1995 Pieces of You
1998 Spirit
1999 Joy: A Holiday Collection
2001 This Way
2003 0304
2006 Goodbye Alice in Wonderland
2008 Perfectly Clear
2008 Lullaby (children's music)
2010 Sweet and Wild
2011 The Merry Goes 'Round (children's music)
I loved Jewel! Don't get me wrong I still do but at one point I was all about Jewel. I was such a fan I bought everything from her including her book of poetry. It wasn't until now where she released an album of lullabies that I had to say "O.K. Jewel! I totally supported your pop move, your country album and even bought your fricking Christmas album but I'm not buying lullabies for toddlers!"
So my big confession here is I not only liked Jewel for her music. IMO Jewel was HOT as hell. Yep, I had a Jewel crush way before my Jessica Alba obsession ever thought of starting! Anyway, besides hormones I honestly loved Jewels music as well and I wasn't the only one. People I knew whether it be male, female, jock, geek, goth, grease monkey, etc. all dug a little Jewel while I was in high school. This simple little Alaskan vocalist and part time yodeler strumming her acoustic guitar had just charmed a large percent of the population. It was pretty cool IMO and not a phenomenom you see often.
So in all seriousness, I think Jewel is a very talented artist that is a true artist. She's taken a gutsy road through her career and made honest music. Some of her earliest performances on t.v. are still some of the best live performances I've ever seen. I still remember one from VH1 where she debuted all these cool songs since she had a huge back catalog of them anyways. She did a yodeling session with her Dad and a Christmas song with her Mom. It was like even in the big time things were just like a small family affair where she was performing in front of a small bar crowd instead of a massive T.V. audience! I love how Jewel dared to try pop in spite of the unfair criticism. I love how she tried Country as well. I loved in general how she did what she wanted to in an industry where risk means career sabotage. Simply, I think Jewel is a rare artist that somehow blended into and succeeded in an industry that usually chews spits that sort of artist out!
Here's her discography and my notes on each album as well as favored tracks:
Pieces of You
I actually used the quote on this cover for my high school year book! Some of Jewels thoughts/lyrics were so simple and brilliant while others were pure cheese. One thing that really turned me off on this album and gave me a lesson in the "you don't always get what you pay for music industry" was the poor production level on the songs I knew from radio. Jewel had done wicked enhanced versions of You Were Meant For Me and Foolish Games that sounded nowhere near as good on the c.d. which had me peeved! I had to buy the single for You Were Meant For Me and the Batman and Robin SDTRK for Foolish Games to get the right versions. Other than that here are my fav. tracks:
You Were Meant For Me
Foolish Games
Angel Standing By
Painters
Amen
(powerful)
Spirit
A better produced album with some great tracks!
Hands
(next to Foolish Games, my favorite Jewel single, brilliant)
I'll fight anyone who whines that Jewel sold out doing this. Jewels an artist! Artist get bored and want to try new things! Jewel tried it and did great! Even greater since she's stated how little of the genre she's heard as she's always stayed away from radio, etc.
Intuition
(Yum!)
2 Become 1
Stand
Goodbye Alice In Wonderland
Back to form!
Satellite
(a revamped song from her old catalog, the original)
Satellite w/ Orchestra
Goodbye Alice In Wonderland
1,000 Miles Away (Bonus Track)
(one of my favorite Jewel songs)
If you love somebody
You better lead it out
Don’t hold it back
While you’re trying to figure it out
Don’t be timid
Don’t be afraid to hurt
Run toward the flame, run toward the fire
Hold on for all your worth
Cause the only real pain
Your heart can never know
Is the feeling of regret
When you don’t let your feeling’s show
So did you say it
Did you mean it
Did you lay it on the line, did you make it count
Did you look ‘em in the eye & did they feel it
Did you say in time
Did you say out loud
Cause if you did Hun
Then you lived some
And that feeling inside
It’s called satisfied
Busy people walkin’ by
I can’t help but worry some
So many things to do
So little love gets done
Empty hearts everywhere
Drownding the dine(?) of thirst
But if you want love, it’s not that tough
Start by giving it first
Cause the only real pain
Your heart can never know
Is the feeling of regret
When you don’t let your feeling’s show
So did you say it
Did you mean it
Did you lay it on the line, did you make it count
Did you look ‘em in the eye & did they feel it
Did you say in time
Did you say out loud
Cause if you did Hun
Well then you lived some
And that feeling inside
That’s called satisfied
Horses were made to run
And the sun was meant to shine above
And flowers were made to bloom
Then there’s us
We were born
To love
We were born
To love
So did you say it
Did you mean it
Did you lay it on the line, did you make it count
Did you look ‘em in the eye & did they feel it
Did you say in time
Did you say out loud… oh
Cause if you did Hun
Well then you lived some
And that feeling inside
It’s called satisfied
So of course I bought and dug the above album! I like it better than her first country album. Here's another single from it:
Stay Here Forever
Jewel's still hot!!!!!
Anyway, the reason I bumped the thread is I found her covering "The Needle and the Damage Done" which I thought was cool but was cooler is after when she said Neil Young and Dylan who were fans gave her advice to stay true to herself!
Ah Jewel.....I seem to recall quite a bit of my life in the 90's having Jewel in it. I wasn't terribly into music but from what I heard on the radio Jewel's music was a favorite of mine. It was in more recent years that I made an effort to look into her music and I kept going "Oh wow, that was Jewel? I loved that song!" with a lot of her songs (like "Hands" for example). "Foolish Games" is the song that got me back into her though.
I really have to agree with you on a lot of what you've said in this thread Sooty. Her versatility, her genuineness, her mix of brilliance and cheese, and so on.
Thanks for visiting my thread Cosmic! It was getting dusty! Seriously some threads are givens fir responses and some are "It'd be cool if anyone remembers this artist still, still considers them relevant, etc." so it's extra cool I have at least two Jewel fans here. She used to be in the very tippy top hemisphere of artist for me and I think my peak was a live VH1 special where she unleashed a number of none album songs and even performed songs with her family (you can hear the jazzed up version of "Rudolph...." with her Mom on radio still during the season)! It was such a natural experience and she seemed like she a had a thousand more gems up her sleeve and in one coffee break could have three more. A Natural writer as well! I even bought her poetry book:
A Night Without Armor
It was rough, sometimes corny but always authentic like her music. I do have one headache in my collectors quandary. I'm a completist with all her albums, even the Christmas one, but do you guys think even a completist could buy this for an artists vocal :
Lullaby
Is it wrong that I see the cover of a Fisher Price album and still think "Damn! That's one hot Momma!"?
Ah the 90's and Jewel. I love her first two albums not much since. The first album reminds me of my girlfriend at the time, we listen to the album over and over either going on a joy ride or just lying around in bed. Such a sweet album.
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Ah the 90's and Jewel. I love her first two albums not much since. The first album reminds me of my girlfriend at the time, we listen to the album over and over either going on a joy ride or just lying around in bed. Such a sweet album.
The first was definitely her best but I loved how each album she progressed into something different. She's a brave artist IMO!
I love Jewel and her music if ONLY for the fact that she BEATS THE SHIT OUTTA CRAPPY ARTISTS LIKE LADY GAGA, MADONNA, J-LO AND THE OTHER SPINELESS WIMPY FEMME STARLETTES OUT THERE.....GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO JEWEL
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Anyway, besides hormones I honestly loved Jewels music as well and I wasn't the only one. People I knew whether it be male, female, jock, geek, goth, grease monkey, etc. all dug a little Jewel while I was in high school. This simple little Alaskan vocalist and part time yodeler strumming her acoustic guitar had just charmed a large percent of the population. It was pretty cool IMO and not a phenomenom you see often. 
One thing that really turned me off on this album and gave me a lesson in the "you don't always get what you pay for music industry" was the poor production level on the songs I knew from radio. Jewel had done wicked enhanced versions of You Were Meant For Me and Foolish Games that sounded nowhere near as good on the c.d. which had me peeved! I had to buy the single for You Were Meant For Me and the Batman and Robin SDTRK for Foolish Games to get the right versions. Other than that here are my fav. tracks:
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