This Town Is Wrong

Nerissa & Katryna Nields | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 13, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Zoe/Rounder
• ASIN: B00016MT2U
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #184,271 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Day I Let Glory Steer

2. Glow-In-The-Dark Plastic Angel

3. The Work That We Do

4. When I Let You Into My Closet

5. Haven't I Been Good

6. Clairman Town

7. Paris

8. Sara, With Your Ring

9. When I'm Here

10. If I Wanted To

11. Kiss Me On The Moon

12. This Town Is Wrong

13. Bonus Track 1

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More Nields is good news, March 28, 2004

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JoAnn Whetsell (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Town Is Wrong (Audio CD)

As has been said before, the songs on _This Town Is Wrong_ relate to Nerissa's book of the same name. I don't think each song is by a different character (as I first thought when I read reviews), but rather the songs are by different characters, and some have more than one. Not that it makes any difference. You can enjoy the album without having read the book or even knowing about it. The sisters go back to their rocking days, and the album sounds more like the Nields band than the duo's release. The country influence is still there, even stronger on songs like "When I'm Here" and "Sara, With Your Ring" and present, but in more country-folk format on other songs. Overall it's grown and continues to grow on me, though the roughness the sisters' voices sometimes have grates on me a bit more than usual. I'm happy to have a whole album full of their insights on teenagers (from the perspective of both teenagers and adults.) The Nields have brought us so many great songs about teenagers (much of _Gotta Get Over Greta_ springs to the top of my head; there are many others) it seems like they're the right people to do it. Right now it's my least favorite of any of the Nields releases I've heard, but considering how much I love their music, it's the difference between a "B" and an "A." I still like _This Town Is Wrong_ a lot and heartily recommend it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this town rocks, January 21, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: This Town Is Wrong (Audio CD)

The Nields sisters have outdone themselves this time. You don't have to know that the album is the soundtrack to a book to enjoy this wonderful set of songs, but the background enhances the experience even more. The songs on the album were supposedly written by two different characters in the book, yet somehow Nerissa has managed to make it completely clear which are which. And the sibling harmonies have never sounded more beautiful.

Dave Chalfant is one of the most exciting producers out there today. This is the most gorgeous sounding album yet from any incarnation of the Nields, with sounds we haven't heard in their work before.

A must-buy!!!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Town Is Wrong, but the CD is so very right, January 14, 2004

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Adam Hartfield (Springfield, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Town Is Wrong (Audio CD)

I've tried three times now to write a track-by-track review. Forget it. Nerissa does a better job in the liner notes.

"Intensely personal songs combined with an aware Weltanschauung" is applicable to this album but you'll forget whatever highbrow analysis you've read (or tried to write) as soon as you start listening. All the songs are great. On this album, Nerissa and Katryna (and Dave Chalfant) fuse their rock-folk-country-blues-pop influences even tighter together to make Music You Like. The sisters' voices blend in that irresistable harmony that once you hear, you'll never forget. Their singing and the musicians' playing combined with Dave's producing genius and uncompromising stratospheric production value standards result in one of the best albums you'll hear for a long time. It gains my highest recommendation.