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Lavin Christine Music Collection : Please Don t Make Me Too Happy

Please Don t Make Me Too Happy


Price: $6.30

Artist: Christine Lavin

  1. Oh No
  2. Constant State of Want
  3. Psychic
  4. The Secrets at This Wedding
  5. The Sixth Floor
  6. Jane
  7. Jagged Hearts
  8. Scatter New Seeds
  9. Waiting for the B Train
  10. Something Is Wrong With This Picture
  11. 69
  12. Please Don t Make Me Too Happy
  13. Oh No

On the up side, Christine Lavin s eighth album, Please Don t Make Me Too Happy, includes three hilarious stand-up monologues thinly disguised as folksongs. Oh No resembles a Lucille Ball routine where the comedienne can t find her glasses, her purse, or her phone book. Waiting for the B Train is a slice-of-life, absurdist narrative from the New York subway system, and the album s title track is a wonderfully exaggerated worry-fest about growing too contented to write meaningful folksongs. On the down side, the album s other nine songs are eye-glazingly earnest. On Jane, she turns a reunion with a long-lost friend into a smug, humorless put-down of housewives everywhere. On The Sixth Floor, a song about the Kennedy Museum in Dallas, Lavin manages to make the most controversial historical event of her lifetime deadly dull. Several numbers about the single life wallow in self-pity. And teaming up with musicians who have played with the Band, Nanci Griffith, Bryan Adams, the Max Weinberg Seven, and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra doesn t flesh out Lavin s notoriously thin music so much as it exposes just how limited a singer she is. --Geoffrey Himes

I fear my rhyming days are through - I got this album after hearing some of Christine s humorous songs. I was somewhat disappointed to find out that most of the songs on this album are serious. They are not bad songs, they are just not what I expected. And there are a few good funny songs. Christine is a clever songwriter, and fans of contemporary folk would probably enjoy her music.

Some Really Good Songs - I bought this Cd for Constant State of Want after it played on Public Radio. I am quite pleased with the album. Several of the songs are stellar - Jane , The Sixth Floor , Jagged Hearts , Scatter New Seeds , Something Wrong with This Picture are all great songs. The others are not bad, just unusual - you have to keep in mind that Lavin is a humorist so songs like Waiting for the B Train and *69 tell humorous stories. Waiting for the B Train is hilarious - about people standing at the subway when someone thinks they see a puppy on the track and trying to get someone to go get it.

Another gem - Christine Lavin s albums always are full of astute observations on the challenges and absurdities life throws at us. This album is no exception. She mixes humor and angst with a deft touch and produces a great album!

Jagged Hearts - The great thing about buying a Christine Lavin album (I guess I m dating myself by using the word album) is that even her worst efforts have at least one incredible song that so applies to you and the way that you feel (or once felt) that you just HAVE to own it, and then play that song over and over, until you ve memorized the song, then you play another thousand times, just so you can sing along, and if you re lucky, you end up feeling a little better, even if you didn t realize that you even really felt all that bad in the first place! On this lp, that song is Jagged Hearts. The others range from ok to pretty good, and for you that one great song may be a totally different one, but Christine Lavin is one of those very rare artists that you can always count on to give you (at the very least) one song that you will never forget. How many others can you say that about?

Wonderful...sad and real - Christine can sound sad, or happy, or bizarre, but she s always Christine. This is the album that turned me from a fan to a fanatic -- it s a poet s vision of modern life and the weird things it makes us do. I highly recommend it.



Please Don t Make Me Too Happy