AMANDA GREEN
The Nineteen Hundreds (Y&T)
Reviewed by Shaun Dale

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Through the course of 18 tracks (17 originals and a rousing cover of Devo's "Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy Down"), Amanda Green provides a survey of the music that's being made by women in the alt/indie/pop axis at the end of the century she's named her album after. Reviews of her debut effort, 1997's Junk And Stuff, invoked the names of a variety of influences, including Sheryl Crow, Rickie Lee Jones, Lisa Loeb, Kim Deal, Liz Phair, Kate Bush, Tori Amos and Joan Osborne were among those cited. There are elements of all of those and more on The Nineteen Hundreds, but in the process of synthesis, something totally new is created. You might note a pointer here and there, but this disc is ultimately all Amanda's.

There's no point in trying to box this one up with a genre label. Amanda Green's style is pure creativity. With a range of musical attacks from tender music box melodies to tough rockers, she lays out lyrics that range from joy to anger to anguish to humor, and she finds a way to pull some kind of bizarre unity from that incredible variety.

Amanda Green has summed up the 1900's just fine. It looks like the 2000's may belong to her.

Track List:

The Zebra Longwing * Silver Dollar * Sequin * People * Nothing's Ever Going To Happen, Is It? * Grandma Green * Gut Feeling/ Slap Your Mammy * Heaven Held The World * Antonin * Beak * Me And My Wife * Walls Come Down * Sugar Blossom * Secret Song * Jericho * Churchills * Scram! * Glory

© 2000 - Shaun Dale