Cat Power Albums in order of Favorites

[Keith]

I don't have the first two so from the five i do own.

Moon Pix
You Are Free
What Would the Communtiy think?
The Covers Record
The Greatest

[Moon Pix]

I could never decide that. Its like being asked to name your favourite sweet in the sweet shop... they're all so good how do you choose?

[Keith]

Although the Greatest is a great record i suppose at the moment maybe because i haven't heard it as much i would put it as my least favorite(as in not as good as the others, i don't mean this as a negitive) am not sure i guess i got into You Are Free stright away. It was really deverse and gripping and her most personally record todate. I love some of the rocking tracks. the covers so stunning it's always have a place in my heart as it's how i was intrerduced to Chan's music. Moon Pix classic, What Would.... classic.

[morphinelips]

The Greatest
Moon Pix
Community
Myra Lee/Dear Sir
You are Free (sounds like a collection of songs to me, not a cohesive album)

[Lawrence]

Yeah that's difficult.

I can tell you that I think the Speaking for Trees DVD is really bad. The 18 minute song is good.

Dear Sir and Myra Lee are my least favorites.

Everything else is top notch.

[Keith]

Interesting, so should i not bother buying the fitst two then? I'm still sticking up for the dvd. I think the point was that it was a selection of songs filmed out in the open air away from the every day life. I really thought it was alright.

[Moon Pix]

I would recommed the first two. Theyre closer in feel to Community, very dark and beautiful.

[morphinelips]

Interesting, so should i not bother buying the fitst two then? I'm still sticking up for the dvd. I think the point was that it was a selection of songs filmed out in the open air away from the every day life. I really thought it was alright.

Honestly, if you are on this board, you should do what the rest of us do and buy all of them. Everything she has done is worth owning.

[Moon Pix]

Honestly, if you are on this board, you should do what the rest of us do and buy all of them. Everything she has done is worth owning.

*nods*
Absolutely... after all it is Chan we are talking about. When has she ever let us down?

[ABKman18]

Moon PIx 10
What Would The Community Think 9.5
The Greatest 8.5
You are Free 8
The Covers Record 7.5
Dear Sir 7

[Keith]

I agree and want to own them anyway being Cat Power records, i was just responding to the guy saying he diden't like them.

[Moon Pix]

I remember reading this interview with Chan where she said that looking back she is dissappointed with the first two records and that she really didnt understand anything about recording at the same time. In the KCRW session she said that her early recording sesssions where just the worst experience.

I still think they're great records though. You can see the evolution into what she's doing now, I think her records started becoming happier in sound after Moon Pix. I think they've always been joyful but to a casual listener not paying attention her first four records would probably sound depressing.

[the greatest]

you are free
the greatest
moon pix
the covers record
what the community would think

I've never listened to the 2 first records. Do you advice me to do it or do you think it is not necessary?

[Moon Pix]

I've never listened to the 2 first records. Do you advice me to do it or do you think it is not necessary?

Absolutely 1000% I advise you to listen to them. Listen to everything by Chan.

[the greatest]

Absolutely 1000% I advise you to listen to them. Listen to everything by Chan.

Ok so I'll definitively do it! thanks for your reply!

[Fidelio]

1. What Would the Community Think
2. Moon Pix
3. You Are Free
4. The Greatest
5. The Covers Record
6. Myra Lee
7. Dear Sir

[Keith]

It's a very good list probely can't disagree but i was liserning to the covers LP yesterday and it sounded pretty damn good to me.

[Fidelio]

It's a very good list probely can't disagree but i was liserning to the covers LP yesterday and it sounded pretty damn good to me.

I know. But then again, all the albums are good.

[Keith]

I still consider Moonpix my most loved, but the rest are so good aswell. It's tricky placing each one in slot. My friend still has WWTCT and i'm missing it badly. Haven't heard it for about a year now. When i do it won't leave my walkman for ages.

[Kitty Kat]

1 - Dear Sir
2 - You Are Free
3 - Moon Pix
4 - What Would the Community Think
5 - The Covers Record


I cant place the greatest yet - need more time!!

[Kitty Kat]

or is it

1 - Dear Sir
2 - Moon Pix
3 - You Are Free
4 - What Would the Community Think
5 - The Covers Record


i dunno!!

everytime i'm listening to one of them it's my favourite - so i guess they're all my favourites...?...

:confused:

[Keith]

Keep going until you get it right.

[Keith]

I do take your point Kitty with the Greatest having only been out(in the shops at least) for a just under a month it is hard to rank it with the rest. I put it at the bottom of the list because at the time i'd only listerned to it like a couple of times and like it but at that stage didn't find it as good as good as the rest. I may do another list soon.

[vasanum]

i can't put the greatest in a rank yet since i haven't listened to it enough.

dear sir
myra lee
moon pix
what would the community think?
the covers record
you are free

wow. almost chronological order.

[Kitty Kat]

I do take your point Kitty with the Greatest having only been out(in the shops at least) for a just under a month it is hard to rank it with the rest. I put it at the bottom of the list because at the time i'd only listerned to it like a couple of times and like it but at that stage didn't find it as good as good as the rest. I may do another list soon.

i could write a new list every second day

but i'm a bit ditsy so that's to be expected

;)

[twisterella]

1. What Would The Community Think
2. Moon Pix
3. You Are Free
4. The Greatest
5. Myra Lee
6. Dear Sir

[bones]

You Are Free

is definitely my favorite album!


my favorite recording though is...
A Nacht-Mix Lounge Concert, Munich, Germany, November 23, 1998
I got it off rbally and it is fucking amazing! I highly suggest getting this radio session.
unless yr not a cat power fan. and if yr reading this-you are.

[Elijah]

The Greatest
What Would the Community Think?
The Covers Record
Moon Pix
You Are Free
iTunes/eMusic Live Session EPs
Myra Lee/Dear Sir
Speaking for Trees

[sensorika]

or is it

1 - Dear Sir
2 - Moon Pix
3 - You Are Free
4 - What Would the Community Think
5 - The Covers Record


i dunno!!

everytime i'm listening to one of them it's my favourite - so i guess they're all my favourites...?...

:confused:

lol im like this too.

i dunno its too hard to rank them. i dont want to put them in order, i just want to leave them as they are- beautiful and unique pieces of art.

[olives]

The Greatest. albums like that only come around once a decade, this is the one she's been working up to.

[philipsmog]

I think lyrically at least, she gets better and better, no one is talking about
how incredible the poetry is on The Greatest. Reminds me of early (good) Kurt Wagner of Lambchop a lot less linear than you are free, less clumsy than moonpix,(I'm talkin bout the words here) some of the freshest metaphors I've ever come across. All the allusions to the wind are beautiful. the songs sometimes do feel like sketches but have you seen her do these songs live? Really fleshed out and vibrant.

[Moon Pix]

I don't think it was that it was clumsy, I just think it was that her way of expressing herself back then was just more abstract and cryptic. She's often talked about just opening her mouth and the words just coming out and as someone who does it here and there a bit myself I know what thats like. Many times have I been sitting in my room banging out some simple chord progression and a line just comes into my head.

Its like you arent even responsible for what you come up with sometimes, it just comes from somewhere in your brain.

[philipsmog]

I don't mean clumsy, I think I mean fumbling, reaching. Moonpix is like a sleepwalk in the forest at night, speaking in tongues almost. It's the Cat Power album I cherish most. So rest easy "Moon Pix".