Album Rating: 4.0

The Story is actually pretty overrated relative to the rest of her discog imo, it’s certainly better than a 3 but not too much. The title track from that is of course a classic though.

Brandi ranked imo:

1.Bear Creek (Just an amazing, feel-good experience with so many amazing songs. It’s a bit of an outlier in her discog as, taking after its cover, some of the songs have a somewhat more pastoral/folky feel to them. Sound-wise, it’s one of her more diverse. Recommended songs: “That Wasn’t Me”, “A Promise To Keep”, “Just Kids”, “Save Part of Yourself”)

2. Give Up The Ghost (Pound for pound, probably her best album. It’s slightly more consistent and shorter than Bear Creek, which admittedly is a tiny bit front loaded. Some incredible songs here too. Recommended: “That Year”, “Looking Out”, “Pride and Joy”, “Before It Breaks”)

3. By The Way, I Forgive You (Anyone in this thread knows this is great.)

4. The Firewatcher’s Daughter (A kind of inconsistent album with the best songs at the beginning and end, but I actually think there are more songs on this I’d call amazing than on BTWIFY, even though the low points are weaker. Recommended: “Wherever Is Your Heart”, “Things You Forget”, “The Eye”, “Heroes and Songs”)

5. The Story (Like I said, this has one of her best and most iconic songs in the title track, but otherwise I find it kind of overrated, though it’s still very good. Like some of her early stuff, it succumbs to some kind of boring pop-rock-isms. Recommended: “The Story” (seriously, if you haven’t heard this one check it out immediately), “Again Today”, “My Song”)

6. self-titled (Admittedly I haven’t spent a ton of time with this. It’s her debut and very short. A good listen and characteristicaclly very heartfelt but honestly not many of its songs really stand out. Some people call it their favorite though which is a testament to how great Brandi is. Recommended: “Tragedy”, “Someday”, “Fall Apart”)

Honestly though she really is just such an amazing artist, few others can dig into my emotions quite as easily and deeply.

Album Rating: 4.5

um excuse me do u think adele and pearl jam would agree to cover songs on a mediocre album



i don't think so

Album Rating: 4.0

I mean it’s not a mediocre album, just subpar by Brandi’s standards, but yes I would actually expect two mediocre artists to cover songs from a mediocre album. That full album various artist cover of The Story was mediocre though.

Album Rating: 4.5

are u trying to tell me that the respective writers of 'water under the bridge' and 'daughter' are mediocre



i don't think so

Album Rating: 4.0

Adele has some great songs I’ll give her that but Pearl Jam suck

Album Rating: 4.5

yeah they aren't that good are they



some jammin tracks tho.

Album Rating: 4.0

Adele isn’t so much bad as just insanely overrated/overplayed, an artist like Brandi arguably has somewhat similar appeal but way more talent.

Pearl Jam, well I just don’t like grunge

Album Rating: 4.5

i like adele a lot actually, certainly way more than pearl jam



but did she deserve to have the 4th best selling album OF ALL TIME? probably not

Album Rating: 3.0

this girl is a great singer

Album Rating: 5.0

haha, if artists got what they 'deserved' it would be a very different music scene... This is great tho, Brandi deserves everything she gets for it.

“every time I hear that song” was one of obama’s favorite songs of 2018

Album Rating: 4.5

brandi carlile skinny queen...who knew obama had such impeccable taste

Album Rating: 4.0

He picked a song from her previous album as one of his 2015 favorites too - I believe it was “Wherever Is Your Heart”.

Album Rating: 4.0

Everytime i hear that song is a great pick for this album. My fav is sugartooth prob tho. I love the lyrics in that song

Hold Out Your Hand dwarves everything else here but I love every song so it's cool

Album Rating: 4.5

can't even tell you how many times my favorite track has changed on this beast but all of a sudden "Whatever You Do" is like the best thing ever

Album Rating: 4.0

it's been Hold Out Your Hand from day 1 and it's not particularly close

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Album Rating: 4.5

Great song but no

Album Rating: 4.0

hold out your hand is probably my least favourite. its upbeatness and intensity i guess feels a bit odd compared to the rest of the album to me. im not a fan of the chorus either