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I'd Rather Eat Glass
If she is very, very lucky, the first album by Papa John Phillips's other singing daughter will be remembered as a camp classic, the ultimate document of the 1990s' veneration of supermodel/hellions. Backed by bland, anonymous alternawhatever, with the occasional piano ballad thrown in, she spends the entire disc attempting to emote like Alanis--exactly like Alanis. It doesn't work: Bijou's vocal tone is even thinner than she is, and though every song but the one she wrote at 13 has been buffed up by tune doctors, the lyrics stumble from one howler to another ("You joker, you soaker / She's sleeping with your chauffeur"). A collaboration with Luscious Jackson's Jill Cunniff has a sweet, sunny vibe, but there's not much else but novelty value to recommend this. --Douglas Wolk
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Tracks| 1 | Hawaii | | 2 | Polite | | 3 | I Own You | | 4 | I Am A Mountain | | 5 | Little Dipper | | 6 | Stranded | | 7 | I Never Shot The President | | 8 | So Tired | | 9 | Mermaid And The Earthman | | 10 | Just Look Around | | 11 | When I Hated Him (Don't Tell Me) | | 12 | Breakfast |
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