Tuesday Night Music Club

The singles from this album sell Sheryl as a country-adjacent singer songwriter, which is broadly accurate, but doesn't tell the whole story. Sure, there’s plenty of twang here, but it's all from the guitars and not the vocals. Where Shania Twain's story will be "Country goes Pop", this album makes Sheryl's feel kinda like "Pop goes Country". I'm sure I'm missing plenty of context for the state of pop radio in 1993, but this sounds like it might be an important milestone for country/rock crossovers. Would Shania’s crossover been as successful without this? What about Faith Hill or Taylor Swift? I won’t commit to giving Sheryl too much credit, but it feels kinda true.

Half of this album ended up as singles, so you've probably heard a good portion of this record already. Those singles are enough to keep you busy, but if you're interested in going deeper, I have two recs:

"Solidify" - this is pretty funky and I love the organ. It totally doesn't fit the rest of the album, but that's what makes it so fun.

"The Na-Na Song" - also a departure from the rest of the album. It borrows from Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" in the same way that Beck's "Loser" (also 1993!) does. Loser is probably the better song, but I enjoyed this too.

The singles (in release order):
"Run Baby Run" - this didn't hit in 1993, but feels like a Sheryl Classic now.
"What I Can Do for You" - you probably don't know this song because it was released before Sheryl started to break through, but it should have been a bigger hit.
"Leaving Las Vegas"
"All I Wanna Do"
"Strong Enough"
"Can't Cry Anymore" - It's clear that they were courting country radio with this one. But, hot take: if they held "What I Can Do For You" until after Sheryl started breaking through, it could have been released here and this song wouldn't have been a single.

This album gave me a lot of nostalgia. A very high 3 but just a few too many songs I wasn't too big a fan of.

Is it one of the 1001 best albums of all time? No, probably not. Is it bright, fun and catchy as hell? Fuck yes it is!

6 singles! Holy moly. Shot Shezza

I liked the songs more that veered into full on rock territory (e.g.: The Na-Na song) than the ones that were pop rock. Still, I have to give props to the songwriting and all the vivid details in there, but other than that it's not a musically interesting album.

There are a few decent songs on here, but also a few stinkers (Na Na is one of them). And Crow seemed to ditch these guys that collaboratively made this music as soon as she was famous, which doesn't seem entirely cool

Tuesday Night Music Club (1993) überzeugt mit ausdrucksstarken Songs und Sheryl Crows markanter Stimme. Der Top-Song: „All I Wanna Do“ – ein lässiger Hit, der das Album berühmt machte.

Huge on release, pales over time.

some great music, but the album itself doesn’t feel coherent

'She was born in November 1963 / The day Aldous Huxley died.' That'd be Nov 22, the same day JFK was assassinated. Known for brightness, Crow is also a subtle and at times hilarious lyricist, as that snatch evinces, as well as an exasperated realist w/ troubles and questions abounding: 'Well, got a brother / He's got real problems / Heroin - no / There's just no stopping him tonight / And I won't cry anymore.' In that sense, it's pop and it's not, not b/c pop music can't deal w/ dark matters but b/c she negotiates them as Bruce Springsteen or Neil Young might: w/ misdirection and irony that yet doesn't detract from her sincerity. I'm aware that she collaborated w/ other songwriters, but her vocals signify that the lyrics come from her own store.

I haven’t even listened to this yet and All I Want to Do is already stuck in my head. It’s going to be stuck in my head all week.

Ok, I enjoyed that a lot more than I expected. There are actually some really good tracks on here. It might not make it into my regular listening rotation, but I wouldn’t be upset hearing this again in the future.

Gimme that annoying 90s sound and SCALE IT TO THE MAX!

I’m at a 4.5 that I’ve got to talk myself into one way or the other, but I’m leaning towards a 5.

First things first: it’s a *good* album. My knowledge of Sheryl Crow comes in her poppier stuff, ala “All I Wanna Do”, and not in the more rock-heavy tone this album generally takes. Color me impressed by the variety on display here; there’s everything from a noir-driven track in “We Do What We Can” to a sort of Peter Gabriel-esque cut in “Solidify”, the rap flow present on “The Na-Na Song”, the Tom Petty-esque “Leaving Las Vegas”, & the grunge energy that starts the whole thing on “Run Baby Run”. Sheryl Crow’s vocals are pretty damn good throughout, the lyricism is super strong, and instrumentally, I think this is a really nice slight update to the mid/late 80s sound that people like Suzanne Vega kicked into gear, with just a bit of 90s flair and production behind it. For 1993, some of these do feel a little ahead of pace. As a whole, I really can’t say there’s a bad track here, and for my tastes, I dug the entire album.

So, what the hell is the issue stopping me from giving this a definitive bump up to a 5? It’s just the pacing, really. This album’s one plague is repetitive outros & occasionally fully repetitive rhythms that extend the runtime, in such a way that even though it’s a decently brisk 49 minutes, it feels longer than it should. There’s plenty of things that could’ve been cut down in each track to avoid that sense of repetition, and while I don’t think it’s going to actually be enough to bump it down to a 4 by itself, it’s something that pulls the album down for me.

There is something else biting at me, but I also don’t think it’s going to warrant bumping this down to a 4 – I think “We Do What We Can” is really, really confusingly written. I just can’t follow the “he” of the track, given the shifting perspectives, and while it doesn’t undermine the noir instrumental of the track, having a muddy story to something as smooth & perfectly captured as that does kind of undermine the noir *theming* of the track. Combine that with its 5:37 runtime, and the fact that it comes right after “All I Wanna Do”, it’s probably the track that needed the most work, or at least another pass to see if it cohesively fit at that point in the album. I’m not sure it does, but it definitely has a place on the album.

So, between the pacing of the album making it a little longer than necessary, the repetition in the outros & one awkward track placement, is that enough combined to bump it down to a 4? Perhaps on another day, but for a first impression, I’m still just too impressed by the variety tackled on this album and how effectively Sheryl Crow bounces from song to song here without really feeling like she’s out of place on anything. The floor for this album is a 3, especially if the stuff I mentioned is an amplified issue. It’s got issues, sure, but at the end of the day, I still liked it a lot. I’m gonna bump it to a 5, and I think it’s earned that. A thumbs up from me. I need to add a little more Sheryl Crow to my big playlist.

My mum had this album and if you’d asked me before i listened to this i would’ve told you this would be at least a 3.5/5. My memory has obviously been clouded by the big hits or i should say hit, as again i was surprised to find ‘if it makes you happy’ was later than this album.

Its not rubbish but it’s hardly great and suffers as my mind groups this and Jagged little pill together in my mind and my appreciation of that has grown with age.

All I wanna do is an undeniably catchy tune and is unsurprisingly the highlight.
This makes the decision to follow this with the dirge of ‘We do what we can’ and it’s “draft dodging brothers” even more ludicrous.

Firstly a small rant about deluxe editions: if your record label wants to make a deluxe edition to generously give the fans more music/fleece the fans for more money (delete based on your level of cynicism) that's great. But do not delete the original from streaming services and force me to have to check where I'm supposed to stop listening to properly assess an album for this project. It keeps on happening! Tut!

For an album that spawned six singles, I genuinely would have only been able to name All I Wanna Do, such was its ubiquity in the early 90s charts. But listening to this, I remember a lot of it. I remember Run Baby Run which would probably make the record company happy as they released it 3 times in the UK in the hope of making it work - genuinely a bonkers choice for first single given some of the other songs on this record. For example, Leaving Las Vegas which is a much better option for first single.

Reading about Leaving Las Vegas made me nostalgic for the era when singles a) got physical releases and b) got multiple versions in multiple formats, each of which would have different b-sides so you ended up collecting the lot. LLV had a 7", cassette and two different CDs in the UK! See people complain about record companies now but you only get 15 different vinyl colours for an album because they can no longer flog you four versions of the same single.

This feels like damning with faint praise, but this was mostly a very pleasant album to listen to. I'm not sure how I feel about Solidify which is extremely early 90s (the instrumentation could easily have had Micheal Jackson singing over the top), and the second half generally doesn't feel as strong as the first half but I did enjoy it. All I Wanna Do remains the absolute stand out track though.

3/5

Some light country-tinged pop rock. The songs are not bad, but they are rather boring. I wanted a cool metal album to be my birthday album, but I got this grocery store pop album instead.

the singles are very good. the rest is sunshiny, low stakes, kinda bops along. it's well produced. "no one said it would be easy" is good. the jazzy song is bad.

bonnie raitt lite. lucinda without the miles on the wheels or the gravel in the voice. if this was playing while i was in a bar on santa monica boulevard some summer tuesday afternoon, i'd be cool with it.

If this whole album was like Strong Enough, it would be a straight 5 stars for me. However, there are too many Na-Na Songs that fill the gaps between songs like Leaving Las Vegas and All I Wanna Do.

I enjoyed my time with this album, I like Sheryl Crow, and I LOVE Strong Enough. For me though, this album isn't more than 3 stars and I question its placement on an essentials list

....nahhhhh.

I wanted to give this a fair shot since I have a soft spot for 90s alternative pop, but this is really a huge nothing-burger of an album. Unfortunately this is inoffensive background music, which I doubt is something Crow was going for.

"All I wanna Do" is an absolute banger though. Love that track.

A whole lot of nothing. Why is she so famous? It was fine, I guess, nothing offensively bad, but I don’t hear anything that would suggest it’s genre-defining, or worthy of inclusion on any Best Of list. All I Wanna Do is pretty catchy, but is one catchy pop song enough to warrant a spot on this list? I submit that it’s not.