Intimate Portrait: Women in Rock

Various Artists - Rock | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 14, 1999)
• Original Release Date: September 14, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B00000JZAR
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #470,251 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hazy Shade of Winter

2. French Song

3. Baby I Can't Please You

4. She Bop

5. Would I Lie to You?

6. It's So Easy

7. When I Grow Up

8. Goodbye to You

9. Gloria

10. Venus

11. Kiss Me Deadly

12. Middle of the Road

13. Hit Me with Your Best Shot

14. Maryland

15. Feed the Tree

16. Black Velvet

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent selection of songs by female singers, December 21, 1999

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Tung Yin (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Intimate Portrait: Women in Rock (Audio CD)

As is apparent from the listing above, this CD is a selection of songs from many of the leading female singers of the 80s and 90s. (A few odd absences include the Go-Gos, Olivia Newton-John, Scandal, Stevie Nicks, and Blondie, especially considering that less commercially-successful artists such as Michelle Shocked, Vonda Shephard, and Belly are featured.)

The appeal of a compilation CD is that you can get songs by "one-hit wonders" without having to shell out for a bunch of lame songs. Obviously, this depends on your individual tastes, but, for example, "Kiss Me Deadly" is the only Lita Ford song I've heard that I've liked, and not enough to get an entire Ford album.

A few other oddities: "The French Song" by Joan Jett rather than "I Love Rock and Roll;" "She-Bop" by Cyndi Lauper rather than "Girls Just Want to Have Fun."

The CD liner contains some small pictures of the artists (but no identifying caption for any of them) and background text about the artists. However, some of the artists are covered in literally one throw-away sentence, so this is not a place to learn a lot about the singers.

1.0 out of 5 stars Interesting?, November 4, 2010

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Anatole Gutowski - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Intimate Portrait: Women in Rock (Audio CD)

Bought it for the song Gloria. Only song worth listening to, in my opinion.