| The Fall (2-CD Deluxe Edition) | 
| Creator: Norah Jones
Label: EMI
Category: Music
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,032
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
EAN: 5099945627224
ASIN: B002R2L008
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Chasing Pirates | | • | Even Though | | • | Light as a Feather | | • | Young Blood | | • | I Wouldn't Need You | | • | Waiting | | • | It's Gonna Be | | • | You've Ruined Me | | • | Back to Manhattan | | • | Stuck | | • | December | | • | Tell Your Mama | | • | Man of the Hour |
Disc 2
| • | It's Gonna Be (live) | | • | Waiting (live) | | • | You've Ruined Me (live) | | • | Jesus, etc. (live) | | • | Cry Cry Cry (live) | | • | Strangers (live) |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 7
 Poor recording May 18, 2010
VDO (Ontario, CA)
A very poor recording. The late Walter Sear did a great job with recording her first albums, now she tried "something different" and the result is appalling. It's the compressed, annoying sound that "hip" sound engineers are doing these days to play loud on iTunes store.
Production woes!! May 14, 2010
Pulsar (Canada)
Too loud...too compressed...to much bass...Too busy. Too many albums are produced in this fashion these days detracting from the song. Maybe that was the idea since these songs are quite unremarkable. And her voice sounds terrible with the effects piled on. Waste of resources.
 good canadian blues February 4, 2010
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i'm sorry but is her best album to date, don't believe the crap other people wrote, they want more of the same crap she was doing before. this album has life, no more dooooooooom and gloooom. she actually sounds happy. the music is uplifting, strong backing band. check it out especially if you didn't like her before.
 I wish I could get my money back January 20, 2010
Joe Bloggins (Kingston, Canada)
This is a terrible CD. Not at all like Nora Jones previous excellent work.
The music is heavy base booming over her voice and making the whole listening experience "muddy" very poor unprofessional mixing and production.
I wish I could get my money back.
 A necessary change of pace January 6, 2010
Louis (Quebec, Canada)
Known primarily for an appealing melting pot of country, blues and jazz, Norah Jones apparently decided that she wasn't going to be the kind of artist who spends an entire career recording the same album over and over again. And the timing seemed just about right; her previous effort ("Never too late") was still enjoyable to listen to, but showed some early signs of a stalling creativity. It was clearly time to make a few changes, and that's what Norah did. The piano-laced ballads and standards that turned her previous albums into runaway hits are nearly gone; instead, Norah has grown into an accomplished singer-songwriter, one willing to experiment with different sounds and textures. In that regard, "The Fall" sometimes evokes the stylings of Aimee Mann, Suzanne Vega or Edie Brickell, while still bearing Norah's distinctive vocals and songwriting.
As a result, the bulk of "The Fall" consists of midtempo songs whose arrangements are rooted in the drum, bass, electric guitar and organ tradition. To pretend that Norah released a rock album would be way too much of a stretch; besides, her hushed vocals certainly fall short of any rock credibility. However, a few songs (most notably the rollicking "It's gonna be") find her in a decidedly rowdier mood than the poised songbird who cooed her way through past hits such as "Thinking about you", "Sunrise" or "Don't know why". The album's lyrics, obviously inspired by the demise of a romantic relationship, are also much more incisive than you'd expect from the girl who wrote "Come away with me"; the closing two songs ("Tell yer mama" and "Man of the hour") are as blunt and unromantic as you can get, and all the better for it. This is a darker, more personal album than what we've heard from Norah, and it certainly took courage to change a winning formula. Some fans will not like it, while others will applaud Norah's guts for refusing to play it safe.
However, despite deserving praise for demonstrating artistic courage, it must be said that "The Fall" is a bit linear and sorely lacks a couple of distinctive highlights. Listen to it without much attention, and it will simply slip by. It takes more than a couple of listens to really get into "The Fall", and the reason is quite simple: this is an album that definitely requires involvement from the listener. Whereas her past albums always worked best as background music, you can't simply melt into songs such as "Light as a feather", "Stuck" or "Young blood", because they need an attentive ear. Likewise, even the more melodic songs ("Even though", "It's gonna be", "December" or the first single "Chasing pirates") demand that you pay attention to their intricate arrangements and lyrics in order to be fully appreciated. Whether or not this is a good thing is a matter of personal taste; but people hoping for a breezy CD to play at their next cocktail party or dinner, will definitely find more than what they bargained for with this album. It will certainly be interesting to see where she takes it from here, both on an artistic and commercial level; but regardless of what happens next, Norah Jones certainly succeeded at baffling everyone's expectations.
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