Spirit - Jewel (Pop) (CD 1998)

The cool thing about living in a place like San Francisco is that there are lots of neato used record stores. Big ones. And the cool thing about neato, gigantic record stores is that there are big fat selections of super cheap albums that you d have to pay a lot more for, even used, in a lot of other places. And the other cool thing about all of this is that nobody looks at you funny if you decide one day to plunk down 20 bucks for a buttload of chick music. Like, say, 2 Melissa Ethridge albums, 2 Indigo Girls, 2 Jewels, a Sarah McLachlan and a k.d. lang. About a year ago, I was in one of...

Yes, my favorite artists are women. I just think there is something inherently better about it. Maybe I like the idea of being sung to by these women. OK, so they aren't singing directly to me, but I can fantasize can't I? Jewels' CD Spirit follows up the outstanding Pieces of you it continues on mostly the same themes, and therefore it is excellent. But just not as excellent as Pieces of you. Jewel fills her songs with love, hope and interesting, often times romantic, imagery. Here's the song list and my take on them. 1 Deep Water-A simple song, accompanied by an acoustic guitar and a piano.

She's a platinum snowqueen who seems to think her stint spent living in her van makes her qualified to spin advice on how we can save our souls. When will they learn? Jewel has been called a neo-Joni Mitchell, but what separates Mitchell from Jewel is Mitchell is actually a good poet, not just a famous one. Jewel spends most of Spirit wasting our time, calling us to acknowledge that even though we're "fragile flames", we're still "all OK." Well, of course Jewel's okay. If my last album had sold over 14 million copies, I'd be a whole lot closer to OK, and not just P.O.'ed. I do not have a...

O.K., the title may seem a bit blunt, but it's true. I got the title from reading something about Canadian cities (sorry for all of you Canadians, I love the country, by the way) and I thought "Perfect", for this title at least. Those three words perfectly describe the entire layout of the album Spirit. Now let me just say this, Spirit is Jewel at her...um...most complain-y and at her most observative. She seems to have somewhat deserted her warmth that she had during her debut (which sold 12 million). I'm not saying that this cd is terrible, but it's just so queer how she repeats herself and.