Welcome to Vh1 Storytellers [Live]

VH1 Storytellers (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 25, 2000)
• Original Release Date: April 25, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Interscope Records
• ASIN: B00004STQB
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #118,835 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. China Girl - David Bowie

2. Edge Of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks

3. Back On The Chain Gang - The Pretenders

4. Rain King - Counting Crows

5. Crash - Dave Matthews

6. Who Will Save Your Soul - Jewel

7. Stay - Lisa Loeb

8. Regarding Steven - John Popper

9. Mexico - James Taylor

10. Strong Enough - Sheryl Crow

11. Here Comes The Rain Again - Eurythmics

12. Carnival - Natalie Merchant

13. Jack & Diane - John Mellencamp

14. Just A Memory - Elvis Costello

15. How Deep Is Your Love - The Bee Gees

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Old Magic Women & Men, July 16, 2000

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Michel (Bombay, Maharashtra India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Welcome to Vh1 Storytellers (Audio CD)

Storytellers is a VH1program where in the artists reveal the rhymes and reasons behind some of their best songs. This CD is a compilation of many of those extraordinary live performances, reworked, often stripped down and well aged like a good mellow scotch. The stories fortunately are included in the booklet of the CD, but not available in the tape format.

A finer collection of the best Adult Contemporary music is hard to find these days. This is no boy-band...compilation. The artists on this 15 track set include big names such as David Bowie, Stevie Nicks, Counting Crows, Jewel, Dave Matthews, Lisa Loeb, James Taylor, Sheryl Crow, Natalie Merchant, Elvis Costello and The Bee Gees. When these musicians were young boys and girls, The Backstreet Boys were hardly even born and MTV had probably just begun.

Chrissie Hynde is almost full of pathos, pulls of a spirited rework of Back On The Chain Gang. Sheryl Crow, the modern-day rock chick teams up with powerhouse vocalist Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac) on the former's Strong Enough. Lovely. Devoid of original back-up singers Graham Nash and David Crosby (from CSN&Y), James Taylor still sings Mexico is perfect JT style, honeyed and classic. John Mellencamp turns Jack & Diane into a hip-hop MC jamboree that is fun and all involving, Boy, he's sure having a good time on it. The recording captures the band rocking with the audience really neatly.

Lisa Loeb's Stay is a one woman-one guitar unplugged effort, eventually not a patch on the original album version. Jewel seems to get carried away in her own yodel and warble and in doing so gets highly entangled in Who Will Save Your Soul. Pity that.

Still there is enough nostalgia and great production of some of the finest music in the business on this set. Good listening and easily listen able many time over.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Inconsistent, July 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Welcome to Vh1 Storytellers (Audio CD)

"VH1 Storytellers" has some definite high points, such as "Rain King" (Counting Crows), "Crash Into Me" (Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds), "Regarding Steven" (Blues Traveler), and "Jack & Diane" (John Mellencamp). However, the low points on this CD are so low that it makes for a difficult listen, like the endless meandering at the end of "Who Will Save Your Soul?" (Jewel). All in all not a bad CD but, again, difficult to listen through from beginning to end. The best song on this CD is "Rain King". Give it a listen.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Why?, April 29, 2000

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Donald (Miami, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Welcome to Vh1 Storytellers (Audio CD)

This show has produced some great musical moments. Unfortunatley, none of them are on this cd. Who can forget, Melissa Etheridge's { Testify} or Don Henley's ( Boys of Summer) and the list goes on. This collection does not live up to the show and I would recommend passing on this collection and hope for a Vol 2.