Trouble With Success Or How You Fit Into the World

Paula Kelley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 16, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Kimchee Records
• ASIN: B0000C0FL6
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #570,079 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. My Finest Hour (Enter)

2. A New Time

3. Could There Be Another World

4. The Girlfriend

5. How Many Times

6. My Finest Hour

7. The Rest Of You

8. I'd Fall In Love With Anyone

9. Night Racer

10. September Eyes

11. Friday Came

12. Where Do You Go

13. My Finest Hour (Exit)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Delightful pop album with orchestral flourishes, March 31, 2004

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woburnmusicfan (Woburn, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trouble With Success Or How You Fit Into the World (Audio CD)

Paula Kelley's album is a breezy pop delight, with catchy choruses and excellent arrangements that use orchestral strings, choir voices, and trumpets. Kelley's voice is a wispy, child-like coo that somehow manages to be surprisingly expressive. Still, it's the arrangements that push the album over the top. The best song, "Could There Be Another World" sounds like a long-lost Electic Light Orchestra track, while the orchestral arrangements on "I'd Fall in Love with Anyone" and the ending of "The Rest of You" are pure Bacharach. Kelley plays rhythm guitar and keyboards; most of her keyboard parts sound like the piano part on "I Am the Walrus", and "Could There Be Another World" uses keyboard flutes right out of "Strawberry Fields Forever".

The lyrics are mostly vague, though the pretty ballad "Night Racer" uses a nice metaphor of a bumper car rink to describe the troubled thoughts keeping someone up at night. Several of the best songs have non sequitur choruses whose lyrics don't seem to have anything to do with the rest of the song: "Could There Be Another World", "I'd Fall in Love with Anyone", and especially "The Girlfriend", with it's nebulous chorus "Write about the simple way that I don't." "Friday Came", which has been lodged in my head the last couple of weeks, centers on a repeated line of "Throw your body down into the air". Another fine song is "My Finest Hour"; the closing riff from this song is used at both the start and end of the album.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This album is brilliant, November 16, 2003

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"beamme24" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trouble With Success Or How You Fit Into the World (Audio CD)

I have never heard such gorgeous songs and arrangements from a present day artist. Any fans of Burt Bacharach, the Eric Carmen, or the Bee Gees would be well advised to get their hands on this. Kelley's songwriting would be strong enough on its own, but with orchestral flourishes, it's really something special. How Many Times and I'd Fall in Love with Anyone are heartbreaking. Though Kelley's voice is very young sounding, the emotion she exudes makes her able to pull off singing at a very high impact. Get this CD. Now.