No More Mr Nice Girl

Maggie Estep | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 9, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000001EWJ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #275,880 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hey Baby

2. I'm Not a Normal Girl

3. Paradise Lost

4. Even If

5. The Stupid Jerk I'm Obsessed With

6. My Life of Gardening

7. Fuck Me

8. Scarification

9. Sex Goddess of the Western Hemisphere

10. I Swear

11. Vegetable Omelet

12. Rip Trip Strip

13. Ingeborg, Mistress of the Dark

14. Bad Day at the Beauty Salon

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Where has Maggie Estep been all my life!, March 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: No More Mr Nice Girl (Audio CD)

This review is long overdue. I discovered Maggie Estep when I became intrigued by the title of this cd. I never would have imagined that it would have the impact on me that it did. There is no self-deprecation or self-effacement going on here. It's pure self-examination and sharing of a pride in one's own neuroses. In the tracks "Stupid Jerk...", "Scarification" & "My Life of Gardening", Maggie gives us insight into how many women deal, at least mentally, with the men in their lives when things go "wrong." Her self-dissertation, "I'm Not a Normal Girl" is a testament to her acceptance of herself and a dare to anyone to accept her "as-is". The tracks "Hey Baby", "Paradise Lost", "Car Guy" & "Pee Lady" are Maggie's expressions of dealing with the everyday people in our lives that we must share this planet with. This is all culminated in the track "Vegetable Omelet" which asks only that we each be allowed at least some of the things we truly desire, while eliminating the things that we may all find intolerable. With the exception of "Rip Trip Strip", a retro-punk anthem which longs for uncontrolled freedom to act on one's deep-seated desires, the rest of the tracks are a melange of perspectives and experiences that Maggie shares with us to make us feel that we are not alone in our daily, torturous grind. In conclusion, this is a superb collection of works that are destined to help us change the way we observe our seemingly onerous lives. I heartily recommend this cd and it's follow-up "Love Is a Dog From Hell" and Maggie's first novel "Diary of an Emotional Idiot".

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A complete NYC Experience, September 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: No More Mr Nice Girl (Audio CD)

Mix some deep-seated weirdness, too much time trapped in New York city, and a rock-and-roll band on the edge, and you've got Maggie. The album's a trip and should have been called "Not a Normal Girl." The music rocks pretty hard, and is an appropriate backdrop for Maggie's NYC tone/atonal poems. Not for the faint-of-heart. Cynical, but never a down moment.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Electrifying Spoken Word Within A Wall Of Sound, December 15, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: No More Mr Nice Girl (Audio CD)

This cd is an amazing example of the power and the flexibility of spoken word. Maggie Estep goes through the gamut of emotion on this release, slamming sexist street harassers on HEY BABY, flaunting her quirks on NOT A NORMAL GIRL, and showing a softer side on SCARIFICATION. I just adore the whole cd. The way she puts words together, her use of metaphor and imagery, the way she pokes fun at the culture...it's all good. I definitely recommend this cd.