Storms
by Nanci Griffith

Storms by Nanci Griffith
Year: 1989
Overall rank: 16,556th   
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71/100 (from 21 votes)
     
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Award Top albums of 1989 (219th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (2,232nd)
Award Best albums of all time (16,556th)

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Nanci Griffith bestography

Storms is ranked 8th best out of 23 albums by Nanci Griffith on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Nanci Griffith is The Last Of The True Believers which is ranked number 4628 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 303.

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Overall rank: 16,556th | 1980s rank: 2,232nd | 1989 rank: 219th

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From 04/01/2021 18:29 | #268065
Storms is Nanci Griffith's seventh studio album and her third for the MCA label. Following the commercial failure of Little Love Affairs, Griffith moved to the pop section of MCA and tried her darndest to make a pop album with a strong folk core.

The material is nice but does not really live up to the content she had produced earlier in the decade. Still, it's a lovely album and a welcome contribution to her catalogue.

Particularly excellent is the title track, written by Griffith's ex-husband Eric Taylor. Taylor was not commercial in any sense of the word, so it's lovely to hear his song performed in such a catchy way.

Three albums into her MCA contract, it must have been frustrating for Griffith to get some traction. "Is anybody out there??" she sings on the final track, and one can only wonder if this is how she felt being tossed around as the record executives tried to figure out how to market such an unorthodox singer and performer.

Also, she sings "Loretta Lynn," not "ritalin" on the track "Listen to the Radio." Misheard lyrics be damned!

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