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Breakdown [Enhanced]

~ Melissa Etheridge
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  • Audio CD (4 Oct 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Enhanced
  • Label: Island
  • ASIN: B00001WRO7
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 130,809 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Breakdown 3:55£0.69
Listen  2. Angels Would Fall 4:40£0.69
Listen  3. Stronger Than Me 4:08£0.59
Listen  4. Into The Dark 4:58£0.69
Listen  5. Enough Of Me 4:40£0.59
Listen  6. Truth Of The Heart 4:31£0.69
Listen  7. Mama I'm Strange 4:29£0.59
Listen  8. Scarecrow 5:22£0.69
Listen  9. How Would I Know 4:15£0.69
Listen10. My Lover 5:45£0.69
Listen11. Sleep 4:38£0.69


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Amazon.co.uk Review

In the four years since Your Little Secret, Melissa Etheridge took time out from the limelight and became a mother-of-two. Returning to the music fray, she says, "I challenged myself on this album ... I would not coast." That attitude would explain the strained feel to some of the songs--the portentous soul-searching of "Truth Of The Heart", for example, or the studied rhyming in "Mama I'm Strange", with words like "tranquillise ... vaporise ... criticise". Behind the awkwardness, though, is still Melissa the articulate, impassioned rocker, with her emotionally direct vignettes and forceful melodies. High points to the album include the compassionate title track, the sensual love song "My Lover" and "Scarecrow", a protest song of U2-like proportions about Matthew Shepard, the young gay man murdered in 1998 in Wyoming. Though not as powerful as her key album, 1993's Yes I Am, Breakdown still rocks. --Lucy O'Brien


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During the four years between BREAKDOWN and 1995's YOUR LITTLE SECRET, Melissa Etheridge concentrated on starting a family and continued staying on the sidelines as her record label got caught up in corporate restructuring. This extended down-time had a settling effect on the leather-lunged vocalist that resulted in her sixth release being the most sedate and introspective record to its point.
Gone is the bar-band banshee whose fervour on songs like "Bring Me Some Water" could peel paint off the wall. Instead, the native Kansan kicks back, digs deep and writes about the intricacies of relationships, yearning and loss in a way that would make her hero Bruce Springsteen proud. Infidelity is sunken into a dream state throughout "Into the Dark", thanks to lots of shimmering guitar and disconnected background vocals that hint at Kate Bush. Unrequited love also gets a thorough reading as Etheridge masterfully piles on the religious imagery throughout "Angels Would Fall". Although BREAKDOWN's darkest moment comes out within the jagged "Scarecrow", a tribute to murdered gay teen Matthew Shepard, Etheridge offers up a ray of hope with "Truth of the Heart", a jangly message of optimism that reflects her newfound parenthood.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Melissa's best effort yet!, 30 Jan 2000
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When I first listened to this CD, I found that it was so much different than her last 2 CDs, it did not grab me right away. Then, while having the CD play while I did others things, the Lyrics really hit me! I finally got it! The first song, "Breakdown," gets the album off to a great start with its rolling guitar. That song, and "Enough Of Me" have those great Etheridgian choruses that we come to expect from her music. The emotional intensity is there-- raw and captivating. This CD rocks! With songs like " Mama I'm strange", and the powerful "Scarecrow" this music moves you and disturbs at the same time. Oh, and she has thrown in a couple of love songs for Julie as well. BRAVO Melissa!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great addition to my Melissa collection..., 13 Jan 2008
By L. J. Giddings "giddings31" (Greece) - See all my reviews
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Same wonderful voice, trying out a few different themes but at heart, the same Melissa style.
Especially good for me are; Stronger than me (essential sing along) and Truth of the heart (my favourite on the album).
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