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stoutfellowMy mind has a habit of linking singers or groups into small sets that it regards, for some reason, as similar. I refer to them as "clades". One clade includes Janis Ian, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Phoebe Snow, and Laura Nyro; I suppose the overarching theme is "late 60s - early 70s female singers who sing fairly meaty songs", but don't hold me to it. I have albums by all five.
Another clade that I've been cautiously investigating includes Heart, Pat Benatar, Roxette, Joan Jett, and Blondie. I've loved Heart for a long time; I bought a Benatar album a while back and found it fairly enjoyable if a bit one-note. My most recent foray was purchasing the RoxBox collection by Roxette. It's a four-disc collection, and, though I've listened to the whole thing, I haven't gotten a grip on the collection as a whole. Nonetheless, I can say that I like it a lot. The overall sound is very pleasing. Marie Fredriksson's voice is somewhere towards, but not too close to, the Cline end of the Cline-Dayne purity scale, and she's pretty good on the emotional-punch scale as well - not as good as Sheena Easton, but better than Mary Hopkin, for instance. The instrumentation is fairly rich, but not lush.
I'd already known and liked a couple of the songs on the album - "It Must Have Been Love" and "Listen To Your Heart" - but now I can add "Neverending Love", "She's Got Nothing On (But the Radio)", and "The First Girl on the Moon" to the list. The album isn't all that varied in themes, but it's not one-note either.
I guess Joan Jett will be on the list for my next album trawl.
Another clade that I've been cautiously investigating includes Heart, Pat Benatar, Roxette, Joan Jett, and Blondie. I've loved Heart for a long time; I bought a Benatar album a while back and found it fairly enjoyable if a bit one-note. My most recent foray was purchasing the RoxBox collection by Roxette. It's a four-disc collection, and, though I've listened to the whole thing, I haven't gotten a grip on the collection as a whole. Nonetheless, I can say that I like it a lot. The overall sound is very pleasing. Marie Fredriksson's voice is somewhere towards, but not too close to, the Cline end of the Cline-Dayne purity scale, and she's pretty good on the emotional-punch scale as well - not as good as Sheena Easton, but better than Mary Hopkin, for instance. The instrumentation is fairly rich, but not lush.
I'd already known and liked a couple of the songs on the album - "It Must Have Been Love" and "Listen To Your Heart" - but now I can add "Neverending Love", "She's Got Nothing On (But the Radio)", and "The First Girl on the Moon" to the list. The album isn't all that varied in themes, but it's not one-note either.
I guess Joan Jett will be on the list for my next album trawl.
