Society's Child: Verve Recordings

Janis Ian - Society's Child: Verve Recordings

Society's Child: Verve Recordings
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Artist: Janis Ian
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
CD Release Date: 1995-08-22
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Society's Child
  2. Too Old To Go 'Way Little Girl
  3. Hair Of Spun Gold
  4. Then Tangles Of My Mind
  5. I'll Give You A Stone If You'll Throw It (Changing Tymes)
  6. Pro-Girl
  7. Younger Generation Blues
  8. New Christ Cardiac Hero
  9. Lover Be Kindly
  10. Mrs. McKenzie
  11. Janey's Blues
  12. A Song For All The Seasons Of Your Mind
  13. Honey D'Ya Think?
  14. Bahimsa
  15. Queen Merka & Me
  16. There Are Times
  17. Lonely One
  18. Sunflakes Fall, Snowrays Call
  19. Evening Star
  20. Shady Acres
  21. Insanity Comes Quietly To The Structured Mind
Music CD 2
  1. Everybody Knows
  2. Mistaken Identity
  3. Friends Again
  4. 42nd St. Psycho Blues
  5. She's Made Of Porcelain
  6. Sweet Misery
  7. When I Was A Child
  8. What Do You Think Of The Dead?
  9. Look To The Rain
  10. Son Of Love
  11. Baby's Blue
  12. Time On My Hands
  13. Love You More Than Yesterday
  14. Orphan Of The Wind
  15. Sea And Sand
  16. Galveston
  17. Do You Remember?
  18. Month Of May
  19. Calling Your Name
  20. And I Did Ma

Music reviews of Society's Child: Verve Recordings

Music Review: The early works of a folk-rock prodigy
Rating: 5 Stars

Among the very few artists who've had three act careers, Ian's story is one of the most satisfying double comebacks. This 2-CD set chronicles the first flush of her fame, when she signed with Verve as a teenage singer-songwriter prodigy. Just 15 when she recorded her debut album, featuring the (then) highly controversial single "Society's Child," Ian was soon drawn into a swirl of three albums in three years and quick burnout. A few more albums in the early 70s showed improving craft, but little commercial success. Her first comeback was the platinum selling "Between the Lines," which introduced her deeply introspective lyrics to a new generation of listeners, and after a few more albums, a second lull. She emerged for a third time in the early 90s, and continues to write and record to this day.

These earliest works are a piece with her famous song of interracial relationships, tackling angst-ridden topics with the sort of directness that recent artists like Alanis Morisette, Jewel and Fiona Apple are credited with introducing into the pop mainstream; perhaps the mainstream simply wasn't ready for their introduction in the mid-to-late '60s. Ian's songs confront a range of hot-button topics, including teen prostitution ("Pro-Girl"), social protest, religion, and a multitude of adolescent pains. Though at times the music seems to ape the surrounding folk-rock boom (but then, with Dylan exerting such a heavy influence, who didn't have this problem?), the clarity with which Ian translated her thoughts to lyrics makes each of these songs an emotional time capsule.

Surprisingly, the early albums were produced by Shangri-Las mastermind, Shadow Morton. The histrionics he infused in the Shangri-Las productions weren't needed to underline Ian's naturally dramatic songs, and so he mixed acoustic guitar accompaniments with light folk-rock sounds from ace studio musicians. Even when the backings ventured into light psychedelia, blues-rock or baroque orchestrals, they never overwhelmed Ian's words, and though the production can sound dated, it never distracts from the visceral nature of the lyrics.

This double-CD collects everything from Ian's four Verve albums except the track "Snowbird" from her last LP, "Who Really Cares." The limit of the CD medium required one song to be dropped, and this is the one that Ian herself selected. Detailed liner notes, with generous quotes from Ian, tell her story of these early recordings from the inside. [©2005 hyperbolium dot com]
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