Bitter by Me'Shell Ndeg?ocello

Pros: Thoughtful, engaging, emotional music.
Cons: YOU don't own a copy of this album.

Many moons ago, a wise man named Paul McCartney wondered if the world had had enough of silly love songs. The fact is, 99.95% of all songs are about love because it is the single most conflicted emotion there is. You can be crazy in love, sick of love, ...

Pros: Music that can be felt deep in your ears down to your toes
Cons: Many fans didn't rush to this album. Shame.

Very few artists can tap into the pleasure and pain of love. Me'Shell NdegeOcello captures the tingl ...

Pros: superb musicality (yeah musicality)
Cons: none

Regardless of whether or not you can pronounce her name, this woman is musically very, very gifted. Of the twelve songs on this album, Ndegeocello helped write or wrote all but two. It’s ironic to me that this album is called bitter, because I think...

Pros: Meshell does it all. Very very well. Lush instrumentation & tremendous vocals
Cons: Jimi Hendrix cover

This is a significantly re-done rewrite of an epinion I wrote a year ago that I have since deleted. I just felt like I didn't quite do it justice the first time around...

Raw soul and melancholy. This is the stuff that Meshell...

Pros: Lush, passionate, Me'Shell re-defines her sound with this poetic masterpiece
Cons: Not any that I can think of off the top of my head

Everybody knew that Me'Shell Ndegeocello could funk out like James Brown. What they didn't know was that she had it in her to croon like Tracy Chapman. On her third record on Madonna's Maverick Records, the formerly freakadelic soul princess eschews...

Pros: Very emotionally honest collection of songs.
Cons: It can be a bit slow at times.

Simply put, Bitter is a mystical masterpiece, with am amazingly mystifying sound that captures you from the first note and takes you beyond Heaven.

Everything about this record is wonderful - from the tell-tale lyrics in 'Faithful' - "My...

Pros: New Style. Amazing Songs.
Cons: Nope.

Me'Shell Ndegeocello has made a name for herself with the release of two, totally funky and extremely creative albums. Her third album, 1999's "Bitter" is like the turning of a page in here career, because this album is completely different...

Pros: Some of the most tantalizing music you'll hear all year
Cons: Hard rock fans should stay away

There is nothing quite like Me'Shell NdegeOcello in all of modern music. Relentlessly quixotic, she compels listeners with a blend of old-school soul and modern issues. There's no one that sounds remotely like her, although she's been compared to...

Pros: Visionary, no fluff, honest, beautiful.
Cons: It doesn't automatically set repeat to On.

From beginning to end, this is an incredible artistic statement. Pulling out all stops, Ms. NdegéOcello opens with the too short instrumental "Adam", then moves seamlessly into the heartbreaking "Fool Of Me." Ms. NdegéOcello pulls you into her world with...

Pros: Beautiful acoustics
Cons: none

If you have ever had a hard time expressing your hurt, anger, joy, sadness, depression, loneliness, wholeness, vain or distrust. This is the album for you. My girl breaks it down in to terms easily understandable for those who can't seem to quite...

Pros: Great sound, great lyrics
Cons: One not-so-great cover song

As soon as I bought this album last year, it immediately became one of my all-time favorites. It was released in August 1999, and I stumbled upon it in September or October. I kept hearing glowing reviews of the music, and figured so many people...

Pros: Enjoy with a glass of wine.
Cons: Don't drink to much wine.

When I first hear bitter a year ago, it pulled me in, it held me, and spoke softly to me. Tell me everything that I needed to hear. In a kind nanny voice.

Recently I saw her in concert in Oakland. When I listen to this CD, I think of that...