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Lisa Loeb - Hello Lisa (2002)

Track listing:
  1. Did That 3:51
  2. Underdog 2:59
  3. You Don't Know Me 3:48
  4. Drops Me Down 2:58
  5. The Way It Really Is 3:56
  6. Bring Me Up 3:26
  7. What Am I Supposed To Say 3:26
  8. Everyday 4:00
  9. Someone You Should Know 3:17
  10. Payback 4:37
  11. Take Me Back 4:58
  12. What Am I Supposed To Say (Aco 3:23

Notes


In retrospect, the monster success of "Stay (I Missed You)" did Lisa Loeb no favors, much as Til Tuesday's "Voices Carry" eventually must have become something of a burden for Aimee Mann. The comparison is apt, both because Hello Lisa recalls the poppy but low-key folk-rock that's long been Mann's stock-in-trade and because its release was marred by the same kind of record company politics that stalled Mann's career for years: Hello Lisa is actually a revamped version of the earlier A&M release Cake and Pie, which had been dumped unceremoniously on the market earlier in 2002. Releasing herself from her contract, Loeb signed with the friendlier Artemis Records, replaced a few of Cake and Pie's weaker tracks with better new material — including an excellent acoustic reworking of the extremely Mann-like single "What Am I Supposed to Say" — and reissued the album in a more attractive new cover. Other highlights include the snarky teenage romance tune "You Don't Know Me" and the catchy power ballad "Underdog."