Aftertones [Extra tracks, Import]

Janis Ian | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 11, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Mushroom Records
• ASIN: B00000710J
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #533,286 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Aftertones

2. I Would Like to Dance

3. Love Is Blind

4. Roses

5. Belle of the Blues

6. Goodbye to Morning

7. Boy I Really Tied One On

8. This Must Be Wrong

9. Don't Cry, Old Man

10. Hymn

Editorial Reviews

Produced by Brooks Arthur; recorded 1975 in various New York studios; released 1976 (Columbia); the album contains a duet with Phoebe Snow and Odetta. Love Is Blindwas the #1 single on Japanese pop charts for six months (a record still unbroken); the album was the highest selling album by a solo female artist in Japanese history (a record still unbroken); it was also a top twenty & gold record in the United States, England, Ireland, and Holland. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars tones that stay with you, gently, March 18, 2000

By 

Nanci "Book Dragon" (Tri-Cities, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Aftertones (Audio CD)

This album did not receive much critical or popular acclaim when released, but has some amazingly excellent writing on it, especially considering that in 1975 Janis was 23 years old. Harmony on the song "Hymn" alone is worth the album, but you won't be disappointed with her obvious talent in singing and writing blues. Her sense of humor shines through on "Boy, I Really Tied One On" (recorded also by Esther Phillips). A few songs foreshadow her struggles and disillusion with the Business of Music, and the angst of the performer has always been a theme for her. There's real quality work here. You wonder how she can get better, but she does. Fortunately she stayed in the business and is still writing and producing quality CDs against incredible odds. Her latest CD "god & the fbi" will be released March 21, 2000.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stellar singing, fabulous production, one of the 70's best, October 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Aftertones (Audio CD)

One of the better albums from a master song crafter. Fabulous arrangements and engineering, horns, strings, jazz and blues influences. It starts out with tart take on Elliott and ends with a swell vocal ensemble featuring Odetta and Phoebe Snow. With salsa and torch songs in-between (including Love is Blind, a song that still holds the record for longest-running #1 single in Japan -- there, now you know). I never tire of this album, even after nearly 25 years.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Janis Ian, Aftertones, September 7, 2005

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K. M. Barnes "culture attendee" (TC, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Aftertones (Audio CD)

Delicate, sensitive lyrics which characterized Ian's early work. I was glad to find them in CD form.