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Vanessa Carlton - Thousand Miles Audio CD

A fair review of the Vanessa Carlton "Thousand Miles" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Vanessa Carlton reviews here, or go back to the Vanessa Carlton tabs.

Vanessa Carlton Band: Vanessa Carlton
Title: Thousand Miles
Rating:
Release Date: 2002-06-18
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: A Thousand Miles 2: Twilight 3: Wanted

Great Song
Couldn't be any better. I love this song, the piano, her voice is outstanding. .


Floating, tuneless, meaningless


However, the song "A Thousand Miles" can only be described as tuneless and floating. As (at the time) a lover of female singer/keyboardists, I was tempted to buy this when i saw it in a local record store in Melbourne, where there is very little "alternative" music except violent loud noise available. there is very little solidity in the song, so much so that it becomes really tuneless. Her voice lacks the feminine expressiveness that I have come to admire in my adulthood, being rather bland and lacking any kind of melodic beauty. The piano playing also seems to have no feel behind it, with the result that she never appears to have real skill beyond that of the piano players of the notorious 1970s "beautiful music".

It is not surprising that the "pop" fans of Australia lapped this song up, but it really has little to recommend it. Rather, one could hear some Kate Bush, Cocteau Twins, or better still such key influences as Laura Nyro, Steeleye Span or Fairport Convention to see the essential female contribution to the music world in the last forty years. Finding these artists is certainly worth the effort. .


Enourmous British Vanessa Carlton Fan!
It was awesome and I couldn't believe how pretty and talented Vanessa was! I'd definitaly walk a thousand miles to hear this song! Excellent song, Well done Vanessa!. I'd never heard of Vanessa Carlton until I heard this song.


Sensational song but the other two aren't great
There's no superb piano action in the songs Twilight and Wanted. This is a sensational song but the others on this CD aren't anything special. Twilight is live and granted Vanessa does play all right live the song's not that great. This does have the Thousand Miles film clip on the CD which isn't a bad film clip. The CD single is worth buying for the excellent Thousand Miles song as well as the film clip but if you've got the album with the song on it then don't bother.


great piano hook!
It's melodic, catchy and soulful, too bad I can't say the same for her voice, but this song got a grammy nominee and I wish her the best of luck. What hooked me to this song was the piano hook you hear throughout the verses of this song.


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