sounded like one very, very, long song- made my left eyelid twitch- please don't make anymore albums, unless all the songs sound the same.

her first 2 albums good. The best being the 3rd what would the communit blah blah blah.....but I just listened to her new album again and she's boring.....and though years ago I really liked her voice....it's just real boring now. So I'm on the fence, she used to not be crap, but I think I'll give her a crap vote now. Just dont play if you dont want to. You dont need to play live anymore if you dont want to.

just downloaded "the greatest."

it's competent and really really bland. adding the kings of memphis session work didn't give it any funk. i like her older, less competent stuff better. this sounds like it was pooped out of a starbucks committee meeting.

too beautiful for words. i don't deserve it. the greatest is a gift.
n/c

I think Moon Pix is the only good thing she's ever done. But that particular album has songs on it that just kill me.

I like the song she sings on the newest Dirty Three record.
That's about it for her.
CRAP

she is a contagious and volatile female for sure. i have a story about ms. marshall from my teenhood.

i interviewed her once and she was a bit drunk. then she got very drunk indeed. then she said some of the most hurtful things anyone has ever said to me. this upset me something proper as i was quite a big fan and only nineteen at the time. she seemed a bit taken aback when i told her that.

when she played a gig later that night it was one of those nights. she asked if i was in the audience. she said she had been mean to me and asked if "one of the girls in the audience would like to fuck him for me". to say i was slightly embarrassed is putting it a bit mildly. in fact i was going to leave before she actually walked into the audience later on and kissed me. my, i thought to myself, i am french-kissing chan marshall and she tastes of marlboro reds. everyone else in the audience looked at me like i was an asshole. i left pretty much right after that.

now i don't listen to her music and there's a curious twinge whenever i see her picture. i wondered about all the people i had been an asshole to while drunk and suddenly realised what it was like to be on the other end.

that's my chan marshall story anyway.

Wow. After hearing your story, I like her less. I guess one needs to 'separate the artist from their art' -- but that type of behavior might color how a person feels about her music.

As someone who suffered from crippling stage fright up until about three years ago, when it became slightly less crippling, I did not appreciate her "stage fright" (often exaggerated, if real at all) antics. So I thought that was Crap.

Some of her songs are moving and good, and those are Not Crap.

I'm wafflin' like a Belgian over here.

I agree with Burun on this one. Some fantastic songs. Some lifeless ones as well. Phenomenal singer. But the stage crap is, well, crap. Stagefright is one thing, but I have never seen a performer disrespect an audience in the way that she seems to on a regular basis.

crap, waffles, and hollandaise sauce.