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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   Sarah McLachlan's new CD Shine On, released on May 6, is one of   
   her best CDs yet.  All of the songs on the CD are strong, so   
   I would advise you to get the whole album and not just one   
   or two songs.  On the CD there is a majority of ballads but   
   also some rocking songs and some songs that combine the   
   two (angry or seething ballads).   
      
   In Yours Shoes is a rocking song of empowerment of girls and   
   women, partly inspired by  Malala Yousafzai.   It is the first   
   single from the album, but though  I like it, it isn't my   
   favourite song on the CD.   
      
   Flesh and Blood is passionate torch song, also fairly rocking,   
   with soaring vocals, about a fiery love that overpowers her.   
      
   Monsters,  which is my current second favourite song on the   
   CD, is a swinging autobiographical fairy tale song .   
      
   Broken Heart is one of many lovely ballads on the CD,   
   with sad lyrics and great vocals, and is my current   
   favourite song on the CD.   
      
   Surrender and Certainty is a sultry jazz song.   
      
   Song For My Father is a poignant tribute to her recently   
   deceased father, and a good song for the upcoming   
   Father's Day.   
      
   Turn the Lights Down Low is a song of love between   
   two people when things are rough, and is mid-tempo   
   with a touch of electric guitar and drums, so I would   
   call it a seething ballad of two against the world.   
      
   Love Beside Me is an angry ballad, again with a   
   rocking backing,  about leaving the past behind and   
   moving on after a bad relationship.   
      
   Brink of Destruction is another lovely ballad, and   
   would make a good slow dance song.   It is   
   about coming through fire together and finding   
   a new path.   
      
   Beautiful Girl is another song of empowerment of   
   girls, an anti-bullying song, a song of encouragement,   
   with some lovely piano and vocal work   
      
   The Sound That Love Makes is a happy ukulele   
   song that leaves you in a good mood at tthe   
   end of the regular CD.   
      
   On the deluxe CD there are two more beautiful   
   ballads, What's It Gonna Take and Little B.   
   The first was originally in King Kong and   
   the second is a nice children's song.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton  dalton@nfld.com   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   "This could be the final breath/This is life and death/   
    This is hard rock and water/Out here between wind and flame/   
    Between tears and elation/Lies a secret nation" (Ron Hynes)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)