Title: Purgatory
Product review: The music is not bad, but the lyrics are just awful -- simplistic writing, forced rhymes, and atrocious meter. There's not much actual singing here, it's more like reading to music. This would be fine if it sounded like the music were written to fit the words, but I think the result would have been equal or better if she had pulled a random book off a shelf and read it to the music. The London sessions are better, since the instrument tracks are engineered to mask most of the flaws in the vocal track. Even so, the replay value is minimal -- there are only a couple songs that I would want to hear again. I was intrigued by the idea of having the two different versions; sadly, the material does not warrant it. On the positive side, at least it was a single-album price.
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