The thing with Bitter is that I liked the songs, but found the
production fairly annoying - and it isn't the first time Craig
Street has had that effect on me either (a Casandra Wilson fan
writes.) And I think you're right that the best songs here are the
ones that sound like they could have come from the Bitter sessions,
but I'm a lot happier because I can't hear any slide guitars :-)
Having heard the original version of "Wasted Time" and liked it a
lot more than the album one, I'd love to be able to hear the
original versions of the material from Bitter, I really would.
..Mark..
On Sunday, June 16, 2002, at 09:07 AM, Stimp wrote:
> Funny, I picked "Cookie" up when it came out a few weeks ago, and
> I'm still
> not feeling it all that much. It's certainly good, but somehow
> isn't making
> it to my player as often as I thought it would. Actually, the
> pieces I like
> most are the more downtempo pieces, the ones that sound like they
> came from
> the "Bitter" sessions. Personally, "Bitter" did it for me more
> than any
> other record, in that it managed to get the raw emotion and words,
> contained
> in each song, out in very convincing fashion. Almost kinda like a
> modern-day Billie Holiday, but with all due respect, still a few
> notches
> down.........
>
> Stimp
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Allerton" <Mark@warmspot.cix.co.uk>
> To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 3:32 AM
> Subject: [acid-jazz] Wot - no Meshell?
>
>
>> OK, I know I have in the past been the representation for the
>> Meshell Ndegeoccelo fan club on this list, but I am kind of
>> surprised that two weeks have gone by and no-one else has mentioned
>> that "Cookie" has finally hit the shops. And it is funky as hell.
>> None of that "Bitter" coffee-table Craig Street production either.
>> Lots of interesting stuff going on at the bottom end, and the drum
>> programming is also a step up from previous releases. Meshell or
>> Allen Cato (her producer on this one) has probably been listening
>> to Timbaland but in this cause you have the Meshell mark of quality
>> and don't have to sit through the Tim/Missy/Escalade-driving
>> nonsense to get to the good bits.
>>
>> Oh, anyway... I'm having a hard time placing "Cookie" within an
>> absolute scale of Meshell's best work, but I can tell you I am
>> feeling it bigtime. Listen to "Priorities 1-6", "Earth" or
>> "Jabril". How can you not be feeling stuff like this?
>>
>> ..Mark..
>>
>>
>
>
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