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Patty Griffin - Impossible Dream
CD DetailsArtist: Patty Griffin Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2004-04-20 Music Label: Ato Records Soundtracks: - Love Throws A Line
- Cold As It Gets
- Kite
- Standing
- Useless Desires
- Top Of The World
- Rowing Song
- Don't Come Easy
- Florida
- Mother Of God
- Icicles
Music reviews of Impossible DreamMusic Review: Music at it's finest! Rating: 5 Stars
Impossible Dream is hands down one of my most favorite albums in the last decade. I have been a Patty fan pretty much from the beginning of her career and I adore and love every album she has made, but "Impossible Dream" is a full masterpiece. There is not one song that doesn't stand out in some way for me. Everything about this album, down to the artwork is just breathtaking.
Love Throw A Line - This song is the perfect choice to start the album with. It gives me that feeling of being in the old south, either sitting in a little white church gettin down, having a grand old time with a gospel choir or in a little hole in the wall blues bar, that only you have somehow magically discovered. It's a fun song that makes you want to close your eyes and just imagine that you are actually there experiencing the beautiful rhythms and energy in this song.
Cold As It Gets - In this song Patty's voice blasts out at you with hauntingly beautiful lyrics. Again, it feels like you are being taken back in time somewhere. It's as if you can actually feel the words as she singing them.
Kite Song - This song is like a dream. You can actually feel and see yourself running through the fields in the hills flying a Kite with someone you hold very close to you. Makes you think of how simple and beautiful everything really is. The piano is so gorgeous in this song, you can't help but get misty-eyed with every listen.
Standing - In this song, Patty really shines. Her voice is just brilliant. You wonder to yourself how a small little red-haired white woman can possibly have so much soul. The song builds and builds and then goes back down to a slow bluesy hum and ends just as powerful as it starts.
Useless Desires - In my opinion the best song on the album and best song she has ever written. Everything about this song is amazing. Her voice, the lyrics, the music, melody and just the general flow of the whole song. This songs just takes me away to a place I feel safe in. The lyrics are like everything we've all at one time felt and wanted to somehow put into words, and she accomplishes this. Without any flaws. The way her range shifts so effortlessly is mind numbing. How one song could be so beautiful and capture every feeling I have ever had myself makes me very happy.
Top of the World - Lot's of people think this song is in fact a "Dixie Chicks" song. Not the case. Patty is the mastermind behind this gem. Another song where Patty shows off her amazing vocal range. It's one of her more melancholy songs on the album. We all want to be on top of the world, but non of us are quite sure how to get there. And if we do, how do we stay there?
Impossible Dream - Not an actual full track on the album, but a little snippet of the song "Impossible Dream' sung by Patty's Mom and Dad. Perfectly placed between TotW and RS.
Rowing Song - This song has a very special place in my heart. Because I have often felt the way the song conveys. The horns in this song are in my opinion so beautiful you can feel them in your soul, literally. This song is genius through and through.
When It Don't Come Easy - The piano and backing vocals in this song are what makes it so amazing. The song starts off slow and slowly builds into an explosion of a gorgeous chorus of voices and horns. Then slows down again. The lyrics are heartbreaking. Talking of a love so strong, no matter how hard things get. That love remains.
Florida - Patty's vocals in this song are flawless once again. This song really tells you a story. Something we pretty much all go through at least once in our lives, one way or the other. Loneliness. How we all do what we have to do to just survive.
Mother of God - This song reminds me of my Grandmother. Kind of the story of a woman. The piano in this song is gorgeous. As is the way Patty sings with a lot of emotion in her voice. As if she were almost about to cry. I think the song is about women and their roles as "mothers." How we will do anything for our children, no matter the cost. Just like the "Mother of God." The cycle goes on and on. I think all women, weather we are aware of it or not are connected to each other by our ability to give life.
Icicles - An amazing song to end the album with. She took us through a journey the whole album and in this song, you can feel that journey coming to an end. To me this song sums it all up by telling us that everything you have to go through in life is worth it. no matter how hard or what the cost. You will find what you are looking for. "You'll be glad you got lost in the glow of love."
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