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Lisa Loeb
Purple Tape
Release Date: 2008 01 22
Label: Furious Rose
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Like the Pixies before her, Lisa Loeb had an early demo dubbed "The Purple Tape" that circulated before she hit the big time -- and, like that Boston quartet, Loeb's Purple Tape was instrumental in getting her big-time exposure. Self-released as a cassette in 1992, The Purple Tape was a collection of ten original tunes by Loeb, all featuring no more than just her and her acoustic guitar. This is the tape that wound up in Ben Stiller's hands, which of course led to Loeb's "Stay" being the key song in his 1994 comedy Reality Bites, which in turn made Loeb the first unsigned artist ever to top the Billboard charts. "Stay" is not among the ten songs on The Purple Tape, which finally saw a CD reissue in 2008 where it was paired with an interview disc, but the songs here certainly share the sweet melodiousness and emotional vulnerability of her breakthrough hit -- and they're also simple and unadorned, lacking the big-budget productions that made Tails and Firecracker sometimes seem over-inflated. That's certainly not the case here. This is as simple as it gets, sounding exactly like what it is: a collection of endearingly open songs from a young coffeehouse singer who sometimes tries too had and stumbles, but that awkwardness just makes you root for her all the more. Really, of all the music Loeb has yet made, this Purple Tape comes the closest to delivering an album of songs similar to "Stay" -- this is intimate, ingratiating music and it's hard not to see why Ethan Hawke and Ben Stiller got a crush on Lisa based on this tape. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
1Snow Day [Live in Studio]Loeb3:33
2Train SongsLoeb3:19
3HurricaneLoeb3:50
4Come Back HomeLoeb3:38
5It's OverLoeb3:37
6ThisLoeb3:02
7Days Were DifferentLoeb3:28
8Guessing GameLoeb2:21
9Do You SleepLoeb3:40
10AirplanesLoeb2:15
11Purple Tape: Introduction & History2:33
12Early Days in NYC1:03
13Liz and Lisa1:17
14Why the Purple Tape?0:57
15Gigging in NYC1:53
16Nine Stories0:37
17Marketing & The Music Business3:09
18Recording the Purple Tape3:26
19Purple Tape Artwork1:53
20Songwriting1:52
21"Snow Day"4:48
22"Train Songs"3:49
23"Hurricane"3:19
24"Come Back Home"3:10
25"It's Over"3:59
26"This"4:02
27"Days Were Different"1:20
28"Guessing Game"2:43
29"Do You Sleep"4:05
30"Airplanes"2:37
31Bringing the Past to the Present1:41
32Live In-Studio "Snow Day"4:04
33Acoustic "Stay (I Missed You) "2:58







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