You'll never listen to the song the same way again...
922051
In a prose style deep and crisp and even, Pitot gives us the story of the Good King from the perspective of the woodsman he befriended. A great tale for the season!
2779088
If you're looking for a catchy beat, or a single song for a download, you'll find it, but you'll also miss the deeper revelation of the Popular Loner. Theven entire project will get under your skin, touch your soul and challenge your life... Definitely worth the download, and worth listening to again and again
2900154
I have loved this song since I heard it the first time on Sirius radio, but this version is NOT the same!!!
4421555
Even now, a little under six years since I first bought Grace, I find it so very difficult to express the wonder I feel every time I listen to it.  Since Jeff's death, it has also become a singularly painful and emotional  experience.  Perhaps that's why I only play it every now and then these  days - such is the power of his music, his uncanny ability to write and  sing a song that can hit you right where you are most vulnerable; such is  the tragedy of his death.
'Magical' is far too common a word, 'spiritual'  too trite.  Maybe it is sufficient to say that his music has simply become  a part of me; as familiar and precious as a best friend.
Others, you will  read, have done an excellent job of describing the individual songs on  Grace, so I won't try to emulate them.  But bear in mind that Grace should  be listened to - experienced - as a whole.  It is a masterpiece of uncommon  beauty, and will remain my favourite album until the day I die.
If you  are a fan of Jeff's music, then I'm not telling you anything that you don't  already know, for his music has always inspired passionate response.  If,  however, Jeff's music is an unknown quantity to you, you owe it to yourself  to listen to this album.  Love it or hate it, I promise you that it will be  unlike anything you've ever heard before, and, sadly, unlike anything any  of us will ever hear again.
4081168
I was recently turned on to Sufjan Stevens. This artist, is like no other: in lyrics, vocals and production of music. The songs are phenomenal in that they get right under your skin. Sometimes, this doesn't feel so great. But, the point, is Stevens ability to have such an impact by affecting the listener this way. This particular song- '4th of July'- has to be the most unsettling on this album. Yes, while listening to it- I feel part disturbed, emotional- often tears down my face, hate that the song is making me feel this way, and loving that the song is making me feel this way.
4101159
I just bought this set, but I am anticipating it to be really good. will be great to have all of these songs in one set! However, I'm planning to program my cd player to ALWAYS skip track 18 on disc 4, "Dont' stand so close to me 86'". THIS
RE-DOING OF THE SONG IS AN ABOMINATION! Please, if you are a person of any musical taste, always avoid this song. Participtate in this ban!! I first heard this piece of trash when I bought the greatest hits record back in the 80's--I always wondered why they put this song on their instead of the original, which was far superior and without any need to be "re-done." Why did sting do this this? If I could break into the archives at A&M and erase the master, I certainly would--what a pleasure it would be!
4660367
Sure, I consider myself enlightened and open-minded.  I listened to the samples and didn't get it.  But one review struck me: "accept it on it's own terms."  So I bought it.

When I popped it into my home stereo and heard the grating voice of Jeff Magnum, especially on the second song, I had to quickly turn the volume down in embarrassment.  Awful.

A day later I played it for my 14 year-old son saying "so I missed on this one...isn't it awful?"

The next day I listened to it in my car.  Still awful, but there was something...

A couple of listens later it clicked.  And it became the most exquisite CD I've ever heard.

It's been about two years since then, and it has become my most cherished musical treasure.  And the funny thing is, my three kids -- 16, 14 and 12 years old have all downloaded it on to their iPOD's.  They feel it too.

I'm just very glad that I "get it" and that I've passed it on to another generation.  Truly a "life-changing" musical maseterpiece.
741430
Iconic. Very moving. Once you have listened to it, there is no going back.
2789999
When I first listened to this album i was only in 7th grade but from that day on I knew that this album is one that I would have to keep with me forever. Hearing about how great it was from my cousins and friends didn't do this album any justice. From beginning to end, this album is by far the greatest collection of songs ever put together. The wierd thing is that this album stepped aside from the traditional heavy, heavy metal sound of Metallica and their lightning fast guitar playing heard in albums like And Justice For All or Master of Puppets. This simple fact may be what allowed this album to reach out to so many people. Now that fewer people would be driven away by the more mellow sound, James Hetfield's lyrics could touch so many more.

But don't get me wrong, for those old school Metallica fans, this album still offers those same traits that gathered such a huge fan base from before. By making this album, Metallica easily convinced new listeners to go out and listen to some of their other albums - its what happened to me - and make their fans truly appreciate what Metallica has been able to accomplish.

Metallica's influence, due not only to the greatness of this album, can be seen and heard in countless of today's bands. Go to any band's homepage and more than 75% of them will list Metallica as one of their greatest influence, a well deserved honor.

If you listen to this song, there is absolutely no way in hell that there won't be at least one song that you will like. If you want to hear a soft, melodic song where the lyrics of the song just touch you, play "Nothing Else Matters" but if you really just want to let out some agression or just piss off your neighbors, crank up the volume and listen to "Holier Than Thou". The point is this: no matter what you're looking for, you'll be able to find it in this album...guaranteed.
1492777
When this song was first made available in the '80's I was impressed with how different it was from the other songs on this album. It is very etheric. All the tracks were laid down by Mick Moore aka Mickey Blade. He wrote the music and played all the instruments and did the vocals. It is rumored he wrote it for his mom, a horse lover. Once you hear this you will never forget it! Awesome.
464061
Forget the bright and precise sound of old Sleater-Kinney. The raw, snarling, distorted, always-pushing-the-envelope sound of&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/The-Woods/dp/B0008FPIO0/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">The Woods</a>-era S-K blows away everything that came before it.

"Entertain," believe it or not, is the mellowest song on this EP. "Everything" is what&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Never-Mind-the-Bollocks/dp/B000002KIE/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Never Mind the Bollocks</a>&nbsp;would sound like if it had been made by three angry grrrls--including the second coming of Keith Moon, Janet Weiss--instead of a bunch of materialistic punks. Finally, you get a live version of "The Fox," one of the best tracks on The Woods.

All in all, a worthy supplement to The Woods.
452941
The first time I heard a song from this album on MPR, I decided to buy the album outright. I did not like the album at first but it really grows on you after subsequent hearings.
453569
Pure, poignant, haunting and raw emotions expressed in words. Truly one of, if not, the most outstanding song I've ever heard. No one can describe this. You must hear it for yourself!
3730405
RIP Scott Weiland

Always loved this single but, if you try to listen to it now after the news broke Weiland was found dead while in bed
You can't help but, wonder? the song is very dark and prophetic!
The music video is intense and rough  to view  since in the video you see Weiland overdosing
If you watch the music video and it doesn't bring a tear to you eye and a small emptiness inside you
Something is seriously wrong with you.................

Still a great song but, now it's chilling and a deep reminder of another talent lost way too soon 10/10
Now all Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans are in pieces
4435909
There is something unusual about the lead singer's voice and the tempo of this song. Can't tell you what it is...almost as if I'm not expecting that he has the chops to make it through the song (like the range will exceed him), or that the song will just beach itself and run dry without building to anything.

And then, before you know it, you're spiralling down through a melody that is very unusual - originally so - which is difficult to find these days. The song makes choices that are not intuitively expected, and it pays off.

It's a ballad, a love song, a song of loss and warning and experience and bitter truths. It's beautiful, but there is a lot of pain beneath the surface.

And it hooks me every time.

(I will confess that I kicked myself the day after downloading it, thinking I had made a terrible mistake. And then, in the course of a week, I kept hearing it on the radio, acclimating to it every time at the beginning and by the end I was congratulating myself at the purchase. I'm really enjoying it now).
885986
I've wanted to get different mixes of this particular song for the longest time.  When I found out there was a whole album dedicated to this song, I had to get it.
The music in all the songs are definitely different than the original.  If what you like best about the song is the tune, you might be disappointed, because that tune is not in any of the songs on this album.
But if you like this song as much as I do, it's worth it to add to your collection of Camouflage.
930160
This album changed me. It changed my taste in music.
I loved loved Catherine Wheel's 1995 grunge heavy metal album "Happy Days" when I was 15. I listened to it all the time, turned it up loud, and fed off its pounding energy. I was so excited when I heard in early 1997 that Catherine Wheel has a new album coming. I couldn't wait. I couldn't wait. Then "Adam and Eve" came out and... I was disappointed. So disappointed. Just so surprised to hear them so stripped down and bare. What is this sissy crap? You know, I thought I was about to bite into a sloppy chili cheeseburger with bacon and onion rings only to discover that I just bit into a warm goat cheese sandwich on wheat toast with beansprouts and eggplant. WTF?? Very startling and upsetting for an aggressive 16 year old. I listened to it just once, put it on my shelf and didn't touch the cd for 3 years. I wasn't alone with that opinion, many of the newer fans weren't into it, and the label was upset, ultimately dropping the band and letting the album go out of print quickly.

3 years later, I picked it up again for some reason at the much more mature age of 19 and discovered maybe the most beautiful thing I ever heard. My god. This album is stripped away and about pulling back the layers and getting somewhere authentic. I can now tell that Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" and Talk Talk's "Spirit of Eden" were a big inspiration. I heard the song "Future Boy" and I was stopped cold. You understand the meaning of the song just from the production mixing, when the rising swirl of insanity and noise disappears into a singer alone with his acoustic guitar. I wanted to learn how to play this song on guitar. I'd been playing guitar for 3 years at this point, but it was this song that got me to turn off the distortion and learn chords beyond metal power chords. This started my journey through acoustic rock. And I was suddenly sad to realize that creating one of the most beautiful works of all time earned this band the reward of being dropped from their label and having their album go out of print to fade into obscurity.
Although they did add one radio friendly song at the last minute; "Delicious" is a cool song, just out of place here.
If this album didn't exist there never would have been any Coldplay. Listen to Coldplay's first record "Parachutes". It's a watered down attempt at "Adam and Eve". But props to Coldplay, they were so much better when they tried to pull off Catherine Wheel than when they tried to pull off U2.