MELANIE - Please Love Me (VINYL LP, 1973) **NEW**

Description: MELANIE - Please Love Me (VINYL LP, 1973) **NEW** Review from another site:Singer and songwriter Melanie rose to fame in the late 1960s, making her breakthrough with an appearance at the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair, the rock festival that came to typify the hippie ethos of the era. While Melanie certainly seemed like a flower child in both creative vision and temperament, her singular blend of folk-rock, art song, purposefully playfully pop, and daringly personal introspection set her apart from her peers, delivered with a smokey, quavering passion that made her more serious numbers all the more incisive. Please Love Me is a selection of tracks from the soundtracks of "All The Right Noises", and "RPM". It was her last recording for Buddah Records before forming her own label Neighborhood Records. Shake off that feeling of pre-Christmas euphoria at once, misery and Disney are just around the corner in the shape of Miss Melanie Safka. She's got troubles enough for every one of you and on this plaintively-titled guide to cute melancholia succeeds in plumbing the very depths of dark despair. At their most cheerful. her songs are soberly reflective, while at the other end of her emotional specter they're downright tormented. My God, no one should suffer like this poor girl does! Her voice is wailing and breathy, distinctive if nothing else. There are hints of Buffy Saint Marie in there, -and of Piaf, but the overall sound is most definitely her own. This is not the little-girlie Melanie that sang "Brand New Key" and "Alexander Beetle" like a Transatlantic Minnie Banister, this is Melanie tortured by doubts, crying for assistance in most unnerving fashion. "Please Love Me" is an emotional start, with quavering,, repetition of' the title and doleful violin - an instrumental version also included suggests the songs virtues lie in the lyrics and not the moderate tune. "In The Hour" and "Getting Out" continue, in the same sober vein, but leave one totally unprepared for the heart-rending, "Momma, Momma", with Miss Safka apparently sobbing and sniffing as she sings. Has anybody been so unhappy? "Save The Night" (depressed), "Ears To The Ground (philosophical) ,and "Pebbles In The Sand" (mournful) maintain the mounting gloom. All these songs are Melanie's own, written for the "All The Right Noises" film. "Stop, I Don't Wanna Hear It Anymore" with tooting fife and drums and "God's Only Daughter" might be thought provoking in lighter company, but here they serve as precious light relief from all the soul-searching. Melanie's tunes are not world-beaters, but the lyrics and delivery are quite remarkable. -- Melody Maker "New" old stock just out of storage! FACTORY SEALED, PRISTINE. Satisfaction Guaranteed! FREE MEDIA MAIL SHIPPING TO DOMESTIC ADDRESSES. PRIORITY MAIL available for speedy delivery! International buyers may use eBay's International Shipping Program. And see my other RECORDS for sale HERE and my CDs for sale HERE!

Price: 39.99 USD

Location: Tacoma, Washington

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