Oh Yeah

Picked up Sheryl Crow's latest and the Stones' Goat Head Soup. I've listened to Crow now for ten years and think she's a great rocker. However, this is her second disc of tightly-crafted songs that sound good while on and absolutely forgotten once over. She's never been a lyricist, she's always been a producer. She knows how just to make her songs sound like Petty's, the Beatles', Joni's, Steve Miller's. On just about every album, I can "name that tune" of influence. The one on this record sounds like John Sebastian's "Welcome Back, Kotter".

The Stones - bookended by the album's weakest songs, this is the album that I love - lotsa songs that aren't famous, not well-known and often not even great. However, they're all solidly good and I'll take an album of all goods than an album with a couple of greats with a bunch of decents. I'll spin this one quite a bit, rolling my eyes at "Star Fu**er" and ignoring "Dancing With Mr. D".