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Track Listings
| 1. The Greatest |
| 2. Living Proof |
| 3. Lived In Bars |
| 4. Could We |
| 5. Empty Shell |
| 6. Willie |
| 7. Where Is My Love |
| 8. The Moon |
| 9. Islands |
| 10. After It All |
| 11. Hate |
| 12. Love & Communication |
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Teaming Cat Power with the Hi team who recorded behind Ann Peebles and Al Green was an unexpected and brilliant idea. A special alchemy took place at Ardent Studios in Memphis which enhanced both Cat Power's gorgeous smoky voice and the soulful groove the band has laid down. I would say that that it was worth the price of the album just for the majestic opening song, The Greatest, were it not that it is also available as a single, but that would be to unfairly demean the rest of the record. Of course Cat Power does not need embellishment, as is demonstrated on the unadorned song Hate. Cat's most accomplished album to date.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
As a huge fan of Chan's earlier, harsher lo-fi albums and a big fan of everything else she's produced, i was pretty shocked and... disappointed i guess... with "The Greatest", initially rejecting it ("This isn't Cat Power" i had said to a friend at the time) despite listening to it over and over.
I've now had 12months to get my head around it though and ye know what? It turns out it's pretty damn good.
At first i took it very much as "Cat Power goes to Memphis" (i've no idea how many times i've seen that written now but it's a fair description), unsure of an entire band backing little Miss Marshall, but having taken time to separate the album from her others i've come to really appreciate it.
Stand-out tracks for me are "The Greatest" (undeniably beautiful), "Living Proof" and the persistent "Love and Communication" (including a discordant guitar near the beginning harking back to those early days... - this is my favourite track on the album).
Great joy also comes from fully band-backed recordings of "The Moon", "Willie" and "Islands" after hearing early Chan-and-a-guitar versions on the "Speaking for Trees" DVD/CD.
The extra track on this edition is nice, but i'm generally not a fan of bonus tracks of any sort. An album is an album. If a track isn't on the original playlist then there's a reason for that and it shouldn't be shoved in. But hey.
It's taken a year for me to fully accept this album and i still don't like to give it 4 stars, just for the reason that i feel i'm betraying my love for her earlier work, but "The Greatest" really does deserve it.
Soulful, beautiful, at times fun, at times pretty dark.
(a solo album next time would be great though)
I've now had 12months to get my head around it though and ye know what? It turns out it's pretty damn good.
At first i took it very much as "Cat Power goes to Memphis" (i've no idea how many times i've seen that written now but it's a fair description), unsure of an entire band backing little Miss Marshall, but having taken time to separate the album from her others i've come to really appreciate it.
Stand-out tracks for me are "The Greatest" (undeniably beautiful), "Living Proof" and the persistent "Love and Communication" (including a discordant guitar near the beginning harking back to those early days... - this is my favourite track on the album).
Great joy also comes from fully band-backed recordings of "The Moon", "Willie" and "Islands" after hearing early Chan-and-a-guitar versions on the "Speaking for Trees" DVD/CD.
The extra track on this edition is nice, but i'm generally not a fan of bonus tracks of any sort. An album is an album. If a track isn't on the original playlist then there's a reason for that and it shouldn't be shoved in. But hey.
It's taken a year for me to fully accept this album and i still don't like to give it 4 stars, just for the reason that i feel i'm betraying my love for her earlier work, but "The Greatest" really does deserve it.
Soulful, beautiful, at times fun, at times pretty dark.
(a solo album next time would be great though)
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I've known her name without hearing Cat Power's music before but the title track single just hit me every time I heard it on the radio and I'm really glad I bought the album on the strength of it . What a great album, deeply atmospheric and intense but - as you might suspect with Al Green's backing band on board- hugely pleasurable on the ear, with a real emotional power. I suspect this album will be keeping me late night company for a long time yet.
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Published on 14 July 2009 by Existentialist.
outstanding
I heard this playing in a restaurant and asked the manager who it was. I then bought the cd. I just love her smoky voice and the slow lazy sound. Read more
Published on 30 April 2009 by K. James
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I have long been in two minds about this song. On the one hand it seem a tad lacking in impact, and occasionally viers a little too far into Dawson's Creek soundtrack territory. Read more
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One significant difference from the Cat Power (a'la Chan Marshall) of You are Free and the Cat of The Greatest is that she's a lot more laid-back. Read more
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One of the albums of 2006...Chan in Memphis...
appears to be the subtext of every review of 'The Greatest'- recorded with musicians from Al Green's band, these soulful elements have got critics, fans and on-line types citing... Read more
Published on 9 Sep 2006 by Jason Parkes
Chan Marshall in Memphis
appears to be the subtext of every review of 'The Greatest'- recorded with musicians from Al Green's band, these soulful elements have got critics, fans and on-line types citing... Read more
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