Rickie Lee Jones "Pop Pop"

Love the recording and performance. Found that it really improves with a good destat from the Bedini. Rolls the rough off and opens up everything.

Have owned the album since its debut and found its sonic character to change dramatically depending on which system I've had at the time.

I have many of her recordings and find her hopelessly mannered, with "Pop Pop" being among the worst. So why do I keep buying them? Beats me :-)

I 've just finished to play "Pop Pop" again. The track in question, "I'll be seeing you" is, in my ears, not irritating or inconvenient at all. Instead it is true that RLJ puts a lot of energy in her voice when she raises it. Fast increase too.
The recording has caught it very well: naturalness, as Recordho already has noted. Together with it's kind of rawness (and the reverb in the mixing) her voice could cause dazzling sound in some systems with lesser resolution. This kind of irritation?

I'm not shure, what record of her is my favorite. I'm rather listening to a couple of tracks from various albums.

BTW: has "Traffic from paradise" ever being issued on vinyl?

I went back and listened to the track in question on "Pop Pop" and I don't hear anything unusual either.

I just received the new MOFI of "Pirates". It's excellent. One of the best recordings so far of RLJ material.

I have a German copy, (might be a Dutch copy actually) of "Traffic in Paradise", so it was available on LP.

I've had Traffic From Paradise on LP since it came out years ago. Its an import- same as Pop Pop. They both have excellent sound- nothing irritating about either one, so long as your arm can track it :)