Tracy Chapman

Lacking in vocal depth.

nä, inte för mig. Stort plus för albumlängden dock. Mer sånt.

Not a fan of her music

They are nice songs and she's got good progressive politics. But nice does not make great. A whole album of this, I think not. While listening I thought of two artists, wholly inoffensive but whose massive popularity belies their otherwise quite ordinary abilities: Norah Jones (who I think was ballistic huge around the same time as Tracy) and the inexplicable Ed Sheeran. Tracy is a bit like that. Her other problem in this listing is coming hot on the heels of life changing artists, Dolly et al. As the PE would say, don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype.

Don’t like!

1/2

Unfortunately I did not vibe with this AT ALL. She had a BEAUTIFUL voice, but not for this genre. Maybe pop or something idk

Very slow and not incredibly musical. I don't mind the lyrics, but I don't much enjoy the musicality.

Tracy Chapman vet også forut sin tid. Hun pionerer tydeligvis den sutrete four Chris poppen som har tatt over poppen i vår tid. Dette er ikke låtskriving. Dette er syting med gitar. (Dette gjelder ikk tekstene hennes som er helt greie og handler om ekte faktiske ting, men det musikalske utrykke)

1. revolution - 1 2. car - 1.5 3. linez -1 4. uuall - 1.5 5. baby - 1.5 6. thingz - 0 7. ticket - 0 8. uuhy - 0 9. lover - 1 10. nouu - 1 11. you - 1.5

I have long despised this album and my opinion hasn’t changed. Can’t stand her voice.

1/5

Meh

Undoubtedly talented but fcuk me it’s dull, like a consistent mediocre 36 minute drone.

That’s unlistenable for me, I can barely stand this king of music in a volume of one song, let alone the whole album. Sure, the voice is great, but the pacing, instruments, melodies are giving me a headache.

Cack

3/10

Not a fan. Quite boring.

I’m going to be honest here. I didn’t even make it four songs into this album. It’s a total downer, both musically and lyrically, I hate her voice, it just doesn’t have any redeeming qualities for me. Now to be fair, I only listened to a fraction of it, and I get that she’s bearing her soul, and speaking to topics that are deeply personal and meaningful to her, but I just really hate it. I’m not opposed to albums like that, but just not this one. However, if this is your thing, I can see why people would like it. Which is the only reason I’m not calling it complete dog shit.

this is not my album. sorry tracy. singing is obviously technically skilled, i’m just off the style and content. also fast car feels unserious

I just didn't like the phrasing and melodies and most of all the voice.

very slow idk if I would listen again kylie didnt like it at all

I’m getting tired of these singer-songwriters on this list…

Super. Love her voice. Excellent album.

No

oh...

I realize I need to expand my mind and my library. I understand why this is a good record but it does nothing for me thus I don’t ever think to listen to it.

Nostalgic, good for a work out, not my favorite anymore. Not the best production.

👎🏻

Apparently all you have to do to write folk music is tell some bland story, mumble some surface-level thought about social justice, and optionally make the lyrics rhyme. "Why?" Was by far the worst song.

Insipid MOR bollocks. Like a homeopathic Joni Mitchell.

Alltid syntes Fast Car e sånn passe irriterande

I don't like 'Fast Car' anyway, but this album is very much not for me. It's far too boring and the production is terribly dated. I think it's the first album I couldn't finish?

Fast Car is the career defining hit. It's a good song and was sampled to perfection by Nice & Smooth on Sometimes I Rhyme Slow. These are truly depressing lyrics. Tracy Chapman hates America. This is so overtly political it's boring. It's like getting a lecture rather than listening to music. She could take a lesson from Bob Dylan on how to do this. Baby Can I Hold You is better...just a love song, a nice change. Right back to the lesson on how everything sucks. Capitalism is bad, rich people are bad.

Boring songs like adele...zzzzzzzzz

mid

easy listening. Mild. no top track

I fuckin hate Fast Car and refuse to listen to this album on that basis. One star. Fuck that song.

I never cared for this release. Fast Car was overplayed on the radio and that turned me off to the artist entirely.

Not my thing

Nix für mich.

Well I knew this would probably come up, so I guess I was mentally prepared for it. Snivelling, nasal, beige elevator muzak that's not even slightly hard hitting. This is the sort of fake folk music that I imagine middle class people had in their collection for show, but would never actually play, because let's face facts, it's incredibly lifeless and dull. The lyrics are an exercise in mundanity; how to skirt around issues without actually suggesting any solution or even spelling out what the real problem is. "We're all angry! Why? Because babies die, that's why!". It's like something a four-year old would come up with. I even find it annoying that Wikipedia has this down as the wrong musical genre. This is pop, maybe folk-pop if I'm being generous. It's definitely not folk-rock, contemporary-folk, or roots-rock. There's also some nasty synth sounds thrown in here and there, but let's ignore that, or we'll start categorising this as synth-wave. There might have been a couple of half catchy melodies here, but excessive radio play soon dealt with that. The non-hit songs aren't even filler, they're just plain awful. If I ever had to hear this dross again, it would be too soon.

Not my thing, sorry Tracy

Did not enjoy

This is definitely not my cup of tea - so forgive me my rating. Tracy has a charismatic voice and at the time the songs at least stood out of the usual chart shit. Still nothing I would listen to again - and to be honest I didn't listen to the full album, just did short a recap of the hit singles ...

Not a fan of this one. Was huge when I was a teenager so maybe it stems from that.

Alltid syntes Fast Car e sånn passe irriterande

Iconic voice, but "oh wow is me" lyrics. Not inspiring, to me

Fucking ass tryhard corny

Singer-songwriters are really not for me.

All preach, no fun.

No thank you

This sounds like something a Feminist Studies professor at Smith College would make.

She's talented but not 4 m3

Clearly not 'bad'... but the music didn't do it for me

Not for me Clive

Love this album, "Mountain O' Things" is probably my fav track