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Such an over rated human being. Shit singer. Shit lyrics
Está bien. Favoritas: Leaving Las Vegas
This was a solid album. She has a unique voice and writing style.
I've been on record as a Sheryl Crow hater...after I listen to this will I have to, gasp, eat crow? I hope not. Let's listen and find out. Not every track grates on my nerves as much as "All I Wanna Do" nor do any of them engender worse feelings but neither have any won me over as a listener. In sum, not as terrible as I expected but definitely not my thing. This record is a test of how bad something needs to be to warrant a single star rating which I have reserved for things I found truly hard to listen to. Despite some tracks being firmly in that range my eyes did not become redder with rage at each subsequent song. I want to give it one star, but I must admit it's two. *wanders off to purge his listening history now*
What Taylor Swift would sound like if Taylor Swift was talented
Auffallend viele Stilwechsel. Als wäre ein Star mit ganz viel Geld im Hintergrund erschaffen und durchgeplant worden. Laut Wikipedia aber nicht der Fall.
Decent campfire songs. Really enjoyed the song We Do What We Can particularly. Overall, the production seems welldone. More mellow songs give the vibe that it is a live session recording. And it has a nice ambient ring.
Surprised how much I liked this. She has a great voice, and all the musicians play their part flawlessly. Every song feels unique and necessary to the album.
Someone's review is just gonna be: "All I wanna do, is turn this off" Woof, 1993 production really made sure absolutely all the edges were shorn off didn't it. I don't do power ballads but Run Baby Run really took me back - to a worse time. Just made me think of all the shit TV that was on then. Evocative though, have to say. I liked Winding Road and Change, and even if it makes you happy to an extent but mainly as a slight break from the rest of the utter dross on the clothes shop radio tape I had to listen to for 8 hours every Saturday at the time. All of those are on the follow up though. Here, All I Wanna Do is a jam, everything else is total meh, and some just bad. What next, Spin Doctors, a Pocket full of Kryptonite?
Never been a huge fan of Sheryl Crow but she's not painful to listen to.
Wanders through genre influences from jazz to country to pop. Realized I wasn't a huge fan or her kinda nasally voice on this album
This album is an equivalent of a two old dry burger buns with a piece of old, moldy, mild cheddar slice in between them. Completely worthless. At least this list keeps surprising me with new flavours of "bad".
Nothing incredible, but it's very pleasant
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.
Not terrible, just not for me.
Starts off strong, weak second half despite All I Wanna Do. The best songs are fantastic, but overall is just ok.
Ok
Some really good tracks: All I Wanna Do, Leaving Las Vegas, Run Baby Run, Can't Cry Anymore, What I Can Do For You Easy to listen to and enjoy. 4/5
A bit too MOR for me but she's a great singer and a solid songwriter
Good listen.
There was a couple of good songs. I just want to have fun is catchy. But the rest didn't really get me going.
Meh
Solid hits with a real 90s vibe. Takeaways - your voice doesn’t matter! - nothing makes a better song than true intimacy - don’t be afraid to have fun, as long as it’s real fun for you! we can smell fake fun
OK, pleasant enough, a couple of good tracks good production 2.5
Never too much girl rock. Crow isn't my all time fave but I'd listen again.
Good for background but not really my style.
alright
nice
Boring pop. Some ok songs like We Do What We Can.
mostly checked out from this one, some parts are cool but i could live. could do a lot worse though
More going on than I was expecting. I had her chalked as country pop but this jumping about genres. It feels mature but with a good sense of fun.
Enjoyed this more than I thought I might. Bit Tom Petty in places? Gets pretty turgid in the middle.
They definitely chose the right songs for the singles - "All I Wanna Do," "Leaving Las Vegas," and "Can't Cry Anymore" are all great. No real clunkers in the whole batch.
Probably the definition of a 3/5 album, do like her voice and tune progression but it just doesn't stand out a huge amount. 3.3
Its fine. I dont love it, but its OK. 3/5
California Rock. The first half of the album is way better than the second. I especially like Run, Baby, Run. The obvious hit All I Wanna Do is overplayed by now. The rest is just OK. 3/5
eh, it's country rock but her voice is nice. Na-Na Song was sung with a real Beck-type delivery, but I like Beck's production a lot more
Album 163 of 1001 Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club Rating : 4 / 5 Favorite Track : All I Wanna Do Good solid album. Carried by the big hit, of course, the balance holds up well. Some great rock tunes and then comes (what I feel) the Sade like 'We Do What We Can', near the end. Wasn't sure what to expect. It is a good one.
All I wanna do is have some fun. Decent pop. Nothing spectacular.
Surprised by how many of these I knew. Still not a fan, but surprised.
3.75
Albumik z 93, artystki ktorej nie kojarzylem, az do przedprzedostatniego traka albumu, bo to pani od all i wanna do, czyli mocno ogranego radiowo kawalka z czasuf mlodosci, a tuesday night music club slucha sie jak kompilacje singli, morze taki zamysl popowych albumow, zeby ktorych song zrobil dobre pozycje na chartach, zwlaszcza jak to lata 90, wiec granie radiowe bylo priorytetem, ale miks pomiedzy niektorymi kawalkami jest tak mocny, ze sprawdzilbym czy nie zmienila sie plyta i nie poszlo cos z rekomendowanych, gdybym byl mniej zajety podczas sluchania, ale z drugiej strony zadnej traczek nie zmusil do skipowania, wiec sluchalny lecz niezbyt owocny odsluch, na plejke dodalem tylko wspomniany all i wanna do
What an enjoyable intro. Nice compositions and of course her voice and singing style are nice to listen to.
Well, it's not as bad as I expected. Still bland, but again, not that bad.
Brilliant. Two of my all-time favourites (Leaving Las Vegas & Can't cry anymore) and the rest is good stuff, too - though the live acoustic versions are better.
Hard pass
Poppia menevää…. Mutta hyvin hyvin paskaa lyyrisointia anteeksti ei kakkosta jumaleissons perseestä kuunnella..
This is Sweet Baby James, just the 90's female version.
The best thing about albums pre-streaming days was that you could discover more of the artist. I think that's what I like about this website too as while this album has some very well known songs it was nice to hear some of the funner stuff like The Na-Na Song.
I was expecting this to be a bit of a chore, but actually no, quite a fun listen! "All I Wanna Do" has been overplayed to death so I wouldn't voluntarily listen to it again as a rule, but the rest of the album was alright. Fave track - "Run, Baby, Run" for the ones I'd heard before - that's still quite a pleasant tune, and then "What I Can Do For You" for the new-to-me tunes, and an honorable mention to "The Na-Na Song" for kinda sounding like a RHCP song!
Fun, cool and really well produced.
Yeah, good album
This song has some nice tunes but overall it's a bit too poppy for me.
This felt like it was going to be a chore and indeed it wasn't a great listen, but it wasn't quite as bad as I thought it was going to be and I even quite liked some of the less pop-rock songs in the latter half. Still not strong enough for more than a 2-star rating though.
Very good album, glad to see Sheryl on here in some capacity, I know she has a couple famous albums. This one has Strong Enough and All I Wanna Do which were easy adds. Most of the rest I hadn't heard before but they were good to listen to. She has a good voice and great lyrics too.
In short: https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/043/853/cover1.jpg To elaborate: I think in my mind I had Sheryl Crow and Shania Twain in the same file folder, sometimes forgetting who's who. But damn, Sheryl is an excellent songwriter. A few on here that actually blew me away. I only knew her singles, including "All I Wanna Do," and don't get me wrong, her hits are good, but I had no idea the chops she had. And again, in my mind I think I saw her name and read "Shania Twain." Great album (and a debut to boot), love the wordy blues tracks a lot. Really cool to hear the female perspective in a blues song, there should be more of that. Favorite tracks: Leaving Las Vegas, All I Wanna Do, Strong Enough, No One Said It Would Be Easy. Album art: Not bad. Portrait, but with some artistic elements that make it interesting. Perfect for a debut of this kind. 4/5
This album was the sound of the early 90s. Sheryl Crow and the rest of the Lilith Faire Army™ domineered the popular music channels. Tuesday Night Music Club brought such a cultural shift to the sound of music that opened doors for women, but really shined a light on female Singer/Songwriters. 4/5
Aight
It's a really good debut album with solid songs that all stand on their own. Flags a little bit in the second half but overall it's great. 4 stars.
Sounds like the 90's
I’ve always loved this album. Gritty real world themes in an easy-going California sound. The best part though is that David Baerwald worked on this album (he of David and David’s Boomtown, one of the best obscure albums of the 80s).
Moments made me really happy and settled and optimistic. That is powerful.
I like this and you can't tell me I'm not allowed to. It's so good! Hits some soft spot for me that's emotional and comforting, just the right notes for me. A few tracks that are just a bit on the bland side, but I really appreciate the songwriting, and it just makes me feel really at home and comfy. I can't explain why I like this so much! I'm not doing a very good job at it right now. 4/5
Fun enough
Mds que muska ruim
So bland. How does something like this make the cut? Am I missing something?
I’ve a soft spot for Sheryl Crow- she’s written some terrific pop rock tracks with a county flavour over the years and the singles here are catchy with singalong hooks. This album is a little dull in parts and it probably hasn’t quite earned its place on this list but hey I have a soft spot for Sheryl Crow.
I'd rather never have to listen to sassy country pop rock, but if I'm forced to I'd prefer if it was Shania Twain. All I wanna do delivers everything the rest of the album does in a slightly better package, but it's not even that good. Probably a 1.5 as i wasn't angry most of the time but I can't bring myself to give it 2 stars.
All I Wanna Do is alright as a song, but I struggled massively with this album. I think mainly as I hated the first song, incredibly repetitive, which set me up very badly for the rest of the album. I wanted to like this based on enjoying If It Makes You Happy from a different album, but I have to say I really, really disliked this.
All I Wanna Do is the best track by far. The rest of the album was dreadful and I found myself skipping many half way through.
Probably slightly less poppy then I expected, but not for me really. All I wanna do is by far the best track, but don't think I'd even choose to listen to that. 2, sorry Cheryl
Fine
OK - but a fairly standard album to me.
Country pop
First four songs SLAP
It's alright, fee bops here and there.
Easy listening, occasionally lounging rock.
no into SC
Not for me
ah, another decent-but-not-memorable 1001-list album that doesn't hold any nostalgia for me so I may not fully appreciate all it has to offer. i knew All I Wanna Do going into this and that's definitely the highlight of the album. lot of snoozefest filler here in my opinion. favorites: all I wanna do, no one said it would be easy
Pretty ait
Full of good tracks. Great? Nah… but, a good listen. 3.5/5
All I Wanna Do is ab absolute banger
I feel bad, this suffers as I had Alanis the day before. It's a bit rootsy and country for my tastes, bur Run Baby Run is gorgeous, and All I Wanna Do was a smash, even if I find it a tiny bit smug. It falls in the middle for me. I didn't dislike it, but it won't be the next record I buy.
She's got two volumes - loud and louder.
Highlights: We Do What We Can, Solidify, Strong Enough, I Shall Believe Leave Em's: The Na-Na Song, No One Said It Would Be Easy, What I Can Do For You Overall Thoughts: I found this album relatively boring and shallow off the bat and it didn't really redeem itself until the final two songs. I liked Sheryl's voice over the slower more R&B sound of those last two songs much better, despite the feeling that they may not belong on this album given the sound of the rest of it. Until that point I found her voice unemotional and frankly annoying. You can go ahead and count me out for Tuesday Night Music Club. Score Breakdown: 3.09 & 2 -> 2.545
1993: did not like this album. 2023: same.
Sounded okay. Clearly influenced by Lucinda Williams, but the songs are much less interesting.
After three quite reasonable songs, this album turns into unexcitement. Exception: All I wanna do, but that somehow does not resonate with me.
Solid early ‘90s singer-songwriter album. Excellent to listen to while driving around on a summer day.
Some good songs. Could have been more variety.
Blues-pop-rock. Un megahit. Venga, un 4.
Curioso. Cuando salió el disco, no me gustó nada. Pero actualmente sí. Es muy buena.
A perfectly cromulent 90s alternative album. Nothing to listen to again.
Sheryl crow has made some fun songs over her career. I thought this album was going to be more upbeat but it had a lot of slower melancholy songs. All I wanna do is the big hit here and it’s still good today. I’d say her album overall was lacking from my expectations. It wasn’t bad I just never listened to a full album of hers and this was just alright. Some decent options to come back to but nothing splendid. 6.2/10
This was fine, frankly I though most of it had a pretty bland sound and the lyrics mostly standard Country Girl fare with a little intellectual embellishment. Only a couple songs really stood out to me.
Curioso. Cuando salió el disco, no me gustó nada. Pero actualmente sí. Es muy buena.
Obviously, I was aware of All I wanna do is have some fun, but I never attributed much to it other than being a rather catchy song. I was thus taken by surprise by this album, which packs more quality than I expected. Will I ever go back to this album again? Probably not.
One of the greatest albums of all time
Better than expected. Some good sounds here.
I prefer her other album but I do love her work!
Very meats and potatoes in my opinion. All I Wanna Do is very good, but otherwise nothing that really stood out. It wasn't that bad either though, just not particularly interesting. Actually not sure why this is on the list, maybe it was revolutionary when it came or something. Feels like another contemporary-ish pop/rock/country album.
I do not know why I dislike this as much as I do but I really do not like this. The Na-Na Song took the price for the most annoying song i heard in a while. The perfect trifecta of bad rapping, bad mixing and an annoying chorus. Something about 90s pop country just rubs me the wrong way. Oh and shoutout to the particularly annyoning Guiro on "All i wanna do"
i will never play this again but it’s better than i expected and it makes me yearn for the world of the 1990s, the world we threw away
She's like the Julia Roberts of music. There's nothing about it that's bad, but it just somehow feels like it's for single women in their mid-thirties on an early 90's sitcom.
Great 90s memories. Fabulous collection of songs.
Mundane.
I'm not a fan of this form of storytelling in a song. Too many wordplays, too many clever tricks to and disguise the blandness of the music. Tell It Like It Is, etc. Run Baby Run is a half decent tune. It would make for a good song in the end credits for a crappy soap. The Na-Na Song is lame. Nothing more than a piss poor Subterranean Homesick Blues.
Sheryl Crow has always been fine to listen to but not something I’d seek out First listen to one of her albums didn’t really change that but do like Run Baby Run and All I Wanna Do (which is a 5⭐️ song)
Surprisingly decent, not great but was enjoyable, not much to say about it either, just good
Couldn’t do it. One hit. So I’ll give it a 2.
just no
i don’t like her voice, she sounds like a backup singer for herself. but then there’s a point in the album where that j goes away, and then it’s good music
Classic 90s pop
It's not really my thing. I don't particularly dig it, but it's nice enough.
Passable album, that was semi enjoyable at most. She has a good band in the back though, and the inclusion of Kevin Gilbert is an interesting discovery! 6 out of 10
Excellent debut album. She put her all into this one, like a lot of artists do on the first. No filler, just good writing and musicianship
Excellent debut.
Listened on a Thursday which threw me. She sings well for a crow.
sorry, did you say something?
Better than I thought but that’s a low bar.
Inoffensive background music for supermarkets, airports and post offices. All I Wanna Do is more annoying than I remember, Leaving Las Vegas is quite good though. Crow winning the Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance over Mariah Carey ('Hero') and Celine Dion ('The Power of Love') is hilarious.
90s dinner party vibes. 1 good song (all I wanna do), rest is boring.
The singles off of this album were being played in every public building in the mid-90s. Decent listen even if it's not my thing.
Because I have the time, I'll do another track-by-track review: 1. Run, Baby, Run: pretty generic radio blues rock. OK vocal. Nothing else of note. 2. Leaving Las Vegas: Painfully 90s production but the song is good. 3. Strong Enough: The track is sweet but I get "Midnight Train to Georgia" vibes which bums me out. 4. Can't Cry Anymore: This one feels really manufactured for the Adult Contemporary radio format. 5. Solidify: 😐 what 6. The Na-Na Song: OK side two is taking on a totally different flavor. I can't say I hate this one actually. 7. No One Said It Would Be Easy: my favorite number so far - despite my trashing of those two Eagles records I had last week. 8. What I Can Do for You: Kind of a pulled punch when Courtney Love and Alanis Morrisette were making angrier and better songs at the same time. The vocal refrain is bad. 9. All I Wanna Do: This is the big one. This song was everywhere back then. For good reason, too. The lyric and vocal performance are 5/5. The track really does sound like that one Stealers Wheel jam from Reservoir Dogs though! 10. We Do What We Can: the muted trumpet sounds cool? idk I'm kind of getting tired already. 11. I Shall Believe: Another adult contemporary one.
1/11, 9%
Quite nice
Ergens doet het me een heel klein beetje denken aan Carly Simon, iets in haar stem heeft iets vergelijkbaars maar dat kan ook aan mij liggen. Run, Baby, Run vind ik een leuk nummer en staat nu ook in mijn afspeellijst.
Verrassend leuk. Vrij simpele nummers, maar het blijkt maar weer: dat is vaak helemaal niet erg.
Debuutalbum van Sheryl Crow, met doorbraak nummer "All I Wanna Do". Sommige nummers werken goed, maar het gros van het album is een beetje ondermaats en af en toe bijna vals gezongen door Crow's gebrek aan range. leukste nummer: Run Baby Run Album is vernoemd naar haar songwriters clubje dat elke dinsdag samenkwam, die niet blij waren met gebrek aan credits voor de nummers.
I listened to a lot of top 40 radio in the 90's, so I'm pretty familiar with Sheryl Crow's singles, but this is my first time listening to a whole album of hers. I've always found her music pretty inoffensive, but it's never been something I've gravitated towards. I was underwhelmed to be assigned this album today, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. All of these songs are really well written, from the more reflective "Leaving Las Vegas," to the lighthearted "All I Wanna Do." The instrumentation on this album is great too, and I never noticed until today that there's a great use of a vibraslap (at least I think that's what I heard) on "All I Wanna Do." I really enjoyed the funky hook on "Solidify" and the rap-like flow of "The Na-Na Song." I often think of Sheryl Crow as primarily acoustic music, but this album proves that she can do it all. This album was completely under the radar for me, but I thought it was great. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to fire up a doobie, attend a political rally, and blast "Soak Up the Sun."
She seems talented and some interesting stuff musically but her voice is not for me.
Likable enough, with more texture and depth than one recalls, but not exactly on the cutting edge. Her voice is not great, though the playing and the songs themselves are all decent, with more than a few resolutely above average moments throughout. Because it received more than its due, one feels no need to overpraise for posterity, however easy the listening. Still, it's more than credible and certainly convincing and "No One Said it Would Be Easy" and "We Do What We Can" and "I Shall Believe" all add depth and something like an authentic pathos. The tinge of melancholia around the edges make it worthwhile all these years later. The consistent tone and high quality throughout are to be taken seriously too. The hits are fine – "Leaving Las Vegas" grates a bit vocally and "All I Wanna Do" would be loathsomely earworm-y if the set-up weren't so winning and the day-drinking conceit not so relatable (speaking personally). One might have been suspicious of her posturing back in the day, but one gets the feel now that she was playing and singing what she knew and doing it well, too. It's near perfect on its own terms, which are, admittedly, on the slight side.
Började bättre än jag trodde men saknar ju ett je ne sais quoi.
Eh
There's enough material here for 3 and a half good songs, not a full album let along a whole Tuesday night. Sherly can sing, there's no lack there, but the material is a middle of the road as you can get, mixed in with some iconic 90's spoken country rap (aka crap).
Fine background. Very sound of the 90s
No standouts for me. Pleasant enough but forgettable
Sheryl Crow is, of course, a treasure. She sings earnestly, with no frills in the instrumentation. She takes on the core of her songwriting with fun, vulnerability, and honesty. It's a thoughtful album that doesn't try to be too hard on itself. Is it kind of simple and safe? Sure, but sometimes that just works. It works really well here.
Un dels debuts dels '90 per autonomàsia. 'All I Wanna Know' i 'Run, Baby, Run' són dos dels grans temes de la primera part de la década. La resta connecta amb l'esperit de creació del disc: llibertat de moviments, inspiració i la xispa d'un grup d'amics reunint-se cada dimarts per fer música i passar-s'ho bé
Some of the best 90's alt rock with those shimmering, layered guitar sounds that almost cross over into country, but are also rock, also pop all at once. The first four songs are spectacular, then the album slows down a bit until "All I Wanna Do" steals the show. I remember hearing it on the radio and having no idea what the words were when she said "Santa Monica Boulevard." I suppose it clicked when I finally made a trip to LA.
Listening to this transported me back to the 90s when all my problems seemed to be internal, rather than external. It's all over the place in that eclectic 90s, try everything and see what sticks, kind of way. Had only listened to her singles before, never a full album, so there were a lot of surprises for me.
It's competent and Sheryl Crow is a good performer/singer but it just in general doesn't speak to me much. I can see lots of folks into it though. This is quintessential 90s alternative for sure.
There were some good songs on this album.
Some real gems on here. Took me right back to high school!
Not a huge fan of this album. It's just ok.
overplayed, but authentic i guess. Fine for listening at work but i think boring as heck. 2 Stars? 3?
This album is decent but in general isn’t my usual type of music. All I Wanna Do is a jam. I can respect her as an artist and believe she was very influential. I am happy to have listened to this album but I probably won’t revisit it.
A bit dull but one magic line - ‘I like a good beer buzz early in the morning’
Faut habiter au Canada ou dans l'Arkansas avec des bottes et un chapeau et être une teenager pour surkiffer. néanmoins 2 étoiles pour All I wanna do et le reste
All I wanna do is such a bop
This album deserves to be on the list of albums you must here because it’s important to learn (or be reminded) about the absolute wasteland of 90s adult alternative music. Creatively bankrupt and musically destitute. This album just sort of happens and before you know it it’s over. It doesn’t offend anyone because it doesn’t say anything. At least it’s not U2
"Tuesday Night Music Club" is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, although she did have a prior unreleased album. The album title comes from an ad hoc group of musicians who came together on Tuesday to work on the album and many of those people have song writing credits. As probably predicted after the success of the album many of these relationships unfortunately became acrimonious. The music is classified as pop, rick and blues. OK. The album took awhile to take off commercially which happened after the release of the fourth single "All I Want to Do." It reached #3 in the US and #8 in the UK. The first song and single "Run Baby Run" has piano and a slow guitar start which sounds directly off The Beatles' "White Album." Nice vocal chorus. It builds drama. Maybe my favorite song on the album. Semi-autobiographical about being born in the 1960's to hippie parents in a conservative time and running away from everything and everyone. Percussion, haunting keys and then an acoustic guitar begin "Leaving Las Vegas," the first song I remember from her. I always liked her strained and wobbly vocals. I would guess about getting away from the messes in your life. An acoustic guitar, bass and a simple love song in the fifth single "Strong Enough." An electric guitar riff opens the sixth and final single "Can't Cry Anymore." A pop stomping beat. Nice backing vocals. The Chicago Trribune compared this song to The Stones' "Honkey Tonk Woman." Hmmm, I'll have think about that. The second single "What Can I Do For You" has more of a drum beat, soft keys and a bluesy guitar. Sheryl almost whispers then shouts. A personal song about sexual harassment. "Hey, this ain't no disco" with the disco guitar kicks off "All I Want to Do." The songs lays into an easy pop groove and she sings about drinking beer in the morning, flicking matches into ashtrays and going to car washes. What if we had no point in life. Hey, what's wrong with doing what's she doing? Sounds like fun to me. The album ends with soulful "I Shall Believe." A hopeful song more in the R&B/pop category. I actually never had listened to album from start to finish but had heard most of these songs. The lyrics are strong some autobiographical, some stories. The songs are solid musically with elements of blues, country, pop, soul and rock. Back in the day I really had no interest in this album partly cause it was all over the place; today it sounded good.
Why do I keep getting these late 90s easy listening albums? Anyway, out of the last few of those I have gotten this is definitely the best. While some of them are not my cup of tea, I was definitely sold on this album by the end. "Strong Enough" and "No One Said It Would Be Easy" (great Mazzy Star/early Radiohead energy on this one) are great, but it also has its share of snoozers such as "The Na-Na Song". Great, heartfelt songwriting at its best, acceptable background music at its worst.
Not a huge SC fan, but I do appreciate that she is a decent song writer. She writes good melodies.
This didn't hold up. She's a weaker singer than I recalled, the songs are overly long, and the best bright spots are the singles while the rest is throwaway.
These are such bops
I bought this at the time and it's still good to listen to. It's maybe a bit dated but in a weird time capsule inbetween the 70's Country and 80's Smooth rock.
I am a fan of Sheryl Crow at times I liked the songwriting on this album
Not as much fun as I thought it would be. I like Sheryl’s voice and I’ve always had a soft spot for All I Wanna Do but aside from Run Baby Run I wasn’t too struck by anything else on this one.
Facettenreiches Album. Schöne Songs, rockige Songs, stimmig. Sehr gut anzuhören.
Her vocals are tediously annoying. I can't put my finger on why, but I just don't like it.
Well what was it really? Slightly less than annoying
All a bit tiresome and tedious. Friday nights are much more fun
Painful
Pleasant enough, mostly middle of the road songs. Strong Enough and All I Wanna Do are good. I liked the backstory of the album and title, sounded fun.
kinda cool blues rock album standing out for sure
I didn't hate it like I thought I would. I wasn't really enthralled with it either. I remember hearing those huge hit singles on the radio all the time as a kid. All I Wanna Do is an interesting song but the chorus is ANNOYING. The other ones are better even if Leaving Las Vegas goes on a bit too long. A 2.5 bumped to a 3 because I have been singing "Are you drunk enough to eat this ham?" as parody for years, and that's gotta be worth something.
Surprisingly easy to listen to, might give it a second listen but the middle of the album was forgettable
Another very good, but not great album. The collaborative approach (the Tuesday Night Music Club) is the key here. There is a looseness and eclecticism that is not present on the later releases. Some of her collaborators are tremendously talented (David Baerwald, Bill Bottrell, and especially the late Kevin Gilbert) and helped to shape the sound here. The classic rock elements that became stronger throughout her career are present here, but the freshness is what is at the forefront.
Really good breakthrough album. Clever and sometimes acerbic lyrics with great melodies.
A good showcase of her talents, I think her self-titled second album is better.
Tyvärrrrrrrrr
One alright song, the rest was just trash.
Don't even remember listening to it.
I didn't find anything exciting about this album. Solid but not much holding my attention.
oh it was very cunt and slay
I saw Sheryl Crow in concert while she was touring to support her follow up album to this one. She had a ton of hits by that point (her self titled follow up had as many hits as this album, maybe even more). Of course she played them all, even made sure to diss Walmart (who refused to sell her albums because she called them out about selling guns on her second album. But what I remember most about the concert is she had two opening acts. The first was Dishwalla, who had a hit song called "Counting Blue Cars" that blatantly referred to God as a "her". The second performer was Lisa Loeb who had that song from Reality Bites that actually went to number 1. And if we're being honest, Loeb's "Stay (I Missed You)" is the song that is still played the most from all the hits performed that night from either 1996 or 1997. Lisa Loeb had a handful of minor hits after "Stay", but nothing as far reaching as her chart topper. Meanwhile, Sheryl Crow looked to all the world like she might become the Joni Mitchell or Carole King of her generation. This album was huge when it was released, especially "All I Wanna Do". Kurt Cobain had just died, and grunge along with him. Sheryl Crow's timing was perfect. People wanted a "happier" sound, or at least one that wasn't so angry. And a sexy new female claiming that all she wanted to was have some fun captured that mood. It seemed everyone loved her. She'd win a slew of Grammy's the following year, and survive a backslash from a lot of members of the Tuesday Night Music Club who attempted to discredit her contributions (there's a whole ugly backstory you can do a deep dive on, which includes the suicide of her ex who wrote a lot of this album). Give Sheryl credit for following that ordeal up with two (even better?) albums that kept generating hits. She may not have become another Joni Mitchell, and I don't even think that was her aspiration. Both the older and younger generations adore her, and frankly it's surprising she's not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She survived Lance Armstrong. And fucking cancer. Unlike Dishwalla, she's still recording decent music and probably will for years to come.
Rating: 6/10 Best songs: All I wanna do
Was not too familiar with Sheryl Crow’s works before hearing this album. It was truly the perfect introduction to her. Excellent songwriting, a truly original voice.
Not a 1001 classic
All I Wanna Do is a great track, half decent album but not something I'll listen to again
Look there's both that wrong with this album, a few catchy tracks, but not enough to justify the rest. Too long, vocals fall out of sounding nice sometimes. But man, All I Wanna Do can get stuck in your head
Sheryl Crow is an icon
Beneath the production there’s some cracker songs here.
Pretty good for what it is and definitely takes me back to a specific time in 90's history, but just not my style.
All I Wanna Do sounded better on the radio in the 90s than it did this time around.
Not a Fan but also Not so Bad. 2.4
Estuvo bueno
I wanted to like this more than I did, as I believe she's generally underrated as a singer/songwriter. However, some of the deeper cuts on this album were aggressively bad (most notably The Na-Na Song). Best track: All I Wanna Do
Some good road-trip tunes
Sheryl Crow is pretty good. 3/5
Super generic 90s pop with one hit. I feel like at points they couldn’t think of a thousand albums and they’re grabbing random radio hits from the years and throwing on the album it’s from in the list and this one’s hit isn’t even that good
This one surprised me actually. I expected a pretty run of the mill country pop album, and a few songs are kind of exactly that, buts there’s some really good stuff on here as well. Sheryl touches on some pretty heavy/taboo topics with quality finesse. I also enjoyed the R&B and jazz influences quite a bit. 7/10
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.
Didn’t enjoy this as much as I thought I might. Maybe I needed another go around, but no time today - and not enough of interest to draw me back later.
I’d not heard this cd before. I own a greatest hits cd which contains 5 of these 11 songs - I think all 5 were singles & I liked them at the time, without feeling rapturous about Crow. But I found some stuff I quite liked among the other 6 tracks. I really liked the latin feel of Solidify. I loved the wacky Na Na Song (which sounds like a demented Subterranean Homesick Blues). The bass in No One Said It Would Be Easy is totally reminiscent of the Twin Peaks soundtrack, from around the same time. And she could be channeling Dian Kraal on the very jazzy We Do What We Can. Some of the stuff here is straight out of the Seventies Singer- Songwriter text-book. But she generally does okay with it.
I was going to say that I have mixed feelings about this album, but really the problem is that I don't have many feelings at all. Her voice is pleasant enough, with enough character that it isn't just bland. The songwriting is pretty highly skilled, without being overly flashy. Similarly, the band are really great players, and really well recorded. The sounds are more organic (real drums, prominent guitars, organ, piano, minimal synths and samples and no obvious protools edits) than much material recorded in the early 90s,. This means it hasn't dated quiet as much as, say, Alanis Morrisset or other contemporaneous pop music You can tell the songs and arrangements were work-shopped for a long time. the band is really comfortable with the material. It's laid back, but without losing focus. The collective writing and playing make this a pretty strong album, and it has a point of view (at least by way of contrast with most pop albums), But does it really have much to say? Success has many fathers, as they say, and there were public recriminations over who got appropriate credit when this came out. I suspect that few of the collaborators expected the album to do much, and were pretty pissed off when a woman got "all the credit" when it sold a bajillion copies. Ms Crow's ongoing success proves, I think, that she was not a mere puppet of this group. But this album is OK, but doesn't move me particularly. Certainly, there is nothing about it that I hate, but it inspires nothing stronger than a mild "like". Excerpt "All I wanna do"; that still feels liek a breathe of fresh air. I really like her conversational lyrics and flow, which feels a bit new. I have a jukebox 7" of "All I Wanna Do" b/w "If it makes you happy" which is probably the sum total of all the Sheryl Crow I will ever want or need. I really feel like this is a solid 2.5 stars, but I am going to tip over to 3 stars, based on the shit she copped from her collaborators, probably undeserved.
Better than I feared
Songs you know by heart.
This album sounds like what I expected to sound like. I'm not really that into it, but she has a really nice voice. I would be lying if I said I didn't get bored of it at least once. Fave track(s): What I Can Do For You
mostly found this to be rather shite
It's fine but nothing to write home about
Liked this one more than I thought I would! “All I Wanna Do” still sounds as fresh as it did in the 90’s and “Run, Baby, Run” makes me wanna sing in front of the mirror, but the 2nd half of the album loses steam and didn’t leave me with a super memorable impression. Not a fan of her ballads and I hope I never have to listen to “The Na Na Song” ever again.
Nice
Not a big Sherly Crow guy
2.5 stars, vocals don't always do it for me. Kinda nice.
Bit too poppy for me
Why didn’t I give Cheryl Crow a chance before?
Tók ég eftir þessu í gamla daga? Já, en bara All I want to do. Var þetta tebollinn minn þá? Já nei nei. Hvað finnst mér í dag? Fín production, vel áheyrilegt, oft catchy og barasta alveg ágætt, takk fyrir. Hlustaði tvisvar, gæti aftur.
Surprisingly I didn’t hate hearing all I wanna do on this album even though they played it once every 20 minutes when I worked at hyvee. Otherwise the album was better than I was expecting since I’ve never been super impressed by Sheryl crow. The first song was pretty good
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.
meehhh
Genuint kinda getat
Decent music. The last two songs were especially strong
Helt bra, solid 3
Not an SC fan.
Meh
Much more laid back and mellow than I was expecting having heard the singles. Pleasant enough.
All I Wanna Do is hear another album.
Really liked no one said it would be easy, what I can do for you, we do what we can. Sheryl crow has a very recognizable voice. Smoky and sultry, enjoy the way she layers her voice for choruses. She has an incredible blend of rock, pop, blues, jazz. This was her debut album. The initial one was scrapped but is leaked on internet. Mental note to find that as she deemed it to be overproduced. This one is definitely raw-just her full-hearted vocals and instrumentals. Incredible album.
Decent, middle of the road tunes, well executed, but lacking in much that’s exquisite or particularly memorable. The whole thing is fine, just fine.
This was a nice surprise, I've always liked Sheryl Crow's singles but maybe have underestimated her in the past. This was a really enjoyable listen, solid album!
Mig langar svo að fíla þessa plötu en á erfitt með það. Held að ofspilun All I wanna do á sínum tíma hafi valdið því. Strong enough er samt gadem gott lag.
3.4/5 ok background folk music
Meh
Got some stuff ill revisit. Solid.
I really liked the direction this album headed in as it progressed, I really like it, and I'd be curious if I would love it upon repeat listens. 3.5/5
ощущения похожие как от кейт буш, но только лучше и голос приятнее и музыка бывает посложнее. кажется, что из этого родилась тейлор свифт и ван дирекшн. и еще забыла написать про предыдущий альбом. очень нравится голос мика джаггера и как же он любит петь про poor boy life…🫰🏼amen
I do not understand why these one-hit wonder albums are on this list.
Sheryl Crow has a fine voice, but the lyrics and song structure here don’t always match it. The popular singles are the definite highlights.
Middle of the road 90s cross over country - there are a few songs which diamonds in the rough, pop wise, but most of the album is bland.
All of the radio hits on this record sound so much different than I remember them sounding when they were hits. The rest of the context of the record makes them all a lot more enjoyable. Definitely talented and a good record, just not really for me.
Liked a lot more than I thought I would
I was skeptical going into it, as it has all the genres keywords I'm not usually a fan of. But I ended up kinda enjoying it more than I thought
There are a few nice songs and she has the country singer’s raspiness that makes songs like “Leaving Las Vegas” work.
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.
Didn’t listen to it
Justice for Kevin Gilbert
Some great songs in here, a little over-produced which seems to cowl her cry at times. Strong Enough and All I Wanna Do are crackers, the later was huge when I was a kid
I don't like Cheryl Crow's voice. Some of the softer tracks didn't sound horrible but were just boring, and if she tried to add any edge to it using her voice it sounded like shit. I don't think a single track hit for me.
Fav tracks: Do what we can, All I wanna know, solidify. Deserves a 3
Je sais que je suis pas fan de country, mais considérant son statut je m'attendais à être un peu plus impressionné.
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
Good album to listen to as I’m doing my laundry and housework. As a songwriter myself I can definitely admire her skills, great story telling. 5 songs in and instrumentally nothing is really sticking out to me. No songs so far have made me go and save them to my designated 1001 albums playlist. “We Do What We Can” is a beautiful ballad with dreading keys, high hats that feel like they are slowly creeping up to you, the horns that pop in and out and not to mention that drum/percussion section in the middle to really elevate the song. Sheryl’s vocals are the strongest for me on this song. Favourites: Solidify, All I Wanna Do, We Do What We Can
Put on your denim and slip in to a horse trough with a nice glass of chablis. Not real country, not real rock. Stonewashed roots rock. Best Tracks: Strong Enough; Can't Cry Any More; All I Wanna Do;
What an amazing debut album! I had never listened to this, although I know several of the songs. A great and interesting variety of songs. Absolutely enjoyable listening.
I think I like Sheryl Crow more in theory than in practice. I was excited when this album showed up, because it had been so long since I last listened to it. Turns out maybe the extended time between listens was because I find the album as a whole a bit boring.
First things first: All I Wanna Do is a brilliant, brilliant pop song with its evocative imagery and beyond-catchy chorus. (It once caused my exuberantly drunk brother-in-law to attack me and my husband with a lint roller.) That's a lot for the rest of the album to live up to and unfortunately it can't quite reach the bar. But Crow is a talented musician and this is some solid southern country rock mixed with a few other styles (smoky piano ballad We Do What We Can is another standout).
I think I’ve heard this album before, but it has been a while. There are a lot of great songs on this and I really enjoyed hearing it again. A close listen to this album makes me realize how great a songwriter Sheryl Crow is.
Started strong with the first three tracks, very nostalgic, the rest of the album was pretty bland. Her big hit single I’ve just heard too many times.
Average
I didn't mind this album. Nothing really stood out, but nothing was terrible either. Liked Leaving Vegas, I shall believe and the Na Na song. Ok for me 2.5 out of 5
3 At the start of this I really was not enjoying myself, but around the third song in I started to buy into the sound. I don’t think it has much of an identity of its own though, bouncing around from Country to RnB to Pop and Jazz. I didn’t particularly care for a lot of the lyrics but for as many lyrics that I didn’t like there were just as many that I did. While I don’t see myself rushing out to listen again, I do think some of these songs will be refreshing when I’m in the mood for something different. Favorites: Strong Enough, Solidify, No One Said It Would Be Easy, All I Wanna Do, We Do What We Can, I Shall Believe
2 It's not a bad album, but it's not for me. Rated leniently for not sucking. Favorite song: No One Said It Would Be Easy
Standouts - solidify, all I wanna do
I had this on CD. It's pretty much a thing of its time, I guess. It has its moments and I like it but I wouldn't consider it essential.
I expected to score this higher than I did. Crow really is an exceptional writer. The lyrics on this album show a depth and maturity that I just never expect from a debut album. It helps, I think, that Crow was 31 when she released this. She'd had enough real life experiences that these themes ring true. The main problem here is that the album just didn't age well. While Crow herself is stellar, most of the backing tracks are kind of ugly. Most of the album feels weirdly synthetic. But not in a slick, overproduced way. More of a rough, cheap plastic way. The drums on "Leaving Las Vegas" are particularly offensive which is a shame because it's such a good track otherwise.
To be honest I don't really like Sheryl Crow's voice, so I'm a bit biased against this album. That said, the actual lyrics and vocals are well done, so that regains some esteem in my eyes. I want to like this album more than I actually do. Obviously "All I Wanna Do" (fave track) is worth the price of admission alone, but the deep cuts are often solid too--personally I also loved "Leaving Los Vegas" and "No One Said It Would Be Easy." Overall solidly enjoyable but I'd only re-listen to about a third of the album.
There are a number of albums that are both very relaxed and enjoyable; this is not one them.
Sheryl Crow is only tolerable for a couple of decent hits and most of them aren't on here. Tuesday Night Music Club only scrapes a 2/5 because it's so bloody beige and underwhelming.
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.
Meh.
Solid
J'ai bien aimé, surtout les moments tristes
un peu trop country sur les bords attention
I am very pleased this album is a part of the list. I listened to the excellent episode of Bandsplained they did on Sheryl and I really came to appreciate her music and career arc. But I had assumed that this would be a situation of one of the best selling albums of the decade with inescapable radio play and music videos on all the time but not critically appreciated. Much like the situation in this book of Shania Twain. Really like All I Wanna Do, Strong Enough and Can’t Cry Anymore. While it’s not on this record, If It Makes You Happy is top 10 (maybe 5) of the 90s.
This was a really fun listen. This is incredibly chill music with the swanky guitar lines, the thumping bass, and Crow's complementary vocals. A great debut.
Fuck yes, also don't tell my friends I've been rocking out to Sheryl
Pleasantly surprised by how funky this album was
Slow jazzy groves mixed with some uptempo songs. Overall pretty easy listen.
I am familiar with Sheryl Crow and I was familiar with a couple of songs. I do not ever say "I need to listen to Sheryl Crow." The album was relatively short which is good and I did not feel the need to skip any songs. Overall it is just kinda of meh. It is less than a 3 but more than a 2. I will round up.
A good old fashioned feel good album. I forgot how much I used to listen to this.
This is pop as usual. Nothing much really. I like "No one said it would be easy" though.
Leuk luisteralbum. Maar eerder wat achtergrondmuziek imho. Wel mooie teksten en goeie zangeres
TE AMO
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.
plagsomt
Like ikkje sånn musikk, men kan (dessverre) ikkje si at da e heilt jævlig heller
good stuff.
couple classics
Well I wasn't expecting to like this as much as I did. Some duds but overall pretty surprisingly good. Like 3.75 stars probably.
Listened to on 4/13/22 4/5 Favorite song: Strong Enough, All I Wanna Do Solid bops would recommend
It was alright. I expected more.
4/13/22 I was more excited for this than was actually realized. My expectations let me down and maybe that’s my fault, but I just wasn’t impressed. The two songs I know I enjoyed but other than those, I don’t really love Sheryl Crow. Favorite song: All I Wanna Do
Didn't care much for the album at all. It seems to be carried by All I Wanna Do but that song isn't my favorite either. Crow's voice is nice but the country-pop style doesn't work. Ballads don't feel sincere especially since I just listened to Adele.
Really enjoyed the album 3*
Really enjoyed the first few songs and thought we may be on course for an unexpected four stars. The quality dropped off quite a bit so I think a three is probably fair ...
When the songs from Tuesday Night Music Club were on the radio, I was trying to decide if I like Sheryl Crow or not. Four of the eleven tracks from this album are familiar, but I'm pretty sure I've listened to the whole album at least once as I tried to figure out if I like Crow or not. I listened again, and I'm still not convinced. Crow is talented, but the music doesn't call out for attention from me. The singles from this album (excluding "Run Baby Run") got a slightly higher rating. I did not like "The Na-Na Song". The album as a whole lands squarely on 3 stars. Meh.
Country musicians ruining country music since always
Cultura general
Dece 4
Oh did I feel all 1990's dancing in the morning spring sun to this. Hadn't listened to the album for 20+ years so needed reminding Sheryl is far more than a one hit wonder. Some great tunes here.
Not a great album, not bad but by any means, but 'All I Wanna Do' was one of the songs all over the radio when I was living in America in the 90's and is tied really strongly to good childhood memories so a definite nostalgia bump
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.
Always loved this album and Sheryl crow
Sheryl Crow has lovely, soothing voice and casual style that is really attractive. I like the hits and most of the other songs on this album. 3.5 and rounding up.
Better music than what I associate Sheryl Crow with, but you can definitely see how she'll morph further into cheesy 'heartland rock' type stuff. It's a 3.5 for me, maybe even 3.75 but I can't quite bring myself to give a 4.
It wasn't bad, but it has some weak points. And I can't stand the na-na song or whatever it's called.
2, One jammer on this but the others didn't do much for me