Not a Pretty Girl

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Not a Pretty Girl
Not a Pretty Girl cover
Studio album by Ani DiFranco
Released July 18, 1995
Genre Indie Rock
Folk rock
Length 56:55
Label Righteous Babe
Producer(s) Ani DiFranco
Professional reviews
Ani DiFranco chronology
Out of Range
(1994)		 Not a Pretty Girl
(1995)		 Dilate
(1996)


Not A Pretty Girl is the sixth studio album released by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco on her own record label, Righteous Babe Records. Cited by many fans as her finest work, the 1995 album extended the punk-edged folksinger's early formula of acoustic guitar and drums to a passionate crescendo. On subsequent records, DiFranco would add electric guitar, horns, band members and guest musicians, but on Not A Pretty Girl she belts out her guitar licks and her political-yet-personal lyrics accompanied most often by Andy Stochansky's fitful and emotional percussion alone.

There are many signature DiFranco moments on this album: the title track's solemn chords and feminist message; the unapologetic physical cravings of "Shy" and "Light of Some Kind"; the lambasting of the music industry on "The Million You Never Made"; the brief yet powerful spoken-word track "Tiptoe"; the joyous tranquility of "32 Flavors"; and the political activism of "Crime for Crime" and "Coming Up."

Not A Pretty Girl stands as a watershed album for DiFranco. It also intensified the word-of-mouth buzz and the occasional nod from alternative media, which are the predominant modes of publicity for DiFranco, who shuns the corporate music industry and as a result gets little airplay on commercial radio.

As a small rebellion in CD design, the case of Not A Pretty Girl is designed to be looked at 'the wrong way round', with the spine on the right hand side rather than the left.

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Ani DiFranco.

  1. "Worthy" – 4:31
  2. "Tiptoe" – :36
  3. "Cradle and All" – 4:18
  4. "Shy" – 4:43
  5. "Sorry I Am" – 4:45
  6. "Light of Some Kind" – 4:07
  7. "Not a Pretty Girl" – 3:55
  8. "The Million You Never Made" – 4:18
  9. "Hour Follows Hour" – 6:01
  10. "32 Flavors" – 6:07
  11. "Asking Too Much" – 2:55
  12. "This Bouquet" – 2:28
  13. "Crime for Crime" – 5:42
  14. "Coming Up" – 4:45
  15. "32 Flavors" [live bonus track] – 4:47

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Production

 v • d • e Ani DiFranco
Discography
Studio Albums: Ani DiFranco (album) | Not So Soft | Imperfectly | Puddle Dive | Like I Said: Songs 1990-91 | Out of Range | Not a Pretty Girl| Dilate | Little Plastic Castle| Up Up Up Up Up Up | To the Teeth| Revelling/Reckoning| Evolve | Educated Guess| Knuckle Down | Reprieve
Live albums: An Acoustic Evening With | Living in Clip | Women in (E)motion | So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter | Atlanta - 10.9.03 | Sacramento - 10.25.03 </
Portland - 4.7.04 | Boston - 11.16.03 | Chicago - 1.17.04 | Madison - 1.25.04 | Rome - 11.15.04 | Carnegie Hall - 4.6.02
EPs More Joy, Less Shame| Little Plastic Remixes| Swing Set
Demos Demo tape
Related articles
Righteous Babe Records | Anti-folk
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