Various Artists / Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music, Vol. 2
/ Nettwerk (CD)
Less cloying than last year's double-disc tour companion, this disc (and the
concurrently-issued Volume 3) offers a considerably more varied look at the
state of the art vis-a-vis female musicianship. Scattered between the polar
regions of Angry Artists and Nurturing Artists, the fourteen acts presented
here will be more likely to please those more adventurous Lilith-goers who
acknowledged the existence of the second and third stages. It's telling,
however, that acts like Wild Strawberries and Morcheeba have downplayed
their more electronic elements in order to fit into the pack, and even Queen
Latifah seems unusually subdued. While Lisa Loeb and Tracy Bonham are less
annoying than usual, Natalie Merchant's overly sincere massacre of
"In the Ghetto" once again begs that she be taken off and beaten with
baseball bats as punishment for messing with previously sublime
material. -- gz
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gender is just an excuse, relationship shouldn't just be an excuse,
love is often an excuse, although sometimes these excuses are all
we have to hold onto,
death is the reason and living is the celebration
- Beth Orton
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