Threesome (Dig) [Limited Edition]

Michelle Shocked | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 21, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Limited Edition
• Label: Mighty Sound
• ASIN: B0009NCQCS
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #310,321 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Lonely Planet

2. La Cantina el Gato Negro

3. Wanted Man

4. Picoesque

5. Match Burns Twice

6. Mouth of the Mississippi

See all 10 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Early Morning Saturday

2. How You Play the Game

3. Don't Ask

4. Used Car Lot

5. Hardly Gonna Miss Him

6. Evacuation Route

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Disc: 3

1. To Be a Cat

2. Give a Little Whistle

3. Got No Strings

4. Spoonful of Sugar

5. Spectrum

6. Wish Upon a Star

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Who but Michelle could pull this off?, June 24, 2005

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Rodney Blackwell (Rainsville, AL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Threesome (Dig) (Audio CD)

I was so hungry for new Shocked material that I preordered the three cd set. NOTHING on here disappoints. I won't go into the
details about each cd, but all three are great. You got Disney songs ( done Michelle's way ), rock, and tex-mex flavor. The sound quality on all three cds is great. Michelle Shocked's voice actually seems to be better than ever now. On a few of the songs she sounds so sexy that you just go " mmmm" and on others she really rocks. I really like the "hidden" track on one of the cds...punk done Michelle's way! FIVE STARS!!!!!!!!!!

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Be Shocked, July 28, 2005

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Parzival (Marin) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Threesome (Dig) (Audio CD)

Michelle Shocked is endlessly creative, moving effortlessly between genres and styles of music, from pop to Tex-Mex Rhumba beats to sweet Disney songs done to swing. Her voice is always great, her amusement at the wonders and horrors of this little planet always shines between the lyrics and the musical lines. Have fun. Be shocked. Be surprised. Your ears will be happy.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Shocked shoots high and mostly hits her target, November 13, 2006

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Toomuchnoise - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Threesome (Dig) (Audio CD)

After her triumphant "Deep Natural" Shocked 2-disk release, she set herself a very high bar and she tried to reach that bar with a three disk set!

If you're a diehard Shocked fan, like me, you'll want the set. Otherwise, take advantage of Amazon and listen since most people aren't going to equally like all three disks.

Disc One (Mexican Standoff) is my least favorite only because I'm not too fond of Mexican music -- not because there is anything wrong with that genre nor her songs. Some of the songs are not Mexican at all but are old-school Hammond Organ style blues. I love those tracks!

Disc Two (Don't Ask, Don't Tell) is my personal favorite and is more what I expect of Michelle Shocked's original pieces. It's folksy, bluesy and poignant -- although she has avoided the over-heavy seriousness of a couple of her albums.

Disc Three (Got No Strings) is my favorite to listen with my 6 year old in the car. I'm always looking for albums that both she and I enjoy, and this is certainly one. It a simple, sweet little tribute to the old "Disney style" songs that I was raised on.

If you are a first-time Michelle Shocked album buyer, I'd probably steer you to her earlier works like "Short Sharp Shocked " or "Arkansas Traveler" (best yet, Mercury Poise, if you can get it) or I'd recommend my personal favorite, "Deep Natural".

However, if you already know how great Michelle Shocked is, then I'd say go for the set! You may not like every song but you'r sure to like enough of them to make the set worth it since you get three discs fore the price of two.