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sp4cetiger
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- #1
- Posted: 04/23/2014 20:43
- Post subject: User Pick of the Day (#38): You Are Free [Norman Bates]
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You Are Free by Cat Power
Chart: Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Norman Bates
Rank on User's Chart: 11
Year: 2003
Rank on BEA Overall: 1,158
Average Rating: 78/100
Summary Info: The sixth album by indie singer-songwriter Chan Marshall (Cat Power), which features guest appearances from Dave Grohl, Eddie Vedder, and Warren Ellis.
Details on the implementation and chart selection process of "User Pick of the Day" can be found here and here, respectively. A chart documenting the previous picks can be found here.
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Norman Bates
Gender: Male
Age: 51
Location: Paris, France
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- #2
- Posted: 04/23/2014 21:05
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Ah, I'd written something for "XXX albums to listen to before the idea died down", and I'm lazy, and it wasn't very good anyway.
Whatever, splendid album, her best, basically it's tamed compared to her previous efforts, but in a nice, tense, emotional kind of tamey way. One of the best albums of the past decade for sure.
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meccalecca
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Location: The Land of Enchantment
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- Posted: 04/23/2014 23:46
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This is probably the last Cat Power album I loved. Moon Pix is also right up there as a personal favorite. Lately I hear her early records as a kind of female answer to Red House Painters if that makes any sense.
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smilefromyrheart
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- Posted: 04/24/2014 00:59
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| meccalecca wrote: | | This is probably the last Cat Power album I loved. Moon Pix is also right up there as a personal favorite. Lately I hear her early records as a kind of female answer to Red House Painters if that makes any sense. |
I think she meant them as an answer to Smog. She was obsessed with Billy Callahan. (She's completely crazy by the way. Seeing her in concert was always an interesting experience. Half the time she'd meltdown. It was almost like performance art, really. At least back in the 90s.) But good call. Red House Painters and Smog have a similar vibe.
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Kool Keith Sweat
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- Posted: 04/24/2014 04:11
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Cause I want to be a good woman
and I want for you to be a good man
This is why I am leaving
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Saoirse
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- Posted: 04/24/2014 07:34
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And this is why eternal <3 for Norman's chart
Seriously, at some isolated moments this is feels like the only necessary album in the world
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meccalecca
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- Posted: 04/24/2014 15:06
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| smilefromyrheart wrote: | | I think she meant them as an answer to Smog. She was obsessed with Billy Callahan. (She's completely crazy by the way. Seeing her in concert was always an interesting experience. Half the time she'd meltdown. It was almost like performance art, really. At least back in the 90s.) But good call. Red House Painters and Smog have a similar vibe. |
Good call. I can definitely see the Smog/Callahan connection with her sound back then.
Never caught her back then, but I remember when the stage fright was being talked about regularly
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WindowAbove
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Age: 25
Location: Iowa
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- Posted: 04/24/2014 15:50
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I love this album, one of my favorite singer-songwriter albums.
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