Just heard this song- its really amazing. The whole album is really good from the song snippets i've heard.

suga10 said:

Just heard this song- its really amazing. The whole album is really good from the song snippets i've heard.

I haven't heard the album, but I saw her the other night on Leno and it seems she might be going in a blusier direction. I liked what I heard then. I liked her first album, but then she started to bore me. Maybe this will get me back.

I know what you mean by the whole started to bore me thing too. I also decided to give it a listen today and what was surprised to hear what I did.

It was actually on Amazon's best seller list as #1, so it lead to me being curious.

I read that Norah and Danger Mouse stretched out and went organic/electronic and came up with some good results. Some of the tracks I've heard are fantastic.

it is blowing my mind....

im so glad that it isnt 'sleepy' at all...

and who knew she could be so cold, like in the song MIRIAM.. that song is crazy!

this is easily her 2nd best album after 'come away with me'... but its right up there with it....

i have had this on non stop....

this feels like an artist truly growing and not faking it... staying true to who she is but channeling it slightly differently..

im seriously astounded by it.

I love Norah Jones, always did. And I was convinced that she could do so much with her voice when she sang in these two songs,,,

suga10 said:

I think alot of people under-estimated her "artistry" on the forum, people generally know her for "come away with me" obviously and then feel "she" fell off, where as i feel, the audience "fell off" not her, much like Prince in a way, Norah has worked with a ton of artists and on their records, and talk about "genre" jumping, what female artist or male for that fact, can say they worked with people like Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson, and also Q tip and Andre 3000, and then Danger Mouse, Charlie Hunter, Herbie Hancock, and loads of others and producing her own side bands like El Madmo, and the Little Willies, and her NYC club circle friends like Richard Julian, Adam Levy and Jessie Harris. I never got that someone all over like that is "boring".

But Norah has awoken many with this record and im glad its getting critical praise unlike any of other records, cause i feel though critics like her they still dont give her props for being an "artist", i mean in 10years she pretty much has done anyone. I saw alot of what Norah had in those early club days here in NYC, playing gigs long before she even had a deal, "Dont Know Why" her trademark song, was on a $5 demo cd being sold at the gigs in those days, along with a few others on that "first sessions" cd, but at those gigs you could see what was going to come, the seriousness, but also the honesty, and even when it all blew up about 6 months after the first album came out, Norah was still that "club artist" she has not forgotten how to do those things, and i think this album will give her alot of that respect back.

itsjustaroundthecorner said:

it is blowing my mind....

im so glad that it isnt 'sleepy' at all...

and who knew she could be so cold, like in the song MIRIAM.. that song is crazy!

this is easily her 2nd best album after 'come away with me'... but its right up there with it....

i have had this on non stop....

this feels like an artist truly growing and not faking it... staying true to who she is but channeling it slightly differently..

im seriously astounded by it.

Norah has always had the sense for that straight forward honesty, i think just the simple, but rawness sound in her voice she pulls off things like "Miriam" which will leave the listener going "wait did she just murder two people in that song?" but this record is solid, its hard to compare to past records because they were done in different genres basically, her second album i felt was almost "country" and then "Not too Late" was kind of a almost somber political, jazz record, "Come Away With Me" though her biggest record was also the record she wrote the least for, That record i feel was the genius work of alot of people, especially Craig Street and Arif Mardin who dont get enough props for their production, and Arif to me is just about the best ever in production. "The Fall" album to me was Norah leaning away from the other genres, experimenting with more sounds and different musicians, and that was really because of her own side projects like "El Madmo" and the Little Willies and then work with Danger Mouse, but she has always been someone not simply working with one type of artist.

To quote Norah in one of the most hauntingly beautiful tunes I've ever heard, "Miriam", "It takes a lot to make me go this mad."

Gorgeous, piercingly brilliant intimacy that makes me wonder where I've been all of Norah's life. I want to crawl into its discomfort, even though I know I might see something I shouldn't. It's a lullaby with scissors.

This reminds me of something someone once said to Joni Mitchell: "Oh, Joni, save something for yourself".