WHAT WOULD THE COMMUNITY THINK [Vinyl]

Cat Power | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl (January 22, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Matador Records
• ASIN: B0000036WB
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #272,516 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. In This Hole

2. Good Clean Fun

3. What Would The Community Think

4. Nude As The News

5. They Tell Me

6. Taking People

7. Fate Of The Human Carbine

8. King Rides By

9. Bathysphere

10. Water & Air

11. Enough

12. The Coat Is Always On

Editorial Reviews

CAT POWER What Would The Community Think (2009 US exclusive limited edition 12-track LP pressed on Premium HQ-180 180gram VIRGIN VINYL - Originally released in 1996 the 3rd album from Chan Marshall includes the single Nude As The News plus a free download of the entire album presented in deluxe picture sleeve housed in sealed & stickered perforated tear-strip bag)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

44 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love is not loneliness, March 27, 2003

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Hamid Thomson (Millersville, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: What Would the Community Think (Audio CD)

Of course all albums worth reviewing are five stars, and every "best of" is so personal as to be meaningless. Cat Power is so insular as to be beyond review. You either feel her pain, or you don't. If you have ever seen Cat Power live, you have been treated to either the most moving or most embarrasing performance of your life-- sometimes both in the same night. Much the same with this album. This is Chan at her most raw, most intimate, most compelling and most distancing. It is almost funny to watch the progression of her career, to see her perform with "famous musicians" and to see her on Letterman. She is ultimately an outsider artist, creating something not quite "art" but rather a daguerrotype of her soul.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars haunting, August 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: What Would the Community Think (Audio CD)

Chan Marshall can do haunting like no one else...both aggressive and lonely, her songs sound to me like Kim Gordon meets Kristin Hersh...but admittedly it is unfair to pigeonhole her unique expressiveness. When I first acquired this album (after falling in love with Moon Pix, which is also beautiful but does not have the range of emotion or music that WWtCT does) I spent hours late into the night making art while listening to this cd..."Water and Air" is one of the most aching, chilling songs I have ever heard. There is something creepy underlying WWtCT that makes this album stand away from CatPower's other work - her lyrics do not rest easily.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars atmosphere beyond paranoia for once, December 6, 2001

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Matthew (Sabina, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: What Would the Community Think (Audio CD)

there was a time once a few summers ago when i found myself in a room in Tennessee and was more or less reduced to staying there - no reason for it, other than that it wasn't home - listening to this album after having spent the season washing dishes and hearing "Moon Pix" and "The Covers Record," i had a few moments, or one continuous moment i guess, in which it became clear that Chan Marshall's songs were the soundtrack to every empty room i'd ever been in - tension and veiled purity on this album last beyond what's worth talking about - imagine the sound of someone wanting to stay inside, married to the experience of another's equilibrium - and music for the frequencies in-between - the only songwriter next to Will Oldham, Robert Pollard, and whoever else you might listen to - like a fusion of Son House, Roy Orbison, and Sonic Youth - and none of the above.