Ghostyhead [Single]

Rickie Lee Jones | Format: Audio Cassette

Product Details

• Audio Cassette (June 17, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002NES
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #331,001 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Little Yellow Town

2. Road Kill

3. Matters

4. Firewalker

5. Howard

6. Ghostyhead

7. Sunny Afternoon

8. Scary Chinese Movie

9. Cloud of Unknowing

10. Vessel of Light

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BEG, BORROW OR STEAL!!, March 22, 2003

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George Randle (Adelaide, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ghostyhead (Audio CD)

Get this album. If you are a RLJ fan and have not got this cd in your collection, do whatever you can to obtain a copy. In my opinion it has to be Rickie's best album and that's saying a lot as I own them all and LOVE every one of them. After a couple of listens this album will take you on a "ride" you will want to experience again and again. From the opening track of "Little Yellow Town" and the upbeat and my favourite, "Road Kill," right the way through the labyrinth of music to the final and subdued "Vessel of Light," every track holds it's own and contributes to a scope of sound you must experience. The album is currently extremely hard to get but according to the RLJ website should be avaiable soon on re-release. When it does, RUSH OUT AND BUY A COPY!!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Moonlight on the Hill..., May 24, 2006

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r. keenan - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ghostyhead (Audio CD)

This album has undeservedly become commercial roadkill, but I find it to be among Rickie Lee Jones' best and most original albums; it was surely among the top albums of 97. Critics wrote that Ghosty Head was Jones' attempt to keep up with a trip-hop/industrial trend, but the studio cuts are true to RLJ's sonic sensibilities, and some of the songs are among the best of her current live playlists, which shows that Jones did not create them to keep up with the Cobains or the Reznors. You will want to tell friends about this obscure treasure.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Art..., May 14, 2002

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steve gentis (seattle WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ghostyhead [IMPORT} (Audio CD)

I read somewhere once that an Artist is `the trunk of the tree'...infering that they are drawing information from one place/level of experience and the information, passing through them, presents itself on the other end...the upshot of this analogy is that the `viewer' cannot expect the branches to look or be shaped like the roots. The information has been transmogrified. Distilled.
Rickie Lee Jones is an Artist (note the capitalization).She is everything that an Artist is supposed to be; fearless where her self-expression is concerned, and heedless of naysayers.
This album is not for everyone, that is a given, but negative criticism of it tends to fall flat...the music just keeps shimmering and twisting in it`s own space, heedless.
I have always been a fan, but this recording even challenged me. The writing is so personal and truthful on some levels that it is frightening. It is truly a `through the looking glass' experience where I find myself wondering if they are her lyrics or my memories-you look into the void, and the void looks into you.
Criticisms of this kind of work are all sort of pointless, whether they are pro or con. The point is, it will make you think, feel, and react again and again...inspiring love or hate, but rarely indifference-it`s art, that`s what it`s SUPPOSED to do!
There are parts of it I love alot, other parts I find rather emotionally difficult, and yet more parts that I am not even sure I want to or was ever meant to understand.
Bravo!