My Overall Chart: 1901-2000 by 
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1992 – ISLAND
Produced By MELISSA ETHERIDGE & KEVIN MCCORMICK
1. Ain’t It Heavy
2. 2001
3. Dance Without Sleeping
4. Place Your Hand
5. Must Be Crazy For Me
6. Meet Me In The Back
7. The Boy Feels Strange
8. Keep It Precious
9. The Letting Go
10. It’s For You
God bless Melissa Etheridge. She is such a powerhouse of a performer. She seems to throw everything she has into every song, making her an electric and exciting live act. Unfortunately, the one thing that she has not been able to do is to find a way to channel that passion and excitement and power to her studio recordings. Which may well be the reason why Melissa Etheridge is often forgotten about when mentioning great female rockers, and why she doesn’t seem to get her fair share of radio play. But the truth is that her albums are really not representative of what she is capable of doing. That powerful raspy voice seems caged in a vocal booth, but live on stage, she sounds unbeatable. And it seems that the more you try to boost her studio songs with full band arrangements, the more you cover her gifts and the raw passion she brings to her performances. Especially on her first three albums.
Never Enough is her third album, and it may be the most lost sounding of all Etheridge releases. She seems to be not only struggling to find her voice amid the growing band around her that is dwarfing the folk singer she used to be, but she also is struggling with finding songs that suit her style. The best of the bunch here is “Ain’t It Heavy”, which won her a Grammy and probably saved her career at this point. The rest of Never Enough is bland and unremarkable. It’s not terrible, but there’s also not a memorable moment to be found. For an album by such a dynamic performer, this is a shockingly dull affair. Her next album, Yes I Am, is where she found some studio success with “Come To My Window” and “I’m The Only One”. But aside from the one song (which is not at the same level as those two hits), you won’t find what you’re looking for from Etheridge here. This is her weakest album…skip to Yes I Am instead.
Produced By MELISSA ETHERIDGE & KEVIN MCCORMICK
1. Ain’t It Heavy
2. 2001
3. Dance Without Sleeping
4. Place Your Hand
5. Must Be Crazy For Me
6. Meet Me In The Back
7. The Boy Feels Strange
8. Keep It Precious
9. The Letting Go
10. It’s For You
God bless Melissa Etheridge. She is such a powerhouse of a performer. She seems to throw everything she has into every song, making her an electric and exciting live act. Unfortunately, the one thing that she has not been able to do is to find a way to channel that passion and excitement and power to her studio recordings. Which may well be the reason why Melissa Etheridge is often forgotten about when mentioning great female rockers, and why she doesn’t seem to get her fair share of radio play. But the truth is that her albums are really not representative of what she is capable of doing. That powerful raspy voice seems caged in a vocal booth, but live on stage, she sounds unbeatable. And it seems that the more you try to boost her studio songs with full band arrangements, the more you cover her gifts and the raw passion she brings to her performances. Especially on her first three albums.
Never Enough is her third album, and it may be the most lost sounding of all Etheridge releases. She seems to be not only struggling to find her voice amid the growing band around her that is dwarfing the folk singer she used to be, but she also is struggling with finding songs that suit her style. The best of the bunch here is “Ain’t It Heavy”, which won her a Grammy and probably saved her career at this point. The rest of Never Enough is bland and unremarkable. It’s not terrible, but there’s also not a memorable moment to be found. For an album by such a dynamic performer, this is a shockingly dull affair. Her next album, Yes I Am, is where she found some studio success with “Come To My Window” and “I’m The Only One”. But aside from the one song (which is not at the same level as those two hits), you won’t find what you’re looking for from Etheridge here. This is her weakest album…skip to Yes I Am instead.
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1990 – 4AD
Produced By COCTEAU TWINS
1. Cherry-Coloured Funk
2. Pitch The Baby
3. Iceblink Luck
4. Fifty-Fifty Clown
5. Heaven Or Las Vegas
6. I Wear Your Ring
7. Fotzepolitic
8. Wolf In The Breast
9. Road, River And Rail
10. Frou-Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires
There were a handful of bands in the 80’s that, if you knew their music, you became kind of instantly cool. One of those bands was Cocteau Twins. But to get what they were really all about, to hear them at their very best, you have to go back to their 1984 album Treasure. What they did afterwards was worth hearing, including Heaven Or Las Vegas, their seventh album from 1990. This is dream pop…think bands like Mazzy Star, and you get what a lot of the Twins sound like. Led by singer Elizabeth Fraser, guitarist Robin Guthrie and bass player Simon Raymonde, this Scottish trio made beautiful atmospheric pop that made them far from the new wave bands of the era. This was not a singles band. Cocteau Twins were all about the album. So a lot depends on how consistent they were with their songwriting from album to album.
This is a good representation of their later years, and it’s as close to the magic of Treasure as they ever got. “Cherry-Coloured Funk”, “Iceblink Luck” and the title track are the standouts on this one. There’s just enough filler to keep this from being great, but there’s also just enough quality to make it worth your while. At this time, cracks were beginning to show. Fraser and Guthrie had just had a child, with Guthrie battling addiction problems. They were also not getting along with the head of their label, and they were dropped after this album. The band was broken up for good by 1997. They left behind one great album and a handful of almost great ones…Heaven Or Las Vegas is one of those. It may take some time to get the hang of it, but there’s surely plenty to enjoy here…enough to make it worthwhile. [First added to this chart: 09/10/2025]
Produced By COCTEAU TWINS
1. Cherry-Coloured Funk
2. Pitch The Baby
3. Iceblink Luck
4. Fifty-Fifty Clown
5. Heaven Or Las Vegas
6. I Wear Your Ring
7. Fotzepolitic
8. Wolf In The Breast
9. Road, River And Rail
10. Frou-Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires
There were a handful of bands in the 80’s that, if you knew their music, you became kind of instantly cool. One of those bands was Cocteau Twins. But to get what they were really all about, to hear them at their very best, you have to go back to their 1984 album Treasure. What they did afterwards was worth hearing, including Heaven Or Las Vegas, their seventh album from 1990. This is dream pop…think bands like Mazzy Star, and you get what a lot of the Twins sound like. Led by singer Elizabeth Fraser, guitarist Robin Guthrie and bass player Simon Raymonde, this Scottish trio made beautiful atmospheric pop that made them far from the new wave bands of the era. This was not a singles band. Cocteau Twins were all about the album. So a lot depends on how consistent they were with their songwriting from album to album.
This is a good representation of their later years, and it’s as close to the magic of Treasure as they ever got. “Cherry-Coloured Funk”, “Iceblink Luck” and the title track are the standouts on this one. There’s just enough filler to keep this from being great, but there’s also just enough quality to make it worth your while. At this time, cracks were beginning to show. Fraser and Guthrie had just had a child, with Guthrie battling addiction problems. They were also not getting along with the head of their label, and they were dropped after this album. The band was broken up for good by 1997. They left behind one great album and a handful of almost great ones…Heaven Or Las Vegas is one of those. It may take some time to get the hang of it, but there’s surely plenty to enjoy here…enough to make it worthwhile. [First added to this chart: 09/10/2025]
Year of Release:
1990
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9,950
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1997
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3
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Year of Release:
1993
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11,184
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1998
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2
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My Overall Chart: 1901-2000 chart changes
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| Down 1 from 1st to 2nd Here Comes The New Folk Underground by David Baerwald |
| Down 1 from 2nd to 3rd Heaven Or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins |
| Down 1 from 3rd to 4th Miss America by Mary Margaret O'Hara |
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 Never Enoughby Melissa Etheridge |
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