is a little shrill and hard to take, other times I really like it. The music is varied and put together really well but for me overall it's just "nice" - probably deserves more than a 3 and I could see people loving it (could i equivocate more?) - ok summing up with: "worth a listen". 7/10 3 stars

I do not like Sheryl Crow. I find her to come across as low-effort and low-energy, the iceberg lettuce of rock and roll. She opened for the P!nk concert I went to a few weeks ago and I showed up late so I didn't have to see her. This album was still better than I expected. A begrudging 2 stars.

i have mad respect for shez and her ability to make a whole career from all i wanna do. the rest of this album is absolute and utter horse wank. each track gave me that instant turn this shit of vibe.

I gave it a fair shot (Sheryl's voice is pleasant) but... not my genre at all. Couldn't get into the songs/lyrics. A little grating at times.

I'm not a fan of predictable, formulaic pop and this is Exhibit 1. Move along folks, nothing to see or hear here. It must have been a stretch to include this album in the book.

Sheryl Crow was to 90s girl pop/rock what Sarah McLachlan is/was to the SPCA, except one is very meaningful in spite of the depression. California/beach/sunny rock/pop or however one can describe this album is okay at best. If this were reviewed in 1993 and not 2021, the opinion would likely be way more positive. However, if one believes that music should in some way transcend the era in which it was released and remain a positive nostalgic experience, then Tuesday Night Music Club might leave you disappointed. All this listener wants to do is try to move on till the sun comes down and a new album is generated.

Meh not my cup of tea. Besides All I Wanna Do of course

I’m at a 4.5 that I’ve got to talk myself into one way or the other, but I’m leaning towards a 5. First things first: it’s a *good* album. My knowledge of Sheryl Crow comes in her poppier stuff, ala “All I Wanna Do”, and not in the more rock-heavy tone this album generally takes. Color me impressed by the variety on display here; there’s everything from a noir-driven track in “We Do What We Can” to a sort of Peter Gabriel-esque cut in “Solidify”, the rap flow present on “The Na-Na Song”, the Tom Petty-esque “Leaving Las Vegas”, & the grunge energy that starts the whole thing on “Run Baby Run”. Sheryl Crow’s vocals are pretty damn good throughout, the lyricism is super strong, and instrumentally, I think this is a really nice slight update to the mid/late 80s sound that people like Suzanne Vega kicked into gear, with just a bit of 90s flair and production behind it. For 1993, some of these do feel a little ahead of pace. As a whole, I really can’t say there’s a bad track here, and for my tastes, I dug the entire album. So, what the hell is the issue stopping me from giving this a definitive bump up to a 5? It’s just the pacing, really. This album’s one plague is repetitive outros & occasionally fully repetitive rhythms that extend the runtime, in such a way that even though it’s a decently brisk 49 minutes, it feels longer than it should. There’s plenty of things that could’ve been cut down in each track to avoid that sense of repetition, and while I don’t think it’s going to actually be enough to bump it down to a 4 by itself, it’s something that pulls the album down for me. There is something else biting at me, but I also don’t think it’s going to warrant bumping this down to a 4 – I think “We Do What We Can” is really, really confusingly written. I just can’t follow the “he” of the track, given the shifting perspectives, and while it doesn’t undermine the noir instrumental of the track, having a muddy story to something as smooth & perfectly captured as that does kind of undermine the noir *theming* of the track. Combine that with its 5:37 runtime, and the fact that it comes right after “All I Wanna Do”, it’s probably the track that needed the most work, or at least another pass to see if it cohesively fit at that point in the album. I’m not sure it does, but it definitely has a place on the album. So, between the pacing of the album making it a little longer than necessary, the repetition in the outros & one awkward track placement, is that enough combined to bump it down to a 4? Perhaps on another day, but for a first impression, I’m still just too impressed by the variety tackled on this album and how effectively Sheryl Crow bounces from song to song here without really feeling like she’s out of place on anything. The floor for this album is a 3, especially if the stuff I mentioned is an amplified issue. It’s got issues, sure, but at the end of the day, I still liked it a lot. I’m gonna bump it to a 5, and I think it’s earned that. A thumbs up from me. I need to add a little more Sheryl Crow to my big playlist.

This is such a killer album. I listened to this a lot when it came out. I saw Sheryl at a Christmas Jam in Asheville in 2012. Her band and Warren Haynes and Trombone Shorty played the Blind Faith tune Can't Find My Way Home that was particularly great. There's video of it on YT if you're inclined to being blown away. But anyway, this album is still as good today as it was back then. This was really a good time for women in rock music and I enjoyed all of it. Extra stars for the nostalgia trips.

5/5

For me, "All I Wanna Do" is in contention for being THE song of the 90s. If not number 1, it's probably easily a top 10. It is so masterfully written. Track 1 is beautiful but I disagree with the placement. It's got a pretty sad rock ballad-y feel to it and I feel like this is an odd way to start an album- specially an album that has some great energy in it beyond this track. I think there are several others that would be a better fit as #1 instead. "Strong Enough" is a bit of a hidden gem on this album, with a beautiful chorus that sits on top of a cool conversation between a fretless bass and a slew of acoustic guitars. This is a very good song, and I will be learning how to play it today. She has an incredible knack for taking a track that just has a basic verse harmony and melody and then elevating it. It's like after 1 minute into writing a song she has this magic ability to say "let's do a big over the top pre-chorus, and yes I know that it will work because I am magic". Maybe it's a confidence thing. I miss pop / singer-songwriter albums like this. I feel like nowadays these types of artists are so obsessed with "their sounds" and living inside of their moodboards that you get super cohesive albums that are really good, but they don't really jump around too much inside of the singular albums. Maybe that's not a problem at all though (and maybe it's something that I've praised other times on this list)? When I think of the big pop acts right now, like Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift, I think that many of their albums are all compartmentalized into their one thing. Taylor Swift is probably the most obvious one, with her "this is my folk heartbreak album", "this is my synth pop heartbreak album", but even Billie Eilish's most recent release "Hit Me Hard and Soft" is super cool and does a lot of interesting things, but it's all silo'd into that one album. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not trying to critique too hard, because that Billie Eilish album is one of my favorite records of the last some odd years, but this Sheryl Crow album excited me on an extra level because I got a cohesive collection that also had some boundary pushing inside of it. There's some funk guitars in there ("Solidify"), there's some Fiona Apple-esque vocal parts ("The Na-Na Song"), some bluegrass ("Strong Enough"), some electronic jazz ("We Do What We Can"), and some bonafide pop (twang disco pop??!?("All I Wanna Do")). After writing this section of my review while listening to "All I Wanna Do", it's become obvious that this is a 5/5 album. It has everything that I want in a record and I'm so glad it's come back to my attention. "Tuesday Night Music Club" is such a great name for an album, and this album art supports the title well. I want to listen further, I want to see what she has to offer.

The name Sheryl Crow certainly rings a bell, but I don't think I've heard her music before this. And honestly, for as much as this is a hodge-podge of your standard '90s pop tropes, it was pretty much enjoyable all the way through. 'Leaving Las Vegas' really hooked me in early on. There's just something about that chorus that throws me back to a time when I wasn't even born yet. And songs like 'Solidify' and 'The Na-Na Song' are just good, goofy fun that don't detract from the rest of the experience. The latter I liked especially, it being your standard pop-song mockery track, despite this album being a, you know, standard '90s pop-rock record all the same. That's not to say Sheryl Crow is overly generic in this field, because that's definitely not the case. For one, I find her writing to be more compelling than many of her contemporaries - especially on songs like 'No One Said It Would Be Easy', 'Strong Enough', and especially the epic and almost haunting 'We Do What We Can'. She also has a knack for interesting production, like with that slow trudging, reverberating bass on 'No One Said It Would Be Easy' or with the steel-pedal surfing on that fun bassline of 'All I Wanna Do'. Her voice is also really solid, she has this Fiona Apple type rasp and slickness (to make a comparison that will probably piss many off, but like come on, just listen to 'All I Wanna Do' - am I crazy?). So yeah, a super enjoyable record for me, honestly. Type of album where I see myself returning to many of the songs here.

Tuesday Night Music Club I’ve never listened to this even though I’m quite partial to a bit of Sheryl. All I Wanna Do, If It Makes You Happy, Everyday is a Winding Road, A Change Would Do You Good, Soak up the Sun and Steve McQueen are all great bits of classic pop/rock songwriting. That rock classicism is evident on Run Baby Run, but whereas those songs wear that classicism lightly, on this song it hangs a bit too heavy, feeling rather too studied and stifling. Leaving Las Vegas is much much better though, the acoustic rhythm guitar helping to give it that nice, loose, rootsy 70s rock feel, which suits her voice, and the melody and lyric is much better than Run Baby Run. Strong Enough is great too, a sweet acoustic ballad with a little groove. Can’t Cry Anymore is very nice too, again the loose rootsy feel working well with the melody, lyric and vocal. Solidify though sounds a bit out of place after those two songs, it has slickness not in keeping with the feel of the rest of the album. The Na-Na Song shares some similarities with We Didn’t Start the Fire and Bullet Comes, but has an agreeable jam feel to it, even if it is a bit lightweight. No One Said It Would Be Easy is superb though, a sad and teary country ballad, with some very tasteful guitar and bass and a great feel. What I Can Do For You reminds me of something I can’t quite place, but it's a nice track in the same rootsy vein, even if it's not one of the strongest You can see why All I Wanna Do was such a big hit, its slightly offbeat country pop brilliance is immediately evident, with its observational narrative verses and hooky chorus, and its very appealing evocation of drinking in the LA sun. I get the idea of We Do What We Can, but I don’t think it works that well, the jazzy feel doesn't quite hit the right mark and it’s not a particularly strong melody. I Shall Believe is great though, a rather lovely ballad with a country feel and a great hymnal atmosphere. It would be easy for this type of album and this type of music to end up in Counting Crows style middle of the road anodyne boringness, but, for the most part, it stays away from that. There is a warmth and feel to playing, but mainly I think it succeeds because it’s nice to hear this music from a female perspective, but also because she has a great soulful, expressive edge to her voice, singing the songs with conviction and authenticity. Overall this is probably a 3 or 4 songs away from being truly great. The warm, loose, rootsy core of the album in Leaving Las Vegas, Strong Enough, Can’t Cry Anymore, No One Said It Would Be Easy, What I Can Do For You, All I Wanna Do and I Shall Believe is excellent, but songs like Run Baby Run, Solidify and We Do What We Can unfortunately detract from the atmosphere those other songs create. It’s still a great listen though, and sits as and easy 4 for me 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ Playlist submission: Tempted by No One Said it Would Be Easy but All I Wanna Do is an undeniably great track, so I’ll go with that

Le nom de cet album tombe à pique puisque je voulais justement aborder un sujet qui crée des sueurs froides à Robert en ce moment. Vous avez sans doute remarqué que je participe depuis quelques semaines à des soirées karaoké (j'ai d'ailleurs gagné la dernière et remporté la somme de cinquante euros en bons d'achat). Si l'ambiance y est évidemment excellente, un énorme problème se pose : le septième commandement de Robert (« 7. Tu n'écouteras les albums qu'après leur génération, quand bien même tu les connaîtrais déjà ») est soumis à rude épreuve pour ne pas dire totalement violé à chaque fois dans la mesure où de nombreux tubes encore non-générés parviennent chaque semaine à mes oreilles. Robert m'appela donc ce jeudi matin pour me demander des explications et pour la première fois, je décidai de lui tenir tête ; hors de question pour moi de renoncer à ces soirées. Robert a d'ores et déjà annoncé vouloir m'appliquer des sanctions et projette dans un premier temps de geler mon enceinte JBL, je vous tiendrai au courant de la suite des évènements.

Más allá de que el disco es de 1993, ella en mi cabeza es muy representación de los 90s. Tengo taladrado en el hipotálamo 'Soak Up The Son' (video de ella tocando la guitarra en la playa con surfers. Esa información ridícula que mi cerebro recuerda). Ese tema no está en este disco pero es el que más recuerdo de ella, obvio que está su versión (muy buena) de 'Sweet Child O' Mine' y el mega mega meeeeeeeega hitero "All I Wanna Do'. El tema que más me gusta el disco es 'We Do What We Can'. Buena letra y lindo quilombo sonoro. El disco es un círculo perfecto. ¿Lo escucharía nuevamente? Probablemente no pero 'All I Wanna Do' si aparece en la radio, te la canto a los gritos. 8 de 10 ludomatics.

I haven’t even listened to this yet and All I Want to Do is already stuck in my head. It’s going to be stuck in my head all week. Ok, I enjoyed that a lot more than I expected. There are actually some really good tracks on here. It might not make it into my regular listening rotation, but I wouldn’t be upset hearing this again in the future.

Listens: 3 Standout Tracks: Run, Baby, Run, Strong Enough, The Na-Na Song I enjoyed this more than I care to admit. It's a well put-together album. Sheryl has a great voice. The tracks are catchy and have great hooks. There's diversity in the music, and obviously some of the tracks are culturally significant if you grew up on the radio in the 90s. I particularly like it when she gets a little strained/growl-y voice on the track; She very well could have been lead singer in a sort of punk/screamo/grunge band. I am thinking like, Garbage or ... idk. The Na-Na Song kind of reminds me of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire, hitting on a bunch of pertinent topics of the time.

Well, as I'm writing this, it's Tuesday night — I guess there's no better time to listen to and discuss this album than now. So. Sheryl Crow. What do I know about her? Uhm... "All I Wanna Do" was covered in a Weird Al polka, so there's that. It was sandwiched between "Sex Type Thing" and "Closer". That's fun, I guess I think she also has a song about Steve McQueen — called "Steve McQueen". Makes sense. I think she did the title song for a James Bond movie... "Tomorrow Never Dies", I'm sure? That was a fun movie; I liked watching Michelle Yeoh... And that's it! That's all I know about her. And that's all I was interested to know up until I hadda write this review. Like, I'unno, Sheryl Crow is a name I've always known (oh, yeah, she was referenced in the "Babe Ruth vs Lance Armstrong" episode of Epic Rap Battles Of History — I guess they dated?), but I guess I just never really felt the urge to discover the music associated with it. And after listening to this album, uh, I can't say I shoulda done it any quicker? Like, OK, OK, OK, let me be fair: it's not a bad album. I know I'm not particularly discerning about albums, but seriously, it's really not. Quite frankly, its biggest sin is that, at the same time, it's not really all that great, either? Sure, there were a couple of songs where I was tapping my foot or kinda nodding along... But on the whole it just didn't excite me too much, or really inspire me to write. I'unno if I'd say I'm underwhelmed, but I'm just like, "Sure. It's fine. I guess." This whole pop rock-y singer-songwriter folk thing she's doing here... It sounds like it should be more exciting than it is. And following along with the lyrics best I could, too, I felt like I should be feeling something. But it just glides on that one level while mostly never doing anything to rise above it. The exceptions, I'd say, are "All I Wanna Do" (which I actually didn't really get the hype behind too much), and "Solidify" and "The Na-Na Song" — though lemme saying, it's not exactly a compliment that the feeling these songs made me feel was "annoyed." Seriously, the worst songs on this album, you ask me. If the rest of this thing was a 5, these would bring it down to a 4, easy. I mean, "Solidify" just has this obnoxiously prickly guitar thing that repeats every couple of seconds and it was super distracting. Meanwhile, "The Na-Na Song" is just like, "Damn, OK, you wanna be 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' — cool. Wanna try being **good** first?" Past talking about those two songs, there's nothing specific I really wanna bring up. Whatever people saw in it at the time, I just can't find it. It's not entirely unenjoyable (I **do** like Crow's voice, even if I spent the entire album tryna figure out what it reminded me of (I couldn't think of it)), but, yeah. I'm not surprised I didn't seek it or her music out sooner. And on top of all that, it's by far the worst Deep Purple album I've ever heard. Nothing on here sounded even remotely like "Smoke On The Water"! I tell yah...

First time listening to a fulI length album by Sheryl Crow. A really appreciated second half of the album. Particularly, track 6-11. All around a decent album (specifically as a debut).

A fine pop-rock album from a talented singer/songwriter that paid her dues. However nothing here makes me believe I'll listen more than this one time. 3 stars

Sheryl has a nice voice and you probably have to have been living under a rock not to know her hits. The upbeat poppy tunes are fun and easy to listen to, but the sad and slow tunes are a miss for me. Overall it was alright, I liked the opening tracks and All I Wanna Do is a good tune, otherwise fairly unremarkable singer-songwriter fare.

surprisingly really enjoyed this album. thought Leaving Las Vegas and Strong Enough back to back was really great. I always forget that Sheryl Crow is older than you think (was in her 30s in the early 90s) - which makes some of the references to the 60s in the songs make a lot more sense.

Well. Wanted to like this. I love her voice and her popular songs are catchy as shit, but the rest of the album was just, meh. Wasn’t really wowed, but also didn’t hate it. Just, MEH

Disappointing. Like some songs, but a few stinkers on there (e.g. na-na song). All I wanna do is great though. 2.7

Why is this in the list? All I Wanna Do is clearly a certified banger but everything else is mid

Were this shorter, I would listen to it again, but there’s only so much time I can spend in a bar scene from a 90s Bruckenheimer movie before I have to shake the polish from my ears. There’s some good material here - singles aside, “No One Said It Would Be Easy” has the soft rhythmic push of the quieter VU songs - but there’s too much of it. Confidential to Simon: 1. No, I have not read the diverting "Bad Wisdom" - should I? 2. When the opening swirl of “All I Wanna Do” began I sang on reflex “All I wanna do is scratch my bum.” (I’ve got a feeling I’m not the only one.) 3. My conclusion from this album is that I should listen to “Exile in Guyville” again: same year, some similar circumstances, wildly different results.

Inexplicably popular bar band music. Let's have a good one next, eh?

I did not like the sound of her voice, it sounded very rough for a lot of the songs which pulled me out of the music. Also the songs themselves were boring to me. overall not my vibe :/

An earlier review called this "the iceberg lettuce of rock and roll," and that says it all.

Gosh, I tried my best to be open-minded as I quickly revisited this album, which starts with a couple of very famous moody cuts, "Run, Baby, Run" and "Leaving Las Vegas", before losing its way real quick. Once those two good songs are in the rearview mirror, key shortcomings indeed prevent me from including this admittedly famous LP in my own list: first, Sheryl Crow's grating vocal performance on a lot of those tracks (not "bad" as in "endearingly-frail-and-emotional-in-a-Lucinda-Williams-sort-of-way", but just... "bad-bad") ; and then, there's the subpar nature of a lot of the compositions, leaving a foul taste in your mouth. The second part of side one has both shortcomings in spades on the *same damn songs*, and it's so awful that the whole thing almost becomes comical. The barebones, delicate "No One Said It Would Be Easy", and the decent "What I Can Do For You" at the start of side two, fortunately end that bad streak, and given that they're followed but the lively, insanely stellar hit "All I Wanna Do", you might feel like you can forgive the "critics" who overrated *Tuesday Night Music Club* when it was released. The thing is, we head towards tedious "meh" territory right after that. "We Do What We Can" is a film noir pastiche that hovers by without leaving much of an impression, whether good or bad (and what's with this obsession with the verb "do" for three titles in a row, by the way? Couldn't Sheryl "do" something else for her lyrics? Pretty ironic flaw here.). And the same goes for the overlong closer "I Shall Believe": not much interesting happens. To put it in a nutshell, a pretty decent start for this LP, then a full disaster, then good to great tunes, and then a borefest. There are at least 40 albums released in 1993 that are better than this one (see the list after this review). Better as in "more groundbreaking", "more intense", "more fun", "more sophisticated", "more relevant", "more emotional", "more genuine", "more spontaneous", "better composed", "better written", "better performed" and so on... For chrissake, get a grip, you "critics"! Your job is not to pander for the lowest common denominator up to the point when you sacrifice quality over the predictable popularity of an artist, just because they have a couple of promising singles up their sleeves. If anything, retrospective reviews of this thing should be harsher. Now we have the hindsight to realize there was nothing extraordinary about this album overall, don't we? 2/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums. 7/10 for more general purposes (5 + 2) Number of albums left to review: 55 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 408 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 235 Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 303 (including this one) ---- List of my 40 favourite 1993 albums as a reference point: Nirvana - In Utero Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) The Breeders - Last Splash PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me Fugazi - In On The Kill Taker The Posies - Frosting On The Beater Björk - Debut A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville Frank Black - Frank Black Les Thugs - As Happy As Possible Girls Against Boys - Venus Luxure N*1 Baby Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Cypress Hill - Black Sunday Dead Can Dance - Into The Labyrinth Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle Slowdive - Souvlaki Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy Morphine - Cure For Pain Yo La Tengo - Painful Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See Dinosaur Jr. - Where You Been Tindersticks - Tindersticks The Auteurs - New Wave Sebadoh - Bubble And Scrape Souls Of Mischief - '93 'til Infinity Suede - Suede The Divine Comedy - Liberation De La Soul - Bulhoone Mindstate U2 - Zooropa Neil Young - Unplugged Tool - Undertow Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works '85-'92 Digable Planets - Reachin' (A Refutation Of Time And Place) Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen Kate Bush - The Red Shoes Radiohead - Pablo Honey Us3 - Hand On The Torch Ace Of Base - The Sign Yep, Ace Of Base made a slightly better album than Sheryl Crow that year. Ain't that telling something...? 🙃

Que dificil me es escuchar Sheryl Crow, no porque sea mala sino porque lo que hace jamas resonó en mi. Me suena a musica que deberia sonar bajito en la barra de un var medio vacio mientras lloras porque esa hija de puta te dejo por otro. Me gusta mucho como el organo acompaña de fondo en casi todos los temas. No termino de identificar que genero seria. Como un country medio comercial devenido en pop? Me suena a la antesala a lo que fue John Mayer en Born and Raised. Tambien escucho muchas cosas que despues aparecieron en el album Music de Madonna. Será que esto influenció todo eso? Regardless, todo esta muy en linea de lo que se escuchaba en esa epoca, casi que pasa por un disco de Natalie Umbriglia. Las letras son muy lindas, tambien de la epoca. Can't cry anymore parece escrita por Tom Petty directamente, como punto a favor. Acá nacio la musica para cafeterias? Claramente el disco es bueno, pero no lo escucharia seguido.

Agradable, un disco genérico con buenos momentos de pop americano. Pero nada mas.

Sweet tons by Sheryl's guitar, nice lyrics and right voice

I owned this album back when it first came out. I enjoy this album.

This was awesome. I have always loved Sheryl Crow's music, but I had never listened to most of this album before. It blows my mind that her first album was so varied and deep, musically speaking. There are so many different sounds and vibe on this record and I really enjoyed listening to every song, including the ones I knew well and the ones I had never heard before. I had no idea that she could do all of these styles so perfectly so long ago/early in her life. I didn't realize that I could love Sheryl Crow more than I already did, but listening to this album corrected that. I listened to it twice, five stars.

wow, this is great! Knew I loved All I wanna do, but this whole album is a treat

Forgot how amazing Sheryl Crow is. I need to find this one on vinyl. Objectively it's probably on a 4 star album, but nostalgia is pushing it to 5 stars for me. I'll be adding "All I Wanna Do" and "Leaving Las Vegas" to the playlist

Solid album. I was 13 when the All I Wanna Do single was released, and I fell in love with Sheryl when I watched that video. The song has been a favorite of mine ever since.

My first generated album and it’s a classic. Don’t think I’ve listened to it in full since my teens though. There’s more to it than just ‘All I Wanna Do’. It’s emo meets country!

5 star. Such a great debut.

Sehr gut zu hörendes Pop-Album 5/5

Æ tror kanskje aldri æ har hørt det her albumet i sin helhet, fordi æ hørte mest på Sheryl Crow i hine hårde discman-dager, og æ eide aldri det her albumet, æ hørte mest på det sjøltitulerte som kom etter. Men nu tenke æ at det e litt rart at æ aldri gikk til innkjøp av det, for æ hadde jo åpenbart likt det også, så man lære så lenge man leve.

This album is just fun. I want to be a part of the club. Full disclosure: When Sheryl was dating Eric Clapton, I wasn't sure who I was more envious of.

Very good album. Grew up on this

Timing on this album was spot on! Early 90’s, a Dem in the White House, and people were happy again. Economy was beginning to cook, and religion was on its heels! Hell yeah, this is a fun album from better days. Sheryl’s one of the best… and she’s normal!

Nice

All I wanna dooooooo is have some fuuuuun and I did

Hahaha I was surprised how much I enjoyed this one… all I was to do is have some fun is SUCH an earworm. Top 3 . Have some fun 2. Run baby run 3. Leaving las Vegas

I quite liked this. Very easy listening.

Wow! Really enjoyed this album. Every song. Her lyrics are romantic. Sheryl strums my heart strings. Beyond just great songwriting, she mixes up the mood well. Varying styles through the album making it a great ride.

Day362 - any album with four songs that everyone knows is obviously a classic

My favorite so far

Exceptional

My parents listened to this album at least once a weekend for like 5 years, so almost every song feels like a classic, tho it’s only because I personally have had way too much exposure to this album. I used to think it was kind of embarassing for my dad, who otherwise has cultivated an almost comically masculine persona, to be SO into Sheryl crow. But you know what? I get it. I love her too, Dad.

01) Run, Baby, Run - 10,0 02) Leaving Las Vegas - 10,0 03) Strong Enough - 10,0 04) Can't Cry Anymore - 10,0 05) Solidify - 9,0 06) The Na-Na Song - 8,5 07) No One Said It Would Be Easy - 8,0 08) What I Can Do For You - 7,5 09) All I Wanna Do - 10,0 10) We Do What We Can - 8,5 11) I Shall Believe - 10,0 TOTAL: 9,23 (93/100)

Because of course!

Powerful album with provocative lyrics from personal to political without holding punches along the way. Extremely varied styles from folk/songwriter, pop, jazz, r&b and more. Very apt closing of I will be me. 4.6

Great album, you can see how she got so big

Great album

Crazy to think this album was a debut. Sheryl Crow is one of the best singer songwriter players in a generation. “I Shall Believe” is one of my favorites.

I love Sheryl Crow ;-)

I've heard a few songs before and liked them but discovered that there was a lot of other good music on this album as well.

I expected this to be 11 “All I Wanna Do”s. I was both wrong and right. I was wrong in that these songs are interesting and Dylanesque. But I was right in that even the hit “All I Wanna do” is weird and complex. So yeah, it is 11 “All I Wanna Do”s, but that’s a good thing.

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Heard at least half of these wonderful songs, but never thought they were on one single album. Brilliant!

Man I should've given her a chance sooner

So I typically don’t like 90’s music, and Singer/Songwriter is one of my lowest rated categories in this project. This is an exception. I love Sheryl’s gravelly voice, the crisp acoustic guitar tracks, and the simple, yet well done arrangements. I read one review that said she is the female Tom Petty, and I can see that. I love the story telling aspect of each song. I just really enjoy this album. I used to have this on CD and listened to it all the time, then I think a coworker took it. I had not listened to this in years, and I’m genuinely glad this one came up today.

I am a tall, bearded man with a bald head and a love for powerlifting. And I absolutely adore this album — why on earth has nobody exposed me to this?

Run, Run, Run Strong Enough Can't Cry Anymore All I Wanna Do If it makes you happy Cijeli album je dobar

i feel like i was just possessed by the spirit of a woman going through a divorce in the 90’s for 50 minutes. loved it.

Good memories came to me.

Last few songs really caught my attention and all I wanna do is a classic

My kind of music! Love!!

I bloody love Sheryl Crow. She's fantastic. Saw her at Glastonbury in 2019 and she was so so good. I really enjoyed this album but I definitely wouldn't say it's her best. Her self-titled album which came next is definitely the best and the one after that is also great so I'm surprised this album is here, nonetheless, it's great.

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