Sunny Border Blue

Kristin Hersh | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 6, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: 4ad / Ada
• ASIN: B000056BKS
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #54,366 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #35 in Music > Indie Music > Pop > Singer-Songwriters

Track Listings

1. Your Dirty Answer

2. Spain

3. 37 Hours Silica

4. Williams Cut

5. Summer Salt

6. Trouble

7. Candyland

8. Measure

9. White Suckers

10. Ruby

11. Flipside

12. Listerine

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent, March 30, 2001

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Eric Wahl (Bozeman, MT, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sunny Border Blue (Audio CD)

What could I possibly say to get you to see that you simply can't live as well without this album? When I first heard this CD in its entirety I was literally stunned, and I think this is (so far) Kristin Hersh's masterpiece, which is saying a lot for someone so consitently wonderful and lyrically singular. The chap who declared this disc not as "immediately catchy" as Sky Motel, well, I don't quite get that. Sky Motel, I thought, was a bit noisy and unmemorable, while Sunny Border Blue doesn't lack a single memorable song. In fact, "Candyland," "Your Dirty Answer," "37 Hours," "William's Cut," and "Spain" are simply among the best songs I think I've ever heard, and they stay in my head for days. Sunny Border Blue occupies a space between the generally softer tones of Strange Angels and the noisy fuzz of Sky Motel, leaning more closely to the tone of Strange Angels (but, ahem, perhaps more immediately catchy). Take Strange Angels' most memorable songs and they hold hands--gripping fists--perfectly with the tracks on Sunny Border Blue. From "Candyland": "Don't wait for pain/ to find out you exist/ Don't look for shame/ You're better off without it/ Life is unkind/ This isn't candyland . . . He gave me a reason to live it." A fantastic album from one of our coolest, too-much-under-the-radar singer/songwriter/joygivers.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic..., January 24, 2004

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G. A. Anderson "austintayeshus" (Reno, Nevada United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sunny Border Blue (Audio CD)

This is one of those albums that you really have to sit with for a while and let sink in before you really "get it." You may like it right away and come to appreciate it deeper as time passes or you may be like myself and think it's boring and meandering when you first hear it. But, taking in the rest of her recordings (both with Throwing Muses and on her own) really puts this album in its place: among her best work. The songs are completely realized and some of the most well thought out pieces she's ever done. The real impressive part is that, in Stevie Wonder style, she played about 98% of the instruments on the album herself. So, it feels like the work of single person as opposed to sounding like a person singing their lyrics over musicians. Very cohesive, layered, and all around a very rewarding album. Possibly my favorite record of any Throwing Muses or Kristin solos.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beauty can only be described by the measure of equal beauty., March 7, 2001

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jared christie (Billings, Montana United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sunny Border Blue (Audio CD)

Kristen Hersh has been one of the most consistent, underrated and wonderful artists of all time. This is not an overstatement. One listen to her haunting music and mind-altering lyrics are enough to change lives. I believe music like this will change the world. Kristen's last album, "Sky Motel," was the kind of record you loved/feared because it was like nothing else in the universe. "Sky Motel" was absolutly flawless, one assumed it could not be surpassed. "Sunny Border Blue" takes flight like a glittering butterfly and proves to be an incomprable work of pure art. This album will make you love her. This album will make you cry. This album will change your life. Kristen lives in a world all her own, but she is unable to change her the basic human emotions that govern all. I hope the sun always finds you Kristen, and thank you from the bottom of my heart.