hey DJ! jack the volume i love this cd!!!

this cd is amazing!! i love it! I have all her albums and i love them! she just keeps getting better and better!

Sure this one is different from her other 2, but isn't that what makes it so great?? you can't keep doing the same thing forever.. it'll get boring after a while. So i think it's awesome that she wanted to try out something new! And she did a really great job of it! :)

There are soo many fantastic songs on here.. the voice inside, love is my witness, dizzy, double agent..etc.. And inside the tornado is really cool! it's acapella and it sounds amazing! I would love to hear more like that! :)

i was really dissapointed with all the negative reviews i read about this album! It's really not that bad.. i don't see why there were so many people that didn't like it. I think its awesome and everyone should definately get it!!

Amanda you rock!! Keep the music coming!

It's soooo goood!

How could somebody truly say that this is Britney???? This CD is absolutely great. I like the style mix. Every song sounds different. Amanda I love you voice and your songs. I'm already waiting for new album.

Not a stellar effort....

I have decent respect for Amanda Marshall, and when her first album came out, it was not bad as far as pop albums go. Granted, it was only a pop album, and it was not stellar, but from that album I decided to investigate her music further as she put out more albums. Thus, I decided to grab up this latest attempt of hers to make pop music.



Well... it's pop music, that's for sure. It has a very weird mix of strings, hip-hop, and beats that I can't say that I dig on very much, myself. The combination of all of these elements seems rather awkward. Further investigation only seems to work against this album.



This album seems to have contorted Amanda Marshall's vocal career toward the current trend of pop sound. Her elegant voice on this album sounds much more manufactured, shallow, pale, machined, and extremely short in range. These are the kinds of qualities I expect in the pop singers like the current Britany Spears and Christina Aguilera as far as how they "reinvent" their sound. Amanda Marshall's vocal sound, in my opinion, takes a step backward because of this mixing/masking catastrophe.



Finally, one of the saddest things I find about this album are the lyrics. They aren't intelligent, snappy, or even strike me as anything other than juvenile/adolescent at best.



This album is not a very strong effort for this artist. Some rather odd/off-sounding elements coupled with an awfully invented mechanical sound that waters down her vocal potential with some equally weak lyrics does not make for a striking effort. It is different, but not all different is good, and I believe a listener would find more enjoyment from either her self-titled album or "Tuesday's Child" if you haven't been completely turned off with her from listening to this album.

Serendipity... it definitely IS !!!

Just before I changed jobs late this summer, a newly met colleague was listening to some amazing singer in his office, and that was Amanda Marshall. Well, she's never been known in Europe, so the name didn't ring a bell, and I borrowed the CD with no preconceived notions of what she'd done before.

"Oh, my God!" This CD has been in my player all the time for the past three months now and will remain on my playlist for a long, long time! Amazing voice and feel, emotional yet powerful, feminine but with such boldness and command that it's hard to figure out why the lady is not an international hit... She indeniably deserves to be! Nice attitude, independent mind, sophisticated lyrics and great musical invention are a rare find in chart music these days...

The songs are varied but there is a cohesion to the whole, a perfect mix of pop, folk, rock, groove, and especially a touch of class that permeates the whole album. The kind of record which feels like you've been punched right in the face and you're asking for more! I will not go over each track here, but suffice it to say, they're nearly all great (a couple of them, such as "Red Magic Marker" are at best redundant in my opinion, but that doesn't mean they're lousy). Obviously, the title track is an absolute blockbuster, and so is "Sunday Morning After", which my 2-year-old son just loves, though he's better-off not understanding its lyrics for a while...

I've become a huge fan of that Canadian artist overnight, and this doesn't happen quite often, so take my advice, give that record a chance, it's bound to become one of your favorite !

The demise of Amanda Marshall

I've decided not to write this review in a sarcastic tone. Amanda Marshall was a breath of fresh air back in 1995 when her debut album came out. I saw her in concert and she was great. Then came Tuesday's Child, an okay follow-up. Then, unfortunately, she released Everybody's Got a Story. I'd rather eat sandpaper than listen to the muck on this album. I think the biggest mistake Amanda made was co-writing all of her songs. She didn't write the songs off her debut, save for three songs. Since Tuesday's Child she's been writing horrible lyrics. UGHHHHH.

Third album

Somewhere between her last album and the release of this one, Amanda Marshall changed her style. All of a sudden, her fashion was more a part of her image, and this album also saw a change in sound. While her earlier albums had a more pop AC friendly sound, EVERYBODY HAS A STORY aims for a more contemporary pop sound. This album luckily spun a few hits in Canada, but ultimately it was viewed as a failure. Shortly after she left her label, and is now without one. It's a shame, hopefully a label picks up her, she has too much talent to be wasted here!



A lot of the songs carry a general theme about humanity, and to not be deceived by what we see. On the title track she sings about assumptions and how we can't judge someone or think we know them by just looking at them. The song "Double Agent" takes a stab at racism. "The Voice Inside" is a song about not doubting yourself. "Colleen (I Saw Him First)" is a song about a friendship that crumbles apart over a guy.



"Sunday Morning After" is a fun song about waking up after a crazy night of partying and trying to recount the events of the night before. It was a big hit from the album and deservingly so, it's a nice pop song. Lyrically the album is a bit different too, as are the arrangements. There's definately a distinct sound to this album, you either like it or hate it. I didn't really enjoy the extra background vocals chiming in now and then on the songs.



Overall not her best, but worth a listen.