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★★★★★ 4.5 points (27 reviews)


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  • Issued : 21 Sep 2005
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Genre : Rock & Pop Catalogue Number : UICA1024
Format : CD Label : Universal
Issued : 21 Sep 2005 Item sourced from : Japan
Number of Discs : 1
Other : BonusTrack

Wild Flower

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Other Versions

  • CD   US Edition   ¥2,212   Reissue CD (US Import)   Released: 30 Jun 2006  
  • CD   CAN Edition   ¥3,178   CAN Import   Released: 29 Nov 2005  
  • CD   UK Edition   ¥1,656   UK Import   Released: 26 Sep 2005  
  • CD   EUR Edition   ¥1,874   Limited Edition CD (EUR Import)   Released: 27 Sep 2005  
  • CD   EUR Edition   ¥1,584   EUR Import   Released: 27 Sep 2005  
  • CD   CAN Edition   ¥1,381   CAN Import   Released: 27 Sep 2005  
  • CD   Japan Edition   ¥1,600   Reissue CD   Released: 04 Mar 2009  

HMV Review

Originally, Sheryl Crow planned to have her follow-up to 2002's Top Ten hit C'mon, C'mon be two simultaneously released albums, announcing their autumn release at the beginning of 2005, but by the time the fall rolled around, the project had been scaled back to a single album: Wildflower. If C'mon, C'mon was a cheerful, bright record ideal for sunny summer days, Wildflower is its opposite, a warm, introspective record that's tailored for the fall. It's not dissimilar to 1998's The Globe Sessions, which felt like a somber hangover to the wonderfully weird party of her eponymous 1996 second album, but where The Globe Sessions had a weary, heartbroken feel, there's a comfortable, lived-in atmosphere and sense of genuine affection on Wildflower. Celebrity press and pre-release hype attributed this love-mad vibe to Crow's romance with cyclist Lance Armstrong -- the couple announced their engagement the same month Wildflower was released -- and there surely must be some sort of correlation between Crow's personal life and work, but anybody looking for an album explicitly about her relationship with Lance (the way that, say, Eric Benet's Hurricane is all about his divorce from Halle Berry) will be disappointed. There are certainly plenty of songs about love here, but Crow's songs are not about specific events (unless they're neo-protest songs like the lively Live It Up). They're open-ended, so it's easy to hear the record and never think about Armstrong. As a matter of fact, the subjects of the songs matter less than the feel of the album. It's easy to spin Wildflower a couple of times before the songs start to sink in -- unlike her other records, there's nothing here that immediately grabs your attention, they're all growers -- but the mood of the record is immediately appealing. That sustained warm, burnished, relaxed feel -- at once rootsy and upscale, modest and classy -- is reason enough to return to Wildflower to give the songs a chance to take root, and once they do, the album seems to be one of her most consistent records and one of her best. [This edition contains bonus tracks.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Songs

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    I Know Why
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    2
    Perfect Lie
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    3
    Good Is Good
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    4
    Chances Are
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    5
    Wildflower
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    6
    Lifetimes
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    7
    Letter to God
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    8
    Live It Up
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    9
    I Don't Wanna Know
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    10
    Always on Your Side
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    11
    Where Has All the Love Gone
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    12
    Wildflower [Acoustic]
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    13
    Where Has All the Love Gone [Acoustic]
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    14
    Letter to God [Acoustic]

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  • ★★★☆☆ 

    岡っ引きお化け  |  静岡県  |  40year  |  03/July/2011

    このAlbum当たりからサウンドに勢いとゆうか、元気なくなってきますねぇ。残念です。個人的には「Perfect Lie」や「Good Is Good」「I Don’t Wanna Know」などが好みです。彼女も歳には勝てず、サウンドに落ち着きが出てきているんですかねぇ。デビュー自体遅かったので仕方がないのですかねぇ。

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  • ★★★★☆ 

    ポイポイ  |  不明  |  不明  |  20/June/2011

    good is good is good!!!!とにかくgoodです!!

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  • ★★☆☆☆ 

    moma  |  東京都  |  不明  |  15/March/2010

    Good Is Goodは好きだけど、全体としては、何か彼女の個性が出てなく、らしさもない。。。

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