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Jewel - Perfectly Clear Audio CD

A fair review of the Jewel "Perfectly Clear" 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 Jewel reviews here, or go back to the Jewel tabs.

Jewel Band: Jewel
Title: Perfectly Clear
Rating:
Release Date: 2008-06-03
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Stronger Woman 2: I Do 3: Love Is A Garden 4: Rosey and Mick 5: Anyone But You 6: Thump Thump 7: Two Become One 8: 'Til It Feels Like Cheating 9: Everything Reminds Me Of You 10: Love By You (Cowboy Waltz) 11: Perfectly Clear

Worth the listen!
But "Perfectly Clear" does offer us some extremly fine moments, Like the gorgeous "I Do", which is up there in the list of Jewel's best songs. I'm gonna be honest and say that it's not up to par with "This Way", "Spirit", or even the immensly underappriciated "Goodbye Alice In Wonderland". All in all. this is an album that should definatly be listend to. It's Jewel. so you already know that it isn't gonna be bad.


My Top 5
1. I Do
2. Perfectly Clear
3. Everything Reminds Me Of You
4. Rosey & Mick
5. Loved By You (Cowboy Waltz)

listen to this album, the songs are truly beautiful!

I Love you Jewel.


A True Jem
Many articles I have found say her fans may have a hard time with her flipping genre's all the time. Jewel's first country album really reminds me of her This Way album. I think that if she were to realese her original album, Pieces of You, in our current time it would have been debut in the country genre anyways.
Song that is great, #10, Cowboy Waltz.


They just don't make 'em like they used to...
It's missing that fire and passion she had in her voice and lyrics in Pieces of You and Spirit. I LOVE Jewel, this cd is a bit lacking. It's just sort of middle of the road Jewel, not so special.


I Like It
Her genre defining This Way goes ever forward without gloating. I like Jewel's 2008 album, as hybrid of country and adult alt rock. Obviously they're selling this on the attactive looks of the siger almost now a deacade since she broke big on MTV in 1996 or 1997. Easy listening palatable country music rock hybrid. It's not boring either. .


So disappointing...
Her heartfelt songs and odd melodies captured my imagination for three albums straight. When I was a teenager, Jewel was my hero.
Three albums later, Perfectly Clear appears on the scene, and I was so excited to hear her country "departure".
Excited until I heard it, that is.
One low point, lyrically, was the song "Thump Thump". "I swear I hear the language of your heart, and it says Thump Thump. . . " Oh really? Do tell. Hearing common metaphors about love sung as if they were something profound also frustrated me, such as "Love is a garden" or "Love is a game until it's played" (I Do).
Probably the thing that made me move from disappointment to disgust was the song, "Till It Feels Like Cheating". I'm assuming from the rest of the lyrics that this is about a married couple who have been apart for awhile and are having a rendezvous in a hotel room somewhere. That sounds fine, except the main lyric, "Till it feels like cheating, till it feels that good. " Yuck. Cheating feels good? Even if it did, it's still a gross lyric.
I've heard her sing some of these songs with just her guitar and voice, and they are infinitely easier to listen to. Perhaps I should blame her producer, then, but the whole album does not sound like a tribute to country music as much as it sounds like she is almost poking fun at the industry of country music.
Sorry, Jewel. I said "Say it ain't so!" when you came out with 0304, and now I'm saying it again.

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