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  • Audio CD (13 Dec 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Epic
  • ASIN: B000051TUA
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have been playing music together since they met as young girls. RITES OF PASSAGE marks a creative and artistic watershed for the duo. The album strikes afine balance between politics and romance, rhythm and melody, and acoustic and electric musicianship.
RITES OF PASSAGE features special guests and memorable songs and performances. The album's standout tracks demand attention. The political "Three Hits" is classic Amy Ray. "Galileo" finds Saliers exploring philosophical matters (again) and features backing vocals by Jackson Browne and David Crosby. "Ghost" is a haunting reminder of the power of lost love. Indigo Girls cover Dire Straits' "Romeo and Juliet", and The Roches guest onthe original fear-of-flying hymn "Airplane". Siouxsie and the Banshees drummer Budgie, bassist Sara Lee, and fiddler Lisa Germano also lend strong musical support. The depth and breadth of the Indigo Girls' songwriting on RITES OF PASSAGE will keep even the most discerning listeners happy. This is one for Indigo novices and fans alike.

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5.0 out of 5 stars It's whatever you want it to be!, 5 Jul 2001
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The Indigo Girls have come so far now and they're able to just keep on going. This is because if you're sitting there thinking "A friend said they're good, but which album shall I start with?" Well then this is the album to go for. Rites of Passage does most definetely allow fresh ears in to an innovation in music which has been around for years. I couldn't pick the tracks better myself. There is a contrast of complexity and simplicity somehow moulded in to one song. The vocal harmonies are to die for and to think, "That's a woman playing lead guitar like that!" is truely inspiring. You can sing along to this in the car or you can sit in your living room with a few candles lit. This album most definetely adapts to any mood!
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5.0 out of 5 stars It doesn't get any better than this, 4 Mar 2004
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Every once in a blue moon, an album comes along that, to misquote the famous advert, reaches the parts that others simply don't reach. This is one of them. The Indigo Girls seem to have got their reputation, in the UK at least, by word of mouth; a friend of mine played me "Galileo", and from that moment on I was simply entranced. Anyone who can write a song about two people sitting in the pub discussing reincarnation has to win respect for their intelligence and quirky humour. To do so with the sheer melodic beauty and catchiness which Amy Ray and Emily Saliers bestow upon this track, and then to repeat it across a whole album (and an entire career) is simply astonishing.

The Indigo Girls' music is a heady mix of sharp, left of centre political comment, and the emotional torture of love lost and found. The medium tends to be acoustic guitar-led, country-tinged arrangements but they are more than capable of delivering a storming piece of sing-along pop ("Joking" is a perfect piece of summer driving music) or a blistering rock-out rant when the mood takes them. Amy Ray's songs pack the most punch while Emily's tend to be delicate, but prepare yourself from some savage irony and real bitterness hidden in the guise of a wistful love ballad ("Ghost" and "Love Will Come to You").

Although not as experimental or as savage-edged as one or two of their later albums, "Rites of Passage" is the album which sets the standard for the Indigo Girls. For women with guitars across the USA and the world, it's a standard that's wellnigh impossible to better.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best Indigo Girls Album ever ?, 22 Mar 2002
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... possibly. Certainly it would be in my top 2. Look at that track listing. The only way to improve it, IMHO, would to remove "Airplane". Which for some reason annoys me. That aside, "3 Hits", "Galileo" and "Ghost" are simply classics, tight harmonies and awesome guitar work. "Joking" rocks big time, and if you haven't driven cross country with all the windows down, sun roof open, with shades on, the wind messing with your hair whilst listening to this track cranked up to ear-bleeding loud - you have to. Trust me.

"Jonas & Ezekial" - I can't help myself, I have to sing along to this, ditto for "Love will come to you". Two songs that are so different, but so quintessentially the Indigo Girls.

Amy's rendition of "Romeo and Juliet" sends shivers down my spine every time I hear it. Angry, dark and passionate. I loved the original, but Amy's take on it is way, *way* better.

"Virginia Woolf" and "Chickenman" ? see my comments for "Jonas and Ezekial" and "Love will come to you" above.

"Airplane", I skip over.

"Nashville" is simply brilliant, a scathing comment on that music industry town, delivered via sumptuous vocals and an assured melody.

How could you equal that ?

Well, with the next track "Let it be me". I'm running out of superlatives now, have I used 'fantastic' yet ? No ? Well it is. So there.

The version of the album that I have, ends on the next track - "Cedar Tree". A great, if somewhat sombre offering, that I greatly enjoy. Though more often than not, I dial back to the previous two tracks, and just re-enjoy them again.

In short: this album rules, buy it.

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