| Product Summary | | Label: Emd/virgin | | UPC: 00724381009628 | | Release Date: 5/22/2001 | | Buy.com Sku: 60480735 | | Item#: M9N3YV | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Like A Feather ~ Nikka Costa |  | | 2. So Have I For You ~ Nikka Costa | | | 3. Tug Of War ~ Nikka Costa | | | 4. Everybody Got Their Something ~ Nikka Costa | | | 5. Nothing ~ Nikka Costa | | | 6. Nikka What? ~ Nikka Costa | | | 7. Hope It Felt Good ~ Nikka Costa | | | 8. Some Kind Of Beautiful ~ Nikka Costa | | | 9. Nikka Who? ~ Nikka Costa | | | 10. Just Because ~ Nikka Costa | | | 11. Push & Pull ~ Nikka Costa | | | 12. Corners Of My Mind ~ Nikka Costa | |
(C) Cheeba Sound
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel includes: Nikka Costa (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, piano, celeste, Wurlitzer piano, Fender Rhodes piano); Justin Stanley (guitar, Clavinet, Mellotron, Mini-Moog synthesizer, vibraphone, bass, drums); Mark Ronson (guitar, vinyl scratches); Chris Thorn (guitar); Richard Dodd (cello); Tim Izo (saxophone); Printz Board (trumpet, horns, Mini-Moog synthesizer); James Poyser (Wurlitzer piano); Guyora Kats (Fender Rhodes piano); Pino Palladino, Ben Rosen (bass); Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson (drums). | | Producers include: Justin Stanley, Mark Ronson, Nikka Costa. | | Engineers include: Justin Stanley, Russell "The Dragon" Elevado. | | Recorded at Electric Lady, New York, New York, King Sound, Music Grinder and Glow 2 Studios, Los Angeles, California. | | Personnel: Nikka Costa (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, celesta, Fender Rhodes piano, Wurlitzer organ); Justin Stanley (guitar, Clavinet, chamberlin, Mellotron, mini-Moog synthesizer, xylophone, drums); Mark Anthony Jones (guitar); Richard Dodd, Larry Corbett (cello); Printz Board (trumpet, keyboards); James Poyser (Clavinet, Wurlitzer organ); Billy Preston (Clavinet); Ahmir Khalib Thompson, ?uestlove (drums). | | Audio Mixer: Russell Elevado. | | Recording information: Electric Lady, New York, NY; Electric Lady, NY; Glow2 Studios, Los Angeles, CA; King Sound, Los Angeles, CA; Music Grinder and Glow 2 Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Music Grinder, Los Angeles, CA. | | Photographers: Len Peltier; Luis Snachez. | | Arranger: Nikka Costa. | | She may be the offspring of famed Sinatra arranger Don Costa, but Nikka Costa's muse lies in a soulful fusion of rock, electronica and hip-hop. Costa ignited a buzz via the lo-fi, beat-heavy "Like A Feather" (included here as the opening track) that was used in a Tommy Hilfiger ad in Summer 2000. Released on D'Angelo's label Cheeba Sound, Costa's debut is far from empty industry hype, as she shifts gears between the percolating Sly-flavored funk of the title track to giving Macy Gray a run for her money on the R&B ballad "Just Because." | | Costa's eclectic tastes also pop up via samples of The Beastie Boys (the psychedelic trip-hop of "So Have I For You"), Xavier Cugat (a drum-and-bass flavored "Tug Of War"), and Cannonball Adderley (the string-laden soul tune "Corner Of My Mind"). A delightful grab-bag of stylistic nuances, EVERYBODY GOT THEIR SOMETHING is a wonderfully organic debut that promises to find its way onto more than a few Best Of 2001 lists. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 05/22/2001 | | Original Release Date : 2001 | | Catalog ID : 10096 | | Label : Virgin Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00724381009628 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (5/10/01, p.88)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...WHips up funk positivity and indulges the singer in her impersonation of Angry Soul Woman....there isn't a thing wrong with EVERYTHING, except perhaps its vacuum-sealed perfection."Entertainment Weekly (5/25/01, p.80)
- "...An audacious, fresh-as-a-daisy debut....crossbreeding songcraft with ass-thump funk....intoxicating..." - Rating: A- Q (Summer/01, p.97)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...Moody soul-funk...Like a softer Anastacia, with the emotional cache and record collection of Macy Gray, it's the tender slow rollers that really clinch this supreme collection..." |
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