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Audio CD (February 22, 2000)

Original Release Date: February 22, 2000

Number of Discs: 1

Label: Chesky Records

Catalog Number: 189

Reader Reviews
This has quickly become one of my all time favorite discs. It's a marvel. The instrumentation and arrangements are fantastic. The recording, as always with Chesky, is top drawer. Ms. Flint's voice is just "to die for", and Dave Cantor's writing is everything everybody else has noted: hip, understated, clever, and ironic. It has been called "retro angst", and it is that. But, I think it's more, too. It's current social commentary. Not the kind that preaches or hits you over the head, and you don't need to find it to enjoy the songs; still, I think it's there, and proves that serious comment need not sound serious. "Dear Miss Lucy" is a professional dominatrix. She's being asked "to set the poor boy free". The "poor boy" being the singer's (in the song, of course) husband. The wife ends up promising to do Miss Lucy proud by letting hubby sing under her own "black stilletto" rather than Lucy's. "Lilly-110-140" might properly be called the prozac cha cha. Its protagonist gets let off (after chopping up her analyst) with a "stern and judicious warning" from the judge and a ten year supply of prozac (Lilly-110-140) from his bailif. Then there's the unrepentant slasher doing "Florida Time" who, after ten years, can still taste his victim's fear; and "Baby, Who Are You?" is about waking up next to someone you no longer recognize (Billy Joel's "Stranger", anybody?). Last, but not least, where else in all of jazz/pop ("Chicks") are you ever going to find rhyming references to Homer (Circe, turning men into pigs) and Keats (modern "Belles Dames Sans Merci")? This is one teriffic album. Highly recommended!

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