Track Listing

1. In This Hole
2. Good Clean Fun
3. What Would the Community Think
4. Nude as the News
5. They Tell Me
6. Taking People
7. Fate of the Human Carbine
8. King Rides By
9. Bathysphere
10. Water & Air
11. Enough
12. Coat Is Always On

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20457 in Music
• Released on: 1996-09-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

Love is not loneliness
Of course all albums worth reviewing are five stars, and every "best of" is so personal as to be meaningless. Cat Power is so insular as to be beyond review. You either feel her pain, or you don't. If you have ever seen Cat Power live, you have been treated to either the most moving or most embarrasing performance of your life-- sometimes both in the same night. Much the same with this album. This is Chan at her most raw, most intimate, most compelling and most distancing. It is almost funny to watch the progression of her career, to see her perform with "famous musicians" and to see her on Letterman. She is ultimately an outsider artist, creating something not quite "art" but rather a daguerrotype of her soul.

haunting
Chan Marshall can do haunting like no one else...both aggressive and lonely, her songs sound to me like Kim Gordon meets Kristin Hersh...but admittedly it is unfair to pigeonhole her unique expressiveness. When I first acquired this album (after falling in love with Moon Pix, which is also beautiful but does not have the range of emotion or music that WWtCT does) I spent hours late into the night making art while listening to this cd..."Water and Air" is one of the most aching, chilling songs I have ever heard. There is something creepy underlying WWtCT that makes this album stand away from CatPower's other work - her lyrics do not rest easily.

nothing but power
This album is Chan Marshall at her most punk-inspired, at it also happens to be my fave out of what she's done--Why?--in her later albums, the focus has been her voice, which means that the accompaniment is her piano playing/guitar work with no other frills--while this is by no means bad, she has a limited repertoire of solo guitar work and piano work, which can create a monotony in her music--in What Would The Community Think, she has a great back up band (including steve shelley of sonic youth) which emphasizes the jewel of her voice, but also adds a variety that I find lacking in her later releases--highlights? In This Hole (a tragic beauty), What Would the Community Think (A hypnotic meditation of feedback), and Nude as The News (as lively as Chan gets)