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Short Sharp Shocked | 
 enlarge | Artist: Michelle Shocked
Label: Mighty Sound
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
Buy New: £4.55
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 2981
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 1004
UPC: 820692100426
EAN: 0820692100426
ASIN: B0000CBLA8
Release Date: October 6, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW PRODUCT Factory Sealed - Ships via Airmail from the USA - Average 5 to 14 workdays delivery time - Excellent customer service - Buy with confidence!
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | When I Grow Up | | • | Hello Hopeville | | • | Memories Of East Texas | | • | Gladewater | | • | Graffiti Limbo | | • | If Love Was A Train | | • | Anchorage | | • | L And N Don't Stop Here Anymore | | • | VFD | | • | Black Widow | | • | Fogtown |
Disc 2
| • | When I Grow Up | | • | Memories Of East Texas | | • | Yamboree Queen | | • | Strawberry Jam | | • | Graffiti Limbo | | • | If Love Was A Train | | • | Anchorage | | • | L And N Don't Stop Here Anymore | | • | VFD | | • | Black Widow | | • | Leavin' Louisiana In The Broad Daylight | | • | Disoriented | | • | Lovely Rita | | • | Ballad Of Penny Evans | | • | Remodeling The Pentagon | | • | Fred's Winter Song | | • | Prince of Darkness - Shocked, Michelle & The Mekons | | • | One Piece At A Time | | • | 5am In Amsterdam | | • | Campus Crusade | | • | Goodnight Irene |
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| Customer Reviews:
Perfection November 29, 2007
Lendrick (London)
This Texas troubadours career has been patchy but here on her second album everything is perfect. Mixing country, folk and rock influences it is Michelle's wonderful singing and lyrics that really make this special. Her songs evoke her rural childhood, growing up and away form her home and the politics of urban America. 'Anchorage' and "Memories of East Texas" are wonderful studies of change, "Graffiti Limbo" angry and political, "If Love Was a Train" witty up-tempo and sexy, but there really isn't a weak track on the album
Where do you go...when there ain't no justice? June 3, 2007
Charles - Music Lover (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Michelle Shocked has a tremendous talent. Thankfully, it is hard to categorize in a word or two. Her ability to stretch the boundaries between musical genres (folk, swing, rock, bluegrass) did not sit well with her one-time record company. After a handful of recordings, Shocked's label dropped her due to 'artistic incongruity' or some such nonsense. She hit them back with a lawsuit citing conditions of involuntary servitude. This disrupted her recordings being released for awhile. In the end we all lost, in a way, because such an episode disturbs the natural flow of a career, and interrupts the artistic process. Recordings become harder to find, the relationship between artist and audience is thwarted. Such is life, sometimes.
Short, Sharp, Shocked (1986) was the first of a trilogy of albums recorded for Mercury/Polygram. If Shocked were ever to fit into the quasi-structural mold of singer-songwriter, it would have been with this release. Her folk-pop roots shine in autobiographical songs like "Memories of East Texas" and "Anchorge," and in her effective interpretation of Jean Ritchie's classic "The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore."
Shocked is a gifted songwriter. She can write overtly political material that will not hit you over the head with overbearing self-righteousness. She never loses sight of her senses of humor and irony. Note the gracefulness of her lyrics in "When I Grow Up," "Grafitti Limbo," or "Gladewater."
That Shocked never broke out into the into more mainstream success like Suzanne Vega or even Fiona Apple is perplexing. Such a dilemma poses the question: "Where do you go...when there ain't no justice?"
 well worth the £6 December 4, 2005
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I'm quite new to michelle's music coming from a gift i had of the texas campfire songs.. bilmy what a CD.
CD1 is great but i though CD2 is a real gem, packed with live recordings (not recorded on a walkman!!). the beatles track 'lovely Rita' is superb but 'the ballad of Penny evans'is outstanding it brought tears to my eyes.I've come from the stable of the Grateful dead, J.J.Cale and Rainer and Michell Shocked is now a welcome addition. Recomended
Genius November 27, 2003
11 out of 16 found this review helpful
I brought this album for my dad for christmas, he's is a big fan of Michelle shocked. The quality and composition of this album is pure genius and if you are folk music junkie it is the perfect addition to your collection! Michelle shocked gets better and better! Do not miss out.
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