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- Original Release Date: 20 April 2004
- Format - Music: MP3
- Compatible with MP3 Players (including with iPod®), iTunes, Windows Media Player
- Also available in CD Format
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| Play | 1. Love Throw a Line | 3:38 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 2. Cold as It Gets | 2:38 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 3. Kite Song | 3:09 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 4. Standing | 4:04 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 5. Useless Desires | 5:50 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 6. Top of the World | 5:28 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 7. Rowing Song | 3:26 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 8. When It Don't Come Easy | 4:52 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 9. Florida | 5:01 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 10. Mother of God | 7:14 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 11. Icicles | 3:18 | £0.89 |
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
It's the half-surprised vulnerability in Patty Griffin's voice and songs which startles you and implores you to listen to her writing again and again. There are singers, great singers, who you love because of the sounds of their voice and the emotions they impart to other people's lyrics. And there are writers who know how to sing, how to take a song and bless it - a writer with a voice can impart just that much more, can convey a personal intimacy to a track, and, though you know a million others have heard it, the message sounds as if it's delivered only to you. I shall end this analogy now, before I start sounding like a stalker.
"Impossible Dream" is Patty Griffin's fourth album to see the inside of a CD player - she's recorded a couple of others which have never been released. It's a contemplative piece, the variety of styles unified by the quality of her voice and worth of her words. Griffin is a singer-songwriter who knows how to deliver a narrative poem.
Her most political work - it picks up on the theme of censorship, after her friends the Dixie Chicks had suffered a backlash, and she offers a commentary on what it means to be rejected and downtrodden. Griffin is no overnight success - she's worked at her craft, so she can write about human pain with authority and insight.
Griffin creates a real sense of intimacy, a sense that she is communicating directly to your own experience and emotion. This is artistry, not commercialism. The personal is the political and everyday emotions and experience have political relevance, especially when they are the product of abuses of power. Griffin's songs demonstrate the power of communication, demonstrate that well crafted words will rivet your attention and grip your emotions in precisely the way a mechanical beat cannot. Individual, intimate, and inimical, and a lesson in the art and artistry of the songwriter.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Songs are uniformly more in the slower style of '1000 Kisses' than in the upbeat/rock style of some of the songs on 'Flaming Red' - and the backing is lighter than on the latter: this helps to reveal Patty's amazing voice to the best perfection. 'Love throws a line' and perhaps 'Standing' could be regarded as being in a jazz/blues style somewhat reminiscent of some of Eva Cassidy's work. Other songs are in Patty's familiar 'folk ballad' style. Stand-outs for me (difficult to narrow down to a few) are perhaps 'Kite', 'Useless Desires', 'Rowing Song' and of course 'Top of the World'. The latter must be regarded as the definitive version though the Dixie Chicks' cover version is also excellent. I think this album is outstanding and a very worthy successor to the '1000 Kisses'.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Patty Griffin is one of those artists who seem to discover songs rather than write them; her music has a magical, eternal quality that is not easy to identify. Is it her arrangements, which combine delicate, understated acoustic tones with a refreshingly tasteful use of electronic and synthesised sounds? Or her lyrics, which mercilessly lay bare our hidden fears and useless desires? Whatever it is, Patty Griffin has created a sound that is entirely her own, and never has this been more beautifully clear than in Impossible Dream. Darker and more inward looking than 1000 Kisses, there is a recurring theme of frustration and inability to find contentment, indicated by the title of both the album and the fifth track, Useless Desires. Lyrically Patty is still on form, with her unique ability to wrap up such simple sentiments with wonderful charm and clarity: "We're just like anyone else/We just want a little bit of sun for ourselves/And a little bit of rain to make it all grow/maybe a minute or two to get lost in the glow of love". Her foray into the blues, as in Love Throw a Line and Standing, should be seen as a sunny spell in this otherwise exquisitely melancholic collection. Highlights are, as ever, the most simple and moving songs, such as Icicles and Kite Song. This album is a celebration of beauty, love and emotion; if any of those things interest you, Impossible Dream won't be leaving your CD player any time soon.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Patty Griffin's "Impossible Dream".
Patty Griffin's music is a small pleasure, especially for those with their own secret sorrow, real or imagined (and which could be most of us). Read more
Published on 8 Jan 2010 by Mr. Neil G. Macalpine
Very little to add to the other reviews
Patty Griffin somehow flew beneath my radar although for some time I was drawn to buying 1000 Kisses. But I didn't....big mistake! Read more
Published on 16 Nov 2009 by F Arnold
Get the UK version with the bonus tracks!
It's the half-surprised vulnerability in Patty Griffin's voice and songs which startles you and implores you to listen to her writing again and again. Read more
Published on 10 Aug 2005 by Budge Burgess
Patty is brilliant
She's simply incomperable as among singer/song writers. She also has a voice full of emotion but not dripping with sentiment (alla Celine and other pop divas). Read more
Published on 3 Jun 2005 by S. Morgan
Beautiful and elegant
Its always something to look forward to when you hear Patty Griffin is releasing a CD. After the amazing albums before this one, all of which appeared to have a different style, i... Read more
Published on 12 Sep 2004 by Ryan J. Price
Lady Six String Does It Again
An extraordinary woman with an exceptional talent, voice and writing ability. This is her fifth album on general release which contains two tracks from the album 'Silver Bell'... Read more
Published on 12 May 2004 by The Preacher Man
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