Deconstruction [ENHANCED CD]

Oleta Adams, Meredith Brooks, ??????????? | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 28, 1999)
• Original Release Date: September 28, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B00001O2W5
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #274,482 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Shout

2. Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)

3. I Have Everything

4. Cosmic Woo Woo

5. Nobody's Home

6. All For Nothing

7. I Said It

8. Back To Eden

9. Bored With Myself

10. Careful What You Wish For

11. Sin City

12. Back To Nowhere

Editorial Reviews

MEREDITH BROOKS Deconstruction (1999 US Capitol label 12-track enhanced CD album including bonus interactive material picture sleeve with lyrics)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, November 5, 1999

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This review is from: Deconstruction [ENHANCED CD] (Audio CD)

No one should have any hesitation about buying this CD, it is one of the best albums this year, since I have bought it, it's has never been of my CD player- the songs just grab you and your hooked- I think its better than Blurring the Edges. Deconstruction is very easy to listen to, and Merediths voice is excellent. It is a rare album that (in my opinion) that has no weak or filling tracks, my favorite songs are Nobodys Home, Back To Eden and Careful What you wish for. Everyone should buy this CD- it's ace!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Get this CD for the Great songs!, July 5, 2006

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G. E. Williams "Nunah" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deconstruction [ENHANCED CD] (Audio CD)

This is a good CD, Not a great CD...
However, it is a CD with some GREAT songs!
Sin City, Back To Eden, I Have Everything, and Careful What You Wish For, are good enough to justify the cost of the CD all by themselves, and if you like the other songs, which are still pretty good, then that is just a bonus. I believe Meredith Brooks is too important of a song writer to not be working, hopefully she will get back to work soon and make another great album like "Bad, Bad One". If you don't have this album, really, theses songs are very good. If you don't know Meredith Brooks, Start With "Bad, Bad One" or "Blurring Edges" and fall in love with her rock music for grown ups!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Y2Kool, August 5, 2001

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Shade (Oklahoma City, OK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deconstruction [ENHANCED CD] (Audio CD)

I could listen to this CD for hours. In fact, I have been for the past two or three hours straight, at least.

There's just something about this music that rests at the surface, and begs to seep in.

And when the needle hits (there are actual vinyl effects, complete with surface noise from repeated play on "Bored with Myself"), I'm feeling the satisfaction of a junkie's fix.

In 2001, we know that Y2K didn't do much of anything, so that makes the opening track more fun: "...Y2K shuts down L.A./Now you got something to really figure out..." and this follows a reference to Bill and Monica. Remember them? This would be fun in an oldies show.

"Lay Down" features Queen Latifah, and it's a groovy track, I tell you, I tell you. As Frank Zappa once said, "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." Just listen to it.

"I Have Everything" ... rocks.

"Cosmic Woo Woo" is just fun. Or is it serious contemplation? I don't know.

"Nobody's Home" keeps on the spiritual track with the lines "All she ever wanted was a place on this earth/She shouts for a savior or anyone who'll hear her." The previous "Cosmic Woo Woo" is actually wholly about spiritual issues, believe it or don't, from that title.

"All For Nothing" flirts with hip-hop, and is my favorite track here: "After eight years of sharing every dream together we don't even talk/Is that all there is?/What we stood up for Now we stand behind a million locked doors and we can't even say that we'll be friends..."

"Back to Eden" against hints at thing celestial. In fact, Meredith thanks God first in the "thank-you's."

"Bored with Myself"--aside from employing the vinyl sound effects--make mention of Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Onassis, and... Loretta Lynn? Interesting. Meredith Brooks does indeed remind me a harder-rocking Shania Twain. They probably share influences.

Infectious, infectious, infectious.