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Ani DiFranco - Carnegie Hall - 4/6/02 Audio CD

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Title: Carnegie Hall - 4/6/02
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Release Date: 2006-04-04
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: God's Country 2: Subdivision 3: Angry Any. 4: Educated G. 5: Not So Soft 6: 2 Lil Girls 7: Gratitude 8: Detroit Annie... 9: In the Way 10: 2nd Intermission 11: Names & Dates 12: Serpentine 13: Work in Pro. 14: Out of Range

Terrible. I wanted to like this CD, but it is all talk, poor music
I wanted to hear her music, because I thought I would like it based on my other musical preferences. I have never owned an Ani Defranco CD before. I randomly bought this CD used. I thought one of her LIVE albums would make a good into to her music.

Unfortunately most of what I got with this CD is talking. Each track has approximately 1 1/2 minutes of her talking nonsense before each song begins. When she does sing, her guitar playing is no better than average and her lyrics are sub par.

In Ani's defense, I hope its just this album, but I'm hesitant to buy any more.


Save Your Money, Go Buy Someone Else's CD
The lyrics are way too self indulgent and will never make it on the Top 40 charts. She is overated and has a lousy voice. Her guitar playing is OK. I find her songs boring and just goes on and on for nothing. She said she doesn't want to get signed. Who cares? No major label will deal with her lousy lyrics and are so self indulgent. Besides, major labels want artist that sell millions on a release. I doubt she'll ever match the single album sales figures of Avril Lavrgne or Kelly Clarkson. Besides, her singing is inferior compared to them. .


Great Live Album!
Not as good as Living in Clip, but probably my second favorite of her live albums. I really like this one. Her storytelling in between songs can get very kooky and great, i love them. This is a must have for any Ani fan.


Remarkable for early versions of "Serpentine" and "Self Evident"
Ani has released a couple of live albums over her 17 year career to date, including the definitive and all-encompassing 2002 release "So Much Shouting, So Much Laughing", which is basically a "greatest hits live" release. Ani DiFranco, famously independent within the music industry, continues to self-release all of her output on her own "Righteous Babe" label.

"Carnegie Hall 4. 6. 02" (15 tracks, 68 min. ) was recorded on the same tour that would give us the "So Much Shouting" release, but this recoding is very different: for one, this is just Ani solo, no backing band. For another, this recording includes early versions of 2 epic songs within the Ani DiFranco catalogue: the 10 min. "Serpentine", in which Ani assails anything and everything that represents "authority", including Democrats and Republicans alike, but of course also "big business". (The fleshed out version of this song was eventually released on the 2003 album "Evolve". ) The other piece is the 9+ min. "Self Evident": not a song, but a spoken piece in which Ani resets the 9/11 tragedy in her own words and world ("On the day that America fell onto its knees"). While I don't see the connection, Ani has no trouble linking 9/11 to her beliefs that there is no freedom of the press here and that America is not a democracy. Does it not strike anyone as ironic that Ani is not bothered by anyone saying these things and makes a living, and a very nice one at it, performing all over this country and proclaiming these "truths"?

I saw Ani and her band in concert on that Spring, 2002 tour, and when she brought "Self Evident" (which was a new piece at that time), the entire theater was just bowled over by the performance. I don't necessarily agree with her view of things, but one cannot help but admire the "art" and the "artist" in such a performance. The "Carnegy Hall" album is not essential as such in Ani's catalogue (if you don't have it yet, check out the "So Much Shouting" live album), but this album does bring a fascinating "snapshot of a moment", as Ani puts it herself in the excellent liner notes. .


Recommended for all.


This one won out over reprieve. Well, I was in FYE, with their little scanny-headphone "preview your cd' things.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think I totally know reprieve from five minutes of samples, and I plan to but it too, but for that day, that moment with a spare twenty dollar bill in my hand, this live album was better than reprieve. (or, at least, it will be until I buy reprieve and like it better. )

I've only been following ani's works for about two years, so I'm not totally familiar with all her material. However, my two favorite tracks are Self Evident and Serpentine; They are both on this album, one after another. And, at the time of this recording, they were just works in progress. It's cool to hear the way they progress from this live show to their respective album versions. And, while I still don't get the concept of "official bootlegs" (how can a bootleg be official, exactly?) I plan on buying every other ani bootleg. That is, after I buy reprieve.


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