Two

Andrea Perry | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 2002)
• Original Release Date: July 1, 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: trust issue records
• ASIN: B00006C7IF
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #869,598 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning Sophmore Effort!, April 5, 2003

By 

Kirk Adams - See all my reviews

This review is from: Two (Audio CD)

This excellent follow up to "Saturday Morning Sweet Shoppe" offers more delightlful melodies and colorful production.
But Andrea's songs are much more than production numbers. "Bursting Through The Clouds" is both timely and timeless with lyrics like -

"Come pick me off the floor and tell me it gets better
My thoughts are chained and fettered to dark prophecies
Vultures in the sky and battleships at sea
I wanna have it back the way it use to be...
...I wanna see the sun bursting through the clouds"

The juxtaposition of fanciful style production and sober sometimes somber lyric content coupled with rivoting,
emotional melodies is a hallmark of Andrea's music and make for very special music that deserves a much wider audience.
However, the beautiful ballad "Higher", the lovely 6/8 tune "Bye Bye" and "You Broke The Spell" show an emotionally honest
Andrea free from cleverness and quirk and they are just wonderful songs immediately accessible to the masses...

The sarchastic cynicism of "Gettin' To Know You" is great...

" I felt the whipping chains, the belt, the switch, the canes
Hot scissors in my mouth, no blood left in my veins
Now I'm So glad I'm getting to know you..."

But "Make The World Go Round" is deliciously ironic and one of my very favorites on the CD.

"Draw a line and blur the line and dare me not to cross the line...
Love, make the world go round (all sing in praise of love, yeah)

Ok, trust me, all the songs are excellent, original and engaging exponents of a truly gifted artist...and I do mean artist.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars beautifully crafted pop, April 11, 2003

By A Customer

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This review is from: Two (Audio CD)

Recent reviewer Marvin Van Pelt (related to Lucy, perhaps?) is apparently one bitter, unhappy guy. He's from Texas, as is Andrea Perry - did she jilt him in high school? We'll never know. At any rate, I'm at a loss to understand what's wrong with esteeming Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson, and Burt Bacharach as your forebears. This is a lovely record, with sometimes dark lyrical concerns wrapped in a deceptively chipper, spun-sugar cocoon of catchy melodies and immaculate presentation. As a musician, Perry isn't dazzling - but instrumental virtuosity and great pop are usually antithetical concepts; as a producer, she shines, and so does this record.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Slanderously Good!, April 20, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Two (Audio CD)

The songs found on Perry's "TWO" and previous album "Saturday Morning Sweet Shoppe" are so far above the norm and so full of heart, I would dare call them perfect - No half baked rants. No ego projection. No self-deception. I find most interesting, Ms. Perry's lyrical content, consider the title "I think of Nothing". Zen stuff, Indeed. Her vocals play counterpoint and set the stage without wasting time. At the expense of prose, perhaps but far more poetic and honest in coming from the heart than purely from the head. A cleverly chosen time signature jolts you from pre-conception and leaves you alone with the music. In The Now as the Taoists say, completely empty, but full of possibility and in this case, open to the simple but universal experience of learning the hard way. The aforementioned comment may seem insulting to your typical ego-driven lyricist - which it would, but Andrea Perry has no interest in philosophizing or playing the authority on any given subject. Her stories are told from experience to a close friend, you, the listener. What makes this album most engaging (or...affective, literally) is the fact that her technical skills in playing multiple instruments is rivaled only by her seemingly pitch-perfect and passionate vocals and harmonies. Couple this with the undeniable fact that she provides a rollercoaster of real, interpersonal triumph and tragedy, fully communicated and empathetic, and you have one unforgettable album.

Almost a concept piece if not disclosed as such, it presents the temporary nature of so many relationships and the hope that follows a failure. Something all who have a soul can identify with. One can almost fall in love simply listening to her journey, although it is VERBOTEN that you project the message onto the messenger, capisca? Ms. Perry also seems to be preoccupied with state of the art sonic clarity, as are most musicians fortunate enough to both understand the need for good engineering and know how to get it done. Listening to "Higher" layered in such devout and objective digital love, makes me wonder if Ms. Perry is a person at all, and not some Muse with a Masters Degree in Engineering and the 3x3inch limited CD release of Oranges and Lemons. Her songs, or rather her honestly felt projections and knowledge of what songs can be are so fun and free that only a miser with a grain of sand for a heart could fail to see the charm.

Luckily, that's the only bad news- the delusional AM radio retiree social set who hate Crash Test Dummies because they have a stupid name and weren't around back when they were cool in high school, will hate this music! The type that think Todd Rundgren, Burt Bacharach and Gilbert O'Sullivan are timeless, just because their first kiss was had while listening to Hello It's Me, will reject Andrea's highly polished production values, digital finesse and tasteful mixing (despite the fact that they know Todd extravagantly engineered the XTC masterpiece Skylarking.) Those whose musical lexicon range from Eric Carmen to Air Supply will find Andrea Perry's albums the work of a sham artiste. This is the same sort of iconoclastic reaction that your typical 70's wedding band, never-weres might feel towards real talent and real heart with the time to do something about it.

The Simple secret is that Andrea's music is beautiful because it comes from Andrea, a one-of-a-kind Renaissance Ma'am, wise well beyond her years. And you can't fake that. In a rational world, they'd play "Gettin' to Know You" from all the street corners and the real people would tap their toes, feel real hope and not take themselves so damn seriously.

Besides, you've spent more on garbage that you've already forgotten you have.