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Music CD - Jewel: Pieces of You
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Music CD: Pieces of You
Artist: Jewel
List Price: $13.98
Our Price: $3.40
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Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
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Tracks:
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1. Who Will Save Your Soul
2. Pieces Of You
3. Little Sister
4. Foolish Games
5. Near You Always
6. Painters
7. Morning Song
8. Adrian
9. I'm Sensitive
10. You Were Meant For Me
11. Don't
12. Daddy
13. Angel Standing By
14. Amen
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075678270024
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publication Date: 1994
Publisher: Atlantic / Wea
Release Date: 1995-02-28
Studio: Atlantic / Wea
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Summary: Pieces of Jewel shine brightly all over every track...
Comment: Many fans of Jewel's music today may be surprised if they ever take the time to listen to her debut album `Pieces of You'. Stripped of the polish and shine that her newer music embodies and presented in a raw and delicate manner; the tracks on `Pieces of You' are some of her most emotional and touching work to date. This album is collectively perfect, truly inspiring and resonant from start to finish; a beautiful collection of heart reaching songs that embellish this beauty's magnificent voice; literally and figuratively.
I'm sure just about everyone has heard Jewel's singles off this album; `Who Will Save Your Soul', `Foolish Games' and `You Were Meant for Me'; but what they most likely haven't heard is the album versions of these songs. Yes, all three of these tracks were polished and cleaned up for the radio and thus were presented to the public in commercial form. Listen to the rawness of the brilliant `Foolish Games' (in my humble opinion one of the greatest songs ever written and or performed) then you will see first hand the talent this singer/songwriter possesses. `Who Will Save Your Soul' opens the album with some spunk, a track that gives us a taste of Jewel's marvelous baritone as well as her sarcastic lyrical message. `You Were Meant for Me' is probably her most popular track to date, the song that immediately is identified to her. It's a beautiful track that serves as a great example of the depth of her talent.
Some have made mention of the fact that some of the tracks here are recorded live. I don't see how this is a bad thing, and if it bothers you then obviously you don't appreciate the brand of music that Jewel is presenting here. This is her passion, her drive and she is recording it in a way that expresses that. So on tracks like `Little Sister' when she sounds out of breath or on `Near You Always' where you can hear her breathing or on `Angel Standing By' when her chords are muted and rough the listener should, instead of balking, be enthralled at the experience these tracks are delivering to us. We can feel her love and devotion to her music with every strum of the guitar.
There are a few tracks that touch deeper than others; tracks like the aforementioned `Foolish Games' (I swear, this song is utter perfection) and `Angel Standing By' (so graceful and elegant) as well as `Adrian' and the title track `Pieces of You'. `Adrian' is a very sad and emotionally stirring song about a young boy and a tragic accident and the love surrounding him. It brings tears to my eyes. `Pieces of You' is a pivotal track here, a song that lyrically takes the album to another level. It says, in simple words, so much here about the world in which we live and the people we've become. `Daddy' is another song that has deep resonance (and no, this is not about Jewel's father, whom she claims to love very much). This is a track I'm sure will bring on the floodgates to quite a few listeners.
Jewel's folk roots can be seen full throttle on tracks like `Painters' and `Don't', two very impressive tracks. `I'm Sensitive' is fun and fresh and is extremely entertaining and `Morning Song' is cheeky and similar to `You Were Meant for Me' in structure and delivery. The closing track `Amen' is utterly flawless, a beautiful way to close out a brilliant album. It's graceful and intriguing and commanding of our attention. As the track comes to a close we are compelled to listen to it again.
`Pieces of You' is Jewel's best album, honestly. It is untouched and real, an album that is entirely her own. She has compiled music that means something to her and in the end that is what matters to the listener. If the artist feels connected to their music that will transcend through the stereo and into the ears and minds of their audience and thus it will mean something to us.
I love Jewel, and I love her newer music as well, but nothing she has done since has compared to the creativity and passion she has brought to this stunning debut. Jewel continues to shine, but this album is where she has shone the brightest.
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Summary: Jewel's first album
Comment: At twenty-one, Jewel released smash hits, mostly written by herself. She has a beautiful voice and still has one today. Unfortunately there is one problem with this album because "You Were Meant for Me" is the album version and not the radio version most stations play. Anyways, the album still has Jewel's beautiful voice on her original soft song compositions. "Who Will Save Your Soul" is a classic as well. This is a must for any Jewel fan.
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Summary: Please tell me if it's a live album
Comment: Why do I keep getting live albums that don't say "live" anywhere?? It's frustrating. I would like to know what I'm getting and nowhere did the description of this cd or anywhere else on the website say it was live.
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Summary: Great Buy!
Comment: This is a great buy if you don't have a CD player in your car! Or at all. Jewel's best album in my opinion.
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Summary: PIECES OF JEWEL
Comment: Dynamic and lush production and Jewel's soul-deep enriched vocals, (she can go deep into a bass register, and high into soprano, and yodels like she just came down from the mountaintop), make "Pieces of You", her debut Grammy-winning album of 1995, a stunner of an album. Since then, she has yet to capitalize on a successful career, flittering in and out of the popular charts without the impact and artistic success of this album, which combines at least three outstanding tracks, ("Who Will Save Your Soul?", "You Were Meant For Me", and "Foolish Games"), with school-girl poetics on bigotry and homophobia, which are presented as naive and honest as a first training bra. Her in-your-face sweet righteousness is enough to make you cringe at the dopey sincerity, ("Jew ... Do you hate him because he's pieces of you?"). She possesses a genuine folksy charm which can roar like an urban lion as she reaches soulful masculine tinged registers in her gorgeous voice; "Who will save your soul', she pleads so deeply, 'when you won't save your own?", in outstanding opening track, "Who Will Save Your Soul?". "Pieces Of You" is pieces of Jewel, an emotionally fragile and solid songwriter wrapped in string enriched orchestration, guitar strumming folk, live acoustic, and mind settling balladry. The years have been kind to this album. I like it today more than yesterday, when it was merely an album with a few good tracks.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Jewel's debut album, Pieces of You, reveals a special voice--strong and focused on both the whispery verses and the hooky choruses. The recording also exposes an unfortunate tendency to present trite, hackneyed sentiments as if they were oracular visions from a young prophet to a jaded world. For the most part, Jewel sings to her own acoustic guitar accompaniment, but she has a lot more in common with, say, the Indigo Girls or Lisa Loeb than with Judy Collins or Nanci Griffith. Despite her soft soprano and pretty melodies, her songs have an iconoclastic edge which make her more of an unplugged alternative rocker than a folkie. Her songs too often betray their origins as written verse in their hard-to-sing meters, unmusical phrasing, and diary-like pronouncements. Nonetheless, a few numbers, such as "Morning Song" and "You Were Meant for Me," show a spark of humor about romance, and hint that Jewel may yet write songs worthy of her remarkable voice. --Geoffrey Himes
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