norah jones

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A while ago I read that Tom Waits's Bone Machine is one of Norah Jones's favorite albums. Her record Come Away With Me was so smooth and polite, and his quite the opposite... it was something to contemplate.

I just read this in an interview with S. Husky Höskulds, about the Grammy award for Come Away With Me:

It was a pretty bitter sweet experience - to be honest. The fact that we made a beautiful, raw, emotional 'Tom Waits - sounding' record was great. The fact that the record company didn't have to balls to put it out, and had someone else retrack a lot of it, and then remix the whole thing, in a 'diet' version, was not that great. Actually, now that I think of it, it wasn't that bittersweet at all. Seems to me it was almost all bitter... There's really nothing quite like getting an Engineering GRAMMY for the crappiest, most watered down sounding record you've been a part of.

I'd love to hear the pre-diet version of that record.

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[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Ouch.

[localcharacter.livejournal.com]

My respect for Norah Jones just shot way the hell up. "Straight to the Top," you might say.

Her new album drops next month (Not Too Late, heh heh): let's hope she's used her strong position to make the kind of album she wanted.

(Also gotta say: Looking forward to that Wong Kar-Wai film.)

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Well, I kind of understand his bitterness about the eviscerated album, but still, he did get a Grammy.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Let's hope. Her second album, despite a Tom Waits cover and a Dolly Parton vocal, didn't sound different enough to hook me.

As for the film: It sure sounds pretty, but it's another "let's hope" for me. I liked his "Fallen Angels", but his last two U.S. releases were... just the sort of thing I like, and yet they didn't grab me. Maybe not having to read subtitles will help me enjoy the new one more. I'm such a philistine.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

EMI seems to be offering non-Disabled Rotten Music'ed versions of some songs for purchase, and one of her singles from the new album is one of the offered songs. If you're interested in music companies selling actual mp3's that actual people can actually play, that'd be an easy way to check her out.