Indigo Girls - Rites of Passage
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Artist: Indigo GirlsEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-10-03
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Three Hits
- Galileo
- Ghost
- Joking
- Jonas & Ezekial
- Love Will Come To You
- Romeo And Juliet
- Virginia Woolf
- Chickenman
- Airplane
- Nashville
- Let It Be Me
- Cedar Tree
- Three Hits (Live From Eddie's Attic, Atlanta, GA)
- Love Will Come To You (Live From Eddie's Attic, Atlanta, GA)
Music reviews of Rites of Passage
Music Review: The standard by which all others are measured.
Rating: 5 Stars
This is my favorite IG album, and if you are starting your collection, it is probably the first one you should pick up. Emily is at her best -- "Gallileo" & "Virginia Woolf" are stellar. It also includes one of Amy's masterpieces, the oft-debated "Chickenman" (one of the only IG songs to repeatedly show up both on fans' most liked and least liked Indigo Girls songs). Like it or hate it, Chickenman is not standard IG fair, but it has become a staple of their live show, and it has an absolutely infectious rhythm backbone.Musically, there is no denying that this album is truly brilliant. But perhaps even more notably, the lyrical content of this album makes it also one of the most cohesive works in the Girls' catalog. The album seems to have a central focus on coping with death, life after death, and communication with the deceased. Heavy, dark topics, indeed, but the Girls manage to explore these topics in such a way that we are somehow left feeling good. Observe:
"Galileo" puts a clever slant on reincarnation by not only exmianing a soul's past lives, but also it's future lives: The song's take home message is that we should live the best we can and straighten things up in this life in order to not only "let the next life off the hook", but also to prevent it from being able to cast blame upon past lives for its own situation. Brilliant!
In "Virginia Woolf", Emily presents an alternate interpretation of immortality, allowing spirits to live forever by simply learning about their lives and carrying on their message. This song contains a brilliant metaphor -- communicating with deceased spirits "kind of like a telephone line through time".
In "Ghost", one of Emily's most beautiful arrangements, she laments the loss of a loved one, yet we feel she is almost content to be able to communicate with the passed spirit, even if it is only fleeting.
The sprightly "Airplane", as bright as the music is, hides perhaps the darkest lyrics on the album, in which Emily prepares for death, "making a deal" with God to clean up her act if He spares her. The Roches make an appearance on this song, and their signature "slightly off key" vocal hoarmonization is brilliantly placed in this song, somehow giving us the feel that the airplane is already in the process of crashing. It's almost eerie.
Finally, Amy's "Cedar Tree" deals very explicitly with the passing of a loved one. But it lifts up our spirits with a very sprightly Celtic jig, that is still not out of place in such a dark song.
In the end, after listening to this album, you'll feel like you've gone on a journey, visiting past lives, communicating with those who have passed, and exploring the afterlife. And you will feel strangely refreshed. An absolutely brilliant album.
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