Customer Reviews

Please Don't Make Me Too Happy

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I got this album after hearing some of Christine's humorous songs. I was somewhat disappointed to find out that most of the songs on this album are serious. They are not bad songs, they are just not what I expected. And there are a few good funny songs. Christine is a clever songwriter, and fans of contemporary folk would probably enjoy her music.

I bought this Cd for 'Constant State of Want' after it played on Public Radio. I am quite pleased with the album. Several of the songs are stellar - 'Jane', 'The Sixth Floor', 'Jagged Hearts', 'Scatter New Seeds', 'Something Wrong with This Picture' are all great songs. The others are not bad, just unusual - you have to keep in mind that Lavin is a humorist so songs like 'Waiting for the B Train' and '*69' tell humorous stories. 'Waiting for the B Train' is hilarious - about people standing at the subway when someone thinks they see a puppy on the track and trying to get someone to go get it.

Christine Lavin's albums always are full of astute observations on the challenges and absurdities life throws at us. This album is no exception. She mixes humor and angst with a deft touch and produces a great album!

Christine can sound sad, or happy, or bizarre, but she's always Christine. This is the album that turned me from a fan to a fanatic -- it's a poet's vision of modern life and the weird things it makes us do. I highly recommend it.

The great thing about buying a Christine Lavin album (I guess I'm dating myself by using the word "album") is that even her worst efforts have at least one incredible song that so applies to you and the way that you feel (or once felt) that you just HAVE to own it, and then play that song over and over, until you've memorized the song, then you play another thousand times, just so you can sing along, and if you're lucky, you end up feeling a little better, even if you didn't realize that you even really felt all that bad in the first place! On this lp, that song is "Jagged Hearts". The others range from "ok" to "pretty good", and for you that one "great" song may be a totally different one, but Christine Lavin is one of those very rare artists that you can always count on to give you (at the very least) one song that you will never forget. How many others can you say that about?

After a "piece" like "The Secrets At This Wedding" or most anything on this album I have been turned off by Christine Lavin. I have never heard any of these songs when she performed live, now I know why. Other that "*69" this album sucks so hard it blows. If you want to continue to like Christine lavin, skip this album.