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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Maverick
Salesrank: 6533
Released: May 23, 2006 |
| Our Price: $4.44 |
| Used Price: $3.15 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Stand Still, Look Pretty Track Listing:
1. Leave The Pieces
2. Way Back Home
3. The Good Kind
4. Tennessee
5. My, Oh My
6. Stand Still, Look Pretty
7. Cigarettes
8. Hard To Love You
9. Lay Me Down
10. One More Girl
11. Rain
12. Only Crazy People
Editorial Review:
The Wreckers are about creation, not destruction. Bringing together two young, fearless female singersongwriter-acoustic guitarists—Grammy®-winning, platinum-selling Michelle Branch and collaborator Jessica Harp—The Wreckers’ debut album, Stand Still, Look Pretty, blends Branch’s pop-rock sensibility with Harp’s country-folk style. Edgy yet rootsy, on Stand Still, Look Pretty, The Wreckers have a ball.
Description of Stand Still, Look Pretty:
The Wreckers are Grammy-winning songstress Michelle Branch and friend/journeywoman Nashville singer-songwriter Jessica Harp, a team whose solid craftsmanship and soaring, airtight harmonies often lift their hook-smart contemporary country stylings above what's too often mere fizzy, pop-crossover formula. They may have entered the public consciousness via the wide exposure of "Good Kind" on the primetime soap opera One Tree Hill, but the bracing, back-porch charms of the single "Leave the Pieces" should find them a following well beyond that series' teen audience. The reflective title track, gritty folk charms of "Tennessee" and giddy crowd-pleaser "My, Oh My" are suffused with a lyrical maturity that's the perfect counterpoint to the duo's sturdy musical constructs. Solid songs all, delivered with a muscular vocal conviction that does considerably more than merely sell them. --Jerry McCulley
Stand Still, Look Pretty Reviews:
The Wreckers; Stand Still Look Pretty CD Review 
2008-05-20 - The Wreckers is a band like no other. It is a collabaration between country singer Jessica Harp and alternative pop sensation Michelle Branch. I've been a fan of Michelle Branch ever since I heard 'Goodbye to you' on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and 'Charmed'. I noticed this band when I went on Michelle's web-site and it redirected me to the website of said band. I was instantly awe-struck by the background music of 'Leave the Pieces' and found myself visiting the web-site just to listen to the song. Therefore, knowing I couldn't just keep coming on-line to listen to a song, I decided to purchase their album from amazon.co.uk. I have never been more happy with a purchase. The album is flawless! It's interplay of Jessica's country and Michelle's pop makes an extremely well-rounded, inspiring, emotion-wrenching, heartfelt piece of art. It has a song for whatever mood you are in at the time; even if you don't particularly like country music, this will not disappoint you. The album's first track is 'Leave the pieces', which I previously stated stays in your head dangling on your heart-string when you so sorely need a boost of inspiration in your everyday routine. This song also did very well in the American charts and along with 'The Good kind' made the wreckers ever more famous in their home country. Said song is also extremely emotional, but oddly in an up-beat way. It's very hard to explain, but the Wreckers give you a sense of accomplishment like no other before them. They are both exceptional musicians. In between Jessica's more solo track 'Tennesse' and Michelle's solo track 'Rain', you feel an array of memories, imaginative sub-text, incredulous sorrow and up-beat irony (not necessarily in that order). It really makes you feel alive in a vast majority. Even at the end track 'Crazy People', which is a song for anyone scorned by love in any way, you are wanting the CD to keep playing and playing. You will never get enough and keep wishing for more, which I know is always a good feeling. Therefore, if you want your senses pricked, shaken, or stirred, this is the album that will open you up to a new generation of music and maybe even change your attitude of the world to a certain degree. I hope you enjoy this masterpiece as I have.
A Pleasant Surprise
2008-01-04 - When I first heard michelle branch was releasing a country album, i was a but sceptical, i once i heard stand still look pretty i was amazed, this girl can do no wrong, i'm not a big country fan, and only bought this album becasue of Michelle, but this turned out to be one of my favorite albums of 2006, i'm looking forward to Branch's new solo album this year
I like it a lot
2007-12-26 - I've heard these 2 gals described as a cross between the Dixie Chicks and SHeDAISY. I'd agree but also add in a touch of the sound of the Corrs, an Irish family band made up of 3 sisters and one brother. I doubt it was intentional, but I can easily imagine Andrea Corr singing Lay Me Down or many of the other tracks on this CD. Michelle Branch and Jessica Harp have, in my opinion, created a very enjoyable sound.
I don't know how many country fans have heard anything by the Coors but if you like this CD you may want to also check out some of their music.
Stand Still, Look Pretty 
2007-12-07 - I liked the Wreckers first attempt at an album. Some of the songs were interesting, but all in all it was a pretty good CD. I do wish they had not broken up so we could have seen what they would have progressed into. Who knows what life will bring for them and us (their fans).
Michelle and Jessica are awesome!
2007-12-03 - Michelle Branch has produced another excellent album. I'm not usually a fan of country music, but I really enjoy this album. I love how it incorporates Michelle's pop/rock influence along with Jessica's country influence. Their voices sound amazing together which provides beautiful harmony. The Wreckers rock!
