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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Matador Records
Salesrank: 38975
Released: September 10, 1996 |
| Our Price: $8.00 |
| Used Price: $2.80 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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What Would the Community Think Track Listing:
1. In This Hole
2. Good Clean Fun
3. What Would the Community Think
4. Nude as the News
5. They Tell Me
6. Taking People
7. Fate of the Human Carbine
8. King Rides By
9. Bathysphere
10. Water & Air
11. Enough
12. Coat Is Always On
What Would the Community Think Reviews:
What would the Community think? Good stuff! 
2009-05-26 - Early raw version of Cat Power, still poignant and haunting now as it was then.
Brilliant and Heartbreaking
2009-02-01 - Chan Marshall spills her soul onto twelve beautiful, raw tracks that also form into a cohesive, aching piece of art. This has remained one of my favorite albums along with Cat Power's Moon Pix since I bought it over a year ago, and the tracks still haunt and inspire me. In fact, haunting seems to be the operative word here. Chan alternates between crooning and a vulnerable belting-out of her lyrics combined with minimalist yet completely fitting instrumentals. Standout tracks are "What Would the Community Think", "Water & Air", "The Coat Is Always On", and "Nude as the News", but the whole album shines as an outstanding artistic effort.
Five stars.
Fast & Great
2009-01-22 - I wanted from this purchase to be fast, and that's what i got, the package got to my house in a few days. The quality of the product is great.
The ol' 2-chord meltdown 
2008-07-17 - 2 1/2
Although her debut was a tad more earnestly raw then subsequent releases, the banality of her writing and playing always bored me out of my mind. Even more mysterious is why I invested in her as an artist, constantly wanting to believe critics..Was her one brilliant song, where she managed to combine simplistic, minimalist habits into something sublime, in V for Vendetta? Marshall was always unnecessarily hoisted to the top ranks of indie rock, and was in no small part because she was female and rocking out with a degree of vulnerability that appealed to various demographics, but perhaps the actual songwriting was not as objectively looked at as should be. I'm a fan of minimalist balladry as much as anyone else, but doing that genre justice requires a degree of finesse and subtle flux that Cat Power's clunky sound has never had. It just goes to show how some true charisma can make even the most mediocre of songwriters ascend to levels of greatness-both critically and commercially.
An Old Favorite
2008-01-23 - I bought this cd haphazardly at Kim's Underground in NYC about 12 years ago at the recommendation of one of the employees, and it has been one of my all-time faves ever since. Chan's voice may not be the most attractive, but it and her music convey an unconventionally sad and beautiful melodic portrait with raw intensity in this melancholic, and oftentimes emotionally fueled album. My favorite tracks? Well, "Bathysphere" is an angrily obvious ode to adolescent angst and delivers with satisfying intensity; "King Rides By" is one of the most gorgeously humble and tragic love songs ever produced. I highly recommend this album if you dig that sort of thing.
