Tuesday Night Music Club

#287 Heard Before? Only the singles, believe it or not. Notes: - what a great voice, and she has wonderful command of it. impressive. - too bad she has nothing of interest to say, at least on this album. - i lost track eventually, but i think every song has the exact same structure. - every chorus repeats endlessly with almost no variation. - typical glossy 90s production with so many unnecessary and ugly elements sprinkled everywhere (synth pads, bad drums, pointlessly layered guitars, etc). "giving depth to the mix" drowns these lazy songs. Verdict: "We discovered this great talent! Let's rush her into the studio and get a committee and a focus group to make all the decisions!" Listen Again? No, thanks.

Unfortunately this didn't really do much for me. Every song sounded pretty much the exact same.

It was fine. I’m shocked at how many listens some of her songs have on streaming

Hardly the most complex or innovative album on the list, so it's hard to articulate why I liked it so much other than "it's fun". It just hits a lot of the right notes for me personally! Standouts: Run, Baby, Run • Strong Enough • Can't Cry Anymore • The Na-Na Song • What I Can Do For You • All I Wanna Do • We Do What We Can

All I want to do is have some fun too!

No One Said It Would Be Easy stood out. Heck of a debut album. Always enjoyed her voice. 3.5/5

Oh yeah, Sheryl Crow. I didn't expect to see her in this project. But why not? Back then, her album was really popular among my friends. I think we even had it in our collection. "All I Wanna Do" played over and over again. Her voice and the music are cool. It was nice to hear that again, even if it won't happen very often. 3/5

It's fine, nothing special

Very good album! Always wanted to listen to it. I really like her other 90s albums and just never got around to it.

I can’t decide on whether I think the cover is cool af or a mess. Anyways, this was a really fun debut album. More country esque but with a good degree of diversity in sounds throughout. It got decidedly slower after the blast that is the big single for this album (“All I Wanna Do”). “We do what we can” for example had very fiona apple vibes.

Sheryl Crow has always been an artist that I have liked, but never really dug into her catalog. My personal favorite is My Favorite Mistake, but she has plenty of others which are worth listening to, a few of which are on this record. Leaving Las Vegas, Strong Enough, and All I Wanna Do are the recognizable ones on this, all good in their own right but pretty different from each other, which speaks to Sheryl's talent. In short, she can appeal in numerous different ways, whether it is her and the band's playing, her vocals, or what she is signing about. The find on here, at least for me, is the slow burn that is I Shall Believe, a really great ballad that really accentuates Crow's voice. Never heard this track before, but instantly really liked in. Not everything on here is great, especially in the middle of the record where it wanes a bit. Solidify and The Na-Na Song were throw aways for me, personally. That said, this is quibbling with what is otherwise a really good record. Aside from the recognizable tracks and the aforementioned I Shall Believe, Run Baby Run, Can't Cry Anymore, and others were hits for me. Summed up, this is an excellent record from an excellent artist, one that proves to she can deliver in a variety of ways.

Omg look at her! I forgot how long her career was BEFORE soak up the sun! I only know All I Wanna Do (I was 4 when this came out so why do I remember it so vividly? 😂) This was great! Listening indoors at night feels wrong, I will be relistening on a beach drive 🌞 Irrelevantly: fuck I used to love doing Picture as a karaoke duet before Kid Rock devolved so horrifically

This album was a guilty pleasure for me among my roommates in college that year. I still have a soft spot for it, despite really disliking most of her music after this (I really can't stand "If It Makes You Happy" and the "Soak Up the Sun" song. To each his/her own, but those songs were played so much that I developed a hatred for them.) She sounds so young here.

Tuesday Night Music Club succeeds because it makes roots-rock feel lived-in rather than nostalgic. Crow and her collaborators build songs from familiar ingredients—country guitar, bluesy grooves, folk-rock storytelling, and pop melodies—but the best tracks have a distinctive emotional perspective.

Kjedelige greier

Better than Coldplay

Great album, although she’s subsequently produced better ones. Run Baby Run is fantastic.

Quite liked this, a couple of good tracks.

I thought it was okay, and kind of fun to remember these songs from the 90’s but I doubt I will listen to it again.

Secondnhalf of the album is better than the first. Still not my style; very generic, no interesting compositions and ok delivery.

The best tracks on this album are the ones that sound the least like country.

This was more nostalgic than I was expecting despite not really knowing any of these. I did randomly listen to the 95 Sheryl Crow album and think that’s wayyyy more my speed.

If this is Tuesday, I wonder what Friday is like

Well this transports me back to 1993, but with zero nostalgia, zero emotional response (pos or neg). Just a reminder of what was hot in the mid 90s. It was just ...there.

This is kind of a one hit wonder for me. But it launched quite a career and I'll always be indebted to the first album for giving way to the superior second album.

Boring. DNF

This was exactly what I expected from a Sheryl Crow debut album. Poppy, accessible, not too bland, nice voice and good vocals.

Highly enjoyable but unfortunately mostly forgettable

peak 90er, schon ok

Didn’t hate it but nothing really stood out to me

ну..посередня

p716. 1993. 3 stars. Starts off well and then slowly fades into middle of the road filler, a bit like Sheryl's career. There are some highlights for sure - "Run Baby Run" and "Strong" are standouts - but it's all a bit bland and forgettable.

Love you Sheryl

Decent from Sheryl but not much special about it

Enjoyed this record more than I thought I would. Yes, it's very “poppy” and accessible, but the vocals are superb and the songwriting isn't lacking at all - it's a great encapsulation of 90s pop rock without the blandness of some others that could be cut from the same cloth.

great singer - not bad but definitely not my favorite

Pas mal

Mediocre. In questo genere vince chi ha i musicisti più bravi. La mia preferita 'Solidify'.

There are some good songs here and some good performances, but it doesn't feel that substantial or something that I feel I'd ever want to go back to. The slower songs were the best and most surprising, having only heard the hits previously. There's a part of me that wants to give it 2 stars based on my personal feelings, but I feel it is a little unfair to give less than 3 stars, because I do think there is some great songwriting, even if it is often geared towards the radio pop rock genre.

My first thought upon hearing this is that she really can’t sing. My second thought is that this is very generic rock pop music. My third thought is why?

Went in dreading this one. Then the first track was really good, and I thought "maybe I've been wrong about Sheryl". But, sadly, the first track was the only good one. This album is not special at all.

The singles are great, classics. And the songwriting is overall very good

2.75 rounding to a three. Blandly pleasant. Nothing that makes me go wild but not really bad, either. Middle is a little slow but starts and ends well.

Sheryl Crow always reminds me of my mother-in-law... I'll let you fill in the blanks...

Música de gente blanca

This sounds like something you’d come up with in a college songwriting class. A little contrived but not all bad. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. After “…Fun” it went off the tracks.

Desperately bland and uninspiring. This is the safest album I have heard in a long time. Unworthy of a place on this list.

its soo alt… wanna do is chill..

One of the biggest surprises yet for me this project

Looking at some of the reviews on here and elsewhere, I expected this to be a pretty boring album. While, yes, it's not peak or even great, it's certainly more interesting than some people give it credit for. Not bad

The hits were great, "Strong Enough" is still one of the greatest songs ever written. but the rest was a bit underwhelming. Liked it, didn't love it, but it gets an extra star for the strength of the hits.

at the Tuesday night music club, wishing it was a different night or a different club

There’s something deep within this that I like. Probably because of my age and how I liked some cheugy singer songwriters of my own time. But what the hell was going on in the 90s. What the hell were they doing with drums in the 90s

Not bad Sheryl. Idk how often I'd go back to this, but I enjoyed the journey. All I Wanna Do is the standout

Sheryl Crow Fucks

Totally unremarkable album. Favorite Song: All I Wanna Do

This is the artist the Rolling Stones invited to tour with them on their private plane??

Some good songs but overall inessential

Great. A little long on some songs. 3.5

Mrs. Crow får mycket skit, ibland befogad. Men att hon skulle vara nån universiell hackkyckling tycker jag är lite orättvist. Hon är sällan provocerande dålig, även om det förekommer ("Solidify"). Det är mest harmlös vit 90talsradiopop, väldigt typisk L.A. Det verkar som det var alldeles för lätt att få skivkontrakt i L A. sent 80tal, tidigt 90tal. Med risk för att låta sexistisk (inte menat så), är hon bättre ju kvinnligare hon låter och mindre Steve Earle light. Svag tvåa

Jag känner bara till namnet och har ingen relation till hennes musik. Men det är ungefär den 90’s romcom-rock som jag förväntade mig. Snäppet bättre än genresystern Alanis Morissette. En stark etta.

Jag har svårt för den här typen av P4-kompatibel amerikansk midwestrock. Inledande Run baby run är överraskande trevlig. Tyvärr utgör den snarare undantag än regel. Låtarna inrymmer inslag av både funk och soul, men svänger noll. Solidify är ett riktigt lågvattenmärke. Till Na-na-song är en Nej-nej-sång.

Om jag har på albumet i bakgrunden med jag sysselsätter mig med annat kan det misstas för ordinär P4-rock. Men under koncentrerad lyssning hör jag ett maraton i plattityder och klichéer, såväl textmässigt de som musikaliskt. Dessutom låter det stendött. Någon har ägnat alldeles för mycket tid åt flytta mikrofoner och spela in varje instrument för sig.

Boo.

This album is like a '90s time capsule I never knew I needed. Just plain fun. Good tunes and good times. Spins: 3 Playlist Additions - Run Baby Run - Leaving Las Vegas - Strong Enough - All I Wanna Do - I Shall Believe

Snoozefest 😴

Beetje zeik muziek

Juust really pleasant. Is it good? I'm not really here for that. Did I enjoy it? Hell yeah.

Ain't no Shania, but she'll do 🤠

Several things: 1. The album cover looks exactly like an ad for pants. Frankly, more than any ad for pants has ever looked. Look at it! Admit it, you want to buy some pants. 2. You (yes, you reading this!) can hire Sheryl Crow to come over and sing for you. Look on the internet: You can do this right now! She's ready to sing! Just for you! Right now! For $300,000. 3. I have many feelings about this album - it would honestly be easier if it had just sucked. To be clear: It does suck, it just doesn't JUST suck, so here we go ... 4. My almost certainly wrong and in any case completely unprovable theory about this album: In the 80's, Sheryl Crow was just a blue collar workin' gal in the show biz industry - a backup singer, small contributor to many well-regarded and a few famous albums. Met many insiders - did some good ol' fashioned networkin'. Along the way, she came up with - and I'm being precise here - good ideas for exactly 1.3 songs. Those songs became Leaving Las Vegas and the first verse of All I Wanna Do. She played or sang those for her buddy insiders who were (understandably) enthusiastic. "What else you got?" they asked her. Nuthin, just nuthin. 5. Thus was born the "Tuesday Night Music Club". The Tuesday Night Music Club was Sheryl and her buddies and their music company dudes and dudettes all gettin' together and doin' some good ol' fashioned jammin', just kickin' around some thoughtful, folksy lyrics, wearin' their denim jackets, denim jeans, denim underpants, carryin' around their acoustic guitars and acoustic socks. 6. Or, to be more precise, meeting in office building conference rooms with the record company Senior Vice President of Marketing and his/her marketing team, because the end product of it was this album of diluted, watery gruel: The best example of art-by-committee, everyone-gets-a-say, there-is-absolutely-no-heart-in-anything-on-here-whatsoever that I think I've ever heard. This album is ahead of its time, and I do not mean that in a good way. Everything except the 1.3 songs Sheryl contributed which are - sadly- quite good. 7. Part of my proof for this, by the way, is that there were apparently intense, nasty fights over who would get "credit" (very sarcastic quotes) for this thing after it somehow succeeded. That was entirely legit! Everyone who touched this thing is in here somewhere - at minimum, a smear of snot in the nasty sticky clumpy mass of boogers that is this album. 8. I listened to this walking around my neighborhood at 10:00 a.m. on a beautiful early September Sunday morning; first day of the NFL season. I was in a great mood. First few songs ... not bad, I remember Leaving Las Vegas and Can't Cry Anymore well, this is likely getting a 3 or 4. Then, Solidify. Well, that sucked but they can't all be winners. Then ... 9. The Na-Na Song. Holy shit. I'm 250 albums into this, and this is unquestionably the worst single song generated on here ... quite possibly the worst song I've ever heard. We Didn't Start the Fire, but somehow (how? how is this possible?) even worse. My theory: This was the last song contributed to the album, and was the idea of one of the company executives' significant other who just looooooves that nice Billy Joel. Everyone was exhausted and just vomited out this utter piece of garbage in about 90 seconds ("Someone come up with a name!" "G. Gordon Liddy!" "Gold!"). Fuck this fucking song - it makes me angry that it exists. 10. From there, every bit of grace I was inclined to give this album is gone. I was thinking worst case I might do a "Sheryl Crow is the Stone Temple Pilots to Liz Phair and Alanis Morisette's Nirvana" but that would be an insult, really, a huge slap in the face ... to the Stone Temple Pilots. 11. Then, I start thinking: What, exactly, is going on in some of these songs? For example, Strong Enough. Offhand, a harmless if unoriginal bit of longing, but, wait ... half the lyrics are "I'm empowered, and no matter what, you have to accept me for who I am", which is fine ... but then the other half ... "lie to me, I promise, I'll believe, lie to me, but please don't leave" ... the exact opposite. What is this song about? Pick a lane guys. Same with All I Wanna Do - first verse, Sheryl and some dude utterly down on their luck, day-drinking, wallowing in self pity ... cool, I like a good loser song and this one is catchy. But the next verse is all about a couple who comes into the bar and Sheryl and her buddy are nowhere to be found. Is this a loser song or Penny Lane-esque slice of life? This is part of what I mean when I say this album is pretty clearly the product of committee/marketing/test-group-think. Crazy annoying. So there's my rambling, incoherent screed. Again, if you can scrounge around in your couch cushions for a spare $300,000 or so you can call Sheryl up and she can play her heart out and prove me wrong. In the meantime, my dedicated team of executives and marketing personnel have thoughtfully and lovingly hand-crafted this bespoke 2 for you. That will be $300,000, please.

Just an average women singer with a few good tracks. Not quite sure I needed to listen to this before my demise

Fine album. Was a refreshing change to the indie wave at the time and helped popularize the woman folk rock era of the 90s. Solid. Competent. Nice listen.

Tuesday Night Music Club Sheryl Crow 1993 Genres: Pop, Rock Styles: Singer Songwriter, Country Rock, Pop Rock 1. Run Baby Run (★★★★★) -Contexto: Crow contó que la escribió la noche en que se conocieron los resultados de las elecciones de 1992 (triunfo de Clinton sobre Bush), pensando en el paso generacional de los 60/70 a los 90. La letra sigue a una mujer nacida el mismo día en que murió Aldous Huxley (curiosamente también el día del asesinato de JFK), hija de una madre hippie y un padre activista de derechos civiles, que aprendió de chica a "correr": a huir de lo familiar hacia el consuelo de los extraños antes de que la abandonen. Es un retrato de alguien atrapado entre dos generaciones y educado en la fuga como mecanismo de supervivencia. 2. Leaving Las Vegas (★★★⯨☆) -Contexto: el título está tomado de la novela semiautobiográfica homónima de John O'Brien, amigo cercano de David Baerwald (uno de los coautores). La letra usa la imaginería de Las Vegas (casino, luces, un trabajo como bailarina) como metáfora de tocar fondo y decidir irse "para siempre". Se volvió polémica porque, tras tocarla en el programa de Letterman, a Crow le preguntaron si era autobiográfica y contestó "más o menos", algo que enfureció a Baerwald y al resto del "club" porque la canción era, en los hechos, mayormente de ellos. 3. Strong Enough (★★★☆☆) -Contexto: balada folk-pop que cuestiona si una pareja tiene la fortaleza para amar a alguien con defectos y días negros ("¿sos lo bastante fuerte para ser mi hombre?"). Habla de la vulnerabilidad de pedirle a otro que aguante los momentos en que una no puede ni mostrar la cara, y del miedo a que se vaya justo cuando más se lo necesita. 4. Can't Cry Anymore (★★★☆☆) -Contexto: canción de ruptura y hartazgo acumulado. La protagonista se va manejando (toma el auto de su ex y arranca a Texas) tras una relación desgastada, mientras enumera una serie de golpes de mala suerte (problemas de plata, impuestos, un hermano con adicción a la heroína) y repite que ya no le quedan lágrimas: es más resignación y cansancio que tristeza aguda. 5. Solidify (★★★☆☆) -Contexto: sobre la presión de "solidificarse", de volverse algo definido y estable para que la otra persona pueda verla y entenderla, cuando ella siente que su naturaleza es más fluida ("¿por qué tendría que solidificarme?"). Es una defensa de no encajar en el molde que la pareja imaginó para ella. 6. The Na-Na Song (★★★☆☆) -Contexto: un collage satírico y caótico de referencias a la cultura pop y política de EE.UU. de principios de los 90 (talk shows, publicidad, figuras como Michael Jackson, Madonna, G. Gordon Liddy, Clarence Thomas, la guerra del Golfo, el consumismo), cantado casi como un rap desprolijo. Es la canción más irónica y menos "seria" del disco; varias reseñas la señalan como el punto más débil del álbum. 7. No One Said It Would Be Easy (★★⯨☆☆) -Contexto: retrata una relación con fricciones cotidianas (una familia que no termina de aceptar al otro, pequeñas peleas domésticas) pero que decide sostenerse igual. Crow explicó en una charla que la canción habla de que lo valioso no es necesariamente el resultado de una relación difícil, sino lo que se aprende en el camino de sostenerla. 8. What I Can Do for You (★★⯨☆☆) -Contexto: coescrita con David Baerwald, es la más provocadora del disco: adopta la voz de un personaje seductor/manipulador que promete a alguien que "nadie más en la tierra puede hacer lo que yo puedo hacer por vos", jugando con el doble sentido sexual y con una dinámica de control ("si hacés lo que digo, no me vas a hacer repetirlo"). Es una canción-personaje, no una confesión directa de Crow. 9. All I Wanna Do (★★★★★) -Contexto: nace del poema "Fun" de Wyn Cooper y fue adaptada por Crow, Baerwald, Bottrell y Gilbert. Es una postal de escapismo diurno: tomar cerveza a la mañana en un bar de Los Ángeles mientras se mira pasar la vida y el tráfico desde la ventana, disfrutando de la nada sin culpa. El tono es despreocupado y observacional, casi una fotografía de un momento ocioso más que una historia con conflicto. -Fav 10. We Do What We Can (★★⯨☆☆) -Contexto: narrada desde la habitación de arriba de una casa donde abajo un vecino llamado Leo toca trombón (referencias a Stan Kenton, música de jazz). Es una reflexión sobre el paso del tiempo, el envejecimiento del propio gusto musical y la mortalidad: la letra da vuelta hacia "todo cambió desde que Leo murió", usando la muerte de ese vecino músico como disparador para pensar el fin de una época. 11. I Shall Believe (★★★☆☆) -Contexto: cierre del disco, una balada sobre aferrarse a la fe en una relación aun sabiendo que puede estar rota o ser mentira ("aunque sea una mentira, decime que va a estar bien"). Retoma el tema de "no me abandones" que ya aparecía en "Strong Enough", pero desde un lugar más vulnerable y suplicante, con una producción contenida. -TOTAL = ★★★⯨☆ (3,27)

Background rock music with 90s flavor that's as bland and innocent as possible, perfect for playing in a supermarket or a gas station. I don't know what this album does in this list, but I'm glad I learned why my association with the name Sheryl Crow wasn't very positive.

Would I buy this Sheryl Crow album? No. Would I recognize a Sheryl Crow song on the radio? Maybe. Would I be happy to hear Sheryl Crow on the radio? I couldn't care less. All I can say is the songs, the song material, the lyrics—it's so American, absolutely not my thing. Country rock crossover, who knows what. As for all this singer-songwriter nonsense, if significantly more people are involved in a song, that's something I don't know, but for me, this woman isn't a singer-songwriter.

solid

Biss himym background musik mit mehr soul als ein white girl haben sollte

I first heard Sheryl Crow when I was about 14 via late night music video for "All I Wanna Do" and since then she's been a dependable comfort in the corner of my music world. I've seen her live at a festival and she looks and sounds incredible. After almost 30 years the album has aged beautifully and with 4 bangers that I still know the words to it was a great trip down memory lane.

There were moments where I thought it was finally going to get interesting, but it quickly went back to simple country rock.

Seth - 2/5 Logan - 2.5/5

I really liked this album. I was quite skeptical with the first couple songs (as it tends to be) but it just kept getting better and better, maybe except for the very last song. I think this album is everything good with pop music, it has very few of the bad aspects. Some of the songs are just complete ear-worms in particular the song "Strong Enough" shows it off pretty well (and she sounds quite like Cyndi Lauper in that one.) The song "The Na-Na Song" kind of reminds of those songs where they reference a whole load of stuff like "Subterranean Homesick Blues" by Bob Dylan and "We Didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel. I definitely see myself returning to this one, if I'm in need of some songs that excel in pop melodicism Highlight Song/s: "Strong Enough", "The Na-Na Song" and "All I Wanna Do"

I liked half of this album. Love Sheryl's voice and the nostalgia aspect of mid 90s but some tracks dragged slightly and didn't flow as a cohesive album

Standouts Strong Enough All I Wanna Do We Do What We Can

Sometimes her singing style is a bit talk-y and that's not really my thing. Decent songs.

Today was the first time i listened to this since probably 1995. My younger sister had this CD and listened to it a lot. The singles are still great.

The Nah-Nah brought it up to a 4. And that little stretch in the middle

As far as I’m concerned, the only great song Sheryl Crow has is “If It Makes You Happy.” It borders on alternative rock, which for someone whose entire career up to that point was pretty mediocre adult alternative, is a huge step up, and I really enjoy the song even in the context of more critically acclaimed stuff released that year. This album… is the mediocre adult alternative I was referring to. For one, Crow is an abysmal lyricist. If she didn’t make that clear in “Strong Enough” or “Solidify,” her rhyming “Record Label” with “TABLE TABLE TABLE” on “The Na-Na Song,” (which somehow destroyed all my expectations of how bad it would be,) like a drunk fucking mom did. And I don’t wanna be mean about this either, even though I just was. I just don’t know why this album is even on this list. At its best it’s alright but pretty boring, at its worst… it’s legitimately awful. The only almost-great track is “All I Wanna Do,” which is still pretty obviously flawed. Overall a very very VERY unimpressive album, with no real high points, and just a whole lot of bad. 1.2/10 DOES IT BELONG ON THE LIST: NO REASON: bad WHAT WOULD I REPLACE IT WITH: Sheryl Crow

Listen to this album and it will Solidify your thoughts on Sheryl Crow. As long as you are Strong Enough.

I mean it’s pleasant country. Even if it isn’t my genre I respect the quality. 7/10

I liked it. More pop than I think of her.

I've never really liked Sheryl Crow, but I enjoyed this a lot more than a lot of the stuff I've had to listen to. I knew Strong Enough and All I Wanna Do. I also recognized Can't Cry Anymore. I don't love her voice.

Music made to play at the mall and the dentist in the mid 90s

Man I kept wanting to think of this as a throwaway pop record but it is a great piece of roots rock w a band that’s not only got a bunch of great musicians, but a bunch of great musicians playing off each other so well.

Bit too 90s sometimes, some great storytelling/lyrics and all I wanna do is clearly a bop

I dig her sound I’ll have to check out more from Sheryl Crow. 3.5/5

Probably her best album, not bad. 3.5

Ok.

Surprisingly good pop country. Not annoying or stupid. It feels cozy and unimposing

very good.

Very nice. Frankly Sheryl Crow is a beautiful woman. I mean she makes pretty beautiful music. And the way her hair cascades? I mean the way the notes cascade? Or something? What the hell is happening to me. Man, she is just...my word. Anyway. The music itself is decent. Easy listening, quite enjoyable. A solid three. For some reason I think I need this on vinyl though. A large vinyl. Maybe even a poster. If I was 24 in 1993 I would have my answer for celebrity crush. Ah fuck it, maybe I still do. Wowza. Fave tracks: - Run, Baby, Run - Can't Cry Anymore - Solidify - No One Said It Would Be Easy - What I Can Do For You - All I Wanna Do - We Do What We Can