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The Fall | 
| Artist: Norah Jones
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
Buy New: $7.29
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Seller: Innuendo_ent
Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 50
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 4.6 x 0.2
EAN: 5099969928628
ASIN: B002NWRMVS
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Chasing Pirates | | • | Even Though | | • | Light As A Feather | | • | Young Blood | | • | I Wouldn't Need You | | • | Waiting | | • | It's Gonna Be | | • | You've Ruined Me | | • | Back To Manhattan | | • | Stuck | | • | December | | • | Tell Yer Mama | | • | Man of the Hour |
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Album Description
Norah has taken a new direction on the The Fall, experimenting with different sounds and a new set of collaborators, including Jacquire King, a noted producer and engineer who has worked with Kings of Leon, Tom Waits and Modest Mouse. Jones enlisted several songwriting collaborators, including Ryan Adams and Okkervil River's Will Sheff, as well as her frequent partners Jesse Harris & Richard Julian. Musicians include drummers Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M.) and James Gadson (Bill Withers), keyboardist James Poyser (Erykah Badu, Al Green), and guitarists Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) and Smokey Hormel (Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer). The first single/video is for the album's lead track 'Chasing Pirates'.
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| Customer Reviews:
 The Fall March 19, 2010
Timothy Przygocki (S.F, Ca, USA)
Norah has such a charming voice. Chasing Pirates is a sure hit all time. It resonates with a strong statement.
Change of pace but very poor recording March 10, 2010
M. L. Smith (Missouri)
While I'm enjoying the music and the general change of pace from her prior albums, it is a pity to see yet another artist fall victim to the "loudness wars."
For example, I'm listening to "Waiting" as I type. This is a relatively sedate song but it it still recorded so "hot" that the VU meters consistently pop right past 0 dB. That is silly. The opening song "Chasing Pirates" has a level of downright nasty distortion that pervades the whole thing.
Perhaps I'm revealing my age, but I just don't understand the attraction of compressed and overprocessed music. Maybe if this were Concrete Blonde or Flogging Molly, but Norah Jones?
However, that is one of the problems with any fad or fashion, whether music, TV or clothes. People think they have to follow the fad even if it makes no sense. How sad.
 Nora moves fore ward, can you February 24, 2010
Mary Ann Pate
This is a departure for Nora and on first listening I was a little disappointed, but like all really good albums it takes a few times on the cd player to be fully appreciated. The mix is different and so are the musicians but the Nora magic is still there. This is much more of a rock album than her other titles but there are still enough ballads to satisfy. To me Young Blood is the "hit" song of the album, I'm not sure what it is about but the words flow like poetry. I salute Nora for not sitting on her laurals and moving fore ward in her style, I hope her fans can keep up.
The Continued Evolution Of Norah Jones February 22, 2010
Philip R. Heath (Hurst, TX United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Norah Jones once again takes her music in new directions on her fourth studio release The Fall. In some ways it is hard to believe that this is the same artist that brought us the sweet, piano-driven Come Away with Me some eight years ago. However it is a testament to her talent as an artist that she need not follow a formula of cranking out clones of the past in order to be successful.
While her sound has changed over time, the overall mood of her music has changed too. The Fall is known as her "break up CD", and this is not without merit. Listeners see Jones in the various stages of dealing with her loss. Her anger shines through on "Tell Yer Mama" where she goes as far as blaming her ex's parents for the way that they raised him. This song is by a bouncy electric bass rhythm that supports her finger wagging delivery. In the whimsical opener, "Chasing Pirates", Jones seems more interested in escape. This is one of the few songs on the CD that is semi-upbeat. Jones also touches on her sadness with "You've Ruined Me". She sings with an earnestness and emotional depth that is not common for her. The instrumentation gives a sway in 3/4 time that supports the song well. However, Jones closes The Fall with "Man Of The Hour", a song that I hope is meant to be tongue-in-cheek. With only her piano playing as a backdrop she decides to give up men for dogs - hence the strong canine presence on the CD front and back.
However, her ex is not the only one to receive Jones' reproach. On "It's Gonna Be", the most electric/rock sounding song on the CD, takes her swipe at the critics with lines such as "And now that everyone's a critic/It's makin' my mascara runny." and "Cuz there's a fine line between a skewer/And a decent sense of humor." Yet it almost becomes comical with the line "Aim at the ones who've really hurt us/They should be arrested for murder." While I found the lyrics somewhat questionable, "It's Gonna Be" was my favorite song on The Fall. It has nice vocal harmony, and I found it interesting to hear her cut loose with a more rock influenced sound.
Overall, I thought The Fall was a musical success for the continued evolution of Norah Jones as an artist. However, if you don't like "break up" music, or you were hoping for a return to her piano-driven style of old; you probably won't like The Fall.
Download this: It's Gonna Be
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